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Triptych: Amethyst(Betsy Stories)Many prefer the more gaudy ruby or emerald, but those of discriminating taste appreciate the subtleties of the amethyst... |
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Betsy tries and fails to deal with a terrible tragedy that has befallen the X-Men.
On a night in the distant past, a chance encounter and strange occurences unite Elisabeth Braddock and Kwannon before the Mandarin and Spiral ever tampered with either of them.
Trying to explaining why Betsy went after Scott so determinedly when Scott and Jean had lost touch and Betsy stepped in to make a play for him in the X-books a while back.
How two other X-Men are faring in the alternate continuity of Kate's Alley...
Third times the charm, as Betsy Braddock faces off with Sabretooth one last time.
To help her friend recover from her encounter with Sabretooth, Kitty tries to arrange some downtime for Betsy and Warren.
Betsy Braddock has never been sanguine about her alteration by the Crimson Dawn.
Elizabeth Braddock begins her new life as a Coda, and as Psykeye.
What if Revanche was the real Betsy? The world that results is similar yet oddly different... disturbingly so.
In the sequel to A Case of Mistaken Identity, Elisabeth and her allies struggle to bring Storm to join them.
Continuing the story from The Calm Before the Storm, Elisabeth and her allies investigate the motives behind Xavier's behavior.
The Seige Perilous has merged Elisabeth Braddock and Emma Frost, and Rogue has absorbed Jean Grey as well as Carol Danvers -- how are they coping with the changes?
Betsy is with Neal Sharra, but is she really over Warren?
The sequel to Twist of the Feather...
Why couldn't a sane reality warper bring Betsy back?
Betsy comes back to England and Excalibur just in time for her wake.
The other X-types find out Betsy's back...
...with the X-Men -- including one ex-lover -- the last to find out.
Sage helps Betsy figure out her current state after the resurrection...
...then Betsy helps Warren with the fallout.
Why Rogue has magnetic powers and can be touched...
Betsy vs Cassandra Nova, but at what price?
After her fight with Cassandra Nova, Betsy's trapped outside of her body, and seeks help.
Now it's Cecilia who needs help...
Betsy and Jean have a heart-to-heart talk.
Then Betsy and her killer have *their* talk.
And the reunions with the resurrected Psylocke just keep on coming.
A rewrite of the above stories...
...and the sequel to Fanged Butterfly Volume One.
Angel enjoys a day in the sun with his lover Psylocke, after regaining his feathered wings.
Warren Worthington sits by Betsy Braddock's bedside, after her mauling and near-evisceration by Sabretooth.
Betsy is having trouble dealing with her most recent changes, after her battle with Sabretooth.
Betsy decides she has to face Creed again.
Warren proposes to Betsy...
...and Betsy accepts his proposal.
Betsy and Warren get married at Braddock Manor -- with some surprising wedding guests and presents.
Sinister gets curious about Betsy's latest body change, and has his Marauders capture her for him.
Betsy tries to cope with what Sinister's Marauders did to her.
Jean and Scott try to talk to Betsy about what happened to her.
Betsy tries to get through to the daughter Sinister created from her DNA.
Betsy and Warren visit Doug Ramsey's grave, and decisions are made about Rebecca Braddock's future.
Rebecca and her mother say their goodbyes as Rebecca prepares to visit Europe, with Warren and Scott in tow.
Rebecca Braddock writes down her thoughts and feelings over the first few days of her European vacation.
Rebecca Braddock confronts Hank McCoy about her feelings for him - how will Hank react?
Rebecca Braddock discusses her current emotional situation with Ororo Munroe.
It's Warren Worthington III's birthday, and the team turns out in force to help him celebrate it...
Sinister returns to claim a debt Betsy Braddock owes him, and he goes straight for Betsy's daughter Rebecca to get it.
Sinister returns to claim a debt Betsy Braddock owes him, and he goes straight for Betsy's daughter Rebecca to get it.
The X-Men have a Halloween party at the mansion, and Rebecca Braddock learns a little something about tradition - while at the same time watching people make fools of themselves.
Kurt Wagner talks to Betsy Worthington after the birth of her son Tom, and gets to know his new "nephew" a little better.
Rebecca Braddock and Sam Guthrie discuss Rebecca's new baby brother Tom while out on a date in Salem.
Archangel takes his infant son Thomas out for the day, and makes two new friends in the process.
Archangel gets ready to entertain some guests at the mansion... but he hasn't told Psylocke they're coming yet. Oops.
Sleepless nights have become part and parcel of life for Archangel and Psylocke thanks to their newborn son, but this one is slightly different, as Warren has something he needs to say...
