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The Fantasy is Over
Otherword, inside the former Starlight Citadel, which now hangs suspended mid-air as a dark cloud surrounds it. 'Hail Arthur! Hail Merlyn!' come the cries from within the majestic building. Merlyn sits on his throne and tells his followers to be quiet. 'We do not have the Citadel. Not yet, not securely' he declares. The attendant called Ryl stands near Merlyn, who tells his followers that they are not his knights – he has no need of knights. 'You are Arthur's new brood after his own get, Mordred, failed him' he remarks, before reporting that their work has only begun. 'This tower must stand eternal so that Otherworld and reality can spin on. That is our duty, to run it better than that witch ever could'. Arthur can be seen standing with an assortment of Merlyn's followers – Furies, members of the Colony and the vampiric Sevalithi. Merlyn announces that Arthur's true home is Avalon, and that they must reclaim it. 'We do not rest – our battle is not through – until Arthur is king of Avalon once more!' He adds that if they let even one witchbreed live that one can plan their treacherous seeds and take root. 'Each and every witchbreed must walk back through their gate... or die!'
Elsewhere on Otherworld, at Castle Avalon, where Meggan a.k.a. Gloriana looks out one of the castle windows at Merlyn's army, approaching in the distance. 'Mother? I'm not worried about Merlyn's army' her daughter utters as Meggan holds her in her arms. 'Maggie...' Meggan's voice trails off. Maggie points out that even if the army breaches the castle defenses, they can only pursue them as far as Krakoa. 'That's right' Meggan agrees, before informing Maggie that she wants her to go through the gate to Krakoa soon, where it is safe. 'You'll be coming with me, mother. A total tactical retreat isn't entirely out of the question' the young girl remarks. 'Mmm. We'll see, love' Meggan replies, non-commital. Maggie then asks if Uncle Jamie is staying, and when Aunt Betsy will be returning.
'Maggie – I don't know. I hope soon, my angel' Meggan replies as she places her daughter on the ground. 'Mother? I don't want to go anywhere without you' Maggie remarks. But Meggan explains that sometimes little children don't get to make those choices. 'Mama?' Maggie calls out, as there is a loud WHOOSHH sound. 'I hear her!' Meggan exclaims, before she picks Maggie up and rushes to where Betsy Braddock a.k.a. Captain Britain and Opal Luna Saturnyne have suddenly re-appeared through a sudden surge of water that washes up inside the castle. 'Captain Britain! She's back!' Jubilee exclaims as she, Meggan, Brian Braddock a.k.a. Captain Avalon and Remy LeBeau a.k.a. Gambit rush to greet Betsy. 'Merlyn's on his way! We can see him over the ramparts!' Brian warns Betsy.
They are soon joined by Julio Richter a.k.a. Rictor, Shatterstar and Bei the Bloood Moon, as Brian informs his twin sister that the diplomatic ring and much of the  inner part of the province have been conquered, and that outside the castle grounds, they do not have a lot left to defend. Jubilee tells Brian to let Betsy breathe, before she asks her friend if she is okay. Betsy tells her teammates, family and allies that she is terribly sorry to worry them, and explains that Saturnyne was able to bring them back from Merlyn's magical trap. 'That's apparently a little trick she can do, where she drops through reality like that. How convenient to only discover this now' Betsy remarks, before reporting that Saturnyne has a story about it for them. 'Tell them. Tell them how you've damned us all' Betsy frowns at Saturnyne. Looking pleased with herself, Saturnyne smirks and runs a hand through her hair as she announces that it starts with Brian.
Flashback – before the Age of Incursions – the Fall of the Captain Britain Corps:
All reality was exploding from incursions, and Otherworld was breaking all around Saturnyne. So many things have been made and re-formed since then – but at this time, it felt so final. Saturnyne gave Brian the magic of the Citadel and sent him away to survive – just like Betsy's Starlight Sword – Captain Britain's true power has always been the magic of the Citadel. Saturnyne had a plan, of course. Ambitious women like her don't get to where they are by going down with the ship. As Furies slaughtered members of the Captain Britain Corps, Brian was safe – and so Saturnyne didn't have to stay. Her army was dying, for her, and gladly, but they were dying. However, they had captured one of the enemy forces, a single-handed destroyer of worlds – a cartographer of the apocalypse. A mapmaker. Stil, the Citadel didn't have long to stand – so Saturnyne did what any smart woman would do, and grabbed the most valuable thing in the house – the Fury.
The mapmakers travel this way, from one torn reality to another. Saturnyne escaped by tearing the smallest hole in reality, and letting the Fury fall through. It is a  clever getaway if you need it, but a dangerous one – there is no way of knowing where you will land. In the void of space, that injured Mapmaker barely held on. It can be so hard maintaining one's sense of self – it can erode away so easily and destroy you. Saturnyne had a better time of this than the Fury did, as she has always known who she is. She tried to protect them both as they fell, but there was only so much she can do for another creature. Careening from one incursion to the next, they landed in the place that became a home for broken realities – Blightspoke. By then, the Mapmaker had come apart, and the last remaining piece of him was in Saturnyne's hands – a small glowing globe. Just Saturnyne, and a fragment of the most inherently destructive force in all of the Multiverse.
Shortly, Merlyn and Roma found Saturnyne, and manifested before her. That's the thing about Merlyn – he can't ever leave you alone. Merlyn knows he is planning your demise so he assumes that you are doing the same – and of course, Saturnyne was. Roma was the Omniversal Majestrix at this time, but she was merely her father's puppet, and she knew he would only ever see her as his daughter – she'd never really be in charge as long as he was around. Saturnyne and Roma came to a mutual understanding, both being ambitious women. If Roman brought Merlyn to Saturnyne, she would use what power she had to ensure he never bothered both of them. And so, with the Mapmaker's power, she burned the sky – striking Merlyn when he least expected it.
Roma and Merlyn understood they would be reborn – such is the cycle of things for figures of legend like them. But, by then, Saturnyne would have her power, her Citadel. She would have Roma and Merlyn's provinces prepared for them – Roma's beautiful and Merlyn's terrible. And, the last of the Mapmaker, would remain hidden in Blightspoke, itself a terrible, broken place – even then.
Present:
'Where it remains today...for Merlyn or anyone to wield it' Betsy points out. 'No wonder Otherworld has fallen so fast' she adds. Saturnyne reclines on some steps and tells Betsy that, eventually, the Vescora will mine their way to it. She claims that she had planned to have Betsy  put a stop to it at some point. 'Oops, I don't know what will happen when the Mapmaker resurfaces. I suppose we might not be around to see anyhow' Saturnyne remarks. Betsy supposes that by then, Merlyn will be the one to decide, before she declares that Saturnyne is so insanely self-centered that she had to have that secret all to herself. 'Brian never understood this, but I thought you might – all a girl wants is to feel needed' Saturnyne responds. 'Speak for yourself' Betsy snaps, before she touches her head as she receives a telepathic communication. Betsy then goes wide-eyed as she announces that she is needed elsewhere.
On Earth, Braddock Isle, where dark clouds hang over this extension of Krakoa. Military choppers flit around Excalibur's Lighthouse, which is covered in tree bark, as a green energy glows atop it. 'Mutants of Krakoa. Anything emitting from this lighthouse will be considered an act of war. You are advised to see diplomatic contact with the British government...before other action must be taken!' someone calls out from one of the choppers. On the ground around the Lighthouse, cloaked members of the Coven Akkaba are gathered, including Ambassador Reuben Brousseau. Several visitors from Krakoa have arrived, too – Emma Frost, wearing white trousers and a matching white trenchcoat, Charles Xavier, Rachel Summers a.k.a. Prestige, accompanied by her Warwolf pup, Amazing Baby, and MI:6 operative, Pete Wisdom. Four recently resurrected psychic mutants – Albedo, Ghost, Rubedo and Xanth – all former members of STRIKE, stand near Wisdom.
Hands on hips, Emma tells Rachel that she would love to wait for Captain Britain to resolve this somehow, but that once more, she has abandoned the real world for the fantasy. Prestige tells Emma that she doesn't know. 'If this is happening here, just imagine what's happening inside Otherworld. Must be nuts' Prestige points suggests, before asking Emma to give Betsy time. Xavier folds his arms and states that they don't have much, and that they won't close the gate to Otherworld without everyone safely on this side. He acknowledges that the sooner Captain Britain arrives, the sooner things simmer down here. Emma declares that the gate is a danger, and reminds her companions that mutants who die in Otherworld cannot be safely sent through the resurrection protocols. 'Rictor's earthen tantrum separating the Isle didn't make things any easier. And now this' she adds.
Emma decides that between the danger the gate presents to Krakoans who may die in Otherworld, the arguments over Braddock Isle, and the constant fearmongering about something coming from Otherworld to harm them, it is time for them to come down. 'To what end?' Prestige asks. Xavier explains that they hope that removing the Krakoan gates to Otherworld will bring peace between their nation and the United Kingdom before things come to all-out war. He acknowledges that this complicates things for Excalibur, but states that it must be done. Wisdom approaches Charles and offers to take STRIKE in past the borders right now and have this dealt with quietly. 'I don't want to concede a step of my home to these people. Forgive me if I feel thirsty for revenge' Wisdom adds. Charles tells Wisdom that he and his team are Krakoan citizens, and are welcome to operate there, but that they cannot foster continual strikes against any country, even if they are not allies – as that runs dangerously close to terrorism. Xavier looks up at the Lighthouse and notes that it seems to be emitting something, and remarks that the UK ambassador, with his particular magical sensibilities, has managed to convince international bodies that it is quite dangerous. He points out that they don't know enough about it to refute that.
