The next day.
Morning!
"Knock knock!"
"Coming."
Upon hearing the knocking, Anya walked to the door and opened it, then saw Black Widow Natasha Romanoff standing at the door.
Anya looked at the visitor with surprise in her tone, "Natasha?"
She knew Natasha.
Because in this lifetime, Hawk, after fusing with the Mind Gemstone, was seen at the demolished Hydra Base where Hawk was once trained under Hydra's command. Consequently, Hawk was under surveillance by The Avengers for a period.
Indeed.
As a condition for Hawk to agree to be under The Avengers' surveillance, The Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. had to erase all records of his sister Anya.
The most important point.
During The Avengers' civil war, Anya also participated.
She was on the same side as Captain America and Natasha. After the Blip, Natasha returned to The Avengers, and Anya returned to Palm Street No. 521A, choosing to resume a normal life like Tony Stark.
Natasha worked hard to maintain The Avengers family.
Anya did as well.
She was striving to adapt to life without her brother, so since the Blip, she had not met Natasha.
Hence, suddenly meeting now, how could Anya not be surprised?
"Good morning, Anya."
Natasha smiled and greeted Anya as she opened the door.
They initially intended to come overnight last night.
But it was too late.
So early this morning, Captain America and Scott split up. Captain took Scott to find the retired Tony Stark to verify the feasibility of the time machine, while Natasha came to Palm Street No. 521A to see the Hawk from the multiverse.
Anya had already guessed Natasha's purpose and directly invited Natasha inside, then closed the door, saying, "You're here to find my brother?"
Natasha turned to look at Anya.
"...Yes."
"You're late... by half an hour."
Anya glanced at the clock on the wall and made an apologetic face at Natasha, "My brother already left half an hour ago."
Natasha raised an eyebrow.
"He left, where to?"
"I don't know."
Anya shook her head, "My brother didn't say."
Natasha looked at Anya, who kept referring to her brother, pursing her lips.
"Anya, I heard from Scott that this Hawk is from the multiverse, so considering that, he isn't actually your..."
"No, he is."
Before Natasha could finish, Anya interrupted her with a serious look, "He is my brother. He has my brother's appearance, my brother's aura, and remembers every secret exclusively shared between us as siblings, so he is my brother."
Natasha heard this and looked at the resolute Anya with curiosity.
"He remembers things only the two of you siblings know?"
"Yes."
"How is that possible?"
Natasha was a bit puzzled, "Isn't he from the multiverse?"
Anya smiled and explained, "As my brother puts it, a tree blossoms differently yet shares the same roots."
Natasha opened her mouth, looking at Anya somewhat confused.
Anya smiled slightly, pulling Natasha to sit on the living room sofa, and then explained why the Hawk who appeared was her brother Hawk, and the gossip about Hawk's wife in another universe being Gwen, not Wanda.
Of course.
Anya briefly covered the matter of Hawk equating Hawk.
Regarding the brother's wife being Gwen, not Wanda, Anya gave it special attention.
Natasha was shocked.
"Who is this Gwen?"
"I've seen her."
"Wait, you've seen her?"
"Not personally, but yes, I've seen her."
Anya referred to seeing Gwen in Hawk's Time Galaxy, saying to Natasha, "She seems, how should I put it, indeed a devoted wife and mother."
Seeing Anya's expression, Natasha had only one thought in her mind.
"Thankfully Wanda was also affected by the Blip."
"Indeed."
Anya instinctively echoed her words.
Though she was unclear about the situation with Wanda in Hawk's universe.
She was sure that the Wanda in her universe, if knowing her brother's wife was someone else, would definitely have opinions.
So...
The two women sighed together, then couldn't help but look at each other.
The next second.
Natasha came to her senses.
Hold on.
She wasn't here for gossip; she had serious business to attend to.
"Anya, we really need to find Hawk soon."
"I truly don't know where my brother went."
Anya shrugged, recalling her brother's parting words from half an hour ago, saying to Natasha, "Before my brother left, he mentioned meeting an old friend, but didn't say where."
Natasha frowned.
"An old friend? Who?"
"Tiam!"
In the Earth's inner world, directly appearing above the Pacific Ocean, followed by instant movement to Earth's core, Hawk once again saw the Celestial God Tiam sleeping within.
In the next second.
Hawk looked around, observing the golden life energy flowing and surrounding the Celestial God Tiya.
