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Wish You Were Here
(dream sequence – off panel)
In her dream, Tabitha Smith runs through a dark forest, chased by an angry mob brandishing torches. She takes refuge in an abandoned castle only to realize that she has trapped herself for there are no apparent exits. As the mob sets fire to the castle, Tabitha screams: “Why? Why are you doing this to me?” As flames rise around her, she hears an old woman’s voice answering her: “Because you don’t belong here, mutant. Your kind has stolen our dreams, our hopes… you’ve taken away Graydon Creed.”
(real life)
The young woman known as Meltdown awakens from her disturbing sleep and opens her eyes to an equally disquieting reality. Finding herself lying on the middle of a road, Tabitha wonders, “Where am I?” In an attempt to understand where she is, she tells herself that last thing she remembers she was with X-Force in… in… She is shocked to realize she doesn’t remember where. As impossible as it seems, somebody must have drugged and dumped her here – wherever “here” may be.
Indeed, Meltdown finds herself in a strangely deserted town. No person is in sight. Tabitha can see buildings – one of them sporting an American flag – several parked cars, the statue of a man and even an electricity tower with the name “Liddleville” on it – but no person. Tabitha confirms “Liddleville” as the name of this town by spotting a newspaper – a copy of Liddleville Gazette – on the road right next to where she lied whose headline reads “Liddleville Celebrates Century.” “Liddleville, huh? Never heard of it” Meltdown curiously comments. The one thing she does know is that this burg is the last place where she should be. She decides she should better contact the mansion and let somebody know where she is and that the rest of the X-Force may be in danger.
Spotting a “Liddlevile Drugs” sign, Tabitha walks into the drugstore, asking aloud if there is a phone in there. Again, though, she realizes nobody seems to be around. Being certain the owner wouldn’t mind if she made a call, she approaches a phone – a rotary dial which leaves her a bit amazed since she hasn’t seen one of these cheap old things since… “Since the last time I saw Daddy,” she thinks. She presses on, though, and tells herself to keep it together: there is no time to mourn.
Picking up the phone, she realizes the line’s dead – much like the town itself. Walking out of the drugstore, Tabitha wonders aloud where everybody is. As she walks past a store whose window reads “Ralph’s Pretty Good Groceries,” she is exhilarated to finally see a real human being: a police officer is standing on the pavement, his back facing her. Tabitha approaches him, telling him he wouldn’t believe how glad she is to see him. She was beginning to feel like she was trapped in an episode of The Twilight Zone – like the one where it turns out they are testing an astronaut to see if he can survive in space alone! She tells the officer that what she needs right now is to find a phone that works. However, the officer still hasn’t turned around to look at her or moved the slightest bit. Annoyed, Tabitha asks him if he’s even listening at her and violently pushes him, wondering what she has to do to get his attention.
The officer falls on the ground, face-first, and the young mutant finally realizes the officer is… a mannequin! Trying to realize what’s going on, Tabitha examines the mannequin. What’s even creepiest, though, is that the mannequin officer is coated with something that feels like real skin.
“I’m afraid they’re all Li…” a man’s voice is heard behind her. Before the man has the chance to finish his sentence, Tabitha turns around instantly and kicks him in the face. She doesn’t even think about executing the spin kick: she moves instinctually. The first rule of combat that Cable hammered into his students – Tabitha and her teammates, the mutants that comprise the strike team called X-Force – was “never let anyone take you by surprise.”
As the man falls to the ground, Tabitha stands ready to turn her defense into an offence, creating explosive spheres of energy that will detonate at her command, if necessary. She asks the man to step back: she is no mood to play games. Bleeding from his mouth and holding his aching jaw, the man assures her he didn’t mean to startle her. She is the first living person he’s seen in a week: he was beginning to lose his mind. Tabitha admits she may have overreacted and asks the man who he is. “Dimitri Fortunov” he replies. Judging by her accent and that light show, he realizes she must be one of the American mutants they’ve been talking so much about on CNN.
Tabitha tells him she’s Tabitha Smith, Meltdown to some people, and indeed, she’s a mutant. Rather defensively, she asks him if he’s got a problem with that. Dimitri assures her he has no problem with that and asks her whether he may call her “Tabitha.” After all, if he’s correct, they have a great deal in common. He asks her what she was doing in Castle Doom. “Castle Doom?!” Meltdown exclaims. Finally, it’s coming back to her: she was in Latveria on a mission with some friends of hers, a little group she likes to call X-Force!
(flashback)
Cable, Siryn, Rictor, Shatterstar and Meltdown are making their way through the greenery surrounding Castle Doom. Cable reminds his team they’re on foreign soil, so they should try to keep a low profile. Meltdown asks whether the secretary will disavow their presence, in case they’re caught. Rictor has a different question for Cable: why are Sunspot, Warpath and Caliban hanging so far back? Cable explains they are their backup in case they don’t make it out.
Siryn asks him whether he thinks the odds are against them succeeding. Cable assures her he has great faith in the team. However, one doesn’t break into Castle Doom without taking precautions. He warns his students not to let the medieval exterior of the Castle deceive them. Castle Doom is guarded by one of the most advanced defense systems on the planet. Doctor Doom didn’t exactly encourage visitors.
Tabitha makes a proposal to Cable: considering Doom disappeared with the Fantastic Four and Avengers, why don’t they just storm the front gate? “I mean nobody’s home, right?” she adds. Annoyed, Nathan asks her if she even bother reading the briefing. The Latverian provisional government did try to gain entry; half the team died in the attempt. That explains why Cable and the rest can’t do this without help. In retrospect, recalling this discussion, Tabitha explains to Dimitri their leader can be a little too grim sometimes and she likes to get under his skin by playing the bubble-headed blonde.
Tabitha recalls how suddenly this old guy, Nathaniel Richards materialized out of nowhere. She explains to Dimitri that Nathaniel is Mr. Fantastic’s father and a scientist equally brilliant to his son. In fact, according to Cable, Nathaniel has explored the farthest reaches of time and space.
Richards assures Cable it’s good to see him again. He remarks Cable looks healthier than the last time they met. He also hopes Cable’s children are ready. Richards explains to them that after Victor von Doom’s disappearance in New York, the Castle’s defense system sealed off every accessway and an ionic field prevents him from teleporting in. Once inside, Richards intends to use the Castle computer system to render the defenses inoperative. “If ye don’t mind me askin’ sir… how’re y’gonna manage that?” Siryn asks him in disbelief. She stresses the fact Doom’s computers will certainly be protected as well. Richards explains that during Doom’s previous absence, he took his place, convincing the entire world – including all the sensors in the Castle – that he was Victor von Doom.
Hearing this, a surprised Warpath asks Rictor in a low voice whether he also thinks that masquerading as your son’s greatest enemy is kind of twisted. Rictor assures James that not everyone’s relationship with their parents was as solid as his.
Cable explains to his team that, following Sinsear’s attempt to salvage the remains of the time displacement core, it has become clear that they need to keep a careful watch on any and all time traveling devices. Both Nathaniel Richards and himself agree that Doom’s time platform is number one on that list: if such technology were to fall into the wrong hands, the results could be catastrophic.
As the posse stands outside the laser-protected tunnels that lead to the interior of the Castle, Richards informs them that Castle Doom was originally known as Castle Sabbat. These tunnels were built so that, should these battlements fall to an enemy, the baron and his family could escape into the mountains. He explains that most of the passageways collapsed long before Doom overthrew the Latverian aristocracy and those that remain are now guarded by a laser grid, as everyone can see. Rictor asks what they are supposed to do now to get in – dig their own tunnel?
“Hardly,” Richards replies. He explains the grids power source is directly above them. “Smith, will you do the honors?” he asks Tabitha. “With extreme pleasure,” Meltdown replies; after all, it always makes her day a little brighter when she can blow something up. Indeed, at that moment, Tabitha sends her explosive spheres of energy upwards, effectively damaging the power source.
With the laser grid deactivated, the group finally enters the tunnels. Rictor teases Cable, asking him whether it ticks him off having to follow Richards’ lead. Cable angrily retorts he knows when to give orders and when to take them – a skill Julio has yet to learn. In retrospect, Tabitha explains to Dimitri that Rictor used to believe Cable was the man who murdered his father and, as a result, their relationship has always been rocky.
As the team advances into the tunnels, Tabitha comments on how Doom has been reported dead before; why are they so sure he is now? She wonders whether he just wanted the world to think he’s dead so he could hang around in the Castle watching TV in his underwear! Siryn retorts that Victor von Doom is perhaps the most dangerous man in the world and this is not a laughing matter.
Suddenly, the group realizes they’re having company as they can see a giant robot approaching them menacingly, uttering a single word: “Intruders.” Richards explains the robot is one of Doom’s servitors, his robotic guards. Doom didn’t marshall an army to take over Latveria; he simply built one.
Proving Richards’ point correct, five servitors surround them, one of them proclaiming, “If you resist, you will die.” Prepared to generate his seismic waves, Rictor jokes Doom must turn these things out on an assembly line. Meltdown comments that, if that’s the case, they must have stumbled into the factory showroom! Shatterstar points to the fact that they need not restrain themselves in their destruction since these are only mechanical constructs. Cable seconds that, urging Shatterstar to hit them hard and fast; the object is to get past them. Nathaniel Richards urges them to target the servitors’ bodies: their CPUs and generators are located in their upper torsos.
