BIOGRAPHY - page 4
Mar-Vell worked as slowly as he dared on the projector without risking the Avengers' lives. He found an unlikely ally in Princess Anelle, the compassionate only child of Emperor Dorrek. As they conspired against her father, Mar-Vell and Anelle found time alone together and (unknown to Mar-Vell) conceived a child. As they prepared to move against Dorrek, Mar-Vell and Anelle offered to free Super-Skrull as well. Merely a soldier at heart, Super-Skrull was unwilling to play revolutionary. He saluted Captain Marvel as a man of honor and bravery, however, and posed as Mar-Vell to help their ruse. [Young Avengers (1st series) #10-11]
When the time came, Dorrek discovered the Captain Marvel he thought was working diligently before him was only a hologram cast by the Omni-Wave, and the real Mar-Vell had freed 
Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. As the Avengers held off the guards, Captain Marvel attempted to use the Omni-Wave to contact Rick Jones, and through him guide the rest of the Avengers to the Skrull throneworld. Instead, their unique connection caused the Omni-Wave to draw Rick back into the Negative Zone. [Avengers (1st series) #96]
Which had been the point all along. The strategies and schemes of Mar-Vell, the Avengers, Ronan and Dorrek had only been small parts in the larger game being played by the Kree Supreme Intelligence. The Intelligence knew the Kree and Skrull races were at an evolutionary dead end, locked in their current state of being and destined never to grow beyond it. Humanity, on the other hand, had an evolutionary destiny well beyond anything else seen in the galaxies. To harness this "Destiny Force" on behalf of the Kree, the Supreme Intelligence had arranged the circumstances that first led Captain Marvel into the Negative Zone and facilitated his bond with the Earth boy Rick Jones that followed. This stimulation would catalyze Rick's latent potential, more so than other humans. All it took was the final effect of the Omni-Wave to trigger Rick's Destiny Force.
With his power unleashed, Rick ended the Kree-Skull War in a flash. He summoned heroes from out of the past to fight the Kree and Ronan on Hala in his defense. He revealed H. Warren Craddock on Earth as a Skrull agitator in disguise, leading to Craddock's death. He finally immobilized two entire armadas across three galaxies with the power of his mind. However, all this was ultimately too much, too fast for Rick's new abilities, and he collapsed under the strain. The Supreme Intelligence teleported Captain Marvel and the Avengers to Hala to address Rick's condition. Supremor informed Mar-Vell it was possible to save the boy's life by bonding his lifeforce to Rick's, but the sacrifice likely meant Mar-Vell would cease to exist. Brooding for a 
moment about what might have been with Anelle, and knowing he was certainly fulfilling the Supreme Intelligence's own agenda in some way, Captain Marvel ultimately allowed Supremor to do his work. Mar-Vell stepped into Rick's body, seemingly disappearing in the process. Rick Jones awakened, healthy once more but with his Destiny Force in remission for the time being. However, of Captain Marvel, there was no sign. [Avengers (1st series) #97]
Rick Jones spent the next few weeks in the Avengers' company, trying to become a member of the team again. Still, with the Destiny Force gone, he was only a well-trained teenager. Captain America finally insisted Rick stay behind instead of joining the Avengers on a mission, shooing his former partner away again. [Avengers (1st series) #98-103] The rejection hurt Rick deeply and, as it had in the past, his strong emotions proved a catalyst to something greater. Mar-Vell appeared before Rick, a specter trying to warn him about the precarious nature of their condition. Mar-Vell wanted Rick to find a way to release him, but Rick was too selfish and self-absorbed to commit to sharing his life with someone again.
Soon, it wasn't his choice to make. While playing guitar with his girlfriend Lou-Ann, Rick collapsed from the power building up inside of him. Mar-Vell appeared to warn him again that his body wasn't meant to contain the energy of both men in one form. Lou-Ann brought Rick to her uncle, Professor Benjamin Savannah, who studied Rick's condition and came up with a solution. Savannah bombarded Rick's body with photon energy, triggering his dramatic transformation into 
Captain Marvel. This purged Rick of the energy build-up, but the problem began again when Mar-Vell reverted back to Rick's form. Rick was unable to regulate his changes properly without help, but a battle with Megaton the Nuclear Man brought him back to a Kree outpost and a new set of Nega Bands. With the Nega Bands to act once again as a conduit for his and Mar-Vell's connection, Rick and Captain Marvel were restored to their earlier relationship, switching out between Earth and the Negative Zone via the bands. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #22-23]
Although the photonic treatments increased his powers, Captain Marvel soon discovered they were also reliant upon solar energy, meaning he was weaker at night when away from direct sunlight. It was during one night that Mar-Vell and Rick paid a visit to Professor Savannah to follow up on their treatment, only to discover Savannah had been murdered. Rick was arrested at the scene by a police officer, and Lou-Ann startlingly identified him as the shooter who killed her uncle.
