Maria Hill

Maria Hill was born on April 4, 1982 to Elizabeth Hill in Chicago, Illinois. When she was old enough, she joined the United States Marine Corps at age 17 - eventually becoming part of the Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance unit. She was later recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D., rising through its ranks and becoming one of the organization's best agents. Hill caught the attention of Nick Fury and was appointed as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Deputy Director, working closely with him and becoming one of his closest allies.

Watching the evacuation of the facility, Hill noticed Clint Barton and Erik Selvig who were going to leave the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility with Loki. At this stage, Hill believed that Barton must have some kind of good reason to be transporting an unknown person from the facility. However, Hill then got a call on her radio from Nick Fury warning her that Loki had taken control of Barton and stolen the Tesseract. At this point, Hill was forced to take cover as Barton, who was enthralled by Loki, began shooting at her. While Hill waited behind a wall for Barton to stop firing, she heard their jeep startup as they made their escape.

Seeing this, Hill fired her weapon at them with little effect, so was forced instead to jump into another jeep and pursued them down the facility. Quickly catching up with them, Hill engaged in a firefight in the facility's tunnel system but failed to stop Loki despite her best efforts as she and Barton each fired shots at one another. The portal that Loki had arrived it began to collapse and created a powerful surge of energy created by the Tesseract that collapsed all the area around it, destroying the facility and causing Hill's jeep to crash when it hit a large falling piece of concrete, very nearly killing her.

Hill became trapped by rubble but survived. She radioed Fury, informing him of what had happened during the chaos and noting that she was unaware of how many people had survived the explosion as she believed the number would be very low. Hill asked Fury what they should do next, with Phil Coulson also letting them know of his own survival. Fury told Hill and Coulson that this situation was now a Level Seven and that they were now at war. As a result, Fury decided that it was time to relaunch the Avengers Initiative as this was a threat that S.H.I.E.L.D. could not handle alone, much to Hill's skepticism.

After the destruction of the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility, Hill reported back to the Helicarrier and aided in the administration of events, including the hunt for Clint Barton. She was present when Nick Fury brought together the Avengers and Hill was immediately uneasy about their unstable alliance, watching closely as Fury spoke with Bruce Banner whom she considered being a highly serious risk.

Before long, Jasper Sitwell was able to locate Loki in Germany and Fury sent Captain America and Black Widow to apprehend him. Loki was soon captured by Rogers and Romanoff with the assistance of Iron Man, as well as the arrival of Thor, who wished to return his brother to Asgard. When Stark arrived with Phil Coulson and began talking in great detail with Banner about how Erik Selvig could use the Tesseract, Hill questioned when Stark had become such an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics and Stark replied that he had last night as he insisted that he had done the research, before he asked Hill how Fury could check his monitors. Hill did not see Stark planting a device on the Helicarrier's computer to download all of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files.

Hill and Phil Coulson watched on a monitor as Nick Fury and the Avengers argued while under the influence of Loki's Scepter. This was interrupted when Clint Barton used an explosive arrow which made the Helicarrier malfunction and started losing altitude. Hill quickly realized that the engine was down and ordered someone to get the engine going again. Tony Stark agreed to repair the engine, with the assistance of Steve Rogers.

As Hill was sent to check on the engines, she saw a mercenary throwing a grenade into the control room and managed to move out of the way of the explosion. Hill and Nick Fury began fighting back the invading forces. When Fury took out three mercenaries at the same time, Hill was able to shoot another mercenary aiming at Fury. Hill and Fury stayed in the control room and ensured that the invading forces did not take control of the Helicarrier while Thor battled Hulk, at which point Hill sent a jet in an attempt to lure Hulk off the ship before he destroyed it.

In the aftermath of the battle, Hill had her injuries treated while the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents checked on the damage done to the Helicarrier. Hill learned that Loki had escaped from the Helicarrier in a Quinjet and Thor had been thrown off the ship and could have then been killed, although Hawkeye had been subdued by Black Widow and was recovering from the effects of Loki's mind control. However, Hill was also informed that Phil Coulson had been tragically killed when he was stabbed through the heart by Loki before he could stop him.

