Medusalith Amaquelin (Earth-616)/Expanded History

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==Preface==
A number the incidents recounting Medusa's life are cited to have occurred in specific decades relative to the era of publication. However, it should be noted that the so-called "modern era" of the Earth-616 universe operates on a Sliding Timescale. As such these events could not have occurred in the times they appeared due to the fact that it would drastically age the character. 
As Inhumans age much slower than humans some elements of her life prior to the birth of the Fantastic Four may be tied to specific dates. However as of this writing there are few specific examples of this, and as such most events in her life prior to the birth of the Fantastic Four should be considered as happening relative to a number of years prior to the beginning of the Modern Age than a specific date unless otherwise specified.
==Early life==
===Childhood===
Medusalith Amaquelin is a member of the Inhumans an offshoot of humanity that was genetically altered by the Kree centuries ago. The Inhumans kept themselves hidden from humanity in their city known as Attilan (also known as the Great Refuge) out of fear for centuries, developing a high technological society with a focus on genetics. With the discovery of the Terrigen Mist, the Inhumans would expose themselves it in order to gain fantastic abilities. She was the daughter of Quelin and Ambur, members of the House of Agon, the royal family of the Inhumans. Medusa and her younger sister Crystal were cousins to Black Bolt, his brother Maximus and their cousins Gorgon, Karnak and Triton.The names of Medusa's parents were identified in , the relation between her and Crystal in and her relation to Black Bolt, Maximus, Triton, Gorgon and Karnak in . As an infant, Medusa was subjected to the Terrigen Mists which allowed her hair to become malleable to her mental commands. Medusa was betrothed to marry Black Bolt, who was slated to succeed the Inhuman throne, but due to Black Bolt's powerfully destructive voice, he was isolated from society for many years. 
Medusa was a resourceful and calculating child from the first. During her youth she accepted a challenge by Maximus to see who could sneak into the royal throne room and sit upon the Inhuman throne without getting getting stopped by their parents. Medusa allowed herself to be caught sneaking around by her parents. Medusa then told them the game that they were playing and while Quelin and Ambur stopped Maximus, Karnak and Crystal dead in their path, Medusa quietly sat upon the throne winning the competition. 
===Adolescence===
Years later on Black Bolt's 19th birthday, his father Agon allowed his son to finally leave isolation now that he had found the discipline to never speak. It was here that Medusa was reunited with Black Bolt. When Maximus attempted to force his brother to speak to cause untold destruction in the hopes he could eventually claim the Inhuman throne, Medusa, Gorgon and Karnak stopped him. Black Bolt's voice caused the untimely death of his parents, and worsened his brother's madness after his brother nearly betrayed their people to the Kree. 
The Unspoken, their king, expressed interest in Medusa as a future Queen. She was also propositioned by Kadlec the Seeker, whose advances she violently rebuffed. He then accused her of being a traitor. She escaped with her cousins to New York. During that time, she gained sympathy for Maximus. They returned to Attilan to help put down the revolt of the Alpha Primitives.
 
Young and headstrong, when the young Inhuman royals later learned that their ruler had hidden the Slave Engine, the Inhumans most powerful weapon, in order to usher in an age of peace, they boldly confronted him. This led to a battle between the king and Black Bolt. Because he was weakened from hiding the engine the king was easily defeated in combat by Black Bolt. Medusa then witnessed as Black Bolt to the Himalayan Mountains. Black Bolt disposed the king by uttering his name, devastating him in a powerful sonic blast and leaving him for dead. This shameful chapter in Inhuman history was then covered up, the former ruler referred to only as the "Unspoken". However this event would have far reaching consequences many years in the future. 
Black Bolt soon became ruler of the Inhumans. Under Black Bolt's rule, the Inhuman empire continued on secretly hidden from the eyes of humanity, the Inhumans developing a level of xenophobia toward the humans of the outside world. By the 1950s the advancement of the human race threatened to expose the hidden land of Attilan. This prompted Black Bolt to venture out and seek a new home for his people. Along the way he met another advanced offshoot of humanity, the Eternals. Eventually a new home was located in the Himalayan Mountains. Medusa and the rest of the Inhumans then assisted in moving their domain there with some help from the Eternals. 
===Amnesia===
Due to his crimes against society, Maximus was locked away for years but he eventually used his mental powers to coerce three of the Alpha Primitives slave class. He compelled them to expose themselves to the Terrigen Mists transforming them into an entity known as the Trikon. The Trikon then compelled the Alpha Primitives to revolt against their suppressors. During the ensuing uprising, Medusa attempted to confront the Trikon on a sky sled, but it blasted her ship causing her to crash somewhere outside of the Great Refuge. The crash had stricken Medusa with amnesia and she wandered away from the ensuing battle which was eventually ended, but with Maximus taking control of the Inhuman throne and exiling his cousins. Medusa wandered for years eventually finding herself in Europe where she experience first hand the prejudices of the human race. After being chased by an angry mob in Paris, France, Medusa found refuge in the home of a jewel thief named Paul Dumas. Dumas took advantage of Medusa's amnesia to convince her into joining him in his criminal endeavors, teaching her everything he knew about the art of cat burglary. The pair capitalized on Medusa's ability to manipulate her hair in order to make their thefts more covert. 
Over the next two years the pair made it rich, but Paul's constant romantic advances were spurred by Medusa and ultimately she became uncomfortable enough to try and break off their partnership. Embittered by this turn of events, Dumas used his considerable social status to bring the police to his home to try and apprehend Medusa. Sure enough when the police arrived, Medusa fled Paul's home. As she fled, Medusa was confronted by her cousin Gorgon who was seeking her out in an attempt to bring the exiled Inhuman royal family back to Attilan upon orders from Maximus. Not remembering who he was, Medusa fled from Gorgon. Months later Medusa managed to find a relatively anonymous dwelling located on a deserted island in the Mediterranean Sea. 
==Modern Age==
===Frightful Four===
Medusa's life of solitude would not last long, as her presence on the island became known and she frequently had to defend herself from intruders. Her existence was discovered by Bentley Wittman, the criminal known as the Wizard. Wittman was seeking to gather a group of super-powered individuals as a counter-force to battle his foes the heroic Fantastic Four. The Wizard managed to convince Medusa into joining him in this endeavor. Along side the Sandman and Paste-Pot Pete she was a premiere member of Wittman's Frightful Four. Unknown to Medusa at the time, the Wizard managed to plant a device on the base of her neck that continued to cloud her lost memories in an attempt to make her more complaint. The Frightful Four attacked the Fantastic Four at their Baxter Building headquarters following an engagement party for their leader Mister Fantastic and his fiancee the Invisible Girl. During the surprise attack the Frightful Four incapacitated Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Girl and the Thing. However their plan was upset when the Thing's girlfriend Alicia Masters was able to contact the Human Torch. The Torch managed to free his comrades and the heroic foursome chased after their villainous counterparts. Despite their best efforts, the Fantastic Four were unable to capture their foes who managed to escape when the Wizard set their escape ship to explode, allowing them to flee in the ensuing blast. The Frightful Four were later pulled forward in time by Aron the Rogue Watcher to battle the future Fantastic Four and their allies Fantastic Force. When Aron's plot to destroy the universe to recreate his own reality was stopped, Dragon Man was returned to his appropriate time and place with no memory of what happened. 
The Frightful Four later regrouped and went about another scheme to destroy their foes. Paste-Pot Pete changed his name to the Trapster. With each member charged with capturing one part of the Fantastic Four, Medusa was easily able to ambush and capture the Invisible Girl during an appointment at her hair salon. The Fantastic Four were then taken to an abandoned island where they were left to be destroyed by the Wizard's Q-Bomb. Medusa and the others fled the island as the bomb went off, seemingly destroying their foes. The Frightful Four briefly returned to the Baxter Building to ensure that the Fantastic Four were destroyed, only to flee the area upon the arrival of the Asgardian warrior known as Balder the Brave upon the building, whom they mistook for the Human Torch. : Balder the Brave was dispatched to Earth to protect his friend Thor's lover Jane Foster from the Enchantress and Executioner while Thor was busy participating in the so-called "Trial of the Gods". 
Eventually the Frightful Four learned that the Fantastic Four had survived their last encounter when the Wizard managed to capture the Thing shortly after the man-monster quit the Fantastic Four. Medusa was present when the Wizard exposed the Thing to his ID Machine, turning the Thing into a loyal thrall. When the Fantastic Four came for their comrade, Medusa and the others were able to defeat their foes again thanks to the added strength of the Thing. : The Fantastic Four survived the Q-Bomb explosion but were stripped of their powers as revealed at the end of . The Thing quit the Fantastic Four when Mister Fantastic used their his Energizer device to restore their powers while battling Doctor Doom in When the Fantastic Four broke free and fought back, Medusa fought against the team once more. This time Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Girl managed to flee with the Thing after he was knocked out in battle. However this was not a complete loss as the Frightful Four managed to capture the Human Torch. They then exposed the Torch to the ID Machine, unaware that it was sabotaged by the Invisible Girl and the Torch was only pretending to be loyal to the Frightful Four. : The sabotage to the ID Machine and the Human Torch's duplicity was not revealed until 
The Torch's ruse was short lived after he failed to help the Frightful Four capture the escapees. Realizing that the ID Machine was tampered with they easily strong armed the Torch and took him prisoner. Medusa then joined her comrades in attacking the Baxter Building, but by this point Mister Fantastic had succeeded in restoring the Thing's personality. While the Fantastic Four managed to defeat the Wizard, Sandman and the Trapster. Meanwhile, Medusa managed to escape in the Wizard's anti-gravity ship. 
===Reunion===
 Medusa's ship crossed paths with one piloted by the mutant heroes known as the X-Men. Believing that the ship was in distress the X-Men brought it down leading to a brief battle with Medusa, who believed that the heroes were attacking her. However the battle was ended when the X-Men's leader Professor X theorized that Medusa might be a mutant and offered to try and restore her memories with his telepathic abilities. Professor X was only able to pull fragments from Medusa's mind, unaware of the device interfering with his mental probes. Medusa's time with the X-Men was cut short when the Wizard managed to track her down and attempted to bring her back into his fold. This led to a battle between the X-Men and the Wizard. During the battle the Professor realized that the Wizard had some form of control over Medusa. Finding the probe on the base of her neck, the Professor instructed his student Cyclops to destroy it with his optic blast. Finally free from the Wizard's control, Medusa left him in the hands of the X-Men to turn over to the authorities. 
