Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 425 Iron Man Cursed by Knowledge (First Update!)

Still in the living room.

However, it wasn't Anya sitting on the sofa anymore.

Anya went to the kitchen to cook, but every now and then she would turn her head to look at her brother and Natasha, who were sitting on the sofa in the living room.

Hawke chuckled as he looked at Natasha, who seemed so engrossed in staring at him after taking her seat that she had forgotten to speak.

"You were looking for me, right? Here I am, and then what?"

"you……"

Natasha snapped out of her reverie, met Hawke's gaze, and frowned slightly: "You are very similar to the Hawke I remember, except that you don't have the Mind Stone on your forehead."

Hawke smiled.

“You are very similar to Natasha, whom I know.”

"So, you're not from our universe?"

"Haha."

Hawke chuckled upon hearing this, looked at Natasha, and calmly recounted some of the things he had experienced with Natasha.

Even after Anya's explanation, Natasha, who still harbored a sliver of doubt about Hawke's "two different flowers blooming on one tree," gradually lost that last bit of doubt in her eyes as Hawke recounted his experience firsthand.

At that moment, Natasha confirmed one thing.

"You really are Hawke!"

"Replacement guaranteed."

Hawke shrugged and smiled.

next second.

Natasha asked one last question.

"So, is it Hawk, who came to our universe, who is in control of you, or Hawk, who is in our universe?"

"it's all me."

There should be a primary and secondary focus.

"No."

Hawke shook his head: "You can think of them as two tributaries, and at the moment of arrival, the tributaries merge into one. My past is my past, and similarly, my past here is also my past. They are equal and inseparable."

Natasha nodded thoughtfully upon hearing this.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

"Will you help us?"

"will not!"

"..."

Natasha was silent for a moment, then looked at Hawke, who had resolutely refused: "You just said..."

Hawke interrupted with a laugh.

“I know what I’ve said, and I know why you’re here. My answer is no, not because I’m unwilling, but because I can’t.”

"why?"

"I have my reasons, but I'm sorry, I can't tell you the reasons, because once I tell you, it will be impossible for me to get what I want."

"what do you want?"

"hehe."

Hawke smiled slightly and looked at Natasha: "Once again, I can't say. The only thing I can tell you is that what I want is different from what you want, and there will be no conflict between them. So, I can't help you, and likewise, you can't help me."

He knew exactly what the Avengers here wanted to do.

But he couldn't help.

after all……

Once he sets foot in this river of time, he will be exposed to the cosmic gaze here, and his plan to sneak here from the quantum realm will be ruined.

Therefore, Hawke cannot help the Avengers here.

Whether it's within a month or a month later.

Even if he were to awaken his eighth sense of life a month later, he still wouldn't be able to go back to the past with them.

one more time.

Hawke's past is now fixed.

The past cannot be changed.

but……

Hawke looked at Natasha, whose expression shifted after he finished speaking, thought for a moment, and then looked at Natasha: "There is something I can tell you."

Natasha looked up at Hawke.

Hawke smiled slightly: "Follow your plan, and you will get what you want."

Natasha was taken aback at first, then her eyes lit up.

"You mean..."

"Shhh."

Hawke held up a finger to his lips: "Just know it, don't say it, or it might not work."

Natasha frowned, then looked at Hawke, who had a mysterious expression on his face, pursed her lips, and nodded.

"Thank you."

"Again, you're welcome."

Natasha got up from the sofa, ready to reply to the United Base.

Hawke didn't invite Natasha to stay for lunch or anything; instead, he got up from the sofa and escorted Natasha to the door.

soon.

Natasha opened the door of her sports car, then looked at Hawke, who had dropped her off at the roadside. As she prepared to get into the car, she looked at Hawke and asked, "Can I ask you one last question?"

Hawke had his hands in his pockets.

"of course."

"You said both Hawkes are you, so which Gwen do you like more, or Wanda?"

"..."

Hawke's smile froze on his face.

Well known.

The smile doesn’t disappear, it just shifts.

Natasha smiled at Hawke, said goodbye, then got into the car, the engine roared, and it drove off towards the outside of Palm Village.

In the blink of an eye, Natasha and her fiery red sports car disappeared from Hawke's sight. Standing by the roadside, Hawke closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and looked up at the clouds in the sky.

He has only one thought in his mind right now.

Hawke prays that in this universe, he can once and for all reach the eighth sense of life and complete a fundamental transformation in his definition of life.

because……

He didn't want to go to another multiverse.

