01x13 - The End of Eternity

[bunniefuu]

[theme music playing]

[Drax] Pip, look!

Is that not the most

magnificent celestial object

you've ever seen?

[Pip] Ah, come on, Draxy,
you telling me

the beacon's taken us
a trillion light years

to ooh and ah over an icicle?

No, my little friend.

More likely it's taking us

to that.

[Pip] It can't be.

But it is.

Another universal library.

That means
we're going to know everything.

Look out, Kree

'cause I'm going to use it

to free all the trolls.

Hey, now what's going on?

I know only one way to find out.

[speaking in reverse]

[speaking in reverse]

[Pip speaking in reverse]

[Drax speaking in reverse]

[speaking in reverse continues]

[speaking in reverse ends]

[Eternity] It begins.

Ah, Silver Surfer.

Do you truly expect me
to believe you wish to resume

your duties as my herald?

I do not "wish" to do so

but I will,
if only you let me spend

one brief moment
with Shalla Bal.

Very well, my repentant son...

I shall bestow upon you

the blessing your heart
most desires.

Oh, mighty one,
never can I thank you enough.

You have given me...

[The Watcher] Silver Surfer.

My greatest... dream?

[The Watcher] I beg your pardon,
Silver Surfer.

I did not desire
to disturb your slumber.

Watcher, why do you come to me?

Well, do I know your vow
of non-interference.

And you know I have broken it
in times of great peril.

What is it, Watcher?

Have you found Zenn-La?

Does trouble threaten my home?

It threatens us all.

But just as once were you
the herald of Galactus

so now think of me

as the harbinger
of greater entities.

It is from them

you will receive your answers.

Prepare yourself, Silver Surfer.

You are about to learn
the true nature of the universe.

[Silver Surfer] Those voices...
They ring throughout my being.

What manner of entities
are these?

Who are you
who overwhelm my senses?

Who are too vast
for my mortal eyes to see?

My sister is infinity,
the essence of space.

I am Eternity

made up of all time.

Together we are
the universe personified.

Created by the collective minds
of all the sentient beings

that have ever lived.

[Infinity] Look well at events
now occurring.

[Silver Surfer]
I know that world.

It is called Harmony.

[Infinity] A malignant force

has gained the power

to cause time to turn backward.

Soon the entire cosmos
will be affected.

[Eternity] If this abomination
is not stopped,

all creation will end
even before it began.

No. Gone are the dreamers
of harmony.

Eternity, Infinity,

surely you will not let
the universe come to this end.

We are the Alpha and the Omega

but although we see
all possible outcomes

we do not know which
will inevitably occur.

Nor can we employ
our vast power directly.

To do so would cause
the very catastrophe

we seek to avoid.

For that reason,
we must use a champion

to act in our stead.

[Eternity] A being like yourself

whose existence
in time and space

has already been wrenched
from him

will not be affected
by the reversals that occur.

Time truly grows short.

Be warned, Silver Surfer,

that you too will
inevitably perish

unless you succeed

as the universe's champion.

What would you have me do?

You must use
the power of Galactus

and the soul of Zenn-La

to stop the agent
of our destruction

[voice grows weaker]
before it is too late.

Who is this madman?

The tides of malignant entropy
are controlled

by one you already know.

Thanos.

Chaos, see what Thanos
has wrought.

Mock me now if you dare.

What's that, my lady?

I can't hear your words.

You wouldn't be ignoring me,
would you?

After all, not even a goddess
would dare ignore a man

who possesses
the ultimate weapon.

So young...

So very delicate.

Soon I'll crush the entire
universe between my hands

in the greatest offering Chaos

could have.

[alarm beeping]

The time reversal field...

It is out of power.

Oh, my lady, I am sorry.

I have failed.

I must return to the source

and then once and for all.

I shall prove myself worthy
of your love.

[Silver Surfer] As all knowing
as eternity and infinity may be.

I cannot help
but doubt their belief in me.

I do not feel like
a universal champion

but rather like Norrin Radd,
a man who well knows

his own shortcomings.

If I am to use
the power of Galactus

to save all of creation

then must I go
to its very source

and seek my former master's aid.

Already does the universe
seem smaller

and less filled with energy.

There!

Galactus' energy signal

will lead me directly to him.

[Nova] Silverado!

Oh, man, am I glad to see you.

