Marvel: I Awake the Little Cosmos-Chapter 603 - 572: Collapsing Timeline

In the somewhat murky air of the sewer.

Following a woman named Andy through the sewer, Hawk arrived at their refuge.

To call it a refuge is actually to say it’s a converted reservoir in the sewer.

There resided dozens of simply dressed male and female survivors.

Though their skin colors varied, what was similar was their effort to live, reducing movement as much as possible, and apparently abiding by the rules here. Even communication wasn’t through words but through the slightest possible hand gestures.

Beside him, Andy’s Adam’s apple moved slightly as she narrated the events of this timeline.

Hawk listened quietly by her side.

According to Andy, indeed, there once was an organization called the Avengers in this timeline.

Iron Man, Tony Stark.

Captain America, Steve Rogers.

Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff.

Including Thor, and Scarlet Witch, Wanda, all of them existed, but the Vision Hawk spoke of did not.

It’s as if in this timeline, Vision never existed.

Clearly.

In the main space-time, the traces of Vision Hawk have been erased by the Celestial God Team with the tacit consent of the 616 Cosmos itself.

This was a possibility Hawk guessed upon seeing the bewildered look in Andy’s eyes when he introduced himself.

And Andy’s words precisely confirmed this point.

However...

Hawk was puzzled, even if the Celestial God Team could manipulate time, to erase a timeline directly was not an easy task.

And as Andy described, everything in this timeline, all the disasters, stemmed from this one person.

"Superman!"

"..."

Hawk raised an eyebrow at the name Andy spoke and looked at her.

"Who?"

"His codename, Superman."

"Uh..."

Hawk blinked, "Does this Superman have a name?"

Andy shook her head, "Some people know, but I don’t know."

Hawk frowned deeply.

"So the Superman you mentioned, and the Scarlet Witch?"

"The apocalypse we went through was caused by those two."

"Hiss."

Hawk drew in a breath.

Andy then narrated the origins of this disaster.

It all goes back to the Shimmering Event.

"After the Shimmering Event was perfectly resolved by The Avengers, almost everyone came back, except for Superman, hence the Scarlet Witch..."

"Wait."

Hawk quickly interrupted at the moment Andy began to speak, "You mean, the Shimmering Event was perfectly resolved?"

Andy nodded.

"Yes."

"Iron Man and the Black Widow didn’t die at that time?"

"No."

"Understood."

With that, Hawk nodded, solving the confusion in his heart.

He initially thought the Celestial God Team had completely erased his existence.

But this was almost impossible.

As the saying goes.

The past cannot be changed, let alone, the past still contains his past, so even if the Celestial God Team, which manipulates time, wanted to alter his past, it couldn’t be done without him noticing it.

Clearly.

The Celestial God Team did not reset the past but rewrote time on the basis of the past that had already happened.

So the story of this timeline started to change only after he and Wanda left this space-time.

Hawk even already understood how the Celestial God Team concocted that seemingly non-existent self.

To be precise, that seemingly non-existent self was not concocted by the Celestial God Team.

But by Wanda.

Yes.

Another Wanda, but this Wanda was indeed created by the Celestial God Team, and that seemingly non-existent self was created by the Celestial God Team by creating Wanda and then indirectly creating it from Wanda’s timeline.

As the saying goes.

Hawk’s time had already contracted, so no matter how the Celestial God Team acted, as long as they touched his time, he would inevitably notice it.

But Wanda was different.

Even though Wanda existed at every moment of his timeline, Wanda’s time itself had not shrunk.

Therefore, the Celestial God Team could not create Hawk through Hawk’s timeline, but they could create an alternate Wanda through Wanda’s timeline, and then through Wanda’s timeline, create a Hawk that existed on Wanda’s timeline.

This is why Hawk felt that the so-called ’Hawk’ seemed real yet unreal.

As for why Andy said she had never heard of Vision, Hawk guessed a possibility from Andy’s later words.

It wasn’t that the existence of Vision Hawk had been erased, but that Andy had never heard of Vision.

In the literal sense, had never heard of.

Because a full ten years had passed since the end of the Shimmering Event in the current timeline.

Time is both a cure and a poison.

Because time can make you forget all unpleasant memories, but it can also lead to a person who’s been absent for a long time being forgotten by the entire world.

Especially when someone wants to deliberately forget this person.

