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Our Way
After coming to Paradise to save Bird Brain and his friends, the New Mutants paid dearly. Bird Brain had lived, but on of their own, Cypher, had died. Tears in their eyes, the Mutants gather in a circle around their deceased friend. Clenching Cypher’s body tightly is Wolfsbane. She is upset, screaming that he died saving her, and she’s not worth the effort. Mirage tries to comfort her best friend to calm her out of her hysterical state. She’s only going to make herself sick. Still holding on to him, Wolfsbane claims she should be worse than sick, she should be dead. Magik is behind them all, her tears are combined with rage. She screams that it is the Animator who should be dead, and they should have let her kill him when she had the chance. Mirage reminds her that’s not the way they do things. Cannonball adds that she teleported him into the hands of demons in Limbo, wasn’t that enough? Maybe, maybe not, she replies still upset.
Close by, one of the Smiley-face soldiers of The Right still moves after their battle. He mutters the words ‘half breed monsters’ as the gun on his back fires away. Wolfsbane switches to half wolf half girl form and grabs Cypher’s body. She won’t let them have him. Sunspot, now in his solar form, charges the Right member. Overhead Cannonball flies towards their attacker. Warlock grabs Sunspot, stating he’s lost one dear friend today, he’s not going to lose another. Mirage backs him up, as Sunspot should know in his solar charged form he is very strong but not as invulnerable like Sam. Angered Sunspot tells her to shut up, and demands Warlock let him go. It’s his fault Doug’s dead, and this is his chance to make it up. Magik opens a stepping disc, teleporting behind the attacker. She claims this is bull, Doug’s death was none of their fault, only mutant-haters like him are the reason to blame. As she teleports away with him in his arms, Sam smashes into the rocks where his target was.
Once a great threat, their attacker now screams out in fear, asking where he is. Limbo, Magik announces, her, home sweet home, a terrible dimension to visit, and he certainly wouldn’t want to live here. Her appearance has changed as well. Horns stretch out of her head, armor on her body, and her feet have turned to hooves. Below them various demons have gathered around them. S’ym stands high on a rock as he greets her. In another rock, lies the Soulsword stuck inside its rock. Magik knew Sym would be around, as he’s always there for the scent of blood. She asks him about the changes to him and his demon horde. While the sword was gone, Sym took it upon himself to redecorate. He asks if this is a tribute to him, the new lord of her domain. Ever the humorist, she says, driving her fingers into the face mask of the Right member. She’s brought this soul to swell the ranks of her kingdom, knowing him and her other unruly subjects will welcome him with open arms. She lifts him over her head and tosses him into the crowd of anxious demons. Teleporting away, she offers there are more where he came from, and they should greet them just as fondly. The demons tear away at him as she leaves.
Back with her team Mirage wants to know what in Heaven’s name she thinks she’s doing. Heaven has nothing to do with it, Illyana remarks. They know they can’t take all of the animates back with them, not when there are monsters to cage them like The Right. Fighting alongside them, she continues, they’ve earned their right to live on their own. But they couldn’t leave them here with the smiley-faced army, so she put them where they wouldn’t be able to ever hurt anyone again. Magik wonders why it’s such a big deal, as Mirage had just recently asked her to do so. Maybe the fact that they now see the real her and they fear her. She slowly resorts back to normal, and Mirage grabs her trying to tell her this is who she really is. Magik warns her not to count on it. Walking back to her teammates, Illyana asks Rahne how she is. Rahne states the bullet only clipped her leg. Knowing her thoughts are wicked against her upbringing, Rahne admits she’s glad Illyana sent those monsters in Limbo. It makes the world better for everybody, and it’s what Doug died for.
Later the New Mutants know they have to head home. Rahne says her good-byes to Bird Brain. She knows he doesn’t understand everything she says, but she asks him one more time to join them in coming back home. Tears in both their eyes as they stand over the body of Doug, Bird Brain squaks that he belongs there, he tells his friend goodbye. Parting Sam tells Bird Brain they never thought of him as an animal, and Doug would have been proud at the way he behaved, and he probably would have agreed they were worth dying for. The New Mutants teleport home through Illyana’s stepping disk and call out to their headmaster Magneto announcing their arrival. Outside the window Brightwind teleports home as well. Mirage tells Illyana not to strain her vocals, Magneto is nowhere to be found. Sunspot tells them of Magneto’s near hysterical reaction to their disappearance and how he left shortly after Warlock and he arrived. He left to use the Hellfire Club in Manhattan to use their equipment to track them down.
Flying above Manhattan, Magneto looks done and sees the city in shambles. It must have happened last night during his sleep, or while he was awaiting the return his absentee students. He has seen worse done to humans, and has done worse in his time, to his regret. Landing he knows his care only lies with mutants, particularly the students Xavier left him in charge of, the New Mutants. Being the Master of Magnetism, he possesses great power, yet he is powerless to control the actions of a few young students. That will soon change. With a wave of his arm, the metallic ruble that lies outside the Hellfire Club door is removed from his path. He only hopes they have not been injured ort worse.
Inside the building, on a level only open to the Hellfire Club’s exclusive Inner Circle, he finds his sometime allies gathered around a monitor. On the screen a dinosaur wrecks his way through rubble. Sebastian Shaw tauntingly reminds him he’s growing soft. There was a time, when he lead the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, that he would have never missed that fight. Fight? Magneto asks. Tessa tells of the Horseman attacking Manhattan and a giant airship, captured by a mutant who calls himself Apocalypse. Apocalypse escaped, Leland says, perhaps they should invite him to join them? Since he is their White Bishop, Magneto would have come if he were called, but while his students are missing his heart would not have been it. The major threat was only to humans and he has not yet become pro-human.
 Glancing at the screen Magneto sees X-Factor whose identities he had discovered long ago. He wonders why their mutant hunting scam, but he has more pressing business. He mentions his students, but his attention is cast toward the monitors as Colossus among the X-Men in Dallas carries on their battle.
In the infirmary at Xavier’s the Mutants gather around Doug as they prop his body on an examination table. Cannonball recalls that Doug isn’t the first of Xavier’s students to die. Danielle reminds them even Xavier couldn’t save Thunderbird from being killed, and Colossus was hurt recently as well. She offers that danger, even dying is part of being a hero. Illyana reports her brother is better now, and she teleported him to Dallas to be with the X-Men. She points to the picture on the wall where her brother joined the X-Men. The picture is one of four. One showing the original team, the next the second wave of X-Men, the next the recent incarnation, and the last is the New Mutants themselves. Her brother, so handsome all shining like a knight in armor. Cannonball sees Professor Xavier and notices he trained a whole bunch of mutants. Mirage misses Xavier, and Magik wishes Magneto would come home. Even though she disobeys him regularly. Right now, Sunspot shouts, he’s consorting with villains, the Hellfire Club. Magik reminds him he’s probably looking for them. Danielle knows they should call him, to let him know they’re back, and what happened to Doug.
Sam puts his arm around Rahne and tells her she should lie down for awhile. Danielle tries to get Bobby to call Magneto since he was the last to see him. He declines as Sam asks Illyana and Warlock to stay with Doug’s body. Illyana covers Doug’s face with a sheet, and Warlock, not understanding such human traits, questions her actions. She assures him it’s only temporary until Magneto gets home and they can bury him. Warlock doesn’t understand the burying process either, and asks how Illyana can trust Magneto so much, yet constantly disobey him. She recalls her past, basically being a baby lost in Limbo. Where she grew up and gained power at a terrible price. Her demons want her to stay there, and part of her wants to stay there as well. But Magneto helped her once in Limbo, with him around standing guard she feels she can relax a little. Then she can try to pretend to be a normal kid.
Sam walks Rahne to her room, she is still in tears, remembering Doug dying to save her life. Sam reassures her they were all fighting for their lives, none of them noticed, she can not blame herself. She tells him to stop, she is wicked, she doesn’t deserve people’s love. It was her who should have died, she just wants to be left alone. She runs up the stairs to a tower, she leaps out the window, and hits the roof falling off. She yelps as she scratches trying to steady herself on the roof. Sam propels himself out the window, grabbing her, asking just what the heck she was trying to do. She only wanted to be alone, she climbed out on the roof, and the roof slate crumbled. She couldn’t switch back fast enough and she just fell. Sam confesses he nearly blew it this time too. He is the oldest, and he should have been watching Doug, same as he used to watch his brothers and sisters. He knew Doug didn’t have physical powers, he was almost like a normal kid he should have been watching him. They land on the roof, and climb in and sit on the window ledge. Rahne tells him it is selfish to blame himself. With their powers, they sort of just feel invulnerable, like her on the roof. They just have learned the hard way that they’re not invulnerable. He stares out the window, and Rahne touches his shoulder from behind. She has an idea, they can’t be invulnerable but maybe if she looks after him like she was his sister, and he looks after her like she was his little sister, maybe they’ll be okay. She’s never had a brother like Illyana, who she always thought was so lucky. Another tear falls from her eyes, she says with a deep sadness, she has never had a family. He puts his arm around her, and “officially” declares she is his little sister from now on.
