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The Man who calls himself Captain Marvel saved my life earlier tonight -- and I take my heroes very seriously!
Wait, Captain Marvel! I must speak to you! You don't just save a woman from a living nightmare... and walk away...!
There's a small difference between a realist and a traitor – and you just stepped over that line! You are now an honorary member of the Judas Iscariot Marching Society!
You screwed up, Avengers. That's human. What is also human is the ability to learn from those mistakes. To grow. To mature. If you do that -- even a little -- then perhaps what I went through will have a positive meaning. It's your choice.
Well, fine! If that's the way you're going to be, I'll save you the trouble of finishing your kangaroo court's vote. Effective immediately-- I quit!
I don't believe my secret identity takes precedence over this. I'm Warbird, and I'm... I'm an alcoholic. I was fighting drunk, enraged. I'd gone after Iron Man, for an imagined slight-- And I dropkicked him through the wing of the airplane. I didn't know the plane was there, we got it down safely, and nobody was injured, but that's not the point. The point is that I was drunk, and that I did it. I regret my lapse of judgement-- My destructive behavior-- More than you can know. With Iron Man's help and support, I've joined Alcoholics Anonymous-- And recently gotten my 30-day Sobriety Chip. I stand ready to take responsibility for my actions, in whatever manner this tribunal decides.
See? I'm supposed to rise above it. Right? I'm supposed to pretend that you didn't treat me like crap at a time when you treating me like crap was the last thing I needed.
Guess what? You're one of my best friends on the planet. And the reason I can be friends with you is that I understand what is the matter with you. Okay? I see past all of this "thing" you do, this person you act like and I know who you really are.
...You're not monsters. You're the best chance those kids have. Which is why you have to keep trying to make a difference. No matter how hard it gets.
And I sort of accidentally blasted him in the crotch. Seven times in the crotch. Poor guy turned blue.
And if we could, let's just skip the whole "Ambush me and make me fight for my life" thing, because I am so incredibly tired.
Dammit it! Do you know that I've been beating myself up lately? Totally riding myself about not doing all I could be doing. I've felt like I was a failure and as if I'd been wasting my talents, but you--
No, Tony. The Avengers are a sledgehammer. A darned effective one, but a sledgehammer all the same. What the world needs isn't always a sledgehammer--sometimes it needs a scalpel.
Because when you're invincible...you can do anything you think of. After all...who's going to stop you?
I'm usually not one to get nostalgic... but I have to say, Suzy, seeing you in my old costume makes me incredibly proud.
I know you're down there, web-head! Believe me......you say anything to Wolverine and I'm gonna shove that power and responsibility right up your big blue butt!
Your enemies are out there! Plotting against you! Preparing for their next attack! There is a war to be fought. Glorious battles to be won. You wish to discuss your feelings? You are no warrior!
There is only one thing I want to do more than crush this Moonstone and snap your neck... I want to see you redeem yourself.
You don't leave your team in the middle of a battle and go off half-cocked. You'd know that if you knew anything. That's why you fail. And you're crazy. And I know I could have killed you and I didn't. I'm better than you. Just FYI.
But being the best you can be... That's doable. That's possible for anybody if they put their mind to it.
We just got our asses handed to us...by Superia. Superia. I'm going to repeat it so it sinks in. We, us. We got our butts handed to us by Superia. And I'm still not even sure who the hell that is.
He was everything I remembered. More. Not a moment's hesitation. Once he knew what it would take to save his people--he gave it willingly. His unrivaled nobility and courage. How we need him. How we need that pure valor. How much different things would be if he were still with us. And how much I miss my dear friend. The image of a lone man willing to sacrifice his opportunity for life...for a world, and people, that forsook him. Inspired by the very notion such nobility is possible. Captain Marvel. The name will always define the best of us. Perhaps it should live on.
Protocols...I know we have Avengers time travel protocols. I just need to remember what they are... Don't step on butterflies...? Something about butterflies. Spider-Woman was right. There should be a handbook.
Helen Cobb, what kind of Pandora's box did you leave me when you left me your plane? What's the secret hidden inside? What did you do to me... Helen, what did you do...?
Helen, I'm from the future. I know that sounds ridiculous, but if you can believe that we just flew through a skylight--
Beat a knock-off version of myself to an airplane-shaped time machine? I'm Captain Marvel... I call that Wednesday.
You know what happens to p-people who b-bet against me, birdbrain? I'll give you a hint... They lose. Just how I like my turkey... fried.
I know it's a mistake, before my feet leave the ground, I know. But the nature of my magical thinking is such that I believe, truly believe, that I'll get away with it. Because I'm special. Because I'm me.