What happens when the past you thought was gone comes back to haunt you? Psylocke, Archangel and the rest of their family are about to find out - in spades...
Rebecca Braddock has come to an important milestone in her young life, and she needs some advice about the birds and the bees.
Rebecca Braddock gets some life-changing news, and must decide how to deal with her new circumstances along with the equally-affected Sam Guthrie.
Rebecca Braddock and Sam Guthrie have invited Sam's old X-Force team-mates to the mansion to meet their new baby, with a few surprising guests.
Tom Worthington, Betsy and Warren's bouncing blue toddler, needs a midnight snack, but ends up making a new friend. Or so he thinks...
Rebecca Braddock and Sam Guthrie are out looking for a birthday present when they run into a certain jade giant. And he's not in a very good mood...
When Magneto crashlands at the Xavier Institute, his story of how he got there prompts the XMen and in particular, Psylocke to investigate. One thing's for sure, though: after this, they'll definitely want to leave the lights on...
Betsy's thoughts at the end, when Vargas kills her in the horrible X-Treme X-Men.
Gambit and Psylocke have a night on the town.
A visitor to a church in Salem Center overhears two displaced Brits talking.
No Kai or Logan here, as Psylocke begins to learn what it's like to live without her telepathy.
In one of the author's Girl Talk series, Meggan and Betsy discuss Brian's alcoholism.
Betsy is determined to have a baby so, after Warren refuses to co-operate, she asks Logan to help her -- to a jealous Jubilee's chagrin.
A pregnant Betsy moving back into Braddock manor doesn't cramp Brian's and Meggan's *private* lifestyle at all.
A wee bit ... disturbing, but an ... interesting look at Betsy's nightmare.
Betsy and Warren come to a final parting of their ways.
In an "ordinary" world without mutants or superheroes or supervillains, Betsy Braddock still must decide whether it's worth selling her soul to get her eyesight back.
Set in the AoA universe -- Scott rescues a young woman from the slave pens…. and her name is Betsy.
A slightly ... disturbing tale of what happens when Jubilee and Psylocke end up sharing the same body.
Set in Alicia MacKenzie's Shadowlands continuity, Betsy watches a former team mate from a safe distance.
A retelling of events leading to Betsy joining STRIKE...
A retelling of events resulting in Betsy facing Sabretooth...
A retelling of events after Betsy went through the Siege Perilous...
A retelling of events in the Crimson Dawn arc...
Vengeance at the X-Mansion? On who? On whose behalf? It's quite the headache.
After the revelation of just how connected Betsy and Kwannon really are, Betsy is thinking about her faltering relationship with Warren.
(waaaay back when Betsy first moved to America with the X-Men, when she was a natural blond who dyed her hair lavender) Betsy was having a hard time fitting in...
Betsy ponders all the twists and turns her life has taken.
Betsy experiences a personal crisis while the X-Men are in Australia.
Warren tries to console his girlfriend as Betsy has to learn to live with being head-blind as a result of the Psi-War with the Shadow King.
An intriguing Christmas story where Betsy thinks back over past Christmases.
After the Crimson Dawn, Psylocke and Angel's relationship is in serious trouble.
Betsy leaves Warren and he is left to deal with the consequences.
An introspective story about Psylocke, told in first-person perspective...
Soon after absorbing the Shadow King, Betsy muses on the twists and turns her life has taken.
A searching tale told through Betsy's mind, of her childhood, her past, her present and her future.
A short but intriguing exploration of how the Crimson Dawn has transformed Betsy and her perspective of the world she lives in.
Psylocke tries to use her telepathy to contact the intelligence residing within the wings Apocalypse gave to Archangel.
Post Psi-War, Cable and Psylocke have a conversation about the ramifications of Betsy's clash with the Shadow King.
One possible explanation for how Psylocke and Phoenix switched powers.
Cable and Psylocke train together.
A "what if?" style story exploring a possible connection between Psylocke and Generation X's Chamber aka Jonothan Starsmore.
Betsy seeks advice from Logan about her nightmares, and finds peace visiting an old love's grave.
Kitty shows Betsy some recordings Doug had made before his death.
An alternative, more painful but more realistic, version of Betsy saving Tabitha from Creed...
In the Far East with Logan and Jubilee after escaping her brainwashing, Psylocke has to learn to deal with the memories of what she did as a Hand assassin.
In an effort to find out the truth about themselves, Psylocke and Revanche sit together for a potrait done by Colossus.
Jean helps Logan come to terms with his feelings about Betsy's death... and Betsy herself.
Spiral and Sinister reminisce about Betsy's body swapping with Kwannon.