Danielle walks with Bobby towards the phone, telling him the story of Doug being jealous of Bird Brain at first. After Rahne’s coaxing him, he attempts to talk to the Bird Boy, and eventually they dressed him as human and took him to a malt shoppe. He ends up dumping a chocolate shake on Doug’s head, and Illyana just starts laughing. Danielle doesn’t remember Illyana ever laughing like that. They dial the phone, and she tells him the malt shoppe owner called Magneto and complained about Xavier’s students behavior. When they got home Magneto was so angry, and Doug still had shake in his hair. Roberto holds the phone to his ear, he saw magneto’s face when he got home. He was worried sick something had happened to them. He charges into his solar form and yanks the phone of the stand. It’s his fault Doug’s dead, he claims. If he didn’t leave Warlock would have stayed with Doug. They were always a team, with Warlock protecting him.
He falls to the floor in anger, Magneto doesn’t like him, Xavier thought he would turn out like his father, and his father thinks he’s a wimp. But he’s really just a, Danielle stops asking what a monster? She creates an illusion of a gigantic Monster form of Sunspot over him. She tells him she knew very well they were grounded, and why, but she agreed to help Bird Brain and his people anyway. She could have said no, being co-leader of the team, or insisted waiting until Magneto was awake. She kept silent and went along with it, and Doug ended up having to pay for it. They calm down and realize they can both be monsters some time. With the phone destroyed and a need still to call Magneto, they decide to go to the kitchen phone together.
Soon, Bobby calls up to Sam and Rahne to come down and join them. Magneto wasn’t at the Hellfire Club, he was only there to locate them, and he’s on his way home now. But the Hellfire club said they had to turn on the TV now. Illyana wonders why they would want to turn on the television at a time like this. Gathered on the couch, they turn on the TV to see X-Factor in Manhattan. The X-Terminators are really the first X-Men and recently came out as mutants on television. That’s not all, Bobby adds their X-Men are in Dallas fighting something weird. Danielle points to the screen seeing dinosaurs, monsters, and Colossus, Illyana’s brother, amongst the X-Men running into the skyscraper, she announces, wishing she was there. Just then the building blows up before her eyes. Illyana screams out for her brother. She teleported him there to Dallas, now it’s her fault he’s dead.
Behind them, their headmaster Magneto approaches, asking where they have been. Mirage tells him of the terrible things happening in New York and Dallas. For all he knows they could have been in either place, even killed. Cannonball looks at him, and tells them they’re okay. Magneto looks around and asks where Doug is. Another tear falls down Rahne’s face, as she tells him he is dead, and now they fear Colossus and the rest of the X-Men are too. A look of shock comes across Magneto’s face, as he whispers the word dead. He reaches down and hugs the now lifeless body of Douglas Ramsey. He looks up asking what happened, what have they done to him? He lifts them up with his magnetic powers, among all of the other items in the room. Is this the only way he can keep them safe, he asks.
Rahne shifts to her half wolf, half human form, and tells him Bird Brain and his friends were in danger. Bird Brain being their friend they decided to look after him, because they look after each other. Anger crosses Magneto’s face as he looks up at his students. Doug was one of them, he adds, and a fine job they did at protecting him. Cannonball tries to blast free, as he yells at him to leave her alone. It’s not Rahne’s fault, they were just helping Bird Brain, he was their responsibility. And they are his responsibility, he adds. Mirage tries to wrestle free, as she asks if this is how he means to keep them safe, wrapped up in foil on some shelf. They are people, not dolls, they have power to use for good or ill, but to use no matter what. NO, he screams out. Smashing free from his wrappings, Sunspot tells him more of them would have been dead, if not for their brains and their powers. While Magneto was busy running off to the Hellfire Club, he and Warlock discovered where they were and left a note informing him. If he had given them credit, or come back and found the note, things might have ended differently.
Magneto starts to comment on Sunspot’s arrogance, but Illyana cries out for them to stop. While Doug is dead her brother and the X-Men may still be alive. The X-Men are adults, Magneto says choosing to protect humans, they can take care of themselves. Illyana asks him shocked if he’s going to do anything. Magneto tells her he will be doing the hardest thing he has ever done, and that is calling Doug’s parents, and try to figure out some way to explain how he let their son die. As tears fall from her eyes, a look of evil comes across Illyana’s face. She tells him she will not stay there if he does nothing to help her brother. She opens a stepping disc underneath her and teleports away as Magneto yells at her teammates to stop her. Wolfsbane snarls at him, telling him to look around and see what he has done. They stopped a mad scientist working for evil humans named the Right, but he grew bored and tried to kill his creatures. Magneto intervenes including that he killed Doug as well. Cannonball tells him they saved lots of animates, and Mirage tells him that they’ll help Illyana save her brother if she takes them with her.
Magneto tells them enraged they will do nothing. Humans killed Doug, and protecting humans has destroyed the X-Men. He informs them humans are forcing known mutants to register, asking if they know what that means. They are not the X-Men and he forbids them to use their powers at all  or leave the grounds without his supervision. Shaking his fist at them, he promises this time he will make them obey. Appearing behind him from a stepping disc, Illyana asks if he will go as far to put them into shackles. She holds the Soulsword, and her appearance has reverted to demonic form, with horns and tail. She tells them she has been in Limbo fighting to get into the magicked areas of Dallas. But whatever is there has some sort of barrier, and she can’t find a way to get in. Her scrying
glass doesn’t even register her brother at all. She believes he and all the X-Men are dead. She lunges at Magneto with her sword drawn. She admits she was wrong about him, he doesn’t care at all, he is the one who should be dead.
Barely missing him, the sword smashes into the floor. Her teammates try to stop her, telling her Magneto means well, and to put her sword back into Limbo where it belongs. Cannonball reminds her, her sword helps keep Limbo partly free of demons, she can’t afford to keep it here. What has happened is no more Magneto’s fault than it is hers, but she needs to put the sword back, this is not what Doug or her brother would have wanted. Tears fall from her eyes, and knowing he was right, she summons a disc a sends the sword back into Limbo, as she runs out of the room. Wolfsbane snarls once more at Magneto telling him to see what he has caused. But Mirage tells her teammates to forget him, they have to find Illyana if they can.
Looking down at the sheet that covers Doug’s body, Magneto lifts back the top revealing Doug’s lifeless face. Magneto is lost in thoughts and curses Xavier for putting him in such a crucial position. He has no rapport with these children, and this is fatal proof as to that. What shall happen to them with Registration Act, should it come to the days like he remembers living in Poland? But these are children, he thinks, do they know what may come, or understand any of it? Reaching the attic, the Mutants call out to Illyana. She is crying with her head buried on top of an old chest. She admits she hates feeling so helpless, and she feels so dumb. She thought of Magneto like a knight in shining armor like her brother. She wanted him to protect her, so she could just be a normal kid. Rahne hugs her, and tells her there is nothing wrong with that but Doug ,her brother, and the X-Men are dead. Rahne states she doesn’t think they can be kids anymore.
Soon still in the attic, Cannonball tells them they didn’t sign up at the school to be Magneto’s students. The attic is crammed full of costumes. Even though Xavier is gone, they are still pledged to his goals, Danielle calls dibs on a pair of boots. Magik knows she’s right, they should be fighting evil mutants like the Horsemen and the Marauders, picking up a belt. Rahne adds they have to fight evil humans too, like the Right and the Mutant Registration Act. Warlock asks about the potential danger in their plan. Sunspot knows there will be danger, and Magneto doesn’t think they’re up for it. Rahne states they have to learn that for themselves. Mirage admits with the X-Men are gone, they’re all the world has left. Magik asks if they don’t save the world, who would?
They stand gathered in their new uniforms, former children now grown into adulthood.


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To Build a Fire
Xavier’s school: The New Mutants are in a funk, still depressed over the death of their teammate, Cypher, and the seeming deaths of the X-Men. The alien Warlock has turned into a couch for the others to sit on, his way of embracing those of his friends which still remain. Wolfsbane is refusing to come out of wolfform, snuggling up to the dejected Magik, which enables her to better deal with her grief.
An excited Cannonball joins the others. A letter from their former teammate, Magma, has arrived. They wonder why the letter is in the form of a scroll – after all, Amara is currently supposed to be at the Massachusetts Academy. Even the curious Rahne switches back to her human form, as Sam begins reading the letter which details that Amara, as well as Empath, are currently in Nova Roma, having a wonderful time.
