By Preeti Chhibber Illustrated by James Lancett Scholastic Inc. © 2020 MARVEL All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Inc., Publishers since 1920. scholastic and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Inc., Attention: Permissions Department, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. ISBN 978-1-338-58725-8 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 21 22 23 24 Printed in the U.S.A. 23 First printing 2020 Book design by Katie Fitch HERO CARD #148 powers NAME: KAMALA KHAN, AKA MS. MARVEL POWERS: Embiggening! Disembiggening! Stretching! Shape-shifting! ms. marvel HERO CARD #477 powers NAME: MILES MORALES, AKA ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN POWERS: Wall-crawling, expo- nential strength, electric shocks, being invisible, but not being creepy like a spider, that is for sure. spider-man HERO CARD #091 powers NAME: DOREEN GREEN, AKA SQUIRREL GIRL POWERS: Powers of a squirrel and (more importantly) powers of a girl. Prehensile tail! Super good at jumping! A+ empathy! Squirrel girl and tippy-toe HERO CARD #065 powers NAME: LOCKJAW POWERS: Appearing out of nowhere and scaring the junk out of the people he is with. lockjaw 5 CHAPTER 1 At home in Jersey City, Kamala Khan unwinds in her private blog . EmbiggenFeels.moomblr.private.com Ups and Ups of that Super Hero Life Yesterday was great! Beat out a super villain? EARLIER THAT EVENING . Tinkerer, what do you want?! For my toys to be sold in all the Jersey City corner stores!!!! I seek . DISTRIBUTION!!! I have to be honest. These . aren’t HOW great, Tinkerer. DARE— Fair enough. 5 EmbiggenFeels.moomblr.private.com PRIVATE ENCRYPTED POST Okay . maybe not a super villain, but a bad dude! And I beat him! And we don’t need to discuss what happened on the way home, that was a fluke. ANYWAY, I started a new fic and it is all ready to get uploaded!! EmbiggenFeels.moomblr.com Chapter 1 School’s Out for . EVIL By: Slothbaby Author’s Note: This is going to be a short one, but I got this idea of Captain Marvel and Valkyrie going to school together and you know I had to write it down for you all. Read & review, please! Makes my inbox happy! (^o^)V “Hey, Carol, you coming to practice after school?” Carol Danvers, AKA Captain Marvel, looked up from opening her locker to find none other than her best friend, Val, looking back at her. 6 7 EmbiggenFeels.moomblr.com “Val, uh . .” How was she going to get out of this? She had secret fight training at S.H.I.E.L.D. after school, but Director Fury had told her no one was allowed to know. “I . uh.” Her friend kept looking up at her expectantly. “What, do you have a HOT DATE or something?” Val waggled her eyebrows, and Carol bit back a laugh. “Yes! I have a HOT DATE, yep. That’s what it is. A hot date. For sure.” She didn’t like lying to Val, but Director Fury had said that tonight Carol was going to train with someone really special. “Well, practice is early because I got places to be, too. So as long as your date’s not till later?” “Ah, right after school, Val. Sorry!” Carol really needed to come up with a reason to quit the basketball team. She couldn’t do both! Even if it meant giving up her All-American title; she had another title that meant more. 7 0N THE 0THER SIDE 0F THE HUDS0N RIVER, KAMALA Read it out loud! I want HAS A FAN ENJOYING HER LATEST STORY . to know what happens! * Okay, okay.* *Translated from squirrel-ese “School’s Out for EVIL”—dun, dun, dun . AND IN THE DORMS AT BROOKLYN VISIONS ACADEMY . The Tinkerer’s out of order in Miles! Jersey" We’re gonna be late for study group, dude. Right behind you, Ganke. Just watching this wild video from Jersey! . THE CITIZENS OF NEW JERSEY WATCHED—AND DODGED—AS THE TWO FOUGHT! 8 9 JERSEY CITY’S MYSTERIOUS NEW SUPER HERO MS. MARVEL WAS IN TROUBLE EARLIER THIS EVENING. AFTER FACING OFF WITH AND DEFEATING THE TINKERER, MS. MARVEL WAS SHOCKED . BY THE SHOCKER! THE CITIZENS OF NEW JERSEY WATCHED—AND DODGED—AS THE TWO FOUGHT! 9 THE SHOCKER PULLED NO PUNCHES, AND JERSEY CITY WAS FEELING IT! BUT HAVE NO FEAR, JERSEYITES, MS. MARVEL CAME THROUGH. OVER JUST AS QUICKLY AS IT STARTED, THE BATTLE LEFT NEWARK AVENUE A LITTLE WORSE FOR WEAR. BUT THANKFULLY, OUR NEW HERO GOT THE SHOCKER BACK WHERE HE BELONGS! BEHIND BARS! 11 10 Kamala! No phones at the table! Mom, it’s Bruno!!! We have a project we have to talk about! I know you two are joined at the hip, but no phones at dinner! 11 BRUNO: Saw the fight with that yellow suited dork today—dang! U gotta watch out, K KAMALA: ? I did it! I beat him tho? BRUNO: But the damage ring KAMALA: It wasn’t TOO bad BRUNO: but what about next time? Maybe there could be more than one Jersey City super hero? NYC has a gajillion KAMALA: U think I can’t do it? BRUNO: Help can’t hurt?? Y not have a backup for when we’re in class? KAMALA: Ughhhhhhh 13 EmbiggenFeels.moomblr.private.com PRIVATE ENCRYPTED POST Finally, back into the safety of the best place in the world: my bed. I can’t believe that Bruno thinks I can’t be a good super hero on my own. How dare he. It’s not like you see Spider-Man trading shifts with someone else! It’s so rude. Ugh. UGH. I’ve totes got this. I took down two bad guys today all on my own and only broke, like, one part of one building. It’s not like anyone got hurt! That feels like a big win! I know I can do it. And I know that Bruno’s just looking out for me, but it feels pretty blergh that my best friend thinks I’m not good enough to do this stuff on my own. SIGH. I just have to remember how Captain Marvel does it! 13 15 ORDER YOUR COPY! ™.