Saving a world was not as simple as saying you would.
There were many ways to save it. How to help, and how far to go, were questions that needed answering.
The planet had a population of over six billion. In six days, 180 million people had been infected-two hundred million, rounded up.
Simply making badges that could keep their wearers from being infected was certainly not enough.
How to eliminate the virus-or whether they could even take unrestricted action against it-was the biggest problem at present.
Perhaps Hawkeye, Clint, did not fully understand the difficulties involved, because he was already used to trusting his own universe's Tony Stark.
With the Tony Stark of the Home Universe gone, he naturally transferred that trust to the Tony from another universe standing before him.
This was a Tony who spoke of traveling between universes as casually as eating and drinking. What did that mean? At the very least, Hawkeye had never heard the Tony of his own universe even bring up interuniversal travel.
But while resisting Nothingness beyond the moon, Brad was keeping an extremely close watch on Mister Fantastic Reed's laboratory.
Since everyone outside was infected, even the Avengers from Earth-616 had to hide in the laboratory first and slowly work out a strategy.
After studying the virus in detail, Earth-616's Iron Man gave his answer.
"This virus is very complex. Forget about a cure. That's simply not realistic."
On the moon-or rather, having almost become the moon himself-Brad inexplicably felt a little relieved. He had always thought the Beyonder was exaggerating when he said Earth-616's Iron Man could solve the technology Brad was so proud of in the time it took to drink a cup of coffee.
The same person might differ in strength between universes, but that had to