Knowing that Lucian and Teddy were in mortal danger, Keith and Martine raced to Haiti, in order to confront Tullius, Lucian's twin brother, in his Humfo, a sort of ceremonial area. While driving about way too fast in the back woods outside of Port-Au-Prince, Martine almost wiped out a family walking in the center of the road, but swerved into a creek at the last minute.

Grateful to be alive, this family helped Keith and Martine get their jeep out of the mud. Talking to them, the two found out that Tullius meant to sacrifice Lucian in order to gain control of his soul; apparently, according to voodoo beliefs, twins are born sharing one soul, you see, and Tullius wanted it all for himself. However, he wasn't going to kill Teddy, mind you.

He needed her as a hostage against Keith's dream powers.

Realizing what they were up against, Martine made a detour, driving to the humfo of Mambo Matilda, a powerful voodoo priestess that was, in fact, Martine's mentor. She was awaiting their arrival, and had fashioned for Keith a real-life version of his Nightmask costume, a costume that gave him 'strength'. In fact, it allowed him to, with Matilda's help, to activate his dream powers in the waking world.

Heading out to confront the evil Ballad, Keith was captured by Tullius' minions, though he managed to forge a temporary link with Damballah, the 'old white snake', and used its power to get himself out of the chains he'd been bound with. After this, Keith fought Ballad with his current Damballah aspect while Tullius used his aspect of the Chain Beast, a notorious dark spirit of voodoo lore.

The two fought for a time, though Tullius Ballad started to get the upper hand over the space of several minutes. Knowing that Keith was losing, Teddy fought to get ahold of a bottle of perfume that she bought in the French Quarter, a perfume that she knew Doctor Ballad had an allergic reaction to in the past. Focusing all of her will, she managed to pull herself up high enough to get her hands on it.

Using her sensory link with Keith, she gave him the impression that she was throwing something to him and, though his eyes were closed, he actually managed to catch the bottle. On the ropes, he decided to fight real dirty, and sprayed the perfume right in Tullius's eyes, which caused him to fall to the ground screaming. Seeing this, his followers lost confidence in his power, and as such, he lost the fight.

Free by this time, Doctor Ballad tried to reconcile with his evil twin brother, willing to forgive him for all this mess if he'd only drop his evil ways. Of course, the now-scarred Tullius (who rubbed his face too hard in the face of his allergic reaction), wholeheartedly rejected this attempt at peace, and ran off into the jungles, though his power was apparently now gone.

Though Keith wanted to pursue the man, Mambo Matilda warned him against such action as, now that nobody believed in his power, Tullius would meet his end soon enough. This, of course, was especially true since the police themselves would no longer fear his power, and would pursue him relentlessly until he was captured or killed. As such, Remsen let the matter drop.

Resting after their ordeal, Lucian, Keith, and Teddy then went to visit the tombstones of Lucian's parents that next morning, so that Lucian could try and make peace with his past somehow. Though his family was gone, he nonetheless resolved to get on with his life and, taking a lesson from all this, so did Keith and Teddy, as they figured that it was time that they, too, move on to better things.

And with that happy note, the Nightmask series came to an end. Unlike many of the other New Universe books that were canned after its first year of publication, Nightmask's book managed to resolve a lot of the running plot threads within, save for that whole Doctor Kleinmann thing. However, this wouldn't be the end of Keith Remsen's story, nor that of his friends...

After they got back from Haiti, Keith and company's first new patient turned out to be Ken Connell, wielder of the enigmatic Star Brand. After the death of a friend of his, Ken was feeling rather guilty, in that for all his power, he could do nothing to cure his cancer (or so he thought). So, haunted by nightmares, he traveled to the Ballad Dream Institute.

Entering his dreams, Keith found a world like that of a comic book, where Ken (the Star Brand) was battling evil with his deceased friend as a side kick. Working through the course of this demented dreamscape, Keith finally managed to help Ken let go of his grief and guilt. So, once he woke up, Connell resolved to get on with his life, much as Keith himself did recently in Haiti.

Keith's next big adventure involved John Tensen, Justice. You see, the paranormal judge of the guilty was having problems with his own, personal reality, and came to Keith to see if he could do anything about it. Of course, recognizing Tensen from someone else's nightmares, he was exceptionally skeptical about Justice's claims of being some sort of extradimensional warrior.

Nonetheless, Keith entered Tensen's dreams once he was asleep, wandering right into the 'extradimensional' realm that Tensen supposedly came from. Of course, after Justice woke up (to protect Teddy from an assassin sent after him), Keith was left stranded in the bizarre dream world in Tensen's subconscious mind, and in order to save him, Justice went back to sleep again.

By the time he got back into the dream, though, Keith was 'slain' in the dream world, and his body vanished from the Institute altogether. Waking again, Justice fought off a gaggle of things from his delusional reality that had come following that assassin earlier, and when they were beat, he jumped through the portal they'd come from into that dream world once again.

Here, he fought Darquill to a standstill, and when the villain was defeated, Keith (in his Nightmask suit) told Justice what he'd figured out. In essence, the man had been subject to the mind-bending powers of Daedalus Darquill, a man who could mold reality into a mirror of his own, twisted fantasies. Once Justice slew the sleeping Darquill, then, Tensen and Remsen returned to normal.

