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The Deal – Part 2 of 2
Ms. Marvel thinks back on the recent apprehension of Julia Carpenter AKA Arachne for violations of the Superhuman Registration Act. She remembers how she felt when Julia resisted arrest and the knowledge that it could only end badly. She recalls watching Julia torn from her daughter, Rachel and subdued by SHIELD agents using electrified rods. She acknowledges that Julia needed to b arrested for her crimes which included petty and grand theft, aiding and abetting, assaulting law enforcement officers and treason but she still regrets how it all went down. She is especially sorry that it all had to happen in front of Arachne’s young daughter.
Arachne was sent to the Negative Zone prison for superhumans but was one of many who escaped. Unlike many others, she refused to register and accept amnesty when Captain America surrendered. As such, she is once again a fugitive and on the run from the law… a situation she has found herself in several times in her life.
Carol pays a visit to Tony Stark’s posh offices and tells him that while she believes that Julia is responsible for her current situation, she can’t help but think of Rachel and want to help somehow. He asks if she wants to help Rachel or Julia and Carol replies both. Tony pushes a bit more, reminding her that Operation: Lightning Storm is supposed to be chasing down the “worst of the worst” and expresses concern that Carol is already losing focus on her new directive.
 Carol tells him that she feels she has to set some things right before she can move forward. Basically, she took someone’s mommy away from them and feels bad about that. Tony points out that law enforcement officer across the country do that every single day. Carol argues that it’s different because Julia is a former Avenger. Tony asks if she’s implying that Avengers deserve special treatment. Carol points out that there have been lots of times when members have gotten special treatment when they’ve messed up and that includes both of them. Tony can’t deny this and says that he thinks he has some ideas on how they could help Julia if she’s willing to accept it.
At that moment, Arachne is clinging to a wall above a startled Araña demanding to know where her daughter is. Anya replies that she doesn’t know so Julia asks her where she can find Carol Danvers. She tells Anya that Carol’s apartment is empty and there’s no sign that she ever lived there. Anya is clearly surprised and a bit hurt that Carl would move without telling her. Julia isn’t buying it and accuses her of lying. Again, she demands to know where her daughter is. Anya tries to tell Arachne that she really doesn’t know but Arachne refuses to believe her and attacks her with her psi-webs!
Aboard Ms. Marvel’s floating HQ Minicarrier 13, Carol briefs her SHIELD team and Wonder Man on their first operation. She tells them that they’ve been assembled to take down the worst villains out there and that their first target is not one of those people. Ms. Marvel explains that she has unfinished business with Julia Carpenter and that this operation will serve as a test of their teamwork. Carol tells Agent Locke that she wants to know what Julia is thinking before things can go wrong. She asks Baines to work with local law enforcement if Arachne fights back rather than talking things out.  She orders Agent Sum to grab a jet pack and then she turns t Wonder Man who suggests that maybe they should try a less aggressive approach since last time it did not go over so well.
A short time later, Simon and Carol are on foot and in street clothes heading towards Julia’s last known location. Agent Locke is advising them telepathically. Simon comments on how it’s nice to just walk for a change. Carol suddenly recognizes the neighborhood and realizes they are close to the Chicken Cow restaurant where Araña works. She notes this and Simon tells her not to worry about the restraining order as they are there on federal business. Carol’s concern is that Arachne has gone after Anya! She transforms into her costume and flies frantically towards the Chicken Cow. She is shocked by what she sees: Araña standing over the unconscious Arachne leaning against a very dented dumpster. Ms. Marvel shouts out Anya’s name and Araña looks up in surprise. She says “What?” and both Simon and Carol are stunned. Anya then adds “Crazy Spider-lady got in my face!”
In Anderson, Indiana, a pair of SHIELD agents stands guard outside the AIM facility that Ms. Marvel’s team recently dismantled. One of the agents is reading while the other is grousing about how dull and pointless their current job is. He says that he signed up to fight bad guys not house-sit in the middle of suburbia. As he says this, he and his partner are suddenly knocked unconscious by and unseen force as two AIM agents teleport in. They enter the house and are ordered via communicators to proceed with their recovery mission.
Aboard the minicarrier, Carol sits next to the bed in which they have placed the unconscious Arachne. She wishes that Simon was there with her since he and Julia were friends before all the strife that came of the recent Civil War. He’s escorting Anya home since Carol is still the subject of a restraining order. She wonders how things got to this point.
 At this point, Julia wakes up and tries to get her bearings. Carol tells her immediately that she doesn’t want to fight. Julia says that she doesn’t want to fight either, she just wants Rachel. Carol tells her that she wants to help and Julia asks her where this attitude of helpfulness was three weeks ago when she really needed it.
 Carol tries to explain that things were complicated and she feels bad and Julia cuts her off. She mocks Carol, saying she’s so sorry she feels bad and is there anything she can do to help. She goes off on Carol telling her that she took her daughter away, sent her to jail and destroyed her life and that her telling her now how bad she feels about all this is just disgusting!
 Carol just sits there for a moment but when Julia continues, Carol jumps in to say that it didn’t happen that way. She explains that no one took Rachel anywhere; she was left with her grandparents after Julia was arrested. Julia seems taken aback and asks where they are then. Carol tells her that she assumed they were still in Colorado. Julia tells her that they were gone when she got there and the house was for sale. She assumed that they had been taken and punished for helping her when she was on the run. Panicked, Julia asks where they are and where they’ve taken her baby!
As they make their way into the hallway, Carol assures Julia that she’ll get her team on finding Rachel and her parents right away. Simon and Anya are waiting in the hallway. He says hello and starts to apologize and Julia tells him to shut up and that she’s heard plenty of lame apologies from carol already. He tries to explain but she tells him to just shut up. Carol is surprised to see Araña who insisted on coming along when she heard that they were going to try and help Julia out. Ms. Marvel brings up the issue of Anya’s father but Anya says he’s going to have to learn to cope and that she needs to help with this however she can.
Araña is wowed by the minicarrier, calling it “sexy cool” and saying she wants one. Carol tells her maybe when she’s older as the group enters the briefing room. Baines reports that they think that they’ve found them and Locke confirms it. Julia asks how they found them and Baines tells her that her mother used a credit card to buy groceries. Once they knew what city they were in, it was simple enough for SHIELD’s psy-ops team to verify that it was them. Julia is anxious and asks how long until they can get to them. Carol asks for an ETA and Agent Sum reports that they can be there within the hour.
A short time later, Julia’s father Walter is awakened from a sound sleep in his new home in Ohio by a sound. He gets up to check on Rachel and finds awake and in the arms of her mother. They are both crying and smiling. He tells Julia to get out now. She tells him that she’s come for Rachel and he tells her to get away from her and that she has no right. Julia tells him that Rachel is her daughter. Her father doesn’t listen or doesn’t care and he tries to pull Rachel away.
 Both Julia and Rachel cry out and Julia asks him what is wrong with him. He tells her that he’s trying to keep Rachel safe. Julia responds with “By hiding her from me?!” and he tells her yes, that she brought a war to their home and endangered all their lives, including Rachel’s. Julia’s mother walks in as Julia tells her father to get out of the way so she can leave with Rachel. He refuses and tells her to put that little girl down and do the right thing and get out of her life. He tells her that Rachel needs to be raised by people who love her, who don’t put her in the line of fire and then get arrested in front of her. He yells at her to do the right thing for once in her life. Julia is clearly angered by this. Rachel begs her mother not to leave her again.
Outside, Araña, Wonder Man and Ms. Marvel wait. Anya wonders what’s taking so long and Carol comments that what she’s doing can’t be easy. At that moment, Arachne jumps out the window with Rachel in her arms. She says they have to go because her parents are calling the police. Carol asks what she’s doing and even Araña is taken aback. Julia tells them they have to go. Carol tries to explain that they brought her there to visit and that her parents have legal custody of Rachel. Julia asks if she came there tonight to set things right or not. Reluctantly, Ms. Marvel consents. Wonder Man flies off with Arachne and Rachel in his arms and Araña catches a ride with Carol.
Later, Arachne makes a deal with Ms. Marvel. She wants a full pardon and custody of Rachel. Carol explains that the custody issue will have to be sorted out in the courts and tells Julia that Tony flipped when he heard what she’d done. SHIELD is authorized to pardon her past crimes related to the Registration Act but not this. Julia asks if Tony wants her on the Canadian super-team he’s forming or not. Carol clarifies that Tony isn’t assembling Omega Flight but helping as a favor to the Canadian prime minister.
 Carol tries to appease Julia by adding that she thinks that with her experience as an Avenger she’ll really do well with this new team. Julia just glares at Carol for a moment. She finally gives in and agrees to join. Ms. Marvel is clearly relieved and smiles. She begins to tell Arachne that she thinks that she’ll be happy with this new life but is cut off by Julia. Julia tells her in no uncertain terms that this thing between them isn’t forgotten and it’ll never be forgiven.  Carol has nothing more to say.
In Anderson Indiana, the AIM recovery team use a special device set at a precise frequency to uncover the DNA bomb which was hidden in an extra-dimensional warp of some kind. One of the agents says that this kind of stuff creeps him out but the other tells him it’s necessary so that SHIELD doesn’t get their hands on all their “best toys”. Having retrieved the bomb from its extra-dimensional hiding place, the two AIM agents are teleported back to their base. They are commended by their commander, MODOK who tells them to bring it to him!


