| Captain America (1st series) #333-334: | The newly-hired Captain America, John Walker, is sent by Val Cooper to train against Blob, Pyro and Avalanche. He doesn't really have the knack for using a shield in battle, and really muddles his way through, but manages to defeat Avalanche and Pyro before the Blob nearly squeezes the life out of him and Val intercedes. Freedom Force, especially Blob, make fun of the new Cap. |
| Uncanny X-Men #223: | After the debacle with Spider-Woman, Val Cooper brings three new members to the team: the World War II veterans Stonewall, Super Sabre and Crimson Commando. Destiny foretells that the X-Men will die in Dallas. |
| Uncanny X-Men #224: | Val Cooper introduces the media to the idea of Freedom Force. Meanwhile, Mystique approaches Rogue about Destiny's vision. |
| Uncanny X-Men #225-227: | The X-Men visit Forge's Eagle Plaza to search for Storm, but Freedom Force meets them and plans to take them into custody. Mystique's main reason is to save Rogue from dying (like in Destiny's vision). A battle between the groups rages until suddenly the sky opens up. The two teams now not only face each other but a magical foe - the Adversary. As chaos breaks loose, the teams agree to work together. Meanwhile national TV arrives to record the whole event. Upon the return of Storm and Forge from Elsewhere a solution becomes clear. Forge casts the Spirit Spell, sacrificing the lives of the X-Men to contain the Adversary. The media and Freedom Force watch helplessly as this occurs, and Mystique blames Forge for Rogue's death. Unknown to them the X-Men are resurrected by Roma. |
| New Mutants (1st series) #65: | Magik plans revenge on Forge for killing the X-Men. As she and the New Mutants attack him, Freedom Force intervenes, since Destiny was able to predict the plot. After a long fight "Forge" is revealed as Mystique, the Mutants leave then for the real Forge. |
| X-Factor (1st series) #30-31: | Cyclops and Jean Grey want to talk to Freedom Force about the X-Men, since they were with them before they "died". But Freedom Force want them to sign for the Mutant Registration Act. Incredibly the pair beats the odds of nine to two and receive from Destiny the information they came for. |
| Captain America (1st series) #339: | Back in their governmental base, the Blob laughs about the sacrifice the X-Men made in Dallas. |
| Captain America (1st series) #346: | The government wants to capture the Resistants , a group violating the Registration Act. They get their attention through a fake trial against “Quicksilver“, actually Mystique in disguise. The other members act as judge, lawyer and jury. Yet it is Capatin America (John Walker) who defeats the Resistants. |
| X-Factor (1st series) #33: | After watching X-Factor defeat the Alliance of Evil , some Freedom Force members show up to take the villains into custody. |
| X-Factor (1st series) #40: | X-Factor hands over rescued mutant children and babies to Freedom Force, who promise that the government will trace their parents. |
| Daredevil (1st series) #269: | Blob and Pyro have to make a young mutant girl register, but Daredevil saves the girl. Spiral angrily teleports the pair back to their headquarters. |
| Marvel Comics Presents #41: | Freedom Force frees Senator Kelly, who was held hostage by a south american drug syndicate. |
| New Mutants (1st series) #78, 80, 82: | Right in the middle of a crisis with Danielle Moonstar, the New Mutants have to face Freedom Force, who once again try to capture Rusty Collins for not registering. Skids protects him with her force field and tells the New Mutants to go to Asgard and deal with the crisis. While they are away Freedom Force simply cuts out the ground on which the force field stands. With the ground-slice and the two mutants in the force bubble they leave. After long hours Skids faints and lowers the force field. Both she and Rusty are arrested. |
| Uncanny X-Men #254-255: | Forge asks Valerie Cooper for help when Muir Island is attacked by the Reavers . Reluctantly Mystique accepts, even though she doesn’t have the full team at hand. (Spiral, Crimson Commando and Super Sabre are said to be on another mission) While Stonewall gets killed by Donald Pierce during the fight, and Avalanche receives heavy injuries from Lady Deathstrike. Destiny who remained on the sidelines dies at the hands of Legion. The mentally disordered boy got in a blood-rush caused by fighting the Reavers. Destiny foresaw her own death, but chose not tell Mystique about it. |
