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House Call – book one of “The Promethium Exchange”
Early morning in the Excalibur lighthouse. Still in their pyjamas, the team is gathered in the kitchen trying to get some semblance of breakfast. Kitty tries to carry the plates to the table, attempting to practice staying solid. Unfortunately she is distracted by Lockheed and drops the plates.
That’s Braddock china, Captain Britain protests. It’s been in his family for years! It might be time to invest in another set, Kurt suggests.
Rachel refuses to catch the plates telekinetically, focusing on the percolator while Nightcrawler uses his teleportation and acrobatics to at least catch some plates. He doesn’t suppose half an antique collection is better than none? he ventures. No, he doesn’t suppose it is, Cap replies annoyed as he tries to catch the rest.
If he had a butler, this wouldn’t happen, Rachel grumbles. The Avengers have a butler. Why doesn’t he get a butler? She though everyone in England had a butler.
A nanny is more like it, to nursemaid them crazy Yanks, he rants catching a plates, unfortunately a cup gets away. That’s his favourite cup! Brian shouts. Rachel tells him to grow up. He’s a superhero. Super heroes don’t have favourite cups! Having had enough, Lockheed catches the cup.
Meggan, in the meantime, is busy at the stove, trying to cook pancakes for the first time. She offers a plate full to the others. Who’s first? she asks. Love to, but she’s allergic, Kitty replies. To eggs? Meggan wonders. To open flame, comes the reply, as Kitty refers to the fact, the pancakes are actually on fire.
Phoenix decides to sacrifice herself. If she can survive the Warwolves, she can probably survive Meggan’s first pancake, she figures.
Kurt remarks that, as Meggan’s private tutor, he must commend her on the phone message she took for Kitty (Kitty- Dr. Doom kaled, bee bye tumorow –M). Of course, he questions the authenticity of the caller.
Oh no, Meggan replies happily, she wrote it herself. Isn’t it exciting? The king of Latveria calling here. He’s very famous. She saw him profiled on Panarama.
That reminds her, Rachel remarks, she’s supposed to take the Warwolves for their allergy shots today. Can she get her breakfast to go? The others begin to snicker except for Meggan who replies those are nasty beasts. Does Rachel think that is wise?
She’d join her, Kitty joins in, but she’s taking the Crazy Gang to the zoo at noon. No prob, Rachel replies. But who’ll be around to help the Technet move in this afternoon? Brian finally remarks.
As the others laugh openly, Meggan finally realizes that they are making fun of her. She turns to the door as the bell is ringing. The others call after her: if it’s the Juggernaut, tell him the super-villain brunch is next week.
With her outside, Rachel remarks she’s so gullible. Rachel isn’t even from this time period and she recognizes a prank call. That’s his Meggan, as innocent and trusting as she is beautiful, Brian boasts. For that very reason it is cruel to tease her so, Kurt protests.
Meggan strides in, telling them she bets they feel stupid. Mortified. Aghast, totally dissed, the others reply, only Brian asks why. Because he’s here in the living room, she replies and throws open the door to admit Doctor Doom, who greets them with a mild “hello.”
Rachel instantly changes their pyjamas to their costumes as the team gets ready for an attack save for the still smug Meggan and Kitty who slams the door before the team and reminds them he called to talk to her.
Phoenix is unconvinced. She wants to fight him. She owes him for something he’s going to do in the alternative future where she was born. As for the here and now, Cap adds, doesn’t Doom realize a man’s home is his castle? Probably, Meggan retorts, Doom’s home is a castle.
Aren’t they all overreacting? Kitty asks. Why should they trust him? Brian asks. Kitty reminds them that Doom didn’t ambush them. He did call. They can at least hear him out.
Kitty’s phases into the living room, asking: what’s up, doc? She takes it this isn’t about her two thousand mile check-up? She’s still under warranty, isn’t she?
So to speak, comes the reply. While he confesses to being curious as to her condition, since he saved her life, it is he who requires her assistance. He continues that there’s a mystical metal known as Promethium. As an energy source, it is inexhaustible and waste-free. It would mean the end of Earth’s energy crisis. Forever.
Rad, Kitty replies. So what does he need his favourite ex-patient for? He explains that the metal is located in the pocket dimension so quaintly referred to as Limbo. And she is his sole means of entrance to the mystical domain. He needs her to draws the Soulsword.
Magik’s soulsword? she asks. The one embedded in front of the lighthouse? Is there another? he asks.
The others eavesdrop. Let her get this straight, Kitty asks. Unlimited wastefree energy? Could that mean… no greenhouse effect? No global warming? Or acid rain? No oil wars? Nothing, he agrees, but peace and prosperity.
What’s to keep him from becoming the financial ruler of the world? she asks. The energy would be free, Doom replies. She has his word. His word, eh? Okay, she agrees.
What? the others chorus. May they see her in the kitchen Captain Britain asks seething and drags her through the door which they then slam shut. Has her brain gone totally ethereal? Rachel demands.
Fools, Doom thinks to himself, then his attention wanders to a painting on the wall. An original Van der Woulde. He thought he owned all the original Van der Wouldes. Hmpf.
While he simply takes the picture Kitty announces to her friends in the kitchen that she believes him. The man is a despot, he can’t be trusted! Captain Britain protests. Kurt and Rachel agree, but Kitty reminds them that Doom saved her life. That doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a good guy, Rachel retorts.
Before the discussion gets ugly Doom steps into the room and suggests an easy solution. He addresses Phoenix: To paraphrase another “despotic world leader”… ready my thoughts!
Rachel does so. She skims his memories: Childhood spent as a gypsy fugitive from Latverian authorities, the accident that scarred him, tutelage under Tibetan monks and the creation of his armour, his ascension to the Latverian throne and his recent attempts at world-domination based in a deep-rooted need to serve the people of Earth as their natural leader. She senses arrogance, the forced solitude of leadership. But nope. No evil per se. Is she sure? Cap demands. She’s the Phoenix, she reminds him, celestial avatar. She knows evil. He’s clean.
Okay, she can go, Cap announces. But a minute ago he said… Kurt protests. That was a minute ago, Brian replies and tells him to shush.
And so soon they find themselves in front of the Lighthouse where the Soulsword is embedded.  Kitty touches the sword hilt, the others watch as Doom begins a spell. Is there anything he can’t do? Kitty wonders aloud. Knit, he deadpans. He finds it repetitious.
Can they go over it again? she asks. What is it she’s supposed to do? With this minor spell, Doom repeats, he is only weakening the mystical barrier between their dimension and the next. As the only living being who can draw the Soulsword, the embodiment of her former comrade’s magical might, Kitty can cleave the barrier in two. This will allow them to travel via a pocket dimension and enter Limbo undetected by its demonic denizens.
Is this the right thing to do? Meggan whispers to Brian. If Doom wants into Magik’s Limbo, he’ll get it, he replies. This way at least they can keep tabs on him.
Kitty draws the sword and is covered from neck to toe in mystical armour. The others still whisper and act silently, hooking Widget up to Kitty’s dimensional fine tuner.
That moment, Alistaire Stuart turns up and loudly asks if he missed breakfast. Sorry, Rachel tells him. Dr Doom arrived and talked Kitty into a cross-dimensional mining expedition into Limbo and guess who has to chaperone? No need for sarcasm, Alistaire replies. He apologizes for being late.
Kitty pierces the barrier while she asks why Doom knows so much about the Soulsword and Promethium and just about everything. It was all covered in but one of the chapters of the Darkhold, he replies. Why does she find that less than reassuring? Kitty mumbles.
They enter a tunnel and walk through. How is she doing for a novice? Kitty asks. She’s doing well, he replies. For a novice. And the gate closes behind them, but Widget duplicates the coordinates, powered by Phoenix.
He supposes that means breakfast is off, Alistaire asks. Any instructions while they are gone? Feed the lighthouse twice daily? Cap orders. Whether it needs it or not.
After realizing he’s been had, Alistaire wonders what sentient lighthouses ear. Any preferences?
A bit away, in the water, the Lady of the Lake harrumphes. Mortals! With defenders of the throne like these, who needs enemies?
