Moonstone is now the field leader of the revamped Thunderbolts, sponsored by the government. The Director of this team, the semi-insane Norman Osborn, eventually turned to blackmail to force her to join, threatening that he would remove her moonstone and put her in a coma if she refused. Moonstone is seen as a ruthless if less-than-capable leader of the Thunderbolts; on one of their first missions (capturing the renegade Jack Flag), she preferred to have the mission finish early so that she could have sex with one of the government agents, a point stressed by Songbird at their next briefing. She is fully behind the Thunderbolts new concept, most especially in that they must rely on public approval to stay employed; what she is against are her team-mate Songbird and her employer, Osborn. In the most recent story, she revealed that she had been influencing S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to give Norman Osborn placebos rather than his usual medication, and also that when Osborn was gone she planned to 'accidentally' kill Songbird in the field and take over as leader. In #114, she is shot through the wrist by a crossbow bolt by American Eagle, pinning her to their jet and tearing some of her wrist away; she subsequently orders Bullseye to cripple the Eagle.