To prepare this move before Wall Street reopened, the Malik family had mobilized nearly every trustworthy clerk among the Conservative Hydra families. At the same time, they spent enormous manpower and funds dealing with Conservative Hydra's internal scandals and personnel, cutting all ties before intelligence agencies in other countries could dig any deeper. The statement from Latveria about eradicating the terrorist organization Hydra had also been Gideon Malick's idea. With the election approaching, the Democratic and Republican parties were bound to expose each other's candidates' dirty histories. He had already foreseen that Europe and America's elite class intended to dump every bad deed onto Hydra. The media controlled by both sides would surely call it a Hydra conspiracy, while the candidates would claim they had been deceived by Hydra.
Since that was the case, who was Hydra no longer mattered so much. If I was Hydra, then you could be Hydra too. The real Hydra could then take advantage of the opening, filling the gaps in government functions and the shareholdings of certain key listed companies left behind after Radical Hydra's Alexander Pierce fell. This would satisfy the Emperor of Latveria's need for dominance over public opinion and control of the Military-Industrial Complex's shares, while also fulfilling the expansionist desires of the Conservative Hydra interest groups.
"Sir!" A man with deep-set eyes and a high nose, dressed in a neat suit, stood before Hammurabi.
He was Sunil Bakshi, the project director of the research team dispatched by the City of Immortals' Biological Laboratory as part of the joint research group. Before being recruited by the City of Immortals, he had worked for Daniel Whitehall's pharmaceutical company and been loyal to the former Hydra radical faction, deeply involved in projects concerning Inhumans and Mutants. He came from the streets of Soho