[221B Bleecker St.]

[2010]

It has been a week since the incident that went down in Harlem.

Eddard was currently sitting in the guest room of the mansion waiting for the SHIELD Director to show himself at his doorstep.

Draco entered the room, "Boss, he is here."

"Thank you for leading the man, Draco." Eddard thanked his friend.

"Mr Clarke, I have to say I have become a large fan of you. Forgive me I am not too sure if that is even your real name." came the voice of one, Nick Fury.

Eddard smiled at the subtle jab, "It is, Mr Fury. So tell me what makes you visit me?"

"I always wanted to meet God."

"You will be disappointed then. I am not the God of the bible." Eddard replied.

"So does he exist ?" Fury asked in curiosity. Eddard knew he was just probing for information.

"He does not, as far as I know, but I am curious why would you ask such a question."

"Forgive me if I don't want to end up in Hell."

"I won't be worried about that. With the Tesseract you could most probably kill me." Eddard stated casually. Fury tensed at the name of the thing that was the backbone of project PEGASUS.

"How do you know of that?"

"You lot playing around with it would have informed half the universe." Eddard said.

"So what now. Are you going to threaten me to hand it over?"

"No I would ask you to stop playing with it but seeing as you are trying so hard to keep your cool right now, I would assume your overlords have already made that decision for you."

"So what was this? A warning?" Fury asked coldly.

"No. I was just letting you and your council know the kind of shitstorm, you are about to bring upon your head. It is going to be funny when you come running to me saying, we fucked up." Eddard laughed at Fury.

"Looks like we have nothing more to speak of, Mr Clarke."

As Fury was leaving the room, Eddard said , "Fury, tell this to all those that are your superiors, touch a hair on one of the people under my protection and I will butcher them, and make rivaling Asgard look like a dream for this world."

Fury did not turn to look at Eddard as he left.

When Eddard was sure the bald man left, he stated, "Well I have done you your favour, Ancient One."

As he spoke this, a bald Asian woman in robes came into view as if appearing out of nowhere.

"That you have God Of Light." she said.

"Is the invasion of New York truly necessary?" Eddard had never planned for the portal to open but this bald lady with her future predictions of safety messed his plans up. He couldn't even fight her because he knew that he could kill her in a straight fight but she could just as easily chuck him across the universe. He would eventually come back but was such a journey really worth it?

"The avengers must come together." she stated plainly. Eddard realised she did not want give him anymore information.

"Ok." Eddard shrugged in a manner that spoke, 'What can we do'.

"Now what is that you want of me?"

"Magic books." Eddard said as he thought about Jayden.

"I can allow you some books from the library of Kamar-Taj."

"So will someone deliver it or do I have to do the grunt work." he sighed hoping she wouldn't say it was the latter of the two.

She smiled mysteriously and then handed him a note.

When Eddard read the note he said, "Fuck!"

He then realized she had vanished after giving him the note.

It read, "The books can be found at 177A Bleecker St when you decide to visit it."

[2011, New York]

Jacob was driving towards his place from the exchange. As he was turning the corner, a car rear-ended into him from behind. Followed by a collision on the non-passenger side.

Jacob was immediately pushed back into his seat by the sudden collision. He was dazed for a second but his head cleared up as he saw what kind of people hit his car.

The kind that the Government sends as a kill squad, Jacob realized. His back chilled at the realization.

He immediately pressed the power button of his mobile phone three times. He could hear the call connecting to the order's hot line that Mia set up.

He was trapped on three sides. He had a car on his back and a van to his left pushing him into a pole in the ride.

He immediately pushed the car to the maximum acceleration.

As his car moved out of the vice-like formation of the two vehicles. Instead of moving forward, he decided to do something better. He first rapidly accelerated forward then did a U-turn towards the vehicles that had been coming for him.

He decided that someone was going to come and help him anyway. And if these people were to escape, tracking them conventionally would be impossible. He was sure Jayden or Eddard could come up with something. He took out his pistol from the glove box. He wasn't that afraid of getting shot thanks to the protection spells Jayden had put on the vehicles recently.

