Strange Interlude

• Writer - John Francis Moore
• Penciler - Anthony Williams
• Penciler - Chris Renaud
• Inker - Hector Collazo
• Inker - Scott Koblish
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Colorist - Kevin Tinsley
• Editor - Jason Liebig
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Ry'lor is a sun god living on a Pacific island. When X-Force approaches, he attacks them with fire pits, giant rats and bees.

  The Eternals help them, saying Dani is the only one who can defeat Ry'lor. They send them to a temple containing an alien engine which is transforming the island. Bedlam fails to disrupt it; instead the team is transformed, except for Dani. She tries but fails to help; the Eternals reveal that they are leeching her power and strike her down.

  Ry'lor wakes her and telepathically swaps life-stories. He was an interstellar conquerer, but when he came to earth, he turned a new leaf and tried to help the natives. They turned against him, so he killed them and has lived in solitude ever since.

  He says Dani is a conduit of the infinite quantum energy that binds all things. She taps into it and shuts down his broken engine. She tells him to get a life, and he decides to return to the worlds he attacked and make amends.

  The Eternals are working with Odysseus to capture Arcadia (iss. 83-84). X-Force attacks and easily defeats them.

  Domino returns to San Francisco just in time to say goodbye to Bobby.