With her memories not fully restored, Medusa discovered that Gorgon was after her once again and fled him once more. She sought help from her former foes the Fantastic Four, hiding in the back of the Human Torch's car. The Torch took Medusa to Devil's Lake for refuge but their arrival coincided with the revival of the android known as Dragon Man. While the Torch and Gorgon were busy fighting the Dragon Man, who sought to protect Medusa, she fled back into the city. This led to a three battle between Gorgon, the Fantastic Four and Dragon Man. Ultimately, Gorgon managed to abscond with Medusa leaving the Fantastic Four with the task of quelling the Dragon Man. : The Dragon Man was seemingly lost beneath Devil's Lake following a battle with the Fantastic Four in Medusa was brought back to a secret hiding place that the Inhuman Royal Family had built for themselves in Brooklyn while they were searching for her. It was this reunion that caused Medusa's memories to begin flooding back to her. Her reunion with her sister and cousins was interrupted when the Human Torch accidentally stumbled upon the Inhumans pursuing Crystal whom he found wandering in the streets. Thinking that the Torch was a member of the Inhumans after seeing his powers, his ruse was blown by Medusa. This led to a battle as the Inhumans were now being pursued by Maximus' agent the Seeker. The battle soon erupted when the rest of the Fantastic Four and Black Bolt arrived on the scene. 
The Inhumans deduced that the Seeker was after them when Triton went missing during the ensuing battle. Using Black Bolt's dog Lockjaw they fled the scene by teleporting back to the Great Refuge. There Medusa witnessed as Black Bolt fought through an army of Alpha Primitives in order to reclaim the Inhuman crown from Maximus. The Fantastic Four soon discovered and arrived at the Great Refuge and confronted Medusa and the others, Mister Fantastic pleading them to reveal themselves to humanity outside. However Maximus was not totally defeated as he intended to use his Atmo-Gun to wipe out the human race so the Inhumans could take over the entire world. Medusa then witnessed as Black Bolt destroyed the Atmo-Gun, saving the lives of every human on Earth. In one last ditch effort, Maximus scored a Pyrrhic victory by activating a device that surrounded Attilan with a "Negative Zone" barrier, forcing the Fantastic Four out while trapping the Inhumans within. : The Negative Zone barrier should not be confused with the similarly named antimater universe of the same name. Medusa consoled her sister Crystal as she had fallen in love with the Fantastic Four's Human Torch, while Black Bolt and Gorgon dealt with the Seeker and Maximus. With the Seeker dead and Maximus imprisoned once again, Medusa and Black Bolt rekindled their romance. 
===Freedom===
Finding themselves trapped behind the Negative Zone barrier, Medusa continued to try and console Crystal over the loss of Johnny Storm. She was on hand as Karnak tried to find a weakness in the barrier, but failed to produce results. Medusa and the others then began attempting to coax Maximus into revealing a means for them to escape, but they found that he was more insane than ever and was only interested in making toys than helping solve their dilemma. She then stood back helplessly as Black Bolt attempted to use his control of electrons trigger an Absorba-Bomb to destroy the barrier. This attempt also failed, and realizing that the Absorba-Bomb could destroy them all Black Bolt injured himself attempting to stop it. Medusa gave into her anger when Maximus still refused to reveal any secrets on how to destroy the barrier and she began to curse the day they ventured out into the outside world. As soon as Black Bolt began to recover, Maximus revealed the only means in which the barrier could be destroyed, also revealing to the others the secret of why Black Bolt never spoke. Medusa tried to stop Maximus from speaking, but it was too late and the secret was out: the only way to destroy the Negative Zone barrier was in the destructive power of Black Bolt's voice. Something that could possible destroy them all in the process. With no other choice left to them, Medusa and the other Inhumans sought shelter below the city while Black Bolt unleashed the awesome power of his voice. Although Black Bolt succeeded in destroying the barrier, Attilan was decimated in the process. In the aftermath of the battle the Ruling Council of the Inhumans decreed that Black Bolt and the rest of the Royal Family leave the Great Refuge until the city could be rebuilt to its former splendor. 
Medusa joined the rest of the royal family in their travels. They made a brief stop in Europe before a group of prejudiced villagers mistook them for witches and attacked, forcing them to defend themselves and leave. Medusa and the others soon found a new refuge before Black Bolt allowed Crystal to venture on her own to find the Human Torch. Their island hide away was soon invaded by soldiers of an unspecified country who sought to secretly deploy an "Atomic Curtain" on the island in direct contravention of NATO agreements. Medusa and the other Inhumans attacked the invaders, destroyed their weapon and sent them fleeing into the ocean. Medusa and the others soon had to deal with two invaders, the first being the costumed hero known as the Black Panther who legally purchased the Inhumans temporary island home. He battled it out with the Inhumans until they realized they had mutual allies in the Fantastic Four. When Black Bolt alerted them that the island was also being invaded by the Microverse tyrant known as the Psycho-Man, Medusa and the others worked together to invade the invader's secret hideout. They were soon joined by the Human Torch and the Thing. Medusa and the others soon fended off against the Psycho-Man's minions Live Wire, Ivan and Shell-Shock. While they were also held back by the Psycho-Man's Emoto-Casting Control-Box, Gorgon arrived and destroyed the device. However before the Inhumans and their allies could apprehend the Psycho-Man he fled back to his native Microverse. 
 When the villain known as Plantman encroached their island in his sub, Black Bolt sent Triton to investigate. Later when Triton was captured along with the Sub-Mariner, Medusa and the others attempted to rescue them. Despite their efforts, the Plantman managed to escape in the ocean. However, Triton and the Sub-Mariner managed to free themselves and stop the Plantman's schemes. Medusa was later sent into New York City to try and better relations between Inhumans and the rest of humanity. However this mission was interfered with by cosmetics promoter Montgomery Bliss who attempted to use Medusa to market his Heavenly Hairspray product. To this end he manipulated her into fighting the hero known as Spider-Man to drum up publicity. However when both realized they were being manipulated to fight each other for a product promotion Medusa ended the fight and return to her people. Medusa returned to Black Bolt, who was performing an experiment that could enable him to speak. However when this failed, Medusa went out into the world to reflect on this failure. She returned to Paris where the locals still persecuted her. She was later approached by her former comrades in the Frightful Four who asked her to rejoin the team. The Wizard convinced her to join them in a scheme to steal a supply of Quadranium-99 from a NATO base, telling her that it could enable Black Bolt to speak. However she soon learned that the Wizard was actually going to use it to power a new version of his ID Machine, and fought against her former comrades. Jumping from the Wizard's anti-gravity ship she was rescued from a fatal fall by the Black Bolt, and the pair returned the supply of Quadranium-99 to its rightful owners. 
===Return to Attilan===
Medusa and the other members of the Inhuman royal family were later captured by Maximus who had recently recaptured the throne of Attilan. By this point, Medusa's sister Crystal was asked to join the Fantastic Four to take the place of the Invisible Girl who had just discovered that she was pregnant. The group learned of the fate of Medusa and her family before being captured themselves. With no opposition, Maximus began preparing to unleash his massive Hypno-Gun to enslave the entire world. : the Invisible Girl discovered that she was pregnant in , the Fantastic Four asked Crystal to join their ranks in . Ultimately, Black Bolt freed himself and the other Inhumans while the Fantastic Four broke out of their prison. The pair then stormed the Hypno-Gun, destroying the device before Maximus could employ it. In the ensuing battle Maximus, and his loyal renegades managed to escape in a ship. Shortly thereafter, the Invisible Girl gave birth to her Franklin. The Frightful Four reformed not long after that, and learning that the group sought to find a nanny for Sue and Reed's newborn child, plotted to attack them while interviewing a candidate by the name of Agatha Harkness at her home in Whisper Hill. Apparently unaware that Medusa was now an ally of the Fantastic Four, they welcomed her back into their ranks. However Medusa merely joined to foil the Frightful Four's plans of harming her new found comrades. During the ensuing surprise attack, Medusa turned on her foes but she too was incapacitated along with the Fantastic Four. But the Frightful Four quickly learned that Agatha Harkness was not a merely defenseless old woman, but a powerful witch who easily trounced them with her magics. : the Invisible Girl gave birth to her and Mister Fantastic's son Franklin in .
Later Medusa came to Crystal and told her that she needed to return to Attilan at once. Despite the protests of the Human Torch, Crystal complied and returned home with her sister. : The reason for Medusa coming to get her sister Crystal was due to the fact that her powers could help heal the Black Bolt after a radiation accident, as revealed in Not long after their return home, Medusa had to help defend her kingdom from the Silver Surfer who was tricked into attacking the Great Refuge by Maximus. The Surfer was ultimately driven from the region. Apparently by this point the Inhumans had developed a working relationship with the spy agency known as SHIELD. Following their battle with the Silver Surfer, Medusa and Black Bolt paid a visit to the SHIELD hellicarrier to report their battle with the Silver Surfer to SHIELD director Nick Fury. Medusa was later tapper by the Valkyrie to join an all female team known as the Lady Liberators which included the female Avengers known as the Scarlet Witch, the Wasp as well as the former spy known as the Black Widow. the Valkyrie sold the women on joining her cause over apparent inequity between male and female super-heroes. Unknown to all the "Valkyrie" was really the Asgardian villaness known as the Enchantress. She tricked the Lady Liberators into battling the male Avengers who were participating in a Halloween parade in Rutland, Vermont at the time. The parade was also interrupted by the Masters of Evil. Ultimately, the female heroes uncovered the deception and the Enchantress and all their foes were defeated. After the battle was over, the Lady Liberators disbanded. 
All this time, Crystal and Gorgon were using their powers to help cure Black Bolt of injuries sustained during a radiation experiment. Eventually Crystal's unexplained absence caused the Human Torch to come seek her out in Attilan. After an ensuing battle that was broken up by both the Inhuman royal family and the Fantastic Four the truth was revealed. With Black Bolt now cured, Crystal was allowed to leave and was reunited with the Torch. Not long after this, the Fantastic Four's long time foe Doctor Doom was amassing a cache of powerful weapons. To this end he also stole the Helix of Randac from the Citadel of Science in Attilan. When this was discovered the royal family sent Lockjaw to collect Crystal from the Fantastic Four. Upon Crystal's arrival, Medusa and the others informed her of the theft. Medusa and the others later rescued the Fantastic Four and the Black Panther from space following a failed attempt to stop Doctor Doom from stealing the Ultimate Machine on the moon. They later reconnoitered on the SHIELD helicarrier to plan their next move along with Nick Fury and the Silver Surfer. It was not long until Doom used the Horn of Proteus to summon the sea creatures, including Giganto, upon New York City. Medusa and Black Bolt then returned to Attilan where they provided the Human Torch and Crystal with an Agon-Sequencer to assist them in trying to locate the Helix of Randac. When Doom returned to Earth after stealing the power of the world devourer known as Galactus, Medusa and the other Inhumans stood by while the Fantastic Four dealt with the crisis. However they soon joined in the final battle against Doom in New York City. Medusa joined the rest of the royal family in a frontal assault on Doom and were subsequently slain. However, Doom was ultimately defeated when Mister Fantastic obtained the Cosmic Cube and restored everything to normal, undoing all the carnage Doom had caused and restored Medusa and the others to life. Back home, Medusa and the royal family joined the Eternal known as Pixie to reign in the rogue Inhuman known as the Yeti who was in a battle with the X-Men. In the aftermath, they revealed to the X-Men the fate of the Cold War era heroes known as the First Line. : The majority of the First Line sacrificed their lives stopping a Skrull invasion of Earth prior to the Modern Age as depicted in 
===Search for Black Bolt===
After preventing Chinese soldiers from discovering the location of Attilan, Medusa and the others were shocked when their home was bombarded by various missiles. They were shocked when they found evidence that the missile attacks were apparently being launched by the Fantastic Four, unaware that it was really the work of Maximus. Black Bolt then brought Medusa, Karnak and Gorgon to the Baxter Building to battle the Fantastic Four, while Triton went to investigate the possible involvement with Maximus. Although the Inhumans battled it out with the Fantastic Four, they stopped when Triton found proof that Maximus was responsible for the attacks and captured him. Later, the international terrorist known as the Mandarin launched an attack on the Inhumans in order to uncover the powerful Eye of Yin which was buried somewhere near Attilan. Medusa and the others battled what they thought was the Mandarin to the death, unaware that it was a robot meant to trick them into finding the Eye for the real Mandarin. When they uncovered the Eye, the Mandarin used his rings to draw it to him. Medusa, Triton, and Karnak followed after it and were summarily captured. They were rescued by Black Bolt and Gorgon who knocked the Mandarin out. They then took him away, burying his rings within his hideout.