(Amara’s story)
It starts in the Hellions’ version of the Danger Room, where the Hellions are ganging up on Magma to test their newest teammate. They can’t help needling her for her past as a New Mutants and Tarot announces to Empath that they are gong to cream his “girlfriend.” Magma asks her what her problem is, as she fires a lava bolt at the French girl, which Tarot easily evades.
Roulette uses one of her bad luck disks to make Magma trip and Jetstream calls out for Empath to take her. Strangely, though, the Spaniard remains reluctant, instead asking Jetstream whether she is too hot form him to handle.
Catseye attacks Magma over Jetstream’s warning that Magma is a flame creature, who’d fry her to a crisp. Quickly, he grabs the werecat before she can be injured by the heat.
The teamleader, Thunderbird, impatiently calls for Empath to possess Magma, as he hurls a heavy object at the girl, only to see it incinerated. Again he urges Empath to intervene.
With a smirk, Empath remarks that it’s the only way they’ll beat her, isn’t it? He begins using his powers to calm Amara down, telling her she doesn’t want to harm them. She s one of them. She loves them. Amara powers down at his words, repeating them before suddenly flaring up again. She shoves Empath away, ordering him to get out of her heart.
Empath has a girlfriend, Tarot sing-songs, and asks mockingly whether he has gone soft. He respects her too much to really take her over. He doesn’t have a girlfriend, Empath spits back and asks who among the Hellions would be worthy of his respect. Certainly not Tarot, but doesn’t she wish she were? He begins using his powers on her as he moves closer to the redhead. He reads her overwhelming enmity for him that is really so close… to something else. She wishes to smother him in kisses, he continues, whishing he’d care for her like he does for…
Magma can’t stand the other girl’s humiliation any longer and flares up, shouting at him to stop. Angrily, she asks why the others don’t stop him as she runs away. They shrug it off, figuring she just isn’t used to Empath being his usual creepy self.
Thy are joined by the White Queen, who asks Amara to stop and then chides Empath about his mindgames. She turns to Amara giving her a letter from her father.
The others still needle Empath, asking if he has a crush on Magma. Empath explains that unlike Tarot Amara is strong-willed and well-trained in resisting mind-control.
Miss Frost observes that the letter seems to have upset Amara. The girl explains that her father is ordering her home. Surprisingly, Miss Frost agrees without any problems and suggests Amara pack. She tells the others to leave with the exception of Manuel.
Under four eyes, she observes that Manuel wasn’t really trying to influence Amara. Empath defends himself, claiming that, unlike Tarot, Amara hates being controlled. He didn’t want to humiliate her like that. Very noble, Emma mocks, not like him at all, especially considering the subtle influence he has been exerting on Amara recently. But she isn’t angry. Hadn’t he stopped by himself she would have. She commends him for learning subtlety and because of that, she wants him to accompany Amara on her visit home. The Hellfire Club wants Amara to stay at the school and her father who controls an area of great mineralogical wealth to be well disposed towards them. Manuel is to see that he is… subtly.
Later, Manuel visits Amara in her room. He observes that she has already finished packing. Ready to leave so soon? Can’t wait for her to be gone, can he? she snaps back at him, before admitting that she doesn’t want leave. She still wants to experience so much in this country. Manuel grabs her wrist and asks her not to go then. Her father commanded her, Amara begins and then states that he couldn’t possibly understand. Their cultures are so different…
In exasperation she asks him to leave her alone or has he come to torment her like Tarot? Tarot likes him so much and is jealous because of Amara, and he just torments her. It is so easy form him to make people love him, isn’t it? Not as easy as making them hate him, he replies as he helps her packing, or hasn’t she noticed? He reveals that he is to accompany her and maybe he can convince her father to let her stay.
Several days later, they are in a private plane en route from Rio de Janeiro to Nova Roma. To make matters worse, they are in the middle of a thunderstorm. Amara is worried, but Manuel tries to calm her, telling her he’s flown through storms in his family’s plane many times. Since she is still nervous, he offers to talk to the pilot. He finds the pilot nervous and ready to begin an emergency landing, however at that moment the plane is hit by lightning and spins out of control. Amara panics. Manuel tells her to stay calm, or he will take her over. The plane crashes. Manuel manages to get Amara out of the burning plane, the pilot is already dead, though.
As they watch the burning wreckage, Amara points out that her father will come looking for them. Manuel realizes, though, that the plane was off course. He won’t find them. At least the plane landed in the swamp, Amara states, and won’t set the forest on fire. A moment later, she urges him to get on solid land – crocodiles are closing in!
Several rain-filled and uncomfortable days later, Amara is using her powers to build a small campfire when Manuel suddenly feels something being thrown at his head. The culprits are small monkeys and Amara realizes this is close to the primitive environment she came from. For a while, she lived in the forests as an Amazon, she relays. Not his idea of a good time, Manuel jokes before suggesting she set a larger fire as a beacon. Amara refuses. Controlling a fire in this environment would be extremely difficult. She lectures him that 25 % of the world’s oxygen originates from here. If this forest were destroyed…
Not that anyone would see the beacon in this traceless waste, he sulks, adding that this is just home for a bunch of monkeys and God knows what else. Insulted, Amara points out that it’s her home. Manuel threatens that he could make her build a fire. Furious she shifts to her lava form and dares him to do it. She should let him do it and then let him burn up in the conflagration.
Several silent angry hours later, Amara wakes up to Manuel moaning. First she sulks, thinking it serves him right, before remembering that he saved her from the burning plane. Annoyed she asks him what’s wrong, before turning towards him. She is in for a shock when she sees a bat feeding off him. Quickly, she tosses a burning log at the parasite and it flees.
She explains it was a vampire bat and hands Manuel some leaves, explaining that the bats’ saliva contains an anti-coagulant but the juice of the leaf should control the bleeding. Trying to make light of the situation, she jokes that he won’t become a vampire. He should try to think of them as Nova Roma mosquitoes.
He turns away, bitterly berating her for making fun of him. Amara protests. He retorts that he can sense her feelings, he can sense everyone’s feelings. Tarot’s, hers, he’s bombarded with them. He knows much more than he wants to … about how she feels. Reaching out, she carefully suggests that while he can tell what people feel, maybe he can’t tell why they feel that way. When she was little, a bat tangled itself in her hair. For years she dreamed about it and woke up screaming. But bats were all around them and she had to learn to laugh or spend her nights huddled in fear. But she also learned that bats don’t like the light… maybe they could use a bigger campfire.
The next morning, Manuel wakes up next to a small mountain of fruit. Busy making a spear, Amara tells him it is breakfast. Lots of stuff grows around there wild if you know where to look. So where is the bathroom in this ritzy establishment? he asks. Down the hall, second floor, she deadpans back, before warning him not to go too far. She saw Jaguar tracks earlier and Brazil is famous for its Anaconda… the second-biggest snake in the world. Nice neighborhood, he mutters as he walks off.
A little above him, he sees a beautiful orchid and figures he could surprise Amara with it, playing Tarzan. He climbs up, wondering how the flower would look in her hair, when suddenly he is faced with a jaguar. The animal attacks and jumps at the worried Amara next. Before she is able to chase away the cat with her spear it slashes her leg.
Angry and in pain, Amara snaps at Manuel, asking what he was doing up there. Looking at the remnants of the flower in his hand, Manuel replies nothing. As she bandages her wound, Amara lectures him on being careful. There’s a large chance that their injuries will fester and they don’t have any anti-biotics. But surely some hand native remedy will suffice, he replies mockingly. She is so superior in her jungle, so self-sufficient… almost as if she doesn’t want to be rescued.
She admits that he knows her feelings. She doesn’t want to be rescued. She has good reason. After he presses some more, Amara admits that her father want to marry her off to some noble she hasn’t even met. She was just settling in with the Hellions. She was so happy. Manuel demands she tell her father no and that there is someone else. It doesn’t work like that in Nova Roma, she just replies. And so the brave Amara hides, he mocks, towering over her.
He points to her still bleeding injury. The jaguar may have severed an artery. Will she cower here at the cost of her life? He insists they need help and tells her to call a volcano. They’ll investigate that. Amara refuses to take the chance of starting a jungle fire. Shaking her, Manuel threatens to force her. He begins to use his power on her, trying to make her afraid. Furiously, she slaps him, insisting it is his fear she is feeling, not her own. He feels what she feels, he retorts.
Keeping her from stalking off, he insists hat he knows she is afraid. He is afraid. Everybody is always afraid of something. He again insists she shake the earth, make a volcano, call them. Calling her ‘darling,’ he repeats his order. Why is he doing this? she asks. She’s afraid. She’s hurt. She might die. He wants to save her. He can feel how frightened she is. How she feels is her business, she retorts, how she handles what she feels is her responsibility. Amara kisses him and the ground begins to shake.
