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This is Hel. This is the darkest and most melancholy of all the Nine Worlds. This is the Realm of the Dead. And this, this is Helheim, the Palace of Hel, the House of the Damned. This is the domain of Hela, Asgardian Queen of the Dead. She strides through her elegant abode, her cloak billows behind her. The dark groves behind Helheim mark the oldest part of Hel. Here, time itself has slowed and dried like blood, heat has died and even memory has faded into dust. No place in the cosmos exists so close to the absolute inertia death. No one remembers who was interred here. Their names, their deeds and their laments have been eaten by silence and eternity. Blood pools on the ground that Hela walks over, and drips down into a valley, while Hela strides across a bridge. The silence pleases her, as she comes here to contemplate her role in the universal cycle. There is nothing to distract her, except, it seems, today.
‘What -?’ the goddess gasps, as several massive beings rise from the valley beneath her. ‘By the nine realms’ she gasps. ‘What is this? Who are you?’ Hela demands as the enormous beings move towards her. But they do not answer - perhaps they do not want to, perhaps they do not know. They do not answer the most significant question of all. ‘Why don’t I know who you are?’ Hela demands as the bridge is smashed and she begins to fall. One of the behemoths grabs her, but she orders it to unhand her. ‘I am Hela, Queen of the Dead! You cannot -’ she begins, until a voice booms around her, from the creatures, who reply ‘You are Queen of Nothing. We died before Death was born’. ‘NOO!’ Hela screams, as the large beings overwhelm, her, and ravens soar overhead - before there is nothing but darkness.
Meantime, ‘This is Dani Moonstar. Autopilot engaged. Blackbird on route to Las Vegas’ Danielle Moonstar a.k.a. Mirage, leader of the New Mutants announces from inside the Blackbird. Cyclops, leader of the X-Men, is speaking with her via communications monitor, and Danielle tells him that she should be there, that she should not be leaving San Francisco. Cyclops tells her that he understands it feels like she is running from this fight. ‘You’re not’ he assures her. ‘You could be winning it for us. Whatever madness is overtaking the world right now, it’s got a clear Asgardian connotation’ Cyclops explains, pointing out that Dani is their “in” there, given her relationship with Hela. ‘You knew that deal would be useful one day’ Mirage replies. Cyclops tells her that it was useful back when she made it as well, and adds that all relationships have tactical potential . ‘Here’s where you exploit it again’ he adds.
Cyclops tells her to go to Vegas, or at least what is left of it after what Juggernaut did. ‘Find Hela. Find out what’s going on’. Mirage asks if she can take in a show while she is there, but Cyclops just frowns. Dani goes wide-eyed and points out that Cyclops it not even going to give a courtesy laugh. ‘It’s that bad, isn’t it’ she tells him. Cyclops replies that everything is fine and asks her to hold on as he needs to blast something. ‘God, I should be there in SF!’ Dani declares, while in San Francisco, Cyclops turns to blast Juggernaut, now known as Kuurth, Breaker of Stone, while several others - Magneto, Colossus, Shadowcat and Hope are also engaged in combat with Juggernaut, who holds a bus over them.
‘Ok, I’m back. With luck, you’ll be back in the morning with intel we can use to Hela Hel Hel Help Help’ Cyclops remarks, but the conversation becomes strange, as he keeps repeating over and over again “Hela” “Help” and “Hel”. ‘Cyclops! Your signal is breaking up!’ Dani tells him. In San Francisco, Cyclops gets the same thing from Mirage - all she is saying are “Hela” “Help” and “Hel”, also. ‘DanI? DanI, respond. You’re not making any sense’ Cyclops calls out to her. ‘Cyclops! I -’ Mirage begins, before suddenly, a massive unkindness or ravens appears before the Blackbird. ‘Oh, crap!’ Mirage exclaims, and an instant later, dozens of ravens burst into the Blackbird through the front window.
The resulting surge of air knocks Mirage backwards as she tries to take control of the Blackbird. ‘Collision alert! Birdstrike!’ comes over the monitor, and Mirage struggles to regain control of the Blackbird, and the system then ejects her.
