The image of Thanos snapping his fingers to destroy the universe vanished from the screen.
In its place appeared timelines branching and diverging like tree limbs.
"The TVA can observe changes in every timeline," B-15 said.
She turned and pointed at the screen. "Every timeline can be seen here, from its birth, to the branches it creates, to its end."
"These timelines constantly produce branches."
"And when, at a certain point, a timeline is destined for destruction, it stops producing offshoots."
"That was the case for certain universes in the past, which were destroyed when the Emergence of Celestial seeds on Earth killed their Anchor Beings."
"I think we, and the people of every universe, should thank you, Leon."
B-15 suddenly said, "Because of you, the Celestials have begun moving the Celestial seeds they left on Earth elsewhere. That is one less cause of universal destruction in the future."
"To be honest, we tried to communicate with the Celestials before, but it never worked."
"Until Arishem came looking for us last time."
"Because of you, they finally realized they had made a mistake."
"They really came looking for you?" Leon nodded. "Sometimes, the Celestials really do only believe in their own logic."
"I couldn't agree more!" B-15 voiced her agreement and continued.
"Now, the Thanos Council—we named them the Thanos Council—the timelines they inhabit are just like those destined for destruction."
B-15 brought up a very long timeline on the screen.
At every node along that timeline, hundreds of new temporal branches had emerged.
And at subsequent nodes along those branches, even more temporal offshoots continued to appear.
It looked like a wildly growing thicket with no limit in sight.
B-15 pointed at part of the branches and explained.
"Look at this section of the timelines. From the timeline inhabited