Suddenly, 'I do' Captain Britain announces as she, Gambit, Meggan, Rictor and Jubilee step through the Krakoan gate from Otherworld. 'And if you close that gate, you're conceding to them' Captain Britain frowns. She explains that this Lighthouse is no danger to Coven Akkaba and England, and that it is merely reflecting the Starlight Citadel's fall to Merlyn. 'The realm where all realities meet as one is in his control. We cannot leave now. With enough people willing to come through, we could raise an army of our own to rout them -' Captain Britain starts to suggest, before Emma interrupts her, telling her to stop, and that they need her assistance here, in the real world. 'Don't' Betsy tells her. Xavier steps forward and explains to Betsy that they had hoped for her assistance with diplomacy in this realm. 'Don't reduce this to that. As if it's some fantasy' Betsy replies. Rachel asks Betsy if she can bring Saturnyne here, hide her out on Krakoa and strategize for a return strike. 'I know a hundred people bummed they didn't get to grab a sword and go in last time -' she begins, to which Betsy replies 'To Krakoa? Have you met the woman? She won't go to parties she doesn't host'.
Betsy and Rachel walk away from the others, as Betsy tells her friend that she needs the rest of them to get to safety, while she does in and defends Saturnyne herself. 'Don't rush off – you're acting like it's no big deal, like you don't have anything here you're responsible for' Rachel points out, while Amazing Baby looks up at them. 'I don't. I'm Captain Britain. Banned from Britain' Betsy responds. Rachel smiles at her: 'You're Captain Britain, Bets. For real. For good. That's bigger than their politics, and it kills them that they can't do anything about it' she points out. 'God help me. It feels better than it would if they loved me' Betsy tells Rachel. 'Yeah, that's my Bets' Rachel remarks as she touches Betsy's face. Betsy explains that she was a sullen girl, because nothing ever felt like her decision – then for a long time, nothing really was. 'Now I even have a sword to swear to whomever I choose. I've never felt so much like my hands were my own' she remarks. 'They are. You live or die for you, Betsy. Not for her. Now, you get out of here before I go give Saturnyne a piece of my mind' Rachel tells Betsy as she kisses her cheek. The choppers continue to circle the Lighthouse, while Rachel asks Betsy to hurry back. 'I don't care if you think you're needed. You're wanted'.
Back on Otherworld, at Castle Avalon, where Brian and his older brother, Jamie a.k.a. Monarch stand on a slope outside the castle. Monarch's army stand ready behind them, while Gambit, Bei the Blood Moon and several members of the Captain Britain Corps can be seen further down the slope. Jubilee's son, Shogo, in his dragon form, hovers above them. Brian tells Jamie that he has never wanted him to just go nuts, and asks if it is possible he could simply wrap Arthur's entire army up and make them disappear. 'I can... oh, but I oughtn't. It's naughty' Jamie responds. 'You have never cared -' Brian begins, before Betsy and Saturnyne arrive on horses. 'He's got to care now. Between Shogo's fire, the Mapmaker and my own little dip through reality, things are a bit structurally unsound' Saturnyne explains. 'No more reality warping. The whole place seems fit to cave in' Betsy frowns. 'Oh dear. Well, if anyone wants to leave... now might be the time' Jamie replies as he looks down towards the approaching army.
Nearby, Rictor sits on a fence, while Shatterstar is practising with his sword, nearby. Ric asks Shatterstar how crazy they let this thing get before they bail. 'Bail? Julio...while the peace of Krakoa is a pleasant respite, I find myself missing the swing of the steel...' Shatterstar responds. Rictor tells Shatterstar that he didn't want to bring it up, as he was worried he would think he was being risky with his life. 'But I want to fight for this place. I want to stay as long as we can' Rictor assures Shatterstar. Rictor hangs his head as he adds that he thinks he has to stop a dark wizard from taking their fantasy castle – and he would rather do that with Shatterstar. 'I would love nothing more than to bring my swords to slay a wicked sorcerer alongside you, Julio' Shatterstar replies, before he goes over, grabs Rictor by his cloak  and pulls him in to kiss him. There is a rumbling, and the lovers break away from each other, as Rictor asks if something is happening out there.
'Excalibur! For our future! For Krakoa! For all realities!' Captain Britain cries out as she leads the heroes forward as Arthur's army descends upon them. Captain Britain raises the Starlight Sword overhead as she charges into battle on her horse, with Saturnyne behind her. Jubilee fires plasma energy at a soldier, while Gambit sends several kinetically-charged playing cards into the enemy army. Bei the Blood Moon strikes one of the enemy soldiers with her weapon, while Meggan flies above the army, elemental energies glowing around her. Captain Avalon holds his sword strong as he leaps into the fray, while Monarch finds himself amongst the battle, too. Rictor joins as he rides the earth, and Shatterstar leaps from the platform of earth Rictor stands on, two swords in hand.
'I don't know if this is very safe, having me stay with you like this, but I love the front-row seat to the action' Saturnyne remarks to Captain Britain. 'At this point, I simply don't trust you anywhere that's out of my sight' Captain Britain explains. Suddenly, 'Captain Britain!' Arthur shouts as he rides his horse towards Betsy. Betsy acknowledges Arthur, who claims that he has a thousand Hothive drones over the next hill, and that when night falls, a thousand Sevalithi assassins will be ready. 'Your army cannot match mine, even with your magics. Even your wizards are limited in their power. Merlyn knows the fabric of reality here is as a fragile as leaf!' Arthur exclaims. The two armies separate as Arthur and Captain Britain talk. Arthur climbs down off his large horse and offers to spare children and anyone else who leaves his castle now. 'But I will not spare you. I will not let you run if you try. And I promise no kindness from my soldiers'
'Was I not clear? I will not duel you on your terms. If you want mutant blood today – you can try like everyone else!' Betsy exclaims as she gets off of her horse, and opens her arms, while Shatterstar, Rictor, Monarch, Bei, Meggan, Captain Avalon, Jubilee and Gambit gather around her. Arthur lunges forward: 'I am a warrior king, not some tourney knight! I do not need a duel to crack your skull open, mutant!' Arthur boasts, while Betsy raises the Starlight Sword to defend herself. Shogo can be seen flying towards the castle, while Betsy telepathically tells her allies to fall back. 'We need to get them closer together and choke them at the castle entrance!' she explains. Jubilee is on Shogo the dragon as they approach the gateway within Castle Avalon. Jubilee tells Shogo that it isn't safe for him here anymore, and that they are going to Krakoa. 'Thanks for not crying a bunch about it' she tells him.
At the former Starlight Citadel, Ryl stands behind Merlyn, holding a scroll, her wrists are shackled. 'Sorceresses. Arthur's army has pushed them back to Castle Camelot and their wretched gate!' Merlyn calls out.
At another location, 'Finally, we remove that foul weed from my scrying pool' Morgan Le Fay calls out as she stands surrounded by candles, energy glowing from her hands. High Priestess of Coven Akkaba, Marianna Stern, is nearby, and she contacts Ambassador Brousseau, informing him that they are nearly ready.
On Braddock Isle, 'Excellent, Marianna. Britain will not have to go to war on our home plane...' Brousseau responds.
Back at Avalon, 'Choke the bridge with their dead if we must!' Bei the Blood Moon cries out as the heroes battle on the drawbridge which leads to the castle. 'Good energy, Mrs Bei' Captain Britain tells her, before instructing Brian and Meggan to get Maggie and everyone through the gate. 'I'll be the last one through so I can fight with the Corps!' Captain Britain exclaims as Captain Avalon, Meggan, Rictor, Shatterstar and Gambit keep the enemy forces at bay. Betsy then telepathically contacts the Corps, asking them if they are ready. 'Captain of Captains, we fight with you!' come the unified telepathic response. 'They claim tactics and run like cowards! Press on, my knights! That castle was once called Camelot and it was mine!' Arthur shouts as his massive steed rises up on its hind legs. The Captain Britain Corps members suddenly arrive and join the battle against Arthur's army. 'For the Citadel!' one of them calls out. 'Defend the Krakoans! They can return with reinforcements!' another exclaims as they engage the soldiers.
Captain Avalon tells his mutant companions to fall back and retreat to Krakoa. 'The Captain Britain Corps can follow us through the gate – but Merlyn's forces can't! We'll be safe there!' Meggan calls out as she runs along the drawbridge with Rictor. The Captain Britain Corps are on the bridge now, and Betsy stands behind them. 'Hold the line!' she calls out. 'Betsy...don't you dare' Brian tells his sister. 'Brian...' Betsy begins, turning to look at him. 'Stop. I don't need to be a mind reader to see what you thinking' Brian remarks. He tells his sister that they are only leaving because she is, that they have to get the children to safety. 'Don't stay. Don't do that to us' he asks her. 'Of course not, brother. Let's get to safety' Betsy replies, before ordering the doors to be barred behind them.
Suddenly, Ambassador Brousseau, Merlyn, High Priestess Marianna Stern and Morgan Le Fay are all connected with magical energies. 'They're within. They're going to their gate' Brousseau calls out. 'Now' Merlyn utters. 'Now?' Marianna asks. 'Yesssss' Morgan utters.

And, suddenly, raging energy crackles in the skies above the Lighthouse and Castle Avalon – then comes down on both sacred structures with full force destroying the Krakoan gateways within them.
