Hawk Who Finishes Robbing and Flees

How many seconds does it take for a building to collapse at most?

The answer varies.

But here, at the Quantico military base, the Gamma Lab Building, already damaged by Bruce Banner's Gamma Ray Explosion, could no longer hold on and began to collapse after a massive explosion suddenly erupted from underground.

In less than five seconds, the three-story Gamma Lab Building was reduced to rubble.

Dust and smoke billowed out, clanging against the surrounding sheet metal.

The sheet metal roared with the impact.

The soldiers of the Emergency Response Team, who were just about to charge in and kill the intruder, quickly retreated. After watching the lab building turn into ruins in the blink of an eye, they fell silent for a moment before swallowing in unison.

There was no other reason.

If they had gone in a few seconds earlier, they would have been buried with the Gamma Lab Building.

But after their shock and relief, the team members' gazes all fell upon their captain.

"Number 1, what now?"

"...How the hell should I know?"

After a moment of silence, the emergency captain said speechlessly, "Let's pack it up."

The team members were stunned.

"Ah!"

"What 'ah'? It's all collapsed, what else can we do, dig out the intruder's body?"

The emergency captain rolled his eyes.

He had expected a fierce battle.

Instead...

He hadn't expected it to be such an anticlimactic end.

Just then, the Vice Captain who had just called General Thaddeus Ross to report arrived in a jeep.

"Number 2, pack it up."

"Yes!"

The emergency captain said to his second-in-command, then casually walked towards the Vice Captain, his hands gripping the assault rifle he was wearing.

Before the emergency captain could salute, the Vice Captain's gaze fell on the Gamma Lab Building, now a ruin and still kicking up dust, and he asked, "What happened?"

The emergency captain shook his head. "To be honest, I'm not entirely sure, but I can confirm there was only one intruder."

Then, the emergency captain recounted what the lab personnel who had escaped the building had told him, and then described how the building collapsed just as he was about to lead his team inside.

The Vice Captain's expression turned blank upon hearing that there was only one intruder.

"Are you sure, just one?"

"Yes."

"Holy sh-"

The Vice Captain instinctively cursed, feeling an immense sense of absurdity. "Seriously, just one person, how dare he?"

Quantico Military Base wasn't unfamiliar with invasion incidents.

But...

Foreign operatives always came in groups, and most were dealt with before they even got past the main gate.

Regardless, everyone knew that Quantico Base was a team dungeon.

And this guy just came alone to challenge it?

What was he thinking?

The Vice Captain found it incomprehensible.

The emergency captain shrugged and then glanced at the collapsed Gamma Lab Building, considering a possibility. "Maybe it was a suicide mission. The target was this lab building, and he never intended to leave alive."

The Vice Captain considered this and nodded.

"That's the only explanation."

"Damn it!"

"I even notified the General. If I had known, I wouldn't have called."

After nodding, the Vice Captain's expression suddenly changed as he remembered the hasty call he made to General Ross on his way here. He felt terrible.

If he had known the intruder was on a suicide mission, he wouldn't have called at all.

Well...

At least not so urgently. Now, he had to call again.

The Vice Captain sighed inwardly, instructing his deputy to notify the base control room to lift the alarm, while taking out his phone again and calling his superior, General Thaddeus Ross, once more.

The call was quickly connected.

"Report!"

"General, the intruder is dead."

"Dead?"

General Thaddeus Ross, who was urging his driver to hurry towards Quantico, was stunned once more.

"What happened?"

"The intruder's identity is temporarily unknown, but he was alone. The Gamma building collapsed. It's currently speculated that it was a suicide attempt..."

"BOOM!"

"Holy shit!"

Just as the Vice Captain was organizing his words to report to General Ross, a deafening roar suddenly echoed from the ruins of the Gamma building once more.

The next second.

He saw the figure that had seemingly shot out from the ruins, illuminated by the searchlights, completely freeze in disbelief.

The emergency captain standing beside him gasped in disbelief.

But he quickly reacted.

"Enemy attack."

"Open fire, open fire!"

"Rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat!"

After the emergency captain reacted first, the other emergency team members, who were just about to pack up and leave, also snapped to attention. Their gun barrels instantly aimed at the figure, faintly visible in the smoke amidst the ruins, and they pulled their triggers.

At the same time.

The intruder alert, which had just been deactivated at the base, blared out once again.

The piercing alarm caused a flicker of confusion in the eyes of the soldiers who had just gathered and dispersed.

What's going on?

Didn't the alarm just get turned off? Why is it ringing again?

Just as they were considering if the base control center had pressed the wrong button, the sudden gunfire made them realize something.

"Shit!"

"Another intrusion."

"Quick, quick, quick!"

"Rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat!"

Hawk's figure flickered back and forth above the ruins of the Gamma Lab Building.

Beneath the rubble, the last trace was, under the pull of his own Cosmo, brought into his grasp.

Hawk then looked ahead at the soldiers who were continuously firing at him, and the soldiers rushing towards them not far away.

And...

The rumbling sound of tanks approaching and armed helicopters slowly lifting off with the whirring of their rotors.

It was clear.

He had completely stirred up a hornet's nest.

However...

My business here is done. Now I just need to find a place to expend this haul.

Hawk thought, then looked at the gradually dissipating dust and smoke around him. Raising an eyebrow, he turned without hesitation, and the moment he bent his knees, the ruins beneath his feet crumbled again, and he shot up into the air like a cannonball.

The next second.

Under the pursuit of the searchlights, he traced a beautiful parabola through the air and, with a whoosh, landed in the forest outside the base.

Alright.

The quick mission is complete. Time for the next step.

Hit and run!!!