Yes.
Iron Man and Doctor Strange are back.
And they're completely intact, not a scratch on them. Even Dutch Spider-Man came back with them.
The only one who didn't return was Bruce Banner.
However, considering this Bruce Banner isn't the Bruce Banner from their universe, it's not necessarily a bad thing.
In the office of the New York S.H.I.E.L.D. Central.
Hawk leaned back on the sofa, resting his chin on one hand, looking at the projection of Titan, located in the Milky Way Galaxy, then at Doctor Strange.
"What do you mean by Thanos inviting me over for a chat?"
"I don't know."
Doctor Strange dismissed the projection, looking at Hawk with a slightly odd expression: "That's what he told us."
To be honest, he still couldn't figure out what had happened.
"After I was taken by Blackwood Throat, the spaceship hadn't even left the Solar System before Thanos used the Space Gemstone to open a portal onto the ship."
"I originally thought we were doomed this time."
"But then!"
"Thanos had Blackwood Throat release us."
"He told us to bring you a message, inviting you to Titan for a chat after we returned."
Doctor Strange explained what happened after they were taken to the ship by Blackwood Throat and Corvus Glaive, and then seemed to remember something, glancing down at the Time Gemstone around his neck: "Thanos said, he doesn't need the Time Gemstone anymore."
No longer needs the Time Gemstone?
Hawk heard this and said nothing.
He was a bit stunned.
No.
This plot development seems a bit off. What do you mean you don't need the Time Gemstone anymore? If you don't need the Time Gemstone, how do you snap your fingers to become the universe's family planning director?
Wait!
What is the fundamental reason Thanos wants to eliminate half of the universe's life?
To prevent a new Celestial God from hatching.
What did he do?
"Hiss!"
"Did you figure out what happened?"
Tony looked at Hawk, who suddenly gasped, and asked.
"Sort of."
"In a month's time, if the Celestial God Team doesn't bring Gwen back to me, I'll wipe out every known planet with a Celestial God seed."
Hawk snapped back to reality, glancing at Tony, and Doctor Strange and Sharon, as well as Dutch Spider-Man, all looking at him: "This might be the reason Thanos suddenly stopped."
Doctor Strange's expression changed at this.
Tony was slightly taken aback.
"What is the Celestial God Team, and is it the Celestial God Team that kidnapped Gwen?"
"No."
"Then what's this got to do with Thanos..."
"Tony!"
Sharon interjected, explaining the connections between Thanos and the Celestial God Team, Hawk and the Celestial God Team, and Gwen and the Celestial God Team concisely to a confused Tony, a frowning Doctor Strange, and a bewildered Dutch Spider-Man.
Tony was a bit shocked: "So Thanos is thinking of wiping out half of the life on the Planet of Life to stop a new Celestial God from being born?"
Does this mean that Thanos, from a certain perspective, isn't a bad guy, but a good guy?
After all, Thanos only takes half the life.
While a new Celestial God requires taking the life of an entire planet.
A half loss.
Total loss.
This choice, as long as you're not a fool, anyone would make the right decision.
"So, Earth..."
"Yes."
Sharon nodded, glanced at Hawk: "I've already reported this to headquarters, and I believe the Security Council will make the right choice."
Tony heard this and also looked at Hawk.
"Can't we just find a way to get rid of the new Celestial God that's parasitic in the Earth's Core?"
"You can try."
Hawk looked at Tony: "There's a tunnel leading to the Earth's Core on Skull Island. Through the Earth's Core, you can see a small part of Tiam's body."
Tony listened to Hawk's words and glanced at Hawk.
Hawk noticed and knew what Tony wanted to say, a smile tugging at his lips.
"I won't help you make the choice, of course, I won't stop you from making the choice either."
"Just like I told Sharon."
"Survival or destruction, it's your choice."
"Anyway, if Earth blows up, I have somewhere else to go."
Hawk's tone was light, shrugging his shoulders, then looking at Sharon: "Don't worry, I won't care about Earth, but my friends will."
Sharon looked at Hawk, who smiled at her, and she smiled slightly, then changed the subject: "Whether Earth chooses, that's not up to me to decide. I'm more concerned if this was Thanos' plan all along or a spur-of-the-moment decision."
Hawk chuckled: "Probably a spur-of-the-moment decision."
Because when Thanos went to find Dwarf King Eitri to create the Infinity Gauntlet, he was still in the World Tree of Walnut and hadn't confronted the Celestial God Team yet.
And at that time, Thanos was clearly after the Infinity Gemstones.
But after Hawk came out of the World Tree of Walnut and confronted the Celestial God Team.
Thanos should have changed his mind then.
Bad news.
Hawk has two Infinity Gemstones, which he can never get, so his idea of using the Infinity Gemstones to wipe out half the universe's life in one go was shattered.