Meanwhile, on Utopia, Mirage’s teammates Amara “Magma” Aquilla, Doug “Cypher” Ramsey, the alien Warlock and Roberto “Sunspot” DaCosta are gathered, along with their new companion, Nate Grey a.k.a. X-Man. Magma announces that Mirage is missing, that Cerebro reports her Blackbird vanished over the Sierra Nevadas en route to Las Vegas. Sunspot asks what DanI was doing going to Vegas when Juggernaut already trashed Vegas and is going to turn San Francisco into a landfill. Cypher tells Sunspot that the context is obvious. ‘Pretend it isn’t’ Sunspot replies. Cypher points out that the fight is here, and that Dani does not run from a fight, therefore, she must believe the resolution of the fight lies in Las Vegas. ‘To leave Utopia and San Fran at this time, and to get authorization to use a Blackbird, Dani would need Cyclops’s approval’ Doug points out.
‘Maybe she just took it’ X-Man suggests, to which Doug looks at him strangely, informing him that if she stole the Blackbird, she would also have erased her flight plan from her log. ‘Her trip to Vegas was sanctioned’ Doug declares. Doug adds that Dani’s Norse connections are established, and that the last time they were in Vegas, she must have had business of that sort. ‘She is making an end-run to try and break this crisis’ Doug suggests, to which Magma asks what they do about it. ‘Oh,. I have no idea’ Doug replies, shrugging. ’We ask Cyclops’ Magma announces, but Warlock points out that Cyclops is with other X-friends in the thick of the fighting. ‘Which is where we should be’ X-Man mutters.
Sunspot tells his friends that he is not just going to sit here, as Dani is in trouble. ‘Not as much trouble as this planet right now’ X-Man remarks, before telling Sunspot he cannot just leave. Roberto ignores Nate, who turns to Magma and asks ‘Did he just walk out on me?’ Magma ignores his question and asks if they stay here and keep fighting, or if they try to find Dani in the hope that she can win the fight. ‘Why does anybody ever bother asking rhetorical questions?’ Cypher asks.
A short time later, the New Mutants and X-Man are in the brig, meeting with Magik a.k.a. Illyana Rasputin. ‘Can you help us?’ Magma asks, to which Illyana points out that she is imprisoned. Cypher and Warlock look at each other anxiously, while Magma tells Magik that Mirage is missing and they have to find her. ‘You have to help us. We’ll break you out’ Amara tells her. Illyana solemnly replies that that would only lead to unhappy consequences for both of them. ‘Will you help us or not? ‘X-Man demands, angrily. Magik suddenly look up and grins wickedly as she asks ‘Who is this delightfully aggressive new friend?’, before announcing that she can do nothing, but perhaps what she knows will be enough. ‘And I know exactly where Dani Moonstar is’ she declares.
At that moment, Moonstar looks up from the ice-covered ground she has landed on. ‘Hel!’ a Raven cries. ‘Huh? What are you?’ Mirage asks. The Raven squawks, before exclaiming ‘Hel. Help. Help’. Dani asks the Raven if its wing is broken, but the Raven begins screeching ‘Help Hela’ over and over. ‘Hela?’ Mirage asks as the Raven sets down on large dword and a headpiece, while a Pegasus horse hovers nearby.
Back on Utopia, Magik announces that Mirage is going to Hel. ‘Hell?’ Sunspot asks. ‘Hel. She said “Hel”!’ Cypher points out. ‘Exactly -’ Sunspot remarks, arms behind his head, but Cypher tells him that it was with one “L”, that it is quite distinct. Cypher explains that the Norse afterworld is very different from the Judeo-Christian underworld. ‘A whole “L” different, clearly’ Sunspot jokes. X-Man asks how they can reach her, to which Magik points out that none of them are magically literate. ‘The transportational spells will be very dangerous to execute, but perhaps…’ her voice trails off as Cypher exclaims that he is everything literate, that he can follow Magik’s syntax. ‘Do it!’ he tells her.
