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Scaredy Cat !
It’s the early hours of the morning. While everybody else at Xavier’s School is asleep, Illyana Rasputin is secretly casting a spell in her room. Protected by a magic circle, she separates her astral form from her body and it slips out of the house traveling north. Kitty Pryde had promised her she’d phone as soon as she and Doug Ramsey arrived at the Massachusetts Academy. But they haven’t heard a word from her and now the X-Men have disappeared as well. She may simply have forgotten, but checking doesn’t hurt.
Following Kitty’s descriptions, Illyana’s astral form reaches Snow Valley, the White Queen’s School and dives toward the underground complex where instantly she finds Kitty, sitting in a chair and wearing a strange magenta uniform addresses another woman, furiously telling her she won’t get away with this. Illyana recognizes her as the White Queen. So Kitty is in trouble. First being kidnapped by the Morlocks, now this.
“Fait Accompli,” the other woman mocks Kitty. It’s already done. She’s trapped without the power to phase. She can rage all she wish, in fact she enjoys a good match, but when it’s over Kitty won’t ever want to leave her. Won’t that be nice? With that, she mockingly touches Kitty’s chin.
The X-Men… Kitty begins her threat. If her teammates were coming to her rescue, wouldn’t they have done so by now? Emma points out. Doug Ramsey will call the police, Kitty insists. Why should he? To him she isn’t missing.
Emma mentally puts Kitty in rapport with Doug. She is telepathically manipulating his perceptions, so that he believes Kitty is by his side. The illusion is perfect because he supplies the details. She looks as he imagines she should and speaks and behaves the same. In reality, the poor boy talks to himself and kisses and embraces air. The fact that he loves her makes her task infinitely easier. Love? Kitty denies that. She’s lying. If she insists, Frost shrugs. He’d deny it of course, as fervently as Kitty is denying her feelings for him. He’s a friend, Kitty insists. Disappointed, Emma reminds her of the futility of deceiving a mindreader.
Why is she doing this? Kitty snarls. Emma curtly replies that both Kitty and her would-be paramour Douglas are mutants and therefore valuable commodities she means to control. And to think she felt sorry for her when she heard what Mastermind had done to Emma, Kitty snarls.
Clearly upset, Emma turns away before threatening Kitty, asking if she would like a taste of that experience? Mastermind confronted her with illusions so terrible, horrors so primal and personal, that her mind retreated into a catatonic state. His assumption was that she lacked the strength and courage to drag herself out of that abyss. He was wrong. Mastermind’s fatal flaw was his tendency to underestimate his opposition. She tells Kitty not to make the same mistake. Her worth is finite. She suggests Kitty no push her luck. Hey, she’s scared, Kitty replies sarcastically. She knows, Emma replies, more controlled once more, but it’s a nice act.
Now that she has regained her temper, shall she make Kitty an offer she can’t refuse? Only if she wants a real rude suggestion what she can do with it, Kitty retorts. Emma laughs at her and commends her for her nasty streak that rivals Emma’s own. She’ll enjoy belonging to the Hellfire Club. Not a chance Kitty insists, while telling herself to stay under control. The more upset she becomes, the harder it gets to maintain the psychic defenses Professor Xavier taught her.
They won’t do her any good, even then, Emma informs her telepathically. Kitty mentally shouts at her to leave her alone. If she could get her hands on Emma… she threatens. But she can’t, Emma informs her. Kitty is completely at her mercy, as are her parents. She can do a great deal to them or for them, Emma informs her condescendingly. She can grant all their wishes or crush them utterly. Would she like to see her parents penniless, starving? Is she that cruel?
Kitty is clearly shaken and suddenly gasps as she spies Illyana’s astral form, something that shouldn’t be possible. Worse, Emma can see her too. She uses a telepathic blast to shatter llyana’s astral from, and at Xavier’s mansion Illyana screams a scream that awakes the New Mutants in the other wing of the mansion. As they race towards the source of the scream, they realize it must be Illyana. With the X-Men gone, she’s the only one there.
Sam kicks open her locked bedroom door. In front of them, a huge demon opens its maw, then flies out of the room.
They look inside the room and see Illyana kneeling inside the pentagram, smoke and demons coming from her eyes. The monsters make a break for it and Dani orders the others to follow them while she tries to help Illyana. The others take off in a hurry and Dani can’t blame them. She’d give anything to be on their side of the door. Her grandfather was a wise man. He’d know what to do. She hasn’t got a clue, but Illyana is in agony. She has to do something.
Wolfsbane jumps at one of the demons in the front hall but it dissipates at her touch and she lands on the coffee table. Moments later, the demon reemerges in a huge form and roars at her. Sunspot too finds that they can change size and dissipate at will, as his demon does just that and he is propelled into Wolfsbane.
Upstairs, Cannonball blasts after his quarry and makes the same experience. He is so surprised that he forgets all about the window at the end of the corridor until he crashes through it. Magma chides him for his carelessness and hits another demon with a lava blast. Seeing this, Sam is painfully aware of the fact that even though he has had his powers longer than she, she is much more adept at handling hers.
Meanwhile, the demons around Illyana try to keep Dani away. She decides to head right through them and finds that they vanish at her touch, only to reappear and grab her. Their touch stings. Confused, she loses her balance, falls and hurts her heads. Feeling the monsters attacking her, she unleashes her power, pulling from the demons’ tiny minds the image of their greatest fear and creating a lifelike simulacrum. The image is a grown-up demonic Illyana. So terrified are the demons that rather than face her they instantly discorporate, leaving Dani hovering on the threshold of oblivion, certain she’s losing her hold on reality when her conjuration strides towards her, carries her to the bed and gently lays her down.
Her vision clears and she sees the real Illyana, who tells her not to move just yet. She hit her head against the bureau. The others are gathered in the doorway with some questions for Illyana.
Later in the kitchen, a hostile Sam tells her they are waiting. Illyana begins that she isn’t merely a mutant, but a sorceress as well. They never would have guessed, Roberto interrupts sarcastically, before asking why she cast a spell and what went wrong. Illyana relates how she was worried about Kitty, sent her astral form after her and found out that she is a prisoner of the Hellfire Club’s White Queen, whom the X-Men still believed to be in a coma.
She’s trying to brainwash Kitty into becoming a Hellfire Club member. Kitty may be tough but Emma Frost is a telepath, possibly as powerful as Xavier. In the long run Kitty doesn’t stand a chance. Frost’s psi-powers sensed Illyana she disrupted her astral presence with a mindblast. The backlash stunned Illyana and allowed her psychic familiars to get loose. They aren’t really dangerous despite their looks.
Quietly, Illyana recalls that Kitty saw her astral body as well. What could that mean? Anyway, she resumes, Kitty’s in trouble and she means to help. Dani points out that, when the X-Men aren’t at home, they’re meant to turn to the Fantastic Four or Avengers in case of emergency. Who wants to place the call?
Bobby gets to it, wondering if he can get their autographs… for his sister, of course. However, they are to be disappointed. The FF are gone, as are the Avengers. Dani is disturbed, all the world’s most powerful superheroes disappearing in the same night.
Sam states that Kitty may have just run out of luck. Illyana angrily argues that they haven’t been kidnapped. They’re kids, Sam stresses. You don’t send high school varsity, no matter how good, against the Pittsburgh Steelers. It’s suicide. If positions were reversed, Kitty would come to their aid, without a moment’s hesitation, Illyana shouts. But she won’t force them. If they wish to stay behind, she’ll do the job herself.
Amara tells her to wait. She addresses the others, stressing that this is a matter of honor. Regardless of the New Mutants’ feelings for Kitty, she is a schoolmate and they are duty-bound to aid her. Sam points out that Snow Valley is a long way from here. How are the supposed to get there? He can’t carry all of them. Illyana admits that her control over her teleportation is too haphazard. She doesn’t want to risk it. She can’t help noticing that the others are relieved to hear that and wonders how long they will remain scared of her.
None of them are qualified to fly the X-Men’s planes, Dani muses, and they don’t have driver’s licenses. Though Sam knows how to drive, they could take a car… Better not, Sunspot disagrees. Kids cruising in a Rolls-Royce is a sure guarantee of being stopped. Stevie Hunter’s away on vacation, so they can’t turn to her. He suggests they crack open their piggy-banks. Then they’ll see where and how they go from there. And so a little later, Bobby announces that they’re going to travel in true superhero style – by bus.
And so some time later, they find themselves at the Port Authority Bus Terminal near Times Square at the end of morning Rush Hour. Amara marvels at the crowd and Sam recalls how this was the first place he saw in New York when he came to Xavier’s.  He almost turned tail and returned to Kentucky.
Dani joins them with the tickets and asks where Bobby and Rahne are. They find them on the escalator. They follow them outside to see the two youngsters stare as though in trance at the Holy Ghost Church. Dani and Sam recall what happened to them there last summer. The two kids come out of the trance and Roberto states that something called them and they couldn’t resist. Rahne secretly is frightened for she felt a terrible animal hunger for blood.
Within the bus, Rahne glares at Illyana, blaming the sorceress for those changes in her. Illyana understands Rahne’s feelings but essentially ignores her. Dani checks out print-outs of every scrap of info they could get about the Hellfire Club and Miss Frost’s school.
Sam tells her he worries about Roberto and Rahne. That church is Cloak and Dagger’s hideout. The kids were injected with the same drug that created Cloak and Dagger. Except it turned them into monster versions of themselves. Cloak and Dagger used their own powers to absorb the poison from the kids’ bodies. What if the cure didn’t take?
Dani calmly replies that’s for the professor to deal with. But he is gone with the X-Men, he reminds her. What if they never come back? Dani reminds him of their more immediate problems. The Hellfire Club number among the X-Men’s deadliest foes. They can’t afford to fly off half-cocked. They mustn’t make a single mistake. Otherwise they’ll get slaughtered.
