Ultraforce

The only survivor of the Exiles, Ghoul, raised himself from his tomb and was harassed by the press and the public. The Ultra Hardcase rescued him and suggested to the press that only the Ultras could regulate other Ultras, not the government.[2] Prime saw the interview in TV and decided to search members to a new team to be called "Ultraforce". He convinced Prototype of the necessity of the team, but begin to fight him for the "leadership". The fight between the two young ultras alerted Contrary, who brought Hardcase and Ghoul to his airship, and show them the impact that the fight was having in the general public. When Prime and Prototype were fighting in the land, The villain Atalon, king of the fire people, brought them underground. Hardcase went to rescue them.[3] Meanwhile, one of the three queens of Gwendor, Topaz, arrived to Earth from the Godwheel. Contrary promised her to return to her people. Prime and Prototype tried to fight Atalon but were defeated by him. Hardcase arrive just in time save them.[4] After this, the team was formed and backed by the US government and president Bill Clinton. The members tried to recruit aid from the Freex, The Strangers, the Nigthman and Mantra, but were rejected. After manipulations of Contrary, Prime left the team temporarily.[5] Attalon raised a new island and fought Ultraforce in the surface. In the fight, Prime returned and Atalon detonated a nuclear missile in the isle.[6]

In the battle with Attalon, the young ultra Pixx sacrificed herself to disable the nuclear arsenal of the villain, and was killed by the increasing radiation.[7] In the end, Attalon was defeated and after a negotiation with Contrary, he left the surface world to its own devices.[8] In the next months, the Ultra Ghoul investigated the strange death of the singer Mosh.[9]

Marvel's superhero Black Knight arrived to the Ultraverse and met with Prototype and Prime. He participated in the battle against some 'angels' created by Metabio Corporation and that were freed accidentally by the ultra Siren, who joined the team too. The 'angels' did not have an effect in Ghoul, because he had a decaying body, so he could defeat them.[10] Topaz fought the sorceress Mantra for the possession of the sword of Fangs that used to belong to Topaz's people, but were interrupted by the villain Hybrid who sent Ultraforce in a quest in Egypt. Hybrid was killed and Topaz and Mantra make peace[11] Later, when Black Knight was searching for clues about Loki's presence in New York, he found his lover Sersi, but she was possessed by the Ego Infinity gem and attacked him and Topaz.[12]

Sersi and the Black Knight on the cover of UltraForce / Avengers Prelude.

Then, the Ultraforce battled the Asgardian God Loki that was searching for the Infinity gems in the Ultraverse. Loki send the heroes in different directions with illusions. They found the infinity gems and with the help of Sersi, returned to Earth.[13] After this, the Ultraforce heroes were fooled by Loki in fighting the Avengers in a competition between Loki and the Grandmaster for the Infinity Gems. Loki won the competition and received all the gems, but he soon lost the gems to the entity Nemesis when the seven gems reunited.[14] Both teams (Avengers and Ultraforce) fought Nemesis in an altered reality that combined both universes.[15] The slaying of Nemesis by the Black Knight caused a reality-changed event that transformed the Ultraverse, erasing Hardcase and Contrary from existence and from the memories of their former teammates, and replacing Prototype (Jimmy Ruiz) with his predecessor in the Prototype armor, Bob Campbell.[16]

After the event known as "Black September" (when Marvel Comics purchased Malibu), the Ultraforce was re-created as a new team. Marvel's Black Knight became the leader of the new group, that consisted in him, Prototype (Bob Campbell), Prime, Topaz and Ghoul. The new team fought the fanatics of the Fold that worshiped a man called Pascal and were murdering ultras. However they found that Pascal was dead and that the Fold was using him to enforcing their beliefs.[17] The team was given a new base by the U.S. government in Headless Cross, Arkansas. A mysterious man called Cromwell was introduced as a government liaison for the team, and the wife of Bob Campbell, Felicia Campbell, supported the team as a medic. In the next months, new members arrived to the team included the mysterious Lament and the vigilante Wreckage, who apparently had committed various murders that were investigated by Ultraforce.[18] They discovered that the murders were committed by the ultra Bonnehammer, who was employed by a criminal organization, the Commission. With the help of Wreckage, the Ultraforce defeated Bonehammer.[19]

The team with the X-Men when the Phoenix Force arrived to the Ultraverse, and possessed Prime. Both teams dive the Phoenix away, but it found a new host, Amber Hunt.[20] They also team up with Spider-Man against the extra terrestrials The Shifters who attempted to provoke a war between the Ultraverse and Earth 616.[21] After, this, Amber Hunt and Ghoul investigated the exiles' graves and found the Progeny, an alien menace from the future.[22] In an investigation about the ultra Foxfire, Ultraforce meet Timothy Halloran, the Mastodon, who was committing murders in the sewers of New York. Mastodon was taken to medical care. Foxfire was an unknown carrier of the Progeny virus.[23]

The Ultraforce investigated the murder of senator Robert Shrine, which involved ultras who were killed too. In the quest, they fought the Rawborgs and Dog.[24] After the murderous attack of some of his teammates against Dog, the Black Knight expulsed Topaz, Ghoul, Lament and Wreckage from the team.[25] Topaz did not want to leave and confronted the Knight. She, Lament and Prime were acting very aggressively and attacked the Knight and Cromwell.[26] It resulted that Prime, Lament and Topaz were infected by the Progeny virus and fought his counterparts from 50 years in the future that came to cure them.[27] The Progeny virus would have infected all the Ultras in Earth. After they cured the virus, and took Foxfire with them, the Ultraforce from the future erased the memory from his counterparts of the past. Searching in the base about what happened, the Black Knight and Topaz released Specimen 13, one of various beings kept in the secret basement that was Cromwell's brother. The specimen overpower the heroes but was convinced by his brother to return to his chamber.[28]

After this, the Ultraforce joined the New Exiles, who were fighting an alien robot called Maxis. The Ultraforce collapsed a building upon Maxis, stopping him temporarily.[29] Immediately after, an entire armada of the Tulkan aliens arrived to the scene. They said than were tracking a monster called Demonseed who was causing various damage to their worlds. The Tulkan had tracked the monster to Earth and wanted revenge. The Ultraforce and the New Exiles fought the elite of the armada, defeating them after a brutal battle. With problems in their ships, the Tulkan leader accepted defeat and fled. In the aftermath of the invasion, and with help of Maxis, the Black Knight returned to his home dimension with the exiles Siena Blaze and Reaper via an interdimensional portal.[30]

Prototype (Bob Campbell) become the new leader and accepted new members from the Exiles: Hellblade, Ripfire, Amber Hunt, Ironclad, and the robot Maxis, who was now deprived of his original mission. When Ghoul arrived to the scene, he was accepted in the team too. Back at their base, the Ultraforce meet Hardcase, but did not recognize him. Hardcase explained to them he was not erased by the Black September, but was shutt instead into a limbo, where he created the creature Demonseed as a companion in the loneliness. However Demonseed rebelled against his creator and escaped to the past via a portal, where he destroying innumerable alien civilizations. Demonseed finally appeared and fought the Ultraforce, overpowering them, Ripfire was killed in the last attacks of the creature, but Hardcase sacrificed himself to send Demonseed back to the limbo, where he fought it for all eternity. Despite the grave losses, the Ultraforce looked into the future to continue their mission.[31]

50 years into the future, Prime, Ironclad and others were having a happy time after various battles.[32]

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