Just kidding.
What is the right to education?
It's like an apple; you can choose not to use it, but you can't be without it.
No matter what Hawk says, he would never hand over full educational rights of his children to Gwen.
The most important point.
Why should he bear the blame for future Hawk's mistakes now?
There's no reason for it.
So...
Hawk decisively ended the topic of "education," wrapped his arm around Gwen's waist, and in the blink of an eye, they were at the Osborn Manor located on the outskirts of New York City.
But!
Where is the Osborn Manor?
There isn't even a manor; in front of them was just a sparsely wooded area. Judging by the state of the plants, there had been no signs of any man-made structures here in the past ten years.
"Hawk, this..."
Gwen looked at the sparse woods and remembered the information she had found online while Hawk was away in the Phoenix Cosmos: "I had searched online for Osborn, but there was no information about Osborn on the internet."
"New future, new past."
Hawk said again, withdrew his gaze, and looked at Gwen: "Did you find the location of your lab online?"
Gwen's "Stacy-Phoenix Biological Laboratory" was supposed to be with Osborn Biotechnology.
If in this new past, Osborn never existed.
What became of Gwen's lab?
They certainly couldn't have erased Gwen's lab too.
That's impossible.
Because erasing Gwen's lab would involve altering Gwen's timeline.
"Stark."
"What?"
Gwen took out her phone, tapped it on, and turned the screen to Hawk: "It's clear I've never collaborated with Osborn, but with Stark."
Hawk looked at the phone screen in Gwen's hand.
Visible.
"Dr. Gwen Stacy signed a cooperation memorandum with Stark Industries' Executive President Pepper Potts, establishing the Stacy-Phoenix Biological Laboratory..."
Together with the article, there was also a photo.
It was a photo of Gwen and Pepper shaking hands at the Stark Industries Building.
"When you were looking for reasons, I called Pepper too."
"What did Pepper say?"
"She said my vacation request had been approved by the board, wished me a happy honeymoon, and assured me not to worry about the lab. I didn't dare say much more and hung up the phone."
"Alright."
Upon hearing this, Hawk nodded slightly, and then, as if remembering something, wrapped his arm around Gwen again. At that moment, they were already on a certain street in Queens.
Then—
He saw a mature woman with an enduring charm emerge from Peter Parker's house.
Is this Aunt Mei?
Spit!
This clearly looked like Aunt Mei who resembled Tony Stark's ex-boyfriend.
Gwen naturally knew Peter's house, so she also saw Aunt Mei coming out from Peter's house.
She seemed to think of something.
"Hawk, don't tell me she is..."
"Yes, Aunt Mei!"
"Oh my God!"
"Indeed, new future, new past."
Standing on the opposite side of the street with Gwen, watching Aunt Mei appearing in his sight, Hawk's expression was indescribable.
When The Ancient One told him "a new past, just without the Spider-Man you know," he had already guessed who the new Spider-Man might be.
Because since attending Midtown High School and seeing the First Generation Spider Spirit, he had been curious.
This is the Marvel 616 Cosmos, and in the Marvel 616 Cosmos, there indeed is a Spider-Man.
But not the First Generation Spider Spirit.
So after The Ancient One said, "The new past still has Peter Parker, just not the one you know," he already had suspicions.
But!
Guesses are guesses; seeing is believing.
At that moment.
As a bicycle was ridden past from a distance, a young boy about fifteen years old, with slightly curly hair and some babyfat on his face, appeared in their sight.
"Aunt Mei, let me help you."
"No need, it's almost done. Was school okay?"
"Very smooth."
"..."
Gwen watched from across the street as the boy got off the bicycle and ran over to help the young Aunt Mei. The young boy, looking somewhat sunny, with clear eyes, made Gwen open her mouth and glance at Hawk beside her.
"Is he Peter Parker?"
"Yes."
"He doesn't look like he's twenty, does he?"
"He's fifteen, in the second semester of ninth grade at Midtown High School."
"Wow, Peter turned back into a kid again?"
Gwen listened to this sentence, took a cold breath, and then looked at the fifteen-year-old Peter Parker, who was helping young Aunt Mei trim the lawn at the door, with a mysterious gaze.
Peter Parker on the lawn seemed to sense something, raised his eyes, and looked across the street where Hawk and Gwen were.