Hill was present when Nick Fury gave a speech to Steve Rogers and Tony Stark, explaining his true intentions of using the Tesseract to recreate HYDRA weapons, and the reasons for forming the Avengers, which was to build a team to fight the battles that S.H.I.E.L.D. never could win. Fury noted that Coulson had died while still believing that the Avengers could be formed and save the world. However, despite his speech, Stark was too upset by Coulson's death and stormed out of the room, leaving Fury to confess that his plan was maybe too old fashioned as Hill had always believed.

Hill approached Fury a little while later and explained how she knew that Coulson's vintage trading cards that Fury had shown Rogers was not in Coulson's jacket as Fury has claimed, but in his locker, meaning that Fury had been trying to emotionally manipulate the team. Fury defended himself stating that they needed the push to get them all ready to fight Loki once again. The lie was eventually successful in causing the Avengers to unite and steal a Quinjet in order to find and attack Loki in New York City where he planned on finally unleashing the full power of the Tesseract.

Hill monitored the Battle of New York as the Avengers fought against Loki's army of the Chitauri, who had successfully invaded Earth through a portal created by the Tesseract which was being powered by Stark Tower. As the odds against the Avengers appeared to be getting lower, Hill informed Fury that the World Security Council were waiting to speak to him. Hill listened in horror as Gideon Malick attempted to convince Fury that they needed to launch a nuclear strike against the city which would kill millions of innocent civilians.

As Fury refused to obey Malick's direct order, he had his leadership taken away and Pamela Hawley took control of a S.H.I.E.L.D. plane, for the purpose of bombing New York City to stop the invasion and also kill Loki, regardless of the number of innocent lives this would destroy. Despite the best efforts of Hill and Fury, with Hill attempting to hack into the jet while Fury even shot it with a rocket, a second plane took off from the Helicarrier and fired a missile at New York City while Hill could only look on in horror while Fury made a new plan to stop the missile and save millions of innocent lives.

Hill watched the monitors as Iron Man successfully flew the missile into the Wormhole and destroyed the Chitauri Command Center, by doing so effectively ending Loki's invasion; although it appeared that Stark had been killed in the mission, he was able to be revived by the Avengers who then took Loki into custody, as he had been beaten into submission by Hulk and reclaimed the Tesseract, which would be taken back to Asgard despite the requests of the Council as well as Malick and Alexander Pierce, who wanted to continue studying it's incredible and seemingly unexplainable power.

As the Avengers were departing as a team, Hill spoke to the World Security Council, who brought up her many complaints of Nick Fury in the past. She called the battle a series of mistakes. However, the council also made mistakes, how they tried to nuke the city. The Avengers worked because Fury believed in them. The Avengers were a mistake that worked. Hill ended the conversation saying that it was her official statement. She then walked over to Fury and talked about whether or not they would stay together now they had stopped the Chitauri Invasion and won the Battle of New York. Fury told her that they would because the world would need them to. Accepting this answer, Hill walked back to the center of the Helicarrier and resumed her work.

Prior to the launch of the Project Insight Helicarriers, Hill was called by Nick Fury to Washington, D.C. following his discovery of suspicious information about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s true intentions with the project. Fury ordered her to come to D.C. within the next few hours but did not reveal his reasons for needing her. Seconds after their phone call ended, Fury was attacked by HYDRA operatives.

Fury escaped from the assassination attempt and regrouped in Steve Rogers' apartment to give him some intel. However, he was shot and seemingly killed at the hands of the Winter Soldier. In order to keep Fury alive, Hill used Tetrodotoxin B to slow his heart rate. She then took Fury to the secret S.H.I.E.L.D. Dam Facility so that he could heal with the assistance of Fine while they attempted to gather whatever information they could about the truth about what was truly going on inside S.H.I.E.L.D..

