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In a dream:Lower East Side, New York City, where a girls only game night is underway. Seated around a table are Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel, Jessica Drew the original Spider-Woman, Kamala Khan the current Ms Marvel, Natasha Romanoff a.k.a. the Black Widow, and Jane Foster the Mighty Thor. Chewie the cat – or, rather, Flerken, sits at Thor's feet and yawns.
Carol looks closely at her cards and decides that everything is coming up aces – she can't lose. She doesn't usually get the good cards, she just knows how to play the crap hand she is dealt – and never fold. 'Blackjack!' Carol exclaims, throwing her cards down.  She stands up, grinning. 'Team Mizzxap for the win again – and the crowd goes wild!' Jessica Drew declares, throwing her arms into the air, while Kamala stands up, grinning. 'Wait, wait. I got it. Hashtag Women of Mar-Vell' the Black Widow remarks while reading a comic book. 'Mizzcap? Aren't they supposed to hate each other?' Thor asks, pointing at Carol and Jessica. 'Keep up, Thor. I'm wearing a tutu. This is a dream' the Black Widow replies.
Suddenly, there is a knock at the door. 'Pizza's here -' someone calls out. 'That's no pizza' someone warns as an armored fist punches through the door. 'Extra cheese. With a side of – door!' declares Iron Man. The card table is broken in half as Carol flies over to Iron Man and starts to fight him. 'What – is your problem – Tony?' she shouts at him. 'Wait – did you just say “Tony”? Danvers, who do you think this is?' Iron Man replies.
Reality:'Danvers -' a voice calls out, as Carol suddenly lunges forward, sitting up in the chair she had fallen asleep in. 'Tony, enough!' Carol shouts, startling Chewie, who leaps up from Carol's lap. 'Colonel Danvers...? Six minutes. Thirty seconds longer than last time' a voice remarks.
Carol is hooked up to a machine which appears to be monitoring her, while the voice belongs to a female therapist who sits nearby. 'It's been weeks and I still can't sleep. That nightmare...' Carol begins. Still fighting Iron Man?' the therapist asks. Carol reveals that she wakes up right before he opens his helmet – every time. 'Why?' the therapist enquires. 'Cause it's a dream? Or he's got a creepy clown face? Or sudden onset Vader baldness? If I don't sleep soon I'll...' Carol begins. '...punch an asteroid?' the therapist suggests. 'Or twenty' Carol adds. Chewie approaches the therapist as she asks Carol, speaking of fights, whether she has talked to Jess yet – not as Spider-Woman but as her closest friend.
'I'm busy, she's busy. She just had a baby. I have a freakin' Flerken cat' Carol replies. 'So you had a falling out. Talk to her. Friends fight. So do heroes...' the therapist points out, before asking Carol if she gives up on everyone she doesn't agree with. 'Can we just skip to the part where you tell me why I can't sleep and how to fix it, doc?' Carol asks while her Flerken cat pats away at the therapist's notepad. 'Is that your job? To fix everything?' the therapist asks. 'Fixing things, punching asteroids. Just not feelings talk' Carol replies.
The therapist suggests that Carol's insomnia probably stems from anxiety – too much combat, too many lost friends, too little attention to how that all feels – not enough talking about it. The Flerken cat snorts, before the therapist tells Carol that the Alpha Flight Board mandated their sessions for a reason. 'Blasting a few NASA satellites out of the sky? I thought they were asteroids. I was doing my job' Carol replies.
The Therapist suggests that Carol's brain is stuck on the battlefield and tells her that she might by the mightiest superhero on this planet, but that if she can't move past that, then she will also be the most dangerous. 'You want to know dangerous? While we sit here and chat feelings, doc, the world is falling apart and nobody even blinks' Carol snaps, pointing out of the window. 'I don't have that luxury. I'm the Alpha Flight commander. It's my job to blink' Carol adds. 'Is it?' the therapist enquires. 'I was just in a war where I could see the future and I could barely keep up then. Now I have to do it all without that power?' Carol replies. The therapist asks her if that is how she feels – powerless. 'This isn't about me!' Carol exclaims. 'But this is about you, Colonel. And your feelings and your losses. You won't be able to hold them in forever. You'll explode' the therapist points out. 'You get that I can swallow the sun, right?' Carol asks, before announcing that she is done talking. 'So how about I send you a limited edition #carolcorps poster for all your trouble? I've signed five hundred of them for fans, I can spare a few'.
Carol holds a remote up to the therapist, who tells her that she can click the remote all she wants, but that there is no off button for feelings. With that, the therpaist vanishes. 'I feel fine. I feel great. In fact, you could say I'm on the top of the world...literally' Carol remarks, as the view of tall buildings vanishes from the window, and a viewing screen depicting space, and planet Earth below, is revealed. Carol is in a room on the Alpha Flight Space Station, 250 miles above the Earth. The Flerken cat covers its head, while Carol informs the communications system that she is back online, and asks what she missed. 'There are nighty-eight new crisis reports in the main dataport queue since you logged off, commander' a voice replies. 'That was fast. Better get to it' Carol tells herself.
With the Flerken cat at her feet, Carol goes onto the bridge, where she finds Lieutenant Wendy Kawasaki, and asks her if anything is on fire. 'No, Commander. <cough> no menacing space debris for you to attack with lasers <cough> again'. Wendy jokes. 'I was doing my job. A debris field rolling right past Alpha Flight? A little convenient, don't you think?' Carol replies. 'For who?' Wendy asks. Carol stands over Wendy and points out that it could have been tactical coverage, but Wendy tells Carol that sometimes garbage is just garbage. 'And some people like a clean workspace, Wendy' Carol remarks. 'Yes, but a clean space space?' Wendy asks. 'So sue me...' Carol mutters. Wendy tells her that she will leave that to NASA. 'You got served today' Wendy announces, handing Carol an envelope. 'Jeez, everyone's so worked up about me blasting a few little satellites...while Earth's got a whole flood of desperate alien refugees arriving from three different galaxies...and they can hardly get any support at all' Carol exclaims, looking at the monitors in front of her and Wendy, depicting the refugee camp.
Wendy points out that they are doing what they can, but Carol declares that they can do more. Wendy informs her that they towed in three stalled lifepods today alone. Looking at the monitors, Carol instructs Wendy to get Puck and scan for heat signatures, as they don't want to miss anyone else out there, then to tell Brand that she wants a full update after their guests settle in, and to get Sasquatch on NASA to help with civilian transport. Wendy assures Carol that she will go through them herself. 'You need to... we all want you to... rest' Wendy remarks. 'We? Is this a mutiny? Are you saying my own crew thinks -' Carol begins, looking down at Wendy, when suddenly, Eugene “Puck” Judd's voice can be heard over the communication system: 'Is Commander Crankypants up from her nap yet?' he asks. 'That's... you know...Puck is just...' Wendy utters, nervously. Carol frowns as Puck continues talking, reporting that he was trying to keep their crisis hotline off-line until the kraken awakens, but now they are getting flooded with urgent requests. 'So...got any better ideas?' Puck asks. 'Reroute all reports to my office, Puck. I'm on my way' Carol responds.
'Sorry, is that...? Did she just...? Cap...?' Puck asks, dropping his head into his hands. 'That's Commander Crankypants to you. Take us off-line again and I'll send you to babysit an actual Kraken, is that clear?' 'Off – off – turn it off -' Puck  tells himself. Carol starts to inform Wendy that she will be in her office, when she suddenly notices something on Wendy's collar: 'Wait, are you wearing a Hala star?' she asks. Moving away from Carol and closing one eye, Wendy admits to joining Carol's club. 'I have a club?' Carol asks. 'Clubs. Fan club, sir...and cosplay club...and then there's the fan-fic forum... I'm the moderator' Wendy reveals. 'You guys think this is hilarious, don't you?' Carol asks. 'Permission not to respond, sir?' Wendy replies. 'Denied' Carol tells her, so Wendy tells Carol that she will answer if Carol personalizes her limited edition poster: 'With this special gold pen!' she shouts, shoving the poster of Carol towards the surprised woman. 'Err....' Carol utters, before scribbling on the poster, and telling Wendy that they have actual work to do, and she wants those reports, stat. 'On it, Commander Crank...Sir' Wendy replies.
The Flerken car is perched on Carol's head as Carol enters her office aboard the AFSS, which she finds has been decorated with Carol Corps posters. 'Ugh. Who put these up?' Carol mutters, telling Chewie that she will never hear the end of this – she is now the literal poster child for saving the world. 'Love what you've...' someone begins, coming up behind Carol and putting a hand on Carol's shoulder. 'Wha -? Huh -?' Carol exclaims, spinning around and knocking Commander Abigail Brand backwards, and sending the Flerken cat falling to the floor. 'Hey – OW!' Brand declares, before finishing what she was originally saying to Carol: '...done with the place'. Carol apologizes to Brand, but asks her what she epxected, creeping around like that. Brand tells Carol that the crew can't take much more of this. 'You're losing it' she declares. 'I'm not losing it, Brand. I can -' Carol begins, but Brand tells Carol not to give her that “swallow the sun” crap. 'You're only half Kree. You're still human enough to lose it' she points out.
Carol pauses, before sitting down on the floor next to Brand, who exclaims 'You're Captain Marvel. You've put away some bad dudes this year, and had some big wins. How about you shut up and take your victory lap already?' to which Carol informs Brand that her dad would have liked her. Brand looks at Carol, who sighs, and asks why winning sucks so bad. 'Half human, remember?' Brand replies. Carol asks her why winning always means losing so much. 'Why even bother?' she wonders, pointing out that the higher she flies, the farther away everyone else gets.
'Are you kidding me? Do you really not get it?' Brand declares. She puts her arm around Carol's shoulder and tells her that she flies because the rest of them are stuck on the ground – she isn't flying away from them, she is flying for them. 'This is awkward' Carol remarks, as Puck and Wendy walk towards her. 'Commander... should we come back?' Puck asks. 'What? Haven't you ever seen a feelings talk before?' Carol replies.
Puck is carrying a box, which he hands to Carol. 'Special delivery' Wendy remarks. Puck informs Carol that it is from Boston and asks her what she got. Carol opens the box and looks through it, explaining that it is some of her old things from storage, for her new apartment – her dad's bowling ball, her Sox pennant. 'You a Sox fan? Jays man, myself' Puck tells Carol, who smiles when she sees her first telescope. Everything in the box is a memory that Carol couldn't get rid of if she tried.
