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Mojo Mayhem
Having just escaped from the clutches of Mojo, Ricochet Rita and the X-Babies run for their lives through the streets of the Mojoverse. Hot on their collective tail are Mojo’s Trademark Police, who intend to literally brand the escaped, unregistered X-Babies.
Ricochet Rita has a hard time convincing them to keep running. Several of the babies, such as the feisty Wolverine, would rather just stay and fight. Rita does a decent job of keeping the babies out of harm’s way. However, the jealous scheming of baby Dazzler literally trips up their escape.
Still bitter about their dispute over baby Longshot, baby Dazzler decides to take out her teammate Rogue. “Oh dear, you tripped! Hope the fall doesn’t hurt!” she says while tossing a board between baby Rogue’s legs. Rogue stumbles and hits her head.
 The team runs for several more meters before realizing that Rogue has fallen behind. Mojo’s monstrous minion Tracker Tiger approaches the downed X-Baby and lifts his foot in preparation to smash her. Luckily, Longshot hurls a throwing knife before anything happens to Rogue. Guided by Longshot’s noble intentions, the knife finds a soft spot on the sole of the behemoth’s foot and causes him to cry out in pain.
 Rogue takes the opportunity to recover and flies back to her teammates. She thanks Longshot for saving her, and he tells her it was no problem, much to the ire of baby Dazzler. They’re better friends than ever, baby Dazzler laments. I hate her. I hate him. I hate her.  I hate him.
Rita comments that they need to find a hiding place, but the babies asks where they would find such a thing. Suddenly, little Wolvie sees a monstrous citadel looming in the distance and tells his team to hide in there. While the building has an identifiable central structure, it appears that several attachments have been added to the building over the years, several of them lacking proper foundation and support. The structural additions each bear their own signs that say things like “Atlantis Attacks,” “The Evolutionary War,” and “Secret Wars.” The architectural styles of the add-ons vary greatly, making the citadel appear to be a confusing, convoluted mess. Before Rita has a chance to object, the toddlers race up the steps toward the citadel’s glowing, ominous door.
Havok fires plasma blasts at their assailants from the top of the steps while the rest of his teammates run through the doorway. Upon entering, several of the babies find that their costumes have changed: Storm’s mohawk grows into a full, flowing head of hair, Colossus finds himself dressed in only shorts and boots, and Psylocke now wears body armor. Baby Dazzler whines that her costume has not changed at all.
Meanwhile, the Mojocops approach the doorway but hesitate to enter. Their leader does not exactly want to enter the building known in the Mojoverse as “The Forbidden Zone,” but he orders his troops inside anyway. As they enter, they feel energy flowing through their bodies, and comment that they feel “all-new, all different.” They do not initially see the X-Babies, but realize they must be behind yet another door that stands in their way. They try to open it, but find that some force stops them.
On the other side of the large wooden door, baby Colossus snickers as he holds the door shut with his super-strength. The other X-Babies search for another escape route during this reprieve. Unfortunately, they find only one object in this chamber: a living-room sized vault with the words “The House of Jack-N-Stan” written on the door. Rita comments that all the weird structural embellishments on the citadel seem to have sprouted out of this one particular chamber.
The Mojocops grow restless of being shut out, so they open fire on the large wooden door. They fail to hit any of the fugitive babies, but manage to damage both the door to the “House of Jack-N-Stan” and the surrounding, load-bearing supports. The entire citadel begins to rumble, and the Mojocops flee as the building collapses around their heads. However, Ricochet Rita and the X-Babies seem to vanish into the air surrounding the vault.
Meanwhile, Mojo monitors the entire event from the safety of his broadcasting station. He watches as yet another incarnation of the X-Men are seemingly killed. Mojo shouts as his future TV stars, as well as his monument to himself, are all reduced to rubble. His assistant, Major-Domo, tries to cheer him up. “The audience will eat it up, Mojo, all yumyumyum, just the way you love them too,” Major-Domo says. “Large-scale gratuitous destruction and the seeming obliteration of their favorite characters always makes for top ratings.”
“But only if they come back from the dead!” Mojo yells. Mojo’s other assistant, Minor-Domo, gets quite worked up over this latest predicament and starts frantically offering suggestions. Major-Domo tries to get her to calm down, but she refuses and once again drops dead from the stress. Major-Domo steps over her lifeless body and continues his conversation with his boss.
Mojo asks why his creations refuse to hang around until he has milked them for all their worth. Major-Domo replies that this is the “quintessential conundrum of creation,” adding that toys are more fun to play with when they have a will of their own. Major-Domo is prepared to continue philosophizing, but suddenly picks up a strange reading on his tracker. It turns out that the X-Babies were not killed, but merely transferred to a different dimension. Mojo perks up at this news and demands that they retrieve their TV stars. Major-Domo agrees, but adds that simply reacquiring the X-Babies will not do again if they simply escape again. Instead, he suggests forcing them to sign lifelong contracts upon their capture. Mojo enthusiastically agrees.
Enter the Agent. This cloaked, mysterious figure instantaneously appears from behind the velvet curtains that adorn Mojo’s lair. After the Agent introduces himself, Mojo squeals with glee as his plan is set into motion. However, his mood comes crashing down when the Agent firmly demands to discuss the terms of the contract. Mojo tries to ignore his demands, but finds he is no match for a creature with such a strong backbone. The Agent guarantees the return of the X-Babies, but only for a high price of his desire. Mojo, never one to pass up an opportunity for good ratings, reluctantly agrees and sends the Agent on his way.
Meanwhile, back in the 616-Universe, a passenger train speeds along the railroad from Edinburgh to London. Most of its passengers take advantage of the comfortable sleeping cars and get a good night’s rest. Kitty Pryde, however, proves to be the exception to the norm. She lies awake in her bed, with a book on her lap and thoughts racing through her mind. She isn’t afraid of sleeping because of the horror novel she reads, and she isn’t too amped from seeing her favorite band performing in Edinburgh. The reason she cannot sleep is because she recently lost her best friend and former roommate Illyana Rasputin to the events of “Inferno,” and now finds herself lacking close friends amongst her current teammates in Excalibur.
Kitty’s flashback…
Kitty works in her basement laboratory in Excalibur’s lighthouse. Her mission to understand the pan-dimensional teleporting Widget has caused her nothing but frustration. Rachel Summers and Professor Alistaire Stuart lounge around the lab as well, but their efforts so cheer Kitty up only succeed in frustrating her even further.
Eventually, Kitty grows so annoyed with Stuart’s unsolicited recommendations, as well as the transparent flirting between him and Rachel, that she gets up and leaves.
She air-walks straight through the ceiling and into the living room, where Brian Braddock and Nightcrawler work at repairing a gaping hole in the lighthouse. Brian tries to compliment her on her remarkable phasing ability, but she snubs him. Nightcrawler, who hangs from the ceiling and holds a hammer in his prehensile tail, tells his teammate not to take it personally. He has seen Kitty in this mood before, and it is best to not interfere.
Kitty continues marching up through the lighthouse until she reaches her bedroom. She begins packing a day bag and grumbling about the current state of her life. Is it too much to want my own room? Or my old friends back!? Or my old life? she asks herself while shoving her things into her purse. I thought I’d come to terms with the X-Men being dead…
Suddenly, her teammate Meggan soars into the room with good news to share. She tells Kitty that there is to be a royal wedding in London that weekend. When Kitty doesn’t give her a response, Meggan asks if something is the matter. “It’s no big deal -- why is everyone determined to make a federal case out of it?” she snaps as Kurt, Brian, Rachel, Lockheed, and Alistaire ascend the staircase into Kitty’s room. “I’m feeling a little brain-fried, is all, cooped up in here over a week, butting my head against the stonewall of that Widget downstairs! I want a break! My favorite band’s playing in Edinburgh. It’s the last show of their tour, and I’ve missed every other one.” She concludes by informing her team that she will not be missing this concert.
Captain Britain steps forward, puffs out his chest, and tells Kitty that she cannot leave when Excalibur might be needed on a mission at any moment. Kitty steps forward and stands toe-to-toe with her burly teammate. Before she can begin her counterargument, Kurt interjects and tells her that she is welcome to take the weekend off to see her favorite band, provided she behaves. “Seriously, fuzzy-elf?” she asks in disbelief. Kurt simply tells her to dance up a storm.
Kitty thanks Nightcrawler for letting her go, and phases right through the tower wall. Brian tries to stop her, but Kurt reminds him that she has been working very hard lately. Plus, if they respect Shadowcat’s needs and desires, then she will surely respect the needs of the team in return. You silver-tongued, fork-tailed devil, Nightcrawler, Kitty thinks to herself as she floats down from the tower, bless you!
Back in her train car, Kitty recalls how terrified she was of Nightcrawler when they first met. She realizes that he has had to face that reaction his entire life, and as a result, so few people get to know the kind, gentle man he truly is. Comforted by the thought of this friend, Kitty lapses in her concentration, accidentally reverts to her intangible state, and falls backward through the wall into the train’s hallway. Luckily, she pulls herself back into her sleeping quarters before anyone sees her. Kitty gets back under her covers, and briefly feels sorry for herself because of her current state of permanent intangibility. However, this thought brings her back to her deceased former teammates, so she instantly replaces this thought with her pleasant memory of the concert she just saw.
Kitty’s flashback…
While “Cat’s Laughing” performs to a packed audience, Kitty Pryde dances onstage right next to her favorite band. After the show, she runs up and hugs the lead singer, Emma Bull. She tells the band that they performed an amazing show, and Emma comments that they always seem to perform better when Kitty is around. She even jokes that Kitty should just follow the band wherever they go.
 Kitty flips at this suggestion, but then declines the offer, as she already has responsibilities of her own. The band figured as much, but they present Kitty with a parting gift anyway: a “Cat’s Laughing” sweatshirt that has the words “Kitty” and “Roadie” written along the sleeves. Kitty thanks them for the wonderful gift, and then heads off to catch her train home.
present
Back on the train, Kitty almost finally drifts off to sleep when she hears a loud noise inside her compartment. She calls out and asks if someone is there, but only hears the voices of several children. “Get flashy, Lightengale,” one of the voices says to another. Suddenly, a bright light appears in the center of the room, and Kitty sees that her room is filled with several toddler-sized versions of the X-Men.
