The Goddess Statue in Danger

On the television, The President was laying out S.H.I.E.L.D.'s intelligence—not just the information S.H.I.E.L.D. did not fear making public, but even some secret files. Things like all kinds of covert operations, and certain special human experiments.

After all, although the Avengers had now entered the public eye and gained the people's approval, S.H.I.E.L.D. still had not become a fully public official agency like the FBI. In fact, it was not only S.H.I.E.L.D.; A.R.G.U.S. and many other extraordinary official agencies were the same. They all hid in the shadows, with no intention whatsoever of revealing their identities and accepting public oversight.

And now, as The President spoke, it was not only Nick Fury and the others within S.H.I.E.L.D. whose expressions changed. The Hydra faction hiding inside S.H.I.E.L.D. also changed color, because some of the things The President was talking about had not been done by S.H.I.E.L.D. at all, but by Hydra under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s name!

This meant that the information The President currently possessed contained traces of Hydra. Without a doubt, this shocked Alexander Pierce and the others, and they began constantly calculating who exactly had kidnapped The President...

And this was precisely Baron Strucker's purpose in choosing to reveal S.H.I.E.L.D.'s information first. He wanted to tear away S.H.I.E.L.D.'s veil of mystery. He wanted Alexander Pierce's Hydra branch to be exposed and made known to the entire world!

The current Baron Strucker still believed himself to be part of Hydra, but from the moment the other Hydra branches attacked him, Baron Strucker had treated every other Hydra as his enemy. He was the only one—the orthodox Hydra!

Unfortunately, if the strength of snake-type Animal Warriors had not failed to satisfy Baron Strucker, Baron Strucker would long ago have chosen to turn himself into a snake-type Animal Warrior to display his truly orthodox