Flashback in Carol's memory:Boston's BakBay, where a young Carol Danvers looked out her window at nighttime through her telescope. By first grade, she knew the names of the stars better than the Sox's outfield – sacrilege. Especially for Carol's family. All her brothers Joe and Stevie, and her father, Joseph, cared about was baseball and bowling.  They watched baseball at Fenway Park, in Boston, and went bowling at the South Boston Candlepin. The last time they all went bowling was the worst night of her life.
'I should have gotten that strike, Pops. Bowling is just physics – and I got an “A” in physics' Carol remarked, looking at the bowling ball in her hands. 'Game's over, Bean. Better hit the skee-ball before Stevie and Joe play your dime' Joseph Danvers told his daughter. Carol informed her father that she was studying astrophysics when she got to U Mass – that is the best major for astronauts. 'How do you know?' Joseph asked. 'I called' Carol told him. 'Who?' Joseph asked his daughter, who announced that she called NASA. 'Ah, Bean...' Joseph's voice trailed off, before they sat down, and Joseph revealed to Carol that since his tour of duty ended, things had been tight. 'College tuition...' his voice trailed off as Carol told him that she would get a part-time job. 'You start in gift wrapping at Filene's on Tuesday. Full-time' Joseph informed his daughter, who asked him if he was joking. Joseph explained to Carol that he can pay for one tuition – for Stevie, as Joe has good hands and can frame houses with him. A forlorn Carol told her father that wasn't fair, and asked what she was supposed to do. Joseph suggested she find herself a nice boy – a nice astronaut – and settle down. 'Pops, no! There's no way -' Carol protested, but he told her that there was a way: 'Put on a a skirt once in a while. Comb that crazy hair, all that girl stuff...'
Carol decided that it was a lonely thing when the people you love don't know who you are, so she gave up on her father and enlisted in the Air Force the very next day. She was a hard worker, and her record showed it – Air Force enlisted, Air Force command, NASA scrub, NASA command, NASA security brass, and every CO said the same thing – she was the top of her class and the fastest of anyone, the best of the best – for a girl. But Carol didn't care, she knew that if she could just get up to space, no one could tell her who she couldn't be or what she couldn't do. And once she was in the air, she fought with the noise in her head, with the noise of the engines. She drowned out all the voices that said she was nothing – she only heard what she knew. That she had always been something.
So what happened that night? That night when she stumbled across her future? In a single moment, she inherited the powers of a planet and a people she had never known. She became stronger and faster – she flew higher and burned brighter. What had she found? People see what they wanted to see. To the NSA, it's an anomalous artifact. To the Kree, a Psyche-Magnetron. To others, a Mirari, a thing of wonder, a source of marvels. Maybe to her Pops, it would be her astronaut husband. The truth is, she doesn't care what it is called. She doesn't care if it found her, or she found it – she doesn't even care why. All she knows is she went to lose herself in the stars, but instead, that is where she found herself – her true self. All of her. Carol Danvers. And Captain Marvel.
Present:Carol is in her office, the Flerken cat sitting on her desk as she goes through the box of her things when an alarm sounds, and a voice over the communication system informs Captain Marvel that they need her on the bridge. 'The doorbell's ringing, Chewie. Let's go see who's there' Carol tells the Flerken cat. Carol rushes out into the corridor, and Dr Walter Langkowski a.k.a. Sasquatch follows her. 'Command to all Alpha Flight personnel. We got company' Carol announces over her communicator. She confirms a perimeter breach of station airspace and states that this is a code yellow. 'Repeat. We are not at green. Let's just check things out' Carol remarks as the Flerken and Puck follow her and Sasquatch.
'Coming up on your starboard now' Brand reports as they all arrive on the bridge. Carol sees an aircraft on the monitor and Carol reports that she knows it – she has flown it. She asks if it is from Earth, but Brand tells her 'Not anymore. That thing is not friendly. Coming in too fast and too hot'. Carol declares that it is not the Girl Scouts, and asks who it is. Wendy is at the console and announces that she isn't sure, but that they have reached ramming speed and are on a direct collision course. Carol uses the communications system to inform everyone that they are moving to green and are combat ready. Carol tells Wendy to do the math and asks if there is any way that thing can stop, or if their front door is going to have to be the thing that stops it. 'Our front door, sir. Unless something stops it first' she adds. 'Funny. That's just what I was thinking' Carol remarks.
Carol rushes down a corridor. She knows what she has to do to keep her team safe – because Wendy and Puck and Sasquatch and Brand – all of her Alphans – that is their missions, that is why she flies – that is her family now. She admits that Brand was right – she isn't flying away from them. She is flying for them. Carol slams her hand on a panel, and a door opens, she changes into her costume, then she soars out into open space. Via communicator, Carol asks Wendy if she is getting heat signatures. Wendy confirms this and tells Carol that they are organic but of unknown origin. 'Puck, how about Sox versus Jays? If I fastball thaty ship your way, can you hit it with the tractor beam?' Carol asks. 'Why not?' Puck replies. 'Is that a yes?' Carol asks. 'It's not a no, Cap' comes Puck's response. 'Good enough' Carol tells him, before instructing Sasquatch to let NASA know that they are going to swing for the bleachers on this one. 'Just try not to shoot their stuff down this time, Captain' someone replies. 'Really? We're gonna go there now?' Carol asks.
Carol flies towards the approaching vessel, telling herself that she knows the drill – higher, further, faster...more. The ship is coming in faster than she thought, but Carol slams her fist into the ship, 'Okay. That one stings' she thinks to herself as the ship hurls off in another direction. Carol latches onto it, 'Now, Puck!' she orders as the vessel spins away from the AFSS. 'Got it!' Puck calls back as he uses the tractor beam to catch the ship. 'And it's a grand slam for the Jays!' Puck jokes, to which Carol tells him that the Sox loaded those bases for him. 'Suddenly, someone aboard the AFSS asks Carol if she is seeing anything out there, as they are picking up another signal. 'It's another ship' Carol declares as she looks over and sees the ship nearby.
Soon, Carol and Brand walk through a hangar bay, where AFSS crew are assisting alien refugees. The aliens glow pink, yellow and blue, and Brand reports that smugglers were moving human cargo – refugees from a remote part of the Majesdanian system. 'And the NASA ship?' Carol asks. Brand explains that it was decomissioned and stolen out of the Air & Space Museum, if you can believe it. 'I believe it' Carol replies, adding that there is a lot of money to be made when people are desperate. 'And the second ship?' Carol asks. 'They say they were being chased' Brand explains. 'By?' Carol asks. 'That's the funny thing – they thought it was us' Brand reveals. Carol looks at the aliens, among them are families, and she asks Brand to take care of their new friends. 'Of course' Brand replies, before asking Carol where she is going. 'To take care of an old friend' Carol announces.
It was the baby amongst the family of alien refugees that reminded Carol – and thinking about her Pops – she knew what she had to do. She drops down to a diner on Earth, where Jessica Drew sits at the counter, a television is on, and a report indicates that alien refugee camp populations are hitting record numbers, and a crisis is looming because of it. 'Bad time to be an alien, hey Danvers?' Jessica calls out. 'Jess, you came' Carol replies. Jess replies that she doesn't get that many 3 AM texts from space. Carol apologizes and explains that she can sleep these days. 'I'd be surprised if you could...after Rhodey and Bruce and Tony...' Jess' voice trails off, as Carol tells her that shre needs to move forward – they both do. 'Easy for you to say' Jess replies. 'It's not. I know it's been weird. And I know I've made a lot of frenemies -' Carol begins, but Jessica interrupts her: 'I think those are just called enemies'.
Carol sits beside Jessica and tells her that she has been fighting people her whole life for what she believes in – and she gave up a lot to get here. 'When the people I was closest to didn't understand me, I didn't just walk away. I flew' Carol remarks. 'I know, Carol...' Jess replies. Carol tells Jess that she can't walk away from her, and that friends fight, people disagree, right or wrong. 'Pretty sure I was right' Jess remarks. 'We need each other. You have a baby now and I -' Carol begins. 'Can be a baby' Jessica suggests. 'Drew, can you just let me apologize?' Carol asks. 'Is that what that was?' Jessica asks. Carol tells her that, technically, it was an explanation, but the tone, that was an apology. Jessica tells Carol that she accepts her expology, because she can't handle this fight anymore. 'I can barely handle single-mom laundry' she adds. 'Love you, Spock' Jess tells Carol. 'Love you too, Kirk' Carol replies as they hug, before Carol asks 'Hmm, my head is nestled in spit-up, isn't it?' 'Shhhhh' Jess replies, telling Carol to go to sleep.
Meanwhile, at the Alpha Flight Displaced Alien Refugee Camp, makeshifts tents fill a fenced area which is access restricted. A figure wearing a high-tech mask and covered in a cloak, armed with weapons, skulks about the camp, where the colorful aliens are currently residing. The figure comes to a building, and announces that the bounty is located, the Hala child is inside. 'I can feel it...'.
Back on the AFSS, Carol Danvers finally falls asleep – and the dream continues.
In Carol's dream:'Enough, Tony...' Carol calls out as she battles Iron Man. 'Tony? Who do you think this is, Danvers?' the voice within the Iron Man armor responds. 'Not the Jedi in the Dagobah Cave thing -' Carol replies, as the unmasked Iron Man is revealed to be Carol herself. 'Yes, the Jedi in the Dagobah Cave thing -' the Carol-Iron Man declares as she forces Carol through a window.
Carol knows that the nightmare isn't over yet – she is still fighting herself, and she sometimes wonders if it will ever stop – and that is when she wakes up.


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Alien Nation, part one
Time Square, New York City, where Captain Marvel, sporting long blonde hair hovers in the night sky, as a man in a blue costume with a red cape flies towards her.
'First rule of super hero boss fights? Never forget you're the boss' Captain Marvel thinks to herself, as her opponent swoops in and knocks her backwards with a weapon. Captain Marvel responds by flying back towards him and grabbing him, pushing him back.
'Second rule? Never let him confuse a right hook with hooking up...' Captain Marvel decides as she pins her opponent against a building. 'Great grapple, Cap'n Marvel' the man remarks. 'I don't know if I should punch you on the jaw or kiss you on the mouth, Hero Man' Captain Marvel replies. 'Punch him! Punch him!' someone calls out. 'Let me help you make up your mind' Hero Man suggests as their mouths move closer together. 'My mind has nothing to do with this one' Captain Marvel replies. 'Oh, Captain, my captain...' Hero Man utters as they nearly lock lips. 'Vomit!' someone exclaims. Captain Marvel and Hero Man hover mid-air, embracing and kissing next to a billboard advertising the “Cap'n Marvel” television show. 'CUT! Quiet on set...!' a voice shouts.
