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Sea Hunt!
‘I can’t believe it! Our second New York adventure and already we’ve blown out secret identities!’ Jack Power a.k.a. Mass Master exclaims in his cloud form as he and his siblings - teammates - Power Pack - descend on top of a high rise building. Julie Power a.k.a. Lightspeed reminds her brother that it is not like they had any choice. As they could not just let the alien, Snake Eyes, wreck the aquarium. Alex Power a.k.a. Gee announces that Julie is right, and points out that most people there looked into the aliens’ eyes and were knocked out, even their Gramps. Katie Power a.k.a. Energizer shouts that the people they did rescue were so scared that they didn’t recognize them. ‘Yeah, Katie! And maybe there’s a man in the moon!’ Jack mocks.
The young heroes land beside the spaceship Friday, and Julie declares that perhaps there is a man in the moon, reminding her brother that he didn’t believe in aliens either, until Whitey came from outer space in Friday and gave them their powers. She adds that now Friday is theirs. Friday throws Katie up into the air, and the young girl exclaims ‘That’s fun!’, while Alex suggests ‘Or maybe we’re his!’, to which Julie exclaims that Friday is a her. Friday announces that they belong to each other. ‘I guess!’ Alex replies, before telling Friday that does not mean that he / she can do everything that they do, like sneaking into the aquarium’s submarine exhibit. Alex adds that he is surprised no one noticed. ‘After all, a Kymellian Smartship and a submarine look pretty different’ Alex remarks.
Katie declares that she is glad Friday came along. ‘She saved Jack and me from Snake Eyes when he knocked us out’ she reminds her siblings, while Friday informs the children that he is partly a submarine. ‘I’m an all-purpose craft!’ he / she exclaims and assures the children that no one noticed him / her. ‘Maybe! But they sure noticed us!’ Jack remarks, and suggests that when their Mom and Dad read of their description in the Daily Bugle, they can forget all of this, because there is no way their parents would let them get up after midnight to round up an alien snake - even if it is in a good cause.
As Julie and Katie climb inside the spaceship, Alex asks Friday where Marrina is. Friday explains that he / she and Marrina tracked Snake Eyes as best they could from where Alex and Julie dumped the alien in the ocean, and that they have narrowed the search to a specific area, and Marrina remained behind to continue the hunt. Friday adds that Marrina will send a signal if she locates Snake Eyes. With everyone onboard, Friday takes to the sky, and Alex tells everyone to use their superhero names from now on, adding that they have to get in the habit of doing that. As Katie looks out over the sprawling night-time city, Jack remarks that they have already blown it. He exclaims that Marrina was born with her powers, and that kid super-heroes don’t both her, so he doesn’t think it matter if she learns their real names. Jack reminds his siblings that Cloak and Dagger called themselves monsters and Marrina thinks she is a monster.
‘Alex, the entire world will know by morning -’ Jack begins, though Alex interrupts: ‘I’m Gee!’ he reminds him. ‘Okay - Gee! Mom and Dad’ll know we’re monsters, too!’ Mass Master exclaims. ‘Honestly, Jack - I mean Mass-Master! Mom won’t think we’re monsters! Remember, I was worried about this too - but she said she’d love me even if I could fly and I believe her!’ Lightspeed states, to which Jack tells his sister that he has not noticed her telling their mother that she can fly. ‘Maybe not, but -’ Julie begins, before Alex tells them to shut up and look outside - as Friday has dropped down into the harbor. The kids all smile as they see a school of fish swim past the window of the spaceship.
Soon, Friday announces that his sonar is on screen and is registering a large mass up ahead. ‘What is it, Friday? Snake Eyes?’ Alex asks. Friday replies ‘Doubt it’ but suggests that they shield their eyes until they are certain. ‘Yeah! The last thing we need is to get knocked unconscious!’ one of the kids remarks, before Friday announces ‘Oh look! Dolphins!’ the kids all look out the window and see the dolphins - however Jack points out that they are not moving, even with Friday’s lights shining right on them. Julie asks what the matter with them is, to which Alex points out that they are asleep - unconscious.
‘Something tells me we’ve stumbled onto Snake Eyes’ trail!’ Alex announces. ‘But dolphins are mammals - air breathers! If they’re too sound asleep to move -’ Julie begins, while Alex remarks that whales can stay submerged for forty-five minutes but Gramps did not say anything about dolphins. ‘Their lungs are smaller’ Alex points out, to which Katie asks if they might drown. ‘They can’t!’ Julie declares, telling her siblings that they have to get out and save them. Alex remarks that the costumes Friday made for them are warm and water-proof, and would make great wet suits. ‘Would helmets to enable you to breathe underwater be of any help?’ Friday asks, producing four deep-sea helmets.
Soon, ‘Gee, Friday, these helmets are great!’ Alex marvels as he helps Katie put her helmet on. Julie adds that the flippers and gloves are great, too, and remarks that their hands are webbed now, just like Marrina’s. Friday thanks Lightspeed. ‘I’m quite pleased with them myself! Now if you will stand in the center of the room…’ Friday directs the young heroes. They do as requested, the Energizer is quite nervous, as a tube rises up and encases them. Friday explains that it will act as an airlock of sorts. ‘Oh, no! It’s leaking!’ Katie exclaims as water begins to rise in the tube. ‘That’s how airlocks work, you dope! And it can’t if you keep disintegrating the water’ Jack tells his younger sister, who had started to use her power on the water. Katie explains that she cannot swim as well as the rest of them, so Julie puts her arms around her sister and tells her that swimming in the ocean is easy, adding that if she shoots of a power ball, she can just power up again from the ocean. ‘Look at how you’re glowing already!’ Lightspeed tells her sister. Katie exclaims that she likes it, and as the four young heroes enter the ocean, asks if they can help the dolphins now.
‘Hey! They’re soft!’ Jack exclaims as he touches one of the dolphins, while Julie adds that they are warm, as she strokes one of the dolphins noses. ‘Pus them up to the top and -’ Lightspeed begins as she swims one of the dolphins to the surface - and when the dolphin reaches the surface, water gushes through its blowhole. ‘He did it! He breathed!’ Julie announces. The others all begin to push as many dolphins as they can to the surface, and Alex exclaims that when he de-gravitated them the dolphins just bobbed to the top. ‘I forgot that would happen!’ he remark, adding that stuff that weighs less than water floats to the to. ‘Like pieces of wood or -’ he begins, but Julie exclaims ‘Who cares!’ and tells her brother that it means he can help twice as fast. Energizer exclaims that this is fun and that they should do some more.
Suddenly, Friday alerts the young heroes to some fast approaching sharks. ‘Yikes!’ Jack exclaims, before telling Katie to fire a power ball. ‘Fast!’ he exclaims as he switches to his cloud form, so the shark passes through him. Energizer unleashes a burst of energy, which sends the sharks scattering in other directions. But Julie and Alex are both being pursued by sharks still. ‘Julie! What’re you doing in the water? Get up there!’ Alex calls out. ‘I’m Lightspeed! And I’m saving you!’ Julie calls out as she grabs her brother and speeds towards the surface. Hovering over the water, the siblings see that the sharks have begun to fight. ‘Now maybe they’ll ignore us and try to eat each other!’ Julie suggests.
But Alex reminds Julie that Gramps told them about sharks, and explains that if one of them bites another, there will be blood in the water, and sharks can smell it from miles around, so they will come to attack anything that moves. ‘It’s called a feeding frenzy! And I didn’t need saving! I can de-gravitize and flat here in the air, remember?’ Alex declares, announcing that Katie cannot. ‘Oh my gosh!’ Julie exclaims as she speeds back down into the water, ‘Katie baby!’ she cries out as she swims towards her sister, who is fending off several sharks with more bursts of light energy. ‘Come on!’ Julie exclaim as she pulls her sister from the water, where Alex and Jack are waiting for them. ‘Stupid shark can’t touch the great Mass Master!’ Jack boasts while one of them attempts to lunge out of the water at his cloud form.
‘Maybe not! But what about the poor dolphins! We’ve got to go back there and save them or -’ Julie exclaims, when suddenly, there is a massive water spout which propels the sharks away. ‘What was that?’ Katie exclaims. ‘Whatever it was, it washed away all the sharks!’ Jack points out, when suddenly, former Alpha Flight member Marrina bursts from the water. ‘Marrina! Did you do that?’ Gee asks.
Soon, Marrina, Alex, Jack and Katie sit on Friday, who rests on the water, while Julie bobs up and down with some of the dolphins. Julie exclaims that Marrina’s water spout cleared out the sharks and that it is safe now. ‘So come on in’ she tells everyone, adding that the dolphins are waking up. Marrina remarks that her friend Prince Namor and his ocean dwelling people will be pleased that the dolphins were saved. ‘Prince Namor! He’s the Sub-Mariner! I read about him in one of Dad’s magazines!’ Alex exclaims. ‘Wow! You mean he lives down there? He’s real, Marrina?’ Jack asks. Marrina replies that he is, and so are his people. Marrina explains that she almost became their queen, until she discovered her true origin - that hers is a race of alien conquerors more vicious and deadly than any sharks.
Marrina tells the young heroes that she is not fit to share Namor’s throne, or his peoples’ lives. She reveals to them that she first saw Snake Eyes when the Collector - ‘Yeah, you told us! He’s the alien who owns Snake Eyes!’ Julie exclaims, when suddenly, the dolphin she is hanging on to dives under the water, and then up into the air. ‘Wow! Look at her go!’ Jack exclaims. Marrina remarks that since the Collector owned Snake Eyes, he must have captured him somehow. ‘But how?’ she wonders. Friday announces that he has heard they wait for the Xanthian winter, as it gets as cold as Earth’s Arctic there, and the Boulder Crushers hibernate.
Friday suggests that the Collector probably captured Snake Eyes when he was dormant, and used a Kymellian translation flute to tame him, as all Boulder Crushers will obey commands piped in their own language. Marrina replies that the Collector did have a flute, but it was broken. Suddenly, ‘Oh no!’ Lightspeed exclaims, and quickly flies out of the water, shouting ‘Friday! Quick! Get out of the water! He’s right under you!’ But it’s too late, as Snake Eyes bursts up from the water, knocking Friday backwards, causing everyone to fall off. Lightspeed quickly flies down to grab Alex, Katie and Marrina, while Mass Master announces that this is the chance they have been waiting for to try Katie’s flute. ‘Flute?’ Marrina asks as they land on Friday once more.
