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Superguardians: Part 2
Reality #552:
Imperial Center of the Shi’Ar Galactic Empire:
A photograph/painting depicting the entire Superguardians roster stares out over the bodies of the recently fallen members of the team. Manta, the only Superguardian still breathing, stands in front of the picture with arms clenched around her. In front of her lie her former teammates, including her husband, Gladiator.
The Exiles stand huddled nearby as Manta gives her eulogy. She talks about the importance of the Imperial Guard and all that it stood for. She makes her way over to Guardian and as the tears begin to flow removes his flight ring. She whispers a final farewell to her lover and walks over to Sabretooth. She gives the ring to Sabes and tells him to wear it with pride. Sabretooth tells her he’ll do his best.
In comes Majestrix Lilandra and her entourage consisting of Deathbird, Chancellor Araki, and two other alien beings. Deathbird announces the empress’ arrival for all to hear. Lilandra makes her way to the Exiles. She gives her condolences on the destruction of their homeworld, Earth. Deathbird questions them as to how they were able to avoid the destruction. Spider-Man lies that they were off-world on his ship when it happened and it was over by the time they got back, that there was nothing they could do. Lilandra rests her hand on his shoulder and reminds him that their intervention saved Galactus’ life.
She informs them that the Shi’Ar’s best physicians are working on Galactus and that hope yet remains. However, she continues, observation posts have reported back that the Silver Surfer is heading straight for Imperial Center and is making good progress. They need more time for Galactus to recover and it doesn’t look like they’re going to get it, she continues. Lilandra tells them of their new mission, to gather with all of the warriors they could muster on such short notice and hold off the Surfer as long as they can... most likely resulting in their deaths (Morph takes the likeness of one of Lilandra’s council members much to his confusion).
3 hours later, 200,000 miles above Imperial Center:
The Exiles and the rest of the newly dubbed Superguardians hover out in space awaiting the Surfer’s arrival. Spider-Man is acting like a kid at Christmas over the flight rings they received. He can’t believe they allow for flight, life support and “thought-casting” abilities. Sabretooth, obviously annoyed, tells Spider-Man to think quieter. And if he’s going to think, Sabretooth continues, maybe he can think of a way they’ll survive this.
Blink reacts negatively to Sabretooth’s comments, but he tells her it’s a mistake waiting out in the open for the Surfer to show up. Ronan and the Super Skrull, who are hovering nearby, join in the discussion. They both tell Sabretooth to leave the battle if he’s so worried. Ronan points out that his claws won’t matter much against the power cosmic.
Sabretooth looks ready to fight his new teammates, but Blink grabs his shoulder. She pleads with him to think for a second. She reminds him their objective is to save Galactus and she can’t think of a way they can better help him then with all these other people at their side. Sabretooth brushes Blink off and tells her those other guys were right, he doesn’t stand a chance out there.
Sabretooth flies over to the open bay of a nearby ship. Longshot calls to him out of pure puzzlement. He then thoughcasts that he never thought he’d see the day Sabretooth would leave a fight. Blink assures him he’s not running, that he doesn’t know how (Morph takes the form of outer space hero, Space Ghost).
Upon entering the vessel the Shi’Ar security personnel order Sabretooth to head back outside and hold the line. Sabretooth ignores them and tries to get a hold of Heather on the Tallus. Heather wants to know why he abandoned the rest of the team. Sabretooth quips that he needed some atmosphere.
Heather asks him what he really needs. As the two security guards stare puzzled at the new Superguardian talking to his arm, Sabretooth asks Heather to send him to Galactus. He believes he’s come up with a better plan than that suicide mission outside. Sabretooth becomes blindingly bright before teleporting away.
One of the Superguardians spots the incoming Silver Surfer. Super Skrull and Ronan are in the middle of discussing a possible truce amongst their people when the Surfer fries them in his path. The Surfer yells out to the remaining Superguardians to go home and to let Galactus get what he deserves. The Guardians refuse to acquiesce and the calls for victory ring out. The Silver Surfer smiles as he knows they don’t stand a chance.
Sabretooth teleports to the medical center where Galactus is being held. The doctors are discussing whether or not they should move Galactus to a safer location with the Surfer having arrived. Sabretooth buts in and demands they wake him up. The doctor’s try to hold Sabretooth back, but he won’t listen. Galactus opens his eyes and asks Sabretooth what he needs.
Back at the battle above, the Surfer is blasted off his board by one of the Guardians. A half dozen more pounce on the Surfer and begin belting away. Spider-Man sends out a webline and manages to snag the Surfer’s board. He holds on to his line for dear life, as the board doesn’t stop. Longshot flies over and grabs onto Spider-Man’s arm. He tells Spider-Man not to let go.
Sabretooth’s request has been asked and the doctors refuse. They tell Sabretooth it could kill Galactus. Sabretooth pushes the doctors to the floor and asks Galactus what he thinks, if it’s alright for all those people to sacrifice themselves so he has a chance to live. Galactus informs Sabretooth that his request could deplete his lifeforce, thereby dooming the universe to the cosmic blight. Galactus asks him if he would take that risk. Creed tells him he’d rip out his rocky throat if it meant saving his girl (Blink). Galactus chuckles. He decides to grant Sabretooth’s wish. He lifts up his right hand and wraps it around Sabes, bathing him in a bright light.
Above, the Surfer dispatches his combatants with ease. He blasts them all back, frying all of them to the bone. Blink tosses a teleportation shard the Surfer’s way and he easily dodges it. He fires away at Blink, but luckily Power Princess comes over and erects her shield. It takes the brunt of the blast, knocking her into Blink and sending both of them into the hull of a nearby ship.
Nearby, Longshot leaps away from Spider-Man and heads straight for the board. Spider-Man looks on in disbelief as Longshot manages to land it. At this point the Surfer calls his board back to him. Spider-Man loses his grip on the webbing and floats away. As Longshot is sent speeding towards the Surfer he tells Spider-Man he’ll be back for him.
The Surfer approaches the barely conscious Blink and wraps his hand around her face. He makes the connection that she was the one who teleported him to Saturn during his initial fight with Galactus. The Surfer demands to know if it was her. Nearby Morph tries to wake up the unresponsive Power Princess.
A golden light appears from out of nowhere and draws the Surfer’s attention. It’s Sabretooth and he has been given the power cosmic as well. He tells the Surfer to get away from Blink.
Morph cracks wise calling him the Silver Sabretooth, despite his golden appearance. The now conscious Power Princess points out that Sabretooth is smarter than he looks.
Sabretooth lunges for the Surfer, who loses his hold on Blink. The Surfer fires off some erratic blasts as he can’t see with Sabretooth’s hand enveloping his head. The Surfer tells Sabretooth to unhand him and Sabretooth asks him if he’s not used to a fair fight. The Surfer pummels him across the face knocking him back and tells Sabretooth not to flatter himself.
Silver Surfer smiles greedily as he recounts his years of experience with the power cosmic. He tells Sabretooth he stands no chance against him. Sabretooth lunges at him once more, first crushing one of the Surfer’s wrists and then tearing open his chest. The Surfer lies adrift shocked at the end result. Sabretooth tells him that he’s a born killer and sometimes that’s enough. The Surfer weakly calls for his board. Longshot, still riding it, tells Sabretooth to duck. He does so and Longshot leaps off. The board plunges into its master’s back.
The Exiles gather around the Silver Surfer. He asks them why. He tells them of all the great things he could have done with Galactus’ power. Manta tells him he’s already done enough. The Surfer asks if he knows her. Manta tells him “No”, but that he met her husband when he cut him in two. And with that Manta grabs the board and pushes it down severing the Surfer in twain.
Later:
The surviving Superguardians as well as Lilandra and Chancellor Araki are gathered about in Galactus’ medical room. Spider-Man is bubbling with excitement as he tells Longshot his theories on the power cosmic (Morph takes the form of a stereotypical Poindexter).
On a nearby platform Galactus tells Sabretooth he did well and that he expects great things from him. He tells Sabes they have a lot of work to do in the world-saving department. Sabretooth thanks him, but offers to give back the power cosmic so Galactus can heal himself. He tells Galactus he already has a job saving worlds. Galactus comments on his choice to give up the power and tells him he won’t forget him. Galactus puts his hand around Sabretooth for the second time that day and takes back what he had given earlier.
The Crystal Palace:
Heather congratulates the arriving Exiles on a job well done. She apologizes that she wasn’t much help. Sabretooth reminds her that he couldn’t have done it without her teleporting him to Galactus. Blink makes a joke about Spider-Man having to give up his ring. Spidey mutters that he would have settled for the schematics. Heather tells the team she wants to show them one more thing before they go about their business. Up on one of the computer screens is reality #552. Galactus is hard at work reforming Norrin Radd’s homeworld, Heather explains. She also tells them that Manta, his new herald, convinced him to heal Earth too. Blink wraps her arms around Sabretooth and offers the possibility that when Galactus took back the power cosmic from Sabes he took a part of him with it too, the part that believes in second chances. Sabretooth tries to brush it off. He reminds Blink he has a reputation to uphold.


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Rules of the Game
Earth #33629
Downtown Manhattan
Parts of Manhattan lie in ruin. Smoke billows as tall as some of the buildings. The cause of it all is the Wrecking Crew. Amidst the smoke and debris and fleeing citizens the Wrecker stands out. He explains to anyone that’ll listen that the Mayor refused to pay them off so now they’re going to kill everyone. The other three members of the Crew stand behind him, ready to inflict more destruction.
Blink appears out of one of her teleportation holes in front of the Wrecker. She informs him that playtime is over. Grossly outsized, she asks if he has any last words. They all start laughing as the Wrecker asks her if she really thinks she can handle them all by herself. Blink asks why he would think she’s alone. With a snap of her fingers the remaining Exiles appear: Mimic, Morph, Thunderbird, Nocturne and Magnus?!
The Crystal Palace
Blink orders the Exiles to attack, only they’re not really the Exiles. Their actions are being viewed on the various monitors at the Crystal Palace. Heather stares in amazement as this team of Exiles puts down the Wrecking Crew. She screams for Blink and the whole team comes running in (Morph dressed in clown/fireman gear).
