"At the beginning of the cosmos, a chaos, boom, the cosmos was born."
"Among them, six singularities erged, giving birth to six Infinity Gemstones as the cosmic explosion collapsed."
"These six Infinity Gemstones, each can control a particular domain of the cosmos."
"Space!"
"Reality!"
"Power!"
"Soul!"
"Mind!"
"And..."
Drawing Tony Stark into the New York Hall, Doctor Strange unfolds the tale of the origin of the Infinity Gemstones. He turns to Hawk sitting on the chair, lowers his eyes, pinches a Dharma Seal, and reveals the Eye of Agamotto hanging around his neck. From it, a dazzling, radiant Ti Gemstone shines: "Ti!"
Tony, seated on the chair, frowns slightly as he watches Doctor Strange demonstrate the six Infinity Gemstones.
"Repeat that guy’s na again."
"Thanos!"
Before Doctor Strange can speak, Bruce Banner, standing nearby, impatiently speaks: "Tony, he’s too terrifying. He invades other planets recklessly, destroys life, and is utterly ruthless. He already has the Power Gemstone and Space Gemstone now, he..."
Tony watches Bruce Banner, who talks while approaching him, and quickly gestures for Bruce Banner not to co closer.
Bruce looks at Tony’s expression and hesitates slightly at Tony’s rejection.
"Tony, it’s , I’m Bruce."
"I know it’s you."
Tony interrupts Bruce’s words, looking at Bruce: "You are already dead."
Bruce hesitates slightly.
"What nonsense are you talking about? When we destroyed Hydra, I just..."
"You died in 2013, dead in African Wakanda."
"What?"
Bruce stares blankly at Tony, whose expression seemingly didn’t lie.
Tony also feels confused at the resurrection of Bruce before him and turns to Doctor Strange: "What is happening here."
He briefly thought about whether Hawk secretly resurrected Bruce Banner.
But...
This notion quickly vanished from his mind before he even turned it around.
Because it’s impossible.
Hawk’s personality is like an easy-going mule, rarely interfering with things unrelated to himself, and his greatest pleasure is being cozy with Gwen.
But once soone touches his bottom line?
Hehe.
Genocide is just the start; extermination is the peak.
Thus, Hawk might resurrect a stranger passing by but would never resurrect an enemy he killed by his own hand.
Most importantly.
They attacked the Hydra Base together?
Before Hydra was exposed, Bruce Banner was already gone; surely it wasn’t his soul accompanying them, was it?
Doctor Strange first glanced at Bruce Banner, then looked at Tony.
"He indeed is not Bruce Banner."
"Wh..."
"From our Banner, but indeed he is Bruce Banner, from a multiverse Bruce Banner."
Doctor Strange quickly adds before Bruce Banner can interrupt, looking at Tony: "Clearly, in his universe, he was not killed by Hawk Phoenix."
Bruce Banner hears the na Doctor Strange ntions and can’t help but frown: "Who is Hawk Phoenix? Thor also ntioned this na to ."
Tony hears this, looking at Bruce.
"Wait, Thor told you."
"Yes, but I thought he was joking."
"..."
Tony watches Bruce’s face full of ’I thought he really ant that’, sinking into silence.
Doctor Strange also watches Bruce’s expression, extending his right hand, beginning to draw circles, and then presenting the destiny of this world’s Bruce Banner to the Bruce Banner who appeared out of nowhere.
After a while.
Bruce opens his mouth, recalling the Hawk Phoenix who killed him twice.
"I don’t know this Hawk Phoenix."
"The multiverse is different from parallel worlds; it might exist in another us. Likewise, what we have here, may not exist there."
Doctor Strange explains.
Tony hears this, thoughtfully nods, and speaks a factual statent to Bruce.
"You should be grateful your universe doesn’t have Hawk."
"Why?"
Bruce hears this, frowning, looking at Tony, who says so: "Is he scary?"
Tony doesn’t reply, directly watching Doctor Strange: "You said this Thanos wants to collect all six Infinity Gemstones?"
Doctor Strange nods.
"Yes."
"Then he has no chance."
"What?"
"Reality!"
"Mind!"
Tony raises his head, points to the two gemstones simulated by Mage Wang using magic, and laughs: "These two gemstones are with Hawk, so the Thanos you ntioned has no chance to collect them all."
Unless he can kill Hawk, but that’s almost impossible.
Don’t forget.
Hawk once told Tony, if Tony needed, he could study his Black Phoenix Nether Armor for a week.
Tony researched Hawk’s Black Phoenix Nether Armor.
To put it this way.
He detected energy far beyond Thor’s hamr on that armor.