'Oh Craptain, my Craptain!' Jessica Drew a.k.a. the original Spider-Woman laughs as she stands next to Carol Danvers, the real Captain Marvel, on the soundstage at Wacker Studios in New York. 'Every word is torture. They don't train you for this in the air force. Zero Gs yes. TV cheese, no' Carol remarks to Jessica, who laughs again. Arms folded, Carol frowns and tells her friend 'It's not funny. It's my life'. Jessica apologizes, and admits that she knows the Board put her up to it, but at least the show will keep Alpha Flight funded and in the air. 'Right?' Jessica asks. 'That's the idea' Carol replies. Jessica tells Carol that it is awesome, and to think of all the little girls who can trick-or-treat as her, instead of a princess for a change. 'You know what I trick-or-treated as? NASA girl' Carol declares. 'See? You would have loved it' Jessica tells her.
A man with a beard approaches them, 'Danvers? I take it you have notes on the script... again?' he asks. Carol addresses him as Jayson and informs him that she would like to make a few cuts – like all the dialogue. 'And that's Oh Cap'n Danvers to you, pal' Jessica tells him. Carol introduces Jess to Jayson Jay, explaining that he is the director. She tells Jess to be nice, otherwise he will give her a cameo.
'Get me down? I gotta go to the little hero's room' the actor playing Hero Man calls out as he is lowered to the ground. 'First it was the title...' the director begins. 'Which sounds like a box of cereal' Carol points out. 'Me too. I got a wedgie' the actress playing Captain Marvel exclaims. 'Then it was the costume design' Jayson reminds Carol, who points out that the actress is showing a lot of cleavage.
Her cellphone rings, and Jessica holds it out too her: 'Uh, Carol? The caller ID says it's... POTUS?' to which Carol remarks 'That can't be good'. Carol walks away from the others and the director asks Jessica if she is thinking what he is thinking. 'Never' Jess tells him. 'Cap'n Marvel: West Wing Special? After our location shoot on Alpha Flight?' he suggests. 'Oh, Jayson, my Jayson. You know Alpha Flight's in space, right?' Jess asks him, while Carol answers the phone: 'At your command, Chief. What's wrong?'
Carol and Jess walk out of the studio, where Walter Langkowski a.k.a. Sasquatch is waiting beside a car. 'Danvers to Alpha Flight. You on the comm, Wendy?' Carol speaks into her communicator. Lieutenant Wendy Kawasaki's voice confirms that she is. Carol tells Wendy to expect an incoming data-burst from the Pentagon. She asks her to loop in Brand and Puck and check it out. 'Yes, Captain. Looping now' Wendy replies. Carol looks up at Sasquatch and, calling him “Squatch” tells him that he has crumbs in his fur again. 'Chocolate chip pumpkin cookies. Fangirl17 baked them for you' Sasquatch replies. His stomach grumbles as he holds the bag to Carol. 'That your stomach? Serves you right. Now get us out of here' Carol tells him.
In the back seat of the car Carol informs Jess that there has been an attack in an alien refugee camp, and the Oval kicked it to Alpha Flight because they have been intercepting 'All those stranded refugee ships at Alpha Flight. I know' Jess declares, before asking Carol what this is about – why all the sudden flood of refugees to Earth, with no warning and out of nowhere. 'Still working on that one' Carol tells her. Passing through the security gates, Jess suggests that perhaps Carol's alien fanbase wants to catch the premiere of her new show. 'Stop' Carol replies. 'Admit it. You're finally sitting at the cool kids' table' Jess exclaims. 'Only if “cool kids” means you, Jess. After the whole Ulysses mess, my closest friends are either dead, or not speaking to me' Carol remarks. 'So wait, I'm the loser at the table?' Jess asks as they drive past a large group of Captain Marvel's fans who have gathered to catch a glimpse of her. Many of them carry positive signs, while one carries a sign that says “Captain Murder”.
Carol doesn't have to answer Jess, as Commander Brand's voice is heard over the communicator. 'What do you have for me, Brand?' Carol asks. Abigail Brand, Wendy Kawasaki and Eugene “Puck” Judd appear on a holo-screen, and Wendy reports that they have decrypted the data-burst that the Pentagon sent them. Brand informs Carol that they are watching it through now. 'You gotta see this' she tells her, as footage of the Black Forest Refugee Camp appears on the holoscreen. Brand remarks that it appears the camp was attacked by the good guys. 'Are those...Army Rangers?' Jess asks as they look at the footage of soldier attacking the alien refugees. 'They were. Looks like they're taking hostages' Carol remarks. 'One hostage in particular, Commander' one of the others at the Alpha Flight Space Station points out. Footage shows a cloaked warrior entering a refugee tent, where a young child huddles against their mother. 'Tell me you can do better than that, Wen' Carol asks. Wendy does her best to enhance the footage – revealing a close up of the child. 'Not just any kid...  she's Kree' someone announces. An instant later, Carol is in her Captain Marvel costume and flies out the sunroof of the car. 'Someone just made a big mistake' Jess remarks to Sasquatch, while Carol soars skyward, a determined look on her face.
Soaring across an ocean, Carol knows that she is only part Kree, her human family is from Boston, not Hala – that's the Milky Way, not the Greater Magellanic Cloud. Flying across London Carol reminds herself that she only inherited her Kree powers in a freak accident, when she stumbled across a psyche magnetron, a piece of ancient alien tech. 'But try telling that to the Kree life force rushing through me... propelling me higher and faster...' Carol thinks as she flies past the Eifel Tower, until she eventually arrives at a refugee encampment in Eastern Europe, knowing that somewhere down there is a blue-skinned Kree kid who needs her help. Dropping to the ground, Carol wonders 'Maybe this time, I'm her freak accident'.
Entering the camp, Carol sees damaged tents and alien refugees scattered about. 'Something bad went down here' Carol declares, before speaking into her communicator, asking Alpha Flight Space Station if they are with her. 'Yes, Sir' someone responds. Carol instructs AFSS to deploy a medical team to her location. She goes over to an elderly alien is huddled under a tent with another. Carol helps them out and places a flag around one of them, asking them who or what did this, and whether they saw where it went. 'Hala' one of the aliens replies. 'That's right. From Hala. A Kree child. Blue skin, right? Where is she?' Carol asks'. The alien points to a tower that is within flames and says 'Hala...'
'Super' Carol mutters as she flies towards the tower in the center of the camp, passing other aliens who are gathering themselves after the recent attack. As she reaches the tower, Carol informs AFSS that she doesn't know what they saw on that video – the problem seems to be a rogue army ranger. She asks them to ping the DOD network to shut this unit down, as she has got this. Carol asks for a bioscan – she wants to know what she is looking at here. 'Scanning now. One juvenile Kree and one...indeterminate, Sir' a voice replies. 'Indeterminate?' Carol asks. 'I'm not sure...I thought it was humanoid, but now it's somehow... not' Carol is informed as she sees the army ranger hanging over the edge of the tower balcony, holding the Kree child.
Carol lands on the balcony: 'Okay, big guy. I'm guessing you know who I am' she calls out to him, instructing him to identify himself and put the kid down. A strange sphere appears next to the “army ranger” and Carol realizes that it is an escape pod. 'Bounty acquired' the “army ranger” announces, as the pod opens and the Kree child is placed into it. 'A bounty hunter? In the army? I don't think so' Carol remarks. The Kree child bites down on the “army ranger's” hand, and Carol tells the “ranger” to let her go – offering to double the rate for the name of whoever hired him. 'Blue-skinned Kree are protected by intergalactic accord. You know that' Carol declares. The pod closes on the child and the bounty hunter initiates the launch sequence, while the Kree child screams 'No no no no' over and over.
'And now you're just being annoying' Carol tells the bounty hunter. 'Leave it alone, Captain' the bounty hunter declares, speaking for the first time. 'So you do know who I am' Carol remarks. 'But do you know who I am? Am I an army ranger...or a Kree orphan?' the bounty hunter asks, switching to the appearance of the Kree child, he then screams 'Help! Help! Captain Marvel is hurting me!' Carol fires a blast of energy at the tower: 'Seriously? A shape-shifter? So old-school!' she declares, but as the tower begins to collapse, the bount hunter is flung off of the balcony, and Carol points out that it is not as old-school as brutce force. Namely, hers. She then flies over to the pod and starts to push it towards space. 'Just sit tight, little guy...we've got two hundred and forty thousand miles to go...' Carol calls out as she forges onwards. '...but today we're traveling at the speed of Carol...which is crazy fast...even for me' Carol adds, before approaching the AFSS and informing her team that she is coming in hot.
'You brought us a present?' Abigail Brand asks as she, Wendy Kawasaki, Puck and Sasquatch are waiting for Carol in the hangar bay. 'A moon pie?' Puck enquires. 'Close. One blue-skinned Kree – complete with bonus smuggler's pod' Carol replies. Wendy informs her that they saw. 'Bounty hunter and shape-shifter?' she asks. 'Yup. Two for one' Carol declares, before putting the pod on the floor. 'I've got it' Wendy announces as she goes over and uses a device which opens the pod hatch. 'Welcome to Alpha Flight, kid' Carol greets her, standing in front of the pod as the young Kree child looks out. 'No!' the child exclaims. Carol assures the child that she is okay, and that they are not going to hurt her. 'No no no no' the child utters. 'Maybe that's the only word the kid knows' Brand suggests.
When the child is out of the pod, Wendy takes her to her work station. 'See? This is where I work. I keep Alpha Flight's brain running' Wendy explains. In another room aboard the AFSS, Puck tells the child that this is where he and Sasquatch keep them from crashing through the atmosphere. 'Puck! Not helping!' Wendy declares as the Kree child's mouth drops open in shock. Puck tells Wendy to relax, as the kid knows they are not the bad guys. 'YOWWWW!' Puck exclaims when the child pulls on his beard. The others laugh.
Soon, Carol, Puck, Brand and Wendy watch as the child eats. 'Are children all this sticky?' Brand asks, arms folded. 'It's a sticky, nasty little beard puller...' Puck mutters. 'Puck, you're taling about a child. They don't bite!' Wendy exclaims. 'Er, only sometimes' Carol remarks. 'It knows everything we're saying. It knows all' Puck declares, to which Brand tells the kid to cut the crap – they are onto her. 'Maybe it can't get a word out around all that ice cream' Puck suggests. Carol tells Brand and Puck to cut it out. Brand scowls as she goes over and takes the spoon from the child and states that this DNA is going to the lab. Wendy frowns and gives the child another spoon. 'What the cranky lieutenant means is, Alpha Flight has a universal translator. And we'd like to talk to you, so we can help you' she explains.