They ask Heather what’s wrong and she tells them how she was prioritizing the upcoming missions when she came across a team of Exiles on Earth #33629. She shows them the team on one of the video screens. Longshot doesn’t get it, so Morph explains that the each of those guys was a member of the original Exiles team, of which he and Blink are the only survivors.
Sabretooth asks what the odds are of this just being a coincidence. Heather admits there’re trillions of universes out there, but the fact that they call themselves Exiles makes her wonder. She thinks something’s up. Spider-Man suggests it may be an echo from one of their earlier missions caused by some gravimetrical distortion. Blink tells him that’s impossible as Magnus was killed on their very first mission, and it wasn’t against the Wrecking Crew.
Power Princess is tired of the questions and chalks it up to a cosmic coincidence. She wants to know if they’re supposed to repair that reality or not. They were supposed to go there and stop the Wrecking Crew from destroying the UN building, which would prompt a World War III, but these other Exiles did the job for them, Heather explains.
 Earth #33629
Deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean
The Wrecking Crew are locked up in their cells inside the other-Exiles underwater headquarters. The Wrecker, who’s seen better days, demands to know what’s going on. Blink tells him to make himself comfortable. Wrecker demands a lawyer, but his requests fall on deaf ears. The Exiles walk away from him and pass the cells of other bad guys they’ve captured.
During their walk Blink asks Morph and Mimic what they think’s going to happen with all of these prisoners. Mimic tells her she’d have to ask “you-know-who”. Morph slides over to Blink’s side and sweeps her off her feet. He asks her for one last “roll in the hay” before she does something foolish like that. They then share a passionate kiss to which Mimic expresses his distaste. Morph tells him he’s just jealous. Blink tells Morph not to rub it in and suggests they go back to her room before they get another job. Blink does her teleportation thing, leaving Mimic to walk alone.
Shortly after, the real Exiles teleport in to the detention center. The Wrecker can’t believe there’re more of them. Piledriver thinks they may have just brought more prisoners. Power Princess walks over to Wrecker and asks him if he’s ever seen or heard of the Exiles before their battle. The Wrecker responds with an emphatic “Hell, no”.
Sabretooth eyes up a captive Doc Ock and informs the team that he can pick up scents from more prisoners than he can count.
Heather reports back to Sabretooth that these Exiles stop a new threat every week. She tells him it’s much too often to be a coincidence. And if it is on purpose it has to be by someone extremely powerful, but why would they do it, she asks. Sabretooth’s only guess is that somebody wanted to get their attention and get them to check it out. The Timebroker, with the other-Exiles team behind him, tells Sabes he’s smarter than he looks. The Exiles are stunned, especially Blink who exclaims, “The Timebroker...?”
Crystal Palace
Heather points accusingly at one of the Timebreakers and questions them on whatever tricks they’re up to. The Timebreakers tell her that this Timebroker is a real being and that he has extreme power levels. Heather orders them to teleport the Exiles back quickly.
The Timebroker’s enlarged mug fills up the view screen. He looks right down at Heather and tells her nobody will be interfering. She’s taken aback and asks to no one in particular if he was really just talking to her. Then the view screens start shutting down. Heather wants answers. The bugs explain that the quantum signal is jammed and the transdimensional contact is severed.
 Earth #33629
Other-Exiles Base
The Timebroker takes note of the substitutions made to the Exiles lineup, but comments on the lack of improvements. He says it will make things more interesting. Blink asks him what he means by that and he mentions a wager he has going. He explains that if they beat his Exiles in battle then they are free to go, otherwise they will give up their dimensional travel apparatus and begin serving him.
The other-Exiles start asking the Timebroker questions, but he brushes it off and tells them he’ll explain later. Morph is very confused, as the Timebroker doesn’t really exist. Spider-Man tells his crew to calm down so there’s no trouble. Other-Morph tells them they shouldn’t have arrived when he was about to get it on, then. And with that the battle begins.
The matchups are as follows: Mimic vs. Sabretooth/Nocturne vs. Spider-Man/Blink vs. Blink/Power Princess vs. Thunderbird/Morph vs. Morph/Longshot vs. Magnus. They start off pretty even at first with the most interesting battle coming from the Blinks who continuously teleport to get the best shots at each other. Also, right from the get go Longshot is in trouble. Magnus takes advantage of the steel blades Longshot carries to pin him up against the wall.
The Timebroker tires of watching the current stalemate and orders his Exiles to put them away. Magnus wraps Longshot up in some of the metal flooring. Mimic calls for his teammates to switch opponents. He blocks an attack from Sabretooth with his metallic wings and sends a ricochet optic blast to knock Spider-Man out of the sky. Thunderbird keeps pounding away at Power Princess and her shield, clearly taking the advantage. Blink decks other-Blink pretty good and tells her teammates she’s getting them out of there. Nocturne leaps at her, intent on preventing that from happening.
Sabretooth gains the upper hand on Mimic and wallops him some more. He tells Mimic that he was always a pain in the butt. Other-Blink yells at Creed to get away from him and throws a teleportation shard at him, hitting him in the back of the neck. Blink also throws a teleportation shard, but at Power Princess?! Other-Blink asks the Nocturne-possessed Blink how she fits. Nocturne replies, “Like a glove.”
Morph is next to get teleported, leaving only Longshot. He asks the Blinks where they sent them. Other-Blink tells him his friends aren’t hurt. Behind the Timebroker, the previously empty cells are filled with his teammates. Nocturne-Blink tells Longshot he should feel lucky they’re so nice. He smiles coyly in return and tells them he will. And he too is teleported away.
Other-Blink tells Nocturne it’s time to uninhabit her host. She pouts and asks for some more time, she likes teleporting. Plus, they can give Morph a night to remember, she adds. Morph turns all Hugh Hefner and comments that it sounds good to him. Other-Blink tells him it’s not funny. Timebroker ends their debate by ordering Nocturne to release Blink’s body and to get her in a cell. He won’t win his wager until they’re all locked up, he explains.
Nocturne pops out and Blink’s body falls lifeless to the ground. Nocturne and Mimic both ask about the bet again, but the Timebroker ignores them. Thunderbird picks up Blink and carries her to her cell. He wonders out loud why they have a Blink and a Morph on their team. Other-Morph suggests they’re Skrulls. Nocturne calls him taffy-brain and reminds him that Skrulls don’t teleport and that Blink felt human to her.
Magnus notices an empty cell and asks which one of them is missing. Nocturne tells him it was the cute one with a mullet, but she knows she teleported him in there. The Timebroker wants to know where he’s hiding. Sabretooth guesses he must have used his luck powers to get sent somewhere else. He laughs as he points out that the Timebroker’s bet isn’t settled yet. The Timebroker orders his team to split up and search the whole place from top to bottom. He leaves and tells them he’ll be in the meeting room and to intercom him when they find him.
Sabretooth gets other-Blink’s attention commenting on how their Timebroker kept them in the dark too. She asks him what he’s talking about. The Timebroker, he responds.  He tells her how he messed with them for months before they found out what he really was. He then relates the origins of their team and how they had to do missions. He asks her if any of it sounds familiar.
Other-Blink doesn’t believe him, and with a hint of sarcasm asks if they came here to save the world then. Sabretooth tells her they came to see why there was a copy of their team. She tells him he makes less sense every time he speaks. As she walks away Sabretooth warns her she’s getting used, and that she just hasn’t found the truth yet.
The Timebroker enters the meeting room and turns on the view screen. The Grandmaster appears. “Well?” he utters. The Timebroker tells him that it hasn’t happened yet, but soon. The Grandmaster reminds him of the time limit, that he could only remain if he honored the rules (at this point other-Blink enters the room and hides behind a pillar). The Timebroker tells him he doesn’t need a lecture about rules. The Grandmaster tells the ‘Broker to stop posturing and to have the decency to talk to him in his true form. The Timebroker obliges, much to the surprise of other-Blink.
Thunderbird and Nocturne are in a separate part of their underwater base looking for Longshot. Thunderbird can’t believe they still can’t find him and asks Nocturne if she felt anything weird when she teleported him. She admits she might have underestimated the difficulty in “blinking” people.
Thunderbird moves over to an open bay of water that leads out to the sea. He asks Nocturne if she thinks he might have tried to swim away. She jokes that he doesn’t have gills. She heads into one of the rooms to inspect it and receives a swift kick to the face. She’s found Longshot, though not the way she wanted to. She grabs onto his leg as she falls back. He lands on top of her and throws one of his blades into the submarine stationed near the water port. It explodes, knocking Thunderbird into the water. Longshot heads over to the control panel and presses the button to seal the water entrance. The portal closes on him, leaving T-Bird’s upper half trapped underwater with his legs sticking out in the air. Nocturne charges over and decks Longshot.
Back at the holding cells, the Exiles hear the explosion. Sabretooth surmises they finally found Longshot. Spider-Man takes the opportunity to ask about Blink’s status. Morph explains she’s ok, that whenever their Nocturne possessed someone they were usually unconscious for a day or so.
Other-Blink teleports into the holding cell hallway. Sabretooth, relaxing on his bed, tells Blink she looks like she’s seen a ghost. Blink tells Creed to tell her everything he knows.
Back at the scene of the explosion, Thunderbird finally manages to break free and get topside. There, dripping wet, he finds Mimic holding Nocturne’s unconscious body in his arms. Thunderbird is bent on vengeance, but asks if Nocturne is okay. Mimic says she’s fine and points out that Longshot could have killed her if he wanted to. Mimic asks Thunderbird what he thinks about that. T-Bird tells Mimic he thinks too much.
Back at the cells, Sabretooth finishes his explanations. Other-Blink still doesn’t get it as the Timebroker didn’t turn into a “smart bug”, but a tall, thin guy with blue skin and white hair. Power Princess interjects with a story from her past. She tells them of a guy named the Grandmaster who forced her team to fight their enemies, the Institute of Evil, on a bet.
Other-Blink tells her that’s probably it. She explains that he and the guy he was talking to kept talking about rules and time limits. Morph, in carnival strong guy form, points out the obvious, that it comes down to a fight between the original Exiles and the new ones. The only question left, he states, is how he found out about them in the first place, as they’ve never been to this reality before.