 Baby Storm tries to greet her, but Kitty begins screaming frantically. She once again loses her concentration, and phases to such a level of intangibility that the train completely leaves her behind. She remains phased as she passes through all the other passenger’s quarters, and ends up solidifying right over one of the countryside’s rivers.
Before she has time to freeze in the chilly London waters, baby Storm and baby Rogue swoops down and lift her out of the river by her arms. They set her on the shore in front of the rest of the X-Babies. “You -- you’re real!” the confused Kitty remarks, wearing nothing but her “Cat’s Laughing” sweater and a skimpy pair of underwear.
“Course we’re real, ya stoopid skirt!” little Wolvie snaps back. He takes a swipe at her leg and remarks that the X-Babies are a lot more real than Kitty. Luckily, his claws pass right through Kitty’s leg due to her intangible state.
Baby Storm, however, is not pleased. She reprimands little Wolvie for being so reckless. “Had Kitty not phased, you might have crippled her!” she says, while shaking her finger in his face. Wolverine responds that it does not matter, because no harm was done. Somewhat irked by this comment, Colossus punches little Wolvie in the nose.
Finally, Storm formally introduces the X-Babies to Kitty and asks for her help. Kitty remains confused, however, because the last memory she has the X-Men being babies was when she and her team were reverted into babies by Mojo. Baby Storm explains that Mojo created them to be TV stars, but they escaped as soon as they could. Kitty realizes that Mojo will probably search for them until he can enslave them again; after all, he did the same thing to Kitty’s teammate, Phoenix.
Wolverine takes the opportunity to crack a joke about Kitty’s underwear. Once again, he gets punched in the nose. However, this tasteless comment does draw attention to the fact that Kitty is practically naked, so the team compiles a bunch of their extra clothes and makes her an outfit.
After a quick game of dress-up, Kitty finds herself wearing Storm’s black lightning jacket, a purple skirt with matching gloves, some red boots, and a large, garish belt with an “X” emblem. Kitty remarks that while the outfit is a bit snug in some places, it certainly beats wearing her other wet clothes in the middle of an England night.
 Perhaps from the cold, Kitty suddenly sneezes. The force of the sneeze causes her body’s molecules to discorporate temporarily, and she remarks that a stronger sensation could possibly scatter her molecules completely.
While watching them interact with one another, Kitty begins to notice exactly how similar the X-Babies are to her former teammates. Pushing onward, Shadowcat and the X-Babies begin to seek out Ricochet Rita. Kitty suggests contacting her teammates in Excalibur for help, but in order to do that, she realizes they probably need to find the nearest police station.
They arrive at the local constabulary much later that night. Kitty lies to the night watchman at the station and says that the X-Babies are some children she was hired to baby-sit, and they got lost on their way to a costume party. The constable, a kindly old man with a handlebar mustache, remarks on the quality of their costumes. “Sure is amazing what they can do these days with make-up,” Kitty responds, deflecting his suspicions.
 Finally the constable agrees to let her use the phone. As Kitty makes her phone call to Excalibur, baby Psylocke tugs at her skirt and tells her that something feels very wrong about the police station. Kitty does not get too alarmed, though. She actually feels more relieved that anything when she notices that the gentle constable seems to enjoy the presence of the kids. As she makes her phone call, he jokes with them and offers them steaming mugs of hot cocoa.
The telephone operator informs Kitty that she is unable to place a call to Excalibur’s headquarters at this time, due to some industrial interference. All hope of getting rescued seems lost, until she realizes that she can possibly use baby Psylocke’s psychic abilities to place a telepathic call to Phoenix. Psylocke enthusiastically agrees and is awaiting Kitty’s instructions on what to do when another oncoming nasal itch draws Kitty’s attention. She once again lets out a violent sneeze and almost scatters her molecules.
While Kitty’s focused on her sneezing fit, the constable approaches baby Psylocke and asks her if she can sign an affidavit for the police station’s records. Psylocke agrees, albeit hesitantly, and scribbles her signature on the constable’s affidavit. Immediately upon completing her signature, she lets out a pained scream. The constable laughs as he transforms into the shadowed, vile Agent. “Now that you’ve signed a contract, little Psylocke, your soul belongs to Mojo, and your powers, to me!” he laughs. Psylocke’s body transforms into a smoky haze, and is then absorbed by the Agent.
The rest of the X-Babies watch in dazed horror as their teammate vanishes into the Agent. Then, they begin fighting back. They unleash an onslaught of their powers at the Agent, while baby Rogue gets up close and tries to absorb his psyche. However, she finds that he is resistant to her power. He retaliates with a display of his newfound telepathic abilities and almost coerces Rogue into signing a contract of her own. Luckily, Kitty grabs her and leads the rest of the X-Babies out of the police station and away from the clutches of the Agent…for now.
Shadowcat decides to steal the constable’s patrol car in order to make their getaway. The X-Babies pile in the backseat, while Kitty begins fiddling under the steering wheel in an attempt to hotwire the vehicle. Before she can get very far, little Wolvie props himself up on the seat and smugly dangles the vehicle’s keys above her head. “Swiped ‘em from the desk,” he says to Kitty with a smirk on his face. “Where would you be without me?” Impressed by his initiative, Kitty starts up the car and drives away. The Agent watches them escape from the front steps of the constabulary, vows to catch them, and then disappears in a puff of purple smoke.
As they drive away in their stolen vehicle, Kitty and the X-Babies have to accommodate a lot of less-than-desirable circumstances. Kitty has to keep reminding herself to drive on the left side of the road, Storm’s claustrophobia makes her very tense, and little Wolvie longs to jump out and attack everything he sees. Shadowcat, squinting in order to see the road without her glasses, has plenty of time to ruminate about their adversary, and she concludes that the Agent must have some way of tracking their position.
Several hours later, after dawn, their car runs out of gas and they pull over in the middle of the road. Soon, another vehicle approaches and stops at the sight of the patrol car surrounded by costumed children. Its passengers, a group of comic book creators on their way to a signing, exit the vehicle and offer to help.
 Kitty asks to commandeer their vehicle for a matter of life and death. While they are not immediately willing to comply, little Wolvie threatens them with his claws and convinces them otherwise. The X-Babies load up into their newly acquired station wagon, and Kitty assures the stranded creators that she will take good care of their care. As they drive away, the comic book creators surround their friend Claremont and threaten to pummel him. “Why’re you all looking at me?” he asks while putting his hands up in a defensive gesture. “Gotta blame someone, luv,” his brown-haired editor says. “Under the circumstances, considering the characters…”
The X-Babies eventually arrive in town and stop for some food. They eat a diner called $nack-A-Drome, and after filling up, decide to hit the road. On the way out of the restaurant, an attractive waitress catches up to Havok while his friends wander off the car. She tells him that Havok was always her favorite X-Man, and asks for his autograph. Havok agrees, accidentally signing his life away to Mojo in the process. The waitress laughs and reveals herself to be the Agent in disguise as Havok’s essence merges into her body. Kitty screams and ushers the X-Babies towards the car, while pleading with them to not sign anything ever again. The Agent confidently laughs as his targets escape; he knows he will have several more opportunities to catch them in the immediate future.
Their borrowed car runs out of gas after they reach Manchester. They do not have sufficient funds to purchase another vehicle, let alone find a dealer who would sell to an underage, American driver. Kitty realizes they will have to resort to public transportation. She and the X-Babies hop aboard a double-decker bus and continue on their way to Excalibur’s headquarters. Kitty notices that none of the X-Babies seem at all upset by the Agent’s determined pursuit. She reminds herself that they cannot trust anyone they encounter, as it could be the Agent tempting them with their deepest desires. Hah! Faked him there, I got mine! I’m back with the X-Men, she tells herself. And I’m not about to lose them again.
Kitty the turns around and sees little Longshot making eyes at her. Despite the fact that he is only a child, Kitty’s heart flutters at the sight of his penetrating eyes. She asks him what he is looking at, to which he simply replies, “You.” This enrages both Baby Dazzler and Baby Rogue, who make pouty faces and call Kitty a hussy. The man who sits behind the two X-Babies notices their frustration and leans forward. He empathizes with their feelings about unrequited love, but then offers them a way to make their desires a reality. He produces two contracts that guarantee both girls possession of Longshot. Apparently forgetting their restriction on signing vague documents produced by strangers, the two girls gleefully sign away. Predictably enough, both of their essences are absorbed into the Agent.
Kitty turns around and screams when she sees that the Agent has tricked two more of the X-Babies. The Agent, however, sees things differently. He says that the two girls freely gave their souls to Mojo in exchange for something they both wanted: Longshot as their own personal boy-toy. In order to complete the deal, the Agent reaches out to grab little Longshot. Kitty snatches him up in her arms and begins to run away. The Agent taps into the powers he absorbed from Dazzler and tries to blind Kitty before she can get off of the bus. Thankfully, baby Colossus intervenes and restrains the Agent before he can capture anymore of his friends. “Leave Katya be, monster!” he yells, ordering his teammates to escape while they have the chance.
Kitty grabs the remaining X-Babies in her arms and air-walks off the top of the bus. That’s exactly what the original Peter – my Petey – would have done, Shadowcat says as they flee. Can’t let his sacrifice be for nothing. The X-Babies object to escaping, but Kitty reminds them that they do not want to hurt the Agent while he carries the life-forces of their friends.
Many hours later, Kitty and her charges rest inside an empty train station. Storm and Wolvie tirelessly search for the next step in their plan. However, Kitty huddles in the corner with her back against one of the cold, concrete walls. By this point, she is completely emotionally drained. I wasn’t with the X-Men when they died, she says to herself. I always felt that was somehow my fault. Maybe if I was there, things would’ve turned out differently. I thought, with the X-Babies, this is my second chance. Only I’m blowing it!
Suddenly, the train station’s announcer speaks over the intercom, and happens to mention the name of the train station. Kitty immediately perks up, as she recognizes the name as that of her train’s destination! She realizes that all of her possessions might still be in the lost-and-found, and rushes off to find it. She and the X-Babies enter the lost-and-found office and begin digging through all the goods. Kitty’s instinct turns out to be correct, and she finds all of her clothes, including her Lila Cheney leather jacket.
Her celebration is cut short by the arrival of the stocky train station matron. She enters, clears her throat, and asks what Kitty is doing in her office. “Big ugly!” Wolverine tactlessly says at the sight of the butch, rigid woman. Kitty shuts him up and profusely apologizes for intruding into the office. The matron accepts her apology, but continues to reprimand her anyway for being so reckless. Then, she informs Kitty that there are certain procedures she must follow, and pulls out an affidavit for claiming her possessions. Still feeling apologetic, Kitty accepts the pad of paper and agrees to sign.