Carol asks the child if she can tell them her name. Pointing at Carol's Hala star on her costume, the child replies 'Name. Name is... Hala'. Carol opens a cupboard as she tells the child that Hala is where she is from, and a name is what people call you. 'My name is Carol, and I'm from Boston.. Beantown. When I was little, my dad used to call me Bean' she adds. 'Bean' the child repeats. 'Really, Captain?' Wendy asks. Carol reveals that she also had a thing for jellybeans – but that was another story. She smiles as she pulls a bag of jellybeans from the cupboard, even though she knows they are probably pretty stale. 'Bean?' the child asks, looking at the bag of sweets with wide eyes. 'Mmmm. Bean' the child utters. 'See what I mean? Good stuff' Carol tells her. 'Bean' the girl remarks, pointing at herself. Carol eats one of the jellybeans and asks 'You don't have a name so you're just gonna have mine?' 'Yes. Mine' the girl tells her. 'Well, then. I guess Bean it is' Carol declares, before looking at her wrist. 'Crap' she mutters.
Shortly, Carol is in the conference room, where she meets with the Alpha Flight Space Station Board via holo-conference. Bean sits near Carol as the Black Panther, Captain America and severla unidentified members stand before her. Carol tells the Board that she moves they suspend all board meetings until the alien refugee crisis is solved. 'You know how the charter works, Captain Marvel' the Black Panther remarks. 'No can do' Captain America adds. Carol tells them that they are looking at a displacement crisis of epic proportions and they are running out of time. 'The Chitauri are coming. They've chasedb these aliens out of their homes...and we're next. If we don't help each other -' Carol begins, but Cap interrupts her: '...this becomes an extinction level event. I agree. Which is why we're building the atmospheric shield'.
Carol remarks that she will not raise the shield if it means trapping defenseless refugees outside. 'Choosing who lives and who dies...we've all seen how that ends'. She adds that she needs more resources. Captain America assures Carol that they are doing all they can, but that there is still an Alpha Flight budget crisis. He then asks Carol how the show is going. 'Let me get something straight...Alpha Flight's cargo bay is full of stranded alien refugees. Whole intergalactic taces are flooding to Earth. I've got the White House calling, and a shape-shifting bounty hunter is stealing Kree children...and you're telling me that my priority in all this is Cap'n Marvel and her boob windows? I don't think so' Carol declares. 'That unfortunate show is why the AFSS and refugee relocation program can exist' the Black Panther reminds her. 'We are heroes whenever we serve our people, Captain...when, not how' he adds. Carol looks shocked, and tells Bean to come on, as they are done here. Carol takes the child's hand and walks out of the conference room.
At the alien refugee camp in Prague, the bounty hunter watches as another space pod takes off into space. 'Bounty acquired. HLC Ten is en route to base' the mysterious being announces. 'Affirmative, MIM. Tracking Hala child ten on our radar...Status update on Nine?' the reply comes. The mysterious being shifts its form into a humanoid, and replies that the half-Kree took the child as bait. 'Just need to clean up first' the bounty hunter declares as they press a small device, and an instant later, the camp explodes. 'Now to hunt some bigger game...' the bounty hunter grins as they walk away from the flaming camp – in the guise of Carol Danvers!


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Alpha Flight Space Station, beyond the airlock, where Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel is working on a panel on the outer of the AFSS. She thinks that this is her command post, the one place that still feels like home. She knows that they are too far out to be protected by the Board's planetary defense shield, but AFSS is the happiest place no on Earth – which is why she hasn't told her crew. 'You okay, Captain?' Dr Walter Langkowski a.k.a. Sasquatch calls out as he and Eugene Milton Judd a.k.a. Puck are a few feet below Carol, working on another part of the AFSS hull. Carol tells Sasquatch that it is looking good, she is onto the last panel. She tells Puck that they can nail and bail. 'It's time...' Carol begins. 'Hammer time?' Sasquatch asks. 'Can't touch this' Puck declares as he uses some sort of hammer power tool against the hull. Puck and Sasquatch sing together 'Oh oh oh... oh...oh oh...' and Carol sings 'Cant' touch this...' when suddenly, a voice comes in over the communicator: 'Breakitdown!'
Carol looks over to a window on the AFSS where she sees the young Kree girl, called Bean, floating around the room, chasing after jellybeans that are floating around. 'You done with breakfast yet, Bean?' Carol asks. Bean offers some sort of response as she chomps down on the sweets, while Carol asks if Chewie is still babysitting. The Flerken cat hisses as it digs its claws into the blankets on the bed. Carol wonders how that Flerken furball can have 117 offspring and zero maternal instinct. 'You mean, compared to someone who asks a space cat to babysit...a jellybean breakfast?' Puck asks. Sasquatch snorts, so Carol reminds them that the kid was almost abducted bby a shapeshifting bounty hunter, so she deserves jellybeans – not to mention Wendy is on the Comm, Brand was a the Triskelion and Aurora is still on loan to NASA. 'Got a better idea?' Carol asks. Sasquatch wants to know when they started loaning out their crew to NASA, to which Puck suggests it might have been when Captain Marvel started taking out their satellites.
'Two satellites. And as I kept saying, it was an accident' Carol declares. Bean's eyes suddenly glow, a star forms in her eyes, and Carol informs her teammates that she has a head rush, so she thinks they better grab some food. 'Let me tap in this last panel and we'll hit the airlock -' Carol begins, but blue energy radiates around her arm. Bean's eyes glow hard. 'Holy!' Carol gasps. 'Uh-oh' Bean utters, as there is a mighty BOOM and energy blasts from Carol towards the panel she was working on. Carol attempts to use her powers to undo the damage, but the resulting backfire knoccks Sasquatch and Puck through the air, and they free-fall out towards space. 'Captain?' they both call out. Carol speeds towards them as more panels on the hull break off the space station. 'Everything okay, Sir?' Wendy Kawasaki asks over the communicator. 'Uh... just tying up a few loose ends...' Carol replies as she extends a cable towards Sasquatch and Puck, latching on to them. 'Loose ends? Captain, your powers blew a fuse!' Puck exclaims. 'How?' Sasquatch asks, supposing it could have been an electrical surge. Wendy asks Captain Marvel to let her know of her ETA, informing her that her crew needs her back here, STAT. 'Pretty sure they need me right where I am, Wen...' Carol replies as she flies back over to the damaged hull, carrying the panels with her, and pulling Sasquatch and Puck behind her.
'It... seems to be some kind of union issue, Sir' Wendy explains. 'Wait, we have a union now?' Carol asks. Wendy explains that it is something about overtime. 'My crew gets overtime?' Carol enquires. 'Your TV crew, Captain. From Cap'n Marvel, your show? They're here' Wendy reveals. Carol doesn't respond. 'Like, right here...sir' Wendy declares. This gets Carol's attention, and she follows Puck and Sasquatch back to the airlock. 'That's gonna be a big negatory, Wen. No way, not today' Carol tells Wendy as she, Puck and Sasquatch move into the hatch beyond the airlock. 'Sir?' Wendy asks. 'Get rid of them. Tell them anything...' Carol urges Wendy. 'But..' Wendy protests, as the mask that Carol was wearing while out in space pulls back off her face. Sasquatch coughs and suggests to Wendy that she tell them Carol just broke the space station. Puck wheezes as he adds 'A hundred and fifty billion dollar space station...' 'I don't think...' Wendy begins, as Carol tells her to leave that last part out. 'Er, I would but...you're on speaker, Sir' Wendy announces.
'Care Bear! This is JJ. Surprised?' Jayson Jay's voice can be heard over the intercom. 'I was going with disturbed' Carol replies as she, Puck and Sasquatch make their way down a corridor. Jayson Jay explains that he heard Carol had to do space stuff today, so he brought the set to her. 'And here I thought you came all this way for that location shoot you won't stop asking about' Carol replies as she and JJ meet in the corridor ahead. 'Why not kill two birds with one future-emmy-nominated stone?' JJ asks. 'You are one selfless act of kindness after another, Jayson Jay' Carol remarks, to which JJ points at the camera and asks Carol if she could say that into the camera. Lieutenant Commander Abigail Brand and Lieutenant Wendy Kawasaki join Carol, Sasquatch and Puck as they move into a large empty room Jayson Jay and his cameraman are there, too, and so are the actors from the Cap'n Marvel TV show. 'Alpha Flight meet...<cough>...Cap'n Marvel's Alpha Flight!' Carol announces.
'I'm blond? With those big... curls?' Wendy asks, looking over at thje actress playing her, who is tweeting that she isn't really a nerd, she just plays on on TV. 'At least you're someone. Looks like I got cut...' Brand frowns. 'That li'l puke is supposed to be me?' Puck enquires, pointing at a little girl who is tweeting that the first rule of Flight Club is that there is no Flight Club. The Hero Man actor tweets that he just rode on a space elevator, and that he loves his job, while Sasquatch sighs and supposes that at least he isn't a cat, as a large green shaggy dog lies on the ground with the cast members and tweets “woof”. Chewie the Flerkencat growls at the dog, while the Cap'n Marvel actress tweets “TFW PPL think UR an IRL space cadet”.
Bean looks out the window, while Jayson Jay informs Brand that they didn't cut her – they combined her. 'Excuse me?' the unimpressed Brand asks. 'Combined characters. That green fur? On the dog? That's you!' Jayson Jay declares. 'Wow. That is... so stupid' Brand replies, but Jayson Jay announces that it isn't really, as the Lt Squatch plushy line tested off the charts. 'Huh?' Bean remarks as she notices a pod positioned outside on the side of the Alpha Flight Space Station. 'Can we speed this up?' Carol asks. 'Why? Are we interrupting something, Cap'n Marvel?' Jayson Jay asks. 'Yeah. Earth's first line of defense. But whatever' Carol replies. 'Can you say that into the camera?' Jayson responds, while Bean utters 'No...no...no moon!'
