Legion of Super-Heroes #44 – “Quislet’s Story” – Paul Levitz/Greg LaRocque/Mike DeCarlo
This one starts with Brainiac 5 examining the miniature “black hole” in Quislet’s quarters and concluding it isn’t necessarily linked to his (and Wildfire’s) disappearance. Brainy and Polar Boy leave to attend to other matters, while Tellus and Invisible Kid remain to wonder where their teammates vanished to. We soon find out, as we see Wildfire in another dimension, one where the dominant sentient life is made up of energy beings like Quislet. The entire
structure of their universe is different from ours, making it possible for them to exist in pure energy forms. Wildfire can handle the strange place better than a human could, since his body is now made up of energy. Quislet tells Wildfire that his people were kidnapping him back to his dimension and Wildfire got caught in their trap. The other energy beings surround them, entrapping Wildfire and pulling Quislet from his ship, calling him a traitor. Back at Legion HQ, Atmos is showing off his powers to Polar Boy in the hopes of joining the Legion, although Atmos seems to think it’s a foregone conclusion that he’ll be 
accepted. In the energy universe, Wildfire learns that Quislet’s people call their world Teall and that they’re fascinated by him. They try to “convert” him to their philosophy of energy over matter, but his human stubbornness and Legion training help him reverse the process, so he can learn Quislet’s history. Apparently, the people of Teall invented a ship to let them explore their universe and chose Quislet to pilot it. But he was different from them and decided to take the ship through a black hole to the “matterverse” (i.e. Our universe), where he met solid-matter beings for the first time. Having realized these people are no friends of Quislet (or himself), Wildfire
uses the techniques he learned from Quislet to reshape his energy form and bust loose. At legion HQ, Atmos runs into Dream Girl and is eager to rekindle some romance they had on Universo’s prison planet. Dream Girl doesn’t even remember, but Atmos is confident (or arrogant) that she’ll fall for him all over again. Part of her is attracted to him, but her precognitive powers warn her that getting involved with him would be a mistake. When Polar Boy asks for her advice on admitting Atmos, she refuses to help, even saying she won’t vote on his admittance. In the energy universe, Wildfire fights his 
way through numerous energy beings, but they eventually just blast him back through the black hole … without Quislet. The energy beings want to absorb Quislet’s consciousness back into their hive-mind, but he tricks them into building him a new ship. He uses techniques learned from Wildfire to shield the ship while he flees back through the black hole to Legion HQ. There’s an epilogue with three aliens (possibly the fabled Luck lords) on Ventura talking about having another chance to affect the fate of the universe, while looking at a vision of Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, and their kids.
New Teen Titans #41 – “Hidden Agenda” – Marv Wolfman/Eduardo Barreto/Kim DeMulder
This one starts with Victor (Cyborg) Stone and Sarah Charles hanging out. Vic is totally in love and finally happy, at least until Sarah tells him she got a big job offer in San Francisco. She can’t really turn it down, but Victor has no desire to move to the West Coast and doesn’t think a long-distance thing will work, so he figures that’s it for the relationship … and his happiness. At the same time, Wildebeest is attacking STAR Labs to kidnap
Mother Mayhem. He admits to her he really wants the baby she’s carrying … Brother Blood’s baby. Thunder and Lightning try to stop Wildebeest, but he gets away with Mayhem. Later at Titans’ headquarters, Gar (Changeling) Logan tries to get Victor to open up about what’s bugging him, but he’s not ready to talk about it yet. An emergency signal from STAR Labs about the break-in causes Victor to summon the other Titans from their various activities. Wonder Girl is doing a photo shoot, Starfire’s catching some bank robbers, Nightwing is hanging out with 
Terry Long, Danny Chase is in school, and Jericho is spending time with Sarah Simms and her special-needs kids. (Sarah’s husband has apparently taken off and Jericho asks her out, but she says she needs a little more time.) At STAR Labs, the Titans speculate on why Wildebeest would want Mayhem’s baby and her physician (Dr. Ellis) suggests it might be for the money the baby will inherit, or maybe Brother Blood’s fabled persuasive powers which the baby might have too. Meanwhile, we see Puppeteer (last seen in issue 9) hanging out at home with his robotic puppets when Wildebeest busts in to propose a deal.