‘Then you’re asking to undertake a Helfor. That’s what the Asgardians call a Hel Ride’ Magik tells her friends. She adds that it won’t be pretty or easy and traditionally they take nine nights. ‘We don’t have nine n-’ Sunspot shouts, but Magik interrupts, remarking that time compresses when you leave the mortal plane and excurse to other dimensions. ‘But this is no small thing to trifle with. You do not screw around with this kind of stuff’ Magik remarks. Magma tells her that they understand, while X-Man asks what is the worst that could happen. ‘The worst th-?’ Magik begins, before telling him that just thinking about the worst makes her want to gouge her own eyes out and scream in terror so hard she hacks up a lung.
‘Yaay. Sell it to us, coach!’ Roberto smiles, to which Illyana announces that there is an incantation they will need. She tells them that she will write down the reference, but they will need to find it amongst the codices and keys she has archived digitally in the Utopia database. ‘It will require you to master a dead language, Douglas’ Magik tells Cypher. Cypher smiles and replies that he can do that, as that is his area of expertise. Magik tells him that she doesn’t mean like Latin, but a language spoken and understood by the not living anymore. ‘Distressingly, that also falls within my area of expertise’ Doug remarks.
Forty-six minutes later in the Danger Room on Utopia, Cypher sits in the middle of a circle, several print-outs around him, while Magma, Warlock, Sunspot and X-Man stand around. ‘So this is what it looks like when you do spells?’ Sunspot asks. ‘Apparently’ Doug mutters, while tells his friends that parsing this text is extremely demanding. ‘I thought -’ he begins, to which Warlock asks ‘Thought what, self-friend Doug?’ Cypher replies that he thought it would be easier, and holds up a printout of a digital copy of an original manuscript, and yet the words still seem to be alive - moving and restless, giving him a headache.
‘When old spell books in movies do that, it’s always a sign the teenagers are going to get in’ Sunspot smiles, while Magma asks him if he must be so upbeat. Sunspot smiles and points out that the teenagers are usually making out when it happens. ‘Really? At a time like this? Hell would have to freeze over first, Bobby’ Magma replies. Cypher stands up and lets some of the printouts drop to the floor as he announces that he thinks he is ready. ‘It says something about birch twigs. And ash bark,. And salt, and honey…’ ‘Honey?’ X-Man asks. Cypher explains that the dead find it bitter, apparently, and it keeps them at bay. Looking at the printouts in his hand, Cypher tells his friends that is not important, he just thinks the words are. ‘So here goes…’
In her cell in the brig, Magik sits, eyes cast downward, when suddenly, she looks up: ‘Ooohh! Douglas. Oh, Douglas. What did you do? I told you to be careful. Every syllable. Every last letter matters….’.
At that moment, Cypher, Magma, Sunspot, Warlock and X-Man look around, confused. ‘Uh, Doug…is this Hel?’ Amara asks. ‘No’ Doug replies. ‘What?’ Nate asks. Cypher looks at the printouts as they stare out over a barren landscape, and he admits that he thinks he has made a mistake, a really terrible mistake. ‘I think this is -’ Doug begins, when everyone turns around to a series of pillars, and sees a certain figure standing before them. ‘Hello and welcome. Abandon all hope here, and we’ll have drinks on the sundeck’ Mephisto announces. ‘Two “Ls” two “Ls”…’ Cypher mutters….


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Welcome to Hel. Welcome to the darkest and most melancholy of all the Nine Worlds, Dani Moonstar. Welcome to the Realm of the Dead. Dani Moonstar a.k.a. Mirage, leader of the New Mutants has donned Asgardian armor as she rides Brightwing, and a raven guides her on through the sky. ‘Whoa, Brightwing!’ Moonstar calls out as her Pegasus comes to a stop, landing on some ice-covered, barren terrain. Wide-eyed, Dani looks around and asks ‘Can you feel that? That…tingle in the wind? I thought things were bad at home. What’s happening here?’, while the raven squawks at her: ‘Hela! Hel! Help!’ Mirage calls out to the raven, ‘Hey! Okay, you! Here’ and it flies over to her. ‘Aren’t you supposed to be my guide?’ she asks it. ‘Some kind of summoner? What do I call you?’ she asks.