Carol and Wendy watch as Jayson Jay shouts 'And... we're rolling. The big fight scene, from the top. Action!' The Cap'n Marvel and Hero Man actors turn to face each other as bright lines shine behind them, while Bean exclaims to Carol 'No! Moon! Alpha Flight moon! First line of defense!' Carol tells her not to be scared, as it isn't real, just pretend. 'No no no it's real' Bean utters. Carol tells her to shush. 'It's real Bean. It's real' the alien girl tells Carol, grabbing her arm. Carol tells Bean to shush again, but energy radiates from Bean, along Carol's arm and pulses around Carol's fist – the energy blasts from Carols' fist, narrowly missing Wendy and Chewie, who is thrown into the air. 'Captain?' Wendy asks. 'What's happening?' Carol wonders, while Jayson Jay looks over and tells his crew to keep rolling. But more energy pulses from Carol, and more explosions follow as the energy tears up the set in the large room – and suddenly the power goes out, and AFSS is plunged into darkness.
'Something's wrong with me. I can't control my powers' Carol thinks to herself, before asking Puck if he can move them to backup power. Puck replies that he can patch into Alfie's mainframe from engineering. 'Ouch! That's my mainframe!' Sasquatch exclaims. 'What do you mean, Squatch...I haven't even moved yet?' Puck replies. The room is smoky, adding to the atmosphere as Jayson Jay tells the crew to keep rolling, as this is gold. He adds that they can light it in post-production. 'How about kiss me...' Hero Man asks. 'How about you kiss this!' Cap'n Marvel responds, kicking Hero Man. 'Line! That's not the line!' Jayson Jay exclaims. Puck reports that Alpha Flight auxiliary power is going to emergency protocol, and starts to count down. 'Stop the cameras! Something's wrong! We need to assess damages' Carol calls out but gets no response. 'Did you hear me? Shut it all down. That's an order!'
Suddenly, someone punches Carol's face. Carol spins around and sees Jayson Jay. 'JJ? Jayson, what are you doing?' she asks as she kicks him back. 'This isn't you...this isn't right...' Carol remarks amongst the smoke that wafts around her. 'The bean moon. Bean in the moon' Bean calls out to Carol, pointing out the window. 'The bean moon? You mean the moon pod? The one I found you in?' Carol asks. She finally sees what Bean has been pointing out – the strange pod outside against the AFSS hull. 'Another moon pod? At Alpha Flight? But that one's bigger, like a ship...' Carol remarks. 'Hunter moon' Bean declares. Carol suddenly realizes that the shape-shifter is here. Val turns to the Cap'n Marvel actress and the other actors, telling them that she knows the shape-shifter is here. 'Which one of you is it?' she asks. 'Is that, like, a metaphor?' the Cap'n Marvel actress asks, while Hero Man enquires as to whether the shape-shifter would be a lead role. 'Would you be open to a rising young talent?' the little girl asks. 'Guys, I need you to evacuate -' Carol tells them, while the Cap'n Marvel actress puts a hand on Carol's arm and declares 'Captain, I'm telling you, it's me. But... I feel like an imposter in my own life...'
'Technically, you're an imposter in her life...' someone calls out. Carol looks at the actress strangely and tells her that she has to leave. 'Not until you give me the part' the actress declares. 'Er, Captain? I think...we have a problem...' someone announces, but as Carol turns to them, she is slashed across her face – and Chewie the Flerken cat screeches a hideous noise, as it opens its mouth and tentacles lash out around Carol. 'Chewie!' Carol asks, holding the creature up away from her, as the creature's large mouth tries to wrap around Carol. 'No, not Chewie, something else...someone else...' Carol thinks to herself. 'Taking the shape of my Flerken cat? That shapeshifter really knows how to twist the knife' Carol decides. She manages to smack the alien off of her. It lands against a window and leers at Carol. The window suddenly cracks, and the surprised alien is sucked out into space – where it glides towards the awaiting pod, which opens as the creature enters it – and then the pod speeds away. 'Wow. He really stuck the landing' Carol points out. 'Meow' the real Chewie replies.
'Maybe not your best day, Captain' Puck points out. 'You think? Let's see. I snapped an array, breached a hull, fried a monitor bank, triggered a station-wide blackout...and beat up my alien cat. Literally'. Carol replies. 'Affirmative. I fear we've hit max fubar' Puck tells Carol, who is holding some equipment in her hand. Bean is at her side, as is Chewie, who licks a paw. Brand sits in a chair and telsl the others that, on the bright side, they may have just witnessed the series finale of Cap'n Marvel, seeing as the cast seems to have mutinied. 'RIP' Sasquatch comments as he helps Wendy Kawasaki up to her feet. 'Bright side? That stupid show was supposed to pay for our budget, remember?' she tells the others. 'We all know that it's not just the shape shifter, or even the show. It's me – and it's bad. I've been losing control of my powers all day now...' Carol tells the others. 'Bad moon!' Bean exclaims, hugging Carol. Carol crushes the equipment she was holding in her hands, and closes her eyes, 'Oh no... is it you, kid?' she wonders.
Carol asks Wendy if the results are back from Bean's DNA sample, and holding the readings, Wendy reports that they are now. Sasquatch sits on a chair nearby while Brand stands away from the others, arms folded. Bean sits slumped over on the floor, while Chewie sits at the top of some stairs and Puck stands towards Captain Marvel and Wendy. Carol reminds herself that she and Bean are both part Kree, and wonders if there is a scientific explanation that connects Bean to Carol's power surge. Wendy informs Captain Marvel that the results are inconclusive. 'What does that mean?' Carol asks. 'Without conclusion, Sir' Wendy replies. Carol is lost for words as she stares at Wendy, who tells her that not all neds are blonde and not all technical officers can't joke. 'Joke? That was the best you could do?' Puck asks.
Captain Marvel gazes out into space and asks 'The Triskelion's genetic toolset is a fairly blunt instrument, right? I mean, we use it for what, tracking identities, solving major crimes...?' to which Wendy confirms that is true for basic fieldwork. 'So, think. Where might we find a better...instrument?' Carol asks. Wendy doesn't answer, so Carol closes her eyes and tells her to say it, whatever it is. 'I'd have said Stark Industries but...sorry, Sir' Wendy replies. Carol realizes that is karma. Tony Stark would have had what they needed. He would have had a guy, ot known a guy, or had a guy who knew a guy. She thinks that Tony Stark's ego was so huge that you couldn't let on you were listening, but that didn't mean you didn't listen – until Carol had to go and shut him down and shut him up – maybe for good. 'But what would you have said, Tony? What would you have known that we don't know?' Her mask folds forward around her eyes, 'Of course!' Carol exclaims as an image of Antarctic permafrost appears on her viewscreen.
'Are you serious, Captain?' Brand asks as Carol flies through space and down towards the Antarctic. 'Yep. If I'm right, the answer we need is waiting somewhere in Antarctica' Carol announces. Brand asks Carol if that is her big plan – heading to the Antarctic permafrost to get Bean's DNA read by some glacier-hugging retro-virologist who used to work for Tony Stark? 'Pretty much' Carol answers. Brand points out that it isn't much of a plan, so Carol asks her if she has a better one. Wendy asks Captain Marvel if she has coordinates for wherever this old Stark lab is supposed to be, to which Carol replies that she doesn't, but that she has this snazzy half-a-million buck party hat on, which is on loan from their pals at the Air Force. She tells Wendy to keep an eye on Bean.
Carol arrives in the Antarctic and soars between icebergs. She uses her mask to scan for heat signatures, and reports that it looks like there is something hiding inside the glacial crevasse. 'How come when you need a good retro-virologist, they're never hanging out on a beach or something...' Carol mutters. 'Because it's a trick question, Captain. Nobody ever needs a retro-virologist?' Wendy  replies. 'Wrong answer. I'm going in' Carol declares, telling Wendy and Brand that she will see them on the other side as she drops down beneath the ice. 'We've lost her' Brand reports as she and Wendy are at the work station while Bean still sits huddled over nearby.
As Carol drops down beneath the ice, she realizes that her comm is not working, and puts it down to a polar radiation spike. Suddenly, a computer recording announces 'Perimeter breach' and there is a loud rumbling as the ice around Carol begins to collapse in – and buries her!


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In Captain Marvel's thoughts:
“We are made of star stuff” Carol Danvers remembers that quote and reminds herself that Carl Sagan dropped that Big Bang truth bomb on “Cosmos”, her old favorite show. But when she finally got to NASA, she figured out that they know squat about star stuff – or even their own galaxy. And as for the Magellanic Cloud, home to the planet Hala, the Kree civilization, and her powers – even less than squat. 'Who am I? Who are they? Who knows? Half my identity is built on questions I'll never be able to answer... but no matter what, I carry that mystery – and that star stuff – inside me wherever I go' Carol thinks to herself.
She recalls that when Hala was destroyed, she accepted that parts of her would stay lost forever, and even Stark with all his fancy research labs could only tell her what she already knew – for example, she knows that when she was exposed to the Kree Psyche-Magnetron, her human DNA fused with Kree genetic matter. She knows that gravity cannot ground her, that physics cannot bind her – that there is no attack she cannot deflect, no energy she cannot hold. That she is undefeatable – the last dream of a lost planet – her own force of nature – that she is power itself. 'That I am... I am...' her train of thought suddenly trails off.
Reality:
Somewhere in the Antarctic Permafrost. 'Where... am I? Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel wonders as she floats in freezing water beneath deadly ice. She is cold, and cannot move. She wonders if a mountain fell on her, and tells herself to think, recalling the ice mountain, when she was looking for Stark's lab. Carol wonders if she caused an avalanche – are her powers that out of whack? She supposes this is more karmic payback for a tough year – one last wake-up call from the universe?
Carol tells herself that she is already buried under more enemies than friends, an underfunded space station, a crap TV show and a Chitauri threat – so why wouldn't the universe drop an iceberg on her? Energy crackles around Carol's fingers as she asks herself 'Then again... since when did an iceberg stop you? So yeah...”screw... you... universe”!' Carol exclaims as an energy-glowing hand pushes up through the ice. She opens her eyes, which burn with power, and she bursts forth from her icy prison, where a voice calls out 'When you say “universe,” could you maybe be a titch more specific?'
'Huh?' Carol asks as she lands on some nearby firm ice. The voice calls out again, 'See, you say “screw you” and I hear “screw who?” There's what, a hundred billion galaxies in the universe? With, let's say, a hundred billion planets each?' the voice tells Carol. 'WHAT?' Carol calls out, annoyed. 'We're talking 1x10^22 planets in the observably screw-you-able universe. More or less' the voice points out.