Alex removes his helmet, and exclaims ‘You heard how Kymellian flutes are used to tame Boulder Crushers! And Snake Eyes seemed to respond to sound earlier! In fact, Katie woke up him up by blasting a note on Gramps’ oboe!’ Alex remarks, adding that music is supposed to have charms to soothe the savage beast. He suggests that perhaps they can find the command that puts Snake Eyes back to sleep. Jack tells his brother to quit blabbing and to hurry up. ‘I’m blocking his eyes as much as I can, but he’s thrashing around so!’ Jack exclaims with his cloud hands clamped down on the snake’s head. Alex plays the flute, but it doesn’t work, as Snake Eyes moves quickly towards Friday. ‘You’re supposed to be putting him to sleep! Try something else!’ Jack calls out.
Marrina suggests to Gee that he try a different set of notes, and points out that from Snake Eyes’ actions, she fears Gee has given him the command to attack. Mass Master exclaims that he tried slamming Snake Eyes’ head with his super dense jack-hammer earlier, but the alien’s skull was too hard. ‘Let’s see if your nose is any softer!’ Jack exclaims as he ends his cloud form, and drops down onto the snake’s head. But Snake Eyes lunges at Friday, who prepares to move, but does so quickly, and Katie falls off. Julie speeds down and collects her sister, as Katie fires a bolt of energy at Snake Eyes, who dives back around under the water.
The three younger Power siblings are pleased with themselves, exclaiming that they scared him off, while Marrina tells them that their ploys were most effective, but Alex puts his underwater helmet back on again and mutters that they were too effective, as they were meant to catch Snake Eyes, not scare him away. Marrina agrees that Gee is right, and declares that they will have to go after Snake Eyes. Friday announces that this time he / she was able to track Snake Eyes, who went straight to the sea bottom and disappeared. ‘We’re on out way!’ Friday announces.
Soon, ‘Wow!’ Alex exclaims. ‘What is it?’ Katie asks. ‘A passenger ship, stupid. From before World War II…right, Gee?’ Jack declares, while Katie motions to a hole, and wonders what sunk the massive ship, before Katie sees that Marrina is going inside. The former Alphan waves back to the young heroes, while Friday tells them that they must also go inside if they are to follow Snake Eyes into his lair, before suggesting that they could notify the navy and let them handle this. One of the kids replies that they can’t, as it was them who accidentally set Snake Eyes loose, that means they have to capture him. Another points out that if Snake Eyes hurt some navy people they would feel terrible. ‘And I shall feel most terrible if he hurts you!’ Friday replies as the four young heroes are dropped into the water, and swim towards the sunken vessel.
Jack tells Friday that they will be careful, before remarking that he wonders if they will find any skeletons. ‘Jack Power! That’s disgusting! It probably struck an iceberg or something’ Julie declares, adding that the people would have had plenty of time to evacuate. ‘I’m Mass Master, slime brain! And I’ll bet there are skeletons, right, Gee?’ Jack declares. ‘Gee…?’ Jack calls out when he gets no response from his brother. ‘I - yikes!’ Gee exclaims as he sees some tentacles in front of him. Alex blushes as the octopus swims away. ‘I think I scared him more than he scared me!’ Gee remarks, before telling his siblings that they need to find Marrina.
And soon, the Power siblings have met up with Marrina inside the sunken vessel, where they hear a strange KLONGG! Noise around them. ‘Marrina! What’s that?’ Julie asks. Marrina replies that it is Snake Eyes moving around the ship, to which Alex remarks that he sure is clumsy, and it is a wonder there is any ship left given how big the monster is. Marrina replies that Snake Eyes is not really a monster, just a lost alien animal, adding that Earth’s ocean is doing strange things to him because he used to be green. Julie points out that the ocean’s water has acid in it, and suggests that Snake Eyes might be like litmus paper. ‘What’s that?’ Jack asks. Julie explains that scientists use it to test for acidity, and it turns red when it touches an acid liquid. ‘Oh! Well, litmus monster or not, we can’t kill him - so how’re we gonna stop him?’ Jack exclaims.
With all sorts of ocean fish swimming around the sunken vessel, Alex suggests that they could trap Snake Eyes in the ship somehow, and reminds his teammates how the dolphins bobbed to the surface when he de-gravitized them, he could do the same to the ship. Alex suggests that Friday could tow the hip to the arctic and Snake Eyes would hibernate there until the Collector came back for him. ‘But Gee! The whole ship?’ Marrina asks. ‘Why not? But first we’ve got to trap him!’ Alex exclaims. Marrina has an idea and suggests that as Snake Eyes is attracted by squeaky sounds, like the flute, they need to get into a small room right above him.
Soon, Marrina and the young heroes enter another room, and they can hear Snake Eyes moving about still. Marrina checks a door handle, and sees that it is rusted, so it ought to do the trick. Jack tells Katie that whatever happens she is not allowed to look until he tells her too. ‘Three, two, one…Now!’ Marrina exclaims as the kids put their hands on their helmets in agony as Marrina moves the rusted door handle up and down, creating a terrible screeching noise. Almost instantly, Snake Eyes bursts up through the floor, and Jack switches to cloud form, cover Snake Eyes’ face so that his eyes are hidden. ‘Energizer! Now!’ Marrina calls out, to which Katie releases a burst of energy, and just like before, Snake Eyes pulls away from the light.
The serpent tries to retract back down through the floor, but, the more he tries to back away, the tighter he wedges himself between the floor spikes, trapped by his cobra-like head. Marrina orders everyone out, but Julie points out that the spikes will not stop Snake Eyes from coming forward after them. Marrina assures Power Pack that Snake Eyes won’t see them leave, and explains that as an alien, her skin secretes a chemical, which, upon contact with the eyes, causes temporary blindness. ‘But Marrina! He could kill you!’ one of the kids exclaims. ‘And leave the world a better place!’ Marrina replies as she goes up to Snake Eyes and smacks him in the eyes - but not before Snake Eyes managed to get in a quick hypnotic stare, putting Marrina to sleep, although Snake Eyes is now blind as well, and as Alex notes, begins to thrash around even more.
Gee goes back into the room to rescue Marrina, and pulls her to safety, he tells his siblings to get going, but they find the corridor blocked, as Snake Eyes has been thrashing about, and his tail is blocking the corridor now. Turning around, the young heroes see that stuff is clogging up the hall behind them as well. Jack exclaims that they have to get out of here, and fast. Julie reminds everyone that Marrina said “temporary blindness” and wonders what will happen when her chemical wears off Snake Eyes. ‘Well, if we can’t go forward…and we can’t go back…!’ Alex begins, before asking Energizer if she can blow a hole out the bulk-head. ‘The what?’ Katie asks. ‘The side, Katie! The side!’ Alex exclaims urgently, pointing at the side of the ship. ‘Ha! You called me “Katie”!’ Energizer exclaims. ‘Katie…!’ Alex declares, annoyed. ‘Okay, okay!’ Katie replies, before releasing a burst of energy that shatters the hull.
Minutes later, Gee asks Lightspeed to take Marrina back to Friday, while he gets set. Lightpseed tells her brother to get comfortable, for whatever pose he takes he is going to have to hold it for a long time. Alex crouches down on the ship’s deck, and announces that this is the biggest thing he has ever de-gravitized. An instant later, it begins to lift upwards. ‘Come on…come on…’ Alex exclaims. Back at Friday, Julie exclaims ‘He did it! There it goes!’ Friday suggests to the others that they get to the surface so they are not caught in the backwash.
Soon, Friday hovers over the water and exclaims ‘And now we must prepare to do our part as Gee has done his!’ and the ship bobs up onto the surface, and water pours out of the hole in the hull, with several fish and an octopus falling back into the water. ‘Golly! Would you look at that!’ Julie exclaims. Alex adds that they were lucky lots of the sealed cabins still had air trapped inside them. ‘Why?’ Julie asks. Alex explains that it made the ship more buoyant, and explains he may not have been able to move it otherwise, because of the inertia. ‘Oh!’ Julie exclaims, before announcing that she has hooked Friday’s towline to the ship’s anchor.
Alex announces that all they have to do is break the surface tension. ‘Pull!’ he shouts as he continues to use his power on the vessel. ‘Easy for you to say, Gee Power!’ Lightspeed calls out, but suddenly, the ship rises off the water, and Friday is able to tow it. Friday asks Lightspeed to take Gee a warm jacket. ‘I fear we have a long, cold journey ahead of us!’ Friday remarks.
A few hours later, Alex and Marrina are sitting on the deck, Alex still using his powers to de-gravitize the ship, and he thanks Marrina for keeping him company, remarking that it is cold out here. Marrina points out the cold does not bother her, as it would the others. Alex tells Marrina that she could have been killed attacking Snake Eyes the way she did. ‘It would not have mattered’ Marrina replies, to which Alex tells her that the people Snake Eyes would have injured might not agree with her. Using a communicator inside Friday, Lightspeed tells Fee that there is a snow field to the left, and Friday told her it is far from any settlement and away from the arctic routes. Julie adds that no one will spot the ship if they put it down there. Alex replies that he is letting go, and an instant later, the ship lands on the snow field with a massive thud.
Alex informs Marrina that Power Pack have been worried that people would find out about their powers, but recently, some of the people they have met have got him thinking. He tells her that he thinks people should worry about what they do, not what they are afraid they might be. ‘And we think you do just fine!’ he smiles. Marrina remains silent, however.
Soon, in the early hours of the morning, back in New York, Friday has dropped the Power children off on their apartment roof. Alex asks Friday where he / she will go now, to which Friday points out that much of Earth’s surface is water, and he / she has experienced little of it. ‘Perhaps I shall visit Marrina and explore with her for a while. And if you want me, call and I will come!’ Friday replies, before departing. Alex remarks that he is glad Friday is going to visit Marrina, while Katie yawns that Marrina needs a friend. Pensively Alex wonders if everyone with super powers thinks they are a monster. Jack also yawn and replies that it seems that way, before suggesting that perhaps the others know something Power Pack doesn’t. ‘Really?’ Alex asks. Julie yawns and tells her brother not to be dumb. ‘Having powers is fun! And it’s got redeeming social value!’ she exclaims.
