#52 – Something Old and Something New – The true Straasha joins the fray and the battle continues with the plasmodia stage of the Protocista and those under it’s control.  Flaming Star and Quiasar use flame to push the organism back, eventually destroying it in the blaze.  The team retreats and Firemist falls.  Smoke unit, minus a controlled Action Man, join them, and together they attack the remaining missiles.  The villains mount one last stand, but the heroes have superior numbers and prove victorious.  Although they are triumphant, the victors find they have suffered major losses.  Cold Warrior and Snowstorm got away, Flaming Star is comatose, and Firemist’s body cannot be found.

#54 – Project Ultimatum – Still in their boats after the attack by the monks, the weary heroes are attacked in the water outside their base.  Three Hunter-Retriever robots drop from the sky, attempting to capture the Guardians for Force.  The struggle is intense, but the team fends them off.  Lens and Perry swim to shore, but decline help from Mr. Magnum.

#56 – Unwelcome Visitors – Informed of trouble, Quiasar, Crocodile, White Leopard, and Entropy travel to the Guardians' estate on Jorstadt Island.  They find that a butler has been killed and his body has been drained of blood, so they evacuate the island.  In the morning, they journey into the underground labyrinth and meet Lord Destrada, who admits to the murder.  Talks break down into fighting, and the vampire flees deeper into the tunnels.  The team hears footsteps from the direction they came, and realizes they may be surrounded!

#58 – Scarab Quest – Oliver Harris (Mr. Magnum) visits the Guardians in their headquarters.  Flying Cobra calls Shadow Knight, Entropy, and Quiasar to Egypt, where he tells them of a powerful ancient artifact.  The scarab consists of four parts, and he has one of them in his possession at Nile Research.  Giving them equipment to track the others, the team travels to Iverg Metals in Germany, where they wrest one of the pieces from Crossfire after a chase.

#60 – Leviathan – Officials from the island nation of Varna appeal to the Guardians for help.  Several bauxite transports have been destroyed, and survivors have tales about a great sea worm.  Shadow Knight, White Leopard, Crocodile, Quiasar, and Entropy accompany one of the ships, and a sea serpent intercepts it.  The heroes do a great deal of damage to the beast, using both their powers and explosives, and finally chase it away.

#62 – Tough Choices – The heroes check out the alien spaceship and find that it once housed an extremely dangerous prisoner.  During a natural disaster, the prisoner had escaped and slaughtered the crew.  Set to drift, the ship had traveled the cosmos for hundreds of years before landing on Earth.  The Guardians search for and find the alien, who is accompanied by the remainder of the C.H.E.S.S. and A.R.T. forces.  They battle the Haemavore and its subjects for a long time, and eventually destroy the creature.  One infected Knight remains, and Quiasar, after getting permission from C.H.E.S.S., terminates it.

#64 – The Power, the Pageantry, the Mystery – While Quiasar serves as a judge at a beauty pageant, the contestants are kidnapped.  Entropy, Magnet Master, and White Leopard assist Crocodile on a government mission to recover stolen materials.  They spy on a house in Wyoming, then attempt to bluff their way inside.  This provokes a fight with Major Cutter, Crystal, and Powerman, and the heroes are chased away.  Reinforcements Quiasar and Shadow Knight arrive, and they search the house, finding a secret garage and clues about the kidnap victims.  The Guardians track down the villains in Grand Cayman, and find that they now have a powerful robot with them.  The heroes are beaten up, but Quiasar comes to the rescue, grabbing them and the ransom money and escaping underwater.

#66 – Night Parade – Quiasar, Shadow Knight, and Crocodile meet Sleeper (the man Entropy was cloned from) at his Paranormal Detective Agency, and he gives them a report.  The monks pursuing White Leopard had been backtracked to the Tranquil Harmony temple in Potsdam, New York.  Sleeper's detective, Jack Fleming, followed by Entropy, had checked things out, but both had disappeared.  The Guardians disguise themselves and then investigate in Potsdam.  They check Entropy’s hotel room, look into local legends, and meet with Thunderbird, one of Sleeper’s agents.  The next day they find that several people have died, but nobody seems to care.  The team journeys to a barn on the edge of town, where Thunderbird enters, and then screams!

#68 – Flight 412 Has Vanished – The Guardians get a call from the security chief at nearby National Airport, informing them that a cargo plane simply vanished while landing!  Quiasar and Shadow Knight head to the airport and find that the plane was being rented by Alexander Vandersinder to transport his priceless art collection, and that the reclusive multi-millionaire was aboard when it disappeared.  The duo question witnesses, which leads them to an unused hanger.  They interrupt many men loading a plane, and get into a skirmish with Phantasm.  The thief toys with the heroes using amazing illusions, and then easily flees the scene.

