Homelander: New Legacy

[139] : Crisis

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When a "person from the past," someone you've never met, addresses you by name in a recorded message, it triggers only one feeling:

A deep, spine-chilling sense of unease.

To Roger, Andrea was that person from the past. She had crossed worlds long before him, maybe over a hundred years prior, considering that Wonder Woman emerged during the World War I era.

Andrea had known Wonder Woman back then.

A figure from over a century ago, she had left behind this message, and upon seeing Roger, immediately called him by name, saying casually, "You're late."

This made Roger question if there were gaps in his own memory.

Could it be that he once knew Andrea but had his memories erased, as had happened with Odin?

Roger hated to think that, but the memory manipulation by Odin and Tony Stark made it hard to ignore the possibility.

After staring blankly for a moment, Roger finally asked, "Why... why did you say I'm late?"

Of course, he knew that sound couldn't travel through space; he was just mouthing the words. He used the Mind Stone to convey the message directly to her consciousness.

Roger wanted to know if he and Andrea were, in fact, acquaintances.

But the Andrea before him seemed only to be a projection. After her initial words, she closed her eyes again and said, "It doesn't matter now; anyway... this isn't my burden anymore. I've done all I could. The rest... I leave to you."

As Andrea's image faded, disappearing completely, only the Reality Stone remained, floating before Roger.

Roger couldn't fully grasp Andrea's words, nor did she give him time to dwell on them.

At the moment she vanished, the corpses of the Celestials began disintegrating like melting ice.

They dissolved into red, stardust-like particles, flowing swiftly into the Reality Stone in front of Roger.

It all happened too quickly. By the time Roger realized that the Reality Stone was absorbing the essence of the Celestials, it had already finished and re-attached itself to his chest as if it were a permanent fixture.

Simultaneously, a surge of energy from the Reality Stone flowed into Roger's body.

Along with this energy came a wealth of information, messages Andrea had embedded in the stone, providing Roger with insight into her actions.

The Andrea who spoke to Roger was indeed just a pre-recorded image, albeit one with a limited degree of intelligence.

Had Roger arrived even twenty years earlier, this projection would have held a conversation with him and revealed much more.

But as she had said, Roger was a bit late.

The energy for the projection had run out, and the functionality that would have allowed her to communicate with him directly had ceased. According to the remaining information, this suggested something had gone wrong with Andrea.

Why Andrea knew Roger or why she left this message specifically for him was left unexplained.

In fact, there was little information about Andrea herself; most of it was about the stones.