Marvel: I Awake the Little Cosmos-Chapter 525 - 493: Hawk Rediscovers His Original Aspiration
"I am invincible!" 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
"Okay, you’re invincible. Now, take your medicine."
"I don’t need... ah-choo!"
Looking at the medicine that Wanda handed over, Hawk, who was just about to refuse, sneezed again, then instinctively wrapped the blanket around him tighter and moved closer to the fireplace burning by his side.
Yes.
He caught a cold.
"This isn’t scientific!"
Hawk was a bit puzzled: "In the past, when it snowed, I used to stand naked in the snow without catching a cold."
Wanda, holding medicine in one hand and water in the other, rolled her eyes at Hawk’s words: "This is very scientific. Don’t forget, you said you wanted to be an ordinary person. An ordinary person standing naked in the snow not only gets sick but others would think he’s crazy."
Hawk was silent.
Wanda shrugged: "How about I give you back your invincible body?"
Hawk snapped back to reality, though his head felt a bit groggy, he still shook his head.
"No."
"Then take the medicine."
Hawk may not be in his full form now, but Wanda is. With a touch of Chaos Magic, she turned Hawk’s invincible and powerful body back into an ordinary one.
Of course, this was done with Hawk’s consent and active cooperation.
The reason Hawk did this was simple too.
He had come too far, too fast, so much so that his foundation wasn’t stable at all. But since the foundation wasn’t stable, he decided to walk the journey again.
Hawk is now walking that path again.
At this moment, after taking the water and medicine from Wanda, Hawk had only one thought in mind.
Going from frugality to luxury is easy.
Going from luxury back to frugality is difficult.
Indeed.
The ancestors don’t lie.
Even though it’s been almost two years since he came back from Cairo, Egypt, it felt like it’s been twenty years.
After swallowing the cold medicine, Hawk took a deep breath, removed the blanket, and walked towards the punching bag hanging under the phoenix tree in the backyard.
Wanda frowned slightly.
"You’re going to train even with a cold?"
"Yes."
Hawk’s forehead was a bit sweaty, his voice was a bit muffled, but his gaze was firm as he walked towards the punching bag: "I once managed to persist for ten thousand days, and I can do it again now."
Hawk back then, as an ordinary person, had also had a fever, but driven by the thought of saving Anya, he sweated profusely as if fished out from a bathtub, finishing ten thousand punches and then fainted on the spot.
So—
If he could do it then, there’s no reason he can’t now.
He needed to regain the original aspiration he had once abandoned!
Very soon.
Bang!
Hawk landed a punch on the punching bag hanging under the phoenix tree.
Punch after punch.
Wanda, who came out from the living room, stood under the eaves looking at the sky.
In her sight.
In the clear sky above, there seemed to be a faint shadow of a Phoenix, appearing and disappearing.
Wanda remembered the first time after she turned Hawk into an ordinary person and he started punching, when they settled here.
There were no anomalies then, not even in the first few months, or even in the past year.
It was only this year that with each punch Hawk threw, as time passed, Wanda could vaguely feel Hawk’s Little Cosmos from beyond this universe responding to him.
It was clear.
Hawk was simultaneously re-establishing his own path and speeding up the call to his Little Cosmos.
They might not need ten years here. At this rate, it might be less than a year before they can return.
Wanda thought so, while withdrawing her gaze from the sky, turning towards the open door behind her.
Jean, wearing a deep red trench coat, walked in from outside, meeting Wanda’s gaze: "Mom, here’s the cold medicine you wanted, but why do you need cold medicine?"
Wanda chuckled.
"Your dad caught a cold."
"What?"
Putting the car keys on the shoe cabinet at the entrance, Jean was a bit surprised, walked to the corridor of the backyard, and saw Hawk, who looked a bit flushed and not quite right but was focused on punching in the distance, feeling a bit stunned: "Dad caught a cold and is still bare-chested?"
Wanda laughed softly: "He said wherever he falls, he’ll get up from there."
Jean was silent for a moment, looking at Hawk whom was punching under the snowy tree, opened her mouth, but didn’t speak.
Wanda raised an eyebrow as if recalling something and looked towards Jean: "By the way, while we’re still in this universe, do whatever you want as you grow up, because once we leave this universe, you’ll turn back into a child."
Jean was slightly taken aback.
"What?"
"This universe is too low-end, and because of that, its time flow is different from other universes, as well as our own. So, superior laws can descend upon a lower universe, but the laws of a lower universe can’t be taken up."
"I know."