‘KAW! Help! Help!’ the raven squawks. ‘Okay, “Kaw”. You dragged me to Hel because Hela sent for me, right? To help? But I came looking for her help! Have you any idea how much danger my world is facing right n-’ Dani tells Kaw, who squawks at her again. ‘Yes, I get that part. But help what?’ Dani asks the bird. Suddenly, ‘Look! One of Hela’s own!’ a voice calls out. ‘Wait! Who’s -’ Dani calls out to Kaw as the bird flies away, but Dani turns and sees hundreds of Asgardian warriors gathered. ‘An avenging angel!’ one of them calls out. ‘Too little, too late!’ another declares, while a Centaur tells her to run away, as the battle is already done. ‘Turn around and take flight with us!’ he urges her.
As they gather around her, Mirage suddenly realizes that they are shades of the dead - spirits. ‘Good God, how are there so many of you?’ she asks. ‘We smelled the life and light in you. We thought you might be able to show us a way out’ one of the spirits tells her. ‘A way out?’ Dani asks. ‘Are you scared of something?’ she enquires, to which one of the spirits exclaims ‘Damn right! And you should be too!’ Confused, Dani reminds them that they are dead. ‘Nothing could be so bad that -’ she begins, but one of them interrupts, ‘You’ve heard of a date worse than death, right? Well, it’s heading this way’.
Meanwhile, in a place that, in a small but significant way - isn’t Hel. A red-colored being grins, and exclaims ‘Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste’. He gets no response, so remarks ’No? Not even a smile? A chortle? Ooh, tough crowd’ Mephisto, lord of Hell utters. Standing before him are several young mutants - Doug “Cypher” Ramsey, Bobby “Sunspot” DaCosta, Amara “Magma” Aquilla and the alien Warlock, collectively known as the New Mutants, as well as their new companion, X-Man. ’Doug. Get us out of here!’ Sunspot urges. Examining his notes, Doug replies ‘Yeah. But. Okay. I…I don’t know how I got us into here’.
Mephisto looms over the young mutants and points out that they are here, so they should make the best of it. ‘He seems friendly, self-friends. Perhaps -’ Warlock begins, but Sunspot tells him ‘Don’t’, to which Mephisto asks if this is a Catholic thing. Bobby stares away from Mephisto and tells the others not to look at him and not to talk to him. Amara tells bobby that they are going to need help getting out of here, to which Bobby replies that will not get it from him. ‘I am serious’ he warns his friends. ‘You don’t talk to him. Talking’s what he does. It’s how he tricks you’ Bobby remarks, while Doug grows increasingly frustrated, scrunching up the papers, he declares that he thinks Mephisto has already tricked them. ‘I mean, he must have done something to the spell I used to get us here’.
Mephisto walks down some stairs and stands close to the New Mutants, and announces that he is not guilty. ‘Generally speaking, I don’t care how people get here. I just care about how they stay’ he explains. ‘Look, we’ve slipped reality iterations, that’s all. We’re just off-target. Figure out what you did wrong and redo it, Doug -’ X-Man calls out. Sunspot tells him that this is not just an alternate dimension. ‘Listen to Bobby. It really isn’t’ Mephisto remarks. X-Man boasts that he has traveled transdimensionally, that he knows how it works. ‘It just doesn’t freak me out. This is just the wrong multi-parallel and -’ he begins. Sunspot tells him that this is Hell. ‘So, what? He’s the Devil?’ Nate asks, motioning at Mephisto, who replies that he finds the name Mephisto more user-friendly. ‘Because, “the Devil”? Talk about negative brand reinforcement’. He frowns as he adds ‘And don’t get me started on the Lord of Lies’.
He assures the New Mutants that, for a start, he is not lying. ‘I told you who I was, and where you were. I’m totally transparent about this stuff’. He informs the young mutants that they are in Hell, and if they want to be somewhere else he can get them out, and suggests that they talk terms. ‘Don’t listen to him’ Sunspot states again. ‘But if -’ Magma begins, ‘AMARA!’ Sunspot shouts. ‘Ooh, “Amara”, I like it!’ Mephisto declares. ‘High maintenance, but lovely’ he remarks. Warlock transforms himself into a bench for Cypher to sit down on, and he declares that he doesn’t know what he did. ‘I can’t piece the spell back together in my head. The words are just…erasing…I made a mistake but I can’t remember what it was’ Doug announces. ‘Self-soul friend, Self will help you’ Warlock calls out, as he begins accessing his memory and plays it for the others.
