Cracked Foundation

• Writer - John Francis Moore
• Penciler - Anthony Williams
• Inker - Scott Elmer
• Lettering - Chris Eliopoulos
• Colorist - Mike Thomas
• Editor - Jason Liebig
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Somebody's been reading the back-issues!

  Millions of years ago, the Celestials visited Earth, sent their Gatherers to explore, and genetically manipulated three races: the Eternals, humanity, and the Deviants.

  The Damocles Foundation is working out of an underground base in the Amazon, a former Deviant city. They have a leftover Gatherer and plan use Reignfire to power it. Selene has brought Bobby there to stop them, before they become rivals to the Hellfire Club, but they are captured by the Sword.

  X-Force visit Sledge's junkyard in Detroit to follow up on Uncle Luke's story (last iss.) and finds Ulysses and Arcadia there.

  Ulysses explains: Eternals and Deviants fought for millenia and became humanity's gods and devils. They called a truce a millenia ago. When man split the atom, Indigo, threatened, gathered Deviants, Eternals, and humans to form the Damocles Foundation, to create a new species to control the planet.

  He gets Veeg to teleport them to the Amazon, and they break Bobby and Selene out of their cell. Indigo cancels everyone's powers, fistfights his brother, and mesmerizes Arcadia. Meanwhile, Selene uses her magic to activate Reignfire in the Gatherer. She demands control of the Foundation; Indigo sends the Sword, but the Gatherer turns them into lizards. During this distraction, X-Force get their powers back. Somehow in synch, Arcadia and Dani destroy the Gatherer. Selene is mad.