Parker Luck

Captain's Orders

There was no doubt now, the meteor was rocketing towards Peter. Dozens of thoughts raced through the hero's mind, most of which were profanities. Some more coherent thoughts included; 'How're they gonna explain this to Aunt May?', 'The others are gonna be so mad' and eventually settled on the thought that being hit by a shooting star, after a week of making love to beautiful women, was a pretty damn good way to go out.

As the meteor got closer the light radiating from it got brighter and brighter until Spidey could no longer bear to look at it. "Warning, lux overload detected." Came the synthesised voice of K.A.R.E.N with the words also flashing up on the mask's HUD. Shielding his eyes, Peter prepared for the end.

"Hey Peter Parker. You got something for me?"

At the sound of the familiar voice and familiar greeting, the teen turned around in shock "Captain Marvel?" Floating a few feet in front of him and several feet off the ground was a tall woman wearing red, blue and gold and surrounded by a golden luminescence. "C'mon Peter, we're off duty, you don't have to call me Captain Marvel every time." Said the Kree hybrid as she settled on the roof, retracting her helmet.

"Force of habit, sorry." Apologised the teen, "How come you're on Earth?" He then inquired. With a shrug Carol responded, "I was in the galaxy, figured I'd stop by, shake off the space lag". Peter looked confused "Space lag?", "Yeah it's like jet lag only, y'know, instead of going between countries you're travelling between planets." Explained Carol. "Oh." Was all Peter had to say.

"Hey is there any booze?" Danvers eagerly asked. The sudden question caught Parker of guard, "Uh I think there's some somewhere." he guessed. "Great!" Said the captain "You want any?" She offered. "Carol, I'm sixteen." Peter pointed out but this just got him another shrug from Carol "So?" "Never mind." Sighed the brunette, "Just some sodas, please?" "No problem." Carol flew off.

A couple of minutes later the blonde's return was heralded by the glow of her powers. As she emerged Peter saw that in one hand she had brought a pack of sodas and several six packs and bottles of all kinds of booze balancing in the other. "Where'd you get all that from?" Peter wondered, somewhat impressed "A few places. A lot came from Clint's room, I think he's got a bit of a problem." Answered Carol "Hang on there's more coming". As promised the woman flew off again and once more returned with a large quantity of alcohol. "Are really gonna drink all that?" asked Peter in amazement. "I'm gonna try." Said the blonde. "See, being part Kree means this Earth stuff doesn't affect me as much, so I have to drink more of it to get a buzz." She told him.

"So what's been happening around here?" Carol asked Spider-Man, flicking the cap off a beer as she did so. Carefully omitting certain details (namely the ones featuring Pepper, MJ and Wanda) the young hero gave the space farer a brief rundown of current events both personal and otherwise. "What've you been doing?" Parker asked of the heroine. "The usual." Said Danvers nonchalantly "Checking in on planets after The Blip, trying to keep the peace, kicking ass and taking names." Carol then gave a snort of amusement "Hey speaking of kicking ass, let me tell you about a fight I got into once..."

** (About 17 years ago) "And stay out if you know what's good for you!" Shouted Captain Marvel after a group of aliens currently fleeing from the bar they'd tried to pick a fight in. Turning back to her drink Danvers shook her head. Was the whole universe conspiring to stop her from getting a bit of peace and quiet? She wondered.

A few minutes later a booming voice rang out "You! Pink-skin!" Danvers tried to ignore it but when it called out again her frustrations got the better of her, resulting in her 'glass' getting crushed in her grip. That was the final straw. "What?!" She burst out, seething. The source of the voice was a muscular blue skinned humanoid with thick bright red hair. The alien looked at the blonde with a smug expression on his face "You are the one called Cap-Tain Mar-Vell correct?". "Who's asking?" Hissed the Kree hybrid between clenched teeth. The smug look on the blue man's face grew as he pointed a thumb at his chest and introduced himself.**