Speculations Hawkins is joining the Kid pirates

[Desolate Smaug]

No way.
Hawkins lost his chance, he bet and lost. Same for Apoo probably.
There will be Supernova who will rise further and others who stop their journey here, this is a turning point.

Kid, Law and Bege, these are the ones who will go further, the ones mentioned in Yamato/Ace flashback.

Bege is the best of them. Dude was a dark horse before he got fleshed out but right now he is easily one of the best supernova despite having only a couple of pages of combat feats. The balls to plan a big mom assassination without even factoring in outside help like SH coming to WCI is the kind of courage people like Hawkins and Apoo will never have even in a hundred lifetimes.