As Theresa releases her sonic scream on two of the servitors, she remarks it’s just like knocking down bowling pins. Meanwhile, Shatterstar decapitates one of the robots, recalling that in Mojo’s arenas, a clean decapitation won a standing ovation. Cable teases Shatterstar if he is getting nostalgic for his days as a gladiator slave. Nearby, Rictor’s seismic assaults dismantle another of the servitors whereas the last robot standing grasps Tabitha. “Okay, tin man, I know what you came for… a heart!” she tells the robot, releasing one of her plasma bombs at its chest. Tabitha escapes from its grasp moments before the bomb explodes, rendered to ashes. She jokes it’s too bad nobody warned the robot about the heartache that comes to it.
Getting a little overconfident and with her adrenaline pumping, Tabitha doesn’t feel like slowing down and starts running through the tunnels, looking for action. Seeing her advance on her own, Theresa asks her to stop. Meltdown assures her she shouldn’t worry about her since she can handle anything this Castle can throw at her. However, at that exact moment, something triggered under Tabitha’s feet and the floor is converted into a trapdoor. Tabitha starts sliding down a chute (in retrospect, she recalls how smooth its sides were, almost as they had been greased), praying that she ends up in the laundry room because she wants something soft to land on.
No such luck, however: Tabitha lands rather painfully on a hard floor. A servitor approaches her, ominously proclaiming “Intruder found – mutagenic bio-signature identified. Activating electro-neural restraint.” Recounting this, Tabitha deduces this servitor must have been a newer model than the ones they encountered earlier because this one hit her so fast she didn’t even have time for a witty report. Indeed, the servitor zaps her and then darkness ensues.
(present time)
“And then I woke up here in beautiful, downtown Mayberry” Tabitha concludes her narration. She wonders why it took her so long to remember that. Dimitri reveals he experienced a similar loss of memory when he first found himself here. “And why exactly are you here, Dimitri?” she asks him. With a hard expression on his face, Dimitri explains that Castle Doom once belonged to his family. For centuries, it was the seat of power in Latveria. Dimitri’s grandfather was the Latverian Baron that Doom deposed of some two decades ago. “Well, who woulda thought I was socializing with royalty?” Meltdown jokes and asks Dimitri if that means she should call him “Your Highness.”
Dimitri retorts that she may joke but since Doom’s death in New York, Latveria has been in political chaos. The Latverians need a leader who can unite the opposing factions. Tabitha asks him if he intends to crown himself king.  “No” Dimitri replies. The aristocracy was no better than Doom. Dimitri wants to offer his people a democratic government. In order to do so, however, he needs the means to keep the more violent political factions in check. Tabitha realizes that must the reason he broke into the Castle to liberate some of Doom’s toys.
Tabitha suddenly spots a parked car. “Hey, somebody left the keys in this big ol’ bomb,” she notices. Dimitri discourages her, however, explaining that a car will get her nowhere: there is an energy field surrounding the city’s borders.
Tabitha suddenly hears a voice inside her head, calling her name. Shocked, she realizes it’s Cable! Dimitri asks her to whom she’s talking to when he suddenly spots something and freezes in mid-sentence, exclaiming “Mother of…” Without paying attention to Dimitri, Tabitha hears Cable’s voice asking her if she’s all right. Tabitha replies she is; the real question is, where is he? “Look up,” Cable replies. As Tabitha and Dimitri look out of the window, they see a Cable of gigantic proportions standing above Liddleville!
Meanwhile, James Proudstar, Roberto DaCosta and Caliban await Cable’s signal, standing by some Gypsies’ houses. Roberto remarks they are not supposed to draw attention to themselves but instead they stand out like a sore thumb. Warpath explains that is the reason Cable parked them with the group of Gypsies known as Zefiro. Cable knows one of the Gypsy elders; thus, the Gypsies are cool with them. Caliban adds his own point of things, assuring them he likes it here: everything is pretty and smells nice.
“Wasn’t Doom born a Gypsy?” Sunspot comments. “Imagine taking over the country that once persecuted you.” James assures him that is a recurring dream for anyone who ever grew up on a reservation. Caliban remarks on how he wishes he’d grown up in the forest instead of the Morlock tunnels. The Morlocks had no trees underground.
A young woman holding a portable CD player and wearing a headset approaches them, informing them her name’s Sofia and asking for verification whether they are Esmeralda’s American guests. “I was so… pardon my English… psyched out when I heard you were here” she admits. She asks them if they have any American music with them. Doom forbade the import of Western popular culture when he was on the throne. Warpath tells her he has brought the new Lila Cheney and asks Sofia is she likes Lila’s music. Sofia replies she adores Lila Cheney. “Then you’ll love this one,” James remarks. As he hands her the CD, though, Sofia suddenly faints, uttering a low moan.
In the Castle Doom, Nathaniel Richards and X-Force stand above a miniature town – Liddleville – with the unconscious bodies of Tabitha and Dimitri and also a deceased man lying next to it. Richards informs the gang on Liddleville. It was another of Doom’s elaborate attempts to make the Fantastic Four pay for his many defeats in their hands. Together with the Puppet Master, he created a device that would transfer the psyches of his subjects into Liliputian synthe-clone doppelgangers. Cable deduces Doom must have programmed his servitors to detain intruders to Liddleville. Rictor realizes it’s a good thing he gave this particular servitor they found here a seismic showdown before they all ended up Smurf-sized.
Shatterstar is curious as to who the other two men lying next to Meltdown are. Pointing at the dead man, Siryn states the obvious: they’ll have to get that answer from someone other than him. It looks like this mechanism may have fried the man’s synapses.
Cable shuts down the neural-link with the synthe-clones; he believes Tabitha and her friend should be okay now. Indeed, Tabitha and Dimitri wake up, rather disoriented from their experience. Tabitha admits there’s no place like home whereas Dimitri feels his body quite stiff – only natural, after spending a week immobile.
Meltdown thanks Cable for the save and introduces Dimitri Fortunov to them as the heir apparent to the Latverian throne. Dimitri tells everybody he owes them a great debt. Richards is intrigued to hear the “Fortunov” surname: he was unaware the old baron had bred a son to carry on the bloodline. “Not with the baroness” Dimitri explains. His father was not exactly the baron’s legitimate son.
Cable asks him how he managed to get past the Castle’s defenses. Dimitri explains that his companion, Sergei, created a device that jammed the automated surveillance. Unfortunately, they failed to account for heat sensors and… Suddenly, Dimitri pauses, having spotted Sergei’s corpse in the room. “Sergei. I’m so sorry, my friend. This is my fault” he laments. Richards intervenes, informing everyone that security is no longer a problem as he just reprogrammed the computer to recognize him as Doom once again. Meltdown remarks it’s too bad for Sergei they didn’t get here sooner.
In the tunnels leading to the Castle, three shadowy figures advance hastily. “Status, Lieutenant?” one of them asks. The man addressed informs his superior they’ve pinpointed their location: five mutagenic and two norms. He promises his superior they won’t get away from them this time.
Meanwhile, Nathaniel Richards, Dimitri Fortunov and X-Force enter the room that contains the time platform. Nathaniel asks Cable whether he is certain he wants to dismantle the platform. Without his timesliding technology, Cable has no way of returning to the future. Cable retorts that if he does his job correctly in the here and now, the future from which he came won’t ever exist. Regardless of whether he wins or loses, he’s determined to fight this battle in the present.
Dimitri admits he had heard rumors that Doom was in possession of forbidden technology but had no idea he was capable of traveling through time. Richards points to the fact they can only guess the changes Doom may have wrought throughout the timestream and that makes it even more imperative to take the platform apart. Kneeling above the platform, Dimitri argues about all the good one could accomplish with it. “Or the damage… even with the best intentions,” Cable reminds him. He asks from Dimitri to trust him: it’s time to put this baby to rest.
All of a sudden, G.W. Bridge’s voice is heard behind them: “You aren’t going to do anything, Nate… except put your hands in the air and step back. Slowly” Bridge and two more agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Colin Muldowney and Theresa Petty walk into the room, all armed to teeth. “You heard the man! Now!” Agent Muldowney shouts while aiming them with his gun. With Bridge working for the international law agency S.H.I.E.L.D., his days of friendship with Cable are past him as the two former allies are now on the opposite sides of the fence.
Cable sarcastically notes it’s always nice to run into an old friend. “Save the sarcasm, Nate,” Bridge replies. He tells him the U.N. has claimed jurisdiction over this Castle and everything in it. If Cable tries to walk away with any of this ordnance, Bridge is authorized to take him out. “Come on, Bridge, you know what I’m doing is right,” Cable insists. He asks him if he would really trust any government with a time machine.
“Stop!” Dimitri suddenly shouts. Flaunting a grenade, he insists that nobody is touching that platform; not Cable or the U.N. He believes the platform rightly belongs to the people of Latveria. “Dimitri, are you nuts?! That’s a grenade” Meltdown exclaims. Agent Petty assures Commander Bridge she has a clear shot on Fortunov. Indeed, her blast sends the young Latverian into the Platform’s control console with destructive results. The grenade drops from the shrieking Dimitri as he falls and Cable rushes towards it and grabs it in time – however, a huge explosion of light and sound spreads all around the room, coming from the platform. “What’s happening?” Cable wonders. Richards realizes the time platform has been activated but the temporal field is expanding – something’s wrong! Indeed, everyone present at the room suddenly vanishes in a puddle of blinding light.
