Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- StormWatch
- Battalion
- Diva (corpse) (Destroyed)
- Fahrenheit
- Fiend (Zarej) (First Appearance)
- Fuji
- Spartan
- Undertow (Ray Bailey) (First Appearance)
- Weatherman One (Christine Trelane)
- Winter
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Warguard
- Despot (Isaiah King) (First Appearance)
- Hexon
- Judgment (Box Golando) (First Appearance)
- Nychus
- Doreen Robinson (First Appearance)
- Strafe (Mind-controlled)
- Stricture (Arliss Hirsch) (First Appearance)
- Talos
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Synopsis for 1st story
Timespan and Battalion materialize in Death Valley one year in the future. Before Battalion can get any information from Timespan, they see Skywatch crash into the ground. Stormwatch emerges from the wreckage with two members—Fiend and Undertow—Battalion does not recognize. They initially dismiss Battalion as an imposter, claiming he is dead, but Timespan verifies his identity and explains they have come from the past. Stormwatch finds their new leader, Spartan, with special dampening collars that block their enemy’s telepathic powers. Battalion asks Synergy what has happened to the team, but, before she can answer, the Warguard attacks. Timespan stands by as the two teams battle until everyone except Battalion suddenly passes out. Strafe appears and tries to warn his brother before being mentally taken over. Battalion knocks him out just as the Warguard’s leader arrives. He is Battalion’s father, Isaiah King a.k.a. Despot. With Diva’s reanimated corpse by his side, he explains his plan to bring order to the world by taking telepathic control of the entire human population and eliminating free will. And, he wants Jackson to join him. Battalion refuses, and Despot tears Diva’s body apart. No match for his father’s powers, Jackson removes the dampening collar and lets Despot sense his love for him. Enraged, Despot moves to kill Battalion, but Timespan teleports him away. Despot begins enacting his plan but is struck down by a new figure ready to challenge him.
Notes
- This issue was part of the "Images of Tomorrow" event in which several Image Comics titles jumped ahead one year in the publication order for a single issue. After returning to the regular order the following month, subsequent issues would portray the events leading up to the "Images of Tomorrow" issue. In the case of StormWatch, #25 was published between issues #9 and #10 but set between #24 and #26. Issues #10-24 showed the plot developments leading up to the story in #25.
- Despite the cover date of June 1995, this issue was published in May 1994.
- A second printing of this issue was published in August 1995 between the publication of issues #24 in July 1995 and #26 in August 1995.