WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Defenders #2, available now from Marvel.

Doctor Strange's latest team of Defenders has taken an unexpected journey through time and space, and it landed them in the middle of one of the great disasters of the Sixth Cosmos, the universe that preceded the Marvel Universe. On the planet Taa, the Defenders have come face-to-face with Omnimax, a Devourer of Worlds who preceded Galactus.

This is the same world where Galactus was born, and the Silver Surfer gets the chance to see his future master as a baby in Defenders #2, by Al Ewing, Javier Rodriguez, Jay Bowen, VC's Cory Petit, and VC's Joe Caramagna. And in a moment alone with Galactus, the Silver Surfer gives him a gift that helped save the worlds of the Marvel Universe.

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When Doctor Strange assembled his new team of Defenders, the heroes were thrust through a portal to places then unknown. After coming to on Taa, they were greeted by a woman named Taaia who helped them save bystanders in the wake of the arrival of Omnimax. Once regrouped, Taaia led the Defenders through a wormhole into her own personal pocket dimension containing her lab and home. Within the pristine expanses of her science fortress, an infant Galen sat, completely unaware of his world-eating future.

Once Galen has woken from his nap, Taaia brings the Silver Surfer to meet her son in his techno-cot. Though it is strange to the Surfer that Taaia doesn't pick up her own son, she assures him that his every need is being met while she is protecting him from the devastation outside. Taaia doesn't take long checking up on her child before returning to her heroic duties, but the Surfer can't take his eyes off of the young boy who is destined to become a genocidal force of nature. As he stands over baby Galen, the Silver Surfer wonders if he couldn't do something in that moment to change the course of history, potentially saving billions and billions of lives in the process.

With a hand raised, he releases a brilliant display of lights, one which the Masked Raider takes for a death threat. Surprisingly, the Surfer has no intention of harming the child, but rather he instills in him a sense of the world that is yet to come, with all of its love and hope and beauty front and center in the hopes that they might influence the man Galen will grow into. Even though the impact of this isn't seen immediately, it is absolutely felt over time.

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Despite being a villainous figure in his earliest outings in the Marvel Universe, Galactus has been remorseful over his hunger and the devastating ways in which he had to sustain himself. He even embraced his role as the Lifebringer once he finally got the chance to play the hero. Just as the Surfer had intended, that gift helped prepare and guide Galen through the difficult days he would face despite the child ever realizing what had happened.

Ultimately, this is a prime example of just how much of a hero the Surfer is by always looking for ways to leave a kind, loving impression on those he comes into contact with. And it might just be exactly why fate brought him into this version of the Defenders in the first place.

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