Part Four: “That bloated sack of protoplasm!”
The motives of Spiral and Mojo rarely align. At times, Spiral appeared to be the loyal servant of Mojo, ruler of the Mojoverse. However, even when following Mojo’s orders, Spiral usually had her own agenda. Spiral thirsts for blood and obsesses over destroying Longshot; Mojo wants fame and power. Spiral labels herself a devil and knows she brings only evil and death and madness and misery; Mojo fancies himself a life-bringer, even though his actions sow death and destruction. The tension between these two is obvious. Spiral clearly resents having to work for Mojo and doing his idiotic bidding. However, serving Mojo might be all she knows - and she occasionally glimpses the underlying genius behind his seemingly moronic and delusional scheming.
After Mojo transformed Rita into Spiral, he somehow reprogrammed her mind and sent her far enough back in time for her to stop the rebel messiah Longshot from ever escaping to Earth. He also programmed her to capture the uncorrupted Rita and to start the process all over again. [X-Factor Annual #7]
Spiral and her fellow bounty hunters pursued Longshot as he fled Mojo’s captivity and followed him through a rift that led to Earth. The portal to Earth closed on the hunters, however, and left them in an immaterial, intangible state when they arrived. Little more than living ghosts, the bounty hunters sought a way home and found one in Spiral’s formidable magic. They just needed an infant sacrifice to power the spell home - an act Spiral had no qualms about performing. Fortunately for the baby, Longshot foiled their scheme. Spiral and the bounty hunters eventually resorted to using a large collection of diamonds to magically fuel their trip home. [Longshot #1-3]
Upon returning to Earth with Mojo to show him the biped race of humans not dissimilar to the horrible creatures of their mythology, Spiral became subject to Mojo’s cruelty. He made a point of mentioning that Spiral’s six arms differentiated her enough from these regular humans to make her feel like a freak. He even once instructed her to hide her extra arms from his sight because he found them ugly. Clearly he only did this to be cruel, as he found all humans ugly anyway. [Longshot #5]
Mojo’s attempt to appoint himself as ruler of Earth earned him and Spiral the attention of Longshot and his allies, Doctor Strange, Ricochet Rita and Quark. During the ensuing battle, Doctor Strange opened an interdimensional portal into which Mojo fell - without Spiral. Mojo became desperate. It seemed only Spiral could navigate the “space between space”; without her, Mojo feared getting lost for eternity. He pleaded with her to save him, offering to remove her extra arms and give her a kingdom, among other things, if she complied. Although Spiral could have been rid of Mojo forever, she followed and rescued him. [Longshot #6]
Spiral later captured Rachel Summers, the “fractured soul of infinite promise,” but she seemed to do this for herself and not Mojo. “Both girl and life are mine to play with! What comes next, I decide!” she boasted. [Uncanny X-Men #209] It’s unclear what happened next, as Spiral apparently turned Rachel over to Mojo, but Rachel’s Phoenix-infused power eventually overwhelmed him and she escaped.
Although Spiral helped Mojo capture Elizabeth Braddock and transform her into their pawn, she resented the way Mojo treated her during the ordeal and even plotted her own eventual overthrow of her bloated, egomaniacal master. 
When Mojo claimed to have made Spiral what she was, she defiantly folded her arms and brooded over the fact that Mojo had no idea what she was before - or what she would become in the future. [New Mutants Annual #2] As Spiral’s time-travel capabilities granted her knowledge of what the future would hold, this statement suggested that she already planned to one day overthrow Mojo.
Elizabeth’s acceptance into the X-Men proved advantageous for Mojo, as she broadcast back to him via her cybernetic eyes all of the team’s exciting adventures. 
The situation improved when Longshot, a star of the Mojoverse, joined their ranks. Although Mojo never outright stated this infiltration was his plan all along, events worked out suspiciously well in his favor. Spiral even once admitted to him that, despite his apparent lunacy, he seemed to plan for events far beyond the horizon of everyone else. [Longshot #6] If Mojo did have a grander motive for kidnapping Psylocke, Spiral didn’t to realize it, nor did she need to in order for Mojo’s alleged plan to function.