A few months later, Keith was attempting to treat another paranormal, an empath, who had felt the deaths of a busload of children, as the bus had crashed nearby her. However, in the process of treating this disturbed young woman, Ken Connell pulled his colossal blunder, and accidentally created the Pitt. Being an empath, the deaths of all these people totally wrecked her mind, as it was rather close.

Of course, being in her mind at the time didn't necessarily help Keith, either. In fact, it seriously harmed his sanity, and rendered poor Teddy comatose. However, before he could do anything about it with his dream powers, Keith found himself Drafted, assigned to screen Army recruits with his dreamwalking powers in order to determine whether or not they were mentally fit for duty.

This wasn't really a good thing, however, as Keith couldn't tell which parts of a dream were caused by his patients and which parts were inflicted upon them by their own minds. As such, Keith allowed several unbalanced folks to slip by that really shouldn't have, like Thomas Boyd and Harlan Mook. The Boyd issue resolved itself when Psi-Force came to break him out, but Mook was another matter entirely.

While Keith was trying to do his duty, on the other hand, Doctor Ballad and Lita Mercado volunteered their services to the government, to facilitate a peaceful transition into army life for the paranormal draftees and, failing that, they were rehabilitating those paranormals that were injured while they had unsuccessfully attempted to dodge the Draft.

Of course, Doctor Ballad's greatest contribution to this end was his convincing Anastasia Inyushin to use her healing powers to heal those paranormals that were severely injured while being rounded up by the government. She did this for a time until, soon after they liberated Boyd, the Psi-Force came after Anastasia and Kathy Ling, both of whom were being held in the Betheseda Naval Hospital.

While they were doing this, Keith found himself again involved with John Tensen, Justice. You see, Keith was pulled into the mind of another dreamwalker, one who could use his powers to actually kill people in their sleep. He grabbed poor Keith in order to see what he could do, and to determine whether or not Remsen (or anybody else he knew) was a threat to his power.

In Keith's mind, he saw the image of Justice, and then went after that paranormal through his dreams. However, Keith figured out who the man was with his mental powers, and as such, traveled to where he was being held, an insane asylum. Once it was determined that the man was killing people, the psychologists holding this mad paranormal had him lobotomized to protect ordinary folks from him.

Meanwhile, Harlan Mook went totally nuts in basic training, and tried to kill the so-called Pitt-Bull. As punishment for this, the Army locked him up in an underground box, which pushed him even farther over the edge. As such, hearing the President giving a speech over a nearby radio, Mook teleported to his location and then teleported out, almost killing the venerable Reagan.

After this incident, which inadvertently outed Reagan as a regenerating paranormal, Keith was assigned to a special duty: the neutralization of Mook, no matter what it took. Being responsible for the Mook problem, Keith didn't argue about this too much. However, before he went about this mission, Keith went to Bethesda to check on his little sister.

You see, Doctor Ballad had taken Teddy to Bethesda to look after her while she was comatose, and since she was also a paranormal, the government didn't argue about this. Arriving, Keith tried taking several cracks at Teddy's dreaming mind, and after he tried lots of different ideas, he finally managed to pull Teddy out of her shroud of pain and misery.

Agreeing to work with her again once he got back from the Mook mission, Keith then set out to get rid of him. Of course, since he was a teleporter, tracking him down was difficult, especially since he'd taken to attacking random American monuments with his deadly blowout power. He then became even more dangerous, however, after an Ayatollah with mind control powers got his hands on Mook.

Thinking about it, Keith decided to bring Mook to him, and, after assaulting him with his dream powers day and night, Mook came to the ship where Keith was stationed at. After taunting him for a bit, Remsen turned around and shot Mook dead before he knew what hit him. After he accomplished this, Keith went mad with guilt, and had to be institutionalized for a time.

For years, in fact. After he got over his guilt, Keith simply decided to stay in the dreaming world from then on, spending years doing nothing but dreamwalking, until his new powers began to manifest. He could now see the future somewhat, and since the immediate future involved an invasion by various extraplanar aliens, Keith decided to do something about it.

Scouring the earth, now that he could traverse the waking world in his Nightmask, Keith rounded up a potent paranormal force to combat this threat, a force that was led by Quasar once that hero arrived in the New U, looking for his girlfriend. Quasar informed the assembled paranormals what the aliens were after: it was the Star Brand, the most powerful weapon in the universe!

Taking the paranormals into space, Quasar then watched as his host of heroes (from his earth) inadvertently fought with the paranormals, battling until the evil Skeletron managed to get its hands on the Star Brand. Unfortunately, this theft caused him to be sucked into the New U, and Nightmask's world was trapped (supposedly forever) in the mainline Marvel Universe.

Of course, the Living Tribunal, a force of balance in this alternate reality, bound the New U earth in a supposedly impenetrable force bubble, to prevent the Star Brand's energies (which permeated all of the paranormals from this world) from contaminating anything else in its reality. This, of course, would have several drastic effects on the people of Nightmask's world.

These effects, mind you, have yet to be revealed. However, now that Nightmask and Teddy are both free from the individual comas that kept them out of action, there isn't anything stopping them from returning to Doctor Ballad and Lita Mercado and reopening the Ballad Dream Institute. Sure, their world is in a desperate situation, but since Keith can't solve these problems, he'd likely help in any way he could...