Carol turns and sees someone in a Stark Industries jacket standing behind her, remarking 'So I gotta ask, who are you really screw-you-ing here, Air Force?' as Carol goes wide-eyed and asks if she is halllucinating. 'You're sure?' the voice asks her. 'You're... here?' Carol replies. 'Heya, Spaceface!' Tony Stark waves at Carol as he pulls back the hood of his jacket. 'NO!' Carol declares. 'Yehhhp' Tony replies. 'Nonono-' Carol utters, but Tony tells her 'Hundred percent'. 'Is that – are you... Tony?' Carol calls out, as Tony replies 'In the flesh. Except for, you know, the flesh'.

Carol flies over and embraces Tony, who has a strange shade of blue and is hovering over an icy chasm. 'I can't even... this is... you're amazing!' Carol exclaims. 'Obviously' Tony replies. 'But... how?' Carol asks, pulling away from him. Tony explains that when she snow-crashed his arctic lab perimeter, she triggered his network emergency protocols, his custom-designed, personally programmed, robustly featured – some would even say artisinally crafted – Tony Stark A.I.
'Your what?' Carol asks. 'You're welcome' Tony tells her. Carol asks him if he remembers when they were here last. 'The lab's just beneath us... er, me... right?' Carol asks. Tony A.I. informs her that the Stark Permafrost Retrovirology Station (SPRS) is fifty meters down, at least, it was before she avalanched it. Carol asks if there are staff, to which Tony tells her that it is mostly automated. 'Great' Carol replies, before asking him to call up the ice elevator like he – or rather, Tony, did last time. The Tony A.I. tells Carol that he would, but that there is one little hiccup. 'Hiccup?' Carol asks. 'IRL – me seems to have revoked your all-access pass' the A.I. explains.
Suddenly, Carol is knocked backwards as the ice around her starts to rise. 'What the -' Carol begins, while the Tony A.I. declares that this is awkward, as there is no override for their perimeter defense system, which is going to seal off the place in three... two... one.
Carol looks up as a large ice monster looms over her, growling. 'That thing is your perimeter defense system?' Carol asks the A.I., adding if he thought “awkward” was the best way to describe it. 'Awkwardly large and lethal?' the A.I. suggests. 'You're getting warmer' Carol tells him, while the A.I. informs her that she is about to get colder, he thinks.
Carol flies towards the large monster, telling it that she hates brain-freeze and starts to blast it. 'See the blue sparks?' Tony A.I. asks, as some small blue sparks can be seen in the ice monster as Carol continues to blast it. 'I don't know... where all this energy is coming from' Tony A.I. tells Carol as the ice monster smacks her to the ground. 'Oh, come on!' Carol exclaims, while the ice monster reforms itself, and opening its mouth, blasts an ice-beam towards her. 'That’s... cheating! You... suck...!' Carol exclaims as she throws a force field around herself. 'Technically, I believe he blows' the Tony A.I. replies.
'You do not wanna get in a snowball fight with me, buster. Nobody survives my back bay booger ball...besides, I heard we're looking at an early spring thaw... super early...!' Carol calls out as she intensifies her force field into a powerful surge of energy, 'Now don't go soft on me, snow cone...' Carol calls out as she blasts the ice monster apart, creating a large crater in the ice where it rose from. Carol looks down at the crater and asks Tony if he couldn't have just put up a little barbed wire like everyone else. 'Believe it or not, our friend Frosty there usually presents as a fast-rising yet fangless five-meter sheet of vertical ice. I'd run a diagnostic but you... uh, grilled him' Tony A.I. replies. Carol sighs and tells him that she is sorry, explaining that is why she is here – she is in major malfunction mode herself.
There is a rumbling noise, and some sort of aquatic tank with Stark Industries printed on the side rises from the ice, and a voice calls out 'Epic snowball fight...' and a bearded man emerges from it, announcing that he has never seen their system do that. 'What with the whole... grrr... thing' he smiles.
Carol looks over to him and tells him that they have met before – last time she was here with Tony. 'This is Harper' Tony A.I. tells Carol. 'It's Hopper' the man in the tank corrects Tony, adding that Tai is just messing around. The Tony A.I. hovers over the tank as Carol starts to climb into it and declares 'The name isn't Tai, Harper' but Carol gets it, Tony A.I. - Tai for short, and declares that she loves it. 'You don't get to rename my files... for short' Tony A.I. snaps. The tank sinks beneath the water's surface, and Hopper announces that he is initiating the dive. 'You might want to hold on...' he suggests, but Tony A.I. declares that he will be fine. '...Captain' Hopper concludes his sentence.
Soon, they have arrived at the lab, and the tank sits outside as Captain Marvel, Hopper and Tony A.I. sit in some sort of kitchen, as Hopper tells Captain Marvel that he remembers her, and that she blew him away with her Kree DNA. 'Really? That's the line you're going with?' Carol replies. Tony A.I. tells her that they don't get a lot of visitors, and Hopper asks her what she expected, as he is a paleo-virologist. 'That's why I'm here' Carol informs him, asking him how his alien virology is, as she has a few questions. Hopper assures Carol that he will try, and reveals that they study the fossils of ancient viruses, which include most ancient alien civilizations. 'Look...' he begins as a red holo-panel appears, displaying a strange sample. Carol asks what it is, and Tony A.I. informs her that it is an HLA marker – a genetic anomaly. Hopper explains that it is now appearing in both terrestrial and extraterrestrial populations where they have never seen them before, that it looks like some kind of evolutionary change is about to go down – with a whole new biological rule set.
'New rules?' Carol asks, pointing out that is what she is feeling – her powers aren't behaving the way they always have. She asks why it is happening now, and why the sudden appearance of these HLA things. Hopper guesses that there is a massive energy disruption, something strong enough to have a ripple effect across the universe and act as a change agent on a certain subset of DNA it encounters. 'Think of it as a genetic remote control' Tony A.I. suggests. Carol asks of an invading alien race could do that – the Chitauri, for example, but Hopper tells her that they are talking about pure energy – an electric tsunami, like another big bang. Carol asks them what could release that much energy, except an extinction-level event. 'An exploding planet. A dying star. A booger-balled snowman...' Tony A.I. jokes, while Carol asks if Hala, the Kree homeworld could have set this off when it blew. Hopper confirms that it is possible, and reveals that they have recovered HLA samples in most of the United Nations alien refugee camps, even among the Kree.
Carol asks Hopper and Tony A.I. if they think these HLA markers could have anything to do with why Hala children are being stolen from those camps. 'Hala children? HLA children? You think the Kree kids have the markers?' Tony A.I. asks Carol, who tells him that she thinks at least someone believes that they do. 'Or that we do...' she adds, to which Hopper asks Captain Marvel if she thinks she has an HLA marker. Carol replies that she isn't sure, but that something is wrong – and either way, she wants to know what Hala has to do with all her star stuff. Hopper leans forward on the table and rests his head in his hands, as he tells Captain Marvel to “hold up” and asks if she just dropped Carl Sagan on him. 'Are you, like, the perfect woman?' he asks. 'Don't flirt with me, son. I'm old enough to be your -' Carol begins. 'Girlfriend' Hopper smiles, while Tony A.I. looks at him and snorts. Carol tells Hopper that if he was blown away by her Kree DNA, then there is more where that came from. 'You ever make house calls... I mean, shuttle calls?' Carol asks. 'I do now' Hopper smiles.
An hour later, back on the surface, an Alpha Flight Space Station shuttle descends, while Carol, Tony A.I. and Hopper look up at it.
'Lay her down nice and gentle-like, Squatchy...' Carol calls out. And once landed, Eugene Milton Judd a.k.a. Puck and Dr Walter Langkowski a.k.a. Sasquatch carry some supplies from the research lab into the shuttle. 'What's virus boy got in here? Rocks?' Puck asks. 'Nerd stuff is...heavy' Sasquatch adds. Hopper is lifting some boxes too, while Carol talks with Tony A.I. away from the others, and Lt. Wendy Kawasaki stands with Bean, swooning, she looks at Hopper and tells Bean 'That's a rugged if reclusive researcher with a fanfic-worthy, beautiful... mind. And, snow' Wendy tells her. 'Snoo-oow?' Bean asks.
Carol looks away from the Tony A.I. as she starts to talk to him. He tells her not to worry, and informs her that this emergency protocol will disengage when she leaves the perimeter. 'I wanted to tell you...' Carol begins. 'You realize I'm just his A.I., right?' the projection tells her. 'Seriously? Can you let me do this?' Carol asks. 'Do I have a choice?' the A.I. responds. Carol asks the A.I. to do her a favor and give other other guy a message. 'Can you remember to do that?' she asks, The A.I. boasts that his memory is 16 terabytes of perfect. So, Carol asks the A.I. to tll him thanks, and tell him she knew he would come through, even though, even though she knows that the A.I. isn't him. 'Tell him nobody is' she adds. The A.I. replies that he will shoot him an email. Shortly, the shuttle rises and the A.I. calls out 'Emergency protocol disconnecting in three... two... one... goodbye, Danvers. See ya, Spaceface'.
It's early evening at the old Danvers home in Boston's Back Bay. Carol and Hopper sit in the yard, going through some boxes and books, while Wendy and Bean sit on the stairs of the shuttle. 'Bos... ton? Boston... Bean' the young Kree alien remarks. 'Smart Bean, aren't you?' Wendy replies. Bean asks if she can go out, but Wendy tells her she can't, and that she has to keep her close, as the Captain is worried that shape-shifter is still tracking her. Hopper informs Carol that, ideally, he would like a DNA sample from before she was Captain Marvel, as well as one from after, and then they will compare both to a sample from Bean from today. A shed door is open, and Carol remarks 'Look at this shed... brought to you by the Danvers hoarder gene... I mean, come on... the Chicopee cousins have been in Gran Danvers' house for years now...' to which Hopper asks 'Wait, your cousins are chickpeas?' Carol ignores the comment and asks Hopper if he thinks there is enough DNA in the dried spit on her old report card envelopes. Hopper asks her if she has any baby teeth, and reveals that he kept his molars in a piggy bank like a credit line with the tooth fairy. Carol informs Hopper that her pops was not the sentimental type. Carol then finds something – she made a pact to stay up all night until they saw Santa, her blood brothers and her. 'Will that work?' she asks. Hopper suggests they find somewhere to secure the shuttle and take a look.
Shortly, on the roof of the Ivy House Boston Hotel, the shuttle has landed, and Puck and Sasquatch are on the rooftop, seemingly dancing along to music. “Keep an eye on her, Puck” Judd quotes Captain Marvel. 'Why? Who would want the little Squatch climber... who has that kind of time?' Judd asks, as Bean sits on Sasquatch's shoulders, 'Hammertime!' she exclaims, while Sasquatch sings “I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic...”