Every move our guy makes is bigger, more dangerous. Somebody's going to die. I have to find him and I have to stop him... And I haven't got days.
I'm not giving up, Jess. I'm making a choice. I'm severing the connection to his power source and saving eight million lives. I can think of worse ways to--
Listen to me. I've been trying to tell you something. I can't teach you to be Captain Marvel. Sweetheart, I can't teach you something that I'm still trying to figure out.
Have you ever seen a little girl run so fast she falls down? There's an instant, a fraction of a second before the world catches hold of her again... A moment when she's outrun every doubt and fear she's ever had about herself and she flies. In that one moment, every little girl flies. I need to find that again. Like taking a car out into the desert to see how fast it can go, I need to find the edge of me... And maybe, if I fly far enough, I'll be able to turn around and look at the world... And see where I belong.
My name is Captain Marvel... I am an Earthling and an Avenger. But today I stand as one with the settlers of Torfa, who clam this planet and its resources as they were freely given in the aftermath of the Behemoth disaster... They are a peaceful people, but I am a woman of war. If you move against them, you move against me. I am willing to die here today, for this cause. I have made my choice... Now you make yours.
Oh, sweetheart. You know, I thought I came out here for me. So I could get a sense of closure -- meet this gutsy, upstart girl who's taken on my name. But over the past couple of hours, I've realized something -- I came here for me, but I stayed for you. A lot of people think you're something special, and now I see why. And -- and it makes me wish we had more time.
All our satellites, our early-warning systems -- we're still in the dark, walking a tightrope. The Ultimates is about solving the world-threatening problems -- but we still don't know where the next threat's coming from. Not really. That's the real problem. The ultimate problem. So how do we solve it?
When you're a soldier, when you go to war, you see people die. Your friends. People you're closer to in some ways than your own family. In training. In battle. Even suicide. And it's easy... it's easy to ask what it was for. If any good came of it. This is Eliot Burke. Army veteran and security guard at Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. His wife, Vivian, works there too. They met on the job. She's a geneticist working on a promising treatment for leukemia in the P.E.G.A.S.U.S. labs. They're alive today -- along with hundreds of others -- because of Rhodey. And because of you. What's keeping me from falling apart... is that I know Rhodey died doing something good. Something he'd consider worth dying for. I know what Tony said to you. And I am not for once second discounting his grief. But I want to give you another perspective. You can help us stop criminals and madmen before they hurt anyone. You can tell us when natural disasters are about to happen. We're going to go out there and put our lives in the line anyway. You can give us the gift of knowing it's for a reason. The best and bravest people I know are prepared to take that risk. Not just prepared - -we want to. But to do it right -- to do it the best way we possibly can -- we need you.
If other old friends... Hate me, I can live with that. Because I know how many innocent people we've saved. But it only works if we hold ourselves to a strict standard. Show we're not just targeting people we don't like. That, I'll never sign off on. The second you ask me to do something I can't live with... I'm gone. And you can see how well all this works without me.
Nnnh -- y-you -- you murdered someone I loved, Thanos. You put my friend in a coma. So if I have to kill you to stop you -- I'm fine with that.
No. What happened with Ulysses... I know I made mistakes. I know what my actions cost. I see it in the eyes of everyone I love. I know what you think.
You have no idea what a real leader is. A leader has to project confidence. Fight for what she believes in. But never stop questioning, wondering how to be better. You take in everything... and make your call. You thought isolating me would make me weaker? Buddy, you don't know me too well. All my life I've had to rely on myself, trust my instincts and convictions when others doubted me, and be prepared to back them up. You didn't hurt me with what you did. You gave me what I needed to win.
Told you. They needed to believe you'd really fallen. That you'd hit bottom. That an Avenger hit bottom.
I know I'm only part Kree. My Human family's from Boston not Hala -- that's the Milky Way, not the Greater Magellanic Cloud. I know I only inherited my Kree powers in a freak accident, when I stumbled across a Psyche-Magnitron, a piece of ancient alien tech... but try telling that to the Kree life forces rushing through me... propelling me higher and faster... because somewhere down there is a blue-skinned Kree kid who needs my help.
This is for the best. Go find Thanos. Stop him. Free yourself of this pain. And if we ever do see each other again, I do hope it's as friends.
You think these HLA markers could have anything to do with why Hala children are being stolen from those camps?
I can't think of a thing that could breach it... except maybe Galactus. God, I never thought I'd say this, but... we need him now. We need the Lifebringer.
No, Monica. You listen to me. We were charged with a mission. Protect the Earth from this Chitauri invasion. Defend our little piece of the stars. What happens if that shield comes down as a wave is approaching? Do we just trust Hydra to take care of it? I want to be ready and on guard. Like I swore an oath to be. So you make your decisions, but I will not leave my post -- I am Captain Marvel of the Alpha Flight Space Program -- and I will not abandon ship.
