Marvel: Just A Kryptonian Goddess

[Wednesday, 14:40 AM, Edwards Air Base]

Was it a fire? an explosion? an attack? an invasion? he didn't know, all he knew was that there was what could only be described as the aftermath of a volcanic eruption on the place where Edwards Airbase was supposed to be.

Pieces of jet fighters scrambled through and even kilometers away from the airbase with holes of the size of basketballs in them, entire hangars melted, destroyed, and burned to the ground, the only proof they were even there in the first place were small pieces that managed to survive whatever happened there by being thrown away by some kind of explosion.

Secret compartments hiding turrets underground, and the final piece of the cake, molten lava cutting through what once was the base's runway, nobody could get close to the place without proper equipment and even them they could only stay there for so much time before their eyes started to melt.

But the strangest thing by far was the fact that there were no bodies, no ashes, no clothes, and not a single dog tag, if it wasn't for the clear destruction he saw from afar using his binoculars he would have thought everyone just disappeared without a trace.

Any decent agent of S.H.I.E.L.D would have scoffed at this notion, and he was no exception.

"Director Pierce!". A man in a black suit shouted while running towards his direction.

"Yes?".

"Our trackers found a damaged helmet with a camera, sir, we managed to recover some of the footage, we think you will be interested to see what we got".

Pierce gave a last look at the former base and turned around to look at the agent, years of service prevented him from smiling out of joy after finally finding a clue to what had happened here.

With a neutral expression and no emotion in his voice he said."Well, lead the way".

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[Wednesday, 14:40 AM, 19° 14' 21.0" (J2000), 4.79, 12/3/1995]

"Why am I inside this pod again?". Carol asked while poking at the glass of her temporary prison, at least in her opinion.

After arriving at the Ship Kara had immediately ordered Lavender to escort her and Fury to the fastest way to the hospital wing, after that she had gone somewhere else, coming back minutes later, now without the metallic ropes restricting her arms.

"You crashed into several walls and had a rod pierce your stomach Carol, contrary to me you are not immune to infections, only highly resistant, do not confuse your high healing factor with immortality".

Kara answered her friend after ordering the pod to do a small scan on her body, she only needed to see if Carol had an infection or any broken bones, discovering more about her powers would only be a bonus.

Carol felt her body warm-up when the pod's light started to scan her body, it reminded her of the first time she activated her powers after regaining part os her memories, memories that were coming back even now.

"Humm". Kara murmured in curiosity after seeing the state of Carol's body.

According to the scans Carol's body was completely fine, it was as if she hadn't suffered any damage in the first place whatsoever, but that wasn't what intrigued her, what did intrigue her was her energy levels, they were much higher than what she expected from her unpowered state.

Controlling the holographic's table interface for some more seconds Kara opened a small report about Carol's condition before, during, and after the explosion inside the airbase, and just as she thought something had happened.

Kara held her finger in the holographic table while speaking in her microphone. "Carol, could you please activate your powers for some seconds, I want to confirm something".

Nodding with her head Carol called her energy forth, she became positively surprised when the pain in her abdomen suddenly disappeared.

'The healing factor gets stronger when I put more energy?'.

"As I thought".

"Thought what?".

Kara looked at Carol with a surprised expression, she had muttered those words after deactivating the microphone, taking all she saw of Carol's senses into consideration it should be impossible for her to hear her words, especially considering that fact that the walls and glass in front of her were partially soundproof, enough to shut out any normal noises from outside but not enough to silence a scream from inside, Lavender was a Warship after all, but alas she somehow did it.

"Humm, is it an effect if your powers or perhaps your energy absorption?".

"Effect of what?".

Ignoring Carol's question Kara started to walk in circles and entered what her mother often called, her lecture mode. "The Bio-suit has the ability to collect data on its user's body and send a diagnosis if said user commands it to, I did a minor analysis to your body to see if there was anything wrong".

"When I compared this same Data with your bio-suit at different times I discovered that your energy levels skyrocketed seconds after that ship attacked us".

Wanting to get out of the pod and have a clear conversation with Kara without barely hearing her, Carol opened the pod's window and got up from the comfortable mattress, putting her feet at the surprisingly warm ground she turned around and quickly ran towards the exit.

Opening the door she sat quietly in a chair at Kara's side while looking at the hologram in front of her.

Hearing a strange sound Kara turned around once more, she stopped on her tracks for one second after seeing Carol sitting comfortably at a chair while looking at the graphic.

'Improved speed even without powering up, what else can you do?'. Shaking her head Kara ignored Carol's actions and continued with her lecture.

