Magog has visited Earth before �if you believe the stories of a long-dead horror writer, Howard Pickman. In Pickman�s �fictional� work �Tales of the Dark Elders�, an American Indian shaman banished the forces of Magog hundreds of years before the arrival of the white man, using three artifacts: a red, crystal cube�a stone hatchet�and a metal �sounding fork.� All three were used on �Serpent Head Island�, in Lake Perigannsett�in what is now Massachusetts. Luckily, all three artifacts still exist!
Arctica took the red, crystal cube from the personal safe of Mr. Saturnine (the ABYSS leader who summoned Magog this time�and was killed as a result).
The Drifters take the stone hatchet from the remains of the underground Boston ABYSS base�fighting an immortal, shape-changing creature the entire time!
Finally, the Drifters rush to the Boston Museum of Antiquities to grab the sounding fork (tuning fork). Some of Magog�s demonic henchmen are making a simultaneous break-in � but not for the fork! The Grim Reaper �ALZOL� is looking for his ancient scythe�left the last time he was banished from Earth. To complicate matters, some of the local heroes, �The Battlestars�, rush in � making this a three-way fight! Our heroes later learn that this was a diversion, while the rest of the Battlestars stole an ancient Egyptian statue (and teleported away)!
NOTE: As the armored Battlestar �Defender� flew into the fray, Ramjet blindsided him � knocking him out with one hit! Thus, a rivalry begins�
In the final tally, the Drifters now have the three �banishing� artifacts (Jack Shen took the fork safely to WYRM headquarters)�the Battlestars now have a statue of the goddess �Mayet��and Magog�s demons didn�t get the scythe (ALZOL was broken into pieces�again�and Shaard was melted!). Inferno Magi goes to the Battlestars� headquarters, to quietly investigate the vigilante heroes�and comes back with a glowing report � and a Battlestars communicator! To find Magog, the Drifters visit the dim-witted �RUNT��and Crater convinces him that the Drifters are now Magog�s recruits!
The team then rushes the three artifacts to Serpent Head Island, to see if they can somehow stop Magog from opening a dimensional portal � as the Indian shaman had, centuries earlier. The �fictional� story by Howard Pickman mentions a stone alter, but the small, uninhabited island appears to be empty�until Ramjet calibrates his sensors and discovers an invisible stone structure! Literally tossing-aside the unseen structure, our heroes find the small, original alter�then Magog and company arrive!
Shaard, Conflaar and Alzol put up a fight, while Magog and some human lackeys hurriedly try to open the portal to the Dark Dimension! The Drifters � however � clean house, take names, and use the three artifacts to implode the portal! All the demons are sucked-in (except for Runt, who is too far away)! THE WORLD IS SAFE! ��though the Battlestars are still acting increasingly-savage�and Runt is now the de facto leader of �the Demons� street gang!
The heroic Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Arcane, appears�too late to be any help. He should have been fighting Magog from the start, but something else has occupied him�
The Drifters visit the Battlestars at their floating base, �the Bastion.� The Battlestars are polite, but wary. With a little flirting from Crater, the magical/dimensional �Solitaire� removes Crater�s �imbedded thug�, restoring him to full power! The Battlestars offer communicators to the team�but only Crater and Jamaleh accept them.
Crater-Maker has been frequently palling around with the Battlestars � fighting alongside them � and getting caught up in their extremism! The savage Battlestars have, by this time, driven-out most of the crime in Boston�and are now spreading their �war against evil� to other cities! Strangely, heroes of other cities are starting to join the Battlestars in their bloodlust.
Jamaleh has ignored the Battlestars and concentrated on �aligning herself with the Force� of this world, becoming more powerful as a result. She�ll need the extra power, as her light saber has been growing ever-weaker! Jam has miniaturized her gas mask, to just barely cover her nose and mouth. Jam has also started Jedi training �the Owl Girl.� Jessica is impulsive and unfocused, but eager.
James Colt (alias Ramjet) has built a fledgling business/lab/house. �Colt Technologies� does independent, advanced research and development�mostly for WYRM.