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Ready, A.I.M., Fire!
In Anderson, Indiana, two AIM agents wheel away the recovered G-TAC genetic bomb they recovered from their recently raided lab. The bomb had been hidden in an extra-dimensional pocket. As they leave the building, one of the AIM guys says that he wishes they were wheeling around a regular bomb and not the genetic type. The other guy asks what the difference is and he notes the slow and horrible deaths the people in Indianapolis suffered. The other guy argues that dead is dead. They agree to disagree and move towards their van. In a flash of teleportational energy, Sean Madigan arrives and says that he understands the distinction being made. As he shoots them both, he explains that Joe here wanted a clean and quick death and he is happy to oblige.
In Manhattan, Carol Danvers is enjoying her second date with William Wagner. Sushi and flirting is just what Carol needed after her tense reunion with Julia Carpenter. She notes that he’s ended up in the middle of super-hero craziness twice now and been okay with it, as if it’s completely normal! After dinner, the two go for a walk and talk for hours before ending up at William’s place. Carol is relieved that there are no teenage sidekicks around to interrupt things!
Carol is surprised to wake up in her own bed with Wonder Man lying next to her! She is bewildered for a moment and then hears a beeping noise. It’s her doorbell and she wakes for real, in her new room on the Minicarrier with only her cat, Chewie sharing her bed.
She makes her way to the door, calling out that she’s coming. It’s Maria Hill, Deputy Director of SHIELD. Carol had scheduled a meeting for this morning after numerous requests from Hill. Carol asks if Maria minds joining her in the gym.
Moments later, Carol is working out with a punching bag and Hill is reviewing all that Carol has been doing since setting up Operation: Lightning Storm. She is clearly not happy that Carol has requisitioned SHIELD agents, attacked AIM without SHIELD clearance and been given command of a Minicarrier. Carol tells her that Tony Stark approved all this and Maria interrupts and points out that she also used SHIELD resources to help a known felon kidnap her daughter and flee.  Carol makes it clear that they did everything by the book and the custody issue is being dealt with in court. She assures Hill that she debriefed Tony Stark on all of this. Maria asks if this is the only time that she’s debriefed SHIELD’s new director.
Carol is momentarily stunned by Hill’s suggestion that she and Tony have been intimate. Hill uses Carol’s moment of incredulity to make her point: despite whatever deal Carol has with SHIELD’s new director, he won’t be able to protect her if she crosses the wrong person, breaks the wrong law or gets in her way. She then hands Carol a top secret file relating to her recent confrontation with AIM in Indiana.  Carol points out that this is a bust she accomplished without full SHIELD authorization. Hill jumps right into a summary of the report. The SHIELD agents stationed at AIM’s former lab were found dead alongside a pair of AIM scientists. The SHIELD agents were killed by a device that fired all their synapses at once, frying their brains. While the AIM agents were shot by a non-SHIELD weapon. Carol surmises that there’s a third party involved and Hill agrees. Carol asks why AIM would be there considering they dismantled the lab completely. Hill tells her that under normal circumstances she’d send a team of agents to figure it out but since Ms. Marvel is determined to play super-spy, she thought maybe she should handle it.
Carol says no immediately and begins to inform Maria of the agreements she and Tony made. Commander Hill interrupts and says that she doesn’t agree with this pact. She tells Carol that the country is coming out of a dark time and they can help with that or spend their time explaining why the new director of SHIELD is making legally questionable deals with his favorite blonde. Carol is stumped by this argument. As Maria exits the gym she tells Carol that she’ll expect her report on what she finds in Indiana by the morning. Carol curses loudly and punches through the punching bag with a single blow.
Soon, Ms. Marvel and her team are in Indiana following up on Hill’s information. Carol is still fuming and Locke has to ask her to tone down her internal anger as it’s hard for her to work with all that intensity nearby. Carol apologizes. Baines reports that crazy as it sounds, it looks as if AIM has found a means of accessing the Calabi-Yau spheres. Ms. Marvel asks how that’s possible and Wonder Man asks if she’s pretending to know what Baines is referring to. Carol tells him she’d be doing a better job of faking it if he’d shut up. Baines explains that Calabi-Yau spheres exist beyond the traditional four dimensions (height, width, depth and time) and exist within the six additional dimensions that we do not normally perceive. AIM found a means to store things with these extra-dimensional holes. Simon asks what this means exactly and Carol tells him it means that AIM found a way to hide things in plain sight. He asks if she’s still acting like she understands this and she asks if the man in the leisure-suit jacket is questioning her intelligence. Baines interrupts and is impressed by AIM’s achievement but before he can say much the entire group is teleported away!
Ms. Marvel orders everyone to draw their weapons and be ready for anything. They find themselves on a platform inside an AIM facility surrounded by armed AM agents. They are ordered to power down and drop their weapons. Wonder Man asks where they are. AIM’s Scientist Supreme and leader of a rebel faction of AIM, Monica Rappaccini tells them where they are doesn’t matter but what they do next does.
 She introduces herself and tells them that they are quite an interesting catch. Ms. Marvel powers up her fists with energy and begins to advance on Monica who orders the facility’s neural inhibitors activated. This freezes Carol in her tracks. Monica specifically asks that they not kill anyone as she does not want to have to deal with the Avengers coming after her if she kills their “cover girl”. She then orders her team to search the Calabi-Yau zones they transported in.
 As Monica admires Wonder Man’s derriere, Carol checks with Agent Locke to see if her psychic hardware is still functioning. Locke telepathically replies that it is and Ms. M orders her to open a telepathic link between all team members. The telepathic link is open: Simon doesn’t seem to mind Rappaccini’s attentions and Agent Sum is already plotting out how to take her down. The AIM agents complete their scans and determine that the Calabi-Yau spheres in this section are empty. Monica realizes that the G-Tac bomb has been moved and orders them to send this place back now! She orders them to scan world-wide for Calabi-Yau punctures to ensure that MODOK doesn’t get it. With that, the section of the house that Ms. Marvel’s team was in is returned to its proper place.
They are all a bit bewildered and Wonder Man asks what just happened. Carol begins to explain but Baines jumps in to alert them to the fact that Monica’s AIM faction is after the gene bomb as well. Simon says that she mentioned the “G-TAC Scrambler” and Baines and Carol inform him that GTAC stands for guanine, thymine, adenine and cytosine: the nucleotides that compose DNA. Baines adds that however they’ve been using the Calabi-Yau spheres that it’s leaving a wave of destruction in its wake. Carol asks if he can track them and he replies that he can. She tells him she wants to know where the Scrambler is within the hour.
In AIM Research Base Alpha, an agent is reporting to his superior on the progress on the development of genetic monsters called Gnashers. He reports that their survival rate is increasing nicely and that soon they will be incapable of feeling full and will continuously hunt in feed. He notes that they’ve developed a taste for live meat and they are planning to acquire “volunteers”. As he says this, MODOK shoves him into the pit where the Gnashers live. The AIM agent cries out as three beasts with huge claws and teeth emerge from a darkened cave. He begs for someone to get him out of there as the beasts lunge hungrily at him.
 From above, MODOK watches as the man is devoured. He angrily denounces the Gnasher project as a waste of resources and adds that modifying gorillas is a genetic parlor trick. As he rants, he coughs up some vile fluid. One of the agents reprimands the others for upsetting MODOK and orders them to return to their quarters. The agent then helps MODOK to a private room.
MODOK thanks him and the agent replies that it is his duty. MODOK inquires about the progress of the recovery team sent for the gene bomb and the agent says that there has been no further report from them since they retrieved the G-TAC Scrambler. MODOK coughs again and the agent asks if the disease is spreading. MODOK merely tells him that it is as they predicted. The agent assures him they’ll find a cure. MODOK dismisses him saying that he needs to sleep. Once outside, the AIM agent initiates a teleportation device. This takes him to a meeting with other agents. He removes his helmet to reveal that he is rogue AIM agent Sean Madigan! The cabal asks where he’s been and Madigan replies that he’s been making preparations and they are about to get their wish. MODOK will soon be theirs!
Madigan goes on to explain that they will have to fight for MODOK.  These six AIM rebels want MODOK dead so they can divide AIM amongst themselves but Monica Rappaccini wants him dead so that she can assume control of the entire organization. He adds that they will also have to contend with Ms. Marvel, who is involved but doesn’t even realize how close she is to upsetting all their plans. He then raises the question of MODOK himself.
 As Madigan explains all this, Monica’s faction locates more Calabi-Yau punctures in Seattle and MODOK receives intel from a mole he has planted inside Ms. Marvel’s Lightning Strike team! Each group is chasing after the DNA bomb for different reasons. Carol wants to make sure it is never used again, Monica wants to prevent MODOK from acquiring it and MODOK needs it to stave off his own death! MODOK’s body is beginning to break down due to the process that transformed him from normal scientific mastermind, George Tarleton into the giant-headed Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing. The G-TAC Scrambler can be programmed to repair the damage done to MODOK’s body, saving his life!