"See here, 12:30, the moment you first activated your powers after the inhibitor was destroyed, you didn't have a bio-suit at the time but lucky Lavender was taking note of everything that was happening around me at the time".

"At that moment you had enough energy to destroy half of California in a single blast, and now when you activated your powers less than a minute ago you still had this level of energy, just bigger, if I had to do the calculations I would say 13% bigger".

"And that means?". Carol asked, already starting to put two and two together, if her guess was right then this could be a game changer for her.

"I would say that you somehow can produce more of your energy on your own but this". Kara pointed at the part of the graphic where the numbers spiked upwards.

"Leads me to believe that you are actually absorbing energy".

"How?". Carol asked with more curiosity than confusion.

"14:25:59, on the exact moment that you came back to the explosion site you started to absorb the residual energy of the missile that ship shot at us, meaning that you do have the ability to absorb more energy to become stronger".

"Like a Kryptonian?".

"More like a tamaranean..., now look at the start of the graphic and how the energy levels slowly go upwards".

Carol did as instructed and looked attently at the graphic, just like Kara had said the energy levels were going slightly upwards between each spike.

"What I am trying to say is simple, you are not at 100% of your strength".

"... And what is my 100%?". Carol asked after a small pause.

"I do not know, what I do know is that we need to wake up Fury and start analyzing the stolen Data, each second we waste is one less the Kree use to prepare their fleed".

Carol nodded with her head and got up to wake up Fury, she didn't know the limits of her power but for now, she would have to use all she already had.

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[Wednesday, 14:40 AM, 19° 14' 21.0" (J2000), 4.79, Lavender's Control Room]

Carol, Kara, and Fury were inside the Ship's control room each sitting in a chair while looking at the holographic screen that was in front of them.

The ship itself was the safest place they could possibly be but the control room was the place where no one could infiltrate without alerting Lavender and activating all possible security systems before even setting foot inside the room hence the reason why Kara decided to open Mar-vell's files inside the ship's control room.

Not even her master would be able to hear what was being said inside, even if he stayed behind the closed doors.

"Search for Potential Energy Group/Alternate Sources/United States, project P.E.G.A.S.U.S for short". Kara ordered Lavender while adjusting the speakers.

[Lawson, 09/10/1981, Entry N°1]

[Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S, a joined project Between S.H.I.E.L.D, NASA and the United States Air force made to study and harness the power of the object known as Tesseract]

[I Had first come to this planet with the refugees after discovering a weird but powerful energy signature that shouldn't exist in such primitive planet]

[At first, I had thought that maybe the beings of this planet had come in contact with alien technology and knowing how dangerous that could be I decided to locate, recognize and retrieve the object as to hide it from the wrong hands]

[The history of how the Bolovaxians killed themselves in a world war was proof enough that a primitive race should not be introduced with advanced technology without heavy supervision]

Getting impatient Kara started to forcefully roll down on the files trying to search for anything important.

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[Making a false identity and infiltrating inside the human ranks was easy, luckily the natives looked similar to the Kree minus the strength and various skin tones]

[At the time of my search my highest priority was to retrieve the mysterious object in my mind if I had located the weird energy signature who is to say that the kree couldn't do the same]

[I hoped that the humans as they call themselves didn't accidentally make contact with any of the empires out on the universe, they are relatively hidden and safe as they are but if a pass by encountered them and decided to put their world in the universal map then they would be easy prey to empires such as the Shi'ar]

[The Nova core would try to help and introduce the Humans to the universe bu-]

"Lavender Jump towards the more relevant information, the tesseract, Carol's past, and project P.E.G.A.S.U.S, see if you can encounter anything about that ship".

[Yes miss El]

[Lawson, 21/10/1981, Entry N°4]

[The core or 'Tesseract' as the humans refer to it is much more powerful than what I could have imagined, the cube itself is only a container to an infinite amount of energy trapped inside, unable to be released]

[Curiously the scans show the potency of said energy lowering drastically the farther away it got from its center, meaning that the cube not only contains the energy inside it but also harness it from something, something or somewhere inside itself]

[Lawson, 24/11/1981, Entry N°10]

[Studying the energy inside the Core has proven to be more difficult than anticipated, the... 'walls' surrounding it are effective in doing what however build them wanted them to do, keep the energy inside]

[Fortunately, the walls are weaker outside allowing certain types of machines to draw small bits of energy inside them, unfortunately, if not captured in a specialized energy cell the energy will either explode whatever it is containing it or simply fade away in the air]

[This energy can be the key to finally put an end to the Kree and Skrull war, I don't have time to waste but at the same time one small mistake could doom us a-]

"So, we confirmed her objective was to save the refugees of the Kree expansion conquest and the worlds the Skrulls invaded". Kara said after giving a brief mental command for Lavender to stop.

