Appearing in "The Secret Invasion"
Featured Characters:
- Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- NASA (Only in flashback)
- Dr. Walter Lawson (Only in flashback)
- Operation: Lightning Storm
- William Wagner (Main story and flashback) (Death)
- Sarah Day (Main story and flashback)
Antagonists:
- Skrulls (Main story and flashback)
- Rl'nnd (First appearance)
- Unnamed Skrull (First appearance) (Impersonates Carol Danvers)
- Rm'twr (First appearance; dies) (Impersonates Carol Danvers) (Only in flashback)
- Hs'fld (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- A.I.M. agents
Other Characters:
- Iron Man (Tony Stark)
- Chewie
- Melissa, Sarah Day's assistant
- Warbird (Carol Danvers) (Mentioned)
- Wonder Man (Simon Williams) (Only in flashback)
- Fantastic Four (Mentioned)
- Puppet Master (Phillip Masters) (Mentioned)
- J. Jonah Jameson (Mentioned)
- Cru (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Earth Orbit (Only in flashback)
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Columbus Circle
- Hotel Conway
- William Wagner's Restaurant
- Office of Sarah Day
- Queens
- Corona Park
- Unisphere (First appearance)
- Corona Park
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Florida (Only in flashback)
- Cape Canaveral (Only in flashback)
- N.A.S.A. Base (Only in flashback)
- Cape Canaveral (Only in flashback)
- New York
Items:
- Extremis Armor
- Interplanetary Probe (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- Mac-Ray truck
Synopsis for "The Secret Invasion"
In the past, at a N.A.S.A. base, while looking for Dr. Lawson, Carol Danvers came upon a sphere and tapped it, scanning her biological makeup and transmitting it to a Skrull ship. The Skrulls decided to keep Carol's DNA sample in order for their plan to work.
In the present, at Stark Tower, Iron Man insisted that Carol Danvers was a Skrull and showed Agent Sum a video of two different "Carols." At Carol's temporary home of Hotel Conway, Carol suited up as Ms. Marvel and flew to a laundromat and attacked A.I.M. agents inside before she searched for a truck with their package.
In the past, "Carol" escorted Dr. Lawson inside of the space shuttle Invincible before revealing herself to be a Skrull and shot him, while the real Carol Danvers was still on the launch pad and saw it launch. Carol rushed up, into the shuttle to avoid being burned and saw the unconscious Dr. Lawson. As the ship reached space, the door was still open, so Carol shut it before she saw the Skrull Rm'twr piloting. She shot the Skrull and took control of the shuttle before Dr. Lawson regained consciousness.
Back in the present, Carol visited William Wagner at his restaurant and he declared an end to their relationship and demanded that she leave him alone. Later, William phoned Sarah Day and informed her that he ended his relationship with Carol before the blonde superheroine walked into the press secretary's office. Sarah brought up Carol killing Puppet Master and revealed that J. Jonah Jameson had a heart attack. After their meeting, Carol phoned William before seeing the truck she was looking for earlier and transformed into Ms. Marvel before following it to Corona Park. When the truck's doors opened, a Skrull named Rl'nnd with the X-Men's powers appeared and detected Ms. Marvel. During a brief battle, Rl'nnd scratched Ms. Marvel and said that she "smelled of Kree" before disappearing to continue with his "true mission."
Ms. Marvel later contemplated what Rl'nnd said and thought that the only people she had been around were Sarah and William. Then, she phoned William before an impostor appeared behind him and demanded to know who was on the phone. William screamed and when Ms. Marvel arrived at his residence, she found his dead body before Agent Sum aimed his gun at her and demanded that she put her hands in the air.