 Madigan announces that MODOK and AIM are about to die and that he will re-organize it into a dozen nimble and more efficient terrorists cells. The leader of the cabal of rebel AIM scientists begins to protest as this was not part of the plan but Madigan tells him it’s already happening and all the involved parties will be converging on their location in moments. The best they can hope for is to gather together what’s left after the final battle and forge ahead. At that moment, MS. Marvel’s mini-carrier appears outside. Then two separate teams of AIM soldiers teleport inside.
At that moment, Ms. Marvel and Wonder Man come crashing through the window and the fight begins. Carol is identified as the primary target and Simon asks if he should take it personally. Carl banters back that she does kind of rock. One of the agents throws a small device he calls a “dark door” and then his team teleports away. Locke tells Ms. Marvel that they were all thinking they didn’t want to be anywhere near that thing when it activates. Carol goes after it, leaving Wonder Man to handle things there. Ms. Marvel flies it high into the sky as she calls on Baines for info on what the device does. He reports that it’s a localized black hole generator. Carol then realizes that it is unusually light and that it’s got to be a fake. Baines says he isn’t sure as Carol pops it open to reveal that it’s hollow inside. Realizing this was a distraction to force her to leave the battle, Ms. M heads back at full speed.
Locke informs her that something else is teleporting in. This time it’s MODOK who orders his men to kill anything that moves. He then seizes control of Wonder Man’s mind with his mental powers. Locke tells Carol that MODOK is here and she orders Simon to engage him. Locke tries to explain that Wonder Man is no longer an asset when he comes flying out to meet Carol. He slams into her, echoing MODOK’s commands as he grabs her by the throat: “Kill Ms. Marvel!”


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Ready, A.I.M., Fire! – Part 2
Super-publicist Sarah Day is politely interrupted by her assistant, Melissa who informs her that William Wagner is there to see her. Sarah asks him to come in and tells him they have much to discuss. He apologizes and tells her that he’s not sure why she wanted to see him and adds that Carol has said nice things about her.
Sarah tells William that Carol is an important client and public figure due to her role as leader of the Mighty Avengers. She informs him that she is very involved in the lives of her clients and that she was concerned when she learned that Carol was dating him. Even moreso when she found out who he really was. William looks a bit taken aback as Sarah hands him a file folder.
 He glances through the contents and notes that Sarah has done her homework. He asks if she intends to blackmail him and she replies that that’s an ugly word for a simple idea. In this case, he does and she asks and he gets to keep his secret. He replies that she is assuming that it’s a secret he cares about keeping. She fires back that the fact that he moved cross-country, changed his name, dyed his hair, had reconstructive dental surgery and wears colored contacts implies that he put a lot of effort into hiding his true identity.
 He tells her that he’s carved out a life for himself in New York. She bluntly tells him that he’s also trying to carve his way into Carol’s life when she’s just getting herself on track. She then adds that if he does not leave Carol’s world immediately that she will see to it that his life becomes “most unpleasant”. William seems stumped by this overt threat and gazes out the window, clearly upset and frustrated by this turn of events.
In Seattle, Ms. Marvel is feeling equally blindsided by her current situation. She is mid-air and being attacked by her close friend Wonder Man who has fallen under the mental sway of MODOK! Simon punches Carol and she retaliates, yelling at him to “Back off!”
He recovers quickly and heads back towards her uttering “Kill Ms. Marvel” in a monotone, programmed voice. Carol tries to tell him he’s not himself thanks to MODOK’s influence but Wonder Man flies straight for her. He drives her into the observation deck of the famed Seattle Space Needle and repeats his mantra “Kill Ms. Marvel”.
Ms. Marvel realizes that talking isn’t working and continues to fight back, matching him punch for punch. Gritting his teeth as he struggles to defy MODOK’s mind control, Simon manages to force out the words “Violence feeds it, Carol” before returning to his programmed directive to kill her. He then punches her again. She flies out of the Space Needle and crashes into a parked car on the street below.
Carol now knows that she can’t talk Simon out of this mental whammy and that fighting him merely strengthens his imperative to kill her. As he flies down, poised to attack again she decides to try using the opposite of violence to get through to him. Taking his face in her hands, she kisses him passionately! This has the desired effect and after a moment, Simon wraps his arms around her and returns the kiss.
A bystander us his cell phone to snap a picture of the sensual embrace and when his friend asks what he’s doing, he replies that if he’s right, he’s just made a fortune!
 Carol and Simon look at each other for a moment, both a bit stunned. She says “Oh boy” and it isn’t clear if it’s because she genuinely enjoyed the kiss or that she’s realized the emotional can of worms she may have just opened. Simon thinks she said “Whoa, boy” and was telling him to back off the kissing. She clarifies what she actually said but tells him they should stop kissing now and focus on the immediate threat of MODOK.  He thanks her for freeing his mind and she flies back to the site of the battle, a bit concerned about how this kiss may affect her relationship with Simon.
Meanwhile, Agents Sum and Locke are in the middle of a pitched battle between rival factions of AIM who are seeking the G-TAC bomb. As she blasts away at AIM goons, Locke asks Sum if he knows who the guy on the floor clutching the bomb is. She notes that he has some kind of psi-block shielding his thoughts. Sum was wondering who he was as well.
 At that moment, a pair of AIM’s savagely mutated experiments is teleported into the center of the battle. Locke sees this and through her comm.-link tells Baines to lock down AIM’s ability to teleport in and out. He begins to explain that he thinks they’re using wormholes but Locke interrupts him and tells him to just stop it if he can. Nearby, a Gnasher lunges at Agent Sum and knocks him through an open window. As they plummet to the ground, he loses his jetpack and utters “uh oh” as he realizes this.
Inside, MODOK addresses the rebellious AIM soldiers opposing him and commands them to kneel. He then incinerates them. Sean Madigan rushes from the room with the G-TAC Scrambler. He is confronted in the hallway by Monica Rappaccini who arrives via a teleportation effect. She greets him and asks if he’s keeping her bomb safe for her as she levels a gun to his head.
He smiles and tells her “long time no see” and she states that she should kill him. He points out that she hasn’t yet and that he thinks she’s still hot for him. He teasingly adds that there are just some things that even AIM’s Scientist Supreme can’t have as he pushes a button to teleport himself and the bomb away. To his surprise, nothing happens. As he frantically pushes the button again and again, MODOK comes crashing through the wall! MODOK greets Monica in a sickeningly charming fashion before activating a teleportation field that transports himself, Madigan and the G-TAC Scrambler from the scene. Monica cries out as her prize is snatched away.
Agent Locke yells into her communicator at Baines who was supposed to have blocked any further teleportation in or out of the battle site. He replies that it should have been impossible for anyone to do so. Their debate is cut short when one of the Gnashers attacks Locke. She manages to dodge and places a request for neural blast access. She is denied access but clarifies that she’s aware of a nearby uplink satellite. The agent she’s making the request to states that her psionic gear is not rated for that level of power but Locke tells him that she doesn’t care because she’s about to die! She deftly kicks the Gnasher in the jaw but it recovers quickly.
She adds that Ms. Marvel, Wonder Man and Agent Sum are all MIA and she’s on her own. She again requests an open channel to the “psi-force”. Otherwise she’ll be eaten and they’ll have to explain to Director Stark what happened to the millions of dollars worth of equipment bolted to her skull. Access to the psi-force is approved and Agent Locke braces herself for what she knows will be a painful experience.
A bolt of psionic energy enters the area with Locke as a focal point. She grits her teeth as blood seeps from her eyes and nose. The AIM agents and Gnasher are overwhelmed by the psionic onslaught and cry out in agony before collapsing. Locke herself succumbs to the strain of this psionic event and loses consciousness.
As Carol and Simon return to the scene of the battle, they see a huge gouge in the road below that leads to a huge hole in the side of a building. Ms. Marvel sends Wonder Man to investigate. He asks if the bystanders are okay as he flies through a series of holes where something or someone smashed their way into the building. He finds Agent Sum inside, his uniform in tatters. He is holding up the limp form of the Gnasher that he has single-handedly defeated.
Carol arrives at the battle site to find Agent Locke in the center of a roomful of dead or unconscious AIM agents. She takes Locke in her arms and asks her what happened. At that moment, Monica Rappaccini staggers into the room. She tells Ms. Marvel “You are a sucky super hero” before she loses consciousness herself.
A short time later on Minicarrier 13, Ms. Marvel checks in on Agent Locke in the infirmary. Doc Farrell tells Carol that he’s ordered bed rest for Agent Locke despite her insistence that she’s fine. He points out that she’s rated as a Communications and Coordination Specialist and not for combat. He’s surprised she is not more damaged than she seems given the amount of psi-energy she channeled. He tells her she got lucky and not to do it again and she replies that once is enough for her.
Carol meets Simon and Agent Sum in the hangar bay. They’ve retrieved the G-TAC Scrambler’s casing but the active device inside is missing. Carol asks if there was any trace of Madigan and they inform her that he’s gone along with MODOK. Ms. Marvel is upset that they came home empty-handed and Simon reminds her that they did manage to capture AIM’s Scientist Supreme. Carol tells Simon that that’s her next stop and he asks if he can come along. She tells he can but there’s an obvious moment of awkward hesitation. He asks her directly if they are going to talk about what happened. She asks which part he’s referring to: Sum’s going toe-to-toe with AIM’s Gnasher monster and surviving a 12-foot drop or Locke nearly killing herself. Simon interrupts and tells her that she knows what he’s talking about. As they enter the brig, Carol tells Simon “Not right now.”
