Everything, absolutely everything, was completely different from what he had calculated! The things he had painstakingly prepared always went wrong, always underwent one mutation or another, leading him into increasingly alarming crises and bringing him into contact with ever more terrifying enemies. This was abnormal. The more Skinny Man recalled, the more shocked and furious he became. His codename was Number One. Keeping it hidden from his other selves, he had furtively placed the Plot Gem in a safe location known only to him.