At the same moment, miles away, Warpath apologizes to Esmeralda but doesn’t understand what happened: he handed Sofia a CD and she fainted. “It was almost like an epileptic fit,” Sunspot adds. Esmeralda explains to them that Sofia has the Rosikon family gift of prescience. Esmeralda herself has it only a little and it is more instinct than sight but Sofia’s visions are clear and lucid. When she touched Warpath, she saw his future and the intensity of the vision was too much for her to bear. James asks if this means there’s something in his future that’s horrific. Sunspot can’t believe James is taking this seriously. “No offence, ma’am,” he tells Esmeralda, “but maybe you should take Sofia to a doctor.”
Esmeralda’s son, Oskar, rushes towards them, urging his mother to come quick as she must see this. Esmeralda asks him what is so important that he makes such noise. Oskar replies it’s the Castle; it’s vanished!


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The Haunting of Castle Doom
Latveria
For years, the borders of Latveria were closed to the rest of the world, sealed by order of its armor-clad monarch, the despot known as Doctor Doom. Under normal circumstances, the sheltered citizens of this tiny Eastern European nation would not ignore the novelty of foreigners in their midst. Today, however, the Latverians do not even notice the presence of three American mutants: Sunspot, Warpath, Caliban, all members of the outlawed strike team known as X-Force.
Instead, the Latverians’ attention is riveted on a far more disturbing anomaly in their daily routine: the disappearance of Castle Doom that just occurred! For centuries, the castle on the hill has loomed over the Latverian skyline. In recent years, it was occupied by Doom. He, however, disappeared a short time ago, leaving it empty. Now, there’s no evidence it ever existed.
Alongside several other Latverians, the three X-Force members are also shocked to see the Castle gone. Warpath wonders if something that big can simply vanish. Caliban admits being very confused. With his childish mind, he tries to understand if the fact the Castle Doom has disappeared also means his friends that were inside the Castle also disappeared. Sunspot assures him it looks that way. While the rest of the X-Force infiltrated Castle Doom with Nathaniel Richards, in order to disable any time-travel technology Doom had at his possession, Cable left the three of them with the Zefiro Gypsies in case something went wrong. Warpath admits this definitely qualifies as “wrong.” He wonders whether Doom rigged his Castle to self-destruct.
One of the Gypsies, Esmeralda, informs them that such unnatural occurrences have always plagued the Castle – long before Doom deposed the last Baron. They say the Castle is haunted by the souls of every innocent the Sabbat Barons put to death. When Esmeralda herself was a girl and worked in the Castle, some of the staff swore they saw ghosts.
Sunspot tells Esmeralda he doesn’t believe in ghosts. Esmeralda wittily replies that some would not believe that a man could burn like a black ember, as Sunspot does. She believes there are forces at work in the universe that are beyond their comprehension. James admits he doesn’t care about the Castle. He’s worried about his friends and wishes he knew where to start looking for them.
Somewhere far beyond James Proudstar’s wildest imaginings, his teammates Siryn and Meltdown find themselves lost and disoriented in the cold stone corridors of the missing Castle. Siryn tries to calm the increasingly anxious Tabitha down, reminding her that the good news is they’re still alive. When the time platform exploded, Theresa thought for sure they were goners. Tabitha is not appeased by this comment: they still don’t know where they are and where the others are. She’ll feel better when she knows everybody survived the blast. Siryn asks her if that includes her friend, Dimitri. Tabitha protests: how was she to know Dimitri would pull a grenade on Cable? She realizes it was indeed a brainless move and insists that Dimitri looked a lot more together when they were both trapped in Doom’s miniature town. Suddenly, she sees Rictor standing in a balcony ahead of them.
The girls come out in the balcony. Siryn asks Rictor if he’s okay. He replies he doesn’t know. Tabitha suspects he may be still in shock from the explosion: it did knock them all halfway across the Castle. Rictor explains that was no ordinary explosion: it was Doctor Doom’s time platform that exploded. They were hit by waves of temporal energy. As incredible as it sounds, Rictor thinks they were hurled back in time!
The girls ask what makes him say that. Rictor points at the cars in the streets down the Castle: none of them are contemporary. They’re all thirties models, no later than the forties. Tabitha argues that maybe Doom had a thing for old cars: lots of guys do. Rictor disagrees: that’s not all. He tells them to look at that flag flying over the Castle. The flag shows the head of a wolf grinning evilly, with two swords in the background. Rictor urges them to remember the briefing of their mission. That’s the crest of the Sabbats, the aristocrats Doom overthrew. Tabitha jokingly tells him he gets a gold star for knowing that bit of trivia and guesses that traveling fifty-some odd years back in time would explain this headache she has.
Suddenly, the trio hears a scream. As they re-enter the room, they see an elderly woman, dressed as a maid, run away in horror, also urging a young girl in similar outfit – actually a young Esmeralda – to run. Esmeralda asks Greta, what the matter is: is it the Germans? Greta tells her it’s ghosts: the Castle is cursed! They must leave now before their souls are forfeit.
Meltdown wonders what’s got their panties in a bunch. Rictor may not speak Latverian but he thinks he can hazard a guess. Entering an adjacent room, he sees Shatterstar standing there and wielding his sword. He tells him to put his sword down: he’s only frightening the help. Shatterstar swears on his warrior’s honor that he did nothing to startle that woman. Tabitha realizes that the women thought he’s a ghost. Siryn shares her suspicions that maybe the women weren’t too far off. “Watch this,” she exclaims as she passes her hand completely through a candelabra!
In the Castle wine cellar, two men who once fought side-by-side, the enigmatic freedom fighter from a time yet to come known as Cable and G. W. Bridge, co-leader of the government security force called S.H.E.L.D now reach for each other’s throat. Bridge accuses Cable that this is his fault. “Don’t blame me, Bridge” Cable retorts. If Bridge had let him dismantle the time platform as he intended, they wouldn’t be in this situation right now.
Nathaniel Richards, the time-traveling father of the Fantastic Four’s Reed Richards, approaches them, trying to separate them and reminding them that they have a much larger problem to address than their personal enmity. According to his own instruments, the time platform’s malfunction sent the entire Castle back to 1941. When Cable exclaims that the Castle already existed in 1941, Richards explains that they and their time’s Castle do not exist in temporal synchronicity with this era. They are like a ghost image of the future superimposed on the past. They can thank Dimitri Fortunov for their current inability to return to their era. His foolish actions damaged the time platform’s controls.
Still disoriented, Dimitri tells Bridge that last thing he remembers, his S.H.I.E.L.D. agent shot him. He should be dead now. Bridge angrily explains that they won’t do anything until his agents are accounted for.
Cable asks Nathaniel if they can get home. Richards explains that there’s some sort of energy anomaly interfering with the field generators. Dimitri is astonished to realize that, if they are really in 1941, his grandfather, the Baron Sabbat, is still alive!
Elsewhere in the Castle, Baron Tristian Mangegi de Sabbat is indeed very much alive… and more than a little tired. He enters his study, hoping to find a moment of solitude and quiet away from the mounting pressures of his position only to find his familiar furnishings gone, replaced by walls of strange machinery unlike any he has ever seen! Baron Sabbat closes his eyes, thinking that he must be going mad. As he opens them again, all is gone. He only sees the normal furnishings of his study, rather than the strange high-tech décor, which, unbeknownst to him, was an image of the future Castle’s interior, as shaped by Doom, momentarily superimposed on the past. Sabbat thinks that perhaps he is simply overtired.
Wolfgang von Strucker, scientific advisor to Adolf Hitler, enters the Baron’s study, asking him if anything is wrong. In a rather hostile manner, the Baron asks Strucker what he wants from him now. Strucker admits that the Baron has been such a gracious host to his… project. He thought the Baron might be interested to view the progress they made. He assures him that his hospitality will not be forgotten by the Führer.
“I do what I must to keep your troops and tanks out of my country, Nazi” the Baron coldly replies. Strucker assures him that Latveria and Germany are allies: he has nothing to fear from his Aryan cousins. Baron Sabbat asks him in contempt if that’s what Strucker’s government told the Poles and the Czechs.
Strucker admits that their entry into those countries was somewhat brutal but soon, his work will make such violent incursions obsolete. He tells Baron Sabbat that his country is an ideal testing ground for his Sturmfänger machine, his “Storm-catcher.” With it, he will be able to capture and harness the power of the limitless cosmos and in doing so, make his fatherland an unquestioned ruler of the Earth. “Call me a simple man… but I do not think it wise to tamper with such elemental forces, Strucker” Baron Sabbat tells him. Strucker assures him that science will determine the rulers of tomorrow’s world.
As the two men enter the part of the Castle where the testing of the machine takes place, Strucker asks Lieutenant Schlange how they are progressing. Schlange informs him that an unexpected energy flux disrupted the last test. They are currently recalibrating the instruments and repositioning the receptor rods on the Castle’s turrets.
Concealed in a balcony high above, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Colin Muldowney and Theresa Petty view these proceeding with alarm. Muldowney tells Petty she’s right: they have landed in the past, sometime during the Second World War, from the look of things. He realizes in shock that this is the late Wolfgang von Strucker! He never thought he’d see him up close. He thinks they’ve got to tell Bridge. Petty interrupts him: she hates to tell him but they’ve just been discovered! Indeed, two Nazi soldiers order them to come out with their hands up.