Agent Baines is standing outside of the force field that comprises the “walls” of Monica Rappaccini’s cell. He asks Carol what she’s referring to and Carol tells him not to worry about it and excuses him to return to the bridge. He tells her that if she needs him he’ll be “illegally downloading Hydra home videos”.
Monica sneers at Carol and tells her that she’s probably feeling very proud of herself at the moment. She smiles and says that she has her days like this one when she’s managed to capture AIM’s Scientist Supreme. Wonder Man comments that that was pretty cool. Carol jokingly adds “Wasn’t it?” before asking Monica where MODOK and Madigan are.
 Rappaccini replies that she has a better question: How did they get away? She points out to Ms. Marvel that she teleported in but shortly after was unable to teleport in additional troops due to some kind of interference. Carol confirms that her team initiated this block. Monica then asks who turned it off in order to allow Madigan to escape with MODOK and the bomb.
 Carol assumes that no one did and Madigan merely found a means of circumventing the lockdown. Monica tells Carol that this wasn’t possible as he didn’t have time to do anything special before he escaped via teleportation. Carol tries to protest but Monica points out that she was there and that he did nothing special but was suddenly able to teleport away when everyone else present was prevented from doing so. Carol tells her that that’s impossible since the only people who knew about the teleport lockdown were the core Lightning Storm team: Locke, Baines and Sum. Simon asks the obvious: “You think we have a traitor?” Carol groans as she realizes the implications of Monica’s observations.
Rappaccini shares some vital information with Ms. Marvel. She tells her that MODOK is dying and that now that AIM agents know, the organization has fractured. She continues and adds that MODOK’s son is determined to see AIM shattered.
 Ms. Marvel is surprised to learn that MODOK has a son to which Monica snidely replies “Why did you think we’ve been paying so much attention to a geek like Sean Madigan?” She tells Carol to imagine a version of AIM that is no longer drowning in internal bureaucracy, an AIM split into dozens or hundreds of independent cells rushing in different directions with distinct agendas.
 Carol asks if Monica is suggesting that she help her to stop Madigan so that she herself can control a unified AIM. Monica tells her that she’s a smart woman and Carol tells her that she’s crazy. Monica asks bluntly if Carol would rather fight a singular AIM or spend her time chasing after a thousand splinter groups. She tells Ms. Marvel to decide quickly because they have to make their move before Sean makes his!
Elsewhere, Sean is wiping MODOK’s enormous face and congratulating him for surviving the recent battle despite his ailment. He tells MODOK that he couldn’t let him be captured…yet. He explains that MODOK deserves something more public for his final farewell, something involving the G-TAC Scrambler. He pries open the back of MODOK’s hover-chair and proceeds to insert the power core from the G-TAC Scrambler. He explains that the resulting mutational explosion will help revitalize AIM and put it on the map…killing MODOK in the process. He smiles and wishes his dad a Happy Father’s Day! Minutes later, MODOK and the G-Tac bomb inside him arrive via teleportation in the center of Time’s Square!


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Sean Madigan speaks directly into the camera. He introduces himself and reveals that he is the son of George Tarleton. He admits he doesn’t know much about his father except that he is nothing like him. He explains that his mother, Linda had an affair with George in college and that he abandoned her when he found out she was pregnant with his child. George went on to work for AIM as a mere technician until he was transformed into MODOK. He notes that it was George himself who declared MODOK a “Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing”. Sean declares that he was the one who strapped a DNA bomb to MODOK and dropped him in Times Square and that he’d bet that MODOK wished he had never abandoned him now.
In Times Square, police have surrounded MODOK and called for assistance of the superhuman variety. Aboard Minicarrier 13, Ms. Marvel and Wonder Man lead AIM Supreme Scientist Monica Rappaccini to the bridge where an Avengers alert had just sounded in response to the threat posed by MODOK. Agent Baines asks what she’s doing there and Monica asks if he’s the one who cracked their teleport protocols. He responds that he did and starts to explain further in a snappy retort but is cut short by Carol. The automated Avengers alert informs her that a Level 3 threat has surfaced in New York City and asks that all Avengers respond immediately. Unfortunately, they are currently over Seattle and three hours flight time to NYC. Wonder Man and Ms. Marvel realize that even under their own power they couldn’t reach New York any sooner. Carol turns to Baines and asks if he might be able to replicate AIM’s teleportation process to get them there quicker. Monica laughs at the idea that Baines could accomplish this. Ms. Marvel snaps at her, telling her that she can choose to help or go back to her cell.
Five minutes later, Minicarrier 13 hovers over Times Square courtesy of Agent Baines’ technical savvy. As Ms. Marvel leads Wonder Man, Agent Sum and a pair of armored SHIELD agents towards MODOK, she thinks about how satisfying it was to see Baines wipe the smirk off Rappaccini’s face when he managed to duplicate AIM’s teleportation effect.
 As they hit the ground, Carol orders Sum to secure the perimeter and the agents to pull back local law enforcement. As she hands out assignments, Wonder Man notices the G-TAC Scrambler strapped into MODOK’s hover-chair. Ms. Marvel asks what kind of sick-o Madigan must be to do such a thing. A countdown has been initiated and MODOK laughs as he sees that Ms. Marvel and her team have walked into a trap. Carol and Simon realize this and Carol immediately orders everyone to get out of there.
 She powers up a photon blast and Simon asks if she just plans to blast him. She asks if he has a better idea and he barely has time to answer “Not really” before being hit by a laser blast from MODOK. Her blast bounces off and MODOK laughs at her and tells her that he hopes that he did not bruise Carol’s “plaything”, referring to Wonder Man. Carol replies “Laugh it up, Mr. Potato Head” as she ponders which limb to rip off first.  At that moment, the G-TAC Scrambler activates, cascading the area with mutagenic energy.
Meanwhile aboard the Minicarrier, Agent Baines cries out when he sees the gene bomb detonate. Monica stands nearby and tells him that he planned the whole thing. She tells him there’s no need to maintain his charade with her. She tells him to deactivate the teleportation block so that she can get out of there. He tells her that it isn’t what she thinks.
 She confronts him about his secret alliance with Sean Madigan and accuses him of plotting this entire scheme. He yells at her that he doesn’t have time for this as he opens a SHIELD channel to call for backup. She stops him before he can give the location by bashing him in the head with her heavy, metallic handcuffs. He is knocked unconscious and she takes his gun from his holster and shoots him. As she kills him, she bids him farewell and tells him that she’s off to have words with his master.
Below, Ms. Marvel grabs hold of MODOK and lifts him into the air. As she does so, her body is irradiated by the energies released by the G-TAC Scrambler and she begins to mutate. Her muscles expand and she becomes a monstrous, hulking version of herself.  MODOK mocks her, admitting that he knew of his son’s role in all this. As Carol mutates, the voices that have been plaguing her whenever she is in grave peril begins speaking once more. They note that she is mutating at the root level and that if they do not reverse the effects immediately she will terminate. Her skin turns blue as she punches MODOK’s chassis propelling him into space. He shouts that his son is more like him than she knows.
 The voices in Carol’s head state that they will perish as well if Ms. Marvel dies. She responds to their words and asks who they are. She tells them she can hear them talking. They are surprised by this and declare that this is unacceptable! At that moment, Ms. Marvel is overwhelmed by the pain caused by the mutation running rampant through her body. She cries out and loses consciousness. Wonder Man sees her begin to fall and flies up to catch her. Her body has already starting to revert to a less muscular form, though her skin is still blue and her eyes now glow with an eerie red light. Simon asks her if she’s okay. The voice that responds is not Carol’s! The mysterious voice that Carol has been hearing tells Simon that Carol’s genetic code was damaged before their interface could be activated and that they are doing their best to repair her.
Simon is shocked to hear this and rushes Carol back to the Minicarrier. He tries to hail the ship but communications are down. By the time he reaches the hangar, Carol’s body is nearly back to normal. She comes to and asks him to put her down. She’s a wobbly and then collapses to the floor, vomiting blood. She then loses consciousness again.
Elsewhere, Sean Madigan is transmitting a live address to the various active factions of AIM. He declares that the time of MODOK is finally over and his tyranny is at an end. He tells them all that AIM was once about ideas. Their goal was to break down social, political and religious barriers and craft a world ruled by intellect.  He points out the sloppy and pointless attack by MODOK on Times Square and asks what this could help them to achieve. He declares that they can no longer operate as a single organization. That they are better served in reaching their goals if they act independently as separate creative cells. He tells them to trust no one but those they share their laboratories with. He tells them that they can accomplish what MODOK could not. He then pauses as someone teleports into the room. He greets her with a surprised hello. He is then shot through the head! Monica Rappaccini blows the smoke off the gun and says simply “Goodbye”.
One week later, Carol sits alone in her quarters surrounded by boxes that have still not been unpacked. She knows she needs to write up a formal report but she can’t bring herself to do it. She realizes that with everything that has happened, she had no control of any of it. She wonders how she is supposed to lead the Avengers when she can’t even get a team of SHIELD agents through a basic encounter with AIM in one piece. Rather than give in to self-pity, she reviews the final outcomes of the past week. Madigan is dead and AIM is in disarray and MODOK is out of the picture… for now.