Little Wolvie remembers that Kitty did not want anyone signing anything and decides to intervene. After staring at the woman’s ample rear-end, he gives in to his temptation and pokes her in the butt with his claws. She screams, and the Agent leaps out of her skin and clutches his butt. Kitty expresses disbelief at the fact that she almost signed her own soul away, and then the X-Babies escape. Somewhere amidst the confusion of their escape, the Agent manages to capture little Wolvie, leaving only Baby Storm, little Longshot, and Shadowcat.
Storm decides that they can escape much quicker in the air. She hoists Shadowcat and Longshot into the sky and soars away on a gust of wind. Unfortunately, the Agent follows close behind, using Rogue’s powers of flight to propel himself. It will not be long before he catches up to them, so Kitty devises a plan. She asks Longshot to throw a few knives at a stack of papers in a nearby newsstand. After he successfully cuts their binding, Storm conjures a gust of wind and sends the papers directly into the Agent’s path. He gets blinded by a newspaper in his face and crashes into the magazine rack.
Kitty, still hanging from Storm’s arms, looks back in joy at the sight of the Agent barreling into the newsstand. However, something else at the newsstand draws her attention: a sign advertising a story about a royal wedding. Kitty instantly remembers her conversation with Meggan a few days earlier, when Meggan excitedly told her about the royal wedding that was to take place in London that very weekend. She realizes that Meggan must surely be watching the live broadcast on TV, and devises a plan to get the attention of her Excalibur teammates.
St. Paul’s Cathedral in London…
Standing at the altar, Judith Rassendyll still cannot quite believe her situation. It was only a short while ago that she was a New York career woman. Now, she is the princess of a small European nation, and is getting married as per the recommendations of the state! All of the international attention makes her a bit nervous, as she is still new at this sort of thing.
As the priest concludes the public marriage ceremony, Shadowcat seizes the attention of the situation and phases up through the floor behind the altar. She carries a large, yellow sign that has the words “EXCALIBUR EMERGENCY! HELP!” scribbled on it in large letters. As the cameras, and the shocked wedding party, turn to face her, Kitty remarks that her plan is going just as she hoped. Meggan, please be true to type, and glued to the tube! Kitty says to herself, inaudibly. As these thoughts pass through her brain, she remembers that Meggan is actually illiterate; her whole scheme may be for nothing! Kitty begins shouting at the cameras, begging for Excalibur to come find her.
“Wretched Shadowbrat. Did you think you’d catch me by surprise?” the enraged priest says. He rips his skin away, revealing himself to be the Agent in disguise. Before Kitty has a chance to react, he blows a handful of sneezing powder into her face. It has the intended effect; Kitty sneezes, this time so hard that it completely disperses the molecules of her body into the air. Judith screams at the sight of Kitty seemingly exploding, but the Agent just laughs and congratulates himself. Then, he turns to the remaining X-Babies and demands they turn themselves in.
Storm and Longshot refuse to be taken that easily, and they begin to fight back. Unfortunately, none of their attacks have much of an effect on the Agent, who now possesses Rogue’s invulnerability, Colossus’ armor, and Wolverine’s healing factor. Judith is horrified at how the Agent so ruthlessly attacks a bunch of children and tells him to back off. The Agent turns to her and shuts her up, and continues attacking the X-Babies. He manages to hit Storm in the head with one of his hard-light rods, and she begins to fall to the ground, unconscious.
At this very moment, Kitty manages to pull her component atoms back together and reforms her body. She regroups herself just in time to see Storm falling out of the sky and dives to save her. She catches baby Storm, bracing her fall, and phases them both into the ground.
Alysande Stuart, a squadron from the Weird Happenings Organization, and Excalibur finally arrive at the cathedral and burst through the front door. Kitty is relieved to finally see them, but they do not provide the quick resolution she so desires. The Agent blinds most of them upon entry with his stolen Dazzler powers. The members of Excalibur manage to break through his attack, but have trouble combating him due to the colossal powers he now possesses. He laughs at their efforts, and threatens them with soul-stealing contracts of their own.
Longshot realizes that the contracts may be the key to stopping the Agent’s menace. “If those papers are so important, maybe I can make up for Storm getting bopped by spiking them away from him!” little Longshot says. He flings a pair of knives and manages to slice the bottom off of the Agent’s carrying bag, causing all the signed contracts to spill out. Storm follows Longshot’s cue, and summons a gale that sweeps the contracts out of the Agent’s reach. Before he can gather them back up, Captain Britain comes forward and punches him in the face. This gives Kitty a chance to gather the contracts up for herself. She collects the whole lot, and just for the sake of trying, phases her hand over the signatures. Her gambit works, and she literally pulls the signatures right off of the page, invalidating the contracts.
In that very instant, the captured X-Babies reappear, alive and well. The Agent loses all of his acquired powers, and suddenly finds himself face-to-face with the Shadowcat, Captain Britain, and the vengeful X-Babies. “Uh, I was just doin’ my job, right? No hard feelings?” he asks. His victims do not feel very forgiving, and they pummel him senseless.
Later on, Excalibur hands over the captive Agent to the W.H.O. Nightcrawler recognizes the royal princess as Judith Rassendyll from their adventure together with Arcade, but he coyly turns away and keeps his distance. Judith recognizes him, commenting that he is as handsome as ever. However, her security guards lead her away before she has a chance to say goodbye.
Meanwhile, Rachel learns from the X-Babies that they recently escaped from the clutches of Mojo. While she empathizes with them because of her similar experience with Mojo, she also finds herself empathizing with the Agent. After all, if he returns without completing his mission, he will have to face Mojo’s wrath too. Baby Storm reminds Kitty that they have yet to find Ricochet Rita. Kitty concurs, then asks Phoenix if she could maybe probe the Agent to find Rita’s whereabouts. Phoenix agrees, but proceeds a little differently than Kitty expected.
Rachel points her arms at the Agent, causing to violently erupt into flames. “Ray, stop! I meant interrogate the creep, not incinerate him!” Kitty yells. The Agent lets out an agonized scream as beams of bright light burst out of his head. “Trust me, Kitty, I really do know what I’m doing,” Rachel assures her. Sure enough, amidst the purifying flames of the Phoenix, the Agent slowly transforms from a knobby-faced monster into the familiar form of Ricochet Rita. Mojo had been using her as his baby-hunting Agent all along!
The X-Babies have little time to celebrate the return of their friend, as she quickly transforms once again. This time, however, only her head transforms, and it is Mojo’s face she now bears.
The sight of Mojo’s head and flabby neck resting atop Rita’s shoulders is unsettling, to say the least. Everyone stares in astonishment when it addresses them. “Sad so sad that while Sneaky Shadow voided your contracts, babies – how unethical can you get, I ask you – she can’t do the same for the Ricochet,” Mojo says. “You all may be free. She remains eternally mine.” At this, Phoenix threatens to blast him, but Kitty restrains her. The X-Babies scold Mojo for treating Rita so poorly, but brushes off their criticisms. He tells them that if they do not like his offer, then they can make a better one.
Mojo may not have expected the X-Babies to take this deflection seriously, but they do anyway. The toddler versions of Colossus, Dazzler, Havok, Longshot, Psylocke, Rogue, Storm, and Wolverine huddle up to confer in private. After a bit of deliberation, Storm approaches Mojo and presents a counter-offer: the X-Babies will return to his dimension and remain under his control, but only if Mojo first releases Rita and lets her remain free forever. They give their word as heroes, and Mojo accepts. He frees Rita, who immediately collapses into Captain Britain’s arms, and opens up a trans-dimensional portal for the babies to return to the Mojoverse.
After saying their goodbyes, the X-Babies wander through the portal. Kitty says goodbye to her new friends, taking an extra moment to give a special goodbye to little Colossus. As the last X-Baby disappears into the Mojoverse, Rita comes to her senses. The sight of the X-Babies willingly returning to Mojo causes her much alarm, and she panics. “Are you nuts?! What’ve you done?! My kids! Who cares about safety – what good is freedom – when the price is so high?”
 she yells. Rachel tells her that the X-Babies chose to return, but Rita does not care, responding that she also is making her own choice. Then, she pushes her way through Excalibur and dives into the portal. As the portal closes, Excalibur hears Ricochet Rita say that everyone and everything she cares about is in the Mojoverse, including the chance to be on the stage of a lifetime!
Kitty lets out a cheer after the portal closes. Captain Britain admonishes her enthusiasm, stating that this is no time for celebration. Kitty sees things differently, however. “You should always be careful what you wish for, Captain, because you may just get it. Right in the teeth,” Kitty tells her teammates. “Sure, Mojo’s got the kids. His problem now is…he’s got the kids. Talk about the fate you deserve!”
Sure enough, back in the Mojoverse, the X-Babies proceed to make Mojo’s life a certain kind of hell. They encircle him and shout out their demands, which range from being consulted for all casting decisions to getting a percentage of the merchandising rights. The overwhelmed Mojo stares helplessly at the X-Babies. He gets no help from Major Domo, who furiously scribbles down notes, or Minor-Domo, who finds herself enamored with little Longshot.
Amidst this chaos of shouted needs and desires, the wide-eyed Mojo stares off into the distance and expresses a desire of his own: “Help!”


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Captain Britain and his Nazi doppelganger, Hauptemann Englande of Lightning Squad, duke it out over the Tower of London. The two, being cross-dimensional twins, are evenly matched. But, Captain Britain, who is wearing his too-small original uniform that he borrowed from the tower’s museum, has been suffering from mysteriously weakening powers ever since his trip to America during Inferno.
The Captain is punched through a wall out into the courtyard where Excalibur’s Blackbird jet can be seen. He waits, hanging in the air, for his opponent to catch up to him. He’s still reeling from the idea that all of Excalibur seems to have counterparts and essentially he’s fighting himself. He also realizes that of all of Excalibur, he seems to be the only one left fighting.
As the two superbeings trade blows and over-blown banter above, Lightning Squad looks on at the action. Nazi-Nightcrawler praises Captain Britain’s spirit and comments, “Gallant to his grave!” Meggan warns him that overconfidence can be as deadly as any foe and Nazi-Nightcrawler concedes that he stands corrected and inquires if, since she seems to think that the ‘ragamuffin’ has a chance, she would care to place a small wager on the outcome. He, for one, loves the opportunity to bet on a sure thing.
