Revelation

Mhhh it was easier than I thought defeating the Avengers, but I shouldn't be so surprised, because I am a god and no one can beat me.

Now that I have defeated the heroes of this universe, it is time to start my conquest, but as I was contemplating my plan, I am interrupted by a voice that comes from where the Avengers were before.

"First of all, I would like to apologize for what I have done, and what I am about to do"

Confused as to why I was not able to perceive this person, I direct my gaze to understand who this individual is, but the person I see does nothing but confuse me more because the one who spoke looks the way I used to look in my old world

But the thing that scared me of the person below me was that he was holding a gauntlet that contained the gems of infinity

Immediately having understood the gravity of the situation, I tried to do something only to realize that I could not use my powers which led to my falling from the sky

The last thought I had before crashing to the ground was

You've got to be kidding me

April 2, 2009

Ahhhh my head hurts this was my first thought when I opened my eyes

Only to find myself chained to the bed of the bedroom of my house in New York

While I was trying to free myself with my powers, my head starts to hurt more than before, and memories of what I have done came back

It can't be true, I can't have made that horror NONNONONONNONNONOMNONO it's not true, it's not possible

"I know what you're thinking, and yes it was you who did all those things"

A voice I had already heard said, and looking in his direction I had my confirmation that the voice belonged to the person who looked like me and had the gems of infinity

"You are the me of the future, aren't you?"

The me of the future smiles sadly, and approaches my bed, and then sits on a chair next to the bed that was not there until a moment ago

"Yes, I come from a different timeline, and it was I who sent Steve Rogers to talk to you. For sure you will have many questions and you can be sure that I will try to answer them as sincerely as possible"

Desperate for answers, I ask

"Why did you send Steve Rogers to me instead of you? Why didn't you warn me that my powers would make me mad? AND WHY DID YOU NOT STOP ME BEFORE I COULD HARM INNOCENT PEOPLE? "

The future me doesn't seem fazed by my anger and says in a calm voice

"To answer your questions you must first know that our powers are the same as those of Jim Jasper of Earth-238 and that like his powers, ours make us more mad every time we use them"

But it doesn't make sense, it took years for me to go mad. All this time he could have easily stopped me or warned me

"I know what you are thinking, and yes I could have helped or warned you, but I didn't do it for a good reason"

"What reason could be good enough to justify the deaths of innocent people?"

I say indignant at how the me of the future reasons

"The fate of the universe seems good enough to you"

Confused I ask

"What do you mean?"

My future self suddenly becomes serious and said

"So that you can better understand it's if I start telling you everything from the beginning"

"Unlike you, it took me 2 months to be able to find the courage to become a hero and for 13 years I made sure the world was safe, but one thing I was realizing was that my powers were slowly making me mad "

"At first the change was small, but with the passage of time I begin to behave more and more aggressively until one day I used my powers to understand what was happening to me"

"When I discover how my powers were making me mad, I tried in every way to find a solution. I tried with the gems of infinity, I tried everything, but in the end, nothing seemed to work, and I was more and more desperate for a method since at that point I was going crazy even if I didn't use my powers "

"In the end, the only way to prevent me from becoming mad was to deprive myself of my powers."

Shocked by his revelation, I asked

"So how did you manage to send Steve Rogers to the past and block my powers?"

"With the gems of infinity"

"But everything you have told me now does not justify why you did not warn me since you could clearly do it with the gems of infinity"

"You're right, but let me continue and then you'll understand why"

"You see before I could take my powers off, a person I have already mentioned appeared in my dimension, that is Mad Jim Jasper"

"I'm not sure why he came to my dimension, but whatever his reason was, it didn't change the fact that for some reason he wanted to kill me and destroy the universe"

"As you can already imagine he and I collided, and I immediately realized that he and I were even, no one could kill the other, so I did the best thing at that moment and that is to seal him away, but even this solution was only temporary sooner or later, he would come back and in that case, I would not have been able to stop him, because the fight had damaged my sanity too much for this reason, immediately after sealing it, I deprived myself of my powers "

"But one thing is not clear to me, why you didn't take his powers away whith the infinity gems?"

"Because although our powers are similar, his cannot be removed with the gems of infinity"

"As if it had been done on purpose after the fight with Mad Jim Jasper, I found a way to use my powers without going crazy, but for this method to work there is a condition, I have to became completely mad, and only, in that case, the method would have worked "

"Realizing that the only hope was my past self, that is you. To make you go crazy, I tampered with your interdimensional machine so that it took you where the Phoenix was at that moment to make sure you collide"

"What you fought against was only a part of the Phoenix, I certainly couldn't risk you killing the real Phoenix because in that case, the life in the whole multiverse would be over"