Later Black Bolt showed Medusa and the others that he had Maximus kept in stasis in a near death state before leaving to try and find the ideal place to reveal the Inhumans to the world. Gorgon and Karnak had issue with Black Bolt's treatment of his brother as they believed that it could violate his oath that Black Bolt would never kill another Inhuman. When they pressed these concerns to Medusa, she advised them to trust their leader. However the pair freed Maximus, learning too late that Black Bolt's insane brother had gained new mental powers. Upon his freedom, he then used his powers to strike Black Bolt with amnesia while he explored the streets of San Franciso. Maximus then used his powers to force Gorgon and Karnak to fight each other, but his powers were limited against those of the royal family. As such when Medusa came to her cousin's aid, he had to divert his power to her. Ultimately, Maximus gained the upper hand when he enthralled the entire Inhuman population and forced Medusa, Karnak, Gorgon, and Triton into exile once more, sending them fleeing to an island off the coast of China. 
After fighting off more Chinese soldiers, the exiled Inhumans recovered a hidden craft and tracked Black Bolt to San Francisco. There they were shocked to find that Bolt had apparently been manipulated into working with activist Lionel Dibbs who was threatening to destroy a local ghetto after the municipal government refused to help clean the area up. Medusa and the others attempted to get involved by they were held back by the Asgardian thunder god Thor who had prior dealings with Dibbs in his civilian identity of Doctor Donald Blake. However during the altercation, "Black Bolt" was fatally killed by a bolt of lightning, and the Inhumans discovered that he was an impostor. : the man posing as Black Bolt here was a San Francisco native named Roscoe who Black Bolt encountered trying to break into a warehouse back in when Maximus struck him with amnesia. At that time, Black Bolt knocked out Roscoe and his goons and switched clothing with one of the burglars before befriending Roscoe's nephew Joey. Roscoe recovered Black Bolt's costume before he was picked up by Lionel Dibbs who wished to use it for his own ends in 
Medusa and their others continued their search for Black Bolt, and upon their quest witnessed the return of the Trikon. Soon they were attacked by an army of mutants and learned that Black Bolt was subsequently captured and imprisoned by their leader, the mutant terrorist known as Magneto. Magneto mistook Black Bolt for a mutant and sought to manipulate his powers. Medusa and the others were able to track Magneto back to his hideout where the were quickly incapacitated. However their reunion with Black Bolt caused their leader's memories to return. : It should be noted here that the Trikon plot line was abandoned in the following issue With Black Bolt appearing to be in his thrall, Magneto forced the Inhuman leader to steal a power source for his new invention, the Universal Machine. While they were gone on this mission, Medusa and the others broke free and battled Magneto's minions. When Magneto and Black Bolt returned, Bolt revealed that he was pretending to be under Magneto's control. In the ensuing battle the energy source became unstable and Magneto was seemingly slain when it exploded. : Magneto survived, appearing again in . At this point the Earth was caught in the middle of the millennia long Kree-Skrull War. It was during this conflict that Black Bolt recovered the Inhuman throne from Maximus.: the Kree-Skrull War occurred between through . Also during this period, Crystal was forced to leave the Fantastic Four as she was being weakened by the pollution of the outside world, much to the heart break of the Human Torch. Not long after her departure, Crystal rescued the Avenger known as Quicksilver from a mutant hunting Sentinel robot. Nursing him back to heath in Attilan, the pair soon fell in love with one another. 
===Fantastic Four===
Learning that her old allies in the Frightful Four were once again targeting the Fantastic Four, Medusa raced to their aid. She found the Frightful Four ambushing the Thing so that their newest member Thundra, who wanted to test her strength against the Thing. Despite her assistance, both Medusa and the Thing were incapacitated and taken prisoner by their foes. The pair were taken back to the Baxter Building where they were the Frightful Four attacked the rest of the group. Ultimately, Thundra turned on her companions when they decided to kill the Fantastic Four. Ultimately, Medusa and the others were freed and the villains forced to flee. However during the course of the battle, the Invisible Girl became fed up of being ordered around as though she were a defenseless female and took her son Franklin and left the group. With the Human Torch in the Great Refuge, Mister Fantastic and the Thing accompanied Medusa there to bring the Torch back into the fold. There they found that Johnny had learned of Crystal's relationship with Quicksilver. But their proved to be a minor concern compared to a new threat created by Maximus: Omega, a massive android that was powered by the collective guilt of the Inhumans over the willing enslavement of the Alpha Primitives. They battled against Omega and the revolting Alpha Primitives until Crystal made them all realize that the only way to end the battle was to recognize their collective guilt. Once that was done, the Alpha Primitives returned to their domain and Omega fell inert. In the aftermath of the battle, the Torch accepted that his relationship with Crystal was over. With the Inhumans needing a new representative to the outside world, Medusa agreed to join the Fantastic Four as she discovered she had developed an immunity to the pollutants of the outside world.: The Human Torch went after Crystal in and discovered her relationship with Quicksilver in 
When the FF returned to their New York headquarters they clashed with the hero for hire known as Power Man. However when they learned that Cage only sought to borrow a ship to go after Doctor Doom, who had stiffed the hero on payment for a job. The Fantastic Four gladly lent Power Man the ship he needed. Shortly there after when the Dark Dimension ruler known as Dormammu made a bid to conquer the Earth, Medusa and the Fantastic Four defended New York from a horde of demons until the sorcerer was defeated by the Avengers and Defenders. That New Years Eve, the Fantastic Four were trying to lift their spirits in Times Square when Thundra resurfaced and challenged the Thing to a battle. To force him to comply, she also kidnapped his girlfriend Alicia Masters. Days later, Medusa was on hand as the Thing battled at a baseball stadium. During the clash, Medusa helped Mister Fantastic set up a device to temporarily change the Thing back to human form, forcing Thundra to give up the fight. While Thundra fled, the Human Torch recovered Alicia from her comrades, the Frightful Four.: Thundra challenged the Thing to battle her at Shea Stadium. It was built in 1964 and was home to the baseball team until 2008. The Stadium was later torn down in 2009. Eventually the references to Shae Stadium will become dated and prematurely age the characters. As such it should be considered a topical reference per the Sliding Timescale of Earth-616. As such, the location here has been generalized.
Later Medusa accompanied the Fantastic Four on a trip to the home of Agatha Harkness who called Mister Fantastic on an important matter involving his son. However when they arrived they found that the house had been decimated by an unseen force. On their way back home they were targeted by Gregory Gideon an old foe of the Fantastic Four who was dying of radiation poisoning, but failed to capture them. Later when Sue and Franklin were kidnapped by the Dragon Man, the other members of the Fantastic Four tracked her to Gideon's hideout and found themselves captured as well.: Gregory Gideon first battled the Fantastic Four back in . Agatha Harkness was captured by Annihilus as revealed in . Medusa, the Torch and the Thing learned that Gideon—who was now dying of radiation poisoning along with his son Thomas—were attempting to use the cosmic energy in Reed, Sue, and Franklin to cure himself and his son. Medusa and the others freed themselves and in the ensuing battle both Gregory Gideon and the Dragon Man seemingly perished in battle. Sue then took Franklin and fled telling the others not to tell Reed—who was still unconscious—that she had been there.: The Dragon Man android was later revived by the Machinesmith in Just moments after their battle, the cosmic being known as the Shaper of Worlds appeared before Slugger Johnson, one of Gideon's hired mercenaries. The Shaper offered to reshape the world into whatever Johnson desired. Johnson in turn transformed into the one influenced by his romanticization of the 1950s. In this alternate reality the elderly Patriots were at war with the youthful Wild Ones over the Brain (Johnson himself) and his weapon the Warhead. While Mister Fantastic and the Thing were brainwashed into joining the Patriots, the Torch and Medusa were likewise brainwashed to fight for the Wild Ones.: The narrative of this story states that Slugger Johnson actually lived through the 1950s as a teenager. This should be considered a topical reference relative to the year of publication per the Glossary:Sliding Timescale of Earth-616 as this would prematurely age the character. As such his love of the 1950s has been generalized here. Ultimately, both parties found the Brain's castle but by this point their brainwashing had worn off. The Fantastic Four then clashed with the Warhead, as well as the Patriots and the Wild Ones. Ultimately, the three groups worked together and destroyed the Warhead. After this realities African-Americans rose up against their white oppressors, the Shaper deemed the experiment a failure. After explaining his motivations to the Fantastic Four he restored reality and took Thomas Gideon with him in the hopes the boy could be of more use to him. 
Medusa later met the Torch's old university buddy, Wyatt Wingfoot. When Wyatt asked Johnny to come with him to the home of tribe, Medusa and the Thing joined them. There they found yet another old Fantastic Four foe, the Miracle Man was terrorizing the Keewazi people with new reality altering powers he learned from the ancient Cheemuzwa.: The Miracle Man first battled the Fantastic Four back in After surviving the Miracle Man's initial attack, the trio kept him at bay until the Cheemuzwa appeared and took him away for abusing his new found powers, ending his threat. 