‘You left our window open, right?’ Alex asks as Julie picks up Katie and Mass Master collects Alex, preparing to fly down through their window, Jack reminds everyone that back when they were with Cloak and Dagger, he almost killed someone with his power. ‘So that’s what’s been bothering you!’ Julie exclaims. Once inside one of the bedrooms, Julie tells Jack that tonight they saved a lot of people, and did it without hurting anybody - even Snake Eyes. ‘Yeah, maybe. But I still don’t want Mom and Dad to find out’ Jack remarks, before exiting the bedroom to see if the paper has arrived. Soon, Jack returns. Katie is asleep already, and Jack holds the paper up to Julie and Alex, announcing that they are in the paper all right, as “hallucinations” brought on by Snake Eyes’ “hypnotic attack”. ‘They don’t think we’re real!’ Jack exclaims. Julie thinks that is funny, and remarks that it is better than being monsters. ‘Yeah! A whole lot better than monsters!’ Alex agrees, smiling.


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Whose Power -- ?
Power Pack and their parents are watching TV. Franklin Richards is there too, as his parents, the Fantastic Four, are away on some mission. The news on TV mention the X-Terminators attacking X-Factor (actually a mock battle to ensure X-Factor’s cover in X-Factor #7). The kids think that X-Factor are dangerous, as many of their friends are mutants. The kids are sent to there bedrooms. Alex and Jack make fun with each other. Their powers have recently been switched (Power Pack #25) and Jack uses the gravity power that formerly was Alex’s to hurl his brother through the room. The parents still don’t know about their kids having super powers. They wish everybody good night, Franklin sleep with the boys.
At night a vision appears in their bedroom. It’s Leech holding Caliban. Alex and Jack wake up and Julie and Katie come into the room since they heard the noise. The image fades as Franklin wakes up. He tells that he dreamed of being in some dark tunnel where a war happened; apparently his powers interacted with Leech’s and Franks dreamself could not approach the power negator. Instead Franklin by instinct must have transported Leech’s dreamself into their bedroom. Power Pack fears that the Morlocks are being hunted by X-Factor and decide to investigate. They switch into costume and Katie flies the team to the sewers. She enjoys having Julie’s light power and Julie too feels comfortable with jack’s mist power. Alex insists that Jack wears his wings, he used them to glide, when he still had the gee power. Reluctantly Jack puts them on, but announces to find a better codename than Gee. The others too think about new names and come up with The Destroyer, Molecula and Starstreak. Finally they reach the Morlock tunnels and hear screams.
Nearby Scalphunter is shooting many Morlocks. Leech and the unconscious Caliban are hiding in a pipe and fortunately Scalphunter does not see them.
Power Pack search for their friends and are shocked to see so many dead bodies. Suddenly Sabretooth jumps at them out of the shadows. Katie takes Franklin to safety. Molecula can’t be harmed in her mist form, but the boys have to fight. Sabretooth rips through Jacks wings, while Alex prepares to fire an energy ball. Back when Katie had that power he always ordered her to use it agressively, but now he himself has doubts about killing an opponent. Instead he destoys the wall above Creed, leaving sabretooth stuck in debris. The kids run away, right into Wolverine’s arms. He tells them that it’s too dangerous and makes them promise to leave, before he heads deeper into the alley to save some Morlocks. Of course they have no intention to leave without Leech, and they did not promise when they would leave. After a short while, the team finds the rooms where Annalee lived, and inside they find her dead body.
Miles away, X-Factor have brought some Morlock survivors (Ape, Beautiful Dreamer, Tarbaby and Erg)to their complex. Although he himself is injured, Cyclops decides to return into the Alley. He abandoned his wife and his baby in Alaska, but he won’t abandon anyone else, and in the tunnels are many people that need their help. Marvel Girl, Iceman and Beast agree and they head back, although none of them are in top shape.
Meanwhile Power Pack has found Leech and Caliban, but as they get within Leech’s range, their powers are cancelled. Julie takes Leech out of range, so that Jack can use his gravity control to lift Caliban, when suddenly three Marauders arrive. They can barely dodge Harpoon’s energy lance, and Arclight’s shockwave shakes them up. Scrambler negates Katie’s light power and slams her into Jack. Franklin knows that he has to distract Arclight from hitting anybody and fools her with a dreamself, long enough for Julie to become very small and dense. As she hits Arclight, the marauder feels the pain, but it’s not enough to take her out. She punches the dense Molecula into a wall. Alex catches a second harpoon with his body and transforms it into pure energy to crash the ceiling on the villains, but they quickly dig themselves out. Jack desperately searches for some object to use his gravity powers on, but lacking any weapon, he uses his power on his own fist and hits Arclight full force. The tough mutant is rendered unconscious and falls backwards. Stunned by his own success jack fails to recognize Scrambler behind him, but the X-Terminators arrive and Cyclops shoots his optic beams. Outnumbered the marauders retreat.
Jean checks on Caliban and thinks that he’ll recover. Julie too is ok, in her dense state she was not injured and comes out of the hole in the wall. Leech starts crying, he wants his mama, but sadly Power Pack have to say that they found Annalee’s dead body. Leech cries even more and they all hug him. Cyclops asks Leech if he knows any of the other Morlocks they earlier rescued, and promises to take him to safety. Beast and Iceman are assigned to take Caliban and Leech to the X-Factor building. Power Pack realize that it’s early in the morning and they hurry back home through an air shaft, leaving Scott and Jean behind to search for the Angel and little Artie.
Soon after, the kids come out of the sewers and talk about how Jack defeated Arclight. He found a new way to use the gravity power.He then uses it on himself and runs up a building and jumps around a streetlamp. Jack gives Alex the tattered wings back, not needing them with his new abilities. Alex thinks that all the others are doing fine, while he hesitated to use the enrgy powers on a living being.


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Revenge of the Bogeyman, part 1: Childhood’s End
A man in a tattered costume clings to the jagged wall of realm now of this world. His name is Douglas Carmody a.k.a. The Bogeyman, an ex-business man who for the past year has had only one aim in life - to destroy four children whose only crime was to be mistaken for mutants. Douglas Carmody is a bigot, one of that particular breed of human that hates and fears any person, group or thing that smacks of being different - in this case, mutantkind - people whose radical genetic structure gives them unusual abilities. The fact that the four Power children are not genuine mutants is no deterrent to Carmody, because bigotry is a blind obsession. Portrait of a blind man, then - a man consumed by hatred, who, until moments ago, thought he was in reach of his goal - but now finds himself plunging in slow motion through Limbo, an alternate dimension not only of time and space, but of horror - a place that for Douglas Carmody could well prove far worse than any “Twilight Zone”.
‘GNAHGG!’ Carmody cries out as he plunges towards a horde of demons reaching out for him. The remainder of his costume and mask falls away, while the horse-faced demon called N’astirh stands on a ridge nearby and oversees the new arrival. ‘Douglas - how nice of you to come! So glad I could be here for your arrival!’ N’astirh exclaims. ‘Come to us far morsel!’ one of the lesser demons cries out. ‘I take it this means you shall be unable to complete our bargain to deliver to me the mutant earthling human-children I wish to purchase? Yes? We must make alternate arrangements’. One of the lesser demons grabs Carmody and looms over him, ‘The smell! This can’t be real!’ Carmody gasps. ‘Far morsel very ugly! Tastes good and greasy, I think…’ the demon grins. Fire twists around N’astirh as he moves over to Carmody, ‘Aren’t you listening to me?’ the demon lord asks. N’astirh reminds Carmody who he is, and informs him ‘You are in my wolrd now’.
N’astirh remarks that Carmody seems a bit disorientated, and suggests they refresh his memory. ‘Let’s look back to when you first met these four children you call Power Pack…funny how no one else seemed to realize what a “threat” they were - you had to fight them all by yourself!’ N’astirh adds that eve when Power Pack allied themselves with three warriors from Asgard, Carmody finally found an ally in the form of the organization known as the Right, only Power Pack had allies too - the accursed New Mutants, and their sorceress, Illyana Rasputin - cast him into Limbo. N’astirh reveals to Carmody that this was once her domain, but that she is losing her power over the demons, and Limbo is ruled by others now. ‘And someday soon - it may be mine!’ he boasts, picking the fat, naked Carmody up into the air, N’astirh licks his face. ‘In some small way, you may yet serve to aid me in my schemes - by joining my minions!’ N’astirh adds, revealing that he has the power to change Carmody into one of them. ‘It’s simply a matter of… chewing away anything human…!’ N’astirh declares, putting his mouth around Carmody’s body, Carmody screams, and N’astirh remarks that Carmody does taste rather greasy!
The real world, where in New York, it is a little early for such a heat wave, when the air settles like a hot blanket of ash-caked suet, transforming New York into a smudge-pot of smoke, human sweat and sewage - a city choking, drowning in a morass of its own effluvia. Cars are congested in every street. Sacks of garbage line the sidewalks. Smog sits heavy in the air. Humans lumber about in the filth. Just down the hill from Columbia University, where Harlem meets the Upper West Side, the streets smolder in the muffling shadow of the irt. Even the sounds of traffic are bent and stifled into vague and distant strains of sharps and flats. Heaps of gas-bloated green plastic bags, leaking the sticky fermented juices of a week’s uncollected garbage, make a single-file walled obstacle course of the sidewalk, vile black-water sluices underfoot from some ignored, broken sewer line. Amidst the noxious refuse, people perch on brownstone stoops in vain attempts to escape entombment in oven-hot buildings.
Other people continue to file through the streets in a lurching, leaden, slow-motion ballet, some frantically looking for escape, others for violent diversion and some, just to go home. For an exhausted Professor Jim Power, it is an effort to press through the sooty, gelatinous air. Breathing it is like breathing dirty motor oil. The airborne particulate pollution clings to his sodden, knotted clothing, silting into the pores of his skin, it burns his cheeks, eyes and lungs like an acid sandstorm. Flies buzz around Jim’s head. It has been a bad week - funding cutbacks at the National Science Foundation threaten his research grant, the cooling system in his Columbia lab has been out all week, and the unrelenting heat caused computer failure and destroyed two months’ work. Yet, his most immediate concern is for his family. He continues walking the vile streets, and thinks to himself that it is ninety percent humidity, and one hundred and ten degrees in the shade, and his poor kids have chosen this weather to come down with fever. He notices a bus, the only one he has seen, gut it is running Uptown.
‘Just a few more yards…’ Jim tells himself as he nears the apartment block where the Power family reside. Jim presses the button for the elevator, and is thankful that it is still working. Shortly, he enters his apartment, which seems unusually messy, and with a strange filth on the walls and ceiling. ‘Jim! I was beginning to worry!’ Margaret, vacuum cleaner in hand, calls out. Jim explains that the subway is out, and there was no bus, so he walked fifty-four blocks in the heat, and traffic was blocked for forty-six of them. ‘Oh, I’m so glad you’re home!’ Margaret declares as she rushes over and embraces Jim, who tells her that he is so glad to be home. He asks how the kids are, to which Margaret announces that they have got “it” but good, poor babies. She adds that she tried to call Dr Grant, but the phones have been acting funny all day, so she has just bee trying to keep them cool. ‘But this weather - and - and…the house is such a mess, and I just can’t seem to make any headway…electricity’s gone out twice…air conditioner’s broken…washing machine’s on the fritz…’ her voice trails off. Jim tells Margaret that she feels a little warm, too, and suggests that she forgets the mess. ‘Let’s you and me jump in the shower together. We’ll be better able to cope if we cool off a little first. He tells Margaret to go get ready, while he looks in on the kids.