Manuel sits back non-plussed. Why did she kiss him? Did she want to or did he make her? Can’t he tell? she demands. He begins to mention Miss Frost’s ominous statement, when they notice the fire Amara has unwittingly started. As she leans on him, they begin to flee and jump into the river.
As he carries her to the other side, Manuel begins to apologize. Sometimes he can’t see the difference between his feelings and those of others. They assault him with conflicting emotions and he grabs hold of one and uses it to block all others, before he drowns in them. He admits to being a coward and taking the coward’s route out. It’s self-defense… rotten, but it allows him to breathe. He’s sorry for making her do that.
She decides they should head northeast until they find the Amazon.
Days later, both of them still worse for wear with Amara feverish they suddenly hear something. Manuel intends to fend off the new threat with the spear as Amara wryly remarks that they used to have headhunters. However, she quickly recognizes the men surrounding them, led by her father. Worried, Senator Lucius Aquila inquires if she is alright and whether the ruffian has harmed her. Amara explains that he is no ruffian and introduces Manuel as her friend, hoping that he will be her father’s as well.


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Redemption
(Illyana’s dream)
Illyana recalls that she was in her room, studying, which is what it made so real. It takes time to catch up, learn human things like history and Algebra. She’d grown up in another dimension and the things she learned there hadn’t prepared her for Xavier’s curriculum. It was when she began to write it down that she realized why the dream was important.
Kitty Pryde is there too – along with her dragon, Lockheed, playing with a weird weapon she has found in Illyana’s closet, along with something that looks like an armoured spacesuit. In recollection, Illyana marvels at Kitty being there as she is supposed to be Scotland, recuperating from a deadly wound. That is what saved her live.
At the time, Illyana, sitting on her bed, tells Kitty that she’s been considering wearing the outfit on Halloween, but she couldn’t. Why not, it is great looking, Kitty points out. Illyana warns her about the gun that goes with it. It really works. Undeterred, Kitty want to know the story behind the armor and sits down on Illyana’s bed. It’s a long story, the other girl replies evasively, and she has to study for midterms.
Kitty starts a tickle attack and phases them through the floor. They end up in Peter’s room, catching Illyana’s brother in a not very clothed state. The two girls and the dragon leave the embarrassed young man behind. Back in their room, they collapse giggling. Illyana finally relents and begins to relate the story.
(Illyana’s story)
Illyana reminds Kitty of the night the New Mutants girls had some friends from Salem Center over for a slumber party. Kitty was gone with the X-Men at the time but had left Lockheed in Illyana’s care. However, the dragon ran into the alien shapeshifting creature named Warlock that later came to join the New Mutants. Of course, now they know that Lock is a confused metal baby from outer space, but at the time Illyana figured he looked pretty dangerous.
Seeing him fight Lockheed, she intervenes with her Soulsword, slicing right through him. However, since Lock isn’t of magical origin, he remains unaffected. Suddenly, Illyana’s weird armor flashed on, covering her left side. Her right hand where Warlock has touched her is covered with a fine web of circuitry. Illyana grabs Lockheed and teleports to Limbo where she is sorceress supreme.
In Limbo, she realizes that the alien infection is spreading, now covering her arm up to her elbow. However, before she can decide what to do, she is attacked by a huge demon, who figures to challenge her as she has been away so long. Illyana snarls back that she paid in blood for the right to belong, her blood and the blood of those she holds dear. The X-Men were slain in this reality. Some died because she was helpless to stop it. Others died by her hand. How dare the creature?
The demon called Skunge attacks her. Illyana is already framing the words of a spell when her infected arm brushes the demon. The monster screams in agony when in mere second he is transformed into a metallic shambling thing.
Noticing that the infection has now spread halfway to her shoulder Illyana is getting frightened. Sitting down, she figures that her glowing armor is somehow blunting the infection, protecting her as best it can. She deduces that maybe the circuits are somewhat susceptible to magic after all.
As if guessing her plan, Lockheed looks at her critically and she tells him losing an arm is better than being turned into a robot monster. She raises her Soulsword with her healthy arm. Closing her eyes she brings down the blade on the infected arm, intending to cut it off. Blacking out, she tells herself to stay awake. She must help her friends, the New Mutants and X-Men; a monster is after them.
Later, she wakes up in Xavier’s school, sprawled across Kitty’s bed, wearing only a nighshirt. She finds that she is still whole without any infection, though the arm is numb. She decides it was all a dream and that she has slept on her arm, hence the numbness. Looking around in the room, she finds that her bed is missing. Instead, there is a TV set. Also in the closet there are no clothes of hers. But Kitty is in Scotland, so why…?
Dressing in a pair of shorts and a shirt that aren’t hers, she decides that some of her teammates – probably Sunspot – decided to play a joke on her. She also puts her numb arm into a sling. That moment, Kitty Pryde enters, wearing a version of her old Ariel costume. She demands to know who Illyana is and what she is doing in her room.
Very quickly, the other X-Men, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus (both of them still in their old costumes), Nightcrawler and Wolverine are gathered around Illyana and demand to know who she is. Anxious, Illyana tries to remind them that she is Peter’s little sister and Kitty’s roommate, but they don’t believe her. Kitty reacts with anger, asking who gave Illyana the right to take her things. Illyana wonders where Lockheed is. In the hangar, Cyclops replies. Where else would they keep a plane that size?
Illyana realizes finally that the circuit monster had been no dream, after all. She lost control of her teleportation disc and landed in the past before she joined the New Mutants… or in a different timeline altogether.
Illyana suggests they go see Professor Xavier. He could read her mind and confirm she is telling the truth. Unfortunately, she is informed that Xavier is out and won’t be back until the evening.
A little later, Illyana finds the X-Men have locked her into the guest room. She decides that the X-Men can’t be very smart in this timeline if they try to lock in a teleporter.
She attempts some basic magic to find she is too weak to summon either her soulword or call a stepping disc. Hoping it’s just a temporary weakness, she tries to rest until the arrival of Lockheed wakes her. Relieved, she hugs the dragon, but he impatiently tugs at her sleeve, trying to drag her somewhere.
That moment, Cyclops and Colossus enter the room. Lockheed immediately reacts by spitting fire at them. Colossus calls to Illyana, explaining that Professor Xavier will see her now. Illyana realizes that Lockheed doesn’t want her to go with them, but she can’t teleport.
He drags her out of the window and flies her down to the ground. Cyclops looks after them, announcing that Professor Xavier told them the girl is evil and must be destroyed. He fires an optic blast at her and misses. Illyana flees noticing how incapable Cyclops seems there in comparison to his usual self.
Then the wind start to rise, followed by rain and lightning, which barely misses Illyana. Snow follows. Storm has joined the hunt. The shivering girl has lost Lockheed. Wolverine informs her the good new is she’ll be dead long before she freezes to death. Instead of unsheathing claws, Wolverine attacks with a knife, slicing her numb arm. Angrily, Illyana grabs a branch and hits him in the face with it. Surprisingly, he drops like he’d been shot. Illyana is puzzled. The Wolverine she knows wouldn’t have been fazed by a steel-beam. And why would he use a knife… unless he doesn’t have claws…
As the cold is getting to Illyana, Lockheed breathes fire and everything before them, trees, grass, snow, rock dissolves in a sheet of flame, revealing a spiked wall. Warm air emerges from a hole Lockheed blasted into it. Illyana walks inside to find a tunnel with signs in a language she cannot decipher. She wishes Doug Ramsey were there. Right now, she could really use his power to decipher languages.
She comes to several colorful pats. In Dorothy tradition, she steps upon the yellow one. With that touch, it begin to move at a high speed. Taking in her surroundings, Illyana notices that the area seems to be deserted, though she believes she can see what look like cold-sleep coffins from the movie Alien, but she isn’t sure.
Finally, bored, she jumps off and follows Lockheed up a ladder. She finds herself on the bridge of a huge spaceship. Creeping closer to the observation window, she finds an alien corpse sitting on one of the chairs. Illyana takes the corpse’s gun, loudly figuring that whatever killed the woman would certainly try to kill her. Indeed it will, my dear, says another voice, and Illyana recognizes the newcomer as a Brood warrior.
As she pushes the wrong button on the gun, nothing happens, and the Brood paralyses her with some gunk it spews upon Illyana. Thankfully, Lockheed cuts loose with a blast of his own. Unfortunately, the Brood is protected from the dragon’s blast by a forcefield. The Brood turns back to Illyana, gloating that as Colossus’ sister she too will make an excellent host subject. Terror gives Illyana enough strength to call up a stepping disc and teleport away.
