Future Timeline

"I'm fine."

Future Thor rose to his feet. He felt completely different from when he had first crossed over. The confusion and dejection in his aura were gone, replaced by an absolute conviction to press forward without hesitation.

"Now that everyone's here, let's get ready to leave. Are you ready?"

Clap! Clap! Clap!

Leon clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention before asking.

"Wait!"

Future Tony raised a brow. "How are we supposed to leave? And how are we supposed to prepare?"

"Just make sure you don't bite your tongue. It'll be quick. Relax your body."

With that, Leon's lips curled slightly, and he brought his hands together.

Boom—

The Avengers on the scene immediately felt as though someone had dealt the back of their heads a vicious blow from behind.

Then there was nothing.

By the time they regained consciousness, they had already returned to the platform where they had conducted the Quantum Traversal, sprawled all over it like dumplings tossed into a pot.

"Vought?!"

"What happened?!"

Future Tony, who had already been injected with the Superhuman Serum, was the first to wake up. However, Rhodes was the first to speak. He stared blankly at their surroundings. "We're back?!"

"Looks that way," Future Tony echoed, going around and slapping the faces of the other Avengers still lying on the platform to wake them up.

"Where's Leon?" Rhodes looked around but saw no sign of Leon, so he immediately asked.

"I'm over here."

Beside the control console beneath the traversal platform, Leon was tinkering with the time-travel machine Future Tony and the others had built alongside Otsutsuki Tony.

"It feels like something slapped together in a hurry. It's too crude and cumbersome. Were they really that pressed for time?" Otsutsuki Tony commented.

"If our world were about to be destroyed, you