‘Hey, Alex! Jack! What’s the deal guys?’ Jim calls out as he enters the bedroom his sons share. They are both lying on their bed bunks, in only their shorts, and they both moan in unison. Jim tells the boys that he can’t remember them being sick even once since before they lived at the beach house. ‘I guess you’re entitled - though you would have to pick the hottest day on record to catch a fever’. The boys moan again, and Jim tells them that he knows they are feeling pretty lousy. He adds that their mother said they are about one hundred and four degrees, and assures them they are working on a way to get them all cooled down a bit. A cooling fan and a jug of water sit beside the bed, and Jim tells his sons that he loves them and to hang in there.
Jim moves on to his daughters’ room, where Julie and Katie are also lying on their beds, the fan blowing air over them. Jim remarks that the fans are just blowing hot air, before asking Julie how she is doing. Julie tells her father that they said on the radio that the reason it is so hot is because of the pollution making a “greenhouse effect” and that someday, it is always going to be like this. Jim assures Julie that it is just a heatwave, and that it will cool off again in a couple of days. Julie tells her father that she is worried about Katie, so Jim puts his hand to his youngest child’s forehead. Katie is dripping with sweat, ‘Daddy? -’ she utters, as Jim tells her to hush, and that it will be all right.
Jim enters the bathroom, where Margaret is scrubbing the tiled floor. He informs her that he just took Katie’s temperature, and that she is up to one hundred and seven degrees, so he thinks they better put her in the tub first, as those fans just aren’t cutting it. Forlorn, Margaret stops scrubbing and looks up at Jim- ‘I just wanted to clean it up a little first…’ she begins, before Jim goes over to his wife and helps her up, she sits down on the toilet. ‘Sit here and rest, will ya? I’ll take care of it’ Jim assures her. Margaret mutters that she can’t understand why it is still a grimy mess, as she has cleaned up in here twice today already. She wonders if she is losing her mind with the heat. ‘God, the air is close in here…’ she adds. Jim tells Margaret to relax, and remarks that they will all feel better soon. He tries turning the tap over the bath tub on, but no water comes out. ‘Oh, swell. Where’s the water?’ he wonders, before a small trickle starts to come out of the faucet. Then, the water stops. Jim decides to try the hot water and supposes that they could cool it off with ice cubes.
The faucet groans, and Jim remarks that there is a lot of air in the line, before telling Margaret that he hears it coming up the pipes - any minute now - when suddenly, the water gushes from the tap, so hot that it scalds Jim - and it is a filthy color. ‘Hand me a towel - quick!’ Jim asks Margaret, and when she gives it to him, he is able to turn the faucet off. Jim is covered in the brown grime, and he remarks that it is globby rust - before realizing that it is actually sewage. It covers the floor around him and one some of the walls. Jim wonders how city sewage could get into their hot water line - as it is not possible. He exclaims that there could be hepatitis, and Lord knows what, in this. How are we going to clean it up?’ he wonders. ‘What’s that sound in the wall -?’ Margaret begins, when suddenly, the pipes groan again, before one of them breaks, and more of the mess spills into the bathroom.
The Cross Bronx Expressway, where freak accidents, fire and unscheduled road construction has backed up traffic from the GW Bridge through Co-op City. Thousands of desperate commuters slowly expiring in their broiling metal boxes - glued to an eight-mile strip of flypaper. Motionless in a cloying, velvet miasma of carbon monoxide, diesel and gasoline - brains melt like the sticky, steaming asphalt in the blistering heat. Like the Sirocco, which brings insanity to those caught by scorching winds, the heat drives already violent-prone gangs into a fevered frenzy of mayhem and destruction. The descend on the helpless motorists like a swarm of hornets. They break through the windows, smash the trunks, and demand wallets and valuables. ‘C’mon, man, what else you got? You holding out on me, man?’ one of the thugs asks as he steals a man’s wallet. ‘No - I’m not! Please!’ the man in the car exclaims. The thug tries to grab him, ‘Lesse what you holding - oooh! Looky here!’ the thug declares as he pulls a small packet containing something white from the man’s suit jacket pocket.
‘Heh! No wonder you did’n wan’ come across! Hooeee! Yessir! I’m gonna get inta this right now!’ the skinny thug declares as he walks away from the road, examining the packet. He comes to a stop under a bridge, ‘Jeez! I never seen this much coke in one place before! I could stay wired for a month, man!’ the thug tells himself, before deciding that he could sell some. ‘Crack this up, it be worth a fortune’. He boasts that he is a rich man, when suddenly, in the darkness behind him, a huge set of yellow teeth, and two narrow yellow eyes can be seen. ‘You’re dead, you insolent punk!’ the figure in the dark calls out. ‘Preying on your fellow humans! You’re a disgrace to the species!’ he exclaims, before clamping a very large white hand down on the thug’s head, blood splatters about, and the drugs go flying into the air.
Back at the Power residence, Alex and Jack are still lying on their beds. Alex tells Jack that he doesn’t get it, ‘Why are we sick? When Whitey came from space and gave us our powers, he also gave us a healing factor that’s supposed to take care of regular germs - make us immune too’. Sweat pouring down his face, Jack supposes that this might not be a regular germ, that it might be like when Pestilence touched Katie and made them sick. ‘We got better that time by combining our healing powers’ he reminds Alex. Alex points out that they have to get in a circle to do that, and their parents are here, they would get suspicious. ‘Besides, Pestilence is dead. This is probably just a forty-eight hour bug or something’ Alex remarks.
In the girls’ room, Katie looks over at Julie and asks ‘How can we be heroes if we can catch the flu just like anybody else?’ Julie tells her younger sister that Whitey never meant they had to be heroes all the time, and adds that she is glad they have a home where they can let it all go and just be regular kids when they need to, like now. Katie supposes that they have been right to keep it a secret from their Mom and Dad. ‘To them we’re just normal kids’ she adds. ‘That’s how they treat us. Who knows how they’d react if they knew’ Julie points out.
Back on the Cross-Bronx Expressway, the thugs from the gang who have been harassing people in their cars are clutching wounds on their bodies as they try to run from a figure lumbering behind them. ‘Run you guys!’ one of them calls out. ‘It’s going berserk!’ another exclaims, amongst screams. A horrid voice calls out ‘You disgust me, you young hoodlums with your loud music and freakish haircuts! No thought for your appearance at all - as though you don’t care what people think!’ He adds that they have no consideration for the sensibilities of normal, decent people, no regard for the dignity of the species. ‘Don’t you know we’re at war?’ he asks. ‘A war for the purity of humankind against the creeping mutant menace!’ The creature then asks the thugs if their parents know they are dressed like that? ‘That’s right, buddy! You show ‘em! Put the fear a’ God into the little commies!’ a man shouts from his car nearby.
The gluttonous creature continues to attack the thugs and remarks that the last thing they can afford is slackers in their own ranks. ‘And Douglas M Carmody has no patience for slackers!’ he declares, identifying himself. ‘So if your own parents don’t care enough to straighten you out - I’ll just have to do it myself!’ He then shoves a large arm through one of the thugs’ chest. The large man in the car pokes his head out the window and shouts Right on, buddy! Teach ‘em a lesson they won’t forget! That’s the trouble with kids today, no one takes a stand with ‘em - too much freedom!’ He adds that society is too permissive, and enquires as how you can have a free America with such a permissive society? He continues, ‘And drugs, yeah! It’s drugs too! We gotta get tough on these drugs!’ he shouts. The large creature identified as Carmody moves closer to the car, ‘Teach these punks some respect! Wipe ‘em out! Yeah - huh?’ the large man in the car declares.
‘You, Sir, are no better! You are loud, obnoxious and far! You make me sick!’ the creature called Carmody declares as he lumbers closer to the man in the car. Nervously, the man in the car replies ‘Uh - uh - hey, buddy, I didn’t mean nothing…’ when suddenly, the strange creature seems to melt. ‘What happened? Where’d it go?’ the man in the car calls out. A trail of goo can be seen under the car, when suddenly, the large man in the car cries out in pain as the goo has re-formed in the back of the car, the pale-colored, large Carmody shoves his fist into the back of the man, ‘How could you allow yourself to become so grossly obese! You are a successful businessman! You represent the leader class of homo sapiens! You must set the example!’ You are disgraceful!’ Carmody declares, before snapping the man’s neck. ‘Curse you! How dare you get blood on your nice jacket! I have to wear that suit in public, you know!’ Carmody remarks, and shortly, he emerges from the car, wearing the man’s blue suit pants and jacket over his blubbery form. Drool spills from his large, stained teeth, and Carmody exclaims that a man of his position can’t appear in public unclothed, and adds that there is one thing Douglas Carmody won’t be accused of - obscenity. The Bogeyman has returned!
Dusk falls over New York like an iron lid, bringing no cool breath to the sweltering, airless maze. In the city’s dirty bowels, it is already night. The signs and lights of Times Square spring awake to crackle and hum in the scorched-ozone haze. Already, the streets of Manhattan have begun to take on a supernatural, hellish aspect - but the denizens of this lowly place would be hard put on to tell the difference - until now. A glowing portal appears, ‘What the #$%&?’ someone calls out. ‘Illyana’s doing it! We’re getting through!’ a voice can be heard. ‘Watch your back! Watch your back! S’ym’s horde is massing -!’ someone else calls out. An instant later, several young heroes have emerged from the portal - along with an army of savage, horrid, demons, who begin to attack the city. The heroes are the New Mutants - Cannonball, Mirage, Magik, Sunspot, Warlock, Wolfsbane and their ally Gosamyr. ‘Look out! They’re pushing through -’ Mirage calls out, before one of the demons grabs her. ‘For mercy’s sake. Close the disc, Illyana! Close it!’ Wolfsbane pleads. Magik announces that she cannot, as she no longer possesses the power. One of the demons nearby throws his hands into the air: ‘But S’ym does! Haa haa haa! Only I control Limbo! And now my domain will spread over your world as well!’ he laughs, wickedly.