Other-Blink begins to doubt their entire purpose. She thought they were doing good, but questions whether or not the bad guys they defeated were purposely sent against them. She declares they won’t be used for entertainment anymore, and teleports all of the Exiles out of their cells. She asks what the next step should be. Power Princess points out the Grandmaster is so powerful he could think them dead if he wanted. Wrecker speaks up from his cell and asks her if they’re counting everyone that has a grudge against him.
Elsewhere, Longshot’s on the run. He makes his way along a metal catwalk above some giant boilers. A hand forms from out of a beam in the bridge and grabs Longshot by the ankle. Other-Morph maintains his hold as he reverts to his natural form. He turns his right fist into a mace and swings it at Longshot. Longshot ducks and other-Morph hits a circuit box, which sends many volts of electricity coursing through his body.
Luck seems about run out on Longshot when a still-dazed Nocturne, Thunderbird and Mimic arrive. Thunderbird’s ready to so some damage, but Mimic gets a call on the radio from other-Blink who tells them to leave Longshot alone and meet them at Junction 3.
The two Grandmasters are still discussing things in the meeting room. The Grandmaster on the view screen warns the Timebroker/Grandmaster that he has less than a minute to go. Timebroker/Grandmaster speaks with confidence that his Exiles will report success at any moment. Right then both teams of Exiles, as well as the Wrecking Crew, teleport into the room. Other-Blink tells him they quit.
The Grandmaster gets out of his chair, totally taken by the turn of events. Power Princess takes one look at him and reports that he’s not the Grandmaster she remembers. Timebroker/Grandmaster tells her he remembers them and goes into an explanation of who he is and how this contest all came to be.
flashback
The Grandmaster explains his status as an Elder of the Universe along with the Champion, who likes to fight, the Collector, who acquires living things, the Runner, who races across space and the Gardener, who works his garden. He explains that he likes to play games, hold contests and make wagers.
One day he and the Collector found a planet called Earth where mutants were presenting themselves. The Collector wanted to take some of them for his collection, but the Grandmaster wanted a bet instead. The Collector thought the mutants would rule the world, while the Grandmaster thought all super-powered beings would be jailed.
The Grandmaster proved right, the humans were jailing all those with powers. He would have won his bet, but a team, that turned out to be the Exiles, came and freed the mutants. The Grandmaster tells them he lost his bet and that’s something he’ll never forgive. However, he was intrigued by their presence so decided to study them instead of killing them right there on the spot.
After the Exiles had left that reality he went to Magneto and took the information from his mind explaining who and what the Exiles were. The Grandmaster then traveled across dimensions looking for a reality where all six of them existed in forms very similar to the ones he encountered. He then disguised himself as the Timebroker and started his own team of Exiles to lure them into a trap.
present
The Grandmaster admits this may be his crowning achievement. The only tough part was convincing the Grandmaster of this reality (he points his thumb back at the view screen) to let him do his thing. The native Grandmaster points out that he doesn’t like people meddling in his universe either.
Spider-Man speaks for everyone when he says they won’t be fighting each other anymore. The Grandmaster looks peeved and tells them they’re no fun. A bright light emanates from the Grandmaster and everyone else screams in agony, until they all die that is.
The native Grandmaster is angry. He proclaims their deal is broken. The other Grandmaster replies, “So what?” The native Grandmaster tells him that nobody breaks a deal with them, and the Timebroker/Grandmaster suddenly finds himself surrounded by the remaining Elders of the Universe.
The Champion gets up in his face, ready to start a fight. The Grandmaster backs off a bit fearful. He resigns his fate to being beaten to death by his fellow immortals. The native Grandmaster tells him that’s not quite it. A bright light emanates from him this time, which brings everyone back to life. He tells the Timebroker/Grandmaster that they will administer the beating, pointing at the newly revived mutants.
The Crystal Palace (24 hours later)
Heather is finishing up explaining what happened on her end during their ordeal. Blink can’t believe she slept through everything. Morph points out (in zombie form) that at least she wasn’t killed and then resurrected.
Spider-Man rubs his head as he ponders the existence of immortal beings who can give or take life on a whim. He’s always amazed at the things he learns on this job. Power Princess says she’d trade all that in for another round with the Grandmaster. Blink asks what finally happened to him. Sabretooth tells her the Collector put him in his private zoo. Creed hopes he’s forced to play “tic-tac-toe for the next zillion years.” He also tells her Earth #33629 is in good hands now.
Earth #33629
The Exiles are in a conference room going over their next order of business.


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Earth #27536
Coney Island
The Exiles are mid-mission battling the Sinister Six. High up on the Cyclone roller coaster Sabretooth, having just been stabbed by Kraven, reminds everyone to focus on the mission and not get distracted. Blink teleports nearby and finds J. Jonah Jameson tied to the tracks. She reaches to untie him, but her hand goes right through. Electro pops up behind her and sends a powerful jolt through her body. He thanks Mysterio for the great ploy.
Sabretooth tosses Kraven off the track. The infamous hunter collides with Mysterio, smashing his glass dome. Sabretooth yells to Blink out of concern. Power Princess and Spider-Man find the real Jameson just in time as Power Princess stops a set of racing coaster cars a mere 10 feet from Jameson’s tied and gagged body. Spider-Man slashes through the ropes freeing their objective. Power Princess tells Sabretooth Blink is down and that they need to get out of there.
Crystal Palace
The Exiles are back in their headquarters, Sabretooth carrying the unconscious Blink in his arms. He begins to tell Heather that Electro got her, but she cuts him off and orders her to the infirmary.
The Exiles crowd around Blink as Heather gives her a once over. Sabretooth gripes that these missions aren’t worth it. Heather reminds him the Jonah Jameson from that reality will save every mutant on that world 20 years later from a C.I.A. bio-weapon. Sabretooth still grumbles about it.
Longshot asks if Blink will recover. He brings up the fact that they occasionally lose members in the field and offers his hopes that she won’t end up in the wall behind him next to Thunderbird. Spider-Man comments he’d rather be dead than brain dead. Someone points out that T-Bird’s not braindead as Heather detected alphawaves in his frontal cortex. Spidey is shocked to think T-Bird’s been dreaming in there all this time.
Thunderbird’s dreams
Thunderbird and Apocalypse face off in battle. T-Bird is filled with hate and anger, which makes Apocalypse all the merrier. As he blames Apocalypse for what he was turned into his fury takes over. His face begins reverting to his Horseman days, which Apocalypse cheers on. T-Bird succumbs to the beast inside and completes the transformation. Apocalypse reaches out and grabs Thunderbird by the throat. He reminds his former servant that he and his unborn child belong to him.
Apocalypse waves his arm in another direction where Nocturne, belly full with child, is strapped against a jutting, concrete structure. Thunderbird’s eyes go empty and a look of despair crosses his face. He calls out to Nocturne. She apologizes to him and explains she tried to fight. Apocalypse turns back to T-Bird and asks him if he really thought he could have a child without him finding out.
Real-time
Heather proclaims Blink stabilized, but adds that it was close. She asks how Electro was able to get to Blink. Power Princess blames it on exhaustion, with the back-to-back missions they’ve been running for weeks. Spider-Man starts to remind her of the most recent domino effect, but Power Princess cuts him off. Sabretooth points out they need to get back to work, even without Blink.
They all head off, but Spider-Man stays behind at Heather’s request. Morph wants to know what they’re doing, but Heather playfully tells him their conversation is strictly for the whiz kids. He leaves steamed and reminds them he has a degree in computer science.
Now alone, Heather voices some concerns about Morph. Spider-Man points out that he’s been great on the missions, without any signs of him knowing who he really is. She agrees, but asks him to remember Proteus’ weakness. Metal, he responds, which is why he created the behavior modifier out of flexeramics and plastics. And how did they trick Morph into putting it on, Heather continues. “Blink teleported it into that Atlantean crown he stole,” Spidey finishes. “Bingo,” Heather announces, his metal crown.
Spidey looks away thinking it over. He turns back to Heather and states his astonishment at not realizing that earlier. They leave the hospital area. Heather comforts him by saying she only thought of it yesterday. She surmises Morph’s malleable body keeps Proteus from wasting away. Spider-Man continues her train of thought by adding it also must protect him from metal. They both agree further testing is in order, but not until the recent string of realities is fixed.
Thunderbird’s dreams
Apocalypse mocks T-Bird’s looks, wondering aloud how Nocturne would ever be with a monster like him. He twists T-Bird’s neck as he pats Nocturne’s belly. Apocalypse is full of glee as he contemplates what his baby will look like. His finger tips turn to blades and asks why they should wait any longer. Thunderbird pleads with him. He senses things are wrong and asks where his friends are. Apocalypse tells him that his friends made him weak, which is why he killed them all. T-Bird’s face narrows as he voices his doubts.
Sure enough Apocalypse is knocked back by a piercing optic blast courtesy of Mimic. T-Bird’s teammates have shown up and are ready to party (Morph making an Albuquerque joke in Bugs Bunny form). Apocalypse is ready to strike down the captive Nocturne, but Blink teleports her away before his punch lands. She defiantly declares he won’t hurt T-Bird or anyone else anymore.
Earth #27537
Serpent Society HQ
The Exiles sans Blink are seemingly overwhelmed as they take on the combined might of the Serpent Society. Cottonmouth chomps down on Spider-Man’s bicep much to his surprise. Sabretooth spots this after taking out Death Adder and orders someone to help out. Longshot makes his way over and with a swift kick takes Cottonmouth out of the equation. He calls out to Spidey to see if he’s ok, but is soon overrun by Bushmaster and the Rattler.
Morph decides to take matters into his own hands, or fingers as it were. He transforms each of his digits into very long and powerful snakes. He wraps up all of the remaining Society members, ending the battle.
Thunderbird’s dreams
Apocalypse falls the ground, crushing the earth beneath him. He refuses to believe that something he created could beat him. Thunderbird towers over him. He tells his former master that he may have messed him up, but did not create him. He points at the defeated Apocalypse and explains that his problem was that he made him too important in his life. He tells Apocalypse that he’s free of him. Sure enough Apocalypse disappears.
