The TemPad's screen remained on Earth-10086's termination file.
The red cloak curled around the edges of the device, holding it between them.
The clang of metal rang out in the distance every few seconds. The Armor trapped in the looping street were still flying, their thruster flames sweeping between the inverted buildings, lap after lap.
Having more or less finished explaining the Time Variance Authority and his own small measure of spatial power, Chen Mo finally abandoned the rambling after Doctor Strange interrupted him and chose to keep the rest brief.
"The TVA, an organization that looks like it manages the multiverse but actually does nothing useful. They once set off a Reset Device beneath New York. The Correction Pulse followed a Spatial Convergence Point into the ground, and now there's something inside Earth that could blow at any moment."
He swiped across the file.
"Once it activates, Earth blows up, and this universe goes down with it. I came back to find it, dismantle it, or throw it somewhere it can't blow anyone up."
Doctor Strange took the TemPad.
He scrolled backward through the termination records. The file contained shifts in the world boundary, anomalies at the Spatial Convergence Point, and the time when the last life signal reached zero.
"When did the explosive source inside Earth become active?"
"From what I've observed, right here, after the Reset Device landed."
Chen Mo opened one of the records.
The spatial readings on the screen first sank downward into the ground, then appeared at Earth's edge. Both sets of values rose at the same time, then vanished together.
Doctor Strange's finger stopped on the second set of data.
The Armor crashed into one another again in the distance.
One Armor flew back from the other end of the street, half its