The Power apartment once more. Jim is in the kitchen pouring some water into a bucket. Margaret enters and informs her husband that Katie is sucking on some ice cubes, and she thinks that will help, only all the kids want some and there aren’t enough. ‘At least we can get cool water from the sink and use it to clean up the tub. I thought we’d never get that leak stopped!’ Jim replies, before remarking that if he can get the bath going, maybe things won’t be so bad, although they will have to get someone in here to fix the hole in the wall where he knocked it in to stop the leak. He adds that he cannot understand how something like that could happen in the first place. Margaret asks Jim if he has been listening to the radio, and tells him that the city is going nuts. ‘Lord, sometimes I wonder why we ever left the seacoast’ she adds, before switching the radio on.
An announcer is heard, stating that the rash of bizarre occurrences accompanying this record-breaking heat wave continues to mount a staggering death tool, as more of the abandoned West Side Highway collapses on a gridlock at 54th Street. The announcer adds that, elsewhere, more unexplained collisions and tunnel cave-ins on the IRT and IND lines have prompted the Mayor to urge commuters to avoid the subway entirely, but there is no further word on that BMT train which became trapped earlier this afternoon. The announcer reveals that some three hundred people are believed to have suffocated in that disaster. The announcer informs listeners that reports have surfaced that other strange tragedies around the city may be supernatural in origin - steam pipes unexpectedly bursting in the streets have scalded dozens of people to death, followed by unconfirmed reports of other inanimate objects taking on a malevolent life of their own. ‘Several reports are coming in now from the Times Square area of people being attacked by demonic creatures’. The announcer remarks that, whether or not these are figments of hysteria, a result of the unrelenting heat is unknown at this time, due to failure of services and communications around town. The announcer reports that it is known that vandalism, sickness and seemingly impossible disasters are plaguing the city at a time when the group of superheroes known as the Avengers have permanently disbanded, according to reports. ’Why the well-known group of self-styled do-gooders has chosen to cease operating at this time of New York’s greatest need is not known’.
‘Yow! D’ja hear the radio in there?’ Jack calls out to Alex, who slowly sits up on the top bunk and remarks that they oughtta be out there doing something to help. ‘C’mon, we’ve got to think of something’. Alex starts to climb off the top bunk, but is so weak, he falls with a thud. ‘Oh, right, you’re in great shape to save the world’ Jack mutters. At hearing the noise, Margaret enters the boys’ room, ‘Alex! What happened, honey? Are you all right?’ she calls out. Alex assures his mother that he is fine, but that he has to go to the bathroom. Margaret helps Alex up and down the corridor towards the bathroom, ‘I want you to know your father and I have gotten it just about all cleaned up, so it won’t be long before we’ll all be able to -‘ Margaret begins, but when they enter, they both go wide-eyed, ‘Yee-ucch!’ Margaret exclaims. ‘Gross!’ Alex declares. Margaret turns and rushes from the bathroom, ‘Oh my Lord, Alex, honey, don’t go in there! Jim!’ Margaret calls out.
The smell burns Alex’s eyes, so he covers his face, realizing that the entire bathroom is covered n mildew, only worse. He knows that his Mom can’t stand mildew, Closing his eyes as he enters the bathroom, Alex tells himself that he has to do something, that this can’t be real, as molds and fungi grow fast, but not like this. ‘It’s like mutant mildew!’ he thinks to himself, before deciding that something strange is going on in the city, and this could be part of it. He wonders if it is not normal mildew, if it is something alien, deadly. ‘Maybe I can disintegrate it all before mom gets back - convince her that the heat made her think it was worse than it was’. As Alex starts to use his power to disintegrate the mold, revealing the clean floor and bath beneath it, he knows that it is kinda of a weak scam, but he doesn’t want his Mom exposing herself to this, as she is just a normal person.
Shortly, Alex only has a little more to do, but he cannot absorb much more energy without starting to glow. He stands over the toilet to relieve himself, and flushes it - telling himself that he will have to be careful - but as he turns around, ‘Holy cow! It’s growing back before my eyes!’ Alex tells himself, surprised. Suddenly, the toilet starts to overflow and water pours out of it, and the mildew creeps up Alex’s legs.
‘Jim! Now I know I’m not crazy. What they’re saying on the radio - it’s true! It’s all true!’ Margaret declares as she rushes back into the kitchen, adding that they have to gather the kids and get the heck out of here. ‘One thing’s for sure, this is more than just a typical heatwave’ Jim agrees. He touches Margaret’s face and adds that something is definitely going on, but that it is worse out there than it is in here, and that he doesn’t think it is safe to take the kids outside. They glance at the radio when Jim notices that it is getting loud. They both cover their ears, ‘Yow! It’s blaring - hurts!’ Jim exclaims. ‘Gotta shut it off!’ Margaret shouts. ‘Can’t hear you! My ears -’ Jim begins. ‘Got to turn the -’ Margaret begins as she reaches for the radio control - but she gets a shock, and the controller on the radio gets an evil demonic expression. ‘Oh God! It’s getting louder!’ Margaret utters.
Jim points out that there is no reason for it to act like that, and picking up a rubber spatula, uses it to pull the radio cord out of the plug socket in the wall - but it still keeps on making noise. ‘It won’t stop! - How -?’ Jim begins. ‘Lookout, honey! Stand back!’ Margaret shouts as she picks up a rolling pin, and slams it down on the radio. The kitchen goes silent. ‘Whew for a minute I was afraid that wasn’t going to work’ Margaret admits. Jim suggests that they take their chances and get out of here while they still can. He tells Margaret that they should take the kids to Pauline’s, as he doesn’t want to wait for something worse to happen.
‘YAAA! No! No!’ Katie screams. ‘Katie! Katie, what’s wrong?’ Julie calls out, looking over to her sister. ‘Crack in wall. Bogeyman! A Bogeyman in the wall!’ Katie replies. Julie gets out of bed and goes over to Katie, deciding that she is delirious. Julie starts to shake her sister, and tells her that it is only a dream, that everything is okay, and that she is safe. ‘N-no -’ Katie begins, before Julie tells her that when she was a kid, she used to see a Bogeyman in the cracks and used to think they were waiting under the bed to get her. ‘But Katie - Carmody’s in Limbo and there is no such thing as a real Bogeyma-’ Julie begins, when suddenly, an arm reaches out from under her bed and grabs her by her hair, pulling her back. ‘Wrong on both counts, girls! No screaming now…don’t want your folks to hear, do we? They might learn the truth heh heh heh’ the voice under the bed laughs. Julie starts to black out, she knows she has to go cloudy. ‘Go ahead - turn to smoke, Julie. Heh heh. I could’ve snapped your neck five times already, if I’d wanted to…but I’ve something better in mind!’ the voice exclaims.
Julie is released from the clammy clutch of the Bogeyman. ‘Julie? Julie, what’s wrong?’ Katie calls out, while Julie touches her free neck, and turns to her bed, where the voice calls out ‘Something much better in mind! And if can go anywhere, fit any hiding place - so you’ll never know when or where I’m going to strike! I’ll be watching…’. Julie sits up on Katie’s bed and holds her younger sister, who asks what is going on, and reveals that she feels funny. Julie tells Katie to hush, and come with her, as quickly as she can. Julie knows that she has to tell Jack and Alex that the Bogeyman is real, and that she thinks somehow he is Carmody. Katie stumbles alongside Julie, she is basically delirious: ‘Where’re we goin’ Mama? I wanna lie down…Friday isn’t this way…’ she calls out. ‘I’m not Mom, Katie. This is Julie! You’ve got to try to walk, baby! We’ve gotta -’ Julie begins, before gasping as her parents enter the room
‘Julie! It’s just us, sweetheart! What’s the matter?’ Jim asks. Holding Katie up, Julie tells her father that they have to get her to the hospital, and fast. Jim picks Katie up and Margaret tells Julie that she knows, but that she doesn’t think they stand much of a chance getting to a hospital tonight, as the whole city is kind of crazy. ‘But your gather and I think we can make it to your Aunt Pauline’s. We’ll be all right there’ Margaret explains. Jim reports that he managed to get Pauline on the phone, and that she says her building seems unaffected, and she is filling her tub now to be sure they will have water. ‘Katie’ll be okay as soon as we get her fever down’ Jim adds. Margaret enters the boys’ room as they are getting dressed. ‘Boys…’ she begins. ‘We know, Ma. We heard’ Alex replies, to which Margaret suggests they get out of here as quickly and calmly as possible.
The Power family enter the corridor outside their apartment, ‘Elevator’s still working, thank Heaven’ Jim remarks, while Julie has filled her brothers in on her mysterious encounter, as they stand away from their parents and Katie. ‘Holy cow! It’s a good thing you weren’t hurt, Julie - but there’s nothing we can do about this Bogeyman until he shows himself!’ Alex remarks, adding that right now they have got to find a way to get Katie in a circle with them and use their healing powers without their Mom and Dad catching on. Inside the elevator, Margaret tells her family that the air is close, like a steam-bath in here. Jim tells everyone to hang on, as they will be out of here in a minute, when suddenly, the elevator stops moving. ‘The elevator’s stuck! Margaret gasps. ‘We’re trapped between floors!’ Julie calls out. The elevator roof is then ripped open - and the Bogeyman stares down at the family. ‘That’s right, kid. It’s me again - and this time I’m gonna settle your hash for good!’ the Bogeyman exclaims.
‘It’s a demon! Like on the radio!’ Jim calls out. ‘Demons! Aliens! For Heaven’s sake, why do these things keep happening to our family?’ Margaret exclaims, fear in her eyes. ‘Why?’ Margaret begins, before the Bogeyman reaches down and picks Margaret and Jim up by their necks. ‘Margaret - don’t wiggle - could - snap - own neck - by accident -’ Jim manages to utter. ‘Why you say? You mean you really don’t know? They’ve actually kept it a secret from you all this time? Ha! That’s great!’ the Bogeyman exclaims. ‘The reason these “thins” keep happening, you gullible little twit, is because your kids are a bunch of unholy mutant monsters!’ the Bogeyman declares. As the Power kids huddle in a circle together, arms around each other, the Bogeyman announces that they ruined his career, they ruined his life, cast him into Limbo. ‘And they call themselves superheroes? Ha!’
