Issue 17

Date:  November, 1991
Title:  Sore Winners
Writer:  Fabian Nicieza
Penciler:  Mark Bagley

Synopsis:  Nova and the Fantastic Four are facing off against Terrax with energy dampeners, hoping that he will deplete his cosmic energy.  As the other Warriors begin to regain consciousness, they focus on resuing innocent bystanders.  In the process, Marvel Boy rescues a pregnant woman who is going in to labor.  Namorita then flies her to the hospital.  Firestar decides to unleash her powers on Terrax and manages to hurt him when Namorita returns and hits him with a steel girder.  Just then the Silver Surfer shows up, having been contacted by Reed Richards previously, and fights Terrax one on one.  Then he takes off into space, towing Terrax with him.  Night Thrasher is unhappy that the Warriors needed assistance with the Terrax threat.  In Chicago, a hired thug is beating a man for his bosses when the Left Hand appears.  The Left Hand kills the bosses and convinces the thug to join him, calling him his Bloodstrike and promising knowledge of himself and of power.  Meanwhile in space, the Silver Surfer abandons Pluraris VI, a planet still in it's primordial stages and devoid of sentient life.  In Queens, at the Rider apartment, Nova returns home and is confronted by his parents who witnessed the battle with Terrax on television.  Fearing that he might be seen flying into and out of their home, the suggest that Rich move out.  In Springdale, Speedball returns home and transforms back into Robbie Baldwin.  His mother tells him that she was worried when she saw him on the news.  At the Ambrose building, Silhouette and Dwayne return and are met by Chord, telling Dwayne that he has to be ready in ten minutes for a stockholders' meeting.  When Silhouette pleads with Chord to let Dwayne miss the meeting, Tai snaps at her telling her that it's not her place to speak on such matters.  At Mount Sinai Hospital, Vance is being treated for two fractures in his arm and some cracked ribs.  Namorita shows up and takes them to see Mathemanic, who was severely injured.  Impulse, who was also severely injured was arrested in the hospital for outstanding warrants.  Then Namorita takes them to the room of the woman who went into labor during the fight with Terrax.  She asks Marvel Boy what his name is so that she can name her baby after him.  Hesitant at first, he reveals his first name to her.  Namorita, Firestar, and Marvel Boy then realize that they do make a positive difference in people's lives.

Key Events:

	First appearance of Bloodstrike.
	Bloodstrike joins Left Hand.
	Nova's parents ask him to move out.