"...Agent Coulson was killed."
In the wrecked and chaotic bridge command room, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s logistics personnel were cleaning up the mess. With Iron Man and Captain America working together, they had finally repaired the explosion-damaged No. 3 engine, preventing the Sky Carrier, which resembled a space fortress, from losing control and crashing.
Medical teams moved through the massive vessel, searching for and treating those wounded in the attack. Fortunately, the Hydra agents led by Hawkeye Barton had only wanted to create greater chaos to facilitate Loki's rescue from his cell. There had been no large-scale exchange of fire, and the number of casualties was not as high as expected.
The only ones who had caused tremendous damage to the Sky Carrier were probably Thor and Hulk in their fierce battle. The former had fallen for Loki's scheme and been locked in the special cell S.H.I.E.L.D. had built for Banner, sent into free fall from nine thousand meters in the air. After destroying a fighter jet, the latter had vanished without a trace.
"We found this in Agent Coulson's jacket. He'll never get the chance to ask for your autograph."
The Black director tossed a stack of cards onto the table. The bloodstains on them were particularly glaring. They were Captain America collectible character cards, which had remained popular ever since their release in the last century. If auctioned online, they would surely attract a huge crowd of comic fans.
Nearly every child in the country had read comics about the war hero Steve Rogers, and Coulson was one of them. Without exaggeration, Captain America had practically been his childhood idol.
"We're blind right now. The communications system has been damaged, we can't find the Tesseract, and Banner and Thor have both disappeared... I lost my finest assistant. I brought all of