They see the X-Men battling a transformed Juggernaut, and Sin killing Bucky - Captain America. ‘Hey, hey, everyone…relax. Let’s just cool the heck down and take a moment. It’s not like there’s anywhere else you should really desperately be…is there?’ Mephisto grins. The New Mutants are shocked at the images, and Amara declares that everyone is going to die. ‘We’re trapped. We’ve got ourselves trapped here’ X-Man exclaims. ‘You sunova -’ Sunspot begins as he strides towards Mephisto, while Doug begins to pick up all of his papers, muttering that he can’t do it, cannot figure it out. ‘So…how much do you need my help right now?’ Mephisto asks, smiling.
In the meantime, in Hel, Dani informs the spirits that her world is in trouble. ‘Which one is that?’ one of them asks. ‘Midgard’ Dani replies. ‘The realm of man…’ one of the souls remarks. ‘I remember Midgard’ another declares, while Mirage asks them to tell her the names they used to be known by. A gray-skinned, mostly bald warrior replies that he was Bjurg Shieldwall. ‘The lad was Sarstone Died-Too-Early. Then there’s -’ he continues, while Dani tells him that she came to get Hela’s help. ‘No chance. She’ll be dead by now. The Draumar woke up’ Bjurg reveals. ‘Really? And who was that?’ Danielle asks. Bjurg explains that Draumar means “The Dreams”, if all you speak is Midgardian. ‘And from that accent I guess you must’ he adds.
‘Dreams of what?’ Mirage enquires. ‘Bad dreams. The bad dreams someone very dangerous had a long time ago’ another of the spirits reveals. ‘Who?’ Mirage asks. Bjurg explains that no one remembers, as the memories are so old they wore away, like rainwater wears away stone. ‘His bad dreams were buried in Hel so no one else could have them’ Bjurg adds. The other spirit tells Mirage that he must have come back, because his dreams have woken up. ‘And that’s why you’re running?’ Mirage asks. ‘Girl, we physically cannot cross the boundaries of Hel…but by the Nine Worlds, we’re going to try, because with the Draumar abroad, there’s nothing for us here’ Bjurg explains.
‘Except something worse than death. Others can face that. Not us’ one of the others adds. ‘So we’re talking about…evil dead gods that everyone had forgotten about?’ Mirage asks. ‘She wouldn’t make a greater spinner of sagas, would she?’ Bjurg tells his comrades. ‘Still, it sums it up, I suppose’ a third remarks. Mirage climbs back onto Brightwing and asks ‘Where are they?’ ‘The evil dead gods that everyone had forgotten about?’ Bjurg asks. ‘Yeah’ Dani tells him. ‘Are you really that insane?’ one of the warriors asks her. ‘Must be’ Dani replies as she prepares to take flight.
Back in Hell, Sunspot declares that they do not negotiate with the Devil incarnate. ‘Oh, big picture, please. You’re in Hell. You’re mine already. It’s done. Your mistake, not my fault, but you’re mine!’ Mephisto retorts. He clasps his hands together and informs them that he can do anything he wants with them. ‘But where would be the fun in that?’ he asks, announcing that the only satisfaction he ever gets is when the deal is made willingly - when the sacrifice is theirs. He adds that he will offer a tremendous amount of gratitude and cooperation in return for a little satisfaction.
‘So, to review, you’re looking at eternal suffering, or…giving me something worthwhile in return for my help. Voluntarily’ Mephisto tells the New Mutants, but Sunspot informs his teammates that he is tricking them, and to ignore him. ‘Oh, Roberto, you’re so pig-headed’ Mephisto begins, but Sunspot snaps and shouts ‘I said back off!’ as he unleashes a blast of energy at Mephisto. ‘AND I SAID THERE WAS A HARD WAY!’ Mephisto booms as he transforms into a massive head, and his large tongue darts out of his mouth and wraps around Bobby. ‘Get away from him! NOW!’ Magma warns Mephisto as she rises above him, and uses her power to bring forth lava from under the ground.
