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Fate had a hand in bringing together the Alewife Arsonists and Albuquerque Solarpunks in their first-ever Cup series faceoff in Hellmouth II/Season 15. Both teams were each facing off against one of the notorious Choke Artists (the Arsonists faced the Detroit Grape Chews while the Punks faced the Baltimore Piano Tuners ), and the resulting Double Choke sent the Arsonists and Solarpunks to the final Hellmouth II Cup series.

The Arsonists' loss to the Punks in the final Cup series was a spiritual battle, and a dark night of the soul for Alewife. The Punks brought the strategy that had earned them a dynasty in Hellmouth II/Season 14: The Unbearable Lightness of Albuquerque, a clean, optimistic, and fresh strategy that powered the Punks with nearly unlimited energy. That strategy clashed with the diesel fumes and multi-level power structure of the Arsonists. The mysterious Brake Master Cylinder described the difficulty of getting a foothold against the Solarpunks as "trying to set fire to the sun." The Hellmouth II Cup series loss was particularly galling because it showed that the Arsonists were potentially vulnerable to the strengths of another Cold League team (they had already struggled in vain against the Elko Astronauts ; the Albuquerque Solarpunks represented a new, novel threat from the Cold League.)