In Limbo, she is back to control over magical abilities. She disintegrates the paralyzing gunk and then heals her arm. Next, she tries out her weapon until she figures out how to work it. She teleports back to the ship’s bridge.
Figuring she can use any protection she gets, Illyana puts on the armor. Trouble comes soon enough, as the X-Men attack. Storm’s lightning smashes Illyana into what looks like an elevator. Illyana hits every button and it begins to move. Finally, the elevator opens on something interesting, namely the Brood, attempting to inject a bound Lockheed with a Brood Queen egg.
It goads Illyana to watch. The girl remarks that she though the Brood all died when their world was destroyed. The Brood reveals that it escaped with a cache of Queen eggs and samples from the X-Men when they were their prisoners. The Brood relates how it found the ship, slaughtered the crew, cloned adult X-Men, altered their memories and injected them with eggs. Being under its influence, they believe the Brood to be their mentor, Professor X. It ponders the irony that the X-Men, once their greatest foes, will now become templates for an even deadlier strain of Brood.
That moment, the X-Men enter and attack the Brood. Having heard the admission, they now do their best to destroy the monster. While the Brood tries to flee, Illyana shoots it and Lockheed gleefully finishes it off.
Wolverine finally spells out the cold hard facts: they are a danger to everyone. He suggests Illyana kill them now while she still can. She refuses. They may be clones, but what they ask proves that they are human… the best kind of humans. In another place and another time, she saw the X-Men die. It stops here!
She teleports them to Limbo, where her magic enables her to see the Brood eggs as black growth. With her Soulsword, she manages to destroy all the eggs. The X-Men are grateful but wonder what to do. They cannot go to Earth.
(Illyana’s dream)
Kitty tries on the armor by phasing into it and decides she is too skinny to wear it. Why did the Soulsword destroy the eggs? They weren’t magic, were they? Illyana admits to not knowing either. Kitty asks what happened to the clones. Did they go to Earth?  Scared her clone will do something Kitty might regret? Illyana mocks. She teleported them back to the starship to take the place of the murdered crew to protect the sleepers. And her spell insures that over they years they will become different from the X-Men, their own persons. She admits that it felt good to save them. Afterward, she felt that a weight had lifted from her soul.
(present)
Illyana ponders her dream, musing that sometimes dreams can point the way. In her dream it was Lockheed who killed the monster, but she saved the X-Men. Whereas in reality, the X-Men’s killer, Forge still roams free. She figures that if she dared she could kill that particular monster.


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(Danger Room session)
The situation is a familiar one. Wolfsbane is disarming a RIGHT soldier, while the evil Ani-mator is intending to fire her gun at her. Cypher witnesses the danger and warns Rahne. He jumps towards her, intending to push her out of harm’s way as the Ani-mator fires. This time, Rahne is prepared though. She kicks Cypher away, while avoiding the bullets as well. She then uses the arms of the RIGHT soldier she is holding to take out the Ani-mator. After that, she smashes the RIGHT soldier’s faceplate and takes him out as well.
Switching back to her human form, she cries with happiness as she hugs Doug Ramsey. This time, she saved him, but what was he thinking? He asks her not to be mad at him. He’ll never do it again. With those words, he fades away, leaving Rahne to shout that he must come back. She saved him!
Behind her stands her teammate, Robeto daCosta, who switched off the program. Worried, he asks her how long she’s been down there, fighting illusions… to save an illusion. Switching back to her transitional form, Rahne snarls who told him to come there. It’s none if his business! She orders him to put the environment back. Turning on his Sunspot powers as well, he shouts back that it’s too dangerous. They are not supposed to be there, unsupervised.
He apologizes, but it’s two in the morning. They need to go to bed. In the morning, they have to view Doug’s body. But there shouldn’t be a body, she tries to make him understand. She should have seen the Ani-Mator with his gun. She should have moved faster. She’s found seventeen ways she could have saved Doug already. How could she have missed them? How could she have let him die?
Up in the rec room, Illyana Rasputin once again watches the taped news of the X-Men’s death. Her tears belie her stoic face. Finally, she manifests her Soulsword and her Darkchilde form with an angry shout of “Why?” She is joined by Cannonball, who asks her what is going on. He asks her to put the sword back to limbo and reminds her that she is a girl, not some sort of horned demon. She can’t, Illyana claims. He corrects her that she won’t. A lot he knows, she snarls. She’ll be stuck as the Darkchilde forever and it serves her right.
Crying, she explains that the TV news shows keep playing the scenes where the X-Men died. She taped them all; she must have the whole fight now. That stupid camera man was there and Scott’s stupid wife was there, but for all her vaunted sorcerous powers, for all the fact that she can teleport, she couldn’t get through the magic screen blocking Dallas… she couldn’t help. So now she watches and watches and watches.
She struggles free and orders him to leave her alone, as she teleports herself and the VCR away. Sam shouts after her that Magneto is mad enough already and ordered them not to leave the school… Or use their powers, Illyana finishes the sentence. Tough!
Downstairs in the kitchen, Dani and Warlock are watching “Night of the living Dead.” While the alien transmodes a vase of flowers to replenish his energies, he inquires if Doug couldn’t become a living dead entity like the man on TV. Dani tells him there is no way. Movies aren’t real. Still watching the dead rise from their graves on the screen, Warlock suggests he could transform Doug with the techno-organic virus and absorb Doug’s energy in an act of brotherhood as the people do on his world. Dani is disgusted by the thought and calls it cannibalism.
Suddenly, she shouts out in horror and Warlock is joyful. Before them, the corpse of Doug Ramsey seems to be floating in the air. Warlock reaches for it to find it isn’t tangible. Suddenly, the image of Doug turns into a techno-organic being, intent on attacking Warlock. Dani holds Warlock, explaining that this was one of her mirages. Warlock wanted Doug back so much that she picked it up and projected it. Only his wish got mixed up with the film they were watching and became their greatest fear.
She apologizes for losing control. It hasn’t happened to her in ages. Doug’s death is getting to all of them. But, she adds with a smile, the walking dead are nothing to worry about. On this world, it’s ashes to ashes, dust to dust and that’s the end of it. Doug couldn’t come back if he wanted to. Which he won’t. The only place a magic zap brings people back to life is in horror movies.
Nevertheless, Warlock is lost in thoughts.
The next day the New Mutants – sans Illyana – step outside in formal clothes for the viewing of Doug’s body. Magneto is already waiting for them. Grimly, he reminds Warlock to mimic a human form and the alien immediately complies. The headmaster inquires after Illyana and the others do not know what to say.
As if on cue, Illyana teleports in behind Magneto and calmly joins them. Sam whispers to Illyana, asking to know where she’s been. She whispers back that she continued watching the tapes in Limbo and did a bit of thinking. She knows now whose fault it is that her brother died.
In the car, Magneto turns back to the kids and informs them that he was forced to lie to Doug’s parents about the manner of his death. They believe that the school was on a camping trip and that Doug wandered off into the woods alone. Then the others heard a shot and rushed back to find Doug’s body. It’s hunting season… it happens… and he thinks the Ramseys believed him. The bullet entered Doug’s side and passed on through. There’ll be an investigation, of course. There always is in shooting cases, and the students will be questioned. But there is no way the authorities could guess what happened unless someone told them. If they become suspicious, a member of the Hellfire Club will bolster that belief.
As they arrive in front of the funeral home, Magneto admits that that this is wrong and that the Ramseys have a right to know about the truth, but he feels it would be too dangerous to reveal themselves as mutants.
Rahne asks whether he is still angry with them, whether he is blaming them for sneaking out on that mission. Magneto ignores her and walks on to talk to the Ramseys, while Illyana puts her arms around Rahne.
Mrs. Ramsey breaks down and is comforted by her husband, while Magneto tonelessly stares at the body of his student, thinking to himself what a terrible waste this is. Is this the fate that humanity holds for all mutants?
The kids look at the body as well and Warlock protests that this isn’t Doug. It doesn’t look like him. Roberto keeps Warlock from touching the body and explains that the wax and embalming stuff makes him look funny. He asks him to behave. Rahne cries out that Warlock is right. This can’t be Doug and she runs outside. Sam tells Magneto that they will look after her and they also leave in a hurry, much to the consternation of the other guests, who make disparaging remarks about private school brats.
The others find Rahne outside, crying against a tree. Dani tries to comfort her by pointing out that Rahne is religious and should therefore believe that Doug is happy in Heaven. Rahne admits that she should think that, but she can only think that he is not with them anymore. But if it was God’s will… Dani suggests. It’s not her will, Rahne insists. Doug died saving her. It’s her fault and she didn’t even notice… and she could have saved him. She loved him and she didn’t even notice when he died.
