Marvel: I Awake the Little Cosmos-Chapter 520 - 478: Existing in Every Corner of Hawk’s Timeline
Time, shattered!
At the moment Wanda’s fingers touched the Time Galaxy belonging only to Hawk.
But...
More accurately, in Wanda’s perception, it was Hawk’s Time Galaxy that shattered, but in reality, Hawk’s Time Galaxy had swallowed Wanda the moment she touched it.
And at the moment Wanda was engulfed by the Time Galaxy, she was forcibly torn apart, dragged, and divided by an unimaginable and irresistible torrent.
Wanda felt herself being infinitely replicated, then thrown in completely different directions under the torrent of Hawk’s Time Galaxy.
She saw—
In the snow-filled night, at the entrance of Saint Paul’s Church in Queens, the infant Hawk was crying vigorously in his swaddling clothes.
In the September atmosphere of Times Square, dressed cheaply, the teenage Hawk was kneeling beside the ruins, holding the lifeless Anya in his arms, heartbroken and desperate.
In the deepest part of Cunningham Falls State Park near Semont, Maryland, a cold-faced Hawk was standing under the waterfall, punching it repeatedly.
And...
In an instant, a million moments of Hawk, a million possibilities existing on the timeline of Hawk, almost simultaneously surged towards Wanda.
She saw Hawk’s past, also saw Hawk’s future, and furthermore saw a different Hawk, as well as the Mutant Apocalypse that was attacking Hawk simultaneously on all timelines.
In the next second!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!!
Wanda’s figure disappeared at the moment when Hawk’s Time Galaxy shone to its extreme, immediately followed by a million different Wandas appearing simultaneously at every point on Hawk’s timeline where his life and soul resided.
At the entrance of Saint Paul’s Church in Queens.
Amy, looking haggard, set down two swaddlings, then quickly turned and walked away, tears barely held back in her eyes, and finally stood behind a small alley, looking at the tightly closed doors of Saint Paul’s Church with an indescribable gaze.
At this moment.
A cry came from one of the swaddlings.
"Wah, wah, wah (What the heck, where have you brought me?)"
The infant Hawk in the swaddling, awakened to past life memories at the brink of death, woke up, feeling his current state and the outside world, quickly deduced the situation he was in, and immediately began to cry out for help.
Soon, footsteps could be heard from inside the church.
But at this moment, a tall and burly Apocalypse, with deep markings on his face and head and a wrinkled chin, appeared at the end of the church’s street, swiftly darting toward the church.
Yet at this moment, a deep crimson light, moving even faster, darted toward Apocalypse.
Apocalypse was shocked!
Wanda, with an indifferent expression, in the moment her right hand opened, shoved a crimson orb, entirely condensed from Chaos Magic, directly into Apocalypse’s mouth under his astonished gaze.
Apocalypse’s skin, which was a metallic shiny blue, instantly turned crimson, and with a crisp crack, a fissure suddenly appeared across his body.
Immediately afterward—
There was no other sound, almost as Wanda was stabilizing herself in the air with Chaos Magic, the expression of Apocalypse froze in astonishment and reluctance, turning into white powder, falling to the ground along with the heavy snow.
Wanda turned her head to look.
Her gaze fell upon the door of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, which had already opened, and the compassionate priest, looking shocked, saw the sleeping baby girl and the crying baby boy in swaddling clothes, quickly bent over, and gathered both children into his arms.
Floating in the air, concealing herself with reality-altering Chaos Magic, Wanda quietly observed this scene, then her gaze landed on Hawk, who was quietly standing under a street lamp at the church entrance.
Yes.
Hawk.
This was Hawk, who at that time was retracting his own timeline, traveling back to this moment.
Hawk calmly looked at the church.
Wanda calmly looked at Hawk.
At this moment.
Standing under the streetlight, Hawk’s gaze swept over Amy, standing in the alley, then turned his head, looking into the sky.
But...
The spot in mid-air where Wanda had been caught by Hawk’s gaze was now empty.
2009, September 10th!
Times Square.
The green-skinned anthropomorphic Hulk and the dark-red-skinned non-anthropomorphic Abomination were engaging in an earth-shattering battle.
People screamed as they tried to flee from this sudden battlefield.
Having just enrolled in Midtown High School and unable to resist his sister Anya’s request to celebrate, Hawk had brought his sister Anya to Times Square, planning to have a good meal and improve their diet, but was now hurriedly pulling his sister to escape.
