Marvel: I Awake the Little Cosmos-Chapter 615 - 584: Turning The Avengers into Prison Guards
It’s well known.
Hawk joined Hydra in this universe, and that’s where he met Wanda in Sokovia.
And at that time, the first time he saw Wanda was because the Hydra leader asked him to bring Wanda over for an experiment.
So when he first saw Wanda, the first thing he said was, "XX asked me to send you a message."
Never thought...
"Do you still remember?"
"Of course."
Wanda looked at Hawk with a smile, "I remember every word you said."
Their eyes met.
Between the two of them, it seemed like even the air temperature started to rise at this moment.
Then—
The mood was spoiled.
"What about this?" Tony Stark flew up to Hawk’s side, his gaze fell on Sella, who was frozen in mid-air not far away, with an expression twisted as if she had seen a Demon.
Wanda and Hawk both turned their attention away.
Hawk glanced at the somewhat spoiling Tony, then shifted his gaze to his impostor Sella and chuckled softly.
The next second.
He came directly in front of Sella, his eyes peering through her pupils, seeing the moment as Sella was trapped in an endless nightmare struggling infinitely.
What is Sella’s nightmare?
Naturally, it’s the Eternal Time of her master.
And what Sella fears most is that Eternal Time discovers that they, the tools, are attempting to be on par with their creator, bringing about destructive punishment.
In Sella’s nightmare, it all came true.
Except—
Who doesn’t know that Eternal Time is a long-term "AFK king", just like the Dragon Palace in a dream world, doing nothing after a tornado.
Eternal is the same.
Initially, Hawk was worried about Eternal, but after interacting with Death, he understood the fact that Eternal is an AFK king.
Simply put.
As long as time exists, Eternal will not appear unless necessary.
Therefore!
Eternal doesn’t care what the tools he created are trying to do, nor does it care what Hawk is doing.
Time transcends everything.
Eternal is also like that.
Hawk thought to himself, watching Sella trapped in nightmare and despair, while stretching out his right hand to grab a defeated robot into his hand.
Then!
He pressed Sella’s forehead with his left hand, in just a blink, extracting Sella’s soul out, then without hesitation placing it into the broken robot in his right hand, which could easily be trashed, with no possibility or need for repair.
In an instant.
The broken robot had its eyes lit.
The next second.
A voice came out from its half-damaged mouth.
"I surrender, spare me."
"Ha!"
Hawk heard this, raised an eyebrow, looked at Sella whose soul was stuffed into this broken machine, grinned, "See, you still want to replace me, yet you don’t resemble me at all."
At least the word surrender, he would never say under any circumstances.
Although he often said ’A gentleman seeks revenge, ten years is not too late’ and doesn’t advocate ’On a narrow road, the brave wins’, but he also wouldn’t place hope for survival on the enemy’s mercy.
At the critical moment, Hawk accepts to lose gracefully.
He would rather die standing than live kneeling!
Sella kept pleading.
"Yes, I’m not like you, spare me, forgive me."
"Rest assured, I won’t kill you."
If Sella used his face to spit out such disgusting begging for mercy, Hawk might have slapped Sella’s head into pieces.
But now?
Hawk’s smile was as warm as spring, looking at Sella trapped in this broken machine, "I said you’d live, and you’d live for a long time."
After finishing.
His gaze turned to The Avengers, resting on Tony Stark, Captain America Steve, and finally on Natasha Romanoff, with a thought, Natasha was transmitted from the Quinjet to him.
Natasha suddenly noticed a blur before her eyes and realized she was in mid-air, instinctively exclaimed before calming herself and looking at Hawk.
Hawk smiled slightly.
"I have a task for you."
"Go ahead."
Natasha nodded without hesitation, her gaze fell on the broken machine, and she roughly guessed the task might have something to do with this thing.
Indeed!
"I’ve transferred Sella’s soul into this broken machine."
"I want it to live."
"To stay in this form, to live in the dirtiest corners, incapable of living, incapable of dying, incapable of moving."
"And your task is to ensure this."
"You could understand it as me wanting you to be its Prison Guard, but rest assured, I’ll compensate you."
Hawk revealed his demand.
He had given Sella a chance, but Sella refused.
Natasha listened to Hawk’s words and quickly shook her head.
"No need, you’ve already helped us..."
"It is immortal, you are immortal."
"Ha!"
