Marvel: The Enlightened One-Chapter 101: [] - Hawk the Thief, Demon Hulk the Brigand
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Below the cliff, a torrential river raged.
As the cliff face crumbled and fell away, the Demon Hulk’s massive body plunged downward, its furious eyes locked on Hawk, who stood at the edge of the precipice.
Hawk, his chest rising and falling as he rapidly recovered his strength, gave the falling behemoth a small, smiling wave.
"Goodbye."
"ROARRRRRRRR!!"
SPLASH!
The enraged Demon Hulk roared one last time before crashing into the river, the powerful current immediately swallowing him whole.
Hawk felt the Demon Hulk’s presence being swept far away by the river. He looked away and let out a sigh of relief.
The Vibranium was the priority. Once he had it, once he had his Armor, there would be plenty of time to settle the score with the Demon Hulk.
The next second, he stood at the edge of the broken cliff and looked up, taking in the full, breathtaking view of the true Wakanda.
A golden luminescence seemed to emanate from everywhere. It wasn’t the light of technology, but the soft, deep glow of raw, exposed Vibranium veins, pulsing with energy where they broke through the earth’s surface.
They were like the planet’s own vascular system, weaving through massive rock faces and deep canyons, a network of power that fed the mountains and rivers, the lush vegetation and the rolling hills.
In the distance stood a city of impossible, futuristic architecture.
And from a magnificent golden plaza in the center of that city, a squadron of equally high-tech fighter jets was rapidly ascending, heading straight for him.
Hawk’s gaze shifted from the approaching jets. He scanned the landscape and quickly located the massive, glowing mountain in the distance.
With his senses fully open, he could see the entrance to the mine.
"Found it."
BOOOOOOM!
A sonic boom ripped through the air as Hawk vanished from the cliff’s edge.
...
"Holy shit."
"He’s gone!"
The Wakandan pilots, who were rapidly closing in, cried out in shock.
The next second, they saw it—a shadow, moving at incredible speed through the jungle below, heading for their Mount Bashenga, the source of all Vibranium, known as "The Great Mound."
"There he is!"
"Shit, he’s going for the Great Mound!"
"We can’t let him get there!"
"Weapons free!"
"Roger that!"
The five pilots banked their Vibranium jets, diving low in pursuit of Hawk. They unleashed a volley of air-to-ground missiles.
The missiles, glowing with a golden energy, screamed toward him.
While running through the jungle, Hawk stopped dead in his tracks. He turned and threw a single punch.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—
A storm of phantom fists erupted, obliterating a path of hundred-year-old trees as it slammed into the incoming missiles.
The missiles detonated in a series of brilliant, blinding flashes that lit up the jungle canopy.
With his work done, Hawk just smiled and continued on his way to the Great Mound.
"Holy shit."
"After him!"
"Copy!"
The pilots, stunned by the sight, were about to give chase when a furious roar, as if from the depths of Hell itself, shook them to their very core.
"HUUUUULLLK!!"
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
The sky suddenly went dark.
The Demon Hulk, now the size of a small mountain, roared as it smashed the peak it had been standing on and leaped into the air. Before two of the pilots could even react, it had slammed into their jets, its massive hands crushing the Vibranium hulls.
The jets themselves might have been indestructible.
But the cockpits weren’t.
With a sharp crack, the reinforced glass shattered, and the pilots’ signals winked out.
Suddenly, the Demon Hulk hurled the two jets like stones.
"Shit!"
"Evasive maneuvers!"
The other pilots scattered, narrowly avoiding the improvised projectiles.
The Demon Hulk landed, shattering the ground, then immediately leaped again, heading toward the city in the distance.
The Demon Hulk had only one thought.
Destroy.
Annihilate.
Hawk, still racing through the jungle, felt the Demon Hulk’s presence heading in the opposite direction and smiled faintly.
Perfect.
You go play for a while. Once I get my Vibranium and forge my Armor, I’ll come find you.
Hawk thought to himself.
But for Wakanda, the situation was dire.
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"Dammit!"
"Father, the one called Hawk is heading for Mount Bashenga, and the black Hulk is heading for the River Tribe!"