On the way to Limbo Kitty asks what the rational for this so-called shortcut was. Doom replies that the so-called Inferno proved that the hordes of Limbo do not always follow the wishes of their ruler. That’s what spooks her, Kitty admits. And until they arrive she is not even sorceress supreme. Anything could happen. How could that have slipped his mind? Doom asks. She wonders, Kitty replies and warns him that if anything happens to her, he’ll be stuck.
At that moment, demon shapes rise from the ground and grab her with the tentacles. Kitty finds the armour cancels her phasing powers. What a thoroughly unforeseen complication, Doom remarks and grabs the Soulsword out of her hand. Kitty loses the armour and he hacks through the tentacles, freeing her. After he’s done, Kitty demands he fork over the sword, but Doom ignores her and strides ahead.
They finally arrive. What gives, Doom? Kitty demands. He said he needed her in Limbo. No, he said he needed her to draw the Soulsword. There’s a difference.
Kitty notes that, with the armour gone, she is no longer sorceress supreme of Limbo. She never was, Doom corrects her. While others, for reasons of their own, chose to call this place “Limbo,” it is not. Time passes here. True Limbo is timeless. There exist natural predators here. In true Limbo, there are but transient and displaced souls. There is no sovereign of true Limbo. But while he possesses the Soulsword, he is ruler of this mystic domain.
Naturally, he’ll pardon them if they try to stop him? Kitty asks rhetorically, and Lockheed blasts fire at him. Naturally, he replies dryly. And they’ll pardon him if his forcefield deflects the dragon’s flames?
He used her! she shouts. Set her up from word one. He has no intention of sharing the Promethium with the rest of the world, does he? On the contrary, he replies. As he promised, the energy would be dispensed for free… up until the moment all of Earth becomes dependent on his nation of Latveria for power. After that, only those countries that swear total allegiance to Doom shall continue to function. He swats Lockheed away.
Kitty attack Dooms, aware of the fact it is rather stupid as he might be able to cancel her powers. Indeed, he slaps her away. Alone she is no match for him, he warns her. Time for Excalibur to reveal themselves. So who’s alone? Phoenix asks threateningly.
Meanwhile in America, the home compound of the West Coast Avengers (at the moment Wonder Man, Iron Man, Quicksilver, Tigra and the Scarlet Witch):
The team is taking it easy, lazing around the pool while Iron Man (in armor) is firing up the grill for a barbecue.
Lying at the pool, Wanda suggests to Wonder Man who’s carrying the burgers they’d all eat a lot sooner if he stopped ogling and hurry up with the food. Who’s ogling? he asks and falls over his own feet. Thankfully, the superfast Quicksilver catches the burgers, muttering annoyed: don’t get up anyone. Let the world’s fastest mutant do all the work. As usual.
Don’t hurry on her account, Tigra suggests. She likes her burgers like she likes her men… Raw? he asks. No, well-done with lots of onions, comes the reply. Half woman, half cat, all incorrigible Wanda remarks.
They really should have that step fixed, Simon mutters. Maybe they should have him fixed, Quicksilver replies pointedly. Iron Man warns them to play nice.
Lying down next to Wanda, Greer announces satisfied: no world threats, no doomsday devices, no rampaging monsters. This is the life! There, now she’s ruined it, Wand replies. She’s ruined what? Once anyone mentions how nothing happens… everything happens, Wanda explains. Isn’t she being a bit… superstitious? Tigra asks. She’s the Scarlet Witch, comes the reply. She’s supposed to be superstitious.
The pool begins to hiss and something takes form. What did she tell her? Wanda remarks. The water turns into the Lady of the Lake. Wanda identifies her. She explains she has traversed the world to enlist the aid of Iron Man, he who has championed the Greater Isle of Britain in times past. Once again his adversary Doctor Doom threatens the welfare of her people. Despite their best intentions the defenders of the realm known as Excalibur are his unwitting pawns. If he is to succeed in his latest bid for world domination, it will begin with the total obliteration of England. She disappears. She supposes this means lunch is off! Tigra sighs.
In Limbo, Doom is being roasted in Phoenix fire as he begs for mercy, a mercy Phoenix denies. Trouble being that it’s happening only as an encephalo-hologram, an endless loop Rachel is trapped in. Brian realizes Doom ascertained her brain wavelengths when he “allowed” her to read his mind.
Kurt tries to teleport close to Doom. But he ‘ports partially into Doom’s electro-magnetic force field which hurts him, leaving him no choice but to teleport out again, even though the strain of multiple ‘ports usually about does him in. Except… there is no strain! In fact, teleporting suddenly proves easy again. Could exposure to the force field have realigned his mutant ability to teleport electromagnetically? That can only mean… he’s cured! Kurt shouts as he teleports multiple time.
Cap tells him to stop, warning him that Doom can probably change his direction on whim. The next moment, Doom proves him right by directing Kurt at Meggan. His apologies, Kurt mutters. He’d be forgiven sooner if he didn’t look like he was fancying it so much, Cap states sourly.
Shall they get this over with? Doom asks bored. They certainly shall, Cap announces and flies at him. Cap hits Doom’s forcefield. Doom orbits Limbo and lands again… atop Cap. Both are surprised to find the other man still standing.
Angrily, Doom announces he cannot allow him to further disrupt his plan. He and what army? Cap shoots back. Wouldja believe this one? a demon horde that has gathered replies. Those demons look suspiciously like demon versions of Earth heroes. So, Vic, the Mr Fantastic lookalike demon addresses Doom. Is he going to introduce them to his buddy or what?
He understands his unconditional surrender is no longer an option, Doom remarks. Surely, Cap replies.


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The Changeling
Nightcrawler trains in Excalibur’s gymnasium basement. Meggan watches him, almost swooning at his physical prowess, clearly enthralled. As she watches, her looks change to match his and she soon joins him in the acrobatics.
Nightcrawler admits that he finds her most attractive in her current form and they seem close to kissing when they are interrupted by the sound of clapping. Below them stands Meggan’s boyfriend, Brian Braddock aka Captain Britain, who grudgingly admits that they were excellent. No harm done, he tells them, that is exactly the kind of teamwork Excalibur has been lacking.
Kurt thanks him. With a challenging look, he adds that it felt quite good. He’s sure it did, Brian replies as he shoots him a dirty look and leaves. A little later, Brian flies away from the lighthouse, admitting to himself that they did look good together. What they were doing is exactly what Excalibur needs. He just doesn’t have to like it.
Meanwhile, holding her head with what seems to be a headache, Meggan excuses herself. She’s not feeling very well.
Kurt goes on training displeased when suddenly he takes a blow from something unseen. He tries to grab one of the handles as he falls only to be hit again. Even teleporting doesn’t save him. Beaten and broken, he dimly realizes the identity of his attacker. Not you! he moans, semi-conscious. The attacker steps over him and crashes outside through the lighthouse wall.
That moment, a still troubled Captain Britain returns to see the damage and immediately attacks the creature. He wildly hits it but his foe doesn’t go down until Brian gives it his all. Finally, the creature falls.
Phoenix and Shadowcat arrive only too late, as the fight’s already over. Rachel proceeds to fix the wall while Kitty takes a look at the injured. She only finds Kurt with no trace of Meggan. Perhaps, perhaps not, Rachel announces mysteriously and telekinetically influences the creature to show its true form, that of Meggan, displaying grey skin and red eyes.
She is possessed, Rachel announces. Worried, Brian asks Meggan to speak to him, but she only utters nonsense sounds before finally saying dead xxxx… X-Menggh! Leadr.. With that, she falls unconscious. The team wonders what to do and Kitty suggests contacting their friend Alistaire Stuart. Perhaps he and the Weird Happenings Organization will be able to help.
Unfortunately, Alistaire has trouble of his own, being called into the office of his superior, Mr. Kaplan. He’s got to be kidding, Alistaire remarks, annoyed. Doesn’t Kaplan remember that crazy old man? How can he forget someone like that? Not only did Kaplan think he looked like a whacko, he thought he talked like one. He warned them that all sort of unusual things would start happening right about now. He told them months go. There’s no way he could have known… unless… well he might be able to help them.
