Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 477 The Past Changes the Future, the Future Changes the Past (Second Update!!)
and so!
Who is Gwen?

As Wanda spoke, the flames ignited by an impossible life transformed into crimson flames that filled the entire room.

One second the room was filled with the warmth of a baby's crib, but as the crimson flames burned, it gradually transformed from an illusion back into reality, returning to the haunted house that matched the style of the outside world.

Even in Hawke's own view, Wanda's entry into his time galaxy was only a fleeting moment.

But not so.

At least in Wanda's perception, she exists in Hawke's past, present, and future, and similarly, in every timeline that has Hawke's life and soul.

and so--

The person standing in front of Hawke now is not Wanda Maximov.

But -

Scarlet Witch Wanda!

Hawke looked at Wanda, who was facing away from the window and looking at him, and listened to Wanda's question. He was silent for a while, and then spoke in a calm tone.

"I do not know."

"You do not know?"

Wanda glanced sideways at Hawke's answer: "This is a very simple question. Either Gwen is Gwen, or Gwen is Wanda."

Hawke shook his head with an inexplicable expression.

"When it comes to time, there is never a simple matter."

"But this is your time."

"Yes, then can you tell me whether my past lived in the new, flawless river of time that you and I created together, or the galaxy of time that I created with the 'Time Stone'?"

"..."

Wanda instinctively opened her mouth, but the words caught in her mind, and she swallowed them back down.

Two completely different pasts.

Who is real?

Who's lying?

and also……

Was the Gwen in Hawke's life really her?
Wanda pondered her thoughts.

Hawke looked at Wanda, who had fallen silent, and said in a calm voice, "If you really want me to guess, it's probably the latter."

Wanda looked up at Hawke.

Hawke said calmly, “No matter how time changes, whether the past changes the future or the future changes the past, what remains constant is that time needs to be closed-loop.”

This is the fundamental law of time.

Time needs to be in a closed loop; any gap in time can cause a break and collapse of time.

Just like Apocalypse, he exploited the time loophole in Hawk's existence to infiltrate Hawk's time and cause trouble.

"Now you have returned to my past and become Gwen Stacy. Then the birth of my daughter Jean led me to meet you here. I know that in the future, you, as Gwen Stacy, shared all my information with Wanda."

"And now, you enter my time galaxy, merging my time galaxy with your crimson chaos to become a new time river."

"I don't ask you to be a good person, but please try to be a kind person."

Hawke spoke calmly, recounting the words Gwen had said to him each time he remembered her advice, then shook his head: “Actually, before this, I didn’t know why Gwen was so sure I wasn’t a good person. I didn’t care before, but now I know why.”

Just like when he first met Gwen while enrolling at Midtown High School, his expression was somewhat surprised.

The reason is simple.

His version of Spider-Man is the Bully Maguire version, which features Gwen Stacy, but that takes place at Imperial University.

Even if he underwent a swap in this universe's Peter Parker, the swapped Spider-Man was Tom Holland's version.

The Amazing Spider-Man never existed.

But then, Gwen Stacy from The Amazing Spider-Man appeared here.

Hawke, in his shock, attributed it all to spacetime fusion.

Now it seems--

It's just that time is in a closed loop!
Upon hearing this, Wanda met Hawke's star-like eyes, and her voice became calm.

"You're definitely not a good person."

"I know."

Hawke met Wanda's unusually clear and bright blue-green eyes, which seemed to see through people's hearts: "Although I have always said that I am in control of the power, in fact, I am just like everyone else. I think I am in control of the power, but in reality, the power is controlling me."

In the past, Hawke's only thought was to become stronger.

His initial wish was simply to have the power to save his sister Anya from hell.

The results of it?
Anya was saved.

and then?
He continued on the path of becoming stronger, and the time he spent with his sister Anya was even less than the time she spent in his underworld.

and so--

What exactly is he doing?

In a word.

He too was blinded by power.

"Only when I arrived in this universe, this universe so low-level that it was impossible for me to project my power here."

"Bad news, I lost my power here."

"Good news, my power can no longer blind me. It has brought me to my senses and made me realize that I have unknowingly become a slave to power."

