"I don't fucking care!"
"Strucker."
"I'm curious, where did you get the delusion that you could threaten me with children?"
"Just because I care about my family?"
"Of course."
"I care about them very much."
"But..."
"If you think that because I care about them, you can use them to threaten me, then you are gravely mistaken."
"I don't give a damn!"
"So—"
Hawk Phoenix's gaze pierced through the satellite spying on him overhead, seemingly meeting Strucker's eyes on the other side. The corners of his mouth curved up into an intriguing smile: "I want to play a game with you. Let's see who cares less."
With that!
Phoenix Ray!
Hawk Phoenix's eyes blazed with heat, and a Phoenix Ray blasted Werner's right shoulder, who was restrained in mid-air.
"Bang!"
"Ah!"
"No!"
Accompanied by Werner's uncontrollable screams, Strucker, who was currently in the HYDRA Base, watched the image of Werner screaming as Hawk Phoenix instantly severed his right arm. Strucker's eyes widened in fury as he roared, "Fuck, fuck!"
Strucker was exasperated.
Why did he raise his son outside? Wasn't it so that one day, if HYDRA fell and he was exposed, his son could still live a good life?
But now, his son had still been found, and what's more, right in front of him, he had lost an arm.
Strucker trembled, staring fixedly at the satellite screen in front of him.
"Fuck, stay away from my son. Whatever you want, come at me. Let go of my son, and I'll return your children to you."
"Too late."
"What?"
"You heard me."
Hawk Phoenix's lips curved upwards, listening to the heavenly music of Werner's screams reaching his ears. His tone was remarkably calm: "I told you, I don't need to use your son to make you do anything."
He wasn't a villain, after all.
It was well known.
Only villains would use the protagonist's loved ones to threaten the protagonist.
Strucker clenched his teeth.
"Then what do you want to do?"
"I said, I want to play a game with you. I don't care about my three children in your hands, and you'd best not care about your son either."
Hawk Phoenix's lips curved upwards. As the crimson glow in his eyes intensified, ready to give the one-armed Werner a quick end, he spoke into the phone with a faint, eerie tone: "Watch closely, don't blink, because once I finish speaking, you'll never see your son again."
As the words fell!
The Phoenix Ray erupted.
Werner, still screaming and restrained in mid-air, exploded like a flash of red light.
Hawk Phoenix also directly released his right hand, letting the satellite phone drop into the sea below.
In an instant!
The screams vanished.
The crimson light dissipated, and Werner, directly hit by the Phoenix Ray, also vanished without a trace along with the light.
"No—"
"Thud!"
Even Strucker's heartbreaking cry, which came through the satellite phone, disappeared the moment the satellite phone fell into the sea.
Hawk Phoenix, standing suspended in mid-air, looked up, taking one last glance at the satellite spying on him. Then, a Phoenix Ray shot out, instantly piercing through the clouds and accurately striking the spying satellite.
"Boom!"
"Hiss!"
"Officer, the satellite has been shot down. Do we need to deploy other…"
The HYDRA Agent looked at the large screen that had instantly turned to static, instinctively turned his head, and then instantly swallowed the rest of his words.
Before his eyes.
Strucker's eyes were wide, staring fixedly at the large screen, looking as if he were in a trance.
But if one looked closely, they would see that his lips were trembling uncontrollably at that moment.
Strucker's lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but his throat seemed to be squeezed, only able to squeeze out broken, incoherent sounds: "Hoh… hoh…"
He was incredulous, his mind replaying the image of Hawk Phoenix's Phoenix Ray mercilessly blasting his son, who instantly dissolved.
In just the blink of an eye, countless streaks of blood seeped from the bottom of his eyes.
His son… was dead?
No!
How dare he.
How dare he kill his son? Didn't he know that he also held the lives of his three children in his hands?
That's right.
His three children.
Strucker reacted, his nostrils flaring with rough breaths, his eyes instantly turning red, and then his voice, as if filled with the most primal rage, let out an inhuman, extremely sharp roar.
"Ah—!!!"
"I'll kill you, Hawk Phoenix!!!"
Strucker was enraged.
He had only one thought in his mind now.
Staring at the static-filled screen, Strucker gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, his voice sounding as if it came from hell.
"Good!"
"You want to play, do you? I'll play with you!"
"You killed my son."
"Then your three children won't live either."
"Bring those three children to me."
"I'm going to kill them!"
"Kill them!"
Strucker, furious to the extreme, turned to his assistant behind him, stomping his foot and roaring with rage.
The assistant, meeting Strucker's bloodshot eyes that seemed to want to devour someone, shivered, not daring to speak. He quickly covered his ear-mic and ordered the HYDRA Agents to bring Jean, Billy, and Tommy.
