Adventure: The Great Sorrow Effect 
The Mighty Tim is ecstatic.  He leads the Balance and Ellipsis has rejoined~ The most powerful superhumans in the country are now a united force for good, under the leadership of Mighty Tim! 
As Mike Roberts, he made sure of this, when Ellipsis rejoined.  He asked Stephen Wolcott (the mutant Ellipsis, former leader of the Balance by virtue of his mental ability), and Stephen responded, "I have no desire to lead ever again.  I'll not trouble your own leadership."
The Mighty Tim knows better than to rouse Ellipsis for normal campus business.  After all, Ellipsis still lives in New York City; he's even gotten married (Ellipsis married!) to a woman the Balance used to know.  But Mighty Tim's just waiting for the menace is great enough to deserve the full attention of the newly united Balance.  Their old enemies had better watch out!
But the menace comes from an unexpected quarter.
Jon Gaunt, secretly the Balance's Raven, is taking leave from work to go back to college .  He's tired of commuter life in Massachusetts, and he sees a chance to make up for lost opportunity in Michigan.  Last time, while he got his bachelor's degree he had no friends.  But this time, for his master's degree, he's earned a place among heroes.  
Last time, he never met a girl.  But this time, he met Morningstar.

Laura Greene despairs springtimes of being an effective witness of Jesus Christ to the rest of the Balance.  Her teammates seem to have too much of their own lives to let Jesus in.  But Jon Gaunt seems to be interested in her message.  She's going to meet with him tonight.  

It seems what Jon Gaunt really wants is a girlfriend.  Laura's shocked.  How could he think of her that way? Just like boys back in high school!  What's more her stone suddenly shows her a vision: Jon Gaunt consumed by darkness within himself!  She tells him, “... no!" and walks out of his apartment, trembling.  
The next morning, Jon gets a call from his former co-worker Marie in Massachusetts.  His company back there has had to respond to numerous inquiries about his sudden absence from work there, following an incident at a Raytheon plant he was working at.  Now there's a letter from one of the state trial courts.  Jon has Marie open it.  They want him for' a trial hearing!
Jon teleports back to Massachusetts immediately.  He broods in his bed there.  
The weather in New England gets worse.  For several weeks it's cloudy every day.  Meanwhile, the jet stream has adjusted so that in the Midwest it's hot and sunny every day.  The farmers are worried about drought.  (It's May now.  It's a lot like 1988.) 
Jonathon Gaunt enters trial on 6 May.  The judge calls for a full trial at a later date.  
A storm breaks over Massachusetts that afternoon.  Soon it reaches hurricane force.  
The next day, the Michigan Balance (minus the Raven Gaunt) make the first moue, when the government expresses concern.  (The government knows of the Raven Gaunt and allowed him in the Balance when he first fought Ellipsis.) The Mighty Tim teleports the Balance to the center of the storm, in Acton, Massachusetts.  
The storm screams against them!  The Raven Gaunt is on the rampage.
Morningstar suggests they go check with the Raven's old friends at XXX Systems in Acton.  One woman there,  Marie, has been immobile since the storm started; she's somehow linked to this weather phenomenon! Nothing can disturb her; she just sits, and moans often.  Her coworkers have taken turns looking after her.  They tried calling an ambulance, but bolts of lightning scared it off.
The Mighty Tim decides it's time to call Ellipsis.  Stephen Wolcott now carries one of the Balance's portable radio units, which transmits and receives a signal through a satellite, courtesy of the U.S.  Government.  He gets the message, and states he will fly to join them in Massachusetts.  
But before then, the Raven notices them.  The Balance, inside the XXX Systems building, hear a scream, “'PLEASE!  LEAVE ME ALONE!”  The building shakes.  Marie sits straight. 
Mighty Tim shouts, 'We can't.  Stop everything and then we'll talk.”
Lightning.  Thunder.  'NO!!' Marie writhes in silence.  
Mighty Tim says, 'We have to try and stop him.  Morningstar, protect the building.  FOAD, attack his mind.' They do so.
In response, the Raven Gaunt bashes Morningstar's force field.  She winces.  
But Ellipsis arrives.  He pinpoints the Raven, and rides a spear of lightning through it to land outside XXX Systems.  The Raven screams.
The Balance meet Ellipsis outside.  He says, 'How shall I defeat this menace?' 
(Ellipsis has no great love for the Raven.  They fought twice  as teammates; Ellipsis had to rescue him both times.  And they fought-once as enemies.) 
Mighty Tim thinks, and says, "If you know any way to defeat him, do it now!'  Ellipsis streaks back to the sky.  
The combat between Ellipsis and the Raven Gaunt lights the sky as much as possible beneath the storm clouds.  But presently Mighty Tim hears the mental voice of Ellipsis:  “I am a fool! I could possibly have defeated him by surprise - but his power is grown beyond me! 
Mighty in responds, "Then we have a mental victim for you to save.  Get down here.' Ellipsis complies.  He and the Mighty Tim go indoors.  They teleport out with Marie.  Morningstar and FOAD are left to face the mad Raven.  