Hill then returned to the Triskelion and met with Jasper Sitwell, telling him that she had been absent from S.H.I.E.L.D. because she was arranging Fury's funeral. Changing the subject, Sitwell showed Hill footage of Captain America and Black Widow on the run and questioned her about it. Hill simply answered that she was not at all surprised, as Rogers did tend to inspire loyalty among his allies. Sitwell replied that Alexander Pierce was moving Hill off the case and that she was to return to New York City after Fury's funeral, as Pierce felt that Hill's connections to Rogers and the Avengers put her loyalty to S.H.I.E.L.D. into question.

Captain America, Black Widow, and Falcon discovered HYDRA's infiltration of the organization and were captured during a battle with the Winter Soldier. Hill managed to subdue a HYDRA guard and take his uniform. She snuck onto the vehicle carrying Rogers, Romanoff, and Wilson and used a Taser Rod to knock out the other guard. Hill freed them and escaped with the help of a Mouse Hole device before Brock Rumlow could execute the three of them.

Hill brought the trio to Nick Fury's location and got medical help from Fine for an injured Romanoff, who had been shot in the shoulder during her fight with the Winter Soldier. There, Hill revealed to Romanoff, Rogers, and Wilson that Fury was in fact not dead and that they had developed a way to stop Project Insight but needed the group's help. The three questioned why this had been kept a secret, and Hill explained that HYDRA needed to believe they had succeeded.

Hill and Fury outlined their plan to board the Helicarriers and change the chips inside to cause the Helicarriers' weapons to target each other rather than innocent people. Rogers revealed his intentions to destroy both S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA, as he believed that although HYDRA and Alexander Pierce were the enemy, S.H.I.E.L.D. was proven to be a broken system; Hill agreed with Rogers and helped convince Fury that it was the right thing to do.

With the plan agreed on, to disable the Project Insight Helicarriers from the inside controls while also allowing Black Widow to publish all of S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA's secrets online for the world to see, Hill assisted Captain America in regaining his World War II Uniform from the Smithsonian Institution. The group then traveled back to the Triskelion to begin their plan to save millions of lives before HYDRA could complete their genocide.

Hill broke into the Triskelion with Rogers and Falcon, taking Moore and the other controllers captive, and coordinated them in their attempt to disable Project Insight. While Rogers and Wilson disabled the Helicarriers, Romanoff infiltrated the main conference room to capture Alexander Pierce with the help of Nick Fury. Hill stayed in the command center, ordering and tracking the team during the mission. She took control of the Helicarriers one by one as their chips were inserted while defending herself several times from any attacking HYDRA agents.

During the battle, Hill spotted Brock Rumlow heading for the World Security Council to stop Pierce's arrest and alerted Falcon, who went to keep him away from the council. Later when Rogers became trapped onboard the third Helicarrier while fighting the Winter Soldier, he ordered Hill to make the Helicarriers fire at each other. Despite her protests that Rogers was still inside, Hill did as ordered and the Insight Helicarriers were destroyed. Rogers survived the crash, while Pierce was killed by Fury. Romanoff successfully leaked all of the organization's files onto the internet, effectively bringing S.H.I.E.L.D. down and significantly weakening HYDRA in the process.

Following the intel given to her by Phil Coulson, Hill sent the Avengers on the successful Attack on the HYDRA Research Base where they captured both the Scepter and Baron Strucker. With the mission complete, Hill greeted their Quinjet at Avengers Tower prepared to debrief the team about their mission's success.

As Hawkeye was being taken to be cared for by Helen Cho, Hill spoke to Captain America about Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, whom they had encountered during the battle; Hill explained their powers in detail to Rogers, switching to less complicated terms to make it clear to him. When Hill made a comment about how they had volunteered for Strucker and List's experiments, Rogers compared them to himself as he had volunteered for Abraham Erskine's experiments.

