Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Captain Marvel, Commander of Alpha Flight, is personally doing repairs outside their space station after the Satori incident in #1-5. When she reports back to Puck he reveals that he only wanted her to do the repairs so that they could set up a surprise Anniversary party for her - 6 months on the job.
Inside she finds the rest of AF including Aurora and Sasquatch. And her 'present' - a visit from boyfriend War Machine, which embarrasses her because she'd thought nobody knew about their relationship. Jim Rhodes only has 2 hours to spare up here so Puck excuses them from the party so they can spend time together. Which they do in her bed.
Aurora gives them all the time they have before calling to say the Board of Governors want to see Carol Danvers. We see familiar faces Black Panther, Henry Peter Gyrich and Mentor of the Shi'ar among others unknown. Gyrich is unhappy with her handling of the Satori. Mentor doesn't like the increasing cost of the team. Philippe Beaulieu, the Ambassador from Canada (the original Alpha Flight's home), is more conciliatory.
In particular they compare the slow reaction to the Satori attack to the immediate response to the Celestial Destructor in Civil War II #1. CM is forced to admit that they had advance warning from the Inhumans, but she avoids mentioning that it involved a precognitive Inhuman named Ulysses. She notes that Panther keeps quiet about that too. Carol does say that the Inhumans have a method of predicting things which she is involved in testing. But she adds that some like Iron Man distrust it. The meeting agrees that she should continue.
Kree member Capt Bar-Konn takes CM aside after the meeting to relay some bad news. He reminds her that the Kree empire is now split into factions, and says that his side have only just learned that her foe Kree scientist Dr Minerva is still on Earth, in California creating a biological weapon.
Captain Marvel flies there with Aurora, Puck and Sasquatch following in a plane. On the way tries calling the Ultimates and A-Force for more backup, but Black Panther and She-Hulk say there's no-one available nearby.
Minerva suddenly appears from a cloaked state in midair, in her version of Carol's original Ms Marvel costume, and attacks. She rips Puck out of the plane. Aurora flies out to save him, and Minerva goes after Sasquatch. But CM takes her down.
Unfortunately Minerva has already unleashed her biological agent which has infected nearby humans, turning them into monsters. The mad Dr boasts that it only affects humans, so Carol hopes her half-Kree nature will protect her. She destroys the source of the infection with a petrol tanker. But the mutated humans all die.
Minerva has escaped cloaked again. CM is sure she'll be back with an 'improved' formula. And she decides she needs to get Ulysses capable of reliably predicting threats like her.