Hauptmann Englande punches Captain Britain in the gut and Brian realizes that he felt that, barely saw it coming and had no time to block – he still feels weak. The Nazi kicks him and Cap is knocked with a crash onto the parapet below. The Nazi goads, “you’re making this too easy, Captain – hardly worth the effort.”
In the interior of the tower, where the headquarters of the British government’s Weird Happenings Organization (W.H.O.) is housed, soldiers tell each other to look out for the falling debris. Commander Dai Thomas of Scotland Yard – Special Branch walks in and demands to know who is top soldier. He’s answered by a Sergeant-major Sutcliffe and is apprised of the situation.
The Nazi doppelgangers of Excalibur have shown up and released the two prisoners, Nazis Dr. MacTaggert and her bodyguard Callisto. They’ve taken Brigadier Stuart as hostage. In the soldier’s opinion the whole thing is a royal cock-up, but Dai didn’t want the man’s opinion, he just wants reinforcements, and he wants them deployed fast.
Lightning Squads Nightcrawler is enjoying the display as the two muscle-bound supers continue to fight and trade insults. The Hauptmann calls Cap a dog and asks him if he’s too stupid to know when he’s been beaten. The Cap retorts that he’s been ‘beaten’ by experts, and the Hauptmann doesn’t even come close. Brian thinks as soon as he says this that that was bright. He’s making his opponent angry so that he will hit harder. But, even if the other man makes a careless mistake, Brian doesn’t think that he’s in any condition to take advantage.
Hostage Brigadier Alysande Stuart runs out of the tower, held at gunpoint by Reichminister MacTaggert and Callisto. She asks them, as they run to the Blackbird parked in the Courtyard, where they plan to escape to, since, wherever they go, they’ll still be trapped in this world. Callisto counters that it’s not such a bad thing to have a whole new world to conquer.
The Brigadier further questions how the pair can return to their own dimension when they don’t even know how they came to this one. The Reichminister explains that the two points aren’t mutually exclusive. Afterall, how does the Brigadier think that Lightning Squad arrived to rescue them? Alysande wonders aloud if that is possible and is answered that nothing is impossible for the thousand-year Reich.
Reichminister MacTaggert orders Callisto to make the jet ready for flight, they’re going to depart London. She then tells the Brigadier to order her troops to withdraw and cease firing. The Brigadier thinks that is easier said then done.
Just then a figure is slammed through the wall of the tower and flies in an arc to splash into the river where it smashes into a garbage barge. Stone, brick and other debris from the tower flies everywhere. As she exclaims, “The muscle-bound fools – do they mean to ruin everything?!” Reichminister Macctaggert dives for cover. “Down milady!” Callisto warns behind her as she tries to protect her from the falling stonework.
While her two captors are busy trying to protect their own skins, the Brigadier decides that this is the perfect opportunity to escape. She only wishes she had the slightest idea who is winning the battle.
As he fires from behind a wall of rubble, one soldier remarks to the Sergeant-major that their Captain Britain appears to be taking his lumps. Dai Thomas who has never stopped smoking his cigarette, says that he doesn’t understand it. According to Professor Stuart, the two should have equivalent powers and the worst situation for them should be a draw. Sergeant-major Sutcliffe comments that he guesses anybody can make a mistake, even the prof.
The Reichminister fires back on the soldiers with her small handgun. The eye-patch wearing Callisto notes that this is harassing fire only, designed to keep them pinned down until reinforcements arrive. MacTaggert says that this is because the soldiers are afraid of harming their precious Brigadier. Callisto looks up and realizes that the Brigadier is gone. MacTaggert orders her to go after Alysande and bring her back alive.
As Callisto chases down the other woman she thinks that this was a gutsy move on the Brigadier’s part, to try and escape during a firefight no less. Considering the moonless night and the fog, Alysande has the perfect cover and might have been able to successfully escape from anyone but her. Callisto tackles the Brigadier from behind and overpowers her.
Since the Reichminister wants her breathing, Callisto will let the Brigadier live, but she promises to break her if she doesn’t behave. Reichminister MacTaggert yells to the ‘policeman’ to call of his dogs or the Brigadier will suffer. The soldier standing next to Dai comments that the Reichminister is serious. Dai Thomas informs them that this is a bluff. The soldiers are reluctant to risk the Brigadier’s life, but Dai asks them if they think their superior officer would call this any differently.
Just then Dai and the soldiers are startled to see a family of tourist dinosaurs from another dimension wandering around in the fog. “This is all we bloody need!” says Commander Thomas.
The cigar smoking dinosaur father comments that the monkeys that inhabit this dimension had a nerve stealing them from home, especially to a planet that may be damp enough, but is far too cold. The dinosaur mother thinks it may have been an accident. Then she warns her young son Calvin to stop picking on his sister. Dino-Calvin complains that he’s not having any fun.
“Appropriate.” Hauptmann Englande says as he hovers over the River Thames, his doppelganger has been sunk along with the garbage barge. He’s in the midst of declaring that this may have been a disappointing battle, but he is victorious nonetheless, when Captain Britain, his uniform much the worse for wear, rises out of the river.
“An old failing among your kind, Hauptmann,” he comments as he flies to the other man, “celebrating your triumph – before the battle’s truly over!” Cap sends the Nazi a devastating blow and thinks to himself that it’s a surprise that he’s holding up better than his old uniform. He hopes that last punch is enough to finish the job as he’s afraid that if the battle goes on much longer he’ll be fighting it ‘starkers.’
Hauptmann Englande crashes through the stone wall of the ‘poor tower’ and yet more debris is flung about. Captain Britain thinks to himself that if anyone is underneath the falling stones… then he realizes that someone is. Dino-Calvin looks up as he’s about to be crushed and his mother frantically yells out his name.
Captain Britain rushes to the rescue, praying that he is fast enough. It’s his fault the boy is in danger and if there is one thing that he doesn’t need it’s another death of an innocent child, another Mickey Scott on his conscious. He makes the save just in time.
Dino-Calvin is thrilled to be deposited on the tower wall. He thinks the experience was fantastic and wants to do it again. Captain Britain politely replies perhaps another time as he ponders to himself that something very strange is going on as this lad is very unusual looking – a human-like dinosaur. Gratefully, the little dino-boy calls him Mr. Hero and informs him that he looks like a real mess!
While Cap is thus distracted, a white shrouded figure passes out of his chest from behind him and the Captain falls out of the sky. Ghost-Shadowcat calls him poor captain and tells him that while the Shadowcat that he knows disrupts the electricity of machines when she phases through them, she disrupts the electricity of life.
Just as Captain Britain is about to hit the ground his arm is grabbed by the Nazi-Nightcrawler. The mutant tells Cap not to worry as he will catch him and even, as he teleports with the man repeatedly, set him down gently. At the fourth teleport Captain Britain’s body is flung face-down on the ground and his Nazi assailant comments, “Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!” He says that it’s a pity that only he can endure the strain of those multiple teleports.
“You’ve done your part well,” says the leader of Lightning Squad. But, the honor of administering the ‘coup de grace’ goes to him. Hauptmann Englande lifts up the dazed Captain’s head by a fistful of his blonde locks and pulls his other fist back for that last punch.
But, Captain Britain beats him to it. Hauptmann Englande is flung back by a surprise undercut punch from the kneeling Excalibur hero who wonders as he does so whether he really sounds so pompous when he speaks. Behind him Nazi-Nightcrawler and Meggan stand. The blue mutant is incredulous, saying that after everything the Captain went through, he should have been barely conscious, utterly helpless.
While he’s distracted, Meggan taps him on the shoulder from behind, her other hand in a fist. “We in Excalibur,” she says as the Nazi turns, “Are just chock-full of surprises!” She punches the man hard enough to knock him out and send him flying through Ghost-Shadowcat’s intangible form before crashing to the ground.
Meggan thinks that it’s been almost unbearable for her to watch from the sidelines, waiting for her chance to finally act. Meggan snatches the gun from Reichminister MacTaggert, calling her a wicked witch and then steps over to her bodyguard, knocking her out with a slap of her hand.
Meggan turns just in time to see the fanged, wraith-like doppelganger of Shadowcat coming for her. Since the others seem to think that the mutant is really a ghost, Meggan wonders if her powers will work on her. She never gets the chance to find out though because Rachel shows up just then and grabs her ‘physically and psychically’ in her Phoenix raptor’s claws. Rachel wonders why there are doppelgangers for all of the Excalibur members except her.
Meanwhile, Shadowcat regains consciousness in a dark corridor of the Tower of London. She hears a garbled voice speaking to her and tells the person to stop yelling and that she can’t understand a word he’s saying. Alistaire Stuart apologizes, saying that the Queen’s English probably sounds like gibberish to American ears. He tells Kitty to be careful how she moves as she’s lying partially in the floor. He wonders if that’s dangerous.
Kitty tells him that it’s only dangerous if she solidifies and adds that that isn’t likely to happen. As Alistaire questions how that can be, Kitty sits up. She thinks that the professor is beautiful and is instantly infatuated. Distracted for a second, Kitty hesitates before replying to the professor, telling him that her natural state is to be intangible. Alistaire says that’s probably why he had such a difficult time taking her pulse. Kitty thinks to herself, whatever her heart-rate was then, she bets it’s racing now.
Calling herself a silly girl, Kitty prompts herself to tell the man her name. But, before she can, she reacts in surprise to something behind the professor. As Alistaire asks her if something is wrong and wonders if he can summon her teammates, Kitty draws his attention to a little robot head that levitates above the floor and begins to emanate light. “Friends?” the Widget questions as it forms a metallic archway.
Neither Alistaire nor Kitty have any idea what the creature is, but Alistaire’s first reaction is to walk towards what he believes to be a portal. A forested hillscape appears through the arch and Alistaire is excited by the smells that come to them on the breeze. Kitty tries to grab at Alistaire’s ankle to stop him, but she’s still too weak even to move really, and her hand phases right through him.
A tall Amazon woman appears in the door and reacts to the sight of the man with a wide smile and an exclamation of surprise. Alistaire introduces himself as the Chief Scientific Advisor to W.H.O. and is surprised as the woman just reaches through the portal and grabs him by the shoulders. Kitty thinks that she agrees with the woman that Alistaire’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, but she saw him first. Kitty grabs the man’s ankle and manages to make him intangible.
