A Nexus Devil (Dxd x Multi Crossover)

Chapter 44: Interludes

Chapter 44: Interludes

-Nick Fury-

Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D, was sitting in his office, rubbing his temples at the mess that had just occurred on American soil.

"So, what's the total body count?" He asked with a sigh.

Maria Hill, his second-in-command, answered him while looking at a clipboard. "So far, we have 78 confirmed people who were killed in the streets of Los Angeles and 42 confirmed injured. The hospital is another story, however." She added with a somber tone, "There were 112 casualties inside with no survivors found. That angel was extremely brutal. Even now, we have him completely chained down and sedated constantly after he tried to escape earlier." She added with some disdain.

That was a close one. Fury never would have lived it down with the council if the first superpowered being their agency was created to fight against managed to escape their Hulk-grade prison cell, only an hour after being delivered to them.

"We'll leave him sedated for now. Now, what do we know about this Prince Thor that they were apparently hunting?" Fury was upset that an alien prince had apparently been on U.S. soil, and no one had any clue about it.

"Unfortunately, we don't know much more than the average civilian at this point. Katherine Farris, a reporter from the Daily Bugle, briefly interviewed the supposed devil who was with Tony Stark, and he was the one who mentioned Odin and Asgard. It's from those mentioned terms that we suspect the supposed Prince Thor of being the Asgardian prince."

Knock, knock.

His office door opened, and his other three top agents all entered.

"You called for us, sir?" Agent Coulson spoke for the three of them.

Nick nodded to them. "I did. Barton, Coulson, Romanoff. You three are my top field agents and have been out roaming LA all day. What have you found?"

The three of them all had frowns on their faces. Fury figured that was not a good sign. He rubbed his missing eye over the patch as he could already feel the incoming migraine he was going to have.

"It's not good, sir." Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, spoke first. "People are very upset that angels turned out to be... that. Numerous churches have been burned to the ground, and there is rioting in the streets. Not just in LA either..."

"The LA Angels baseball team just announced they were changing their name. It's not a good day to be an angel fan..." Barton said.

Fury had to agree. Honestly, the biblically accurate giant eyeball monster angels would have received a better public reception... As long as they didn't go murdering people and spouting how they wanted to destroy humanity and claim the realm for their own that is. And then there was that declaration from one of the angels that really set people on edge. A person had been hiding in a nearby building and recorded the entire fight of Jake Gremory and Ironman against the four angels from their phone. Including the angel's proclamation about humans... It had gone viral so fast there was no chance in hell they'd ever be able to scrub it from the internet!

"Well, on the upside, today was a win for the more obtuse religions..." Clint Barton, Hawkeye, tried to joke. "The amount of devil worshippers and Norse followers is at an all-time high... you know, since apparently devils and Odin exist..." He trailed off as Fury just glared at him.

"What about Jake Gremory?" Maria asked the question he was going to ask next. "Suppose he really is a devil and those actually exist, which at this point is seeming highly likely. Do we know what his objective here on Earth is and where is he now?"