Bad Company

• Writer - John Francis Moore
• Penciler - Jim Cheung
• Inker - Mark Morales
• Lettering - Chris Eliopoulos
• Colorist - Marie Javins
• Editor - Jason Liebig
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  The Demon Bear is rampaging in downtown San Francisco; it is an other-dimensional embodiment of negative emotions that at one time absorbed Dani's parents, and later attacked her (New Mutants 17-20) and was dispelled by Magik's Soulsword.

  Sam blasts into the bear and finds it is just a miasma of negative emotions. Dani uses her cosmic power, but the bear just feeds on it. Sam goes to get Kane; Arcadia shows up and says the bear is after her and Dani. It haunted her and attacked Sledge and Ulysses, so she drove out to find Dani, whose memories she shares. The bear grabs and swallows them both, and they find themselves in a cave in another dimension, with Arcadia's girlhood doll Mary Weather, who talks, and Brightwind, who doesn't recognize Dani.

  Theresa, still mute, is staying with her aunt, a gory mystery writer, in a quaint town called Looking Glass. She goes into an antique shop, where Ophelia maliciously snaps a necklace around her.

  Selene fits out Bobby as a black rook.

  Wu and Lloyd are still observing Tabitha.

  Risque (sent by Sledge) and SHIELD arrive to help. Mary has Arcadia and Dani draw their power back from the bear, but Arcadia can't hold it, and it explodes. The bear and Arcadia disappear, but now there are four Danis (Mirage, Valkyrie, MLF, and Cosmic).