Hawke's golden eyes seemed to slowly transform back to their original deep blue, a color as profound as the deep universe or the deep sea.

Wanda looked at Hawke calmly, her gaze thoughtful.

"So, is this some kind of novel excuse?"

"This is the truth."

Hawke smiled slightly: "But you're right, I'm not a good person, but I'll try to be a kind person."

Upon hearing Hawke's words, Wanda seemed to have thought of something, and a slight smile appeared on her lips: "So what do you plan to do?"

Hawke looked at Wanda with a serious expression: "Don't save me next time, let me die."

Wanda raised an eyebrow.

"Then you probably won't have a chance."

"Why?" "You've forgotten that I exist in every moment of your time, not just the past, not just the present, but also the endless future. I exist in every corner of your time."

"……All right."

Hawke chuckled upon hearing this, then seemed to have thought of something and looked at Wanda: "So we'll have several children in the future."

Wanda answered without hesitation.

"Ten."

"so much?"

"I like children."

"I would also like."

"No, you don't like that. You only like daughters, not boys."

Wanda decisively exposed Hawke's lie: "Whether it's Billy, Tommy, or William, you don't really like them."

Hawke chuckled, looking at Wanda with a serious expression, who didn't seem to be joking, and shrugged: "That's probably because I have high expectations for them."

Of course he dotes on his daughter, because if he spoils her enough, there won't be any young punk who can trick her away with just an eight-yuan bowl of spicy hot pot.

Boys should also take it seriously.

Because boys are expected to carry on the family line, and from a certain perspective, his family will indeed have a future heir to the throne.

Once his Phoenix Universe manifests, various divine positions belonging to him will also be born, so the boys who will inherit these divine positions in the future will naturally need to be seriously educated.

Wanda chuckled upon hearing this.

"So, you're making excuses again?"

"I do not have."

"But it doesn't matter, since you've already lost your right to education anyway."

"You've taken away my right to education?"

"You gave it to yourself, have you forgotten?"

Wanda looked at Hawke seriously: "You only know two extremes when it comes to raising children. Either you take them to play with the timeline and make the God of Time complain to me, or you gather the children together and make them drag mountains around and make them cry to me. So, you've lost your right to educate them yourself."

Hawke raised his eyebrows.

"The God of Time? The Ancient One?"

"Correct."

"You saw the Ancient One?"

Hawke stroked his chin: "I've been trying to find the Ancient One, but she hasn't shown up yet."

Wanda shrugged.

“That’s your problem.”

"I?"

"of course."

Wanda tilted her head and glanced at Hawke: "Who told you to make cheating a habit?"

Eyes facing each other.

Hawke blinked, then shook his head with a wry smile, before nodding again: "Yes, cheating is a bad habit, and I was addicted to it before."

one more time.

If this universe hadn't been so primitive that his power couldn't keep up, he probably would still be stuck in the middle of nowhere, unaware of what went wrong.

Fortunately, he has regained consciousness now.

This may be the source of both fortune and misfortune.

Hawke thought to himself, then looked at Wanda again: "Let's go home."

Wanda raised an eyebrow.

"Your strength is still on its way, so, which home will you return to?"

"Go back..."

The moment Hawke instinctively opened his mouth, he shook his head and smiled, looking at Wanda: "You're in charge, Palm Street, Westview."

Wanda was curious.

"How long will it take for your power to reach here?"

"One month."

"Then let's go to Quicksilver..."

"A month in our universe."

"...What, converted to this time?"

"About ten years."

After giving his answer, Hawke shook his head speechlessly: "There's nothing I can do, this universe is too primitive. But you can take the piano back first."

He has to wait until his power is projected before he can go back.

It's not just because we're already here.

More importantly, the flow of time here is vastly different from the flow of time in our universe.

just.

"I can use this time to sort out my inner thoughts."

"Then you need a long time, so it will take about ten years to sort out what's in your heart."

"You simply can't imagine."

Hawke smiled slightly at Wanda.

Eyes facing each other.

Wanda smiled too.

"You know that if I want to know, I can definitely find out, right?"

"Now let's see who's cheating between the two of us."

"..."

(End of this chapter)