Self-duplication always felt natural to Albert, like picking something comfortable to wear from the closet.

In this version, his powers include energy blasts, self-duplication, super-speed, and the ability to transform inanimate objects into minions.

The pericytes form the core of the scar, while ependymal cells form a second layer around the core, followed by another layer of astrocytes that originated through self-duplication.

Meanwhile, out here in the darkness, the replicators, robots, and automated plants have been running flat out, after two days of feverish self-duplication, and much of the core is chewed up and re-extruded into a forest of pipes, towers, supports, girders.