Akali Lake Dam Base.
A building also famous in the Mutant Cosmos.
Wolverine was born in this base.
It's well known.
Akali Lake Dam Base is not within the territory of the Federation but is located in Canada, adjacent to the Federation.
From afar.
Akali Lake Dam Base looks like a giant beast forged from concrete and steel lying across the river, taming the rushing water into a lake that appears to show an emerald green surface.
The wind of the night blows over the rusted guardrails of the dam base, emitting a low, wailing sound, resembling the cries of countless lost souls gathered together.
In fact, due to its notorious reputation in the Mutant Cosmos, the Akali Lake Dam Base.
This dam base is where countless mutants were dissected and eventually killed during experiments conducted by scientists serving the Sentinel Special Service Bureau.
At this moment, the dam base is brightly illuminated under the night sky.
The Sentinel agents stationed here operate like machines, patrolling and guarding either on top of the dam or in the open area at the dam's entrance according to their predetermined routes.
With a thud.
Hawk, having returned from Washington to New York City, landed steadily on the dam base's helipad with Wanda.
In the next second.
Two Sentinel agents, who had just completed their patrol of the helipad and turned to return to the base, listened to the commotion behind them, turned to see Hawk in a crimson tight battle armor and Wanda in a deep red jumpsuit with black trousers and black boots, first startled, then began shouting angrily while pointing guns at Hawk and Wanda.
"Helipad in area C, there's..."
"Bang!"
"Splat!"
"..."
Wanda opened her mouth slightly, staring in disbelief at the two Sentinel agents who had turned into two mists of blood, and couldn't help but glance at Hawk.
Hawk shrugged.
He didn't particularly like this excessively cruel and brutal attack style either.
But...
His extraordinary energy couldn't be projected over for the time being, and without it, his celestial god-like body, comparable to a star, was the best weapon.
So it wasn't his fault.
Blame it on this cosmos, for who knows if it's too low-end or a trap, impeding his extraordinary energy's projection.
Hawk had no answers for now.
All things considered, he and Wanda, from the moment they landed in this cosmos, up to now, were still in the first night's deep hours, not yet into the second day.
As Hawk and Wanda communicated silently through their eyes.
Beep!
Beep!
Beep!
"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"
The dam base's alarm wailed piercingly, and angry shouts echoed around the outer perimeter of the dam base, spotlights above the dam shone instantly upon Hawk and Wanda.
"I thought you settled it in Washington."
"I did settle it."
"Then these people? Didn't the Washington elites inform people here that you were coming?"
"Heh, that white-haired old man was smart."
"How so?"
"Because if there were no one here, I would have gone berserk."
Hawk spoke and, upon finishing the sentence, his figure floated into the air, suspended for a moment, transforming into a crimson stream of light.
Boom!
A Sentinel guard who had just emerged, clutching his weapon, saw a crimson stream of light flash before him, followed immediately by a sting in his body, and then transformed into a mist of blood.
"Holy shit!"
"Mutant, damn it, it's a mutant!"
"Switch to X bullets."
"Quick!"
"Fuck, where did he go..."
"Splat!"
Spotlights above the dam twisted wildly, trying to lock onto Hawk, who left a wake of bloody mists with every move among the Sentinels.
Unfortunately.
The speed of the spotlight's rotation couldn't keep up with Hawk's movement speed; whenever it illuminated Hawk's location, he had already left, leaving only the horrifying scene of blood mists in place, captured with terrifying clarity.
In the next second.
Hawk ascended, combat-ready, within to the command tower above the dam base, then in front of the terrified gaze of dozens of Sentinels inside, his figure halted momentarily, then crashed into the four stone pillars supporting the command tower with a boom.
With the pillars whining and collapsing, the command tower likewise fell heavily toward the dam, crashed upon it, exploded upon impact, flames rolling, and the shrill screams echoed through the night sky.
As Hawk ascended, Wanda below the dam wasn't idle.
The Crimson Chaos was surging within her palms.
One by one, Sentinels, terrified by Hawk's bloody mist execution style and trying to flee, were cleared out by Wanda.
After witnessing the crazy massacre of Sentinels in the Mutant Underground Community and the scene at the X Academy where Sentinel agents tried to surround and kill her and Hawk, Wanda had long since lost her last bit of goodwill toward the humans of this world.
After all, this Earth wasn't the same as her Earth, originally lacking a strong sense of belonging, especially after encountering so many things on the very first day.