Betsy struggles to accept the "sacrifice" she made in her battle with the Shadow King.
Warren and Betsy attend an evening party, and while there, they happen upon a man who rubs Betsy the wrong way and has her wondering whether her instincts, in the absence of her telepathy, may be running awry.
A letter written to Betsy, sometime in the future...
Warren Worthington discovers he has an extraordinary power, which was briefly touched upon in Marvel One-Shot Phantom Wings. But what this new power means for Warren might be a curse disguised as a gift.
Betsy ponders the changes made to Warren by his discovery of his new powers.
I never thought Warren was worthy of Betsy -- until this story, in which he tries to keep the loss of her telepathy to defeat the Shadow King from being the straw that breaks the camel's back... and their relationship.
In this sequel to In the Mood, Betsy and Warren are finally happy and together, though things end up taking a turn for the worst.
Written in response to X-Men 109, we catch Warren during a typical day... doing what he loves best.
This story deals with a possible break-up between Warren and Betsy and explores Psylocke's state of mind after the Psi-Wars.
In a different version of the Crimson Dawn arc, Psylocke tries to reclaim what is left of her life while the debt she owes to the Crimson Dawn looms over her every action. Archangel and Wolverine both try to help her through her struggles, but Psylocke realizes that only she can save herself.
Two months after the events in Undercloak, Logan deals with the aftermath and shares a moment with Gomurr the Ancient.
After Jean loses Scott, she and Betsy travel to Tahiti to help Jean find herself again. But what they find is something much, much bigger than either of them bargained for.
Taking place shortly after the end of Indigo's The Last Temptation of Meggan Braddock(R) (with her blessing), the Mandarin comes after Betsy and Warren.
Mojo and Spiral intervene when Sabretooth injures Betsy, one of their past puppet performers.
A tale from Betsy's modelling days, when she encounters a creative but warped high-fashion designer.
Psylocke faces Sabertooth to save Tabitha, with somewhat different results.
Psylocke's first meeting with Xavier in Lilandra's court, isn't what she's expecting.
Betsy is pregnant, but the baby has a multitude of problems, and the mother needs help too.
A classical ode to a classical lady...
Betsy has health problems, which the X-Men are not helping with much, and leaving to cope on her own just brings her up against the Friends of Humanity.
Before Psylocke, before Kwannon, this is a story of Betsy Braddock's earliest days as a STRIKE agent.
Betsy, Logan and Jean have to crashland in a remote wilderness on their way back from a mission.
A connection from Betsy's STRIKE days arrives at Muir unexpectedly and draws Betsy and Warren, Excalibur and the visiting Zach and Jack into STRIKE's current crisis.
The many facets of Betsy...
Real life impinges on one of the X-Men.
Warren and Betsy react differently to a rescue gone wrong.
A story in which Farouk may or may not be Shadow King, trapped in Psylocke's head.
A little fluff, because fluff never hurt anyone.
Betsy musing on her relationship with Warren...
Psylocke performing for Mojo...
Distracted by trying to keep the Shadow King under control, Betsy accidentally injures herself, with unexpected consequences.
Warren muses on Betsy's death.
A pre-Siege Perilous Betsy Braddock and Alex Summers wage a heated debate.
On a night no different from the next, Betsy Braddock learns that playing with shadows is a dangerous game and fighting for your soul can be the greatest battle of all.
In another time, another place, another world, young, wealthy and married, Warren Worthington and Candy Southern harbour a horrible secret. Upon one fateful visit to the Westchester mansion, that secret becomes truth, and Warren must learn to live with the consequences with the help of one of the newest X-Men, the young and wounded telepath known as Psylocke.
Angel's got his original wings back and is no longer Apocalypse's Death. But how much will his freedom cost him and the people he loves?
After the events of Release," Psylocke tries to cope with her changed life and the child she is carrying.
It's just a little morning love song...
Written for the 1999 Holiday Project, it's a little romantic Christmas piece.
When Meggan gets fed up with him again and leaves him, Brian finds the Otherworld a lonely place... so he uses his new powers to resurrect his twin sister -- who promptly sets out to put her regained life back in order.
Eavesdropping on a rowdy crowd at Harry's one afternoon, Betsy is presented with an ethical dilemma.
Two women woven together by circumstances come together and begin a new journey.
What if the XMen didn't quite believe Betsy's most recent ressurrection? What if they pushed her away instead?
(Sequel to Unreadable) After a few months of bliss, the world encroaches upon Betsy and Vivian. Their biggest problem? Sebastian Shaw.
Other stories of interest, archived without permission (as explained on the Bootleg Story Annex page) include:
