BIOGRAPHY - Page 9
Dazzler found herself talking intimately with Logan for the first time in years after an extreme infection at the hands of a villain named Contagion messed with his immune system. Confused as to why he was talking to her at all, Dazzler eventually listened and realized he just needed a sounding board who wouldn’t be afraid to tell him the truth — and she was honestly quite grateful he wasn’t hitting on her, as he was unusually gross-looking at the time, due to his series of infections. Upon hearing him lament about not having anything to wear, however, she took him to her room and made him a new outfit from scratch. He then left to get his head together, at which point Alison informed Cyclops and Emma how weird he was acting. They eventually tracked down Logan as he was in a life-or-death confrontation with Contagion. Unfortunately for them, 
Contagion anticipated their arrival and infected each of them with customized viruses. Dazzler’s gave her synesthesia, causing her senses to all get mixed up, rendering her nauseous and completely useless. Eventually, however, Wolverine got the upper hand on Contagion and defeated the villain, freeing the X-Men from his grip. Later, after returning home, Logan came to Alison’s room at night, determined to finally move forward with his life instead of rehashing the past. Although she had previously been repulsed by the prospect of him hitting on her, this time she welcomed his advances and let him into her bed. [Wolverine: The Best There Is #7-12]
Despite her newfound affection for Wolverine, when he and Cyclops had a rift and ended up splitting the X-Men into two separate teams operating under different philosophies, Dazzler chose to stay on Cyclops’ side — partly because she didn’t want to give up her residency at a local music venue. She remained in the Bay area, while Wolverine moved back to Westchester with his adherents and a sizeable chunk of the student body. Cyke put Dazzler in charge of a “street team” — Dazzler and the X-Kids — whom he hoped she would train to kick butt and become stars. [Schism crossover, Uncanny X-Men (2nd series) #1]
Dazzler was on a date with her band-mate Johnny Ito when Cyclops summoned her back to Utopia for help. He had just returned from an adventure in an alternate reality and feared the friends he had made there were in mortal danger. He needed Alison to use her lights to power the “Ghost Box” they had in their possession, which let them view and travel to other realities. Alison gladly accepted the request and fueled up the box. When the X-Men opened it, however, General Howlett, Kid Nightcrawler, Emmeline Frost-Summers and a bodiless Charles Xavier came pouring into their world, followed closely behind by a mess of tentacles. Howlett urged to them to shut the box, and they did — but not before the tentacles ensnared Alison and pulled her through the portal.
Kid Nightcrawler, Howlett and Emmeline teleported through the portal to save her, where they defeated the giant squid monster together — which turned out to be that reality’s Charles Xavier. The bodiless Xavier explained that he and his allies had ruptured the fabric of reality while saving the population of a dying Earth and awakened ten evil Xaviers throughout the multiverse. Xavier tasked this new team of exiled heroes with finding and killing these ten evil Xaviers before they destroyed the multiverse. Dazzler accepted the assignment and proceeded with enthusiasm to their first mission. [X-Treme X-Men (2nd series) #1]
They arrived on a parallel Earth that seemed to be stuck in the Bronze Age and ruled by mutants who thought themselves gods (along with Thor, an actual god). They were beaten down and taken prisoner. These mutant gods ruled the world mercilessly, caring not for the plight of the baseline humans who lived in poverty amidst a nine-year drought. Dazzler wondered why the gods, some of whom could control the weather, did nothing to help their subjects. When ordered to sing by Storm, Alison sang a song and used her light powers to trigger a cloud to rain. The downpour was seen as a blessing to the people, but it angered the gods. At that moment, that universe’s Xavier arrived with his friend Magnus and assaulted the gods, allowing Dazzler and her team the chance to flee. She, Howlett and Waggoner escaped to “Utopia,” a hidden haven free from the gods and powered by steam-based technology.
