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68]], former X-Men Havok and Polaris are ambushed by minions of the Living Pharaoh. Havok is abducted but Polaris is left for dead. While Havok teams up with Spider-Man, Polaris calls the X-Men for help. No one answers as the team have already been abducted by Mesmero. She then calls the Beast at Avengers Mansion. In an ongoing plotline in their own series, Avengers members past and present have literally been vanishing into thin air (Their old enemy the Collector is later revealed to be behind this.) Concerned that a similar situation is happening to the X-Men, the Beast visits Xavier's school and is disturbed to find it's been abandoned for some time. Using Cerebro, he tracks the team to the circus. Meanwhile Thor and Spider-Man rescue Havok from the Living Pharaoh/Living Monolith in Marvel Team Up #69. And in Avengers #172, Yellowjacket informs team leader Iron-Man that Beast has disregarded the N.S.C.'s new strictures by taking off in a quinjet to follow the X-Men's trail. (During this time, the Avengers had their security clearances revoked, including their special flight priviledges with the FAA. Thus, the Beast taking a quinjet to search for the X-Men was illegal.) Beast remains with the X-Men through #114, thereby missing the latter half of the Avengers' epic Korvac/the Enemy storyline, which apparently runs concurrently with the events of this story.