Unimpressed, Kaplan replies Stuart says this Meggan is possessed. He doesn’t believe in that kind of stuff. Nobody does anymore. This is all just a product of Stuart’s overactive imagination. No need to go fly off the handle because one of his girlfriends gets herself into trouble.
But he’s seen her… and lots of other things people don’t believe in either, Alistaire defends himself. Besides he took the liberty of having some readings taken in the area surrounding the old man’s castle. They defy description. He is convinced that what is happening there directly relates to what’s happening to Meggan.
Pointing a finger at him, Kaplan retorts that this is exactly the kind of behavior Stuart is being called here on the carpet for. Who does he think he is, authorizing field work without the appropriate paperwork? “Paperwork? This matter is too important!” Alistaire protests. That’s where he is wrong! So he remembers the old man. Name was Myrd, he thinks.
Then he’ll help? Alistaire asks. He’s not in charge around here. This is. He shows Alistaire a ledger. The annual budget! It ain’t in there, it ain’t happening. It’ll cost too much money. It can’t be done. Is that clear? Angrily, Alistaire walks out, figuring than they have just to do it without help.
Some time later, he and Excalibur arrive at the old man’s castle. Alistaire knocks, while Rachel keeps Meggan under control via psi-link. Rachel strains but realizes that, since they got there, she has managed to reach deeper and help reestablish Meggan’s own personality.
The doors swing open by themselves and energy rushes at them, seemingly ghostly. Phoenix senses a focus to them, something familiar, perhaps someone familiar. Before she can reveal more, she is struck down by a psi-blast and loses control of Meggan, who instantly transforms into a monster and flees. Captain Britain and Nightcrawler immediately follow.
Amongst those left back, Shadowcat discovers the old man, who seems stricken, while Rachel casts out the energy that has been holding her prisoner. She sinks into Alistaire’s arms. The old man tells them his name is Myrd, but beyond that he recalls very little, save that a profane malevolence has been disposed over the face of the Earth, a threat that must be driven out, lest they all perish.
In the forest, Nightcrawler searches for Meggan, fearing what will happen if they cannot cure her. He and Meggan have grown so close. He can no longer imagine his life without her. Less elegantly, Cap cuts a swath through the forest, also consumed by the drive to find Meggan. He doesn’t want to lose her. Not now, not ever. Funny thing is, until now he never realized just how true that is.
Both men find her at the same time. Meggan transforms from the monstrous form to her true self. Naked, she seems almost sensual as she dances within the forest. She dances in what seems to be some pagan ritual. Both men try to reach her, but suddenly she disappears in smoke. What do they do now?
Cap takes the team, as well as Alistaire to Braddock Manor while Nightcrawler teleports himself and Myrd there. As Brian knocks on the door, he muses that things were different when he and Meggan lived there, back before Excalibur was formed. In many ways, he silently wishes that things had stayed that way. His sister, Bets, was still alive and Meggan and he…
His train of thought is interrupted as his housekeeper, Emma Collins, opens the door. She happily greets him. When she is about to ask about Meggan, Brian gently interrupts her and leads her inside. They’ll have to talk later. Right now, he and his friends have to get right to work.
Rachel suddenly sinks down, sensing something very wrong, but the spell passes. Emma takes Rachel along to make her a cup of tea and Brian suggests the old man go along. Myrd insists to stay with them though, believing he can be of help. Brian grudgingly agrees and leads them down the cellar into a huge cavern with a giant computer system.
Cap quickly explains that this was created by his father. She’d swear this technology exceeds anything Earth is capable of, Kitty enthuses. Brian agrees, but that’s a story for another time. He accesses the computer but its power can’t locate Meggan. However, it detects power surges beyond the realm of natural sciences. Power originating at Myrd’s castle. And according to the computer, there isn’t even supposed to be a castle at that location. What does Myrd have to say for himself?
The old man apologizes but he cannot remember anything that transpired. Kitty calms Brian down and mentions Myrd’s name. Hearing it for the first time, Brian suspects something. Myrd assures him that he is there to help and that he can lead them to Meggan. Alistaire adds that they have nothing to lose and Brian grudgingly agrees. But when this is over he wants answers!
Minutes later, they have reached the still demonic Meggan. Phoenix mentally attacks her and finds something different: This time it is easier to control Meggan. The psychic presence she encountered earlier is no longer a threat. Myrd gently takes Meggan’s head into his hands and Cap sourly states that he might have known he’d have something to do with it. He is right, Myrd admits, but he cannot say what his role is. Still, they must trust him. He can help suppress the evil inside Meggan, though he isn’t certain for how long.
Later at Braddock Manor, Excalibur and Myrd try for hours to locate the demonic presence within Meggan to no avail. Science has been unable to cast out the horror, Myrd states. Now they must resort to mystic means and confront the spirits directly. They must return to the castle – the nexus – at once and without further delay conduct a séance, an attempt to communicate with the spirit realm, the psychic plane.
And so a little later, all are gathered in a circle holding hands. Brian protests. He can’t understand how Myrd knows so much and so little. There are some things man was not meant to understand, comes the cryptic reply.
Rachel senses something happening. It is getting harder for her to control Meggan. Myrd senses the strain as well, as the arrival from a spirit from beyond. He addresses the spirit. It speaks though Alistaire, saying his name is Mickey. The others have no reason to know who he is, but the Captain hasn’t forgotten him, has he?
“No,” Brian addresses him, he’ll never be able to forget that day. Mickey’s death – a death he was responsible for – has haunted him for many months, but he thought the worst of it was behind him. Surely he has not brought this horror upon them? No, Mickey calms him. He’s here as a friend, as one of the mediums they will encounter on this quest.
Brian shouts at him to tell them what he means. But Mickey’s spirit form disappears, to be replaced by another elfish form. Could he be responsible, one of them wonders. Hey, how can you even think such a thing, the ghost protests vehemently and Captain Britain recognizes him as his former sidekick, Jackdaw.
“In the fle-” the elf begins and then breaks off. Well, he knows what he means. It’s so good to see him, Brian replies. He didn’t think that would happen again, as long as he lived. Jackdaw tells him to take it easy. He can still help him and he’s going to, but first they must be joined by another, one who will help to keep open the doorway to beyond.
Kitty protests. Enough is enough. Didn’t she see all this in Dickens or was it Dark Shadows? This can’t be real! They’re here to help a friend. She doesn’t want to “meet” anyone else!
Is she sure? Myrd asks. Perhaps their next visitor will change her mind. Not one of the X-Men? Kitty asks. Crying, she refuses to accept this as another ghostly figure appears. Rachel assures her this is real, as does the ghost, the dead Doug Ramsey. He tells her he has come to join with her. They must be the key between worlds, while others are called upon to do battle.
Suddenly, a ghostly form of Professor X appears, ordering this is enough. Rachel admits she didn’t want to believe it but this is who she sensed at the castle; who she suspected all along. This is not Professor Xavier, “Doug” remarks calmly and Phoenix agrees. She “sees” that now and she recalls that there was one to whom the professor once imparted some of his mental abilities. That knowledge will be of no use, “Xavier” replies as he tries to attack Doug.
Doug calls him  and tells him he is wrong. Changeling takes on his real form. They’ll see who is mistaken. Talking through Kitty, Doug tells him he already made his first mistake by allowing their spirits to merge. This link will prevent his closing the doorway behind him in his attempt to permanently occupy the body of another.
Jackdaw, in the meantime, silently takes the spirits of Nightcrawler and Captain Britain to the astral plane, while Doug keeps on distracting Changeling, who rants why he is doing this in spite of having reformed before his death. Revenge! Instead of spending the last few months of his life looking for a way to cure himself, he posed as the X-Men’s mentor, enabling Professor X to accomplish his goal, whereas he was left to rot in the grave. He wants revenge against the man who lived, while he was forced to die.
Then why did he attack them? Phoenix asks. Coming from Meggan’s monstrous body, he replies he wants nothing from them. He merely sought the perfect corporeal conduit through which he might reenter this world and seek out the one he would destroy. He would already be about his business if Meggan’s will hadn’t proved so formidable. She would not be immediately expelled. But, he assures them, that will end in time and time is certainly on his side. Nothing is going to stop him.