 AIM is now plagued with paranoia and infighting. Monica Rappaccini has seized control of roughly 25% of AIM and is struggling to maintain control. Carol admits that she loathes the woman.  Early that day, Carol attended the funeral of Agent Baines and presented his family with flag from his casket. They uncovered that Baines did betray them by deactivating the teleportation lockdown and allowing Madigan and MODOK to escape with the gene bomb. It turns out that Baines knew Madigan from years earlier and that he owed Madigan money. Madigan called in the debt and Baines reluctantly agreed to help him now. Carol made sure that his betrayal was kept off the records. Agent Locke was de-commissioned and placed on medical leave. As a result, her cybernetic enhancers were surgically removed. She is recovering from multiple surgeries in Seattle. Carol admits that she should visit her but doesn’t think that she’d be too happy to see her at the moment.
Carol herself has had to deal with plenty of hospital examinations following the incident with MODOK and the gene bomb. Despite exhaustive tests, she still has no idea why she mutated into a blue-skinned, red-eyed monster or how it is she spoke in voices other than her own. Every test has shown the same results: she is perfectly healthy. She wonders how she can trust or if necessary, fight her own body.
The good news is that Agent Sum has requested to stay on with Operation: Lightning Storm. Carol is still curious about his apparently enhanced abilities but can’t help but admit that he’s a keeper. Carol makes her way to a training room where she works out her frustrations and doubts the old-fashioned, superhero way… by punching something. She pummels a reinforced metal wall until her hands bleed. She feels like giving up and crawling inside a bottle but she knows she can’t. For once in her life she has a worthwhile direction and the resources she needs to accomplish her goals. She knows that everyone is watching and waiting for her to fail. Her only response to this is to grit her teeth and say “Well, keep watching.”
Carol wishes that she could talk to William Wagner but he hasn’t been returning her calls. She can’t help but wonder if seeing her transformed into a blue-skinned brute on national television might have freaked him out. William has been deterred from pursuing his fledgling romance with Carol after being confronted with his true identity by her publicist, Sarah Day. He reviews the copy of the file she gave him which verifies that William Wagner is an alias. His real name starts with “Ro” but the rest of the name is covered. Whatever the file contains, it’s enough to get him to rethink his courtship of Ms. Marvel.
As Carol wrestles with her feelings for William, Simon stops by to check on her. He notes that he hasn’t seen her around much the last few days and that she has yet to unpack. She tries to evade his questions and there’s an awkward pause. He tells her that he just wanted to see how she was after the whole “blue thing” that happened when they fought AIM. Carol tells him that she just needs some quiet time, what with Baines’ funeral and all. She tells him she needs time to sort things out and suggests that he take a few days off from Lightning Storm. She adds that there’s no need for him to hang around here. He’s a bit surprised and perhaps hurt by this but tells her that he understands. He asks her to give him a call and maybe they could do something. Carol replies sure but it’s clearly half-hearted. After Simon leaves, she plops down on her bed. She takes her cat, Chewie in her arms and asks him if this will ever get any easier.
In a secret AIM lab, two typical AIM scientists are examining their latest project. One thinks their test subject is amazing, the other thinks it’s sort of gross. His partner chides him and that what they are doing is exactly what Madigan was talking about. Big ideas that will change the world! The other agent replies that he wasn’t sure that Madigan realized when he said that that he himself might end up being one of those big ideas. His fellow agent retorts that this lab has always been involved with reanimation and asks him to hand him the “M.G. chip”. He adds that raising the dead is about as big an idea as you can get and that they’ve been working in the field since before AIM splintered into so many disparate cells. He brags that they took what they learned from the Targoths regenerative properties, combined that with the Doomsday Man’s neural links to create something entirely new! They install the aforementioned chip into the hole left in Madigan’s skull by the bullet that killed him. They have fitted Madigan’s skull atop some kind of black and gold armored suit. They then place a glass helmet over the skull and it fills with an eerie purple gel that surrounds the skull and glows softly. One of them suggests that they call the resurrected “spawn of MODOK” the “Black Skull” but the other insists on calling him Head Case. His partner agrees and says that it’s a perfect “old school AIM” name and that Sean would approve. “Like father, like son” the other scientist proclaims.


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Puppets
A boat transporting four armed soldiers makes its way towards “The Raft”, a maximum security prison for superhuman criminals. Elsewhere, a hand gently pushes a toy boat that bears an equal number of soldiers. The man manipulating these toys reiterates the simplicity of the plan: simply drive the boat as fast as possible.
As the actual boat reaches the shore, the four soldiers spring into action and shoot the Raft guards who rush out to meet it. The unseen mastermind pushes forward four “toy soldiers” reminding them that subtlety is not needed as this is a “smash and grab” operation.
Inside The Raft, alarms sound as more guards arrive to counter this small attack force. The toy soldiers have now been attached to a puppeteer’s handheld manipulative to simulate them descending on zip lines. Simultaneously, the four soldiers make their way down an elevator shaft, their actions clearly guided by the puppeteer. As they reach the lower detention levels, the corridor fills with gas. The puppeteer orders them to don gas masks as they make their way to the prisoner they are there to “liberate”, “O. Midas”. They then set explosives near the prisoner’s cell but are distracted by a third wave of Raft guards. The bomb detonates, killing the four soldiers. The puppeteer tosses the clay soldiers aside angrily and yells that that was not what was supposed to happen.
Meanwhile at the Xavier Institute, Ms. Marvel is having an unexpectedly awkward visit with her friend and former teammate, Dr. Hank McCoy. He reiterates with a tone of incredulity the reason for her visit; she’s concerned because she turned blue.  Carol quickly retorts that this probably doesn’t seem like a big deal to him, given that he’s been blue-hued for years. He replies that what is a big deal is that she came to him for help, given the way things were left after her last visit to the Institute. Carol begins to apologize to Hank for what happened and he interrupts and tells her that she should be apologizing to Rogue, considering that it was her ribs that were cracked during that altercation.
Carol changes the subject back to the real reason she’s here. She asks Hank if he found anything out about the blip he noticed on her medical scan during her previous visit. He tells her he found nothing and it was just a malfunction. Carol immediately tells him “No!” and insists that he’s the only one who has discovered anything. He calmly notes that she seems exceptionally worried about this. She replies that she turned blue, her eyes glowed red and she vomited blood. She hesitates for a moment before confiding in Hank that she also heard a voice. She tells him she now has a healing factor that would make Wolverine envious but that it came with a personality… or two.
 Hank asks how long she’s been hearing these voices as he recalibrates his medical scanner. Carol admits she heard the voices before but assumed she was just hallucinating due to the pain of her injuries. Beast’s latest scan of Carol shows nothing of concern. He tells her that he’ll review all his scans again and check the device’s source codes to insure they are functioning properly. Carol says a sincere thank you, clearly still feeling bad that the bad blood between her and Rogue has affected her friendship with Hank. He tells her that he’s still upset but that he cares about her a great deal and doesn’t want to stay mad at her. Carol gives him a hug and thinks to herself that she doesn’t deserve a friend like this.
At that moment in Brooklyn, Carol’s estranged protégé Araña is taking down a trio of thugs who were attempting to rob a liquor store. As she easily defeats them, she reflects on all the work that being a superhero trainee entails, cursing Ms. Marvel for her role in drafting her into Initiative-based hero training. She didn’t realize that registering would lead to three nights a week of Combat Theory classes that included charts, diagrams and physics equations designed to help you be more aware of your surroundings when fighting. She punches the final thug and thanks them all for the workout, noting that she really needed to blow off some steam.
As she arrives at the roof of her building, Araña finds her father Gilberto waiting for her. She’s surprised to see him as she had expected him to be away on business for another day still. He admits that he lied to her so he could see what she was up to while he was away. He asks if she was with Ms. Marvel and she replies that she was just swinging around blowing off some steam. He insists she should be resting given her recent injuries. She tells him she’s fine and he tells her that she almost died. He adds that Carol Danvers almost killed her. Anya tells him that it was the Doomsday Man that hurt her and she’s probably be dead if Ms. Marvel hadn’t saved her. He tries to argue back, calling her by his pet name for her “mi arañita”. She cuts him off and tells him to stop calling her that. He replies that Ms. Marvel put her in harm’s way and that she cannot expect him to forgive that. Anya replies that Carol was trying to help her grow up and that all he seems interested in is treating her like a little girl! She swings away, leaving her father behind.
The next day, Ms. Marvel finds herself locked in battle with the villainess called Battleaxe right outside of William Wagner’s restaurant. As she battles the axe-wielding villain, Carol is simultaneously leaving a phone message for William telling him that she stopped by and got caught up in a fight with this villainess who happened to be there.
 As she’s speaking into her earpiece, Battleaxe growls and swings a huge axe at Ms. Marvel. Carol dodges and punches Battleaxe, telling her it’s rude to try and axe someone when they’re on the phone. At that moment, a vehicle comes to a screeching halt and a trio of armed soldiers gets out. Ms. Marvel has to fly into the air to avoid being hit.
