Oh Marvelous Mod (ohmarvelousmod) wrote in oh_marvelous, @ 2012-08-23 10:29:00 |
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Nicholas Fury's Trial
Q: Please give your name and occupation to the court.
A: Anthony Stark, CEO of Stark Enterprises.
Q: A company that has worked closely with Nicholas Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D., is that correct?
A: Pick up the pace, I’ve got lunch reservations.
Q: Fine. Explain your personal relationship with Nicholas Fury.
A: The homoerotic tension is one-sided, and only when he’s been drinking. I quit, before you waste time asking about that; it’s a process.
Q: (stare) (shuffles papers) How long have you known the Director?
A: Since I was a kid, friend of the family type thing.
Q: And is it this long standing personal relationship that’s prompted your company’s projects with S.H.I.E.L.D.?
A: I don’t know, you’d have to ask my dad.
Q: You’re the one who took Stark Enterprises out of the weapons game, Mr. Stark. Yet your contracts with S.H.I.E.L.D. continue.
A: Stark Enterprises makes more than just weapons, Mr. … Is that your phone? There? Let’s see it. Communication, very important. You like this one?
Q: (frowns) (holds up his phone to Stark but seems very unimpressed all around) All well and good, Mr. Stark, but we have proof that there have been other projects. Personal projects for Fury and not for S.H.I.E.L.D.
A: You never help your friends move in?
Q: Project Radiant. Project Black Thunder. Project Golden Eye. Project Corliss. Project Spruce Goose.
A: Uh-huh.
Q: Project- (pause) (confused look) Chocoburr- excuse me. Chocobear.
A: Well it sounds bad when you put it that way.
Q: Can you explain what the purpose of project Chocolate Bear is?
A: Cosmetic.
Q: Excuse me?
A: You know he’s about a thousand years old, right? He looked like that when I met him, and pieces have been falling off since.
Q: (sigh) Director Fury’s venereal disease notwithstanding, Mr. Stark, the prosecution is under the impression that these (glances at paper) Life Model Decoys have been created for more nefarious purposes.
A: Mistrial, slander. Break for lunch.
Q: Some might argue that the LMDs could be viewed as weapons.
A: Is that your take on it, Mr...? Help me out here.
Q: Paul. And yes, that is the prosecution’s take on it. We were under the impression that you were out of the weapons manufacture business, Mr. Stark.
A: They’re, uh, Decoys, not Drones. Big, ugly Barbie dolls, heading to a Toys’R’Us near you next quarter. Specialty item, not expecting a big return.
Q: So you don’t actually question the purpose of these pet projects?
A: Do you take that to the bathroom to look up porn?
Q: ...Sorry?
A: The phone.
Q: I don’t see how that’s relevant.
A: Next question.
Q: I think I see what you were getting at Mr. Stark, but ‘plausible deniability’ can’t really hold up, not when you know exactly what this man is capable of and you’re supplying him with the means.
A: I’m sorry, was I supposed to bring a lawyer?
Q: Mr. Stark, seeing as how you supply Fury with toys you have, let’s say, a greater investment than most in what Fury does. Do you think that the choices Director Nicholas Fury makes are, as others and he himself seem to think, are for the greatest good?
A: I blow the money, good ideas and time on him, what’s the logical conclusion?
Q: Then why has your relationship with him been so tenuous lately?
A: (long pause) Do you have anyone in your life that you keep around despite the fact that they disagree with you? I see Mr. Hammer is here with us today, let’s ask him. Mr. Hammer, how often do you put yourself in the uncomfortable position of not feeling entirely secure in your opinion? Anyone trying to do as much good as the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. better have the brass balls to keep the contrary opinions close by.
We butt heads. I don’t think black leather in seventy degree weather is a good choice, but he’ll still ask my opinion.
Q: Have you been present for the duration of this trial, Mr. Stark?
A: I’m in and out.
Q: And the laundry list of Fury’s crimes against humanity don’t even faze you?
A: Are you allowed to assume guilt before the verdict?
Q: It’s not a matter of a verdict here, Mr. Stark, there is irrefutable proof of the horrific wrongs that Fury has committed under the guise of ‘doing good’. This is a sentencing trial.