Nova, why are you here
with the mighty one

instead of questing
for his next energy source?

Truth to tell, I just can't
seem to get away.

Uh-oh.

Here I go again!

Nova? Out of control like this?

Incredible.

Galactus sending his cables down

to feed on a world he...

He has already drained.

Impossible

unless...

Like Harmony, this planet, Nova

and Galactus' ship are moving
through a reversal of time.

Now time is going forward again.

This is not the condition
I saw before.

Surfer!

Galactus,

I come with a purpose

most dire.

Former herald, why are you free

while I, the unconquerable
Galactus

careen uncontrollably
through time?

Are you the one responsible

for the madness in which
I have become ensnared?

Are you the cause

of my burning hunger?

[groans]

[groaning]

[Thanos] Ah, lady.

Look well
at the most dangerous point

in the universe
and a lethal one, even to me.

Do you remember how your perfidy
brought me here?

Abandoned,
I sought to abort my trip

to the far reaches of space,
and in so doing

found myself amid such
fascinating destructive force

that I had to study it.

My experiments confirmed

that this was
an interdimensional nexus...

The source of all energy

everywhere!

Because of the primal nature

the energy here is
inextricably woven with time

making it possible for me
to manipulate the one

by controlling the other.

No applause, Lady Chaos?

No praise for my achievement?

What do I have to do to win you?

What did you say, my lady?

Yes. Yes, you're right.

I cannot continue
my scattershot approach.

I must contain
the entire fountain

and beam it out
to destroy the whole universe

at once!

Galactus, stop!

Nova... my herald.

You dare take the prodigal
one's reacherous side?

[grunts]

Surfer.

[groaning]

Treachery?

The only treachery here
is yours!

The last time you saw the surfer
he saved your life!

He's not your enemy.

When the great hunger
is upon me,

all creatures are enemies

and no one knows better
than you, my Nova

how ravenous I now am.

[speaking in reverse]

[speaking in reverse]

Again does time reverse

and both Nova and great Galactus
are powerless to resist.

[[reverse speaking continues]

The ebb and flow
of past and present here

grows more erratic.

Nova!

You must tell me,
how did this begin?

As Galactus and I
entered this system,

we were struck
by some weird purple beam

and time started going berserk.

Big G's chowed down
on that little morsel

more times that I can count,
but he never gets to feel full.

Because he always
returns to the moment

before he absorbed its energy.

And the big guy isn't exactly
a good sport on the diet front.

The hungrier he gets,
the crazier he acts.

Where is my sustenance?

I hunger!

Oh, man.

I've never been
so scared in my life!

You got to do something!

I came here to ask
for Galactus' help.

Instead, I find that
both of you have been trapped

by the very being I must defeat.

[Nova] Come on, Silverado.

How about some good news?

[yelling]

Aw, big G,

you're not really mad, are you?

[sighs]

All is in readiness.

No entire civilization,

not the science of the Kree

nor the determination
of the Skrull

has ever been able
to match the feat

I am about to accomplish.

By staying here at the core,

we will be immune to the effects
of the time reversal field.

Together, we can appreciate

the truest expression
of my love.

Annihilation
of everything that is.

[Silver Surfer]
The Kirby-Lee quadrant...

Once home to millions of worlds.

Now it is an empty victim
of the reversal of time.

How do I defeat a foe
as ruthless as Thanos?

Where do I even go
to find him? Wait.

What is that?

Not a beam,

but a widespread field!

[Infinity]
You must hurry, Silver Surfer.

Even Eternity has
almost run out of time.

Eternity, Infinity,

I know you dare
not use your power directly

but within you are all times
and all places.

Guide me to Thanos
while you still can!

The reversal of time
indeed has no effect on me

but for the rest of the universe

it is a much more
terrible story.

Shalla Bal!

Shalla Bal.

Zenn-La!

The people of all the worlds
on which I've been.

I cannot fail them.

For the first time since
I became the Silver Surfer

do I fully understand

why the universe needs me.

I will not allow it to die!

Never before have I seen
so much energy.

This must be the force
behind Thanos' field.

If I can destroy it...

[grunts]

No. Not "if."

I shall destroy it!

The end is almost here!

Thanos' ship!

It is from there that he must
be controlling the power.

You seek to stop me,
man of Zenn-La?

Are you so ignorant
that you do not know

you haven't a chance?

[crazy laughter]