X-Force #43

Fabian Nicieza - Writer
Tony Daniel - Artist

Opens with Sam searching for Bobby since is disappearance in X-Force 29. Sam is trying to find Bobby by using Cable's sensory array. Siryn walks in and tells Sam that it's not working and Sam agrees with her. Sam turns it on and it locates Bobby in a very short period of time. Cuts to Boomer in Greenwich Villiage who witnesses a volunteer trying to help a prositute and Boomer thinks that could have been her if not for the New Mutants. Cuts to Shatterstar and Rictor at a dance club and Shatterstar seems really out of place. When he runs into a woman she looks him over and starts to come on to him. Shatterstar gets real nervous and runs out of the club. Cuts to the Israel desert where Cable is preparing to help prevent the end of the world (XM 40-41 and UXM 320-321). Sam calls him and tells him that he located Bobby and Cable warns Sam to be careful. Sam, Jimmy, and Terry are about to leave to find Bobby when Locus appears and teleports the team. Boomer is trying to help the prositute when the team teleports in front of her and scares the prositute away. Boomer leaves with them. Cuts to Rictor telling Shatterstar that it is okay to be nervous and Shatterstar tells Rictor that he was not bred for emotional feelings. The team arrives and teleports the two away. Cuts to the MLF being hunted down by an unknown force. Wildside is shot by solar energy and then Forearm when he protects Moonstar. Moonstar runs towards her horse when it is killed by the unknown assaliant. Just when Moonstar thinks she is going to die X-Force appears. It turns out the attacker is Reignfire who reveals to the team that he is ... Roberto DaCosta! As he is about to attack the team the world ends.

Summary by Peter Enger