Mephisto releases Bobby, ‘Impressive’ he tells Amara, before apologizing for yelling, explaining that he has a bit of a temper. ‘Amara, was it? Here’s my offer’ he begins, offering to let them go, and that he will even transport them all directly to Hel - ‘One “L” Hel’ he confirms. ‘In return for what?’ Amara asks. ‘A date with you. One single date. No strings’ Mephisto replies. Magma remains silent, just stares at Mephisto. ‘Don’t say anything, Amara -’ Sunspot declares. ‘No not say yes!’ X-Man adds. Warlock begins to point out that there will be no other way. ‘Are you kidding?’ Doug mutters. The silence from Amara continues, before she answers Mephisto’s question: Okay. Yes. Deal’. ‘Wonderful. I’ll call you’ Mephisto replies, before he uses his power to transport the New Mutants and X-Man. ‘And now off with you. I do hope you get there in time’ he tells them.
At that moment, ‘I can hear the battle from up here’ Mirage tells herself as she and Brightwind hover over Hela’s citadel. She declares that they have to get down there and help, when suddenly, she goes wide-eyed, ‘Oh my God. They’re huge. I can feel…terror, like a physical thing…here goes, anyway…’ Mirage declares as Brightwing sets her down on the ice-covered ground. ‘Hey, big fat ugly jerks! Who wants it first?’ Mirage calls out. Several beings turn to her, while some remaining warriors father nearby. ‘A Dark Angel! A Dark Angel’s come to fight at our side. Rally, warriors of Gel! Rally and fight!’ one of the warriors calls out. One hideous beast with massive oversized arms, an eye on its chest, two smaller arms extending from its stomach and its large jagged-tooth mouth on its shoulder can be seen standing over some warriors.
Weapons are thrown towards Mirage, ‘Jeez!’ she exclaims, while a warrior tells her to watch her wings. ‘Yeah, I’m Hela’s Angel! Let’s go, you ugly sons of -’ Mirage calls out, sword ready for battle - but an instant later, the hideous beast with the mouth on its shoulder chomps down on her, seemingly swallowing her whole, and raven feathers scatter all around….


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The Halls of Hel
At Helheim, the Palace of the Damned, they make their last stand. It is too late for the rescue they came to attempt. The Queen of Hel is already dead. They found her nailed to the roof. They take her down and carry her inside. And then they get ready to face her killers. They are the New Mutants: Danielle “Mirage” Moonstar, Doug Ramsey a.k.a. Cypher, Amara “Magma” Aquila, Bobby “Sunspot” DaCosta, the alien Warlock and their associate Nate Grey a.k.a. X-Man. They stand over the body of Hela, blood pouring her stomach where she was shoved through a spike. The New Mutants come from a world brought to the brink by Asgardian wrath. They came looking for the Queen of Hel in the hope that she could help them. But she could not.
Soon, the young mutants take watch, standing out front of the palace, keeping watch. ‘That storm’s getting awful close…’ Amara remarks to Doug as she looks up to the sky. ‘I can hear it talking’ Doug replies. ‘Doug?’ Amara calls out, as Doug explains that it is a manifestation of rage, and he can hear the wind and lightning enunciating words. ‘Names: Threadcutter. Breathraker. Heartbreaker. Bloodletter. Bonegrinder. The Dramaur’ he declares, revealing that they are Asgard’s dirty secret, followers of the big bad guy. ‘Like him, they were silenced by Odin and redacted from myth’ Doug adds.
Doug hangs his head as he tells Amara that he is sorry he took them to Hell instead of to Hel. ‘Oh, the shame of failing because of a single letter’ Doug mutters. Amara tells him to forget it, but Doug replies that he won’t and can’t. ‘And I really wish you hadn’t made that deal with Mephisto to get us out’ Doug adds. As Amara looks out over the landscape, she replies that she doesn’t think she is going to live so long that she will need to worry about her date with Mephisto.
