Achoo!
Daisy, soaked from head to toe as she held an alien spacecraft overhead with both hands, sneezed. She took one hand off to rub her nose, her face full of confusion.
When she held the hammer, she had the physical constitution of an Asgardian. By all rights, she should not have caught a cold. All she had done tonight was dive beneath a reservoir and haul out a spaceship. So why had she sneezed?
Was someone talking behind her back?
But that made no sense either. She had smashed a few aliens to death recently, but their families should not have known about it.
She slowly descended beside the reservoir, twisting the heavy cloak behind her to wring it out. Water splashed onto the dead leaves on the ground as she looked up at the moon again.
"How strange. Could Caroline be badmouthing me to Han?" Her mouth twisted to one side, then she shook her head and muttered, "No. If that were the case, Cosmo would definitely have told me."
In an apartment in Queens, New York City, a large dog lying in a Rocket-shaped doghouse suddenly sneezed. It opened its eyes in confusion and looked around. Finding nothing wrong, it lay back down.
It must be that dead-duck Howard badmouthing me.
As it thought that, some animal elsewhere sneezed as well.
Back at the reservoir, Daisy had gotten nowhere with her thoughts and decided not to overthink it. She removed Mjolnir and held it upside down in her hand, walked to the spaceship, and gently tapped the outside of the cockpit with the hammer's handle.
"Is anyone inside still alive?"
She listened carefully. When her question in English received no answer, she switched to Shi'ar and asked the same question again.
The Shi'ar Empire was one of