Daisy wanted to scold Rachel a little and ask why she had argued with Lorna. She wanted to hold Little Rachel in her arms and comfort her properly, tell her Daddy would never leave her again. She wanted Little Franklin to keep being a top student, happy and cheerful every single day.
She wanted to travel the world with Wanda, eating some dark cuisine when they had nothing else to do. She wanted to sit quietly and read with Jean—even if Jean read classics while she read comics. She wanted to discuss S.H.I.E.L.D.'s budget for next year with Hill.
She wanted many things, yet very little.
Questions about the orderly development of the multiverse could be left to the big shots.
"We will never meet again. Let everything return to how it was," she said to the Heart of the Universe, her tone firm and beyond dispute.
At that moment, she was still the Living Tribunal. Her words were decrees!
An indescribable energy surged from the Heart of the Universe, flowing through Daisy and the unconscious Stark before rushing out of Deep Space and drifting toward the entire multiverse.
Daisy felt her energy plummeting rapidly. She fell from the peak of the multiverse to high multiversal, then all the way down to mid multiversal before stopping. Relying on the energy she had siphoned off, even without the boost from the DC world, she was now a mid-multiversal deity.
Everything returned to normal. The cosmic gods revived, the Living Tribunal revived, and she, a temporary worker who had stolen quite a bit for herself, was naturally kicked out of the general manager's office.
Though being reverted to her original state was somewhat miserable, she had not come away empty-handed.
There had not been any overt trial this time, but she had