Nocturne asks T-Bird how he did that. He replies he doesn’t know and he doesn’t care (Morph inspects the area Sherlock Holmes style). He turns and smiles at Nocturne. He tells her they’re bringing a new life into the world and he needed to stop worrying about Apocalypse. She begins to respond when a pain erupts inside her. Blink looks down at the ground and with a half-smile tells Nocturne her water broke. Thunderbird’s expression turns to worry as he wonders how they’ll find a doctor in time.
Reality #27538
The Hellfire Club, New York
The Exiles take on the Hellfire Club, sans Blink and Spider-Man (Morph appropriately guised as a white rook chess piece). It’s four on four as the Exiles seem to have the advantage. Longshot takes on Pierce and dodges his attacks. Sabretooth takes on Leland who tries making him fall with his powers. Sabretooth grabs on to Leland’s stomach and tells him that if he goes down so will his guts.
Power Princess holds down Shaw who tries to get her to punch him. She tells him she knows it will only make him stronger if she hits him. Emma Frost takes off when she realizes they all know their powers. Morph forms an elastic wall and informs the White Queen that they need to keep them there for another five minutes to complete their mission. She asks who they are and when she doesn’t get a sufficient response enters the jokester’s head.
She starts to sense something powerful locked away in his mind. Longshot notices what’s going on and throws a dagger in her direction. It nails her right in the skull causing her to break contact with her comical opponent. Longshot rushes over to check on Morph, who seems dazed and replies in a Scottish accent.
Crystal Palace
Six minutes later the Exiles are back in the all too often visited infirmary. Both Blink and Spider-Man are conscious and ask if the “domino effect” is over. Heather proudly exclaims that after three weeks and twenty missions they did it. Spider-Man asks about Morph who is lying nearby. She explains that Longshot severed the connection in time and that she’s giving him a B-Mod booster just to be safe.
Sabretooth can’t believe the blade Longshot threw didn’t kill the White Queen. Longshot chalks it up to a lucky throw. Power Princess worries about Morph speaking in a Scottish accent following the psi-probe. She asks Heather if she’s certain Morph’s going to be ok. Heather says she’s really not sure about any of it. She suggests they may have to condition him regularly or put him in the stasis wall, though that seems too cruel. She adds that whenever she sees Thunderbird stuck in there she always feels guilty. She tells Spidey they need to come up with a way to get him out of there and free him from his nightmares.
Thunderbird’s dreams
Sunfire, Morph, Blink and Mimic look on with smiles as Nocturne and Thunderbird cradle and stare lovingly at their newborn child.


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Fresh Blood- Enemy of the Stars: Part 1 (of 5)
Kevin MacTaggert’s mind is no longer controlled by the b-mod device. Finally free he strikes out at his “teammates”. For his first victim he chooses Sabretooth. He literally melts the matter off his bones. Proteus stares down at Sabretooth’s blood-drenched skeletal remains. He questions how good his healing factor really is.
Next he goes after Blink and does the same thing to her as with Creed. MacTaggert figures they were together from the beginning and should go out the same way. Proteus leans back and laughs as the remaining heroes join in the fight.
Proteus turns Heather, Spider-Man and Power Princess into bug-like renditions of their former selves. Spidey shoves two of his pincers into Power Princess’s body. She reacts in kind by neatly chomping his head off.
Last, but not least, Proteus turns his attention to Longshot. Mojo appears out of thin air with a giant rubber stamp in his hand. He slams it down on Longshot. When he pulls it away Longshot is torn in two, spelled out in his blood is the word “CANCELLED”.
Proteus announces himself the winner. Then he moves towards the commands of the Crystal Palace. He decides to visit other realities to continue the havoc.
Time elapses. Proteus has morphed himself into Galactus. Within each of his hands are several worlds being crushed in his grip. A voice points out a mystery woman caught in the monitor display. Another voice orders the computer to freeze the images. This voice, the voice of Heather Hudson, explains to her friends that this is what they can expect to happen if Proteus’ mind ever gains dominance over Morph’s. The simulation is ended.
Blink wants to know what Heather’s getting at; does she want Morph killed? Sabretooth adds that they need him on the team. Blink agrees and thinks that Proteus believing he’s Morph is good enough for her.
Sabes asks Heather to go back to the end of the simulation, but the screens show only static. He asks what’s going on. He wants to see that palace and that woman again. Heather says she can’t get it back, but adds she saw the same thing.
Heather rubs the back of her head and explains the computer network has been messing up ever since their altercation with Proteus. She further clarifies she’s been having trouble scanning timestreams and seeing what’s happening. Blink asks why. Heather chalks it up to one of those problems you encounter when dealing with infinity.
Blink and Sabretooth begin arguing about time and space, the past, present and future and the responsibilities of protecting it all. Heather interrupts them to bring them back to their original discussion. She warns them they need to be prepared in case Proteus ever gets loose. She suggests they find someone out there who stands a chance against him, a person they can trust. Creed scoffs at the idea, so Heather asks him if he has a better one.
Blink spots Nocturne on one of the view screens and asks if they can bring her back to the palace or at least send her back to her native reality. Heather tells her it’s not a good idea as the Earth she’s on now is part of the 616 universe, which has been the source of most of their recent problems. She also mentions that every time she queries the teams she’s joined, Excalibur, she gets a picture of that floating citadel they saw earlier and then nothing but static. Sabretooth jokes he feels better already.
Heather points out she still hasn’t figured everything out about the Crystal Palace and how it works. He suggests asking the “lizards” what to do. She tells him she had the same idea, but they barricaded themselves inside their room and have refused to come out. She jams her palms into her eyes in frustration.
Creed asks if she’ll find the answers. She always does, is her reply. Creed motions Blink to follow him and leave Heather to her devices. He tells his old friend they need to work on her timing. Blink assures him her timing is just fine. Creed reaches out to grab her throat, but she teleports away avoiding the grab. However, when she reappears Creed seizes her by the neck anyway. He tells Blink that if she wants to lead the team she needs to think outside her box.
The two walk out of the room just as one of the drones comes in with some coffee on a tray for Heather. The bug looks up at the monitor behind Heather and sees the woman from earlier staring down at it. The bug drops the tray and the coffee spills everywhere. Heather looks on, puzzled at the drone’s erratic behavior.
Inside the Exiles’ common room, Power Princess briefs the team on her decision to go back to her native reality, back with her old team the Squadron Supreme. Sabretooth tells her they need her. She assures him her decision was tough, but the right one. Blink asks Spider-Man and Longshot if they want to go back home too. They both agree they like it where they are.
As Power Princess prepares for her exit atop the transit deck she tells her friends that she’ll always be there for them. Heather punches in the calculations and she disappears.
A short time later, the Exiles are smack dab in the middle of a training session.  It’s everybody against Sabes. Blink tosses teleportation shards like there’s no tomorrow. Sabretooth manages to dodge them all and gets in close. He shoves Blink off her feet, but she makes a nice landing. Sabretooth moves in for another attack so Blink puts up a teleportation shield right in front of her. She warns Spider-Man that Creed is coming his way.
Not far away Sabretooth comes barreling out of the teleportation vortex. Spidey grabs him as he exits and tosses him over near Longshot. Longshot whips out the knives, which Sabretooth assures can’t hurt him. Longshot deftly avoids Sabretooth’s pounce and throws the blades upwards. The knives cut through some of the crystal stalactites and they come crashing down. They form a wall around Creed, barricading him in.
Blink and Heather smile at Sabretooth, trapped and angry. With a scowl on his face he tells them they got lucky. Heather assures him luck had nothing to do with it.
Back in the command center the Timebreakers emerge from their room. As they do the female image from before manifests itself through the crystal wall. The bugs don’t know what to make of it and run off again. The crystal woman reaches out to one of the monitors and apologizes for her actions, but relents she must do what she must do when she has all of creation to safeguard.
The security alarms start blaring and so the Exiles quit their training session and head to the command center. Heather gets a message from the Tallus that a world will soon be destabilized. She also notes some secondary pulses on the readouts and questions out loud whether the bugs have been messing around again.
Blink asks for more information, but Heather says the static is preventing her from reading anything else. She states the negative potential for the disaster is off the charts. Longshot asks if they should bring Morph with them. The team is at odds over this so Creed tells Blink to make the call. Blink recommends Morph remain behind for a while. So the four of them head up to the transit deck and teleport away.
Heather tries passing the time by posting signs pointing to the various sections of the palace. She runs into one of the Timebreakers who makes a break for it. She chases after him and instead finds the entire community of drones. She picks up one of the guys and asks what’s going on. It tells her they are trying to remain unnoticed by the “end”.
Heather doesn’t like the sound of that and immediately runs a scan on their two biggest threats: Hyperion and Morph. Both are okay and where they should be so she wonders what else could have them all so worried.
Hours later and Heather is sitting at the main console relaxing, eating pizza, and looking for their newest teammate. She stumbles across someone who fits the description, but hangs her head in her hands when she realizes it’s another one from Earth 616.
That’s when Sabretooth comes dropping in... literally. With a face all banged up and swollen he begins to tell her how horribly wrong the mission went, that the other three are prisoners. He tells her they need to give up on that world and save their own if it’s not too late.
Heather helps him up and brings him over to the stasis wall. She collapses under his weight to which Creed jokes she needs to do more exercising. He also tells her he’s not going in the stasis wall; he just needs some major backup. He asks her if she has any ideas.
The Desert Room
A door opens up in the middle of the sky. Psylocke comes falling out, seemingly interrupting a battle she was having with the Shadow King. She gets up and manifests her psychic katana. She surmises she’s no longer in Crossmore Prison.
Psylocke takes in her surroundings and tries to pinpoint her location geographically. Off in the distance she spots a dust cloud. She also spots a figure in the middle running towards her and as he gets closer identifies him as Sabretooth. As he nears she impales him with her sword, the blade going through his midsection and out his back. “Game over butcher! This time I win!” she cries.


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Main Event!- Enemy of the Stars: Part 2 (of 5)
Crystal Palace:
Heather stares at the view monitor, hand over her mouth with a frightened look in her eyes. She wonders aloud what’s happening out there.
