Skullfire and La Lunatica attempt to rescue the brainwashed Desert Ghost away from his schemes to the Theatre of Pain as to combat Lunatica's prior criminal allies- the Norns- who assisted her in past death matches to twisted clientele. Metalhead and Rosa Navarro attempt to flee Glitterspike until she begins to have her child. The remainder of the X-Men also set to circumvent to stop Brimstone Love from controlling Desert Ghost and torturing Junkpile.