A hundredfold at least!
Bruce listened to Tony’s emphatic words, froze for a mont, then looked at Tony, and instinctively said, "Where’s this Hawk now."
Tony shrugged, "I don’t know, he... left Earth half a month ago, and we don’t know when he’ll be back. Pepper has gone to find Gwen to see if she has any urgent ans to contact Hawk."
Doctor Strange didn’t speak.
Bruce Banner heard yet another new na, looking bewildered again.
"Who’s this Gwen?"
"I’m now sure he’s not our Bruce."
Tony glanced at Bruce and said this to Doctor Strange.
Just then.
The phone rang.
Pepper’s.
"Tony!"
"Gwen has disappeared."
"What do you an Gwen has disappeared?"
"It’s not just Gwen."
Just arrived at Palm Street No. 521A, getting off the car, seeing the anxious Sharon coming out from inside, after a brief exchange of intel, Pepper quickly called Tony, speaking in a tone of disbelief: "Gwen’s entire family suddenly vanished without a trace."
Tony’s expression froze.
In the next second.
He pictured West View Town in his mind.
"What about West View Town?"
"..."
Pepper didn’t speak.
Just as Tony’s heart sank, Sharon, having taken the phone from Pepper, spoke up, "West View Town is normal, we were about to head to the west..."
Before the words finished.
Sharon’s pupils constricted as she saw the spark teleportation gate spinning and whirling then birthed before her.
Tony, Doctor Strange, and Wang.
And...
"Dr. Banner?"
Sharon’s eyes widened as she saw Bruce following them and instinctively said, "Hawk pardoned you, brought you back to life?"
Bruce, about to speak, lost interest in talking and curiously asked, "Why would Hawk Phoenix want to kill ?"
"It’s complicated."
"Don’t ask."
"Can’t explain in a short ti."
"You fought with Abomination and accidentally injured Hawk’s sister."
"..."
After much chatter, Doctor Strange finally revealed the root cause.
Bruce nodded thoughtfully.
Tony redirected back to the main topic.
"How did Gwen suddenly disappear?"
"This morning, the agent responsible for secretly protecting Gwen found sothing was wrong. Since yesterday noon, after Gwen returned ho, she hadn’t left till this morning, so the agent urgently contacted ."
"Taken by Hawk for cosmic travel?"
"No way."
Sharon shook her head, "The S.H.I.E.L.D. satellite didn’t detect Hawk entering the atmosphere, and if it were for travel, Gwen would have called . I’m ready to head to West View Town now, see if anyone there knows anything."
Upon hearing this, Doctor Strange imdiately drew another teleportation gate connecting West View Town.
Only then did Sharon notice Doctor Strange and Wang in their bizarre attire, watch Doctor Strange, seemingly thought of sothing.
"Supre Mage?"
"No."
Doctor Strange smiled slightly, "Doctor Strange."
Sharon made an ’oh’ sound and stopped talking.
To her, at this stage, nothing was more important than Gwen’s sudden disappearance.
Because if Gwen vanished without reason, Earth’s destruction might follow in an instant.
So...
Sharon hoped West View Town might have so information.
And they did!
"Gwen’s disappeared?" Wanda, preparing so snacks for Billy and Tommy at ho, was startled seeing the sudden arrival of many people at her door. Listening to the familiar Sharon’s intention, she froze montarily before seemingly recalling sothing: "The laboratory, Gwen ntioned she might be very busy in days to co, might not be ho, asked to help tidy up the house weekly."
Pepper shook her head, "I’ve asked the laboratory, haven’t seen Gwen."
Sharon imdiately asked, "Are you sure Gwen told you she might disappear for so ti?"
Wanda shook her head, invited everyone inside, then looked at Sharon, "Didn’t say she’d disappear, Gwen just said she might be busy at the lab for a long ti, unable to be ho."
While speaking, Wanda briefly ntioned how Gwen had often brought her to her ho recently to learn cooking and asked her to clean the house and cook for Hawk when she worked overti.
"Hiss!"
"Did Gwen know she’d disappear early?"
"Where did she go?"
"Wouldn’t have been captured by Thanos."
Bruce Banner, who had co along, abruptly spoke up, drawing everyone’s attention and speculated: "You ntion Hawk has two Infinity Gemstones. Could it be, Thanos has found him and..."
Before he finished speaking.
Just avoided two flights of stairs hiding the arrival of so many in the house, Jean ran down, loudly declaring, "Daddy wouldn’t be hard."
Wanda seed to realize sothing, looking at her daughter Jean who had burst in.
"Can you sense where your daddy is?"
"I can."
Jean nodded without hesitation!
...
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