Issue 13

Date:  July, 1991
Title:  Forever Yesterday, Part Three: A World for the Winning
Writer:  Fabian Nicieza
Penciler:  Mark Bagley

Synopsis:  The Mutant Liberation Force, along with Nova, face off against the Sphinx.  During the battle Sayge comes to Nova, Firestar, and Marvel Man.  Nova and Sayge tell them that the Sphinx has altered reality and that in the true reality they were teammates.  At the Chrysler building, home of the Sphinx, Dwayne Taylor impersonates a systems analyst in order to gain entrance.  When he reaches the top floor he attacks the two guards in an armor that closely resembles the armor he wears in the true reality.  While in the Sphinx's home he sees on television monitors that a war has broken out involving the Sphinx, the mutant rebels, and the Atlanteans who are disrupting the flow of oil in the Persian gulf.  Dwayne also notices the Sphinx's cat, which he realizes is the cat the the original Sphinx had bestowed mortality upon in order to give her something to remember him by.  He decides to use the cat to get back at the Sphinx.  The Sphinx, realizing that someone has invaded her home, leaves the battle against the MLF, leaving the Avengers to fight the Mutants.  Firestar, Marvel Man, and Nova go after the Sphinx when they realize that she has returned to the Chrysler Building.  In Springdale, Aknatonikutt, Robbie Baldwin is playing catch with a friend when the Hulk, who was hit by the Sphinx in Maqaman Island, lands on the street and bounces right in front of them.  Robbie Baldwin states that he wishes he could bounce like the hulk just did.  Back at the Chrysler Building, the Sphinx is attacking Dwayne Taylor for attempting to harm her cat.  Nova, Firestar, and Marvel Man arrive just in time to save Dwayne.  Nova then realizes that the cat is the key to making her realize the truth.  Nova catches and threatens to kill the cat if she does not change the world back to it's proper reality.  Just then, Sayge appears and tries to reveal the truth to the Sphinx.  She attempts to destroy Sayge, but finds that she cannot destroy the truth.  The Sphinx realizes what she has done and reverts the world back to it's proper reality in exchange for the cat.  Nova, Firestar, Marvel Boy, and Night Thrasher stand before her, barely remembering what had just happened, as if it were a dream.  The Sphinx's cat then crumbles to dust because the lie it symbolized could not belong in this reality.  The Sphinx leaves embittered by her defeat and vows that the Warriors have made a new enemy and that she has all of time to plan her revenge.

Key Events:

The female Sphinx reverts the world to it's proper reality.