With little Wanda on one side and little Pietro on the other, after coaxing the two children to sleep, Hawking sat up again and continued his 'Ki' training.
"It's about time to sleep."
He only started preparing for bed when he saw that it was almost twelve o'clock.
However, as soon as he lay down, he faintly heard some footsteps from upstairs.
Now that his body was stronger than an ordinary person's, his five senses were naturally also a bit stronger than an ordinary person's.
"Whoosh!"
Just then, a little girl about his age from upstairs suddenly passed through the ceiling and dropped down.
Hawking quickly got up and caught her:
"What happened?"
The little girl who could phase through walls was Shadowcat. Colossus had introduced her to him as one of the school's students during dinner in the cafeteria.
"Hawking, a lot of intruders with guns came into my room, and they even tried to attack me!"
Shadowcat explained nervously.
"Ah!!!!"
As soon as Shadowcat finished speaking, a terrifying scream immediately echoed throughout the entire Mutant School.
Hearing the scream, Hawking, Shadowcat, and the awakened Wanda and Pietro all painfully covered their ears.
"It's Theresa."
Theresa was also a student at the school, about the same age as Wanda, and her ability was to emit extremely wide-ranging screams.
It seemed she, like Shadowcat, had also been attacked.
A moment later, the scream disappeared, and heavy footsteps immediately sounded outside the door.
"Loading protagonist template."
Without the slightest hesitation, Hawking called out the panel and loaded the template of a thirteen-year-old Son Goku.
He could handle a few bare-handed strong men now, but dealing with a group of elite soldiers with guns was clearly not possible.
Moreover, he also had to protect Wanda and Pietro.
His hair instantly grew long and stood up, and with the Turtle Hermit Style martial arts uniform and power pole added to him, he had completed his transformation before the door was kicked open.
"Follow me!"
Hawking, in his Goku form, flashed in front of three soldiers who were aiming their tranquilizer guns, and struck them three times with his raised hand.
The three soldiers flew out as if they had been hit by a speeding car, in the blink of an eye.
"Let them go!"
He had originally planned to take Wanda and the other two to a safe place first, and then come back to help, but upon seeing the children in the corridor who were about to be captured, Goku's personality influence took effect again.
So he rushed forward without thinking.
The fully armed soldiers on the other side also discovered the unexpected situation here and very calmly and professionally coordinated their shots at Hawking.
Hawking, on the other hand, drew the power pole from his back and spun it into a circle, deflecting all the tranquilizer darts.
Let alone tranquilizer darts, even live ammunition hitting him would at most cause some pain, not even breaking his skin.
However, he still needed to be careful of vital areas like his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.
Although he was partially influenced by Goku's personality at this time, he was still primarily guided by his own personality and would not be as reckless as Goku.
"Switch to live rounds."
Seeing Hawking's prowess, the soldiers immediately switched their tranquilizer rounds to more powerful live ammunition.
However, they greatly underestimated Hawking's speed, because as soon as they spoke, Hawking was already close in front of them.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
The power pole was swung repeatedly; no fancy moves were needed. Relying on overwhelming strength and speed, several soldiers were instantly dealt with, almost without time to react.
"That's, so cool!"
The three little ones who came out of the room all gasped in amazement, watching Hawking instantly obliterate the soldiers.
Even Wanda and Pietro only knew that Hawking was very strong, but they didn't know he was so good at fighting at such a young age.
"Everyone, follow me."
Taking Wanda and the rescued children, Hawking began to descend the stairs.
Cutting through the soldiers blocking his way like slicing melons and dicing vegetables, he quickly rescued over a dozen students and also encountered Colossus, who was similarly rescuing people.
"Hawking, over here!"
The metallic Colossus, holding a student stunned by a tranquilizer gun, kicked open a hidden secret door on the first floor and was directing everyone to retreat. Seeing Hawking appear with a group of students, he immediately waved and shouted.
Although the school's students each had abilities, and some students' abilities showed considerable destructive power.
But they had no combat training whatsoever; they were just a group of teenagers, the youngest only seven or eight years old.
Only Colossus, who was about to graduate and chose to stay and become an X-Man, could barely be considered a warrior.
So what they needed to do now was to leave through the school's emergency evacuation tunnel, not to collectively drive out the invaders.
"Where are Professor X and the others?"
Kicking away two blocking soldiers with great force, Hawking led Wanda and a dozen other children to Colossus.
Normally, if Professor X were present, these invaders would have already had their bodies completely controlled before even reaching the school gates; such a situation would be impossible.
Even Magneto, without his helmet, would still be controlled in front of Professor X.
"They went out. Professor and the others all went out tonight, and won't be back until tomorrow!"
Colossus, his body returned to normal, explained to Hawking with great surprise.
He only knew from Wanda and Pietro that Hawking had great strength because he could eat a lot, but he didn't know that he was so good at fighting at such a young age.
"Ah!!"
At this moment, two screams suddenly sounded from the corner of the right corridor.
A burly man in a vest extended sharp metal blades from his hands, deeply plunging them into the chests of two soldiers, roaring as he powerfully slammed them against the wall until the two soldiers lost consciousness before retracting his Wolverine claws.
Behind him, similarly, followed a dozen rescued students.
"Wolverine Logan!"
With these obvious features, Hawking recognized his identity at a glance.
And Colossus's subsequent words confirmed his guess.
"Mr. Logan, what do we do next?"
"Kid, are all the people here now?"
Wolverine shook the blood off his Adamantium claws.
Colossus quickly replied after glancing at the junior students who had entered the secret passage:
"Bobby, John, and Rogue are not here!"
"I'll go find them, you take these children to a safe place."
Wolverine turned to go find the three straggling students, but Hawking called out to him.
"I'll go with you!"
Wanda and Pietro should be fine hiding in the secret passage with Colossus and the students. This was a good opportunity for him and Wolverine to clear out all these invaders, and also earn some Justice Points.
"Kid, wait until you're a warrior in a few more years, then we'll talk. For now, just stay with them."
Wolverine stopped and scrutinized Hawking, who was about eleven or twelve years old, then waved him off with a reply.
Clearly, he didn't believe a child could be of much help.
"Crack!"
The glass at the end of the corridor suddenly shattered, and the searchlight of a combat helicopter shone in, while the machine gun on the helicopter also aimed at their position.
"Oh, shit, let's go!"
Wolverine cursed when he saw this, extended his Adamantium claws, and charged forward. However, before he was even halfway there, the machine gun had already started firing.
Dense bullets aimed at Wolverine; even though his body could regenerate and he wouldn't be killed, he was still continuously pushed back and unable to advance.