Chapter 39: S.H.I.E.L.D. appears
As soon as he walked downstairs to the lab, Bucky saw a helicopter slowly rise into the air.
"Damn! Let that Stryker bastard get away again! ”
Raven sighed, a hint of resentment in his tone. Twenty years ago, Raven was captured with a stun gun by Stryker, who was still a major at the time, and killed Trisk, but was imprisoned himself. If it weren't for the help of other mutants, Raven didn't know if he would still be an experiment in Stryker's hands.
For twenty years, Raven didn't want to kill Stryker and free the mutants in his hands. Although he has successfully rescued the mutants imprisoned by Stryker, as long as the culprit Stryker is alive, his efforts to capture mutants will not stop, and more mutants will be harmed by him.
Raven gritted his teeth and rushed to the rooftop, trying to stop the helicopter taking off. Although Raven knew that she couldn't stop the helicopter from leaving, and that this kind of behavior was just a way to vent her anger and would not do anything, she did it without hesitation.
"Wait a minute, Raven, something is wrong, someone is coming." Bucky suddenly spoke, calling out to Raven as he was about to enter the building.
Just now, Bucky felt a slightly warm air stream blow vertically from the air. At first, Bucky thought that the air flow was generated by Stryker's helicopter, but when he thought about it, the air flow from that helicopter would not have come from directly above Bucky anyway.
Looking at the empty sky, a thought suddenly appeared in Bucky's mind, this is a stealth fighter, and there is a stealth fighter levitating in the sky above him.
Three steps and two steps, Bucky hurried to catch up with Raven and pull her into a corner. Now Bucky doesn't know who came to Three Mile Island, but Bucky doesn't want to expose his existence, only hopes that the dark environment at night has hidden his body and is not discovered by the people on the stealth fighter.
"Be careful and hidden, there are stealth fighters in the sky." Bucky whispered to Raven.
As if to confirm Bucky's words, the next moment, four fighters suddenly appeared in the air, forming an encirclement of Stryker's helicopter, and there was a strong light at the bottom of each fighter, shining on Stryker's helicopter, making the people in the helicopter unrecognizable.
Bucky could see that next to the bright lights of each fighter, there was also a weapon that resembled a machine gun, and it was clear that if Stryker made any restless moves, a relentless attack awaited him.
Looking at the fuselage of the fighter again, Bucky found that on the fuselage of each black fighter, there was a circular silver-gray pattern, which depicted an eagle with wings outstretched.
It's S.H.I.E.L.D. here!
"It's S.H.I.E.L.D., let's go!" Bucky pulled Raven and walked along the shadows, carefully out of the place.
Now Bucky doesn't want to have any contact with S.H.I.E.L.D., that would have to explain too many issues, which would definitely involve Hydra, and then Bucky would have to face Hydra's revenge, which would be a very troublesome thing.
At this time, a man's voice was also heard in the sky.
"This is a joint force of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the U.S. military, please land immediately and put off the fire and be investigated!"
"This is a joint force of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the U.S. military, please land and turn off the fire immediately and accept the investigation, this is an order!"
After several notices, the helicopter that was taking off eventually landed on the roof of the building and, as ordered, turned off its engine. Stryker stepped out of the helicopter with a gloomy face, looking at the four stealth fighters that suddenly appeared overhead, and had a sense of foreboding in his heart.
Moments later, the suspended fighter plane opened the hatch, and more than two dozen heavily armed agents descended the rope ladder to the top of the building, and under the command of a man in a black suit about thirty years old, they immediately descended the stairs and began to inspect the entire building.
The man in the black suit looked at the documents in his hand, compared Stryker in front of him, smiled, stepped forward to shake Stryker's hand, and said, "Colonel William Stryker, hello, I'm S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson, and I'm in charge of investigating everything that happened here. ”
When Stryker heard the words "S.H.I.E.L.D.", his face became even more ugly. With his current status, although he doesn't know much about S.H.I.E.L.D., he has also learned about the existence of one of the best organizations in this world through various channels.
S.H.I.E.L.D. is a special organization attached to the International Security Council, a special force that specializes in dealing with all kinds of bizarre events. Stryker knows that if he uses the military to capture and imprison mutants, and even uses mutants for experiments, if it is ruled by S.H.I.E.L.D., he is afraid that he will be in prison for the rest of his life.
However, Stryker's luck is still good, because there are not only S.H.I.E.L.D. agents here today, but also people from the military.
