"I don't fucking care!"
"Strucker."
"I'm curious, where did you get the illusion that you could use kids to threaten me?"
"Is it just because I care about my family?"
"Of course."
"I care about them."
"But…"
"If you think that just because I care about them, you can use them to threaten me, then you are gravely mistaken."
"I don't fucking care at all!"
"So——"
Hawk's gaze pierced through the satellite spying on him from above, seemingly locking eyes with Strucker on the other side, a playful smile curling at the corners of his mouth: "I want to play a game with you, to see which of us truly doesn't care."
Finished speaking!
Phoenix Beam!
Hawk's eyes burned, and a Phoenix Beam blasted onto Warner's right shoulder, whom he had suspended in the air.
"Boom!"
"Ah!"
"No!"
Amidst Warner's uncontrollable screams of agony, Strucker, at the Hydra Base, watched the screen displaying Warner screaming as his right arm was violently severed by Hawk, and he roared in fury, eyes nearly bursting: "Fuck, fuck!"
Strucker was furious.
Why did he raise his son outside if not so that one day, should Hydra fall and he be exposed, his son could still live well?
But now, his son had been found and was losing an arm right in front of his eyes.
Strucker trembled all over, glaring at the satellite screen before him.
"Fuck, stay away from my son, come at me if you have any issues, let go of my son, and I'll return your child to you."
"Too late."
"What?"
"You heard me."
Hawk's mouth curved upward, his voice calm as Warner's screams filled his ears as music to his ears: "I told you, I don't need your son to make you do anything."
After all, he's not a villain.
As everyone knows.
Only villains use important people as leverage against main characters.
Strucker gritted his teeth.
"Then what do you want to do."
"I told you, I want to play a game with you. I don't care about my three kids in your hands, and you best not care about your son either."
Hawk's mouth curled upward, as the crimson hue in his eyes gathered, preparing to mercifully end the one-armed Warner before him, while holding the phone, he spoke eerily: "Watch carefully, don't blink, because once I finish talking, you'll never see your son again."
Once these words fell!
Phoenix Beam unleashed.
Suspended in the air, screaming Warner exploded like a red light.
Hawk instantly released his right hand, letting the satellite phone fall into the ocean below.
In that instant!
The screams vanished.
The crimson light dissipated, along with Warner who was struck by the Phoenix Beam, disappearing without a trace.
"No——"
"Thunk!"
Even the heart-wrenching screams from Strucker on the satellite phone vanished the moment it fell into the sea.
Hovering midair, Hawk raised his head to take one last look at the spying satellite, then shot a Phoenix Beam, piercing through the clouds and accurately striking the satellite.
"Boom!"
"Zzz!"
"Sir, the satellite has been shot down, do you need to retrieve its…"
The Hydra Agent, seeing the screen turn to snow instantly, instinctively turned his head and swallowed his words.
In sight.
Strucker's eyes were wide, staring fixedly at the screen before him, seemingly in a trance.
But upon closer inspection, his lips were trembling uncontrollably.
Strucker's lips moved as if wanting to speak, but it was as if his throat was clenched, managing only a broken, hoarse sound: "Huh... huh..."
In disbelief, his mind replayed the moment Hawk's Phoenix Beam mercilessly melted his son away.
In just a blink, bloodshed filled his eyes.
His son…
Was dead?
He isn't!
How dare he.
How could he kill his son, didn't he know Strucker also held his three children's lives?
Right.
His three children.
Strucker realized, his nostrils flaring, eyes bleeding red, then, in the most primal, inhuman, piercing rage, he screamed.
"Ah——!!!"
"I want you dead, Hawk Phoenix!!!"
Strucker was furious.
He now held only one thought in his heart.
Staring at the snowy screen, Strucker gritted teeth, eyes blood-red, his voice as if coming from Hell itself.
"Alright!"
"You want to play, fine, I'll play with you!"
"You killed my son."
"Then your three children shouldn't think about living."
"Bring those three children to me."
"I want to kill them!"
"Kill them!"
Strucker, furious to the extreme, turned to his assistant, stamping his feet and roaring in rage.
