HYDRA Uprising

Quest for the Orb

### Result:

S.H.I.E.L.D. suffers heavy casualtiesNick Fury commissions Phil Coulson with rebuilding S.H.I.E.L.D. from the shadows

Three members of the World Security Council are killed

Revelation of HYDRA's continued existence

The Avengers officially reassembled

## Major Events

### Battles:

Battle at the TriskelionBattle at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy

Battle at the Hub

Assassination of Victoria Hand

Battle on the Iliad

Battle at the Sandbox

Raid of the Fridge

Assassination of Eric Koenig

Kidnapping of Skye

Attack on Providence

Infiltration into Cybertek Corporate Headquarters

Kidnapping of Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons

Ambush at the Barbershop Headquarters

Battle at Cybertek

## Casualties

The **HYDRA Uprising**, also known as the **HYDRA Infiltration** and the **Fall of S.H.I.E.L.D.**, was a major conflict that went back as early as the 1940s, signifying the rise of a new world order where HYDRA, the rogue Nazi science group originally formed by the Red Skull, was at the forefront.
After World War II, the security agency S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded, but was soon infiltrated by HYDRA operatives, starting with Arnim Zola in Operation Paperclip. For the next several decades, HYDRA grew within S.H.I.E.L.D.'s ranks, manipulating the agency and using its unlimited resources to suit their plans. In 2014, the infiltration was exposed during Project Insight, and HYDRA, in an effort to save itself, started purging all S.H.I.E.L.D. facilities of non-HYDRA aligned individuals.

After all of the undercover HYDRA agents had revealed themselves, the War on HYDRA began, letting the Avengers and the reformed S.H.I.E.L.D. fight HYDRA without being manipulated from the inside.

## History

### Prelude:

*"After the war, S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded, and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew, a beautiful parasite, inside S.H.I.E.L.D."*
―Arnim Zola
Originally founded by Johann Schmidt in the World War II sect, HYDRA is an advanced weapons division of the Nazi Schutzstaffel, HYDRA became an independent terror group bent on global domination during World War II. The majority of Schmidt's plans revolved around the Tesseract, an Infinity Stone that had been left on Earth by Odin centuries ago.

The group came into constant conflict with Captain America, who successfully disabled several of their facilities before confronting Schmidt at his headquarters. In the battle, Schmidt disappeared after physically handling the Tesseract, HYDRA was left without a leader and fell on the verge of collapse.

Shortly after the end of the war, the peacekeeping agency S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded. Through Operation Paperclip, former HYDRA scientist Arnim Zola was recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D., but his recruitment proved to have dire consequences in the future. As a member of S.H.I.E.L.D., Zola sought out and provided access into the agency for several HYDRA operatives and loyalists that managed to escape justice after WWII. From within S.H.I.E.L.D., the new HYDRA grew like a parasite and slowly regained power

#### Secret War:

Shortly after the war, Arnim Zola was able to find his former test subject Bucky Barnes who survived the fall from Zola's train in 1945, though he lost his left arm. Using S.H.I.E.L.D.'s resources, Zola continued his experiments on Bucky Barnes, brainwashing him and giving him the new cybernetic arm to replace his lost limb. Now blindly loyal to Zola and enhanced with another version of the Super Soldier Serum, Barnes became HYDRA's new fist, eventually gaining the nickname Winter Soldier.