In the meantime, Jackdaw has led Nightcrawler and Captain Britain’s astral form into the world between the living and the dead and he can go no further. They must continue on their own. With that, he disappears over Cap’s protest.
A moment later, Changeling appears and attacks them, announcing that he has power beyond their comprehension. That’s what they always say, Cap mutters as he gets up. He just never believes it. With that, he shatters Changeling, who only laughs. He admits they are quite good for someone untrained in psychic battle.
Untrained indeed, Nightcrawler thinks to himself. He doesn’t even know where he got that sword to from. He tries to use it on Changeling but again to no avail. He informs them that Meggan is at long last losing the battle. He feels her lifeforce slipping away. The moment has come. Yes, it has, Nightcrawler and Captain Britain agree grimly. Together, they strike for Meggan with one psychic blow, the repercussions of which are felt in the world beyond.
“Now!” Myrd orders as he and Phoenix mentally attack Meggan. Attacked from both sides, Changeling’s resolve weakens. The battle is coming to an end. And Doug tells Kitty goodbye. Changeling disappears, Nightcrawler and Cap are restored to their bodies. They immediately look towards Meggan whose body is ordinary once more. Moments later she too awakens.
The gateway is closed, Myrd announces, and just as order is restored, so too is Merlin. He changes into the kind old wizard Merlin, whom Brian has always known. Also restored is Meggan, who asks what happened, before moaning that she has a splitting headache. Answers can wait.
Cap turns to Merlin, asking what kind of game he was playing. Was it necessary to deceive them, deceive him? Wasn’t there already enough for him to think about… like Mickey… all that guilt! The way he first met Meggan - all that happened when he returned to Earth shortly before the formation of Excalibur… It’s all come back to him… old wounds reopened, new wounds realized. Why wasn’t he there to help him?
Merlin touches his shoulder. Brian’s words are harsh, but not heartfelt. Perhaps it is because he knows Merlin is, as ever, his friend. Perhaps it is because he knows the very fabrics of reality have been stretched to their limits. Perhaps it is because he knows this is in fact little more than a test… and the true obstacles in his life are yet to come. Is it so surprising to him that Merlin’s actions are always going to be beyond his comprehension? Hasn’t that always been the case? Brian’s life, their lives, cannot be treated as if ordinary.
Alistaire too wants some answers. Merlin apologizes if Brian feels he hasn’t been honest with him. If he had known Merlin didn’t really die, but rather altered his body and sent it there to await this unprecedented occurrence, would he truly have believed? Would he haven been able to comprehend? No man is able to understand all. Still, all must try. All must learn through their own experiences… their own fates.
Has he ever wondered why Excalibur was truly brought into being? Just as the Changeling took advantage of the special mystic opportunities created on this world recently when the Darkhold – the most powerful tome to exist within this reality was recreated there are other similar forces and trials ahead. Captain Britain and likewise Excalibur are an inherent component of all that has transpired. All that they have experienced can be explained by the words of his daughter Roma, who has fulfilled his duty as protector of the multiverse while he posed as Myrd. Merlin begins to disappear as he speaks his words. “There is a natural order to things. There are things reality will not tolerate. There can be no breakdown of the laws of life and death.”
Suddenly, Merlin and his castle seem to fade within the eye of a storm and Captain Britain stands alone… united again. No other words are spoken. No other words are needed. The wind itself – or is it merely the wind seems to speak out loud? And, as well it would be, Excalibur will always be there, to answer its call.


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Out on a Limbo – book two of “The Promethium Exchange”
Somewhere in England, Alistaire Stuart is left alone outside Excalibur’s lighthouse. The team left only ten minutes ago. Still, waiting is the worst part, he thinks. Hearing a noise, he exclaims that this sudden ominous rumbling runs a close second. He jumps backward as part of the cliff he is standing on is torn away.
At that moment in Limbo, Captain Britain suggests to Doom’s demons that maybe they can talk this out. I say thee nay! a Thor demon informs him and hits him. And I say double nay an ordinary demon adds as he too strikes and Cap lands far away.
Satisfied, Doom sees that none of Excalibur are left standing. Have his loyal servants pleased him? one of the demons asks Doom. Pleased is a bit strong, Doom replies. He does, however, confess to being intrigued by the forms the local demons have chosen. As always, they felt the needs and thoughts of he who rules their dimension, comes the reply. For the moment, that is he.
Shall they have the humans tortured in his honor? There is no honor in torture, Doom replies. They were noble, albeit brief, adversaries. Kill them! Quickly, he orders. He walks towards the castle, intending to secure the eternally energizing metal that is Promethium. Then he shall rule Earth as easily as he rules this ghetto of a dimension that was once called Limbo. If anybody wants him, he shall, be in the castle.
Back at the light house, Alistaire notes the anomaly is getting larger, its pull stronger. He says good-bye to Rachel, fearing he is going to die.
That moment, the West Coast Avengers arrive from the ocean. The Lady of the Lake refers to the anomaly, telling them the destruction of England has already begun.
Quicksilver quickly saves Alistaire. Iron Man wants to attack the anomaly and the Lady calls out that his repulsors are useless. The portal only absorbs mass.
Tigra and Wonder Man throw chunks of ground at the gateway to make it overload. The Scarlet Witch and the Lady help with magic and probability altering. And quickly the anomaly is closed up… for now.
The Lady of the Lake fears it may be for naught. This is but one of five dimensional portals scattered throughout the ever mystical realm of England. In order to secure Doom’s beloved Promethium, it will be necessary to collapse Otherplace in on itself.
So because nature abhors a vacuum, the entire country will be pulled through the portal to fill the void of this Otherplace which they’ve been referring to as Magik’s Limbo, Alistaire pipes up.
Alistaire belatedly introduces himself, adding he is a confidant of her Majesty’s greatest superteam, Excalibur. That would be the same Excalibur that provided Doom with the Soulsword? Wonder Man asks. You Yanks never make a mistake? Alistaire shoots back sourly. If they are ready to depart? the Lady asks.
Elsewhere, a wannabe Wolverine demon gets ready to do something terrible to Shadowcat’s face. Say good night, babe, he announces. He never gets the chance, as Iron Man tackles him, informing him if he’s supposed to be Wolverine, the phrase is “bub.” The West Coast Avengers have arrived.
Someone tell her she’s asleep, Kitty mutters. That she didn’t help Doom enter Limbo. And most importantly that they are not being rescued by the Avengers. Brian’s gonna kill her.
The Avengers don’t find much in the way of resistance as the demons prove cowardly (or are taking a break for dramatic effect, according to them) and run.
Soon, Kitty, Nightcrawler and Meggan of Excalibur have awakened and face the Whackos. Nigtcrawler thanks them on behalf of their team. And on behalf of their team, Quicksilver announces, they’d like to know whatever possessed them to trust Dr—
Wanda quickly shushes her brother.
In the meantime, Iron Man frees Phoenix from the Encephalographic loop. He recognizes the device Doom used to incapacitate Rachel? Kitty marvels. Where does she think Doom stole the idea from? the inventor  retorts.
Meggan reminds the others of Captain Britain’s plight – trapped at the bottom of a ravine and very mad.
When Wonder Man tries to help him up, Cap immediately strikes him, telling him not only is the ugliest demon yet, he’s also the laziest. What is he talking about? Simon protests. Cap hits him, informing him that he shows no attention to detail. That “W” on his chest should be an S. And where’s the cape?
Having had enough, Simon informs him that he doesn’t know who Cap thinks he is, but the name is Wonder Man! With a W. He strikes Cap (who stands corrected.
Ah, the smell of testosterone in the air, Rachel announces as she lights up the Phoenix effect. An entire dimension full of demons and they slug it out between themselves.
Nightcrawler too suggests that this team-up will go a lot smoother if they stop pounding each other.
The two apologize and make up. Wanda turns to Phoenix. Her magic has located each of the five portals. If Rachel could project it into everyone’s minds… The Scarlet Witch has taken command, deciding they will split up in teams of two, one member from each team. They’ll draw on Excalibur’s experience here. Once they destroy the portals, they’ll rendezvous at Doom’s castle. Any questions?