===Project Revival===
Back in New York, Mister Fantastic received a distress call from his estranged wife about their son Franklin, but the message was cut short. Before they could respond, Triton arrived at the Baxter Building with the Sub-Mariner who had just recently been exposed to a deadly nerve gas and was on the brink of death. Medusa and the other members of the Fantastic Four battled Namor when he awoke and thought he was being imprisoned. With the confusion straightened out, the Sub-Mariner was fitted with a new suit by Reed that saved his life. Following up on the distress call from Sue, they found that she had gone missing. Reed tracked a strange energy signature back to the Baxter Building where they were attacked and captured Annihilus, ruler of the antimatter universe known as the Negative Zone. Brought into the Negative Zone the FF learned that Annihilus had also captured Sue, Agatha Harkness and Franklin. The insectoid planned to siphon the energies stolen from his Cosmic Control Rod which were used to assist in the birth of Franklin. Medusa and the others broke free and rescued Franklin, Sue and Agatha and returned to the New York. However, Franklin's new found powers were beginning to flare out of control and threatened to reach critical mass. With no other choice, Reed was forced to use a device to shut down Franklin's mind. Horrified by what Reed had done, Sue, Ben and Johnny abruptly left the team.: The Fantastic Four took the needed energies from the Cosmic Control Rod of Annihilus back in 
Medusa stayed by Mister Fantstic's side and attempted to snap him out of the depression he was in by convincing him to attend a State University class reunion. There Reed was was reunited Sam Thorne, a fellow classmate. But they soon learned that this was all a trap set by Doctor Doom to get revenge against Richards. Doom incapacitated his guests and revealed his plans to unleash a Vibro-Bomb upon the Earth which would reprogram the minds of every living being to be loyal only to Doctor Doom. Doom later captured both the Thing and the Human Torch as well, but the entire team was later freed by Doom's minion, the demonic looking cyborg known as Darkoth. Fighting past Doom's Seeker android into the Baxter Building, Medusa and her comrades tried to stop Doom from launching the satellite that would unleash the Vibro-Bomb. Although they failed, Darkoth seemingly sacrificed his life in order to save the world from total domination at the hands of Doctor Doom.: Both Darkoth and Doctor Doom survived. Reappearing in and respectively. Later, when the Hulk's alter-ego of Bruce Banner came to the Thing with a chance to cure him, the experiment backfired causing them to swap bodies. This led to a battle between the Thing and the Hulk across New York City. Medusa joined the Fantastic Four and Thundra in trying to contain the two combatants until Mister Fantastic developed a means to reverse the mind transfer. 
Medusa was later called back to Attilan to assist with something called Project Revival. With the Human Torch still reeling over Crystal's relationship with Quicksilver, she convinced him to accompany her anyway. Their ship was later shot down by members of the Cold People, whose leader Ternak was about to unleash a weapon that would usher in a new Ice Age upon Earth to allow them to live elsewhere than the frozen mountains of the Himalayan Mountains. Captured, the pair tried to fight back but became victims of Ternak's weapon, the Climate Cannon. They then broke free and were led to the Cold One's former leader the Master who provided them with a weapon that could destroy the Climate Cannon. In the final battle they were joined by the Thing who had been sent to bring both the Torch and Medusa back on urgent business. When Ternak and his people refused to stop fighting, Medusa activated the weapon given to her by the Master, causing the Cold People to transform into normal humans. With their bodies now built to stand warmer climates they ended hostilities and allowed the Fantastic Four to leave in peace. When they returned home they were shocked to learn that Sue had filed divorce papers to dissolve her marriage with Reed. When the Thing and the Torch went to try and talk sense in to Sue, they discovered that she had been taken by the Sub-Mariner. Medusa joined her teammates in tracking Namor down to a secret base off the coast of Africa. There they battled the Sub-Mariner until the Invisible Girl broke up the fight, telling them that she was in love with the Sub-Mariner and that she was staying with him for good. 
Reeling from this new development, the Fantastic Four returned to their headquarters where they were ambushed by the Frightful Four once again. Exhausted the team was easily overpowered until Thundra arrived to put a stop to her former comrades. After freeing Medusa and the others, the Frightful Four were easily defeated and contained. However with one battle over another began, as the Sub-Mariner launched an all out attack on New York with Sue in tow. As the other members of the Fantastic Four went into battle, Medusa appeared to stand on the sidelines as they battled Namor. However in the middle of the battle, Sue was made to realize how Reed was fighting for her and she realized that she still loved him after all. When she admitted this and ran to her estranged husband, Namor stopped the fight. As it turned out, this entire battle was the culmination of Project Revival, a plan concocted by Black Bolt to reunite Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Girl. 
===Crystal's Wedding===
Even though Sue had reunited with Reed, Medusa still remained a member of the Fantastic Four. She joined her teammates on a mission to test out a new space shuttle for NASA. While the group was in space, the temporal being known as Tempus tricked the Fantastic Four's mailman Willie Lumpkin into going back in time to disrupt history, causing the present day to become a savage wasteland. Due to the fact that they were off planet at the time, the Fantastic Four were apparently unaffected by the change in reality. Crash landing on Earth they were met by Earth's Watcher who had explained part of the reason for the current crisis before assisting the group in travelling back in time to correct the course of history. While Reed and Johnny were sent to the year 1777 to prevent the execution of General George Washington, Medusa and Ben were sent to Chicago circa 1928 where they stopped Willie from revealing details of the upcoming Great Depression to a group of local mobsters. Upon completing their tasks, the FF were transported to a Chronal Continuum where Tempus revealed himself and his plans to them. Medusa and her teammates seemingly destroyed Tempus and were returned to their proper time where they found reality was restored.: Tempus proved to be immortal as he was seen again in . The histories where George Washington was killed by the British army and the mob took advantage of the stock market crash still endure on Earth's 74820 and 82074 respectively.
Medusa later assisted Reed in making alterations and running tests on the Time Platform when the Thing came home with Captain America and Sharon Carter as visitors. When Ben accidentally caused a woman from the distant 30th Century to come through the portal and learned how this future was ruled by the Badoon, the Thing, Captain America and Sharon accompanied her back to her future time. Reed and Medusa operated the time machine until their victorious return.: In this issue Thing, Captain America, and Sharon Carter forced the Badoon off Earth-691 with the assistance of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Medusa and the Fantastic Four were then called back to Attilan to attend the wedding of Crystal and Quicksilver. There they were also joined by the Avengers who were also invited guests to the festivities. Maximus attempted to spoil the event by pairing up with the robot known as Ultron. However, Ultron betrayed Maximus and took possession of the massive body of Omega to attack the wedding attendees. The heroes were no match for the massive destructive robot, who was able to incapacitate them with his mental bolts. But this weapon also led to Ultron's destruction as it awoke young Franklin Richards from his coma. Franklin then used his powers to destroy Ultron before they became dormant again. With Ultron seemingly destroyed, the wedding went on without further interruption. When Medusa returned to New York with the Fantastic Four and the Avengers, they were briefly attacked by the sorcerer known as Necrodamus. This attack was fended off by Agatha Harkness who remained behind to train the Scarlet Witch to deal with the threat. 
===Earth Shattering Threats===
Medusa was later approached by Thundra, who told he one-time foe of how her female dominated future world of Femazonia was in the process of merging with an alternate of Machus, and that the purpose of her mission in the past was to prevent that from happening, but changed her opinions of female supremacy while in Medusa's time. This revelation coincided with the arrival of Mahkizmo the ruler of Machus at the Baxter Building. They both rushed to the Baxter Building just as the male members of the Fantastic Four were defeated in battle against Mahkizmo. As Medusa saw to her comrades, Thundra battled with Mahkizmo, only to be teleported away to Machus. Reed quickly adapted his Time-Platform to travel sideways in time so that the Fantastic Four could follow after Thundra and try and prevent the potentially catastrophic merging of Femazonia and Machus, leaving Sue behind to operate the machine. Thanks to a will sapping ray, the male members of the Fantastic Four were weakened enough that the entire group was captured along with Thundra. Medusa was taken to be with Mahkizmo for his amusement, but she proved to be immune to the ray and easily escaped. Instead of freeing her friends, Medusa instead left on the Time-Platform leaving her comrades to believe that she had abandoned them. 
Instead, Medusa traveled to Femazonia and gathered female warriors from that reality to help fight the warriors of Machus. When she arrived with an army of Femazons the other members of the Fantastic Four and Thundra had broken free and were battling Mahkizmo and his troops. Ultimately the Thing and Thundra struck Mahkizmo with sufficient force that it caused the radioactive energies in his body to disburse causing Femazonia and Machus to harmlessly merge into a new reality where men and women lived in peace. The resulting merger also shunted the Fantastic Four and Thundra back to the present time. When the Thing later mentioned going to visit his girlfriend Alicia after their battle, Thundra jealously stormed off with Medusa in tow. However Medusa eventually returned to the Fantastic Four just as a new threat loomed over the horizon. 
This new threat came in the form of members of the Axi-Tun race that were posing as a biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse who used their powers to throw the world into total chaos. Medusa and her comrades battled and defeated Pestilence in New York City who was teleported off world after his defeat. The group split up into two groups with Medusa and the Human Torch defeating War in Africa, and Mister Fantastic and the Thing defeating Famine in Cambodia. They then regrouped and defeated Death on the top of Mount Everest, ending their threat to the world.: These Four Horsemen were identified as members of the Axi-Tun race in .
While out with her teammates in Central Park, Medusa and the Fantastic Four were attacked by the Silver Surfer, who was led to believe that his lover Shalla-Bal was in the thrall of Doctor Doom and agreed to destroy his long time foes to have her memories restored and her freedom. Despite this promise, the Surfer could not bring himself to destroy his former comrades and instead put them under hypnosis and delivered them to Doom directly. Doctor Doom accepted this and placed the Fantastic Four in apparently inescapable traps. But the Fantastic Four managed to break free and begin storming Doom's castle. This however was all part of a plan by Doctor Doom to steal some of the Surfer's Power Cosmic to empower his new Doomsman II android. Meanwhile, the Surfer used his powers to restore Shalla-Bal's memories, only to be led to believe that she was merely a Latvian peasant. The Surfer turned on Doom and both he and the Fantastic Four destroyed the Doomsman construct. Doom was then forced to allow his foes to leave when the Surfer threatened to destroy Doom's castle.: Both the Silver Surfer and Doctor Doom were tricked into believing that Shalla-Bal was a Latverian peasant. This was all part of a complex scheme by the demon known as Mephisto to further torment the Surfer to avenge his defeat from . The Surfer did not learn this until .
===Last Days with the FF===
Medusa and the Fantastic Four later tried to contain the mutant known as Madrox the Multiple Man, whose containment suit was malfunctioning so that it was drawing power from the New York City power grid. Unprepared for his multiplying powers, the Fantastic Four were assisted by the arrival of the X-Men's leader Professor X, who incapacitated the youth with his mental powers before taking the boy with him for help. Medusa later celebrated the holidays with the Fantastic Four.: This story states that the holiday they were celebrating was Christmas Eve. This causes some issues with the Sliding Timescale of Earth-616. This story was published in April 1974, while previously in , published in March 1972, shows the Fantastic Four celebrating New Years Eve. Some schools of thought believe that every four years of publications equates to one year of time in the Marvel Universe. By this logic roughly six months of Marvel time had passed between stories. 
