Marvel: I Awake the Little Cosmos-Chapter 528 - 496: What Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield Cannot Be Won at the Table
Is it our past that changed the future?
Or is it our future that changed the past?
This is what Hawk said to Wanda.
While Wanda was pondering whether the Gwen in Hawk’s timeline was the Gwen or herself, Hawk appeared relaxed and told Wanda not to worry about this question.
But...
Not just Wanda was thinking.
He was thinking too.
Generally, Hawk doesn’t like to dwell on the past.
Someone once said this.
Only when you are weak and want to escape do you think back to things that have happened in the past.
Because when a person is not weak and doesn’t escape, he only cares about the present and the future in his eyes.
Although Hawk really doesn’t want to admit this.
But after his request, his ordinary body sealed by Wanda began to get sick, and while soaking in a hot bath, Hawk was sweating like rain and also pondering whether the wife Gwen in his timeline, who witnessed his birth and his growth, was Wanda.
The most important thing.
What kind of answer did he really want?
Trying to find evidence to prove that the Gwen in his timeline is Gwen herself, not the Wanda who traveled to his timeline?
Or trying to prove something else?
In the steamy bathroom, Hawk submerged himself entirely in the bathtub, with calm eyes, his thoughts at that moment crazily flickering like a malfunctioning computer.
The past cannot be changed.
What has already happened is destined to happen, even if you change the past, ultimately, that event will still occur again.
Time needs to be a closed loop.
Unclosed time is like an opened can, which over time, will spoil, mold, and rot.
So——
Wanda Maximoff is Gwen Stacy.
Gwen Stacy is Wanda Maximoff.
At least, in his divine timeline, that’s how it is.
Finally!
Hawk, lying in the bathtub, after his thoughts became clear, calmly closed his eyes again.
The next second!
Chime!
A phoenix comes, and it perches only on a Chinese parasol tree.
The phoenix sings in the sky, its chirping chimes.
The Phoenix Nirvana, its fire blazing!
At the moment when Hawk’s thoughts became clear, in Hawk’s Little Cosmos, the crimson chaos fire, born from the impossible life burning above the now-repaired river of time, cascaded down from the river, like a skyward red lotus waterfall.
The crimson chaos fire cascaded down, entering Hawk’s Little Cosmos, and with its fusion, the flame of the Fire Phoenix, which now covered almost the entire Little Cosmos, also began to surge.
The flame ignited by the initial life’s birth, and the flame ignited by the most impossible life’s birth began to fuse.
Hawk’s Little Cosmos at this moment started to roar.
The boundary of his Little Cosmos once again expanded towards the chaos like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
A great show of creation was being performed.
Fully fused with the crimson chaos fire, bathing in the ’everything is possible flame’, the Fire Phoenix let out an ear-piercing cry, fully manifesting in his Little Cosmos, with wings open wide, and flames instantly engulfing the entire Little Cosmos.
Then——
Little Cosmos big bang!
"Boom——"
"Chime——!!!"
A deafening phoenix chirping sounded!
But this time, the phoenix chirping was not in his Little Cosmos, but in this universe.
To be precise, on the edge of this universe.
The flame born from Hawk’s initial life was unable to shake a universe barrier.
The flame born from Wanda’s most impossible life was equally unable to shake a universe barrier.
But when the two combine?
The flame born from the initial life and the flame born from the most impossible life fuse to become the flame where everything is possible.
This flame naturally can blast open a universe barrier.
It seems that no universe barrier can block this flame anymore.
Because!
Everything is possible!
At the same time, in the living room, Wanda, while making dinner and listening to Jean talk about the reason for coming back tonight, also heard this phoenix chirping sound, instinctively looked up, her gaze passed through the roof, atmosphere, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy... and finally landed on the pure golden liquid seeping in from outside the universe.
The phoenix chirping sound came from this pure golden liquid.
Under Wanda’s gaze, after the pure golden liquid penetrated in, it began to condense on the spot, almost in a very short time, condensing into a Fire Phoenix bathing in pure golden flames.
The Fire Phoenix spread its wings and let out a cry that shook the entire universe, announcing its arrival.
The next second!
The Fire Phoenix’s sharp eyes instantly fell on the direction of Earth, then transformed into a golden stream of light, quickly coming towards Earth.
Seeing this, Wanda withdrew her eyes, with a slight smile at the corner of her mouth.
All this happened in a flash.
Jean, who was talking, saw Wanda look up, and then her face showed a kind of expression that felt ’happy?’, blinked.
