Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 423 A Tree Blooms with Different Flowers (Second Update!!)
521A Palm Street.

In the living room.

Anya sat on the sofa, leaning forward, her eyes fixed on Hawke sitting beside her.

Hawke smiled as he looked at Anya and began to recount stories from another universe.

He explained it in great detail.

Just as Anya said earlier, the one thing they have plenty of right now is time.

Since Thanos snapped his fingers five years ago, causing the annihilation, Earth's development seemed to come to a standstill, and to this day, Earth has not yet recovered from the annihilation.

If it weren't for the surviving Avengers members holding things together, the whole world would probably be in complete chaos by now.

But it’s actually pretty much the same.

Apart from the five superpowers, the remaining kingdoms were mostly in turmoil.

Even at the federal level, let's put it this way: if you commit murder in the street, as long as you're not arrested at the scene, there's a high probability you won't be investigated.

The Earth seems to be shrouded in a slump.

Apart from a small number of people who are still struggling to hold on, most people have already settled into a state of just getting by.

Even Iron Man Tony Stark has now retired from the military and put away his weapons.

and so……

Compared to before the extinction, when time was considered the most precious thing, now time is the least valuable thing.

Hawke recounted the story of his universe in detail.

Anya listened quietly.

He frowned slightly after hearing that he had tragically died in the 2008 battle between Hulk and Abomination.

His eyes flickered when he heard that Hawk had stormed into Hell and snatched his soul back from Mephisto, the Lord of the Hell Dimension.

Then, after hearing that Hawke had found out the truth about why their parents abandoned them and that they had found their parents again in another universe, she pursed her lips.

Time ticks by.

After Hawke finished speaking, Anya stared intently at him, a hint of sadness flickering in her eyes.

"So, you're not my brother, right?"

"Do not."

Hawk chuckled, looking at Anya with tender eyes: "I am your brother. No matter which universe we're in, you will always be my sister, Hawk Phoenix."

Anya pursed her lips and stared at Hawke.

"But you are not my brother in this universe."

"Ah."

Hawke shook his head and chuckled, then extended his right hand to Anya.

Anya looked at the right hand extended to her, then at Hawke's eyes, and after a moment of silence, placed her palm in Hawke's palm.

next moment.

boom!
Above the Milky Way of Time.

"Gift crab!"

Anya felt a blur before her eyes, then looked around at the Milky Way-like exclamation, and her gaze fell on the Milky Way of Time that was constantly flashing with fragments.

The fragments contain the past of Hawk's universe, as well as the past of Hawk in universe 616.

Two distinct pasts, indistinguishable yet unfolding simultaneously in the galaxy, eventually converge at the feet of her and Hawke in the present.

"The universe I inhabit is me."

"The universe you inhabit is also me."

You can think of it as a tree with different flowers blooming.

"so……"

“This Anya Phoenix is ​​my sister.”

Hawke swept his right hand across the area, and the image of his sister Anya from his own universe appeared.

next second.

Hawke stroked his right hand again, and in the Milky Way of Time, the image of his sister in the universe he was in appeared.

"Similarly, Anya Phoenix is ​​also my sister."

"No difference."

"and many more."

Hawke seemed to realize something, and looked at Anya, his sister who was standing to the side, staring intently at the Time Galaxy, and smiled, "There is a difference. You look older than the other Anya Phoenix, and you don't have as much baby fat."

Anya, who was standing to the side, was startled and looked at Hawke.

“Baby fat is used to describe young children. I’ve grown up. I’m now five years older than you, so you’re no longer my older brother, but my younger brother.”

"Haha."

Hawke looked at Anya, who was staring at him intently, and laughed loudly. Then he opened his arms to Anya and said, "So, now you believe I'm your brother?"

Eyes facing each other.

Anya nodded, then walked back to Hawke and nestled into his arms: "Yes, brother!"

The surrounding scenery shifted, and we returned to the living room.

Hawke and his sister Anya are embracing.

Neither of them spoke.

The years are quiet.

at this time.

Anya suddenly moved, peeked out from Hawke's arms, and looked at Hawke as if she had thought of something: "Wait a minute, you said my sister-in-law is Gwen, shouldn't it be Wanda?"

Hawke, who had been enjoying the warmth of his sibling reunion with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them. Meeting Anya's gaze, which seemed to have caught something important, he twitched his lips and said, "This is another different thing."