They’ll probably get slaughtered anyway, he thinks to himself. Before they left the mansion this morning, they tried to run a Danger Room sequence with the Hellfire Club. But the computer rejected the program, as it was an X-Men level exercise and thus too dangerous for them. If practice is too tough, what will the real thing be like? He notices Bobby showing Amara the sights. He should be jealous but he’s too scared. He tries to tell himself that at least they have surprise on their side.
He notices Rahne’s foul mood and asks what’s wrong. She shushes him. She’ll hear. Illyana? He laughs. So what if she does? She’s a witch, Rahne stresses. Big deal, Rahne’s a werewolf, he retorts. Pain in her eyes, she asks if he think she doesn’t know that. She and Illyana are two of a kind, spawn of Satan!
Sam tells her not to pull that line on him and sits down next to her. The first book his daddy taught him to read was the Bible. He was attending Sunday school long before Rahne was even born. He’ll wager his belief is as strong as hers. If she’s telling him she’s evil simply because of what she is he says that’s bull. Her minister’d say different, she replies. What’s he know? Sam asks. Rahne tells him not blaspheme.
Her reverend is a human being, he points out. It isn’t given to them to understand the Lord’s actions. Where is his mercy in war and disease and hate? Why did his daddy have to cough out his lungs before his time? He didn’t deserve so cruel a death. God thought different. You can’t second-guess him. He’ll judge you in his own time. “Mutant” is a label, like ”colored” used to be. It doesn’t matter. What matters is how you live your life. He asks her to give herself a chance and then do the same for Illyana.
Rahne reveals to him that her mother died in childbirth. When he was most angry with her Reverend Craig would say it was Rahne’s fault, a sign of the Lord’s displease at her mother’s life and Rahne’s creation. It fell to her to atone for her mother’s sins and save her from the pit. How can she do that when she feels herself becoming more wicked than her mother could ever have been? Crying, she tells him she wishes she’d had a chance to know her. He comforts her and tells her she must have been a lovely lady to have her. He misses his family too. He writes, but it isn’t the same. He invites Rahne to accompany him next time he visits home and Rahne happily agrees.
The Massachusetts Academy early that evening. Outside is an ordinary school campus, inside is a high tech complex, to which Magma has burned them a tunnel with nobody noticing them. Rahne shifts to wolf-form and Dani informs Illyana that there are too may scents for Rahne to sort out. Illyana replies that she scouted the entire complex when she was there in her astral form. Kitty was being held in the lab next door.
And there they find her, still paralyzed in her chair. Kitty’s face lights up and she jokingly asks what the heck kept them. The bus broke down, Illyana replies. They came to her rescue by bus? Illyana jokes that they are a class act. She reaches out to her, asking if the chair inhibits her power. When she tries to touch the other girl, she disappears, it was merely a hologram. They were tricked.
Blinding lights flare and a huge hologram of Emma Frost, a dejected Kitty by her side, greets them, informing them that they shall become great friends. From that moment, their bodies belong to the Hellfire Club, and very soon their minds and souls will follow.
Illyana silently vows that. if Frost has harmed Kitty, she will bring the entire mountain down around her ears. She’ll use her magic to move her precious academy from Earth to the heart of Hell itself.


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Away Game !
The New Mutants have been discovered by Emma Frost, who promises that soon they will belong to the Hellfire Club. Guards are already getting ready to arrest them. Magik grimly blames herself for leading the New Mutants into a trap. Canonball gives a silent cue to Magma, who blazes as brightly and hotly as the sun, using her control over the earth’s molten core to trigger a sudden devastating earthquake. Throughout the sprawling underground complex, power conduits are severed and the lights go out.
Soon, a guard switches on the emergency back-up but by then the kids have escaped. The guards inform the White Queen. Unimpressed, Emma turns to Kitty and remarks that the group gained some formidable new members since Xavier first gathered them. She chides Kitty to stop struggling. The psychic inhibitors Emma placed in her brain not only deny her the use of her phasing power, but most effectively paralyze Kitty as well.
Stoically, Kitty asks Emma what she’s going to do with them. She’ll soon see, but she guarantees, they won’t escape, Emma promises. And soon they won’t want to. She’s going to brainwash them like she’s trying to do her? Kitty demands. Wrong, as she‘s succeeded with Kitty, comes the reply. Kitty is speechless.
Emma throws her head back and laughs, sharing with Kitty that the Hellfire Club’s goal is power. Sebastian Shaw and she wish to rule the world. Mutants are a means to an end. She pours herself a glass of wine while Kitty sardonically states whether they like it or not. Emma explains that there are too many superbeings. People have begun to realize their value. They used to be hated, now thy are desired. Humans still fear them, but now they wish to use them. Kitty must decide whether she wishes to be ruler or slave.
All she wants is to be left alone, to live her life in peace, Kitty shouts. Is that too much to ask? She lost that option the moment she was born, comes the reply. If she wishes true freedom, she should end her life. If she will not join the Hellfire Club willingly, she will be forced. Let’s hope her compeers profit from Kitty’s example.
The New Mutants, in the meantime, have gathered in a storeroom. With Wolfsbane keeping an ear to the door they discuss what to do. Sam suggests they kayo the main generator to keep up the confusion. What then? Dani wonders. Use the confusion to free Kitty and Doug? It might work.
Sam points out their main problem, the White Queen being a telepath. If she’s so hot, how come they are still on the loose? Bobby remarks. There’s a world of difference between knowing their plans and stopping them. Illyana agrees. If they split up, she’ll have to split her forces too. She also adds that if Professor X can’t read her mind, neither can Frost.
Rahne shushes them. There are footsteps outside. Two female guards. The kids quickly grab them and tie them up, however the women refuse to talk. Dani shows them images of their specific fear, in their case no one is surprised to see it’s the White Queen. Shaken to the core the women relent, moaning that they may call themselves heroes, but they are as cruel as the Queen herself.
Dani orders the others to question them, she needs a moment to herself. Clearly shaken by the barb, she can barely hold back her tears of self-disgust at what she’s done.
Someone taps her on the back. Illyana, already wearing a guard uniform, tells her she hopes Dani doesn’t mind them being partners. They are the only ones who fit in the uniforms. She offers to talk with her later. Dani thanks her but refuses. Silently, she wonders why she’s always hurting people. Can’t she find a way to use her powers to help like she did months ago with Peter Bristow?
Minutes later, the disguised Dani and Illyana leave, as do Wolfsbane and Sunspot. After Sam has gagged the mercs, Magma burns them a way out through the ground. Impressed, Sam wonders what’s she’s gonna be like when she really learns how to control her powers. He wonders if he can stand the heat but finds the ground cool to the touch.
Shortly in a generator room that supplies electricity to the Hellfire complex and the Massachusetts Academy above it, Magma makes her presence felt and melts the generator and its back-ups. Instantly, the school goes as dark and still as the night itself.
Score one for the kids! Kitty shouts. Emma admits they are resourceful, as she lights some candles, but then so is she. She just can’t admit she’s being beaten by a gang of children, Kitty taunts her. Still calm, Emma replies that the battle has barely begun.
Students on campus wonder what’s going on. Security officers tell them to stay calm. They’ll distribute lanterns and flashlights soon. They are to return to their dorm and stand by.
Among the crowds are Amara and Sam trying to blend in. Anyone asks about their costumes, they are designer ski suits, Sam decides. They look for Doug’s dorm and as Sam commends Amara, she tells him to save the compliments until they are safely home.
They are being scanned unbeknownst to them by someone who identifies Cannonball. As they enter Creighton Hall, he’s going after them.
Meanwhile, Illyana and Dani are looking for Kitty, wondering where to begin. Illyana suggests starting at the administration building or the White Queen’s residence. And what if the White Queen’s guarding her? Dani asks. They improvise – Illyana breaks off, as other Hellfire Guards run into them. Not recognizing them due to their masks, the man tells them to report to central stations for damage control assignments. With the men gone, the girls exhale.
Illyana tells Dani that in case of an emergency she can always teleport them away. Why are they sneaking around then? Dani wonders. Wouldn’t teleporting be easier? Yes, but not safer, Illyana admits, her power has its drawback just like Dani’s. She’ll use it as a last resort, but not before. Dani is unconvinced but suddenly hears something. They find nothing though, as they go on. Behind the girls, unnoticed, a shadow flows among shadows. Feral eyes gleam in anticipation of the hunt – and the kill.
In another part of the complex, Wolfsbane in her transitional from is trying to pick out Kitty’s scent. She and Sunpot reach a door. He turns to his solar powered form and tears out the door. Rahne cries there’s somebody there – too late. A magnesium flare blinds him. The surprise shatters his concentration and the fist of a tall Native American does the rest.
Some test the Queen gave them! James Proudstar aka Thunderbird II scoffs. He gets to punch out a kid less than half his size. Big deal!
Wolfsbane, in wolf form tries to go for Thunderbird’s throat, but he grabs her but is momentarily startled when she shifts to her transitional form. He is thrown off-balance and Rahne tosses him off with a judo throw.
Hey fuzzy, catch, a blonde, in a pink/violet uniform like Thunderbird, remarks playfully and tosses a black disk at Rahne. It explodes above her head and suddenly some shelves fall on her. The blonde remarks she is Roulette. Her wheels of fortune can give a person good luck or bad. Guess which one she got?
Roulette helps Thunderbird up, joking about watching the little ladies. He orders her to spare him her sarcasm. He is actually concerned about Rahne being hurt.
Sunspot has woken up and warns him if she is, he will make him wish he were never born! All his, Roulette aka Jennifer tells Thunderbird. Enjoy. They’re supposed to be a team! he protests before stumbling over a barrel. She moves away as she tells him to quit griping whenever she does her share then.
Sunspot lifts the shelves off Rahne, unaware that Roulette tosses a black disk at him. The next moment, he shouts in pain as he apparently pinched a nerve. He is out of the fight. Giggling, Roulette explains what happened to T-Bird. She doesn’t sound terribly sorry, he remarks. She shrugs it off as fun.
