Having a nuclear bomb explode over their heads was no more than a breeze brushing past for the Beyonders. When the light of the chain reaction faded, not even the hairstyles of the three had been disturbed.
Well, they were bald, so never mind.
The leader tilted his head, rubbing the top of it as though deeply puzzled. He turned his face and looked around.
"Where did humanity get fusion weapons?"
"Unknown phenomenon. Experimental variable," the other two replied. They gathered around the first one. "Did you hear that blast just now? A variable has appeared in the experimental environment. We must suspend the process."
"But the Multiverse is destroying itself. We do not have much time."
The few of them fell silent. For the moment, they had no idea what to do.
To the Beyonders, every Parallel World within the entire Multiverse was itself an experiment—an experiment to simultaneously detonate every Molecule Man in every Parallel Universe and see whether they could blow the Multiverse into one giant firework.
It felt like a property management company disliked the current tenants in a building and planned to evict them all before bringing in a new batch of customers.
After all, they could not dismantle the greater framework of the Omniverse. Restricting themselves to the Multiverse might have seemed controllable to them.
If the Original Celestials conducted sociological experiments, then the Beyonders conducted physics experiments involving Single Universes and the Multiverse itself.
Now, several phenomena that the Beyonders could neither understand nor reconcile with common sense had appeared in Earth-616.
How had this nuclear bomb appeared above their heads? They had not figured that out. And what sort of spatial technology had caused that faint blast?
And although the person who threw the nuclear bomb clearly knew nuclear weapons would not