Director Phil Coulson had a feeling of extreme foreboding.

It's been a year and a half since he took over S.H.I.E.L.D. from Fury, and after all kinds of hardships, the Aegis in Coulson's hands finally has some signs of return.

The fledgling S.H.I.E.L.D. has had a lot going through in the past year, but perhaps the most important one is the complete disintegration of their nemesis, Hydra. This incident really gave Coulson a long sigh of relief, and it was only when the last remaining sparks of Hydra were completely extinguished that he finally felt that he had lived up to Fury's trust and honorably completed the task of removing the remnants of his sins.

At the same time, S.H.I.E.L.D. itself has not stopped developing and recovering. Their agents are beginning to multiply, and their reach is becoming more and more extensive. Soon they went from not having even a single Quint fighter to having a fighter formation again, and they regained the Aegis's unique stealth technology.

Coulson even managed to get his hands on one more floating carrier. When the mothership was successfully lifted off, Director Coulson stood on the deck of the mothership against the howling wind, and let the wind blow the tie on his chest in the wind, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

Sure enough, only the Aegis with the Floating Mothership is truly complete.

The most exciting part for Coulson was that they reconnected with Captain Steve Rogers and were helped by the legendary superhero in multiple operations.

Although Captain America has also participated in Aegis missions in the past, he himself has always had a bad opinion of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s style. However, when Coulson asked him again for help on behalf of the new Aegis, he agreed.

Because although he doesn't like Aegis, he is more optimistic about Agent Coulson. He felt that the agent had a loyal and enthusiastic heart, a man to be trusted, and as a friend he was willing to help Aegis under Coulson's leadership.

For example, this time. It's just that this time he's not here to solve the problems that have happened for Aegis, this time he's here to prevent the troubles that may arise soon.

Coulson led the way in front and led the captain through the corridor into the laboratory set up inside the mothership. Walking into the busy room, a blue cube placed on a metal stand in the center of the room immediately catches your eye. It was a deep blue cube, with a smoke-like energy, and a deep blue light flowed within this small square frame, as if it contained a whole condensed ocean.

"I recognize it." Captain Rogers frowned.

"'Cosmic Rubik's Cube'." Coulson nodded and introduced, "In your time, this is what Red Skull has in his hands. It has an incalculable amount of energy. We're fishing you out at the same time we're fishing this out. ”

Rogers stared at the cube with a look of displeasure.

"You should leave it in the water." He said.

"But anyway, it's here now." Coulson said, "Fury had hoped to parse its energy and then try to weaponize it, but in Aegis...... After it became the way it is, I shut down the project. During that time, a lot of dangerous goods in Aegis were confiscated and sent to various agencies, but the cube was saved by us. I've been carefully locking it in the hazmat storage room until now. ”

Rogers folded his arms: "You've also decided to use it to develop something dangerous?" ”

"Me? No, not at all. Coulson waved his hand repeatedly, and then turned to the cube with an unsightly look, "No one touched it, it was it that suddenly activated itself in the basement." ”

"Activate it yourself? Are you saying it can turn its own switch? ”

"It's not something that hasn't happened before. There was one time when Fury was studying it, and someone on the other side of the universe used it to open a door, and then an invulnerable maniac with a spear came out from the other side and killed several of our agents. ”

Rogers raised an eyebrow.

"And now a similar phenomenon has emerged, and my people are working how to make it stop." "But if we don't succeed and some crazy alien comes here through it......"

"You want me to stop him." Rogers understood.

"You are the best soldier." Coulson said, "You're our trump card, captain. ”

Rogers nodded, "I'll do my best." ”

In the laboratory, two young men in white coats, a man and a woman, walked over. Leon Fitz and Jenma Simmons, two of Coulson's best scientists at the moment, are also the heads of the lab.

Fitz looked a little nervous, and deliberately waved to the captain as he approached.

"Regarding this 'Cosmic Rubik's Cube,'" he said, "I think that this time should be different from the last time. ”

"What's the difference?"

"The last time the other party was able to open it from the other side, it should be because they have tools in their hands that are extremely close to the energy nature of the Rubik's Cube and can echo and influence each other." Simmons said, "And Fiz and I don't think the other party has similar tools this time, and they can't directly activate the Rubik's Cube from the other side to open the portal to this side. ”

Coulson asked, "Then why does the Rubik's Cube start on its own?" ”

The two young men looked at each other.

"I think someone sent some sort of search signal this time, sir." "The other side emits signals that happen to be similar to the tiny gamma energy frequencies released by the Cosmic Cube itself, and the Cosmic Cube is like a signal transceiver," Fitz said. When it receives a signal, it automatically activates and sends a reply at the same frequency in the direction from which the other party came. It's like...... It's like ......"

"It's like GPS positioning!" Simmons took over again, "The gamma rays emitted by the magic direction into the depths of the universe are like a navigation map clearly marked by GPS, which will directly lead the other party to our precise coordinates. ”

Coulson blinked.

"Are you talking about...... Is there an alien who has received a signal from the Rubik's Cube and is likely on its way? ”

The two looked at each other again.

"I ...... I think that's an optimistic estimate. Fitz said.

Coulson felt more and more uncomfortable: "What about the unoptimistic estimates? ”

Fitz took a deep breath: "...... I think there's probably an alien army on the way, sir. ”

Coulson had a hellish look on his face.

The alarm on the mothership went off at this very unfortunate time.

Coulson was stunned. So fast? They just talked about the alien link, and that's it?

Several people left the laboratory and returned to the command center as fast as they could. As soon as they entered the door, the three uninvited guests crashed directly through the ceiling and fell into the command room.

All the agents reflexively pulled out their guns, and more than a dozen guns were pointed at the three intruders across the bridge.

"Long time no see, Agent Coulson. Don't be nervous and get your people to put down their guns. I'm sorry we didn't leave the door in a hurry," Tony stepped forward and beckoned at Coulson, "but I promise to pay for everything...... Ah, Captain! He then beckoned to the captain, "Hello, I'm sure we're meeting for the first time. ”

Captain America lowered the shield he was holding in his hand: "Mr. Stark." ”

Coulson's head was big for a while.

He felt that the foreboding seemed to grow stronger.

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