At another location, Sunspot and X-Man look up as hail the size of golf balls fall upon them. ‘Bet you’re beginning to wish you hadn’t come along for the ride, huh, senor Grey?’ Bobby asks. ‘I jumped right in. No invite. I was there with you, and I just presumed. Danielle hasn’t even asked me to join your team’ Nate replies. Nate adds that he knows why Mirage hasn’t asked him to join - as he has nothing. Not since Sugar Man burned him out. ‘Just sub-par TK that I can’t even focus worth a damn’. ‘Danielle doesn’t want me. I’m just going to get in your way’. Bobby holds a piece of hail that lands on his hand, and remarks ‘A spot. A dot. I dunno, maybe a circle’.
‘What?’ Nate asks. Bobby looks at the hail and explains that when he first came to the Xavier School when he was a New Mutant, the Professor taught him to focus his powers. Bobby explains that you pick a symbol to visualize, something really simple like a dot, and key your power into that. ‘It’s just a technique, but it worked for me, and -’ Bobby begins, before he is interrupted by Warlock, who lunges towards Sunspot and X-Man and tells them to get down. ‘The Draumar are here!’ Warlock announces.
Bonegrinder and his fellows arrive outside the palace. ‘Take Helheim! Burn the Death-Queen’s gall! Leave their split bones to bleach in the midnight sun!’ Bonegrinder shouts as lightning crackles around the palace. Bonegrinder smashes his way through the palace, sending rubble everywhere. ‘Break down the gates!’ one of the Draumar shouts. Magma lunges at Cypher to prevent rubble from hitting him. ‘Move yourself! They’re tearing the walls down!’ Magma shouts. ‘Kill them all!’ another warrior booms. Warlock turns himself into a shield to protect Sunspot and X-Man, and tells his companions that they are not adequately enabled to counter this attack. ‘No @#$% kidding’ Sunspot mutters.
Deeper inside the palace, Danielle sits with the slain Hela and informs her that the Draumar are attacking. ‘And we’ve got nothing. You left us with nothing’ she declares, while “Kaw” the raven squawks. ‘I wasn’t talking to you, I was talking to her’ Mirage tells the bird. ‘How dare you drag us into this and then die and leave us to face the music?’ Mirage asks Hela. She hangs her head, and utters ‘God help us, what are we going to do? Suddenly, Kaw begins pecking at Hela’s mouth. ‘Ew! Don’t eat her! She’s not road kill, she -’ Mirage shouts, trying to pull the bird away - but Kaw manages to force itself into Hela’s mouth. ‘Oh. That’s so wrong’ Mirage remarks, wide-eyed.
Hela suddenly coughs and convulses, ‘KAWK! Unpleasant! And foul tasting!’ she exclaims as she lurches forward. ‘You’re not actually dead?’ Mirage bursts out. ‘You’re actually going to get mad at me over literal mortal-realm concepts?’ Hela asks, before excusing herself, explaining that she didn’t have any time. Hela reveals that when the Draumar first attacked, she knew she didn’t stand a chance in a straight fight, so she needed time to devise a counter-attack, and while she did that, she needed someone to safeguard her soul. Mirage smiles as she replies ‘You…you sent me your soul? You trusted me to look after your soul?’ But Hela just tells Dani not to get mushy. ‘Absolutely not’ Mirage agrees.
‘I sent you my soul in raven-guise so that - WAAK -’ Hela coughs up a bunch of feathers, and mutters ‘Give me strength’, before continuing: ‘So that you could return it’ she explains. Mirage asks Hela if she has thought of a strategy, and points out that the Draumar are right outside. Hela explains that the Draumar are real, that they are souls slaughtered by Odin, and the souls have fused into these berserk monsters. ‘Fear of the Serpent is the energy that makes them cohere’ Hela explains. The goddess adds that the Draumar personify the rage, anguish and fury of Odin’s enemies, and they want to level Hel and break out and join the Serpent on Migard. ‘His activity on your world draws them like moths to a flame’ Hela explains, adding that they need the living souls of the New Mutants to break the magic binding them to Hel. The goddess adds that despite the profound contemplative opportunities afforded by a spell of death, she still has no idea how to defeat them. ‘You can’t even help us slow them down?’ Dani asks. ‘Oh, I can do that’ Hela smirks.