I couldn't tell them the truth... it wasn't that we couldn't go back... it was that I don't know if I wanted to.
Let me get this straight -- you think you're some sort of pink-skinned Kree messiah? So you've kidnapped Bean -- and now me -- to use us to jumpstart the Kree second coming?
Oh honey -- I don't hate you. I could never hate you. It's just -- after we had that argument, I could see that you were... well... growing up. On your own path. And that maybe it wasn't a great idea for me to be around so much.
I made my choices! They define me! They made-- No. I make my decisions. I make my reality. And my reality is... I am... Captain Marvel!
So, yeah... they say you can never go home again, but it's not true. You can go all you want... you just can't expect it to be any different once you get there.
I'd tell her that her wish comes true. She really does get to fly. And she'll fly higher and faster and further than she even dreamed.
There's a lot of holding back in my life. Not using what I have, or at least not all of it. Keeping myself in check. Most days require a measured response. Restraint, not release. Not today.
We are capable of so much more than we think we are. All we have to do is reach for it. All we have to be is fearless.
We have seen the truth, Wastrel. It's over. And just to make it extremely official... Walter S. Lawson, you are accused.
Y'know, I've met a lot of heroes. Few would describe themselves as such. It's a loaded word that doesn't leave room for human frailty... or any other kind. I don't need heroes. I just need people who can make a difference.
It has occurred to me that I'm basically the Terminator right now... If the Terminator were manipulating Sarah Connor into helping kill her own son... So I'm worse than the Terminator. But Ove kills everyone, destroys the world. Shouldn't I move Heaven and Earth to stop that? To save billions of lives? That makes it okay, right? Nobody likes to be on the side of "the ends justify the means"... And yet, how often are we there?
I'm sorry, Ravkä, I didn't know what this was about before, but now I do... and nobody's will is stronger than mine.
Listen... all of you. I need you to listen. I know this insane loyalty I feel toward that Sinnarian queen isn't real. I know these things. I know I'm not myself. I know the Dark Tide has warped me. But I'm going to kill every last one of you for what you've just done.
Whatever it was, I saw a glimpse before it appeared. Give me a bit of time...I know I can find it again.
Nothing about this trip is going right so far. There was a time when I would have delighted in blowing apart my two greatest enemies--the Brood and Rogue. Alas, I have grown and changed. And now I no longer relish it. I don't even want it. Growth sucks.
All points, this is Carol Danvers--The Prodigal is secure. Let me dispose of this with a photon blast, and we'll call it a day.
The Avengers aren't cops. Or, at least, we shouldn't be. That doesn't work, that just gets us into Civil Wars. The Avengers are firefighters. We're the ones who fly into the blaze, whatever it is. Because we're the ones who can, so we're the ones who have to. We save lives. That's it. That's our whole mission statement.
I do a lot of damage. I don't stick around to fix it as often as I should. And I'm going to try to work on that. Avenger. Boss of space. Higher, further, faster. All that stuff sounds cool, but it's all just window dressing on what I'm supposed to do... what I'm supposed to be. So let's get started.
I will not be beaten by a bunch of teens. I know a few things about anti-authoritarianism. I happen to be an echt rebel to the max.
I'm an old soldier. Like mom, I guess. Not sure I'm built for peace. Or... happiness. But I'd fight like Hell to keep it safe.
I'll protect you--all of you. Because the Undone won't stop here. If she can't get to me, she'll come for anyone close to me. I won't let her. I won't let the Omen or the Undone touch you.
When I fire, it's unconscious... instinctual... I don't think about it. So isolating that instinct -- honing it into something controlled -- is surprisingly complex. Shaping something to your will... something that you always just took for granted... and making it into something new.
Have you ever seen a little girl run so fast she falls down? There's an instant, a fraction of a second before the world catches hold of her again... a moment when she's outrun every doubt and fear she's ever had about herself and she flies. In that one moment, every little girl flies. I need to find that again. Like taking a car out into the desert to see how fast it can go, I need to find the edge of me... and maybe, if I fly far enough, I'll be able to turn around and look at the world... and see where I belong.
RIPPLES is the only word to describe what this thing does. It changes, everything about it changes. This isn’t just any old Super-Skrull...this one’s something special.
They're called Punishers, apparently. No relation to Frank Castle-- except they're about as violent-- and as hard to kill.
Yes! Compound Thirteen is the ultimate achievement of biological research--the final nerve gas--instant death!
