Ch 98 Vers

"So now we're gonna see someone we don't know at all." Steve said.

"Yes." Benjamin said, "Get ready."

"To be shocked." Logan added and then turned on the recording.

An explosion was shown as a woman looked at her hands which had blue blood on them. Her nose also had blue blood pouring out of it. She saw an old woman lowering her gun and smiling at her when a figure arrived and shot her. Then her eyes opened on a bed. She had been dreaming.

"Who is she?" Tony asked.

"Her name is Carol Danvers." Odinson said.

She looked at her hands, glowing with energy.

"That." Fury said, smiling as he remembered.

"The glowing woman indeed." Loki said.

She was in Hala, Capital of the Kree civilization.

"She's a Kree?" Natasha asked in shock.

"Not really." Scarlet Witch said.

"Just watch." Morgan urged.

She knocked at a door and a man opened, asking if she knew what time it was. She said she couldn't sleep and he said there were tabs for that. She said she would be sleeping again and he realized it was the dreams.

"I know." Tony said and Pepper held his hand.

She asked if he wanted to fight. Later, she fell down and said she had slipped. The man said it was because of him punching her in the face. She got up and said she had been slipping before that and the two events weren't related.

"She's like me." Thor said as all turned to him. He added, "Before I was banished."

"You saying she's a bit too arrogant?" Cassie asked.

"Yes." Thor said, "It's not a good thing."

"And I agree with him so you know he's right." Loki told everyone and they nodded.

They fought as he asked about the dream and she said nothing was new. He said she had to let go of the past. She said she couldn't remember it and he told her it was causing her doubt and making her vulnerable as he managed to overpower and throw her to the ground.

"She is skilled, but he's her trainer and better at fighting." Clint noted.

Her hands then glowed as he told her to control it. The glow faded.

"What is that?" Peter asked.

"Energy." Lila said.

She got up as he said she had to commune with the Supreme Intelligence and that emotion was dangerous to warriors. She laughed and he pushed her back, saying humor was a distraction. He beat her down again but she fired her energy as he was sent flying off while she looked sheepish.

Everyone chuckled a bit before Hill said, "So she can't control it."

"Like me and Hulk when we had started." Bruce said.

Later, a vehicle was transporting them as she asked if anyone knew what the Supreme Intelligence looked like. The man said no one had seen its true form as it appeared the way their subconscious chose and was sacred and personal.

"What's the Supreme Intelligence?" Hope asked.

"It's an AI that rules them." Thor said.

"But was later abandoned in favor of an Emperor." Odinson added, "Until they decided to go with a different version of the Supreme Intelligence that did not take the form your subconscious chose."

"Sounds convoluted." Bucky muttered.

She asked what he saw, making guesses as he said she won't succeed in changing the subject. She asked what was the point in giving her powers if they didn't want her to use them. He said he did want her to use them and Supreme Intelligence wanted him to show her how. She said she did but he said she'd have knocked him down without it in that case. She had to control her impulses, stop using her powers and start using her head. He wanted her to be the best version of herself.

"You sure you do?" Natasha asked, already suspecting him.

"Yeah. There's something off about him." Sam agreed.

"About the entire place really." Rhodes said.

"It's Ronan's people. What do you expect?" Tony asked and they nodded.

Vers then walked to a room and was attached to some tubes. When she opened her eyes, she saw the woman from her dreams.

"So she knows this woman?" Pepper asked.

"She doesn't know she does." Scarlet Witch said.

Supreme Intelligence said her commander had said she was fit to serve and said she was. S.I. said she struggled with her emotions, past and was a victim of the Skrull expansion that had threatened their civilization for centuries. Models of planets were shown as SI said they were imposters who silently infiltrated and took over planets. She said Vers remembered horror and a lot of stuff she didn't.

"What are Skrulls?" May asked.

"Like she said, aliens who can shapeshift into anyone. And they even get the memories of those they change into." Morgan said and all looked shocked.

"So asking personal stuff doesn't work either." Hope groaned.

Vers said her mind was blank and said she didn't even remember the woman whose form SI took. SI said this maybe a mercy to spare her from deeper pain and free her to do what all Kree must. She must put her people's need above her own. They had given her a great gift and could take away what was given as an inhibitor on Vers' neck shut off her powers.

"So they control her powers with that." Steve noted and nods followed.

"To make her work for them." T'Challa said.