Desert Room:
Out there is where Sabretooth is getting his butt handed to him. Psylocke keeps slicing and dicing with her psychic blade, but Sabretooth won’t go down. He even manages to knock her off balance and they commence with the hand to hand. She’s able to dodge all of his swipes, strikes and grabs and then knees him in the gut. She grabs him by the throat and uses the momentum to slam him into the ground.
Crystal Palace:
Sabretooth tries to get some help from Heather, but Psylocke isn’t registering on any of the monitors. Heather keeps hitting buttons, but all she sees is Sabretooth getting the snot beat out of him. She tells Creed she can’t be of any help, that it’s all on him to end the fight.
Desert Room:
Sabretooth dodges a punch from Psylocke and grabs a hold of her arm. He wrenches it behind her and wraps his other hand around her throat. He congratulates her on a good fight and tells her that it’s over. He tells her to calm down and behave. With a smile on her face she tells him to look down first. He’s shocked to see he’s about 200 feet in the air.
She breaks free of his grip and nails him and Sabes plummets towards the ground. As Psylocke watches him fall she asks herself why Sabretooth didn’t try to kill her, but instead tried to make peace. She thinks something might be up.
Sabretooth crashes through a doorway into the Crystal Palace. Before major impact he admires Psylocke’s strength and questions whether he’s in love or going to kill her. He smashes upside-down into a wall.
Things go all hooey in the Palace from the impact. The video screens display only static and one of the bookshelves in Morph’s room topples over, crushing his B-mod device.
Psylocke enters the palace at Sabretooth’s point of entry. She manifests her katana once more and surveys the area. The crystal building material baffles her, as does the architecture. She continues to explore and finds a bathroom, Morph’s living area and some sort of power conduit. She questions where she really is and if there’s a way home.
She continues looking around until Sabretooth jumps out of the shadows at her. He tells her they just want to talk, but her instincts kick into gear and she sends him flying. Luckily he brought Morph for backup, who in a “Luv Chunk” t-shirt and an enlarged mass crushes Betsy where she stands.
Sabretooth tells Morph to keep her pinned, but Psylocke has other ideas. She uses her flight ability to slam Morph up into the ceiling. He lands on his feet, clad in a tuxedo, looking very James Bond-like. He motions her forward like Keanu Reeves in the Matrix and she can’t help but smile at him.
Psylocke is surprised, as a full-bodied projection of Heather Hudson appears where she’s standing. Heather tells Sabretooth to cut it out already. Morph goes back to his regular self and makes introductions. He apologizes for the fighting and welcomes her to the palace. Psylocke smiles and accepts, which infuriates Heather because she still can’t see Psylocke on any of the monitors.
Psylocke introduces herself and explains she’s part of a team known as the X-Men. Sabretooth picks her up in a bear hug and tells her that’s great news. She tells him he’s not the Sabretooth she knows. He asks what hers is like. He almost killed me twice, she explains. Creed tells her he never would’ve missed. Morph tells her not to mind Creed’s sense of humor.
They all meet up in the command center with Heather where dozens of alternate Psylockes are posted on display. Psylocke wants to go home, but Heather tells her it’s not that simple. Sabretooth explains she was chosen because it was determined she would be the best person to help. Psylocke says it’s not her problem, that she has other people who need her.
Sabretooth explains the situation, about Blink, Longshot and Spidey being captured and a world on the brink of disaster. Morph transforms into a bustier Psylocke and asks her how can she refuse if she’s really an X-Man.
Psylocke looks up at the different versions of herself and points out that she’s not listed up there. Sabretooth replies that maybe she doesn’t belong to just one world now, that maybe she’s moved on to bigger things.
As Morph prances around in Psylocke-mode the real Psylocke grabs him by the throat, making him look like an inflated balloon. She politely tells him to stop. Then she asks if they have any proof that they’re the good guys. Heather tells her she’s the first to ever ask. Sabretooth smiles and says she has to have some faith. Betsy doesn’t look pleased.
Earth #1720:
Blink’s in the middle of dishing it out to a bunch of Hand assassins. She’s trying her best to get to Spider-Man so she can free him from some sort of brainwashing machine, but the bad guys keep coming. Someone manages to grab her around the neck so she teleports free and goes to kick the guy in the head, but he catches her foot and cracks her across the face. She looks up at her assailant, blood spilling from her nose. It’s Longshot and he’s been turned.
Longshot tells Blink to give it up already. She kicks his feet out from under him and teleports for a better vantage point. She misses with her punch and he gets her with both feet under the chin. Blink looks up, groggy. She spots Spidey and manages to toss a teleportation shard his way. A shield is erected in front of the machine and the shard slams harmlessly into it. Blink passes out.
Susan Storm materializes from her invisible guise. She comments on the skills of the three Exiles and of how happy she is they’ll all be in her service soon. She’s even happier by the fact they’re all from different dimensions. She thinks of the possibilities of taking over other worlds and even comes up with a title for herself, “Susan Storm, Overlord of Creation.”
Manhattan, New York:
Morph, Psylocke and Sabretooth are teleported to a demolished Manhattan street corner. There are no signs of people anywhere. Morph creates some binoculars from his eyes and scouts the area. He spots two very large Sentinels and an extra-large S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier lying strewn throughout their part of the city.
Psylocke asks Sabretooth what they’re supposed to be doing. Sabes tells her they rescue the team first. Morph drops down to tell them they have company coming. Someone matching the common description of Captain America enters the scene, but he’s followed by a contingent of Hand warriors. Then Elektra appears over by some wreckage and tells them if they want to live to follow her.
The Exiles are teleported to some high tech base. There they run into Nick Fury, who’s not happy to see strangers in their headquarters, Callisto and Reed Richards. Reed was the one who wanted them brought in and asks them to come over. He welcomes them to Free Earth and asks for their help. As he’s talking things over Heather’s hologram pops up.
Heather explains to Sabretooth that she linked her image to the Tallus, which permits her to contact them this way. She also lets him know that she’s only broadcasting to him right now. She adds that she wants him to keep what she’s about to say quiet. Creed asks what she’s talking about. Heather explains she’s finished her analysis and if they don’t complete their mission within 100 hours the whole dimension will be wiped out. Creed asks what they have to do. She tells him Reed Richards must die.


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Why Do We Do These Things We Do? - Enemy of the Stars: Part 3 (of 5)
Earth #1720
Madame Hydra’s Quarters
Susan Storm aka Madame Hydra, admires her newest recruit to the Hydra ranks, Blink, who is currently standing in the room at attention. In comes Wolverine who asks if Sue’s playing with her new toys. They share a few quips before sharing a passionate kiss. After they finish James informs the Madame that Blink’s muscle-bound friend who got away is back and has some friends with him.
Bryant Park
Sabes and Cap are in the middle of a showdown. Sabretooth takes a swing at Captain America and his fist very painfully meets his shield. Cap uses the free moment to whip out his poison gas gun. He fires away and Sabes is knocked off kilter. Captain America comes in with a kick to the midsection and then levels Creed with his shield.
Morph and Psylocke watch the battle from a half-demolished building nearby. Morph questions whether they should join the battle. Psylocke assures him that Sabretooth, if anything like her 616 version, can handle it.
Morph cringes as he sees Sabretooth getting kicked repeatedly and then smashed in the face again by Cap’s shield. Morph can’t take it anymore and gets up to help. Psylocke grabs him by the arm and tells him to wait, watch and learn.
Cap grabs the top of Sabretooth’s hair with his left hand to hold his head up. He brings his right hand back to strike. Sabretooth catches it mid-swing. Cap is taken aback at Sabretooth’s newfound energy. Sabretooth smiles as he presses the advantage and knocks Cap for a loop. Cap’s shield goes flying off towards Morph and Psylocke.
Psylocke tells Morph she’ll catch it with her telekinesis, but he wants to have some fun and jumps for it. He catches it and the shield’s momentum takes him for a short ride.
Morph starts gushing about how awesome Sabretooth is and all Psylocke can do is sigh. Morph apologizes when he remembers that her reality’s Sabretooth isn’t a good guy. Psylocke jokes the way her reality is going Sabretooth is probably on the X-Men right now. Morph asks Psylocke is she trusts them yet. She replies she still has no reason to. Morph, serious for once, tells her the Omniverse needs her; they need her.
The two spectators head to the ground where Sabretooth is rubbing his knuckles, with Cap unconscious hunched over some rubble. Psylocke seems resigned to her fate as she talks about the “seven of them” and how crazy this whole mission is and their job as Exiles to protect the integrity of “everything!” Sabes, with a half-smile, tells her he thought she loved a challenge.
Not far away, at the steps of the fifth avenue side of the library, a lone figure stands amidst the dozens of fallen Hand warriors. Swords and various other weapons protrude from the bodies of the fallen red-clad ninjas. The Slaymaster analyzes the battle that had taken place. There were two adversaries who fought entirely hand-to-hand. One of them used brute strength with no real fighting style (Morph) while the other had skills he had never seen before (Psylocke). The Slaymaster thinks the woman from the battle is very special.
Blink, Longshot and Spidey appear out of nowhere with their own band of warriors. Blink tells him the male was Morph and the woman is someone new, probably a new recruit to the team. Spidey’s not worried and says they’ll deal with her. Slaymaster tells them they can fight the next battle and lets out with a resounding, “Hail Hydra!”
Nearby, Psylocke tries to wake up Captain America. She complains to Sabretooth about him hitting him too hard. Sabretooth tells her to cut him some slack. Psylocke gets up in his face and asks what the deal is. Creed doesn’t know what she means. She tells him he’s the one with the Tallus and in touch with Heather. She wants to know what they have to do to save this reality. “Kill Reed Richards. Or this whole dimension gets wiped” he replies.
Psylocke asks why so Sabes explains that if Reed Richards lives then the bad guys escape this world, which they can’t let happen. So to keep that from happening, he continues, the dimension is sacrificed.  Morph can’t believe that’s the answer. Sabes asks him if he has any better ideas.
Psylocke asks Creed if he thinks he can do it. He tells her Heather ran some parameters and apparently he wouldn’t even come close. Morph puts his arms up in frustration and then tells them he’ll do it. Psylocke disagrees. She realizes that’s why she was chosen for the team. She explains she’s the wild card with the capacity to be as lethal as Sabretooth. One thing bothers her though and it’s why they have to kill Reed. She doesn’t see why they just can’t go after the bad guys. She thinks something’s missing. Creed agrees something’s wrong, but points out they’re running out of time.
Blink teleports in. She jabs Creed in the chest with one of her shards. She goes after Morph next who twists out of her striking range. Blink tries taking a swing at Psylocke next, but Psylocke is too quick and grabs her arm before it makes contact. Betsy takes a swing in return, but Blink teleports free. She reappears directly behind Psylocke and gives her a boot to the back of the head.
Slaymaster watches the carnage from the top of another gutted building. Blink tells her teammates to concentrate on Sabretooth. They all converge on the Exiles’ leader so Psylocke grabs Morph by the hand and whips him around. Morph’s body elongates as he bowls over a few dozen of the Hand. Morph even manages to snag Spidey and Longshot, the latter whom slams into Blink sending them both into a wall.
Morph comes back around and boxes Longshot away from Blink. He chastises him for using Blink as a landing cushion and then transforms into a boxing dummy. Longshot takes a few swings at him, but Morph nimbly dodges them all. Longshot grows more agitated with every miss. He ditches the boxing and goes straight to kicking Morph in the groin.
Longshot then grabs him by the ankles and begins swinging him around. Longshot must not care for his comrades because he keeps slamming Morph into them. Longshot twists his legs like a pretzel as he flips him back and forth. He finally lets go and Morph goes crashing into a motley crew of bad guys.
Spider-Man comes over and decks him while he’s caught in the twisted bodies of the Hand. Psylocke runs over to help Morph and busts Spidey in the chin. Spider-Man introduces himself to Psylocke and then slashes her across the shoulder with his talons. Psylocke applies pressure to the wound with her hand. Sabretooth comes over and decks Spidey, sending him back about 20 feet.
Sabes seizes the moment to consult with Psylocke about his plan. He asks her to complete the mission while he and Morph handle the fight. Psylocke reminds him of the doubts they have about their mission and their teammates’ status. Sabretooth pushes her off and tells her not to worry about their doubts, but assures her all of them are going back when the mission is complete.
Blink is back in the fight and takes on Sabretooth. She tells Sabretooth his girlfriend should have hit her harder. Then she throws some teleportation shards his way. Creed grabs Spidey from off the ground and uses him to block the attack. Spider-Man is teleported away.
Creed moves in to grab Blink, but she teleports in behind him and immediately tosses a shard his way. Sabes ducks and picks up some debris. He hurls it at Clarice and hits her right in the face. She looks up seemingly dazzled as Sabretooth approaches her. She acts all confused and asks Sabes why they’re fighting. Sabretooth tells her it’s almost over. She leaps up with a shard in each hand, calling him a fool. She receives a solid punch to the nose as Sabretooth reminds her he taught her that trick. Blink falls to the ground unconscious.
Resistance Headquarters
Fury and Callisto mix words about the Exiles while walking down one of the disheveled hallways that make up their secret base. Nick is still worried despite Callisto’s outlook. They run into Wolverine who tells them they no longer have that concern. Callisto and Fury aim their weapons, but shocked expressions cross their faces. They both collapse as Sue Storm materializes behind them with a blood-soaked knife in her right hand.
Wolverine embraces his lover. She pontificates on the fragility of human life. Wolverine reminds her her ex won’t be as easy. She assures him he is done and that the world belongs to them.
Close by, Elektra warns Reed about Madame Hydra and Wolverine. He tells Elektra to leave. She tells him she won’t. He tells her it’s important, the moment they’ve been waiting for. He knew Susan would need to confront him face-to-face one day.
He moves over to Elektra and grabs her by the arms, pulling her in close. Even though she doesn’t want to hear it, he explains she needs to leave because that’s something they wouldn’t expect and would give them an edge. He moves his hands to her face and asks her to do it for the future, for a better tomorrow. He tells her no matter what she has to free his daughter and keep her safe. They share a passionate kiss and Elektra leaves with the departing words, “...stay alive.”
Reed turns his attention over to Psylocke who’s been observing them for some time. She’s a bit taken aback that she was spotted. He asks her if she’s there to choose sides or just watch.
Bryant Park
Morph and Sabretooth are tired. Longshot and a decent amount of the Hand are still up and ready to go. Sabretooth tells Morph they just need to keep hitting until they run out of targets. Unfortunately the Slaymaster interrupts their conversation. He tells them their battle has yet to begin... and that it will be their last.


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Shall the Past be Prologue?- Enemy of the Stars: Part 4 (of 5)
Earth #1720
Reed Richard’s Underground Sanctum
Psylocke, despite using her telekinesis to modify her molecular structure to become invisible, is spotted by Reed Richards.  He notices the shocked look on her face and reminds her he was once married to the Invisible Woman.  Reed questions Psylocke as to why she came.  He wants to know whose side she’s on.
Their conversation won’t last long as Madame Hydra and Wolverine are slowly making their way toward them.  Their intention is to kill Reed Richards.
Bryant Park
Meanwhile, the battle between Sabretooth and the Slaymaster has just begun.  Slaymaster offers Sabes one last chance to join Hydra.  When Sabretooth doesn’t accept he leaps at the Exile, sword in hand.
Sabretooth deals him a mighty blow, telling his adversary that talk is cheap.  Slaymaster returns the favor with the butt of his sword and then kicks Sabes in the face.  Sabretooth lands on his back and tries shaking away the cobwebs.  He looks up to see Slaymaster leaping at him, sword poised to plunge into his body.  Sabretooth rolls over and avoids begin skewered by mere inches.  He thinks to himself that this guy is good.
Morph (in Iron Fist garb) has his “iron” hands full with the ninjas.  He asks Sabes if he needs any help.  Creed’s reply, “That’ll be the day.”  He catches one of Slaymaster’s kicks and tosses him into a nearby building.  Slaymaster deftly bounces off the wall and uses one of the Hand ninjas to soften his landing.  He crouches into a fighting pose and tells Sabretooth he’s proving himself to be a worthy opponent.  Slaymaster picks up another sword and assures Sabretooth this will be a battle to remember.
Sabretooth starts looking around for anything that can help him.  He kneels down among a pile of defeated Hand.  Slaymaster approaches, but before getting too close Sabretooth turns around.  Assorted weapons are grasped tightly in each of his hands.  Slaymaster is taken aback.  His words of astonishment are cut short as Sabretooth throws everything he can at him.
Swords, daggers, throwing stars, maces, nunchuks and scythes fly rapidly through the air.  Sabretooth jokes that he wanted to clean up the place; after all it is a public park.  Slaymaster takes some hits and receives some scratches, scrapes and slices, but does pretty well blocking the incoming weapons.  Sabes asks Slaymaster if he’s getting tired yet.  Slaymaster smiles and says, “Not at all.  In fact, quite the contrary.”
Sabretooth stares dumbly at the sword half-lodged into his chest.  Slaymaster smiles a devilish smile and says he tossed one back.  He tells Sabretooth it’s his turn now.  Sabretooth collapses to his knees as Slaymaster walks slowly towards him.  Morph watches in paralyzed horror as Slaymaster picks up a sword from the ground and heaves it over Sabretooth’s head.  He tells Creed it’s time to end the battle.
Reed Richard’s Inner Sanctum
Apparently, during Sabretooth and Slaymaster’s battle Psylocke explained the Exiles’ mission to Reed.  He questions the logic of killing him and how it would save his world.  Psylocke tells him his wife and her crew will escape into the Omniverse using his technology.  By killing him they stay trapped on the planet.
Reed asks if this means he’s the easier target.  He doesn’t accept what Psylocke’s selling.  Reed tells her the people of his dimension deserve something better than annihilation or enslavement.  She tells him to come up with an answer then.  He is Reed Richards after all.  Reed stops and tells her to look at one of his video monitors.  It shows Sabretooth who is about to be skewered by Slaymaster, the Hand’s premier assassin.  Psylocke fixes a frightened stare at the image of Slaymaster and says she knows who he is.
Psylocke is suddenly lost in her own memories.  She reels back to her encounter with 616’s Slaymaster.  He had cut out her eyes to teach her a lesson.  Her brother, Captain Britain, killed him and she eventually received new eyes.  Next time, she thinks she might not be so lucky.
The next thing she knows she’s lying on a rail cart speaking to a hologram of Richards who explains she collapsed and so he moved her away for her own safety.  He tells her he won’t let her or her friends die because of him.  Reed asks her to trust him and do as he asks.
Crystal Palace
Heather sits at her desk staring at the profiles of each Exiles.  In Betsy’s spot is a blank screen.  Heather keeps trying and trying, but she can’t get in contact with the team.  The system is registering them as still alive, that is except for Psylocke who doesn’t seem to exist according to the Palace’s computer system.
Heather tries once again to shut down the deletion protocol for Dimension 1720.  Once again she’s denied.  She takes out her frustrations on the machine, smashing it with her fist.  A miniature figure appears from above the wreckage chastising her for breaking the equipment.  Upon closer inspection the small figure bears a striking resemblance to Heather, possibly some sort of artificial intelligence created by her.  Heather refers to the little “Mini-Me” as “Icon.”
Earth 1720
The White House
This Earth’s White House has been through some major renovations.  Although the exterior of the original building is still there, a giant pyramid shaped structure was built above and behind it.  A statue of Madame Hydra, as tall as the building itself, stands atop it.
Inside the Oval Office, there are several dead Hand ninjas as well as the body of Tony Stark, three swords plunged through his Iron Man armor.  The butcher behind all this bloodshed is none other than Elektra.
Elektra searches around until she finds a young girl trapped inside a crystal shell.  That little girl is Valeria, Reed Richard’s only daughter, and the objective of the mission given to her by Reed.  She smashes the crystal to pieces with her katana blade.  Valeria rubs her head as if waking from a daze.  Then she suddenly lashes out, grabbing Elektra by the throat.
Manhattan
Meanwhile, Sabretooth, hunched over on the ground, pulls the sword from out of his chest and slices Slaymaster with it.  Slaymaster drops his own sword in the attack in the surprise attack.  Creed grits his teeth and tells Slaymaster he doesn’t go down easy.
Sabretooth takes another swipe at him, but Slaymaster nimbly leaps over the blade’s path.  He pops two blades from his boots while in midair and cuts across Sabretooth’s throat.  Morph can’t believe what he’s seeing and turns into a Sasquatch/Thing hybrid.
Full of rage he charges Slaymaster and receives a punch to the gut.  Slaymaster strikes again, but Morph’s mouth appears where his stomach once was and he bites down on Slaymaster’s wrist.  He asks Slaymaster how well he’ll fight with only one arm.  Slaymaster answers him not with words, but a powerful flip that sends him smashing into a steel girder.  Slaymaster tells him he should have swallowed his arm when he had the chance.  Then he flips him back around and on top of Sabretooth.
With both Exiles out of it at the moment, Slaymaster retrieves two more swords from the ground.  He approaches Sabretooth, who slowly gets to his feet, and cuts him across the stomach and chest.  Slaymaster remarks on his wondrous healing ability and proceeds to slice open his triceps and his Achilles tendons.  He stands over Creed once again and asks if he would be able to heal after being thrown in a pit of army ants.  He questions how good his unbreakable bones would be without the flesh to hold them or a brain to tell them what to do.  He brings the point of his sword up to Sabretooth’s eye.
Suddenly, the limp body of Blink comes flying in, knocking Slaymaster to the ground.  Longshot emerges from the shadows and tells Slaymaster they like Sabretooth the way he is.  Slaymaster says he is impressed Longshot was able to break free of Madame Hydra’s control.  He adds that he never heard of anyone doing that before.  Longshot supposes it was luck.
Slaymaster asks him if he really thinks he is equal to him in battle.  Morph regains consciousness and says that together, he and Longshot are equal to him.  Slaymaster recognizes he can barely stand and calls him on it.  Morph concentrates real hard and regains his natural form.  He motions for Slaymaster to bring it on.
Slaymaster tosses a sword at Morph who nimbly dodges it.  It comes hurtling at Longshot who kicks it midair.  The sword bounces off a concrete overhang, a mailbox and a tree branch before returning to its sender and lodging in his bicep.  Slaymaster yells in surprised pain and then receives a smashing response from Morph who changes into a giant gavel and squashes him into the ground.
Morph grabs him by the collar and tells Slaymaster he loses.  Slaymaster just smiles and slams his hands into the sides of Morph’s face.  He then kick tosses Morph into Longshot.  He tells him it only ends after he wins.
A garbled hologram of Heather appears next to Sabretooth and she tells them she can’t see or hear them.  She further explains that all attempts to prevent the destruction of this dimension on her part have failed and that she is giving them a half hour to get together before she brings them home.
Slaymaster watches all this with increased hostility.  He charges Sabretooth and kicks him in the gut.  He accuses the Exiles of playing with them like toys.  He tells them he doesn’t have time now to kill them, but prays they will meet again so he can finish the job.  Slaymaster turns and charges off into the fog.
Longshot jokes that he sounded pretty angry.  Sabretooth tells him to forget about it, that they have to get going.  Morph reminds him they need to get Psylocke.  Creed argues they don’t have enough time.  Morph says they still have 30 minutes.  Sabretooth asks him how he intends to do it.  Morph gives him the thumbs up and points out he doesn’t have the Tallus to bring him home, so he’ll just have to stick around.
Reed Richard’s Inner Sanctum
Madame Hydra and Reed Richards are in the midst of a major brawl.  Reed’s head and heart are encased in force fields and Susan is also using her force field powers to keep Richard’s limbs from doing her any harm.  She mocks his pathetic attempts at beating her.  Reed asks her if it was that easy, wouldn’t he be dead already.  He tells Susan he has developed defenses for anything she can bring at him.
Reed propositions Susan, which includes Wolverine, with a chance to walk away from the whole thing without any further harm.  Susan asks why she should strike a bargain when she’s about to win.  Reed asks what kind of a prize is a world without people.  Susan tells Reed he better talk fast.  Richards asks why she would rule a world when he can give her something greater than all the stars.  He presses a button with his extended limb, which displays a vast array of dimensions on his computer screen. Reed tells Madame Hydra he can give her the Omniverse.
Reed says all he wants in return is for her to leave their world.  Susan wants to hear more.  She removes the force field from around his head and strokes the bottom of his chin.  Susan suggests they might both leave this thing winners.


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We’ll Die Another Day- Enemy of the Stars: Part 5 (of 5)
Earth #1720
Reed Richard’s Inner Sanctum
Madame Hydra and Reed Richards continue discussing the details of their cease-fire agreement. Reed will give her access to an infinite number of parallel dimensions and in return she and her cohorts must leave this Earth and never come back. Susan asks Reed what he gets out of it. The chance to grow old in peace, he replies.
A cylindrical object goes flying through the air and connects with the encroaching, and invisible, Wolverine. Wolverine smashes his head into a wall, his invisible field disappearing. Susan freaks out and tosses a wide force field that knocks Reed crashing into a bunch of equipment. She accuses him of treachery. He asks her what Wolverine was doing behind him, invisible and with claws extended.
She doesn’t relent on the force field and Richards is pressed up tightly against a wall. He tells Susan to calm down and remember the offer he just made her. She says she does, and that she’ll just take the teleportation device from his hand. She tells Reed she doesn’t like sharing.
Madame Hydra unearths Psylocke, who was hiding, while throwing her force fields around. Psylocke gets tossed into the air and smashes into a wall. This surprises Susan and she suggests this new addition keep Richards company in his grave.
Madame Hydra approaches Psylocke and grabs a fistful of her hair. She peers into the Exile’s face and remarks on how pretty she is. Then she tosses her to Wolverine. Reed tries reaching out to her, but his hands get pinned down with invisible fields. Unbeknownst to any of them Psylocke is conscious and playing possum. She maneuvers around Wolverine’s slash, grabs him by the back of his costume and flips him down onto the floor.
Wolverine gets right up and starts slicing away. Psylocke nimbly dodges each attack and then kicks him into some equipment. She thinks to herself this Wolverine is well trained, but too used to winning, which makes him sloppy.
Wolverine dives for her, but she dodges it with ease. She thinks she’s actually starting to enjoy this. However, a new guest arrives, which wipes the smile off her face: Slaymaster.  Psylocke looks upon him in fear and tears begin streaming down her face.
Bryant Park
Sabretooth is dealing with the after affects of the Slaymaster battle. He remarks on how badly hurt he is and how he’s had it that bad before. He puts the final touches on Spider-Man’s restraints and wonders aloud where Morph and Longshot are with Psylocke.
Creed hears someone coming and looks up. He falls over in his weakened state. Valeria approaches and asks if he’s all right. Elektra follows behind and introduces Reed’s daughter as the salvation of this world. Sabretooth says he’s pleased to meet her.
Elektra asks where Sabretooth’s other friends are. He explains they’re doing what comes naturally, trying to save a friend and the world. Valeria remarks she thought that was her job, to save the world. Creed asks how she plans on accomplishing that.
They’re interrupted by a transmission from Heather. She tells Sabretooth they are out of time and need to go. Sabretooth updates her that half the team is missing. Heather tells him it’s now or never.
Elektra warns Sabretooth that if Spider-Man and Blink are taken away they’ll never be free of the Hand’s control. Creed doesn’t believe her, but Elektra assures him she’s right. He argues that at least they’ll be alive, but as monsters Elektra points out. Creed grows agitated and asks Elektra if she’s been listening. Yelling right in her face he says quite pointedly that in a few minutes their whole dimension is going to die.
Elektra just smiles telling him they’ve heard that before. Valeria adds that her dad will free his friends from their mind control if Creed will trust them. Sabretooth scoops up Blink and cradles her in his arms. He reflects on how they’ve spent their lives fighting to be free, to make their own choices about the future. He says he’s not about to quit that now.
Heather’s hologram tells him to stop. Sabretooth says he’s doing it for Clarice. Heather yells at him not to break contact.
Reed Richard’s Inner Sanctum
Slaymaster approaches Psylocke. He tells her she fights well. Slaymaster notices the tears in Psylocke’s eyes and says that must know of him and her fate. Madame Hydra yells at him to stop talking and kill her. She places a force field around Psylocke’s head and hand.
Reed morphs into a giant ball and bowls over Susan. He tells her to let the girl go. Susan says she will, when she’s dead. It all becomes a moot point as Wolverine sneaks up from behind and jabs his three blades into Psylocke’s back. The Exile’s resident ninja collapses to the ground.
Slaymaster and Wolverine bicker about the kill. Slaymaster wanted the battle, but Wolverine argues that it doesn’t matter. Madame Hydra orders them to stop fighting as she cuffs Reed’s hands and legs together with one force field and wraps a noose around his neck with another. She tells Richards to savor his last moments.
That’s when Morph (in Juggernaut form) enters and wallops her in the back of the head. Madame Hydra goes flying. Morph continues his rampage smashing through Slaymaster and Wolverine. Longshot tells Morph he found Psylocke. They both rush to her side. Morph asks how bad it is. Longshot says he found a pulse, but it’s weak.
Madame Hydra is back on her feet. She catches both Wolverine and Slaymaster midair with a force field. With her hold on Richards remaining she slams him up into the ceiling, finally knocking him unconscious. She leaves him dangling and turns her attention to the Exiles.
She tosses a long cylindrical force field at them, knocking Longshot down. Morph isn’t affected as it passes right through his chest. She smiles and asks if he thinks he’s really a match for her. “Actually, I figured that was my line.” Morph replies.
This angers Susan and she throws everything she has at him. She tells Morph her empire was built on the bodies of the Avengers and the X-Corps.
Wolverine, meanwhile, goes after Longshot. Longshot deftly avoids all of his attacks and manages to get in a nice shot at Wolverine’s throat, sending him to his knees. Slaymaster watches this with mild astonishment. He recognizes seemingly random movements always work out for the blond-haired Exile. Slaymaster pulls Madame Hydra aside for a quick word.
When they finish speaking Longshot falls to the ground. Madame Hydra laughs and guesses he didn’t see that invisible field coming. Then Susan holds up the teleportation device in her hand for all to see. She asks Reed if he thought banishing her would save this world, or if he had something better planned. She pushes the button, activating the mechanism. It’s a pity they’ll never know, she adds. The three baddies disappear in a flash of bright light.
And just like that reality #1720 is wiped off the grid. In an instant all of its planets, stars and galaxies are erased.
Crystal Palace
All Heather can do is watch as the whole dimension disappears off her screens. She starts crying, thinking of the friends she lost. She enters the first stage of grief, “denial.” Heather refuses to give up and hopes the systems have messed up like they’ve been known to do in the past. She decides she’ll just keep sending messages until they answer.
Several hours later and Heather has heard nothing but static. She covers her face with her hands and declares, “My friends—are dead!” Some of the Timebreakers have been watching her from a distance. One of their brethren approaches and asks what’s happened. He is told that dimension #1720 has been erased and with it the Exiles.
The Blackness
Time passes and eventually the darkness is broken by light. From that light comes a rebirth and so the dimension is once more.
Earth #1720
Bryant Park
Creed stares up at the sun shining over the city landscape. He can’t believe everything is back to the way it was. The world came to an end and he actually felt his own death. Valeria tells him to thank her dad. He made them a miracle.
Reed Richard’s Inner Sanctum
Reed pulls himself together off the wrecked floor of his hideout. He is very excited that his plan worked. Richards tells Longshot and Morph to get Psylocke upstairs and into the open air. He tells them they have a lot of work to do.
A short time later, Psylocke is strapped to a gurney, awake and talking. Spider-Man and Blink are still unconscious lying on a mattress. Richards thanks the Exiles for their timely arrival for if it weren’t for them he wouldn’t have known about his dimension’s imminent demise. He explains that after intercepting Heather’s comlink transmissions he realized what had to be done.
Sabretooth means know offense, but asks why he would save a world just for three people. Morph jokes that with the Exiles there the population almost reaches double-digits. Reed tells Sabretooth he’s not that arrogant. He wraps his fingers around Valeria’s necklace and tells Creed he always has a plan.
Richards lets the Exiles in on a plan he devised a while ago to save the Earth’s population from their impending enslavement, or worse, annihilation. He had organized a mass exodus of the remaining civilians aboard Giant Sentinels. While Hydra was busy knocking them back down to Earth, Reed “bounced a teleportation field off an orbital satellite and essentially made everyone on Earth who wasn’t Hydra disappear. They were reduced to their digital essence and stored in a pan-dimensional pocket.”  This dimensional pocket, he explains, can be accessed through Valeria’s necklace. Reed estimates they saved a billion, maybe two.
Time passes and Psylocke heals faster than expected, as does the city and the world itself thanks to Earth’s resurgent population. Elektra isn’t around as much during this time. She wonders how she’ll fit in with this new world and fears she may lose the man she loves. Also during this time Blink and Spider-Man are healed of their conditioning. Creed visits the newly healed Clarice and she apologizes to him for what she did. She remembers everything.
As for Reed Richards, people suspect he is more injured than he admits from his battle with Madame Hydra. However, he takes no time for himself, as there’s too much work for him yet to do.
And so Psylocke sits alone thinking of these things and also of what the future holds for her. From out of nowhere Longshot comes riding in on the back of a giant Morph frog. Longshot comments that she looked lonely. Morph offers her to spend the day with friends. Psylocke smiles and takes both of them by the hand, “How can a lady refuse?” Is this the start of a new beginning in her life, she wonders.
Unknown Dimension
Garbed in a white tunic, this universe’s Betsy Braddock has just received a compliment on her beauty. She tells the stranger he is very kind. The man brushes it off, telling her a woman should always hear the truth “at the moment of her death.” The man bends down and starts pounding her in the face. Blood splatters everywhere. Upon closer inspection, the face of the attacker bears a striking resemblance to Slaymaster.


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Home Again- Starting Over Part 1
Crystal Palace
Following a long hiatus in a resurrected dimension, where communications with the Panoptichron were impossible, the Exiles teleport into the Crystal Palace. Blink yells out for Heather, who’s usually nearby, but receives no response. Even weirder is the lights are off and the place smells a bit stale. Spider-Man wonders if the Palace was attacked. Sabretooth advises everyone not to panic.
The lights suddenly turn on so Psylocke throws up a telekinetic shield just to be on the safe side. Morph to yells out in surprise and he immediately feels embarrassed. Longshot wonders who turned on the lights. Sabretooth tells him they’re on automatic and also tells Psylocke she can drop the shield, as he’s not picking up any unusual scents, not even residuals. This means the place has been empty for a long time. Blink suggests they make sure of it.
The Exiles fan out, searching the Crystal Palace and its perimeter. Blink stops by the control room and finds all of the high-end equipment missing. She prays Heather is safe. Longshot and Spider-Man check out other areas of the Palace and find nothing of interest. Even the Bugs and their stuff are gone. Sabretooth heads outside the Palace and takes a moment to stare out over the ocean. Morph stops by his room and picks up an old photograph. He recalls the friends he’s made and lost while a member of the Exiles. Lastly is Psylocke who stops to stare at a long crystal bridge.
Later, the Exiles regroup over a nice meal and discuss the results of their searches. Blink considers everything a total loss, but Sabretooth assures her they can fix what’s busted. He also comments how they found no sign of a fight. It was as if Heather and the Bugs decided to leave. The only question is where they went and why.
That’s when Icon appears above them, much to their surprise. Blink demands to know where she’s been all this time and why she didn’t contact them earlier. Icon explains she was under a security protocol and that she had to be asked a question before she could present herself to them. With that out of the way Sabretooth wants to know what the devil happened while they were gone.
Icon explains Heather thought them all dead, destroyed with Dimension #1720. In a fit of rage she destroyed some of the computer systems. Afterwards, she fell into a deep depression and remained locked in her room, drowning her sorrows in alcohol. The Bugs eventually gave up waiting for her to come around and teleported away. Heather ultimately broke out of her stupor and set about getting herself better and cleaning up the messes she made in the Palace. After repairing what damage she could Heather decided there was nothing left for her at the Panoptichron and teleported herself home.
Sabretooth asks how long they’ve actually been gone. Icon tells him roughly six months Earth time. The Exiles’ are surprised it’s been that long. Blink suggests they go find Heather and let her know they’re back and alive. Blink also recommends they reestablish the team as well as the base and find out what’s happened in the last six months. Morph asks if he can tag along on the trip to see Heather. Blink says she’s happy for the company.
Spider-Man offers to work on the command center with Icon’s help. Longshot proposes he help with that too since his luck power might help speed things up. Psylocke, since she’s a newbie, wants to familiarize herself with the base. Sabretooth offers to give her the guided tour.
Blink and Morph enter the transport deck. Sabretooth punches in the calculations to Heather’s homeworld and reminds them to use their portable Tallus to bring themselves home. Sabes activates the teleport telling them to come back safe.
Earth #3470
Heather Hudson’s house
Morph rings the doorbell a few times and when Heather answers the door says, “Hey Heather—guess who’s not dead!” Both Exiles immediately look down at Heather’s swollen belly. Heather rushes them, wrapping her arms around both their necks. “You’re alive!!” she exclaims.
The trio takes a walk along the beach. Heather discusses how after spending some time back home she considered restarting the Exiles with a new team, but when she found out she was pregnant she ended those thoughts. Blink asks if it’s a boy or a girl. Heather says she won’t find out for a couple months. They talk a bit more about the baby and discuss Heather’s inactive status for the team. The baby starts kicking so Heather has Blink and Morph feel her stomach.
Blink notices the time and explains they need to get back. Heather tenderly grasps Blink’s arms and offers her some words of comfort: never give up on love or faith. She tells Blink she’s learned that creation is full of surprises. That anything’s possible for the Exiles, even happy endings.
Crystal Palace
Slaymaster comes charging at Psylocke from the rear. He wallops her high in the back, telling her the battle will end in her death. She turns about and uses her telekinesis to block an incoming punch. Then she uses her telekinesis to amplify a punch of her own. She nails him square in the chest, but Slaymaster only mocks her. Psylocke responds with a high kick to the face and then another quick overhand right. She leaps into the air for the finishing move, but then her muscles stop working and she loses control over her TK.
Slaymaster stands over the fallen Psylocke and reminds her of the old saying concerning “pride” and “falls.” He raises his fist and tells her it’ll be her epitaph. The closed fist becomes an open hand as the environment around the two enemies disappears. It turns out Slaymaster was a holographically disguised Sabretooth. Psylocke takes his hand begrudgingly after Sabretooth rubs it in he won all three matches.
Psylocke lies down on a table and Sabretooth starts giving her a rubdown. He tells Betsy she’d be dead if he was the real Slaymaster. Sabretooth advises her to be prepared for the unexpected at every level. Psylocke looks doubtful when she asks how she’s supposed to beat a guy who’s better than pretty much everyone. Creed reminds her she has the entire Omniverse to explore to find someone better. With the rubdown finished he leaves Psylocke with these final words, “Your life, Betts, your choice, your fate.”
Over in the Command Center, Spider-Man reestablishes the network. He asks Icon what’s next and then clumsily drops the wrench he was holding. He fires a webline and catches it before it hits the ground. He asks again what’s next and receives a response from the computer system, “System Online.” Spider-Man reads an incoming report and tells Icon to alert the others, they have trouble.
Later, with the team gathered, Spider-Man fills them in on the major Mayday. Blink asks if he knows anything about the Earth in trouble. Spider-Man answers it’s just like his. Blink asks what the situation is. Spider-Man explains they need to get in contact with the dimension’s Fantastic Four. Sabretooth wants to know who’s going to stay behind and monitor the system. Psylocke volunteers. She says she wants to learn the place a bit better and this’ll give her a chance. Blink’s satisfied with all the answers and tells the team to get suited up and ready to roll.
Earth #187319
New York City
The Exiles arrive and find civilians in a panic. They look up to the top of a nearby building where two figures are standing at its edge. They discuss who the two might be. Longshot says he overhead people calling the guy “Moleman.” Someone else says the female looks like she could be a version of She-Hulk.
The crowd starts cheering, but the Exiles know it’s not for them. They turn around and find Victor Von Doom, Bruce Banner, and Johnny and Susan Storm staring at them. Von Doom introduces them as the Four Fantastics and says they’ll welcome them as friends if they’re there to help, otherwise...