They leave, unaware that one particular demon considers them his pawns, planning for them to dispose of Doom’s plan, for although it will mean the deaths of all who dwell within this dark dimension it is surely the only way he may ever know eternal peace.
Nightcrawler and the Scarlet Witch are heading for the first portal, a small ruin on a summit. Nightcrawler thought it would be bigger. Let them be thankful it is not, Wanda announces. With luck, they’ll have destroyed it and departed before they are confronted by Doom’s safeguard. Then again mayhap not, a Dr. Strange demon replies, attacking together with a Mr. Fantastic.
How disappointing, the Witch remarks. One would think Doom’s subconscious would have been more creative when designing demons. Under his rule these are little more than Dr Strange and Mr. Fantastic doppelgangers.
Doppelgangers? Kurt asks. Sprechen Sie deutsch, Fraulein? (Do you speak German, Miss?)
 Jawohl, natuerlich, mein herr,(Yes, of course, Sir) Wanda replies.
Attacking them, the Dr. Strange protests what ancient gibberish they are spouting. It was German, Wanda explains as she fends him off and if he had been raised in Europe like Kurt and herself he’d be bilingual as well.
Mr. Fantastic tries to keep up with Kurt who teleports through the pain. Wanda tries to point out to the demon that if Doom succeeds in imploding the dimension, they will perish. Does she think living as a demon is fun? comes the reply. She doesn’t suppose it’s any worse than being a mutant, Wanda surmises.
Kurt, in the meantime, has managed to trap his demon between the pillars and kicks him in the face first, then ties him up with his own elastic body. Wollen Sie tanzen mit meinen freund? he asks Wanda. Es schmesht mir gut, she replies.
So, Kurt takes out Strange with a rock and Wanda uses her hexes to have Mr. Fantastic snap like a rubber band. One more hex bolt to destroy the portal and their mission is completed.
Iron Man and Meggan head for the second gate, only to be expected by more demons trying to be the Silver Surfer and the Human Torch. Meggan apes the Torch’s power to fight him. The Surfer attacks her with the power cosmic. Iron Man like a true gentleman throws himself between Meggan and the blast, meaning his armor has to recover.
Meggan uses the magic of the dimension to also mimic the Surfer’s power. The two demons turn smaller under her attack and shrink into nothingness. Meggan and Iron Man destroy the gate.
Shadowcat and Tigra hide behind some rocks close to the third gate, watching an absurd scene, namely three demons arguing which one of them is the true Wolverine.
One of them asks how the boulder got there to block the gateway (that was the gateway closed by the Lady of the Lake and the Avengers from the other side before they entered Limbo). Who cares? another Wolverine informs him. They’ll just unget it!
What does she think happens after they remove the boulder? Kitty whispers. She’s seen it first hand, Tigra replies. It gets ugly.
One of the Wolverines sniffs. Does anyone beside him smell… a Kitty? Two actually, Tigra replies as they show themselves. Kitty orders them to step away from the portal and nobody gets hurt.
Nobody threatens Wolverine and lives to tell about it, one Wolverine replies. Kitty kicks him in the face. She knew Wolverine. He was a personal friend of her. And he is no Wolverine! Or he would have prepared himself against the ninja techniques the real Wolverine taught her.
Tigra lifts Wolverine number two. The two heroines toss their Wolverines against each other and Kitty phases them into one single ball. And since no two objects can exist in the same place at the same time, they explode. Problem taken care of.
A Thing and a Thor guard another portal. Thing complains his talents are wasted here. I hearest thee, Thor sighs.
Captain Britain taps Thor on the shoulder: pardon me, is this jaw taken? He hits him.
Didn’t he get enough bruises the first time round? Thing mocks. What makes him think he’ll do better in a rematch? Because this time he brought a friend, Cap replies as Wonder Man makes his entrance.
Maybe they can talk this out? the demon suggests nervously. Let’s not! Simon replies and slugs him as does Cap.
In the meantime, Thor has recovered and calls up a thunderstorm to hit Simon. Instead of hurting Wonder Man, though, he manages to finish off his own pal.
Thor warns them back. No rational man would dare face the full unfettered fury of a thunder god. If he were a rational man, he wouldn’t have become a superhero, Cap retorts. Together, they finish him off and close the portal, Simon tells him they should rejoin the others. On the way, he can tell him the Hercules story….
Phoenix and Quicksilver attack the last two demons, a Professor X who possesses more mass than mind and an Invisible Woman who is translucent at best. She thinks they lucked out, Rachel remarks, sparring with the two lamest demons in the dimension. So it would appear, the speedster agrees.
Do they have any idea what being invisible does to one’s self-esteem? the demon protests. She then stops Quicksilver in mid-run with a translucent forcefield. Phoenix mentally makes Professor X believe he is attacking her while really he is taking out the Translucent Woman. Quicksilver thanks her by hitting the Prof.
They could have phoned in that battle, Rachel sighs, though she wonders what AT&T would charge for the destruction of a dimensional gateway? The Phoenix raptor flares up as she destroys the doorway.
From his castle, Doom sees the raptor and realizes that she is alive and that no doubt that goes for the rest of Excalibur as well. No matter, he decides. By the time they arrive here at the castle, he will have destroyed this dimension.
But he is curious, he turns around to address a dark demon held prisoner by one of Doom’s demons. How did he manage to lie to Doom? Unlike Belasco or the child named Magik – the previous rulers of Limbo – Doom’s will is supreme over every demon who dwells herein.
True, the prisoner replies. Even the demon lord named S’ym, who ruled the demonic hordes before Doom’s arrival hasn’t got the strength to oppose Doom. But he was not born of this dimension. Doom’s control over him ended several years ago, shortly before he became encased in the remains of the mortal coil Doom sees before him. Though his identity remains a mystery, he can tell Doom this much: He sees before him a man who shall rid the world of the horror that is Dr. Doom!
Then he suggests he do so quickly, Doom replies. In moments, he shall plunge the magical Soulsword into the very heart of this dimension. Every grain of sand – every living creature native to Otherplace - will revert to its natural state of Promethium. Ironic, isn’t it? The death of one dimension will herald the birth of a new era for another. For as sole possessor of the Promethium, it will only be a matter of time before he at last reigns supreme over all of Earth.
He dares turn his back on him? the demon exclaims. The heart Doom meant is literal. And just as the heroes storm the castle, the last thing they see is Doom plunging the Soulsword into said heart. They are too late!


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A Hatch is Plotted
It’s a dark and stormy night at the old pier, Brighton, England, where currently Gatecrasher’s Technet, a group of inter-dimensional mercenaries, are making their home.
Crazed laughter rings through the building accompanied by the shout It’s alive!
The members of the Technet stare critically at their leader, wondering if she’s finally lost it. Furious, Gatecrasher shouts at them that she heard that! They were all eager to join her Technet and share in the fat reward she negotiated when the Omniversal Majestrix Luna Opal Saturnyne commissioned them to capture Phoenix, she reminds her mutinous group. Thug angrily points out that Saturnyne exiled them to this mudhole. Only because they preformed so badly in their last encounter with Excalibur, Gatecrasher rejoins. But this time will be different… this time her genius will be recognized, she adds with a mad gleam in her eyes. She has a plan… and with her extensive skills in biogenetic nucleotronic splicing, she has created the ultimate super-secret mega-weapon. Excalibur doesn’t stand a chance, she announces and tells them to behold… an egg. They begin the operation at dawn.
The Excalibur lighthouse shortly after dawn:
The members are slouching tiredly and exhausted at the table while the indefatigable Meggan is preparing breakfast.  A radio new report mentions the reason for the exhaustion: the team helped the passengers of a derailed train. The news report mentions government spokesman Mr. Nigel Orpington-Smythe claiming that the fortunate lack of fatalities was entirely due to Excalibur’s involvement…
Impatient, Nightcrawler switches off the radio, asking why Orpington-Smythe doesn’t give any credit to the other hundred and fifty rescue workers. Holding his head, Captain Britain mumbles that the novelty of their powers makes them newsworthy. But the others’ lack of powers makes them all the more heroic! Kurt insists. Looking at his teammate, Brian asks why he is so angry. The man is obviously a leech, using the publicity around their activities to get himself noticed. Exactly, Kurt agrees, It makes him feel like a … a…
Boiled egg? Meggan asks. Kurt looks up in surprise, until he realizes Meggan was talking about breakfast. Does he want one or two? she asks. One, he replies and thanks her. Meggan asks Kitty and Rachel as well but the two tired girls don’t feel up to anything more than toast, preferably liquefied.