Ellipsis and the Mighty Tim land in Michigan.  Marie with them finally regains her senses.  
Ellipsis speaks first, sensing her return to the world of conscious thought.  'We need insight to the mind of the Raven.  Can you help?" 
'Leave me alone!  Hasn't he abused me enough?' 
 ' No.  He shall continue to abuse you so long as he controls his Raven power.' ·
“Ohhh ••• Do what you have to to get him out of my life!”

Morningstar is holding a force field against the Raven Gaunt.  He's too powerful; he'll break through soon.  
FOAD yells 'Let it down!' Morningstar is reluctant, but soon she can't help it.  When she lets her field down, F0A6 grabs her and runs beyond the Raven's wings.  They escape, and XXX Systems is beaten to t1e ground.  Tne storm continues.  
FOAD yells to Morningstar, "I've told him to fuck off and die, but he ignores it~" Morningstar doesn't know what to say.  
Fortunately, the Mighty Tim returns, with Ellipsis and the Raven's prisoner.  Ellipsis stands stationary around the former prisoner, with his arms around he~.  Mighty Tim yells, "Protect them!”

Morningstar throws her force field, feeble as it is, around them.  The Mighty Tim, filling the sky with flame, intercepts most of the Raven's lightning before it gets to them.  
Ellipsis is using the mental channel between Marie and Jon to attack the Raven.  But he's not making much progress yet.  Right now, Jon refuses to accept that he might have done Marie wrong.  
Morningstar's drained right now; she leans on FOAD to watch the battle.  But her stone suddenly pulses.  It thinks if can help!
Morningstar, revitalized, runs to Stephen and Marie, and shoves the stone in Marie's hands.  
Ellipsis thinks: Of course! I have forgotten so much! Stephen Wolcott places his hand upon Laura's and Marie's over the stone.  
The Raven was fighting betraying women, restrictive controllers, and a madman' that's what his "true vision" saw.  Bur-now he sees Gaea, Mother Earth, instead of the betrayer Marie! Instead of Morningstar and Ellipsis helping Marie, the Raven sees that Mother Earth is nourished by the light of Sun and the rain that comes with lightning! 
As Ellipsis, Morningstar and the former captive face the Raven, he weakens.  Finally he slumps to the ground before them - as Jonathon Gaunt.  But a raven shape leaves his body, and heads for outer space.  
The Balance stands silent.  Marie starts to move to Jon, but stops and says, “No." She turns to Ellipsis.  "Please let it be over now." 
"It is." 
"No!!" Jon says.  "I need you!”
Marie doesn't know what to say.  She turns and walks away.  

Jonathon Gaunt and the Balance shall have to live without the mystical Raven.  Until it returns.  
Adventure: The Frame 
A young inventor has come up with a super-strength exoskeleton to be used for construction work.  It amplifies the user's strength to lift girders by himself, and magnetism will stick it to the girders and the building framework.  Unfortunately, no union employee will volunteer to wear it.  Maybe if he and his wife show that two people with the suits can construct a building on their own, they can overcome the employers' reluctance.  
(to be continued...  well, no.  Theodore Ketzel's idea just dies, until Henry Heid connects him with robot controllers.  See “The Homecoming II Attack”, 1996 or thereabouts.) 
Adventure: People's Heroes of the Soviet Union 
Prologue: Years ago two Soviet scientists conducted experiments in the use of paranormal powers.  
One concentrated upon the exercise of these powers by minds acting in a group.  Subjects were interviewed and evaluated for their ability to mesh with others.  This ability was then stimulated artificially, and the resulting abilities were measured.  The State smiled upon his efforts.  
One turned his studies toward the exercise of paranormal powers by individual minds.  At first, he could only interview his subjects to determine their suitability for experimentation; the results of these experiments showed some minor individual abilities worthy of further examination.  Naturally, this was outside the scope of the experiment.  But eventually he devised a device to measure the power and determination of a human mind from a distance.  This quickly led him to persons whose para-psychic power could prove to be truly impressive once stimulated.  
The state frowned upon his efforts.  
Julie Wolcott can remember an interview she had with a Russian professor during her junior year at Michigan State.  He was doing a survey of some kind; she can't remember what it was about.  Now she's gotten a phone call from him.  He wants to meet her - and Stephen - at JFK Airport.  
She considers activating the home defense system they have, to bring Ellipsis to her immediately.  But she reconsiders: if she can't investigate a potential problem (and news story) by herself, she's not good for much.  She goes to JFK by herself.  
Stephen follows her to Russia.  There they get involved in a battle against the group mind which was developed long ago.  
(to be continued... well, no, probably not.  But this experiment might surface in the present millennium...) 
Adventure: Return of Set 
The power of Set in the physical world has been growing.  A talisman of Set which was placed beneath a bank of equipment in the world of men has put forth his mystic influence upon all actions which called upon that equipment.  In particular, all those who pronounce the syllable of his name through the machine are now adding to his power.  
(to be continued... well, no, probably not.  Set's bit of equipment probably got shoved aside when the phone company started putting in DSL service.)