Later, Medusa and the rest of the Fantastic Four returned home to find Johnny battling it out with Quicksilver. Breaking up the fight they learned that Attilan had been taken over by the Torch's old foe Xemu ruler of the Fifth Dimension. Xemu threatened to kill Crystal if Quicksilver did not return with Medusa so that she could be used to force Black Bolt to use his voice to power Xemu's Thunder Horn weapon. With no other choice, the Fantastic Four agreed to go with him, although Reed told Sue to stay behind. the Human Torch first battled Xemu in The Fantastic Four were later captured, but with the aid of Triton, and the Fifth Dimension's Valeria and Phineas the Fantastic Four freed themselves. Meanwhile, Medusa was willing to sacrifice his life in order to allow Black Bolt to remain defiant toward Xemu. In order to try and force Black Bolt's hand, Xemu attacked a Chinese military base causing the super-power to launch fighter jets towards Attilan to investigate. However, the Invisible Girl had stowed aboard the FF's plane and used the Thunder Horn to boost her powers of invisibility to hide Attilan from view. When Xemu realized Black Bolt still refused to act, he fled back to the Fifth Dimension where he was defeated by both the Human Torch and Quicksilver. After the Fantastic Four and the Inhumans defeated the last of Xemu's troops, the FF welcomed Sue back to the group full time. But before they could rename themselves the Fantastic Five, Medusa informed them that she had decide to return to her people and be by Black Bolt's side. Her decision was met with the FF's blessings before they returned home. 
===War of the Three Galaxies===
Medusa's return to Attilan was hardly a quiet one as the Inhumans were soon attacked by the Negative Zone creature known as Blastaar who was revived by the Kree.: Blastaar was trapped in Adamantium following a battle with the Hulk and Human Torch in . The involvement of the Kree was revealed in The royal family failed to stop Blastaar from activating the Kaptroids, robots constructed and hidden deep below Attilan by the Kree for the purposes of rounding up the population and imprisoning them. With his mission complete, Blastaar fled the scene leaving the Inhumans to fend for themselves. While Black Bolt battled the Kaptroids, Medusa and the others attempted to deactivate the device that summoned them. Upon destroying the device, the Kaptroids fell inert. Attilan was then struck by a series of tremors prompting Black Bolt and the rest of the House of Agon to travel to New York and seek out the help of the Fantastic Four. Their arrival coincided with the arrival of the Kree warrior known as Shatterstar who was dispatched to Earth to collect the Inhumans to use as cannon fodder in the so-called War of the Three Galaxies. Attacked in the street of New York, the Inhumans were assisted by Falzon, Shatterstar's father, who was sympathetic to the Inhumans plight. Despite this assistance, Medusa and the others were defeated in Shatterstar's opening salvo. Regrouping, Medusa and the others resumed their battle with Shatterstar, ending it when Black Bolt used Shatterstar's own ship to incapacitate their foe. Taking Shatterstar prisoner, the Inhumans and Falzon returned to Attilan only to discover that Maximus had conquered the Hidden Land in their absence. 
With Crystal and Quicksilver as his prisoners, Maximus forced the rest of the royal family to surrender. They soon learned that Maximus was working along side the Kree, and had agreed to give them half of the Inhuman population to use in their war in exchange for being able to rule the other half. Medusa and the others were imprisoned for nine full days as Maximus forced his people to build a massive ark to send half their people to the Kree war machine. With the help of the few remaining rebels, Medusa and the others managed to break free and seemingly slay Shatterstar. Unaware of this revolt, an increasingly desperate Black Bolt gave in to his disrepair as his people were being loaded onto the ark, and cried out.: Shatterstar survived as a photonic being as revealed in . Black Bolt's voice completely decimated Attilan, and the population was unhappy with the end result of Black Bolt's show of weakness. Ever faithful, Medusa rallied to make her fellow Inhumans realize that Black Bolt acted out of their best interests. When Black Bolt later wrote a proclamation to his people, Medusa read it to them. In light of the attacks from the Kree, Black Bolt had decided to go searching the stars for a new home for the Inhumans to be safe. Medusa, the Inhuman Royal Family and Falzon agreed to join him on this mission and the Kree space ark was rebuild and re-purposed for this very task. 
While passing through the Duggil star system, the Inhumans ship was shot down over the planet Stent. A planet of purple dust, they were pulled into a massive mechanical insect city run by City-Dwellers of the Stenth. Initially thought to be coming to the aid of the dissidents in the city, Flarn welcomed them when he learned the truth. Later Medusa and the others were horrified when Flarn's minions were willing to cripple their own city by blasting away its ghetto in order to deal with the rebel known as Shreel.: The Stenth and facts pertaining to their homeworld and galaxy were revealed in . When Flarn went back on his promise to help the Inhumans repair their ship, Medusa and Black Bolt went out to try and recover it. While outside they encountered Warkon and his army of anarchists who were trying to overthrow Shreel. Learning that Shreel was loyal to the Kree, Medusa and the others joined the fight to overthrow Flarn, however in the aftermath of the battle both Flarn's beetle city, and Warkon's spider city were incapacitated in the process. After crushing the last of Flarn's resistance, the Inhumans and Warkon's anarchists secured a ship to get off planet, unaware that Flarn had betrayed them and programmed it to head to the Kree Space Station Web, the central hub for the upcoming War of Three Galaxies. There they were forced to battle the Kree and their commanding officer Mon-Tog. During the ensing battle, the Inhumans learned that the Kree were enthralling humans on Earth to commit acts to destabilize the Earth in order to make it ripe for invasion. Seeing that they had to return home, Medusa and the others fled the space station while Warkon and the last of his warriors sacrificed their lives to destroy it. 
Their ship later crash landed in New York Harbor, and after a brief altercation with the authorities, Medusa and the others tried to make their way to the United Nations Building to warn the leaders of the world of the impending Kree invasion. The Kree in response used their technology to evolve a cockroach into the Pursuer to attack the Inhumans. The creature proved to be powerful and had Medusa and the others on the ropes until Falzon was able to incapacitate the Pursuer with insecticide. With their foe temporarily felled, the Inhumans fled the scene to get away from the authorities. Getting outside of the United Nations Building, the Inhumans tried to get the attention of the world leaders, leading to another clash with the authorities. The tension grew higher when Bruce Banner tried to intervene on behalf of the Inhumans but was agitated enough that he transformed into the Hulk. Recalling Black Bolt from a previous battle the Hulk attacked the Inhumans. Using Lockjaw to teleport to a safe location, their battle with the Hulk abruptly ended when a combination of Black Bolt's electron channeling powers and a bolt of lightning altered the Hulk's personality so that he considered the Inhumans his friends and left without further incident. Needing to find a resolution to the War of the Three Galaxies, Medusa and the Inhumans sought out the Kree renegade Captain Marvel. Medusa and the rest of the Royal Family remained on Earth while Mar-Vell and Black Bolt went to confront the Kree directly. There they confronted the Kree Supreme Science Council and exposed member Por-Bat as a Skrull spy trying to instigate the war in order to lead the Kree into a trap. Realizing they almost entered a conflict they could not win, Phae-Dor called off the War of the Three Galaxies, and Black Bolt was returned to Earth. 
===To the Moon===
Still in New York City, Medusa, her family and Falzon discovered a Kree bomb that had crashed on Earth. While attempting to disarm the weapon, Falzon was exposed to a nerve gas and required an antidote to save his life. Medusa was sent out to get it and stole it from an ambulance in Brooklyn that was rushing it to a Manhattan hospital to be used on a boy in critical condition after being exposed to a nerve gas himself trying to stop an out of control chemical truck. This led to a battle between Medusa and Spider-Man, whose life was saved by the young man in his civilian identity of Peter Parker when he stopped the truck. Spider-Man followed Medusa to Coney Island where a battle between the wall-crawler and the Inhumans broke out. Ultimately Black Bolt stopped the fighting, and truth was revealed. With Falzon cured, Black Bolt then rushed the rest of the antidote to the boy, saving his life. Medusa and the others returned to Attilan to find that the Inhuman known as Thraxon had taken over and rebuilt their home into a massive fortress with the help of the Sphinx. Medusa and the others were incapacitated and turned over to the Sphinx who plotted to use Black Bolt's powers in his satellite to probe the minds of every living being on Earth and learn the secrets of the Ka Stone that gave the Sphinx his powers. Escaping captivity, Crystal enlisted the aid of the Fantastic Four. They defeated Thraxon and followed the Sphinx aboard his space satellite. There they freed Medusa and the others and the Sphinx was jettisoned into the void of space. With Thraxon removed, the Inhumans then began to restore Attilan to its former glory. Medusa joined the royal family on a cultural exchange with the new class of X-Men currently being trained by Professor X. They agreed to take the X-Man known as Nightcrawler to Attilan to see a society where nobody is judged by their appearances. Nightcrawler was accompanied by his teammate Colossus. Triton took the lead in showing Nightcrawler and Colossus around his home. However, when Nightcrawler saw that the Inhumans willingly mutated themselves he interrupted a Terrigenisis ceremony, breaking one of the Inhumans most sanctimonious laws. When Nightcrawler was brought to trial, his fellow X-Men came to the hidden land to plea on his behalf. This led to a battle between the X-Men and the royal family. When the bout caused an avalanche the two groups put aside their differences to save Attilan from destruction. Black Bolt later decreed that Nightcrawler be released and allowed to return home to his people. 
Tranquility did not last long for the Inhumans soon began falling ill due to a series of "air quakes". Medusa and Black Bolt used Lockjaw to teleport to the Baxter Building to seek help from the Fantastic Four, but they were not home at the time. Black Bolt then sent Medusa back home while he went looking for them. Medusa later joined the royal family as they traveled to the moon of Titan to pay their final respects to Captain Marvel, who was dying of cancer. They were later present when Mar-Vell was buried. Back in Attilan, Medusa passed the time with Crystal picking flowers when she was suddenly kidnapped by the rogue scientists known as the Enclave, who were working in league with Maximus. With Medusa as their prisoner, the Enclave scientist began experiments on her. Ultimately, Maximus turned on the Enclave and fought for his people. In the ensuing battle Medusa was rescued and Maximus seemingly sacrificed his life to stop them. With the pollution taking its tole on the Inhumans, the Fantastic Four were sought out to help move Attilan to a new location where its people would not be at risk. The Blue Area of the Moon was selected for its self contained atmosphere. With the help of the Fantastic Four, Medusa and the Inhuman Royal Family moved Attilan to the moon. After landing on the moon, Medusa's sister Crystal gave birth to her daughter, who turned out to be a normal human despite her mother being an Inhuman and her father a "mutant".: As previously stated Quicksilver is called a mutant in quotations here is due to the revelations that he is in fact not a mutant as revealed in .
Medusa was later present when the mutant singer known as Dazzler used the Fantastic Four's communication equipment to contact the Inhumans for help defeating the villain known as the Absorbing Man, who had absorbed her light powers. Medusa sent Black Bolt down to deal with the crisis. Medusa participated in a celebration of the Inhumans new home on the moon, where Crystal's daughter was named Luna to commemorate their new home. The celebrations were briefly interrupted when Triton accidentally triggered a hidden crystal that plagued everyone on Attilan with a mass hallucination. Unknown to all at the time, Maximus was awaking from his death like coma and used this moment to use his mental powers to swap bodies with Black Bolt. 