Suddenly, a fiery-haired apparition – Siryn! – rises up through the ground immobilizing the soldiers with a scream whose pitch and modulation resonates painfully in their heads. Having phased through the now unconscious soldiers, Siryn smiles as she now knows how Kitty Pryde feels when she phases through things: weird! Muldowney and Petty are a bit shocked. The former asks how she did that. As the rest of X-Force approach, Tabitha tells them that the least the two of them could say is “thank you, Siryn.” Or don’t they teach the finer points of combat etiquette at the S.H.I.E.L.D. academy?
With the rest of the soldiers and scientists still oblivious to their presence, Shatterstar realizes this is getting more and more complicated. He didn’t expect to find German soldiers in Latveria and it doesn’t take a history degree to be certain they’re up to no good. From the many documentaries he’s seen he knows these Nazis are responsible for some of this century’s most horrendous events. He asks whether they should engage them in combat. Siryn tells him to stand down; it’s no time to play John Wayne. Their first priority is getting back to their present.
Nearby, Cable notices that, thankfully, Dimitri only damaged the safeguard relays and not the field generators. He tells Richards that this monitor of his is registering high levels of ionic interference. That kind of static will interfere with their chronal realignment.
X-Force and the two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents suddenly phase through the walls and tell Cable the awful truth: the place is crawling with Nazis under the command of Wolfgang von Strucker! Theresa explains that even though her German is limited, she has realized they are testing an atmosphere energy generator.
Bridge is shocked to hear Baron Strucker’s name. Strucker was the scientific genius who founded Hydra and A.I.M. after the Second World War. S.H.I.E.L.D. was created to counter those organizations’ subversive activities. Bridge rejoices at the thought of all the trouble he could roadblock if he stopped Strucker in the forties. Cable urges him to be careful: he’s beginning to sound like himself.
Richards deduces that Strucker’s machine must be causing the interference. They must shut it down. If they don’t return to their present soon, the ghost-like intangibility they’re experiencing now will become permanent and the chronal displacement of the Castle could spread to the surrounding countryside. Cable tells his people to get to work as the clock is ticking. Tabitha suddenly asks what happened to Dimitri.
She soon finds him in a large drawing-room and asks him where he thinks he’s going. Prepared to depart, he informs her he’s going to find his grandfather. “And do what, Michael J. Fox?” she scolds him. She tells him he can’t change history. Dimitri has already gathered Richards is a time-traveler, judging from his familiarity with Doom’s machinery. What gives him more right than himself? “It isn’t about him. It’s about you,” Tabitha insists. She knows he feels guilty for the things his grandfather did to Latveria when he was in charge but does he really think some unshaven kid claiming to be his grandson will make the Baron change his ways?
Dimitri insists he could make things better – for his people and his country. “Or make matters worse,” Meltdown retorts. What if the Baron changes so much that he never takes a mistress? Then, Dimitri’s father is never born and that means Dimitri himself isn’t even a gleam in someone’s eye. Of course, that means Dimitri could’ve never come back to stop him in the first place. A little boggled, Tabitha admits that time-travel makes her head hurt! With a smile, Dimitri agrees.
Suddenly, Strucker and Lieteunant Schlange approach. Schlange asks Strucker if he hears any voices. Strucker assures him he’s imagining things. An uneasy Schlange explains he’s received many reports of strange and unexplainable occurrences throughout the day. Rooms that appear filled with bizarre machinery one moment and then are normal next. Ghosts roaming the corridors garbed in outlandish colors. Two of their men were found unconscious outside the Sturmfänger wing… their ears were bleeding!
Strucker asks him if he believes the Castle is haunted, as the servants claim. Strucker would expect this from the Baron, not from Schlange. Schlange admits being concerned about the Baron: he’s becoming increasingly hostile to their presence here. In contempt, Strucker states that the Baron still believes they’re in nineteenth century. He thinks he has outlived his use for them. Schlange understands: he will take care of him… permanently. “No!” Dimitri screams, hearing this.
A little bit later, Dimitri argues with X-Force. They can’t expect him to stand back and do nothing while the Nazis attempt to kill his grandfather – no matter what kind of leader he was. For Siryn, it seems these assassins can’t have succeeded or they wouldn’t be talking now. Dimitri, however, doesn’t believe in predestination. If they can travel in time, then history can be changed. They only question is: will it be changed by them or the Germans?
Tabitha argues that maybe the Germans’ attempt on the Baron’s life didn’t succeed because they were here to intervene. Shatterstar adds that even his own existence is a paradox: he is the reincarnation of a warrior born in the future! Siryn decides that they’ve got to stop Strucker’s machine in order to return to their present. She orders Tabitha, Dimitri and Shatterstar to protect the Baron while she and Rictor will dismantle the Storm-catcher. “Okay, Axis, here we come!” Rictor screams.
Outside the Baron’s study, Schlange, accompanied by two Nazi soldiers, tells the Baron’s guards they wish to see him. The guards tell him that the Baron does not wish to be disturbed; before they have the chance to finish their sentence, though, they’re shot dead by the Nazis.
“Assassins,” Shatterstar exclaims in disgust as he phases through a painting in the hall outside the Baron’s study. He believes there’s no honor in ambush. A true warrior faces his adversary on the field of battle! He instantly slashes Schlange’s hand with his sword. Holding his aching hand, Schlange furiously states he doesn’t care what manner of devil he is: he will pay for this! He orders his soldiers to kill him.
Meltdown suddenly makes her entrance, informing the Nazis she’s not going to let them “eighty-six” that grumpy old Baron; his grandson’s going to be way too cute to let them end the family tree here! Tabitha coalesces explosive energy into spheres that move at her direction and then detonate at her command, causing the Nazis to break into rout.
Hearing gunshots, the Baron opens the door of his study but is shocked by what appears to be… ghosts! Speaking to him in Latverian, Dimitri assures him they’re not ghosts but allies. Strucker ordered these men to kill him. The Baron regrets having let those wolves into his house. Grabbing a sword, he promises he will deal them. He asks them how they know this and who they are. He notices that Dimitri looks strangely familiar to him. Dimitri admits that would be very difficult to explain as he is his… Realizing he’s about to “spill the beans” and reveal his relation to the Baron, Tabitha pokes him and cuts him short. She tells Dimitri to tell the Baron goodnight and then go. She doesn’t want to be stuck haunting this Castle for the rest of her life.
In the Sturmfänger chamber, Strucker and the scientists try to endure an insufferable sound that reminds Strucker of a banshee’s wail – courtesy of Siryn. Suddenly, the earth begins to quake: they’re under attack by Siryn and Rictor! The former informs Strucker they’re shutting his infernal project down. Rictor urges Strucker to tell Adolf Hitler that the Irish-Mexican coalition served him his walking papers – and also, tell that little runt he’s going to lose the war.
Rictor assures Siryn that even if the Germans can’t understand them, their actions speak volumes. They’ll get the picture when this machine comes crashing down on their heads. Indeed, using his mutant powers, Rictor creates waves of seismic energy that pound the Storm-catcher.
Strucker aims at him with a gun and assures him that he speaks English quite well. Strucker realizes these ghosts seem tangible enough to take a bullet; perhaps he will learn the secret of Rictor’s unusual abilities from his corpse. Rictor assures him he’ll need more than that to take him out. “If I can break that precious machine, imagine what I can do to you” he menacingly adds.
Siryn tells Rictor they don’t have time to play chicken with Strucker. They need to make certain this hellish machine doesn’t give him absolute supremacy over the world! Her point made, Rictor takes Strucker out. Finally, the machine itself buckles under Rictor’s savage assault and then begins to creak and whine with increasing volume. Siryn tells him they must go. Rictor wonders what’s happening. Siryn realizes all the energy Strucker’s machine siphoned from the cosmos is going to be released! Indeed it does – quite explosively.
In the wine cellar, Richards notes that the interference has dropped to zero: they can begin resynchronization. As Bridge begins the process by operating the platform, he asks Cable if is aware of the fact that in a couple of decades, Strucker will develop the Super Adaptoid, the Cosmic Cube and Modok – unless something happens to him now. Cable doesn’t think wet works suits Bridge’s style. Bridge asks him if he wouldn’t erase his worst enemies if he had the chance. Cable admits he hasn’t had the opportunity.
With the platform controls all back on-line, Cable states it’s time to exit the stage. He jokingly tells Bridge that he can now say he served in the Second World War. Nearby, Rictor notes they are fading. “About bloody time,” Siryn exclaims. She was starting to feel uncomfortably unsubstantial. In another part of the Castle, Baron Sabbat senses these people hide something from him. Suddenly, he wonders what’s happening to them as he can see right through them. “Grandfather, I must warn you about…” Dimitri starts but then fades away with every other chronically misplaced individual.
In the present, Warpath, Sunspot and Caliban are brooding. “This is fun,” Sunspot mumbles. Warpath tells him that he can go back to the P.A.C.R.A.T. and do another field scan, if that will make him feel better. Bobby has already done that three times without success. They’ve already alerted the X-Men back at the mansion, so until they hear back from them, all they can do is wait. Caliban thinks it’s a nice day to be outside waiting for friends. They are coming back, aren’t they? James doesn’t know. Sometimes it seems they can survive anything – and then he remembers his brother. Sunspot realizes James still misses him. “Every single…” James starts saying only to be cut short by the sudden reappearance of the Castle!