Carol Danvers | And I suppose that I'm imagining this fantastic wind, Dr. Lawson? |
Dr. Walter Lawson | No! But you are forgetting Florida's three major industries... oranges, tourists and hurricanes! |
Warbird | Oh, my-- Was that Wolverine? |
Captain America | It was. I used to hear screams like that all the time----during World War II. It's a death cry! |
Wasp | I promised myself I wouldn't use the Avengers to hide from my life's problems anymore. |
Ms. Marvel | No one's asking you to do that. We're asking you to do that which you can do better than anyone in the world. |
Wasp | Well, when you put it like that... |
Ms. Marvel | Simon, can you deal with these guys while I take this nastiness somewhere else? |
Wonder Man | I don't know if I rock enough to handle it. |
Ms. Marvel | Ohhh, you have your moments. |
Frog-Man | Scientist Supreme! Leader of A.I.M.! Prepare to be crushed under the might of the Avengers!!! Come on, partner...let's do this! |
Ms. Marvel | Stop calling me that! |
Frog-Man | It's the crazy mutant misadventures of Frog-Man and Ms. Marvel. |
Ms. Marvel | And it's Flag-Smasher, you idiot! I already told you, this is ULTIMATUM, not A.I.M.! |
Ms. Marvel | She killed Bucky! |
Luke Cage | It ain't over. |
Ms. Marvel | Look at our tower! Look at the city! |
Luke Cage | It. Ain't. Over. We can use that thing. We can figure out how to go wherever she went and take the fight right into her face. We take the fight to her! We end this! |
Carol | You have like fifteen alternate code names, anyway, Monica-Photon-Pulsar-Captain-Marvel-Rambeau! |
Monica | I'm sorry, did I just hear that right? Am I being judged by, by Ms.-Captain-Warbird-Binary--Marvel...? |
Spider-Woman | It's like someone's working their way through your greatest hits. |
Captain Marvel | Carol Danvers: The early years. |
Jessica | Oh we really are starting from scratch, huh? Everything is about me. Now say you're sorry. |
Carol | I'm sorry... sorry I'm a badass. |
Jessica | ...good enough. |
Maria Hill | Exactly where were all of you three hours ago? |
Black Widow | I was doing my nails, you? |
Captain Marvel | Working out. |
Smasher | Also working out. |
Thor | Drinking. |
Iron Man | Having my nails done. |
Tic | Whatever they were after... Think we can find it first? |
Captain Marvel | You, me and those freaks back there...? I wouldn't bet against us, Tic. |
Captain Marvel | Oh, good. We're going to try and outrun these guys powered solely by attitude thrusters through a giant subspace pocket. |
Harrison | Sarcasm detected. |
Captain Marvel | At least something's working. |
Harrison | It has been interesting. I have had time to consider my nature. |
Captain Marvel | And what did you learn? |
Harrison | I have discovered my "updog" is irrevocably damaged and requires repair |
Captain Marvel | What's "updog"? |
Harrison | Not much. What's up with you? |
Nico | So how come you don't want to be the boss? |
Carol | I'm the boss of space. That's plenty. |
Nico | You're the boss of space? |
Carol | Pretty much. |
Tony Stark | You made this happen, Danvers. |
Captain Marvel | That's not fair. |
Tony Stark | You chased this! You couldn't leave this @#$@#$ alone and now another one of us is gone. Who's next on your hit list, Danvers?! |
Medusa | All beasts, those in this world and the next, know that singeing my hair brings only certain death! |
Captain Marvel | Catchy. Does that come embroidered on a pillow? |
Medusa | It could be arranged! |
Captain Marvel | He still thinks his friends have come to save him. |
Mephisto | Oh, but how can that be true? Don't you remember? Stephen Strange doesn't have any friends. |
Captain Marvel | Forgetting all else, Stephen, we were, not so long ago, literally inside each other's bodies. That doesn't qualify as close? |
Doctor Strange | No. That qualifies as... I don't know what that qualifies as. But I don't know your favorite color, so no, we're not close. |
Captain Marvel | Is that the barometer? Very well then, I like blue. Which is perhaps boring, but also true. You? |
Doctor Strange | I've never thought about it. |
Captain Marvel | You are infuriating. |
Doctor Strange | I know. |
Captain Marvel | I need you to teach me magic |
Doctor Strange | HAHAHAHA! Oh, you're serious. |
Captain Marvel | Yeah. |
Doctor Strange | Then no. |
Captain Marvel | Chewie? Was this you, girl? |
Chewie | Murrrrow. |
Captain Marvel | What is it, Patsy? Do you need help? |
Hellcat | Yeah, I need help not destroying my favorite bar! Use your fists! |
Captain Marvel | I don't want to touch them. They smell like sulfur. |
She-Hulk | If I could shoot energy beams, I'd never touch anything. |
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