She begins to cry harder when she thinks of him being shut in coffin in the dark. Warlock seems shocked at that revelation and now Bobby and Sam have to comfort him, Bobby explaining that burying a body shows respect. Sam adds that, according to the Bible, Doug’s body will rise on Judgment Day. Burying keeps his body safe. The alien literally falls apart and the boys are busy convincing him to reassume human form.
Later that night, Warlock slips out of school without telling anybody and secretly enters the burial home. He addresses Doug’s body, announcing that Sam explained that Doug is not really dead, but in a far dimension called Heaven which is reached by prayer and a magic zap will cause resurrection of the “livingdeadentities” like in the movies so Doug must be embalmed and put away in the dark ground to be safe. But Warlock will miss him and he fears that Doug will be frightened and lonely too.
He recalls how Doug once gave him part of his life energy to live. He decides to return the favor, deciding this should act like the “magic zap” and return Doug to life. He marvels at why Doug won’t accept the energy and concludes that perhaps Doug has forgotten what it is like to be alive, so Warlock will help him by reminding him of what he is missing. He carries him up and finds he body is stiff, but manages to make it move similar to the zombies in the movie.
Carrying Doug alongside, Warlock breaks out of the funeral home’s window, worrying what Magneto’s reaction will be. But, he figures, by that point Doug will have accepted Warlock’s life energy and will be alive again, whereas he will travel to the dimension of the “livingdead” where Magneto will not find him.
He takes Doug’s corpse to the Blue Ridge Hotel, where his parents are staying. Through the window, he watches a crying Mrs. Ramsey. He muses that on his world there are no mothers. And the fathers must always try to kill the progeny. He shows the body at the window. Predictably (though not to Warlock), Mrs. Ramsey screams in horror.
As Mr. Ramsey bursts into the room, his wife tells him that she saw Doug’s ghost and a horrible grinning head above him. She wonders if she is gong mad.
Outside, Warlock is confused, not understanding her reaction. He figures that Rahne will react more positively. He knocks at her window, showing her Doug. Rahne’s first reaction is happiness, believing Doug isn’t dead after all. As she hugs the body, she begins to understand that he is dead and shrinks back in revulsion and screams.
Warlock covers her mouth, asking her not to scream like Doug’s mother. Horrified, Rahne asks him what he was trying to do. Did he show the body to Doug’s mother?
Having heard the scream, the others join them, also not understanding Warlock’s motives. Warlock explain that he wanted Doug to be resurrected, so he took Doug to his loved ones to show him that he was loved, so he would take Warlock’s life energy…
Roberto calms Rahne by pointing out that Warlock was just trying what she was attempting to do earlier in the Danger Room session: trying to bring Dou back, to save him. Rahne begins to understand and finally admits to both herself and Warlock that nothing will work. Doug is dead and all the wishing or pretending in the world can’t make it otherwise. She asks Warlock to take Doug back. She explains that this is only a shell. Whatever made it Doug has gone away. He’s safe in Heaven.
Sam reminds them that they have to return Doug. They’re burying him tomorrow and sooner or later somebody will notice he is missing. Illyana teleports them straight to the funeral home, where they are almost discovered by Cops, who have been called when the alarms rung. In the dark, the kids quickly return Doug to the coffin and  manage to just hide beneath the table. When the funeral home director and the cops switch on the lights, they find the body returned and nothing else. Confused, they leave and after a final goodbye Illyana teleports them back to Xavier’s School.
The next day after Doug’s funeral, Rahne and Warlock linger at the grave until they have managed to say the final goodbyes.
That evening, the New Mutants are trying to forget their problems with some TV, but Illyana makes them watch the tapes about the X-Men’s deaths again. When they react annoyed, she orders them to watch again how Forge chants his final spell to use the X-Men’s life energies against the Adversary. Angrily, she tells them that Forge is the one to blame. His sorceries caused the destruction and her brother’s death stopped it. She vows that she is going to make Forge pay. Master sorcerer though he is, Forge can’t imagine what that bleak “victory” is going to cost him…


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Demons!
Her face contorted with fury, Illyana Rasputin demands that they have to do something. They have to kill him! She continues that she tried to teleport to Dallas as soon as she realized what was going on, but a magical barrier kept her out. And her brother… all the X-Men… sacrificed their lives to plug a hole between dimensions that Forge made with his sorceries and Illyana couldn’t do anything to save them. Forge murdered her brother, she concludes… and now he is alive and her brother is dead!
The person the rant is addressed to, Magneto, acting-headmaster of Xavier’s School, is unimpressed by her reasoning. He explains that the X-Men sacrificed themselves voluntarily. And even if they hadn’t, the X-Men aren’t his charges. Charles Xavier left him as headmaster of the school, in charge of training and protecting the New Mutants.
Then Charles Xavier messed up, Illyana replies brutally. He shouldn’t have left Magneto in charge of a bunch of hamsters! She gave him the chance to help and he blew it. And if he won’t do something, she will!
The other New Mutants try to stop her from teleporting away, as usual in vain. Instead, their efforts cause them to land on Magneto, whose patience has just about reached its end. He repeats his orders. They are not to use their powers or leave the house without his permission. And if they won’t obey him voluntarily, he’ll make certain they’ll have no choice but to obey. With a slammed door, he leaves. While the others wonder whether Illyana has left to fight Forge, Dani is uncomfortable with Magneto’s threats. What exactly did he mean with them having no choice but to obey?
Moments later, Illyana reappears on Muir Isle, where her best friend, Kitty Pryde, is recovering from injuries sustained during the mutant massacre. She too is currently watching the reports about the X-Men’s deaths.
Seeing Illyana, Kitty runs to trap her in a hug. As Illyana’s hands pass through her, Kitty explains that she isn’t better yet. Since she fought the Marauders, she has been stuck phased, but with effort she can go solid.  She hopes she will get normal eventually, she explains during a proper hug.
She’s worried about being normal at a time like this? Illyana asks. What’s wrong? Kitty inquires in surprise. What isn’t? Illyana shoots back, reminding her that Doug is dead, Peter is dead, the X-Men are dead. Isn’t that enough? And Forge who killed her brother is walking around free. You can’t get much more wrong! Kitty explains that of course she knows, but the X-Men were involved in a kind of war… and in a war people die. She almost died when they fought the Marauders, so did Nightcrawler … and Peter. It gives you a different perspective…
Illyana laughs mockingly. Kitty just means that she doesn’t care, she accuses her. Magneto doesn’t care either. Nobody cares but her. Of course she cares, Kitty assures her. But the X-Men are gone. Even Magneto, for all his power, can’t bring them back. Why is Illyana acting like such a baby? Fists helplessly clenched in rage, Illyana shouts that she wishes she could act like a baby. Babies have other people to do the hard things for them. She came there to ask for help. But suddenly Kitty is too mature to bother. But Forge will pay, she vows. She will make him, if she has to turn to sorcery to do it. She teleports away, leaving a dejected Kitty, who wishes Illyana could see that now, more than ever, they have to be strong. Of course, she cares!
Meanwhile, back at Xavier’s in the attic, Rahne and Berto are changing into their special costumes and Sam and Dani want to know what they think they are doing. Rahne explains that they want to be ready to do something when Illyana comes back. Do what? Dani asks, help her kill Forge? Sam adds that they must realize Forge isn’t the problem.
Warlock reminds them all of Magneto’s orders – they aren’t to leave the house. Rahne hesitatingly agrees but Sunspot decides Magneto’s wrong and he can forget it. The X-Men are dead and the New Mutants are all that’s left. So they have to fight for right. Rahne agrees… even if they are in the wrong? Sam asks. If Magneto thinks that threats will control them, they must show him that he is wrong, Roberto decides, leaving Dani to muse that, bull-headed as they are, maybe both Magneto and Illyana are partly right.
As if on cue, Illyana appears to grab her costume. The others jump at her and land in Limbo with her. They look around to find it more monstrous than ever. Jeering techno-organic monsters greet them. Dani and Rahne look into a mirror to find zombie versions of them reflected back. Illyana grimly reminds them that she is worse than before and Limbo reflects what she is. She glumly informs them that she went to see Kitty and ask for her help in killing Forge. But she wasn’t interested!
Sam tries to calm her down, telling her she is overreacting, first with Magneto, now with Forge. She is seeing demons where none exist. With a snarl, she orders him not to lecture her about demons. She fell into Limbo when she was practically a baby. She grew up with demons.
