After watching the video, Stark and Banner could only think that another enemy had appeared.
Mercer, however, looked thoughtful.
This man was no stranger to him. On the contrary, he was somewhat familiar.
"Mercer, what's wrong? Don't tell me you know this guy?" Stark asked when he saw his expression.
"I wouldn't say I know him, but I know who he is." Mercer nodded, then added, "Let's go find Nick Fury first. We should discuss this together."
"All right!"
The other two nodded, and under Mercer's control, all three vanished at once.
"Hey, hey, what about me..." Lockdown, who had been trembling in a corner the whole time, stood there looking bewildered.
"Almost forgot about you."
Mercer's voice rang out in midair. A moment later, Lockdown was whisked away by Spatial Teleportation as well.
The scene shifted.
Mercer and the others appeared inside the secret base. Captain America Carter had also arrived, though her expression was grim.
At their arrival, Nick Fury tipped his chin toward the person beside him. The man nodded in understanding and left.
"Everyone knows what happened, right?" Nick Fury asked.
They all nodded. "How could you even think of using something like that to make weapons? That isn't a power humanity can control!"
As a weapons expert, Stark spoke with a trace of anger.
He had instantly realized just how terrifying the weapons developed from the Artificial Tesseract could be.
"I had no choice," Fury said with a sigh.
"Ever since Thor came to Earth, the chain of events he set off has proven that powerful aliens really do exist in this universe, and they're far more advanced than Earth.
Even if we've driven the enemy away, we're still the weaker side. S.H.I.E.L.D. can't focus only on threats here on Earth. We have to prepare