"Whoa! Awesome!" Michelangelo yelled excitedly.
"Focus!" Leonardo snapped, but a hint of shock also flashed in his eyes.
Hawk greatly relieved the pressure on the turtles. He was like a mobile fortress and energy cannon, his fighting style simple, efficient, and full of power, distinct from the turtles' style yet perfectly complementary.
However, the enemies were truly insane!
A mutant, whose arm had been severed by Raphael and was now in a complete frenzy, ignored the excruciating pain and the continuously flowing green blood. Its chest and severed arm suddenly burst forth with an extremely dazzling, unstable green light! Donatello's computer shrieked, piercing their eardrums!
"Energy readings off the charts! Core out of control! He's going to self-destruct! Extremely high yield! Get away! Get away quickly!" Donatello's voice was filled with despair!
It let out a final, mournful roar, dragging its mangled body, charging with life-burning speed!
The terrifying energy fluctuation from the self-destruction warped the very air!
"No!" Emily screamed, closing her eyes.
April also felt the suffocating grip of death.
Raphael and Leonardo were a bit further away; Michelangelo was entangled with a group of ninjas!
Hawk's eyes narrowed!
He certainly couldn't dodge!
Behind him were two defenseless women!
In the nick of time!
Hawk advanced instead of retreating!
He charged towards the self-destructing mutant like a hunting leopard!
"Boom—!!!"
An earth-shattering roar! Far more violent than any previous explosion!
Green, destructive energy, mixed with flesh and metal fragments, erupted with a crash!
The entire sewer base shook violently, pipes above collapsed, and sewage poured down like a waterfall!
Blinding light and thick smoke swallowed everything!
"Hawk!" Emily and April screamed simultaneously.
"Dude!" Michelangelo's heart sank.
But as the saying goes, no harm with smoke.
When the thick smoke slowly cleared...
A figure still stood at the center of the explosion!
It was Hawk!
Wisps of smoke rose from his body, his clothes were tattered, and his exposed upper body was covered in flowing green liquid.
He had blocked it!
Feeling the energy once again surging through his body, Hawk let out a soft grunt. Level 2 energy absorption, even if not comparable to the Black King, was not something minor thugs could shake.
He had absorbed most of the explosive energy and the deadly shockwave!
Only the upward-surging energy could not be absorbed, causing the pipes to rupture.
And Emily and April were only knocked to the ground by the blast.
When the two looked up, a shocking scene unfolded before their eyes.
They saw a charred crater at Hawk's feet, but its range was confined to within half a meter of him. His expensive clothes had all turned to ash, revealing muscles that were both robust and aesthetically pleasing, like a finely sculpted masterpiece.
"Cough, cough..." Hawk felt the burning gazes of the two women and tactically coughed twice, hot steam rising from his body.
"Hawk! Are you alright?!" Leonardo asked urgently, simultaneously fighting off enemies in front of him.
"Better get me some clothes immediately!"
Hawk half-joked, scanning the enemies who had temporarily halted due to the explosion. "It's not over. These flies are too troublesome, the combat space is narrow, and there are two burdens!"
Although the explosion had cleared enemies from the core area, it had also completely destroyed their cover and exposed their position. The base's structure was severely damaged and could collapse at any moment!
"We can't stay! The base is going down! Everyone evacuate! Route B! Quick!" Leonardo made a decisive call. "Take them! Hawk, stick close to us!"
Raphael furiously chopped down the last few ninjas blocking the way. Hawk, with one woman under each arm, followed the turtle-men in their retreat.
The other three turtles covered the rear.
"This way! Hurry!" Donatello pointed to a narrow passage, half-collapsed, filled with twisted rebar and dripping sewage.
The group, enduring falling rubble and water, squeezed into the passage. Hawk also put down the two women, and everyone entered the tunnel together.
The pursuing ninjas surged forward again!
Suddenly, Hawk's peripheral vision caught a group of agile, ghostly ninjas. They were exploiting a momentary lull in the turtles' firepower, using dazzling flips and slides to try and breach the side defense, closing in on Emily and April behind him. His eyes narrowed, glowing with a reddish-gold light.
At this moment, the air in the entire space suddenly heated up, carrying an ominous premonition of melting metal.
In a flash, two blinding, reddish-gold beams of light erupted from Hawk's deep pupils!
The light was so pure and intense, as if two small suns had been instantly ignited and compressed into beams, shooting forward with the power to incinerate all in their path!
"Sizzle—!!!"
A sharp, air-rending shriek echoed, a sound far more violent than ordinary lasers, more like a super-high-pressure furnace venting its uncontrollable energy!
Two beams, about two fingers wide, like the world-destroying dragon's breath from myths, precisely and unbelievably locked onto the shoulder armor of the two foremost ninjas and the weapons they held aloft.
The beams did not touch the targets, but the extreme heat they contained far exceeded the melting point limits of the ninjas' thin armor.
The hard alloy shoulder pads melted, liquefied, and vaporized instantly, like ice cubes dropped into a steel furnace!
A terrifying, smooth-edged, glowing red, smoking perforation appeared, with residual metal dripping like molten wax from its edges.
The katanas or shurikens tightly gripped by the ninjas snapped directly in half the moment the beams passed over them!
The breaks were not clean cuts but presented a grotesque, twisted, and partially vaporized form, as if instantly melted by extreme heat.
The broken weapon tips flew off as if struck by an invisible force, rotating with scorching red trails as they fell to the ground.
After penetrating the armor and weapons, the beams' residual power mercilessly acted upon the ninjas' flesh.
Their shoulders instantly carbonized and blackened, accompanied by a teeth-grinding "sizzle" and the pungent smell of burnt protein, with thick smoke rising.