Author's Note: Yeah, that's Flashfire in the upper left-hand corner of the middle background panel. I figured that it's been, what, 2 - 3 pages without him? And since he's the main character, well, I figured I should cut him in on some page time. :D

Otherwise, this was really quite a fun layout, probably the most ambitious I've done in a long time. The diagonal panel borders for the backgrounds were a pain in the butt to Photoshop though, let me tell you. This is probably the last page of the "dual story" setup -- I'm kinda sad about that, actually, because it really was a unique challenge, but I don't want it getting old. Mebbe I'll bring it back later in some future storyline, who knows?