One week later, Carol was released from the hospital. I had gone a week earlier than her, to set myself straight again. Mar'Vell had turned my life upside; I had yet to decide whether it was a benefit or hindrance. I had been sitting on my couch when I felt an odd rippling tickle in my stomach. I sat back and looked at my belly, "What the-?" The ripple intensified, I grunted. It didn't hurt as much as confused me. It felt like my guts were being warmed in water, and felt up by tentacles. Something squeezed. I yelped and gripped my torso, now it hurt. The warming of my guts quickened until it felt like they were on fire. My spine cracked and my knees popped, "Ah!" I rolled off the couch and onto the floor where I curled into the foetal position. My toes curled as I let out a blood curdling scream. Suddenly, everything stopped. The heat subsided and my spine and knees popped back into place. I lay sweating on the rug when my doorbell rang. I turned my head to face the door, "Come in!" A couple seconds later, Carol emerged in my doorway. I smiled from my spot on the floor and rolled to my side; trying to get up. Grunting and groaning I tried to push myself up, but my limbs felt like jelly. "Jen? What the hell happened?!" Carol exclaimed and rushed my side, pulling me up gently. I panted, "I have no idea. One minute I was fine, the next my guts were boiling 'n my bones were crackin'." "What from?" Carol mused and set me down on the couch. She hustled off into the kitchen. She returned two minutes later with an ice pack and a wet cloth, "Here." I put the ice pack behind my back and placed the cool wet cloth on my forehead, "So, how are you doing?" Carol scoffed, "You just went through unexplainable pain and you're asking me if I'm fine?" I looked around the room, "Well I thought we were past that. We established I went through pain, you got me and ice pack and now we've moved on." "I swear, you aren't human," she sighed. My eyes narrowed, "I don't think I am anymore." She paused, "What do you mean?" "I think I was infused with Mar'Vell's energy during the blast caused by the power core," I stated my theory. I removed the wet cloth from my head and proceeded to stand and pace. Carol gave me a confused look. I continued, "And I think you were too. You're injuries were far worse when we arrived at that hospital. And now you're pretty much doing everything you did before this whole Kree sentry incident." She sat back into the couch, stunned. "I was severely burned on my right arm, but there's no evidence from the blast," I pulled up my sleeve to show pristine skin; no scar tissue. She sat mouth agape, "What does that mean?" I sat next to her, "I don't know, but I think our lives are going to change a lot now." She nodded in agreement, "Well, I just stopped by to see how you were faring after the accident." I snorted, "As well as you." She chuckled, "It would seem so. Let's go out for dinner, I'm starving." I agreed,"Sure, so long as you don't call it a date." She scoffed, "Oh, Jen." I shrugged and help up my hands, "What?" She rolled her eyes and walked out of my apartment. I grabbed my keys and a jacket after slipping the ice pack into the freezer. I ran after her. Three hours later, Carol dropped me off at my home. I laughed at a comment she said before jumping out of her car, "I'll see you around, Carol." "Yes you will. Listen, if anything out of the ordinary happens to you, you be sure to let me know so I can expect it," she pointed a slender finger at me. "Ditto," I replied and shut the car door. She pulled away from the building as I headed inside. Once inside my apartment I fixed myself some popcorn and settled into bed to watch a movie. I woke up cold. I rolled my neck and glanced around the room. Ice was creeping up the windows, snow blew fiercely outside. My eyes narrowed; something wasn't right. I stood slowly, pulling the blanket with me. I wrapped it tightly around my shoulders as I walked cautiously towards the window. I pushed the drapes aside and gasped. Outside, large ice monsters with sharp claws and teeth terrorized the people trying to find cover. I scowled, "What is this?" Throwing the blanket aside I pulled on my boots and a jacket, I was going to figure out what was going on. I stomped outside and was instantly smacked in the face with bone chilling winds. My eyes watered from the chilling winds as I trudged on. I wasn't sure where to go, but I knew I couldn't sit at home. Up ahead I watched an ice creature pick up a little girl in its claws; her mother screamed and reached for her daughter. "Oh, no you don't!" I growled and sprinted towards it. It turned its large reptile head and screeched. I ducked as it swung its other paw and weaved in between its legs. It watched me with sharp eyes. Barely breathing, I jumped onto its leg and began the treacherous climb. It moved and danced around, trying to flick me off its limb. I squeezed my eyes shut tight as the gross feeling of motion sickness rocked my stomach. My lungs stopped working as I panted for air. I gagged, "Stop moving!" Suddenly, my illness ceased. My stomach settled and I could breath evenly. I leered, "Bingo." I jumped and grabbed a chunk of uneven ice by the creature's waist. It smacked me in the back like I was a fly. My head bounced off its leg, a headache loomed in the back of my eyes. I swore as I hopped to avoid being swatted again. I climbed up the creature's stomach and onto its chest. It screamed in rage at my persistence, I was nearly there. I finally crawled onto the creature's face and with a power I didn't know I possessed, I punched my fist through its eye. It squealed and reeled backwards. I jumped back and raced towards the girl in its fist. I kicked the icy digits until they broke away enough for me pull the girl from its grip. With her safely in my arms I glanced down to see the ground coming closer at an impeccably fast rate. It was falling down, face first. "Crap," I whispered and looked around frantically for a way out of my current predicament. I had mere meters. Swearing, I pulled the girl into my chest with her face my shirt, "Hold on." I squeezed her tight and braced myself to take the blow. Seconds passed, and then the monster's icy body shattered around me as my knees rattled from the crash. The girl screamed and I swallowed a deep breath of freezing air. Her mother raced over to us wailing and screaming bloody murder. "What did you do to my baby girl?! You hurt her arm! You monster, what were you thinking?" she bellowed. She ripped her daughter roughly from my arms, her eyes wide with shock. I glared at the woman, "I just saved your daughter's life! That's what I did!" "Stay away from me and my girl," she spat and ushered the traumatized kid away. My shoulders sagged, I was trying to help! Is that really how Earth's people had become? Mar'Vell might as well have let that bomb blow us all away. A whisper of a shadow swooped down towards me, I squeaked and ducked. It soared over my head, narrowly missing and cackled. I looked around frantically for a weapon of some kind. I spotted an abandoned construction site across the snowy street. I jumped to my feet and tried to run over, but my shoes slipped uselessly on the gathering ice. I growled and grabbed a light post. I pushed myself off the post and slid across the ice, ducking and twisting around to avoid the shadowy figures. Once I reached the site, I gripped the tailgate of a white truck to stabilize myself. I glanced around, "Yes!' I took a few precarious steps and picked up a crow bar. Bring it. I jumped and swung the bar like a bat, slicing straight through one of the hundreds of shadow creatures. It screamed and faded away, another crashing through its remains. I sliced through that one too. Sweat dripped from my forehead, but it froze instantly in the sub-zero temperatures. My face was literally covered in a sheet of ice as well as the rest of me. My clothes clung to my body like a second skin, cracking and ripping with my sudden movements. Suddenly, it stopped snowing. The sun came out shining in all her glory. The snow melted in seconds as the shadow creatures screeched and disappeared with a "poof". Sirens wailed, I dropped the crow bar and headed off towards my house, hoping to avoid confrontation with the authorities. Whenever someone got mixed up with them, it took forever to get away.