Jean shook her head: "I mean, wasn’t it said before that we’d have to stay here for about ten years?"
Jean knew that when she left this Cosmos, she would once again become a six-year-old girl.
Because when Wanda returned from Cairo, she had told her.
Jean didn’t mind, even felt a little relieved.
After all...
Although she had grown up, her childhood lacked the company of her father Hawk and mother Wanda, so she wasn’t opposed to returning to her former self after leaving this Cosmos.
The most important point.
She had experienced the joys of growing up.
Let’s put it this way.
She didn’t want to grow up.
But it’s undeniable that there are some perks to growing up, though at the time Jean said it would take about ten years or so.
And now?
Wanda raised her head, meeting Jean’s gaze before looking up at the sky again.
What she saw.
In the depths of this Cosmos, a corner had already been stained red by the flames of the Phoenix.
It seemed that right outside this Cosmos, a Fire Phoenix was trying every possible way to enter.
"Once your father’s power descends, we can go back."
"Dad’s power..."
Jean followed Wanda’s gaze upward, recalling childhood memories: "Is it that beautiful Fire Phoenix?"
Wanda nodded.
"Yes."
"How much time is left?"
"Not sure, your father’s power is already at the edge of this Cosmos, once it breakthrough..."
Wanda estimated, then looked at Jean: "So cherish your adult time here because once we go back, you’ll be a little girl again."
Jean smiled slightly: "Mom, I liked being a little girl, especially during the time in West View Town."
The mother and daughter exchanged glances and smiled at each other.
But Jean didn’t stay here long, after delivering the medicine and chatting with Wanda for a while, she left and returned to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.
In Jean’s words, she was an adult now and most of her friends were at X Academy, with her soon to leave, she wanted to spend more time with her friends there.
Of course.
This was just talk for show.
The real reason was that Jean wanted her mom and dad to have more time together.
So—
Jean came.
Jean left again.
When Jean returned to X Academy, she happened to see her uncle Quicksilver Pietro coming to find Storm again.
After leaving Cairo, Egypt, Angel and Storm had nowhere to go, so they also heard about Professor X and followed him to X Academy, where they learned about their mutant abilities under Professor X’s guidance while acting as teachers for the other mutants who had nowhere to go within X Academy.
Quicksilver Pietro actually had somewhere to go, but ever since leaving Cairo, Egypt, he kept coming to X Academy.
In short.
Quicksilver’s heart, everyone knows.
"If you really want to ask Storm out, I suggest you change your look."
Jean watched Storm shake off Quicksilver Pietro with a bad expression, then gave him a sincere suggestion after Storm walked away, seeing Pietro grinning at her: "After all, looking like that, you really don’t seem mature."
Quicksilver Pietro had a bit of a dark face.
"Is this how you talk to your uncle?"
"...Alright, uncle."
Jean was initially taken aback, then helplessly shook her head with a smile: "Be more mature, you won’t be able to date Storm like this."
Quicksilver Pietro waved his hand: "Let me change my dressing style? Impossible, if I changed it, all the money I spent on clothes before would be wasted."
Jean was stunned again at these words, then seriously looked at Quicksilver Pietro: "Okay, you really are my uncle, this stingy personality is exactly the same."
In her memory, her mature uncle Quicksilver was very stingy.
He bought candies by the piece.
Jean still remembered complaining to her mom Wanda, only for Wanda to tell her that buying candies by the piece was pretty good, since in the past, when she wanted something sweet, Uncle Quicksilver would just give a bit of sugar to Wanda.
Once again, Sokovia was a chaotic little country, and at the time, Quicksilver was already struggling to survive with Wanda, let alone buying candies.
Although theoretically speaking, when they arrived at West View Town, even if they cleared out the candy store there, nothing much happened, but Quicksilver’s frugal character remained.
This...
Is nice.
Jean, having listened to Wanda’s recounting, decided that she too wanted to be a frugal person like her uncle, then a happy Quicksilver took her to the candy store and bought her some candies again.
Jean reminisced about this Cosmos’s Quicksilver, because of his stinginess, the hippie style Quicksilver seemed to overlap with the uncle in her memory.
Hippie Quicksilver shot Jean a dark look, waved his hand, and the moment he turned, disappeared from Jean’s line of sight.
Jean watched the direction hippie Quicksilver disappeared to, smiled, didn’t say anything, and followed the stairs up to the second floor, pushing open the meeting room.
In sight.
Professor X, Beast, Cyclops, Storm, and Angel were all seated.
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