At the police station, Rick exchanged places with Mar-Vell, who was confronted by many of his past foes, appearing and disappearing seemingly out of nowhere. When Captain Marvel finally collapsed from the ordeal, the Super-Skrull and his fellow Skrull Skragg revealed themselves. Skragg congratulated himself for psychologically breaking his opponent, using Savannah's death, Lou-Ann's betrayal and the onslaught of foes (thanks to Super-Skrull's shape-changing and invisibility) to drive Mar-Vell to madness. On behalf of their masterlord, Thanos, the Skrulls attempted to probe the mind of Rick Jones, only to discover Rick was awake and alert. Subtle irregularities in the Skrulls' play-acting had alerted the heroic double team to the ruse, and Captain Marvel was still in fighting form. Mar-Vell and the Super-Skrull fought to a standstill before the Skrulls escaped, having failed to extract the knowledge they desired. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #25]
Rick and Mar-Vell learned Lou-Ann was under the influence of another of Thanos' minions, the Controller, and tracked his base to a deserted building. In Skragg's next gamut, he had Super-Skrull lure the Thing to their headquarters to face Mar-Vell. The onslaught of recent opponents made Captain Marvel believe he was wise to the Skrulls' tricks and he thought Ben Grimm was just the Super-Skrull in disguise. By paralyzing Thing's vocal chords, the Skrulls tried to position Captain Marvel into murdering an innocent to weaken his resolve. Although Captain Marvel defeated the Thing, he chose not to kill and so Skragg failed again. Thanos executed his minion by turning him to lifeless stone, before revealing himself to his new nemesis. Along with Mistress Death and Super-Skrull, Thanos teleported Captain Marvel to his conquered homeworld, the Eternal colony on Saturn's moon of Titan. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #26]
On Titan, Thanos forced Rick Jones to emerge from Mar-Vell and revealed the purpose of his mind probe. The Supreme Intelligence had seen fit to hide the location of the Cosmic Cube in the recesses of Rick's subconscious so that it could one day be retrieved by the Kree. Instead, Thanos would claim the Cube for his own malevolent purposes. Thanos left to retrieve the Cosmic 
Cube, leaving Super-Skrull in charge. Rick was met by Mentor and Eros (Thanos' father and brother, respectively) who freed him and allowed Captain Marvel to resurface. Mar-Vell and the Eternals of Titan stormed the ISAAC computer center where Thanos stored the information derived from Rick's mind. After a triumphant battle with Super-Skrull, Captain Marvel destroyed the recording and then returned to Earth to pursue Thanos. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #27]
Captain Marvel made contact with the Avengers, who were attempting to free Lou-Ann from the Controller's influence at Rick's request. The Controller stormed the mansion himself, however, defeating each of the Avengers present one at a time before facing Mar-Vell. Empowered by Thanos' enhancement to his technology, Controller pulled down two stories of the mansion on top on Captain Marvel before escaping with Lou-Ann. To make matters worse, Mar-Vell was spirited away during the collapse to an unknown time and place, leaving Rick buried alive in the wreckage. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #28]
Mar-Vell found himself in the presence of Eon, an impossibly old cosmic being who wished to aid him against Thanos. The Titan Kronos, grandfather of Thanos, had risen to become a cosmic being and foresaw the tyranny of his descendant. Kronos recognized that only cosmic awareness could defeat the Cosmic Cube, and charged Eon with bestowing that power on Mar-Vell when the time was right. In order to embrace the gift Eon offered him, though, Mar-Vell needed to abandon the life of the Kree warrior and soldier, and become a protector of life in the cosmos.
Eon led Mar-Vell to confront the horrors of war and combat, the pointlessness of conflicts he had personally engaged in previously. Eon highlighted the death of Una, a stray casualty in the Kree conflict with the Aakon that served no purpose but to fuel Mar-Vell's desire for revenge against Yon-Rogg, ensuring more conflict. Mar-Vell came to accept Eon's words and abandoned the title of warrior. Instead, he assumed a new role in life as Captain Marvel, chosen Protector of the Universe. With that, Mar-Vell received the gift of cosmic awareness, a portion of Eon's own omniscient knowledge that expanded his consciousness and readied him for the trials to come. [Captain Marvel (1st series) #29]