As she changes her costume, Dani tries to talk sense into her, reminding her that everybody has demons of one kind or another. Things that drive them to behave in ways they are ashamed of. But they have to fight them and stay in control. What good did control ever do her? Illyana scoffs. All right, Forge has become one of he demons and she is going to kill him, like he killed her brother. Sam asks her to reconsider. Forge is a master sorcerer. She isn’t in his league… at least not on Earth. He’ll eat her for breakfast. They lost Doug. They don’t want to lose her, too. They won’t lose her if they help, Roberto blusters.
Rahne, the peacemaker, reminds everybody how upset they felt when Doug died. And Illyana lost Doug and her brother and Storm and the others and she couldn’t bear it if Illyana was killed, too. They have to go with her… if only to protect her.
Roberto adds that Dani has the Valkyrie gift of deathsight. If anyone gets into trouble, Dani can tell them to pull out. Dani hesitatingly reminds them that this didn’t work for Doug. Terminally sick people have a deathglow. But in battle it flickers on and off as danger threatens or recedes. There was so much death on the battlefield, she couldn’t tell who’d die. She thought Doug was safely hidden and didn’t even give him a second glance, so they can’t count on her to warn them.
Warlock interrupts, remarking that Magneto told them to let the X-Men fight their own battle. Would letting Illyana face this foe alone not make them as bad as Magneto? Sam and Dani hesitatingly agree and Illyana teleports their costumes in.
Illyana conjures up her scrying glass to look for Forge. She finally finds him. She’s not really going to kill him, is she? Rahne asks fearfully and Dani adds almost pleadingly that he didn’t actually kill Illyana’s brother. Illyana replies that Forge opened the portal that the X-Men sacrificed themselves to close. She takes up her Soulsword and armor covers her whole body with the exception of her face. She continues that he used black sorcery irresponsibly. It’s his fault that Peter is gone and he is going to pay.
The others ask her to leave the sword, as it binds Limbo under her control and the place is bad enough already. She reminds them that her Soulsword cuts through magic. She will need it to fight Forge on Earth. It’s worth the cost.
After they have teleported away, S’ym and the rest of his techno-organic demons show their faces. S’ym gloats that Illyana cannot even begin to imagine the cost. She is going to kill Forge for opening that little portal? Oh, the delicious irony. The sword is gone, perhaps for hours… and even now his powers grows and his chance to extend Limbo’s power. Forge’s portal is nothing compared to the one he will open… with the Darkchilde’s unwitting help.
The kids teleport to Dallas to the heap of rubble that used to be Forge’s home, Eagle Plaza. Standing besides it is Destiny, the precognitive member of Freedom Force, next to Forge. Standing in a wider circle are the other members of the government-sponsored mutant team. Destiny addresses Forge, reminding him that she said: they’d come for him. A tangle of probability for catastrophe hangs around the Darkchilde, clouding her perception of the future. Destiny rants that one thing is clear: she will bring disaster for their world and the possibility of all their salvation hangs on the outcome of what will happen here tonight.
Illyana addresses Forge, snarling that tonight he will die. Soulsword raised high, she jumps towards him, while the man deftly draws Destiny aside, out of harm’s way.
Illyana’s assault is stopped by the Blob, who brutally punches her. He commences to stomp on her, intending to solve the problem that way. Cannonball announces that they are facing the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Using his powers to shake the ground, Avalanche corrects him: they are Freedom Force now and they work for Uncle Sam. Cannonball shouts a warning to his teammates as he yanks Illyana out of harm’s way, while Dani scoffs at the idea of the Brotherhood having turned over a new leaf. Sunspot asks what the government wants with them.
Wofsbane hurries to the side of the dazed Magik. As Pyro attacks the kids with his living flame, Dani scoffs that they are some heroes. They were with the X-Men in Dallas at the end. Yet unlike the X-Men, they are still alive. Warlock forms a kind of vehicle around Dani, intending to rescue her from the flames and take out Avalanche. However, Stonewall moves in front of his teammate and Warlock goes down. Warlock attacks again, intending to topple the man, but finds himself taken out by Spiral.
Invulnerable while he is blasting, Cannonball flies at Pyro. Sunspot uses that chance to attack Spiral, who is standing with her back to a wall. She elegantly somersaults out of the way and Roberto topples the wall… unfortunately straight onto Stonewall, Avalanche and Spiral.
Forge chides Destiny for not predicting this. Or has Magik’s mischief muddled her abilities to foresee even that simple act? No, Destiny admits and, in fact as time passes and they confront the New Mutants, the fog begins to lift. She saw the blow coming, she admits with a smirk, and chose to remain silent. Avalanche and Stonewall won’t be hurt by those bricks, but Spiral’s humiliation is balm to her soul. She finds her totally insufferable
Sunspot hurries to the injured Warlock’s side, while Mirage tries to attack Crimson Commando with a kick, asking why they even bother to fight the New Mutants. They’re kids. They ought to be beneath Freedom Force’s notice. Tossing Dani around with a judo move, the old soldier retorts that the witch kid came at Forge with a sword. They are law-abiding citizens. Maybe they just want to stop a murder.
He comes next at Sunspot, who is still distracted by Warlock’s plight, and takes him out. While Illyana slowly comes to, Rahne turns to her wolf form to fend off another attack by the Blob. Seeing clearer, Illyana warns Rahne to back off. The Blob could hurt her. She causes a stepping disc to appear beneath him. Before he can be teleported away, though, Super Sabre shoves him out of the circle’s sphere of influence. Unfortunately for the old soldier, the Blob lands on him.
Still grappling with Pyro, Cannonball informs him that they don’t blame Freedom Force for defending Forge. The New Mutants aren’t so hot on Magik’s plan themselves. Then why are they fighting? Pyro points out. They didn’t start, Sam retorts, but he knows how to stop this. He remembers that Pyro can’t create flames. He needs machinery for that. Sam tears it off and then tosses Pyro at Crimson Commando.
Illyana sees Forge and teleports towards him. She grabs him by the throat and raises her weapon, getting ready to strike. Cannonball attacks Illyana, tearing her away from “Forge,” who assumes his true form – that of Mystique. Illyana realizes they’ve been had. A moment later, Super Sabre takes both of them out with a mini-sonic boom.
With all the kids beaten, Freedom Force wonders what to do with them. Spiral points out that Magik is particularly dangerous, especially in her Darkchilde incarnation. With a bloodthirsty look, she suggests killing her, as, according to Destiny, she is the source of the upcoming evil. But Destiny shouts that they mustn’t. She tells the others to look, as Mirage unwittingly projects Destiny’s greatest fear, the overwhelming horror Destiny knows is to come… a New York run over by techno-organic demons.
She advises the Darkchilde to look at this vision… and learn. That… the thing she couldn’t see, has already begun. The Darkchilde will bring… has already brought by her willfulness and desire for revenge disaster on herself… and the world. Mystique holds her lover in a comforting embrace, as the old woman again orders Spiral to lay down her swords. The Darkchilde’s death will only hasten the event. She must leave… she must learn… or the world as they know it, will no longer exist!
Rahne turns to Illyana, asking if she is all right, not quite sure how to breach the subject. Dani and Sam are confused. They thought Freedom Force were the bad guys, but they do seem to be acting in the world’s interest. If they believe them, the suspicious Sunspot remarks, while he is checking on Warlock. He personally thinks it’s some kind of scam.
Getting up, Magik agrees. She reminds the others that Freedom Force wants to protect Forge They’d claim anything to accomplish that. Then perhaps you would be willing to discuss the problem with me! a voice comes booming from the molten heap of slag that used to be Eagle Plaza, as the real Forge reveals himself. Manifesting her sword, a livid Illyana teleports herself and her teammates up on top of the rubble to confront Forge.
Below, Stonewall asks if they should try and stop her. Destiny decides they have done all they can. Like all of them, the New Mutants must go where the winds of fate blow them. Freedom Force’s presence and her warning have already made a difference. She hopes that it will be enough. Even the Darkchilde must follow her destiny, but the fate of their world hangs in the balance, and may Heaven have mercy on all their souls!


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Sorcerer’s Duel!
On a slag of molten glass and steel that was once Eagle Plaza, Illyana Rasputin aka Magik – out for blood – is attacking the Native American sorcerer Forge with her Soulsword, announcing that he killed her brother and now he will pay! Forge evades her blow and remarks that, while he has killed in the war, he never killed anyone who looked like her, referring to her demonic Darkchilde aspects. Who is she?
Sometimes she is Magik, Illyana snarls. Right now, she is the Darkchilde. Yes, he can see that, Forge replies. Further enraged by that answer, Illyana strikes another blow, missing the man and destroying the rocks next to him instead.
