[First person POV] [Avenger's Tower]

  It's been three hours since I killed Victor in Reed's body. His body was pletely vaporized, and there wasn't a sirace of him left behind. Well, I should be gd that my girlfriend's ex is dead lol. I mean, hey, Reed bees Maker in one of the realities, right? So, let's just roll with that. I saved this world from two vilins at the same time.

  Tony, Dr. Strange, Captain Marvel, Captain Amerid Bck ere in the room. They fiheir job and came back a few ho. I told them about the situation that Victor killed Reed and took over his body for some reason, then messed up Ben's memories. As for why I was there, well, simply because I discovered some bad information from those cybs that led me to Reed. That's whehing happened. I tried my best to capture Reed's body, but he was too powerful for me and I had to destroy him pletely before he could kill me.

  Sue also arrived and I expined everything to her. She didn't say anything, but I'm pretty sure, she's sad. She just sat on the sofa with an expressionless face. Even though they broke up, they were close for years and it must have been hard on her. I'll give her some space.

  Right now, Ben's lying on a big reinforced bed. He's in a atose state and Dr. Strange is trying to heal his messed-up mind.

  "Victor Von Doom, that guy..." Tony shook his head with a sigh. "Too ambitious for his own good. I was against his release back then, but Ross and the gover... Hah! Look where that got us..."

  Steve crossed his arms across his chest. "We might have a bigger problem than Doom."

  "Yes. Victor Von Doom was the least of our problems," I took out the drive with the information I collected from the neural impnts and pced it oable. "Now. After seeing this information, you people might get some funny ideas. So, I'd very much like you all not to do anything that would put any of us in danger. Agreed?"

  Tony picked up the drive from the table, plugged it into a puter, and uploaded the data to his server. He narrowed his eyes as he read the tents.

  "Oh... That's a lot of info. So, cybs from a dystopian future want to kill our Spidey for..." Tony stopped speaking as he read the real reason. I could have hidden the fact that I'd bee the vilin in the supposed future because of Reed for killing my Gwen and Michelle and our unborn child, but what's the point of hiding it? They should know the truth, because if such a future indeed exists, then we o prepare. They o prepare to stop me because I don't want to live as the very thing I hate.

  Steve walked over to me and grabbed my shoulder. "You alright?" He asked with . I'm not alright... Hell, I don't know how to feel right now. So many things are happening at once, and I don't know what to do. But I'm gonna hunt every one of these remaining cybs aract all the information out of them. Every siail about the future that they e from.

  "Knowing your world is going to shatter iure... If you were in my pce, what would you do?" I asked Steve.

  Steve gave it a thought before saying, "I would do whatever it takes to make sure it never happens."

  "And that's exactly what I'm gonna do," I stood up from the chair. "I'll hunt down the remaining cybs aract every piece of information out of them."

  "Wait! Didn't you kill Victor in Reed's body? If so, then shouldn't the future already ged and those cybs who came from the future should anymore, right? I mean, with Reed and Victohe future is bound to ge. There are no two ways about it," Natasha interjected.

  "That's true. But apparently, it's not that simple," Tony expined. "I've tracked them down and sidering the fact that they are still here and haven't disappeared... Well, it's hard to expin, but in simple terms... By taking a after knowing the future, we only ge our future... This timeline ay. Not the future they came from."

  "Exactly," The A One arrived through a portal and didn't wait for anyone's rea.

  Just like how she showed Hulk how time travel works, she drew detailed lines in the air, creating a glowing picture of ected timelines. Her hands moved smoothly, eg the magical lines of time into a plicated design that floated in the air. The picture looked like a river dividing into many smaller streams, eae showing a different possible future.

  "Infihs," she began with a calm tone, "eae a refle of choices made, events that unfolded, or as taken. Time, as you perceive it, is not a singur, lihread. It is more akin to a vast, brang tree, with each branch representing a different possibility, a differey."

  The room was silent, save for the faint hum of the magical energy that the A One wielded. We watched the magies as she tio expin.

  "When a traveler from the future es to the past," she tinued, pointing to a glowing lihat represehe inal timelihey do not alter the course of their inal reality. Instead, they create a new branch—a new reality, if you will—where the events they seek to ge may or may not unfold differently."