On Braddock Isle, Xavier, Emma, Rachel, Wisdom and the STRIKE team all look on in shock at the horrifying events unfold. 'Oh my god! The lighthouse – the gate!' Emma exclaims. 'Betsy?' Rachel calls out. 'EXCALIBUR!' Xavier shouts. 'I hear them in the rubble!' Rachel declares as she, Emma and Xavier rush over to the ruins of the Lighthouse. Xavier reports that, thankfully, Excalibur are alive. 'Hopefully uninjured' he adds, as they begin to search for them. Glowing petals fall from the ruins, as Xavier, Emma, Rachel and Wisdom set their sights on Excalibur. Monarch looks around, dazed and confused, while Bei puts her hands on Jubilee's arms as she consoles her crying baby. Brian embraces Meggan and Maggie, while Shatterstar holds Rictor, who has collapsed to his knees. Gambit is worried as he cries out 'Where my cats? Where my cats at?' as he searches the rubble.
Suddenly, Gambit hears a meow, and looks over, to see Betsy kneeling with her Starlight Sword in the ground, and Gambit's cats sitting next to her. Betsy? Whatchu doin' over there!' Gambit calls out. Betsy announces that she thought Arthur might try that – lure them into the castle and destroy the gates to try and kill them. 'It's a good plan' she admits. 'Bets...' Rachel calls out, while Betsy explains that she wasn't sure she was ready though, so she thought to hold it open with her sword – it is a piece of the Citadel, so it is pretty strong. Betsy tells her friends that they all need to rest and recover, and to get a ride to the nearest gate and go home. 'And when you can – send me those reinforcements. I will need them!' Betsy calls out, keeping Brian and Rachel back with a surge of telekinetic energy. 'No!' Rachel exclaims. 'Dammit, Betsy!' Brian calls out. Betsy surrounds herself with psychic energy and raises her sword overhead, announcing that the Corps are fighting for the unconquered Citadel and Lady Saturnyne, who stayed within. 'And that's what this blade is made of. All the power of the Citadel – and it's all that's left untouched by Merlyn. I was given it... to lead the Captain Britain Corps' Betsy utters as she vanishes.
'Betsy!' Meggan exclaims. 'Captain! No!' Rachel calls out. Wisdom and STRIKE gather nearby as everyone converges on the shrinking energy bubble. Gambit picks up one of his cats, while Rictor and Shatterstar hug. Brian drops to his knees, holding Meggan and Maggie. '...Betsy has always been one of our bravest -' Xavier begins, before Rachel interrupts him: 'Don't' she snaps. Tears fall down Rachel's face as she exclaims 'Don't talk about her like she's already dead. That woman has walked into a dozen realms unafraid. That woman once led the X-Men. She's in there doing what she's always done. She's fighting for a world that hates and fears her'.
And, at Castle Avalon Betsy re-emerges on the drawbridge, sword held high, she rushes towards Arthur's army as they shout 'Death to Captain Britain! Death to all mutants!'


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Exiled – part 1: Of Gods and X-Men!
flashback:
It is a well-known story. Long before Odin Bor ruled the Nine Realms with an iron fist. He had thirteen shield-maidens, the Disir. One day while hunting, Bor chanced upon a cave. Inside, he discovered the Disir feasting from the open chest of fallen warriors. Horrified, he cursed them and cast them out. For their unnatural lusts, they would suffer perpetual hunger for all flesh. However, they would be prohibited from consuming anything but the spirits of fallen Aesir. And barred from Asgard and Hel alike, they would go perpetually unsated.
And they dwelt in the dark corners of the realms. The story goes that there were no survivors of that bloody feast. For the greater part of eternity, the Disir lived as a gory myth to be unnamed, lest you call them to you.
One day, Loki had need of souleaters. He prepared bait to bring the Disir to him and, with a blade forged in the fire of hell, he beat obedience into them. They swore magic oaths. Before they were freed, their possession passed from Loki to Mephisto. Not even saving the world saved them.
For, in the time of oathslaves, they had the misfortune to die in hell. Which meant they are perpetually Mephisto’s. They are now tortured, ever hungry, the running dogs of the devil. If such damned creatures could pray, they would pray for deliverance. They would pray that there was an older magic with stronger claims on them that could snatch them away. Alas, such a thing doesn’t seem terribly likely…
1129 Mission Street, San Francisco:
A young man muses about the meaning of the pattern of leaves blown on the kitchen floor. Last night he heard thunder but it was only thunder. Still it makes him wary. He steals a look at the woman sleeping in his bed, already figuring how to break it off with her. She left a toothbrush in the bathroom, so she has to go, she was getting too territorial. Nobody gets that close to him.
Another night and he wonders about the six young people who have moved in across the street a fortnight ago. He’s been watching them closely. They don’t seem quite… mortal. Is this the night finally closing? He needs proof. He seems to get it when what a familiar looking black-haired female knocks on the neighbors’ door to give away a puppy. “Tell me that’s not &§%/ Hela, the man swears. He decides to keep watching the house, hoping it’s not as bad as it looks.
And so, a few days later in the New Mutants’ new home during breakfast…
The mutants discuss potential jobs or in Roberto’s case why he would need one. Dani explains that, if they want to live in the normal world and lead by example, they have to do normal sometimes. Does she have to say that every day? Also did she just hear barking? Absolutely not! Warlock assures her and quickly leaves the kitchen.
Dani wonders why he is being weird. How can she tell specifically? Roberto asks. Dani asks if anyone heard from the mechanic about fixing their car. They should have never bought that piece of junk, Roberto complains. They need transport, she reminds him. They have Blackbirds, he shoots back. Civilian transport to go and do shopping, she insists. They have no money to shop with, so it’s moot, he replies.
Amara tells them she’s checking out a waitress job tomorrow. As she leaves, Roberto whispers that she’s probably gonna slip out to see her new boyfriend, the devil. Dani tells him to leave it alone. She went on one date with Mephisto a week ago to clear their debt with him. It was brave of her. She’s not about to enter into a long term relationship with the prince of darkness.
Roberto seems less convinced. He points to the window where their neighbor is watching them with a pair of binoculars gain. Warlock noticed it first. He watches them all the time. Perv, Dani mutters and announces she’s gonna run across the street…
Elsewhere in the house, Warlock whispers to the Hel-puppy which he is feeding to behave or his friends will notice him…
Soon Dani knocks at the neighbor’s apartment’s door and introduces herself. Introducing himself as Zig, the man sees more than just a young woman. He can perceive Dani’s Valkyrie nature. However, he pretends he saw nothing and shakes her hand. He’s busted, right? he asks her. Just give him one moment. He disappears back into the apartment and runs into his living room, swearing under his breath that she’s a Valkyrie. That was $%&§ Hela he saw! They’ve found him! He presses a button and a secret compartment is revealed displaying an ancient warrior uniform. This is it, then, Zig decides and takes up the helmet.
Mephisto’s hell, where he has just decided on the latest punishments (preferring the classics like screaming eternally in torment). He turns to his Disir prisoners. No need to torture the damned anymore for today, he announces. Work‘s over. Alas for them, his work is also his hobby. Now who is the unlucky lucky Disir who is going to be dismembered today? Brun? Hlökk? Kara? Or a sister whose name he hasn’t yet bothered to learn?
Gondul pleads with him not to take her. Another sister, Brun, orders her not to be so pathetic. Mephisto agrees. He isn’t in the mood for that. He’s in the mood for “proud.” What does Brun say to that?
But Brun perceives something else. This is it, Zig repeats elsewhere as he dons the helmet… The final portion, Brun announces as her eyes and those of her sisters begin to glow. She orders them to come and they disappear leaving behind a bewildered Mephisto.
Earthly Asgardia, Oklahoma:
Watching a wargame between Thor and the Warriors Three Ikol (Loki’s familiar as well as what’s left of Loki’s previous incarnation) asks Loki what he makes of Thor’s return. It’s good isn’t it? the boy replies. Oh Loki, Ikol sighs. The boy tells him to hush.
Suddenly, an image of Mephisto appears, telling him the Disir have disappeared and ordering to him to round them up. Why precisely is that his problem? Loki asks with a grin. Mephisto reminds him of their previous dealing and their contracts. Loki’s signature next to his alone would damn him. Now chop-chop, he orders and disappears in a burst of smoke.
So, soon, Loki informs his partner Leah that the bloody-mouthed ones have disappeared. Then he tells Thor that they must stop their inevitable bloody-mouthed rampage. Leah tells her mistress Hela and Thor informs the Warriors Three and Sif.
Hela asks her consort, the wargod Tyr how they can find them. Tyr suggests they let his Hel-puppy search for them.
Similarly in Asgardia, Loki suggests that his hel-pup can sniff them out. However while Tyr’s dog obeys, Loki’s foul-tempered pup Thori instead bites his master’s arm.  “Down, Thori!” Loki shouts. Helping to wrestle the dog away, Thor asks if Loki named the dog after him. No, it was another Thor, Loki snaps. One who had the good grace not to die and abandon him among these barbarians! Vikings, not barbarians, Hogun corrects him mildly. Are they Vikings or merely Viking gods? Fandral wonders.
Again Loki orders Thori to fetch – villains” Instead, the dog growls “murder.” Fandral suggests the dog has already found a villain. Ikol suddenly suggests he has an idea where Bor’s fallen handmaidens might be.
In San Francisco, Dani has grown suspicious and enters Zig’s den. A moment later, much to her horror, the Disir teleport in. As they attack, Dani tries to dodge and calls the team on her comm-set. Luckily, moments later they arrive, asking who those villains are.
Cue for Hela and Tyr to teleport in. Hela announces the Disir are the greatest enemies of the dead and this is about revenge of the oldest and bloodiest sort. Is this more Asgardian stuff? Sunspot complains and asks Dani when she’s going to quit being a Valkyrie. She’s going to say, not right now, Dani ventures.
That moment, Thor, Loki, Sif and the Warriors Three (as well as Ikol and Thori) arrive as well. Silence! Thor booms.
