Strange: You're the One Who Hit Me!

"Tsk, I have to ask permission to time travel? That's the first time I've heard of that." With that, Lin Xu turned to face Strange.

The latter looked at Lin Xu 'Orb of Agamotto in one hand, the Eye of Agamotto and the Hoggoth's Bone Armor hanging on his chest, and the Tears of Oshtur on his forehead, and fell into deep thought.

Damn, who is this guy? He's so arrogant!

"Strange, long time no see~"

"I think the person you saw before wasn't me, was it?" Strange looked at Lin Xu's face and felt it looked somewhat familiar, but he was certain that he had never seen this person before.

"Hehe, when you were performing CPR on that old man Ancient One, my soul and his were watching from the Mirror Dimension."

Hearing this, Strange's doubts deepened.

Who exactly are you?

Lin Xu stepped aside, revealing the tombstone behind him.

Strange looked at the black-and-white photo on the tombstone, then at Lin Xu himself; one dead, one alive, they looked exactly alike.

Soon, a long-forgotten memory surfaced in his mind.

A year ago, he and Christine were on their way to a charity gala when a phone call came in saying that an Air Force colonel had fallen and was in danger of being paralyzed from the waist down. Upon hearing the description of the injury, he refused without a second thought.

He never takes on surgeries with a success rate of less than 5%, because failure would damage his reputation.

While he was arguing with the other party, a rally car crashed straight into him. He fell into a coma, and Christine and the driver who caused the accident were both killed.

Afterwards, he learned the driver's name and appearance.

Gradually, the figure of that person overlapped with Lin Xu's.

Strange's eyes turned bloodshot, and he instantly crossed his hands, creating a pale yellow rune array.

"It's you, Lin Xu!!"

Lin Xu simply stared at Strange, remaining motionless even as the latter prepared to use magic. "As the Sorcerer Supreme, you should understand the nature of the Multiverse. He is him, and I am me."

Strange took a deep breath, slowly lowered his hands, and said in a somewhat dejected tone, "So, you're here to laugh at me?"

After all, it's the split personality that's good; Strange's rationality and clarity are beyond imagination.

No, I'm here to save you!

Lin Xu looked at Strange with a serious expression. "Haven't you realized that you're not actually whole right now?"

"Watt?"

"It all started with Christine..."

As Lin Xu narrated, Strange's emotions went through a rollercoaster ride, from anger to sadness, and then to astonishment.

He never imagined he would do something like this for Christine.

"So what should we do?"

"There are two options: either wait for him to come and kill him, or throw you far away to prevent him from devouring you and becoming his strongest form..."

Strange:...

Agamotto Universe, 2001.

Howard walked over to Steve and looked at Tony, who was enjoying Maria's handmade burger not far away.

What was the result?

Steve shook his head and smiled wryly, "His speed and strength are about twice mine."

Howard's eyes lit up. "So strong?"

"That's not the main point. His body can turn into lava, although he hasn't mastered it yet and is easily affected by his emotions. I've heard of this ability before; it's called the Extremis Virus, and Pepper was forced to be injected with it."

"Daughter-in-law... anyone else?"

"Ordinary knife wounds heal in two or three seconds, while bullet wounds take about four or five seconds. So theoretically, unless he's instantly killed, he can heal himself with his self-healing ability. And the only side effect of such a powerful ability is that he becomes very hungry. This strong self-healing ability is clearly not provided by the Extremis Virus; he must have done something else."

Even Steve himself was a little envious as he spoke.

"If I had been injected with this kind of serum back then, why would I have been frozen for seventy years? The moment I fell into the ice, I was instantly turned into lava..."

Howard joked, "Ha, then you might fall even deeper."

Soon, Tony, having finished his hamburger, came over.

What are you talking about?

Howard looked at Tony, who was much older than his own son, with a mixture of pride and embarrassment. "How... did you do that?"

Tony waved the Time Watch on his wrist. "You mean time travel? This thing belongs to someone else; it was just an accident."

"No, I meant self-healing ability~"

"That's a long story. I encountered someone who was practically indestructible... I got some of his cell tissue, and from JARVIS's belongings, I found your research data on the Super Soldier Serum. Combined with the findings of a botanist, we developed this thing. Oh, and this Time Watch also belongs to that person."

Howard and Steve exchanged a glance and said in unison, "An illegal immigrant?"

"What illegal immigrants?"

Faced with Tony's doubts, Howard didn't hide anything. "Tony, you might not know this, but your Uncle Steve came to my universe from 2023. He and another uncle of yours saved me, changed history, and the director of the Time Variance Authority happens to be the nephew of your other Uncle Lin..."

"Hiss, knife, pfft..."

Tony quickly interrupted Howard, looking utterly bewildered. "Where did I get so many uncles? And I don't acknowledge any of your connections."

As he spoke, he glared at Steve was trying hard to suppress his laughter.

"Ahem, anyway, Steve, the owner of the Time Watch, and you are all Time Stowaways."

"An illegal immigrant?" Tony muttered to himself, glancing around suspiciously.

"Don't worry, the bureau chief said that this universe has its own God of Time, which is not under his jurisdiction. Since this God of Time isn't bothering you, it means your presence here is legal, cough cough..."

Tony frowned slightly at Howard's cough, but didn't say anything to show his concern.

"I've shrunk the Arc Reactor."

I know~

"I need some materials to charge my watch."

"No problem."

"Okay, that's fine then. I'm a little tired today."

Okay, get some rest.

After saying goodnight to Maria, Tony returned to his room, but he tossed and turned for a long time, unable to fall asleep, his mind filled with thoughts of Howard's white hair.

After hesitating for a while, he got up, went to his desk, picked up paper and pen, and began to write.

[Name: Super Soldier Serum]

[Time: 2009] (The time before he traveled through time)

[Type: Three-in-One] (44 chapters)

Haha, you didn't expect that, did you!