Further propelled to stardom by Psylocke’s X-Men broadcast, Mojo decided he wanted to bring the merry mutants to the Mojoverse so they could perform in the flesh. Using the recently recaptured Longshot as a Trojan horse and some cytoplasmic goo that reversed the aging processes of all who touched it, Mojo lured the X-Men into the Mojoverse and reconditioned them into becoming his personal warriors. Fortunately for the X-Men, the New Mutants deduced that Mojo and Spiral were behind the kidnapping and traveled to the Mojoverse to rescue them. At a pivotal moment in their battle with the New Mutants,
however, Spiral defected and attacked the enslaved Longshot. Mojo didn’t approve of his servant attacking a member of her own team and punished her accordingly. He reminded her of her enslavement to him and his complete control over her life before removing her from the battlefield. Eventually, the New Mutants and the X-Men united and defeated Mojo, after which they bargained with Spiral to return them to normal in exchange for her freedom. Spiral accepted and left, possibly returning to Earth, where she could be away from Mojo for a while. Back in the Mojoverse, Mojo gloated that Longshot’s presence among the X-Men on Earth would aggravate Spiral and possibly teach her a lesson. [Uncanny X-Men Annual #10]
Spiral spent a great deal of time away from Mojo after this, pursuing her own agenda. She collaborated briefly with Mojo on the Psylocke/Kwannon body-swap [Uncanny X-Men #256] before finally reuniting with him when he decided to make a documentary about the X-Men. Her time on Earth had done nothing to make her miss Mojo, however, as Spiral was still quite clearly annoyed to be working for him. She remained as disobedient as ever and delighted in the opportunity to wail on him with a mallet as part of his latest ratings-grubbing effort, the Mojo Face Show. [Marvel Comics Presents (1st series) #89]
At least one of Mojo’s plans went too far for Spiral’s tastes. For some reason, he time-traveled to the Crunch, the antithesis of the universe’s Big Bang, in order to stop it from occurring. At this, Spiral renounced his employ. 
At this same time, Mystique was struggling with a way to handle the renegade Spiral, whom she had employed on Freedom Force and for whom she still felt partially responsible. When she met with Wolverine in a motel room to glean advice on how to deal with her reckless employee, Wolverine made the grave error of uttering Spiral’s name aloud, inadvertently alerting the timedancing menace to his and Mystique’s location. Spiral arrived an instant later. Much to her misfortune, Wolverine and Mystique’s motel room turned out to be a cardinal locus for five different strings in the timestream - meaning it was easy for Mojo to monitor from the end of time. Mojo sent back a plasma wraith to slaughter them.
Meanwhile, Spiral observed multiple, temporally displaced versions of herself traveling to the future to stop Mojo. She took Mystique and Wolverine to the Crunch to save the universe, explaining to her reluctant companions that, if the Crunch didn’t happen, the Big Bang could not have happened, and therefore existence would be undone. While Spiral and Mystique suspected Mojo wanted to prevent the Crunch in order to prolong his own broadcasting and ratings monopolies, Mojo indicated he wanted to prevent the Crunch to eliminate most of existence except for him and a few others - strange for someone who craved power, not solitude. Nevertheless, with the help of an enslaved Jubilee and the two robots Albert and Elsie-Dee, Spiral, Mystique and Wolverine managed to restart the Crunch and return to their time period, thus saving all of existence. [Wolverine (2nd series) #51-53]
Spiral’s presence in this story is quite fitting, considering her aesthetic. With her multiple limbs, she somewhat resembles the Hindu deity Shiva, the poly-armed destroyer of the universe who dances to end all things so they can start again. In this story, Spiral fought to do just that: ensure the Crunch occurred so the Big Bang could follow. By fighting, she quite possibly fulfilled the reason behind her creation, but did so against her creator of all people.