Losing her grip of the professor, the Amazon tumbles backwards. Kitty tells the Professor that he’d be better off staying on their side of the gate. Alistaire reacts to the curious sensation of being phased. He tells Kitty that he approves of what she did, but seeing the Amazon’s angry face, doesn’t think that the woman is going to take ‘no’ for answer. Kitty does the only thing she can do and phases her hand through the gate’s circuitry.
The electronics overload violently and the archway collapses into smoldering metal fragments. Widget yaieows! in apparent pain and shuts down. Alistair and Kitty, their clothing torn from the force of the explosion that had thrown them to the floor, recover. Alistaire picks up the apparently inert Widget head. He tells Kitty that whatever she did, he fears that it worked too well.
Kitty thinks to herself that it was the robot or Alistaire, not that the professor should thank her or anything. Aloud she asks if Widget isn’t one of W.H.O.’s toys. Alistaire says, “Hardly.” He has no idea where it came from or what it’s doing there.
Together, Kitty and Alistaire walk to the Great Hall of the Haunted Tower where everyone is gathered and in conference. Rachel sits on a table and eyes Lightning Squad. She tells them that she knows what they are thinking and dares them to take their best shot. In the doorway, Kitty tells Alistaire that Rachel’s in a mood and hopes Lightning Squad gives her cause.
On the other side of the room Brigadier Alysande Stuart and Commander Dai Thomas speak with Reichminister MacTaggert and three men who could be government officials. Behind them, in the corner, Brian tells Meggan that her impersonating Lightning Squad’s Meggan was their ‘ace in the hole,’ and would have allowed her to follow anywhere the Nazis went. Meggan tells Brian that it was awful, just watching helplessly. And Brian tells her that it wasn’t fun being hit either, but it all worked out for the best in the end.
Kitty, meanwhile excuses herself from the professor who tries in vain to grab an intangible shoulder and tells her to leave well enough alone. The Excalibur member is approaching her doppelganger and asks if Alistaire could do the same if he were in her shoes.
Shadowcat’s doppelganger is barely fifteen, like Kitty, but she looks like an old woman. And Kitty is horrified to see her eyes. She wonders what the other girl has seen in her life. Though she only thinks this, the ghost answers her, saying that she’s seen, caused, and suffered, Death. Kitty asks, “What have they done to you?” and then shouts aloud so that everyone turns to look, “What have you done to me?!!”
Reichminister MacTaggert answers her, telling her that it was an honor for ‘the child’ to have been singled out for her special abilities to serve the Fatherland. “You made her a demon!” Kitty accuses her. The Nazi official taunts the girl further by suggesting that in that, the two Kittys are not so different. She’s warned by the Brigadier to have a care, as Kitty looks willing to prove that point, over the Reichminister’s dead body.
Before Kitty can try anything further, she’s scooped up by a flying Phoenix who tells her that it’s time to say good-night kiddo. Kitty wants Phoenix to leggo and put her back down, but Rachel says that it’s bad form to start another scrap so soon after settling one, especially in the midst of the peace talks. Alistaire looks admiringly after Phoenix, having registered her name for the first time, and decides that she’s a woman worth risking everything to win.
Rachel and Kitty sit on the wall of the Tower of London as the sun rises over the city. Rachel apologizes to her young friend for taking her out of there so quickly, but things were getting tense. Kitty says she thinks she finally understands about Wolverine’s berzerker rages. She says that she could have killed that alternate world version of Moira and still wants to. “How could anyone human commit such atrocities?” Kitty questions.
“We’re a talented species,” Rachel answers. She reminds Kitty that she was once a hound, conditioned to hunt down mutants, killing the lucky ones and sending the rest to concentration camps. She tells Kitty that she’d be amazed how quickly a person can become acclimated to the horror and butchery.
Kitty wants to free her doppelganger from all of that, release her spirit and finally and truly let her die. Then she wants to go after the world that enslaved her. “An admirable proposition, Katzchen – always assuming, of course, we win --“ Nightcrawler says as he scales the vertical face of the wall. He wants to know how taking on this other world will help their Moira MacTaggert and the crew of the Highland Flyer.
Rachel asks if the bigwigs are still cutting a deal and Kitty says, “They can’t!” as Nightcrawler joins them at the top of the wall. The women are informed that the consensus is that restoring everyone to their rightful world is the best solution for all concerned. Because the Nazis are oriented to magic as well as science, they have the means to make a temporary bridge between dimensions. At the proper time and place there will be a straight swap of trains and people.
Kitty cannot believe that their enemies will be allowed to get off scot-free without paying for everything they’ve done. Kurt reminds her that the Nazi’s world is not their own, and as they’ve most emphatically been told, the decision isn’t up to them. “Great,” Kitty says, and she’s no longer interested in sticking around. She asks if anyone would mind her going home. Rachel offers her a lift. Kitty accepts the offer but first has to phase down through the tower wall to pick some mysterious something up.
Phoenix and Shadowcat fly over London. Kitty’s carrying a Widget-sized bundle wrapped in her ripped sleeve. Rachel tells her that sometimes the choices aren’t clear-cut and the victories aren’t absolute. Sometimes you have to settle for a draw. Kitty says it’s clear-cut to her, and Rachel asks her if her desire for vengeance is worth their Moira’s life.
Inside the office of the Senior Vice President of Fraser’s bank, Courtney Ross watches the two Excalibur members fly past. “Isn’t that a sight to stir the blood?” she rhetorically asks. Courtney is able to name the women as the young starchild Phoenix and the younger Shadowcat. She also seems to have a good idea of their power and potential. And she can’t wait until all of that belongs to her. Spread out on the desk behind her is a dossier including photos of Gate-crasher’s Technet.


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Rachel Summers AKA Phoenix and Kitty Pryde AKA Shadowcat, soar along the Thames River crossing over the heart of London on their way back to their lighthouse home. Rachel is in full Phoenix mode, complete with facial tattoos, and Kitty is carrying a mysterious bundle. The people of the city look up as they pass overhead. Among them, one Nigel Frobisher, a merchant banker, who has had run-ins with Rachel on two prior occasions, is stirred to the soul of his extremely shallow being. He gazes up at the superheroes and it could almost be said that he is in love.
Just then, Big Ben, London’s famous clock tower, bongs the nine o’clock hour. Nigel is startled out of his romantic feelings and back into reality. He rushes towards a building, shoving people out of the way and making no apologies for his behavior. As he rushes to catch a closing elevator he knocks a woman down as he thinks in his panic, “She said—I was to be – in her office – at the stroke of nine.” The clock continues to chime as the elevator doors close before he can reach them.
Since no other elevators are available, he rushes to the stairs, knocking down at least three people on his way. They yell after him, but he doesn’t notice because the clock is chiming six and he’s exerting himself to reach the executive floor on time. As he falls flat on his face on a landing he’s grateful that Fraser’s Bank is such a small building. He gets up again and continues climbing, exhausted, berating himself all the while for playing that stupid card game at London’s Hellfire Club. He had a king, but his opponent, his boss, pulled an ace.
Hoping his heart won’t explode, Nigel rushes through the door. He’s been counting the chimes and thinks that he just made it. As the clock strikes nine he collides with a tall woman with short red hair whose white business suit is emblazoned with a strange dagger-like symbol. The impact knocks him to the floor.
The receptionist, who really doesn’t like Nigel, comments from her desk that he is uncharacteristically punctual this morning. She introduces Brigitte, the red-haired woman who is still standing. The woman helps Nigel up and he, wheezing, shoves her away. The receptionist warns Nigel to be nice as Brigitte is security and he really doesn’t want to make her angry. Snidely, she asks Nigel if he’s been clubbing and wenching the weekend away. He replies, as he tucks in his shirt and makes his suit look more presentable, that he’s been walking mostly and hasn’t been home. The receptionist then tells him she’s sure that Ms. Ross will understand and tells him to go right in as he is expected.
Nigel walks into Ms. Ross’s office, hesitant and coughing. Courtney, who is really the villain Sat-yr-9 impersonating Courtney, spins around in her chair, away from the plate glass window she was just looking out of. She informs Nigel that he was to be in her office at nine, looking incensed, she shouts, “You’re late!”
At that very moment, roughly, at Excalibur’s lighthouse on England’s west coast, Phoenix and Shadowcat arrive and survey the damaged roof from a bird’s eye view. As she looks down at the extensive hole, Rachel wonders aloud if she really did that. Kitty says Rachel probably had more important things on her mind than using the door. Rachel apologizes and comments that this should teach her to react without thinking. Kitty replies that something sure better because it was allowing her power to overwhelm her that got the original Phoenix in trouble.
Rachel wants to know why Kitty is being so crabby, she said she was sorry. Kitty, reminds Rachel how when she made her impulsive and sudden departure from the lighthouse a few nights ago she simultaneously, and subconsciously, used her telekinetic power to rearrange the molecules of Kitty’s clothing and dress her up like a baby. Glancing to her right, she’s horrified to find that Rachel, unable to resist the strength of the memory in Kitty’s thoughts, has manifested an image of Kitty in the air between them, lying in a large bassinet, cuddling Lockheed and looking very unhappy. Kitty, who lost her favorite Aran cardigan when it was transformed into a yellow infant’s dress, pink bonnet and safety-pinned diaper, is not amused. She comments, “Some big joke, right!” Rachel insists that the state she left Kitty in that night was an accident.
Kitty relates how Cap especially couldn’t contain himself when the rest of Excalibur found her. “Some friends, they all thought it was so funny.” Rachel says that she hates to say it, but she can see why. As the two finally land on the lighthouse’s stone base Kitty remarks how they wouldn’t be so darn smug if it happened to them. “Now there’s a thought,” Rachel agrees. Kitty giggles as she considers this and suggests that Captain Britain would make an especially satisfying victim. “If only we dared--!” Rachel says she’s game and apologizes again for picking Kitty’s brain, she really didn’t mean to and Kitty’s right, sometimes her control isn’t what it should be.
Rachel, who has lost her facial tattoos along with the Phoenix flare turns to look at her friend, “--Kitty, you’re pale as ice.” Kitty, with narrowed eyes, is looking at something in front of them. “Look there,” she tells Rachel in a low voice. “By the front door.”