"Yes, her 'reports' also suggest that she came in contact with the Tesseract by accident, I remember her saying to Maria that her allies would protect her, implying that she either came with refugees or that she made connections with the locals". Carol answered.

"Or maybe another Kree, we can't rule out the possibility of her bringing another of her species that had the same mentality as her". Fury said giving his own opinion.

Kara and Carol stopped for one moment to think, Fury could be right after all no one in an entire race is the same.

Giving a tired sigh and shaking her head Kara said. "No point in guessing those things, we can talk after we hear all the reports, Lavender continue, please"

[Lawson, 03/1/1982, Entry N°20]

[After various unsuccessful attempts of drawing out the most potent parts of the energy inside the core with the objective of avoiding the inevitable dispersion of said energy in the air we have finally succeeded in capturing a minuscule amount of the core's energy inside it and store away safely in a specialized container]

[Results show that draining the core's energy again could destabilize the influx of energy from the center of the Tesseract, this mistake could cause an immense explosion of leaked energy, possibly enough to transform an entire continent in a gigantic crater]

[But if our studies with the new energy prove successful we will be able to not only discover the Tesseract's special proprieties but also how to absorb more of its energy safely, maybe we will even be able to create a reactor with the ability to absorb energy frow whatever place the tesseract takes its own, maybe then we will be able to fight off the Kree's invasion]

[Lawson, 24/1/1982, Entry N°22]

[The Core is much more powerful than what we could have imagined, creating black holes, bending space, negating jump points and possibly having absolute control of space itself, if the core somehow landed in the wrong hands the entire universe would be at great risk]

[I have thought of hiding the Core elsewhere but Earth is the safest place for now, hidden from the rest of the universe, isolated and without any kind of significant profitable resources besides  potential slaves, this planet is the perfect place to hide something, but even so it will not be enough]

[At this moment the core is the only hope for us to save all the suppressed species in the universe from the Kree's conquest, if their wars continue the Shi'ar will not be idle, billions of lives will be lost and in the aftermath, the mad titan will surely try to finish what he had tried to do decades earlier]

[Although it pains me to say this I will have to create weapons from the Core's energy to protect the Core itself]

[Lawson, 12/3/1982, Entry N°40]

[After much debate with Soren and studying the Core's energy further I have come to the conclusion that the Tesseract's energy should be weaponized immediately at the condition that none of the weapons created got out of the planet for the foreseeable future]

[In any other normal circ.u.mstances I would have already given the weapons to the resistance but considering the fact that a single blast can atomize most types of organic life and create holes in the strongest of shields I have decided not to, even if it is for a good cause the weapons we will create should not, if ever see the light of the day in a war]

[On the other hand, Projects Hurricane and Titan are still in the early phase of development, until now we have not managed to find a suitable metal on this planet to contain the Core's energy for long periods of time, and until I find it we can't start building it from the already finished Blueprints]

[Lawson, 17/1/1983, Entry N°41]

[It was decided that the base of P.E.G.A.S.U.S will be re-located to a desert area, the explosion that occurred less than two weeks ago resulted in a total Blackout in the entire Pacific area 76 Deaths were confirmed, including the 23 operatives who were close to the Core at the moment of the explosion]

[The Mojave Desert is the best choice for Re-location, the tests will be conducted in a secret specialized building underground in the sixth floor, the flight tests, on the other hand, will be made on an Airbase nor far away from P.E.G.A.S.U.S]

[Lawson, 19/5/1983, Entry N°75]

[Finally, after five months the Base is fully constructed or maybe upgraded depending on one's point of view, unfortunately, due to the lack of necessary materials we had to use external resources to complete everything faster and add some provisional defenses in case of an invasion]

[Reinforcing most of the rooms of the underground base was just as important as adding additional defenses, the worries about another explosion of energy occurring are not unfounded but with the new layout of the base it is unlikely an explosion like the last one will occur, unlikely but not impossible]

[On the other hand, my allies have finally found a metal powerful enough to resist the power of the Core's energy, Vibranium, the same metal from Torfa but much more adept in absorbing and containing energy efficiency]

[Unfortunately, the quantity of said material is low which should have been impossible, unless another empire had come to this planet thousands of years before and ravished the planet from almost all of its vibranium, an unlikely possibility but at the same time the one with the biggest probability of being true]

