This is definitely the biggest crisis SHIELD has ever faced.
When Nick Fury went upstairs with a gun, the employees of S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't know what was happening.
"Good afternoon, Chief Fury."
"Hello, sir!"
Nick Fury's agents and clerks were seen greeting the Director in the elevator, only to find that their superior ignored them.
This boss has always had a hot temper, but they were used to it. After not getting a response, they simply lowered their heads and stood aside.
Just like that, Nick Fury watched the elevator stop one floor after another, and his anger grew bigger and bigger. He could no longer hold back the gun under his jacket, and his fingers hidden in his pockets were also ready to move.
"Ding Dong—"
The elevator reached the top floor.
Nick Fury quickly swiped his clearance card in the elevator, sealing off the entire top floor.
"Ant-Man, what's going on?"
He walked quickly towards Pierce's office, asking about the situation in the headset.
"You're looking for Pierce, right? I just heard this name from his conversation with someone else. Oh, he looks to be in his sixties, but my god, he's so strong... Hehe... Oh hell, he's still struggling..."
Ant-Man's voice came from the headphones, and it seemed that he hadn't finished it yet.
After hearing this, Nick Fury took out the pistol from his waist with a tactical move and trotted forward.
Soon, he arrived at the door of an office that was second only to his in size.
"Bang!"
He kicked the door open, bent over and walked in with his gun raised.
Inside the room, a fully armed guy wearing a red suit with silver trim was capturing Pierce.
"Hey, Chief, your colleagues are pretty cool, huh?"
Ant-Man saw Nick Fury coming and used his hands and feet to tie Pierce tighter.
"Of course, he was once the best agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." Nick Fury took out handcuffs from behind his waist, squatted down and handcuffed Pierce.
During this process, he also saw Pierce baring his teeth at him fiercely.
"Nick Fury, what are you doing? Vigilante justice? The Security Council has not given you that power!"
Although Pierce is an old man who looks bookish, his current aura does not look like that at all.
"Security Council?" Nick Fury half-knelt on the ground, holding the gun to Pierce's temple.
"Damn old man, you're not going to tell me that there are some of your people in there too?"
"What are you talking about? I can't understand!" Pierce is worthy of being a man who has been an agent for a lifetime. He remained calm even when faced with a catastrophe.
"You don't have to pretend, Pierce. I have suspected many people, but I never thought that you would be the biggest fish among them."
"When did you become Hydra? Did you join SHIELD decades ago, or were you turned against by those guys during your tenure?"
Nick Fury pushed the gun forward again, his tone gruff.
He originally thought that this guy was a veteran in the bureau and could serve as a consultant to help him solve problems even after retirement. However, he never expected that this guy turned out to be a serious threat to him.
Or the kind that has been lurking for forty years.
If Lynn's truth serum had arrived a little later, he would have given this guy a pension.
"I'm Hydra? Are you crazy, Nick? Who else in the agency has a resume as glorious and clean as mine?! You must be out of your mind!"
Pierce was full of energy, and even when Nick Fury was kneeling under him, he still made a powerful rebuttal.
"Honor? Destroying those old Vodka plots? Hijacking a MiG? Helping a pilot defect? Sabotaging an Arctic pipeline? Oh old Pierce, thank you for reminding me that every glorious deed you did seemed to be provoking a dispute between the two superpowers."
Nick Fury would not listen to Pierce's argument now. He thought about it carefully. Although old Pierce did make many contributions to S.H.I.E.L.D., in fact, all those events were done during the Cold War. Some of them even made the two sides tense and almost endangered the safety of the world.
After that, old Pierce just rested on his laurels and was promoted to the position of deputy director, living a leisurely life.
No wonder this guy has much more experience than me, but his rank is not as high as mine, a newcomer.
Nick Fury then came to his senses. Since the end of the Cold War, the threat of war has gradually dissipated, terrorism and Hydra forces have begun to emerge, and incidents of collusion, superheroes and alien visitors have also occurred one after another. It was at this juncture that he worked his way up step by step from a rookie agent to the position of director.
However, Pierce, who was once the most powerful person during the Cold War, sat back on the throne and no longer interfered in these affairs. Instead, he moved behind the scenes and began to move closer to personnel and management.
This is truly the style of the Nine-Headed Undercover.
"Fuck you, how many Hydra scumbags have you planted in the bureau over the past forty years?"
Nick Fury really wanted to kill this old guy right now.
Unexpectedly, Pierce, who was pressed under him, stopped struggling.
It seems that he has realized his situation.
Instead of struggling, Pierce was laughing.
"Nick Fury! Do you really think of yourself as the protector of this world? Ridiculous, you idiots have made her ugly and dirty!"
It's really unexpected that a man in his sixties like Pierce can still say such crazy words.
"Haha, you want to find out the seeds hidden in SHIELD? You're dreaming. They have been completely integrated into SHIELD. Hahahaha, now SHIELD is Hydra and Hydra is SHIELD. If you want to uproot them, it would be like strangling SHIELD's neck!"
"You idiots discovered it too late, hahahaha..."
Pierce is indeed a guy who can go undercover until retirement. Every word he says is full of enthusiasm, which shows how strong the belief is that has supported him to persist until now.
"Too late? I don't think so."
Nick Fury was now furious, he grabbed Pierce's chin with one hand, pried his mouth open, and pulled out a clear bottle from his body.
"You may not have thought of Pierce, but no matter how deep you hide, you are doomed to fail. No matter how many spies you have planted in the bureau, I can find them one by one now."
"You are talking big, Nick Fury. Unless you kill everyone in the bureau, you will see what it means to chop off a head and have two grow back to replace it!"
Pierce looked at the bottle of unknown liquid and had a bad feeling in his heart. He began to think about the so-called physical examination earlier today.
"Really? Fortunately, I met a kid who gave me a perfect solution to all this..."
Nick Fury poured all the truth serum into Pierce's mouth as he looked in disbelief and horror.