…By the Sword

• Writer - John Francis Moore
• Penciler - Jim Cheung
• Inker - Ray McCarthy
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Colorist - Marie Javins
• Editor - Bobbie Chase
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras
• Script - Jay Faerber
• Lettering - Emerson Miranda

Summary

  Domino intends to keep her promise and find Jesse's brother.

  The Sword wants Arcadia; Sam needs X-Force as backup, so Arcadia uses her power to port them there. The Sword easily defeats them, and their old teammate Ulysses. Then Sam and Tabitha recover and ambush them, taking them down. Arcadia turns them to crystal and plans to shatter them, but Moonstar intervenes. Arcadia transmutes her, too, so Ulysses sedates her. He explains Arcadia's (untrained) power to alter reality is too dangerous and must be kept from his own people, the Deviants. He takes her off in the Sword's ship, Cannonball rejoins X-Force, and they go over his mom's for breakfast.

  The leader of the Sword instructs Dr. Chandra to either recruit X-Force or eliminate them.