 had helped Dimitri enter the castle. They discuss his legitimacy. We learn that three other people are in the castle as well. The team makes it to Doom’s time platform, and explain to Dimitri why they need to destroy it. It turns out that those other people are GW Bridge and some SHIELD types, and they are there to seize the castle. Dimitri pulls out a grenade to try to stop them, escalating things, and Dimitri gets blasted into the time machine controls. It starts up, but with an expanded temporal field. In the Roma village, we learn that Sofia has ‘the sight’ and that when she touched James, she had a vision of his future, which is why she passed out. We also learn that Castle Doom has disappeared.
Sunspot, Warpath, and Caliban are surprised that the castle has disappeared, and they worry about their friends. The locals tell them of how the castle was always strange, even before Doom moved in. In the castle, Meltdown, Siryn, and Rictor figure out that they’ve gone back in time. When Shatterstar comes across some of the help (including the woman that talks to Sunspot in the present), he appears as a ghost. Cable, Bridge, and Richards argue for a bit before figuring out that they are out of synch with this time. Dimitri realizes that his grandfather, the Baron, would still be alive. We see the Baron get confused in his study when some of Doom’s equipment appears. He talks to Wolfgang Von Strucker, and we learn that Nazis have been using the castle to work on some device to harness cosmic energy. The two SHIELD agents that were with Bridge are seen by Nazis, but Siryn stops them. Everyone meets up, and Cable explains that the time machine can be fixed. Tabitha notices that Dimitri has snuck off. She tries to talk him out of warning his grandfather about Doom, but then they overhear Von Strucker telling his subordinate to kill the Baron. The team splits up, with some going to protect the Baron, and others going to disable the Nazi machine so they can safely go home. When Shatterstar saves the Baron, he notices the familiarity in Dimitri’s features.  The time machine fixed, the team returns to its own time. Cable destroys the time machine, which makes Bridge angry, but he decides to let them go. Richards has a rather villainous thought at the end of the issue about how he and Cable might not always be friends.
James Proudstar is swimming in the lake at the Xavier Mansion, when he is surprised by the appearance of Rique, who is someone that I guess he started dating or flirting with or something during the issues I didn’t read. They flirt back in his room, and Risque reveals that her name is Gloria Muñoz. Siryn interrupts them, and turns down their offer to go club hopping. She leaves angrily, and we learn that she’s jealous that James has someone. James and Risque wander the East Village, turn down a fortune reading, and go to a club where Risque knows the bouncer and owner. When she goes to the washroom, a patron recognizes her, and James overhears him talking to a friend about why he is afraid of her. Shatterstar and Siryn practice sword fighting in the Danger Room, but are interrupted by piano playing. They join Sunspot and Meltdown, who are watching Caliban play the piano. Heading back from the washroom, Risque runs into a shadowy figure who argues that she hasn’t competed a job, and that The Blob is there to get Warpath. Caliban is distracted by his audience, and becomes upset that he can suddenly no longer remember how to play the piano. Blob confronts James, and Risque using her imploding powers to distract him. They run out the back, and straight into Mimic, who is also there to get Proudstar. They fight, and are able to stop their two attackers. As the police arrive, they make reference to ‘Zero Tolerance’, while the crowd complains about mutants. At a nice apartment that she’s borrowed from someone, Risque tells James that she was hired to collect him for someone who needs his powerset. She’s drugged him, and he collapses.
Most of issue 66 is narrated by Risque, which helps round out her character a lot. She has gone to Florida after betraying James, and is hanging out at Wackyworld, a Disney rip-off, where she is being pursued by the mutant-tracking Caliban. We learn that she saw X-Force staking out her hotel room, so she went to the park thinking she’d be safe in the crowd. She continues to evade Caliban, Sunspot, and Siryn. In New York, Domino arrives on a flight from Brazil, but is stopped by security. Apparently she is just returning from the events of her own miniseries. Caliban continues to pursue Risque, and when he catches her in a funhouse, he suffers from a bit of a seizure. She is about to leave him, but doubles back out of compassion, which allows X-Force, without Cable or Shatterstar, to catch her. They begin to interrogate her. We see James waking up in a large room filled with electronic junk in Detroit. He’s been unconscious for ages, and is confused. Sledge, a large mutant who uses crutches, introduces himself and says he needs James to help him with something, and in return, he offers a favour. Sledge has proof that Michael Whitecloud, a former friend of Proudstar’s brother, believed dead in the Camp Verde massacre, is still alive. Apparently Whitecloud knows the secrets of what really happened to James’s people. Domino has been held in a storage closet, but is brought out to meet with GW Bridge. X-Force, having been informed by Risque, arrive in Sledge’s workshop, where James tells them to stand down, having made a deal with Sledge. Risque’s meeting with James is awkward, and he snubs her, walking away. (Really, I don’t see why she couldn’t have just taken James to meet Sledge, since his purposes don’t seem too nefarious at this point). Bridge tells Domino that he needs her help saving a SHIELD agent from an upcoming Zero Tolerance action, and reveals that Dani Moonstar works undercover for SHIELD.
The Mutant Liberation Front has taken over a centre for cancer research in Missouri. Zero Tolerance arrives outside to take control of the hostage situation. Inside, we see that Wildside is now leading the MLF, and is acting on a tip from an informant in the Justice Department that this facility is developing a new strain of the Legacy Virus. He’s working with Dragoness, Forearm, Tempo (who has returned to the fold), Moonstar, and Locus. Moonstar stops Wildside from killing a guard, and the team figures that they’ve been set-up. Locus informs them of the Zero Tolerance presence, and quits the team when Wildside strikes her. Moonstar recognizes Domino, Siryn, and Sunspot posing as reporters outside, and suggests that Wildside bring them in for an interview. We see that these X-Forcers are hoping to protect Dani. They bluff their way past Gryaznova, the Zero Tolerance commander in charge, but we learn that she knew who they were from the start. Cable checks in on the ailing Caliban, who is worried about how he seems to be going all Flowers for Algernon on everyone. After Caliban falls asleep, Cable chats with Archangel about the effect Apocalypse has had on all three of them. The rest of X-Force, without Warpath, who has left for a bit, monitor’s Domino’s team as they enter the cancer centre. Gryaznova wrecks the satellite dish on their TV van, and when they go out to check on it, she zaps them. Inside, Dragoness recognizes Domino, and Wildside attacks them. Dani stops him, and while Forearm stops Dragoness, recommends that they release the hostages and all surrender to SHIELD instead of Zero Tolerance. She admits to being an undercover SHIELD agent, but isn’t able to implement her plan, as three of the hostages become ZT Sentinels. Ozymandias watches Caliban sleep, and does something to him so that his illness will get worse, sending him to Apocalypse.
Most Marvel comics cover dated July 1997 participated in the Flashback promotion, where they were numbered -1, and told a prequel story. This one centres on James and John Proudstar before either discovered that they were mutants.  Running, he runs right into his brother John, returning from two years in the Marines. John catches up with his family, and learns that his mother is suffering from cancer. He takes her to the local clinic, where the diagnosis is confirmed by Dr. Martynec. At the same time, we see the young Tabitha Smith being driven on a trip with her father and stepmother. John takes James to a carnival (which is amusingly run by the Ringmaster). John meets with Michael Whitecloud, a former reporter, who believes there is something suspicious in how many Apache are being diagnosed with cancer. He wants John to help him break into a local lab. James watches a magic act, walks past Tabitha, and visits a fortune teller