The Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Divisionheld many secrets, some of them even the secret keepers themselves didn't know. Now all those secrets had just been sent out into the open.
So Shield was bought down to bring Hydra down.
The Triskelion building likewise had many secrets. Some Shield's, some Hydra's. But now the building was collapsing. Like the organisation it had housed, it was ending in a most dramatic fashion.
But there was one place deep within it that had been forgotten.
A simple storage room. Officially it didn't exist. Unofficially it didn't exist. If anyone had ever passed it on a normal day their dæmons may have felt uneasy but not enough to notice in a place that protected the world from it secrets.
But now it was empty. Everyone long since fled. Steel and concrete were not enough to protect this place from the rest of the building's collapse. At least not completely.
In the room there was a box. A cage. If there was anyone there they could have looked inside it and noticed claw marks. Anyone looking closer may have noticed that anything making such marks would have needed years to leave so many on steel.
But before all that they might have noticed that it had been cracked open.
And that it was empty