Marvel: I Awake the Little Cosmos-Chapter 519 - 477: Wanda: "You’re Not a Good Man, Hawk!" (Second Update!!)
Amidst the shattering metal debris and the swirling dust.
A figure in a long, fitted crimson battle armor made entirely of the purest chaos magic energy appeared from the dust—Wanda. Her first sight fell upon the young Professor X who was sitting on the altar’s floor, and Hawk who lay on the ground.
And—
Death crouching beside Hawk.
With ripples of chaos energy spreading outwards, Wanda instantly appeared on the altar, her eyes dyed a brilliant scarlet, landing on Death, dressed in black, opposite to her.
The next second.
"It’s you."
Wanda recognized that Death, who had previously appeared in the 616 Cosmos but wasn’t an enemy, and then her gaze fell on Hawk lying next to her, instinctively wanting to embrace him.
"Hawk..."
"If you don’t want him to die, don’t touch him."
Death didn’t stop Wanda’s action, but as Wanda’s fingers were about to touch Hawk, he spoke softly.
Wanda instantly halted, and her gaze turned to Death: "What’s wrong with Hawk?"
Death did not speak but looked up at the Time Galaxy belonging to Hawk that appeared in midair.
Following Death’s gaze, Wanda also focused on Hawk’s Time Galaxy.
Upon seeing it.
The Time Galaxy, originally radiant when it appeared, now seemed dimmer.
For, at the moment Wanda’s gaze landed, the brightness visibly dimmed slightly.
"This is..."
"His timeline."
Death briefly explained to the tardy Wanda: "Now, every version of him in each timeline is being dismantled. When he completely disappears from all timelines, he will die. If you move him, it will only accelerate the disintegration of his time."
Wanda heard Death’s explanation, her eyes involuntarily constricting.
At that moment.
Rumble.
A corner of the pyramid began to disintegrate amidst a thunderous roar.
With a red helmet and dark armor, Magneto activated his mutant ability, personally tearing open a corner of the pyramid he built.
He once again chose to join the X-Men side, unexpectedly yet reasonably.
But this time, unlike before when he was persuaded and chose to switch sides at the last moment.
This time, as soon as the X-Men landed, Mystique Raven made a gesture, said a sentence, directly bringing Magneto back to their side.
Mystique actually didn’t do much.
She simply pushed Quicksilver Pietro over and said to Eric the Magneto: "Eric, he’s your son."
The gaze of Magneto, who was controlling Earth’s magnetic field reversal, instantly fell on Quicksilver Pietro.
Pushed out without any mental preparation, Quicksilver Pietro met Magneto’s scrutinizing gaze. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Wanda flying towards the pyramid, his mind went blank.
"Yes, I am your son. In a way, the man caught by Apocalypse in the pyramid could be considered your son-in-law."
"..."
Magneto was initially stunned, but when Quicksilver Pietro mentioned their mother’s name, he quickly pictured the scene in his mind. Seeing Wanda use Crimson Chaos Magic to blast open the pyramid, he immediately switched sides, decisively controlling the scattered metal around to trap ’Storm,’ ’Psylocke,’ and ’Angel’ in place.
Finally leaving Beast and Cyclops outside, Magneto and Mystique led Nightcrawler and Jean rapidly into the pyramid.
"Daddy!"
Entering the pyramid, Jean saw Hawk lying on the altar at first sight, shouted, and rushed to his side, only to be stopped by Wanda.
"Xavier!"
"Professor!"
Mystique Raven and Nightcrawler also ran to Professor X who was sitting on the metal floor.
But...
Professor X’s gaze fell upon his good friend Magneto.
"Eric."
"Charles."
Magneto and Professor X exchanged a glance, their gaze then falling on Wanda beside Hawk.
"Oh, I didn’t make it clear back then."
Quicksilver Pietro reappeared next to Magneto, whispering: "This strictly speaking, is Wanda, but not my sister nor your daughter."
Magneto, upon hearing, sharply gazed at Quicksilver Pietro again.
Pietro quickly explained the multiverse and various settings about it.
Magneto listened, frowning intently.
Once more.
No matter how carefree Quicksilver Pietro was, he had at least been to school, whereas Magneto grew up in concentration camps.
So...
The multiverse concept, for Magneto, seemed somewhat out of his comprehension.
But Magneto still grasped the key point.
"So, this Wanda is Wanda, but not my daughter Wanda?"
