Blink

Blink hails from the Age of Apocalypse, an alternate version of what we know as the mainstraim Marvel Universe. Blink was held captive in Sinister's Breeding Pens where she befriended Illyana Rasputin before she was rescued by Sabretooth. Victor Creed would help raise Clarice and become her mentor and father figure. Like Sabretooth, she would become a member of this world's X-Men, the only resistence to the sovereign ruler of America: Apocalypse. While on a romp with her teammate Sunfire, the two found themselves in a tight fix as they were losing a fight to Apocalypse's forces. Blink teleported the two of them directly to the X-Men's base of operations, inadvertantly revealing that the X-Men had been dwelling in Westchester, New York when Delgado, one of Apocalypse's minions, followed them through her portal. When a group of X-Men left to stop the cullings in Chicago, Blink joined them along with Sabretooth. Knowing that Holocaust would be hot on their tails, Sabretooth had Blink teleport him and Wildchild to Holocaust's location in order to buy the rest of the troops more time. When Holocaust reached Chicago, Blink went head on with the Horseman and dropped him in a vat of acid. The X-Men were able to infiltrate Apocalypse's headquarters by using Blink's powers of teleportation. Shortly before the Natural Timeline was restored and the Age of Apocalypse vanished from existence, Blink was plucked from the climatic battle in Apocalypse Citadel and landed into a barren desert.

She emerged alongside five other X-Men from five different realities. They were greeted by the Timebroker, a construct of their collective consciousness, who explained to them that they had all become unhinged from time as a chain of events had caused their realities as they knew it to change. In order to return to their homes, they would have to repair other realities that caused the ripple effect that disrupted their timelines. Subsequently, the Timebroker gave Blink a gauntlet called the Tallus, the instrument that would guide the team on how to fix the alternate universes they would visit. After the team's first mission was a disaster due to team feedback and following the dismay of the Exiles at the abberant notion of their second venture, it became evident to Mimic, who was the leader of his timeline's X-Men, that Blink was the only sensible choice to lead them as she was the only unbiased, hardened warrior in their ranks. Unsure of her ability to lead, Clarice reluctantly accepted the role.

During their time together restoring the multiverse, Mimic educated Blink in the history and general knowledge of the majority of the other timelines. Because the events that comprised Age of Apocalypse diverged greatly from what could be considered typical in other realities, she had no idea who many of the regular heroes and villains they encountered were. The two grew close and eventually became more than friends.

When the Exiles visited a world run by Sentinels, they crossed paths with another team of reality repairing super beings called Weapon X. They were led by Sabretooth from the Age of Apocalypse, the man who rescued and raised her in their timeline. The two teams combined efforts to free David Richards, a child held in a prison camp who had the potential to be the most powerful being in his realm. Feeling empathy for the other children who were also imprisoned along with Richards because she had also been caged during her childhood, Blink teleported them all to safety. When the two teams were required to murder the boy, the Exiles and Sabretooth refused, initiating a scuffle with the other amoral members of Weapon X. In the end, the melee was broken by the arrival of Nimrod Sentinels. Sabretooth decided to stay in this timeline to raise David Richards and ensure he would not corrupt to overthrow his planet. This peaceful resolution allowed both the Exiles and Weapon X to progress. However, Blink objected to leaving Sabretooth another time, but he assured them they would meet again.

Following a bout with Namor, the Sub-Mariner, Mimic's futility with the of their situation and agitation at having to face foes who would otherwise be friends in his own world were leading him to become increasingly emotionally distant from Blink and outwarldy upset. When Clarice question him about the funk he was in, Mimic skirted the issue and denied her claims had any validity. After constant harassment from Clarice, Mimic finally caved in and admitted he had grown sick of their lives and wanted to go home. Calvin asked Clarice to just tolerate him and be his friend.

On their visit to a planet that was plagued by an evolved Legacy Virus and ruled by a nation of infected creatures called Vi-Locks, Blink contracted the disease in its purest form while attempt to retrive the body of Cypher in order to create a vaccine. It traveled at an accelerated rate through her body and, though her condition would eventually stabilize, a cure for the virus had not yet been found. While she lay comatose, Calvin visited Clarice in her sick bed to tell her that he was an emotionally detached idiot who didn't realize how much she meant to him until just then.

Thanks to the combined efforts of Morph and Rachel Summers, the team was able to contact the Norse Gods and use the healing properties within their blood to create a successful vaccine for the evolved Warlock Virus. Blink was treated and was quickly recovering from the illness when she discovered that Mimic was set on a suicide run to blow up the planet in order to rid the universe of the Vi-Locks as both the Exiles and Avengers were led to believe earlier that there existed no other alternatives.

Clarice immediately set off to prevent Calvin from destroying the Earth since a cure had been found. She was able to locate him just in time to avert a nuklear catastrohpe that would have split the planet in half. Back at the Avengers Compoud, festivities ensued, though the celebration was halted by the appearance of the Timebroker who had come to inform the Exiles that one of them had repaired their personal broken chain in time and would be sent home. Clarice vanished As their new team member Magik stepped forward, the Tallus was removed from Blink and reappeared on Mimic's wrist. In the blink of an eye, Clarice was gone.

Because the Age of Apocalypse ceased to exist when it was restored to the natural timeline of the mainstream Marvel Universe, it is uncertain whether Blink simply returned to her timeline moments before it faded from existence or if she re-emerged elsewhere outside of the Age of Apocalypse or in the normal timeline.