Zig finally shows up again, dressed in his armor, as Sigurd the ever glorious. The Asgardians are awe-struck, identifying Sigurd as the greatest legend, the Blade of Bor. They didn’t know he was still alive. Or, as Sunspot summarizes: their creepy neighbor is a god.
The Disir get ready to attack Sigurd, wishing what they call the “final portion.” Taking out a scroll, Sigurd admits he wasn’t expecting other Asgardians, just the shieldmaidens. He’s sure it will turn out okay, though. It usually does. He pronounces the ancient runes on the scroll. The spell envelops them and when the light dies down, only the New Mutants are left, wondering if the gods vanished or were killed…
Meanwhile, in a house nearby, Helen, a woman with a strangely distorted face, orders her precocious foster son Luke to go to bed. He asks her to let him finish the chapter. The story will still be there in the morning, Helen tells him. It’s not a story, it’s a game, he corrects her. Nevertheless, he is ordered to sleep. Story or game, it’ll all be there in the morning…


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Down the Rabbit Hole
In a desert-like place, that can only be described as nowhere and nowhen, a hole opens in the sky and Blink falls through. She wonders where she is and meets Nocturne, who arrived there in a similar way. Blibk notes how much she ressembles Nightcrawler, which Nocturne easily explains as being his daughter Talia Josephine. Both girls wonder why they haven’t heard about each other, Clarice did not know that Kurt had a daughterand Talia states that she knows the X-Men’s history very well, but never learned about a member named Blink. Morph arrives through another hole in the sky and Blink is happy to see her old friend. Immediatly she starts to hug him and asks about the fate of the other X-Men, but Morph has no idea what Blink is talking about. The three start to fill each other in, what they were doing a few moments ago; Morph and his team were fighting a villain named Stonehenge as he was plucked away, and Nocturne was in bed. Thunderbird, the next arrival, too was in bed, before falling through a glowing hole. Nocturne believes him to be James Proudstar, but Thunderbird denies as he is John. Both are confused as in Thunderbird opinion James died long ago, while Talia believes John to be the dead Proudstar brother, additionally the Changeling was no X-Man according to her history lessons too. Again a hole opens and Mimic emerges, he is as lost as everyone else. Magnus, the last arrival, points out that even though he has no idea what’s going on, he is sure that they are supposed to head for the kitchen, a short distance away. Instantly the whole group is teleported by another glowing hole to the room without walls, where a butler offers them some coffee. Of course the teram demands answers, and he starts to tell them that he is not an enemy and that all what’s been happening here is real. He continues to explain that the six heroes are in serious trouble, and after they all sat down he reveals that each of the six stems from another alternate reality, so this explains why they might remembers the others though in completly different ways. To properly introduce the team, he calls up their individual histories on a video screen :
- Nocturne, aka Talia Josephine “T.J.“ Wagner, is the daughter of Nightcrawler, one of her world’s greatest X-Men. She inherited much of his bravado and abilities and was rasied at Xavier’s school. She quickly moved up the ranks to become a full X-Man on her own, and is one of the veteran members of a new team of X-Men under Wolverine’s leadership, since Xavier‘s retirement.
- Thunderbird, John Proudstar, was recruited by Professor Xavier for hissecond generation of X-Men. He was later captured by Apocalypse and transformed into one of his servants. Not before long Proudstar broke free thanks to his indminable spirit and rage and returned to the X-Men.
- Magnus is the son of Magneto and Rogue, he inheraited his father’s ability to control magnetism and already at an early age it became vlear that he had greater control and higher powerlevels than Magneto himself. At adolescence he manifested a second ability similar to Rogue’s power, flesh to flesh contact tranforms his victims into pure steel. Since then Magnus has grown into a very distant, withdrawn person.
- The humorous Morph was very succesful in his timeline. He quickly moved up the ranks of the New Mutants, became an X-Men and even joined the Avengers. Recenbtly he returned to the X-Men with an altered line-up.
- Mimic started out with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, but Xavier reached out to the young man like nobody before and Calvin Rankin joined his School for Gifted Youngsters. He learned much there and as a grown man, he leads the X-Men and is recognized as one of the worlds greatest champions. Mutantkind are very much accepted in that reality.
- Blink, Clarice Ferguson, was born in the alternate timeline called Age of Apocalypse. She was ripped from her home as a child and grew up in pens to await genetic experimentation and alteration. One day Sabretooth rescued her and took her in to live with the X-Men. For many years Blink and the X-Men opposed Apocalypse’s views, and finally the egytian mutant was defeated as the whole timeline came undone for a better world to take it’s place. In this instant Blink fell through the cracks of reality.
The butler, calling himself a Time Broker, gives the team a lecture about the structure of time itself. Time is like a living being, it has shape, it has motion and it has growth. It is like a massive chain of DNA, and all along that chain are strands that make up the unlimited number of various realities. In these different scenarios the life energies of every individual are used differently, they can be of the opposite sex, animals or mere energy signatures. The problem is that along the time DNA there are bad strands, defective genes. In most cases they don’t effect the overall body, or only result in minor changes, however some cause “hiccups“, that cause breaks in time that will change many alterante scenarios in a domino effect. This ripple in time has caused the Exiles to be plucked away from their universes and their histories have been dramatically altered :
- Magnus killed his mother Rogue shortly after his thirteenth birthday with his steel touch. His father Magneto never recovered from the loss and ressumed his fight against humanity.
- During his first mission with the Brotherhood, Mimic tried to kidnap Senator Kelly. However the plan went wrong and Kelly and 47 innocent bystanders were killed. Mimic now sits on death row.
- Morph, while still with the New Mutants was injured in a fight with the Morlocks. His physical composition was disrupted and ever since he is in liquid state in Hank McCoy’s labs.
- Nocturne’s father was killed in battle with the Hellfire Club. Nightcrawler‘s murderer is nobody else than his own mother Mystique.
- Thunderbird never reclaimed his free will and remained Apocalypse’s loyal servant.
- Blink was never born.
The Time Broker explains that the Exiles are given the opportunity to change their times back. For that they have to repair the breaks in the chain timelines that caused the ripple. Although these breaks have happened in alternate realities that at fits glance have nothing to do with the Exiles‘ homes, they were responsible for the teams current condition. They have to travel around from one reality to the next to realign the “fallen dominos“ to get their old lives back. If they are successful the Exiles will return to the exact moment when they left, but the members could also be injured, die or simply fail, meaning they would return to their altered homes; except Blink, if she fails, she simply ceases to be. To guide them on their mission the Time Broker hands Clarice a device called Tallus. It will help guide them to what they are supposed to do and in conjuction with her teleportation ability allow them to jump to the various alternate realities. Right after revealing that both the desert land and the Time Broker himself are not real, but constructed out of the Exiles’s consciousnesses, he fades out, while the team jumps to their first mission.
The Exiles land in a desert 33 miles from Phoenix. Blink, who is the only one to “hear“ the Tallus, says that the device said that they are supposed to find “the one who would lead us“. The team wonders what that is supposed to mean, but still they first need some clothes. Late at night the brak into a the Meltzer-Flam shopping mall near Phoenix, Nocturne and Thunderbird find themselves something decent to wear in a leather shop, while the others poke around in the internet to learn more about this reality, that seems to have no equivalent of the X-Men, the Avengers, nor any other super beings. The Tallus reports that in this world the organisation Zero Tolerance captured all superbeings, who have either been jailed, executed or aborted for the last fifty years. It then pepeats the task to finf the one who would lead, adding “Find your greatest teacher.“ The Exiles are sure that this would refer to Professor Xavier, although Blink never met a version of him, she decides to agree. Magnus creates a cerebro apparatus out of thin air, and both Mimic, possessing siome residue energies from Jean Grey, and Nocturne, born with limited telepathy, operate it to locate this reality’s Xavier. The device overpowers and explodes but they have pinpointed the professor to as holding facility in Nevada.
The team teleports into the prison and while Mimic, Thunderbird, Nocturne and Morph create a diversion by fighting the guards, Blink and Magnus free Xavier from his cell, were he was shackled and probed with wiring in his head. After Blink teleports all of them back into the desert, Magnus pulls out carefully the wires of Xavier’s head. Slowly the telepath wakes up and the Exiles try to introduce themselves, but the telepath already knows about them as he can mentally probe them. Without warning he renders the whole team unconscious with a psibolt and walks away. He can not accept such a stupid cause like the coexistence of mutant and humans, he can only accept mutantkinds superiority, and is determined to exterminate all humans.


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Sins of the Father
After rendering the Exiles unconscious last issue, Xavier walked into Phoenix and gave way to his stored anger. From the news the Exiles learn that within a five mile radius everyone was rendered comatose and possibly brain dead. Overall a quarter million people were affected. The team makes their way to a hotel where they deal with their hurting heads in their individual ways. Morph sleeps, Thunderbird meditates and like Blink, Mimic recovers very fast thanks to an absorbed healing factor.
The pair talks about the situation and Mimic is again reminded of his own world’s Xavier, yet Blink tells him that he should stop comparing them or thinking about the people they will meet as their friends and relatives.
Meanwhile Xavier breaks into the Mountridge facility, 100 miles off the coast from New York city. He simply walks in, mindblasts all the guards and gains their access codes to open the holding cell of his stepbrother Cain Marko, the Juggernaut.
Somewhat later, the Exiles have thought about the equipment needed to imprison all superbeings and came up with a likely suspect – Forge. One Cerebro assembly later, they are able to track him down and indeed he betrayed mutantkind by working together with this world’s government. The Exiles question him and after facing Thunderbird, Forge willingly fills the team in on everything they want to know, and even designs some dampeners and weapons for them, so that they can fight Xavier. As for the “One who would lead“, Forge can only think of Magneto, who peacefully tried to band together mutants before he was captured. Magnus is very surprised about the important role of his father‘s counterpart.
