The Tesseract was a pain to deal with for Fury. S.H.I.E.L.D had tried everything and had to move it a lot because of the experiments. Recently, they had engaged a brilliant archeologist to help with the origin of the device.

The man was convinced the pyramid were made by an ancient civilization coming from space. Ware they anyone else, they would not have hired him, this complot theory had so many hole it was not funny but his others work had been a source of important information for them.

He had worked on a part of history almost forgotten during the Iron Age. A time when story and reality were the same and humanity had faced the worst challenges. He had unraveled a text on a fight between humanity and giants. The story explained how a foolish warrior had tried to woo a giant woman and was rejected. In his shame, he avenged himself by killing her. It started a war they were losing until the Gods intervened and pushed back the giants from earth.

He had described a box offered by the gods for safeguarding in the study of the document and while S.H.I.E.L.D understood the link between the cube and this "box, they could not translate the rune appearing sporadically on it. They wished for the doctor to study them and tell them how to use and IF they could use it.

They had worked overtime to make him available, using every methods they had to recruit him. In the end, a few dollars in the right pocket had him evicted from the archeologist community and ripe for the taking.

Studying it had a heavy cost, between the equipment needed and the movement between secret laboratories. One of the "heroes" almost found them when they had tried to forcefully activate it in the Cheyenne Mountain. He was blocked by shield counter intelligence men and women but it has been too close for comfort.

They had wanted to ask for Loki help but they still did not know how to contact him. As he had made a few encounter and fiends since coming on earth, they had tried to plant agent to "meet" him but all their attempts failed. He was either making fun of them or ignoring them.

Maria was still on observation duty and for the sake of the mission, they had put her on a house near Xavier's school… or town now. She has made contact with a few mutants taking a walk or heading to the city. They had not be hostile but did not trust either. She had found a few more data and it helped them a lot.

From the latest things they had found, Loki was a humorous man and liked to spend time with his family. He apparently had three kids and a wife they had nothing on. One of the kid, though, looked a lot like one of the missing child from the English magical community.

Until recently, the English wizards and witches had been the most isolationist of their people but their current chief warlock had changed this. He had met the old man before when he took the post of director but apparently, the man had also changed. Their contact with the non-magical world had been more open and their laws were almost up to the international standard amongst magical communities.

When the man came to him asking for his help searching for a kid, he had been pleasantly surprised. Usually, the sorcerer would look down on his organization, even if he had a way to deal with them but they did not need to know that, and they disregarded them when dealing with international problems.

Overall, the magicals were coming out of their shell and S.H.I.E.L.D had good relations with them.

The mutants were another problem entirely. He did not hate them and he never would. They were as discriminated as the black until a few years ago. The only problem he had with them was their willingness to turn to crime. They had good reason, he could accept that, but the easiest path is not necessarily the right one. That is why he punished them like all criminals. Even with the circumstance, it did not excuse their acts.

He had hired some of them on shield and their talent had proved to be an important asset. He still wished he had managed to get Raven Darkhölm aKa Mystique. Her power would have been the best thing happening to S.H.I.E.L.D in a while.

He still has contact with Professor Xavier but their relations were delicate. He could not help them directly and since most of the attack against the mutant had been direct, his help has been next to inexistent.

He did not want to talk about magneto. The man was a danger and he refused any talk. It was not difficult to understand why but the situation was frustrating. If they could not open dialogue, they could not find a way to resolve the issue.

For Fury the solution was simple: give them an island, help them build and keep good relation with them. Sadly, the world government did not like it, their "human are the pinnacle of evolution" bullshit kept them to make the right call. He was convinced there was other reasons but it was not his job. He was employed to keep the treats to earth at bay and he would do so.

Sipping his coffee, he looked by the window on the helicarrier. Hydra has left sign of activities recently and he was sure his HQ was full of spy. He would have to deal with them soon. He did not understand why they kept trying.

History had shown repeatedly how tyrant would fall not matter how much time it would take. Hydra was just another group of likeminded people trying to achieve a dream that would never last. They had brilliant scientist, powerful backing but they lacked the numbers. It would prove fatal for them. He has made a direct order to kill any hydra agent found to avoid the process of the "growing head".

Looking at the sky, he sighed. Things were getting troublesome, even for him. He had to deal with people with dangerous power and idiots with racial beliefs. Why could they not just kill themselves and let the peaceful people alone. It would mean he would be fired but at least he could stop dealing with megalomaniac and idiots.

Speaking of idiots, he dreaded his meeting with stark. A few months ago, the man found he could not properly observe the school for gifted and it has made him mad. He ranted more and was more sarcastic than ever. His problem with the reactor has been solved and it gave him all the time he needed to work on this "anomaly" as he called it.

His behavior was curbed by his fiancé, praise miss Potts for dealing daily with this fool. He wondered If hiring her for dealing with people like stark would be possible, it would make his work easier and maybe keep the scowl of his face. People had the wonderful gift of making him frown and they used as much as they could. He often wondered what a world without them would be, he almost had a hard on thinking about it

Stargate? How did you come to this conclusion?