Yon-Rogg could still hear the Imperial cruiser's communications officer repeatedly calling him.
But here, on an unnamed snowy plain somewhere on Earth, the commander of the Kree Empire's Starforce still hadn't recovered from the sight before him.
He stared fixedly at the naked human pilot in the crater, the furrows on his brow twisting and deepening.
After a long moment, he reached behind his waist, pulled out a palm-sized, half-spherical device, and tossed it toward Carol Danvers, whose entire body was still flashing with light.
"Are you kidding me? A common carbon-based life-form with the lowest threat rating goes through a single energy-engine explosion and—compared to the evolutionary path our Kree have been blocked from for thousands of years, it's an absolute joke!"
The black metal hemisphere split into eight long, flat legs like a spider's, which swiftly extended and bound Carol from head to toe. It then radiated a membrane-like energy field that enveloped her body, improving her extremely unstable condition, which had been erupting with electrical arcs.
"...Commander! Commander Yon-Rogg, please respond! Commander Yon-Rogg, please respond! Atlas and Bron-Char have lost contact. Awaiting further combat orders. Kzzzt... Great Kree, could it be that Lord Yon-Rogg has also—"
"Minn-Erva, don't panic!"
Yon-Rogg tapped the Starforce insignia on his armored chest. A helmet rose and covered the upper half of his face. As he barked a stern reply to the mothership's communications officer, he bent down, picked up the still-unconscious human pilot with one hand, and strode toward his Glorious Fighter.
"...Our mission's primary objective is to retrieve the Tesseract. Send all remaining team members to search for and support Captain Mar-Vell. As for the Earthlings who dared to destroy our fighter—"
Bang!
After casually tossing Carol onto the rear seat of the fighter's cockpit, Yon-Rogg paused, climbed into the