===Family Celebrations===
Unaware that Black Bolt's mind had been swapped, Medusa was one of the many super-humans that were gathered by the cosmic being known as the Grandmaster and Death as eligible participants in the so-called Contest of Champions. Medusa was not selected, and when the contest ended she and her family members were returned home to the moon. Medusa later joined the Inhuman royal family to celebrate the Hulk, whose alter-ego Bruce Banner asserted dominance in the Hulk's form and was pardoned for his past actions. However this new status quo did not last for long.: The Hulk maintained Banner's mind in Hulk form until Not long after this, the mutant terrorist known as Magneto was led to believe that he was the father of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch and went to the moon to relay this knowledge to his "children". Medusa and the rest of the family tried to bar Magneto, but were held back by his magnetic powers. When Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch accepted this news, Magneto departed peacefully.: The true parentage of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch has been the subject of a number of deceptions all tied in with the geneticist known as the High Evolutionary. They were originally led to believe that they were the mutant children of World War II heroes Whizzer and Miss America in . In this story Miss America was pregnant but it proved fatal. The High Evolutionary claimed that the twins were the Whizzer's children, but distraught over the death of his wife he abandoned his "children". Later in Vision & Scarlet Witch Vol 1 4, the New Woman known as Bova claims that the twins were actually the children of Magneto and his long lost wife Magda. According to claims, Magda really gave birth to the children then fled into the mountains after, never to be seen again. Since it has been stated that Wanda and Pietro were raised by Django and Marya Maximoff. However it has since been revealed in that the High Evolutionary kidnapped Wanda and Pietro from the Maximoffs, altered their DNA. He then covered his tracks by making them appear to be mutants. After failing to pass them off on the Franks and Magda, he returned them to the Maximoff family. Likely, the fact that Magneto learned he was their "father" was also part of this deception. 
When the United Nations learned that the Inhumans had relocated to the Moon, they sent the Avengers to meet with them and ensure that their society would not pose a threat to any nation on Earth. Medusa and the rest of the royal family greeted the Avengers to their home, still unaware that Maximus had swapped bodies with his brother. Maximus then started launching meteor attacks on the Earth which were stopped by Thor. When the Avengers began suspecting the truth, he ordered the Inhumans to attack the Avengers. However Maximus blew his cover when he spoke while battling the She-Hulk. Medusa then forced Maximus to reverse the mind swap, freeing Black Bolt from his prison. When Quicksilver insisted that Luna be exposed to the Terrigen Mists, Crystal fought against it out of fear that her daughter would be mutated into a non-human form. She sought out the aid of the Thing to help stop this from happening. Medusa and the rest of the royal family clashed with the Thing and Lockjaw in order to preserve an Inhuman law that stated that the father of a child could choose when and if their offspring could be exposed to Terrigenesis. However the conflict was put to an end when Quicksilver was tricked into thinking that Lockjaw was a humanoid mutated into dog form, making him see Crystal's point of view.: This was later revealed as a elaborate prank put on by Gorgon and Karnak and played on Quicksilver and the Thing as revealed in . Medusa later called in a favor from Dazzler to help defend Attilan from the villains Moonstone and Blackout, who were fleeing the authorities on Earth.: Moonstone and Blackout were on the moon following their escape from Project PEGASUS in & .
===Marriage and Pregnancy===
Finally came the time where Black Bolt and Medusa were to be married after so many long years as a couple. A massive ceremony was held in their honor and a public wedding was conducted. Among those invited to the festivities were the Fantastic Four. However the festivities were marred by an on going battle between the Kree soldier Bel-Dann and Raksor, his Skrull counterpart. Medusa, the royal family, and the Fantastic Four investigated the conflict and were informed by the Watcher that their battle was to determine the victor in the on-going Kree-Skrull War. In order to stop their months long battle, the two groups forced the Kree and Skrull warriors to work together and appear to defeat their mutual enemies. The battle ended with Bel-Dann and Raksor realizing that it was unity was the only way to end the conflict. A solution, sadly, that proved only short lived.: Bel-Dann and Raksor were ambassadors to the Kree and Skrulls to the Shi'ar empire. They had been battling on the Blue Area of the Moon since the trial of the Dark Phoenix in 
Crystal and Quicksilver's marriage began experiencing trouble not long after this, as Quicksilver began focusing on forming a milita in Attilan. Feeling neglected, Crystal began having an affair with Norman Webster, the neighbor of her sister-in-law the Scarlet Witch and her husband the Vision.: The Vision and the Scarlet Witch got married in The truth came out when Crystal overdose on the drug needed to breath safely on Earth while she was visiting with Norm, prompting Norma to get her back to Attilan on the moon. There the truth came out, and while Crystal's infidelity rocked the royal family, Medusa and the others refused to allow Quicksilver to kill Norm for his involvement. This battle led to the Inhumans battling Quicksilver to a stand-still and he sped off vowing to get revenge. Unknown to all at the time, Maximus was using his mental powers to transfer his madness to Quicksilver. Quicksilver then returned to Earth to menace his old allies in the Avengers, and the Fantastic Four, before being captured. In light of this, Crystal demanded that she get divorced from Quicksilver, but the royal family would not allow it due to Inhuman laws set to preserve the "sanctity" of marriage. In response, Crystal returned to Earth and rejoined the Fantastic Four for a time, while the Inhumans took Quicksilver into custody. 
Maximus then began focusing his powers on Black Bolt, plaguing him with headaches. Seeking to destroy his enemies, he enthralled Lockjaw and had him send Quicksilver to Earth to capture the Fantastic Four's son Franklin Richards. This kidnapping was interrupted by Franklin's friends the Power Pack as well as the mutant heroes known as X-Factor. Capturing Franklin, Quicksilver and Lockjaw fled back to the moon, taking X-Factor with them. After Pietro escaped both X-Factor and the royal family, the two groups worked together to track him down. Medusa and the others battled Maximus, making his hold on Black Bolt and Quicksilver weaken and he was eventually defeated. Without Maximus' insane influence. Quicksilver quickly returned back to normal. With Quicksilver back to normal, Medusa and Black Bolt ordered Crystal to return home, and when she refused forced her and the Fantastic Four to return to the moon with them. Their returned coincided with the arrival of the High Evolutionary and his army of Gatherers and Eliminators. As part of his so-called Evolutionary War, the High Evolutionary required a sample of the Terrigen Mists. Medusa, the royal family and the Fantastic Four fought off the Evolutionary and his minions. In the aftermath of the battle, Black Bolt convinced Crystal to return home. After the Fantastic Four departed, Medusa reminded her sister that as a princess of the royal family she had an image to maintain and to repair the damage her infidelity caused the royal family. 
 By this point the aging Genetics Council had caused much turmoil among modern Inhumanity with their selective marriage and breeding policies. This came to a head when Medusa discovered that she was pregnant with Black Bolt's child. When they announced to the kingdom this news the Genetic Council objected, for fear that their child could have a destructive voice like Black Bolt, be as mad as his brother Maximus, or both. When they ordered the pregnancy to be aborted, Medusa refused to comply. When Black Bolt refused to support her, Medusa fled to Earth with Gorgon, Karnak, Triton, Crystal and Medusa's midwife Minxi. There they made a makeshift home among derelicts that lived in a dump outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. There her pregnancy progressed rapidly. In order for them to survive, Crystal used her powers to purify the environment around them. This had the unforeseen side effect of creating an elemental creature that haunted the Inhumans in their make-shift home. They were also briefly terrorized by Maximus who tormented Medusa from afar with his mental powers after he escaped from his cell on Attilan. When the elemental attacked them again, Medusa was in the process of giving birth to her son Ahura. The powerful infant used his powers to slay the creature. Realizing that they could not run from their responsibilities, Medusa and the royal family returned home when Black Bolt managed to track them down. Despite her reservations, Medusa later turned her son over to the Genetics Council for examination.: Ahura's named was not revealed until Medusa was present when Black Bolt went to check on his brother and found that he was back in his cell. 
===Search for Ahura===
Unknown to Medusa and the royal family a crooked member of the Genetics Council had sent Ahura to Earth to be used in part of a United States government sponsored genetics experiment. However the ship carrying the boy crashed and the boy was adopted by a couple who found his downed ship outside of the town of Pottersville, raising him as their own they named the boy Pope. Medusa became increasingly depressed and demanded that Black Bolt tell her what happened to her child. Taking Medusa's side, both Gorgon and Karnak began searching for clues as to what happened to Ahura. Learning that the child had been shipped to Earth, Medusa agreed to accompany them to search for him. However when Black Bolt learned about this plan, he used his authority to force Medusa to stay behind. Despite Gorgon and Karnak's protest, she refused to disobey her husbands orders and so the pair went to Earth without her. Although the pair eventually found Ahura, and intended to bring the boy home, they realized that he was still at the mercy of the Genetics Council. Instead, they left the boy with his adopted family, informing them of the situation of their child and swore them to keep him safe and out of the public eye in the event the Genetics Council came looking for him. 
Medusa and the others soon became struck with other threats that distracted them from the fate of her son. Such as when Stane International attempted to dump toxic waste on the Moon in an attempt to wipe out the Inhumans to steal their resources. They saved the powerful Star Thief, as well as Marvel Boy, Firestar and Namorita of the New Warriors from the ship as it sped to the Moon. After stopping Star Thief's rampage, he, Black Bolt and Firestar destroyed the ship, ending its threat to Attilan. Attilan then came under threat from the eternal mutant known as Apocalypse, who coerced members of the Inhumans into his shock-troops known as the Riders of the Storm. The group later kidnapped Nathan Christopher Summers, the son of X-Factor's Cyclops in order for Apocalypse to absorb his essence. Apocalypse and his minions then returned to Attilan where they quickly took over and captured many of the Inhumans, including Medusa and Crystal. X-Factor arrived shortly after and teamed up with the rest of the royal family to face off against Apocalypse. Medusa and Crystal were set against Apocalypse's foes, but ultimated X-Factor triumphed with the aid of the time traveler known as the Askani. But the seeming destruction of Apocalypse was not without a cost as Nathan was infected with a Techno-Organic Virus and had to be taken to the future to save his life.: Apocalypse survived this encounter as revealed in . Nathan Summers survived and grew up to become the mercenary known as Cable as revealed in . 
Not long thereafter the Brethren, single celled organisms hyper evolved by the enigmatic Celestials, crash landed on the moon. When their leader Thane Ector captured Karnak, Quicksilver, and Timberus; Medusa and the others contacted the Avengers for assistance. After a brief clash on the moon, the Brethren turned their attentions toward Earth. Eventually Ector and his minions were defeated by the Avengers, who welcomed Crystal into their ranks. 
