Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

He is here!
Hawke spoke calmly, his gaze rising to the sky above Wall Street.

Upon hearing this, Wanda instinctively looked up.

into the eye.

The sky was azure.

Cloudless.

Wanda frowned slightly.

"where?"

"That!"

Hawke stared intently at a corner of the sky: "You can't sense him because he's become stronger."

Upon hearing this, Wanda glanced at Hawke standing to the side.

"That member of the Celestials?"

"Do not."

Hawke shook his head and said a name.

"Icarus!"

"Ika...who is this?"

"Eternal Race".

Hawke said this, then glanced at Wanda: "Do you remember when Peter went missing?"

“I remember, I remember you found them on what's called Skull Island.” Wanda nodded, speaking subconsciously, then recalled, “The ones who fought you on the island and then disappeared, said to be creatures created by the Celestials to protect the new Celestials so they could be born smoothly?”

Hawke smiled and nodded, looking once more at the sky above Wall Street, watching the approaching, increasingly familiar aura: "That's right, it's him, Icarus, he's here."

The words had barely left his lips!

boom!
The Earth's atmosphere was instantly breached, and after a deafening sonic boom cloud enveloped most of New York City, a familiar figure appeared in Hawke's sight.

It's him.

it's him.

Icarus, a member of the Eternals created by the Celestials!
He was dressed the same way Hawke was when he first met Icarus.

He was still wearing his sky-blue battle suit with gold trim.

His face was stern and he rarely smiled.

At this moment, Icarus, who had broken through the atmosphere and arrived above this Earth, was quietly suspended thousands of miles in the sky, looking down at Hawke, who was standing on a tall building that was still intact but was also emitting thick smoke.

Eyes facing each other.

Hawke saw an undisguised fighting spirit in Icarus's eyes.

Skillful.

So does he.

Hawke withdrew his gaze, glanced at Wanda beside him, and said calmly, "I'm leaving."

Wanda nodded gently, her tone calm: "I'll wait for you."

Hawke smiled.

"it is good!"

"Oh!"

As Hawke responded, he looked up and transformed into a streak of red light, soaring straight up to the sky thousands of miles above, where he met Icarus, who was a hundred meters away.

"Long time no see. I thought you were destroyed as a defective product."

"The Celestials only seek to eliminate heretics, and I have never been one."

"I admit that."

Hawke smiled slightly: "You just have no heart. Between your master's mission and the camaraderie among your comrades, you chose the former."

Well known.

After the members of the Eternals came to Earth, they gradually came to accept Earth as they interacted with the humans and no longer wanted to destroy it.

This is normal.

After all, the celestial being conceived within the Earth did not want its birth to lead to its own destruction, so it did not resist Hawke's demands at the time.

but……

Icarus was an exception.

In a word.

He is the most loyal dog of the Celestials!

“There is no affection between us. We were created to serve the Celestials, we were, we are, and we will be.”

"So you were ordered to kill me?"

"Yes."

"Just you?"

Hawke looked at Icarus with a mocking expression: "If I remember correctly, if you hadn't run away back then, you would probably have died on Skull Island long ago."

As Icarus listened to Hawke recount their first battle, a hint of gloom flashed across his usually stern expression.

"Then was then, and the present is now."

"Now that you've been modified by the Celestials, you think you can beat me?"

"It's not that I can beat you."

Icarus gave a cruel smile as he stared at Hawk: "I'm not going to kill you, Hawk Phoenix, you heretic who has broken away from eternity, the gods, and the control of time. You must die."

Hawke smiled broadly upon hearing this.

"Alright, then come on, you better not even think about running away this time."

"die!"

Without a word, Icarus braked immediately.

Hawke also activated instantly. Boom!
The thin air was violently torn apart, and the blue-gold meteor formed by Icarus's high speed collided head-on with the crimson comet formed by Hawke in an instant, thousands of miles above the sky.

With a deafening roar, the blasted ring of air instantly created a massive vacuum crater several kilometers in diameter in the sea of ​​clouds below.

Icarus's eyes burst forth with scorching flames, relentlessly bombarding Hawke who was charging towards him.

Hawke remained expressionless, neither dodging nor avoiding, and directly charged into Icarus's heat vision, throwing a punch.

No sonic boom!

At this moment, sound could no longer keep up with the rhythm of their battle.

Boom!
Hawke's fist slammed heavily into Icarus's chest, the latter's blue and gold battle suit made a sound like shattering glass, and then he was sent flying like a cannonball, piercing through three floating rain cloud mountains.

