"Wait, Hydra even has men amoe?" Barton blurted.

  "Hydra has members serving at the World cil too. Gideon Mallick." Liam replied. This made everyone shiver. While Rogers was getting angry ourn. He hadn't brought his shield or else he would have id waste to this pbsp;

  Natasha and Tony were rather looking at the obscure videos where both of them had some kind of enters with Winter Soldier. One was in Baghdad, where Natasha was shot once. While the other video showed the parents of Tony where they were being assassinated.

  He was beyond furious. He didn't think Hydra would be reted to him too. He started typing in ands on the keyboard furiously. He wao know more about Winter Soldier but sadly there were not many dots on them. Only that they were being brainwashed by Hydra since a long time and were now held in Russia. Hydra believed in partmentalization so not all secrets would be in a single pce. But Zo did have one important thing.

  Names of all Hydra affiliated members. Starting from the lowest to the highest. All around the globe. It was done so for the Hellicarrier sing mission. This was also the reason why Liam had asked Tony t his toy which could copy all the data from Zo, because with it they could target Hydra and they wouldn't even know what hit them.

  Liam wahe names aook specific measures for this.

  "Told you, shouldn't have brought Rogers." Liam ented. Fury ched his fists. He was shaking in anger. He had never expected that even his owor Alexander Pierce was from Hydra as he had seen his oo. He felt his life work was in shambles and all the work he did was for nothing.

  "I want SHIELD to be destroyed." Tony decred.

  A heavy silence fell over the room. Tony's decration wasn't just a statement—it was a demand, ohat resonated with almost everyone present. Rogers nodded sharply, his jaw ched so tightly it looked like it might crack. Barton exhaled through his nose, arms crossed, already running through sarios in his mind. Even Natasha, who had spent her career pying every side to survive, looked as though she was sidering it.

  "You're angry. You have every right to be. But tearing SHIELD dowirely? That's not just cutting out the rot—it's burning down the whole damn house, with i people still inside." Fury retorted.

  "There is no SHIELD," Rogers shot back. "It's Hydra, wearing SHIELD's face."

  "There are still good agents," Fury tered. "People who believe in what SHIELD was supposed to be. People who have no idea who they're really w for. Y the whole thing down, and you don't just destroy Hydra. You leave the world defenseless."

  "Oh yeah? Because SHIELD has done such a bang-up job keeping the world safe." Tony said.

  "Listen to me," Fury snapped. "Hydra has spent decades embedding itself in SHIELD, in the gover, in the world's power structures. If you go in guns bzing, you tip them off, and they scatter. You won't wipe them out—you'll just drive them further underground. They'll rebuild. They always do."

  "So what? We just let them keep their seats at the table?" Barton said.

  "No," Fury said, his voice low. "We take them out. One by one. Quietly. We cut the head off the snake in the dark, before it even knows it's bleeding."

  The room fell into a tense silence.

  "So what, we just trust you to ha?"

  "I don't expect you to trust me," Fury admitted. "But I expect you to uand that this fight isn't won by throwing a punch. It's won by making sure the uy never gets back up."

  Everyone was still unvinced but Fury's words were right. If they went out with all guns bzing it would be just be is in the crossfire. Liam didn't bother to engage himself in this. He wasn't ied, he just wao retaliate bace he was called to the hearing and he did so in the most brutal ossible. Hydra was just a small ant trying to move a tree. A tree so big that the ant didn't have any idea about.

  Fury spoke about how the Avengers, yes Fury had decided to call them that could help in this regard and just kill Hydra little by little. By not alerting. It was here where Liam spoke about his ability to domihis made everyone gulp dowhroat.

  "I 't dominate everyone. Only the ones who are weak minded. Like it would be incredibly difficult to trers here as his will is very strong and I think it goes for Tony and Fury too. Natasha too I hope. So I will only trol low level people ahem work for us instead. If we just start plug Hydra agents they will be alerted. Why not let them take each other out." Liam said.

  "Remi to be ever on your bad side." Barton replied, while Liam just shrugged his shoulders. Fury gave them a rough idea. And their first experiment with the Senate member who would be on the hearing.

  Fury gave them a rough pn of what o be done and slowly kill Hydra. Everyone chipped their own ideas and while they did so they saw Zo dying. Tony had killed him by destroying all the codes after copying everything. Though the inal Zo was finally dead, Tony would emute a fake Zo to keep up the facade. It wouldn't take him much time to emute a fake one since he already had the data to start with.

  He just o tweak.

  "Winter Soldier is miony decred by the end and everyone agreed. Except Liam. He didn't react at all.

  "Yawn.. we go back." Liam said as it was night and he was a bit sleepy.

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