Arctica and Jack Shen have been working together at Jack�s detective agency�and, despite some jealousy from Jack�s fianc�, have developed a genuine friendship. Nonetheless, Arctica still maintains a habit of going out on her own � without telling anyone where or why.
Sidekick has become a jet-setting super-model, and left the team.
Stretch returns from visiting his sister, �Eunice�. While he�s still amnesiac, Stretch is all smiles�and reports how he met the surviving (and retired) members of �his� old team, �Freedom Force.� This world�s �Stretch� was fighting crime in the early 1960s�before being killed averting �World War Not�.
�Harmon International� sues �Ramjet� (and numerous other armored phenoms) for patent infringement! Harmon Intl. built the armor worn by Defender (of the Battlestars), and contends that Ramjet�s armor is an illegal knockoff! James Colt is indignant, and convinced that Defender has initiated this suit as payback for his easy defeat at the Boston Museum! Colt is also convinced that James Harmon IV � head of Harmon Intl. � must actually be Defender.
Jessica Harwezeske (the Owl Girl) turns 16, and gets tracked-down by a law firm�which presents a pre-recorded holographic message from her dead (and human-looking) parents! �Darvus� and �Jenn� were Jedi Knights, whose spaceship was sucked through a dimensional rift while Jenn was pregnant with Jessica. Landing on Earth, apparently destroying their damaged ship, and raising Jessica�the family moved to the town of Minerva when their daughter gradually mutated into her present, avian form!
As we�ve seen, the fanatical group �Immaculate Earth� occasionally assaults Minerva. Darvus and Jenn successfully defended the town several times�but were eventually killed, and their light sabers taken. Where Jessica once feared Immaculate Earth, her feelings now turn more to hatred and revenge�
FBI agents (�Phenom� Division) �Mulder� and �Scully� question the Drifters about the Battlestars. During the interview Scully visibly recognizes Arctica � yet says nothing.
No gratuitous fight this episode�dangit!
At the same time, Jack Shen�s detective office blows up � with Jack in it!! The ground floor office and second floor apartment are in flames, and Jack�s mother is trapped on the third floor! Nancy Shen hysterically telephones everyone she can think of, but gets no response from Arctica � which she relays to the Drifters. Helen is quickly saved, but Jack is horribly burned�and Arctica is missing!
The team finds Arctica in the hospital (�surrounded by cops, since the Battlestars have scared-away most other crime!). Arctica is fading fast, as the doctors struggle to warm her chilled body! It�s not until Ramjet explains Arctica�s dependence on cold that the doctors ice-down her body, and Arctica starts healing inhumanly fast! Arctica has regeneration � but never knew it, since she�s never been shot before!
The Boston Police Detectives Murtoch and Riggs investigate the case, and question our heroes. Who would want to kill Arctica and Jack? Jack�s detective rival, Ted Tanaka, is not so bloodthirsty. Arctica has never mentioned having enemies�but then, she hasn�t mentioned much of anything. She�s very secretive! Adding to the mystery: the high-tech bullet that went through Arctica kept going into the pavement for more than a foot! What kind of weapon was it, and why was it fired only once?
The FBI (�Phenom� Division) also investigates. Agent Mulder appears with a new partner (Agent Krycek), since Agent Scully took a leave of absence shortly after questioning the team about the Battlestars (episode #14).
For protection, Arctica and Jack Shen are moved into the same room of the same hospital � with Crater standing guard. Worrying that there might be another attempt on Arctica and Jack, Ramjet (with cooperation from Riggs and Murtoch) pretends to move the wounded to his medical lab at Colt Technologies�and carefully leaks to the press, police and general public that the move has taken place. Sure enough, that night a truck bomb is detonated next to Colt Technologies! Since the building is reinforced and hardened, the explosion only punches a hole in one wall.
While our heroes are reacting to the attack, Arctica calls from the hospital �mumbles that she�s in trouble � and the line goes dead! Ramjet rockets to the hospital and finds the entire wing (including Crater) unconscious. It�s a gas attack! Our armored hero also finds two dark-clad, commando-types around Arctica. They quickly turn and fire�and a volley of double armor-piercing machine gun rounds blasts Ramjet through a wall � and punches through his armor!!
Still no gratuitous fight