David was silent for a long time before he said, "So all of this was a scam?"
"Of course not. Do you remember how we became best friends after that? I originally only wanted to meet you once, but by sheer coincidence, we ended up sharing a secret. I had no choice but to keep living there for a while. Later, though, something happened in my own era that required me to return. I apologize again for leaving."
Everyone watching was stunned.
"Wait, I'm a little confused." Strange raised a hand and said, "Franklin Richards is Reed Richards's son, but Reed isn't even married or has children yet. David is already an adult, and Franklin says the two of them are friends?"
"Franklin can travel through time." Stark had already sorted out the sequence of events. He said, "Franklin from the future timeline must have wanted to meet David for some reason, so he traveled through time and found David as a child."
"To meet David, he disguised himself as a camper at some summer camp. Something happened at that camp and accidentally exposed Franklin's disguise, but it also forged a deep friendship between them. They spent a happy period together, but later Franklin needed to return to his own era, so he left."
"I knew it." Watching everything through Ultron's broadcast from behind his desk, Schiller said, "David's transformation didn't begin with the terrorist attack. Franklin's departure was probably the real starting point. But why did Franklin want to meet David?"
Charles, who had already withdrawn from the mental world, was also watching the scene, frowning deeply in thought.
Franklin landed once more. After a moment of silence, David changed from an energy form into a physical body as well. But he was not the youth everyone had seen