During the Infinity Gauntlet crisis, the death worshiping Titan known as Thanos obtained the six Infinity Gems and used them to kill half of the population of the universe for his lover, Death. Medusa and the other surviving Inhumans volunteered their skills to help protect the Earth from the galactic upheaval caused by Thanos' rise to power. Eventually, Adam Warlock defeated Thanos and restored all the damage he had done. Later during the so-called Infinity War, Medusa watched helplessly as the Fantastic Four's headquarters the Four Freedoms Plaza was blown up by an attack. Before they could go and help, they were visited by the Guardians of the Galaxy from the 31st Century who had come seeking a cure for their Inhuman teammate Talon who had contracted the Grail's Disease. There was a brief battle before the truth was revealed. The royal family and the Guardians then had to defend themselves from dopplegangers of the royal family and the Guardians created by the Magus. After these foes were defeated and Talon was cured, the Guaridans parted company.
Medusa and the others Inhumans then spotted Doctor Doom as he made a trip to the Watcher's citadel and followed after to investigate. There they found that the Fantastic Four and their allies Ms. Marvel and Lyja were charged by the Watcher to stop Doctor Doom who had stolen the powers of Aron the Rogue Watcher. The battle was quickly ended when Black Bolt used his powers and Mister Fantastic's Optimizer weapon to overload Doom's power battery, seemingly vanquishing their foe, although Doom did survive and escaped once again. By this time, "Pope" and his adopted family had relocated to New York. He was in attendance of a South Bronx where the Mayor of New York City was giving a political speech with the Fantastic Four present. Ahura's resurfacing was also detected by the Genetics Council who sent their minions, including a new Seeker to collect the boy. Medusa and her family came to the boy's rescue and helped protect him along side the Fantastic Four. Ultimately, the betrayer among the council slew his comrades and stole their powers in a bid to also steal Ahura's abilities as well. But this rogue councilman was slain by Ahura himself. When the boy was crowned the new king of the Inhumans, Ahura instead destroyed the royal crown, prompting the Inhuman people to decide to form a democracy. 
===Exile Defenders of Attilan===
Black Bolt and the rest of the royal family went into self exile shortly thereafter. They soon took up residence as part of a New Jersey freakshow so they could hide in plain sight among humanity. She remained behind as Triton went into the sea , and Black Bolt went off into space to battle the Starblasters When the Starblasters were defeated, Black Bolt returned to his wife. Back at her temporary home at the New Jersey freakshow, Medusa and her family were visited by the Black Panther who was seeking the whereabouts of the Fantastic Four so that they might help his young super-human charge named Vibraxas. The Inhumans also recommended they take a young Inhuman named Devlor with them. This later led to the formation of the group of youthful heroes known as Fantastic Force. Medusa and the others later learned that archaeologists were about to discover the remains of the Hidden Land in the Himalayas. Black Bolt ventured there and used his powerful voice to cause a massive avalanche that buried all traces of his civilization under tons of rock and ice. Although they were estranged from their people on the moon, Medusa and her family answered a call for help from Star Thief when the hero known as Nova and his rival Nova 0:0 were clashing on the moon. When they finally recognized Nova from their previous encounter with the New Warriors, Black Bolt brought an end to the hostilities and when the royal family teleported back to Earth they brought Nova back with them. When the Fantastic Four's Reed Richards was believed to have been killed in battle, Medusa and her family were one of the many colleagues who paid their respects at the funeral.: Mister Fantastic seemingly died battling Doctor Doom in , however he appeared alive and well in and his "death" all part of an elaborate trick on the part of Hyperstrom.
Shortly thereafter, the Genetics Council of Attilan were approached by Kree refugees following the Kree/Shi'ar War that left the Kree empire decimated. Although their leader General Maston-Dar truly sought refuge, the long history of hatred between the Inhumans and the Kree led to various conflicts that resulted in casualties. Maston-Dar's subordinate Major Tarnok-Kol felt that the Inhumans would not accept them so long as Black Bolt and his family still lived and sent an army of assassins to Earth to eliminate the royal family. This assassination attempt failed and tipped Black Bolt off to the refugee situation in Attilan. Medusa joined her husband and their family there and later prevented another group of renegade Kree from stealing the Terrigen Mists to try and mutate themselves as well. Black Bolt and his family saved their people once again and the Kree were brought to trail. When Black Bolt forced a confession out of Tarnok-Kol, the Kree realized they ruined any chance they had at living peacefully on the moon next to the Inhumans and left. Following their departure, Medusa and her family returned to Earth.: The Kree battled the Shi'ar in what was late called Operation: Galactic Storm that occurred in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and ending in where the Kree Supreme Intelligence tricked the Shi'Ar into detonating a Nega-Bomb that both decimated the Kree and freed them from the evolutionary dead-end their race had become trapped within.
===Atlantis Rising===
Soon the sorceress known as Morgan Le Fay rose the undersea kingdom of Atlantis from the ocean floor in an effort to reclaim her ancestral home. This coincided with Reed Richard's father Nathaniel accidentally triggering a trap at the Watcher's citadel on the moon that threatened to destroy Attilan. While the current Genetics Council fled with the Terrigen Mists in order to invade the Earth, the Fantastic Four responded by shrinking Attilan down to size and containing it within a bottle. Sensing that his homeland was in danger, Black Bolt had Lockjaw to teleport him to the moon just moments after Attilan was taken, leaving him with no clue what happened to his homeland. Seeking an alliance with Morgan le Fay to reclaim their ancestral home, the Genetic Councils Arcadius contacted the royal family. He then convinced them that the Sub-Mariner was responsible for the capture of Attilan. Learning that Namor and the Fantastic Four were in England meeting with government officials, Medusa and her family teleported there. Black Bolt and Namor soon came to blows before their fight was broken up by the Invisible Woman who attempted to maintain diplomacy in the current crisis. Before they could figure out what was going on, Arcadius contacted Blackagar and his house again asking them to come to him in Atlantis. 
Medusa and the others were asked to defend Attilan and Atlantis from invaders joining forces with the Genetic Council's elite guard the Crimson Cadre. This led to a clash between the Inhumans and the Fantastic Four and their allies Fantastic Force, Namor, Thor, Kristoff Vernard and Nathaniel Richards. The heroes managed to stop Morgan le Fay, who was banished by the magic of the Ebony Blade. Nathaniel Richards also reversed the shrinking of Attilan causing it to reform on the ruins of Atlantis. While the heroes fled, Arcadius erected a new Negative Zone barrier around Attilan, trapping all the Inhumans inside as the Terrigen Mists began to rupture. The Inhuman royal family soon realized that Black Bolt's tuning fork was seriously damaged in the battle and teleported away before Attilan was completely sealed off. They sought out Crystal who was still a member of the Avengers in the hopes that they could repair Bolt's tuning fork. Their travels through New York were impeded by Arcadius, who used his powers to animate states to try and thwart their progress, but they were rescued by Crystal and Quicksilver and taken to Avengers Mansion. There Black Bolt was examined by the Avenger known as Giant-Man, who was unfortunately unable to make the needed repairs. The Inhumans then moved Black Bolt to Colorado to keep him away from populated areas while his sanity began to deteriorate. Upon learning that Mister Fantastic was found alive and well, the Inhumans sought his aid. With the aid of the Fantastic Four and the Sub-Mariner, the Inhumans managed to subdue Black Bolt and take him back to the Four Freedoms Plaza for treatment.: Mister Fantastic turned up alive and well in . While Bolt's life hung in the balance, Mister Fantastic performed the life saving surgery that Blackagar needed to repair his tuning fork, restoring his sanity. 
===Atlantean Attilan===
After Bolt's recovery, Medusa and her family came to the aid of the Fantastic Four during the Onslaught crisis, helping the team fend off constructs of their greatest foes created by Onslaught who had kidnapped Franklin Richards and was manipulating his abilities.: Onslaught kidnapped Franklin in . The Fantastic Four and the Avengers (including Crystal) later seemingly sacrificed their lives to destroy Onslaught. Unknown to all, Franklin Richards saved their lives by transporting these heroes to a pocket universe on a world later dubbed Counter-Earth where they lived parallel lives for months.As revealed in and seen during the Heroes Reborn event that took place in , , and . During the time that Medusa believed her sister Crystal to be dead. They apparently found a means of disabling the Negative Zone barrier and return to Attilan. It was around this time that Ahura began showing signs of insanity and the Genetics Council deemed the boy a danger to Inhuman society. With no choice, Black Bolt and Medusa were forced to give up their son and were forbidden from seeing him again. Apparently at this point the royal family were partially restored to power. Although they were viewed as monarchs of the realm and had some governing power, it was apparently at the approval or in conjunction to the ruling council.The fate of Ahura was left unexplained for along time, with a passing mention by Medusa in implying that something happened to him. It was not until many years later in was it properly explained what happened to Black Bolt and Medusa's son. When the Inhumans resurfaced in Quicksilver Vol 1 6, their barring through the Negative Zone barrier was unexplained and they acted as though Inhuman society still functioned as a monarchy. This was not properly explained and the plot threads about the Terrigen Mist running rampant in Attilan dropped. It was not until that the relationship between the House of Agon and the Genetics Council were more clearly defined.
When Crystal finally returned from her time on Counter-Earth, and . Medusa and her family were briefly attacked by Thanos who was causing vegetation to grow rampantly across the universe with technology stolen from the Savage Land. Thanos was eventually defeated by the jungle adventurer known as Ka-Zar. Crystal soon reunited with her husband and invited him back to Attilan. Medusa and the others regarded the speedsters return tepidly. Later Black Bolt presided of the most recent Terrigenesis, however the ceremony was disrupted by Quicksilver who unknown to all—was being mentally manipulated by Maximus once again. While trying to flee with a supply of the Terrigen Mists, Quicksilver was subdued by Medusa and the others. Realizing what was going on, Black Bolt went to confront his mad brother only to discover he was having his powers boosted by the Fabian Cortez a member of the Magneto's Acolytes who was sent to Attilan under orders from their leader Exodus who found the Inhumans an affront to the mutant race. Maximus then enthralled Black Bolt and most of the royal family, putting Luna's life at risk. Quicksilver broke out of his cell but was forced to face off against Black Bolt. Enthralled by Maximus, Medusa and her family attacked Quicksilver and Crystal. Eventually they shook off the mental control of Maximus, but had to battle both the Crimson Cadre and the Alpha Primitives while Maximus and Cortez attempted to unleash the Terrigen Mists into the Earth's atmosphere. Quicksilver prevented this from happening and Cortez fled, leaving Black Bolt to knock out his brother and imprison him once more. 
