You're Not Allowed to Touch He-El's Money

Washington.

The Triskelion Building, latitude 38°53'33.78" N, longitude.

The Triskelion Building stood across the water from the Washington Monument.

The Triskelion was the headquarters of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, now abbreviated as S.H.I.E.L.D.

Few would have imagined that the Triskelion Building would be located here, because the Pentagon and the White House were not far away.

As a special force under the United Nations, would the president and Congress really be generous enough to allow an armed organization to establish armed forces near the Pentagon and the White House, regardless of their own safety?

But many things did not stand up to close scrutiny. Though it was nominally a special force under the United Nations, it was actually an intelligence force privately owned by the United States, which had coerced other countries and borrowed the United Nations' name.

Other countries paid to build this special organization, which primarily served the United States itself.

It did handle unusual incidents, of course, but that also provided a suitable excuse to enter other nations' territory.

Rising from Roosevelt Island, the Triskelion Building had a clean, bright glass curtain wall. It was open and luminous, its grand halls broad and imposing. Its immaculate appearance carried a cold, austere sense of professionalism.

The top floor of the Triskelion Building was spacious, with gleaming floors and little office equipment. There were only several communication projections and command consoles.

This was where Alexander Pierce, a minister of the World Security Council and former director of S.H.I.E.L.D., often held meetings with several other national representatives from the World Security Council.

It was also where he, as Hydra's leader hidden within S.H.I.E.L.D., carried out his plans most of the time.

"Do you know He-El?"

Having just accepted a communication from the president and heard his