Hill was present at a celebratory party thrown by Tony Stark at the Avengers Tower. Drinking with Stark, Thor, and James Rhodes, she snidely opined that Pepper Potts and Jane Foster had intentionally missed the party, mocking the pair as they competed over who had the more impressive girlfriend by listing their accomplishments before Hill walked away with Rhodes while teasing them over their egos and how both of their respective partners could ever deal with such a pair.

Once most of the guests had left the party, Hill sat with Clint Barton and continued drinking and played cards with Rhodes and Stark. While many of the Avengers attempted to lift Mjølnir without success; Hill herself did not attempt to lift the hammer, although she did take a chance to make fun of Steve Rogers for some comments he had made during the Attack on the HYDRA Research Base earlier that day which Black Widow had decided to tell her.

While the celebrations continued, the group was suddenly interrupted by the arrival of Ultron, an A.I. made from the bodies of several Iron Legion robots. Hill was the first to load her gun as Ultron began ranting about his desire to destroy the Avengers in order to save the world from further destruction as he viewed them as a great threat to humanity.

Despite Steve Rogers' best efforts to reason with the robot, Ultron refused to listen and instead sent in a small army of reprogrammed Iron Legion robots to attack them. Hill joined the team in a fight against Ultron's small army Ultron Sentries, firing her gun at them while the main heroes destroyed them as best they could. Eventually, Ultron's body was destroyed by Thor who launched Mjølnir at the main body, but not before one of the Sentries had managed to escape with the Scepter before it could be stopped.

In the aftermath of the skirmish, Hill and the rest of the team were forced to make a plan to deal with the new threat. Hill and James Rhodes noted that as Ultron had proven that he could hack into the Avengers Tower's security systems, he could easily steal nuclear codes and cause global destruction. They went on to discuss who Ultron had killed, as Tony Stark to revealed J.A.R.V.I.S.' mainframe had been attacked and seemingly destroyed by Ultron.

As the hunt for Ultron continued, Hill informed Steve Rogers of a further sighting of Ultron and his legion of Ultron Sentries who had been attacking robotics labs, weapons facilities, and jet propulsion labs. Hill confirmed that several people had been killed and Ultron was being helped by Pietro and Wanda Maximoff and had assassinated Baron Strucker from within his prison cell.

In the aftermath of the Duel of Johannesburg, between Iron Man and Hulk, the public blamed the massive destruction caused on the Avengers. Hill arranged for the Stark Relief Foundation to handle the situation and called Clint Barton while he piloted the Quinjet and recommended them to find a hideout for a while, as the team was suffering from the effects of Wanda Maximoff. Barton assured her that he knew where they could go, taking them to his home where they could rest and then be greeted by Nick Fury.

Nick Fury requested that Hill join him in planning support for the Avengers' battle against Ultron. Fury and Hill recruited former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents including Cameron Klein and took possession of an old Helicarrier which was repaired by Phil Coulson, as part of the Theta Protocol. When they arrived at Sokovia they found the Avengers engaged in a massive battle against the seemingly unstoppable army of Ultron Sentries.

Flying the Helicarrier in close, Hill sent out the rescue crafts to save the civilians while War Machine assisted in the battle. One of Ultron's Sentries attacked the Helicarrier during the battle, but Hill and Fury fought back, with Hill firing her weapon at the attacking robot until they destroyed it before it did more harm to the ship or their crew-members. Eventually, the battle was won, thousands of civilians were saved and Ultron was destroyed forever by Vision.

A year after Ultron was defeated by the Avengers in Sokovia, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Sam Wilson, and Wanda Maximoff try to stop Brock Rumlow when he and his team of terrorists broke into the IFID Headquarters to steal a biological weapon and he fought Steve Rogers before trying to blow himself up and take Steve with him after Steve overpowered him. Wanda Maximoff telekinetically diverted the explosion, but the nearby building was heavily damaged and multiple civilians - including volunteer workers from Wakanda - were killed by the explosion.

