Time passed day by day.
The Avengers incident slowly came down from its worldwide peak.
But no one stopped moving forward.
Stark Industries and the government's Damage Control department formed a joint company to assist in collecting alien wreckage and other extraterrestrial materials.
At the same time, the government urgently introduced hundreds of new policies to deal with these alien objects.
Many of the countless contractors who had just signed demolition contracts with the city government went bankrupt in an instant.
Adrian Toomes was among them. He had risked his entire fortune, taken out loans to buy trucks, and hired a large workforce, only to be suddenly informed that he had no right to handle those materials.
He still had a wife and daughter to support, but under Executive Order 396B, he was completely ruined.
Left with no other choice, he set his sights on Chitauri technology.
Nick Fury stood aboard the Helicarrier, watching the images displayed on the screens before him.
They showed countless scenes captured by passersby, surveillance cameras, and satellites.
And across all those video recordings, there was only one thing they had in common.
Every one of them contained a winged figure streaking across the scene or hovering within it.
They all showed Leo.
Countless noisy sounds rang out from the footage—explosions and screams—as if they had returned Fury to the battlefield in New York.
The images before him began playing in full, giving Nick Fury his first direct impression of Leo's abilities.
His incredible flight speed, absolute control over metal, and strange healing Golden Light.
Any one of these observable abilities was an enormous shock to Fury.
And then there's that strange power of precognition.
Fury recalled what Leo had told him when he captured Loki.
*Leo, the Chitauri really do have only one central