Margaret glances down at her children, while Jim looks up at the Bogeyman, who asks ‘Whaddya think of that, kids? I’ve blown your little secret - how’re you gonna cover it up this time?’ he asks. ‘No! It’s impossible! It’ can’t be! Not our children! It’s a mistake. Leave them alone!’ Margaret calls out, while Jim tells the Bogeyman that he has the wrong people. ‘Don’t you think we know our own kids for God’s sake?’ he asks. The Bogeyman stares down with angry eyes, ‘They are mutants, I say! Mutants - and I’m giving them a choice! Either they prove it by trying to save your lives - or watch while I twist your heads clean off!’ the Bogeyman threatens.
The kids all look up at the Bogeyman, ‘Okay, jerk face, you win’ Jack calls out. ‘Mom - Dad - we hoped it would never have to happen this way’ Alex tells his parents, while Katie adds that they are sorry for lying. ‘But what he says is true…costumes on!’ Julie exclaims, and an instant later, the kids are clad in their brightly colored costumes. ‘We are…Power Pack!’ they calls out in unison, looking up angrily at the Bogeyman, as Jack calls out ‘Not put ‘em down, potato face - so we can kick yer backside!’


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Revenge of the Bogeyman, part 3: What Price Victory?
‘Power Pack attack!’ shout Julie, Jack and Alex Power, along with Katie, the young super heroes drop down amongst a horde of demons who are attacking civilians in the transformed city. It is still Inferno, that fateful night when the veil between this world and the hellish dimension called Limbo was shredded. ‘Hang on, kid - I’ll take you to your parents!’ Katie a.k.a. Starstreak exclaims as she drops down and picks up girl up from the clutches of the demons. New York is still overrun by demons, and the streets themselves are twisted into a surreal nightmare as supernatural horror threatens to engulf reality. ‘Yow! Katie! Watch we’re your streaking - I almost hit you with a power ball!’ Alex a.k.a. Destroyer exclaims as he fires several power balls out into the horde of demons. ‘You watch it, Alex! She’s only five and a half years old!’ Jack a.k.a. Counterweight calls out as he punches several demons.
Hours ago, Power Pack fought and won their most desperate battle - to save their parents from the demonic, hate-crazed Bogeyman. It was a battle that cost them their secret identities - and more. ‘Take it easy, Jack! We’re all tired…’ Julie a.k.a. Molecula points out as she switches from cloud form to super-dense, and slams herself against one of the demons. ‘I know, Julie! I guess I’m just fed up with all these demons’ Jack mutters. But for the four heroic children of power, sworn to save their world, the fighting has never stopped. ‘Who isn’t? We’ve been pushing too hard! I’m getting dizzy from so much “Julie-hammering”!’ Julie adds. As Jack lifts a stunned demon overhead, he announces that he is worried about Katie, as she has been airlifting people to safety all night with no ant-grav assistance from him, so she must be pooped. Jack tells Julie that going from cloudy to dense too fast used to make him feel funny, too, as he used to have that power.
As Katie drops the girl on a nearby rooftop, where several others are, the girl calls out to her, informing he that her grandma is still down there. ‘All right…I’ll find her’ Katie calls back, wiping her tired brow. In her cloud form, Julie announces that everything is so crazy. ‘Don’t know half the time if we’re fighting goblins or just transformed people! Even the street lights are demonized!’ Julie calls out as he one of them fires a bolt of energy at her. Jack sees this and tells Julie to stay cloudy, as he will disintegrate it, he needs to power-up again, anyway. Katie drops down amongst the demons, ‘Are you a grandma?’ she asks an elderly woman as she pulls her from the demons. ‘Don’t worry, ma’am - I’ll save you from those monsters’. The old woman suddenly looks at Katie, ‘How’s this for a grand-maw, dearie? Hee hee hee hee hee!’ the demon laughs, revealing its monstrous form. Katie screams, and her siblings turn to the direction of her voice. ‘Hurry, Jack! She needs us!’ Alex exclaims. The demon, in the old lady form, has sprouted large wings to match its large mouth, and flies after Starstreak, who tries to fly away from it. ‘That old lady’s turned into a harpy!’ Molecula points out as she carries Jack and Alex along in her cloud form.
‘Katie’s flying tired! That thing’s gonna catch her! But it’s too far to be accurate with a power ball!’ Alex tells his siblings. ‘Come to granny, dearie!’ the harpy demon exclaims as it grabs Katie. ‘She’s got her! Gotta do it now!’ Alex calls out as he fires a power ball, which strikes the demon, separating it from Katie, who starts to plummet. ‘I can catch her in my molecular density field - made it!’ Julie exclaims as she catches Katie in the bubbles, while the demon lands safely on the ground. But as the other kids land, Jack rushes up to the demon, ‘And a super posi-gee punch takes care of the harpy!’ Jack exclaims as he punches the demon, sending it careening through the air. ‘Takje that, you old bat!’ Jack jokes. Alex pulls Katie from the bubbles and asks her if she is all right. He tells her that she needs to rest. ‘Maybe it’s time we all took a little - rest?’ Alex begins, but the four young heroes look around, as several demons rush towards them. ‘Alex - I’m scared!’ Katie calls out, while Jack tells everyone to brace themselves, ‘This is it!’
But, as the demons are just inches from the heroes, Power Pack go wide-eyed, ‘Wh -? Demons have stopped!’ Alex exclaims. ‘What are they doing? What are they scared of?’ Julie asks. ‘Look up there!’ Jack calls out, as a large hole has opened in the sky above them - where hundreds of demons are being sucked towards. ‘A giant hole - opening in the sky?’ Julie asks as the demons around them are sucked towards it, too. ‘A dimensional door, I think! It’s sucking all the demons away!’ Alex calls out, while Julie announces that it is over - finally - all over and everything is going to be okay again.
The young heroes start to return home, with Counterweight de-gravitating himself and Destroyer so that Starstreak can fly them, as Molecula floats above. ‘Cripes! It’s almost down! Mom and Dad are going to have a cow!’ Counterweight exclaims. Molecula reminds her siblings that their parents were so freaked by what happened tonight, finding out about their powers the way they did - and the Bogeyman - and then as soon as they was over, they rushed out to fight demons all night. ‘It’s so unfair to them. They must be worried sick’ Molecula adds, while Destroyer points out that their parents are going to be hysterical. And soon, as they young heroes climb through the window back into the Power apartment, ‘Mom Dad!’ Julie calls out. ‘Home at last - huh?’ Jim remarks as he and Margaret turn from where they are sitting at the dining table. He welcomes the kids home, and asks how it went. ‘Glad you’re not hurt. Want a snack?’ he asks. ‘Are you guys okay?’ Alex asks.
Katie hugs her mother, as both Jim and Margaret have large smiles on their faces - as if they are forcing themselves to smile. ‘Oh, sure, y’know… adjusting - listen, you kids think maybe you want to go to bed? You must be exhausted. It’s hours past your bedtime’ Jim points out. Jack tells his parents that they are pretty tired, but he thought they might like to talk, or something. ‘No no. We’re fine. Run along to bed, you hard working superheroes need your rest’ Jim adds. The parents continue to smile at the kids, as the four leave the living area and enter the hallway towards their bedrooms. ‘Mom and Dad are acting kinda funny - Mom’s hugs are all stuff!’ Katie tells the others. Julie remarks that something is wrong, as their parents are not reacting in a way that is at all real. ‘They’re just trying to act normal. They’ll adjust…we’ve all just gotta get some - sleep’ Alex replies. He tells his siblings not to worry about their Mom and Dad. ‘They’ll be fine’ he points out, while in the living room, an anguished Margaret wrings her hands together, and Jim is face down on the table.
The next morning, Margaret and Jim are all smiles once more, huge grins, as the kids sit around the table for breakfast. ‘Well…here we are at breakfast…things seem painfully normal around here - don’t you guys want to talk?’ Alex enquires. Jim sits at the head of the table while Margaret brings the cereal and milk over. ‘Last night - after your brought us home and took off again to go super heroing, your mother and I decided that - carrying on normally is the only option we could - afford’ Jim announces. He adds that in light of the face they can’t change what their kids are, and the fact that the kids worked so hard to keep it a secret, keep them out of their decisions, and considering that, as parents, they never even suspected what was going on, they think perhaps they don’t have the right to interfere. ‘But, guys…this has been a very traumatic experience for you. We should - we need to talk this out! And as you said, Pa, we’re a family! We can work this out together. Just because we have these powers doesn’t mean anything important has changed!’ Alex declares.
Jim hangs his head, ‘That’s just the point. We have to behave as if nothing has changed. please, son, for now…we have to, or, or…’ his voice trails off, before he smiles again, and asks ‘So! How did you guys get to be super heroes anyhow? Er - does it have anything to do with our friends the Kymellians?’ he asks. ‘Pa!’ one of the kids exclaims. Alex then tells his father that they will have it his way. ‘It’s kind of a long story - see, Whitey came from space and…’ Alex begins, as Margaret rubs her head and walks out of the living area. ‘Mommy?’ Katie calls out. Margaret goes into the kitchen and starts to pack the lunchboxes for the children, as Katie stands in the doorway she asks ‘Mama? Are you crying?’ to which Margaret does not look up from what she is doing, and replies ‘What? No, honey - just doing Mommy stuff’, she sniffs back the tears. Without looking at Katie still, Margaret hands her daughter the lunchbox, ‘P&J, apple, carrot sticks and milk money…and many you’d all better take your slickers, cause it looks like rain - and be careful crossing Columbus Avenue, cause - what am I saying! You can fly! Of course! I forgot!’ Margaret exclaims.
Tears fall down her face as Margaret declares ‘Here my babies are super heroes, and I’m telling them to be careful crossing the street! Ha-ha! Isn’t that silly? Ha-ha! You kids must have thought it was pretty stupid the way we used to fuss and worry over stuff like that when you were really out stopping killers and space aliens and - and we thought you were playing so happily - like, like - ha-ha!’ Margaret sniffs back the tears, as Katie tells her that she sounds funny. ‘What’s the matter?’ she asks. Margaret puts her face to the wall and replies that she is fine, really. ‘Try not to lose your homework if any more monsters come to -’ Margaret begins, as Katie tugs on her mother’s shirt, while Jim rushes into the kitchen, followed by the other kids. Jim tells them not to worry, as their Mom is just having a little hard time with all of this. ‘It takes time you know - it’s not every day your kids - turn out to be - run along to school now…try to have a normal day, okay? And we’ll sort this out some more when…’ Jim’s voice trails off, as Alex announces that there is no school today, the city is a mess and people need their help. ‘Oh, for crying out loud, kids - hasn’t this family been though enough for one week?’ Jim shouts, holding his wife. Alex calmly tells his parents not to worry, as the demons are gone, they won’t be in any real danger, but right now their powers can help save a lot of people -lives depend on them doing the jobs their powers have given them.
