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"It's Deadpool and the Time Variance Authority."
After reviewing the surveillance footage, George had already figured out the truth.
The weirdo in the red bodysuit carrying two long swords was clearly Deadpool.
And those individuals in strange uniforms, entering and exiting through glowing portals, were from an organization called the Time Variance Authority.
The Time Variance Authority, or TVA, is a special organization in the Marvel Universe responsible for managing the timelines of various universes.
Are they powerful? Absolutely. With their advanced technology, they can effortlessly prune an entire universe.
Even multiversal-level beings may not be able to destroy a universe so easily—yet the TVA can do it with the push of a button.
Are they weak? In a sense, yes. The staff and guards are just ordinary people from across the multiverse.
They don't possess any special powers. Their combat capabilities rely entirely on high-tech equipment. Without it, they're virtually powerless.
You can think of it like this: TVA personnel are like ordinary people holding a nuclear launch button.
If faced with a tiger, they'd be defenseless. But if they wanted to, they could press that button and annihilate countless tigers.
Originally, the TVA was founded by a variant of Kang the Conqueror known as "He Who Remains."
Kang came from the future. After inventing time travel, he journeyed through different timelines and parallel universes, causing the sacred timeline to branch endlessly and creating countless versions of himself.
These variants of Kang waged war against each other. In the end, He Who Remains emerged victorious. To protect his timeline, he established the TVA.
The TVA's purpose was to prevent the creation of too many branches, which could collapse the timeline and reignite another multiversal Kang war.
Later, a variant of Loki from a branched timeline was captured. After a series of events, he replaced He Who Remains and became the God of Stories.
From then on, alternate timelines and possibilities no longer needed to be pruned, and the TVA's responsibilities became much lighter.
Their new mission was to monitor the timelines and prevent individuals who had mastered time manipulation from wreaking havoc.
One such individual was the aforementioned Deadpool.
Deadpool, whose real name is Wade Wilson, is a mutant. In different timelines and universes, he's had varying experiences and appearances.
For example, in this world, Deadpool was once a teammate of Wolverine. Later, he was transformed and mind-controlled by General Stryker. During a battle with Wolverine and Sabretooth, he was decapitated.
In another timeline, Deadpool became a mercenary after retiring from the military. He fell in love with a dancer but was diagnosed with cancer.
To cure his illness, he was tricked into undergoing human experimentation. Though the cancer was cured and he gained a regenerative ability rivaling Wolverine's, he was left horribly disfigured.
He eventually got his revenge and reunited with his girlfriend—but she was killed shortly afterward by an enemy.
Fortunately, he obtained a time-travel device from Cable, who had come from the future. He used it to return to the past, save his girlfriend, and rewrite parts of history.
But this attracted the attention of the TVA, who captured him.
"Looks like Deadpool came to find Wolverine, hoping to bring him to his own universe as a Nexus Being."
According to the rules set by Marvel films and TV shows, each branched timeline or parallel universe, aside from the sacred timeline, has its own Nexus Being.
If a universe's Nexus Being dies, the universe itself will slowly collapse over thousands of years.
In Deadpool's universe, the Nexus Being was his version of Wolverine—but he's already dead.
A mid-level TVA officer named Paradox, dissatisfied with the new rules, wanted to use the Temporal Eradicator to destroy Deadpool's universe ahead of schedule.
To protect his loved ones and friends, Deadpool stole a TVA time-travel device and began searching through various universes for a suitable Wolverine to replace the Nexus Being.
He probably arrived in this universe and found Logan resting in a school room—just as TVA agents caught up with him, leading to a fight.
"Let's first find out whether he was captured by the TVA or sent to the Void."
This universe's Wolverine is his friend, so of course George intended to rescue him. Besides, he was very interested in the TVA.
Those devices that allow travel between universes—he definitely wanted one.
After all, with his current strength, he still couldn't freely traverse the multiverse.
"Necromantic Resurrection!"
Kneeling down, George reached out and tapped the forehead of one of the corpses. A green, pentagram-shaped magic circle instantly appeared on its forehead.
Moments later, the corpse slowly opened its eyes in a daze.
The spell George used was necromancy—one of the magical techniques he had learned from the Book of the Dead in the Mage Apprentice World.
This magic allowed him to summon the soul of the deceased back into their corpse, enabling him to control them for combat support.
Of course, the soul must not have reincarnated, and the corpse must still exist—even if only as a skeleton.
Otherwise, necromancy would be ineffective.
In the Marvel Universe, after death, souls typically travel to the domains of dimensional gods according to their beliefs. If one has no faith, they fall under the Death Goddess's realm.
There's no such thing as reincarnation here.
Therefore, the souls of these TVA guards could be summoned through necromancy.
Would this offend the dimensional gods or the Death Goddess?
George didn't think so.
In the Marvel Universe, there are various ways to summon souls or even resurrect the dead.
As long as the individual isn't particularly important, beings on the level of the Death Goddess likely wouldn't bother over a common soul.
And those dimensional gods, even if offended, wouldn't leave their domains just to come to Earth. After all, the Ancient One is still alive and well.
Also, the Death Goddess here isn't Odin's daughter Hela, but rather Death—one of the Five Cosmic Entities, on the same level as Eternity.
Though whether the Five Cosmic Entities truly exist is debatable. That's a comic book concept, whereas this world follows the Marvel films and TV shows.
It's entirely possible that the Death from the comics doesn't exist here at all—only Odin's daughter, Hela, is the Death Goddess in this continuity.
So George wasn't worried about using necromancy.
"Let me see your memories."
Controlling the revived corpse, George unceremoniously accessed its memories.
Moments later, he withdrew his hand, dispelled the necromancy, and said to Professor X and the others:
"I know where Logan was taken. I'll bring him back. You all can continue with your classes as usual.
Let another teacher cover Logan's lessons for now. If all goes well, he should be back by this afternoon."
(End of Chapter)