A: So you put me up here? You tell the court and the judge that one of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s oldest partners, their major funding and most prolific, cutting edge developers is still on his side despite the three ring circus you pitched here? I’m not a soldier, I like to keep my nights free, I can’t make the calls that he does and won’t presume to know what it’s like, but we’re all here in our nice Italian leather shoes with ten gigs of lesbian pillow fights on our cell phones, so I think he’s doing a pretty good job.
Q: I hardly think Nicholas Fury is solely responsible for our lives Mr. Stark, but he’s certainly responsible for many many deaths. No further questions.
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Q:Sir, please give your name and profession to the court.
A:Justin Hammer, CEO of Hammer Industries, and primary weapons supplier for the United States Army.
Q:But not for S.H.I.E.L.D.?
A:No, S.H.I.E.L.D. denied my requests for contracts.
Q:S.H.I.E.L.D. as a whole or someone specific within the organization?
A: Well I was dealing with Director Fury at the time, that’s true.
Q:And I suppose you made repeated requests?
A:I did. I think our personal relationship may have coloured the Director’s decisions.
Q:What kind of personal relationship do you have with the Director, Mr. Hammer?
A:He’s not very taken with me. I’m not entirely sure why.
Q:Had he overcome his personal distaste, do you think contracts with your company would have been beneficial to S.H.I.E.L.D.?
A: Extremely. Particularly given S.H.I.E.L.D.’s rather testious relationship with Magneto. Hammer Industries has recently made some leaps in helping humans face super powered or mutant threats without harm.
Q:And isn’t it true that you were responsible for the cure of the zombie virus?
A:That’s true, yes.
Q:Do you feel that, if you’d had a working relationship with S.H.I.E.L.D., the problem would have been solved sooner?
A:I would hope so. Having good working relationships is very important to me. I’ve always made a point of it. Stark Industries and I used to be in immediate competition, but Anthony and I were still close outside of work.
Q:A company that has contracts with S.H.I.E.L.D. despite its owner’s well-known personal issues and instability. Would you say your company is more reliable than Stark Industries?
A:I don’t want to speak badly about a friend, but luckily, Stark is no longer in the weapons business so I won’t have to.
Q:As someone who is in the weapons business, would you say you understand the necessity of excessive force or hard choices in wartime?
A: Of course. It’s a hard part of the job, naturally, most people aren’t cut out for it.
Q:Do you think those same methods are necessary in peacetime?
A:It’s called peace time for a reason, Larry. [chuckles] But seriously, no. That’s why we have to make those tough decisions, to get to the point where we won’t have to anymore.
Q:Do you think we’re in peacetime or wartime right now, Mr. Hammer?
A:Given everything we’ve been through I think the world is pushing for peace. It is a unique opportunity we have here to start over. World Peace is realistically in our grasp.
Q:A noble sentiment, Mr. Hammer, and one that perhaps our remaining world leaders would do well to espouse themselves. (pause) Given our country’s current leadership do you think there’s any real possibility of the dream of world peace, your dream, becoming a reality?
A:I think Nick Fury has been at war for most of his life, and when America doesn’t have a war to wage Fury makes his own.
Q:Thank you, Mr. Hammer. No further questions.
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Q: Please let the court be aware that this woman is here to testify and give evidence and as such has been accorded diplomatic immunity. Please state your name.
A: (smiles to the onlookers) My official name and title is Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine
Q: And you are a part of a particular organization called H.Y.D.R.A., correct?
A: (gives a dangerous look) Yes, I am one of many heads.
Q: And those many heads have, over the years, clashed with S.H.I.E.L.D. and, particularly, Nicholas Fury, many a time.
A: That is correct.
Q: Is it also true that you were once engaged in a romantic relationship with Fury concurrent with your infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. as a spy?
A: Yes we were lovers once. Any other past mistakes you’d like to pull up?
Q: And you did infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D.? Right under Fury’s nose.
A: He was my superior for a time yes. Would you like me to go into detail about the whole sordid affair. I could write an airport romance novel if you wish.
Q: We’re off the subject of your sordid affair. I’m asking if you successfully infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. on behalf of HYDRA.
A: Yes.
Q: And learned vital information?
A: Yes I was privy to S.H.I.E.L.D. secrets including informants, burned agents, missions past present and future as well as who was on the pay roll.
