His voice dropped to a more conspiratorial whisper and he warned her that this was "top-secret" stuff before explaining. "We kind of know what causes the wormholes, it's these things-" Nick pulled out his phone and showed her a few pictures of strange glowing metallic objects. "But we've kept it out of the media because we don't want people trying to snatch them up before we get them. They have the same energy as the wormholes, and the barrier, and they're always the first thing out of a wormhole. We've been studying them and we think they'll eventually be the key to ending all this. We also think we can use them to keep the portals open long enough to actually go inside a few and poke around. Figure out who the fuck is doing this and why." If there even was a who or why, but that was the whole point of the experimentation. It was Nick's own pet project, the A.R.M.O.R. division, and he did believe it had the potential to solve this problem. Eventually.