One of the soldiers shoots an electrified net at Battleaxe who cries out in pain before losing consciousness. Ms. Marvel lands between the soldiers and Battleaxe and demands to see some identification as they are clearly not SHIELD agents. The soldiers do not answer and instead launch a grenade at Carol that knocks her to the ground. They then proceed to collect Battleaxe. Ms. Marvel stops them, grabbing a soldier and lifting him into the air. She tries to question him and notices that his eyes are completely blank. She receives a call from Agent Sum who reports that the new recruits she requested from Maria Hill have arrived. Carol tells him to prepare a cell for Battleaxe and to let the Raft know they are coming. She then subdues the remaining soldiers with a photonic blast.
Ms. Marvel’s superhuman recruits have just arrived aboard Minicarrier 13. They are Aaron Stack (formerly known as Machine Man) and Rick Sheridan AKA Sleepwalker. Aaron introduces them both, referring to Rick as “this fleshy thing” and declaring that they are super heroes. Rick, dressed in a SHIELD track suit, says an awkward hello. Ms. Marvel seems momentarily confused and says “Excuse me?” Aaron replies that his sensors are carefully analyzing her every move, which betray her “poorly hidden lust” for him and that the least she can do is pay attention to what he’s saying. Ms. Marvel asks him to explain to her why she shouldn’t snap him in half. A mechanical tentacle emerges from his chest and presents Ms. Marvel with a manila envelope.
 “Our papers” he says before telling Carol that he now wishes to drink heavily and test the minicarrier’s floors by falling unconscious on them. Carol begins to reprimand him and make it clear that he can’t just walk onto her ship and behave this way. He cuts her off and tells her that he isn’t impressed with her ship as his previous ship came equipped with Tesseract zones and a mini-fridge. He asks if she has a mini-fridge. Ms. Marvel asks if she’s having an argument with a robot. Aaron dismisses this and announces that he is going to his quarters to assemble his “signing incentive”. When Carol asks he replies that he fought against the Registration Act and only joined up because Maria Hill made him a tantalizing offer. He leaves telling her to call him when there’s hitting to be done.
Carol is clearly thrown by this exchange and asks Rick Sheridan what that was all about. Rick makes it clear that he just met Aaron twenty minutes earlier and that he’s been terrified by the guy ever since. Carol offers her apologies as she shakes Rick’s hand. Carol notes that Aaron said his codename was Sleepwalker and Rick explains that that’s the name of the alien from the Mindscape dimension that emerges when he falls asleep. Carol glances to Agent Sum and asks him to remind her to set up a meeting with Maria Hill. She then gives the order to head to the Raft to drop off Battleaxe and the mind-controlled soldiers she apprehended.
At the Daily Bugle, Sarah Day confronts editor J. Jonah Jameson with his latest cover. It features a photo of Ms. Marvel kissing Wonder Man with the sensationalist headline “WHILE COPS DIE, MS. MARVEL SMOOCHES”. Sarah asks why he did this and he sarcastically replies that they were making out when they were supposed to be saving lives. Sarah replies that she thought that the two of them had a truce to which he replies that she merely hired more lawyers than he had in response to his article about the New Avengers. She points out that he called her clients “murderers, heroin dealers and terrorists”. He corrects her and points out that he said “alleged ex-terrorist”. She tells Jameson that she cannot have people thinking that Ms. Marvel is a cop-killer. He shoots back that nobody even remembers the police involved once they see the accompanying picture and that thanks to this article, half the Internet is looking for a video of Ms. Marvel and Wonder Man “getting it on”. He adds that they want to know if Wonder Man lives up to the name.
 Sarah asks if this is a vendetta against Carol for something she did back when they worked together. He tells her that’s nonsense and that he hates all super heroes equally. Sarah gives up and tells him that if they can’t talk it out she has no problem handing this over to her lawyers. He tells her that’s good since he’ll need a lawyer’s help in phrasing the article where he reveal show Ms. Marvel aided and abetted a known felon, helping to kidnap a little girl in the middle of the night. Sarah asks what he’s talking about and he leans back in his chair, smiles and says “Julia Carpenter.”
Elsewhere, Gilberto Corazon contacts SHIELD to report that his daughter has yet to return home. He was given this number when she registered and entered the Initiative’s training program and told to call this number if he suspected she was in trouble. The SHIELD rep notes that she did not attend training earlier. He then asks Mr. Corazon if his daughter knows Cassandra Lang or Cassie St. Commons.  Gilberto says that those names aren’t familiar. The SHIELD agent then asks if Anya has mentioned taking instruction from Greer Grant. Again, Mr. Corazon says that that name isn’t familiar to him. He asks why these names are important and asks if there’s something wrong that Anya may be part of. The SHIELD agent tells him that there’s nothing and he’s sure everything will be fine. However, the agent is reviewing images of other missing super-women and adds Araña to the list.
Aboard the Minicarrier, Aaron Stack is fuming as he looks for the right welder to complete the assembly of his “signing incentive” which appears to include a hand suggesting it may be a SHIELD-issued Life Model Decoy (LMD). He stumbles upon the holding cell holding Battleaxe and the unknown soldiers who tried to capture her.
Ms. Marvel is there meeting with the Raft warden, SHIELD Agent Tarver. Aaron hides the artificial hand behind his back as Ms. Marvel tells him that she’s a bit busy at the moment. He asks why they are holding members of the Chilean army and she is surprised to hear this. He asks if she had really arrested these men without knowing who they are. Agent Tarver adds that he was just about to tell Ms. Marvel that these men are dressed just like the ones who attacked the Raft earlier that day.
Intelligence had identified them as Chilean army. Aaron notes that he identified them based on the soil particles on their boots which are from the Chilean coastline, if the SHIELD geological databases are to be trusted. He then gets right in Agent Tarver and asks rudely if they are to be trusted. Ms. Marvel steps in and tells Aaron to back off. Tarver notes that those who attacked the Raft blew themselves up before they could be questioned. The explosion was part of a plan to liberate Oubliette Midas. Aaron interrupts to provide some additional details. He explains that she went by the codename Exterminatrix and had a penchant for “Cosmic Jihad”. Agent Sum has clearly never heard of her to which Aaron glibly replies “Google is your friend”. Aaron adds that the real question is why the Chilean army was after a psychopath like her.
Tarver explains that she’s been sedated since her capture and they aren’t about to wake her to get her input on this situation. Carol notes that there’s no obvious connection between Exterminatrix and Battleaxe to which Aaron begins to list the commonalities from their bad codenames to the more obvious fact that they are both women with extraordinary abilities. Carol sees his point and suspects that whoever was after these two women may have targeted others. She apologizes to Agent Tarver for dumping these prisoners on him in a hurry and orders that they set course for South America immediately. Outside, Agent Sum runs into Rick Sheridan who can’t find his quarters. Sum tells him to rest up as they are heading to Chile. Rick asks what’s there and Sum replies that knowing Ms. Marvel, he’d say trouble!
At that moment in Puerto Maravilla, Chile, Phillip Masters (better known as the Puppet Master) welcomes a potential client to his new castle retreat. Masters explains that he’s dropped the name Puppet Master and after years of battling the Fantastic Four has retired to Chile for a nice quiet life. He now considers himself an “art dealer” specializing in “interactive art” that can fulfill your every desire. He leads the client to a showroom that is filled with a diverse selection of attractive young women from around the world. He note that he also has male stock but keeps them busy doing manual labor until an interested buyer comes along since they are in less demand.
 Masters shares with the client that he found a new source for the specially-enhanced clay that allows him to create miniature statues that control his “puppets”. This clay is stronger than what he has used in the past and has enabled him to have greater control over his “art”. Buyers are given the statue that corresponds to the “work of art” that they purchase. Masters asks if the client sees anything he likes and then realizes that this buyer is interested in something more unique. Masters leads him to a special room where he keeps his more unique and expensive “stock”. Inside are Dusk, Silverclaw, Stature and Tigra. Their eyes are all glazed over. Masters points out that they are the genuine article and that they are quite difficult to come by. He adds that he lost two of his acquisition teams that day in pursuit of more specimens such as these. As they speak, two soldiers return with a large crate. He is pleased and tells the client that what his teams bring back is sometimes a complete surprise. Masters pries open the crate with a crowbar. Inside is the unconscious body of Araña!


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Puppets – Part 2 of 3
Phillip Masters sits on the terrace of his Chilean compound flanked by several of the women he has abducted and is controlling, using his mystically-empowered clay sculptures.  Behind him, Araña, Stature and Tigra stand glassy-eyed while Silverclaw sits next to him and feeds him grapes.  Masters looks down at the patio below where he has assembled several dozen enthralled men to fight for his amusement.  In the latest bout, a victor has emerged after pummeling his opponent to death.  The Puppet Master reaches into his bag and randomly selects another pair of statues for the next round of fighting.
On the patio below, two men step forward as some others cart off the corpse of the last round’s loser.  As the men step forward, one of the non-powered women on the terrace breaks free of Masters’ control as she sees that one of the combatants is her husband.  She begs the Puppet Master not to send her husband Miguel to fight.  Masters notes that he did not give her permission to jabber on and then asks which man is her husband.  She points him out and Masters makes him punch himself in the nose, breaking it. The woman begs him to stop and Masters does. He tells her that having the man beat himself to death is too cruel and instead, he has the second man strangle him. Again the woman begs him to stop this. The Puppet Master smiles and tells her “Give me a reason not to.”  The desperate woman offers to fight in her husband’s place.  Masters laughs at her and announces her offer to the “audience” below.  They boo the suggestion and demand a fair fight… something more interesting.  Masters replies that he did not learn Spanish and move there from America to offer “a boring final act.”  He came to have fun before he dies.
