Blood Brothers

• Writer - Terry Kavanagh
• Penciler - Roger Cruz
• Inker - Bud LaRosa
• Colorist - Mike Thomas
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Editor - Jaye Gardner
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras
• Lettering - Albert Deschesne

Summary

  In Canada, Dept. H has been quietly preparing to cooperate with anti-mutant programs in the U.S. government. They are transferring Aurora, captive and drugged, on a train which Havok and his Brotherhood attack, with Nate observing.

  Nate reads a guard's mind and learns that the train is shipping poison gas (Coldsnap, or CS-9), so he joins the battle and takes over the guards' minds and the train.

  They deliver Aurora to professional help, then give Nate a chair and helmet to restore his TK. He later wanders the base and finds a locked vault, and inside, the poison. He confronts Fatale and Havok, who says the poison was their main objective, so he reads Havok's mind to make sure he isn't under someone else's control. Alex lets him learn of Dark Beast.

  Back in New York, mysterious things wait for Threnody in the loft.