publication date: April 1988

pencil: Alan Davis

story: Chris Claremont

inks: Paul Neary & Mark Farmer

colors: Glynis Oliver

Kitty Pryde, a guest of Moira MacTaggart's house, is haunted by strange nightmares involving the X-Men, which she believes are dead.
When news of their deaths reaches the Braddock house in London, Psylocke's brother Brian (aka Captain Britain) starts drinking again.
His girlfriend Meggan decides to ask Kitty for help.
Nightcrawler is also shocked by the deaths of the X-Men and vents in the Danger Room.
Nightcrawler and Kitty are visited by Gatecrasher and her Technets, tasked by the Majestrix of the Omniverse, Opal Luna Saturnine, to capture Phoenix (Rachel Summers).
Rachel, meanwhile, is traveling between dimensions, confused.
During the first meeting between Kitty and Opal, the young woman is fascinated by the beauty of the woman.
A detail that will be resumed morbidly later.
Rachel Summers is attacked by the War-Wolves, metallic creatures in the service of the Majestrix.
To escape the War-Wolves Rachel manages to return to the real world, London.
Meanwhile, Nightcrawler reaches Brian Braddock and sobers him up by throwing him into the sea.
Rachel is attacked by the Technets and the War Wolves, but Captain Britain, Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde and Meggan arrive to help her.
The group manages to fend off the attackers.
That same evening, the new group decides to work together, taking the name of Excalibur.