Inside the shuttle, 'There. Are you seeing this?' Hopper asks as he looks through some magnification device. 'Who could miss it? You're...that's so intense' Wendy replies, swooning. Hopper smiles at Captain Marvel as he tells her that he is tracking an extreme reaction, even on a cellular level. 'Meaning?' Carol asks. Hopper declares that it is conclusive – the Kree kid has the HLA marker, but Captain Marvel conclusively does not. 'You're...that's incredible' Wendy coos, while Carol asks 'Then why do I feel so janky?' Hopper tells her to look, and explains that when they move the kid's slide next to hers, Bean's marker triggers a deferred reaction, not in her cells, but in Carol's. 'You're...that's genius' Wendy swoons. Carol leans closer to Hopper and asks if she has this straight: 'I'm allergic to kids?' but Hopper tells her that it isn't all kids, she reacts to certain genetic materials carried by certain kids. 'Look...' he adds as an image appears on the screen. Hopper explains that in the presence of the HLA trigger, Carol's cells lose the ability to control their own responses. 'Why is that blob thing kind of hulked out over the whole slide?' Carol asks. 'That hulking out is your nucleas going nuclear... so to speak... starting a chain reaction' Hopper tells her.
Puck, Sasquatch and Bean poke their heads up through the underhatch, and Puck calls out 'Recap: Are you saying the Captain loses it arouuind the sticky beard puller?' to which Sasquatch asks Like, beast mode?' while Bean sings “You can't touch meeee...”. 'Aren't you supposed to be keeping watch?' Carol asks. 'Fine' Puck mutters, telling Carol that he guesses she doesn't want to know that the moon came out while they were waiting. 'Huh?' Carol asks. 'Or that it circled the block three times and landed in the alley' Puck adds. Carol realizes that he is talking about the moon-shaped pod that the shape-shifting bounty hunter uses. 'Did she just say... shape... shifter?' Hopper asks. Wendy tells him that he will get used to it.
Carol leaves the shuttle and flies out over the alley, where she sees the pod. Carol supposes that in coming from below, the shapeshifter probably thinks he can surprise them. She announces that she will head it off before it gets back out, and instructs the others to stay with Bean. 'Copy that' someone replies. Carol flies down to the entrance of the hotel and enters – which gets the attention of people inside. 'Look who's here!' one of them exclaims. 'Captain Marvel? For real? Can I get your autograph?' another asks. 'She's a total fake. Look at that phony costume' someone else remarks, before another asks 'Wait, are you the super hero balloon animal lady?' 'Aw, balloon animals again?' I heard it was wax hands...' another complains. Carol looks at the crowd and thinks that of all the lousy hotels in Boston, they had to pick the one with the super-hero themed bar mitzvah. As the party rages before her, Carol isn't able to tell whether it is an enemy attack or just what a room full of 13-year olds sounds like. She wonders if she really is allergic to kids, and knows that either way, she better do something.
Moments later, Carol knows that the shape-shifter has to be hiding in here somewhere, and realizes he made a smart move, letting her chase him into a kid's party – even a shifter knows she won't risk the lives of all these kids. 'Come out come out wherever you are...' she thinks to herself, lifting a kid on a chair up above her. The kid calls down 'Wait... you're Captain Marvel for real?' to which Carol tells him 'Yeah, you know what they say. Always be yourself, kid'. 'You know what else they say? Careful what you wish for...' the boy declares as the shape-shifter takes his true form, and gets down from the chair, smacking Captain Marvel with it. 'That was so not a mitzvah...' Carol utters as she falls back, while one of the crowd asks where the boy went. 'Who cares? That fight almost looks real!' another exclaims, while a third declares that they totally saw strings. Carol crashes to the ground, and someone declares that this is the best bar mitzvah ever.
As she is knocked into a table of food, Carol tells the shapeshifter that she almost forgot about him. 'You're no standout yourself' the shape-shifter replies. 'Hey, you stepped on my s'mores!' someone exclaims, while Carol asks him what the deal with this shape-shifter thing is. 'Is this some kind of identity crisis? Are you a soldier or a Kree or a Flerken cat? A TV director or a boy...?' Carol asks. 'Whoa – for a second I thought that was real wax -' someone calls out as the shape-shifter kicks something which spills towards Carol. The Shape shifter turns and walks away, introducing himself as Mim. 'And maybe I'm just Team Tony...or maybe I just don't like your haircut...'
Carol rushes after Mim as he makes his way up a stairwell, telling him 'Maybe I don't like a villain who attacks during the hora...' to which Mim responds 'Villain? Is that what you think I am?' He points out that if he was a villain, he would already be at her shuttle. Carol warns Mim to stay from the Kree kid, in fact, stay away from all the kids.
They reach the rooftop, where Mim's moon-pod has risen to. Mim reminds Carol that he said he was not a villain. 'You could say I'm a collector...on deadline. One short on a gold-label contract for a dozen Kree blues...' he adds. 'Let's see...disruptive genetics... moral ambivalence... and deep pockets? Smells like Hydra' Carol declares. 'Pays like them, too' Mim responds. Carol asks him why it is the Kree, and what they are needed for. Mim tels her that they might be source material for some weapon – he didn't ask for blueprints. 'Yeah, but see, now I'm asking...' Carol calls out as she grabs Mim, who suddenly shifts his form into a copy of Captain Marvel. 'There's talk that this thing they're building...it's not just a weapon. It's a monster. Although I've walked around in enough skin to know...we're all beasts' Mim replies. 'Is this feelings talk? Save it for my shrink...' Carol tells him.
'Give me the Kree. You can't win this one' Mim warns Carol, when suddenly, the shuttle bursts into life, and Sasquatch can be heard informing Captain Marvel that they are going to hit the shape-shifter with the thrusters. 'Squatch, no! We need her al-' Carol replies, before the energy emitted from the thrusters strikes both Carol and Mim. One of them falls to the ground, apparently Mim, still posing as Captain Marvel. 'Holy crap. She's dead. Holy crap crap crap -' Carol utters, while Sasquatch informs her that they have to get out of Boston.
Later that night, aboard the Alpha Flight Space Station, Carol walks down a corridor, holding Bean in her arms, she wonders what she really knows about herself. Gravity cannot ground her, physics cannot bind her – there is no attack she cannot deflect, no enemy she cannot defeat. Except one. 'Me' Carol tells herself, as a cut with a glowing substance oozing from it can be seen on just below her neck, and suddenly, her eyes glow blue....


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Alien Nation, part four
'What's happening to me?' Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel wonders as she carries the Kree child, Bean, towards the Alpha Flight Space Station. Her eyes glow blue, and a cut on her neck oozes blue gunk. Carol wonders if it is Hala blood, and supposes that she got cut in her fight with the shape shifting bounty hunter Mim. Carol knows that she is so much stronger when she is exposed to Bean's HLA. She places Bean on a walkway within AFSS, as she feels herself losing her grip. She doesn't want to “Hulk out” so she crashes through a window and flies out into space. Bean looks up as Mim stands over her. 'Nothing personal, kid. You're just too valuable' Mim declares.
Captain Marvel blasts back into the AFSS, blasting a hole through a wall, she flies into a corridor where Lieutenant Wendy Kawasaki and Dr Walter Langkowski, who calls out to her, but gets no response. Captain Marvel flies into the hangar bay where several fighter jets are having maintenance done to them by AFSS personnel, who duck as Carol unleashes a blast of energy, destroying one of the jets. 'I am... the battleground. But even in this state...' Carol thinks to herself as she suddenly knocks Sasquatch aside.
Eugene Judd a.k.a. Puck rushes after Mim, who has picked up Bean and walks down a corridor. Carol sees this and wonders how Mim is even alive. Logic escapes her, while Lieutenant Commander Abigail Brand orders the breach to be sealed. She instructs Captain Marvel to stand down and reports that she is scrambling the fleet. The scientist Hopper can be seen nearby. A small ship has departed Alpha Flight Space Station before Carol can get to it. She knows that it is the moon ship and that Bean will be inside. Carol can't stop it – the wild surge of energy, the feeling of powers, what it finds in her, how it changes her – and then all she is left with is rage, because Bean is gone. Carol angrily flies out of the AFSS and into space, where a blinding burst of energy strikes her.
Hours later, Carol awakes to find the Black Widow a.k.a. Natasha Romanoff and Jessica Drew the original Spider-Woman sitting at her side, while she is strapped to a bed in a hospital. 'Kevlar straps? That's funny' the Black Widow smiles as she sips a drink. Jessica reports that it is hospital protocol. 'See “risk to self and others”. I mean, she did trash a space station...' Jessica's voice trails off. 'Five bucks says the main thing at risk is that bed' Natasha replies, while Carol suddenly stands up, the bed still attached to her, and asks how long she had been out. Jessica tells her friend to slow down, and explains that she sacked out for a day. 'Let's ease back into reality' she suggests. Natasha tells her to start by putting down the bed that she is attached to. Natasha informs Carol that they have to go, and that their ride is outside. 'Nope... my ride's faster' Carol replies, adding that she doesn't have any time to waste. She changes from her hospital gown into her costume, and carrying Jessica and Natasha, flies out of the hospital. 'Why don't we do this more often?' Jessica asks.
As they fly towards the Triskelion, Carol tells her friends that she has to find Bean, and that doesn't know what is happening to Bean, or to herself. They land on the roof of the Triskelion, and the Black Widow informs her that she took out the cargo bay, two thermal control panels and the docking module. Jessica informs Carol that she watched the footage, and tells her that ir wasn't her – maybe some part of her, like fire-balling it like a big, blue binary – but not her. Natasha explains that the Alpha Flight Board doesn't want her going out on her own, not until they figure this out. She adds that T'Challa is worried she will threaten innocent lives. 'And let me guess – they want you guys to “keep me contained”?' Carol asks. Jessica tells Carol to forget the Board. 'We know you. You gotta find Bean' she adds.
The Black Widow explains that is why they brought her here – if anyone asks, they are keeping an eye on her, in a secure containment facility – that will buy her some time. She then hands Carol a small device and reports that Wendy located the kid's HLA signature a few hours ago, and the nerdy sci-guy said that this will have everything Carol needs. 'You mean Hopper?' Carol asks. 'The weirdo geardo with the beardo' Jessica jokes. Natasha informs Carol that she can load Bean's coordinates right into her flight helmet. 'But you're not gonna believe where they found her...' Jess declares.