At that moment elsewhere, Dani screams in pain, sharing Rahne’s agony via their mental rapport. Illyana urges her to shut out the pain. Her scream will bring the guards! Suddenly, arms from the ceiling lift Illyana and a werecat, smashes Magik’s head against the ceiling. A striking redhead commends “Catseye” and holds up a Taro card - the Devil. The card comes to life attacking Dani.
Creighton Hall, where Sam and Amara are. Sam calls her ‘mara, and Amara immediately chides him to either use her full name or call her “Amy” like the others did. “Mara is too familiar, it is a name for lovers. Sam apologizes and inwardly curses himself, for destroying his chances with her.
Suddenly before them, on the stairs stands a young man in a purple and magenta uniform. Haughtily he introduces himself as Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha. To reach Douglas Ramsey they must first get past him. And they don’t want to do that, do they? He wouldn’t like it. Surely they wouldn’t want to upset a friend, someone they love. His eyes glow and the two mutants are transfixed and incredibly they realize he is their friend, they would do anything for him.
But suddenly, Douglas shows up behind Manuel, shouting out what they are doing in Snow Valley. Manuel’s concentration is broken. Sam instantly decks him and continues beating him until Amara orders him to stop.
That moment, a young Arab cannonballs through the window, attacking Sam. They break through the wall outside to the horror of the normal students.
Emma Frost sighs. She had hoped her protégés could deal with the New Mutants without attracting undue attention. If Jetstream keeps this up, he’ll wreck the school. Time to take matter into her own hands.
Jetstream intends to smash Sam into an oak. In the final moment, Sam reacts and propels himself out of the way, leaving Jetstream to take the brunt of impact.
At the same time, Manuel has taken over Amara again, influencing her to hate Sam. She wildly attacks with lava blasts, which Sam fortunately is invulnerable to while he is blasting. He realizes that Manuel is behind this, but he is hiding, leaving Amara the only target.
Jetstream intends to attack Sam again but one of Amara’s blasts nails him by mistake. Jetstream falls. Sam debates what to do, but his morals win and he flies after his foe.
It’s close and he realizes he’s not going to be able to pull out of his dive. He grabs Jetstream, realizing he’s just a kid, but figures he’s going to be okay as long as he stays blasting. Suddenly, Magma’s lava blast hits him, breaking his concentration.
Exultant, Manuel aka Empath watches Cannonball tumble downward to Earth. That his teammate and supposed friend is also part of the conflagration blazing into the underground bothers him not a bit. He enjoys playing with other people far too much to care bout them.
But in his excitement, he inadvertently lets his hold on Magma slip. She realizes what she’s done and gets ready to kill Empath. Before she can act, though, Cannonball blasts up from the ground and takes Empath out.
You okay, sweetheart? he asks Magma, without thinking. She’s herself again, she replies and confides she was afraid she’d hurt him. Scared him near to death, he admits but his power shielded him and the flyboy from her flames. Is he like them a mutant? Magma asks about Empath. Mutant maybe, Sam agrees, but nothing like them.
The mood between them is awkward as Sam hopes she didn’t notice him calling her sweetheart. Of course, Magma noticed and wonders what to do. She never imagined he felt so strongly about her.
That moment, Doug runs to them. He can’t believe they have super powers, he shouts excited but suddenly trails off. For a fleeting instant, the mutants see things as they truly are, but then the White Queen telepathically twists their perceptions. In Sam’s eyes, she becomes the girl of his dreams, an Amara, that might have been, had she been born into his world. Seductively, she asks him why he’s fighting when there are more pleasant things he could be doing… with her. She orders him to behave himself and come along with her. Sweating, Sam obeys.
Amara, instead, finds herself face to face with her dead mother. With both of them under control, the White Queen orders them to go to bed and does the same with Douglas, while mindwiping him of memories of the battle.
Within the complex:
Tarot’s devil has Danielle by the throat with his chain, his rank essence floods through her to the core of her very being, visibly corrupting body and soul.
Still held by Catseye, Illyana sees this. In desperation, she summons her Soulsword and strikes Catseye with it. Then she strikes the devil, who instantly evaporates, leaving Dani to return to normal while the psychic backlash leaves Tarot dazed and terrified of Illyana who’s coming for her. Frightened, she uses her cards to summon the Knight Of Swords, an armed skeletal rider.
Illyana has never fought a mounted foe before. She learns too the hard way that the horse can be as deadly as the rider. As the hoof strikes her in the face, she falls next to Dani.
The White Queen enters, trying to manipulate the girls like she did the other New Mutants but, while she appears to Dani as her grandfather, Illyana’s mind is closed to her. Illyana tells Dani it’s a trick, manifests a teleportation circle and drags Dani into it.
Tarot and Catseye wonder what happened. The White Queen realizes Illyana must be a teleporter of considerable range, as she cannot sense Dani’s thoughts anywhere near the school. She’ll notify Shaw of their escape. By morning, every Hellfire operative in the world will be looking for them. Their freedom won’t last very long!


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Getaway !
In the Hellions’ version of the Danger Room, the mood is tight. Jetstream strikes Empath, angrily demanding to know what his teammate was playing at during their battle with the New Mutants. Empath’s carelessness and stupidity very nearly got him killed! Team leader Thunderbird tries to calm Jetstream. Accidents happen in a fight. The hotheaded flier replies that Thunderbird wasn’t there to see. If not for Cannonball – one of their foes – he would be dead now!
“No great loss, Arab,” Empath sneers. Furious, Jetstream jumps at Empath about to hit him and accusing him of only caring for himself. Empath calls him a dog and reminds him to never lay hands on a “de la Rocha.” His eyes begin to glow as he manipulates Jetstream to care for him, even getting him so far as to apologize.
Empath wishes to continue the game, trying to get Jetstream to beg for his forgiveness. But, at that moment, the White Queen enters the room, and orders Empath to stop. He has made his point.
She wishes the group a good morning. She can see in their thoughts and from their actions that they are all quite recovered from last night’s activities. She orders them to take their seats for class and they will review their performance.
Whispering, Empath threatens Jetstream he will make him commit suicide, should he ever cross him again. She said enough, Emma repeats crossly. Who is she to give him orders, Empath thinks sullenly but outwardly obeys. While the others walk ahead, Emma tells Empath that it does not good to make enemies of those on whom his life may someday depend. Rest assured, majesty, he tells her ironically, should the need arise, his teammates will do all he requires of them.
Emma seethes. He must know she is reading his thoughts, yet he isn’t afraid of her. His ambition and powers make him dangerous, but also a perfect candidate for he Hellfire Club, provided he doesn’t prompt her to kill him first.
She turns to he purple werecat Catseye, asking if she is going somewhere. Sun’s up, sleepytime, yes? the cat asks. No. Emma orders Sharon to join the others and assume human form. The young girl hates this transition. To Catseye, her human form, a girl with purple hair, catseyes and a tail, is alien, as ugly as it is clumsy, but she does as she is told and joins the others at the table.
Emma quickly summarizes that a few hours ago they were facing their opposite number, the New Mutants, students of Charles Xavier. James Proudstar asks what they were doing there. That is none of his concern, he is told. James speaks out that he doesn’t much like the idea of fighting kids. He wants the X-Men! They owe him for his brother’s life. Emma promises him that debt will be paid. But he has much to learn before then, they all do. She orders Manuel to begin.
Clearly unwilling, Empath admits it was wrong of him to lose his temper during their battle with Cannonball and Magma. Jetstream is correct. Manuel did place him in jeopardy.
Emma tells the others that Manuel is a proud boy and this admission does not come easily. Her thought that this admission is way out of character isn’t voiced aloud though. She tells the team to learn from this. They are a team. Survival and victory depend on their ability to work together.
Looking at one of her cards, Tarot suddenly gasps. When pressed by Emma, she just apologizes for the interruption. She was thinking of the New Mutants when a card fell from her tarot deck. It’s “the Lovers!”
Emma reads her mind and inwardly swears. Tarot lets those cards direct her life. This may affect her loyalty to the Hellions. She could use her telepathic abilities to realign her perceptions, but she still knows to little about her powers. She may do more harm than good. She has to keep a closer eye on Tarot.
Elsewhere in the underground complex, Kitty Pryde and the New Mutants are being held prisoner in a comfortable dormitory. If this is a prison cell, Magma marvels, she’d like to see what the White Queen calls a palace.
For all its gilt, it’s still a cell, Kitty, sprawled on a bed, reminds her. She also tells the others that the room projects an inhibitor field that neutralizes their superpowers.
Roberto, kneeling on the ground, reaches for his back. Rahne asks if he is all right and he admits that during their fight Roulette made him do something to his back. He thought he’d get over it, but he’s hurting worse than ever.
Even if they got out, Kitty muses, their problems would just be beginning. The Queen has the same powers as Professor X and she proved on Kitty that the psychic defenses he taught them are no match for her. She’d be aware of their plans the moment they thought them up. She could be reading their minds know. They wouldn’t know until it was too late.
As he gets up, Roberto moans in pain. Kitty admonishes him; he isn’t giving his body the chance to heal. She orders him to lie on his stomach. She learned massage techniques in dance class. She’ll see what she can do. As she begins to massage his back Amara points out that the Queen said Kitty had joined the Hellfire Club.
That’s a lie! Kitty snarls, though secretly she isn’t that sure. Calmer, she continues that Frost has been trying to brainwash Kitty ever since she arrived with Doug. The same treatment is in store for them. She’s going to do her best to persuade them to switch sides. But what are they to her that she should do such a terrible things? Rahne asks agitated. Commodities of great value, Kitty continues, like oil or gold or slaves.