There, Dazzler observed Howlett interacting with that world’s Hercules and began suspecting he took men for lovers. Meanwhile, Xavier explained they needed to overthrow the gods so the people of their world would live free. Dazzler abandoned their assigned quest to kill that reality’s Xavier and helped him and Magnus attack the gods. During the ensuing battle, floating-head Xavier revealed that the gods were all being driven mad by that reality’s Xavier. His deception revealed, Xavier confessed that he thought his people were at their best when combatting the gods. Angered, Magnus murdered him, freeing the brainwashed gods from his control. With their mission complete, Dazzler and her team of multiversal X-Men prepared to jump to their next assignment. Emmeline, however, chose to stay behind and become a goddess herself. [X-Treme X-Men (2nd series) #2-3]
They arrived next in a Wild West universe in a town controlled by an Evil Xavier. After getting into a scuffle saving a young James Howlett and his mother from some local thugs, Howlett became separated from Dazzler and was arrested. She and the rest of the team regrouped and came up with a plan to break him out of jail. When they arrived at his cell, however, they learned that Evil 
Xavier had taken him somewhere for dissection. She and her allies rescued Mr. Howlett from jail and the stubborn Howlett family insisted on joining her and Kid Nightcrawler when they went after Xavier. During the battle with Xavier’s mutant goons, they learned he hadn’t mind-controlled them, just dismantled the parts of their brains that usually prevented them from doing awful things to people. Dazzler and Kid Nightcrawler were able to defeat them, only to arrive at the Howlett cabin to see Evil Xavier had beaten them there and taken everyone else hostage. Dazzler used her lights to free little James Howlett, who attempted to stab Evil Xavier. Howlett got in his way and murdered Xavier himself in order to prevent his younger counterpart from becoming a killer. Dazzler took a liking to this new team and being leader. Afterward, Bodiless Xavier repaired the damage Western Xavier had done, and the team departed to their next mission. [X-Treme X-Men (2nd series) #4-5]
On a later mission, Dazzler visited her native reality, without ever quite realizing it. They arrived on Earth-616 to stop an inter-dimensional Brood invasion that included an Xavier-Acanti that had 
been infected by a Brood Queen. Once on Earth, Dazzler’s team rendezvoused with Cyclops, from whom they learned this reality’s Xavier was already dead. They then staved off the invading Brood. When the Brood kidnapped Johnny Ito for leverage, Dazzler was forced to choose between saving him and some innocent children. She opted to save the kids. Johnny survived anyway and, though he understood her choice, he added that it felt a bit cold. Understandably, this ended their short-lived relationship. Later, Alison mercy-killed the enslaved Acanti-Xavier before it lured in additional multiverse-wrecking Xaviers. Afterward, Cyclops commended Dazzler on her leadership and tried to tell her she was in her native reality, but Alison remained oblivious. She continued on her way to finish her mission. [X-Treme X-Men (2nd series) #7.1]
When Dazzler’s team next saw Xavier, he was with a band of new recruits: an African-American Cyclops from the American Civil War era, Howlett’s lover Hercules, and another version of Dazzler from a world overrun by zombies. Dazzler had already been growing suspicious of Bodiless Xavier ever since their excursion to the wild west world and now, because he was targeting an Xavier that looked like a My Little Pony, she decided to fight back and protect his target. However, the pony-Xavier turned out to be a monstrous demon, which the alternate-
Dazzler’s team (called X-Force) killed. It seems Demon-Xavier had been maintaining an elaborate ruse to conceal his true form. Now that he was dead, it all started falling apart. Dazzler tried to get her team to safety, but “X-Force” Dazzler destroyed their escape ship and challenged Dazzler to a fight for leadership. During the ensuing battle, X-Force Dazzler impaled Alison with one of her light-blades. On their next mission against the Witch-King Xavier, however, Dazzler, even while injured, demonstrated great leadership and superior use of her powers. She inspired X-Force Dazzler so much that the latter ended up sacrificing herself to save her allies from the Witch-King Xavier. X-Force Dazzler transcended into a being of pure light to destroy him and faded into oblivion, but not before thanking Dazzler-616 for the example she set. [X-Treme X-Men (2nd series) #8-9]
During their next jaunt, the team was able to spend some time together swimming, during which they shared their horror stories from their native realities. Alison was shocked to discover they all came from traumas such as war, genocide and damnation. Hearing their stories endeared her to 
her teammates even more. During their next mission, they faced a Nazi Xavier, whom Alison eventually defeated using some cunning strategy and master manipulation of her own powers. Afterward, Bodiless Xavier offered to send them all home, as their mission was complete. That evening, Dazzler met up with Cyclops and the two shared a kiss. Later, however, they realized their count was off, and there was still one Xavier left: their own. Just as they realized this, he was captured by Witch-King and Nazi Xavier, and the three of them suddenly became immensely powerful. They had to retreat. They later defeated them, but in doing so tore open a hole in the walls of the fabric of space-time that allowed a group of immensely powerful beings confined to the walls between realities known as the Exterminators to emerge. Alison and her team had no choice but to flee while the Exterminators devoured the slaves before them. [X-Treme X-Men (2nd series) #10-12]
Alison’s crew soon teamed up with two other groups of X-Men from different realities, including the Age of Apocalypse, in order to contain the Exterminators. Her teammates Hercules, Xavier and Kid Nightcrawler all fell valiantly in the ensuing battles. The crew soon realized that the invasion of the AoA reality, New Apocalypse, would never stop, and the only way to save the multiverse would be to imprison the Exterminators once again. Since they were already invading New Apocalypse, they decided to use that reality as a containment center and seal it off from the rest of the multiverse. Dazzler objected, not wanting to sacrifice yet another reality, but some of its brave, native inhabitants convinced her it was the best option. After the Nightcrawler from that reality finished ferrying everyone back to Earth-616, he sacrificed his life to seal the New Apocalypse universe off from the rest of the multiverse, effectively containing the threat of the invading Exterminator army.
When the dust was all settled, Howlett went on a quest to rescue his fallen lover Hercules from Hades, with Cyclops deciding to go with him to help. Alison said goodbye to her lover. Wolverine, meanwhile, was so impressed with Alison’s leadership that he offered her a faculty position at the Jean Grey School for High Learning. Alison politely declined, saying she needed to take some time off before she made any big decisions like that. True to her character, she hit the beach in Venice, California for some much needed rest and relaxation. However, she couldn’t resist the temptation to use her light powers to project a tribute to her fallen teammates – Xavier, Hercules and Kid Nightcrawler – over the beach as the sun went down that night. [X-Termination crossover]