Suddenly, one egg flies out of the boiling water, screaming hothothot!! in pain. The egg bounces against several walls, objects, Captain Britain’s nose and finally lands on the breakfast table. He’ll just have toast, Brian remarks.
Before their eyes the eggshell cracks. twied tew cook my goose, eh? comes a voice from within and a very angry cartoon chicken with a clock on its forehead hatches. Menacingly, it announces that yew don’t get wid of Hawd-Boiled-Henwy that easily and tells them to prepare to meet their doom. It adds that it has been chosen by Gatecrasher.
As it talks, Kurt notices that the clock on its forehead is moving backwards in a countdown. Kurt shouts at Rachel to do something quickly. A moment later, there’s a very powerful explosion in the lighthouse.
Some distance away, Gatecrasher laughs madly in triumph. Her Kamikaze chick really outdid itself. Overdid, Thug protests. No way Excalibur survived the explosion. They were commissioned to capture Phoenix, not kill her. Gatecrasher’s smile disappears momentarily as she realizes what she has done, but then she decides that it’s no problem. They’re bounty hunters… ruthless bounty hunters. Dead or alive… it’s the same thing. Saturnyne is a cruel, vicious coldhearted cow. She’ll understand. Kill us all, she will, mutters Thug, clearly speaking for the rest of the group.
Gatecrasher orders Yap to teleport them in so they can finish any survivors. A moment later, she swears at him as he teleported them into the tiny kitchen. He apologizes and blames some intrinsic quality of the stonework which distorted his perception of the spatial dimensions.
Where are Excalibur? she asks. Atomized, Chinadoll suggests. Blown up through the roof, Thug pipes in. Ferro informs them that actually they are standing on them. And Yap informs Gatecrasher with a giggle that her plan worked. She has literally crushed Excalibur. Annoyed, Gatecrasher orders him not to call her “mother” and get them out of there, before she takes a deep breath and crushes him. Yes mother, he replies in a little voice and teleports both the Technet and the unconscious heroes outside the Lighhouse.
Gatecrasher orders Bodybag to wrap up Phoenix. He begins to envelop Rachel in a narcotic membrane. While the Technet already dream about their bounty, Kitty reveals that she was just playing possum. She kicks Bodybag and grabs Rachel. However, while she can stay intangible to be protected from most of the team, Scatterbrain doesn’t need to make physical contact with her to fry every synapse.
In the meantime, the other three members of Excalibur have begun stirring although they are still groggy. As Captain Britain tries to engage the Technet brawlers Ferro and Thug, he is targeted in turn by Joyboy, who can perceive the heart’s fondest wish and make it nightmarish reality. Fortunately, the process requires concentration, which he doesn’t have, as Nightcrawler kicks him away. He in turn gets into trouble, as Waxwork’s touch makes his body lose all rigidity. Meggan who wants to help is shrunk by Chinadoll.
Cap bravely battles on as he stumbles upon Numbers, who instantly states that he is non-combatant, seeing as how he is only the accountant. Well, he’s never met an accountant who didn’t expect a percentage of everything his client got, Cap quips and hits him. Oh, the burden of leadership, Gatecrasher moans as she grabs him and repeatedly hits him in the face.
Suddenly, Cap notices the pain has stopped, the beating has stopped, Gatecrasher and all the Technet members are suddenly frozen statues. Kitty asks if Rachel is responsible. Wasn’t her, the other girl replies helplessly. It was I, comes a voice as two men step out of a gate of light.
One looks like a quintessential old-fashioned British Office worker, while the smaller scruffy one is dressed in workclothes with several tools, a wife-beater shirt and a bandana that keeps on changing its message.
The taller man introduces himself as Horatio Cringebottom, from the ministry for crosstime transport regulation monitor and control, sanction implementation department authorized by Majestrix Opal Luna Saturnyne. His companion is Bert.
As Bert quickly builds up a device, Cringebottom continues that they are charged to prosecute a writ concerning numerous violations of interdimensional transit regulations. He placed the Technet in stasis to prevent any unpleasantness.
Nightcrawler takes charge, suggesting Cringebottom take the Technet away. Cringebottom interrupts. He isn’t there about the Technet, although Gatecrasher has caused his good self considerable irritation in the past, but their imperative is Widget. Bert grabs him.
Hold it, Kitty protests, but Cringebottom warns them. He would not relish putting them in stasis. Rachel protests that Saturnyne already reprogrammed Widget when they were on the Hub months ago. Coldly Cringebottom begins to reply that the entity has continued to disrupt the continuum. However, when he gets a good look at Rachel his tone changes. Bowing, he greets her as Lady Phoenix and informs her that he is honored to make her acquaintance. He meant to say the initial programming was insufficient.
Puzzled, Bert asks him to come take a peek. Rachel is equally puzzled, as she turns to her friends. Cringebottom treated her like royalty. What’s going on? Saturnyne employed Gatecrasher to capture her for some reason she doesn’t know. But when she succeeds this guy who also works for Saturnyne freezes the Technet and acts like she’s royalty.
Bureaucracy in action, Brian decides. The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing. Kurt disagrees, certain there’s more to it than that. Saturnyne saw through Rachel’s disguise when they met on the Hub, he points out. That’s crazy, Kitty protests. If she let Rachel go, why are the Technet still trying to capture her?
Cringebottom interrupts far more politely than before, asking them for some information regarding Widget’s origin, for his internal composition has Bert baffled. Floating in an energy field taken apart, it is easy to see that Widget’s entrails consist in effect of junk. Meggan shouts that they killed Widget. Bert explain that it’s safe in a nulltime suspension field. He continues to explain that the outer casing is composed of lowgrade chromed steel. Stress analysis suggests it was shaped by hand - no welding, pinning or joints.
That puzzled her for months, Kitty agrees. What held the plates together? Hot babe Bert’s shades flash as he explains to her that it was a fluctuating hyperwave pulse in an eccentric magnetic field. Oh right, Kitty replies nonplussed. Pointing at the junk, Bert explains that the casing contains a sludge of organic soup – primarily decomposing baked beans and an apple core - primitive transistor components, a rubber spider, a key… what could animate this conglomeration? Cringebottom wonders.
There is a highly active energy matrix, Bert replies, while his shades admit awesome, nothing he can quantify. It has no reliance on the arrangement of the components. Is it lifeforce? Cringebottom wonders. That’s a job for the metaphysics department, Bert replies- The only life he can categorize is the fungi and bacteria in the goop. Best bet is to implant a G/9543/CV#7 and put Widget back together.
Kitty protests. If Bert can’t understand how Widget works, how does he know that thing won’t harm him? While his shades express Yum Bert replies that it’s a passive nexus with a logistic integrity. In English, Kitty interrupts. Dumbing it down, Bert explains that she should consider radio stations. The air is filled with their transmissions but each broadcasts a different wavelength. To receive a particular station you match the wavelength of the receiver with that of the transmitter. A similar principle governs the multiverse. All of the alternate realties occupy the same physical space, but each resonates on a different vibrational plane. Moving from one plane to another is simply a matter of synchronizing an individual resonance with a particular plane. The device remains dormant unless it perceives crosstime flux, then it simply concentrates the entity’s resonance within this reality, preventing transit But in every other way Widget will be exactly the way he was.
Put back together again, Widget “eeps,” slightly traumatizes. Kitty’s concerned. Compassion, he likes that in his women, Bert states. Cringebottom orders him to come along and reminds him of the regulations forbidding fraternization with lower lifeforms. Later babe, Bert tells Kitty. Both she and Lockheed growl angrily.
Cringebottom apologizes to the team. Actually, their intervention was perfectly timed, Captain Britain remarks. They were taking a beating. And they are a bit puzzled by Gatecrasher’s attack. This may explain, Cringebottom replies, as he hands Cap a holographic matrix which he is to present to Gatecrasher when the stasis wears off in five minutes. They teleport away.