In Excalibur’s absence, an ebony stone has been placed just outside the lighthouse. Embedded in it half-way is a sword. “Illyana’s Soulsword,” Kitty announces.  She recognizes it as it has come to her twice before, when her old roommate Illyana, a mutant and a sorceress, was stripped of her magic. She’s surprised that the sword is real. She thought that it was part of Inferno and that everything that had happened there had been put right in the end. Kitty explains that the sword is a physicalized essence of Illyana’s arcane might and that the magic brought her old friend nothing but grief. Rachel asks her what she’s planning on doing about it. Kitty doesn’t want any part of it, she says she’d love to get rid of it, but if she touches it…
Phoenix tells Shadowcat to say no more as she flares up, gripping the sword telekinetically in the raptor shaped beak. She says that Kitty is her roommate now and she hopes, her friend. The Phoenix power flares brighter and higher around her as she strains at the sword, saying, “—and pals… look out… for… each… other!” Not even the power of the Phoenix can remove the sword from the stone.
“So much for that idea,” Rachel comments as she relaxes her efforts and the Phoenix flare disappears. She says that by rights she should have torn the whole rock out of the seabed. Kitty, whose sleeve is torn and who is still carrying the mysterious bundle, tells her to forget it. The blasted thing probably won’t budge for anyone but her. She airwalks up to a point near the upper floors of the lighthouse, saying as she goes, “And as far as I’m concerned…there it can stay! Forever!” Shadowcat disappears inside through the wall.
Still in the Phoenix voice, Rachel, who doesn’t think that it’s sensible for Kitty to ignore the sword, tells her roommate, “The sword came to you for a reason, kiddo.” She’s interrupted by a scream from Kitty. As she flies to the rescue her Phoenix tattoos and flare return and she thinks that Kitty’s thoughts and emotions are as ‘wild-- fierce and hot and out of control, as the heart of a newborn star.’
Phoenix enters the ruined windowed level of the lighthouse and alights onto the debris strewn floor. “Lockheed!” she shouts as she sees Kitty kneeling on the floor with the small purple beastie lying limp in her arms. “It was the Nazis who did this, Ray, I know it—“ Kitty declares. She hopes that all of them rot for what they’ve done to her poor little dragon.
Meanwhile, back at the Fraser Bank in London, Courtney stands up from her desk as she reminds Nigel of the terms of their previous wager. He owes her a million pounds. Nigel asserts that she can’t hold him to that. Courtney informs him that the bet was taken freely in front of many witnesses. Even if she can’t force him to pay, his reputation will be ruined if it gets out that he reneged on his word. And most importantly, his ambitions of becoming a major international banker will be finished.
Nigel hangs his head as he admits in a small voice that he can’t pay the sum. Courtney tells him that this should teach him to play outside of his league and suggests they come to some other arrangement. She tells Nigel that he has other talents. If he would agree to put those talents to her use, she’ll guarantee him the world he desires. She ruffles his hair and he smiles as she promises wealth beyond even his wildest dreams, power, responsibility, and social position.
Jokingly, Nigel wonders aloud who he has to kill to get all that. Courtney tells him not to make rash promises as they’ve gotten him in trouble before. She tells him that if he’s going to serve her he’ll have to make some changes. She wants him to stop wearing brown and to adopt a more assertive style. Nigel seems to be going along with all of this as Courtney adjusts his hair with a sweeping motion from one hand while with the other she reaches up to his ear.
Jumping back with an exclamation of pain, Nigel wants to know what Courtney just did to him. He touches a small pendent that is now piercing his left ear. It’s dagger shaped, the same symbol as the security guard just outside was wearing. Addressing him as pet, Courtney coolly tells Nigel that this is so that he’ll always remember who he belongs to. She warns him not to try and remove the earring as the consequences would prove most unpleasant.
Now that Courtney feels they have an understanding, she lifts a file folder from her desk and tells Nigel that she has an assignment for him. She wants him to go to a certain given location, find the people who are pictured in the dossier that she is giving to him, and engage their services at a price they can’t refuse. Nigel reacts to her calling them “people” as they all appear to be aliens. Courtney explains they are the Technet, intergalactic bounty hunters led by one Gatecrasher. From the ominous shadows, again seated behind her desk, Courtney tells Nigel that she is counting on him, so he’d better not fail.
A few days later, it’s pouring rain at the Excalibur lighthouse and the waves are crashing up against the rocks alongside. Rachel opens up the front door and is surprised to see a sopping wet Professor Alistaire Stuart. Alistaire, in words that conceal his admiring thoughts of Rachel, comments that it’s a lovely evening for a stroll. He claims he was in the neighborhood, saw their light, and thought that he’d nip over for a cuppa. Rachel invites him in before he catches his death and telekinetically evaporates the rainwater so that he doesn’t drip all over the lighthouse. Alistaire finds Rachel’s powers to be a ‘neat trick’ and comments how fun, handy, and ticklish they are as he flirts with her.
Professor Stuart asks Rachel to call him Alistaire and requests to call her Rachel rather than Ray. She tells him to suit himself and leads him upstairs to the living area where Kitty is. The windows have all been repaired, the furniture has all been put back in place and there is a fire going. In the center of the room there is a large circular hole and Rachel explains to Alistaire that even for the super-powered, it can take awhile to put this much damage right.
Kitty is less than pleased that Professor Stuart has shown up at the lighthouse without warning. She’s wearing a pink robe and is spoon-feeding Lockheed who is lying in her lap. She thinks that she looks terrible compared to Ray - who is God’s gift, as usual. Aloud she comments that they always seem to wreck where they live a lot more effectively than the bad-guys do. Alistaire says that they should just consider themselves the living embodiments of chaos theory. Kitty counters, “Fractaling our way to fun and glory, huh?” And not to be left out, Rachel adds, “Mandlebrot set, game and match?”
Alistaire asks Kitty if her dragon is ill. Angrily, Kitty informs him that her Nazi doppleganger knocked him for a loop. She then demands to know how the negotiations are going and is displeased when Alistaire confirms that they are going to let the Nazi’s go. Alistaire says that it’s a fair exchange as it’s the only way to get their own people back from the Nazi’s dimension.
Kitty is upset. She says she just loves how everybody just rolls over and trusts those Nazi creeps, even though they are Nazis. She asks what is to stop them from bringing over a conquering army and picking up where Hitler left off. Alistaire says that his sister (the Brigadier) and their Nightcrawler made the same point. But, evidently, the spell needed to travel between worlds takes an enormous amount of power and while it’s feasible to transfer people in small numbers, the same isn’t true for machines.
Throughout this conversation, Lockheed is unhappily surprised to find that Kitty’s attention has been diverted from him. He groans and places a small purple paw on Kitty’s wrist, but it doesn’t help. As Kitty exclaims that the Nazi’s have to be lying because it was two trains that were switched, Lockheed snorts in frustration. Kitty stands up suddenly and with a yeep! Lockheed flies off her lap. Alistaire says that they don’t believe that the Nazi’s are lying, in fact they seem as disconcerted as everyone else and what’s more, they’re worried about an invasion from Excalibur’s world. Kitty says that would serve them right then she stops as she suddenly makes a mental connection. Excitedly, she reminds Alistaire of the portal they saw in the Tower of London and the little robot head they found.
“Precisely!” Alistaire says as he drops the little metal robot head on the table. Referring to the device as a ‘wee perisher’ he says that it has thus far proved impervious to everything they’ve used to break the casing so far. They have no idea what makes him tick. Kitty offers to phase inside. Alistaire thinks that isn’t a good plan since Kitty has a tendency to disrupt electronic circuits, as she demonstrated before with the portal, and might inadvertently destroy what they are looking for. Lockheed humphs nearby, unhappy at being ignored.
Rachel offers to try and open it telekinetically, and Alistaire says they’ll keep that in mind as a last resort. Kitty thinks to Ray, have a heart, as she saw Alistaire first. This whole situation reminds her of Illyana and she wonders what her roommates have that she doesn’t. Then she thinks, “Be real, doofus. Look in a mirror.” Walking past Alistaire, Lockheed perched her shoulder, Kitty thinks hostile thoughts his way as aloud she pleasantly comments that it was probably a long ride from London.
Alistaire agrees that it was, especially the hike from the cliff road. Kitty thinks to herself that if Alistaire catches pneumonia than maybe she can nurse him back to health! Rachel helpfully speaks up, noting as they all head downstairs, that Kitty makes a killer chicken soup. Kitty says it’s her Aunt Nina’s recipe and some is already on the stove. Alistaire says that sounds delightful and asks her to lead the way. Behind them, unseen, the little robot head opens his eyes with ping and a flash of light.
At the headquarters of the Weird Happenings Organization, based at the Tower of London, the figure of Brigadier Alysande Stuart, W.H.O’s commander, stretches as she enters a small bedroom with a blazing fire. She tosses her cap aside as she announces aloud how she is looking forward to a bath and bed.
Suddenly there is a flash of brimstone and a crouching shadow appears on the wall. As she realizes she’s no longer alone in the room the Brigadier tries to draw her gun, but the intruder, the Nazi version of Nightcrawler, snatches it from her with his tail and knocks her back onto the bed. He tells her to fight by all means because the stronger the struggle the sweeter the surrender.
Just when he thinks he has her restrained, the woman begins to shape-shift. Perceptively, Nazi-Nightcrawler says, “You aren’t the Brigadier!” Meggan grabs her attacker and hurls him towards the wall. She tells him that he is nothing like their true Nightcrawler who is a gentleman. Meggan is understandably upset and hurls her attacker with much more force than is necessary.
The split-second before he smashes against the wall, however, Nazi-Nightcrawler teleports, and upon materializing outside, collides with a surface only slightly less unyielding – Captain Britain. A tall and muscular Meggan tears off the chamber door as she shouts for that ‘arrogant little –‘ to come back here. Brian, who’s picked up a new black uniform since his last battle, tells her not worry as he has the wretch by the neck. Meggan thinks that’s a pity, she wanted a piece of him.
Brigadier Stuart congratulates the real Nightcrawler on his assessment of his doppelganger’s character. Apparently, he was able to anticipate the other man’s actions. Nightcrawler tells her that he wishes he had been wrong. He thinks to himself that this is a cruel and twisted version of the kind of light-hearted, swashbuckling stunt that he himself might have tried.
