Please review this story; the feedback is appreciated. Cap. Mar'Vell is my favourite character on the TV show, and I hope entertain ya'll with this story my imagination hasn't let me forget!
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"Welcome to the observatory," Carol smiled with open arms.
My jaw dropped in awe as I took in the large open space with huge monitors ahead of us. Images of space, stars and other planets flashed across the screens. I smiled happily as I followed Carol in a daze towards the silhouette of a man by the screens.
The back of his head was covered in sleek black hair; with a slight wave. I liked it.
He turned around and I froze.
He had abnormally bright green eyes and a pale skin tone. He had sharp cheek bones and a straight jaw line, his shoulders were very broad for a man and he stood well above Carol. I stared momentarily in shock (of his size, let alone his unimaginable attractiveness) as he stood up and stretched out his hand, "Phillip Lawson."
I returned his smile and firmly shook his hand, "Jen Parc, but everyone calls me Jenny."
He nodded and his gaze flicked to Carol.
She gestured to him with her right hand, "Lawson here just started a couple weeks ago. You two should get along just fine." After our introductions she told us to get acquainted; she had business to attend to.
"So what is that?" I asked Mr. Lawson. He told me to call him Phillip or Phil, he didn't like it when I called him "Mister".
"That's actually Pluto, don't you recognize it?" he replied and sent a questioning look my way.
I scoffed, "I don't spend all of my time staring at 'rocks', Phil."
He chuckled, "So, why are you here then?"
"To train under Carol for a few years. I wanted to go into SHIELD or the military, but they won't let me because I don't have the types of experiences they wanted," I explained and stuck a hand in my jeans pocket.
He raised an eyebrow, "What kind of experiences do you have?"
"Not enough military involvement, honestly I don't know what they expect from me. I'm twenty; not thirty-five," I shrugged my shoulders half-heartedly. "I spent a lot of my time studying chemistry and biology, but not physics and space. They didn't like that too much."
"Interesting," he said and turned to type on the large keyboard.
I shrugged my shoulders again, "If you think so. They gave me a list of things I could do to gain acceptance into their ranks, and this was the only one I was interested in." I sank down in a chair beside Lawson; he taught me the ropes for the next few hours.
Phillip Lawson and I grew to be very close friends over my time spent at the observatory. We would regularly spend time together, just talking about our past experiences and telling funny stories we'd heard. A few times he actually began to teach me some of his fighting techniques.
I had grown quite skilled in his way of defence, but nowhere near as sly and quiet as he was. He also taught me how to shoot, I don't know where he learned that skill, but he was phenomenal when he fired a gun.
Half way through my second year at the observatory, Carol introduced me to two friend's of her's; Janet Van Dyne and Hank Pym. Janet was a real talkative gal, but Hank seemed a little reclusive.
I had spent the better part of an hour politely chatting with Janet while Carol had Hank look at an image she found beguiling. One of the satellites had taken a photo before we had mysteriously lost all feed from it. That satellite had been out by Saturn.
The image had been a strange purple energy rock of sorts. Phil had been slightly alarmed by it but when I questioned him; he said he wasn't expecting to see it. I wasn't sure if I believed him.
One more image had been taken of a similar energy signature from a different satellite seven months later. Phil once more was unnerved by it. That satellite was destroyed too.
Hank Pym, Janet Van Dyne and Carol emerged from the stair well. Janet looked around the large open room, "Wait, what's this place again?"
Hank chuckled and explained the building's purpose as they approached Phil, "Try to keep up Jan! This is a joint military facility working with one of the most advanced space based telescopes ever designed."
Carol turned to face the two newcomers, "And this is Phillip Lawson, our lead scientist." Carol gestured to Phil then to me, "And this is my assistant, and another scientist, Jennifer Parc."
"I can't begin to tell you how pleased I am to meet you. Major Danvers has told me a lot about you," Phil said and extended his hand.
I mimicked his movement and smiled, "Nice to see you again."
Phil looked quizzically at me. I shrugged my shoulders, "You'd had the day off."
Jan turned into Carol and put a hand to her mouth to block her lips as she whispered, "Oh, he's cute!"
I coughed to cover my chuckle as Hank glared at the pair.
Jan wiggled her fingers at Phil and gave him a sultry smile. Carol rolled her eyes, "Subtle, Jan." My smiling facade dropped, I hadn't really enjoyed her nit picking comments.
Carol walked forward, "This is what I wanted to show you Hank. We're linked to Shield's orbital scope. It spotted the object a few days ago. The team here thought it was a comet at first, but it was moving faster than anything they'd ever seen. We're trying to get a better look at it."
Phil had sat down and was clacking away on the large keyboard as an image of the purple object appeared on screen, "Live feed from the telescope is coming in now. The data scream is on the monitor to the left, Dr. Pym."
Hank put his hand on his chin as he studied the feed, "Hm. What are you thinking Carol?"
Carol inclined her head to look at Pym, "I think it's extraterrestrial, but since I'm not a fan of everyone thinking I'm crazy; I wanted an expert opinion. Yours."
Janet jumped between the two with her hands waving, "Woah, wait, aliens?! That's just crazy!"
"The composition includes several unknown elements, but- nothing suggests anything biological. And I'm not seeing any hints of intelligence," Hank mused.
The object veered off screen to the right, disappearing momentarily. I narrowed my eyes; that couldn't be good. It jumped right back on the monitor seconds later.
"Never mind," Pym said quickly.
Jan pointed at screen, "Hey, it turned, it looks like its coming right at-"
The object crashed through the telescope, leaving a snowy feed on the screen. Jan finished her thought, "-that seems bad."
"That seems worse," Phil said as the diamond shaped object flew over the observatory.
"Uh oh," I breathed. "I think it's mad."
The object blew through a satellite dish, blowing it up. The lights went out as everyone but Phil gasped. The group was plunged into darkness. I felt around in the darkness, I wasn't sure what I was looking for. A warm hand grabbed mine in my moment of fear; I looked over at saw a soft light reflecting off the planes of Phil's face.
I relaxed slightly. Looking out one of the many windows, I noticed smoke billowing up from the alleged crash site. I turned back to the others as Carol spoke, "Phillip, what's happening?"
Phil released my hand and turned to the computer. The feeds on the monitor flickered and flipped through several different telescope views. Phil typed madly away on the keyboard, "One of the radar powers went offline. It caused a surge which blew back into our systems. I'm trying to reroute power."
"Went offline? Something blew up!" Jan exclaimed. I raised my eyebrows, she had a habit of stating the obvious; only in an extravagant manner.
"Whatever disabled the orbital telescope just made earth-fall. I'd estimate about a three and a quarter miles from the observatory," Pym guessed as he looked at the smoke I had seen earlier.
"Well that's a pretty big coincidence," Carol walked away.
"We should go see what it was," I suggested and looked over at Phil. He was still trying to reroute the power.
"So what are we saying here, we're under attack?" Jan squeaked.
"I'm not saying that-" Pym reassured her but was interrupted by Carol.
She took the safety off of the gun in her hands, "-I am. Who's up for a little first contact?"
I pulled on my jacket. I noticed Phil glance at Carol with his eyes narrowed. What was that for?
Carol, Janet and Hank walked quickly out of the room. I was about to follow them when Phil gently tugged on my sleeve, "Be careful."
I fleetingly looked into his eyes before following the others, "Of course!"
Carol, Janet and I piled into a jeep outside. Hank disappeared from sight, but I figured he shrunk down to his ant size.