Issue Annotation by Michael J. Ahlers

Team 7 (1st mini-series) #3
Cover Date: Dec 1994

Story: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Aron Wiesenfeld
Inks: JD & Scott Williams
Ink Assists: John Tighe
Colors: Monica Bennett
Letters: Bill Oakley
Cover: Aron Wiesenfeld & JD

Issue Title: Loyalties

Cast:
Team 7
    Stephan Callahan, aka Wraparound
    Cole Cash, aka Deadeye, aka Grifter
    Stewart Chang, aka Bulleteer
    Michael Cray, aka Deathblow
    Jackson Dane, aka Arclight
    Alexander Fairchild, aka Slaphammer - Navy
    John Lynch, aka Topkick, aka Jack
    Marc Slayton, aka Backlash
Others
    Miles Craven
    Gabriel Newman
    "Soviet Gen-Active" - (Commissar Rostov, not named until Team 7 #4)
    General Mbong - ruler of one of the African nations that Team 7 "visited"
    Alicia Turner

Locales:
The Corral - a hole-in-the-wall bar.

Summary:
        Lynch has his gun aimed at Cash's head. Cash tells him to go ahead, that they (Team 7) are all better off dead and that the world would be better off without them. Lynch can't do it, but doesn't turn Cash in either. During evac, the Team's helocopter is taking fire. Dane uses his abilities to blow up the enemy's weapons.
        On leave, Cash and Fairchild are at a bar (The Corral) where Fairchild is attempting to pick up a woman, and failing badly. When he uses his powers to make her come back, Cash attacks him and drags him out of the bar. Unseen two I/O spooks look on from a booth.
        Somewhere in Africa, a Soviet Gen-Active tells General Mbong, he knows how powerful Team 7 is and will kill them for their invasion of his country.
        Cray, because of his lack of apparent Gen-Active abilities is left out of the next mission: to infiltrate another unspecified country (Mid-East) and destroy their nuclear reator which is being used to create weapons-grade plutonium. Once again they find their intel wrong; no nukes, only some monks. Cash and Lynchstart arguing then fighting, and using their powers end up destroying the monestary before Lynch is knocked out. Meanwhile, aboard a waiting naval vessel, Cray is arrested when he realizes that Craven is having a nuke launched on Team 7's location.

Quote:
"It's just a low yield nuke, Gabe. If Team 7 can't walk away from this one, they were no good to me anyway."
--Miles Craven