This is from the second Kelly Sue DeConnick-written Carol Danvers book, where she sent Danvers into space as sort of the Avengers' representative in galactic stuff. Carol immediately pissed off Star-Lord's dad by refusing to let him forcibly relocate a planet full of refugees so he could get some Vibranium. Star-Lord's dad is a dick, so at least she's making the right enemies.
That dealt with, she's heading back to her ship, which the Guardians of the Galaxy are supposed to be watching. First, she's gotta have a nightmare. She watches James Rhodes (who she's dating at this point), sacrifice himself, then her spaceship gets blown up, with Spider-Woman and Carol's supporting cast inside for some reason.
I initially thought, with Rhodey's death, the dream was trauma from him being killed by Thanos in Civil War II, but that's still a couple years away. This is trauma related to Hickman's Infinity event, which I could not tell you a damn thing about. Anyway, Carol's had the nightmare three nights in a row. I don't think I've ever had the precisely same dream. Certainly not multiple night in a row. I have a lot of dreams where I'm running, but always in different places or from different things.
Tic, the alien girl who got Carol to come help her planet in the first place, decided to tag along, to Carol's displeasure. Tic's attempts to show contrition through breakfast (something with tentacles and fungus), are less than successful.
Arriving at her ship, named Harrison for reasons that escape me (maybe for Harrison Ford?), Carol and Tic find only Rocket Raccoon, who locked Carol's cat Chewie up in a pet carrier. Considering he tried to kill it earlier, insisting it's an alien species called flerkens, Carol's understandably unhappy. Which is no excuse for calling Rocket a 'horrible, ugly weasel'.
Carol demands an apology to her cat, Rocket instead explains the commercial value of flerkens, and the ship is under attack. Most of the defense systems are offline because Rocket was focusing all the ship's resources on language analysis to see if it could translate flerken. This is not an acceptable reason in Carol's opinion. The attackers begin pumping something into the ship, but not gas or a drug. but something designed to map the interior, to locate Chewie.
Rocket isn't willing to risk his life for a flerken, which kind of pisses Carol off, since the attack because of Rocket asking around about the going rate for flerkens signaling he had one. Then she calls raccoons 'creepy little garbage eaters,' which is just rude.
Anyway, she's wrong, her cat is a flerken, because it laid a bunch of eggs, looking rather pleased about it. The aliens start to break in, Rocket and Carol prepare to repel boarders, and the eggs starts to hatch.
[2nd longbox, 272nd comic. Captain Marvel (vol. 8) #7, by Kelly Sue DeConnick (writer), Marcio Takara (artist), Lee Loughridge (color artist), Joe Caramagna (letterer)]
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