And shortly, the young heroes take flight, as Julie tells Alex that she doesn’t feel right about leaving their parents like this. ‘I think they need us! Something’s really wrong’ she adds. Alex announces that their Mom and Dad are safe now, they are out of actual danger and they need to concentrate on the many who are still in serious trouble. ‘We’re supposed to save the world, aren’t we?’ Alex adds. ‘Besides, Dad says he wants us to carry on normally’ Alex reminds his siblings, assuring them that their parents just need time to work this out. Molecula solemnly wonders to herself why they are kidding themselves - as what their parents really nee is to have their babies back, the way they were before they got their powers. ‘Mom and Dad are in trouble. They can’t handle this alone, and we’re not dealing with it like a family’ Julie tells herself, wondering what they an do. ‘Are we too worn out - too scared to cope with this? Or is it just easier to go save the world and stuff than to just deal with a real crisis at home?’
As the young heroes drop down t the ground, the city is littered with transformed objects from the Inferno, and some buildings still have demonic gunk covering them. Alex suggests that they split up and help as many people as they can, but to stay within earshot. ‘What a mess! The streets are so quiet after last night - it’s creepy!’ Jack remarks as he waves goodbye to Julie and Katie, while only a few civilians are wandering the streets nearby. Alex sees an elderly man strapped in a large tyre from his car. Alex supposes that the car must have got demonized and be trying to kill him when the spell broke. He starts to disintegrate the tyres and tells them an to hold on. ‘We’ll have you free in a sec-’ Alex begins, adding that he doesn’t understand why the car is just frozen in place.
‘Why didn’t it revert to being a regular car? Unless there’s some residual magic left -’ he remarks, when suddenly, after freeing the man, the car bursts to life, and its large teeth move towards Counterweight, as Destroyer realizes that when he tried to disintegrate it, it must have release the leftover demon energy. ‘Stand back, bro - let’s see if It can stand up to the energy released by my positive-gravity super-punch!’ Counterweight calls out as he punches the demonic car, flattening it. ‘Way to go, Jack! It’s just a regular car again - er, sort of -’ Destroyer exclaims. ‘How do I explain this to my insurance?’ the old man asks himself, shocked. ‘Guess I - heh heh - knocked the “H.E Double Hocket Sticks” out of it. Get it?’ Jack exclaims. ‘No need to thank us, sir! Up, up and away!’ Alex tells the old man, before he and Counterweight take off.
Nearby, Starstreak flies up to a demonized lamppost which has trapped two people, wrapped itself around them. She has managed to free one of them, and tells the other to try to wriggle out, as she can lower them both to safety. ‘Holy cow! What is that?’ Julie gasps as she sees a large, transformed vehicle. ‘Looks like a bus that got demonized!’ Alex points out. ‘And then froze in place - like that car!’ Jack remarks. Starstreak drops the people she rescued from the lamppost on the ground, as Alex puts his head to the bus and announces that he can hear sobbing and people moving. ‘I’ll cloud through this crack and take a look!’ Julie calls out as she does just that, re-materializing in the bus, where over a dozen trapped passengers look very tired and afraid. ‘Smells like cat barf in here! And the walls look like ribs - only slimy…like they’re alive!’ Julie thinks to herself. She then tells everyone to stay calm, and introduces herself as a superhero, adding that she and her partners will get them all out of here safely. ‘She’s just a kid!’ a man calls out. ‘The bus - it tried to digest us - but then everything just stopped!’ a woman reveals.
Julie flies back out of the bus and tells Alex to hurry, as it is like an oven in there, and the people are all out of air. ‘They’ll suffocate!’ she exclaims. Alex puts his hands to the bus and starts to disintegrate it, announcing that there is no other way, he has to disintegrate some of the ribs. ‘No, Alex! Remember the car!’ Jack exclaims. ‘Too late!’ Julie calls out as the demon-bus roars into life, ‘It came alive!’ Starstreak exclaims as she leaps out of the way. ‘It’s charging! Gangway!’ Jack calls out as he pushes Alex out of the way. ‘I can  catch it - but what then?’ Katie asks as she streaks after the bus. Molecula follows, and Counterweight degravitizes himself and Destroyer to float after the bus also. Julie tells Katie that she will make a molecular density field and catch it in a giant airball cushion so no one inside will get hurt. Molecula uses her new power to create many bubbles of dense air, which cushion the bus and bring it to a stand still. Alex disintegrates some ribs and he and the others help the civilians from the bus. ‘Get those people off, fast! I can’t hold this thing for long!’ Julie exclaims, while Alex soon announces that everyone is out.
Suddenly: ‘Uh-oh! I can’t hold it! It’s breaking away! Look out, Alex!’ Julie screams as she is forced to release the demon bus, which moves towards Alex, who tells Julie to chill, as he has it covered. Alex then fires a large power ball, flattening the bus. And, shortly after the smoke clears, Counterweight has depravities the now flattened bus, using it to transport all of the rescued civilians. Alex stands on the flattened bus with the civilians, while Starstreak flies the de-gravitized Counterweight, keeping him steady, and Molecula floats alongside. Alex declares that the demon effect must wear off slowly, as the city is gradually becoming more recognizable. He adds that he is pretty sure they will find Roosevelt Hospital over this way, pointing north. Counterweight tells his brother that it was nice of him to leave such a neat hunk of debris when he blasted that bus-monster to bits, as this piece of roof is just great for de-gravitizing all of the people at once.
And shortly, the young heroes arrive at the hospital, where medical staff and emergency personnel are tending to injured civilians under tents on the road outside. ‘What hit this place - a bomb? They’ve got their patients lying in the street!’ Counterweight. A doctor approaches the heroes and reveals that the hospital went crazy last night. ‘Never have I beheld such demons in a first-class hospital, no!’ the doctor calls out. Alex tells him that he is sorry to add to their troubles, but they have some more patients for him. ‘Can you tell me who is in charge?’ Alex asks. Dr Ahjay Bhatnagar introduces himself, adding that he is the closest to anyone that is being “in charge”. Dr Bhatnagar tells Alex that they will do what they can for his people, but that he is very sorry, all of the serious cases will have to wait to be treated. ‘And as you can see, we haven’t beds enough for half of those’ he adds.
Dr Bhatnagar reveals that an x-ray machine came to life last night, roamed the halls attacking people with powerful x-ray blasts, and three patients and many staff received significant radiation burns, before Doctor Gary Campbell and he pushed it down the elevator shaft. ‘Oh, Kali is laughing today, you can be sure’ the doctor remarks. ‘Holy cow!’ Alex exclaims. ‘Yes, in my country they are - but that is another story…aren’t you children too young to be super heroes? Who are you?’ the doctor enquires. ‘Er - ah…’ Alex’s voice trails off, as suddenly, a voice calls out ‘They’re with us!’ Everyone looks up to see Dani “Mirage” Moonstar and Roberto “Sunspot” DaCosta, two of the New Mutants, standing on their shape shifting alien teammate Warlock, who has morphed himself into a hoverpad. With them and clinging to Sunspot is the New Mutants’ ally, Gosamyr. Mirage tells Dr Bhatnagar that she is sorry, but the New Mutants had to make a short detour through outer space, and neglected to introduce him to their younger teammates.
The New Mutants land, and Warlock and Starstreak hug, as Warlock declares ‘Self is happy to see you again, self-friend Starstreak / Katie-Bear!’ Katie tells Warlock that he is her “Self-friend”, too. Gosamyr and Molecula stand near each other as Jack exclaims ‘Yo, Sunspot - how’s it going, Bobby, m’man!’ ‘Er - give me five, Counterweight’ Sunspot replies as he and Jack slap their hands together. ‘Mirage - what -?’ Alex asks, confused, as he and Mirage stand near Dr Bhatnagar, Dani explains that they have met briefly before, and she wanted to help him. ‘Tell me, what is your greatest wish at this time?’ she asks Dr Bhatnagar. ‘Do you mean other than that this whole mess had never happened to start with?’ the doctor replies, adding that he appreciates her help, but what he needs most is a small army of well-trained medical specialists and supplies to care for all these people - not to mention perhaps a construction crew to rebuild the hospital.
‘You mean like these people?’ Dani asks, motioning to two long lines of medical staff and construction workers who materialize before them. The doctor is stunned, as Dani informs him that her mutant power lets her pull his greatest fear and desire from his mind and make it real for a while. She adds that these “solid-thought-forms” are at his service - only - they will have to use his supplies, as they can’t have the bandages and sutures they apply disappearing when she has to recall everything else. ‘But can they do it? Are they any good?’ Dr Bhatnagar asks. ‘The best you could imagine - since they are drawn from your mind’s own quintessential archetype!’ Mirage explains. Wide-eyed, Dr Bhatnagar announces that there are more bed and supplies back in the building, if only they could get to them. Mirage tells Dr Bhantagar not to worry, as they can find them. ‘And we’ll get the place patched up so that it’s at least partially usable and safe enough for the duration…get your patients off the street’ Dani adds. The doctor tells her that he doesn’t know how, but that if she can at least get the ER restored, that would be most helpful. ‘C’mon, mutants! Let’s do it!’ Mirage exclaims, and everyone follows her, with Starstreak calling out ‘But we’re not…’.
And so, deep within the ruined edifice, Power Pack and the New Mutants go to work, side by side, clearing rubble from the cave-in, like Destroyer does by blasting it with power balls, and hoisting and haling massive debris to shore up and support surviving structure, like Counterweight and Sunspot do. Pooling their efforts and energies to salvage, repair and restore. Combining their great powers to forge a haven for the innocent refuges of the Inferno. Mirage keeps the dream-workers alive, as others care for the sick and wounded, like Gosamyr, who leans over the makeshift beds of several smiling patients. ‘This is it on the percoset, Doctor! Codeine and morphine are hone! We are virtually out of pain meds!’ a medical staff informs a doctor, who is watching Gosamyr and tells her colleague that this may not be necessary, as that mutant seems to have the ability to make these patients believe anything - including that they feel no pain. ‘The effect seems to be most pronounced in the male subjects’ the doctor adds. Nearby, Molecula holds patients up on beds of density bubbles, as Starstreak flies towards her, carrying a mattress. ‘Hang in their, Julie - we just found tons of mattresses!’ Starstreak calls out. Julie asks one of the patients how the bed is, and the boy replies ‘Like sleeping on air!’
