And there he is. Norman Osborn. King of the world. That's so funny to me... because to us it doesn't look like you're in charge of anything at all.

All the pieces are coming together. All the things we've built will son be crumbling down. Because they're out there... Waiting. The Ivory Kings. TheBeyonders... And how can we defeat them?We cogs in their well-oiled apocalypse machine? For it takes a God to kill a God.

We had to killme. Lots and lots of me's. At first, it was a cost I was willing to pay...and we built a religion ofBlack Swans around that idea. With each me that was killed, I lost a bit of what made me...me. It's a cost I was willing to pay...but the madness wasn't worth it. We weren't going to prevent the early death of theMultiverse. TheBeyonders hadbuilt me too well...so we got tricky. And that's whenStephen joined us--right before the end. While the Swans were busy killing me's...you and I were busy building something else. A better bomb. A better me. We couldn't stop the Beyonders from destroying everything, but we could draw them out...destroy them...steal their power...and store it someplace safe. Where it could be used topreserve some of what had been lost.

Ilike stuff. I like making it and having it. I likealliteration too."Molecule Man"! I mean, technically I worked withatoms, but..."Atom Man"? Ugh. Nozing. Nopizzazz. Evenatoms seem big and clunky to me now. I should be...Proton Man. Or Quark Man. Superstring Man.Information Man.Editing andordering the base information ofreality. Owen Reece, theNarrative Man. Heh.

We couldn't stop theBeyonders from destroyingeverything, but we could draw them out...destroy them...steal their power...and store it someplace safe. Where it could be used to preserve some of what had been lost.

This is the Library of Worlds. A conduit between universes built by theBeyonders when they still believed "life" to be a valuable experiment.

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