Later, Puppeteer and Wildebeest assault Ryker’s Island Prison to free a con named Michael Beldon (aka Disruptor, last seen in New Teen Titans 20) as well as Gizmo and another prisoner. The Titans show up to stop them, but Wildebeest gets away by using some missiles to distract them and fog laced with aluminum foil to confuse their jet’s tracking systems. Back at headquarters, the Titans discuss the situation. It’s obvious Wildebeest is gathering some of their old foes (the unidentified guy Wildebeest busted out was 
Trident, from issue 33), but for what purpose? Nightwing says they’ll have to split up and check out individual trails, like whether anyone at STAR or the prison was in on the breakouts. Elsewhere, Wildebeest tells his new henchmen to get acquainted while he goes to see Mother Mayhem. She’s worried about why he kidnapped her, but he reveals that she already knows him … he’s Dr. Ellis, her physician at STAR Labs. I’m assuming this isn’t Wildebeest’s real identity, just another fake-out, but we’ll see.
Suicide Squad #11 – “Blood and Snow” – John Ostrander/Luke McDonnell/Bob Lewis
This one starts with Mari McCabe (aka Vixen) at a photo shoot on a tropical beach. Mari goes for a swim, speculating about her career as Vixen and what’s happened to her since the old JLA broke up. When she returns to the beach, she finds all her fellow models and the photography crew shot to death. In New Orleans, Mirror Master is robing a bank when he gets a beep about an emergency job. Yeah, this is really Captain Boomerang disguised as Mirror Master so he can commit crimes without getting in shit with his bosses at Belle Rêve.
Amanda Waller calls him in for a job and he’s surprised to see Vixen and Speedy are on this mission. Vixen tells them about the beach massacre and Waller explains that the photographer accidentally got a shot of a drug transfer out at sea, so everyone was killed to keep things quiet (which seems like it’s just drawing more attention, but whatever). Speedy’s still working with the DEA and tells them the dope dealers work for Xavier Cujo, one of the biggest Colombian drug lords. Since he can’t be touched legally, Waller is sending 
them in to kill him and wipe out his drug processing centre in Colombia. Nightshade is uncomfortable with the team just assassinating someone without a trial, no matter how many innocent people he’s hurt. Vixen tells her she’ll take care of Cujo if the others destroy the cocaine. Waller puts Nightshade in charge (since Flag is on another mission), but she’s still reluctant and makes Waller promise to do her a favour in return. Boomerang isn’t happy about taking orders from a woman, until Waller reminds him that she’s his boss and she’s a woman who has the power to toss his ass back in
prison. Waller sends Vixen, Boomerang, and Black Orchid to Medellin to kill Cujo, while Nightshade, Speedy, and Enchantress will be taken to the jungle processing plant by chopper. In Medellin, Boomerang approaches Cujo as an Australian wanting to distribute coke Down Under and gives him Vixen and Black Orchid as “presents”. Cujo accepts them … after a thorough strip search. In Washington, a Senator named Cray is worrying about his re-election when Derek Tolliver shows up to tell him about the Suicide Squad, in exchange for Cray making him his new aide. In the Colombian 
jungle, Speedy tells Nightshade about how Cujo gets Communist guerrillas to guard his coke factories; the Communists think running coke to America will help bring the country down. June Moon seems to be interested in their pilot (Briscoe), but he almost seems to be in love with the helicopter, who he calls Sheba and claims will come when he whistles. (June hints that she’d like to bang Briscoe, but he’s sleeping inside the helicopter, as always.) Some Communists show up to investigate their fire and Briscoe uses remote voice commands to get the chopper to waste a bunch of their attackers. They escape and head for the cocaine processing facilities, but before they can do much damage, they’re attacked by fighter jets.