So, faced with the massive compensation claim, Ishiro Serizawa decisively hired a highly capable auditing team at great expense.
They directly struck out the many fabricated items Nick Fury had privately added to the claim list: false expenditures, malicious amortization, and exorbitant repair fees conjured out of thin air,
as well as unreasonable items unrelated to the battle, such as personnel travel expenses, research expenses, training expenses, and even nearly five months of unpaid wages for close to a thousand outsourced workers!!
In the end, only the medical expenses for the two injured agents and a few minor items, such as the Quinjet's fuel consumption during the rescue operation, remained... totaling less than one million dollars.
What?
Did the shells fired by the Helicarrier cost nothing?
Sorry, those were expenses that fell within S.H.I.E.L.D.'s own responsibilities.
Without Monarch, would your Helicarrier not attack when it encountered an enemy?
Honestly, even Ishiro Serizawa himself had not expected this result.
Nick Fury, I gave you an opportunity, and you still couldn't make use of it!
Just how arrogant did you have to be, how little did you think of Monarch, to produce such a blatantly flawed set of accounts?
If you had only demanded one hundred million dollars in compensation from the start, we would not have hired auditors, and presumably none of this would have happened.
If anyone was to blame, it was your greed. You opened your mouth and demanded one billion dollars outright.
Well, how did that work out for you now?
When Nick Fury learned that the compensation had shrunk by a factor of a thousand, he was first utterly dumbfounded, then flew into a rage.
He had originally thought it would be like dealing with everyone else before.
As long as he casually cooked up some accounts