Xavier and Juggernaut have freed more superpowered people. Together with the Human Torch, Spiderwoman, Chamber and Domino the brothers attack New York’s Stock Exchange intending to disrupt world’s economy. At first everything goes according to plan, but then Mimic, Morph and Thunderbird show up, shielded from Xavier’s telepathy by Forge‘s technology. Even though they are outnumbered the trio holds their ground and Morph even fires a special weapon that entangles Xavier in power inhibiting cables.
The other half of the Exiles are at another prison facalty near Tahiti, where according to Forge, Magneto is held. At first glance the prison looks deserted, but Magnus‘  deep scannings reveal that although the guards evacuated, the prisoners are still inside and an automatic selfdestruct has been triggered to blow with an atomic bomb. Immediatly Blink and Nocturne make plans to get everyone out and contact the other Exiles, but Magnus has already decided the best course of action. He encases his teammates in a metallic bubble and asks them to not tell Magneto his real identity, before transporting Clarice and T.J. to a safe distance.
In New York the fight goes on, the Exiles defeat the villains one by one, but Domino frees Xavier of the metallic cables. In the end it’s him against the three Exiles, but apparently his telepathy is stronger than Forge‘s shieldings. It comes down to Mimic against Xavier, and the professor mocks Calvin for still wanting to see some of his surrogate father figure from his timeline in his opponent. Mimic can’t stand this violation of Xavier’s dream to gon on and pops his Wolverine-claws through Xavier’s head.
Magnus reaches with his powers into the Tahiti prison, locates every single inmate and too engulfs them in metalllic bubles that bring them to the nearby beach. With everyone clear he examines the bomb, but as it is made of plastic components there is no way that he can deal with it. He then creates one last bubble around the prison complex and himself to contain the whole nuclear blast. From afar Blink and Nocturne helplessly watch the bomb go off, but thankfully nothing of the atomic fallout penetrates the metallic shield.
Sometime later Mimic’s team joins them at Tahiti and they talk with Magneto who was among the rescued prisoners. He finds it strange that the man who died to save them was named Magnus like himself, and asks if there is a relation, but Blink respecting her teammate’s wish lies about him having only been a great admirer of an otherworldy Magneto who also happened to have been a great teacher. Magneto decides to follow this example and will try to unite the released superbeings. As the Exiles wonder what will happen next, a new arrival pops out of thin air. She introduces herself as Mariko Yashida, aka Sunfire, and explains that she was sent by the Timebroker as their newest member. Having corrected this world’s error (even though at the cost of 250.000 lives), the team is automatically transported to their next task.
The Exiles find themselves on a space ship in a giant hall. Below they see the X-Men who have just been transported aboard the Shi’Ar battlecruiser. Some among the team recognize the scenario - they have arrived at the Trial of Phoenix !


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Old wounds, New battles - part 1
The Exiles find themselves on the cargo deck of the Shi’Ar  flagship. All but Blink recognise the events in the main hall below as the Trial of Phoenix. Mimic wonders if they have traveled back in time, something which the Timebroker did not mention in their mission description, but the Tallus states that they are still within the same year as they were in the other world; apparently this is a slower moving timeline. After the first shock of witnessing the historic event in person, Mimic alerts Blink to teleport them away; he fears that Wolverine’s keen senses might recognize them; surely the counterparts of some teammembers are known to him.
The team emerges in the ship’s alien garden center and they fins some strong smelling plants to cover their scents. Clarice learns from the Tallus what their mission in this world will be. Half of the Shi’Ar Imperial Guard were recently killed when a star went supernova, and the X-Men will win the duel over the fate of Phoenix, who will not need to sacrifice her life. Yet the Exiles have to make sure that she dies. The team is shocked to hear this, but then they try to cool down by stating, that it does not matter that much, it isn’t the real Jean, only the Phoenix Force posing as her, so they aren’t as emotionally attached. Sadly Blink objects. According to the Tallus this is the real Jean Grey they are talking about, actually that is what went wrong in this reality; here Jean was not replaced by it – she became the Phoenix Force. Mimic really is upset, he refuses to believe this revelation as it contradicts the events of his jhomeworld. Thunderbird and Morph are somewhat more reasonable, the shapshifter suggests to fill the X-Men in on their dilemma, while Proudstar wants to know what happens if Jean survives. The Tallus feeds Blink with the information that then Jean will evolve into a dark demigod that destroys the entire milky way. Nocturne cries out that she won’t help to kill the woman who helped to raise her on the say-so of tsome strange device and the rest of the team agree. Suddenly red energy erupts from the Tallus and enters the eyes of the Exiles minds. It shows them images of Jean transforming into Dark Phoenix, killing the X-men and destroying earth within the next nine days. Now they understand that it has to be done, there is no other choice – Jean Grey has to die.
Disguised in case off run-ins with the X-Men the Exiles present themselves to Lilandra, claiming to be warriors from a distant part of space. The Shi’Ar Empress gratefully accepts and the Exiles receive private quarters to rest and prepare for the duel with the X-Men. While Proudstar prefers to admire the beauty of the alien nature in the ship‘s garden, Morph spends some time with the newest member Sunfire. Mariko explains that the ripples in time altered her reality to such degree that instead of flame her powers manifested as uncontrollable atomic radiation.
The remaining three discuss the situation. Nocturne asks if Mimic already fought this battle on his own world, but Calvin mentions to have been a members of the Defenders at that time. Talia then says that she needs some time for herself, but before she leaves Mimic reminds her to not sneak around to get a look at father Nightcrawler’s counterpart. Blink tries to comfort Calvin, she can only imagine it has to bve for them to do be forced into this situation. Mimic states that she will have to lead the team. At first Clarice turns him down, since he was the X-men’s leader in his world and would better qualify for the job, but his reasons are better. Both this and the scenario in their last mission showed how emotionally attached they all are, only Blink‘s reality seems so different that she has not as many problems, and of course she is the only one to “hear“ the Tallus. Clarice is not sure about it, but agrees to sleep on it, and leaves for her quarters.
Only a few seconds later the door opens again and Wolverine greets Mimic. Apparently he mistakes him for his own world’s Mimic and wonders why Rankin is here and bothered to mask his scent with the alien nectar. However he did his job too well, and Logan wanted to know who so obviously was trying to mask his presence. Mimic knows that Wolverine will not be satisfied before knowing the reason for his presence and also that he would never allow Jean to be killed, so his only option is surprise attack and fight. During the battle he displyas the powers of Cyclops, Colossus and Wolverine'’ claws, but as they are made of steely bone, Logan has no problems to cut them short.
At the same time, Morph and Mariko continue their conversation while entering a hot bathing tub. They wonder which Horsemen of Apocalypse Thunderbird was in his timeline. Mariko is amazed how easily Morph is able to deal with their strange situation, but of course he makes a joke out of it, explaining that he is already in this caper for two days longer than her. He goes on to reveal that the Mariko he knew was Wolverine’s girlfriend, which kind of surprises her, though she can’t help but find him attractive.
At the battleside Logan and Mimic are still at it. Calvin notes how much they are alike. Both love foreign culture, both have excellent singing voices that they keep quiet about, both love beer and both secretly love the same woman – Jean Grey. Now Mimic is forced to fight a man he considers more than a friend to kill the woman of both their dreams. Outside Nocturne and Thunderbird hear the sound of battle and quickly rush to aid, but as they enter Mimic‘s room, he has already rendered Wolverine unconscious.


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Old wounds, New battles - part 2
Wolverine has been taken to a sickbay. Although he starts to heal, he is barely conscious and can not tell much about his attackers. Xavier and Nightcrawler calm him that the team will battle for Phoenix’s life. They leave the room and the professor shows some concern, since he had troubles reading Logan’s thoughts. They are fragmented and impossible to decipher.
After they have left, Nocturne phases out of Logan’s body and returns to the Exiles‘ quarters, where in conversation with Blink she sums up her powers. Nocturne can stay inside other’s bodies for a lunar cycle (ca. 12 hours), leaving her victims comatose for nearly 24 hours, also she can release small burst of energy from the dimension that Nightcrawler teleports through. T.J. dubbed this power hexbolts, after her mother, the Scarlet Witch. Mimic is recovering fast from his battle against Logan, and the team once more discusses strategies for their imminent battle against the X-Men.
The next day, the combabtants are beamed down to the Blue Area of the Moon. Among the Exiles are the remaining Imperial Guard members Oracle, Manta and Hussar, and the two battle observers from the Kree and the Skrull Empire. Thunderbird at first knocks out the two observers not wanting them to disturb their mission. Then the teams split up and the Exiles can predict the X-Men’s actions with knowledge about how events happened in their own timelines.
Blink, Morph, Sunfire, Manta and Oracle intercept the first half of the X-Men, namely Cyclops, Phoenix, Angel and the Beast. They attack the X-Men by surprise and Beast is rendered unconscious.
Mimic, Thunderbird, Nocturne and Hussar ambush the rest of the X-men : Storm, Colossus and Nightcrawler. Originally (in UXM #137) Nightcrawler and Beast were reversed, it seems that Wolverine’s absence changed the way the X-Men split into teams. Mimic offers to battle Nightcrawler, but Nocturne decides that this will be her task. She predicts correct that Kurt will teleport various times with his attacker to stun her, but T.J. is used to her father’s power and takes him out with one of her hex-bolts instead. Meanwhile Hussar uses her whip on Storm whilst Thunderbird and Mimic together defeat Colossus.
