Phantom Kid in the American Comic World
61. S.H.I.E.L.D.

"Director, the presence of a suspected superpower has been seen in Gotham."

There is a complex in New York that looks like a trident, called the Trigon Wing Building. It is the headquarters of the Homeland Strategic Defense Attack and Logistics Protection Agency, also known as the legendary SHIELD

On this day, SHIELD deputy director Maria Hill walked into the director's office with a document.

Pushing the door open, one could see across the table a black egg head wearing a shiny black jacket.

And the AC is turned on hard …

"Tell me the details, Hill."

Nick Fury turned around and sat at his desk, revealing his blindfold, not smiling.

Hill placed the document on the table and began to explain in a serious tone.

”Recently, a thief calling himself Phantom Kid has been operating in Gotham, specializing in stealing using brilliant magic tricks and disguises. The gem he stole will be returned to its original owner or donated.”

"A thief? We don't need to take care of this kind of trivial matter. Let's talk about more important things. Our time is precious to waste.”

Agent Hill nodded and placed his hand on the table surface, and a circle lit up with Hill's palm as the center.

The lights in the auto director's office dimmed slightly.

Then a thin light green light shot down from the ceiling, sweeping the information from above.

Then, a holographic screen appeared before the two of them.

The screen played the video the other day, it was a Phantom Kid and Batman fight!

In fact, the fight scenes between Mathison and Batman are not immortalized. After all, the TV station's helicopter was far from the watchtower, as a result of which its angle of view was very poor. Only a few pictures are considered a little clearer.

However, these images, coupled with statements from many witnesses at the time, were enough for the SHIELD supercomputer to simulate the scene. In terms of intelligence, the supercomputer owned by SHIELD is not as good as Jarvis, but also not too behind.

Under the fast-forward Hill, the screen happened to remain at the moment when the Phantom Kid summoned a wall of fire and then disappeared in a flash of red light.

”Director, the current consensus between the CIA and the FBI is that the sudden appearance of a fire wall is a kind of unknown chemical reaction, and a red light can be achieved with a flash … but I don't think it's that simple. ”

Hill talks about the Phantom Kid, but Fury's gaze remains on Batman's body.

"Bruce, he's actually still out ..."

If we find someone with the most secrets on Earth, it's Nick Fury. There are some things in the world that he does not know. And clearly, the problem of Batman being Bruce Wayne is not one of them.

Likewise, he knew very well the events of eight years ago. Although the storm only strikes Gotham, the man's madness and terror (The Joker) causes even Fury, known as the agent king, to have a heart pounding.

He once thought that losing Rachel would make Bruce depressed for life, but he never expected that today Batman would show himself back.

“If he wants to join the Avengers program.”.

"Director, I think the last ability displayed by the Phantom Kid is likely his superpowers."

Agent Hill did not know what was in his chief director and continued to voice his judgment.

"We have to do a risk assessment on it, just ..."

Hearing that, Fury regained consciousness immediately. He used a brain-boosting potion, so he heard everything Hill said just now, including the action against the Phantom Kid.

”Alright, let Coulson contact this 'Phantom Kid'.'”

The word Fury is rather natural and fluent.

”Eh. Coulson was sent by you to New Mexico some time ago.”

”... Then let Ward go.”

Fury takes only a fraction of a second to name the next candidate

”Agen Ward has just returned from a mission, but he is indeed a good candidate. Just that.. director, we don't know Phantom Kid's real identity yet.”

Agent Hill was a little embarrassed, this was the first time she couldn't find someone behind their mask.

SHIELD has the most advanced and complete surveillance system and database in the world. They can control any monitor on Earth at any time, including satellites, theoretically, no one can be hidden from SHIELD.

However, when Hill tries to figure out Kid's true identity through Gotham's surveillance system and satellite.

He failed.

Not because surveillance didn't catch the Phantom Kid.

On the contrary, too many were arrested.

From Kid's first offence, traces of his actions can be traced from being Sheriff Aaron in disguise to later being stopped by Catwoman.

But then, a series of Kid operations seemed ridiculous and senseless to Hill.

He sometimes appears on surveillance cameras on purpose, and then changes from civilian to another, many times, and then suddenly rushes to the blind spot of the surveillance camera. Even so, with the agent's experience, Hill can also speculate about Kid's movements.

However, Kid likes to get into the pile of people at such times to change again. At the same time, in the same place, he would actually suspect over a hundred people as Kid.

Eventually, he would somehow lose the suspect.

All the faces of the Phantom Kid exposed in front of the camera were collected by Hill. And after comparing them one by one, he found that these people actually existed in the world and they were all residents of Gotham.

Some are still world famous stars.

In short, none of them were his real face.

After listening to Hill's instructions, Fury's face was grim, only the person who knew him well knew that his face was changing.

He soon understands the true threat of the Phantom Kid.

This unscientific Phantom Kid disguise technology, if applied to a spy invasion, would cause great damage to any country Kid occupied.

No country can stop this man from infiltrating, and even the president of a country will never be suspected when Kid disguises himself as him.

In comparison, the suspected magic superpowers seemed to be somewhat insignificant.

So, in order to keep the world at peace, Fury naturally could not let such people roam outside freely and clearly; the Phantom Kid had to be mastered under the control of SHIELD!

At the very least, they had to find a way to counterattack his incognito abilities.

"Hully! From now on, classify Phantom Kid as a SHIELD level 7 file, and monitor the next action at any time!”

"Yes, Director."

"Are you on Coulson's side?"

After a while, Fury suddenly asked.

"He said that the hammer that fell from the sky seemed to have some sort of unknown magnetic field, and had such a huge mass that no matter what method was used, it was not, the hammer won't move."

Agent Hill replied.

“By the way, he also mentioned that a man broke into the exam camp last night and tried to pull the hammer but failed. The man also claimed to be .. Thor, the god of thunder.”