The Brigadier next turns to the rest of Lightning Force who are standing in the hall under armed guard. She tells Reichminister Mactaggert that if this is the kind of behavior they can expect from them then maybe they would prefer to stay in a maximum security prison. Alysande is informed that the Nazi Nightcrawler was acting without authorization and this kind of incident will not happen again. The Brigidier warns that if it does, it’s the Reichminister who will be held responsible. The Reichminister tells Nazi-Callisto to chastise the culprit severely. Hauptemann Englande proves that he did know what his teammate was up to, as he says in an aside to his girlfriend, that he knew he’d be caught, the fool.
Meggan is still riled up as she shrinks to a height that fits neatly just to Brian’s shoulder. Captain Britain comments that it’s a nice change to be turning the tables on the villains for once. Nightcrawler still questions whether the Nazis can be believed. Alysande is equally skeptical about trusting them. She says the quicker they are rid of them, the better.
The next day, back at the lighthouse, Rachel and Alistaire are having a nice early morning walk. Kitty peeks out intangibly through the outer wall as Alistaire asks about the sword. She thinks, “Thanks, Ray,” as she falls back on the bed, “Tell him all my secrets, why don’t’cha?!” In a negative mood, Kitty complains to Lockheed that considering the way his eyes pop out of his head every time he sees Rachel, it probably won’t matter what her roomie says to Alistaire about her, he won’t hear a word anyway.  Behind Kitty there’s a Cat’s Laughing and a Katherine Hepburn poster on the wall and clothes scattered on the bed and floor.
Kitty gets up to look at herself in a full-length mirror. Compared to her teammate, she feels woefully inadequate at getting Alistaire’s attention. In order to remedy that she starts tearing through a pile of clothes, thinking to herself that she needs to do what works for Ray, make the package look irresistibly attractive. She may be more comfortable in sneaks and sweats, but when it comes to romance, comfort doesn’t cut it. She tosses clothes in the air as she looks, and Lockheed, hovering behind her, gets tangled in them. Finally she finds the dress that Phoenix made for her with her molecule-manipulating powers. Unfortunately, it shrunk in the same telekinetic wave that dressed her in baby clothes.
Since she can’t use her own stuff, Kitty decides to borrow some clothes from Rachel. She opens up her roommate’s wardrobe and finds a closet filled entirely with red outfits of varying lengths. She wonders aloud if Ray is embarrassed by anything. Trying on a short-skirted one piece with a short jacket and tall boots, she wishes that she had Rachel’s chutzpah, and her body. She wonders to herself if she dares go downstairs dressed like that. Then decides that she definitely doesn’t want to. With an exclamation of frustration she sheds the clothes all at once with her phasing power.
Opening her eyes, Kitty sees that she’s no longer standing in her bedroom. Instead she unexpectedly finds herself in a cavernous throne room of a forest palace. Intertwined arboreal turrets line the long wall and a giant tapestry of a rose is centered on the wall. Among the throngs of strangely shaped people standing and facing the horned, purple-robed figure on the throne are animal-like doppelgangers of Excalibur.
Kitty realizes that the animal-people in the room can see her and wonders why they are staring. She approaches what she calls Excalibur’s analogues and reaches towards a purple dragon girl with a brown mane and small horns who is dressed in an outfit much like Shadowcat’s. Kitty says to herself this is fantastic, she must have crossed over to another dimension. Just as she says hi and introduces herself the world goes to white fog.
“We know who you are, Kiddo.” A very surprised looking Rachel tells her. “Oh my goodness!” says Alistaire. “Why’re you staring?!” Kitty questions, “What the heck’s the…” Then she looks down and with a blush realizes that the problem is that she isn’t wearing any clothes. Wanting to die of embarrassment, Kitty phases down through the floor to her basement computer lab to collapse at her desk.
“Rachel – did we *ahem* just see what I *koff* think we saw?” Alistaire asks. “Nope.” Rachel matter-of-factly answers. “Thank heaven for that.” Says Alistaire.
Considerably later, Kitty is still downstairs in her lab, but she’s dressed now. She’s glad that Alistaire went back to London because she was blushing absolutely crimson every time she saw him. She’s contemplating the little Widget head and telling it that now the only thing she has to drive her buggy is him. She’s still stumped on how to activate the little guy as there are no switches or access ports, and wishes that she had a manual.
Still in a bad mood, Kitty thinks that if her previous act of phasing through the portal permanently trashed the widget’s systems than Alistaire will probably never forgive her, and she’ll have a difficult time forgiving herself. Even though she only did it to save his life, not that she thinks that he cares. With a burst of frustration because she can’t figure out what makes the infernal little widget work, Kitty stands up and with an angry sweep of her arms, clears her desk of its papers and knocks over the coffee can the little robot head was sitting on. Lockheed leaps up with a surprised ‘awkk!’
Rachel telepathically pops in and the image of her disembodied head tells Kitty that Nightcrawler called and they are needed. Kitty says she’ll be right up as the Widget rolls off the table and clatters to a dark corner of the room. She says to herself that she has a nerve dumping on Ray for her temper, considering the way she just behaved. If she wants to be taken for a grownup, she’ll have to do better.
A strange sound of munching from the corner causes Kitty to wonder if more weirdness is going on like what happened upstairs. She’s thankful that at least this time she’s dressed. She asks Lockheed to light up the corner. Lockheed complies, blowing a small flame like a candle. Kitty kneels down and is surprised to see that the Widget has sleepily opened his eyes and is crunching and munching on small, metal objects.
Later in the day, in the North of England, at an abandoned spur line where there is plenty of privacy, most of Excalibur, WHO, Dai Thomas, and Lightning Force gather near the Reichrail Englande train. The Brigadier tells her twin brother to restrain his enthusiasm, personally, she’d prefer things to go smoothly rather than spectacularly. Alistaire exclaims that he can hardly wait for the exchange to start. Captain Britain speaks up to tell the Brigadier that things had better start happening soon as their “guests” are getting restless.
From the sky, Phoenix and Shadowcat spot the group. Rachel reminds Kitty that she didn’t have to come, considering how much she dislikes the Nazis. Kitty says that while she hates the Nazis guts, she’s part of Excalibur and no matter what, she stays with the team. With a startled ‘Waiowh!” Lockheed leaves Kitty’s shoulder and flies down to the train.
The little purple dragon roars as he nears the train’s engine and is answered by an earsplitting roar that causes everyone to turn in surprise. Dai Thomas questions, “What-the-devil-was-that?” Alistaire, as he steps to the train, reminds Commander Thomas of their earlier conversation regarding how the power source of the train was unique. He looks for the switch that turns the hull transparent, and when he finds the deuced thing, reveals a giant purple dragon in the engine.
“That dragon – he’s a slave!” Rachel cries out as she drops down to join them. “What of it? A beast’s portion is but to serve,” counters the Reichminister haughtily. As the two women argue about this, Kitty puts down the bag that she’s carrying Widget in and tells him to keep out of trouble.
Meggan comments that Rachel is starting a royal rumpus. Kitty replies, “Good for her!” as Rachel, in the background, says that the dragon is requesting political asylum and offers to create a psilink to prove this. Kitty continues to talk to Meggan, asking why they chose this godforsaken place for the exchange.
As it turns out, they are in Fenborough, a place near where Meggan was born. Meggan explains that the station was built on the site of an ancient fortress which was tied to dark sorcery and where nothing ever prospered. The site is reputed to be haunted and because of that curse, and because of Meggan’s appearance when she was a baby, her people, the traveling people, thought she was a demon. Kitty tells Meggan that Nightcrawler was raised by gypsies too. She doesn’t know about the place being evil, but she does admit that it gives her the creeps.
Rachel continues to emphatically advocate on behalf of the dragon. Professor Stuart very helpfully makes a logical argument that since the high mass of the Reichminister’s private train makes the transportation spell all the more difficult, Lightning Force should leave it behind. Callisto, since it’s her responsibility to secure the Reichminister’s security, agrees with Alistaire. Very reluctantly, through gritted teeth, the Reichminister agrees to leave the train.
One of the soldiers calls out that there is activity on the line. He gets the troops alerted and ready for the transfer.  Nightcrawler draws the Brigadier’s and Excalibur’s attention to a portal that has just opened up on the line in front of the train.
Meggan, Captain Britain in a borrowed uniform, Nightcrawler, and Phoenix leap on top of the train, ready to deal with any potential treachery. Meggan is feeling ‘twitchy’ but she doesn’t know what’s wrong. In the portal in front of them their people, Moira, Callisto, and the crew of the Highland Flyer appear to be safe and sound and ready to cross over.
Shadowcat, still on the ground near the station, thinks that things are going well so far and tells Lockheed that they should keep their fingers crossed. She picks up her rucksack and finds that it’s empty. She wonders where that pesky Widget went and walks over to the armory car of the train where she hears munching. Entering, she hears a large burp and sees a Widget grown so large that he is bigger than she is tall.
Back at the exchange, one of the Brigadier’s majors hears the burp and draws the Brigadier’s attention to it. She disregards it as she welcomes Doctor Mactaggert home. Lady Moira is happy to be back and Callisto seems disturbed by the place they’ve been held, she never wants to go back. The crew is concerned about their back pay.
As the portal begins to close, Reichminister MacTaggert orders one of her own world’s soldiers to give her his grenade. He reminds her of the agreement but she, as the portal begins to close completely, says it means nothing to her. The grenade, which turns out to be a micro-nuke, clears the opening just in time. Phoenix sees it and tells the others to hit the deck as she tries to contain the force of the explosion.
The force is considerable and even Phoenix is strained to her limits. In the armory car Kitty yells, “Oh crumbs!” as she sees Widget’s eyes widen and with a flash that turns everything white-pink, the train starts to glow and then with a foomp, to everyone’s surprise, completely disappears.
Moira, horrified, exclaims that Excalibur was aboard the train and wonders if it blew up. Callisto says there was no shock-wave or debris, what happened makes no sense. The Brigadier is upset about her brother, who was also on board. She says that the train didn’t explode and whatever happened wasn’t caused by the grenade as that detonated before the train disappeared. All are at a complete loss as to where the train and missing people could have gone.


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My Friends Call Me “Billy the Kid!”
Another reality, a rural, idyllic landscape. Suddenly, tiny elves flutter around in excitement. The cause is a stranger with an iron coat, a young lord. The rider, a teenage boy with a medieval haircut is ignoring them. His get-up is incongruous. His suit of armor is as old-fashioned as the haircut, but it is combined with a wristwatch, a walkman playing loud music and sunglasses. Like teenagers anywhere, he complains, in this case to his horse, Goliath. This is so stupid, he announces. Of all the fun way he could be spending his summer holidays. But, no – his parents insist he follow tradition and ride out on a knightly quest.