The assistant, facing Strucker's blood-red eyes that seemed ready to devour, shivered, didn't dare speak, and hurriedly covered the earpiece to instruct the Hydra Agent to capture Jean, Billy, and Tommy.
Just as the Hydra Agents on Wanda's floor heard the orders, they dared not delay and immediately ran towards Wanda's room.
Bang.
Quicksilver and Wanda, who had broken free from an illusion and were in the living room, watched as five murderous Hydra Agents broke through the door and were momentarily stunned.
Quicksilver reacted the fastest…
Bang!
In one instant, Quicksilver had just entered Speed Space; in the next, he fell out of it, convulsing stiffly on the floor.
Wanda's hands had just spread open, and similarly, she looked as though electricity surged through her entire body, instantly stiffening and convulsing on the ground like Pietro.
The leading Hydra Agent glanced at the 'Nanomites Control Device' he had just pressed, nodding to the four agents beside him.
The four Hydra Agents directly bypassed Wanda and Pietro, running upstairs.
With the nanomites inside them activated, both Pietro and Wanda, who were trying to fight back against the electrical current, struggled to look upstairs.
Bang.
The four Hydra Agents directly kicked the door in, with three quickly surrounding the three-year-old Jean.
Boom!
Scarlet light burst from Jean, but it was absorbed by the Vibranium Shield immediately taken out by the Hydra agents.
Next second.
Crash!
After all, Jean, being only three years old, was knocked unconscious instantly.
After the three Hydra Agents subdued Jean, two more set their sights on Billy and Tommy crawling on the carpet.
But just as the two were about to extend their claws towards Billy and Tommy.
An unexpected change occurred.
But…
The change didn't come from Billy and Tommy but from the Rose Gold Pleiades Saint Cloth Necklace in Wanda's pocket downstairs, which she hadn't yet given to Billy and Tommy.
This Pleiades Saint Cloth Necklace was given to Gwen by Hawk.
Gwen then passed this necklace on to Billy and Tommy.
Just like how Thor entrusted his hammer Mjolnir to protect Jane Foster.
The Pleiades Saint Cloth Necklace, promised with Gwen's protection, flared brightly the instant it sensed Billy and Tommy were in danger, transforming as its components shot from Wanda's pocket upstairs.
The Holy Armor pieces pierced through the floorboards and instantly drilled through the heads of the two Hydra Agents from below.
The other Hydra Agent, about to put something around Jean's neck, turned at the sound of the piercing parts and had his throat pierced in an instant.
Simultaneously.
As the Holy Armor activated, the energy from the Little Cosmos also destroyed the nanomites inside Wanda.
The nanomites were instantly eradicated in the face of the explosive Little Cosmos energy.
With the loud noise from the floor and room upstairs, Wanda also became freed.
Without hesitation.
Though women are weak by nature, maternal instincts make them strong.
"Ah!"
This all happened almost in the blink of an eye, just as the Holy Armor's light appeared, before the Hydra Agent controlling Wanda and Pietro with the nanomites downstairs had time to react, Wanda opened her scarlet eyes and stretched her hands towards them.
Scarlet energy, like a Hadouken, blasted into his body.
"Boom!"
The Hydra Agent standing at the door flew backward, crashing into the railing outside, then plummeting downstairs with a thud.
After Wanda dealt with the Hydra Agent, she immediately ran upstairs without looking back.
With the Hydra Agent offline, Pietro, also temporarily recovered, was concerned for his nephew and niece, and at that moment, entered Speed Space.
But in front of a mother like Wanda, he was still a step behind.
However…
Wanda paused as she saw the life-sized Rose Gold Holy Armor in the room.
The next moment.
She heard Billy and Tommy's voices coming from the life-sized, chain-wrapped Holy Armor.
Giggling, they seemed not to find it dangerous but rather fun.
"Billy!"
"Tommy."
Listening to her sons' voices, Wanda snapped back to reality and rushed over.
Pietro, at this moment, also picked up the unconscious Jean beside him.
As for those four Hydra Agents who had just come in?
They were all lying there, dead and gone.
Meanwhile.
Beep!
Beep!
Beep!
The alarm at the Hydra Base was blaring loudly now.
But…
Not because of Wanda and Pietro, but because.
Hawk had arrived!
…