Captain Marvel #4

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The Alien and The Amphibian!Mar-Vell sits in his hotel room and feels torn between his loyalty to The Kree and the fact that he has started developing the human emotion called conscience. In his confusion and anger he smashes a table and the noise is heard by the hotel clerk who knocks on his door. Hal, who is filling in for his hospitalised uncle Jeremy, tells Mar-Vell he had a call from The Cape and they want him over immediately. Mar-Vell inquires about Jeremy Logan and Hal says he’s still in a coma. Mar-Vell is well aware if Logan awakes he may reveal him to be an alien and ruin his mission. Outside the hotel, having changed his uniform, Walter Lawson gets into a cab. The cab driver turns out to be the same man who dropped Mar-Vell off before he fought Super Skrull. At The Cape, Carol Danvers tells General Bridges she’s still suspicious of Lawson as they head towards the secret launch of a new missile.Elsewhere, in the North Atlantic, Namor swims towards the Baxter Building in New York City to seek the help of Reed Richards in finding the villain Destiny (for events that transpired in Sub-Mariner #4). Namor muses that he may have misunderstood the human race after all. Back at The Cape, Lawson arrives just in time to be briefed about the missile launch. General Bridges tells him the missile is filled with containers holding new types of bacteria that will be released in space to study their reaction to cosmic rays. The rocket takes off successfully but immediately after reaching orbit it suddenly changes course and crashes back on Earth, landing in New York Harbor. It transpires Yon-Rogg had a secret plan, approved by his superiors, to make the rocket crash on Earth to test the humans’ capabilities of defending against germ warfare.Bridges, Danvers and Lawson head for NYC in a jet and the General explains the rocket will jettison its cargo in 5 hours releasing the deadly bacteria into the atmosphere. The Navy are informed and a destroyer ship is sent to retrieve...