Marvel: I Awake the Little Cosmos-Chapter 547 - 515: The Fearful and Furious Dwarf (Second Update)
Boom!
After a deafening explosion from the laboratory where the Sentinel Robot was located, the vast laboratory sounded like it had exploded with several tons of TNT stored inside.
In an instant.
The earth shook and the mountains trembled.
Deafening sounds filled the air.
Several special soldiers stationed near the Sentinel lab didn’t even have time to change their expressions or turn around before they were instantly incinerated by the blast wave from behind them.
The violent shock wave, as substantial as it seemed, spread outwards in a circular pattern at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Wherever the shock wave passed, the ground cracked inch by inch, spreading like a crazy spiderweb.
The ground was being destroyed.
The surrounding buildings were also not spared, as the shock wave, like a moving invisible wall of death, overturned and tore apart the structures around it. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
The debris of the overturned buildings turned into a storm of destruction, scattering outwards at bullet speed.
The dense metal debris instantly toppled that towering so-called monument!
At this moment, the vast Quantico Military Base, after two years, once again played out a scene of the apocalypse.
The numerous soldiers and Mutants at the entrance of the banquet hall felt the rushing gust of wind while quickly searching for cover, and gazed in shock at the Sentinel lab, where a massive mushroom cloud was forming.
The mushroom cloud mixed with flames and thick smoke.
But within this intense smoke, a massive shadow seemed to appear faintly.
Soon.
In the smoke and dust, the massive silhouette flickering with an eerie blue light moved.
With one step, it appeared outside the smoke and dust, also entering everyone’s line of sight.
It’s it!
Sentinel Robot.
However, unlike the completely black Sentinel Robot seen at first, the one before everyone now was lit up, with a furnace-like glow faintly visible in its chest, much like its now glowing eye sockets, pulsing with a strange deep blue light.
"It’s that robot."
"Has it come to life or been activated?"
"Oh no!"
The Beast among the Mutants with Storm seemed to realize something, looking at the activated Sentinel Robot and then at the now-ruined Sentinel Robot lab, his face suddenly changed: "Charles!"
With these words.
Storm and the other Mutants also came to their senses, looking toward the now-ruined Sentinel Robot lab.
Their expressions became very grim.
Because their leader, Professor X, was still within the Sentinel Robot lab.
But now—
The Sentinel Robot lab had become this heap of ruins; could their Professor X have survived?
"It’s over!"
"..."
Storm and Cyclops, upon hearing the words suddenly spoken beside them, instinctively turned toward the direction of the voice, and then saw Hawk and Wanda, who had at some point already stepped out of the banquet hall.
It was Wanda speaking.
Wanda glanced at the now-ruined Sentinel Robot lab, saw the wheelchair turned into a heap of scrap metal amidst the fierce explosion, withdrew her gaze, and said to Hawk: "I thought their plan was to have this Professor X come over and mediate if they failed, but turns out they even killed this X Professor, who was inclined towards them?"
Hawk also curiously shook his head: "No, their plan was indeed like that."
Professor X cannot die.
At least in the initial plan of the Washington group, Professor X couldn’t die before Hawk.
Because once their Sentinel Robot couldn’t handle Hawk, then in their eyes, the only one who could avert their impending death would be this Professor X.
But now—
Professor X is dead?
And he died so miserably, with no remains, not even ashes to gather.
Wanda frowned.
"Another new problem?"
"That little guy."
Hawk’s heart stirred, thinking of a possible explanation for all this: "The Sentinel Robot was his creation, and for this to happen, the only explanation is that this little guy tampered during its creation."
This is the only logical explanation.
After all, the only wish of little Bolivar Trask was to create the most powerful weapon to annihilate Mutants.
Although Hawk didn’t know where his obsession came from, making him determined to obliterate Mutants.
But Hawk knew full well that little Bolivar Trask surely held a grudge against Washington.
After all, he was genuinely imprisoned by Washington’s people for ten years. If not for Washington needing him again two years ago, he might have been incarcerated until death.
"Wait, what did you say this is?"
The Beast nearby listened to Hawk and Wanda’s conversation in full, and before he had time to mourn his friend Professor X’s death, he heard the keywords in their dialogue, widened his eyes, and looked at them: "Bolivar Trask? Sentinel Robot? That’s impossible, the future for Sentinel Robot was already null."