Sensing her teammates defeated one by one, Phoenix despairs and transforms into Dark Phoenix, killing Cyclops in the process. With her lover gone, Jean completely succumbs to the dark side. The Exiles helplessly watch as Storm tries to reason with her former friend only to get blasted out of the sky. Mimic gets airborne and starts to fight Dark Phoenix by copying her own powers. As his body mimics her energies, his wings dematerialize. Yet he does not seem to be a match for Dark Phoenix, as he can only reach half her power level, she even makes fun of him, accessing his memories and fantasies of being in love with Jean Grey.
Below, Morph and Thunderbird watch, unable to do anything. Suddenly Wolverine arrives and threatens to pop his claws into Morph’s head, demanding to know what’s going on. Sunfire arrives and takes off her mask. Seeing Mariko, Logan listens as the team explains that they are from alternate realities and that their purpose is to correct time – which in this case means killing Phoenix. The Angel comes around and Logan asks him to lift him into the air, while the Exiles keep Phoenix busy. Still she is too powerful and tosses the team around. She realizes that Angel and Logan are flying towards her, but in the last instant, Blink throws one of her teleportation arrows and Logan and Warren arrive behind Phoenix with the claws stabbing her in the back. It’s enough to kill Phoenix, who upon dying releases all her energy killing Logan and Warren in the backlash.
Having accomplished their mission, though at the death of most of the X-Men, the Tallus powers up and teleports the Exiles to their next mission.


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Up North and in the Green - part 1
The Exiles materialize in another reality in Northern Canada. Having no idea what they are supposed to do, Blink questions the Tallus, but it satys quiet. Sunfire uses her microwaves to deal with the cold. Blink decides that she herself, Morph and Mariko will scout the terrain, Mimic wants to go to, thinking that they will cover more ground if they are four, but he forgot that he no longer has Angel’s wings. (lst issue) Blink suggests that he simply mimics her teleportation or Sunfire, but he refuses. Having and ability and properly using it are two different things, so he prefers to absorb only familiar abilities. Morph asks if he simply can’t keep the Phoenix power (absorbed last issue) or re-grow the wings, and Calvin once more explains how his mimicing works : He can only maintain five powers at once, he has half the strength of the original bearer of that power, and he needs an hour of close contact to keep the ability for the long term.
Suddenly Calvin feels sick and starts to vomit without apparent reason. The team is unsure is this is a side-effect of him losing an absorbed power, as they suddenly feel vibrations in the ground. It’s the Hulk, who jumps right into their midst. The team is shocked to see the green goliath looming angrily over them, only Blink has no idea who this guy is, as she never met the Hulk in her native reality. She thinks about teleporting him away, but Nocturne says that this will only anger him more; yet when the Hulk announce to “Smash“, the Exiles have no choice but to fight.
Sunfire tries her flame, but the Hulk throws some dirt on her, taking her out, Nocturne’s hex bolts show no effect and Morph is thrown a few miles after an unsuccessful attempt to strangle the Hulk. Blink sees no other choice but to throw a teleportation dart, but the Hulk doesn’t vanish, despite being hit. Yet he is in pain and vows to hurt the „purple girl“, when the Mimic, though still sick, uses his optic blast, to give Clarice some time. Thunderbird comes around and now battles the Hulk, till he is punched through a few trees and the Hulk jumps away, wanting to be left alone.
The Exiles are relieved to see him go, and all of a sudden they are met by this reality’s version of Alpfha Flight led by Wolverine. The teams introduce each other, and surprisingly Alpha Flight has no problems accepting the concept of alternate realities. Thunderbird spots a familiar face, the Shaman of the canadian team is himself – John Proudstar. The meeting is observed by an unseen group of at least three members.
Alpha Flight have invited the Exiles to their headquarters and provide them with new clothes. Mimic is examined by scientist Dr. Heather Hudson, who diagnoses that he was sick because of having absorbed some gamma rays from the approaching Hulk, yet with having absorbed Wolverine some time ago, Mimic can easily deal with the radiation pouisoning, now that the Hulk is out of range. To back it up Mimic pops his bone claws, and Wolverine is surprised, he didn’t know about the bone claws – so far he thought his were metal implants. Esewhere Thunderbird talks with his counterpart, who explains that after an encounter between the Wendigo and X-Men and Alpha Flight, the original Shaman senses Proudstar’s inner troubles and trained him till John was fit to take over as Shaman and Michael Twoyoungmen retired. Thunderbird envies his other self for being so at ease and balanced.
Somewhat later, Wolverine holds a briefing in front of the assembled Flight programm and the Exiles. He explains „Project : Goliath“, which is the mission name for bringing  in the Hulk. He has entered Canada about three months ago, caused mass destruction and many deaths, and finally he needs to be dealt with. Blink feels the Tallus appear on her arm and it finally states what the Exiles‘ mission is this time. Later alone with the Mimic in their quarters, she says that all of the canadian herioes will go missing or die in the coming battle, and they have to prevent this. Calvin wonders aboput Bruce Banner, whose mind must be somewhere inside the Hulk, but Blink asks him to stop comparing every person they fight with the versions he is familiar with. Mimic agrees, and says that this is actually why he put Clarice in charge, yet Blink says that she took command of the group herself and didn’t need to be put in charge. She then kisses him.
In the woods, the Hulk is alone gazing at the moon. He then falls asleep.
Elsewhere Deadpool, Garrison Kane and Sabretooth, calling themselves Weapon X, discuss the situation. They plan to observe the battle and let Alpha Flight and the Exiles weaken the Hulk - before taking the opportunity to recruit him and any surviving Alphans into the ranks of their group.


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Up North and in the Green - part 2
Nocturne and Morph are on monitor duty and quite bored. For two weeks now the Hulk has not been spotted, and Morph wants some fun, but Talia reminds him that Alpha Flight will die if they won’t help them stop the Hulk. Morph goes on that he could think of better places to hang around than Canada, as suddenly Wolverine is standing behind him. Morph tries to make up by shifting into a mountie, but Logan is not intrested, his keen ears picked up Nocturne’s statement, and he demands an explanation.
Elsewhere in the complex, Mimic refuses to accept that he can’t help in the battle, since his own powers work against him when it comes to the Hulk. He can’t help but to absorb the gamma radiation and be poisoned by it, but he thinks that a protective suit might help. Still Blink does not allow him aboard, to proove her point she asks Box to demonstrate how a foe with increased strength can rip the suit apart.
Thunderbird and Shaman, both John Proudstar, are in the mountains, enjoying the view. Thunderbird thinks Shaman has taken him there to give him some spiritual enlightment, but he‘s wrong; Alpha Flight’s Proudstar only wants to tal and offers him a sandwich. They eat, but Thunderbird has to admit that he has no longer a sense of taste since his transformation by Apocalypse. On the other hand his sense of smell has been increased. Shaman is intrested in what else Apocalypse has altered, and learns that the red and black markings on Thunderbirds body aren’t tatoos or cstume parts, but retractable plates that harden when he goes into battle mood. Shaman asks to see himwithout the plates, and Thunderbird retracts all of them, to revealed lots of burned flesh, scars and implanted technology.
Suddenly the Hulk shows up behind them, asking who did this to Proudstar. Thunderbird replies that it was a monsterm, who turned him into a monster too. The Hulk wonders why he is often called a monster, as he doesn’t feel like one, and Shaman assures him to be right, and offers to help him, all that the Hulk would need to do is follow them. Nearby Sabretooth and Deadpool spy on them and are unsatisfied with this turn of events. They need them to battle each other, so Deadpool shoots Hulk in the head. The Hulk, believing to have been set up, then starts a fight. Shaman tries to calm him, but it’s too late and Thunderbird and the Hulk starts to hit each other.
At Alpha Flight’s headquarter James and Heather Hudson are quite angry with Wolverine, as he has sent Beta and Gamma Flight to australia. To his defense Logan says that if a mission is that dangerous as the Exiles explained, then only the professionals should be around. He in turn is angry with Blink’s team, as they should have told them earlier, but Heather Hudson understands their motives for keeping Alpha Flight’s possible fate secret. They have to maintain a certain balance and can’t risk to tamper too much with a timeline. Also she wonders on the possibility that Logan sending away the younger teams would cause Alpha Flight’s death as they are now not powerful enough to handle the Hulk. Right into their discussion, one of the Alpha Flight members comes in and tells that Shaman alerted them of the Hulk’s whereabouts.
Hulk and Thunderbird are still going at each other, both getting madder as the fight goes on. Shaman is shocked to see Thunderbird’s plates hardening and altering his body into a fightining machine, full of spikes and thorns. He wonders if there is anything human left in the former Horseman War, and remembers the day when he discovered his mutant power when he defeated a bear single handed. How his father was both prous and ashamed of him, and he wonders if the Exiles‘ Proudstar had discovered his mutant power the same day. Finally Thunderbird manages to do the impossible and the Hulk is defeated and unconscious, but still enragedhe tirns towards Shaman, ready to strike. Shaman doesn’t back down and tries his best to revert his other version that deep inside he still is a man. Rememberining their mother, Thunderbird reveerts back to his usual version and thanks Shaman.
Sabretooth, Deadpool and kane are about to attack and claim the Hulk, as Blink and her team teleport in. Seeing her, Sabretooth is shocked, it’s his Clarice ! And she has a Tallus too.
Later the Hulk has been secured in a holding tank in Alpha Flight’s research facility, Thunderbird thanks Proudstar, he is really happy that they met and Shaman thinks the same. The Tallus says that the team has twelve more hours before they are called to the next timeline, and so they enjoy themselves in a nightclub. Mimic spends quite some time with Northstar, who at first thinks that Calvin is romantically intrested in him, but actually Mimic wants to copy his flight power to make up for the loss of Angel’s wings (#4).