Whatever possessed them to attack the Hellfire Club? she asks. She appreciates the thought, but the Hellfire Club are the X-Men’s deadliest enemies. Sam shoots back that if the X-Men had been around, they wouldn’t have come. They may not be in Kitty’s hotshot league, but that doesn’t make them stupid! Fact is the X-Men disappeared the day she and Doug got captured. And the Avengers and Fantastic Four along with them. Nobody knows where they are, when or if they will be back.
While Kitty still takes this horrible news in, Bobby tries to comfort her by pointing out that Dani and Illyana escaped. So they are not beaten yet. A hologram of the White Queen appears, mocking that if their compatriots are foolish enough to return, it will be to share their fate. In the meantime, why don’t the rest of them get to know each other… better? Katherine and she have already made a splendid start. Her mind’s still her own, Kitty snarls. If she says so, Emma mocks.
Limbo, a realm that exists beyond boundaries of space and time. A place of transcendent evil where anything is possible. It was also Illyana Rasputin’s home for nearly half her life. The two girls lie there unconscious while monstrous creatures creep closer. Dani reaches for a stick next to her and hits the closes monster. Yet the others are still closing in. She decides to use her power to scare the others away. She summons forth the image of their worst fear, S’ym. Dani recognizes him as the demon who tried to kill Illyana a few weeks ago. Is this where he came from? she wonders, where Illyana grew up? G’day sweetheart, comes from behind her. With a grin, S’ym asks her if this is a visit or do they plan to stay?
Later, Illyana awakes on a comfortable bed, surrounded by demons and Dani (dressed in warrior clothing) Dani explains that S’ym brought them to the palace and had the servants take care of them. She doesn’t understand. She’s grateful for the help, but she thought he was Illyana’s enemy. Things and loyalties have… changed, Illyana replies. She should have realized sooner she can’t teleport directly from place to place like Nightcrawler. Whatever she shifts with her light circles has to travel via Limbo.
Critically, she looks at the robe she is dressed in. Where are their clothes? S’ym replies she’s the Magus and her friend acted like her champion, so S’ym decided it was only fitting they both looked the part. “Magus?” Dani thinks. Illyana told them she was a sorceress, but they didn’t know she was that powerful.
Dani confides that Illyana had her really worried. She thought she’d never recover and she’d have to stay here forever. What’s wrong with that? S’ym leers. He’d have made sure to keep her amused. Illyana decides he has outstayed his welcome and teleports him away.
She sits down in meditative pose and orders Dani to move away from the bed while she casts a healing spell. A pentagram of silver fire forms around llyana. Dani is confused. The silver means it’s white magic, but Illyana is facing the base of her star. That’s the position for black magic. Is she good or bad? Or is it possible to mix the two? Suddenly the silver fire extends to Illyana, it doesn’t burn her but instead eats away her cuts and bruises.
The spell works but Illyana admits that she was hurt worse than she realized. The effort took a lot out of her. She’d like to sleep for a week. Can she manage without the rest? Dani asks diplomatically. She’ll have to, Illyana decides. Dani promises to be there for her if she falls. Even though she still doesn’t completely trust Illyana and is more than a little scared? the sorceress asks. Yes, Dani decides. Illyana thanks her. That means more than she knows. Illyana summons a teleportation disc to transport them back to the Massachusetts Academy.
They end up upstairs in the administration building. Illyana admits her control over her disks isn’t what it should be. Dani shushes her he she hears voices. She peers around the corner, then pushes Illyana inside an office and joins her. They peer outside to see the Hellions passing by, the group including their teammates and Kitty, all of them clearly friends and having a good time.
Dani points out it was winter when Illyana teleported them to Limbo and the middle of the night. They look outside. It’s summers and daylight. They check the date in the newspaper. Over a year has passed since the night they came to rescue Kitty!
Dani summarizes that apparently lllyana’s disks move through time as well as space. They are in the future. Over the months, the White Queen made good her threats. Their friends have deserted Professor Xavier and joined the Hellfire Club. But why didn’t the Professor do anything? Illyana wonders. Maybe he failed, Dani suggests, or he and the X-Men never reappeared. They could be dead.
She wonders… Illyana muses. Did Dani ever read Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol?” They’re kind of like Scrooge, seeing the shape of things to come and asking themselves if this is what will be or what might? If they go back, none of this will have happened yet. They might be able to prevent it. Is that possible? Dani asks. Do they really have a choice? Illyana rejoins.
Fortunately for them, that decision has just been taken out of their hands, Emma Frost announces forcefully and slams open the door. She though she’d heard some familiar psychic voices. Their former teammates will be so pleased to see them and welcome them to their ranks. Resistance is useless, she warns them.
Illyana teleports them away, cutting it a bit close. She explains she didn’t want to teleport blind. It takes a little longer to set things up when she’s aiming for a specific destination. Fine, Dani tells her, but next time she should make those decisions when they are safe back in Limbo. Against someone as the White Queen, even the slightest delay can be deadly.
They are in luck. They are in the same office, but it’s night and snowing. Illyana finds a calendar. They’ve missed by almost a week. They could be too late then, Dani fears. Does Illyana want to try again? The other girl hangs her head and admits she put everything she had into that ‘port. They are as close as she can get them.
She admits she’s so nervous. She expects the Queen to pop through the door any second. Does she know any spell to shield their thoughts from her? Dani asks. Nope, Illyana replies. The professor can’t read her mind and she assumes that goes for the Queen as well.
Dani tries the phone, but nobody replies at home, The X-Men are still gone. It’s weird, she admits, the prof and her sometimes fought tooth and nail. She’d argue with him over the silliest things, just to prove she was her own girl, but now he’s gone, she misses him almost as much as her folks and her grandfather.
She understands, Illyana assures her. Her brother’s with him. They can’t help the X-Men, she reminds her friend, but they may be their teammates’ only chance. She peeks outside while Dani wishes they still had the Hellfire Club uniforms. If someone asks, smile sweetly and say they are on the way to a costume party, Illyana decides. Corridor’s clean.
The girls sneak out and soon Dani is in the New Mutants’ quarter. She whispers into Rahne’s ear to wake up. Relieved, the other girl hugs her. Dani tells her to get dressed while she wakes the others. They are getting out of here! Illyana is waiting in the hall, keeping lookout. Sam awakes from the noise.
Suddenly, the lights are switched on. Surprise! James Proudstar remarks as he holds an unconscious Illyana. He is surrounded by the other Hellions whose faces look from triumphant to annoyed.
Sam tells them they are taking a big risk waltzing in here. The inhibitor field affects them as well as the New Mutants. Dani now realizes why neither she nor Illyana could use their powers here. How did they know they were here? she asks. Her use of the telephone triggered the alarm, Jetstream explains. They answered it. He explains that they joined the Hellions by choice. Some of them don’t like the idea of the New Mutants being forced. Also their initial meeting ended inconclusively. They want to see how good the Mutants truly are. How well they stand up against each other. He proposes a duel. One of each team in the Combat Room. Should the Mutants win, they all go free. Lose, and they stay willingly, no matter what.
Does their precious Queen sanction this combat, Roberto mocks. She knows nothing of it, half-breed, Empath retorts. She’s in Boston, Jetstream adds and orders them to decide. The offer won’t be repeated. Dani consider the offer. Proudtstar used a nerve pinch on Illyana, so she’s unconscious. What should she do? They’d be honor bound by their own word, but will the Hellions? Why does she have to make the decision? The others look to her as team leader. This is where she proves herself. They accept, she announces.
Later, dressed in their uniforms, the Mutants meet in the Combat Room, the analogue to the X-Men’s Danger Room. The combatants are Jetstream and Cannonball. The rules are simple, Jetstream announces. They continue until one of them yields. They do not try to deliberately maim or kill the other. Beyond that anything goes.
Kitty and Dani try to wake up Illyana as they may need her soon.
Thunderbird activates the room and the duel begins. Both young men fly up and Sam notes that this room isn’t as fancy as theirs. It lacks the ability to create any environment they want. One of the machines fires darts at him, making him lose his concentration. He falls.
Jetstream grins and gloats whether their duel is over so quickly. Perhaps Sam should allow one of the girls to take his place. That moment, he is captured by tentacles.
Sam notes the room is playing fair, going after Jetstream as much as him, which he didn’t expect. He snags a bar and is swung around by his momentum, a stunt taught to him by Nightcrawler (who may look creepy as sin but sure is a nice guy). Going upwards again, Sam triggers his power, ready for round two.
He flies towards Jetstream who frees himself at the last moment. Not maneuvering in time, Cannonball hits the ceiling. Laughing, Jetstream calls him a clumsy oaf. Cannonball may be more powerful, but he can maneuver.
Tarot applauds Hamahl. Roberto shouts at Sam he can do better than that while Rahne hopes he doesn’t get hurt. Sam frees himself, telling himself the others are counting on him. He won’t let them down.
Jetstream attacks him from behind. Again Sam is too surprised to keep up his power and Hamahl tosses him down where he almost lands between two presses. Sam flies upward again, angry that Jetstream is making him look like a fool. And he’s making it easy for him! He’s glad the professor isn’t here to see this. And to make matters worse, wreckage from the gadget he busted is falling towards the mutants. He shouts a warning at Amara. Sunspot shouts up at Sam to stop let Jetstream control the match. Sam has brains. Use it! Maneuver 7 – the Magnum variation.
Jetstream shouts at Roberto to be silent (and calls him a dwarf). This match is between him and Cannonball alone. Nobody said they couldn’t offer advice, Sunspot shoots back. And the next time he tries a crack like this will be the last. Jetstream is unimpressed.
Sam flies away towards some hoops. A superb stratagem telling Cannonball to run away, Jetstream mock. Do they children use it often? Sam hangs on to one of the hoops, swings around and kicks Jetstream in the face. He tackles him and they both fall to the ground with Sam on top.
Sam orders him to give up. Never! Jetstream shouts. He’s proven his point, Sam continues. He’s got skill and guts to spare. He’s got nothing to be ashamed of. The better man won, that’s all. Let’s call this quits before someone really gets hurt. Then you surrender! Jetstream grimly spits out. He will die before he yields.