During the Days of Future Past plot, when Wolverine came to find them, he was with Professor X.
So naturally, he also knew about the events that originally happened in history.
Like the Sentinel Robot.
However, like Professor X, he had only heard of the name of the Sentinel Robot and had never seen the Sentinel Robot.
And now, suddenly hearing this name in a certain context, the terrifying machine that had once annihilated them was now vividly appearing right before his eyes, how could he not feel fear and disbelief.
At this moment, after emerging from the ruins, the Sentinel Robot stood tall on the spot, motionless, as if waiting for something.
Hawk withdrew his gaze from the Sentinel Robot, glanced at the Mutant Beast who exclaimed in surprise, and softly chuckled: "How long has it been since you’ve contacted Mystique?"
Upon hearing this, the Mutant Beast’s expression changed drastically.
His daughter Jean, hearing these words, also had her pupils constrict: "Raven?"
Wanda turned her head to look at Jean: "Don’t worry, although it’s unpleasant now, she’s still alive. With some time to recuperate, she will recover."
Jean looked up at Wanda, and after seeing the look in Wanda’s eyes, couldn’t help but relax.
Wanda’s gaze then fell on the motionless Sentinel Robot.
"It has been activated, but what is it doing now?"
"Waiting for its master to go online."
"Bolivar Trask?"
"Yes."
Hawk responded, then stepped forward with his right foot, ascending into the sky, reaching the same height as the Sentinel Robot and meeting the deep blue glowing eyes of the Sentinel Robot.
Jean looked up at this scene, her expression full of concern.
"Password, Dad he..."
"There was an issue before, but now it’s fine."
"Then... hmm?"
Upon hearing this, Jean subconsciously nodded, then reacted and looked at Wanda.
Wanda smiled slightly, without explanation.
After all, Hawk had planned to die at the hands of the Sentinel Robot, if that were the case, wouldn’t there be a problem.
Unfortunately, with the exposure of the Celestial God Team members, Hawk’s plan changed.
In his words.
The plan has changed, prepare for a fierce attack!
Meanwhile.
A loud engine-like sound suddenly came from within the Sentinel Robot, followed by the Sentinel Robot transforming and trembling all over, and then the deep blue light at the position of its pupils seemed to become brighter and deeper.
In the next second.
An unlike human, machine-like neutral voice suddenly came from within the Sentinel Robot.
"Hawk Phoenix!"
"Little shorty?"
Hawk raised a sharp brow, not surprised to hear this voice and then he replied with a smile at the corner of his mouth: "Or Mr. Bolivar Trask?"
At this moment, somewhere, Bolivar Trask, who was controlling the Sentinel Robot, had a device that looked like a brainwave controller on his head, and through the Sentinel Robot’s vision, he looked at the red battle armor-clad Hawk before him with a deep voice.
"You’re very rude, Mr. Phoenix."
"Am I?"
Hawk smiled slightly: "If I were more polite to you, would you spare me?"
Bolivar Trask chuckled.
"Of course not."
"But don’t mind, Mr. Phoenix, not only you, but every mutant in this world will disappear under my Sentinel Robot."
"I have a question."
"Please speak."
"I know why William Striker hates mutants so much. Because of his beloved wife, because his son was a mutant and died, that’s why he hates them so much. But what about you, what is your reason for hating mutants?"
"Because you are unworthy!"
"Unworthy?"
"Yes, Earth belongs to humans; it shouldn’t belong to mutants, nor can it belong to mutants."
"...I see."
Hawk listened to Bolivar Trask’s words, his expression cleared, and he snorted a laugh: "You hate mutants out of fear and anger."
William Striker hates mutants because of anger.
Some ordinary people hate mutants out of envy and jealousy.
Washington hates mutants because they need to.
As for Bolivar Trask?
He hates them out of fear, for as a top geneticist, he foresees that mutants are not a disease but the next stage of human evolution, foreseeing that mutants will inevitably replace ordinary humans, just as Homo sapiens replaced Neanderthals, hence he fears.
The core of this fear is because he is ordinary, not a mutant.
Simply put, within his own theory, he belongs to the category that is being eliminated, therefore he is both fearful and angry, which is why he hates mutants so much.
In a word.
If Bolivar Trask were also a mutant, he would wholeheartedly support mutants replacing humanity.
But alas, he is not!
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