The most important point.
Hawk's daughter is inside this dam base, inside this bloody and terrifying prison used by the Sentinels to detain, experiment on, and research mutants.
So—
At this moment, Wanda is no longer the Wanda from West View Town who takes care of the child.
But the Scarlet Witch Wanda!
Boom!
Wanda's hands, entwined with Crimson Chaos Power, suddenly press down. In an instant, dozens of Sentinel agents suspended in mid-air plummet to the ground as if Mount Tai were crushing them, then are conveniently flattened into card states by the Crimson Chaos Power.
Very soon.
As Hawk returns from above the dam base to below the dam, Wanda, having finished the fight, raises her crimson eyes filled with Crimson Chaos aura to look at Hawk.
Four eyes meet.
"No mercy?"
"They aren't worthy of our mercy."
Wanda's aura surges, and the crimson color in her eyes gradually fades.
Hawk listens to Wanda's words, smiles slightly, and then his gaze falls on the entrance disguised as an abandoned flood tunnel leading directly to the secret base below the dam.
Crash!
Under Hawk's Celestial God-like body, the rust-covered gate is fragile like tofu and instantly disintegrates into powder, shooting into the passage.
The next second.
A pervasive smell of disinfectant, mixed with rust and some instinctively repulsive rotten stench, rushes out from the depths of the passage toward Hawk and Wanda's noses as the gate is blasted open.
Hawk captures a certain scent among the countless mixed smells and raises an eyebrow.
Wanda, next to him, instinctively wrinkles her nose, and suddenly brightens her eyes.
"Jean!"
Wanda, feeling the infinitely familiar aura in the scent, one that doesn't even require thought to feel familiar, quickly looks at Hawk: "Hawk, it's the scent of our daughter, our daughter is here."
Hawk nods.
He also senses the presence of their daughter Jean.
But this aura seems to be transmitted from deeper within, carried by the air.
"Let's go."
"Alright."
Hawk steps into the passage first.
Wanda follows closely, and then they see Sentinel agents holding weapons appearing in their sight at the end of the passage.
Meanwhile.
At the end of the passage, accompanied by dazzling red light, a thick iron door slowly closes with a metal scraping shriek that could pierce one's eardrums.
Tud tud tud!
Duang Duang Duang!
The Sentinel agents, with full firepower, try to stop Hawk and Wanda from entering before the iron door completely closes.
And they succeed.
With a crash.
A gigantic metal door, claiming to withstand the impact of a nuclear explosion, completely seals the end of the passage.
But the moment the metal door closes, and the relieved Sentinel agents rise and prepare to cheer, a muffled crash abruptly rings out.
The next second.
The Sentinel agents instinctively look toward the sealed door and see the metal door, which claimed to withstand a nuclear explosion, has become a flying metal door, and with a splash, it sticks to them, instantly crushing them into pulp while still carrying momentum, flying backward, covering more Sentinel agents, and then thudding to the ground.
Some Sentinel agents fallen onto the ground watch the pressing metal door with wide eyes, instinctively reaching to stop it, only to be crushed into pulp with a squelch.
Hawk enters from the outside with Wanda, glances around, and then his gaze falls on the metal door beneath his feet.
Blood seeps from the edges of the metal door.
Cold white light descends from the ceiling, illuminating rows of cells embedded in the rock walls.
They resemble upright sarcophagi, but are transparent.
The mutants imprisoned within the sarcophagi are clearly visible.
Wanda instinctively looks at the mutants embedded in the sarcophagi on the rock walls of the cave.
Similarly.
Mutants kept in the sarcophagi, only provided with the most basic food supply, their gazes once numb, now kindle with hope for survival at Hawk and Wanda's arrival, each pressing their hands against the transparent sarcophagi, silent, yet using their infinitely yearning eyes to gaze at Hawk and Wanda, who appear as Demon Gods to the Sentinel agents but as saviors to them.
Wanda's gaze sweeps over the mutants looking at her with wide eyes, full of endless yearning and meeting her gaze.
Hawk also follows Wanda's gaze, sweeping over these transparent sarcophagi embedded in the rock walls.
The next second.
He twitches his ears, looking deeper into the cave.
Wanda seemingly senses something too, raising her brows while following Hawk's gaze deeper into the cave.
In sight!
Several mutants are running for their lives.
And their daughter.
Jean!
She is among them!!
...