Hawk, although teamed up with Wanda to help the humans of this space-time solve the Blip event, humans are the least grateful creatures.

Especially here in the West.

Maybe The Avengers appreciate Hawk and Wanda, but for the Federation government at the time, they might initially be grateful, but over time, they’d grow wary of Hawk.

After all, Hawk came from beyond the planet, and having dealt with several Federation governments, Hawk easily guessed their thoughts.

In their view, perhaps today Hawk could help them, but tomorrow, he might colonize them.

It’s well known.

A person with a small-minded heart always imagines others similarly.

So—

It was very normal for the Federation government to deliberately hide Vision’s existence in the propaganda afterward.

The most important thing.

Andy wasn’t originally a native Federation person; according to Andy, she moved here to Texas from Europe in the third year after the Blip event.

Hawk was a bit curious: "Are there people here who were here before the Blip event?"

Andy shook her head, looking at Hawk.

"This place is called New Frankfurt."

"So?"

"The people residing here immigrated from Frankfurt after the Blip event."

After the Blip event, although half of the disappeared lives returned.

But where is this? It’s the Federation; during those years when the Blip event occurred, the population in other countries might have been growing, but in the Federation, the population continued to decline. Therefore, the Federation once again rolled out the slogan of the New American Dream to attract a slew of immigrants here.

And now, this city that has already become a ruin is inhabited by foreigners who immigrated from Frankfurt.

Hawk thought, nodding, looking at Andy.

"Please continue."

"..."

Andy watched Hawk, who had a somewhat peculiar expression, feeling a bit curious herself but didn’t ask anything. Instead, she continued narrating.

After the Blip event concluded, everyone returned, except for Scarlet Witch’s lover, that so-called Superman, who didn’t return.

Therefore, Scarlet Witch used Black Magic to find her lover.

During this process, the Supreme Mage Doctor Strange who tried to stop her was directly killed by Wanda, and even Kamar-Taj was leveled by Wanda.

The final result was that Wanda succeeded in resurrecting her lover, and at that time, Iron Man Tony, who had ostensibly retired to family life after the Blip event, stepped forward and declared Wanda and Superman as wanted targets.

Then...

Things escalated and became uncontrollable, evolving into the current situation.

"So, the end of this world was caused by that Superman and Scarlet Witch?"

"No."

Andy continued to shake her head, then looked at Hawk: "It was Hydra."

Hawk raised an eyebrow.

Andy said solemnly: "Superman’s full name should be Hydra Superman. It’s said that this Superman originally came from Hydra, and after Hydra was destroyed again by Captain America back in the day, it didn’t truly end but turned underground once more. When The Avengers announced they were hunting Superman and Wanda, Hydra resurrected again, setting the whole world ablaze like it is now, especially those Cleansers loyal to Superman."

Hawk said: "You mean those flying ones you were worried about just now?"

Andy nodded: "Yes, there are five Cleansers in total. Each of them is non-human, and no one knows where they came from."

I know.

Listening to Andy’s words, Hawk instinctively thought.

Capable of flying.

Non-human, unknown origins, without surprise, most likely the Eternal Race of this space-time.

But...

"Hydra’s goal should be to rule the world, not to format life. You all should be survivors, not a so-called resistance army. If that’s the case, why did they..."

"Who said we’re not the resistance army."

"..."

Hawk looked at Andy in rough linen clothes, armed only with a battle axe, even seeing everyone here as emaciated, yet claiming to be the resistance army.

Though he didn’t speak, his expression said it all.

Andy extended her right hand towards Hawk: "Let me introduce myself, Andy Carter, head of the New Frankfurt Federal Resistance Army."

Hawk raised an eyebrow.

"Carter?"

"Yes."

Listening to Andy’s familiar surname, Hawk looked at Andy somewhat curiously: "Is Sharon Carter your..."

Andy smiled slightly: "Just the same surname."

Hawk was slightly startled, then nodded.

That makes sense.

If Sharon Carter really had anything to do with Andy, she couldn’t possibly have not heard of Vision.

Hawk thought, then his mind moved as he looked at Andy in front of him.

"Are you really the Federal Resistance Army?"

"Of course."

"And The Avengers?"

"Most of New York City and more than half of the Federation have already been occupied by Hydra, but The Avengers are still around, and we have one here; recently we’ve made contact, and this time when we went out, it was to meet her. Unexpectedly, we met you."

"Her?"

"Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff!"

"..."