At this time, a lean middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a U.S. Army camouflage uniform, got off the stealth fighter plane of S.H.I.E.L.D., walked up to Stryker, and said with a serious expression: "I'm Thaddeus Roth, a major general of the U.S. Army. ”
Stryker saw that the person who came was a general of the U.S. Army, and his heart suddenly relaxed a lot, all his experiments were carried out under the instructions of the U.S. military, although many of the actions were a bit out of bounds, but Stryker believed that the generals of the military would eventually be on his side, at least not to hand himself over to S.H.I.E.L.D. for trial.
"Hello General Ross, I'm Colonel William Stryker of the U.S. Army." Stryker said with a standard military salute to General Ross.
General Ross nodded, and didn't say anything more, but looked at Phil Coulson on the side, and asked in a stiff tone: "Agent Coulson, I see that there is nothing abnormal on this island except for an abandoned nuclear reactor accident, that nuclear reactor has long been abandoned, and there are no nuclear materials in it, and it is not your S.H.I.E.L.D. style to meddle in such a trivial matter!" ”
Coulson smiled, not angry because of General Ross's attitude, but said in a calm tone: "Our S.H.I.E.L.D. only suspects that there is a danger to the security of the United States here, and it is routinely inspected in accordance with the regulations formulated by the International Security Council, and it has no other meaning. ”
General Ross, who had touched a soft nail, snorted coldly and said no more.
When Stryker saw General Ross's attitude, he immediately understood that the military still supported him, and General Ross came with the people of S.H.I.E.L.D. this time, I am afraid that it was also to give himself a chance to get away with his crimes, and his worst outcome was only to go to a military court and go to prison for several years. Stryker believes that with his years of experience in mutant research, the military will not completely give up on himself, and there will always be a day when he will make a comeback, and he will always have the day when he will wipe out the entire mutant race.
Now Stryker has some regrets, regretting that he killed General Munson on impulse, and now General Munson's body is still lying in the laboratory and has not had time to deal with it, which will definitely become evidence of his own crimes, and it seems that going to court martial is inevitable.
Just as Stryker regretted it, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent ran back to the rooftop, gave Coulson a military salute and said loudly, "Report sir, in the laboratory on the top floor, we found a corpse, and after verification, the deceased was General Manson, General Munson." The cause of death and other details are being investigated by other colleagues. ”
Hearing the news, Coulson frowned, an army general died, which gave the U.S. military a good reason to intervene in this incident, even S.H.I.E.L.D. couldn't stop it.
As the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D. in dealing with this incident, Coulson naturally has learned a lot of information, such as Colonel Stryker privately arresting mutants, such as this Three Mile Island actually has an experimental institution specializing in the study of mutants, and from the current situation, it is enough for S.H.I.E.L.D. to put Colonel Stryker in cold storage.
However, it is a pity that although Colonel Stryker's behavior is out of line, it has always been backed by the US military, and even if Stryker is to be sentenced, it is difficult for S.H.I.E.L.D. to bypass the military alone, not to mention that there is still a US Army general who has died here.
General Ross was not much better than Coulson when he heard the news, although he did not have any interests with General Manson, but General Manson was an army general after all, and he belonged to the people who had already stood at the top of military power, and he did not expect to die here. The death of General Munson was bound to cause an earthquake throughout the military, and General Ross now feared that it would have an incalculable impact on his own power.
Time passed little by little, and soon, one message after another was summarized to Coulson by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, which also made Coulson's face more and more ugly.
Of the dozen or so autopsied corpses found in laboratories and cells, many of them could be identified as mutants by their appearance; Dozens of heavily armed American servicemen were killed on the first floor, most likely mutants.
This undoubtedly proves that there are very serious conflicts between mutants and military personnel on this island, and it is very likely that the cause of the military experimental agency illegally arrested mutants and carried out illegal experiments.
Looking at Stryker, who was standing aside with a very calm expression, Coulson was annoyed, S.H.I.E.L.D. has always hoped that mutants can live in peace with ordinary people, but the existence of people like Stryker will always deepen the contradictions between mutants and ordinary people, making many of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s efforts useless.
"General Ross, you know what is happening here, and now in accordance with the relevant regulations of the International Security Council, we are going to take the head of this place, Colonel William Stryker, for further questioning. Of course, all inquiries will be carried out with the US military, I wonder what is wrong with General Ross? ”
"Yes, please!" General Ross knew that he was powerless to refute S.H.I.E.L.D.'s request, so he did not object.
Later, Stryker was escorted by several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and boarded the S.H.I.E.L.D. stealth plane.