Sam asks Thunderbird to talks some sense into this jerk. The Hellions have lost, even if their champion is too stubborn to admit it. That means the New Mutants can leave.
It does? comes a newcomer’s voice and Sam swears at the sight of Sebastian Shaw and Emma Frost. It appears they’ve arrived at an awkward moment, Shaw wryly observes and orders Sam to explain himself. They made a deal, Sam replies, a one-on-one duel for their freedom. He didn’t think they’d get out, even if they won, but it was worth the try.
Fascinating, Shaw observes. Whose idea was it? They all agreed to it, Thunderbird states. They’ll share the responsibility. How noble, Emma remarks coldly. But by what stretch of the imagination, by what right, do they dare usurp her authority? They may promise what they like but at her school, her word is law. She was not party to their arrangement and does not consider herself bound by it. She orders them all to return to their rooms.
Sam suddenly attacks, shouting the New Mutants are goin’ nowhere ‘cept home! He orders the others to run. He’ll cover for them. A nice gesture, but useless, as Shaw steps between him and Emma and absorbs the force of the impact and returns it by slugging Sam aside.
Sunspot is ready to attack but Dani shouts at him that the harder he hits Shaw, the stronger he gets. Of course, she is ignored. She decides to help, but Emma turns her still mostly unshaped and untapped power back at her, confronting Dani with her greatest fear, the mystic bear that slew her parents, out to claim her next.
Shaw easily takes care of Roberto. As he grabs the boy by the throat he mocks what Roberto’s father would say to see this behavior towards one of his dearest friends and fellow member of the Inner Circle. That’s a lie! Roberto protests and Shaw tightens his hold, warning him his word is his bond!
Kitty observes that the mutant are running to the boys’ aid, while the Hellions stay back, not sure what to do. She phases up to the Combat Room’s control and disrupts its electrical systems.
The room goes crazy. Thunderbird orders everyone outside. As the rest of her teammates head for the exit, telepathically guided by the White Queen and protected by Shaw, Catseye springs to Wolfsbane’s side to help hr drag Sunspot to where his friends are waiting. Kitty joins them and orders Illyana to get them out.
Catseye asks Wolsbane if they can be friends. If she will stay. She can’t, Rahne announces. The Queen’s evil. She offers Catseye to join them. Catseye refuses, rather staying at the happyplace. And Illyana teleports the mutants away.
An instant later, they are in front of the still empty X-Mansion. Kitty offers to phase inside and open the door. The rest of them are sill somewhat shaken about Limbo.
Sam turns to Dani. If the professor is gone for good, they may have nobody to teach them except for the White Queen… At least they held their own. They got lucky, Dani decides. Sam was right before. They are great in their league but they are high school varsity tackling the pros. They did fine against the Hellions, but if they’d hung around, the adults – all two of them – would have slaughtered them.
As the others walk ahead, Dani hears a voice calling her name. Smoke curls in the shape of a bear which announces that no one can save her. It tells her to make her peace, for it that has claimed her parents will soon come for her!


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Death-Hunt
Lying in her bed, Dani Moonstar is deadly afraid of the Demon Bear, which she fears, is out to get her.
(flashback to Rachel’s childhood several years in the future)
Lying quietly in the night, Xavier’s school suddenly is attacked by heavy artillery. A young Rachel – in her early teens – races through the crumbling mansion, protecting herself with a not too effective telekinetic shield, until she reaches Professor Xavier, sitting in his wheelchair at a window. Xavier orders Rachel to get to safety to the Danger Room and tells her he cannot accompany her. The army has completely surrounded the house. He intends to telepathically reach the commander and surrender. He tries to drag himself up to a standing position at the window, but is shot in the chest at that moment. Young Rachel stays at his side, until the soldiers pick her up as the mansion’s only survivor.
(present)
Rachel, a shorthaired, skinny, somewhat sickly-looking young woman stands in front of the mansion, remembering those events that haven’t happened yet and, if her plan succeeds never will. A police car stops beside her. Rachel quickly explains to the worried officer that she’s here to see Professor Xavier. Satisfied with the answer he leaves. Rachel quickly opens the front gate telekinetically and walks up to the mansion.
Meanwhile in the Danger Room, Cannonball, Magma and Sunspot train their powers in a battle with several mechanical foes. Sam’s lack of maneuverability almost endangers Magma, although he manages to twist aside before he hits her. Nevertheless, the display distracts Magma, enabling her robot foe to capture her and drag her up the wall. Magma melts the machine and Sam catches her as she falls, much to the amusement of Sunspot, who is aware of Sam’s attraction to Magma. Sunspot finishes off his foe and exclaims that they have won, to which Illyana and Dani, in the observation booth, reply he had better wait for Xavier’s evaluation of the exercise. Dani remarks that she doubts that Sam’s crush is reciprocated by Amara and notes, how hard it must be for her, to jump from a first century culture to modern society, something Illyana – with her own unique background – understands only too well.
Dani thinks back on her and Illyana’s teleportation trip to the future, where they saw a future, in which their teammates had joined their enemies – the Hellions. Considering, the other New Mutants had been prisoners of the telepathic White Queen, Dani wonders, if they are still trustworthy. Illyana wishes she could control her teleportation talent enough to go back in time and check, whether the White Queen did anything to their friends, but currently she doesn’t possess that kind of control. Dani secretly wishes the professor were with them – not only because of their teammates, but because of her recurring and intensifying nightmares about the Demon Bear. In her dreams, the monster is getting nearer and hungrier. Illyana wants to know what’s wrong with Dani, but Dani refuses to tell her, as – she senses – a part of Illyana is as evil as the Bear.
At that moment the doorbell rings. Shooing the pet dragon Lockheed aside, Illyana ventures to answer the door. Outside a nervous Rachel asks for Professor Xavier, who unfortunately is in Massachusetts for the day. Rachel, getting a good look at Illyana, suddenly asks for her name. Hearing it, she runs away shocked. Illyana is approximately fourteen years old, but in Rachel’s time, Illyana was fourteen, when she died, an event that’s still several years in the future. Rachel is starting to realize that something about her trip to the past has gone horribly wrong …
Elsewhere, a young strange alien awakes on a lifeless planet. He is on the run, has almost no energy left, but hopes this world can restore him, if he has the time. Time, is unfortunately something he is out of as his hunter and father reveals himself. The father – Magus - shoots a devastating energy bolt, but young Warlock flees the world in the last split-second, before the blast hits. Magus is sadistically amused. The game continues and he is sure of his victory.
Back on Earth, Dani Moonstar fights herself through biting weather, armed only with a bow and arrows, when she is attacked by bear. Dani manages to shoot it, when a second bear jumps at her from behind. With a speed born from desperation however, Dani also succeeds in nailing her second foe. Both bears and the winter landscape disappear - the whole scene was a Danger Room scenario supervised by Illyana. Magik tells Dani she’s pushing herself too far, too hard and has been doing so for days. What is she trying to prove? Dani evades, claiming that she wants to be sure that she can hold herself against physical foes. Illyana doesn’t buy it – why bears, after all ? As the two girls leave the room and the lights go out, an animal angrily growls after them.
Alone in her room, Dani muses that Illyana was angry, since she let Dani in on her secrets, but Dani refuses to reciprocate. She knows that her friends would like to help, but she feels she has to go through this alone. Dani remembers how her nightmares and visions as a child sent her parents in search of the Demon Bear – they never returned. Feeling responsible for their deaths and certain that she is the one the bear wants, Dani puts on warpaint, arms herself with bow and arrows and intends to do her warrior ancestors proud.
Stepping out of the mansion into the icy night, she calls for the Bear. The unnaturally huge monster appears. Dani ‘s first move is to try her mutant power on the monster, intending to find out what he fears. With a shock she sees, that she is the monster’s biggest fear. The beast furiously attacks the spirit Dani, giving the real one time to aim an arrow at the monster’s neck. Angrily the bear swats first her bow and then Dani aside, before grasping her in its huge paw. Dani reaches for one of her arrows and attacks the inside of the monster’s mouth with it. The injured beast loosens its grasp on her, enabling Dani to run to her weapon. She shoots another arrow into the monster’s mouth, finally apparently killing the bear. Disbelieving, but relieved, Dani comes closer to inspect her kill, when the creature suddenly opens it eyes.
At the mansion, Rahne Sinclair wakes up screaming out Dani’s name. Switching to her wolf-form, she races outside to the woods, followed by the other New Mutants, who were awakened by her scream. Rahne explains that she could feel Dani being hurt through their special rapport, but then suddenly the pain - and all of Dani’s thoughts - broke off. The Mutants can see why, as before them lies an unconscious, horribly injured Danielle in a pool of her own blood.


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Badlands
Hours ago Danielle faced the mystical Demon Bear responsible for the disappearance of her parents and suffered grievous injuries in the process. While Dani was undergoing surgery, the Bear tried to strike again, but was stopped by the New Mutants. Eventually the Bear teleported itself, the mutants and the surgery (protected by Illyana´s magical forcefield) to its own world, an unspoiled Midwestern America. However the Bear´s very presence is corrupting that world.
Illyana notes that the surgery is a bridge between both worlds, with only the magical wards around the operating room keeping the monster at bay. Illyana also realizes that, since this is a magical realm, she might be able to work more magic here than on Earth and intends to help the imprisoned Officer Corsi and nurse Friedlander, but before she can do anything, the Bear impales his two prisoners on his claws. As a result they are transformed first into Indians and then into demons and servants of the Bear.
Cannonball blasts into the Bear and makes him stumble, but he is too late to save his prisoners. Illyana tries to magically bind the demons, but in vain - the Bear and its servants are gaining in power as the touch of his shadow corrupts more and more of the land.
