Hellcat stumbled on a gang caper and began busting it up. The gang members resented her interference and tried to kill her for it. They were disrupted by Daredevil, Moon Knight and the Black Cat.

Daredevil asked her what she was doing. Hellcat confessed that she was restless without her fellow Defenders and craved action.

Daredevil knew she could take care of herself but did not want her patrolling the city on her own. He asked the Black Cat to work together with her. Felicia was reluctant initially but gave in.

Day 17: Early evening, an alternate reality, near a replicated Smallville.

Jean Paul Beaubier; aka Northstar, had been shaken severely by the disappearance of Heather Hudson alias Vindicator. He was further shaken when Puck disappeared.

This stuff was happening to the Americans, not Canadians! Why was it happening to them now?

To relieve his sense of helplessness, he went skiing.

Because he was who he was, he only challenged the most difficult slopes.

Northstar found his favorite, most difficult slope and let himself go.

Northstar was a seasoned professional and had seen a previous avalanche, therefore he recognized the signs of a new avalanche as it pursued him. Slipping into superspeed, he tried to avoid the pursuing avalanche only to be driven directly into a rift.

The Shadow King looked down at his body. Somehow he had been restored to his Amahl Farouk body. He had lost this body long ago, Somehow, he had been restored to his former body. Shadow King could not be happier --- at least until he turned and observed the arrival of Northstar.

Northstar emerged from the rift and assessed his new surroundings. The Shadow King was the first thing he noticed. He had never fought the Shadow King but he recognized him from file photos the X-Men kept. The odd thing was that this body was supposed to have been destroyed.

He couldn't take chances, the Shadow King might possess him. Faster then the villain could react Northstar knocked him unconscious.

As he knelt over the Shadow King's form he in turn was knocked unconscious. Nightmare, Arcane and Eclipso had appeared behind him and attacked. Eclipso gathered up the limp form of the Shadow King while Arcane made for the form of Northstar. Before they could get away, they were interrupted by Hercules, Ms. Marvel and the three Legionnaires.

Arcane hurled Northstar at the oncoming heroes and the villains teleported away.

Nightmare, Eclipso and Arcane brought the Shadow King to a specially prepared merchant's shop in Khandaq. The shop was magically prepared to be a front for the Shadow King to operate.

Somehow Nightmare had been alerted to the Shadow King's pending arrival and told to get the Shadow King a place in Khandaq to work from. Nightmare wasn't sure who gave him these instructions but suspected the mysterious entity that had brought all of them to this reality was behind it.

The trio revived the Shadow King and he was given instructions about where he was and to be careful not to alert Black Adam to his presence.
He was; however, instructed by Nightmare to spy on Black Adam. Eclipso was left with the Shadow King to help him obey these instructions.

When Northstar came to, he recognized two out of five faces hovering over him. He asked, "Where am I?"

To which Ms. Marvel replied, "Well that's a long story. Let's just say, you've joined everyone else who have gone missing."

Ms. Marvel escorted him to meet with Nick Fury.

The Mole Man managed to get the vampire Batman to New Orleans just in time for dusk to set in. He settled his charge in a New Orleans mansion and had his Moloids store Gotham Soil liberally in the cellars. Then he waited for the Vampire Batman to rise from his coffin.

Snowbird reached her destination, The Great White North. Known to mortals as the Northwestern Territories. It was here that was the traditional home to her natural enemies, the Great Beasts. None of the Great Beasts were here, --- yet.

She knew instinctively that one was coming and she settled down to wait.

Northstar received a whirlwind briefing from Nick Fury and told that his Alpha Flight teammates would flesh it out. Then he was sent to join Vindicator and Puck in order to defend Toronto.

Vindicator was notified of the bizarre behavior of what appeared to be Sasquatch earlier in the day. She was notified that he was last seen heading due North.

Heather considered it. she knew it had to be Tanaraq and not Sasquatch and he was likely headed to his traditional stomping grounds in great Northwest Territories. There was little she could do about it with only Puck as backup. If Tanaraq chose to attack Toronto for whatever reason, she would be greatful for the assistance of the X-Men.

She also worried that her good friend Walter Langkowski was again in the thrall of Tanaraq. If he was, she was still helpless without the majority of her teammates.

She turned her focus to helping Toronto.

After a long ride, Blade arrived at a Comanche settlement with his Kiowa guides. He dismounted and was brought to the Comanche chief. There was much grief and wailing in the camp. Many of his braves had been lost to the evil spirits that craved blood. Blade felt there was no time to lose and he was chafing to root out the vampires that were causing the tribe so much grief, but the Comanches and the Kiowa held great stock in ritual and insisted on a conference where they all smoked as they discussed Blade and what he hoped to accomplish.

Since Blade was raised in London, his only real experience with native Americans were from the movies. Night had fallen and he stressed dramatically the importance of his need to begin the hunt. He asked for guides to take him to where the problem seemed to originate.

The Comanches saw that Blade was not afraid and seemed to be eager to confront the threat of the evil spirits, so the few remaining warriors felt challenged to rise to his level of courage.

They led him to a ghost town not far from their camp.

Mr. Sinister was having great success with his Jean Grey clone. She would be the Goblyn Queen soon, very soon. This time though, he would keep her at his side until he had a better sense of this strange world, he also initiated the cloning process for Arclight, Harpoon, Vertigo and Sabretooth.

He wanted a force to back him.

Cosmic Boy thought about the girl Polaris. She was very attractive. Her green hair stood out here in this time period but in the 31st century, it wouldn't even be noticed.

She was from another universe but she had the powers of a Braallian! Plus she was the daughter of this Magneto, he kept hearing about. His duty for now was to defend Smallville but later; when the arrivals began occurring elsewhere, he would seek her out to help her define her powers and ask her about her Dad.

The vampire Batman rose from his coffin. He looked piercingly at the Mole Man and his swarm of Moloids.

"What have you done?" He demanded. "Where am I? Why have you brought me here?"

"I was directed to. To prevent your inevitable destruction by your doppleganger."

There was a long pause. "Directed to? By whom?"

"I would assume it was the force that has brought us here."

"And you obeyed? Simply because he ordered you to? Who are you?"

"I am known as the Mole Man. And I have no intention of ignoring someone who can toy even with mighty Galactus."

"I don't know anything about a Mighty Galactus but I do know that I am not someone you want to cross!"

"I am prepared for any retaliation you choose to direct at me. I have been given this special flashlight for instance. It's not a normal flashlight. Allow me to demonstrate."

With that he aimed a thin beam at the vampire's leg. Batman clutched his leg in agony.

"Pure sunlight. Would you like me to widen the beam?"

"No! Begone with you."

"Certainly! But I want you to know, my moloid swarms would have ripped you to shreds even if I did not have this. Even your vampiric powers would not have saved you."

With that, the Mole Man and his Moloids took their leave.

Batman and his pursuing force of Plastic Man and Big Barda were stymied by many cave ins and underground denizens who had allied themselves with the Mole Man and sent underground threats to slow them down. Barda herself struggled mightily with the Umber Hulk that confronted her while Batman and Plastic Man were forced to defend themselves from a ravenous Bulette. By the time they extricated themselves from that the cave ins became too much for even Batman to follow the trail.