In the empty medical bay, Harry frowned as he looked at Loki inside the Cryo-pod.
A familiar yet unfamiliar plot had just flooded into his mind: theoretically, Loki's life was only supposed to last until this point.
So far, most of this world's settings and developments had been tied to the Cinematic Universe. That meant there was one thing he could not avoid: the Time Variance Authority.
In the movies, Thanos's Infinity War had happened twice. The first time, Thanos won. The mad Titan had massacred Xandar the moment he moved, intercepted the Asgardian refugee ship, attacked Earth, gathered all six Infinity Stones, and wiped out half the life in the universe.
But the Avengers, led by Tony, had not given up. Five years later, they used Pym Particles to devise a method that could enter other universes at different points in time through the Quantum Realm.
In one of those universes, because of the Avengers' cross-Timeline operation, Loki, who had lost the Battle of New York, happened upon the Space Stone again and successfully escaped. This caused time to branch, creating a new Timeline.
That was when the Time Variance Authority appeared. They took away the Loki who had accidentally strayed from his "script," brought him to the Time Variance Authority, and erased that branch.
Because on the Timeline controlled by the Time Variance Authority, Loki had to die in Thanos's attack. That would be the end of his life.
The Time Variance Authority maintained what they called the "Sacred Timeline," preventing anomalies like Loki from occurring and snuffing out any event that could create a branch.
Harry did not think Loki's brush with death this time—or rather, the fact that he already had one foot in the grave—was the Time Variance Authority's arrangement. What concerned him was something