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"Looks like our only option is to find the next inhabited planet and ask if anyone knows where Earth is. But right now, our real problem is—how do we get there?"
Diana was discussing their next steps with Clark after placing him inside the spaceship. But Clark couldn't help noticing something… was that more than just confusion in Diana's eyes?
"Diana… don't tell me you expect me to push this spaceship through space?"
"You're the only one who can fly out here. Mantis can't survive in outer space, so I'm afraid it's up to you."
Faced with Clark's incredulous question, Diana laid out a harsh truth.
"Uh…" Clark had nothing to argue with. She was right. Sure, they had a ship—but no one knew how to fly it!
"Sigh~" With a helpless sigh, Clark stepped outside to push the ship manually. He had no idea if there was a livable planet in that direction—but moving forward was still better than standing still.
However, as soon as he exited the ship, Clark's brows furrowed.
Hovering in the aftermath of Ego's explosion was a strange brain-like object wrapped in a protective shell. The moment Clark saw it, he didn't need to guess whose brain it was.
"Ego… he's not dead yet!"
After informing Diana and the others, Clark flew straight toward Ego's brain.
Ego sensed Clark's movement and immediately tried to flee in the opposite direction. Clearly, he had been keeping an eye on Clark the entire time. When he saw Clark fly away earlier, Ego had breathed a sigh of relief. His planet may have been destroyed, but as long as his core survived, he could still rebuild a new body.
With this experience under his belt, he believed he could do it better next time.
Everything depended on one thing: that his core—the brain—remained intact. As long as that remained untouched, Ego could start over.
But now, seeing Clark fly toward him again, Ego truly panicked. He used what little divine power he had left to try and escape, moving at a turtle's pace compared to Clark.
He prayed Clark wasn't coming for him. Maybe he was headed somewhere else.
But luck was not on Ego's side today. He could only watch helplessly as Clark stopped right in front of him.
"Didn't expect you to survive that. I guess I underestimated you," Clark said. "But how about this: if you can take a full punch from me and still live, I'll let you go. Deal?"
Ego saw Clark give him a devilish smile—and raise his fist.
"Wait!" Ego cried out. If he had a physical body, he'd be trembling.
"I can take you back to Earth! Without me, you won't make it back. Mantis can't fly my ship!"
In his moment of desperation, Ego came up with the one thing that might save his life: sending Clark and Diana home. He knew Mantis had never learned to pilot his ship—he'd never taught her.
Even if Clark and Diana could pilot regular ships, this one wasn't like the others. Ego had built it as a clone of himself—its structure and controls were completely unique. Only he could operate it.
That was the one card Ego had left to play.
"Oh? You really know where Earth is?" Clark asked, lowering his fist. Until now, he had assumed Ego's promises were lies meant to stall them. After all, Ego had revealed his true self and never once offered to help them return home.
But now… Clark figured there was no point in lying anymore. Ego had lost all ability to resist. And if he was lying, well—Clark could easily make him regret it.
So Clark decided to give him one last chance.
After all, without Ego, none of them could pilot the ship. Even if Clark could fly, without a star map or navigational system, he'd never find Earth—not in a hundred years.
Most space travel in the Marvel universe relied on jump drives. And Clark didn't even know which direction Earth was in.
So if Ego really was willing to send them home, that was for the best. But if he tried anything funny—Clark would make him pay.
With that, Clark pushed Ego's brain toward the ship.
Though Ego's brain looked fragile, it was protected by a tough membrane—so strong that Clark had to try to tear it.
As they drifted away from the destroyed Ego-planet, Ego looked back at the ruined world with a complicated feeling.
He had spent millions of years building that planet, and now—boom. Gone in a flash.
But really, Ego just felt unlucky. His plan had been going so smoothly. Maybe in a few thousand or tens of thousands of years, he could've conquered the universe.
So why the hell did someone like Clark have to show up—a guy who wasn't even a god, but still kicked his ass?
He wanted to cry, but there were no tears. Literally. He was just a brain now.
"Ego?"
When Clark pushed Ego's brain into the ship, Mantis looked at it with uncertainty.
Though she had heard Ego describe himself as a drifting brain in the cosmos, she had never seen it. That core had always been protected, buried deep within his planetary body.
This was her first time seeing Ego's true form.
"Yeah, that's him," Clark sighed. "I never expected a brain this small could create a planet that big."
Looking at the so-called "Egg," Clark couldn't help but wonder—could a brain like this really exist deep inside Earth's core?
"Clark, how did you bring him back?" Diana asked.
Even though she was shocked Ego's real body was just a brain, her opinion of him hadn't changed. He was still a million-year-old pervert who had tried to breed with her.
Clark shrugged. "Unless you want me to push this ship across space forever, we need him to get us home."
"You sure he knows where Earth is?" Diana asked skeptically.
"Not sure," Clark replied. "That's why we'll wait and see how he performs."
He gave Ego a firm pat. "Let's go, Eggy."
Beneath Clark's intimidating aura, Ego had no choice but to mutter, "Yes…"
ALARM! ALARM!
"Doctor, we're detecting energy activity on the Tesseract again!"
Dr. Erik Selvig, who had been scribbling equations, froze when he heard the loudspeaker alarm and his assistant's urgent voice.
"Damn it! Not again!"
He threw his pen aside and rushed toward the Tesseract chamber.
"Did the power fail? Who touched the Cube?! We weren't supposed to run any tests today!"
Ever since Clark and Diana disappeared, Erik had been under enormous pressure—from every direction.
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