In the Castle, X-Force and the others realize they are back. Richards’s internal sensors indicate they’ve been gone for three hours, two minutes and fifty-three seconds. Cable thinks it’s time to finish what he came to do. Indeed, he dismantles this time platform before it can do any more damage. He tells Bridge he can claim the rest of Doom’s toys for S.H.I.E.L.D. Cable himself is done. Bridge is furious: that platform was for the U.N. council to decide. Cable has no respect for authority. Even if he wasn’t a wanted man, Bridge should take him in on general principle. He asks him to surrender, adding that he will stand up for him at trial. As Cable notes, though, even Bridge knows that’s never going to happen – even if he could take Cable in, he’d get out. They’ve been through this before.
Bridge agrees and tells him to get out of here. Agent Muldowney protests to Bridge that these are wanted criminals, terrorists – he can’t let them go. Bridge replies they have a big job ahead of them securing the rest of Doom’s equipment. If Muldonwey doesn’t like that, he can file a report.
Cable tells Richards he appreciates everything he’s done for them. He feels better knowing the platform’s out of commission. “My pleasure, Cable” Richards replies. As Cable enters the tunnels to exit the Castle, Richards ponders that unfortunately this may be the last time they meet as allies. Sooner or later, everybody makes a deal with the devil and Richards is about to sign that contract.


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Lower East Side Story
James Proudstar, the mutant also known as Warpath, is swimming in the dark icy waters of the Xavier Estate’s Breakstone Lake, unaware of a “predator” watching him deep in the lake. James moves with a speed and style that would make Olympic swimmers jealous. In his recent international and extradimensional travels with the mutant strike team X-Force, he’s had no time for the luxury of an evening swim. He had forgotten how much the water soothes his troubled spirit quelling the survivor’s guilt he’s carried since the tragic loss of his family and his tribe. And for a fleeting moment, swimming also allows him the illusion of safety.
Just for a moment, though: as something underwater grabs him, a panicky Warpath shouts “Hey!” As something pulls James down in the black depths of the lake, his heightened sense of sight allows him to see his hunter clearly and he recognizes the mysterious woman for whom he has fallen head over heels: Risque. Holding hands now, the couple swims upwards to the surface. From the moment Risque insinuated herself in James’ life she knew she’d caught him – hook, line and sinker. Now, she worries that in reeling him in she’s allowed him to get too close. And in the dangerous game she’s playing, that’s a mistake she can’t afford.
Finally on the surface, James asks Risque if she’s crazy, sneaking up on him like that: what if he hurt her? Risque playfully replies that she was hoping he’d recognize her touch by now. Tabitha told her he would be down at the lake, so she thought he’d surprise him. She did, James agrees. He swears he never had as much fun with anyone as he’s had with her. Risque boasts she can tell that. Before her, he was wallowing in self-pity.
“That’s the old me,” James insists. He asks her if she wants to race across the lake. “Like that would be fair,” Risque remarks. She has a better idea: get out of here. Their mutant physiologies protect them from the worst of it but this is winter and this water is freezing.
A little bit later, at the Xavier Mansion, Risque gets to see James’ room for the very first time. She didn’t know he lived in a monastery. There’s nothing in there but a futon and this armoire! He explains he doesn’t need much and all his other stuff is in storage. Besides, living in the mansion was never supposed to be permanent.
Holding a bright orange-red shirt adorned with a bull-shaped stamp, Risque comments on his wardrobe: “Hopeless.” She insists they need to break him out of this cowboy look. Toweling his hair, Warpath playfully warns her to watch whom she’s calling a cowboy. He’s a full-blooded Apache! Risque tells “Geronimo” that if he wants to be seen with this fabulous babe – meaning herself – he’s going to have to let her take him shopping. After all, she has a reputation to uphold!
Approaching her with a smile, James jokes that his mama always warned him about girls with reputations. And with good reason, Risque replies, smiling voluptuously. Holding each other, their eyes shut, about to kiss, James admits he still doesn’t know her real name. No matter how many times he asks… “Gloria Muñoz,” she cuts him short. Any other questions?
Knocking on the door but not really expecting a response, Siryn walks into the room, asking James if he’s up for a Danger Room workout. Seeing the couple together, James being shirtless, on the brink of a kiss, Theresa freezes in mid-sentence. Even though she fought side-by-side with James and considers him her best friend, more and more, in moments like these, she wonders if she knows him at all.
Rather awkwardly, Theresa says she’s sorry. She didn’t realize he had company. Visibly embarrassed, Warpath just says “Hi,” whereas an undeterred Risque, sporting a devilish grin, also greets Theresa. “Uh… so… you two know each other, right?” Warpath asks them. Risque informs him that, together with Siryn, they went up against Mr. Sinister but were never formally introduced. “How ya doing, girlfriend?” she gleefully asks Theresa with an ironic glint in her eyes.
Putting a T-shirt on, Warpath informs Siryn that they’re going club-hopping in the city: does she want to come along? Risque complements that by observing Siryn looks like she could use a night out. “All work and no play makes red a dull girl”, she viciously remarks! Siryn angrily retorts she’s busy. Unlike some people, she has work to do. She says she’s sure they’ll have a good time without her and then storms out of the room! Standing out on the corridor, Theresa thinks she’s stupid. She was the one who told James they just wanted to be friends. She has no right to be jealous. Even if she is.
New York City’s East Village
As the couple walks in the crowded streets, Warpath wonders why is it every time he asks her a question about herself, she changes the subject. Risque jokes that maybe she’s not that interesting. “Why don’t you let me decide?” James insists. Risque proceeds to tell him some things about herself: her dad’s Cuban. Her mom’s Seminole. She has two younger brothers. Her folks divorced when she was twelve. She lived with her mom until she was sixteen. She’s been on her own since then. How’s that, she asks him. Warpath admits it’s a start.
The couple walks by a house with a notice outside that reads “Psychic Readings.” A woman standing in the window suggests they let her – Madame Carlotta – tell their fortune. She gives them a deal because they’re such a cute couple: she’ll read both their minds for twenty. Walking away, Warpath tells her “No, thanks, ma’am.” The last time someone told his fortune they fainted. Risque asks when that was.
Warpath explains that when he was in Latveria, a gypsy told him that when she touched him, a vision overwhelmed her. She said she saw him at a crossroads, where if he chose the wrong path, he’d be consumed by darkness. “And you believed her?” Risque smiles, raising her eyebrows. She insists he lets her tell him his fortune. Pretending to “read” his right palm, Risque foresees he will have a very, very good time tonight. She asks him to trust her: Madame Risque sees all, knows all, tells all.
Standing outside a club known as “El Ciudad Grande” (The Big City), Risque informs James they have the best deejay in here. She hopes he can dance in those boots! Warpath asks her if she really wants to wait in this line: it goes all the way around the block. “Who said anything about the line?” Risque insists. Approaching the doorman, Enrico, she asks him what’s it gonna take to get her and the big guy inside. Enrico tells her to give him a break. Rodriguez would kill him if he didn’t let her in. He urges them not to just stand there and go on inside. As they enter the club, Warpath admits he’s impressed. Risque explains it’s all about who you know. He knows her and she knows the owner. He’s an old and dear friend from her Miami days.
Risque and Warpath get to the bar. Risque wonders aloud who she has to kill to get a drink in this place. “Hey, bartender!” she cheerfully yells. The bartender – actually owner of the club – turns to her, surprised and excited to see her. It’s been absolutely ages since the two last met! Hugging her, he then looks at her from some distance. He assures her she’s gorgeous as ever. “Always the charmer, Luis,” a flattered Risque replies.
Luis asks her who her friend is. James introduces himself to the man who, in turn, introduces himself as Luis Rodriguez. He tells James that any friend of Gloria’s is welcome in his club. Plus, James’s far more presentable than her last boyfriend! He asks Risque what happened to him. He was cute – in a brutish, Cro-Magnon sort of way. Winking an eye, Risque tells him that last she heard, he was doing hard time in Texas! Gloria asks Luis to make her a martini while she goes freshen up. She also asks the boys not to talk about her while she’s gone!
Heading to the ladies’ room, Risque walks by a man who’s hitting on a girl, asking her if she’d like to go back to his place with him. Suddenly noticing Risque’s face, the man exclaims in terror “Not her!” His date angrily asks the man, Miguel, if that woman is an old girlfriend. Miguel assures her it isn’t like that. He promises he’ll dig her later and rushes to his friend, Eddie, who’s having drinks at the bar. He tells Eddie he’s in big trouble. Eddie asks him what the matter is. Miguel points him at Risque standing in the line outside the ladies’ room, telling him to see the girl with the long black hair. Eddie finds her hot and suggests they see if she wants to party with them.
“Not a chance, man” Miguel replies. He asks him if he remember telling him about his friend, Arturo, the enforcer in Miami. One day Miguel was with Arturo while he was leaning on a deejay who owed him a couple grand. Then, this girl showed up in a motorcycle. Arturo told her to mind her own business: this girl put him in the hospital. Ready to pull a gun, Eddie asks him if he’s looking for payback. If that’s the case, he’s got him covered. The increasingly panicky Miguel refuses: rumor has it that chick’s got some freaky voodoo powers. Miguel is lucky he didn’t end up in traction along with Arturo. He just wants to get out of this joint before she recognizes him.