Meanwhile Victor Creed is brooding in his thoughts. He can’t understand that both he and Blink were save from the Age of Apocalypse, why they can’t be together, and why there are two teams equipped with a Tallus. Weapon X are teleported away.


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A Chance To Dream ...
A hotel manager is somewhat amazed as a beautiful young woman asks him for six rooms, yet she has a credit card and can pay. He hands her the key cards for the rooms and much to the anger of his female colleague, he keeps staring on the woman’s butt as she leaves the lobby. After making sure that “she“ is alone, the woman reverts to Morph. He signals the rest of his team and Blink teleports them into the hotel. Morph gives each of them a key card and they all head to their rooms to get some sleep.
Thunderbird lies on his bed asleep. In his dream he looks human again, like before he was modified by Apocalypse. John Proudstar runs through the woods and then dives off a cliff. Coming out of the water he finds himself in front of a supermarket. John starts to buy groceries and eats an apple. Later he sits on a bench in a park and watches children playing while licking an ice cream.
Mariko experiences an unpleasant dream. She sees herself as a child, dressed in a school uniform, sitting in her class. Her parents are standing behind her with very strict faces. They are still standing behind her when Mariko plays piano, or when she does her homework. Suddenly her flame power manifests, and she burns away her clothes to reveal a bikini. She takes to the air and flies to the United States, where people cheer at her. Later she is having fun in a night club, but her parents are standing behind her again. As Mariko becomes aware of them she stops dancing and her head sinks ashamed.
In Mimic‘s dream, he comes home from work. Two kids greet him, both have pointed ears, purple skin and facial tattoos. Clarice is there too, dressed like a housewife, and she has prepared his dinner. They are quite a happy family, and Blink and Mimic start to kiss. Calvin wakes up, shocked by his dream.
Morph dreams about himself being a star. He has his own show, and fans demand his autograph. He gets invited to TV talk shows and even wins an oscar. Suddenly he is naked and alone. Morph screams as he loses coherence and starts to melt.
In Nocturne’s dream, she is visited by her lover James Proudstar. He undresses her and then kisses and caresses her. All of a sudden, Nocturne hesitates. It’s no longer James, but her teammate John in his Thunderbird look, who is in her dream. She then starts to smile and they continue to make love with each other.
Blink too has a nightmare. She is back in the Age of Apocalypse again, still a child and hunted by Sinister. She jumps off a cliff, but lands in debris and rubble, where she is approached by drained and aged versions of the other Exiles. Blink pitties them, as suddenly Sinister arrives and starts a fight. He kills all of the Exiles and then grabs Blink, and shouts at her while shaking her. Blink wakes up, it takes her a moment to realize that it was just a dream. Then she starts to cry and needing comfort she teleports into Mimic’s room. He wakes up and seeing her tears he starts to hug her.


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A World Apart - part 1
(flashbacks to the last months)
The team has been visiting many alternate realities trying to correct some things that went wrong and ultimately to get home. Somewhere along the way they have adopted Exiles as their teammname. They found a reality where the Savage Land spans two continets, another where Tony Stark was president of the United States before he was assasinated, a world where Gamma Radiation mutated the entire population, yet another reality inhabited by Antilope Men. In other occasions they had to encounter a demon version of Spiderman and they also met the X-Babies. Sometimes the Tallus gave them some time off, like once when they only had to thwart a bank robbery, they spent a week on a tropic island afterwards. Over time the team got closer, and Calvin and Clarice are now fully in love with each other.
(present)
Nocturne is fighting in an arena, her opponnent is Marrow. She easily defeats her, and a crowd of Skrulls cheers, We learn that Nocturne has been fighting in this arena for over a month. At first she tried to go easy on her competitors, but there was no way to avoid harming them ín order to survive, and the weeks of battle have hardened Talia. As she is led back to the cell block, she passes the cell of the Mimic, who like her too is a prisoner and also has won all his matches in the arena so far.
The earth that the Exiles have visited has been conquered by the Skrulls a century ago. Originally it was used as an outpost during a war with the Kree, but when the war was over the Skrulls had come to like earth‘s climate and so the opressor’s stayed. Humanity adapted , developing a culture without technology, and living as the unseen underclass. The only interaction with the Skrulls being servants, red light districts and, with the coming of more and more mutants, the games. Colossus and the Thing are seen fighting each other. Inside the prison, Nocturne, Mimic, Sunfire and Thunderbird all sit and wait for their next matches, hoping that they will get rescued soon.
Outside, a Skrull soldier is leading a prisoner towards the building – it’s Blink. Other soldiers ask, who the captive is and how she could have avoided detection for many years, as she is fully grown and must have manifested her powers years ago. The Skrulls use their sensor to run a scan and find nothing special about her, yet there is a second mutant signature : Morph. He has been posing a as Skrull and together they tried to gain entrance to the prison. Now exposed they fight the two guards and then Blink teleports them away into a forest. Clarice is very angry, they needed two weeks to even figure out how to get past the city’s boundray sensors, and they are back where they started. Their friends are counting on them, but how can they free their teammates. Unaware the two Exiles are being watched.
In the arena, Thunderbird is forced to battle Strong Guy, but John doesn’t want to fight. From his cell Mimic encourages him to hit his opponent back, or else Thunderbird will receive no food rations. Finally Prooudstar gives in and ends the fight with one single blow that knocks Strong Guy into a wall. As the Mimic is led to his next match he passes Sunfire’s cell. Mariko tells him that she met Nocturne in the cleanup, and she fears that Talia will not stand their situation for much longer.
In the woods, Blink and Morph are approached by Sam Wilson who offers to help them. The couple are amazed, as they have been begging for help since they arrived, but everybody was too afraid of the Skrulls. Wilson says he has the proper connections and asks the two Exiles to follow him.
From aboard a scout vessel in outer space, two Skrulls watch the arena games on screen. They see Sunfire defeating Avalanche and eagerly anticipate to see her pitted against the Storm-Torch. Suddenly the ship is attacked by a meteor shower, that didn’t register on their sensors. As they recognize their assailant, it’s already too late to radio a warning, as the craft is destroyed. Galactus and his herald Terrax are approaching earth.
Wilson leads Blink and Morph into a secret underground cavern, while telling them that the man they are about to meet is an inventor. Years ago, he and his partners stole a skrullship and tried to escape but they ran into trouble. The ship crashed,one of the crew died, the others were changed by the incident. The others were captured and have to battle in the arena, however the inventor managed to escape and set up a secret lab – it’s Reed Richards.


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A World Apart - part 3
Galactus has arrived. On a viewscreen earth’s superbeings watch in awe as he starts to assemble his machinery that he will use to consume their planet. Although they have honed their abilities for years while fighting each other in the Skrulls’ arena, they are much more inclined to follow orders than lead; the Exiles will have to take the initiative.
Morph and some of earth’s greatest minds explore the abandoned Skrull headquarter. Whenever they reach an area sealed off with encryption codes, Quicksilver uses his speed to try out every possible combination. Yet one door still doesn’t open, so the Banner-Beast breaks the door, despite the danger of it being booby-trapped. The room is the weapons arsenal. While the weapons are distributed, Morph, Sunfire and Mimic discuss. They know that the Skrull weapons won’t be enough to stop the World Devourer, or actually the Skrulls wouldn’t have run away. Mimic is happy that they have a Reed Richards among the heroes; even though he is not as advanced as in most other realities, he is already exploring the weapons and their possibilities and making fast progress. The Banner-Beast comes over with a device held in a forcefield cube, asking if this is what Morph was looking for. Morph confirms it and is relieved, this device might be capable of bringing Galactus down.
Blink tells the Exiles about the plan. They have multiple options, and they will try out each of them. If all fails Galactus wins. Reed will stay behind in the command central while the Exiles join earth’s heroes on the field. Thunderbird interrupts, he thinks that Nocturne should stay behind as well. Talia tells him to be quiet, she is fine, and actually the best pilot of the team, so she is needed. Blink wants to know what the matter is and Thunderbird reveals that Nocturne is pregnant, with him being the father. At first Talia was not sure, but during the month the Exiles were held captive in the arena, it became obvious. The team is startled, but Nocturne says that she is up to fighting, and as the pilot she won’t get into direct battle anyway. Thunderbird is still against it, but Mimic points out that if Galactus suceeds the entire planet will die. Nocturne and Thunderbird hug each other. Mariko says that it’s all unfair, such a moment should be a happy one.
Somewhat later the attacks start. At first a series of missiles are fired, but they can’t penetrate the force field around Galactus and his machinery. Nocturne’s ship leaves airspace, and special Skrull technology shifts into place. From command cental Morph makes the floating technology fire a tight beam of energy, but again Glactus and his machine are untouched. Blink and Mimic are observing him from the hills. Suddenly they get aware of the Captain and a group of heroes. They found a hole below the forcefield and snuck in, attempting to battle Galactus, yet they are no match. Annoyed by them trying to damage his machine, Galactus kills the entire group with one look, much to the horror of the observers in the command central. Next up is a attack of Harvey (Mole-Man) and his subterran creatures. It took them long hours, but they brought a giant bomb underneath Galactus’ spot. As Harvey causes it to explode, the ground beneath Galactus and his machine gives in and fall into a crater. With the forcefield down, and Galactus climbing out of the crater, Blink gives the order to attack. Led by the Exiles, earth’s hero close in.
The Thing, Colossus and the Banner-Beast combine their strength, while Sunfire, Johnny Storm and Ororo Munroe attack from the air. Usually Galactus ‘ herald would deal with such attacks, but the master prooves that he can deal with it too, and the heroes are sent flying. Havok, Cyclops and Mimic use their longe-range energy blasts to fire Galactus in the back, and the Skrull technolgy fires another beam, making Galactus tumble and fall. Now it’s time to use the device from the Skrulls’ weapon arsenal – it’s an anti-matter bomb. The Banner-Beast wants to explode it next to Galactus, but before he can even get near him, he is knocked out, by a wave of Galactus' hand.