Vers said she won't let them down and SI said they would see. She had a mission and had to serve well with honor. Later, she and her team walked to a ship as they noted Skrulls must have attacked.

"Isn't that…." Tony trailed off.

"Korath the Pursuer." Thor remembered.

"Great." Loki said sarcastically.

Vers asked Korath if one had simmed him and he said it was deeply disturbing because he had seen death in the face and it looked like him. She joked it was because of his face and he said how she thought herself funny but he wasn't laughing. The other said he never did and he said he did on the inside while one said he was objectively handsome and he thanked that one.

Everyone chuckled as Tony said, "In their language, horrible is handsome."

Yon-Rogg arrived and opening a hologram, showed a man who was their spy called Soh-Larr, saying they had to rescue him and that the Skrulls had invaded a border planet called Torfa. Skrull general Talos' hologram appeared as Yon-Rogg said he had sent units to find him and that the Accusers were going to bomb their stronghold in the south while they would locate Soh-Larr and escape.

"Don't think it's going to work out that way." Natasha said dryly.

"Nope." Fury said.

They said the Kree motto and soon their ships flew out into space toward Torfa and descended there. It went into the water and they all swam out in their suits with helmets. They floated up as Yon-Rogg gave orders. Vers noted the beacon was coming from a temple and tried to go but Yon-Rogg stopped her as it was a perfect spot for the ambush. There were locals there too as Minn-Erva aimed at them. The Kree walked further, with the locals trying to stop them. Minn-Erva was about to fire when Att-Lass lowered her gun, saying they were just starving and two were dead, not green. Then Minn-Erva saw Att-Lass down with the others and before the imposter could react, beat him and knocked him out. He turned green as he was knocked out, turning back to a Skrull.

"So that's a Skrull." Tony noted.

"Just in the nick of time." Wanda said and all sighed in relief.

Vers walked further in, finding Soh-Larr when the locals started attacking Kree but Minn-Erva gunned one down as he turned back to a Skrull. They started fighting as the Kree gunned down Skrulls and Yon-Rogg told Vers it was a trap but Soh-Larr tasered her and she was down. He then transformed into Talos.

"They planned it out." Bucky said grimly.

"It appears they did, Mr. Barnes." T'Challa said.

Vers asked how he knew the code and Talos said he would tell her his secret when she told him his as he tasered her out.

"Now they have her." Wanda said grimly.

A memory was shown of Vers and a dark-skinned woman as the woman said they needed to show how it was done and Vers said, "Higher, further, faster baby." They flew as voices of Skrulls were heard.

"They are looking into her head." Wanda realized and Scarlet Witch nodded.

"To find something." Steve said.

Then there was a memory of Vers driving as a boy told her she was too fast and needed to go slow. She increased speed and crashed as her father arrived, telling her she didn't belong here and she said he didn't let her drive.

"Please don't listen to bullies like that boy." Steve said, "They only try to entice you."

All nodded.

The Skrulls were confused as memories of her jumping on ropes and falling were shown while men laughed.

"This must be the 70's or 80's." Tony said, "Back then, women did face sexism in such places."

"I've heard." Steve said sadly as all did sympathize with Carol.

A man told her she was a good pilot but too emotional as she and the dark-skinned woman were shown singing together in a bar. Then she was shown with a little dark-skinned girl, showing her a shooting star while the other woman told them to get inside and Vers played with the girl.

"So she's from Earth." Steve realized, "Taken like Quill."

"Except by infinitely worse people." Odinson said.

"Yes. The Kree." Fury agreed.

Then the memory from the beginning was shown with her being engulfed by an explosion as the old woman lowered her gun while Skrulls were shown.

"Something's up." T'Challa noted.

The Skrulls backed a little again when the old woman was shown talking to Vers with a cat called Goose.

Fury glared at Goose, muttering something under his breath as all wondered what that was about.

Then the Skrulls repeated the scene, trying to get Vers to look at the badge of the woman and her name was shown- Dr. Wendy Lawson, with 'Pegasus' under it. Vers suspected something was up as the Skrulls tried to focus but Vers woke up that moment to see small light on both sides of her head.

"Pegasus?" Tony asked, "Wasn't that the project for studying the Teserract?"

"It was." Hill said.

Vers saw she was restrained with gauntlets and was barefoot while Skrulls were discussing stuff around her. One of them tapped her head and it did something, He did again and saw the gauntlets glowing. Then Vers freed her hand and knocked him down before freeing her other hand and beating up the Skrulls.

