Chapter 242. Activation

"Attention all personnel, an evacuation has been ordered ..."

Secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base, Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility, Mojave Desert, Nevada.

At the sound of the alarm, many researchers and agents began an emergency evacuation.

"How bad is it?"

Arriving at the base by helicopter, Nick Fury frowned and swept through the evacuating crowd in front of him. Facing the strong wind caused by the helicopter, he asked Agent Coulson, who had arrived earlier.

Because of the abruptness of the incident, Fury only roughly understood from Agent Hill that something was wrong with the Tesseract.

"That's the problem, Sir. We don't know." Taking off his sunglasses, Agent Coulson gave Fury an obvious wry smile, "We don't even know if it's a good thing or a bad thing."

Taking the elevator to the laboratory located on the lower floors of the base. On the way, Agent Coulson told Fury what the situation was, "Dr. Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract 4 hours ago, and it's spreading out. Because of the possible danger, we issued an urgent evacuation order ..."

"NASA didn't authorize Selvig to go into test phase ..."

When he heard the report from Agent Coulson, Fury first thought of the possibility.

"He wasn't testing it."

Shaking his head, Agent Coulson's answer deepened Fury's anxiety.

"He wasn't even in the room. It's a spontaneous event."

"It just turned itself on?"

Then, when Agent Hill heard Phil's words, her expression turned to disbelief.

Tesseract had been in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s hands for some time, but it had never been triggered automatically before.

"How long until we get everyone out?"

"It should be clear within the next half hour."

"It better be."

After receiving the order, Agent Coulson immediately accelerated the evacuation from the base.

While Fury and Agent Hill continued to walk toward the Tesseract's laboratory.

"Sir, evacuation may be futile."

On the way, Agent Hill couldn't help but say, "If we can't control the Tesseract's energy, there may not be a minimum safe distance."

"So, we should tell them to go back to sleep?" Faced with the concerns from Agent Hill, Fury's attitude was obviously determined, "I need you to make sure the phase II prototypes are shipped out."

"Sir, is that really a priority right now ...?"

Agent Hill was obviously puzzled by Fury's orders. If the Tesseract erupted, neither the prototypes nor any of them would be spared.

"Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on."

Fury's phase II prototype actually referred to the Destroyer's armor in New Mexico, which was disintegrated by Ryan's [Imagine Breaker] and a series of weapons seized from Hydra during World War II. S.H.I.E.L.D. intended to use these energy sources, combined with Tesseract, to develop weapons of mass destruction that could defend the earth.

Who would have thought that before the weapon had been designed properly, the Tesseract would instead be the one that went wrong first as the energy source?

...

"Talk to me, Doctor! Is there anything we know for sure? "

When Fury entered the laboratory, he looked at Tesseract, which was shining in the middle of the laboratory and then asked.

"I don't know." There was a subtle glint in his eyes. Dr. Selvig replied to Fury, who came over, "The Tesseract is misbehaving. The Tesseract is not only active, but it's also... behaving."

"I assumed you pulled the plug?"

"It's an energy source. We turn off the power, it turns back on."

Turning his head to look at Tesseract, which was shining brightly, Fury suddenly said, "We've prepared for this, Doctor. Harnessing energy from space..."

"But we don't have the harness, my calculations are far from complete."

Erik had been controlled, but it didn't mean that there was a problem with his IQ. On the contrary, he clearly knew that activation and control were two completely different concepts.

"The energy of the Tesseract is too powerful for us, and trying to control it is not a simple matter."

"Sooner or later..."

During World War II, Red Skull was able to use the power of the Tesseract to create weapons. Fury didn't think that S.H.I.E.L.D. was inferior to Hydra during World War II.

"Where is Agent Barton?" Looking around the lab, Fury asked.

Tesseract was a powerful weapon, and Fury wouldn't hand it over to Selvig for research without any precautions. In fact, a large number of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were arranged in the laboratory to monitor him, and Clint Barton was one of them.

"The hawk? Up in his nest as usual."

Hearing Fury's inquiry, Selvig turned, pointed to his back, and answered.

.....

"I gave you this detail so you can keep a close eye on things..."

"I see better from a distance."

"So, have you seen anything that might set this thing off?"

"No one has come or gone, and Selvig's clean. No contacts, no messages."

Frowning, Clint glanced at the Tesseract, which was constantly glowing in front of him, revealing his guess, "If there is any tampering, Sir, it's not from this end. The cube is a doorway to the other end of space, right? Doors open from both sides."

"Both sides?"

Hawkeye's words changed Fury's expression.

As his voice dropped, there was a glint of light in Erik's eyes, who was standing at the computer behind them. Without hesitation, he pressed a button on the keyboard.

Immediately afterward, Fury saw a large amount of energy gathering around the Tesseract, and then a dark and blue passage opened up.

Boom --

After a blinding light, a figure holding a scepter gradually emerged from the passage formed by the Tesseract.