[hr][hr][center][h1][color=#cc33ff]Guinevere Stark[/color][/h1][img]https://media.giphy.com/media/rBtymaYN3AOhG/giphy.gif[/img][hr][color=#cc33ff][b]Location[/b][/color]: The X-Van
[color=#cc33ff]{[/color][i]"That's my problem - I always want to make things clever."[/i][color=#cc33ff]}[/color][/center][hr][hr]	In the midst of all of the conversations and arguing, the color drained from Guin's face as a realization struck her. This wasn't that much different than organic chemistry mechanisms. Creating something that would target one reaction site couldn't be easily modified to target another one. It'd be easier to modify that substance to [i]protect[/i] the original target, and add another substance that would come in to attack the rest. 

	[color=cc33ff]"The addition of a protecting group before a reaction,"[/color] Guin whispered, her eyes wide. Magneto had stolen a virus designed to target the X-gene. Everyone had been pouring over the research in the laboratory, attempting to find out how he had transformed it to target humans and then, how to create a cure. But Magneto didn't need to switch the genetic guidance system. No, he made the initial virus into a [i]vaccine against the next one.[/i] It would contain a blocker, designed to attach only if the host had the X-gene. Then when the next virus came in, that blocker would deactivate it.

	The mutants would live and the humans would die. 

	[color=cc33ff]"At least a week..."[/color] Guin then muttered, moving her hands in front of her and tracing structures in the air that only she could see. [color=cc33ff]"Mary, get Beast on the line. There isn't just one virus that Magneto is releasing - [i]there's two.[/i]"[/color]

	Guin then glanced around the van, thinking of a way to explain this. [color=cc33ff]"The virus made by S.H.I.E.L.D. had a genetic guidance system, designed to attack the X-gene. It's incredibly difficult to just reverse that system. Instead, you can use the system to add on a shield, a suit of armor so to speak, for everyone with the X-gene. You can then release a specifically designed virus that only that shield, so to speak, can defend against. Mutants live, humans die."[/color] 

	She drummed her fingers against the window of the van. [color=cc33ff]"But he wouldn't want to do it right away...He'd need to do a test run, make sure it works. Likely an aerosol delivery method, easier that way, but those do tend to spread...If he has unleashed the test of phase one, all of the mutants in New York are already vaccinated, so to speak...Magneto just needs to wait until he's confident all of the mutants have absorbed the original virus, the one with the blocker. Then...goodbye humans of New York."[/color]

	[color=cc33ff]"Pietro, I need you to give us a run down of everyone currently active with the Brotherhood. And I'd like to request to be sent to the lower floors. It's deadly, but it's S.H.I.E.L.D. This is more than me and that's where I can help the most."[/color]