"Shouldn't have pissed her off." Natasha said.

"Considering she's like me before I was banished, definitely not." Thor said.

She pinned Talos down, asking what he had put in her head and he said nothing that wasn't already there. She said those weren't her memories and Talos wasn't surprised she couldn't keep it straight.

"She doesn't have her memory." Bucky realized, "Like me."

Talos said they were looking for Lawson and her lightspeed engine and Vers said she didn't know Lawson. Talos asked then why she was in her head when more Skrulls arrived and she threw Talos at them. Some attacked her but she knocked them all down. She ran to a hallway when more Skrulls surrounded her and she asked sarcastically, "Either of you wouldn't happen to know how these things come off, would you? No? Fine."

"She's pissed." Bruce muttered.

She fought them all, taking them down when one of them punched and roared. She roared back.

"Reminded of something?" Loki asked Thor.

"Yes." Thor said, remembering roaring at a Frost Giant in Jotunheim.

She knocked the Skrull out and running to a door, pressed the console with her foot. It opened and a Skrull walked out. She attacked but it was unaffected and took her down with a taser rod with two more. She tried to fire but the gauntlets were preventing the energy from going out, until she built it up and managed to shatter her restraints, knocking them back. She laughed happily at seeing her energy again.

"That is a lot of energy." Vision noted, "Powerful energy."

Then the ship broke and the Skrulls ran as Vers was sucked out but held onto it and forming her helmet, jumped back in before running to a room and seeing Skrulls working on computers. She made them back off and taking her boots, destroyed the computer playing her memories.

"Cockblocked." Tony joked and all burst out laughing.

The Skrulls were escaping in a pod when she threw one out and sat there. A shot damaged it and she saw Talos lowering his gun. He joked how they just got to know each other.

"She doesn't even know herself." Bucky said.

She fired a blast and he dodged as she closed the doors and flew her pod down. As it reached the atmosphere, it broke and she was thrown out, hanging onto its pieces until she crashed down into some place. It was a Blockbuster Store. She was in C-53.

"Blockbuster! The good old days!" Tony said happily.

"So these are the 90's then." Scott realized.

"Looks like that." Clint said.

"So aliens call our planet C-53 then." Peter muttered.

She got up and noticed someone. She blasted him, only to see it was a poster of 'True Lies' and she had blasted Arnold Schwarzenegger.

"Why did you have to blast Arnie?" Scott asked.

"She hates men." Tony muttered and all groaned.

She walked out, seeing a cop car as the cop stared at her in shock. She asked if he was in charge of this district's security and asked where she could find communication equipment. He pointed at Radio Shack and she thanked him before walking there.

"Radio Shack has everything, doesn't it?" Sam asked sarcastically as all chuckled.

The next day, Skrulls were on a beach and looked at people having fun. They needed to track the pod and find the girl. They looked at the people and transformed into them. Talos noted one of them had transformed into the same girl as him and told him this one was taken.

"Perv." Hope muttered and all chuckled.

Vers managed to make something out of the Radio Shack equipment and actually contacted the Kree Starforce via a PCO telephone.

"She contacted her team in space by making equipment from Radio Shack when she has no idea about Earth stuff?" Peter asked incredulously and all gapped.

"How did she do that?" Tony wondered too.

"Even my sister would take a few days to do something like this." T'Challa said.

Yon-Rogg managed to be contacted and was relieved she was alive, asking if she had found Soh-Larr but she said he was simmed by Talos who even knew his code even though it was buried in his subconscious. She said they had something to extract memories and would have used it on him before saying she was on C-53 and that the Skrulls were looking for someone called Lawson. The Kree seemed confused and said this Lawson had cracked the code for lightspeed tech so she needed to get to her before they did. Yon-Rogg told her to wait but the signal was cut off.

"Tough luck." Scott said.

Yon-Rogg and the others decided to go to C-53 as Minn-Erva said she had been there once and it was shithole.

"No! It's awesome because I live there!" Tony said and all laughed.

"I love Earth too." Thor said.

"Don't blame you." Odinson told him.

Cops arrived at the location as an agent asked the cop from before if he had called them. The agent was a younger Phil Coulson.

"Son of Coul!" Thor said happily as all smiled.

"Agent has hair." Tony said and all laughed.

A dark-skinned agent approached Vers. It was a younger Nick Fury with both eyes.

