Hawk Eye's Rock-Solid Survival
“A cola can?”
When Kim Seo-jun mentioned spotting the cola can, Private Park Bo-seop and Major Lee Hye-na were surprised.
That was it.
The two just figured Hawk Eye had been here, and that Kim Seo-jun spotting it with the drone was pretty impressive.
“Hawk Eye’s still alive.”
“Pardon?”
In that moment, when Kim Seo-jun stated Hawk Eye’s survival as a certainty, the pair couldn’t help but panic.
“Uh, Sergeant Kim...”
They simply couldn’t wrap their heads around how he could be so sure of her survival from just one cola can.
“I know it’s hard to buy. So let me explain.”
Kim Seo-jun said to the two of them.
“The cola can is embedded in the rock. Like it was shoved into sand. But that’s not sand—it’s rock.”
At that point, Major Lee Hye-na’s expression changed.
She caught on immediately.
No normal strength could do that.
“It’s phased through and fixed in place.”
Through that, Kim Seo-jun gauged Hawk Eye’s ability, and the two were stunned.
Hawk Eye’s mysterious power was phasing through objects?
It made sense, in a way.
“That’s how!”
“She pierced the tank worms.”
The secret behind Hawk Eye ignoring weapons’ destructive power and physical laws with her ruthless penetration ability all this time.
But Kim Seo-jun’s thoughts didn’t stop there.
“And if Hawk Eye’s power is phasing, there’s a good chance she’s inside that rock.”
“Huh?”
Kim Seo-jun took it a step further, and hearing it, the two froze in shock at first.
“Whoa!”
Then their faces twisted in horror.
Now the picture came into focus.
The possibility that Hawk Eye could have survived.
“No, even if... I mean, Sergeant Kim, even so...”
Or not?
Of course, it might not be.
This was all just Kim Seo-jun’s hunch—no evidence anywhere.
If Hawk Eye was inside the rock, reliable radio comms would be impossible too.
Crucially, she’d vanished 11 days ago.
Even if she’d phased in and died there, it wouldn’t be strange at all.
Above all, where she was now was a rock mountain teeming with hundreds of thousands of Mogs.
Stake everything on a mere possibility—maybe a delusion?
“Searching that place now would be insane.”
Kim Seo-jun knew it was the kind of mad stunt only a lunatic would pull.
Still, the reason he said it was simple.
“Without me.”
But with him, it was possible.
His mind made up, Kim Seo-jun didn’t hesitate.
Activating Stealth, he Teleported cautiously up the rock mountain.
“X-Ray Vision.”
From a distance, he triggered the X-Ray skill—and there, Kim Seo-jun saw it clearly.
She’s there.
A vague figure in an Agent Suit inside the rock.
From then on, it was a speed run.
Kim Seo-jun approached the rock Hawk Eye had phased into, then tapped it with the hammer he’d prepped.
Using space-marine Morse code, he signaled.
RESCUE ARRIVED.
He sent the signal.
EXIT IN 30 SECONDS.
Thirty.
He sent the message, then started a mental countdown.
Meanwhile, he thought: If she doesn’t move, he’d just bail.
No lingering regrets.
This wasn’t the first time.
Kim Seo-jun had lost many comrades in space, grieved their deaths, but never risked the living to recover bodies.
He knew putting survivors’ lives on the line for funerals was pointless.
Zero.
The moment the count hit zero—that instant.
Shrrrr!
Hawk Eye inside the rock stirred and phased right out.
The second she emerged, she staggered.
Eleven days trapped in rock—muscles and nerves failing her.
But her mind was sharp.
“You...”
She grabbed the radio the moment she was out, and the instant it connected, she unleashed her raw emotions at Kim Seo-jun.
“You crazy bastard!”
No thanks—just curses.
Hearing it, Kim Seo-jun wasn’t shocked or offended.
He let out a relieved sigh.
“Glad you’re in one piece.”
That reaction proved Hawk Eye was shockingly sane.
In other words, Kim Seo-jun had rated her mental state as dicey at best—and rightly so.
Survive 11 days immobile in rock? Plenty to drive a sane person mad.
And Hawk Eye had zero hope of rescue.
Pure despair.
Yet she endured—proof of her unfathomable mental fortitude.
Her body, though, was wrecked.
She’d collapse without support, and her helmet visor had gone opaque black to shield eyes starved of light for 11 days.
A day or two, and she’ll recover.
Not a huge worry—medical suit treatment would fix it fast.
Coming for the rescue was the right call.
Plenty worthwhile.
Though to Hawk Eye, against Kim Seo-jun’s thoughts, it was infuriating.
“You out of your mind? What the hell is this place?”
She hadn’t hoped for rescue.
Couldn’t.
It’d be suicide-by-proxy, nothing more.
So before hunting the Queen, she’d left no plea for help in her final message—just intel for those staying on Amotia Planet.
Yet here he was, rescuing her?
“Got a death wish?”
She spat it out, and Kim Seo-jun replied.
“Never crossed my mind. Not even a speck of wanting to die. I’ll get back to Earth, no matter what.”
No desire for death, period.
“That’s why I’m here.”
This situation was his best survival play.
“Can’t take the Queen without you, Hawk Eye. We all die otherwise. And to get her, I need you.”
Hawk Eye fell silent after that.
It wasn’t the point anymore.
She was out now. Next: escape.
At that, a chill hit her.
He walked here.
If he’d ridden a hoverbike or military truck up, the place would be swarming with Mog shrieks by now.
Meaning: quiet exit only.
Dragging dead weight like me.
She was a shackle, not help.
Worst-case all around.
So she said it.