  She touched the line, and it split into two distinct paths: one tinuing on its inal course, while the other diverged sharply, representing the imeline created by the time traveler's as. "The future they e from remains unged, locked in its own tinuity. But here, in our reality, a new future is born from the moment of their interference."

  Tony gave a knowing nod, "Just as I said, even though we've eliminated Victor Von Doom in this timeli doesn't necessarily ge the future those cybs came from. That's messed up."

  "Precisely," the A One nodded. "Their future remained unged, a fixed point in their version of reality. However, by defeating Victor in this timeline, you have altered the path of your own future. The ramifications of that ge are yet to unfold." She poiowards the brang lines, showing how the imeline developed its own future, indepe of the inal. "In essence, by taking a, you've ehat this reality diverges from the one where Reed Richards bees the Maker and Spiderman bees the vilin."

  "The Maker?!" Tony raised his eyebrow.

  "That doesn't matter anymore," The A One shook her head. "What matters is that you've altered this timeline. No longer is it bound to the future these cybs came from."

  I closed my eyes for a moment and sighed. I hope you are right, old one...

  Natasha looked puzzled. "But if their future is still intact, does that mean more of them could e through? And how do we even prepare for something like that? They could pop out anywhere and attack at any time."

  Tony waved his hand and projected a map of the Earth with dots scattered all over it. "Not quite. Time Travelling isn't that easy. Although it sounds impossible, the probability of aime traveler arriving in our present is almost as low as 0.01%. Almost like winning the lottery. You 't just hop bad forth in time easily."

  "Unless someone created a guiding assistance device... Ah! Oh, crap!" I looked at the A One. "No, no, no... This is way too early..." I looked at the A Oony created a way to time travel iure and so did Reed. But with Reed dead, he's the only oh the mind to create something like that, but that too after Thanos wiped out half of all life forms iure. If so, then fuck! Thanos will e for Earth.

  "Too early for what?" Carol finally spoke up.

  "I 't tell you," I shook my head. "I'm sorry. It's better if you guys don't know what the future holds for us."

  Steve crossed his arms across his chest, "Peter, we should work together on this."

  The A One's body began to flicker as she made a weird hand sign and the Time Stone glowed on her neckce. Everyourheir attention toward her. She's looking through the uping future events and all the possible outes.

  "Is that normal?" Tony asked, pointing at the A One.

  "Silence. Let her trate," Dr. Strange said while w on Ben Grimm's mind.

  After a few seds, the A One opened her eyes. She's sweating profusely. "This... This is bad, really bad..."

  "What did you see?" I asked her.

  "Thanos... He's ing for the Infinity Stones... If he obtains all of them, he will wipe out half of all life forms in the universe. And he's not alone... Knull, the god of darkness, has awakened and soon, he'll break through the seals. Along with his army of Klyntar, they'll unleash chaos upon the universe. Not only that..." The A Oopped as she sat on the nearby chair with a grim expression.

  "Gactus?" I asked her.

  "Yes. Gactus as well. How do you even know about him?" The A One asked me.

  "Doesn't matter... Did we win in any of the future? I know you said you 't see my future, so, see yours or anyone's in this room and tell us. Did we win?" I asked her.

  "No... All the tless future I saw till now... None of them ended in our victory."

  "Was I there in any of those future you saw?" I asked her.

  "No, I didn't see you in any of the future. The old events where you became a tyrant ged... Repced with Gctus's arrival..."

  "So, I'm like a wild card, huh?! Good. That means I ge things and go against the flow without affeg this reality, which means, we gotta find a way to stop this ess first before any more unnecessary incursions occur," I ched my fists. "I'll this mess up by m. Till then, you should give them more info on these enemies. Now, don't say, it's against the rules because very soon we won't have a world to live in. And if it's of any fort, think of this as lending a hand to someohe Great Weaver asked you to save."

  The A One nodded. "Alright. I'll tell them what they o know, but that's all I do."

  Sigh!... Thanos, Knull, and now Gactus... Well, fuck! Right now, I really want to run away. If I was alone, I would have probably run away to aimeline by learning the time magic or by somehow stealing the stone, which is again, impossible... But I 't run away from this fight... I have people I care about and I'd be damned if I let some alien fuckers destroy my life.

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