"Oh my God!" Tony said as all gapped.

"It's you!" Hill said.

"With both eyes!" Loki added and all chuckled.

"Yeah it's me." Fury groaned.

"Dirt on Fury." Benjamin said and all laughed.

He asked her about the lady who had blown a hole in the roof and she said she had gone the other way when Fury stopped her.

"How stupid do you think I am?" Fury asked.

Vers talked about Skrulls, explaining them but both looked puzzled as she realized they had no idea. Fury stopped her and asked how he would know if she wasn't one of them. She congratulated him, saying he had finally asked a relevant question and he congratulated her for being arrested. As a cop moved to arrest her, she noticed a Skrull in the form of a man about to fire at Fury and pushed him out of harm's way before firing her energy beam at him as he ran off while Fury watched in shock.

"Now you know at last." Hope said.

"Now the only questions I ask are relevant." Fury said.

Vers chased the man as Fury and Coulson sat together and Fury asked if Coulson had seen her weapon and he said he hadn't.

"Because there is none." Wanda noted.

The Skrull stopped in front of a train as an old woman walked out and smiled at him. He smiled back and went inside as Vers arrived and bumped into the woman before seeing him in the train. She leapt and hung at its back as Fury and Coulson saw it. She smashed the glass and went inside, looking at the people who stared in shock. ""Trust me, true believer. Trust me..." An elderly man reading a book was saying. Vers lowered the book and looked at his face. He smiled and she smiled back.

"He is nice to her." Thor said and all chuckled, "But he wasn't nice to my hair."

"Considering how good you look with these hair, I think he was." Natasha said and he and Odinson smiled in appreciation.

She went into another compartment and saw an old woman smiling at her. She remembered bumping into the woman outside and punched the Skrull who grunted angrily as all gasped. The two started fighting while the people tried to stop Vers but she freed herself until the Skrull ran to another compartment.

"Okay, an old woman is jumping around like a ninja and people are not noticing?" Steve asked incredulously and all nodded.

"I'm guessing all people except our old watcher friend in the train were braindead." Tony said and all agreed.

The Skrull transformed into a man as the man he had transformed into watched in shock. He climbed up and Vers climbed after him before being kicked back. They fought as the Skrull threw her down and some debris fell off, hitting the hood of Fury's car. They noticed the train moving to the tunnel and Fury said they would meet them at the station. Then he got a call from Coulson who was still at Blockbuster and looked at the one next to him in shock.

"A Skrull." T'Challa realized as all paled.

The Skrull took out a gun but Fury struggled with him. He was almost choked until a car smashed into his, knocking them both out while Vers punched a hole in the train and jumped down to avoid the tunnel. Later, she got out at the station, searching for the Skrull as she noticed a guy with the same shirt as him and tried to attack only to see it was someone else. She looked around in confusion, trying to find the Skrull.

"Won't find him by looking around." Tony said and all nodded.

Fury woke up to see the Skrull dead next to him and gasped in horror, seeing an alien for the first time. He covered it with his coat and showing his badge, told people to back off.

"Busted." Hope said.

"So you knew about aliens far back then?" A shocked Bruce asked.

"I did. That's why I was working to make the Avengers Initiative." Fury said and all nodded.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Natasha asked.

"Do I look like someone who shares?" Fury asked and all chuckled.

Vers tried to get her gauntlet to work to find out about Lawson but only got the name of Pancho's Bar so she went to a cyber café, searching on the AltaVista Search until the net was disconnected and she needed to redial.

"Oh! The good ol' days!" Tony said and all looked nostalgic.

"The AltaVista, Blockbuster, Redial. I love the 90's." Rhodes said too happily.

"Nowadays aren't that great comparatively." Pepper agreed.

"I wish we could return to the 90's." Sam said.

She picked up a man and tried to locate Pancho's Bar outside until a guy stopped on a bike and said her 'scuba suit' was nice, asking her to smile for him.

"What a jerk!" Bucky said as all glared a little.

He muttered 'freak' and told her to look after his bike as he went inside. She noted he had left his keys and taking the clothes of a mannequin, rode away on his bike, a smile on her face.

"Never leave your keys outside like that." Tony said and all nodded.

"What a careless guy." Steve said too.

"I think we're going to see more of me in a moment." Fury said.

"Looks like it." Clint said too.

"Can't wait!" Hill smirked and he sighed.

"This is gonna get messier." Logan said as the recording continued.