His boredom is about to come to an end when a tear in reality appears and through it a train is thrown, surrounded by the Phoenix effect.
The boy calms his horse, wondering how that was possible. A riddle for the archimage, he figures. The dryads aren’t going to be pleased about this mess.
He gasps when, suddenly, he catches sight of something. A pretty unconscious girl - Kitty Pryde - who apparently was thrown out of the train and now – being phased – lies halfway within a tree. Flapping excitedly above her is her pet dragon, Lockheed. Seeing only a girl and a dragon, the boy draws the obvious conclusion: the creature is threatening her. This is what a knightly quest is about, he reminds himself. Saving beautiful damsels in distress.
He takes out a small metal cylinder, presses a button and it turns into a lance. Avaunt, foul creature! he shouts, as he turns towards the puzzled dragon.
Lockheed flies up and breathes a gust of flame at the boy. The boy manages to shield himself, but both the shield and the tabard are ruined, not to mention that he has been demounted. ‘Humph,’ Lockheed remarks unimpressed. Furious, the boy intends to teach him manners with his sword, once he gets it out of his scabbard, which quite frankly, he doesn’t. Lockheed just sighs.
Elsewhere, the tiny dryads have flown close to the train, for while the cold iron it is made of repulses them, they sense something alive in there. Plus, it is touched by magic. They scatter in fear, as suddenly a kick from inside opens the door and Captain Britain, followed by the other members of Excalibur, steps out. He doesn’t think they are in Kansas anymore, he jokes. Taking things as usually at their face value, Meggan wonders aloud that they weren’t in Kansas before and Nightcrawler, who is supporting the drowsy Phoenix, explains it is merely an expression. The flabbergasted Professor Stuart just sits there, with a pained expression, muttering an explanation about sideral warp and a transluminous flux.
Brian remarks it is no wonder Rachel is weak. It is a miracle aided by her power that they didn’t get splattered all over the landscape. He notices that Meggan seems distracted and his lover announces that somehow this land feels like home to her.
Some distance away, the prince has finally managed to unsheathe his sword. He notes that the dragon was chivalrous enough to wait. It’s almost a shame to slay it. Not that he even comes close as he keeps on missing. Finally fed up, Lockheed lets loose a burst of flame. The prince thinks he has missed as well, until the tree branch comes crashing down on his head.
Back on Earth 616, Brighton Beach, where on this miserable day has come merchant Banker Nigel Frobisher. He looks up in surprise to find that there is an actual hole in the clouds right above him. While he is still lost in wonder a four-armed creature attacks him from behind. He recalls from Ms. Ross’ dossier that this is Bodybag who encases his victims in a narcotic membrane and swallows them whole. Fortunately, he didn’t get Nigel but his umbrella.
 Nigel runs off, only to meet the next member of the Technet, Joyboy. Nigel believes a baby can’t be too much of a threat. He is mistaken. Joyboy can take the heart’s desire of his prey and make it a twisted reality. In Nigel’s case, it is to be the ultimate man, so he can master his employer, Courtney Ross, but as strongly he wants to be like her, so he turns into a mixture of both.
While he is still reeling from that transformation, China Doll slithers onto the scene and shrinks him. The next moment, the tentacled Waxworks grabs him away and turns him elastic.
While Waxworks and Chinadoll fight over Nigel, he is tossed inside the building, where Gatecrasher is in negotiations with the local town council. She gathers Nigel up like a dishrag and asks what this is about.
In a different dimension the prince wakes up to be welcomed by Kitty Pryde. Immediately struck he wonders if she is an angel. Lockheed snarls and the prince demands a sword to slay the beast, whereas Lockheed goes into a boxing position. Kitty forcefully tells both of them to behave.
Seeing Brian properly, the prince sinks down on his knees and greets him as Captain Marshall, lord champion of the realm. Brian corrects the mistake, he is Captain Britain, not Marshall. He introduces his companions and the prince tells them he is Prince William, heir to the throne, but his friends call him ”Billy the Kid.”
Later outside, Brian announces that he fears they won’t get far with the train while William tells them that he was sent on a knightly quest to perform all manner of knightly deeds. When he saw Kitty and her dragon, he sort of jumped to conclusions. Looking fearfully at the dragon, who glowers at him from the roof of the train, Billy asks if Kitty has a sweetheart. The two men make fun of him, explaining that Lockheed eats them.
Suddenly, they notice a beautiful light and see a radiant Meggan dancing with the small faries. It’s as though the faerie folk are welcoming a lost princess of theirs home, Billy exclaims.
Inside the train, Professor Stuart examines Widget, while Kitty makes goo-goo eyes at him and Rachel just observes. Kitty explains that Widget had just eaten all the weapons aboard the train, same as he did the trash back at the lighthouse. Alistaire wonders what activated him and if they can replicate the process. Rachel speaks up for the first time and asks if that is wise. Alistaire stares at her, as besotted with Phoenix as Kitty is with him. Of course, Kitty notices and silently sarcastically thanks Rachel. Phoenix continues that, if Widget jaunts somewhere without them, they are stuck or he could have them end up somewhere worse. Suddenly, the train moves, due to a hurricane.
Outside, Billy warns the others that this isn’t a natural storm and Meggan points at the sky. A huge, red tentacled snake, a Shaitan, appears, destroys the train’s roof and grabs Kitty, Alistaire and Rachel.
Phoenix immediately bursts free, but Kitty finds she cannot phase through the tentacle holding her. Rachel tries to mindblast the creature, but finds it has no mind to speak of. Kitty finds that she can at least free Alistaire from his tentacle. While Rachel saves the falling professor, the Shaitan with Kitty gets away.
Ray suggests she try and track Kitty telepathically but Meggan informs them, her fairy friends know where the Shaitan lives.
The Shaitan flies towards a dark castle and puts Kitty in a big glass jar, next to another jar, where a girl in medieval clothing is stuck. Kitty finds she cannot phase here either.
A huge ogre in very skimpy clothing walks up to her, informing her about the obvious, namely that she is his captive. He tells Kitty that she is even uglier than the other one and hopes her folks are more cooperative. The parents of the princess haven’t sent a penny for ransom. The other girl complains that they are a poor people and he has no right to pick on them. She tells Kitty she is sorry for another captive. She’d been praying for a prince to rescue her. Kitty tells her to stick around. She may get lucky. The she turns to the ogre, warning him she has powerful friends. The ogre mocks Kitty and informs her the castle walls are unbreachable, at the very moment as something breaches them.
Captain Britain flies in, demanding to know where Kitty is. The Ogre seems upset rather than angry at the wanton destruction of his home. He adds that he hasn’t got a Kitty. He prefers doggies himself. Preferably in a white wine sauce. Typical, though, he whines. The moment something happens, he is the first to be blamed, just because he is an ogre. Brian apologizes. Excuses won’t fix his wall, the ogre replies slyly. And there are no kitties here, just the girlies. Brian looks around in surprise and is catapulted outside by the Ogre’s blow.
 The ogre laughs gleefully, announcing he loves being a villain. Not half as much as she loves hitting one, Phoenix announces, as she creates a huge fist from her Phoenix raptor. A split-second later, the Ogre is catapulted outside, much the same way as Captain Britain before him.
Kitty is happy at the planned rescue, while the captured princess remarks that she doesn’t want to sound ungrateful, but isn’t there a prince among them? She is supposed to be rescued by a prince!
The princess warns Meggan and the overconfident Phoenix, who a moment later is grabbed by green tentacles coming from the moat outside the castle. Meggan observes that the greenish moat doesn’t look like water. It isn’t, Rachel announces, as she tries to get out, still partially covered by green slime. It’s some form of elemental being, soaking through her skin and trying to transform her. How can she help? Meggan asks.
Meanwhile, some distance away, Cap tosses a stone at the ogre’s head, telling him to awake, The ogre apologizes, telling him this is a misunderstanding, only to hit Brian the next moment. Expecting the move, Brian steps aside and mockingly announces there are rules to fighting. Demonstrating his point, he hits the ogre in the stomach, while announcing that gentlemen don’t use feet; then he elbows the ogre and knees him while explaining that those parts of the body are also off-limits. As he finishes him off, he ends his explanation by announcing that gentlemen fight fair at all times. That’s the reason why it is called fisticuffs.
Meanwhile, Nightcrawler has teleported himself and William into the castle; quite a strain, as these days Kurt can barely teleport himself, let alone a passenger. Amazingly, William considers the jaunt fun, whereas most people are usually sickened by the strain.
With sword drawn, William runs towards the ladies. Kitty protests that there is an easier way but Billy just smashes the jars with his sword. Brilliant move, Kitty jokes. She doesn’t know who is more dangerous, he or the ogre.
The princess thanks William but he barely acknowledges before asking whether Kitty is alright. Suddenly, the shards form another demon attacking the princess. William shatters his with his sword and the princess admiringly announces that he has saved her twice now.
Outside, Rachel screams at Meggan to stay away and Meggan marvels that Rachel seems to be more afraid of her than the demon. The Phoenix raptor explodes over the landscape and an exhausted Rachel, herself again, is left.
The two young women join the others in what’s left of the castle after Phoenix flipped, as well as Cap and his captive ogre. Nightcrawler warns the others that there’s barely anything holding up the roof. Seeing Cap and the ogre, he shout a warning at Brian. Not quite understanding, Brian throws the ogre onto the floor. As a result what’s left of the castle caves in.
After Phoenix dissolves her force bubble that protected them, Kurt just wryly states, never mind.
The princess still fawns over William, who is still busy talking to Kitty. While Rachel and Brian examine the ogre, a worried Meggan runs to Nightcrawler and tells him there was no need to teleport inside. She or Rachel could have carried him. He needed to prove he could still carry his own weight, Kurt defends his actions. There are other ways of doing that, Meggan replies with a smile. As she touches his shoulder, she turns into a female version of him. Brian turns around and looks at them half in surprise, half annoyance.
The princess is becoming more direct as she throws herself at William, once more announcing her gratitude. Looks like the castle isn’t his only conquest, Kitty jokes. William seriously tells the princess that his heart is pledged to another. To the surprise of everyone, William gets down on his knees and proposes marriage to Kitty.