In his own universe, Hawke never considered dealing with Hydra.

At the very least, he never actively sought out Hydra.

But that was because in his universe, when his sister was ten years old and needed surgery, he, as a member of the church choir, received help from a local faith councilor. However, in this universe, he didn't receive help, so he chose Hydra.

This is what's called a variable!

same.

Wanda is another variable here.

As for why this variable occurred...

God knows.

As for how to handle this variable...

one more time.

God knows!
and so……

Hawke rubbed his temples under the familiar, bewildered, and slightly excited gaze of his sister Anya—a gaze that seemed similar to the one his sister had given birth to three children in his own world. "We'll talk about the future later."

Say it.

Hawke turned and walked toward the kitchen.

Anya stood there, watching her brother's back, blinked involuntarily, then lifted her foot to catch up and hugged Hawke's arm.

"When is next?"

"Trust in the wisdom of future generations."

"what?"

"Let Hawke worry about what happens in the future; it has nothing to do with Hawke now."

As Hawke spoke, he opened the refrigerator to see if there was anything to eat inside.

Perhaps because of his travels through the multiverse, he suddenly felt a little hungry.

Hawke looked at a slice of pizza in the refrigerator, took it out, and looked at Anya.

"Is this sandwich still edible?"

"Whose sandwich is this? I'm starving."

Hawke wasn't the only one feeling hungry.

Driving away from his daughter Casey's place, Ant-Man Scott, on his way to the Avengers base, grabbed the dinner sandwich that Black Widow Natasha had prepared for him, took a big bite, and filled the void of his hunger.

In his office in the building, Captain America Steve Rogers, who had been listening to Scott's explanation of quantum physics, crossed his arms and watched Scott, who was grabbing a sandwich and eating it with gusto: "Scott, what exactly are you trying to say?"

Scott swallowed the sandwich in his mouth while watching Captain America and Black Widow staring at him.

"What I want to say is that the quantum realm is not only a channel connecting the multiverse, but time also manifests in different forms in the quantum realm."

"If Hawke could travel from the quantum realm to our universe."

"So theoretically, we could also travel back in time through the quantum realm. The only problem is that we can't determine the direction, but what if we could?"

"What if we could enter the quantum realm at this point in time, and then leave the quantum realm at some other point in time?"

"..."

Captain America, Steve Rogers, frowned and extended his right hand: "Wait a minute, are we talking about time machines?"

Natasha, who was standing nearby, caught a fleeting keyword in Scott's words. She let go of his hands and looked at him: "Wait, Scott, who did you just say, Hawk?"

Scott glanced at Captain America, then at Natasha: "Yes, Hawk, I saw Hawk in the Quantum Realm, but not Hawk from our universe, but Hawk from another universe. He came back here with me, no, I mean, he came here."

Captain America frowned even more deeply as he listened to Scott's somewhat incoherent reply.

"Scott, you've got me all confused. What Hawk? And were we just talking about time machines?"

"..."

"Friday."

Natasha instinctively turned her head and summoned the intelligent system Friday: "Find the surveillance footage of Scott Lang along his route today."

Compared to Jarvis's deep, masculine voice, Friday's voice sounds more feminine and graceful.

After Friday said "Please wait a moment".

next moment.

The surveillance footage from Queens’ Shock Memorial Park was instantly displayed.

into the eye.

Standing at 1.85 meters tall, with a robust build, short, choppy blond hair, hands in his pockets, a resolute face, and calm eyes, Hawke suddenly came into their sight.

Natasha instinctively covered her mouth.

"Hawk?"

"what?"

Captain America Steve Rogers also turned his gaze to the projected Hawk, somewhat incredulous: "This is impossible. Thanos killed Hawk and took his Mind Stone."

Don't ask him why he's so sure.

The answer is that he was there when Hawke died.

Captain America watched helplessly as Thanos removed the Mind Stone from Hawk's forehead.

But right now?
Natasha turned to Scott: "You mean this Hawk is from the multiverse?"

Scott nodded. "Yes."

Captain America looked at the expression on Natasha's face.

"Natasha, what have you thought of?"

"Ah."

Natasha nodded, then looked at Captain America: "Do you remember when Bruce Banner came back and talked about how he felt like he was in a multiverse?"

Captain America frowned.

"Dr. Bruce Banner said he was dreaming, didn't he?"

"What if he wasn't dreaming?"

"..."

(End of this chapter)