#70 – Grudge Match – After much preparation and heavy advertising, the day arrives for a major pay-per-view showdown between the Guardians and Force.  Each side agrees to concessions if they lose: incarceration for the members of Force, or a year of retirement for the Guardians.  The battle, moderated by Phantasm, takes place in an abandoned amusement park.  Dr. Desist, Entropy, Crocodile, Quiasar, Shadow Knight, and White Leopard stand against Force, Mr. Magnum, Shadarkos, Teleporter, Snowblind, and Oscillator.  The fight starts well for the heroes, and they destroy the Force android and incapacitate many of the others.  The villains begin to cheat, however, with Teleporter transporting many of the champions out of the designated area.  Suddenly, the contest is interrupted as government agents pour onto the field, alerting the Guardians that they are needed to save the world!

#72 – Slaughter Beyond the Stars– Joined by White Leopard, the group searches the Gorg ship, briefly tangling with a Gorg repair droid.  They learn that a pirate armada called MASTER, in league with the Devil, has conquered and wiped out the worlds of the Xarion and the Gorg.  The Gorgs had ventured to Earth, hopeful that Terran paranormals could seek out Primion and find the mythical Primordials and the Black Eye of Qwun to save them all from destruction.  Finding more Slaughter Droids on board, the team uses clever tactics, baiting the monsters one by one into chases that trick them into being launched into space.  An urgent summons from C.H.E.S.S. tells that they have the coordinates to Primion but have fallen under attack.

#74 – Into the Vault – The group journeys into the four basement levels of C.H.E.S.S. headquarters and makes their way past various security measures in each room.  They clash with DragonMaster and his two miniature dragons, then two androids, and then are joined by Sinder.  Grimsby is left in the care of DragonMaster, and Quiasar alone faces the gamma radiation of the last room.  He survives the blast, gaining the ability to manipulate solid energy in the process.  The vault yields the coordinates to Primion and many treasures for the Guardians to use in their coming adventure.

#76 – The Zorglesh – The group continues on in the commandeered pirate ship, which they dub the Odyssey.  Moonstar stops communicating with the team, leading Entropy to believe that the test (to determine if they are good or evil) has begun.  A strange being invades the ship, disguises itself as Shadow Knight, and launches a surprise attack on the heroes.  Everyone joins the struggle against the evil entity, and it kills the immortal Sinder, but it is eventually overwhelmed.

#78 – Fire and Ice – A diplomatic session with the dragon parents results in the captives being freed.  Quiasar calls a planetary council, then takes some members to meet the opposition and establish a treaty.  Talks break down and another fight begins.  The Guardians chase off the enemy and attempt to kill their one captive, but the dragons return again for another battle.  They nearly defeat the heroes, but the vigilantes prevail, forcing peace upon the aliens.  The team gets their water and a shuttle from Jarl, and many gifts from the thankful people.

#80 – Plague Station – Still weak from the disease, the group journeys on.  Dr. Desist receives a message from the Sikan, warning the team against allying with their enemies, the Gorene.  They reach a quarantined Gorene space station and investigate it.  In the cargo hold on the station, Shadow Knight, Crutch, Entropy, Quiasar, and Dr. Desist assist the Gorene by dispatching numerous parasitic organisms.

#82 - The Staff of the Great One – The Whist hold a celebratory feast for the team in Shadow Knight’s honor.  Leaders known as Loremasters lead the adventurers deep underground to a throne room, where Shadow Knight receives a powerful staff.  The Guardians help the aliens by reactivating a solar collection grid.  As they depart, a Sikan assassin, disguised as a Whist, strikes down Shadow Knight.  They swiftly deal with the menace, and Quiasar creates a large illusion of the Great One to carry away the fallen hero.

#84 – I Ain’t Got No Body – A mysterious message leads to Shadow Knight obtaining the powerful sword Destiny.  Entropy discovers that Moonstar has taken the ship off course.  She confirms to the team that she is the woman that was killed during the interrogation by pirates.  Having merged with the ship’s computer, she is now seeking a corporeal body.  The group travels to the planet of the Urlore, a race wiped out by their own machines, where they pass through a gap in the satellite defense system.  Sinder remains on the ship while the others journey to the planet’s surface in search of a dynon sphere.  They fight their way past many robots and find the item that they seek.  The device is given to Moonstar, who successfully joins with it.