eager to crush the spiritis of his foes and glory in the
heady draught of victory. Beside him was his on and off partner
Carnifex; Urias' familiar, the undead Pallor; Solomon Vossius the
Tormenter; TSD subject Alphonse Marins, also known as the incredibly
strong Mexican wrestler El Perro de Guerra (the Dog of War); Cal
Thorne aka Exterminans the Death Walker, in one of his premiere
missions; and Scottish telepath/ telekinetic Roland Mallory, a TSD
Recombinant experimented on by Donal Rykards.

Cary believed the time had
to rebuild the Aggregate HQ beneath Bradcroft Manor. This space was
to be the first HQ Compound. The Compounds were originally suggested
by Thomas Ledge as a way to capture the team's foes and keep them
imprisoned as needed. The Compounds would also be places for
Aggregate members to live so that they and theirDeomond/ Solus incident
and rejuvenation of the team. With Ursulin AWOL in space and Solus
and the second Duellist dead, the group amounted to Liberty Lord,
Troubleshooter, White Archer, Dr E, Flare, a recent acquisition Dart (the first female member), and brand-new recruit, a powerful
Bible-thumper calling himself Vigil.

So the rejuvenated Freedom
Squad took on the OBIT Gang once in early 1980. The very outre group
took FSO by surprise and scrambled their usual group dynamic. Still
Freedom Squad's raw power looked to be winning out when Sunchild
turned Dr E's power upon himself; fortunately there were no
casualties. Soulfish had the dubious honor of snapping Dart's neck
but succumbed to Dart's weaponry; she lived but in a comatose state.
Garnet and Cynosure almost took out the White Archer. But it was
Vigil, who stepped in with his array of