As the mutants are distracted, the Bear claws at the forcefield, tearing it open. One of the surgeons within sees the strange world and battle outside, but then the field closes again. The doctor believes the strain made him imagine things for a moment. He and his colleagues discuss Dani´s case and wonder, if it wouldn't be more merciful to let her die.
Meanwhile, Illyana realizes that, if she diverts her power to use any spells against the demon and his servants, the shield around the surgery is weakened as a result. In the meantime the Friedlander-demon attacks Sam. Magma intends to reciprocate with a lava blast, but is pushed aside by Sunspot, missing her target. He tells her that they cannot kill innocents, to which she replies, that those innocents can still harm the Mutants and sometimes sacrifices have to be made. Sunspot exclaims that making sacrifices is their job, as they at least have a choice. His concentration focussed on Magma, Sunspot realizes too late that the Corsi-demon is closing in on him. Corsi grabs him with a lasso and whirls him around.
Sunspot manages to roll with his fall, thanks to his training, but he lands in one of the areas, already corrupted by the Bear´s shadow. There it is night and icy cold. As the Friedlander-demon grabs him from behind, she starts sucking his life energy from him. At that moment Rahne attacks in her wolfform, causing Friedlander to let go of her victim. The demon intends to attack Rahne with bow and arrow, but at that moment Magma joins the fray and tells Rahne to get the weakened Sunspot back into the sun - she'll handle the demon. Unfortunately, she forgot Corsi, who strikes her down from behind.
The Demon Bear impales Magma, intending to also make her his slave. The changing process starts. Seeing this, Illyana summons her Soulsword, cuts the Bear´s paw in order to keep him diverted from the forcefield and then stabs Amara in the heart. Sam, seeing this, goes ballistic and attacks Illyana in full Cannonball mode. He figures that Illyana, the evil sorceress, is showing her true colors at last. Illyana groggily gets up, noticing that her entire left side is covered in armor. Without it, Sam's attack might have killed her. Sam, getting ready for another attack, suddenly finds himself shouted at by a very alive and normal Magma. She snaps at him that Illyana was breaking the demon's spell, not harming her, which he would have realized, if he had taken the time to think. While Magma chews him out, Wolfsbane and the exhausted Sunspot join them, finally reaching the daylight section once more.
While the others discuss their next move, Illyana notices that the Bear´s power is growing. If they don't act soon, they'll never get a chance. When Sam bemoans the fact that he hasn't got Dani´s gift for strategies, the mention of Dani´s name gives Illyana an idea. She remembers Rahne's statement that Dani possessed the means to destroy the Bear and orders her to mindlink with Dani once more and find out, what it is. Rahne refuses, out of fear of harming Dani, but Illyana mercilessly reasons, that if they don't do it, Dani will die anyway; so will they and who knows, what the Bear might do to their world afterwards... Rahne accedes, but at that moment, the Bear once again lashes out at the forcefield. Forced to use all her power to maintain the shield, Illyana has no way to protect herself against the backlash. She starts to bleed and notices that the Bear sicced it's demons on her. However, the other mutants come to her aid. Acting as a team Cannonball, Sunspot and Magma manage to drive them off.
At that moment Rahne cries out, she has the answer, but gets hit by the Corsi-Demon. Illyana summons her Soulsword and stabs the demon through the heart. It changes its form to that of a normal Indian male and sinks to the ground, unconscious. Rahne tells Illyana, that her Soulsword is the answer. She must cut the monster to its heart and soul. Illyana orders Amara to divert the Bear with her lavablasts and then has Sam fly her towards the Bear. She strikes with her sword and splits the Bear´s skull into half. The monster screams and the land with it as the Bear splits into two halves that in turn are revealed to be a man and a woman.
Then, suddenly the mutants find themselves back on Earth in front of the surgery and notice with a start that the unconscious Tom Corsi and Sharon Friedlander are human once more, but still red Indians. The people, that made up the bear, a middle-aged Indian couple, explains that they will remain that way. They were reshaped before they were possessed. This is a reminder that the force behind the Bear still is at large.
One of the surgeons bursts out of the operating room and asks about the commotion. The Indian man introduces himself and the woman as William and Peg Lonestar - Danielle's parents - and asks after his daughter's health. The doctor replies that Danielle will survive, but will be totally paralyzed. The kids are dejected, but are then telepathically informed by Professor Xavier that he's back and has already taken steps to remedy that situation.
A short while later Danielle wakes up, after being treated by the Morlock Healer, who helps due to his leader Storm asking. Storm thanks him and tells Dani that while the extent of her injuries tasked the healer to his limits, he came through. With time, she will fully recover. When Dani asks about the Bear, her parents join her. Amid the tearful reunion, they explain that they weren't killed years ago, but transformed into the Bear. They were meant to do the same to Dani, but her grandfather's - Black Eagle - spells kept the Bear at bay, until Black Eagle died and the Bear came to hunt Dani. Both Dani and the other Mutants wonder, who's behind the Bear. Xavier answers that William refuses to tell, trying to protect them. Xavier decides to ask Steven Strange about both this power and a means to transform Corsi and Friedlander back. Finally, he tells the team, how proud he is of them.


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Slumber Party
Several local girls approach Xavier’s School at night with mixed feelings. Apparently, they’ve been invited for a slumber party by the female New Mutants, a party, that’s already in full swing (and numbers among its guests among others Marvel editors Louise Simonson and Diane Shultz as well as reporter Manoli Wetherell). The girls are having a fun time, with the exception of Rahne who’s scandalized and wishes to be anywhere but there. The wheelchair-bound Dani Moonstar asks Illyana amused, whether that was what the professor had in mind, when he said they could invite a few friends over, while he was gone. Illyana refuses to worry about details like that and besides they have to celebrate Dani’s release from the hospital. She then proceeds to ask Dani about what her folks are up to, now that they are back among the living, so to speak. Apparently they own a ranch in Colorado.
In the meantime, three local girls are having a quiet but forceful argument: Laurie and Jenny ask their friend Marcie, what’s wrong with her. This is the first time local kids have been invited to Xavier’s. Where’s her sense of adventure? Marcie however insists, that a school with that small and that odd a student body cannot be quite right. And besides Professor Xavier creeps her out, as he seems to be able to know, what people think. She then goes off the deep end, assuming that they probably have bodies or worse in the cellar. The other girls tell her, of course the kids are strange – most of them are foreigners, after all. They’d probably take that back, if they noticed that they were being watched from above by the rather amused little dragon Lockheed.
At that moment the alarms are going off on Asteroid M, Magneto’s base in Earth’s orbit. A celestial object is dropping out of warp space and heads straight for the asteroid. Before Magneto can defend his home, the desperate Warlock collides with it, before plunging towards Earth. Falling, the depleted alien notices an energy source that will restore him, if he can reach it and prepares for lading.
At Xavier’s, the girls are having fun. Manoli is doing a Michael Jackson impersonation that leaves Amara puzzled. As she asks Diana, who that person is, Diana makes some harmless fun of her ignorance, which Amara takes the wrong way. As she becomes angry, she unwillingly causes a very minor earthquake. Amara relaxes, realizing that the girl meant no harm and Diana apologizes. Suddenly Amara becomes the center of attention and admiration as the other girls start noticing her luxurious silk toga and her ancient gold earrings. The only one left out is Rahne, who while desperately wanting to join the fun, can’t get over her upbringing that joy is sinful. Suddenly she is jumped by the other girls, led by Illyana. Rahne panics, almost starting to change into her wolfform, until Dani assures her over their mindlink, that the others mean no harm. Illyana’s intentions become clearer now. She and the others want to make Rahne up and style her.
In the meantime, the two male team members, Cannonball and Sunspot are leisurely strolling home from a Baseball match and discuss the game. Sunspot jokingly asks whether he could have a career in Baseball as he transforms to his solarpowered form tears out a tree and uses it to slug a big rock. Sam admonishes him. What if the rock lands on somebody he asks, as he rockets swiftly through the sky and pulverizes the rock. As he returns, he notices Roberto has grown pensive. Sam mentioning his father during their baseball discussion made Roberto remember his own. They used to get along fabulously, before Roberto’s powers manifested, but by now he despises his father, especially as he was responsible for them almost dying in Nova Roma. How, he wonders, can his mother still love the man, in spite of that? Sam points out, that bad as things may seem now, at least Mr. Dacosta is still alive. And that means, there’s still a chance for them to work things out. Changing the subject, Sam points towards the lights and the music coming from the attic. The girls must be having a fun party. Sam knocks at the door, which is opened, by Rahne, who looks stunning after the girls’make-up job. So stunning in fact, that Sam doesn’t recognize her. Thinking, that Sam is teasing her, Rahne transforms and punches him in the stomach. Illyana chimes in that boys aren’t welcome and the girls shut the door, leaving Sam to wonder, just what he did wrong.
Within the attic, the girls are holding a séance. Rahne is still sulking that Sam didn’t recongize her, until Dani points out that Sam just saw a lovely girl, at which Rahne feels guilty for having hit him. Illyana in the meantime is wearing Lockheed as a hat ornament, much to the admiration of the guests.
Outside the boys are skinny-dipping in the lake, until they notice something, they believe is a meteor approaching fast and hitting the lake. Cannonball dives down to get it, using his power to keep him invulnerable under water and musing that this looked like a partially controlled descent. Looking at the black non-descriptive object, they wonder whether it’s a satellite or a rock and puzzle that it seemed to have cooled down rather fast. Sunspot carries it to the lab and they decide to inform the professor in the morning. Once they’ve left, the lump transforms into the exhausted and panicked Warlock. He scans his surroundings and notices he’s close to the powersource he sensed from deep space. He wonders how to access it as he examines an outlet and notices, he’s so weak that he has a hard time keeping control over his shape. He reaches into the outlet, trying to reach the core, but it proves too much. Warlock screams and the mansion experiences a blackout.
