New York was in crisis.

It wasn't Mr'vl's job to help. She was supposed to blend in and examine this world, with their primitive spaceflight and alarmingly high concentration of genetic anomalies. But she couldn't stand by and watch as the apes died needlessly, either, when she could help them. That's what got her into trouble in the first place.

Confident that her enhanced Skrull physiology would protect her from whatever noxious gas was emanating from below ground, Mr'vl flew into the cloud to find its source.