As he says this, Miguel dies from the brutal beating he has taken and his wife cries out.  Masters responds to the crowd’s call for something interesting and dumps out his bag of puppets.  He laughs maniacally as all of the men below begin righting each other in a mindless, murderous rage.
Aboard Minicarrier 13, Carol Danvers has a rare moment to relax and unwind a bit.  She has found her laptop and is playing Bejeweled to pass the time.  Agent Sum interrupts and informs her that they will arrive in Chile in 2 hours.  She asks how they others are doing and Sum reports that they haven’t slept and that Machine Man berated him for the lack of vodka in the ship’s stores.  She asks how Rick Sheridan is doing and Sum expresses his concerns about Rick.  He doesn’t think he’s battle-ready and notes that he seems easily confused.  Carol decides to check in on him personally.
She finds Rick in front of a computer looking a bit dazed.  She says hello and he asks if he should call her Carol or Ms. Marvel and she tells him Carol is fine when she’s out of costume.  She sits down and admits to Rick that she knows very little about him.  He’s surprised and assumed that she’d learn all she needed to from his SHIELD file.   Carol confesses that they’re rather clinical and read more like a handbook with only the hard facts. She tells him she’d like to hear his side of the story. He asks what she wants to know and she starts by asking which side he was on during the registration war.  He replies that he wasn’t on anybody’s side and that he forced himself to stay awake for days at a time so that Sleepwalker wouldn’t get sucked into it.  He tells her that he was trying to keep the “goon squads” from seeking him out.  Carol points out that she led the “goon squads.”  Rick is speechless for a moment but Carol quickly tells him that it’s okay.  She points out that she’s been called much worse on the Internet due to her role in the enforcement of the Superhuman Registration Act.
She asks him why he decided to register now.  He shares with Carol that the last few months have been weird for him.  His girlfriend, Alyssa Conover died after being hit by a car.  She made it to the hospital but he was unable to get there before she passed away.  The sudden loss left him at loose ends and he needed some direction and purpose in his life.  So he decided to register.  During his initial interview, he was asked if he had experience and asked if fighting a guy named “Bookworm” counted.  The next thing he knew, he was assigned to Operation: Lightning Storm alongside Aaron (Machine Man).
At that moment, Aaron stands on the upper deck of the Minicarrier getting drunk on cheap beer.  He extends a sensor from his ear and says “Talk to me, Chile”.  He then connects with Chile’s communications on an advanced digital level.  A moment later, his telescoping head snakes down to the observation deck and asks Agent Sum to summon Ms. Marvel as he has important information.
 A short time later, Aaron briefs the team on what he has learned from Chile. He begins with a short overview of the nation but Ms. Marvel asks him bluntly to get to the important stuff.  He calls forth a view screen filled with the faces of reported missing persons from Chile. He explains that the small nation has the highest per capita missing persons rate in the world.  Carol asks how that is possible and Aaron replies that he thinks they are about to find out.  He has also intercepted rumors of a slave labor camp in mountains of Chile but anyone who has gone to investigate has never returned. In addition, a nearby army base reported dozens of AWOL soldiers in recent weeks, along with ammunition and explosives.  Ms. Marvel orders Rick, Sum and Aaron to visit Puerto Maravilla and see what they can learn from the locals.  Rick points out that he’s been drinking caffeine and carol tells him that she just needs his eyes and ears and not Sleepwalker’s powers since they are simply on a recon mission.  She plans to fly over the mountains to see what she can learn about the alleged slave labor camp.
A short time later, Ms. Marvel finds the slave labor camp in the hills outside Puerto Maravilla. She notes that those working are all men and they seem to be loading a truck with dirt.  She lands on the truck and asks why they are digging up dirt with their bare hands. She then notices that all of their eyes are rolled back and glassy, obvious signs of mind control.  Carol examines the dirt and realizes that it’s not dirt at all, but clay.  It doesn’t take long for her to put two and two together and deduce who’s behind this operation.  As she realizes the mastermind behind this she says to herself “Awwwwww, crap.  I hate that guy… he’s so creepy.”
  At that moment, the workers stop collecting clay and begin to say “Ms. Marvel”.  They advance on her en masse.  She shoves one of them away and takes to the air.  She notes that in the past, the Puppet Master couldn’t control this many people at once.  At that moment, a female figure lunges at Ms. Marvel forcing her to the ground.  Carol turns and is shocked to see that it is her fellow Avenger, Tigra!
 Tigra grabs Carol by the hair and pulls her closer.  She then strikes with her claws, raking them across Ms. Marvel’s cheek.  Carol thinks to herself that unlike the workers, Tigra is an Avenger and a highly trained fighter. As she blasts at Tigra with a photonic burst she smugly thinks that she worked for the CIA once upon a time and was taught to fight dirty.  She kicks Tigra who is momentarily stunned.  She takes the opportunity to talk to Greer and asks what is going on and if she recognizes her.
 She never receives an answer as she is attacked from behind by Silverclaw! Carol gets to her feet and tells them that while a girl-on-girl fight may be a dream come true for some, she’s not interested in fighting them.  Silverclaw draws on the aspect of an anaconda and her arm transforms into a snake-like coil that ensnares Carol.  Silverclaw declares “I have you!” but Ms. Marvel simply flies up into the air.  As she rises, she feels herself becoming woozy.    She asks what’s happening and realizes too late that Tigra’s claws must have been poisoned.  Silverclaw releases her and she falls unconscious to the ground below as she utters the words “Guess you fight dirty, too.”
In Puerto Maravilla, Aaron, Rick and Agent Sum are undercover, trying to gather information from the locals.  Aaron is wearing a ridiculously large mustache.  Rick notes that he doesn’t think that disguise is going to work.  Aaron points out that the baseball caps that Sum and Rick are wearing are hardly going to distract from the presence of a white and Asian man in the company of a robot in an area where everyone is a native.
 Sum replies in fluent Spanish that he just arrived on a boat that morning and is looking for what’s happening about town.  Aaron answers in Spanish and tells Sum not to speak at him in Spanish as if he wouldn’t be able to understand him.  Rick doesn’t speak Spanish at all and is just confused by their exchange.  All three are too distracted to notice that Araña just walked by carrying a bag of groceries.  She, however, recognized Agent Sum, despite the hat and Spanish.
The three enter a bar and are debating their next course of action when Aaron is struck from behind by a flying chair flung at him by Araña!  Sum comments that the plan seems to be a good one but has yet to see Anya.  Aaron IDs her from the files and Sum is shocked to see her there.  She lashes out at Aaron with her bola and he catches it.  She yanks it towards her, pulling him off his barstool and crashing him into the floor.  Sum strikes an offensive pose and orders her to stand down.  She replies “Masters says to kill you next” as she wraps her bola whip around Sum’s neck.
 Rick pulls a gun out and hesitantly tells Anya to back off.  Aaron rises and manifests an enormous blaster from his chest cavity.  He tells Rick that if he’s going to draw a weapon, draw a proper one.  He then fires at Araña, blasting her through the wall!  Sum reminds him that this was supposed to be a covert mission and Aaron replies “Oh, pish posh.  It’s more fun this way.”  Rick asks where she went and Aaron replies that he hit her with non-lethal ordnance.  Rick points out that it put a hole in the wall and Aaron adds that he said “non-lethal” not painless.  At that moment, Araña’s bola again circles Aaron’s neck.  He exclaims “Irritating!” as she swings around him to kick Agent Sum.  She then pulls on the bola, yanking Aaron’s head off his body!  She then subdues Rick with a single blow from her “spider-bola”.
As Rick loses consciousness, Sleepwalker rises from his body.  He tells Araña that Rick is merely subdued and she should hope the same is true of the others.  He directs his warpgaze at the ground which rises like tentacles to ensnare Araña in a concrete grip.
 With Araña contained, Sum notes that he can’t remember the last time he was hit that hard as Aaron reattaches his head.  Sum greets Sleepwalker and comments on the impressiveness of his warpgaze.  Aaron examines Araña and determines that her mind is surrounded by semi-mystical energies.  Sleepwalker adds that she is under the control of an outside influence that they cannot break from here.  Aaron suggests a few good punches might work, but Sleepwalker explains that a talisman controls her and that with his extra-sensory perceptions he can follow the connection.
 Sum suggests that they get someone from the Minicarrier to get Rick to safety and keep him sedated so that Sleepwalker will be free to act.  He asks Aaron to contact Ms. Marvel but Aaron reports that he is getting no answer.  Sum finds this concerning and asks where she is.
Ms. Marvel has been shackled and taken to the Puppet Master.  She wakes up and calls out his nom de guerre.  He tells her that it’s just Phillip Masters now and that he’s retired.  He shows her the clay construct of her that he has crafted of her and tells her that she is not retired but about to embark on a new career.  Her eyes glaze over as he welcomes her to his collection!