Thaddeus Ross, the U.S. Secretary of State, informs the Avengers that the United Nations (UN) is preparing to pass the Sokovia Accords, which will establish a UN panel to oversee and control the team. The Avengers are divided: Tony Stark supports oversight because of his role in Ultron's creation and Sokovia's devastation, while Rogers has more faith in his own judgment than that of politicians. Meanwhile, Helmut Zemo tracks down and kills Barnes' old Hydra handler, stealing a book containing the trigger words that activate Barnes' brainwashing. At a UN conference in Vienna where the Accords are to be ratified, a bomb kills King T'Chaka of Wakanda. Security footage indicates the bomber is Barnes, whom T'Chaka's son, T'Challa, vows to kill. Informed by Sharon Carter of Barnes' whereabouts and the authorities' intentions to kill him, Rogers decides to try to bring in Barnes—his childhood friend and war comrade—himself. Rogers and Wilson track Barnes to Bucharest and attempt to protect him from T'Challa and the authorities, but all four, including T'Challa, are apprehended by the Bucharest police and James Rhodes.

Impersonating a psychiatrist sent to interview Barnes, Zemo recites the words to activate Barnes's brainwashing. He questions Barnes, then sends him on a rampage to cover his own escape. Rogers stops Barnes and sneaks him away. When Barnes regains his senses, he explains that Zemo is the real Vienna bomber and wanted the location of the Siberian Hydra base, where other brainwashed "Winter Soldiers" are kept in cryogenic stasis. Unwilling to wait for authorization to apprehend Zemo, Rogers and Wilson go rogue, and recruit Maximoff, Clint Barton, and Scott Lang to their cause. With Ross's permission, Stark assembles a team composed of Romanoff, T'Challa, Rhodes, Vision, and Peter Parker to capture the renegades. Stark's team intercepts Rogers' group at Leipzig/Halle Airport, where they fight until Romanoff allows Rogers and Barnes to escape. As Rogers and Barnes are escaping, Rhodes is inadvertently shot down by Vision, and becomes partially paralyzed. The rest of Rogers' team is captured and detained at the Raft prison, and Romanoff goes into exile.

Stark discovers evidence that Barnes was framed by Zemo and convinces Wilson to give him Rogers' destination. Without informing Ross, Stark goes to the Siberian Hydra facility and strikes a truce with Rogers and Barnes, unaware that they were secretly followed by T'Challa. They find that the other super-soldiers have been killed by Zemo, who then shows them footage that reveals that the automobile Barnes had intercepted in 1991 contained Stark's parents, whom Barnes subsequently killed. Enraged that Rogers kept this from him, Stark turns on them both, leading to an intense fight, in which Stark destroys Barnes' robotic arm, and Rogers disables Stark's armor. Rogers departs with Barnes, leaving his shield behind. Satisfied that he has avenged his family's deaths in Sokovia from the Avengers' actions by successfully fracturing them, Zemo attempts suicide, but he is stopped by T'Challa and taken to the authorities.

In the aftermath, Stark provides Rhodes with exoskeletal leg braces that allow him to walk again, while Rogers breaks his allies out of the Raft. Barnes, granted asylum in Wakanda, chooses to return to cryogenic sleep until a cure for his brainwashing is found.

Name: Maria Hill

Also known as: Agent/Special Agent Hill, Commander Hill, Deputy Commander Hill, Deputy Director Maria Hill, Director Hill, Sub-Director Hill

Born: April 4, 1982 Chicago, Illinois

Age: 35-36 (The story is set in 2018)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

Career: Deputy Director and Commander of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury's second-in-command, ex-USMC Force Recon

Clearance: Level 9

Height: 5'8

Weight: 56.70 kg (125 lbs)

Build: Toned, athletic physique; slim build

Measurements: 34B−23−35

Hair colour and length: Collarbone-length dark brown hair

Eye colour: Blue

Facial features:

• Gorgeous woman with a diamond-shaped face
• Strong jawline
• High cheekbones
• Toned athletic build
• Resembles her MCU counterpart portrayed by Cobie Smulders

Workout routine:

• Follows an SLT (strengthen, lengthen, and tone) pilates routine
• Practices Hot Yin Yoga in a heated room at 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit)

• Like Cobie Smulders, has a distinct, warm, and confident voice.