The New Mutants so far have been watching the battle. Wofsbane turns to her transitional form, ready to spring into action and stop Illyana before she kills. Sunspot instead worries about their friend getting hurt. Wolfsbane suggests he worry about Forge. Illyana’s Soulsword just cuts trough magical stuff. And they are mutants, not magicians. They should be safe. In response, the alien Warlock grabs one of the rocks Illyana’s sword cut through and shows it to Rahne. If Illyana’s sword only affects substances permeated with magic, then how has the shattered rock been changes to this? The rock displays an evil, leering face.
The kids wonder what this could mean and Sunspot reminds them of Destiny’s prophecy. Sam, who was unconscious during that part of their battle with Freedom Force, doesn’t understand, so Mirage quickly explains that Destiny predicted demons would overwhelm Earth, brought there by the Darkchilde’s willfulness and desire for revenge. He guesses that’s a pretty right-on description of what’s happening right now, announces Sam, as he watches Forge using a magic shield to protect himself from another of Magik’s attacks.
Forge reluctantly begins to cast a counter-spell, as he tells Illyana that he doesn’t want to use magic to hurt her. Why is she doing this? Magik explains that her brother was the X-Man Colossus. Forge was the one who tore a hole through dimensions. And Colossus and the other X-Men volunteered to help him close it, Forge says, finishing her narration.
Furious, Illyana reminds him that this took their lives. Forge apologizes. She has been hurt enough already but, he adds, she is wielding dangerous sorceries. Her sword is an object of unbelievable power, but it draws its potency from elsewhere, whereas his sorcery is of this Earth, rooted in his ancient Cheyenne heritage. For all her power, she cannot prevail against him.
The energy of his spell ricochets and Illyana cannot block the overload. Her face contorted in agony, she sarcastically asks that he didn’t want to hurt her? He probably hated to open that rift too… Tell that to the X-Men and to her murdered brother! She sinks down in exhaustion.
Forge defends himself that this rift was opened when he was a soldier in Vietnam, driven to madness and desperation. A person would have to be mad to consider such an act, to call up demons. It was a mistake, Pandora’s box… and years later he paid dearly for it. Her brother and the others paid, Illyana spits back. They closed his portal with their lives!
Watching from some distance, the mutants are concerned. Wofsbane wants to jump into the fray and save Illyana, however Dani orders her to hush. She tells Sam that she is going to distract Illyana, while he is to carry her off.
Dani shows Illyana an image of her current heart’s desire: Forge dead at her hands. Illyana quickly realizes that this is an illusion. Threateningly, she turns towards Mirage. That moment, Cannonball carries her off. Angrily, she threatens him, and he unfortunately finds he cannot hold a teleporter. She decides to continue the “discussion” between herself and Forge, elsewhere… namely Limbo.
The mutants jump into the teleportation circle, much to Illyana’s chagrin. With a gesture, she casts a spell for vines to keep them prisoner … and safe. Almost choking, the mutants wonder whether this is supposed to be safe.
Forge asks where they are. Her realm, she explains, where she was raised by demons and became one of them, the most demonic of them. There are other magics as ancient and powerful, Forge warns, as he conjures spirit shield and weaponry.
They won’t save him, a red-faced Illyana promises, as she attacks with raised sword. The shield barely withstands her attack.
In the meantime, the mutants find that the growing vines are really trying to swallow them, but Illyana is too caught up in her struggle with Forge to listen to their cries. Sam wonders if maybe actually Illyana wants this.
Illyana grudgingly tells Forge that he fights well. Why didn’t he fight this well against the Adversary? Why did he let her brother die? Forge replies that Colossus mentioned his little sister brought him to Dallas. So she teleported him there in harm’s way. Illyana angrily tells him to shut up. Forge continues that she can see through magical lenses through all time and space. Why didn’t she see what was happening? Why didn’t she come to her brother’s aid?
Illyana justifies herself that she was fighting other battles. And when she tried to come to help, she couldn’t get in.
Forge realizes that the Adversary shut everyone out. As he counters her blows, he asks whether Illyana thinks he wanted this. He lost Storm, the woman he loved. Illyana reminds him that he stole Storm’s powers and killed her. He has a funny way of loving!
Their energy bolts ricochet and destroy her scrying glass. She absorbs the shards, her armor growing more spiky. Lost in the darkness, she mutters, and the darkness grows, beginning to take on a life of its own.
Forge apologizes for the ricochet. It was an accident. Another accident, she repeats sardonically. He’s accident prone, isn’t he? A real hard luck case. Perhaps he is, Forge muses. Storm took a blow meant for someone else. He nearly killed her then. But he restored her and her restored power led to the confrontation with the Adversary. To Earth’s salvation and her destruction. Storm, Colossus, all the X-Men dead. Because of him. A possibility both he and Storm foresaw. He is tired, tired of using his powers, magical and mutant… for destruction.
He dissolves his shield and weaponry, realizing that the Darkchilde is a child, like he was back in ‘Nam. Wielding Magic as deadly, driven by as great a rage… as powerful a grief as he was. And if she chooses to use her magic this way… what right has he to destroy her too in order to stop her? If that’ the choice he’d rather die instead. If that’s his choice, then he can die! she shouts and stabs him with her Soulsword. Forge screams as his magic is disrupted.
The still struggling mutants are shocked by what they have just witnessed and realize that he must have really been one of the good guys.
Illyana’s small demons announce that the blow disrupted Forge’s magic but didn’t kill him yet. They egg Illyana on to strike again and finish him for good.
Dani shouts out and before Illyana appears a mirror image of herself; an Illyana that has completely given in to the Dark side and is completely demonic. Limbo’s mistress as she is meant to be, her demons swoon. A thing of beauty, a joy forever, the “completed” Darkchilde hisses.
Illyana realizes this illusion is Dani’s doing. Remembering her friends, she finds them almost swallowed by the magical vines. Forge weakly remarks that surely her sword holds more power than this. That wasn’t a killing blow. He tells her to kill him, if that is her choice, to send him to join in death the woman he loved. Wolfsbane shouts at her not to do it. She would not just destroy Forge, but also her immortal soul. The demons ask her to ignore the buzzing of that little fly and finish it, return to them.
Illyana prepares for a strike, then shouts that she gives the orders here. She tosses the Soulsword at the vinemass, commanding it to release her friends.
That accomplished, she draws back her sword. Pointing at Forge, she asks how he knew she wouldn’t kill him. He didn’t, Forge replies. Life, death, it wouldn’t have mattered. But she has friends who value her and risked their lives to save her. He thought perhaps she would be worth it.
Fine words, a noble sentiment, Illyana replies, seriously or not. She won’t kill him now, as he doesn’t deserve to be with Storm and her brother. She restores his magic and health and returns him to Dallas, even as they return to Xavier’s School. As a good-bye, she wishes Forge worse torment than she could inflict for what he has done. She is lucky, Forge muses. Had he had friends in his youth like hers, perhaps he would not have become the accident-prone man he is.
Back at Xavier’s Illyana berates herself for almost killing Forge, almost killing her friends. Almost isn’t did, Rahne pleads, asking her to send the Sword to Limbo and come back as her ordinary self. She can’t, Illyana insist. That monster Dan showed her, it is what Destiny prophesied would destroy the world. It’s what she is, what she’s already become! She can’t change back.
Rahne points out that it isn’t what Illyana is to become, only what she is afraid of becoming. But she didn’t. She let Forge go and didn’t kill anybody. Please come back, she pleads. Illyana finally lets go of the weapon and loses all demonic aspects.
A little later, the kids sneak down from the attic, passing Magneto’s study undetected, the master of magnetism apparently not even having noticed they were gone. The mutants are disturbed to see that he is wearing his old red and purple uniform that he wore during his time as a villain.
Roberto angrily reminds them that he is the Hellfire Club’s White King. Dani adds disturbed that he might be taking more interest in the Club’s affairs. And that can only be bad news to all of them, Sam adds. She is bad news, Illyana insists. Destiny said she had to leave or the world would be destroyed, but where shall she go?
Somewhere in space, on a spaceship. It’s mine, hisses a voice as spider-like arms hold a poster of interstellar rockstar Lila Cheney. It’s a she, corrects the voice of a beautiful elfin creature. The fragile being stands in a subservient position before a throne on which the spider-like creature sits. The elfin being asks, what she is. Another flavor for your collection? Stroking the elfin being’s chin and calling it “little Gosamyr,” its master agrees. Just like Gosamyr and Gosamyr’s kind. Marvelous, how enthusiastically beings sell themselves into bondage. She didn’t, Gosamyr points out, referring to Lila. Its world sold it. Gosamyr’s master shrugs. Legally, it’s the same.
The master adds that it has Lila’s contract and has but to recapture it. It has fled to its native planet where it advertises its whereabouts and hides in plain sight. Perhaps little Gosamyr will find in this operation the opportunity to earn freedom, even as Lila loses it…