As if seeing through Hawking's confusion, Nick Fury explained, "This time, I want to lure them into a trap and eliminate some of the parasites within S.H.I.E.L.D. That's why I've openly sent everyone else away.
Your Professor and teachers are all at the School, also under the enemy's surveillance. Even one of them leaving could alert the enemy.
Only you. I've never entered your information into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s system. Now is the perfect time, as students are on holiday, so your leaving the School is normal."
Ever since Stryker's poisoning, he had been secretly investigating S.H.I.E.L.D., which he commanded.
No matter how perfect the infiltration, there couldn't be no flaws, especially since the captured spy came from the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, which gave him a breakthrough and revealed some unbelievable truths.
However, because he lacked sufficient evidence, he still couldn't be entirely sure.
But he also hid some information that could be concealed and no longer entered it into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s system.
Hawking's data was one of them.
Hawking's intelligence in the S.H.I.E.L.D. system remained at the information collected during that battle. Afterward, he continued to attend School and go on holiday like any ordinary Mutant student.
The matter of him leaving the School to fight criminals and establish the Hero Alliance International Company more than half a year ago was also not in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s system.
Of course, he couldn't hide major matters like researching that Mutant child to develop Mutant-restraining Agents and weapons. If he did, he would be suspected.
This was also why, even though he already had Agents and weapons to deal with Mutants, he had no intention of proactively causing trouble.
Currently, S.H.I.E.L.D. itself had major internal problems, let alone anything else.
That's why he proactively confessed to Professor X about researching Mutant Agents and weapons to maintain the current stability.
He just hadn't expected that before he could make a move to deal with the internal parasites, the parasites somehow received news and were coming to take his life first.
Perfectly, he would also go with the flow to see if he could use this opportunity to completely eliminate these parasites.
However, he was also prepared for Hawking's refusal. If Hawking refused, he had a second and third plan, but those later plans might involve significant losses.
"Parasites within S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA?"
Hearing Nick Fury's explanation, Hawking remained calm on the surface, but his heart was quite surprised.
He hadn't expected Nick Fury to discover HYDRA's traces so many years in advance, and even to know that HYDRA was going to assassinate him.
It seemed there were indeed many differences between different Universes, and one should not be careless.
In fact, Hawking didn't know at this time that it was precisely because of his appearance that Nick Fury detected HYDRA in advance.
Without Hawking, Stryker might have escaped, there would have been no HYDRA Agent mistakenly taking the blame, no Nick Fury's suspicion, and no Mystique sending intelligence to HYDRA.
Many things in this Universe were not exactly the same as in the main Universe, but the difference wouldn't be too great. However, Hawking's appearance caused many things to take a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree turn.
And it was getting more and more off track.
"Okay, I'll help with this. With me here, you won't die tomorrow."
Hawking made an 'okay' gesture.
Mere HYDRA, he didn't put them in his eyes.
Moreover, the internal struggle between S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA seemed pretty good. The HYDRA organization was much larger than Nick Fury currently understood.
Pierce, who controlled S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, was just one branch.
Even if this branch of Pierce was wiped out, and all HYDRA Agents in S.H.I.E.L.D. were eliminated, S.H.I.E.L.D. would be severely weakened, and they would still have to track down other HYDRA members afterward.
It was estimated that these two organizations wouldn't have time to bother him and the Mutant School for the next few years.
The next day, the snow stopped, the Sun rose, and it was a warm, clear day.
Nick Fury drove his custom black van out of a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. Base in Manhattan, preparing to cross a few streets to leave the urban area and head to another Base in the suburbs to take a plane out of New York.
On top of a twenty-story building nearby, Peter, dressed in his Spider-Man suit, watched his car and asked Hawking, "Captain, you suddenly gathered us here just to protect him. Who is he?"
Originally, Hawking had given them two weeks off for Christmas, so they didn't have to gather to fight criminals or do commercials. If criminals appeared nearby, they could just deal with them casually.
But last night, Hawking suddenly notified them to gather here early today, telling them to protect that one-eyed bald man below.
So, they were naturally curious who that one-eyed bald man was, that so many of them had to protect him together.
"The Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., an arrogant guy who likes to trick people into working for him for free. In the future, when you see him, stay far away and never believe a single word he says.
I brought you here today mainly to train you. The people who are going to kill this guy later are all elites among humans, and it's very likely they've been injected with body-enhancing Agents, so their physical fitness is extraordinary."
Hawking explained.
The most formidable enemies Peter and his team usually faced were merely gang members with firearms or robbers. Those were not even a match for them, and provided no training effect.
But the HYDRA Agents coming to kill Nick Fury this time were different.
They were definitely the most formidable Agents, and perhaps even injected with those human-enhancing Agents developed by HYDRA, perfect for Peter and his team to gain practical combat experience.
"So, does that mean everyone who's going to kill that one-eyed man down there are bad guys? Since they're bad guys, can I eat their brains?"
Venom, inside Eddie, eagerly poked out a head and asked.
"You're going to eat human brains again, that's absolutely disgusting!"
Eddie couldn't help but retort.
Venom immediately became displeased: "Following you, you make me eat chicken brains every day, it's too unpalatable. I want to eat those bad guys' brains!"
"Alright, the situation is special today, you're allowed to eat, but remember, don't eat too much."
Hawking thought for a moment and agreed to Venom's request.
He couldn't be too harsh.
"It seems to have started!"
At this moment, Jessica, who had been monitoring with binoculars, quickly shouted.
Hawking looked down and saw Nick Fury's car being hit and sent flying at an intersection.
Then, several HYDRA Agents disguised as Police, driving Police cars, quickly moved in, forcefully blocking Nick Fury's car from all directions, leaving it unable to move.
"Go, don't rush to save him. Wait until he's about to collapse, then make your move."
He promised not to let Nick Fury be killed, but he didn't say he wouldn't let him suffer a bit.
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