The girls in the attic are blissfully unaware of this – after all lights are out during a séance. Rahne feels guilty playing with things like magic. All of a sudden the shape of a djinn briefly materializes, baffling the girls. Dani winks at Rahne, this was her doing, a test of how well her powers still work after her injuries. Lockheed suddenly is disturbed by something, leaves Illyana’s head and flies away, leaving the girls aghast.
Downstairs Warlock notices that due to the power-overload he has received further damage. He notices a plant, infects it with a genetic techno-organic virus, which turns it into a techno-organic being and then drains its energy, feeding on it. He continues exploring the house looking at the contents of a refrigerator, marvelling at the concept. However he believes the fridge is sentient – as it is technological - and is bothered that the rude thing doesn’react to Warlock’s attempts at communication. Suddenly Warlock is attacked by Lockheed. Not realizing that the dragon is a sentient being, Warlock considers him a possible energy souce, but Lockheed spits fire at him. The girls are alarmed by Lockheeds’s roar, as are the boys in their respective rooms.
Illyana reaches the fight first and mistakes Warlock for a demon. She manifests her Soulsword and strikes at the alien. As Warlock is not magical in origin however, he is not hurt and strikes her, pushing her against the wall. With the exception of her head, her left arm and her right leg, Illyana finds her entire body covered with the mysterious armor as a result. Deciding that she’s outmatched on her own, she teleports in a demon from Limbo to attack the alien. Warlock touches the creature, infect it and drains its “lifeglow”. Illyana’s horrifed, even moreso as she notices that over her armor her skin is overlaid by a web of circuitry, where the alien touched her. She has been infected as well. She urges Lockheed to stay way from Warlock, grabs the dragon and teleports both of them away.
Canonball and Sunspot nervously wonder, wyh it’s so quiet and dark downstairs all of a sudden. They are joined by Amara and Rahne in her wolfform who is looking for Illyana and Lockheed. The boys tell her about their find, and she relates it to the furious Dani over their mindlink. She orders them to find that thing and deal with it, before their guests learn about it and their true identities. Sam feels like a prize idiot for bringing this menace into heir home. He feels that he always screws up, since joining the New Mutnats, a feeling that hurts all the more, as he used to be a prize pupil at home. And he hates the feeling.
Rahne leads others to their quarry. Seeing it, Magma shifts to her lava form and attacks it with a lava blast that had hardly any effect unfortunately. Sam rockets into Warlock, driving both of them through the living-room wall and crashing them onto the lawn. Warlock believes them to be some sorts of watchdogs, but still doesn’t want to harm them. However, he’s too weak to flee and tries to get some energy by transforming and draining the tree next to him. Sam notices this while trying to keep his towel (his only item of clothing) on and warns Amara to not let Warlock touch her. Amara considers the creature a monster and wonders, whether it has already killed Illyana and Lockheed. As her lava blasts proved useless, she changes her method of attack by changing the ground beneath the alien’s feet to molten magma. Warlock sinks into he firelake, but a tentacle of his resurfaces and grabs Amara’s ankle. Sunspot reaches for it and snaps it into two halves, finally hurting the alien terribly.
Up in the attic the guests don’t notice anything thanks to the loud music. Dani however realizes that two of the girls are missing, and have probably snuck out to explore the mansion. Dani gets up from her wheelchair, but he legs can barely hold her and she sinks down outside and ends up in front of Warlock – just as Rahne mentally warns her that the creature headed back inside. Dani gambles that he is a sentient being and creates an illusion of his greatest fear – his father Magus. The scared creature collapses down the stairs in terror and flees. Rahne, in her transitional form, hurries to Dani’s side. As the two missing houseguests Ellen and Marcie show up, Dani quickly orders her to shift to her full wolfform, so that the girls think she is a trained animal. While asking the girls to go back inside the attic, Dani mentally discusses the alien with Rahne. She points out that he’s sentient, that he may not be hostile, but scared and that, since he’s so different, he possibly doesn’t realize they are sentient beings as well.
The two guests want to go back, bu stop at the window, where they they see the semi-nude Sam flying by. They notice they got lost and then see the stature of Illyana’s changed, drained demon and panic, which alarms Sam, with the hurt Amara in his arms. He reads the girls the riot-act, and explains that Amara got hurt while blundering about in the dark. They need to work to get back the lights and can’t take care of silly girls right now. Insulted, the girls take off. Rahne wonders, whether she ever acts that childish, to which Roberto replies, they all do at times.
Rahne explains the intruder is downstairs. That’s where the Shi’ar power generator is located, Sam realizes. Given Warlock’s dim glow, he’s probably starving. Considering, he’s a stranger and unable to communicate, isn’t the creature’s behaviour understandable, he wonders. Dani has reached the same conclusion. Before they decide the creature is an enemy, they have to be able to communicate with him. To that end, Sam is to fetch Kitty Pryde’s friend Doug Ramsey – a mutant with the gift to decipher languages – although he is neither aware of that gift, nor of his friends’ true nature. Sam wonders whether they have the right to blow their cover to Doug without asking Xavier’s permission. But given the circumstances, they have little choice.
Warlock in the meantime is busy in the Danger Room’s control box. He cannot reach the power core and therefore wishes to communicate with the mansion’s inhabitants, which he believes the technology to be. He manages to get the room to project simple light spheres. He begs for help, falls down exhaustedly – he can copy the light spheres, but that is all. The kids wach him from the control booth, wondering what he is doing. They are joined by the very upset Doug, who’s reeling from the explanation Sam gave him and who still hopes this is supposed to be a joke. He asks the others to show him how to work with the control console and starts creating holograms, explainig life on Earth to the alien, to make the creature realize, they are the dominant species.
Warlock stretched his arm, reaches towards the console and uses the holograms himself. He shows them his world, a place, where life evolved as a synthesis of living beings and machines. There “babies” are produced on a biological assembly line. Every time, a new being is created, it has to face the adult version of himself – his “father” in a fight to the death, to earn the right to live. Warlock didn’t want to fight, so he fled, looking for sanctuary, even allies perhaps. Having finally realized, that the Mutants are sentient beings, Warlock is deeply ashamed. To him, consuming a fellow sentient is the ultimate crime. The kids notice how shaky he is. He is close to death, Doug explains. While the kids are debating what to do, Doug uses the holograms to evolve a basis for a common language with Warlock, who repeats the pattern.
Rahne cries out. Having been an unwanted outsider for most of her life, she can identify with the young alien. She urges the others that they have to reach out, no matter the risk. She grasps for his “hand” – ignoring the possible risk of infection – and is not harmed – instead his extremity changes into a plug, which Rahne guides to the next outlet. Finally, Warlock can recharge. He turns to Rahne, grasps her hand again, and with his first words in English thanks her and calls her “friend”.
Later, Professor Xavier returns to the mansion, amused by his young pupils exuberance. He thinks the New Mutants’making friends outside school is a good thing – his reverie is rudely interrupted, when he enters the mess that used to be the living room, with its new hole-in-the-wall-décor. To make matters more absurd, Illyana chooses this moment to teleport in, dressed in a strange space suit that covers her from head to toes, holding an energy weapon and shouting that she wants her turn at the “ugly critter”. A very angry Xavier demands an explanation, which he gets not from Illyana, but from the other mutants who have joined them, along with Warlock, whom Sam introduces as the newest student. Warlock politely introduces himself and after hesitating briefly Xavier – deciding that if Warlock is worthy of the New Mutants' trust, he is worthy of his – shakes his hand.


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The Shadow Within
Nightcrawler is working with Cannonball on his maneuverability in the Danger Room. Bantering a little with the boy, the X-Man goes through a series of saltos and turns on the trapeze, which Sam is supposed to copy with his flying power, so he can learn to change direction in mid-flight. Finished, Kurt teleports back to Sam. Cannonball admits that he understands the process rationally, but his body doesn’t follow. Kurt tells him to stop worrying and just try, but to make it easier for Sam, he installs a net below them, in case he falls. Sam broods. As the oldest, he is supposed to be a paragon for the other New Mutants, but he’s the only one who hardly improves in the use of his powers. As Kurt reassure him, the door opens and Rahne enters. She blows Sam a kiss for luck, and silently wishes it wasn’t Nightcrawler teaching him, because of his demonic looks.
Sam starts the exercise and goes into Cannonball-mode. He copies the moves Nightcrawler made, but is too close to the wall to turn in time. Nightcrawler realizes that, and teleports him away before he hits the wall, which would have cost the Professor a lot of money. Sam is furious with himself until Nightcrawler confides that he didn’t make it the first time either. Those moves need practice – anything worthwhile does. He tells Sam to climb up again – he’ll join him soon and transforms the Danger Room into a circus arena, with all people transformed into clowns. Then he asks Rahne for a dance. The girl is reluctant, she doesn’t know how, but his charm wins her over and they dance, until Nightcrawler switches the illusion off. Rahne didn’t realize she was dancing with him instead of Sam and angrily calls him a demon. Kurt tells her he just wanted to teach her not to judge people by appearances – it’s their souls that matter. Rahne angrily calls him a liar. If that were true, everything she was ever taught – maybe even her faith – would be false. Confused and angry, she storms out.
Further down the hall Colossus and Sunspot are also going through a training exercise. Piotr is to teach the younger boy fighting techniques. He pontificates on Roberto’s weakness – the fact that he hasn’t got invulnerability to go with his strength – angering the young Brazilian. Sunspot is momentarily diverted by Rahne running past them, and Colossus hits him with the bo-staff for his lack of attention. A foe would not be so gentle, he points out. Sunspot is furious. He tears the training mat away under Colossus’ feet and starts wrestling with him. He wants to know who’s stronger. Colossus suddenly screams out in pain. Sunspot stares at his hands, which suddenly seem darker and no longer human, before they change back. Unaware of this, Colossus assures Sunspot that he wasn’t hurt and assumes he probably just caught the flu.