Medusa later presided over Phadros as he had his pregnant wife Thera exposed to the Terrigen Mists. At first it seemed as though the child was born without powers, but unknown to them it formed a bond with Vindicator of the Canadian super-hero team known as Alpha Flight. It was also causing earthquakes in the region. Medusa and her people welcomed Heather to their sanctuary, and later welcomed her teammates when they came looking for her. They soon realized the child of Phadros and Thera had the power to control mater with his mind when it animated a statue of Randac and made it go on a rampage. While Black Bolt mentally calmed the child and taught it to control his powers, Alpha Flight and the royal family brought down the wayward statue. Realizing she could not abandon her team to live in Attilan, Vindicator returned with them back to Canada.: This story incorrectly states that Randac was Black Bolt's father. It's possibly around this time that Black Bolt faced the cosmic being known as Vortex, although this battle is largely unrecorded. 
===War with Portugal===
Eventually a new barrier was erected around Attilan to protected to isolate it from the outside world and keep the pollutants of the outside world out. Black Bolt soon became increasingly uneasy by the appearance of corporate interests that began mining the nearby ruins of Atlantis for Vibranium with backing from the Portuguese army. Medusa began to worry about her husband due to is ever present emotional withdrawl. Medusa later presided over the Terrigenesis of the youthful Inhumans Neifi, Tonaja, Dewoz, Nahrees, Kalikya, and Dinu. The celebration was marred when Dewoz's transformation turned him into an Alpha Primitive, much to the horror of those gathered. Dewoz was then remanded to the caverns below Attilan with the rest of the Alpha Primitives, leaving none aware that this transformation was orchestrated by Maximus in another one of his schemes to destroy his brother and take over the Inhuman throne. 
The situation troubled Medusa and the others further, leaving them to wonder if the sudden creation of a new Alpha Primitive could spell the end of their civilization. Meanwhile, Dewoze—endowed with strange teleportation powers—used his abilities to help Maximus slowly bring about his plan in secret. The Inhumans presence also began to be known to the outside world which was getting increasingly more fearful of the enigmatic Inhumans. As Bolt pondered over problems, Maximus began working with former Russian spy Colonel Stalyenko to launch an attack on Attilan.: This story states that Stalyenko previously worked for the KGB. Per the Sliding Timescale of Earth-616 eventually this fact will drastically age the character and should be considered a topical reference. When the attacks started, the Inhumans were protected by the force field around their city. When Gorgon demanded that they deal with the humans, he was shocked to find that Black Bolt refused to act in any way but a defensive manner. Bolt later sent Mendicus to the United Nations to seek their aid in stopping the attack. This proved to be a fruitless endeavor as the UN sided with the Inhumans but refused to get involved. Worse still, American officials passed on a statue of Abraham Lincoln as a gift to the Inhumans that had a concealed device to further compromise their kingdom—yet another wrinkle in Maximus' mad scheme. Soon the continued artillery attacks and a lightning storm brought the barrier down upon Attilan. As the Portugese soldiers began breaching the kingdom, Black Bolt still continued to tell his people to stand down and further shocked his family when he gave Medusa orders that their people were to retreat from the conflict. 
As the Inhumans struggled with the humans above, Maximus tortured Medusa and eventually used his access to the master machines below Attilan to shut everything down, leaving the Inhumans defenseless against their attackers. Medusa attempted to fight back, but she was no matched for her insane brother-in-law while shackled. As a form of torture, Maximus began cutting Medusa's hair. As it turned out, Black Bolt was well aware of the schemes that were being played against him and was secretly plotting a means to victory by first tricking his enemies into thinking they had won. Medusa was part of the plan and was purposely allowed to get captured. Even with her hair cut off, she still had mental control over the strands and use it to reconnect Attilan's vital systems so that her people could defend themselves. Freed by Black Bolt, Medusa informed the others that Black Bolt's endgame was for the apparent destruction of Attilan. After breaking the fault lines along Attilan, Bolt had Crystal use her elemental powers to cause massive volcanic upheaval causing Atlantis to sink once more. In the ensuing chaos, Black Bolt had Lockjaw teleport Attilan back to its previous location hidden in the Himalayan Mountains. Although this was a victory, the loss of lives and secrecy surrounding Black Bolt's plan to save his people caused much tension between the other members of the House of Agon. 
===Kree Assassin===
Eventually, Medusa's hair grew back to its original length following their return to the Himalayan Mountains, Black Bolt security within Attilan increased. This extra vigilance proved to be useless against the Kree soldier known as Ronan the Accuser who managed to enslave the Inhumans overnight with his army of warriors. Ronan intended to reign in the Inhumans as cannon fodder for the Kree and use them to destabilize the Shi'ar empire that ruled over his people. To this end, Medusa and her people were enslaved and Attilan was converted into a massive warship that was then taken out into space. Finding a Shi'ar vessel, Ronan set the Inhumans to attack it for the purposes of having Karnak and Triton infiltrate the ship when the battle ended. He later fitted Black Bolt with a new antenna that allowed Ronan to monitor things and take control of Black Bolt if he so needed. He then sent Bolt, Medusa and Gorgon to a world where the Shi'ar and the Spartoi were going to conduct a symbolic wedding between their two empires for the purposes of assassinating Shi'ar empress Lilandra Neramani. Their arrival on world was met with a trader named Shakati who helped the three Inhumans blend in as Kree refugees. 
While travelling to the ceremony, Medusa and her companions were attacked by petty thieves who robbed them. Unable to use their powers lest their cover be compromised, the Inhumans were rescued by Jason of Sparta, the prince of the Spartoi. Jason took them to his lodging and espoused his displeasure with the union between the Shi'ar and the Spartoi, and his people's ruling council's use of a hologram of his father to control the direction of his people. Jason was particularly smitten by Medusa and openly flirted with her, but she did not appear to reciprocate. After Jason set them up with new currency, Blackagar, Medusa and Gorgon went to the wedding ceremony to carry out their task. Also arriving were Triton and Karnak who managed to infiltrate the ranks of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. However, when Black Bolt attempted to assassinate the Empress, she was aware thanks to the clairvoyant powers of the Guard's new recruit Delphos. Although imprisoned in a force field, Black Bolt still had the power to kill Lilandra, but refused to do so. Viewing this remotely, Ronan forced Black Bolt to do so anyway. But as it turned out, "Lilandra" turned out to be the Imperial Guards resident shapechanger Hobgoblin who sacrificed his life to save his queen. Black Bolt and his family then teleported away using the Nega-Bands given to Triton to facilitate a hasty retreat. Back aboard Attilan, Black Bolt challenged Ronan to an honor duel for the freedom of his people. Although Black Bolt won the battle, he was shocked to learn that his people did not want to return to Earth, instead choosing the lives of warriors. While Black Bolt and the House of Agon returned to Earth, the rest of the Inhumans ventured off into space with Ronan to face their destiny among the stars. 
===Return to the Moon===
Medusa and her family returned to New York where they appeared before the United Nations to seek asylum on Earth. There they were attacked by bounty hunters sent after them to avenge the death of Hobgoblin. The attack was thwarted by the arrival of the Fantastic Four and the aliens were seemingly slain by orbital defense weapons while they tried to flee. Upon their arrival, the Inhumans soon became subject to increase prejudice instigated by the Hidden Ones, an Inhuman/human hybrids who hid among the world's governments who feared that the Inhumans return would lead to their own exposure. When the Inhumans later appeared at a press conference at the Baxter Building, the Hidden Ones used their powers to throw the media into a xenophobic frenzy and later formed a mob outside the Fantastic Four's headquarters. Mister Fantastic tried to petition the United Nations to grant the Inhumans sanctuary, but no country would accept them except for Doctor Doom's Latveria. Soon after, both Reed and Ben went missing and the Baxter Building was attacked by both an angry mob and an army of Guardsmen loyal to the Hidden Ones. To make matters worse, the Invisible Woman's pregnancy was threatening to kill her and her unborn child.: The Invisible Woman originally became pregnant with her second child in but had a miscarriage in . A restructuring of reality in restarted this second pregnancy. Medusa and the others looked over Sue as she struggled with her labor pains while the Human Torch sought out help for his sister. With no other choice, Johnny enlisted the aid of Doctor Doom who used a combination of sorcery and magic to save both Sue and her unborn child, whom he named Valeria. While Valeria was being born Mister Fantastic and the Thing defeated the Hidden Ones and exposed them to the world. With the crisis over, Doctor Doom offered Black Bolt and his family a chance to live in Latveria. Black Bolt refused, instead deciding to return the House of Agon to the moon where they began rebuilding Attilan. Eventually the rest of the Inhumans returned to the moon as well. Although the circumstances of their return are unrecorded. 
On Christmas Eve that year, Medusa was enthralled by long time Fantastic Four foe, the Puppet Master who attempted to rob a department store. This attempt was thwarted by Spider-Man, Crystal, the Invisible Woman and the Wasp. With the Puppet Master defeated, Medusa was freed from his control. Medusa and Crystal also started to babysit both Franklin and Valeria Richards when the Fantastic Four were busy on dangerous missions. Following another Terrigenesis celebration, Black Bolt arranged for the youths Nahrees, Tonaja, Jolen, San, and Alaris to travel to Earth and attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a cultural exchange program in order to better relations between the Inhumans and baseline humanity. Medusa took on the role of spokesperson for these students with the American authorities. This proved to be no easy task as the young Inhumans found it difficult to acclimatize to Earth culture. Later when Nahrees was forced to use her powers to damage a city bus and Alaris was tricked into spending all their money, Medusa cleared things up with the authorities and then arranged for her young charges to get jobs to pay off their debts. Later, Nahrees was captured by millionaire Terrance Haller, Jr. who sought to use Inhuman DNA to cure his son of a terminal disease. When the other students learned that she was captured, they contacted Medusa to inform her of the situation. Medusa used the Inhumans resources to track Nahrees to Boston. After Nahrees was rescued, Tonaja contacted Medusa to ask what their real purpose was on Earth. Medusa was cryptic in her response, telling her only that they were there on Black Bolt's orders. 
Medusa and Black Bolt were later part of a farewell party for the reality television stars and mutant mercenary group known as X-Statix, who tragically died on their final mission shortly thereafter. After a romantic interlude with Black Bolt, the newly formed New Avengers began looking into the mystery of the hero known Sentry, a superhero whose existence nobody could remember.: The Avengers disbanded after the Scarlet Witch went insane and decimated the team between to and . The Sentry had been around since the dawn of the modern age, however his dark side known as the Void threatened to destroy all reality and the only means to save the Earth was for the mind for everyone to forget who the Sentry was as seen in through , , , , , and . These memory wipes were revealed as part of a scheme by the Sentry's old foe the General and the mutant known as Mastermind in & . When they all looked into it, they were shocked to learn that the Sentry had ties to their lives, They managed to track the hero down and try to help him, but Medusa and her family were among members of the New Avengers, and X-Men who had come to ensure that there was no danger. As the X-Man known as Emma Frost began trying to repair the Sentry's mind, the heroes were attacked by the Void, the Sentry's dark side personified. Eventually the Sentry's mind was restored to normal, ending the threat of the Void, whom the Sentry seemingly destroyed. Medusa and her family later chased the Olympian demi-god Hercules from the moon when he attempted to battle Lockjaw as part of a reality television show that recreated the 12 labors of Hercules.
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