Burning Man.

A week after the invasion.

"Lucifer, I was hoping you would come by the office to have a little bit of a chat." A voice came from the other side of a phone, interrupting my snuggle time with Lily watching TV.

"Damn you. Why call me when I'm busy. What do you want?" I grumble into the phone.

"It's a business proposal. I'm sure you will be interested. Don't worry, it won't take too long." The voice replies.

"Ugh, fine. I'll be there in a few minutes." I say as I hang up the phone annoyed.

"Don't worry about it. I have to head to the hospital anyways. My shift starts in an hour. And Emily wont be home till 4." Lily, seeing my annoyance, smiled and pecked lightly on my cheek, before getting up to get ready.

"We will continue this tonight. Be well rested before that." I say with a smirk as I quickly change my clothes and head down into the garage, before driving to the SHIELD Headquarters a few blocks away.

"Welcome. Welcome. Come on up." Alexander Pierce called out as I entered the headquarters, with a big smile on his face.

"Pierce, you should know you interrupted my cuddle time with my wife. This better be good." I say with annoyance as I walk up the stairs.

"Definitely, it will be worth our time.

I know you are I man of few words, so lets get right to it. As you know, there was an invasion of alien forces a week ago. After the invasion, we sent our own crew over to help with the clean-up, but by the time we reached there, we were told that most of the city had been cleaned up by your company.

That included not only debris from the buildings and infrastructure, but also a lot of alien tech and corpses.

Now, I know you are a businessman, so, we would like to cut you a deal. What do you say?" Alexander proposed.

"So, you want the alien tech that I picked up? Is that correct?" I ask. 'This is going to be a pain in the ass. I already absorbed the alien bodies. And the tech is mostly broken down.'

"Yes. And I'm willing to give you a fair price. 50000 for each piece of tech. A million for the bigger stuff." He said with a small smile.

"That's insultingly low, and you know it. Even if I thought about selling you the stuff, that price is not at all sufficient. If this is all, I'll be leaving, you successfully wasted my time." I roll my eyes and get up to walk away, but stop as I hear him say something.

"You know, while most of the governments of the world might have given you your freedom, those around you don't really have that privilege. I am still the Secretary of the World Security Council. I have ways to make your life difficult." He calmly stated with a smile still on the corner of his lips.

"hahahahaha" hearing this, from deep within, a deep, delightful laughter rang out. While those that don't know me might think I'm happy, those that know me would be pissing their pants and fainting from fear.

"Pierce, do you know what you are saying. Do you not know who I am?" I ask with mirthful eyes.

"I do, and I know that you have powers as well. But did you really think you are the only one that we had to deal with that has powers." Saying so, Pierce snapped his fingers, and a huge, noisy forcefield snapped around the office room, putting pressure on me.

"This was a gift from our friends from above. She gave this to us in case there was ever a time something happened that we couldn't handle ourselves. And I have seen the footage from New York, and I seem to have a good read of your powers. I would say this little office room will be enough to hold you for a while." He said as he opened up his laptop, showing two screens.

One showing a young girl in class, the other a young woman in scrubs.

"So, what do you say Lucifer. We have a deal?" Pierce asked with a chuckle.

"Give me moment." Saying so, I pull out my phone unhurriedly, and dial a number.

"Hey, Fury, listen, you remember the organisation that the captain fought against in WW2. Yeah, that one. Well, it was still alive and its members have infiltrated many high level organisations.

I found out about them. I sent you the evidence to your computer. But don't worry, I'll take care of all the members. Just take it as a favour from me." Saying so, I hang up the phone and look into the eyes of the person in front of me.

"Hail Hydra" SNAP. With a snap of a finger, screams rang out across the whole building, random people suddenly bursting into blue flames, writhing in agony, rolling on the floor to kill the flames but to no avail.

"WHAT the FUCK???? How do you know about us? What are those powers anyways?? WHO ARE YOU????" seeing the multiple agents burning into nothingness from the clear glass window, Pierce felt something he hadn't felt in a long time.

"Well, you see, I don't like people who threaten me. More so, those that threaten those that I love. What you see here is just a tiny fraction of my powers.

And how I know about Hydra. Its simple. I knew about you guys from the very first day that I hacked into your system. I also found Zola, and well, from there it was so easy. All your operatives had their details uploaded to Zola's consciousness. Everything that Zola knew, I knew.

From there, all I had to do was make you guys inhale some of my microscopic clones, and now that I gave out a command, all of Hydra's agents are currently dying, burning in flames.

I just left you here for you to see what happens when you threaten someone way out of your league." Finishing up my monologue, I see Pierce kneeling in front of the window in defeat, each revelation of mine pushing him deeper into the depths of despair.

"You might think you still have a chance. After all, Hydra's motto is 'Cut off one head, two more grow back.'

So, to kill a hydra, all I have to do is cut off all it's heads before it can even regrow. So that's what I did just now.

I'm sure you wanted those alien tech for Hydra and your schemes. I would have given them to you if you asked nicely, but you had to go and threaten me with my family.

Big mistake. Well, I guess you can learn from this in this lifetime. In your next life, don't cross me. Understood." SNAP

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" a miserable shriek pierced the office, drowned out by the blaring alarms going around the whole shield headquarters.

Ring, ring.

"Yo, Fury, whats up?" Picking up the phone, I answer.

"Lucifer! Was this your doing??" Fury's barely controlled voice came through the phone.

"You mean burning the Hydra operatives?" Yeah. I did that, but don't worry, I replaced all the one that are needed to keep the countries running. I had some clones transform into them.

I'll send you a report later." Saying so, I hang up and calmly walk out of the chaotic building, ignoring the screams and panic.

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"This just in. After the alien invasion in New York, we didn't think anything weirder could happen.

But just this morning, reports of people spontaneously bursting into peculiar blue flames have been reported worldwide. Panic is setting in, and no one can tell us what is happening.

Is this the end of our world. Is this a full on alien invasion that will end life on Earth as we know it. Stay tuned for more information." Similar stories were being reported all around the world.

People were demanding to know what happened. World leaders were scrambling to get the chaos in order.

People that knew about the secrets of this world were panicking, wondering which faction was strong enough to simultaneously end the lives of more than a few million people all around the world.

However, just as the chaos was about to spill over, the world leaders all set up a press conference.

"We have investigated the "Burning Man" incident that occurred a few hours ago.

And all we can say at this stage is that it was an initiative undertaken by the various forces around the world to weed out those that want to harm the peace of the world.

From the evidence gathered, all those that perished in the mystical event a few hours prior, were members of an organisation called Hydra that had been active since the start of the second world war.

Agents of Hydra had been kept under watch for the past few years, and there were reports suggesting a massive world threatening level terrorist incident that was being planned.

The international efforts to curb this threat was ultimately a success, which resulted in all the members of Hydra using a very gruesome method of Suicide to hide their traces.

This was what was witnessed by the whole world, now commonly referred to as the Burning Man incident.

But not to worry, as peace will be restored, and Humanity will prevail."

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So, I toned down the evil side of our character. But if you threaten his family, you know shit is about to go down.

Also, Hydra was kinda of a pain in the ass, and to be fair, other than the winter soldier film, they didn't have much impact on the mcu (that's after our mc arrived.).

So, i found a way to root them all out at the same time.

Now, most of those in high power are dead, but they have been secretly replaced by our MC.

Now, not only does he have a very strong hold in the business sector, but also the underground, and now the political sphere.

World domination is boring, but someone has to do it.