Marvel: I Awake the Little Cosmos-Chapter 583 - 551: Surrender Means Losing Half?
"May 20, 1995?"
"Yes."
"That’s my birth date."
"That’s right."
"..."
In the question and answer with This Cosmos, Hawk fell into silence.
The next second.
He seemed to think of something and looked at This Cosmos: "So, your slumber was caused by me?"
The blonde Gwen in a white dress projected by This Cosmos smiled slightly: "You’re not feeling well either, didn’t you also sleep for a while?"
Hawk raised an eyebrow.
Indeed.
He hadn’t awakened his memories immediately after birth; it was after more than seven months that he did.
Upon waking, he found himself at the doorstep of a church.
Snow was flying everywhere, and if the church door had opened even a bit late, he feared he would have died.
Of course.
That was Hawk’s thought at the time, and back then, he never considered how lively it actually was at the church doorstep on that day.
His biological mother was watching from a small alley.
Also, his future self stood silently under a streetlamp.
Plus, the Mutant Apocalypse had crossed the timeline, attempting to kill him.
Similarly, Wanda, who came along with the Mutant Apocalypse, silently protected him.
In short.
The church entrance that night was not desolate; instead, it was bustling with activity.
But that wasn’t the main point.
The main point was that as Hawk thought about that night, he recalled the fragment of his soul he discovered in the 616 Cosmos.
He looked at This Cosmos.
"616?"
"I fell asleep that day, but a part of your soul was also kicked out of this universe by me."
"Alright."
Upon hearing this, Hawk already guessed what possibly happened on that day.
But before he could start deducing, the blonde Gwen in a white dress projected by This Cosmos raised her right hand and projected the scene of that day into Hawk’s eyes.
In his view.
The cosmic barrier was instantly pierced, and a soul from beyond the cosmos, carrying endless power, sped rapidly towards a remote little blue planet.
At that moment, the cosmos’s origin trembled, sensing a threat, and began to resist.
There were no complex or fancy moves, only the simplest and purest clash of power between the cosmos’s origin and Hawk’s soul.
At that moment, the grand sound was silent.
In that instant, the great light was like darkness.
A fragment of Hawk’s soul was kicked out, his soul dimmed, and fell to Earth, while the cosmos’s origin also instantly darkened and fell into slumber.
Hawk completely understood after seeing this scene.
Why he didn’t awaken immediately after birth.
Why a part of his soul was in the 616 Cosmos.
Why his cheat appeared so late, and after finally coming online successfully, it just ran away.
The root of the issue was here.
As early as the day he was born, his system had already fought with the cosmos here.
The result was that this cosmos fell into a slumber, allowing the Celestial God Team to find an opportunity to take advantage, while Hawk, due to lacking a part of his soul, took months to repair it with the system’s help. However, the system also spent a lot of its Power of Origin fighting against the cosmos here, which led to the system giving Hawk a platform to grow strong and then fleeing, without even leaving him a piece of Holy Armor.
"Hehe."
"So, what’s this called?"
"When the clams fight, the fisherman profits?"
Hawk’s thoughts whirled, and upon thinking of this, he chuckled helplessly and shook his head, looking at This Cosmos before him: "Now I’m quite certain, you won’t side with the Celestial God Team."
Clearly, it was just the two of them fighting, yet it was the Celestial God Team who benefited.
No, wait.
Ultimately, they didn’t benefit either.
Hawk’s heart stirred, and he looked at This Cosmos: "Come to think of it, you should thank me. After all, if I hadn’t driven them away, you wouldn’t have awakened, right?"
The cosmos itself didn’t want him to traverse over, ended up fighting with him, resulted in both sides losing, but Hawk didn’t hold a grudge and helped the cosmos drive away the Celestial God Team who tried to take over, awakening the cosmos itself.
Indeed.
I’m truly kind!
Hawk thought to himself.
The cosmos itself listened to Hawk’s words, and its tone remained calm: "I know, which is why I did not target you again after awakening."
Hawk raised an eyebrow.
"And then?"
"You’re not a good guy, Hawk Phoenix."
"Uh..."
Hawk was taken aback by the cosmos’s evaluation of him, then laughed and shook his head: "Thanks, but you’re not the first to say that about me."
The cosmos itself also shook its head: "But you are trying to be good, and I can feel that you are constantly suppressing that calamity deep within your soul."
This calamity is called the Fourth Calamity.
Hawk smiled slightly, not responding to this, but instead shifted the topic back to the 616 Cosmos: "I still don’t quite understand, why does the Celestial God Team try to create a false version of me to fight me, yet need to transfer the Main Cosmos?"
The cosmos spoke calmly.
"There is no need to transfer the Main Cosmos, but doing both things together doesn’t conflict, does it?"
"But you said the Celestial God Team can’t occupy a cosmos that doesn’t want them."
"Yes."
