Uninvited Guests

• Writer - Terry Kavanagh
• Penciler - Melvin Rubi
• Inker - Bud LaRosa
• Colorist - Mike Thomas
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Jason Levine
• Lettering - Troy Peteri
• Editor - Jason Liebig
• Editor - Frank Pittarese
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Nate checks on his old friends in New York; they don't need him. In the old loft, he and Maddie don't notice Threnody in the shadows, but she sees them, together.

  In Dublin, Gauntlet interrogates the locals to find Nate, but the Irish are stubborn. Ness observes and realizes there's a sympathetic heart among them. Maddie and Nate pop right into the middle of it, and Gauntlet opens fire. Nate sends Maddie to the hospital with the wounded Mrs. MacAleer and psi-blasts ineffectively against the Gauntlet armor, while Ness and Scanlon chat.

  Nate negates gravity (like iss. 40), but Gauntlet was prepared for it. Just in time, Maddie ports away with him. They follow; she tries to port Barone out of his armor, but it's shielded. She gets knocked back, but cracks the armor, so Nate blasts away.

  In the ruins of the MacAleers' inn, Nate, Ness, and Maddie are surrounded by hordes of Gauntlet. Ness explains they are a powerful international government agency.