Appearing in "Change or Die part 3"
Featured Characters:
- StormWatch
- Battalion
- StormWatch Black
- Jack Hawksmoor
- Jenny Sparks (appears in both flashback and main story)
- Swift
- StormWatch Prime
- StormWatch Red
- Fahrenheit
- Flint
- Rose Tattoo (Death) (appears in both flashback and main story - see Notes)
- Henry Bendix (Flashback - see Notes)
Villains:
- alt. Henry Bendix (Disguised as Weatherman - see Notes)
- Changers
- Blind (Death)
- The Doctor (Death)
- Eidolon
- The Engineer (Death)
- The High (Death) (appears in both flashback and main story)
- Rite (Death)
- Smoke (Death)
- Wish (Death)
- Strafe
- Nazis (Main story and flashback)
Locations:
- Wildstorm Universe
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Christ the Redeemer statue (Destroyed)
- Paraguay
- Russia (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America
- New York City, New York (Main story and flashback)
- Skywatch II
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Change or Die part 3"
Weatherman briefs StormWatch on their mission to kill the Changers. In Paraguay, Wish begins seducing the High when Fuji and Flint teleport in and attack them. Aboard Skywatch, Jenny Sparks confronts Bendix and demands to know why he has kept her out of the loop. Battalion forces a technician to teleport him to Paraguay so he can rescue Strafe even as Fahrenheit and Hellstrike find Strafe badly beaten, but alive in the Changers’ base. Jenny relates her past with the High to Weatherman, and he says he already knows thanks to Rose Tattoo. He reveals how he met and fell in love with Rose Tattoo during his time as a Cold War secret agent. Winter, Swift, and Hawksmoor ambush Rite and Smoke and try to convince them to flee, but they refuse. Fahrenheit shares over the team’s commlink that they found Strafe and his torturer, Blind. She describes Blind’s appearance, and Jenny recognizes him as her attacker. Outside the base, Battalion has subdued Wish and has her admit over the commlink that she activated superhuman killers for her own amusement. Bendix has her teleported into deep space, killing her. Despite Jenny’s pleas, Bendix orders the launch of biological warheads at the Changers’ base. He then delivers an unhinged rant about the failure of freedom and his need for global control. Jenny moves to subdue him, but he shuts down all power aboard Skywatch and runs. She chases him through the station to a teleport platform and blasts him just as it engages, seemingly killing him. In Paraguay, Blind takes down Battalion and reveals he tried to kill Jenny. All the Stormwatch teams converge on the Changers. Smoke kills Blind, Rose Tattoo kills Smoke, and then Jack kills her. The warheads strike, killing the Changers except for the High who flies off in a fury. Having been vaccinated against the biological payload, Stormwatch is unhurt. On Skywatch, Jenny has restored power and taken charge. Thinking Bendix is still aboard, the High is approaching at such extreme speed that he will vaporize the station upon impact. To save everyone on board, Jenny reluctantly orders Skywatch’s force field raised and cries as the High dies splattering against it.
Notes
- This is the final issue of StormWatch vol. 1. The story of StormWatch continues in StormWatch vol. 2 #0.
- Per the revelations in The Authority: Revolution #10, Henry Bendix a.k.a. Weatherman had by this point been replaced by an alternate version of himself from a parallel universe. Due to that retcon, it is the alternate Bendix who in this issue describes first meeting Rose Tattoo in the 1960s. As such, he could be describing an event he experienced in his native timeline or an event the Wildstorm Bendix experienced. However, this issue was originally written with the intent that the encounter happened to the Wildstorm Bendix so that is what the character list above reflects.
- This issue is reprinted in:
- StormWatch: Change or Die trade paperback (1999);
- StormWatch Volume Two hardcover (2013).