Sign-In Time! The Pulse of All Things!

The entire scene fell deathly silent.

Every eye was fixed on Link and the Eye of Agamotto in his hand.

The heroes felt helpless to their very bones. They had given everything. Even the Sorcerer Supreme had played her final trump card, only to discover that their opponent had merely been indulging them in a "game."

This was no longer a battle. They were outmatched on an entirely different level.

This thing looks cheap. Terrible design.

Link grumbled to himself.

My gauntlet looks cooler.

He ignored the furious, despairing, and terrified stares around him and began examining his "prize."

His fingers traced the Eye of Agamotto's cold metal casing, feeling the ancient magical patterns engraved upon it.

Then he found the mechanism.

With a faint, ancient click, the closed metal eyelids slowly opened.

Nothing earth-shattering happened.

Yet in that instant, the whole world seemed to lose its color.

A brilliant, impossibly pure green light burst through the gap between the eyelids.

The green was so profound that it seemed to hold every secret of the universe, from birth to extinction. One glance made him feel as though his soul might be drawn inside.

Time seemed to freeze.

The wind stopped blowing. The snow stopped falling. Everyone's breath caught.

A Stone radiating a soft green glow rested quietly at the center of the Eye of Agamotto.

The Time Stone.

Link slowly extended his index finger. The fingertip of the Infinity Gauntlet lightly touched the green Stone.

Boom!

The instant he touched it, an irresistible force dragged Link's consciousness into a surging current.

It was not a current of water, but the river of time.

He heard the "heartbeat" of the entire universe.

Countless images—no, countless sensations—flashed through his mind and exploded.

He "felt" a star being born, a warm exhalation. He