"Mom?"
"Hawk’s power has descended."
"What?"
Jean was slightly taken aback: "So soon, wasn’t it said this morning that it might still take a year?"
Wanda shrugged: "I said within a year."
Jean’s mouth twitched.
"It’s been less than a day, Mom."
"Just say whether a day counts within a year or not."
Wanda smiled.
Besides.
She and Hawk both studied law.
As everyone knows.
In the West, whether it’s law or magic, it’s all about idealism.
And idealism doesn’t follow any real-world rules.
Just like Hawk’s Little Cosmos power.
In the morning, Wanda indeed felt Hawk’s power manifest, at the fastest it would take a year.
But then...
Hawk’s mind cleared, one channel opened, all channels opened, and the flames completely transformed into golden flames that could achieve anything, instantly breaking through this universe’s barrier and descending.
"Not so fast."
Wanda looked at Jean, who seemed a bit stunned, and smiled again: "Your dad’s power just arrived in this universe, it hasn’t materialized yet, so there should still be some time."
Jean, listening to Wanda’s words, looked a bit skeptical.
"Mom?"
"Hmm?"
"Won’t it take another year this time."
"Oh!"
Wanda looked at Jean, who was still suspicious, and her gaze shifted past Jean’s back, seeing Hawk walking down the stairs in gray pajamas, then said to Jean: "Your dad is coming down, ask him yourself."
Jean turned to look.
Hawk, walking down the stairs, smiled: "Ask me what?"
Jean, hearing Hawk’s voice, blinked: "Dad, hasn’t your power manifested? Why does your voice still sound a bit muffled."
Hawk came over, accepted the lemon water and cold medicine Wanda handed him, thanked her, then after finishing the lemon water and cold medicine, finally said to Jean: "Because I haven’t accepted my power yet."
Jean slightly froze.
"Haven’t accepted?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Ninety miles out is only halfway." (An old saying meaning the closer you are to a goal, the harder it gets.)
Hawk smiled and said: "Because I need to retrace my journey; from my last journey, there’s now only forty-two days left."
Jean heard this, blinked in semi-understanding, then shook her head, coming back to her senses, remembered the real reason for coming home tonight, and then talked about the mutants’ peace act hearing to be held in Washington early next month.
Hawk sat on a nearby high stool, listening intently. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
After Jean finished talking, she looked at the silent Hawk, cautiously asked: "Dad, can I go to Washington with Professor X?"
Hawk didn’t speak, just calmly looked at Jean.
"Do you want to go?"
"I want to."
"Why."
"Because I can..."
"Speak honestly."
"Alright."
Under Hawk’s gaze, Jean opened her mouth, then said: "Since I’ve lived here for over ten years, when I leave, I really want to see the moment when humans in this world can shake hands with mutants and live peacefully together."
Hawk heard this but didn’t speak.
Jean looked expectantly at Hawk.
"Dad?"
"Speaking of..."
Hawk spoke, but not to Jean, instead with a playful smile towards Wanda, who was untying her apron: "See, your daughter inherited your innocence."
Me?
Innocent?
Jean blinked.
Wanda, hearing Hawk’s words, was slightly startled and then directly rolled her eyes at Hawk: "There’s a saying in the Eastern Country: if you don’t teach your child, it’s the father’s fault. So, guess whose issue this is."
Hawk raised his eyebrows, then with a silent smile, shook his head.
"Alright, my fault."
After saying that.
Hawk then turned his gaze to his daughter Jean’s face, which was full of confusion, and said with a hearty smile: "Luckily, your growing up here is only temporary."
Jean snapped back, hearing the teasing tone in Hawk’s words, feeling somewhat displeased.
"Dad!"
"Dear, you don’t really think a piece of scrap paper can bring about peace, do you?"
"That’s a bill, not scrap paper."
Jean corrected: "And Dad, it’s been reviewed by Congress, has legal effect, must be respected."
As Jean spoke, Hawk’s smile bloomed visibly on his face.
Even Wanda, at this moment sat on the nearby high stool, dividing dinner among the three, while watching the father-daughter debate unfold before her with an amused look.
But really, there wasn’t much to debate.
After all, daughter Jean was Hawk’s child.
Jean noticed her description made Hawk’s smile ever more radiant, even somewhat chilling, remembered her father’s glorious battle history, fell silent, then was full of confusion.
"The peace act can’t bring about peace?"
"Haha!"
"..."