The HYDRA Agents on Wanda's floor, hearing the order, didn't dare to delay. Five HYDRA Agents immediately ran towards Wanda's room.
With a thud.
Quicksilver and Wanda, who had already dispelled the illusion and were in the living room, were stunned at first when they saw the five HYDRA Agents, exuding killing intent, burst through the door.
Quicksilver was the first to react… Thud!
Quicksilver, who had just entered the speed dimension the previous second, and then fell out of it the next second, was now stiff and twitching on the ground.
Wanda, who had just spread her hands, was the same. Her entire body seemed to be coursed through with electricity, and like Pietro, she instantly stiffened and fell to the ground, twitching continuously.
The leading HYDRA Agent looked at the 'Nanobot Control Device' he had just pressed, and nodded to the four Agents beside him.
The four HYDRA Agents bypassed Wanda and Pietro and ran upstairs.
Pietro and Wanda, whose nanobots had been activated and who were now trying to fight back amidst the electric current, looked upstairs with difficulty.
With a thud.
The four HYDRA Agents who directly kicked open the door rushed in. Three HYDRA Agents quickly surrounded three-year-old Jean.
Boom!
Crimson light bloomed from Jean's body, and was immediately absorbed by the Vibranium shields that the three HYDRA Agents pulled out from behind them.
The next second.
Bang!
After all, Jean was only three years old this year, and she was instantly knocked unconscious.
After the three HYDRA Agents controlled Jean, the remaining two HYDRA Agents turned their attention to Billy and Tommy, who were crawling on the carpet.
But just as the two were about to reach out their demonic claws towards Billy and Tommy.
An anomaly occurred.
But… the anomaly didn't come from Billy and Tommy, but from the rose gold andromeda cloth necklace that Wanda, who was downstairs and being tightly controlled by the nanobots' electrical discharge, still had in her pocket and hadn't had time to give to Billy and Tommy.
This andromeda cloth necklace was given to Gwen by Hawk Phoenix.
Gwen then gave this andromeda cloth necklace to Billy and Tommy.
Just like Thunder God Thor entrusted his hammer Mjolnir to protect Jane Foster.
The andromeda cloth necklace, promised by Gwen to protect Billy and Tommy, instantly burst into light the moment it sensed Billy and Tommy were in danger. With a whoosh, the saint cloth disintegrated, transforming into countless parts that whizzed out of Wanda's pocket and flew upstairs.
The saint cloth parts passed through the floorboards, and with a 'poof,' they instantly pierced through the crotches of two HYDRA Agents and out through their heads.
Another HYDRA Agent, who was about to put something around Jean's neck, heard the whooshing sound, and the moment he turned his head to look, a part of the saint cloth had already pierced through his throat.
At the same time.
The moment the saint cloth was activated, the energy from the Little Universe also destroyed the nanobots in Wanda's body.
The nanobots in Wanda's body were instantly incinerated in the face of the erupting Little Universe energy.
Accompanied by four muffled sounds of bodies being pierced from the room upstairs, Wanda was also liberated at this moment.
Without the slightest hesitation.
A woman is inherently weak, but as a mother, she is strong.
"Ah!"
All of this happened in the blink of an eye. The moment the saint cloth's light appeared, before the HYDRA Agent downstairs, who was controlling Wanda and Pietro with nanobots, could react, he saw Wanda's eyes turn crimson as she spread her hands towards him.
Crimson energy, like a波動拳, slammed into him.
"Boom!"
The HYDRA Agent standing at the doorway was sent flying backwards, his back smashing against the railing outside, and then with a thud, he fell directly downstairs.
After dealing with that HYDRA Agent, Wanda ran upstairs without looking back.
Pietro, who had temporarily recovered because the HYDRA Agent had been taken out, was concerned about his nephew and niece. The moment he got up, he entered the speed dimension.
But in front of Wanda, who was a mother, he was still a step too slow.
However… Wanda froze when she saw the life-sized rose gold saint cloth in the room.
The next second.
He heard Billy and Tommy's voices coming from the life-sized saint cloth, which was wrapped in a chain.
They were giggling, seemingly not feeling any danger, but rather finding it very amusing.
"Billy!"
"Tommy."
Wanda heard her two sons' voices, reacted, and rushed over.
Pietro also picked up the unconscious Jean nearby.
As for the four HYDRA Agents who had just entered?
They were all lying there, dead as could be.
At the same time.
Beep!
Beep!
Beep!
The HYDRA Base's alarms were now blaring loudly.
But… not because of Wanda and Pietro, but because.
Hawk Phoenix had arrived!
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