Innocents' Blood (First Update)

Not a single pane of glass in the entire city remained intact. Every window had shattered into countless fragments during the terrifying tremors of the ascent. As slowly rising Sokovia broke through the heavy clouds, there was a moment when the shattered glass in the streets reflected the sunlight all at once, making it look like a city covered in crystal from a fairy tale.

"You won't die here, because an empty Helicarrier capable of carrying everyone is approaching. The City of Immortals' engineering team repaired it and brought back those S.H.I.E.L.D. employees from all over the world." The Artificial Human commander listened with satisfaction to the Avengers' exclamations. She stood on the bridge, looking through reinforced glass at the clouds below, bleached white by the sunlight. "Nick Fury currently lacks the means to start that severely damaged Helicarrier. Only the City of Immortals could repair its engines so quickly. He'll come say hello to you soon... He got here faster than I expected! That bastard, he didn't pay a cent!"

The clouds were drawn into an invisible vortex, and a Helicarrier, clearly less technologically advanced than the Sisterhood's Sky Battleship, rose into view. Four propellers, rather than the City of Immortals' electric propulsion engines, lifted it into the sky. The Avengers were very familiar with this carrier, because they had boarded it before. "Why aren't any of you surprised?" Nick Fury asked with a laugh over the communication link. "I do still owe Salomon money. That guy doesn't charge cheaply. I had no idea when he developed an organization like this."

"While you were busy preserving the peace you hold in such high regard and dismissing the real crisis." Tita refused to let Nick Fury off the hook. She could not understand why the Monarch would devote the City