In the royal command center, Princess Shuri looked at the holographic display—at Hawk speeding toward the Great Mound, and at the Demon Hulk rampaging toward their city—and she was completely overwhelmed.
On one side, a powerful thief.
On the other, a brute of unimaginable strength.
What were they supposed to do?
"We can’t let that black Hulk near our city," King T’Chaka said, his voice grim. "Mobilize the War Dogs immediately. Go to full alert. We cannot allow him to destroy our city."
As he spoke, he walked toward the fighter platform outside the command center. "I will go to Mount Bashenga myself."
Outside, the King’s personal warship, a unique and devastatingly powerful vessel with stealth capabilities, decloaked and began its launch sequence.
T’Chaka climbed inside. The jet took off vertically, then shot toward the Great Mound.
At the same time, all of Wakanda went to full combat alert.
The Dora Milaje, the all-female royal guard, swarmed from all directions, forming an impenetrable cordon around the command center.
General Akeya, clad in her red, Vibranium-inlaid armor, stood guard at the entrance, her face like a stoic sculpture.
The Royal Guard, responsible for the security of the capital, was fully mobilized.
Royal cruisers lifted into the sky.
Vibranium tanks rolled out of their depots, their treads thundering across the roads.
Vibranium jets soared through the air, their wings unleashing a barrage of missiles.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
An air-to-ground missile slammed into the Demon Hulk’s skin and exploded.
The Demon Hulk swatted another missile out of the air and roared in fury at a jet that was banking away.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
The Vibranium tanks that had just arrived opened fire, their cannons recoiling as dozens of shells slammed into the Demon Hulk’s body.
The Demon Hulk staggered backward and fell into the raging river once more.
The next second, the memory of being drowned in Culver Lake surged through the Hulk’s mind.
The memory only fueled its rage. It leaped from the water, back onto the shore, and brought its house-sized fists down on the Vibranium tanks below.
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Hawk, nearing the edge of the jungle, didn’t hesitate any longer. He took a deep breath and launched himself into the air, soaring toward the sky. From above, he could see the Demon Hulk locked in an all-out battle with the Wakandan army.
He only glanced at it for a second, then turned away. A sonic boom echoed behind him as his foot touched down on the platform of Mount Bashenga.
Just as he was about to walk toward the mine entrance...
Hawk suddenly spun around. He pulled back his right fist, and the air itself seemed to crackle as he threw a punch.
An invisible figure, the Black Panther, who had been about to ambush him from behind, was sent flying, his stealth technology flickering and failing.
T’Chaka, now visible in his Black Panther suit, landed and immediately fired an energy blast from his Vibranium spear.
Hawk just smirked. He swayed to the side, dodging the blast, and appeared before T’Chaka in an instant.
No more words. Let the fists do the talking.
One punch.
BOOM!
CLANG!
Hawk’s powerful and heavy blow slammed into T’Chaka’s Vibranium spear, which he had raised to block at the last possible second. The sheer force of the impact drove T’Chaka to one knee.
Then, Hawk’s right leg whipped out, another impossibly powerful blow that sent T’Chaka flying off the platform.
Hawk didn’t pursue.
The mission came first. The Vibranium.
He turned and, in the blink of an eye, was inside the mine.
Just as he had at Quantico, to prevent any interruptions, he stood just inside the entrance and unleashed a flurry of punches.
With a deafening roar, the entrance to the mine began to collapse, and in a matter of seconds, it was completely sealed by tons of rock.
Hawk then turned and descended into the darkness.
The deeper he went, the brighter the golden glow became.
Until, finally, he reached the bottom. And there it was.
The motherlode.
The Great Vibranium Mound.
Hawk stared at the pure, glowing veins of Vibranium embedded in the rock walls, and a look of pure joy spread across his face.
Lightning Sonic Fist—
BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!
Snapping out of his awe, Hawk became a one-man mining crew, his arms a blur of motion as he unleashed a storm of punches against the walls of the mine.
In that instant, dust filled the cavern and the mountain itself began to tremble.
Hawk had only one thought.
Mine!
Forge the Armor!!
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