The initial spark of what later generations called the "Secret Wars" came from an interrogation room in the dungeon beneath this underground city of Rome.
After discovering what they wanted, the interrogators used their authority to conduct another round of questioning on the Skrulls held in the dungeon, and sure enough, they uncovered something extraordinary. Even when the young secretary was sent to the dungeon entrance in the City of Immortals, she still had no idea what was going on. Nevertheless, following protocol, she delivered the document—its parchment cover stamped with a dark crimson confidentiality seal—to the senior intelligence analysts and the intelligence officers of the Fimbulwinter First Secret Regiment. Soon afterward, lights came on one after another in the Intelligence Department building, which had previously housed only personnel on duty. Communication satellites sent call requests to the communicators of Intelligence Department officials at every level, and bleary-eyed intelligence officers in black uniforms gradually emerged from the residential buildings.
Then the young secretary was sent out of the Intelligence Department, her face still full of bewilderment.
Clutching the document, she entered the Ministry of Internal Affairs building. After a stretch of silence, lights also came on in the building, and telephones at every level began ringing in succession. Only when Praetorian Guard Constantine picked up the call did the chain of communications finally come to an end. Praetorian Guard Constantine stood silently in the dark office building, holding a tablet as he reviewed the electronic interrogation reports. One from the Fimbulwinter First Secret Regiment, one from the Intelligence Department, and one from the Interrogation Department—only when all three reports matched exactly could they be trusted. This report helped the City of Immortals piece together what had happened after Carol Danvers led the Skrulls away from Earth. Just as they had