Long hours pass in ceaseless labor, until, at day’s end, the New Mutants and Power Pack take rest against a table. ‘You kids have got to rest! Would anyone like some juice?’ a nurse calls out as she walks towards them. ‘Yeah…’ Counterweight replies, while Sunspot announces that he is actually sore. Starstreak and Warlock are propped up against each other, both sleeping, while Molecula suggests to Alex that they should try to phone home again. Before Alex can answer, someone rushes in and announces that the National Guard is here. Indeed, outside, a soldier salutes Dr Bhatnagar and announces that he has MASH units, full personnel and equipment, plus food, water, clothing and blankets which are 100% US government issued. He adds that he is happy to report that the corps of engineers are flying in to restore all essential facilities ASAP. Dr Bhatnagar smiles, and soon waves goodbye to the New Mutants and Power Pack who take flight.
Later, on a rooftop, lit by the last bronze rays of sunlight, the young heroes sit along the ledge, side by side - Sunspot, then Gosamyr, followed by Counterweight, then Mirage, Destroyer, Molecula, and finally Starstreak and Warlock who lean against each other to sleep. ‘So, handsome, how old are you?’ Gosamyr enquires as she leans into Counterweight. ‘Yeesh! Get your cooties away from me! Cripes! Girls. Phooey. Ick!’ Jack retorts. Mirage is relating recent events to Alex and Julie: ‘…and when Colossus tore open the armor, there was Illyana - but changed into a six-year-old’ she reveals, adding that Illyana had been tricked into opening the portal to Limbo in the first place, and sacrificed herself to close it off again and save the Earth. ‘But now she’s a kid! She has the chance to grow up all over again, only differently this time!’ Julie points out, before asking who is going to take care of her. Mirage reports that Cannonball and Wolfsbane are with her now, as Alex remarks ‘- so, the demons came from Limbo through that portal, and all the other stuff - the craziness last night and before - was all because the “wall” between us and Limbo got gradually thinner as Illyana lost control over it’… that explains about Carmody coming back as a monster - and everything’.
Mirage tells Power Pack that it sounds like they handled the Bogeyman like pros, before asking ‘What about your folks? How are they reacting to all this…and finding out about your powers?’ she enquires. ‘Oh, fine! I - I mean we all used to really worry about what would happen if they found out about us…but, hey - they’re acting perfectly normal…just like nothing ever happened…’ Alex’s voice trails off, as he tells Mirage ‘That’s a lie! I’m sorry Dani…I’ve been lying to myself, ‘cause I - haven’t the guts to face the truth!’ Alex announces. He tells Dani that they have destroyed their parents, that they are totally freaked out and getting worse. ‘They were okay at first - in the clinch with Carmody, but they can’t handle it! Deep down I knew they would never be able to…’ Alex’s voice trails off. He starts to cry as he remarks that their parents were always great - the best, and that all they ever wanted was to be a real family, a great, big, happy family, with happy, normal kids. ‘And we were until we - until… curse Carmody. I think he’s won after all!’
Suddenly, Alex declares ‘No! It’s out fault - my fault! Instead of trying to help Mom and Dad adjust, we just turned around and left when they needed us most! We never gave them two minutes of reassurance!’ Alex adds that the strongest, closest family in the world can fall apart if you let it. He informs the New Mutants that they have to go home, and bids them so long. ‘I wish we could help…’ Mirage calls out as she, Sunspot, Warlock and Gosamyr watch the young heroes take flight.
Shortly, ‘Mom! Dad! We’re home -?’ Alex calls out as he and his siblings enter the Power apartment through the living room window. ‘Why’s the place so quiet? Where are they?’ Jack wonders as he and the others start to search for their parents. ‘I don’t like this…’ Julie calls out, while Katie shouts ‘Mommy! Daddy! We’re sorry to be so late!’ Alex tells his siblings to be quiet, as he thinks he hears something. ‘Bhahm’s lullabye…someone singing -?’ Alex remarks, before the kids step into a darkened room, ‘MOM!’ Alex gasps as they see their mother slumped over on the floor, hair a mess, clutching a doll, she sings: ‘…lullabye… and good night… go to sleep, little baby…’. Jim tells the kids to leave their mother be, as she is at peace now, she just needs some peace is all. ‘Dad! We’re sorry we’re late, Dad! We -’ Alex begins, but as Jim stares off into the darkness, Jack tells his brother that he doesn’t think their Dad hears them.
‘…don’t know when you’re going out to play, if you’ll get involved in some space war and get killed by “super-villains” we can’t do anything about it…what right do we have to tell “super heroes” what to do? You can do anything. Why not…? We’re not fit parents - not for you - you deserve good parents…you are super heroes…deserve “super parents”…but we never knew…not fit parents…but you’re super heroes…don’t need parents…can do what you want…except - you have no childhood…no childhood for super heroes…everybody needs childhood…not for you though…sob…you are super heroes…no more childhood…we never even knew…’ Jim rambles. ‘Dad…don’t talk like this! We’re still children, Dad… we’re still your -’ one of the kids begins, as Jim continues, adding that they are not fit parents, can’t protect the kids anymore. ‘But there are schools, they say… up north… can help mutant children… protect them… help with powers…like yours…you could go there…’ Jim announces. ‘They could take care of you… better than we -’ Jim begins.
‘Dad! No! That’s a lame idea, Dad! We love you guys! We want to stay here! We want it to be like it was!’ Alex assures his father as he and Jack rush over to Jim, while Julie and Katie go over to Margaret, who turns away from them. Suddenly, ‘Knock knock!’ a voice calls out - it’s Gosamyr, who enters the room with Mirage, Sunspot and Warlock. Mirage calls out to Mr and Mrs Power and tells them that they are sorry to barge in like this, but there has been a terrible misunderstanding. ‘We really should have come sooner, but we’ve been extremely busy’ Mirage adds as the New Mutants enter the room. Power Pack look a little confused, while Warlock assist Margaret over to the bed where Jim is sitting, Sunspot announces that they should have let them in on the plan before it started, and adds that they are sorry for the deception, but they felt it necessary to protect their real children. ‘Self entreats Dear-Mama-Power to come sit with Husband-True-Love and listen’ Warlock tells Margaret, as Jim looks at Gosamyr and asks ‘Deception? Real children? Who are you?’
‘We’re the New Mutants!’ Mirage declares, adding that they are super heroes, and last night, this while mess, was all their fault, in a way. Mirage smiles and begins a lengthy explanation: Mirage informs the Powers that one of their team was the reluctant mistress of Limbo, and that she lost control over that dimension when demons there rebelled - the Bogeyman, Carmody, was really a part of that. She tells them that the New Mutants learned Carmody hated mutant children during their fight with the Right, a group of anti-mutant terrorists, and for some reason, Carmody had the delusion that the Power children were mutants too, and that they were responsible for some losing money on some broken invention. Then, after they tossed him into Limbo for safe keeping, the demons changed him into the monster that they saw, so when Carmody escaped during the Limbo revolt, they knew he would try to kill the kids, but they were tied up with fighting the rebellion.
‘So, we came up with a scheme to save your children by replacing them with these super powered decoys. We figured the decoys would stop Carmody, while we kept your kids in hiding…now it’s safe to return them!’ Dani announces, and suddenly, ‘We’re back! We’re safe!’ Julie calls out as she rushes into the roo. ‘Dad!’ Jack shouts. ‘Mommy!’ Katie exclaims, as they run to their parents, Alex is with them, and they are dressed in regular kids clothing, while the kids in the costumes look on, confused. Jim and Margaret are knocked backwards on the bed as the kids lunge onto them. The other, costumed, Power Pack continue to look on, shocked, as Mirage tells Mr and Mrs Power that their biggest mistake, and regret, was not seeing that that they would be in danger, too, as time was short, and they were stupid, but they never meant them any harm. ‘I just hope having your true family restored will be consolation’ she adds.
Gosamyr informs Mr and Mrs Power that Mirage has the ability to create solid thought-forms. ‘That’s what these four characters in the costumes were all along - illusions!’ Margaret holds Jack and Katie and looks up at Gosamyr, asking her ‘How can they be? They were so real?’ Mirage explains that they were drawn from her own mental images, so they could be no less - but for the super powers, they are identical to their real children. Gosamyr’s voice changes, as she uses her powers on Jim and Margaret, stating: ‘…except they are not your kids! Your true and only children are now in your arms! They are not mutants. They are normal. Got it?’ Playing along, the costumed Alex tells Mr and Mrs Power that they are sorry to have tricked them, but they are only figments, and have no right to their affections. ‘So it is time for us to leave’ he adds. ‘But - you saved our lives! And you’re so like our children - we can’t help but love you, too’ Margaret calls out.
The real, costumed Power children begin to cry, and Alex tells their parents ‘No, your love belongs to your rightful children they are with you now. And your happy lives can return to normal’. He asks them not to be sad for them, as soon they will be gone from this plane as though they never were. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep” Julie quotes. Gosamyr speaks to Jim and Margaret with her hypnotic voice once more, ‘Now - you all must be ever so tired…and it’s only right that you should sleep as a family…’ she calls out. Jim, Margaret and their kids all lie back on the bed, and fall asleep, while the New Mutants and the real kids stand and watch. ‘I guess it’s better this way…’ Julie cries. ‘At least Mom and Dad won’t miss us’ Alex points out, also crying. Katie announces that she is lonely for Mama and Papa, to which Jack suggests they can maybe peek in the window sometimes, just to look at them.
Mirage tells the young heroes that they are not finished yet. ‘You’ll notice as soon as I wish for my dream spear back, that bed quickly has four vacancies to fill!’ Mirage points out, holding her dream spear, revealing Jim and Margaret only on the bed - their “real” children have vanished. Mirage tells Alex, Julie, Jack and Katie to hop in where they belong, as their Mom and Dad are sound asleep. The kids’ Power Pack costumes vanish, replaced by their regular clothing, as they climb in around their parents. Warlock and Sunspot look on as Gosamyr once again steps forward and uses her powers, she puts the children to sleep. ‘I want everyone to snuggle in for a long, deep, cleansing sleep. And you’re not to wake up until you’re fully rested and nicely refreshed. Sweet dreams and -’ she remarks, as the kids fall asleep, too.
The New Mutants leave the room, as Mirage looks back on the family, she closes the door and thinks to herself ‘They’ve seen some dark, terrible times, these kids…they’ve fought as hard and well as any team of grown-up super heroes’. Mirage decides that for all their wondrous abilities, she thinks that their greatest wonder is here - a family like this is too rare a gift not to be cherished and protected - for as long as it can last. ‘So sleep tight, Power Pack. The dark times are over…it’s time to be children again’.