As the two men walk away, Warpath, who was standing next to them at the bar and heard everything, asks Luis if he also heard that. That guy was really scared of Gloria. Luis asks him if he’s really surprised. After all, their little girl likes mixing it up. Warpath admits there’s so much he doesn’t know about her. Luis admits she’s a still to mystery to him, as well, even though they’ve been friends for years. James just has to get used to the fact she likes her secrets.
In Xavier’s Mansion, the alien technology of the Danger Room has simulated the atmospheric environment of a castle. Shatterstar is demonstrating the finer points of swordfighting to Siryn as the two engage in combat on a long staircase. As their swordfighting continues, Shatterstar notices Siryn is angry: her moves are increasingly reckless and her lack of focus is obvious. He tells her that a warrior learns to read his opponent’s emotional state. Something is clearly bothering her. Siryn insist that she doesn’t need him to psychoanalyze her. Grinning, Shatterstar advises her to wrestle with her inner demons before battle and jumps upward, causing Theresa to lose her balance, fall on the stairs and be defeated.
Shatterstar insists that her emotional balance is as important as her physical equilibrium. Theresa retorts that, if he had allowed her to use her sonic scream, she’d not be the one on this cold stone floor. Shatterstar reminds her that the purpose of their exercise was to hone her swordfighting skills. She shouldn’t depend solely on her mutant ability. Theresa tiredly admits she knows that. Shatterstar believes she shouldn’t be discouraged. His master swordsman who taught his gladiatorial cell swore he would never survive his class, let alone Mojo’s arenas. There’s hope for her yet.
With the lesson finished, the Danger Room’s scenery reverts back to normal. Shatterstar asks Siryn to tell him what’s bothering her. With a sigh, Theresa admits it’s James… and Wade… and men in general. She thinks maybe it’s her. Maybe she doesn’t know what she wants. Shatterstar coldly remarks that perhaps he’s not the one she should come to for romantic advice. Both he and Siryn, however, are suddenly distracted by the sound of a piano. Shatterstar wonders where this music’s coming from; it’s beautiful. Siryn thinks it’s Chopin; one of his nocturnes.
As the duo rushes to the source of the music, Theresa recalls taking piano lessons when she was ten. Back then, she was more interested in climbing trees than practicing scales. She wishes she tried harder. Shatterstar agrees that discipline is necessary in any endeavor.
Finally reaching outside the living room, where the music is coming from, they notice that, apparently, they weren’t the only ones caught by the music’s spell. Meltdown and Sunspot are already there, peeking at someone through the half-open door leading to the living room. Tabitha can’t believe it; Bobby agrees it’s a miracle. The others ask them what’s going on. Who’s playing? Bobby tells them to shush. They don’t want to disturb his concentration. “Whose concentration?” Shatterstar asks. Bobby suggests they take a look. Shocked, they see Caliban playing the piano!
In La Ciudad Grande, Risque is looking herself at the mirror of the ladies’ room, putting some lipstick on. She listens to a group of girlfriends who also freshen up in front of the mirror, one of them talking about how Shane said it wouldn’t really be cheating while he’s on tour, the other seeing men as the proverbial dogs and the third one telling Liza, Shane’s girlfriend, that her problem is that she always falls in love; she’s only setting herself up to get hurt. “Tell me about it,” Risque thinks. Exiting the ladies’ room, she realizes she shouldn’t have let herself get this close to James. She can’t afford to be in love.
Suddenly, she hears the voice of a man near her telling her that she used to be reliable. The man, standing in the shadows, admits being so disappointed in her now. Realizing who he is, Risque defiantly states she thought he didn’t want to be seen in public. The man admits he doesn’t but their friend sent him to clean up after her. Grabbing him by the throat, Risque intimidates him with her fist, insisting he tells the man she’s on top of things: she doesn’t need any assistance. Too late, the man tells her. The others have been called in to finish her job. Indeed, the Blob suddenly appears, telling Gloria that she dropped the ball and now her old pal Fred J. Dukes is in the game!
In the bar, a woman is flirting with Warpath, admiring his being so big and being certain he must be a model/actor/athlete. Luis scolds her, telling the woman, Prunella, to cut some slack as the man’s taken. “Just my luck,” the lovelorn Prunella remarks, sipping her drink. Risque suddenly appears, tossing the woman aside and telling James about a change of plans. They have to go: now. Amazed, Warpath reminds her they just got here. Why is she in such a hurry to leave?
“Two words… the Blob!” is her response. Indeed, the always strikingly big Blob approaches them, telling her he needs no introductions. She just has to make sure her boyfriend comes with him. And if innocent bystanders get hurt – he has no problem with that.
At the mansion, Caliban realizes everyone is looking at him and wonders if he’s doing something wrong. The others plead him to keep playing: it was beautiful. Extremely upset by their presence, Caliban admits that now he can’t remember the pretty music – and then collapses, face-first, on the piano keys! Siryn realizes he’s having some kind of seizure and dispatches Shatterstar to go get Cable. Still conscious but visibly in pain, Caliban incessantly repeats “Caliban hurts… Caliban hurts…” Theresa suggests they get him to the Medlab. Tabitha tells Caliban not to worry. They won’t let anything happen to him.
In the club, Blob asks Warpath what he’s waiting for: Let’s rumble! he cries, slamming his hand on the floor and making it quake. As the club-goers flee in panic, Luis asks Gloria if that’s another one of her friends. “Send me the bill, darling,” an upset Risque tells him. Luis urges her not to worry her pretty little head about it. This is his club and he’s not going to let some overgrown tub of lard trash it. As he’s about to pull a gun, Warpath grabs it, telling him it’s a bad idea and will only make the Blob mad at Luis. Plus, James is the one he wants.
Risque insists James lets her handle this. As she makes a disco ball hanging from the ceiling implode on itself, Luis scolds her for being such a showoff. Risque reminds him that he’s the one who always told her “if you’ve got, flaunt it.” So, she makes things implode on themselves: not as showy as other mutant powers but useful – as proven by the disco ball that collapses on Blob’s head, moments after he was boasting Gloria’s powers are useless against organic matter like himself!
Warpath and Risque move towards the exit of the club. James asks Risque to tell him why the Blob was after him since he seems to know her pretty well! Risque argues that’s not the time: they have to disappear fast! The Blob is not alone.
Indeed, at that moment, Mimic appears outside the club, barely missing zapping them with his optic blast. Mimic tells them they’re not going anywhere. Addressing him by his first name, “Calvin,” Risque assures him she knows he doesn’t want to be there, thus he shouldn’t take this personally. Focusing her powers on the brownstone nearest the Mimic, she condenses a wall of bricks into a spray of small, high-density projectiles that are hurled against the flying Mimic, causing him to scream in pain. Still, Mimic persists on his attack.
As he unleashes his telekinetic blasts, he tells Risque she brought this on herself. If she hadn’t spent months playing cat and dog with Proudstar, the big man wouldn’t have sent Dukes and himself. Being able to read her thoughts, Mimic informs her he knows how she feels about the kid.
Avoiding his shots, Warpath and Risque try to escape in the alleys. James recalls that, last time he faced Mimic, he was living in Siberia because he couldn’t control his power around other people. Apparently that’s not longer a problem. James doesn’t know if that worries him more than the fact Risque is on a first name basis with him. Risque insists she can explain.
“So can I, Injun,” the Blob shouts, suddenly appearing and grabbing James by his face. Holding his face pressed against his stomach, Blob insists that someone should tell Warpath the cold, hard truth: his girlfriend set him up. James realizes he can’t move! Blob reaffirms that: he’s the proverbial immovable object. In a minute or so, James will pass out from the lack of oxygen.
However, James manages to get one of his arms free, impressing the Blob. James should be proud: few people could pull that off. He tells him not to expect his other arm, though. Blob can shift his mass around James’ body and right now, he’s got a ton of pressure wrapped around that arm like a vise.
Risque tells Blob he overlooked an important fact. They’re in New York City and there’s a network of subway and sewer tunnels underneath his feet. Indeed, she uses her powers to condense the asphalt below the Blob’s feet into next to nothing. The Blob disappears into the black void, screaming that he’ll get her for this. James congratulates Risque on her move. He thought he was just gonna die from Blob’s body odor!
Mimic flies above James, asking him if he’s forgotten about him. “Weren’t you supposed to be one of the good guys?” James asks him. Flying against him, Mimic replies that sometimes we cannot choose the roles we must play. James doesn’t find this response comforting. He realizes he only has seconds before the Mimic’s close enough to duplicate his speed and strength. Tearing off a sign-post, he bats the Mimic with it, using his own velocity against him.
With Mimic now unconscious on the ground, sirens are heard. The cops are there! Risque urges James to go before they get identified. James insists he should call the mansion; tell them what happened. Risque believes they’ll see it on TV, anyway. As they walk away, one of the officers radios to his colleague that they’ve got a positive ID on two known mutant felons. The feds at Zero Tolerance should be notified. The curious crowd of people gathered around Mimic’s body and the huge gap into which the Blob fell claim being sick of mutants: “Why can’t leave this city alone?” “They killed Graydon Creed,” “Oughta lock ‘em all up in camps,” “Kill them before they kill us.” Looking at the huge gap on the ground, the officer adds they’ll need a crane.
