Josen raised his right hand, looking at the six dazzling Infinity Stones on the Infinity Gauntlet. "Actually, if you hadn't rounded up a team to come looking for trouble with me, that was what I'd planned to do."
Uatu froze. "What..."
"Heh..."
Josen smiled faintly, standing tall with his hands behind his back, his bearing imposing and majestic, his Ancestorlander aura on full display.
"If a certain bald guy calling himself a Watcher hadn't accidentally let Infinity Ultron discover the secrets of the multiverse, I might already have returned all the Infinity Stones to their rightful owners and put the affected timelines back on track."
"Well..."
Caught off guard for a moment by Josen's barrage of barbed sarcasm, Interferer Uatu betrayed no emotion in his glowing eyes.
Because Josen's words were not fabrications. These things had actually happened.
Now that was awkward!
It was precisely Uatu's "observation" that had alerted Infinity Ultron to the existence of universes beyond his own.
Under his "interference," the curtain had risen on the multiversal massacre.
Still, the Watcher was almost as old as the universe. What upheavals hadn't he seen?
One could imagine how thick his skin was.
Those long ages had not only given Uatu technology and power comparable to cosmic gods, but had also shown him the rise and fall of all manner of civilizations.
A powerful being of his standing naturally had his own convictions. A few words from Josen would never shake his resolve.
And so, orange energy lit up Interferer Uatu's hands, signaling that he was ready for battle.
"Regardless, I must ask you to leave."
The atmosphere in the gap between universes abruptly froze. A battle was about to erupt.
Just then, Josen raised a finger.
"One question."
Uatu, who was about to strike, paused. "...Hmm?"
Standing with