Q: When Fury discovered your deceit, what did he do?
A: Not much really he was still reeling in pain because I had taken his eye. There were some vague threats thrown in but i had left the hotel before he could do much. Afterwards i was burned in accordance to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s rules only instead of having my identity completely taken away they just moved it to their public enemy file.
Q: Would you agree that, in this case, the Director showed surprising leniency?
A: [Bored] Not really, as i said we were lovers. I showed a certain restraint by not killing him when i had the chance. We were young and foolish.
Q: Still, that wasn’t an especially prudent move for an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. but that seems to be Fury’s m.o.- serving his own best interests over the directorate’s. Privy, as I’m sure you were, to Fury’s personal agenda do you have any information you’d care to share with the court?
A: [Perks up] Yes! I’m sure you have most of his ongoings in that little file of yours but what you may not know is that the man I hired to cultivate the fungus which nearly destroyed the world was none other then a former S.H.I.E.L.D scientist who had been working on a similar project for S.H.I.E.L.D.
Q: (Eyebrow raise) (Checks his notes) S.H.I.E.L.D. was developing this same fungus under Fury directive? To what purpose?
A: (Shrugs) You’ll have to ask him darling I can only speculate. S.H.I.E.L.D and H.Y.D.R.A are not all that different in the way they run things. Those agents of his are nothing but drones same as mine. Only difference is they have a choice in the evil they do. Maybe he just wanted a group of people to mindlessly follow orders for a change. Or maybe my little accident was what he was counting on. Nick Fury lives for this sort of thing. The excitement of solving the world’s problems, the excitement of being in a war zone. Maybe that fat little idiot scientist didn’t fall into my hands, maybe it was placed there without me knowing to satisfy some sick little desire to play cat and mouse.
Q: And Fury came to you to for help in curing the virus, didn’t he?
A: Well I wouldn’t say he exactly reached out to me. When you’re caught and you have a barrel of a gun in your face you tend to be more willing to help. I gave him all of H.Y.D.R.A’s research.
Q: Have there been other occasions in the past when Fury has collaborated with H.Y.D.R.A in this way?
A: If you’re asking if there were any other situations where the world was nearing its end? No. At least not while I’ve been in charge.
Q: That is not, in fact, what I was asking. The question was whether Fury has aided H.Y.D.R.A. before.
A: No, we’ve never worked together before. There’s never been a situation where we’ve needed to.
Q: Thank you for your testimony, Contessa. No further questions.
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Q: Nicholas Fury, over the course of this trial we have presented to the court irrefutable proof and damaging testimony to the staggering number of atrocities you have committed during your tenure as the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. You have abused the power invested in you and corrupted the office of Director. It is shocking that you’ve been allowed to continue your reign of terror unchecked for so long.
A: Okay.
Q: You have nothing to say for yourself, Fury?
A: You sound like my goddamn mother.
Q: This will be your last opportunity-
A: To what? Defend myself? (snort) Fuck that. Not possible, not in this scenario. You’ve conducted this farce to give a lot of information you shouldn’t even have and parade in my colleagues, friends, enemies all to make me look like shit. There isn’t a single fucker in this room that isn’t out for my blood. You're dragging my reputation through the mud and turning the people I care about against me. The fuck you expect me to say?
Q: You could show a little remorse.
A: In my position you make hard choices, you do what has to be done. Right or wrong, morality, doesn’t play into it when the world’s at stake, because at the end of the day what matters is who's left sleeping peacefully in their beds. The things I have to do may not be nice and they may not be pretty but you’re alive, aren’t you? People are going to ignore the big picture and what the world really is in favor of what they want the world to be. There are a handful of fuck ups you want to condemn me for but a million threats that you never had to face. So if you expect me to sit here and apologize or beg for your forgiveness then you and the Council and this court can all kiss my motherfucking ass.
Q: Nicholas Fury you stand accused of crimes against humanity. The prosecution recommends that you be stripped of your rank and incarcerated indefinitely. Frankly, you’re lucky that it isn’t much worse.
A: Well, thanks for that, asshole. (to the court at large) You’d better hope the next guy can shore up against your shit as well as I did or else you’re gonna be left with a lot less world to live in and no fucking scapegoat next time.