The War Begins (A 5000-character chapter, please vote with your monthly tickets)

With this latest conspiracy unfolding, among the people Nick Fury had gathered, Thor and Banner were temporarily out of contact, while Chen Haoran had passed out after stopping Hulk. The whole team seemed as if it were falling apart.

At that moment, Nick Fury called Tony Stark and Steve Rogers over. He held a stack of bloodstained cards in his hand, then flung them onto the table and said, "Looks like he won't get the chance to ask you for an autograph anymore."

Rogers looked at the cards on the table and picked one up. It was a portrait of himself, now completely covered in blood.

Nick Fury continued, "Right now, we've completely lost our direction, lost communications, and lost the Tesseract's location."

"Banner and Thor are missing too, and Chen Haoran is still unconscious. I've got nothing left."

"I've also lost my most capable subordinate. Maybe I had this coming."

"That's right, we wanted to use the Tesseract to make weapons, but I didn't put all my hopes on that."

"Because I had an even bolder plan. I had an idea. Stark knows about it."

"It's called the Avengers Initiative."

"It's about bringing together a group of people with extraordinary abilities and seeing whether they become stronger as a team."

"Seeing whether they can fight side by side in a crisis and win the wars we can't."

"Phil Coulson believed in that idea until the day he died. He believed in heroes."

When Nick Fury said this, Tony could no longer sit still. He did not stay, but got up and left.

Watching Tony leave, Nick Fury said again, "All right, maybe that idea is outdated."

Elsewhere, Natasha was comforting Barton, while Yakushi Kabuto was treating Chen Haoran.

Because of what Nick Fury had said, Tony Stark and