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After eavesdropping on a very long and serious conversation between himself and that masked fiend, Twice, Hawks was conflicted beyond belief. First, he did not expect the plan of leaving his (not) own apartment unlocked would really work. Hawks was stupid.
He wasn’t stupid, though, with that brilliant plan.
On one hand, that was an extremely compelling story and it appeared as though his creator was an actually okay-ish person.
On the other hand, Hawks remembered that Endeavor was on that arresting mission. Which meant that Twice was 100% wrong and bad, because the other heroes thought so. He was also the one who stole Eri with Toga in the first place, making it so Endeavor and the other heroes totally had their schedules thrown off! So much paperwork for real him. (Even though he deserved it.)
First, he had to reflect on what had happened. Hawks got knocked out. Twice showed up with Nomu. Crying, tears, sniffling, and sad backstories.
Villains weren’t supposed to be sympathetic. This was an attempt at shaking his own view of the world, and it succeeded.
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Not.
It was now obvious that Twice was a big weak link. Now that Hawks knew his real face, it would make it easier to track him down. Snag however he gets into the Meta Liberation Base = Profit?
No. He erased the profit part and wrote, ‘Rescuing Eri?” before erasing the question mark because it was very obvious that this was 100% going to work.
It could even work better than he had planned!
He could give the entrance to the heroes, and bang! , all the main villains in Japan down in one fell swoop! He pumped his fist in the air, beginning to carefully thread his red string around pictures of the pros.
“Endeavor is essential. Jeanist and Mirko would be nice too. Edgeshot for Kurogiri, Backdraft for Dabi, Ectoplasm just in case… EraserHead for sure. Maybe Mic. Need someone to counter Toga… FatGum was good at projectiles and Rock Lock had dealt with her before.
Honestly, what was stopping him from getting all the pros? He was the No. 2 hero, for fuck’s sake!
“We’re fighting the League, Shie Hissekai, and MLA. We need tons of man-power! Gang
Orca, for all his minions. Kamui Woods, because Twice seemed to like (?) being hugged by him… HELL YEAH!”
He fist-bumped himself, before realizing he was relapsing back into the old Hawks’s ways. Nope, nope. He continued to calmly tie his red string around his leads.
Oh yeah.
It’s all coming together.