As for the last question Natasha asked before leaving?
And again.

What happens next, let Hawke do.

What Hawke wants now has never changed.

His golden phoenix chakra awaits to illuminate this universe, and then to blast open the gates of the eighth sense of life.

As for the rest.

Hawke didn't want to talk about it, nor did he want to think about it.

and so!
Hawke closed his eyes, steadied his Dao heart, and then reopened them. His eyes, which had been momentarily chaotic but were now calm and deep like the starry sky, returned to their former clarity. He turned and walked back into the house.

Just as he walked back into the house, Anya appeared in front of him as if she had teleported.

Anya stared wide-eyed at Hawke.

"so?"

"what?"

"I'm also quite curious about Gwen and Wanda's relationship."

"No, you're not curious."

Hawke's lips twitched slightly. He then reached out and pressed down on Anya's head, who was five years older than him in terms of time. He turned Anya, who was facing him, back to face away from him and pushed her toward the kitchen.

"If you keep being curious, the steak will burn."

"Thank you so much!"

Anya was slightly taken aback, then looked at the frying pan that she had forgotten to turn off and was turning into a burnt mess. She exclaimed in surprise and quickly ran over.

Hawke, holding a wine glass, sat on a high stool on the island counter, watching Anya's flustered movements in front of him, a slight smile playing on his lips.

It feels more lively and down-to-earth now.

While Hawke and Anya were having lunch, Natasha, who had left Palm Street, received a message from Captain America and went to a burger joint just three blocks away from the Avengers base.

Captain America and Scott have arrived.

Tony isn't here.

Dr. Bruce Hulk Banner, who had now chosen to reconcile with both Hulk and himself, greeted Natasha happily as she entered the restaurant, then hugged her: "So, you went to see that Hawk from the multiverse? Was it him? Was it the Hawk from the multiverse I went to?"

Regarding his past travels through the multiverse.

Bruce Hulk Banner always felt it was real, but at the same time it felt like a vivid dream.

He remembered being captured by Thanos and knocked unconscious. When he woke up again, it was during the Battle of Wakanda, after Thanos snapped his fingers.

Bruce Hulk Banner felt that his journey through the multiverse was an infinitely realistic dream.

The reason is simple.

Because he cannot be in two places at the same time, he cannot help Thor in the multiverse leave the Grandmaster's planet while also helping their Thor leave the Grandmaster's planet.

and so……

Bruce Hulk Banner has always felt that he has a dream that is incredibly realistic, and after he said it out loud, Captain America, Natasha, and others also felt that it was a dream.

Until now.

After sitting down, Natasha nodded, meeting Bruce Hulk Banner's eager gaze.

He did mention Gwen.

"That was definitely not a dream."

After receiving confirmation from Natasha, Bruce Hulk Banner muttered to himself.

Natasha looked at Captain America sitting opposite her.

"Captain, how's it going on your end?"

Tony refused.

"why?"

When Natasha arrived, she didn't see Tony, so she already knew the answer in her heart. But after Captain America confirmed it, she still couldn't quite understand.

Captain America could understand why Tony would refuse.

The moment I saw Morgan Stark.

This is a choice made between the warmth of family and the cruelty of the battlefield.

Tony chose to return to his family.

But what Captain America didn't know was that Tony wasn't refusing to take risks because he chose to return to his family, but because Tony had privately simulated every possible way to turn the situation around.

include……

Time machine.

Night falls.

Hawke and his sister Anya were staying at their home at 521A Palm Street, watching TV together.

At the Avengers base, Captain America, along with Scott, Bruce Hulk Banner (who chose to join), and Natasha, worked overtime to build the time machine.

And in the lakeside cabin.

Tony, who had returned to his family and chosen to be a stay-at-home dad, returned to the living room after cleaning the sink and remained silent for a while.

"Friday."

"gentlemen."

"Export the time travel plan."

"Okay, sir."

As the projection proceeded, the plan, which had been modified over a hundred times and ultimately failed in simulation, was projected.

Tony thought of what Captain America and Ant-Man had said about the properties of Pym Particles when they came to see him earlier that day, and fell silent for a moment.

"Just try it once."

"the last time."

Although Tony had already relegated the time travel plan, which he had simulated countless times, to an impossible scenario, he still convinced himself to have Friday modify the model into a Möbius strip structure and add Pym particles.

Then--

The time-travel navigator is a success!

……

(End of this chapter)