Synopsis
Dark Avengers Annual #1 synopsis by
Rob Johnson
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Marvel Boy/Captain Marvel/Noh-Varr, Kree warrior from an alternate timeline, quit the Dark Avengers after #5 when he discovered they were actually villains. Now he doesn't know what to do. He wants to stay on Earth and help humans but they seem to have conflicting desires. (Kree society is very regimented and everybody *knows* what they want.) So he's been trying to build an Omni-Wave Projector to contact this reality's Kree Supreme Intelligence for instructions. But every time he creates 1 and switches it on he gets detected and an Earth group investigate (we see the Fantastic Four, Abigail Brand & SWORD, and his fellow Dark Avengers).
Sitting in the park (eating what looks like raw eggs) he sees a girl arguing with someone she wishes to be her *ex*-boyfriend. So he follows her to find out what the boy did that was bad. At 1st she thinks he's stalking her but then they get talking.
Her name is Annie and she's a studying Communications at New York University expecting to get a PR job. Except that she hates the idea of a PR job. (This is just the kind of thing that confuses our hero.) She confesses she'd actually like to be a superhero. Noh-Varr says "Me too".
All the while Annie keeps saying she recognises him from somewhere. Noh doesn't seem to understand fairly basic stuff so she guesses he's a foreigner (he agrees), especially with a name like No Var.
When she tells him that her boyfriend cheated on her Noh admits that he doesn't understand human sexuality. This is a bit beyond 'foreigner' so she demands to know who he really is. But before he can try to explain Sentry hovers along to take him back the the DAv.
Noh-Varr pulls an alien gun which staggers even the Golden Guardian Of Good, and then runs away. Sentry follows and wrests the gun from him, but it explodes and hurls them both apart. Noh-Varr throws a car at his foe which seems to have a bomb attached and there's another explosion. Sentry says Norman Osborn wants him back dead or alive. He himself would prefer alive but he's getting annoyed. And he joins in the car throwing.
Inquisitive Annie has followed them and finds Noh-Varr's bag stuffed with strange devices. But without it Marvel Boy resorts to fisticuffs in mid-air with his opponent. As they fight Sentry asks why the boy doesn't want to come back to the Avengers. Noh-Varr replies that they're all criminals, and some of them are insane. Osborn tricked him into joining them because of his ignorance of human ways. Noh-Varr suspects Sentry is both criminal *and* insane but also that Norman is tricking *him* too. Sentry won't believe it.
Then Annie fires 1 of the weapons in the bag and hits Sentry. Noh-Varr falls to the ground and Sentry rockets after him. But Annie drives him off with a series of powerful blasts. Frightened by what she's done she runs away too. Marvel Boy retrieves his bag and the dropped gun from some interested bystanders and then slips away from the devastation of the battle.
He builds yet another Omni-Wave Projector and this time gets a reply. The Supreme Intelligence tells him that his heroic actions fighting for humans during the Skrull Secret Invasion have inspired the Kree to offer the Earth the protection of the Kree Empire. In particular Noh-Varr will be made Earth's Protector. He sends him Nega-Bands like those worn by Captain Mar-Vell but different. Donning the Bands gives him a new costume and new powers.
The Dark Avengers are investigating the site of the battle. Iron Patriot (Osborn) says he can't afford *his* alien to run loose when he achieved his position of power after Secret Invasion by promising to protect the USA from aliens. Sentry says he can't sense Marvel Boy's aura anymore, and Daken has lost the scent too (all because of NV's change into Protector). Osborn tells Victoria Hand to offer money for anyone with recordings of what happened.
Noh-Varr finds Annie again and thanks her for her help. He says the Avengers are after him because he knows the truth about Osborn and them. And when the time is right he'll take them down. Annie asks him to come see her when it's over. He promises, and then changes to Protector and flies away at high speed.
Steve Rogers and Captain America (Bucky Barnes) have been watching this from a rooftop. They note Marvel Boy's new powers and that he opposes Norman Osborn. That makes him a useful ally.