However, because Thanos snapped his fingers and indiscriminately annihilated half of the universe's life, it caused the life energy originally immersing the Celestial God Tiya's metal to also disappear by half, making the Celestial God Tiya at this moment resemble something exposed on a dried-up riverbed.
But...
Hawk was not here for the life energy.
His journey was for the Celestial God Tiya.
But!
The Celestial God Tiya, due to the disappearance of half of the life energy, was completely in sleep mode.
Hawk's Seventh Sense covered every corner of the Celestial God Tiya, and then his mind, like flowing water, seeped into the interior of the Celestial God Tiya through the seemingly nonexistent, but actually existing, mental fissure.
At this moment.
A voice seemed to echo beside Hawk's ear.
"Hawk Phoenix."
"..."
Although appearing to float in front of the Celestial God Tiya with his eyes half-closed, Hawk's mind had actually entered the inside of the Celestial God Tiya. He then saw a burst of golden light, followed by the appearance of the Celestial God Tiya, with a miniature body size, almost the same height as an average human, who slightly smiled.
"Celestial God Tiya, I thought you wouldn't come out to see me."
"If you weren't absorbing my life energy, yes, I had no intention of seeing you."
Hawk's mind stirred, halting the act of drawing life energy from the already scarce life energy pool, and he smiled again.
"Sorry."
"I know why you're here."
"Then give me an answer."
Hawk looked at the Celestial God Tiya in the golden light, "I'll leave immediately, no delay."
He came to see Tiya, thinking whether he could find out from her where the Celestial God Griss, who had fled to this universe, was.
By then, it would be a seamless connection, and the moment the Eighth Sense of Life shattered, it would be the time of the Celestial God Griss's demise.
But...
"Sorry, I can't give you the answer you want."
"Can't give, or unwilling to give?"
"Can't give."
The voice of the Celestial God Tiya actually didn't distinguish between male or female, but it tended towards female.
Just like Hawk said before.
Tiya, she's different!
Actually, the Celestial God Team doesn't distinguish between male and female. At least, the first three Celestial Gods were genderless, but the subsequent ones had gender distinctions.
Because every Celestial God after that was nurtured by the life of the Planet of Life.
Therefore, if there were more males on a Planet of Life, the Celestial God would be more inclined towards being male.
And vice versa.
So...
The Celestial God Tiya, nurtured within Earth, tends to be female.
The voice of the Celestial God Tiya was calm.
"Every Celestial God will only inherit the memories of the Celestial God Team when truly born, so I can't give you the answer now."
"And I don't want to be born yet."
"...Why?"
"My birth comes at the cost of the planet's destruction, so I don't want to be born."
See.
Tiya is different from other Celestial Gods.
This is a benevolent Celestial God.
Hawk thought to himself.
Half an hour later.
Tiya reentered sleep mode.
Hawk's mind also withdrew from the inside of the Celestial God Tiya.
This trip was in vain.
But...
Never mind, it's just that when he comprehends the Eighth Sense of Life, he won't be able to go home immediately; he will need to spend more time here finding the location of the Celestial God Griss.
Staying a bit longer is staying a bit longer.
Anyway, Gwen is not at home.
As everyone knows.
A home with a wife is a real home.
And a home without a wife, for a married man, is just a place to sleep.
Hawk thought to himself, took one last look at the inanimate and motionless Celestial God Tiya, which appeared like a mountain of scrap iron, then turned and disappeared into the Inner Earth World.
In the next moment!
Reappearing in the sky above the ocean, Hawk adjusted his direction, and with a roar, turned into golden light, speeding back toward New York City.
Meanwhile.
After confirming that Hawk was not here, and Anya also did not know where Hawk had gone, Natasha also bid farewell.
Because Captain America just called.
Tony was no longer interested in participating in their "Time Hijacking" plan; now they had to rely on themselves.
After stepping out the door, Natasha turned to look at Anya, who had accompanied her to the door.
"If Hawk comes back, if possible, let me know."
"I will."
"Thank you."
Natasha nodded at Anya, said thanks, and then turned around.
In the next second.
She saw, not far away, a ripple emerging, and then Hawk, with sword-like eyebrows, bright eyes, a sturdy build, and dressed in a suit, seemingly walked out from the air.
Hawk looked at Natasha in front of him and smiled slightly.
"Looking for me?"
"..."