This was it, the culmination of over forty hours of work, two hours of sleep, four cups of coffee, and a desperate need for it all to work. A completely new element, re-discovered and synthesized for the very first time, the light at the end of the tunnel he'd been walking through since the moment the palladium core was lodged into his chest. He really didn't account for people appearing out of thin air, claiming to be from the future. And what was that about superpowers?