Chapter 204 - 203. Capturing Zemo, the Strange Stone
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"That fast...?"
Inside one of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s covert facilities, agents in dark tactical gear moved briskly between terminals and holo-tables. Monitors streamed global surveillance feeds. One feed stood out Nolan on screen, freezing and capturing Baron Strucker within moments.
Agent Phil Coulson, now reinstated and trusted by Nick Fury, rubbed his temple in disbelief.
He’d only just been briefed. He thought this mission would take weeks.
But Nolan had located Strucker in less than two days and taken him down with clinical precision.
Coulson glanced at the intel folder in his hand. Once, Nolan had been just another Hydra scientist until something happened. He’d escaped. Aligned with arms trafficker Ulysses Klaue, even eliminated the Winter Soldier at one point... though Hydra had later recovered Bucky Barnes.
Then came New York.
Nolan’s rise felt unreal. He recruited Curt Connors, acquired Oscorp, and even tamed Norman Osborn.
Now Oscorp wasn’t just a tech giant—it was a superhuman military power under Nolan’s control.
Worse, S.H.I.E.L.D.’s surveillance on him had gone dark. Any traceable data was scrubbed in real-time. Are moles planted around Oscorp? Exposed and eliminated. Fury wanted more intel, but Coulson could only sigh.