Monica
Rambeau has a recurring nightmare that, as Captain Marvel, she is fighting a dragon
in her energy form; she unleashes a powerful blast but it continues to drain
off all her energy until she is consumed and dies. Her parents are concerned
but they think she will be all right as she no longer has powers and is about to
start a new career….
At
the port of New Orleans, she assumes command of the cargo ship Tea Cake,
having finally made captain. Her First Mate is an old friend, Carlos Goodman
and the ship’s owner, Ron Morgan, is a former comrade in the Harbor Patrol….
When
they reach Rio de Janeiro, five passengers massacre the crew and capture the
passengers. Two of them apprehend Monica, thinking she is another passenger.
Though no longer a superhero, Monica uses martial arts skills learned from
Captain America to take down the two baddies. She overhears the other bad guys
talking and learns their boss will likely order them to kill all the passengers.
She dons her Captain Marvel costume and bluffs the other three gunmen into
surrendering. Then she is attacked by the boss, Powderkeg, who sweats
nitroglycerin, making his punches literally explosive. She lures him to the
cargo hold where she dumps six tons of wheat on him, seizing the respite to
herd the passengers and captive baddies into a lifeboat and send them away.
Monica returns to look for Powderkeg but he is searching through a burning
hold, looking for something and refusing to go until he finds it. Monica
accidentally launches herself into the sky, realizing she has some of her power
back—but she is awkwardly flying in her solid form; she manages to alert a
helicopter to the sinking ship and returns to the Tea Cake. She fights
Powderkeg, discovering she is much physically stronger than she was before. She
knocks out her foe, and tries to leave, only to discover they are trapped by
flames. So, CM slams Powderkeg against a bulkhead, blowing an escape hole in
it. She swims to the surface where they are picked up by a rescue ship….
In
Rio, Ms. Kristina Ramos hears a report and orders their second-best agent to
search Ron Morgan’s offices for the missing crate—and to kill Captain Marvel
should she interfere again….
Captain
Marvel visits Reed Richards, who subjects her to a battery of tests and comes
to various conclusions about her new powers. The dimensional interface surrounding
her shunts energy directed toward her into the other dimension which gives her
strength and flight abilities but it only works if she is concentrating on it.
She will be vulnerable to surprise attacks and distractions. She flies to Ron
Morgan’s office to discover it has been ransacked; Ron tells her about finding
a crate of circuitry lost by Stark International; Ms. Ramos offered to finance
his company start-up in exchange for the crate. He agreed and then learned she
is a Brazilian crimelord and balked at giving her the circuitry. So, she tried
several times to take it, the latest successful; CM recognizes the thief from
Ron’s description and so flies to Rio to intercept Moonstone as she disembarks
for her flight. The two women battle at the airport, with Moonstone dominating
CM until a last-minute maneuver kayos the villainess. Then Ms. Ramos arrives,
wearing a suit of Guardsman armor, and clobbers CM; Ramos then blasts a plane
wing and Monica is kept busy rescuing an airport staffer that Ramos has the
time to incorporate the new circuity into her armor, making her unstoppable. Ramos
hits Cap so hard she crashes through the wall of a hangar and that’s where she
is found by Stark representative James Rhodes who gives her a device to attach
to the Guardsman armor to fuse and destroy all the circuity. Rhodey offers to
fight the villain for her but CM wants to finish what she started. Monica slam
dunks a car on Ramos, pulls her out, then attaches the device, rendering her
helpless. Ron and Rhodey offer her a ride back to the States but Monica wants
to fly on her own for now….