As soon as he said Doom, James knew that they were going to be curious as to what he had been doing there when no one would infiltrate Doom's castle even under threat of death.

"Fortunately for my team and I, the good doctor wasn't home and hadn't been for quite some time." Although, it might have made things a lot easier on all of them because they could have just had Doom build a new machine in a safer environment.

"I was born during the middle of an invasion by the Skrull race that had been going on for years, and things were looking pretty desperate for those of us that were still alive. The plan was to send a few of us back in time to warn people on Earth and Shi'ar Empire of the invasion, but something obviously went wrong for me."