EXCALIBUR

When New England’s super-team, Excalibur, embarks on an interdimensional odyssey, a legendary team is born!Other teams are founded, but Excalibur was forged. Following a plan prepared by her seemingly deceased father Merlyn, the Omniversal Guardian Roma forges links between British heroes Brian Braddock, AKA Captain Britain, his paramour, the metamorphic Meggan Puceanu, AKA Meggan, and the American-based X-Men. Roma covertly arranges for Brian’s sister Betsy, AKA Psylocke, to join the latter group and ensures the X-Men’s seeming deaths are broadcast across the globe. As a side effect, it pulls Brian and Meggan closer to surviving X-Men Kurt Wagner, AKA Nightcrawler, and Kitty Pryde, AKA Shadowcat (later Kate Pryde), who had been recovering from a prior battle on Scotland’s Muir Island. Roma then engineers the escape of abducted former X-Man Rachel Summers, AKA Phoenix (now Marvel Girl), from Mojo’s realm as a catalyst to unite the five as a team, initially working together to prevent both Roma’s agents the Technet and Mojo’s Warwolves from recapturing his former prisoner. Unaware of Roma’s machinations or that they were intended as a weapon to fight Merlyn’s old foe Necrom, the group sets up base in Captain Britain’s lighthouse home. Though from the start, individual members experience several reality slips within the structure, warning signs of Necrom’s approaching apotheosis.

Story added by abdulbasitpalijo on April 14, 2025