Rahne in the meantime is looking for Dr. MacTaggert – her foster mother – and sees her and Xavier in one of the labs, examining the newest addition to the team – the alien Warlock. Xavier telepathically asks the girl whether anything is the matter and instead of answering she runs away. Xavier and MacTaggert turn their attention back to Warlock and marvel at his ability to change organic matter into living circuitry and then absorb its lifeforce.
Rahne races back upstairs and into Dani's room. Dani is just phoning her parents and has them describe their ranch to her. She suggests that the New Mutants could visit soon, and asks Rahne what she thinks about that, but the younger girl runs away and Dani wonders, what’s been wrong with her and Sunspot lately.
Park Avenue, New York. A very exclusive shop owned by Friedrich von Roehm is visited by a mysterious darkhaired veiled woman, who imperially tells von Roehm that he is to dismiss the staff for the day as she wants to talk to him. Von Roehm is angry about her arrogance and about to throw her out. She calmly shows him a gem, asking him to appraise it. The gem is unique, she adds, and at a certain angle a face can be seen. The gem shows her face, which von Roehm recognizes as that of Selene. Von Roehm kneels down and prostrates himself before her. He is the high priest of a sect worshipping Selene, that has existed for more than two thousand years. Selene tells him that she needs both a residence and a power base. Von Roehm has the ideal solution – the Hellfire Club.
Meanwhile, in that institution, Sunspot’s father Emanuel DaCosta is being prepared for his admission into the Club’s Inner Circle. He complains to Sebastian Shaw that he feels silly, dressed in those 18th century style clothes that are typical of the Club. Those clothes signify their abandonment of modern society and its rules, Shaw explains, in favor of a simpler, more primal age, where individualism still counted. He warns DaCosta that this is his last chance to decline, but the other man feels ready for the initiation that is to come.
Back in Westchester, unaware of his father’s decision, Roberto is lazing away his time at the pool with Magma, while Rahne sits inside, doodling hearts (with her and Sam’s initials) and writing a fairy tale.
(Rahne’s fairy tale)
Her heroine is an enchanted redheaded princess (not too mention an idealized version of herself) named Alystraea, who like Disney’s version of Snow White lives in a cottage in the forest, surrounded by cute cartoony little animals who help her with her chores. Their idyll is disturbed as her love, the heavily wounded prince Duncan, stumbles into the cottage, crying that he is possessed by a ravenous shadow, before collapsing, the work of the evil Silver Sorceress. Alystraea swears she will break the enchantment and changes into a wolf. In her wolfform she follows Duncan’s trail to a horrible place, the (surreally deformed) city of New York. Alystraea gets accosted and threatened by a sentient cab, but it finally tells her what she wants to know – the location of the Sorceress. Alystraea find the sorceress – a gleaming figure of silver light, with a spectacular golden necklace and her darkly armored protector, the Black Baron, in the park. Alystraea realizes that the Sorceress’ glow is that of stolen lifeforces and that she has no chance. Nevertheless she attacks the two in wolfform, hurling the baron aside, and threatening the sorceress, growling that she will show her the same mercy she showed Duncan.
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Later that night, Rahne lies asleep in her bed, her hand cradling a necklace identical to the one the Sorceress from her story wore.


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There’s a bigger than usual party at the Hellfire Club. The Inner Circle is admitting two new candidates: Emmanuel DaCosta and Selene as a potential Black Queen. Sebastian Shaw bids them welcome and speaks about the goals of the Inner Circle – the accumulation of power. He offers them the cup of fellowship and among cheers both are welcomed. Selene congratulates Shaw on the charming little ceremony. He is very aware though that she is mocking him, and actually wants his power. He decides to be on his guard and concentrates on Emmanuel instead, congratulating him and expressing the hope that eventually his son Roberto will join them as well.
In Salem Center stands the merry mutants’ favorite hangout, Harry’s Hideaway, a restaurant and bar. Its mysterious owner, Harry Morrel, is busy playing chess with Colossus. Peter marvels at Harry’s fluent Russian, which Harry brushes off, claiming he’s picked those phrases up from their frequent chess sessions, which, he adds, Peter has always been losing so far. In response, Peter puts him into checkmate. Harry demands a rematch, but they are interrupted by the waitress Molly, telling them, there’s a problem and Peter might help. Roberto DaCosta came into the bar hours ago, just sitting there, refusing to talk. Molly asks Peter to take him home. When Peter touches Roberto’s shoulder, the younger boy explodes and hits the Russian. He then transforms into Sunspot mode and hits Colossus again, who has by then transformed into organic steel, smashing him into Molly and Harry, knocking them out. Roberto furiously shouts at Rasputin, due to all his insecurities and Peter notes that Sunspot’s form is changing – he hardly looks human anymore. Mentally he shouts for Professor Xavier.
The telepath “hears” Colossus and awakes Dani and Sam. He asks them to go to Harry’s as no X-Men are currently in the mansion. Sam storms into Dani’s room, unfortunately catching her half-dressed. While he flies them to Harry’s he apologizes, deeply embarrassed. Dani assure him it’s no big deal, he just should knock next time and then teases him. Both of them wonder what’s in store for them.
At Harry’s Roberto is wrecking the pace and Colossus assumes he isn’t’ even aware of what he’s doing. As he tries to restrain the boy, suddenly Sunspot is no longer solid, but just living darkness and Colossus feels how the younger boy is absorbing him. Colossus manages one final blow, hurtling the boy outside, where he transforms to normal and falls unconscious. That last scene is watched by Sam and Dani, who get no answers from Peter either, as he too is unconscious.
Meanwhile in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle Lee Forrester takes a very seasick Magneto to his former Island HQ. Lee is amused by the very notion that the master of magnetism has such a human weakness, but admonishes him he should have stayed in the hospital. Magneto answers that someone was bound to recognize him sooner or later, therefore he’d rather recuperate at a place he considers home. Lee apologizes for the mess – apparently she’s been staying on the Island for some time – but she wasn’t really expecting him to return. Magneto asks whether Xavier is still using the island as a base and shakes his head at Charles’ stupidity. He’s far too vulnerable at the school. Magneto notices that Lee has been doing research on the island, and Lee tells him that she has come to the conclusion it’s original inhabitants weren’t human. Magneto agrees, speculating whether they were aliens or extra-dimensional. He starts using his powers, intending to show Lee something, but then breaks down in pain. His injured body can’t handle the strain. Lee tries to help, but he pushes her away, imperiously telling her he needs no help from a human. “Bull”, Lee shouts as she drags him up and reminds him that this particular lowly human saved his life from a shark and then adds, he is just afraid that admitting to feelings like gratitude would mean he had to admit he was only human himself.
Back in Westchester, Xavier and Moira are puzzling over the two unconscious young men. Harry and Molly at least seem to be alright. Xavier intends to cover all repair costs and trusts Harry to remain discreet. Piotr and Bobby are another problem altogether. Both of them are comatose, although there are no physical reasons. He tries to figure out what happened.
Outside Dani and Sam have the same questions. They wonder what Bobby was doing in a bar. Sam mentions that he might have had something with Molly, but last he knew, Bobby went to bed with a headache. They are interrupted by a phonecall, which Dani takes. Afterwards she runs upstairs and falls due to her injuries. Sam carries her to Rahne’s room, which is empty. Dani asks Sam to fly them into Manhattan, without telling the Professor. The two land in front of a very exclusive hotel and Dani feels a strange sense of dejavu when she sees the building. Sam worries that they aren't dressed right. Dani uses a new manifestation of her power by pulling images of the perfect guests from the receptionist’s mind and then “clothes” herself and Sam in that illusion. The two enter the elevator taking them to the penthouse suit. Dani’s beat by the new stunt she pulled, and now has to replay the receptionist’s memory of the person who rented the suite. They see a stunning redhead demanding the best suite in the house. Neither of them recognizes the woman, although she seems familiar to Dani. They knock and are answered by a crying Rahne in the clothes the woman wore. Rahne tells them, she doesn’t know how she got here, and Dani asks Sam to take them home.
While tugging Rahne in, Dani finds the necklace on her bureau, which also seems familiar and asks if she can borrow it. Sam urges Dani to finally tell him what she knows. She admits, she kept something from him. She had a dream last night, where she roamed Manhattan dressed to kill, and finally entered in the hotel, they found Rahne in. She realizes now it wasn’t a dream at all, but a reflection of Rahne’s experiences, transmitted via their psi-link. However, that link should only work when Rahne is in her animal form. Maybe Rahne’s metamorphic powers are still evolving ?
She wonders whether her condition is linked to Roberto’s and exasperated throws her mug against the wall. She’s sure she has all the puzzle pieces, but can’t fit them together. Just as she’s about to give up, Sam glances at a newspaper story. Two teenagers were mauled by a wolf a few nights ago. The girl allegedly had her throat torn out, but by the time the paramedics arrived, both were healthy and just in shock. Looking at the photograph, the two mutants recognize the teenagers and Dani realizes that the necklace belongs to the girl. They decide to pay Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson a visit at the hospital.
Once there, Dani addresses them as Cloak and Dagger, introduces herself and throws Tandy the necklace. She explains how some time ago Rahne and Sunspot were injected with the drug that created Cloak and Dagger, though Tandy and Tyrone used their powers to cure them. However in the long run it didn’t work, Sam notes. Now the kids have somehow stolen Cloak and Dagger’s powers. Tyrone, a stuttering shy young man, asks them what they want. Their powers are gone, they can’t help. Besides they don’t want the powers back. They want normal lives. They ask the mutants to leave.
Back at Xavier’s, Moira and Xavier decide to call it a night. Moira mentions that Sharon Friedlander and Tom Corsi are still at her research facility, but that they should start to pick up their lives again. Xavier agrees and they turn to the door, while Bobby awakes and transforms. His darkness consumes Colossus and then he turns towards the others. Xavier mentally strikes at him, only to have his power reflected back at himself and he falls unconscious.