Cap orders the team members to get into position, but Nightcrawler has an even better idea. They rearrange the members of the Technet still in statis and when it wear off the bountyhunters use their powers against each other. The members of Excalibur laugh. Furious Gatecrasher snarls that nobody laughs at her and lives. Lighting up the Phoenix effect, Rachel suggests Gatecrasher give them a real laugh and try and take them while they are conscious.
Before the Technet can act Captain Britain hands Gatecrasher the matrix crystal Cringebottom left. The psychocom crystal is activated and an image of Saturnyne appears, haughtily informing Gatecrasher that the warrant concerning the Phoenix host is rescinded. Under the termination clause of their contract, the Technet have no entitlement to monetary compensation and the Technet’s exile to Earth 616 is extended indefinitely. The hologram interrupts Gatecrasher’s string of “buts” to order her not to be stupid enough to plead with this holographic recording.
The rest of the Technet is getting angry and Gatecrasher chooses the better part of valor, teleporting herself and Yap out.
Relieved, Kitty tells Rachel that this mystery is solved. Saturnyne has left her off the hook. Rachel is less sure. Why did Saturnyne first want her and then cancel the warrant? Kurt suggests they worry tomorrow. They will all think more clearly after a long sleep. Pointing to their ruin of a lighthouse, Brian stresses if they have anywhere to sleep.
The Technet member Numbers speaks up, suggesting a compromise. They can’t still want to fight, Rachel sighs. Cap threateningly remarks that he doesn’t trust that big one. Getting defensive, Numbers instantly pleads no pain please. Thug orders him to stand back. They want no trouble. They’re beat but they were wondering if Excalibur’d like them to repair the damaged tower in exchange for some food and shelter.
Cap shouts at them that they’re nuts. The Technet blew apart their home, tried to kill them, and now they are meant to adopt them? But they are homeless… destitute… Thug replies. Joyboy begins to cry, at once awakening Meggan’s pity. All the more reason not to have him around, Brian shouts at her. And anyway it’s not a baby, it’s a superpowered alien. That is why they must care for the Technet, Nightcrawler interrupts. Until they devise a more satisfactory solution. Who knows what mischief the Technet might create left to their own devices? They are unpredictable and potentially very dangerous. Rachel and Kitty agree and Brian gives in, though stubbornly insisting that he thinks it’s a big mistake.
Meggan gives Kurt a kiss on the cheek. Kurt laughs, telling her she will give her boyfriend the wrong idea. She carries Kurt ahead to the lighthouse, telling him not to be silly. Brian isn’t the jealous type. Both of them miss the furious glare Brian is giving the two of them.
Meanwhile, on a slightly different wavelength is Ee’rath, one of the chain of infinite alternate Earths that coil through the multiverse. Time flows more quickly here than on Earth 616, so this is an ancient world in the twilight of planetary life. But age does not bestow serenity, the eternal conflict between good and evil continues.
A floating hooded creature demands homage for Necrom of a group of people in a burned village. They protests. Why has he burned their homes? They have done no wrong. The hooded being orders them not to question their master’s desire. They are to follow him or die where they stand.
Suddenly, a voice from the shadows tells the druid that it’s not polite to threaten folk. The druid threatens to scorch the flesh from his bones. The newcomer throws a sword at him and says “Go ahead, Punk, make my day!” The sword hits him and the druid sinks down. “Th-th-that’s all folks” the newcomer, a tall warrior with catlike features and eyes, remarks.
Who is he that he can slay a druid, the fearful people asks. He lifts the druid’s cloak, revealing nothing underneath. Cold steel and a brave heart are all it takes. The druids are nothing but hot air, he explains. He is Kylun.
They thought him legend, the people say in awe. He is real, but he is one, Kylun replies. It will take an army to breach the tower that crosses time and defeat the tyrant Necrom. He asks them to join him. They have nothing left there. The people ask him to teach them to fight and lead them to freedom. Yes, victory will be theirs, Kylun promises, and Excalibur will pay for the devastation they unleashed on this world.


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Home Comforts or Who Exploded the Toilet?
Nightcrawler’s dream:
In his dream, Nightcrawler does his acrobatics in a gym and Meggan flies alongside him in perfectly synchronized movements. As she moves alongside him, her shape begins to change approximating his blue-furred look. Finally, sweating, they stare at each other and first hesitatingly, then passionately begin to kiss. Meggan, oh, Meggan, Kurt moans.
Reality:
Oh, Meggan? another voice asks threateningly, as a strong arm begins to choke Kurt. Brian Braddock, Meggan’s boyfriend with whom Kurt is currently sharing their makeshift quarters, is not amused. He knew Kurt was up to no good, he accuses him, always hanging around Meggan. Oh, so helpful and understanding – oozing Teutonic charm — well, Kurt never fooled him!
Kurt teleports out of Brian’s deadly grip and protests that he was asleep. Yes, and his dreams betrayed him, Brian accuses him. Rachel flies in, demanding to know what the devil is going on. That’s what he’s trying to find out, Brian shouts, while moving towards Kurt. Rachel telekinetically keeps the two men apart and orders Brian to calm down.
Calm?! he cries. He was calm when they invited the Technet into his lighthouse. He stayed calm through six days of incessant noise and chaos as those lunatic aliens repair the damage their bomb causes. He’s been calmness personified, sitting there – in the sanctuary of his improvised sleeping quarters, quietly trying to read his book. Then Mr. Night-Creeper started talking in his sleep. Calling out Meggan’s name. Its obvious what’s been going on, isn’t it?
Rachel gives Kurt a questioning glance and Brian too glares, silently demanding an answer. That moment, Meggan and Thug come flying in from above, transporting some heavy device, Unaware of what’s been going on, Meggan gives Brian a kiss, wishing him a good morning before flying on. Rachel now questioningly looks at a somewhat embarrassed Brian, who decides to go downstairs to read his book, hoping that somewhere in the lighthouse he can get some peace and quiet.
As if on cue, there’s a high drilling nose. He runs to the source: a stumped Thug tried in vain to drill a hole in one of the Lightower’s walls, but finds his adamantine drill melted. He’s going to end up deaf as well as crazy, Brian fears. He can’t take much more. He’s too tired… and angry. He could move out but this is his home. He can’ let them win.
Meggan asks him over to come and see, explaining that the Technet have built a null-grav-elevator- it runs up the center of the tower. A machine on the observation platform projects an anti gravity beam down… Brian interrupts her explanation, curtly telling her he is not interested. She might fit in with these moronic aliens, but he just wants to be left alone. He walks downward ignoring Meggan’s hurt look. He doesn’t get his wish though as Scatterbrain attaches herself to him despite his protests for her to go away.
One story lower, Kitty is running an unhappy Widget through a diagnostics program to evaluate how Bert’s tinkering has affected him. She turns to chide Ferro2. She told him he could watch, not touch things. Ferro makes a suggestion, meaning he alters things at the computer station at superspeed before Kitty can shout a warning that he’ll overload things. Widget eeps and the screens begin burning. Kitty rescues Windget and chides Ferro for being an idiot. It took days to set up the brand new hardware to replace the stuff the Technet’s bomb wrecked. They are a menace!
Brian smirks, starting that he doesn’t want to tell her he told her so. Then don’t! Kitty shoots back. She spoke in haste… She was tired, she amends. She still thinks they were right to take the Technet in. She’s going downward for a nap. What does he do now? Ferro asks helplessly. Brian cattily suggests he go ask Nightcrawler. He has all the answers.
Trying to shoo Scatterbrain away, he walks on further downward, where he sees Bodybag sneaking towards the curtained-off area where the girls are making their temporary sleeping quarters. He sees Bodybag attacking something and hears Kitty screaming. At once, Brian attacks trying to tear Boybag off… the remnants of Kitty’s teddy bear.
Oh no! Brian screams the next moment. Funny Kitty tells him sourly. He’s just acting concerned so she’ll say it was a mistake to let the Technet stay. Blazes to her silly toy, he replies. He dropped his book and lost his page!