Thunderbird witnesses and instantly knows that it’s up to him, as other strong heroes like the Thing, Colossus or the Abomination are too far away, and the chance to injure Galactrus while he is weak would be gone. He grabs the bomb and transforms into full battle mood. As he jumps onto the World Devourer’s back he thinks of his father, his brother and his entire race. Thunderbird punches a hole into the mighty foe’s armour and places the bomb inside. His last thought is of Talia as the device goes off. The anti-matter triggers a chain reaction and energy within Galactus gets consumed. He feels a new level of agony he never endured before and realizes that there are other worlds in the universe that he could consume with less trouble. Galactus teleports away. Earth’s heroes aprroach the battle site and find the burned form of Thunderbird.
A little bit later, he has been brought to the infirmary of the command central, where Reed, Morph and Mariko among others try to understand the medical readings. Sunfire tells the others that the problems are not the burn injuries. John has recuperative abilities and they can already see signs of healing, but the problem is his mind. They can’t pick up any brain waves – Thunderbird is either brain dead or in a deep coma, probably to never wake up. Nocturne is shocked, she refuses to accept this. Sitting by John’s bedside, she says that John will get through this, and as long as it takes they will be stuck in this reality, since they can’t move on without him. Blink apologizes, but the Tallus tells her otherwise. Right then a hole in reality opens and a white furred Sasqutch appears. Sasquatch was sent by the Timebroker and is the Exiles’ new member, and the next mission awaits them. While Talia shouts John’s name, the Exiles teleport and fade out. Thunderbird is left in the care of Reed Richards and the heroes of this earth.


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A World Apart - part 2
Mimic is led to his next match in the arena. He has won all his competitions in the weeks he has been here, and it made him quite popular, yet today’s opponent is liked even more by the crowd : the Captain. He is the human that is better than all humans and the Skrulls are proud of him, even without any real super powers Cap amanges to take out most of his opponents. The Mimic gets angry, on the world he is from and almost every other world Capt is a symbol of hope and freedom, he is not destined to be the poster child of the Skrull lapdogs. In the fights of the last weeks, Calvain has provided quite a show, holding back his different absorbed powers as long as he could. The crowd cheered with each new ability he displayed. So far he has shown them the Beast’s agility, Colossus’s strength and transformation to steel and Wolverine’s claws. Yet he has been holding back one special power as his secret trump card – Cyclops’ optic blast. As the fight starts, Mimic uses the optic beam and immediately takes Cap out. The Skrulls feel cheated, they had been hoping for an exciting show; angrily the guards lead Mimic away to his cell.
Meanwhile Blink and Morph have explained their situation to Reed Richards. They don’t know how many more realities they have to visit till they return home, and thus far this world has been the most difficult one. Reed explains that it took him years to study the Skrulls system of knowledge and once he and his friends hijacked one of their ships and got altered by cosmic rays. Blink comments that they almost made a full ”Fantastic Four”, but naturally Reed doesn’t get the analogy. Here Ben Grimm and the Torch are arena fighters as well, and the forth crewman died of the radiation. Morph wonders at Blink’s knowledge of the hero team, as they didn’t exist in the Age of Apocalypse. Clarice explained that in some spare time, Mimic gave her a tutorial. Right then Sam Wilson interrupts, one of Reed’s inventions (a communication device not much more than a radio) picks up something from the Skrull headquarter. They learn that the Skrulls have lost all communication off-planet and are panicking.
In the Skrull base, the alien oppresors receive video footage from one of the ships in earth’s orbit. The witness Terrax, the Tamer, herald of Galactus, approaching earth. Within minutes the Skrulls decide to evacuate and board their starships. Millions of opressors leave the doomed planet in a hurry and earth’s people are left behind in amazement.
In the arena’s prison, the cell doors swing open. Earth’s superhumans wonderw hat happened. Is it just a power failure ? Should they stay put ? Yet some take the lead and storm out. Outside, Terrax has arrived and is randomly shooting his energy beams. Morph and Blink fill Reed in, that Terrax is only the herald of Galactus, who will devour the entire planet. After decades of fuighting and opression earth’s superbeings run out of the prison, only to find their people terrorized by another alien. They band together and attack Terrax with all they have got. The Exiles that had been forced to fight in the arena are among them as well. Terrax is able to fend off the first waves of attackers, but then Havok and the Human Torch blast him out of the sky, and the Banner Beast and the Thing start to beat him up on the ground.Soon all heroes that are left standing join the fight and Terrax’ fate is sealed. The Exiles watch in awe as the opressed superhumans let go off all their bottled up anger. Blink and Morph come over to their friends, they haven’t seen eacjh other in over a month, and Clarice and Calvin kiss and embrace.
Somewhat later, the heroes have found the command center of the Skrulls. They departed very quickly and took little of their weapons with them. Peter Parker, the Banner Beast, Reed Richards and various others are already trying to decipher the alien technology. The Exiles are standing a little bit apart, discussing what to do. Their task is clear, the Tallus told them to save this world, but how can they defeat Galactus ? Sure, they have earth’s greatest fighters at their disposal, and after regaining their freedom, these people will do everything, even die, to help that earth remains free, still what can they do against the World Devourer, when they already had problems against Terrax. Thunderbird says that it will be different, they attacked the herald uncoordinated and without a plan. The Exiles look to Blink and Mimic, asking if they have come up with a strategy. Blink confirms : “Avengers Assemble.”


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Play Date
Many months ago before the Exiles had to battle Galactus and lose one of their teammates, the Exiles‘ task was to stop a bank robbery. They were able to complete the job in five mintues and the Tallus told them that they had a week to vacation before they would teleport to their next assignment. The team are standing on a cliff overlooking a beach. Blink takes Mariko to one side and asks her to occupy Morph for the day as the rest of the team want to go naked and Morph's maturity level just can't handle it. Mariko is reluctant at first and argues her case, but eventually caves in. She asks Morph to go shopping with her, but he is not interested, so she tells him she is shopping for lingerie, at which point Morph jumps at the chance, and the rest of the team are ecstatic.
Mariko is trying on various pieces of underwear and Morph is commenting on each one, much to Mariko’s dismay. Mariko finally loses it and tells him that she is done and starts to get back into her normal outfit. Morph tells her that she didn’t have to look for lingerie and could have made another excuse, he knows the others wanted to ditch him. Mariko apologizes for hurting his feelings, and explains that the rest of the team are sunbathing naked, to which Morph agrees that he probably would have been a bit immature. He tells her not to worry about it and he is fine with it. They leave the shop and wander the streets, making small talk.
Morph sees a giant billboard and gets really upset about the cigarette ad displayed on it. He can’t believe that the tobacco companies are able to advertise as much as they can. Mariko agrees with him and tells him that everyone in asia seems to smoke. She asks him why he has a big problem with it and he reveals that his mom died of lung cancer when he was thirteen. Mariko is sorry for him and tells him it must have been hard, to which Morph agrees and they share a quiet moment. Morph asks Mariko about her parents but she avoids the question and asks Morph if he's hungry and fancy’s lobster.
Meanwhile back at the beach, T.J. and Blink are lying naked tanning their backs and talking. T.J. tells Blink that she likes Mimic‘s butt, and Blink replies she can look but not touch. T.J. says she doesn’t want to. Blink asks where Thunderbird is and T-Bird tells her that he has gone swimming. Actually he is walking on the ocean floor as he is too dense to float, but it‘s something that he really enjoys. Blink thinks that T.J. and Thunderbird must have grown pretty close for her to know that, and T.J. smiles and agrees.
In a Lobster Restaurant Morph and Mariko are sitting at a table piled high with food. It turns out Morph has ordered the entire menu. He and Mariko are really getting along and enjoying themselves, when Morph asks her about her parents again. He tells her that she avoids the question time and again just like Mimic avoids questions about professional sports. Again she isn't forthcoming, so Morph explains his relationship with his father. He tells her that he doesn’t really get along with his dad, and that after his mothers he insisted he be more serious, but Morph rebelled and believes that’s one of the reasons he is like he is today.
Mariko feels compelled to tell Morph after hearing his intimate speech and decides to tell him. Her parents are really strict, and when she was growing up was forced into furthering her education, just so she could get married and have kids. When they found it she was a mutant, her parents saw it as a great shame. As she got older she starting voicing her unhappiness until it got ugly, at which point she left Japan for America when she was sixteen. Luckily she joined the X-Men not long after, and the rest is history. He wonders if she tried contacting her parents when she was older as his dad had lightened up with time, but Mariko tells him that it wasn’t just about being a mutant that she hasn’t spoken with them, she’s gay. Morph is slightly taken aback by this, and double checks by asking a few questions to make sure he understands correctly. He asks if the rest of the team know, and they do as it had come up naturally. Morphs wonders why he hadn’t figured it out or she had mentioned it and Mariko tells him that she didn’t want to hurt his feelings as she thought he was interested in her. Morph handles it fairly well and they end up going to find the rest of the team.
Later, near the beach, Mariko asks Morph if he is ok with what she told him. He tells her everything is fine and even though he does fancy her, he is glad to be her friend and would even like her to take him to some gay bars. Morph then asks her if there is enough balloons for them to throw at the rest of the team, as he is standing next to a huge pile. She thinks so but wonders that after the first one hits they’ll be able to avoid the rest. He turns into a catapult ready to fire the lot in one go, and tells Mariko that they aren’t filled with water but in fact beer and launches them at the rest of the team.