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/POV Alexander Pierce/

His control over Hydra had been slippery as of late.

Hydra had been budding within S.H.I.E.L.D. for years after the war. And they had done an excellent job in keeping their heads low as S.H.I.E.L.D. was arrogant, arrogant enough to throw away any thought of infiltration in their ranks, much less having someone from Hydra at Alpha level authority.

But in 2007 everything changed.

The portal that opened on 2005 forced S.H.I.E.L.D. to come in public eyes for research purposes, and when unwarranted personnel without an organization of backing work on a questionable subject, questions were bound to be raised.

S.H.I.E.L.D. got past that by taking names of various organizations, sometimes FBI and sometimes undersecretaries of scientists.

But S.H.I.E.L.D.'s purpose was to tackle an extraterrestrial threat to humanity, and by no means a portal above New York was something human made in their eyes.

After a whole two years, the World Security council decreed, ever after the outright threats from Alexander of the consequences it would come with, that S.H.I.E.L.D. was to work with full force in the endeavor of the portal, they could into just sit by while something like a bomb could pass by it and raze the city to the ground.

And so it happened, slowly but S.H.I.E.L.D. now worked publicly and given the secret hallow surrounding it and the way it was introduce as an alien tacking organization, most people jumped at the opportunity of investigation and joining it.

Who would now want to be a MIB?- thats what S.H.I.E.L.D. sounded like to them.

So S.H.I.E.L.D. and by extension Hydra was out there in the open.

That put a weight to Hydra's plan of world domination, given they could not do many things with all the eyes of the world focusing on them.

And then comes the threat of the Batman.

Given that S.H.I.E.L.D. had to extend their stay in NYC, Hydra made its mission to expand their base and where else but the place where they had to be 24/7 on ther orders from above the table?

So NYC became more or less the headquarters of Hydra, given S.H.I.E.L.D. did the same thing while signing the order of building the Triskelion and Heli-carrier.

They were forced to play a bad hand, and they complied while reaping small time returns.

They made drug smuggling ring, assassinations, trafficking and gods know what, with shortlisting it to the lower members, who did not even know they were Hydra. They grew like a tree, with their roots getting them the resources for their path to world domination.

But with Batman things changed.

The roots gave away in fear, wilting out of existence. He was like fire, burning their ground members, weakening their base.

Their profits- investments- from NYC had been cut from were a staggering $9.5 Billion! They had gone from $11.4 Billion to a mere $1.9 Billion!

While there were other sources for the organization to get its money from, the losses were huge from America as a whole, more so when the Hand was sacked away.

Hydra had no choice but to cut of the Hand, given too much was leaked all over the internet, and they nearly got the chain of command exposed during the whole fiasco.

Princess Adriane- well they could not have let her live after what had transpired between them.

And it was not necessary to mention that it dealt a major blow to them. Hand served its purpose in providing personnel undercover, with the veil of Hydra in S.H.I.E.L.D. intact, as there was no need for them to send agents to do the dirty work- the Hand was there.

But some things were done out of necessity.

Hydra may be cautious but it was not one to leave grievances aside. So Pierce left to effort, in getting Batman acquainted with trouble.

More nd more personnel with shoot on sight orders, more dangers he possessed in public, garnering the support in country for his head and going for the U.N. for the same.

The attack on Hand, was in Monaco, international rules dictated such an attempt to be highly illegal, whatever the reasons may have been.

And Alexander succeeded in making the paranoid people more paranoid- at last the World security council had taken to his advice of getting to the Bat.

But a U.N. conference to deal with him, no less getting him an in ticket to the society-that was not planned.

So he had to get more U.N. members to his side. Security council he could do, given who their heads were and how deep in corruption seeped their legs, but the whole U.N, was a whole different thing.

"You had orders to outsource assassination to the Russians?"

"With respect sir-"

"Drop the formalities- when people say they mean with respect, they mean the opposite mostly."

"Sir- we are losing- out businesses, our men and by the way things are going on we fear out confidentially is at risk-"

"Who is this we you speak of Jack Rollins?" Jack got scared- he was only the spokesperson of those behind him- those who were not getting enough returns from their investments towards Hydra with Pierce as its leader.

"Sir" *Bang*

"Ah I have to clear this room- Olenna get this done for god's sake." He got his phone to dial someone "Get the soldier down for the U.N."

"What do we do with Taskmaster sir?"

"Let him be- we are not cheap to retract the bounty when an attempt has already been made."

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Daredevil crept into his own dorm room- without getting caught by anyone. He was sure of that. The window to the south had helped him in this endeavor.

He pulled out his black blindfolding mask. After the whole Docks shootout- he had been focusing on sharpening his skills and getting results rather than waltzing into everything he came across. That was for the police to be informed about which got into the Batman's radar- his original purpose.

Matt was growing bolder. He considered himself special to perceive things that others' can't, be able to see what other's cant with their eyes open. This astute revelation got him work for the people, something he wanted even post college with charities and all that, and with his fist for the people who needed saving now.

He got to his glasses- red as described by his friend Foggy.

*thump* *thump*'

There had been another person in the room. Matt took arms, guarding from any surprise charge.

"6.3 seconds" Matt recognized this voice- it was Batman. But knowing he was here was not a reason to not panic, given his disposition towards other vigilantes till date.

"It takes 6.3 seconds to perceive a person if you are not actively looking for him, more so in dark.- you took 1.2 seconds"

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