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Indra allowed Nick to tour Steve around the base that held project INSIGHT— which was merely a project that connected helicarriers to gain insight on the world by watching over it. Before becoming Fury's personal agent, she had already known of the project because she and Tony had been asked to throw in some ideas to solve their jet propulsion issues.
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Work went on as usual after Steve left. It remained as uninteresting and dull as it was before until Nick decided to do some digging the next evening. "Open Lemurian Star's satellite launch file." Nick spoke as he plugged in a USB he received from one of his undisclosed agents.
Nick relentlessly argued back and forth with the A.I. but was hopeless. "On whose authority?" Nick shouted at the computer, almost forgetting that it was a computer.
"Fury, Nicholas J." The A.I. submissively responded.
"Oh hell no. Come on, Ind." Fury nodded toward the door, indicating for the two to leave his office. Indra shrugged and jumped up from laying in his couch. She followed him like a lost puppy to the elevator and up into the World Security Council meeting room.
The two scurried into the meeting room right into the middle of a meeting being held by Alexander Pierce. "I work 40 floors away and it takes a hijacking for you to visit?" Alexander greeted Nick, then led him and Indra out of the meeting room to speak with them. It seemed as if his assistant had gossiped to him about Nick's arrival.
"A nuclear war would do it, too. You busy in there?" Nick suggested that he was speaking about he meeting.
"Nothing some earmarks can fix." Pierce replied.
"I'm here to ask a favor. I want you to call for a vote. Project INSIGHT has to be delayed." Nick mumbled over to Pierce. Indra raised a curious brow at Nick for not being informed of such a decision, but she kept quiet, knowing that he'd eventually explain.
"Nick, that's not a favor, that's a subcommittee hearing. A long one." Alexander groaned, his face tensing up.
"It could be nothing. It probably is nothing. I just need time to make sure it's nothing." Nick huffed, crossing his arms like a child.
"And if it is something?" Pierce's face distorted into a confused expression.
"Then we'll both be damn glad those Helicarriers aren't in the air." Nick growled.
Pierce sighed then turned to look Indra up and down. "Fine. But you, Ms. Badu, got to get Iron Man to stop by my niece's birthday party." Pierce chuckled.
Indra nodded, cracking a small smile. "Thank you, sir." Nick nodded curtly at Alexander.
"And not just a flyby. He's got to mingle." Pierce emphasized as he pointed a long finger at Indra.
"I'm sure he won't miss it." Indra stitched on a smile to avoid crumbling into nothingness as she was reminded of her husband.
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"Activating communications encryptions protocol." Nick's car's AI spoke out as Nick turned on his communication device.
"Open secure line 0405." "Confirmed."
"This is Hill." Agent Maria Hill answered the phone call from Nick.
"I need you here in DC. Deep shadow conditions. You have three hours." Nick instructed the woman then hung up the phone.
Nick continued to drive calmly away from the SHIELD headquarters. "What do you think, Indra? You've been shadowing me everywhere I go, you could very well be SHIELD's next director. I'm sure you have an opinion." Nick fished her thoughts out of her quiet mind.
"I think it's Alexander. He's got to much power and didn't find the hijacking too scary. You said there's a rat in SHIELD? Well.. I think that him. There might even be more. But you've got to be careful, because if it is him—" Indra began to ramble, but she was suddenly interrupted when two police cars came charging out of no where and slammed into Fury's car.
Both Fury and Indra slammed there heads against the car, each gaining a gash across their forehead. As soon as Indra's vision refocused, she noticed that there were suddenly cops with automatic weapons surrounding their car with their guns cocked and aimed. "Holy shit." Indra gasped as she pressed her hand to her forehead to stop the bleeding.
"We're gonna get out of here." Nick assured as he began fidgeting with the buttons in the car.
The cops began to shoot hundreds of endless rounds at the car, each one causing the bulletproof car to weaken more and more. "Get me out of here!" Nick shouted at his car's AI.
The car obliged and sped away from the scene, leaving the cops behind. The cops quickly caught up, causing Fury to have to regain hold of the wheel and weave through traffic to avoid them. The cops managed to get a few bullets to hit the car, but that was about it because then— a man dress in all black appeared and stopped the car with with his weapon. The weapon seemed to be a small bomb shooter. The flipped over and skidded to an abrupt stop. "Ow." Indra groaned as she attempted to crawl out from under the flipped car.
Fury chuckled and pulled out a laser pen from his pocket and turned it on. The man in all black that managed to stop the car with a bomb began approaching the car, but Fury cut a tunnel into the ground with his laser pen within seconds before the man in all black to reach him and Indra. The two escaped without much damage being done to them.