Gwen met Peter Parker's suddenly sharp gaze.
"Hawk..."
"He can't see us."
If it were the Spider Spirit Peter he knew, he used the Reality Gemstone to infinitely diminish his presence, Spider Spirit Peter would still be able to sense his presence through years of familiarity and instinct.
But the Tom Holland Spider-Man in front of me, who also seems to have been bitten by a spider and mutated?
He doesn't have that ability yet.
Indeed.
Tom Holland, who glanced this way for a while, found nothing after a search when his spider sense gave a vague warning, then turned back into the house with Aunt Mei, looking somewhat confused.
"Hawk, what about our Peter Parker and Felicia, can you sense them?"
"Yes, they are on an Earth in a certain multiverse."
Although it was a time trap at that time.
But the light of the Northern Cross did indeed shine on that multiverse Earth.
"Can you bring them back?"
"Not now."
Hawk shook his head: "I can sense the aura of the Holy Armor necklace I gave little Ben at that time, but I can't reach them, let alone bring them back, at least not now."
The main cosmos he is in and the multiverse where the Spider Spirit he knows exists are separated by endless cosmic bubbles and endless dimensions.
Not only are there barriers of space, but there's also a barrier of time.
Hawk can sense the multiverse where the Spider Spirit is located because that multiverse has a Holy Armor belonging to him, so he can sense it.
But it doesn't mean he can just go there.
At least not now.
After all, the time trap is blatantly waiting over there, and if he goes, he'll fall into it.
But in the future?
When he brings his current Seventh Sense to its peak, and then comprehends the Eighth Sense, materializes the Phoenix Cosmos, he will start as the Main God of the multiverse, completely transcending the timeline of the Marvel Main Multiverse, then he can go.
Or...
When his godson, Ben Hawke Parker grows up and comprehends the Little Cosmos Cultivation Method, then he can directly descend through the lit Northern Cross.
Same old saying.
A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late.
He can afford to wait, and he can go wait until he is fully developed, until he is completely beyond the timeline of the Marvel Main Multiverse.
Hehe!
The eternity of time, I'll let you know, what true cruelty is.
By then, I'll f***ing wreck your main multiverse!
Damn!
Hawk thought to himself.
"Let's go."
"Go where?"
"Home."
Hawk shrugged: "A new future, a new past, on this new timeline, there has never been the Peter Parker we knew, only the little Spider-Man we just saw, who has nothing to do with us, no one will remember the Peter Parker and Osborn we knew, except for us two."
If he hadn't compressed his own time, he might not have remembered the Spider Spirit either.
But he compressed his own time, so the time changes in the Marvel Main Cosmos can't affect his already constant past.
As for why Gwen also remembers.
The reason is simple.
Gwen Stacy is now Gwen Phoenix, if the time changes in the Marvel Main Cosmos happened before he and Gwen made their vows, then Gwen would also forget, but the time change happened after the vows.
So...
Hawk Phoenix remembers, naturally, Gwen Phoenix would also remember.
Back at home, Gwen blinked as she listened to Hawk's explanation, just as she was about to speak, the phone rang.
"It's the lab."
Gwen glanced at the caller ID, paused slightly, and then, with Hawk's encouraging gaze, answered the phone.
After a while.
Gwen hung up the phone, frowning: "The call just now was from my assistant, Fiona, she said the lab work arrangements during my honeymoon hadn't been given to her yet, and asked me for the work schedule."
Hawk shrugged.
"So?"
"I asked Fiona if she remembered Osborn, she said she didn't."
"A new future, a new past."
Hawk walked over to the bar, picked up the bourbon he hadn't finished, sipped it, and said it again, then looked at the somewhat worried Gwen and said: "Don't worry, the new timeline only modified the Peter Parker and Osborn we knew, it didn't modify anything else, your assistant is still your assistant, the lab is still that lab, you can treat it as a kind of alternative cut and paste."
Gwen met Hawk's gaze, her expression serious.
"But I don't like this kind of cut and paste."
"Neither do I."
Hawk chuckled, finished his drink, then walked out from behind the bar, hugged Gwen, smiling as he looked at her.
"Given the situation..."
"So?"
Gwen listened to Hawk's words, her speaking emerald eyes gazing at him.
Hawk shrugged.
"Given the situation, let's go on our honeymoon first."
"..."