The cosmos itself nodded, confirming this point.
Hawk’s heart moved.
"The 616 Cosmos itself agreed."
"Yes."
The Cosmos itself nodded again, looking at Hawk: "After all, your existence has indeed disrupted its timeline, causing its main and secondary space-time to become chaotic."
What does main and secondary space-time mean.
The main space-time is what was supposed to happen in the 616 Cosmos after The Avengers 4, where Black Widow sacrificed herself to obtain the Soul Gemstone, Iron Man snapped his fingers to save half of all life, and Captain America went back to the past to live his remaining days with Peggy Carter.
This was what should have happened in the main space-time of the 616 Cosmos.
But Hawk’s arrival changed everything.
Black Widow did not sacrifice herself.
Iron Man did not either.
Even Captain America didn’t go back to the past, resulting in a relatively happy and complete ending.
Except for the 616 Cosmos!
Because at the moment this relatively happy ending was born, it already disturbed the main and secondary space-time of the 616 Cosmos.
If the 616 Cosmos continued to choose the space-time with Hawk’s involvement as its main space-time, then it would need to continue writing the timeline according to Hawk’s introduction.
A completely new timeline.
As we all know.
Originality is quite brain-draining, and weaving a timeline is something only professionals can do.
And this gave the 616 Cosmos the motivation to be hostile to Hawk, while also providing another opportunity for the Celestial God Team to take advantage.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, after all.
Hawk, thinking of this, smiled again.
It was a speechless smile.
The next second.
He laughed again, but this time it was a relieved laugh.
"So the 616 Cosmos has teamed up with the Celestial God Team?"
"The 616 Cosmos provides a testing ground for the Celestial God Team, and the Celestial God Team weaves a brand new timeline for the 616 Cosmos?"
"You forgot about the Main Cosmos."
"Right!"
With the reminder from This Cosmos, Hawk raised an eyebrow and snorted with a laugh: "The last cosmos that cooperated with them was sold off by them without hesitation."
It was the Mutant Cosmos.
When the Celestial God Team sold off the Mutant Cosmos, they did it without the slightest hesitation.
However...
"Cooperation is good."
"They must cooperate."
"If they don’t cooperate, how can I take action?"
"I quite like the 616 Cosmos too."
"Not bad."
"If it’s being offered up willingly, then I gladly accept it."
After coming to his senses, Hawk looked towards This Cosmos: "To intervene for an intangible reward, it seems the 616 Cosmos itself has a lot of malice towards me."
This Cosmos’s expression remained calm.
"We have a lot of malice towards any hostility that doesn’t belong to our cosmos."
"But now we are friends."
Hawk spread his hands towards the projection of a blonde and white-dressed Gwen from This Cosmos, smiling: "Actually, I’m a very nice person, you’ll know once you get to know me."
This Cosmos didn’t speak, just silently looked at Hawk.
Their eyes met.
For the first time, there was a ripple in the eyes of This Cosmos: "If you didn’t plunder my cosmos as your own, yes, we could be friends."
Hawk laughed heartily, spreading his hands again.
"I indeed thought about you taking a stand."
"I was quite looking forward to that scene."
"After all, I do need a cosmos to settle my cosmos."
"But now it’s not needed."
"The 616 Cosmos is the same."
Hawk’s smile was radiant: "Since the 616 Cosmos feels I’ve disturbed its timeline, then I’m helping, if it seems difficult, then don’t do it, I’ll take care of it."
Whether it’s This Cosmos.
Or the 616 Cosmos.
These two universes are fundamentally the same, both can be replayed after a successful plunder, re-enacting the four elements of wind, fire, earth, and water, to be used to settle the Phoenix Cosmos that will materialize at that time.
So——
The 616 Cosmos, he gladly accepted it.
However, after confirming that the aura of This Cosmos on that seemingly irrelevant self had nothing to do with This Cosmos, Hawk did not rush to the 616 Cosmos to find those two Celestial God Team members hiding in the dark corners plotting their conspiracy.
This time was different from before.
In the past, when he ventured into other cosmoses, though he also encountered the Celestial God Team, it was far from being an away game.
At the very least, it wasn’t an away game at the start because, to that cosmos, its initial attitude was neutral.
Even the Mutant Cosmos was initially neutral, only succumbing under the coercion of the Celestial God Team in the end.
But this time was different.
This time it was indeed an away game.
Time, location, and unity, these three conditions that determine the outcome of a war, Hawk currently had none of them.
And most likely, he wouldn’t have them either.
Except unity?
After all, due to the 616 Cosmos taking sides, time and location could completely lean towards the Celestial God Team, with no chance of switching midway.
And even if the 616 Cosmos suddenly surrendered to him midway, he wouldn’t accept it.
Don’t ask!
For Hawk, there’s no such thing as surrendering and losing half since ancient times.
For him.
Surrender will only add one more year!
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