Still, cursing inwardly was one thing.
All three of them were trapped in the time loop now. None of them could get out, nor did they dare to.
They had nothing else to do anyway.
So, as he was killed over and over, Stephen began working through possible outcomes.
His whole body flickered from time to time, fading in and out as though caught in spacetime.
The time loop Stephen had set up covered only the black hole in the sky and part of New York City.
There was no way he could include the entire Earth, let alone the whole universe.
And so, those outside the time loop witnessed a bizarre, almost comical scene.
Again and again, a towering finger jabbed the Apocalypse King toward the ground, only for everything to reset with a cry of "Aah..."
Apocalypse dared not dodge, so he could only treat the ordeal as training.
The other people in New York City caught within the time loop ran screaming toward its outer boundary, over and over.
But before they could get far, they returned to where they had started and began screaming again...
Ordinary people could not free their consciousness from the time loop. Each repetition felt like the first, and each time, they gave it everything they had.
Some nearby agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. rushed toward the area.
They, too, became trapped in the endless loop...
By then, countless organizations around the world had seen the strange scene through satellites, the internet, and various other channels.
Dead silence!
It was as though the entire Earth had been muted at that moment.
Nick Fury asked gravely, "Does anyone know what's going on? How can we help?"
Nick Fury had assembled every superhero who could make it.
Black Widow, Iron Man, War Machine, Vision, Scarlet Witch,