The cumulonimbus clouds, which were poised to unleash a torrential downpour, were dispersed before they even had a chance to make a sound.

But Icarus was not broken by that punch.

Icarus quickly regained his balance and braked in mid-air, his eyes flashing with golden light.

Instead of retreating, he advanced, just like Hawke, choosing to charge back with even more savage speed, his fist leaving a long trajectory as it slammed into Hawke.

Hawke's pupils contracted rapidly at that moment.

"The same trick is ineffective against Saint Seiya."

"Icarus!"

Didn't I tell you?

As Hawke spoke, he caught Icarus's attack trajectory, sidestepped the punch that was powerful enough to shatter a mountain, and at the same time, his elbow slammed heavily into Icarus's back like a collapsing galaxy.

boom!
The shock wave, visible to the naked eye, spreads in a spherical shape.

Icarus bent his spine slightly, and with a muffled thud, he spun around, turning his fist into a palm and a hand blade, aiming directly at Hawke's neck.

Hawke raised his arm to catch the ball.

Click!

The sound of bones shattering rang out, but Hawke's other hand had already transformed into a blade and struck Icarus's jaw.

Golden blood splattered out instantly.

But that's not enough.

The moment Hawke struck Icarus's jaw, causing the latter's chin to tilt upwards, he instantly positioned himself behind Icarus. In a mid-air relay, with a twist of his waist, his powerful elbow, strong enough to shatter a planet, slammed into Icarus's back once more.

Icarus transformed completely into a streak of light, whistling through the air as it passed, before finally plummeting to the ground like a fiery meteor.

The Sentinel robot, which was trembling with the mutants on the ground, seemed to sense something and subconsciously looked up.

Wanda realized what was happening and, with a thought, stretched out her right hand. The spark portal formed by the crimson magic appeared beside Jean, and she grabbed Jean and pulled her to her side.

next second.

Bang!
Almost the instant the Sentinel robot looked up and quickly analyzed its countermeasures, Icarus, transforming into a fiery meteor, pierced through the chest of the Sentinel robot, which had just been fighting with the mutants like Qin, like a cannonball, and then slammed into the ground of Wall Street with undiminished momentum.

The first thing to happen was not a loud bang, but a shockwave that could be seen with the naked eye was generated in an instant, spreading out in a ring in all directions.

The next moment brought a deafening roar.

The entire island of Manhattan trembled violently from the deafening roar.

"Varied……"

"Thank you so much!"

"boom!"

"careful!"

Jean was spared the shockwave thanks to Wanda's temporary intervention, but other mutants were not so lucky.

Almost the instant Qin was taken away by Wanda, she was caught in the shockwave and instantly thrown away one by one.

Qin, the daughter, stood beside Wanda, her eyes wide with disbelief as she stared at the visible shockwave before her.

Wanda's gaze fell on a bottomless crater at the center of the shockwave.

At this moment, water is seeping out of the deep pit continuously.

Yes.

Hawke's attack treated Icarus like a burrowing robot, completely breaching Manhattan Island.

next moment.

boom!
Hawke followed closely behind, falling from thousands of miles above and hovering above the deep pit.

He first glanced at the Sentinel robot, which was stumbling and trying to save itself because its chest had been pierced, then looked down at his left arm, which had just been destroyed by Icarus's punch, before finally fixing his gaze on the seeping pit.

Bang!
A burst of blue-gold light flashed, breaking through the gushing spring, and then Icarus reappeared before Hawke's eyes.

However, compared to Hawk, who only lost his left arm, Icarus looked much more disheveled.

A third of his jaw had been cut off, and golden blood was oozing out. His blue-gold battle suit was now in tatters, and its light had dimmed considerably.

But under Hawke's watchful eye, Icarus's jaw was healing at a visible speed, and in just a few breaths, Icarus seemed to have returned to normal.

same.

The golden light on his blue and gold battle suit had become even less noticeable.

Hawke laughed at the sight, then looked down at his own crippled left arm. Under Icarus's expressionless gaze, he moved his left arm slightly.

With a series of clicking sounds, Hawke's left arm was also fully restored in just a few breaths.

Eyes facing each other.

Hawke smiled.

"Round One Ended."

"Round two begins?"

"I agree!"

Icarus remained expressionless, uttered a single sentence, and then charged at Hawke once more.

Hawke is the same!

boom!
...(End of chapter)