One Phoenix Ray strike and Stark wouldn't even leave ash behind.
One Phoenix Wings Soaring strike and, let alone Stark, even the current Avengers—aside from Thor—would likely be wiped out.
Wait.
Captain America Steve Rogers would also have a fifty percent chance of survival.
As everyone knows.
Captain America is a fifty-fifty.
In short.
It's only a question of whether he is willing to kill, not whether he is able to kill.
Pietro's words continued.
"I will stop at nothing, even my life, to become stronger."
"My sister is the same, and it's not just my sister who underwent this experiment; there were more than a dozen other women."
"...Wait!"
Hawk reacted, his brow twitching erratically, and he looked at Pietro.
"How many, you said how many?"
"More than a dozen."
"Hiss!"
Hawk gasped.
"You mean, I still have..."
"No, you don't."
Pietro seemed to know what Hawk wanted to say and shook his head, "Only my sister succeeded; the other experimental subjects didn't even show signs of pregnancy."
Hawk instinctively breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
Fortunately, it didn't work out.
If HYDRA had really concocted a whole soccer team using his blood, putting aside whether he'd explode, Gwen would definitely explode.
Who told him to sell his blood back then?
However... Hawk's thoughts spun as he looked at Pietro, "Only your sister succeeded?"
Pietro nodded, "Yes, but I don't understand what Stryker said. In short, he said that the bloodline of a strong person can only be nurtured by an equally strong woman."
Hawk's mouth twitched.
"You seem to trust Stryker a lot."
"He helped my sister and me when we were in the most difficult times. You wouldn't understand; I'm sure you haven't experienced..."
"My sister died."
"Gah!"
Pietro opened his mouth, looked at Hawk, who had calmly interrupted him, and swallowed the words he was about to say, "Sorry, I didn't know."
Hawk's expression was calm, "No need. I've already snatched my sister's soul back from hell."
Pietro's expression froze again, listening to Hawk's words and looking at his expression. For a moment, he couldn't tell if Hawk was serious or joking.
But one thing he was sure of.
Pietro came back to his senses and looked at Jean, who was in Hawk's arms, "I must take Jean back, otherwise Stryker won't let my sister, Billy, and Tommy go."
Hawk snorted with a laugh.
The next second.
He seemed to hear two familiar names, looked at Pietro, and frowned slightly. Although he already had an answer in his heart, he still asked for confirmation.
"Who are Billy and Tommy?"
"Jean's twin brothers. Oh, and they're also your bloodline."
"...Hiss!"
One daughter grown, two sons young.
Isn't this Gwen's dream?
What the hell.
Gwen's dream, fulfilled by Gwen?
Hawk's thoughts swirled, his brows tightly furrowed as he looked at Pietro.
Pietro looked at Hawk and explained the whole story.
"Wanda and I voluntarily participated in Stryker's superpower experiment."
"But Stryker took an interest in Wanda and hoped she would participate in the artificial gamete gestation program with other experimental women. If Wanda agreed, in return, I would receive priority in a safely guaranteed superpower awakening program."
"Wanda agreed."
"There were twenty-five women who participated in the experiment, but only Wanda had a reaction."
"Ten months later, Jean was born."
"At first, Jean seemed no different from a normal baby, but the anomaly occurred when a woman in a tight suit tried to snatch Jean from my sister's hands."
"Jean seemed to have awakened some powerful ability."
"In Stryker's words, she seemed to have inherited your power."
"So Stryker hoped my sister would do it again."
"But we volunteered for the experiment, and my sister also awakened magic during Jean's birth, so my sister refused."
"However, Stryker offered a condition we couldn't refuse."
"He could help us lure Tony Stark here so we could take revenge with our own hands."
"So..."
"My sister agreed."
"Last May, she gave birth to a pair of twins."
"Billy and Tommy."
"But Billy and Tommy don't seem to have shown any differences."
Hawk's expression remained unchanged as he listened to Pietro's narration.
But deep down... he knew exactly why Billy and Tommy didn't possess his abilities like Jean.
The reason was simple.
Because after returning from London, Hawk proposed to Gwen, and one of the vows in the proposal went like this:
"Everything I have will belong only to you."
"I share everything I have with you without reservation."
"Past."
"Present."
"Future!"
"And our bloodline descendants will also inherit everything we possess."
This is how Hawk proposed.
It sounded very simple and unpretentious.
And he did it.
As everyone knows.
Every time a god speaks solemnly, it's not called speaking; it's called an oracle.