Silly? Kitty exclaims. It was a gift from Alistaire… Ferro2 interrupts as he grabs the remains of the teddy and asks Kitty about the composition. He examines the label to ascertain that the material Bodybag ingested … he’s allergic to some manmade substances. N…y…l…o…n, he deciphers. Relieved, he states that, fortunately, it wasn’t synthesized long-chain molecules. They cause a particularly violent reaction. He swells up, froths at the mouth… Bodybag begins to do just that as Brian impatiently informs Ferro2 that Nylon is a polymer. Polymer? Ferro asks. Polymers are synthetic long chain molecules, you blithering morons! Brian shouts. That’ll teach him to mess with her teddy, Kitty remarks without any pity as the swelling up Bodybag runs into the bathroom which moments later explodes.
Feelin’ better? Ferro2 asks concerned. Bodybag gives an answer in an alien language. Y’didn’t, Ferro exclaims. Another reply. They did. What’s he saying? Kitty asks. Ferro translates that two entities materialized in the bathroom, transformed into energy and blasted through the window. It’s… it’s… now it’s Kitty’s turn to explode (metaphorically). It’s devastated! she shouts. They’re making stupid excuses when the only bathroom in seventeen miles is totally devastated!
Furiously, she reminds them that they promised to repair the bomb damage but they’ve added to it… her computers, her teddy, the toilet… They’ve exploded the toilet! Scatterbrain has left Brian to now latch onto Kitty’s violent emotions. They were crazy to take them in. Brian was right, Kitty continues. Brian, you were right, she tries to tell him. Brian? But he has already left walking into the cellar with his book and secretly gloating.
Downstairs, he wonders if he should get rid off the rubbish which is already beginning to smell. Tomorrow, he decides. He enters a room in the basement to finally get some quiet reading done. He switches the light on to see the surprised Numbers and the Dragon they freed from Nazi Excalibur during a tender moment. Brian makes a quick apology. Numbers tells him it’s unnecessary. He too sought solitude. Unexpected female encounter. Ravishing beauty. Overwhelmed self. Joy oh joy. The dragon giggles. Numbers asks Brian to extinguish illumination on exit.
Brian apologizes again, wondering if he’s going insane as he switches off the light and leaves, only to see that Scatterbrain has found him again. Why is she following him? he demands. Chinadoll turns up and advises him that shouting is wasted. Scatterbrain hasn’t the intelligence to understand. As she begins to go through the rubbish, she explains that Scatterbrain savors Brian’s anger. Radiated emotional energy is her food. She’d better find another food source, Brian states firmly. Unusual appetite, Chinadoll agrees, but each to own taste. She has found what she looked for. Maggot-infested rubbish and begins to slurp at it.
Totally disgusted, Brian flies upward, announcing that they have won. He’ll return to his London place. Chinadoll shouts after him to be cautious, that the Null-grav elevator is test-activated now. Brian’s own power of flight combined with the null-grav elevator cause him to lose control and smash right upwards into the null-grav projector. Rachel can barely contain the damage and Kurt smashes into Meggan.
Brian looks up, seeing woozily how Nightcrawler is holding Meggan’s face, asking if she is all right. Misinterpreting, Brian punches Kurt, shouting he’s gone too far this time! Kurt evades his next blow and uses a judo move to toss Brian to the ground, telling him there is no need for this. Brian punches him in the stomach, calling him a snake. Have it your way, Kurt decides, as he punches back.
Kitty joins the others, suggesting they break this up. Rachel decides that this has been brewing for a long time. It’s out in the open now. There has to be a resolution. Only Meggan can’t understand why they are fighting. Uncouth macho barbarism, remarks China Doll as the Technet too have come to watch the battle.
Scatterbrain wants to latch on to Cap again, but receives an elbow in the mouth. Chindoll remarks that the food didn’t agree with her and suggests a change of diet. Only Ferro and Thug are into it, making bets on whether Nightcrawler’s smarts and agility or Captain Britain’s brawn will win the day. Thug gleefully predicts that Cap will kill Nightcrawler when his punches finally connect. Crying, Meggan asks Rachel to stop them; they are hurting each other.
But even as Rachel begins to respond to Meggan’s impassioned plea, Brian lunges with a ferocious speed that belies his muscular bulk. Kurt flips onto the blond giant’s back, barely avoiding rockhard fists and, with a burst of flame and brimstone, teleports them outside to the base of the lighthouse, then leaps clear, leaving Brian to continue his headlong charge with undiminished momentum. Kurt jumps after him, but seeing truly red, Brian punches again, his blows finally connecting.
Meggan suddenly cries for them to stop it. Please, she asks in tears. They are scaring her. She doesn’t understand why they are doing this. They’re meant to be friends. Crying, she tells Brian that Rachel explained they are fighting over Meggan, but she’s not a thing! Nobody can own her. She gave her heart to Brian and she loves her friends… like a family. They made her feel safe. They are all so much cleverer than her. She thought they understood… her powers make her be something she isn’t like the people she is with or what they want her to be. She can’t control it. She doesn’t even know what she should really look like. She can’t remember her parents… her real family. They made her feel safe… Now it’s like she’s done something wrong. Confused, she flies off.
Brian wants to follow her, but Rachel snarls at him that he’s said and done enough. She examines Kurt and announces that his right femur is fractured about six inches above the knee. She asks Kitty who tells her she can cope. Rachel should fly after Meggan. Rachel does just that. Kitty gives Kurt and Brian a disgusted look. Men! she states coolly and then phases inside to get a medi-kit.
The two men are left alone. Does his leg hurt? Brian asks after a while. “Ja,” Nightcrawler replies curtly.
Brian begins to apologize. He’s always had a volatile temper, positively volcanic when he’s tired. No… it’s more than that. When he was independent he felt competent, effective, in control. But since Excalibur teamed up, he’s had occasion to doubt his abilities. At times, he felt he could do nothing right. His pride was dented and his confidence eroded. He started to resent that the girls looked to Kurt for leadership, especially Meggan. It seemed to be more than friendship and when Kurt called out her name in his sleep…
Brian assumed the worst, Kurt finishes his thought. He’s been an irrational fool, Brian berates himself. Not so, Kurt admits. His instincts were correct. He found himself attracted to Meggan from first they met. Who would not be? Grim reality fails to taint her innocent enthusiasm. That zest for life is intoxicating.
Is he in love with her? Brian asks agitated. No, and Meggan is true to Brian, Kurt states. But he dreams about her, Brian accuses him. Sometimes she transforms into the embodiment of all he desires, Kurt admits. Once he almost kissed her. Understanding that she is an empathic metamorph does not make the fantasy easier to resist. His dream is a penance… an acceptance of guilt and shame… he fears his weakness.
Ashamed, Brian admits that he’s been a fool. He doesn’t know what to say. There’s a flash of light and a voice addressing him as Captain Britain 616 orders him to say nothing for anything he does say may be held in evidence against him. He is guilty of breaking morality code # 9222765 paragraph 476w and is summoned for immediate Court-martial on Otherworld.
It’s a group of other Captains of the Captain Britain Corps. Before Brian can protest, they teleport away with him, leaving behind a very puzzled Nightcrawler.
Meanwhile on another plane of existence: a bizarre procession winds its way across the frozen wastelands of Ee’rath. Necrom’s druid acolytes and their armored retinue flank a mystical sphere. Shackled within the princess Sat’neen, sole survivor of a regal dynasty – last of the mighty sorceress sisterhood, now a mere sacrifice destined for Necrom’s bloody altar. But the tyrant’s appetite will not be appeased as Kylun’s band of rebels attacks.
Seeing his hordes fall the Druid tries to slay Sat’neen, but is impaled by Kylun’s sword. Happily, the reunited lovers kiss amidst cheer. Kylun informs his princess that the army grows daily. It is only a matter of time until she wins back the throne.
Her throne is of no importance, Sat’neen informs him. Time is of the essence now. Necrom plumbs new depths of insanity with a sorcerous coup that threatens all creation. They will defeat him, Kylun assures her. They’re the good guys. The good guys always win. She looks at him doubting and prays he is right… or the whole multiverse will perish.