But at this moment, the crowd directly separated him and Anya. As they called out loudly, searching for each other, amid a tremendous crash, the outer wall of the building beside them collapsed, pressing down on the fleeing crowd below with the weight of a mountain.
Hawk was among them.
Bang!
The falling outer wall, seemingly encountering some giant force, unexpectedly shattered into two halves at the center with a rumbling sound, and Hawk instinctively closed his eyes.
But after a while, Hawk opened his eyes, instinctively checked his limbs and body, then reacted and searched for the figure of his sister in the dust-filled air.
Then...
He saw a familiar figure lying amidst the ruins not far away.
"Anya——!!"
Hawk’s eyes filled with despair.
High above, Wanda continued to watch the scene silently.
This is the timeline that Hawk has already contracted. To put it simply, the timeline Hawk’s true self has traversed is Hawk’s sacred timeline.
On this timeline, predestined events must happen, and things that haven’t happened cannot occur. Any mistake in the links would lead to the collapse of Hawk’s timeline.
So—
Wanda cannot and must not turn the predestined death of Anya on this timeline into a death that never happened.
After eliminating the Apocalypse, who tried to kill Hawk with a collapsing outer wall on this timeline, Wanda closed her eyes, and flames of impossible life emerged from her body. As the flames burned, a scarlet glow began to emerge on this timeline at an unimaginable speed.
The next second.
The loophole that appeared on this timeline due to the contraction of time by using the ’Time Gemstone’ was burned by this impossible flame and then completely melted and merged with Hawk’s timeline, with no difference detectable.
At the same time.
The radiant fire blossomed from the impossible flame spreading across every corner of Hawk’s Time Galaxy.
As the flames burned, the branches that emerged in his Time Galaxy were consumed, and Wanda, high in the sky, also disappeared into this impossible flame.
No.
To be precise, it perfectly fused with Hawk’s Time Galaxy.
Not only on the sacred timeline where Hawk’s true self is, but also in other universes of time.
For instance, in the 616 Cosmos.
Although in that universe, it was inevitable for Hawk, who possesses a portion of his soul there, to die.
But if death occurred before the inevitable, it would not be an inevitability but an accident that could break time.
Thus—
Wanda also appeared in the 616 Cosmos, which is why Wanda was there in the 616 Cosmos.
Apocalypse simultaneous on Hawk’s timeline, killing Hawk.
Wanda, simultaneously on Hawk’s timeline, killing Apocalypse.
A million Apocalypses.
A million Wandas.
They traversed Hawk’s timeline, but compared to the Mutant Apocalypse, Wanda, whose flame was ignited by an impossible life, outshone him.
At this moment, as the impossible life flames burned, Hawk’s Time Galaxy was being smelted and reshaped like an ingot of iron thrown into a furnace.
The loopholes on the timeline where Hawk took shortcuts using the ’Time Gemstone’ were also replaced by Wanda, who pierced through her own timeline.
Apocalypse similarly fell into all of Hawk’s timelines.
All this happened in a flash; almost the moment Wanda entered Hawk’s Time Galaxy, the million Apocalypses who entered before her died at the same time.
But...
Although the Apocalypses on Hawk’s sacred timeline were continuously eliminated, and the loopholes continuously burned and filled by the impossible flame, Hawk’s sacred timeline still moved toward collapse.
"This..."
"Are there still loopholes?"
Wanda continuously traversed Hawk’s sacred timeline, attempting to find the loophole that was causing his timeline to collapse.
Her gaze traversed Hawk’s past, present, and future.
Yet she found nothing.
There was no trace of Apocalypse left on Hawk’s sacred timeline.
But!
Hawk’s timeline was still collapsing.
"Where is the problem?"
Wanda furrowed her brows deeply, her gaze sweeping over Hawk’s sacred timeline repeatedly. Then something struck her heart, as if she realized something, and she once again merged into Hawk’s timeline.
When she appeared again, she stood on the timeline where Hawk was originally born, to be precise, the timeline where Andrew Chloe was shot and the police went to inform Amy Chloe.
The door opened.
Amy Chloe, who was at home with Hawk and Anya, opened the door, then looked with some confusion at the two officers who appeared at her doorstep.
"Amy Chloe?"
"It’s me, you are..."
"Glenn Chris!"
"George Jefferson!"
"Madam Chloe, we regret to inform you, your husband..."
"..."
