Hot Lava

• Writer - John Francis Moore
• Penciler - Mark Morales
• Penciler - Guillermo Zubiaga
• Colorist - Marie Javins
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Editor - Bobbie Chase
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes.

  On vacation, Bobby and Tabitha go surfing and wipe out. Tabitha sees Lava People, which she mistakes for tikis, marching across the sea floor. When she calls the team over, they are gone.

  At a luau, Bobby spends freely and annoys the waitress, and James bumps into Risque, who asks for help. He refuses, but she is attacked by Krotok, rising from the surf, so he defends her. She explains that Sledge, the Vanisher, and she were trying to get a mystical artifact: the "Heart of Pele," and ran into Lava People. Also, if the Heart is not returned, Hawaii will be destroyed by volcanoes.

  Risque takes them to Kilauea, where they meet Sledge. Lava People surround them, and Sledge explains that Vanisher vanished with the Heart. Jinku lets two of them go to retrieve it: the rest are hostages. Sledge sends Theresa and Bobby to a hotel in Maui, where they find the Vanisher by the pool. Theresa flirts with him to get close enough to scream in his ear; Bobby strong-arms him into producing the heart.

  They give it to Jinku, who says he will use it to destroy the earth by triggering every dormant volcano. Risque tells the team to attack so they can return the heart to the earth's core in time. They do, and Pele stops masquerading as Risque. She allows Vanisher and Sledge to leave, and promises the team a vacation without further interruption.