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Director Nicholas Joseph Fury Jr.
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Accessing S.H.I.E.L.D File: The Avengers
Events Leading:
May 6, 2011 – S.H.I.E.L.D satellites have picked up a wormhole within New Mexico. Agent Phil Coulson has been dispatched to investigate. Upon arrival, he and his team have found a crater site where the wormhole originated. At the center is a hammer labeled a 0-8-4. A perimeter and base of operations has been set up around the area. A team led by Professor Elliot Randolph has been task with identifying the hammer
May 7, 2011 – Confiscated the research and materials of Astrophysicist, Dr. Jane Foster. The same night, an unknown man infiltrated the base and managed to take out a dozen S.H.I.E.L.D personnel with various fighting styles (See Footage). The intruder made his way to the hammer, where he tried and failed to lift it. Suspected of knowing the nature of the hammer, he has been taken in for interrogation, with no resistance.
Interrogation proved unsuccessful and interrupted by the arrival of Erik Selvig, a colleague of Jane Foster. He claimed the man is 'Donald Blake', a member of his scientific staff. An agent confirmed his story while running the database, finding a falsified document. They are released while Coulson ordered a team to shadow and monitor them.
May 10, 2011 – Agent Jesper Stillwell discovered another potential crater site from a wormhole. Coulson and a unit of S.H.I.E.L.D personnel went to investigate. They found a gigantic automaton of unknown origin. Contact failed when it attacked.
Coulson is among the survivors and pursued the automaton. There he saw 'Donald' gain mysterious supernatural powers. IT wasn't until he summoned the hammer to defeat the automaton that Coulson identified 'Donald' as Thor, the Norse god of thunder and prince of Asgard. When confronted, Thor offered his services under condition that all research and material are to be returned to Doctor Foster. Before he can be debriefed, Thor flew away with the aforementioned doctor.
The automaton is later taken to a secure S.H.I.E.L.D facility.
July 22, 2011 – Steve Rogers A.K.A Captain America (see file) has been found after 70 years of missing in action. An excavation team found him in the wreckage of the HYDRA plane The Valkyrie, where it crashed in the arctic. He has been taken to New York to rehabilitate. It proved unsuccessful as he woke up and escaped to times square. Director Fury is able to convince him they are not enemies.
May 4, 2012 – Director Fury, Deputy Director Maria Hill, and Agent Coulson arrived at a secret S.H.I.E.L.D facility where scientists are studying the Tesseract (See File on Tesseract). The Tesseract activated, by an outside force, and opened a portal. A man appeared, armed with a scepter of unknown origin. The stranger displayed powers similar to Thor, and later he identified himself as Loki, the god of mischief and brother of Thor. He made it clear that he wants the tesseract and to conquer earth after attacking S.H.I.E.L.D personnel and putting several under his control. Loki escaped with the Tesseract and the base is destroyed from the portal's collapse.
This incident is what activated the Avengers Initiative.
Agent Natasha Romanoff, AKA Black Widow, went to Kolkata, India to recruit Bruce Banner AKA the Hulk (See File). Coulson went Stark Tower to recruit Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man. Nick Fury went to New York to recruit Captain Rogers, who has been undergoing rehabilitation with the modern era. Each of the candidates, minus Stark, has been escorted to the S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier.
Loki has been located at Germany. Agent Romanoff and Captain Rogers have been dispatched to apprehend them. Tony Stark arrived and provided assistance in subduing Loki. While Transporting the prisoner, the Quinjet is intercepted by Thor (see file). Thor proceeded to take Loki from custody, which lead to a brief altercation with Stark and Captain Rogers.
After arriving on the Helicarrier, Thor revealed what he learned from Loki. He has an army called the Chitauri, a race of shapeshifting aliens who have attempted to conquer earth (see file on subject 1-6-10). According to Loki, they have attempted to conquer Earth in the past by supporting the Nazi's, notably HYDRA. They call themselves "the immune system of the Universe" and wipe out disorder and free will wherever they find it. They prefer to act behind the scenes, but when Captain Rogers had foiled their attempts in the past, they withdrew to plan an invasion. Loki promised them earth in exchange for being their leader, to which they agreed to. Now all they need is for the Tesseract to be activated so that the invasion can begin.
While looking for the Tesseract, the Helicarrier came under attack by a compromised Clint Barton AKA Hawkeye and several personnel revealed to be Chitauri. The engine became unstable and Loki is set free. Stark managed to do maintenance on the engine with assistance from Captain Rogers. Agent Romanoff subdued Agent Barton, returning his mind to normal in the process. Loki escaped, presumably to where the tesseract is—Stark tower. He had Dr. Selvig build a device to harness its power. A portal opened, ushering in the Chitauri.
Battle for New York:
The team compromising of Captain Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor, Bruce Banner, Agents Romanoff and Agent Barton are the first to respond.
Clint and Stark set up a perimeter to destroy any Chitauri ship that goes past them. Thor slowed down the advance of the Chitauri with his lightning. Captain Rogers, Agent Romanoff, and the Hulk fought on ground while getting the civilians to safety. They were able to handle the brunt of the invasion, but even with the arrival of the national guard, it won't end until the portal is closed.
After subduing Loki, a freed Dr. Selving revealed that he built a failsafe into the device. To close it, they needed a similar energy source which is Loki's scepter. However, the World Security Council ordered a nuclear missile strike on Manhattan, ignoring Director Fury's protests. Fury ordered Stark to intercept the missile and guide it throught the portal towards the Chitauri command center. The missile struck it, resulting in the disabling of all remaing forces on the ground while the portal closed.
Thus, the invasion of earth ended.
Aftermath:
New York has suffered extensive damage from the invasion. Not just to infastructure, but to the people. The invasion showed the world that they are not alone in the universe. The tesseract has been taken by Thor as he escorted Loki back to Asgard.
Several of the Chitauri warships had escaped the perimeter and inavertedly caused a breakout at some of the biggest S.H.I.E.L.D prisons for super criminals (see The Vault, The Cube, The Raft, and The Big House). A total of 75 super criminals have broken out.
The team had an encounter with former S.H.I.E.L.D scientist Doctor Franklin Hall, AKA Graviton. Mentally unstable, he wreaked havoc on a ruined New York in a crazed attempt at vengeance on Fury, who he blamed for imprisoning him a t the raft. This forced the team to fight again. They had difficulty holding off his newfound control over gravitational forces until Thor rejoined to fight.
After subduing him, they realized that Earth will always need heroes to fight the battles that S.H.I.E.L.D wouldn't be able to fight off. So, they decided to stay together and officially form the Avengers.
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