Tribeca, on Manhattan’s Lower West Side
Risque and Warpath are in a lavish apartment, which belongs to a model Risque knows; she’s in Milan right now. James doesn’t care about that. Risque owes him answers. What’s her connection to the Blob and the Mimic? What is she hiding from him? Risque is afraid if she tells him the truth he’ll walk out of that door and never come back. Holding her, he assures her he’s never going to leave her. All he wants is for her to be honest with him.
Offering him a drink, Risque admits that the truth is that those two were sent to complete a job she was supposed to do – deliver him to a man who has need of his particular powers. Suddenly collapsing and with his clarity fading, James is barely able to ask her what’s in the drink. “Enough tranquilizer to knock out Hong Kong,” she replies. James thought she cared. She assures him she does but this is business.


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Florida, Wackyworld
Wackyworld mascot, Wacky Dawg, welcomes the readers to Florida’s Wackyworld, where a bunch of kids with wacky powers, X-Force, have come to locate the girl who was last glimpsed with their missing teammate, Warpath.
In the entire bustle caused by the huge crowds of children and parents walking around the theme park, Risque recalls that when she was little, her father used to bring her there, to Wackyworld. He’d buy her a Wacky Dawg hat and they’d go on every ride. He loved the place as much as she did. After she turned thirteen, her world changed forever. It wasn’t bad enough she couldn’t stand being seen in public with her father, but then her mutant ability to implode any object manifested. So, she’d come there with her girlfriends and wear too much make-up trying to convince high school boys they were older – while Risque also tried to convince herself she was normal. She tried to forget she was different from everybody else and always would be. She even got a job in Wackyworld one summer but it only lasted two weeks. She got fired for smoking in costume behind the Astro-World Tilt-a-Wheel.
As she buys a “swamp shake” milkshake from a guy in a kiosk dressed as Wacky Dawg, Risque thinks she could almost say she grew up there. That’s why maybe she came back to recapture a little of her lost innocence. When she hears the scream, she knows she’s made a mistake. She can never go back.
A boy dressed in another mascot suit, starts running screaming “Run! Run for your life!” A woman behind him, holding her baby, shrieks in horror that it’s a monster! The big guy ripping through the crowd is none other than Caliban. He’s a mutant who can track other mutants like a bloodhound and he’s after her – Risque. Gloria Dolores Muñoz, as her real name is – named after both her grandmothers – is faced with three hundred pounds-plus of hunting machine hurtling her way and does the only sensible thing – she runs. As she jumps over the salesman’s kiosk, the surreally stoic Wacky Dawg-dressed employee asks her if she’d like another shake. Some other time, Risque tells him as she flees, and she also suggests he steps back. The man wonders “why?” and then just exclaims an “oh” as Caliban tosses the entire kiosk apart, in Risque’s pursuit.
“So much for a day of fun and frolic,” Risque thinks as she quickly ascends some stairs, pushing other people aside. Luckily, she knows the park like the back of her hand. Since she needs to put as much distance between herself and Caliban as possible, the Wackyworld Skytrain is her answer. Indeed, she rushes into the Skytrain moments before its doors are shut. A voice announces that the Skytrain is now leaving Fairy Tale Town. Next stop: Astro-World.
Making herself comfortable on one of the cabins of the Skytrain – much to the dismay of her fellow passengers, a plump lady and her son – Risque thinks that after Astro-World is the main parking lot. She can steal a car and be on the free-way in no time. However, she has nowhere to go, no one to turn to. The Keys are out of the question since that business with the Hulk. Maybe New Orleans, she thinks, she’s got relatives there. Looking out of the window, she can’t believe she’s on the run again. It never should have happened this way.
(flashback)
After things went down in New York, she needed somewhere to lay low, sit by a pool, watch a little free cable. So, she hopped a redeye to Tampa and drove here to Wackyworld. Miles and miles of cheap hotels surround the theme park. She was paying cash for everything. She didn’t think anybody could find her here. Then, one morning, carrying some groceries, she came back from a night on the town to find she had guests. Cautiously watching from the window, she saw half of X-Force sitting in her hotel room, waiting for her return. Risque is sure they wanted to ask her about James Proudstar’s disappearance but she had no desire to face their inquisition.
Thus, she made a beeline for the Wackyworld Park. She thought, how could they possibly find her in a crowd of two hundred thousand? Besides, no X-team would dare use their powers around so many people: it’d be too dangerous. Here, Risque would be just another tourist and not the woman who betrayed their friend… Who betrayed the man she…
(present time)
Risque’s musings are cut short as she realizes Caliban is standing right outside her window, hanging on the train, his claws scratching the metal of the train’s exterior! Risque admits he gets points for being persistent. She’s confident it won’t take him long to break through this shatterproof glass window. She realizes desperate circumstances call for desperate measures and decides to take down the emergency lever.
Horrified, the plump lady asks her what she thinks she’s doing: she’s not supposed to touch that! “Too late” Risque replies and takes it down. Passengers go flying everywhere in the cabin as the train screams to a sudden stop. Caliban’s momentum hurls him forward a couple of hundred yards and into a small pool nearby.
With the window now open, Risque exits, saying this is her stop! “Oh you horrible, horrible woman!” the plump lady exclaims, urging her son, Marvin, to listen to his mother – he should stay away from girls like that; they’re nothing but trouble! Hearing this as she climbs down the train via the utility ladder, Risque thinks that if she had a dollar for every time someone said that about her, she wouldn’t be in this mess.
Risque is halfway down the utility ladder when she spots the X-Force airborne division heading her way: the solar-powered Brazilian known as Sunspot, whom she doesn’t really know, and Siryn, the Irish redhead with the dangerous pipes. Before Risque entered the picture, James had it really bad for Siryn, but she didn’t see it. Now she resents Risque for taking James away from her.
Flying towards Risque, Sunspot asks Theresa if she sees her. Aye, Theresa replies: straight ahead. Theresa swears that if that witch has hurt James, she is going to make her wish she’d never been born!
On the ground, one of the park’s security guards urges his partner, Dillon, to follow him as they are on red alert: mutant terrorists have invaded the park. As if killing Graydon Creed wasn’t enough, now they want to despoil the most wholesome place on Earth!
“Terrorists? Sheeesh!” Risque exclaims as she jumps off the train and onto the two officers. She tells these guys they take this place too seriously. Running away from them, Risque knows she can’t stay out in the open. She also knows there’s a network of tunnels running beneath the car. She needs to get underground fast. The quickest route would be through one of the service exits hidden in all the rides. With that plan in mind, she decidedly rushes into the Wacky-Town Joy Ride!
Risque cuts through all the people waiting in the line for the ride. “No cuts!” a furious man in the line shouts but Risque assures him she has a pass. She eventually jumps into the back seat of one of the cars just as the ride is about to commence. With a smile, she asks the two boys in the front seat if they mind giving her a lift. One of the boys screams there’s a girl in their car! The boy on the wheel asks Risque to pardon his friend, Charles; he’s a little excitable. He introduces himself as Jay Glazer and assures they’d be happy to help her. Does she realizes, though, there’s only supposed to be two people in one car? Risque insists she won’t tell if they don’t. As the ride starts, a pre-recorded voice coming from a mechanical “pig officer” urges citizens to remember to keep their arms and legs inside the car at all times during the ride!
The International Terminal of New York’s JFK Airport
Domino has just come back to the US. After her showdown with Donald Pierce and Lady Deathstrike in the south-west, she’d hoped a week in Brazil would clear her head. However, not even the glitter and glamour of carnival could take her mind off Milo. If only she’d done something differently, her ex-husband might still be alive. Their time together was so brief… Yet, she still can’t imagine ever caring for anyone else like she did for him.
The employee in the customs welcomes her to the United States. “Do you have anything to declare, Miss…,” Domino demonstrates her fake ID: Alioso, Christina Elizabeth. “…Alioso?” No, not a thing, Domino replies. However, the man tells her to just step over here. These gentlemen would like a word with her. As two huge guys in sunglasses stand ominously around her, Domino thinks “Great. I’ve been made…!”
In Wackyworld, Risque thinks she should have come here with James. They could’ve been getting busy in the dark of the spooky slay-ride. Not that there’s much chance of that now: if only she didn’t owe that junkyard dog in Detroit a favor.
On the front seat of the car, the boys are excited, spotting recognizable characters like Wally Warthog, and Sammy Skunk, and Arnold Armadillo and… Suddenly, Jay points to a guy that’s not part of the Wackyworld family. Charlie assumes he must be a new character. Risque hates to tell them but that one’s for real! Caliban makes his way through the various dummies of Wackyworld characters, proclaiming that he is coming for her! Risque tells the kids to stay down: it’s her he wants. Charlie screams whereas the always nonchalant Jay admits “this is cool.”
As the children in the car duck, Risque uses her own line of defense against the brute strength and animal rage of Caliban. When she hit puberty, she learned she could implode inorganic matter – in this case, a segment of support beam holding up the Wacky-Town scenery! As she uses her powers, a large part of the scenery (the sign reads This house is made of timber!) collapses on Caliban.
Risque confesses to herself that she hates to do that to the big guy but she doesn’t like playing cat and mouse when she’s the mouse. As she attempts to exit the installation via the emergency exit door, she finds it locked. As she’s about to implode the lock, Caliban slams his fist on the door. Caliban says stop! Realizing she’s cornered, Risque tries to persuade Caliban that he’s got her all wrong. She’s as much a victim as James in all of this. Caliban tells her to stop trying to confuse him; he knows she’s a bad lady. She took James away from X-Force. Caliban will make her give him…
Suddenly, Caliban releases a terrible scream and collapses. Risque wonders if he had a stroke or a heart attack – or something big and bad along those lines. She thinks she’d better call 911… once she’s out of the park.
