The Symbiote Avenger (Neglected Male Reader)

Chapter 8: Escape from the Triskelion

Back at SHIELD, Y/N is brought to Pierce who is talking to Agent 13.

Alexander Pierce: For whatever it's worth, you did your best.

Sharon: Thank you, sir.

As she turns to leave, she sees Y/N.

Sharon: L/N.

Y/N replies coldly as he walks towards Pierce.

Y/N: Agent.

Alexander Pierce: Ah, L/N. I'm Alexander Pierce.

Y/N: Nice to meet you.

They shake hands.

Alexander Pierce: The honor is mine, L/N. Come on in.

They enter Pierce's office where he shows Y/N an old photo of Fury with Pierce.

Alexander Pierce: That photo was taken five years after Nick and I met. When I was at State Department in Bogota. ELN rebels took the embassy, and security got me out, but the rebels took hostages. Nick was deputy chief for the SHIELD station there. And he comes to me with a plan. He wants to storm the building through the sewers. I said, "No, we'll negotiate." Turned out the ELN didn't negotiate, so they put out a kill order. They stormed the basement, and what did they find? They find it empty. Nick had ignored my direct order and carried out an unauthorized military operation on foreign soil. He saved the lives of a dozen political officers, including my daughter.

Y/N: So, you gave him a promotion.

Alexander Pierce: I've never had any cause to regret it. Y/N, why was Nick in Steve's apartment last night?

Y/N: Why are you asking me this?

Alexander Pierce: Cause, I know if I talk to Steve, he won't give me an answer.

Y/N: I don't know.

Alexander Pierce: You know it was bugged?

Y/N: We did, because Nick told us.

Alexander Pierce: Did he tell you he was the one who bugged it?

Y/N doesn't reply obviously not knowing this information.

Alexander Pierce: I want you to see something.

He brings up footage of Batroc being interrogated.

SHIELD Agent: Who hired you, Batroc?

Y/N: Is that live?

Alexander Pierce: Yeah, they picked him up last night in a not-so-safe house in Algiers.

Y/N: Are you saying he's a suspect? Assassination isn't Batroc's line.

Alexander Pierce: No, it's more complicated than that. Batroc was hired anonymously to attack the Lemurian Star and he was contacted by e-mail and paid by wire transfer. And then the money was run through seventeen fictitious accounts, the last one going to a holding company that was registered to a Jacob Veech.

Y/N: Am I supposed to know who that is?

Venom: Aside from he's a pirate.

He hands Y/N the file.

Alexander Pierce: Not likely. Veech died six years ago. His last address was 14-35 Elmhurst Drive. When I first met Nick, his mother lived at 14-37.

Y/N: Are you saying Fury hired the pirates? Why?

Alexander Pierce: The prevailing theory was that the hijacking was a cover for the acquisition and sale of classified intelligence. The sale went sour and that led to Nick's death.