“Listen up—if it gets dicey, ditch me. Don’t pull some humanistic movie bullshit.”
Kim Seo-jun answered.
“I’m confident escaping with a VIP in tow.”
Hawk Eye laughed.
“Yeah? How?”
He didn’t answer.
Whiiiir!
“Huh?”
Instead, he pulled it out.
“Wait, what’s that noise?”
“We’re escaping on the hoverbike.”
The getaway hoverbike.
A rock mountain teeming with hundreds of thousands of Mogs.
Whiiiir!
The Black Dragon raced across its peak.
Kieeeh!
As expected, the Mogs reacted more fiercely than ever to the hoverbike.
Thud thud thud thud!
Mogdogs chased like rabid dogs, Thorn Snakes spewed thorns.
Hundreds of thousands moving at once—the physical shock was immense.
Thud thud thud!
The ground rumbled.
An earthquake kicked off.
Unreal.
Even veteran Space Marines would puke without Steam Packs.
But not Hawk Eye.
“Man, feels like a real Mog wave after ages.”
She rode the shaking like a pro surfer eyeing massive waves.
“You surfed some waves too, huh?”
Kim Seo-jun was the same.
No fear in the tremor.
Familiar to him.
“Yeah, now and then.”
If anything, his experience topped hers.
She’d watched from afar; he’d faced it up close.
Hawk Eye knew it wasn’t bravado.
Couldn’t miss it.
“Felt it when you came for me—you’re no ordinary guy.”
Now, she clung to his back like a turtle shell, feeling every sway better than anyone.
And she knew.
“Anyway, thanks—I’m alive because of you.”
Escape was in the bag.
Kim Seo-jun’s Black Dragon was Jennifer Cho’s modded beast—insanely fast.
And he piloted it unflinching amid the terror wave.
Failure? Unlikely.
“How’d you know? That I was in the rock?”
With breathing room, Hawk Eye asked—and Kim Seo-jun answered.
“Saw the cola can.”
“What?”
“Stuck in the rock. Unopened. The second I saw it, I knew you were alive, Hawk Eye.”
Hawk Eye was floored.
Her grave-marker stunt leading him to certainty of survival?
“What if I wasn’t there?”
The question slipped out, and Kim Seo-jun replied.
“Then I’d bail and head back. Simple.”
She let out a dry laugh.
“You Korean by any chance?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Wild. Met one crazy Korean bastard before—didn’t expect another.”
To that, Kim Seo-jun said.
“Thanks for the gift last time. Used it well.”
“Huh?”
Then it clicked for Hawk Eye.
“Wait, you got the cola?”
“Yep.”
She recalled the voice—and let out a long sigh.
“That spiked cola can was yours. Damn, this is movie material.”
Kim Seo-jun didn’t respond to the awe.
Truth was, he wasn’t thrilled.
At least 100,000 Mogdogs hot on his tail, berserk.
Not as fast as Black Dragon, but the pressure was real.
Above all, he knew.
Have to kill them all eventually.
To survive, surpass facing this horde—end it.
His eyes sharpened.
In that state, he linked up with Park Bo-seop and Lee Hye-na, waiting in the military truck.
“Sergeant Kim!”
They lit up seeing him.
“Whoa, on your back?”
“Hawk Eye.”
Spotting her, they gaped.
They’d believed.
In Kim Seo-jun making impossible possible.
But reality hitting? Overwhelming shock.
“Feelings later.”
Kim Seo-jun told them.
“Private Park Bo-seop.”
“Private Park Bo-seop reporting!”
“At least 100,000 Mogdogs tracking me.”
Park Bo-seop’s eyes hardened instantly.
“Roger—full throttle to base!”
Time to focus.
“Negative.”
“Sir?”
To the private, Kim Seo-jun said.
“We’re hunting Mogdogs now.”
“Pardon?”
Park Bo-seop and Lee Hye-na looked dumbfounded.
Fight that absurd number?
Kim Seo-jun saw it differently.
“This is our chance.”
An unrepeatable opportunity.
“Mogdogs are chasing us, not guarding the Queen.”
Normally, Queen’s presence made Mogs prioritize her protection.
Mogdogs breaking off solo like this? Rare.
“Just Mogdogs.”
No Thorn Snakes or Tank Worms—pure Mogdogs.
Military truck could outpace them!
“Prime chance to thin the herd. Skip it, and no second shot—the Queen’ll be warier.”
To Kim Seo-jun, this was the one shot to cull their numbers properly.
Even explaining, Park Bo-seop and Lee Hye-na couldn’t buy it.
Couldn’t.
They’d seen action, but his mindset was leagues beyond.
One person differed.
“Ooh!”
Hawk Eye said.
“Sounds fun.”
The battle-hardened vet saw the logic.
“I’m in. Body’s loosening up.”
The other two stared in disbelief.
Prep moved fast regardless.
Park Bo-seop gripped the wheel, ready.
For the Mogdogs.
“Incoming!”
Spotting the pack’s thunder, he called it.
Kim Seo-jun and Hawk Eye prone in the truck bed, prepping to fire.
“Since we’re doing it, wanna bet?”
Hawk Eye said.
“A bet?”
“Yeah, makes it funner.”
“Fine. What kind?”
Kim Seo-jun didn’t refuse.
“Loser grants winner’s wish.”
“Deal.”
Hawk Eye grinned.
“You’re the second to take that bet against me.”
Confidence dripped—hers to win.
“Huh?”
Then she saw.
“Why’re you setting up four guns?”
Kim Seo-jun rigging four rifles in the bed.
No answer needed.
No time anyway.
Kieeeh!
Mogdog pack appeared—and Kim Seo-jun heard it.
Combat begins.
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