| Avengers (1st series) #312, Punisher (2nd series) #29: | With Mystique gone griefing for Destiny (as can be seen in X-Factor Annual #6), some members return to their formal criminal activities. During the Acts of Vengeance, the Blob, Avalanche (supposedly healed) and Pyro attack the Avengers unprovoked. |
| Hulk (2nd series) #369: | Mystique returns and is angry about her team’s performance. The fight with the Avengers reopened Avalanche’s stitched wounds, forcing him to stay out of action for a while. Mystique is assigned to investigate a monster sighting in New York; she sends her team out to capture the grey Hulk. During the fight Crimson Commando has doubts about his future with the team. He sees a lot of differences in age and maturity between him and other members like Pyro and Blob. |
| New Mutants (1st series) #86-89: | After Rusty and Skids escape from prison they face the Vulture and fight him. They win the battle but are totally exhausted and easy prey for a small task force of Freedom Force. A new villain team surfaces: the Mutant Liberation Front . They are seen battling Cable and later free Rusty and Skids to include them in their ranks. Cable who was found unconscious on the scene is interrogated by Freedom Force, but declines to join them. He is able to escape from Freedom Force's quarters, but they follow. By chance he runs into the New Mutants who help him drive them off. |
| Marvel Comics Presents #82-87: | Anonymously Emma Frost gives Freedom Force the personal data file of Firestar, Angelica Jones. Mystique wants her to register or join Freedom Force, but Firestar refuses. In the battle her father gets hurt. After a mysterious group of scientists make sure that he survives, they name the price - Mystique. They lie about only wanting to take a few cell samples, but when Firestar delivers them the unconscious Mystique, she realizes that far more is at stake. She then not only has to fight the rest of Freedom Force, but the scientists as well. Still she is able to free Mystique, who is grateful and ceases her attack on her. Through the whole incident, Spiral seemed to get more and more bloodthirsty. |
| Marvel Graphic Novel "Avengers - Deathtrap: the Vault": | A prison break is underway at the Vault, and the Avengers and Freedom Force are called in to stop it. Freedom Force begins digging a tunnel into the Vault when they are attacked by Hydro Man and nearly drown. He and his comrades use Freedom Force to trap some of the Avengers. Fortunately, other Avengers are able to rescue them before the plan succeeds. The two teams get into a morality conflict over the use of force on prisoners. They are interrupted by Venom and some of his cronies, who admit to the "heroes and pseudo-heroes" that they are all desperate to destroy the warden's bomb, and so a temporary truce is formed. Thunderball, Iron Man, and Hank Pym go to disarm it, while the rest of the Avengers and Freedom Force are trapped in Klaw's sound cage as hostages to guarantee good behaviour on the heroes' part. The bomb is disarmed at the last minute and then the heroes escape the cage, leading to a free-for-all battle between the prisoners and two teams. Eventually, the inmates are subdued thanks to the efforts of Crimson Commando, Iron Man and Pym. |
| Uncanny X-Men #266, 269: | Val Cooper under the mental hold of the Shadow King visits Mystique, who already expected her. Destiny left a note that foretold this meeting - Val is there to kill her. Later Val appears in the news and tells that Mystique was killed by an as-of-yet unidentified person. |
| New Mutants Annual #7, Uncanny X-Men Annual #15, X-Factor Annual #6: | The remaining team (Blob, Pyro, Super Sabre, Avalanche and Crimson Commando) is sent to Iraq to liberate an important scientist. Unexpectedly they face a local super team called Desert Sword that kills Super Sabre and critically wounds Commando. The other members try to escape but get separated. Blob and Pyro kill the scientist to make sure he does not fall into the wrong hands. Disgusted Avalanche gets the badly wounded Crimson Commado to safety leaving his fellow members behind. The Blob and Pyro have to surrender to the Iraqi army. |
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