Marcus Johnson

An Army Ranger serving in Afghanistan, Marcus Johnson and his best friend Cheese were on duty when Asgardian God of Fear, the Serpent's forces began spreading fear worldwide. In an already volatile area, this resulted in a massive battle that killed 25 soldiers and injured 48 others, though Johnson and Cheese largely escaped unscathed. Three days after the battle, Johnson received word his mother had died, and returned to Atlanta to attend her funeral, an event also secretly attended by Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter.

Following the funeral, he visited her house, which had been looted during riots caused by the global fear. Looking through the home and discovering blood and a bullet casing, he realized that his mother's death had been a deliberate murder. Upon exiting the house, he and the police officer who was accompanying him came under fire from a sniper, followed by a coordinated attack by Russian mercenaries, specifically targeting Johnson. Though he was able to defeat them using the combat training he had, the arrival of Taskmaster proved more than he could handle, but just before Taskmaster could kill him, Captain America and a small army arrived, saving his life.

He was then taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, but after Captain America refused to explain to him why he was attacked by mercenaries, he escaped and went to find out by himself. With the help of his friend "Cheese" he tracked his mother's assassin Orion who wanted to find Johnson because he was Nick Fury's son, and his blood had the Infinity Formula, that could restore Uvarov to his former self.

In the end, Johnson defeated Leviathan with the help of the Avengers, his father and his friend Phil "Cheese" Coulson, was told that his real name was Nicholas Fury, Jr. and became an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., even joining the organization's Secret Avengers initiative.

CIVIL WAR II

In the middle of the second superhuman civil war, Fury Jr. was sent in a mission to neutralize a Hydra cell posing as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. According to a prediction from the Inhuman profiler Ulysses Cain, the success of the cell's attack on S.H.I.E.L.D. could prove to be fatal.

On his way to a base in Arizona, Fury was attacked by fellow soldiers, who turned out to be actual agents loyal to S.H.I.E.L.D. instead of Hydra infiltrators as suspected. In order to find the source of the traitors, who claimed that Fury had to die to ensure S.H.I.E.L.D.'s survival, Nick decided to fake his death and slip under the radar.

Fury interrogated dirty S.H.I.E.L.D. benefactor Elton Blake and was directed to an abandoned S.H.I.E.L.D. base named Ulu in Alaska. Once there, Fury tried to corner the mastermind, but he was caught off guard by his speed, resulting in the villain making a escape. Fury subsequently infiltrated base Ogma and downloaded vast amounts of classified data to track down the mastermind, evading Black Widow in the process.

His investigation led Fury to the Kratos underground base, where the Leader was revealed to be a rogue Life-Model Decoy of his father. The LMD revealed that Ulysses' prediction didn't involve a Hydra cell, but that Nick Fury's next mission was going to cost him his life, but not taking part on it would've resulted in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s destruction. The Leader had learned of the prediction and wanted to take Fury Jr. out of the picture to push forward his plan to take over S.H.I.E.L.D. and reinvent it. In order to stop the Leader and his plans, Fury destroyed the main support beam of the base, causing it to give in, even at the risk of his own life.

Fury survived the collapse and retrieved the head of the destroyed LMD to hack into it and learn how did it pull off his plan. Nick forgave Maria Hill for having sent him on a mission that involved his potential death, acknowledging it was her responsibility as director to ensure S.H.I.E.L.D.'s survival, but didn't brush off that he wasn't told about it. Because of this, Fury decided to postpone his return to S.H.I.E.L.D., and remained underground trusting the only person he could truly rely on: Himself.

MARVEL NOW! 2.0

Once again working as a top operative for S.H.I.E.L.D., Fury found himself on a top-secret mission infiltrating the French Riviera, a high end casino. There he faced off in a deadly game of cat and mouse against Hydra agent Frankie Noble.