Part 1: Recruitment

Fury looked out the window of the helicarrier. "Sir?" said a young private. "The council is calling."

Fury balled his fists and walked into the meeting room. The council were all idiots are far as he could tell. But they were also powerful, so he usually didn't tell them that to their face. Usually.

The five screens lit up, each one showing a member of the council.

"Hello, there," said Fury.

"Don't act like you're ignorant, Fury," snapped one of the councilmen, Nicholas Sane, "One of your operatives, Black Widow, has blown up a S.H.I.E.L.D. power plant. The Avengers are out of control."

Fury looked at the council out of the corner of his eye. "Funny you should tell me not to act ignorant. I got some news from Thor the other day. Apparently, the Tesseract has gone missing -and by missing I mean stolen-from Asgard. And I thought 'Gee? I wonder who would want the Tesseract so badly?'."

Fury gave the council his fiercest glare. "I have put up with your dumbass decisions time after time. I even forgave for launching that missile on New York City. But this..." Fury shook his head. "You have endangered the entire world by doing this! I feel it is time for all of us on the helicarrier to make like all freedom-loving people and declare our independence!"

Sane sat forward in his seat. "Fury, you are over the line!"

"Au contraire, Nicholas. It is you, and all the council, who are over the line. We are actually recruiting a team right now, a team specifically trained to, shall we say, kick you out."

"You would never succeed against us!"

"That's what you think."

Fury smirked at the council's expressions, than cut the connection.