I stuck my hands in my pockets and picked up a jog, stepping over broken posts and cars. Glass was strewn across the streets; debris littered the sidewalks and roads.

I jumped over what resembled a smashed up car before finally coming to my building. That was one weird day.

Once in my apartment, wrapped up in warm towels, I called Carol.

"Hello?" she picked up after the third time I called.

I waved my free hand frantically in the air, "What the hell just happened?!"

"Calm down! I don't know!" she defended. I heard rustling on the other end of the phone.

"You don't know?! I almost died, and you don't know why? I saved a kid and was yelled at by her mother, and you don't know why?!" I shouted exasperated.

"Calm down, Jen! I'm trying to figure it out," she cried.

"You want me to calm down?!" I had reached my peak, my heart raced as blood pounded in my ears.

"Jen! Seriously, you need to calm yourself before you have a nervous breakdown!" Carol yelled into the phone.

I began to hyperventilate, "Calm down?!"

"Yes!" she insisted.

"I'll call you back," I snapped and hung up on her.

"What the hell was that?!" I screamed at myself, trying to decipher why giant ice monsters had been terrorizing the streets. I don't know what had gotten into me, but I couldn't seem to calm myself down.

I stopped pacing, my hands shook, "The communicator!"

I ripped around my apartment, searching for the pants I wore on the day I came home. I threw couch cushions across the room, my undergarments were treated the same. "Where is it?"

I finally spotted it out of the corner of my eye, sitting across the apartment on the kitchen table. I leaped over the back of the couch with my arms outstretched. I grabbed the communicator off the table and pressed the blue button.

Seconds passed; nothing.

I smacked the device, "C'mon, work!"

I didn't want to hit the blue button again, what if it ended the call?

What if it never made the call in the first place?

What if it was faulty?

What if he didn't give me a communicator?

What if-

"Hello? Jenny?" Mar'Vell's large blue and white form popped up from the communicator, his entire body was a holographic image.

"Oh, thank god!" I sighed and set the device on the floor so I could more or less be eye level with him; he was a big guy.

"Jenny?" he asked again, he looked behind him at something, "what's going on? Why are your vitals so erratic?

"Well, these things started attac-" I paused, "you know my vitals?"

"I'll explain later, but you need to relax," his face contorted.

I panted, "I know. Anyway, these icy things started attacking when it started snowing and so I went to help and they beat me up and saved a kid and her mom got mad then they turned to shadow and then the sun came back out and everything disappeared!"

"Woah, woah. Slow down, Jen. Icy things?" he asked, lost.

I nodded vigorously, how could he see me?

"It was snowing in New York?"

I nodded vigorously, "Yeah, and I have no idea why. Nobody does!"

"Easy Jen, seriously, relax. You're starting to worry me," he said as he looked behind him again. This time I heard him say a few words in an entirely different unintelligible language.

I sat down in a kitchen chair and took deep breaths, my hands stopped shaking but my legs still felt like wet noodles.

"Good, thank you Jen," Mar'Vell said as he turned back to face me. "Now, please explain again in full detail."

So, I told him everything that had just happened to me, including the phone call to Carol.

"Well, I don't know what to tell you," he responded.

I stared at his image pleadingly, "Please tell me you knew what they were?"

He sighed, "Then I'd be lying. I haven't the slightest clue, but I'll try to figure out what it was. We picked up a major temperature around the entire globe. We don't even have anything in the records like this. The closest was Delta Theta, and that was a result of a mass cooling device. Even that didn't have this signature."

My shoulders dropped, the adrenaline from the whole incident faded, "I see."

"I am truly sorry, but I don't know."

I nodded. In an attempt to change the subject, I stood, "So, what's new?"