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Puppets – Part 3 of 3
Ms. Marvel lies on the stone floor of Phillip Masters’ office, her hands bound by golden manacles. She mentally resists his mental control but he persists. He gazes down at the clay “puppet” he has created of Ms. Marvel and drones on, ordering her to relax and let him take control. He tells her that everyone fights his “influence” at first, especially those who enjoy the feeling of being in control a bit too much. He leans against her body and Carol’s psyche screams not to touch her anymore.
 At that moment, her skin begins to turn blue and the alien voice that has haunted her these past few months speaks on her behalf. It says “Attempted override of construct aborted. A moment, please, while construct reasserts itself”. Carol turns blue-skinned and her eyes glow red as she breaks free of her bonds.
The Puppet Master is surprised by all of this and drops the puppet that was controlling Carol. The alien voice declares that he will be eliminated for his attempts to “take control of the construct”. Masters recovers the clay simulacrum of Ms. Marvel and tries to regain control of her.
 Carol’s skin reverts to its normal hue and she makes an effort not to vomit up blood as she did in the other instances where this enigmatic alien presence asserted itself. She proves immune to Puppet Master’s commands and chases after him. He dives into a room to the side of his office and Ms. Marvel is astonished by what she finds there. The entire room is filled with women, all of them in the Puppet Master’s thrall.
Ms. Marvel is enraged and flies after the Puppet Master. She seizes him by the back of his collar and demands to know what he’s done. He claims he’s merely living his life. She demands to know why he’s controlling all these women and what his goal is. He admits that they are for sale. Carol demands that he release them now. He refuses and tells her that he controls more than just these women. As he says this, he draws another puppet from his pocket. This one is of the Young Avenger, Stature. Following the Puppet Master’s mental commands, Cassie comes to his rescue. She smashes through the floor from below at giant size and grabs Ms. Marvel!
Outside the compound, Agent Sum, Sleepwalker and Machine Man are dealing with the Chilean soldiers under Puppet Master’s command as well as Ms. Marvel’s mind-controlled sidekick, Araña.  Sleepwalker uses his warp-gaze to warp a nearby tree to ensnare Anya and informs the others that the talisman which controls her is inside the house.
 As they move towards the house, Stature crashes through the ceiling as she grows to be several stories tall. Ms. Marvel is clutched in her hand and struggling to free herself. Carol wonders how many superhumans Masters has control of as Stature throws her forcefully away. She crashes into the street and Stature follows. As she nears Carol, she stomps her foot on the ground causing a nearby car to be thrown into the air. Ms. Marvel catches the car before it lands on a pair of bystanders. She then throws it at Stature, striking her square in the jaw. In retaliation, Stature picks up a house and hurls it through the air at Carol. She smashes through a window into a bathroom, where the owner is still sitting on the toilet. He cries out in Spanish, struggling to pull up his pants as Ms. Marvel grabs his hand and flies out of the soaring house with him in tow.
 Carol ponders how screwy the tactics are when fighting a giant teenaged girl as she deposits the bewildered man safely on the ground. She then returns to the battle and takes Stature out with a single, high-speed punch. Cassie falls unconscious from the blow and lands across one section of the Puppet Master’s compound.
Nearby, the Lightning Force squad has been attacked by Silverclaw and Tigra. As Aaron punches Tigra, Silverclaw dives at Sleepwalker. To everyone’s surprise, she passes right through him! Aaron notes that there was no mention of the ability to become incorporeal in Sleepwalker’s files. Sum agrees and Sleepwalker realizes that his sudden discorporation must means that Rick Sheridan has woken up.
 Rick wakes up aboard Minicarrier 13 still stunned from the head injury he received earlier. He tells Doc Farrell that if he’s awake then Sleepwalker will be out of the fight and anything he’s done to help out will fade away as well. At that moment, Araña finds herself free once more as the effects of Sleepwalker’s warp-gaze disappear.
  Ms. Marvel joins the battle against Tigra and Silverclaw. She teases her team members asking if she really has to save two “manly men” from a couple of “girls”. She grabs Silverclaw by the hair and flings her high into the sky. Lupe sprouts wings and heads back down to engage Carol. Ms. Marvel grabs Tigra by the tail and tosses her straight at Silverclaw. They collided and fall to the ground in a heap. Aaron notes that he was doing just fine against Tigra before Carol arrived.
Ms. Marvel asks where Rick Sheridan is and Agent Sum tries to tell her about Anya’s involvement in all this. Before he has the chance, Puppet Master emerges from the building and orders Araña to stop hiding and kill them all. She hesitates a moment and Carol is stunned to see her there. Sum explains that they encountered her in town under Masters’ control and came to his compound seeking the source. Again, Masters orders Araña to kill them and get this madness away from his home. He rants that he just wanted to live out his days in peace and did nothing to deserve this.
 Carol calmly asks Anya how she got there and Sum tries to convince her that Araña is dangerous right now. Aaron grabs Sum and tells him that he wants no distractions when the girl hits Carol in the face. Anya draws back the machete she is wielding but is still resisting Masters’ influence. He urges her on, demanding to know why she won’t just kill Ms. Marvel as ordered. Anya replies that she won’t kill her mother, she won’t hurt Carol. This breaks Anya free of the Puppet Master’s control. She begins to cry as she realizes that Carol is there. Carol is surprised to hear Anya refer to her as “mother” and realizes that Anya has come to see her as a sort of surrogate for the mother she lost at a young age.
Carol tells the others to get Anya to safety aboard the Minicarrier. She adds grimly “Puppet Master is mine.” Anya begs her to let someone else do it and Carol looks back and says firmly “Stay. Here.” Anya is scared and tells Agent Sum that she’s never seen that look on Carol’s face before. She’s convinced that Carol is going to kill Phillip Masters and tries to convince Sum.  Ms. Marvel bursts through a wall and into the storeroom where Masters’ has been holding the women he’s abducted. She finds the assortment of clay statues controlling them and crushes the one of a female police officer. She tells the disoriented woman to smash all the statues she can find and get the other women to safety. Moments later, Aaron sees the women fleeing as he flies Agent Sum and Araña to the Minicarrier.
Ms. Marvel strides into the Puppet Master’s office and ominously says his name. He insists that he’s given up being the Puppet Master and has retired. Now he’s just Phillip Masters. He adds that he’s also the “man who killed Ms. Marvel.” He opens a drawer in his desk and moves to push a button inside. Ms. Marvel zaps him with a photonic blast and asks what the button does. He explains that it’s rigged to a cache of stolen explosives in the basement. Carol grabs him and slams him against the wall. She asks if he really intended to commit suicide. He tells her that it wasn’t just suicide and that he planned to kill whichever heroes came to stop him along with him. He rants that no matter how meticulously he plans, someone always comes to stop the show. He didn’t care who it was this time as long as they shared his “final bow”.
Carol throws him onto his desk and derides him for kidnapping all these women and hurting Anya. She calls him a “sick @%$#&!” and watches as he moves towards the button that will trigger the explosives. She thinks to herself that she could have easily stopped him but instead she chose to let him solve all of her problems. The compound explodes dramatically the second he pushes the button. Moments later, Ms. Marvel emerges from the flames unscathed. As she walks away, she realizes that being indestructible and healing from any wound no matter how grievous comes with a price. She realizes that when you’re invincible you can do anything because “who is going to stop you?”
Later in the Minicarrier’s conference room, she lies to her team and tells them she couldn’t stop the Puppet Master and didn’t realize what he was doing until it was too late. She shares the good news that all the women Masters was holding got to safety and his figurines are useless now that he’s dead. The women, along with the super heroines that the Puppet Master controlled, are all receiving medical attention and will be returned home the following day. Carol thinks to herself that she killed a man that day. It is not the first time in her life as she killed when working as an intelligence operative. But for years now, she’s tried to bring the bad guys to justice rather than dishing out justice herself. She accepts that letting the Puppet Master push that button when she could have stopped him was the same as killing him herself.  Anya thanks Carol for saving her and for everything she’s done. Carol thinks to herself that at least the Puppet Master will never hurt anyone again.
Later that evening, Carol receives a call from Dr. Hank McCoy AKA the Beast. He explains to her that he’s figured out what the strange reading was that he detected weeks earlier during a routine medical examination. He tells her she’s fine and that there’s nothing medically wrong. She tells him that she turned blue twice again that day and she doesn’t think that’s “nothing”. He explains further and tells her that she’s not even aging or shedding skin cells or hair. He adds that this healing factor goes even beyond that of Wolverine.
 She asks what the ping was that he detected.  Hank reveals that the ping wasn’t something wrong with her but some sort of transmission! The ping he detected was some sort of data being relayed from her body and that data is being repeated again and again. Carol asks what sort of transmission it is and Hank says that he doesn’t know but can only think of a couple of situations in which transmitting the same data over and over would be useful. Carol fills in the blanks and realizes that it’s either a distress call or some sort of homing beacon. Hank agrees. Whatever is keeping Carol in a perfect state of bodily health is trying to get back home. Carol tells Hank that she is picking up a matching version of the signal in low orbit. Hank concurs and tells her that the reason he called is that the signal from space has been getting stronger all day.
Hank is about to tell her that whatever is sending that signal is getting close when something slams into the Minicarrier from put of the sky. Sum and Aaron can’t help but notice the massive impact and race towards the hull breach which is centered in Ms. Marvel’s quarters. Inside, Carol finds herself confronted by the Brood-hunting alien known as Cru and suddenly everything makes a lot more sense.