• Tone is usually even and measured, with occasional sarcasm or dry humor.

• Medium-pitched with some high-end resonance.

• Speaks with crisp, clear enunciation.

• At times, voice takes on a more authoritative and commanding quality due to her S.H.I.E.L.D. position.

• Despite being born in Chicago, Illinois, has a Canadian accent like her MCU counterpart.

• Hair:

• Occasionally done up in a bun for a professional look

• Uniform:

• Protective, close-fitting full-body jumpsuit
• S.H.I.E.L.D. emblem on both shoulders
• Black utility belt around the hips
• Rank display: Horizontal grey bar with three black stripes and an upside-down black triangle under the left shoulder emblem
• Color: Deep blue with black accents Features:
• Zippers: Front zip from hips to neck, sleeve zips from wrist to mid-forearm Footwear:
• Boots nearly reaching the knees that have two-inch heel soles, protective guards on the shin

• Underwear:

• Black sports bra
• Short black boy shorts

• No-nonsense, highly organized, assertive, pragmatic, hard-nosed, and by the book

• Sharp wit, very intelligent, and able to stay calm under pressure

• Fiercely loyal to friends and colleagues, willing to do whatever it takes to protect them

• Maintains a strong moral compass and sense of right and wrong despite being pragmatic

• Extremely loyal to S.H.I.E.L.D., especially Director Nick Fury, having helped him multiple times (e.g., when he faked his death)

• Willing to discard loyalties to S.H.I.E.L.D. for the greater good, as shown when she helped Captain America destroy HYDRA

• Somewhat reserved and guarded, but can let her hair down, joke, and be more light-hearted when off the job

• Has a dry sense of humor, makes wisecracks, and speaks her mind

• Those close to her find a caring, empathetic, and compassionate person

As an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and a former U.S. Marine, Maria is extensively trained and experienced and has the following skills and abilties:

Master Tactician: According to her S.H.I.E.L.D. Files, Hill is "a superb tactical strategist." Thus, she serves as Nick Fury's faithful second-in-command, her files describe her as "flawlessly efficient." Hill is highly intelligent and has the ability to process mass amounts of information quickly and accurately, making her a talented tactician.

Expert Martial Artist: As a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and former U.S. Marine, Hill is an extensively trained combatant and martial artist. She proved to be capable of engaging and defeating three U.S. Air Force soldiers in hand-to-hand combat after they captured Coulson's Team in Providence. During the fight, Hill displayed exceptional skill in martial arts and maintained the upper hand throughout the entire fight.

Expert Knife Fighter: Hill is incredibly skilled in knife fighting. She can wield her tactical knife with deadly efficiency.

Expert Marksman: Hill is incredibly skilled with firearms and in combat shooting Alongside Nick Fury, Hill was able to defend the Helicarrier from Loki's brainwashed agents using only a sidearm. She also engaged and tried to stop Clint Barton, who had fallen under Loki’s spell, in a high-speed firefight as the brainwashed agent aided Loki in his escape with the Tesseract. During Captain America: The Winter Soldier, two HYDRA operatives tried to kill her in the Project Insight command center, Hill killed them both before they could fire a shot.

Expert Spy: Hill is a tremendous undercover agent, she was able to infiltrate the HYDRA truck and rescue Rogers, Romanoff, and Wilson. Nick Fury and her were able to stay off the grid for four years following the Fall of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Bilingualism: Hill is fluent in both English and Russian.

Peak physical condition: Hill is in excellent physical shape.