[Unless the vibranium is exclusive to a small part of this world of course, a theory with even smaller chances to be true than the last one, the planetary scan was already made months ago and unless something managed to block it I wouldn't see this possibly being a viable one]

[Lawson, 2/7/1983, Entry N°90]

[Wakanda, the location and name of the country who has the possession of almost all of the Vibranium inside Earth, locating the small nation was harder than it should have been due to us not expecting such an advanced civilization inside Earth]

[As to not alert the Locals I only brought Soren with me in the spaceship, a decision I came to be thankful for after proving our claims to the wakandeans]

[Unfortunately due to the 'contract' we made we are not allowed to say what happened inside the walls of the palace, just that now we have an excessive amount of Vibranium]

[Now with the necessary metal I will be able to complete project's Hurricane and Titan, after that I will finally be able to return my full attention to the Lightspeed Engine]

[Lawson, 5/8/1984, Entry N°177]

[Finaly after one year project Titan was completed, the external parts of the Titan were the easiest to create, the major problem was with the distribution of energy, no small wires were enough to resist, much less safely transport the energy of the Core, no matter how durable they were]

[Fortunately, this problem was solved by creating bigger wires, unfortunately, as a result of that we were obligated to change Titan's original design and change it to a fifty-meter tall colossus]

[We were fortunate to have enough Vibranium for this change, but as a result Project Hurricane will not have enough resources to be properly completed]

[Wakanda's king had expressed his willingness to help us with his resources after hearing our history but I have refused, project Titan will have enough power to protect against any attack on P.E.G.A.S.U.S, Hurricane, on the other hand, can be more than just a protector, modifications will have to be made]

[Lawson, 29/8/1984, Entry N°180]

[Soren has reported a most peculiar happening after a successful rescue mission on Torfa, an unknown being helped them escape from the Kree before they could be found, the rescuer somehow knew about what we were doing and wanted to help, allies are always welcome but we will have to be careful in our approach with this one]

[Lawson, 3/9/1984, Entry N°182]

[Torfa is always chaotic and as such missions on that planet need to be as silent as possible, if the Kree weren't so keen on killing everything that moved then maybe we would be able to retrieve small amounts of Vibranium from Torfa's crust]

[Unfortunately, we can't in good conscience ask for Wakanda's help, they are an advanced Nation but against the Might of the Kree there is not much they could do besides put up a small fight]

[Fortunately, our new ally had in her possession a very rare material, not enough to make anything like another Titan but enough to build a Vault, a Vault to Hide the Core and all we discovered about it through the years, we haven't decided where to put this vault yet but a new underground floor inside P.E.G.A.S.U.S would be a perfect place]

[Lawson, 1/10/1984, Entry N°186]

[Today we have traveled towards The nearby Airbase to sort out the testing grounds of the first prototypes of the Lightspeed engine, from my observations the place will need more defenses, turrets, energy detectors, and cameras being the main ones]

[I have also thought of building, a special private room to send my reports and research to the base with more ease, the control room seems like the best place to do it, the only problem will be the open fields and the increase in human contact, an unfortunate but necessary development]

[Lawson, 4/10/1984, Entry N°187]

[Contrary to what I expected the humans on The Air Base are rather friendly, nothing like that General who for some reason doesn't stop breathing on my neck every second, it is as if he wants to know every single thing that happens inside the laboratory, does he not know about scientific secrecy? The way he treats me is as if he expects me to fail at any second]

[In the other hand I have met two humans by the names of Carol Danvers and Maria Rambeau, they seem like interesting pe-]

"Stop".

Hearing Carol's voice Kara gave Lavender a small command to stop and turned her head around to look at her friend.

"Something wrong?".

"No, I just remembered something". Carol answered while holding her head.

"New Orleans, Lousiana, Maria Rambeau, I... remember her". Carol said slowly.

"You want to go to this place and talk to her? If so we will have to be fast".

Carol only gave Kara a nod of confirmation.

"You would inevitably have to meet someone connected with your past eventually, let's hope you remember everything this time, Lavender guide the two of them to the pods, send the Motorcycle together with them".

'​I will read the rest of those reports for some time and reunite with them later'.

[Understood Miss El]

Carol got up from her chair and turned around, not hearing Kara's footsteps she turned around once more to look at her friend's back.

"Kara lets go".

"I'll catch up with you in a minute, I have to do something".

Carol only nodded in response and turned around walking towards the pods together with Fury.

"Lavender prepare the droids, I want to make a commission".

[Of what Miss El?]

Kara froze for one second while looking at the image she had just draw in the holographic table.

"A Symbol".