Risque rushes out of the emergency exit – until she asks herself who she’s kidding. Realizing she can’t leave him, she comes back. She admits to herself it’s a lousy time to develop a conscience. Kneeling next to Caliban, she asks him what the matter is. Caliban tells her it hurts and pleads her to help him. Risque finds it strange how one moment Caliban seems unstoppable and the next, he seems so fragile. She wishes she knew what to do for him.
“Get away from him, ye traitorous witch!” Siryn suddenly screams. Risque finds herself thrown across the room by a storm front of sound. X-Force has finally caught up with her: Rictor, Meltdown, Siryn and Sunspot. Siryn informs Risque that she has an important decision to make now: she can walk out with them or be dragged out by them. Either way, she’s not going anywhere until she takes them to James.
Tabitha states that, if Risque’s hurt Caliban, she’s got a handful of explosive energy guaranteed to ruin her day. Risque swears she didn’t do anything to the big guy. He had her cornered and then he suddenly seized up in pain and keeled over. Sunspot realizes that it was just like the other day at the piano. He knew they shouldn’t have let Caliban go with them. He’s sick. Rictor reminds Bobby, though, that the tests Cable ran in the Medlab didn’t find anything wrong with Caliban.
As Sunspot and Rictor carry Caliban on their shoulders, the former remarks that Caliban experienced a number of radical physical transformations in recent years – from Morlock, to one of Apocalypse’s Horsemen to his current incarnation. Maybe all that genetic restructuring’s finally exacting a toll. Caliban mumbles that he doesn’t mean to be a burden. Rictor tells him that no way he’s a burden. This is what friends do: they take care of each other.
Holding Risque pressed against the wall, Theresa tells her she’s lucky Caliban’s health appears to be on the mend. She’s already done plenty of damage to James. Amused, Risque asks her if she’s a little jealous. Besides, how do they even know Warpath’s missing? He’s an adult. Maybe he’s on vacation. Or maybe he got tired of…
Siryn pulls Risque’s arms backwards, causing her to scream in pain and leave her ironic remarks aside. Theresa tells her not to get smart with her. They have a device that can pinpoint the bio-signature of any mutant around the world. When it couldn’t find locate James, they knew something was amiss… and Risque is the last person he was seen with. Sunspot adds that when they entered everything they knew about her into Cerebro, the device – along with Caliban’s tracking powers – led them here. They subsequently canvassed the surrounding motels until they found Risque’s. Siryn urges Risque to be a good girl and tell them where James is.
Detroit, Michigan
Sleeping on a mattress, in what appears to be a dimly lit room, stripped of furniture but full of junk, Warpath is dreaming about Risque. “Risque… What are you doing to me…? Thought… we were… why…” As he wakes up, he tells himself, “Oh man, what a dream I had.” He then realizes it wasn’t a dream… he only wishes it were. He remembers how Risque drugged him. As he stands up, he wonders where he is – and also what happened to his left arm, as there’s a strip dressing around it. This place looks filled to the rafters with junk – old cars, TVs, appliances – all dismantled, scavenged for parts. James also sees a mechanic working on an old car, engaged in oxy-fuel cutting. The mechanic hasn’t even noticed him but James knows how to get his attention.
Warpath grabs the man’s arm, ordering him to drop the torch now. He’s gonna answer some quest…
James pauses as the mechanic takes off his protective mask: his face is ugly and his head is freakishly larger compared to his quite massive body. Seeing James astounded, the mechanic assures him he usually gets that reaction. Not too pretty, is he? He tells Proudstar to relax. He is in no danger from him yet. As James can see, despite his size, he can’t move around too quickly. The man introduces himself as Sledge and informs Warpath this is his home… such as it is. As James can imagine, there aren’t a lot of places where someone like Sledge can be accepted. Sledge, of course, assumes every mutant knows that. Changing the subject, he tells James it is about time he woke up. Risque’s Mickey Finn was a little too potent. James was out for three days.
Warpath asks him about his arm. Sledge informs that, when he was in “slumberland,” his doctor ran some tests. Nothing unusual: a little blood work, a couple of tissue samples. As Sledge opens the fridge, he explains to Warpath that he needed to make sure Risque brought him to him healthy. Warpath asks him why Risque brought him here at all. Sledge explains it was because she owed him a favor. A lot of people owe him favor – the Blob and the Mimic, for example. He provided those two the means to better control their powers; now, they’re in his debt. Getting two bottles out of the fridge, Sledge nonchalantly offers James a beer.
Smashing a piece of junk car with his fist, a furious Warpath tells him the only thing he wants from his is answers. Why is he there? Sledge answers his question: he needs a man with James’ heightened senses and strength. James asks him what makes him think he’ll help him with anything. “Let me show you something” Sledge simply replies. Turning on a projector, he instructs Warpath to direct his attention to the clear spot on the wall.
The movie projected on the wall shows three Native American men. Sledge asks Warpath if he recognizes the guy to the left. James tells him it’s Michael Whitecloud. He was friends with James’ brother, John. He died with the rest of James’ tribe in the Camp Verde massacre. Sledge remarks that’s interesting… because this footage was taken last month. “He’s alive! How can that be?” James wonders in amazement. He thought he was the last one left. Sledge assures him he never learned the truth behind the massacre but Whitecloud knows… and Sledge can give him Warpath. James deduces that, in return, he’ll owe Sledge a “favor.” “Of course,” Sledge replies. He doesn’t do anything for free.
JFK Airport
Sitting on a toilet and reading a digest novel, Domino thinks this is absolutely bizarre. She has been stuck inside a storage closet for three hours. She could escape in a heartbeat but she is curious why federal agents are treating her with kid gloves.
One of the agents opens the door, urging “Ms. Alioso” to come with him. Domino thinks that maybe they don’t know who she is. No one’s called her “Domino” since they stopped her at customs. As Domino starts walking, the agent following her warns her not to make any sudden moves. He’s armed. “Oooh, I’m scared,” Domino mocks him.
As they enter a room, the agent informs his superior – the man is turned the other way around – she’s there. The mysterious man thanks the sergeant. “Christina Elizabeth Alioso” he pronounces. That’s a new one but, then, he never could keep track of all her aliases. As he turns around, he apologizes for the strongarm tactics. He would have met her plane but he was detained in Washington and didn’t want to risk losing her. “G. W. Bridge?” Domino exclaims in surprise.
Meanwhile, after two and a half hours aboard the PACRAT (their transport craft) X-Force hits the “motor city” with a vengeance. Risque has accompanied the team here, contemplating that her debt to Sledge was paid when she brought James to him. Now, it’s his turn to deal with this… destructive mutant scout troop.
The team blasts its way inside Sledge’s “house.” Theresa believes this place looks as shoddy on the inside as it does on the outside. Sunspot jokes that one would think that any place that could scramble Cerebro’s satellite surveillance would have a little more hi-tech interior. Upon seeing them, Sledge asks them if they can’t read. The sign says keep out.
Sunspot tells him he has their friend: where’s Warpath? Sledge is a little puzzled by this name but then realizes they mean Proudstar. Suddenly, James appears and tells Bobby that there’s no need for that. He appreciates all of their concern but everything’s under control. Surprised, Theresa asks him how he can say that. Risque admitted drugging him and delivering him to this Sledge person, whoever he is. James insists he’s fine – in fact, they can all go home now. As the team departs in disappointment, Sledge reminds Warpath that they have a deal. James insists that, if Sledge keeps his end of the bargain, he’ll also keep his own.
Risque suddenly approaches James. The two lovers pronounce each other’s name as they see each other. Risque realizes this isn’t going to be easy. Seeing them as such, Bobby thinks they need a moment alone. Siryn retorts that perhaps they’ve already had too much of that. Tabitha insists it’s his business: it’s a little late for Siryn to take such an interest in his love life.
Warpath tells Risque he really doesn’t have much to tell her. Upset, Risque tells him he needs to understand: she had no choice! Sledge kept her out of a bad situation a few years back. She owed him. James insists that, if she was in trouble, she could’ve asked him. Risque tells him he knows how she feels about him. “Do I?” Warpath wonders. Ever since he lost his tribe – his family – he’s felt completely alone. She changed that. He felt comfortable with her… like he belonged. Now he realizes it was all a lie. “Don’t call me,” he tells her as he walks away. Risque tries to convince herself she’s better off without him. That she’s always operated best as a loner… but she doesn’t believe it for a minute.
JFK Airport
Domino is surprised she isn’t under arrest. She’s one of the most wanted individuals in the world. Doesn’t this violate every rule in the S.H.I.E.L.D. manual? Bridge tells her he’s here because they were friends once – and because he needs her help. Domino believes that what he means is that he needs her to do something he can’t handle officially and for which he won’t be blamed if anything goes wrong. Bridge explains that a Zero Tolerance operation is threatening one of their deep cover operatives. S.H.I.E.L.D. can’t do anything without compromising that agent’s position.
Domino still wonders why she should want to involve herself in this. As he hands over a folder to Domino, Bridge provides the answer: their agent has strong connections to X-Force. As Domino looks at the photo of the agent, she mumbles she doesn’t believe it. Dani Moonstar’s an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.!