Natasha, who was about to say Hawk had helped a lot, paused slightly when she heard this from Hawk, then turned her head, staring blankly at Hawk.
Hawk smiled brightly: "You heard right, if you guard it forever, then you will live forever too, how about that."
Natasha blinked, suddenly feeling a strange attraction for some reason.
Only...
Natasha instinctively swallowed, looking at the broken machine in Hawk’s hand, she couldn’t help but ask a question.
"How long can it live?"
"In theory, forever, but I need it to be conscious and decaying in a trash heap, so you need to keep it charged to ensure it doesn’t shut down."
Though if shut down, Serra’s soul can only stay in this machine.
But that’s not what Hawk wanted.
He wanted Serra to watch helplessly as it was thrown into a trash heap, day after day, year after year, unable even to commit suicide.
Thanks to Serra’s plundering of this impostor’s memories, Serra gained a touch of humanity, not just pure machine thinking.
If Serra were still just a machine, Hawk’s way of tormenting it would be nearly useless, because it would have no feelings, no matter how much he tortured Serra, Serra wouldn’t feel anything.
But now it’s different.
How does the saying go?
Trapped in a cocoon, bound and helpless.
After hearing Hawk’s request, Natasha’s expression was blank for a moment again, then she couldn’t help but utter a wow.
"We can live forever?"
"If you want."
Hawk smiled and said, "What I give you is just the opportunity for immortality, you can choose to take it or not, if one day you don’t want to live anymore, you can give up the responsibility of guarding this machine, then time will flow again for you."
If this opportunity were placed in the East, I guess no one would refuse.
But this is in the West.
It’s well known.
Immortality is sought by all in Eastern cultures, but in Western cultures, immortality is linked with curses.
However, as they say, adapt to local customs.
Hawk didn’t agree with it entirely, but he understood it.
He gave this blessing to The Avengers but didn’t want this blessing to evolve into a curse on them over time.
After finishing his words, Hawk didn’t wait for Natasha to answer, directly handing the broken Serra imprisoned in the machine to Natasha, then took Natasha back to the surface.
Analyst Nizerel was blown away by his punch.
Creator Serra was imprisoned by him for eternity.
But there was still an enemy alive and well, that was the 616 Cosmos itself, which had staked itself in this gamble.
Hawk raised his eyes to the source rapidly fleeing to the deepest parts of the universe, the corner of his mouth lifted, smiling, then looked at Wanda: "Are you waiting for me?"
Wanda nodded.
"Alright."
"And you?"
Hawk then turned his gaze to other Avengers approaching and said, "After I accept this cosmos, I’ll reverse Earth’s time to before anything happened, but during this process, I can also give you one more chance."
Tony frowned slightly.
"What chance?"
"For example, bringing Howard and Maria back in this time reversal."
"What?"
Tony looked astonished at Hawk: "You can do that?"
Hawk laughed heartily, spreading his hands at Tony: "Standing before you now is Hawk Phoenix the Main God about to become master of this cosmos. You know nothing of the Main God’s power, Tony, so, do you need it?"
Tony nodded instinctively.
Hawk then looked at Captain America: "I can also bring Peggy Carter back."
Upon hearing this, Captain America’s mind shook, met Hawk’s eyes, took a deep breath, then said, "Please."
Hawk’s smile brightened, then directed his gaze to Ant-Man and Wasp: "As for you two, do you have any requests? Speak them out, treat me as a wish-granting dragon, and I’ll fulfill them."
Ant-Man and Wasp exchanged a glance, then looked at Hawk and shook their heads.
Compared to other Avengers, indeed, Ant-Man and Wasp are among the few superheroes without regrets.
Hawk’s gaze finally landed on the Scarlet Witch, who was created by the Celestial God Team, and spoke calmly.
"I’m not your Hawk."
"Nor will I become your Hawk."
"But..."
"I will also bring back the Hawk in your timeline."
"As for the future—"
Hawk thought for a moment, faced the Scarlet Witch whose eyes were becoming increasingly excited and sparkling as he spoke, pondered for a while, then smiled and finally said, "I wish you happiness."
Saying that.
Hawk looked up towards the depths of the universe.
The next second.
Shooting sky-high!
Boom!
A Phoenix’s shadow suddenly appeared, along with a resounding cry, instantly chasing after the source fleeing to the depths of the universe.
"Run!"
"Can we escape!"
"..."
