During the previous storyline, Monet’s father was being held hostage by terrorists in South America. Monet and Guido went on a rescue mission, but their plane crashed.

This issue starts with Guido waking up in the wreckage and Monet being gone.  Strong Guy goes searching for his teammate.  She’s been taking by the same person who kidnapped her father.

To rescue her, Guido has to fight through an army of Mindless Ones only to find that her captor is Baron Mordo.  

We learn that Mordo needs Monet’s powers to cure his cancer–and that her own father sold her out just to save his own life.

Complicating matters, a bunch of well-armed mutant hunters have tracked Strong Guy and Monet to South America and are threatening to blow up Mordo’s castle–which will kill them all.  In exchange for helping them all escape, Monet agrees to let Mordo leech her power once they’re all safe.  This enables them to be teleported right into the “Second Coming” action and participate in the final battle.

Once that’s done, Monet keeps her word.  Her teammates beg her not to, but she lets Mordo siphon off her power.

But as with most Peter David tales, there’s a second twist: Monet used her psychic powers to trick Mordo into thinking he was cured, so that he’d leave them all alone.  She did not in fact let him take her powers.  So, Mordo goes off believing he’s cured but is in fact still dying.

Issue #203 is just about this storyline.  With issue #204, this series is tied into the Second Coming Event.  To Marvel’s credit, they didn’t force Peter David to wrap his story up quickly; however, it ends up getting just a couple pages across issues #204 through 206.  Then, issue #207 focuses on the resolution of Monet’s story–with some additional plotlines sprinkled in as well.  That’s all a little frustrating, because this is a good story–but at least it gets to have a decompressed resolution.

Since the “Second Coming” aspects of these issues will be covered elsewhere, I’ve only tagged the characters central to Monet’s tale.