"Yes."
"But I do have a daughter named Wanda, who is your sister?"
"Right."
"Where is she?"
Sure, here is the translation of the text:
"Watch over your sister in New York."
"I have two daughters?"
"No, Mina is our sister but not your daughter."
"..." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Quicksilver Pietro looked at Eric the Magneto and shrugged: "You disappeared before mom got pregnant, mom found us a new dad."
Eric the Magneto looked at the sincere face and remarkably clear eyes of Quicksilver Pietro and fell back into silence.
Nearby, Mystique followed Professor X’s gaze, which also landed on Hawk lying on the ground not far away, and Wanda seemingly speaking into the void.
"Xavier, what is that...?"
"I don’t know."
From the moment Death appeared until now, Professor X’s gaze never left the spot where Death stood, even though he briefly greeted Eric. He solemnly said: "My intuition tells me there’s an existence there, but no matter how I perceive, I can’t discover it."
Mystique paused slightly upon hearing this.
Wanda listened to Professor X’s words and realized something. She turned her head to look, seeing everyone facing this direction but not focusing their gaze on Death. She frowned and looked at Death: "They can’t see you?"
At this moment.
Jean also frowned as she glanced towards where Wanda was speaking: "Mom, who is there?"
In Jean’s perception, she could only find something peculiar at the location of Death, as if someone was there but unable to grasp the truth.
Death smiled faintly: "I exist beside every soul and can appear next to every dying soul."
Seeing her is not a good thing.
After all —
She is Death after all.
At this very moment, the Time Galaxy belonging to Hawk floating above suddenly began to tremble rapidly.
With the tremor of the Time Galaxy, Hawk, lying on the ground with eyes tightly shut, began to tremble all over.
Jean’s gaze fell.
"Dad!"
"Hawk..."
Wanda also snapped out of it, hurriedly embracing her daughter who tried to touch Hawk, and urgently looked at Death.
"What’s happening to Hawk?"
"Apocalypse is attacking Hawk’s timeline."
"At the entrance of Saint Paul’s Church in Queens."
"At the Manhattan port."
"In the 616 Cosmos."
"In the past!"
"In the future!"
"And in the present..."
Death’s voice was calm, narrating Hawk’s current state while meeting Wanda’s gaze: "He’s dying simultaneously across all timelines, and there’s only one way to save him."
Wanda heard this, staring intensely at Death.
"What?"
"You!"
"What??"
"He is being attacked by Apocalypse on his timeline because he used the ’Time Gemstone,’ leaving nearly infinite flaws when he tried to compress time. These flaws permeate his entire timeline, making it almost impossible to fully compress his timeline."
"An impossible task..."
Listening to Death’s words, Wanda’s heart stirred, as if she had thought of something: "The flame born from the most impossible life."
Death heard Wanda’s murmured expression and smiled faintly, saying nothing.
Wanda turned to look at the dimming, rapidly trembling Time Galaxy hovering above.
"I must go in."
"Don’t..."
The tightly shut-eyed Hawk seemed to hear this voice, instinctively clenched Wanda’s arm with his left hand: "Don’t go."
Wanda snapped back to reality, looking at the closed-eyed Hawk who firmly gripped her arm, her thoughts twirling: "When I asked why I appeared in the 616 Cosmos, you said I came on my own, so you already knew, didn’t you? Thus, this has already happened, right."
Hawk, while trying to activate his energy to enter his timeline to save himself, exhaustedly opened his eyes and looked at Wanda.
"The flame ignited by the most impossible life, isn’t that me?"
Wanda smiled, then looked at Death: "If I step into Hawk’s Time Galaxy, what will happen?"
"His time torrent will instantly tear you into a million pieces, and a million versions of you will exist on every timeline of his."
Death’s voice remained cold, narrating Wanda’s ordeal upon entering Hawk’s Time Galaxy.
Wanda remained expressionless, glanced at Death, then directed her gaze once more towards Hawk lying on the metal floor and looked at him: "Maybe you’re right, you’re not a kind person, Hawk, but, you are our daughter’s father."
With that.
Wanda’s form ascended.
At this time.
Death spoke again: "Remember, his true past time and events have been compressed, you must ensure you kill Apocalypse while maintaining the entirety of his past time, otherwise, you and he will die together."
As Death’s words fell at that moment.
Wanda’s finger had already touched Hawk’s Time Galaxy.
In the next second!
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