• Hand-to-hand combat:

• Bare Knuckle Boxing
• Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
• Combat Hapkido
• Combat Judo
• Isshin-ryū
• Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP)
• Military Krav Maga
• Military Taekwondo
• Muay Thai Lerdrit (Military Muay Thai)

• Knife Fighting:

• Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP)
• Military Krav Maga
• Muay Thai Lerdrit
• Kali (Pekiti-Tirsia & Sayoc)

• Firearms:

• Combat Shooting

• Stealth, Espionage, Survival:

• Ninjutsu

• Glock 19 Gen5

• Purpose: Serves as Maria's sidearm
• Holstered: It is holstered on her right hip at all times

• Knight’s Armament Company (KAC) SR-16 CQB

• Caliber: 5.56x45mm NATO
• Barrel: 11.5” Chrome-Lined Hammer Forged
• Lower Receiver: Ambidextrous KAC Mod 2
• Stock: Magpul CTR (Collapsible)
• Optic: Aimpoint Micro T-2
• Magnifier: EOTech G33 3x Magnifier (Flip-to-side mount)
• Laser/Illuminator: L3Harris AN/PEQ-15 (ATPIAL) (Standard IR/Visible)
• White Light: SureFire M300 Scout Light (Offset mount)
• Muzzle: KAC 5.56 QDC Flash Eliminator (Compatible with KAC QDC/CQB Suppressor)
• Handguard: KAC URX 4 (M-LOK / Rail hybrid)
• Purpose: Serves as Maria's primary longarm
• Extra features: A sling attached for carrying and to employ the loop sling technique for extra stability when aiming, extended magazines

• Mossberg 590A1

• Familiarity: Maria is familiar with this shotgun from her time in the United States Marine Corps
• Purpose: Serves as Maria's secondary longarm
• Barrel length: 20 inches
• Magazine size: Nine rounds - eight rounds in the magazine tube, one in the chamber

• Tactical Knife:

• Model: Cold Steel Leatherneck-SF
• Design Classification**: Modernized Military Clip Point Fighting Knife
• Blade Material : German D2 Tool Steel
• Blade Coating: DLC (Diamond-like carbon) coating
• Blade Length: 6.75 inches
• Blade Thickness: 5 mm
• Handle Length: 5 inches
• Total Weight: 11.7 ounces (332 grams)
• Handle Material**: Deeply checkered, non-slip Kray-Ex grip with an integrated steel butt-cap
• Guard Style: Double-Quillon Crossguard (Steel, powder coated)

• Utility Knife:

• Model: Cold Steel SRK 3V
• Handle: Kray-Ex handle
• Cross-guard: Lower quillon guard
• Blade Length: 6 inches
• Blade Width: Approximately 1 inch
• Blade Material: CPM-3V steel
• Blade Coating: DLC (Diamond-like carbon) coating

1. Elizabeth Hill - Biological Mother

2. Ed Vernon (real name unknown) - Estranged Biological Father

Avengers:

1. Steve Rogers, aka Captain America

2. Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye

3. Tony Stark, aka Iron Man

4. Bruce Banner, aka Hulk

5. Thor Odinson

6. James "Rhodey" Rhodes, aka War Machine

7. Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch

8. Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver - Deceased

9. Sam Wilson, aka Falcon

10. Vision

11. T'Challa, aka Black Panther

12. Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man

13. Hope van Dyne, aka The Wasp

14. James "Bucky" Barnes, aka Winter Soldier

15. Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow

16. Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel

17. Kamala Khan, aka Miss Marvel

18. Peggy Carter, aka Captain Carter - Sharon Carter's great aunt

S.H.I.E.L.D.:

1. Nick Fury

2. Phil Coulson's team: • Phil Coulson • Melinda May, aka The Cavalry • Leo Fitz • Jemma Simmons • Lance Hunter • Daisy Johnson, aka Quake

3. Bobbi Morse

4. Alphonso Mackenzie

5. Antoine Triplett - Deceased

6. Robert Gonzales

7. Tomas Calderon

8. Anne Weaver

9. Sharon Carter, aka Agent 13 - Peggy Carter's Great-niece

Other:

1. Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross - Reluctant ally

2. Everett Ross

3. Pepper Potts

4. Happy Hogan

1. Loki Laufeyson

2. Chitauri

3. T. Vanchat

4. Alexander Pierce - Deceased

5. Gideon Malick - Deceased

6. Jasper Sitwell - Deceased

7. Brock Rumlow, aka Crossbones - Deceased

8. Jack Rollins

9. Russo

10. John Garrett - Deceased

11. Grant Ward - Deceased

12. Kara Palamas, aka Agent 33 - Deceased

13. Mark Smith

14. Mark Basso

15. Wonsik

16. Bobbitt

17. Glenn Talbot

18. Ultron - Deceased

19. Ultron Sentries - Deceased

20. Thanos, aka The Mad Titan

21. Georges Batroc, aka Batroc the Leaper

22. Anthony "Tony" Masters, aka Taskmaster

23. Emil Blonksy, aka Abomination

24. Victor Creed, aka Sabretooth

25. Monica Rappaccini, aka Scientist Supreme

Enemy factions:

1. HYDRA

2. A.I.M.

• Level 1: The lowest level. Agents with this clearance had the least access and were typically assigned to support roles like technical, maintenance, or secretarial positions.

• Level 2: Details for this clearance aren't specified, but it's a step up in access from Level 1.

• Level 3: Level 3 agents are often assigned to administrative tasks like sorting files and accessing S.H.I.E.L.D. records, though this could also be a temporary demotion for reasons like a traumatic event, as in the case of Agent Melinda May

• Level 4: Some Level 4 agents work as field agents at this level.

• Level 5: Many Level 5 agents work as foot soldiers, often wearing body armor.

• Level 6: Level 6 agents specialize in espionage and combat.

• Level 7: Level 7 is similar to Level 6, but agents with this clearance get access to more sensitive information, higher priority missions, and full access to details on the Battle of New York back in 2012.

• Level 8: Level 8 gives agents more access to information that could risk the lives of agents with lower clearance levels. Some Level 8 agents work as mission controllers rather than field agents.

• Level 9: Level 9 is typically associated with the Deputy Director (Maria Hill being Deputy Director), other high-ranking field agents can also achieve this level. Level 9 grants access to most of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files and knowledge of high-ranking projects and missions. Agents who demonstrate significant expertise, leadership, and trust, especially in specialized roles, may be granted this level of access.

• Level 10: Held by the Director. As Director, they have access not only to all S.H.I.E.L.D. files, but to the world's most important files and secrets. The only known person that has Level 10 Clearance is Nick Fury.

° Alpha Level is an additional clearance level that was given to the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Secretary of the World Security Council, as those were the two highest ranking positions that oversaw S.H.I.E.L.D. Two simultaneous Alpha Level Clearance inputs were needed in order to disable all encryption on S.H.I.E.L.D. files. The only known people to have Alpha Level Clearance were Nick Fury and Alexander Pierce before the latter was shot dead by Fury.

° Omega Level is an additional Clearance Level that is needed to access special files, such as the full details of Project Rebirth, or Camilla Reyes' hijacking of the Bus. The only known person to have Omega Level Clearance is Nick Fury.

• Director Nick Fury bears the same likeness of his MCU counterpart portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson, standing 6'2 and wearing his signature outfit that consists of a black leather trenchcoat, black turtleneck sweater that zips up at the front, black tactical military style cargo pants, black leather gloves (occasionally), black leather combat boots, his black signature eyepatch wrapped around his bald head and covering his left eye and a black goatee for facial hair. He also has a black utility belt with a holster on his right thigh that holds his Smith & Wesson M&P sidearm.

• Because this story takes place after the events of Captain America: Civil War (2016), Steve Rogers, Wanda Maximoff, Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes, Natasha Romanoff, and Peggy Carter are all on the run as fugitives. Scott Lang is under house arrest and Clint Barton retired rather than sign the Sokovia Accords.

• The events of The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and Captain America: Civil War (2016) and canon and have happened in this story. The events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019) are still canon and will happen in this story.

• THE STORY IS SET IN 2018 JUST BEFORE THE EVENTS OF AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR.