(Cover Date: November, 1987)

Summary: Crimson Commando & Stonewall have their sentences commuted in exchange for joining Freedom Force. Super-Sabre shows up to join the group. Destiny has a premonition that the X-Men are going to die. Storm is with Naze in the Rockies. Naze collapses, saying he is ill from the venom of the demons they fought. Rogue scouts the Bay Area for any signs of the Marauders. She joins Longshot, Dazzler & Wolverine, who are practicing their combat skills. Madelyne stands at the top of a cliff, thinking about her tragic life since she married Scott. Storm prepares a restorative brew for Naze, but he won't drink it unless she does, saying she was infected with venom also. A giant bear breaks into their shack & knocks her outside into now freezing weather. She is then attacked by a giant snake. The snake is destroyed by explosions, & Storm sees Forge. Forge's hand turns to metal claws, & he grabs her. She stabs him with her knife, & he collapses. She returns to the shack, where things appear as they were before. Storm tells Naze that she must destroy the now evil Forge, much to Naze's delight. Havok climbs to the top of the cliff where Madelyne is standing. He tells her what happened between him & Polaris & talks her out of giving up. more