History
Molly Hayes was among the heroes who survived the cataclysm that scorched the Earth and went underground to escape the lethal radiation. Unlike many others, she was able to venture outside thanks to her superhuman durability. In 2051 A.D. the survivors still living in an underground faclity located under New York City came under attack from mutated radioactive monster who was no match even for their combined powers and had killed several of them, scarring Molly. Lacking any other way to deal with it the survivors, at the great risk to them, managed to contact Captain Marvel who was in deep space and believed that everyone on Earth had died. Overjoyed to find some of her friends and their children still alive, Carol was able to come up with a way for her and the others to defeat and kill the creature. She then learned about what prevented the resettling of the Earth's surface and sacrificed herself to save the humanity by restarting the Sun and making the surface habitable again.[1]
By the following year, the survivors had started regaining the surface. They also learned of the existence of other groups of survivors, namely one led by Ove. After Molly's group came across a time-displaced younger Captain Marvel, plucked from the timeline of Earth-616 due to the machinations of Ove,[2] he sent a mind-controlled Luke Cage to deliver an invite to his haven, New Atlantis. Molly was one of the survivors tasked by Captain Marvel with staying at their quarters in case the invitation was meant to lure away the survivors from their base.[3] Following Ove's departure to the past and the liberation of New Atlantis, the rest of the survivors moved there and Captain Marvel was sent back to her time.[4]