"I feel like Dominic Toretto right now." he grinned coldly realizing that he had always wanted to crash a car intentionally.

He started accelerating and hit the van which was trying to back away from his car so as to avoid a collision.

The collision toppled the van over twice.

Jacob saw a man in golden armor watching him. It was Eddard who was laughing. He really wanted to smack the smile off the man's face.

Eddard pulled the door out and threw it aside, since it was pretty much destroyed. He couldn't help but comment , "Well looks, like you had a busy day."

Jacob wheezed, "Fuck you too Eddard." that wiped the smile off Eddard's face.

"Are you hurt somewhere?" Eddard was concerned by Jacob's breathing.

"No, I am just- mate I just got targeted by a kill squad. I am right to be not breathing right." Jacob said as he calmed a little.

"Need me to heal you up."

"Shouldn't you be catching the people who attacked me?" Jacob asked as they had been talking for too long.

"I did not come alone Jacob, Jayden did too. How do you think I reached here so fast. The boy opened a sling circle thingy to bring us here."

Jacob looked around and saw Jayden hauling people to the mansion. Jayden looked towards him and saw Jacob looking at him. Jayden winked at Jacob and kicked one of the people-no women Jacob realized that were bound through the portal. He waved at Jacob and left.

Jacob and Eddard were alone standing at the road, "Why are we waiting here?"

"You will find Jacob that the assassination attempt is easily dealt with, but now we have to explain to the police that you were attacked and then allow for the media to speculate and throw around names of people who would want to harm a friend of a hero like me." Eddard explained and saw Jacob grimacing.

"Oh don't be like tha-" as he was saying that Eddard was slammed in the head with what felt like one of the abomination's punches out of nowhere.

He heard the chinkling of a piece of metal on the ground he saw what looked like a shards of metal. He realized that he could feel a small drop of blood falling from his eyebrow. He realised he had been shot.

When Eddard looked at Jacob, he realized the man's right arm was mangled and he was bleeding out of the remainder like a fountain. They had been shot. The projectile hurled at him had been shattered when it struck him but had taken Jacob's arm with it.

He immediately called out, " Avalon." The scabbard materialised around himself and Jacob to protect them. Eddard put his hand on his friend's hand and started healing it rapidly.

"Damn! This is painful!" Jacob grunted as he recovered from the shock of it.

Eddard grimaced, realizing that restoring the nerves would be a painful experience for Jacob.

"This hurts like shit. You sadist!" Jacob growled.

"Be happy that you are alive." Eddard realized as he spoke that, yes, one of his men was nearly killed today due to him not giving them a protection item. This was an oversight that would have to be corrected.

"Let's leave mate." Jacob said.

Eddard's expression twisted at the man's pained voice.

"Yes let's leave mate."

As he said this, Nate grabbed his phone and called Jayden who immediately opened a portal.

"Ask Sophie to give him a once over. And tell me about the women that attacked him?" he sat Jacob on a couch as he gave the command to Harry who was the one that tracked Jacob's device.

"Two of them are dead but I was able to stop the other three from killing themselves."

"Told you something." Eddard asked.

"No."

"Torture it is." Jayden looked horrified at the suggestion.

"Nah mate, that does not sound like a good idea." Jayden said.

"Jacob was nearly killed after you left. Somebody had the bright idea to use an artillary round on my head. Why do you think I have a cut on my handsome face."

"What?!" came the voice of half the Order that had apparently been eavesdropping on the conversation.

Eddard grimaced when he saw the sombre looks on everybody's face. Jacob commented, "I am not dead you know."

Sophie took a seat beside the boy, "Good for you, you still owe me a dress." she smiled at the boy.

Jayden sighed and then said, "Let's not use an extreme method like torture. I have an idea, we can use that but Eddard remember these are exceptional circumstances and will not be used again without such a situation."

Eddard realized he had really suggested 'Torture' as a method and sighed, "Sorry I lost myself a bit there."

"No problem mate it happens."

Jayden exited the room.

Draco asked looking at Eddard, "Whoever did this is going to here funeral bells?"

"They are."

"I want in."

And thus, first mission of the Shamrock Order commenced against an invisible enemy.