Hours later, and an ocean away, Carol is back where she started again, closing in on the alien refugee camp where she first found Bean. She recalls how she thought Mim was working for Hydra, but now she isn't so sure. She wonders who else would camouflage an alien DNA-powered super weapon with displaced aliens. A holo-map appears before her as she soars towards the refugee camp, and Carol thinks that if Hopper's map is right, the base is somewhere below her, as Bean's HLA signature is going bananas. Hovering over the refugee camp, Carol thinks that she should be able to see some kind of structure from here, and wonders if the base is underground. Suddenly, a drone moves towards her, knocking her off balance. The drone carries on past her, so she starts to fly after it.
Carol discovers a building built into the side of a rocky cliff and realizes that no aerial recon is going to see past this big pile of rubble. A wave of energy which Carol likens to an EMP strikes her, and she doesn't know how much longer she can hold on. She knows that the HLA is strong here, and that she has to get inside. She lands on the building, and pulls up some sort of vent ducting that protrudes from the rooftop. She drops down into the shade, and finds it much easier to be down there, she supposes that they do something to the air down here. The pain that was radiating through her head is gone, but with the outside filtered out, the worse she feels the closer she gets to the source. She knows that means she is close to the missing Hala children, and to Bean – which only means in turn that she is going to lose control of herself again if she is not careful. She comes to a stop in the vent duct, pausing at a grate where she tries to look into the room on the other side. 'Also? Thank goodness you can't build an industrial superweapon without an industrial ventilation system...”
Carol sees a light pouring through the grate further down the ventilation duct. Her head starts to spin again, and she supposes that the weapons lab must be down there. She makes her way towards it, and tells herself that some serious HLA mojo is coming from it. Carol has a bad feeling about this, and it isn't just her headache. 'Whatever you do in there, Danvers... don't lose it' Carol tells herself. She opens the grate and flies into an atrium filled with trees and bushes. Carol can feel Bean – she has been here, somewhere. Carol vows that she is not leaving without her and any other Hala child that the shapeshifter was able to get. Carol observes her surroundings and wonders what kind of super weapon it is. She starts to lose focus, the HLA is getting to her. She knows she has to hurry, there is no time to be subtle. Her vision becomes hazy, so she calls out to Bean, asking her to look up, and to make some noise if she can hear her voice. 'Bean! Big Bean!' she exclaims. Bean calls out to Carol, so Carol asks her where she is, and whether there are other kids with her. 'No – Carol, go away!' Bean calls out. 'Yanno, you really gotta learn to listen' another voice exclaims, as Mim, disguised as Captain Marvel, slams into Carol mid-air.
'Mim! Can't get rid of her' Carol thinks to herself as they struggle mid-air. Mim kicks Carol, who smacks Mim, knocking her towards the ground. Carol follows her, but before she can grab her, Mim kicks upwards, knocking Carol back and wrapping an arm around her neck. There is a loud BOOM and Carol asks 'What was that?' to which Mim informs her that the doors are locking. 'Enough... Captains!' a voice calls out, and both Captain Marvel and Mim, still disguised as Captain Marvel, look up, to where a weoman in a white lab coat stands on the outside of the Atrium. She remarks that it was interesting for a minute – but only metaphorically. 'Woman versus woman... woman versus herself... woman versus... what would you be, Mim? Change?' the woman asks. 'Dr Eve' Mim calls out, addressing the woman.
'Well, look at that. Sometimes the bad guys do wear white' Carol remarks. Dr Eve asks Captain Marvel if that is how she sees the universe – black and white? Real and imposter? Right and wrong? 'Hero and villain?' Captain Marvel suggests. Dr Eve smirks as she asks Captain Marvel which is she – the Hala hero or the Hala monster? The one who destroys space stations and hurts her own friends. 'It's not that simple' Carol replies, folding her arms. 'Isn't it? We could ask Tony Stark, but he's still in a coma...' Dr Eve reminds Captain Marvel, who frowns. 'HAH!' Mim laughs. 'That will be all, Mim' Dr Eve announces, touching a panel on trhe Atrium. 'But...' Mim begins. 'Dismissed' Dr Eve tells her as she presses a button on the control panel. Inside the Atrium, Mim reverts to her Bounty Hunter outfit, and collapses to the ground.
'What did you do to her?' Carol asks, kneeling down beside the unmoving Mim. Carol goes over to the edge of the Atrium, only the glass of the atrium between her and Dr Eve, who remarks 'Humans. You do like a moral high ground. Ironic, considering just moments ago you were happily pounding my Mim to a pulp yourself'. 'Your Mim?' Carol asks. 'You mean...is she the superweapon I keep hearing about? Is that why she didn't die in Boston?' Carol enquires. Dr Eve snorts and replies 'Please. The Mim unit? My superweapon is unique, original, a thing of brutal beauty – not some cheap replica'. She adds that there is almost nothing like it, not in all the universe – almost. Annoyed, Carol announces that she came here for Bean and the other Hala kids, and tells Dr Eve that she knows they are close. 'Do you?' Dr Eve replies, asking Carol to tell her exactly what she knows. 'Does it matter?' Carol snaps. 'You got your Hala juice. Let me have the Kree kids and you can go back to doing... whatever floats your freaky little Frankenboat'.
Suddenly, there is a shrieking sound, and Carol clutches her head. 'What is that? I... can... feel it' she exclaims. 'That would be – my helix' Dr Eve reports, and as Carol spins around, the jungle in the atrium has been replaced with several pods containing the Hala children. Energies rise from the pods and form a single Hala being with many arms and legs, hovering mid-air. 'Bean – what did she do to you?' Carol calls out. Dr Eve announces that she freed all of them, as their homeworld was destroyed, so she gave them a new home, with her. 'This is your superweapon? They're children!' Carol exclaims. 'They won't hurt me. Bean and the others? They wouldn't hurt a fly' Carol tells Dr Eve, who replies 'Oh, it's not what they're going to do to you, Captain...it's what they're going to make you do...to the rest of the world!' Dr Eve explains that the Hala children are just the trigger – and Captain Marvel is the gun. 'I’m you're superweapon? Yeah, that's gonna be a hard pass...' Carol responds.
Suddenly, energy rises from the helix, and Carol clutches her head, 'No... no... can't let go...!' she utters, while Dr Eve watches and informs Captain Marvel that is HLA-12 that she is feeling – composite Hala, the most powerful of all. She explains that every organism bred with Kree blood, even her replicant Mim units, contains some form of HLA, and by combining them, she has made something exponentially stronger. 'I've weaponized it...and you' Dr Eve reveals. She adds that after this final test, her twelve doses of distilled compositev HLA-12 will make her the most powerful person in the universe – and Captain Marvel the most dangerous. Dr Eve then turns and walks away, 'Speaking of which, I've got to jet. Literally. But don't worry. I'm always watching' she warns Carol.
HLA energy radiates around Carol, who has fallen to the floor, and crawls towards Bean. She knows she has to help her, and the other kids. Suddenly, a voice calls out 'Emergency protocols triggered. Again, le sigh. “just a little backup,” Hop said. “Cautionary measure, strictly worst-case scenario...”' Carol looks up and sees a small projection of the Tony Stark A.I. floating over the stasis tank that Bean is held in. 'Tony...' Carol utters. The Tony A.I. reveals thatb the data chip Hopper gace Carol included a secure relay uplink to his network. 'You're welcome...but you don't look so good, Space Face...' Tony A.I. declares. Tears roll down Carol's face as she asks Tony to help her. The A.I. scans the helix and reports that the energy levels are rising – exponentially. 'HLA-12 to the power of 12...if you convert those numbers into your odds? Yeah, not good' Tony announces, informing Carol that her Bean seems to be the catalyst, so if she takes her out of the equation, she might stop a chain reaction. Carol looks down at the unmoving Bean and tells Tony A.I. that she can't fight Bean.
'So the logical response to that is – don't fight her' Tony A.I. responds. 'Not... gonna... save... herself' Carol points out. The Tony A.I. tells Captain Marvel that there is no saving in this round. He adds that he is sorry, but that she can't fix this one, she won't win this one – all she can do is take the punch. 'No. No. No!' Carol retorts, when suddenly, there is a rumbling, and Bean calls out 'Carol...Bean?' Carol raises her fist and prepares to bring it down on the stasis chamber. 'Go... away...' Bean tells Carol, who replies 'No'. 'We... go... away' Bean utters, and with a determined look on her face, Carol slams her fist into the stasis chamber, 'Yes... we do' she declares as she pulls Bean from the stasis chamber, and flies out of the atrium, blasting a hole in the roof, while telling Tony A.I. to get help for the kids and radio the United Nations, while she gets Bean out. HLA energy surrounds Carol and Bean, and Tony points out that the kid is going to ignite. 'It's not...<sigh>...safe' Tony remarks, but of course gets no response. The other stasis chambers open, and the Hala children wake. Tony declares that he has got it covered and contacts the United Nations patrols.
Shortly, the Tony Stark A.I. has led the children to the alien refugee camp, and once they are safe, a huge mushroom cloud appears in the distance from the base where they escaped from. The children look confirmed, but Tony tells them that is what they in the biz call a close one.
Carol sits on the slopes overlooking the alien refugee camp and thinks 'That makes it official. Out of all my Alpha Flight crew members, you're my very bravest'. Sad, she asks bean what she is going to do without her. 'You helped me remember there's more to the stars than a battlefield...and more to me than a soldier' Carol tells her. Bean glows as she hovers in front of Carol, as Carol tells her that she could never forget her, that they are connected now. 'You've shifted into energy. Pure Hala energy. That's what Tony A.I. said'. Carol tells Bean that she is so sorry, and that she is going to find a way to shift her back. 'Carol star stuff, Bean star stuff. Bean lives in the stars now... like Carol' the Hala child utters. Referring to her Flerken cat, Carol tells Bean that she and Chewie are going to miss her face. Bean wipes a tear from Carol's face and tells her that she is not afraid. Never afraid.
Carol flies upwards, through the clouds, and thinks that Bean is right, and as she rises higher, she remembers that this is her glass ceiling, and she smashes through it every time. Carol admits to herself that she doesn't always win the battle, but vows that she will never give up the fight, and that this isn't over.
Watching Captain Marvel streak through space is Dr Eve, who is in some form of space jet. She has a box marked HLA-12 on the seat next to her and announces that trial one is complete. A voice from an unknown figure behind her instructs her to begin to prepare trial two....