Good news.
Hawk clashed with the Celestial God Team.
Even better news.
His reason for wiping out half the life was to stop a new Celestial God from being born, while Hawk was thinking of wiping out the Celestial God Team entirely.
So...
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
"Wait a minute!"
Sharon, hearing this, seemed to realize something and hurriedly interrupted, "Even if the enemy of my enemy is my friend, you did give the Celestial God Team a month, didn't you? What if after a month, they bring Gwen back? You can't say Thanos can see a month into the future, right."
As Sharon spoke, she subconsciously glanced at the Eye of Agamotto around Doctor Strange's neck.
"Did Thanos use the Time Gemstone?"
"No."
Doctor Strange shook his head.
Leaning against the sofa, Hawk looked at Sharon, smiled slightly, and said nothing.
Sharon's expression froze.
"The Celestial God Team won't bring Gwen back?"
"No."
Hawk shook his head, "It's that they have no way to bring Gwen back."
Who imprisoned Gwen.
Time did.
What level is the Celestial God Team, and what level is Time.
So even the Celestial God Team has no possibility of finding Gwen, hidden by Time in the endless Multiverse, and bringing her back.
Listening to Hawk's calm words, Sharon was stunned.
"Then you still..."
"Someone has to pay the price for Gwen's disappearance."
"Time, I can't do anything about it for now."
"Time's Eternity, I do want to settle accounts with him, but if he doesn't want to appear, I can't find him."
"But I can make him appear before me willingly."
"The Celestial God Team."
"I am very angry right now, extremely angry."
Hawk's expression didn't change at all, and his voice was very calm: "The Celestial God Team was created by Time's Eternity to maintain the order of time for him. I don't believe it, but after I slaughter all the Celestial God Seeds and their team, Time's Eternity will still hide and not dare to come out and meet me."
Yes.
Time's Eternity, that's his real goal.
The Celestial God Team is just a means for him to find Time's Eternity.
The Celestial God Team can't bring back his Gwen.
But Time's Eternity can.
He actually knows where Time's Eternity is and how to get to that so-called Holy Hall of Eternity.
But…
Time imprisoned his wife, and instead, he has to run to the Holy Hall to find Eternity?
Isn't that shameful?
Someone slapped you in the face, and you offer the other cheek?
Repay kindness with enmity?
No!
Repay enmity directly!
Since Time imprisoned his wife, then he will destroy Time's Eternity's Celestial God Team. He wants Time's Eternity to come to him voluntarily.
Whether he can win or not is one thing.
Whether he has the courage to throw a punch is another thing.
Even if he can't win, so what?
Won't he run?
Anyway, he has already got the Wutong World Tree.
When it comes time, if he can't win, he'll just hide in the Wutong World Tree, train for a few years, and come back out once he's ready to win.
A gentleman takes his revenge, ten years is not late.
A God King takes his revenge, a thousand years is not too late!
In short.
Hawk took the World Tree, sure, but he did it with skill, and misfortune shouldn't extend to wives and children, so Time broke the rules first. In that case, don't blame him for stepping down personally and bullying the small with the big.
And if he steps down, he will not be as weak and merciful as Thanos.
Yes.
In Hawk's view, Thanos's behavior is purely unappreciated effort, and his character is also unnecessarily kind-hearted and indecisive.
In one sentence.
Other people's lives, what's it to you!
Without a face of a saint, yet insists on doing saintly deeds.
Moreover!
Either don't do it or do it thoroughly, if you don't remove the roots, the spring breeze will bring life again, such a simple truth Thanos doesn't understand.
To put it this way.
If Hawk were Thanos, Nebula? Gamora? They would have died together with their race long ago.
Adoption?
Still adopting a little girl who watched you kill her parents with her own eyes?
Courting death isn't enough to describe Thanos's behavior.
He can only describe it as stupid.
However…
Hawk looked at Doctor Strange: "Play the coordinates of Titan again."
Doctor Strange nodded, opened his right hand, and once again projected the coordinates of Titan.
Tony saw this and looked at Hawk.
"You're not planning to meet Thanos, are you?"
"Of course."
Hawk laughed, got up from the sofa, and put his hands in his pockets: "Thanos was right, the enemy of my enemy is a friend, indeed."
Speaking of this.
Hawk paused and looked at Tony: "Besides, when I make friends, I've never looked at factions, you know that, it's not your first day. So, I'm going to find Thanos, as for you, think about how to solve the new Celestial Gods within Earth, and once again, don't count on me to bail you out if you make the wrong choice."
Having said that.
The moment Hawk looked up, his figure disappeared from New York S.H.I.E.L.D, reappeared outside the atmosphere in a second, transformed into golden light, and sped toward the location of Titan at superluminal speed.
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