Hawk possesses the Phoenix divine authority.
Therefore, his marriage proposal promise to Gwen was not an empty check; at least, his Phoenix Universe didn't see it that way.
Simply put.
Only the descendants he and Gwen conceived would have this qualification, and only the descendants he and Gwen conceived could inherit his surname, power, and energy.
Therefore... it was perfectly normal that Billy and Tommy, as mentioned by Pietro, did not inherit his energy.
If they had inherited it, then something would be amiss.
But Jean was different.
When Jean was born, he hadn't proposed to Gwen yet. So, from a certain perspective, Jean, who was now three and a half years old with smooth red hair in his arms, could be considered to have exploited a bug.
Hawk thought to himself, glanced at Jean, who was clutching his clothes with a small hand, then looked at Pietro.
"Where is Stryker?"
"I don't know."
"Heh."
Hawk chuckled at Pietro's answer.
"You don't know?"
"I really don't know."
Pietro shook his head and took a satellite phone from his pocket, "When I woke up, I was in Paris. Then Stryker called and told me I had to get Jean back, otherwise, he would kill Billy and Tommy, and even my sister."
Hawk's gaze fell on the satellite phone in Pietro's hand.
"And then?"
"Go back to Paris, he said he would know, and he would tell us how to get back."
"Paris..."
Hawk chuckled lightly, "Go back to Paris, and you ran to Texas?"
Pietro shrugged, "You were chasing me, so I definitely wouldn't dare run to Paris. What if Stryker killed my sister?"
Hawk glanced at Pietro upon hearing this.
"You know what Stryker is up to, right?"
"I know now."
Pietro met Hawk's gaze, "Stryker plans to use Jean, Billy, and Tommy to blackmail you."
Hawk nodded.
"Yes, since you know that, do you think you can still take Jean back?"
"Yes."
"...Reason."
"If you keep Jean, my sister, Billy, and Tommy will be in danger. I must take Jean back."
"That's your reason, not mine."
"It's yours too."
Pietro took a deep breath and looked at Hawk, "If you keep Jean, it means you care about Jean. Since you care about blood ties, then Billy and Tommy, who are still with Stryker, will be in even greater danger. Therefore, you must let Jean go back with me."
Hawk listened to Pietro's reason, looked at the nervous Pietro, and smiled.
"You're not like I remember."
"...You've seen me?"
"Sort of."
Hawk said.
Marvel's Quicksilver appeared and immediately bit the dust, with few lines and a very perfunctory death.
Can you believe that a man faster than the speed of sound could be hit by a bullet and lose his life?
So there are very few scenes of Marvel's Quicksilver, but many of the X-Men version of Quicksilver.
But he was too flashy.
Hawk didn't like him much, but the current one, who was more in line with the Marvel version of Quicksilver, was more to his liking.
So... Hawk smiled slightly.
"I have a better idea."
"What?"
Pietro looked at Hawk's smiling expression and frowned, "You plan to follow behind me? No, if Stryker finds out..."
Hawk shook his head.
"No, I don't plan to follow behind you, because you can't go back either."
"Wh..."
"Bang!"
Pietro's expression subconsciously changed, but before he could even react, he instantly rolled his eyes and fell dramatically to the ground.
Hawk chuckled, holding Jean with one hand and lifting the unconscious Pietro with the other. The moment he looked up, he had already risen tens of thousands of feet into the sky. Then, with a boom, his speed transformed into a rainbow light, and he rapidly swept towards New York City.
What a joke.
If he let Pietro and Jean go back, that would truly mean he cared.
The most important point.
The ancestors have said, "When you arrive, make yourself at home."
Since they're already here, how could they possibly leave?
If Stryker had the guts, he'd kill Wanda. Then, when Wanda's soul went to the underworld, he wouldn't even need to search; he could directly pinpoint Stryker.
At that time... hehe.
You just wait for me, Stryker!
New York S.H.I.E.L.D.
When Sharon brought Gwen back to the office from the lobby, she saw that Hawk had already brought the red-haired little girl back, and there was a bearded man in a silver uniform lying on the ground.
"Is this the one who just invaded?"
"Yes, Pietro, code-named Quicksilver."
Hawk nodded.
Sharon took a few more glances at Pietro, then looked back at Hawk.
But just as she was about to speak, Iron Man Tony Stark's voice sounded in her earpiece.
Sharon looked up at Hawk upon hearing this.
"Tony and them found something."
"..."
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