Outside, ‘So, this is new and exciting’ Magma remarks as she and the men suddenly find themselves clothed in Asgardian garb. ‘Does this kind of thing happen to you people a lot?’ Nate asks. The Draumar suddenly burst into a chamber, ‘Inside! Deeper! Into the heart of Hel’s Hall! Grind them to dust!’ one of them shouts. Warlock asks his self / friends if they are ready. ‘Drive them back!’ Magma shouts as she attacks the Draumar. ‘No arguments there!’ Sunspot agrees as he fights alongside Amara. ‘This is…this is quite invigorating’ Cypher remarks, holding up a large sword. ‘Crush your enemy and hear the lamentation of his women, self / friend’ Warlock shouts. ‘Where’s he got that from?’ X-Man asks.
‘Take them! Take their souls!’ one of the Draumar shouts. ‘We’re not done with them yet!’ Mirage tells him as she joins the battle, punching the warrior in the face. Sunspot and Magma continue to blast their energies at Bonegrinder. ‘A date with the Devil, huh?’ Bobby remarks. ‘It’s going to seem light relief after this’ Amara tells him. Wielding his sword, Cypher asks ‘This power upgrade?’, and Mirage explains that it is from Hela, that she is alive. ‘Well, she’s not dead. I dunno’ Mirage mutters, while Doug declares that it is quite enlightening to get a taste of Asgardian vigor. ‘I just…can’t see it being enough’ Cypher adds as there is an explosion. ‘Pessimist’ Dani mutters. Doug assures her that he is a realist, and declares that this is a delaying action at best. Mirage adds that Hela is working on a solution, while Doug declares that they are outnumbered.
‘Get back!’ X-Man shouts as he casts energy towards some of the warriors. He raises his sword and shield: ‘Visualize a symbol? Yeah, that’s helping’ he mumbles, while Warlock, in the form of a large serpent, ‘You are embattled, self / fried Nathan?’ Warlock enquires as he knocks back the warriors. ‘No kidding. Wow, they don’t like you, Warlock’ Nate remarks. ‘They really, really don’t like you…’ X-Man adds, before he spins around and shouts ‘DANIELLE! Uh, Dani!’. Mirage turns to him and Nate tells her that the warriors don’t like Warlock, that they recoil from him. ‘His touch turns them…they blister and shred into feathers’ Nate explains, adding that Warlock if technology - advanced tech, that they don’t know what he is, and he is outside their frame of reference.
Riding her winged steed called Brightwing, Dani asks ‘They’re afraid of him?’ Nate explains that they are almost wary, and reveals that he has seen this kind of culture shock so many times on his travels, when two realities converge, one usually ends up as a traumatized casualty. Hela suddenly drops down declares that the Draumar are not afraid of the New Mutants’s world, they simply want to cross into it. ‘Maybe they don’t know what they’re afraid of yet. We should show them’ Nate suggests, before asking ‘You’re Death, right? You’re the Goddess of Death?’ Hela pauses, and replies ‘Depending on your belief system I am s specific cultural aspect of -  - yes’. Nate tells Hela to make his life flash before the eyes of the Draumar, and Mirage tells her to do it. Hela places a hand on Nate’s head, and images appear before the Draumar - images of mutants not of this reality, but from the Age of Apocalypse.
The Draumar look up in horror, at the apparitions that appear before them. ‘What’s she doing?’ someone asks. ‘She’s showing them everything Nat’s ever seen. Everywhere he’s been’ Cypher explains. ‘Ages they haven’t dreamed of’ Cypher adds, declaring that the Draumar will have no point of reference, none at all, that they are too ancient to understand what has happened in the world’s outside Hel. Doug exclaims that all the Draumar have is their fear of the serpent, it is what glues them together. ‘But what if they see something they were even more afraid of?’ he asks. Warlock queries the subject of the images, and Cypher explains that it is the unknown. ‘Always the unknown’ he declares. Green energy overwhelms the Draumar, before they shatter, unable to cope with the unknown, and their black energy swirls away from the Palace of Hel.
‘Is it over?’ Mirage asks as she and the others gather around Hela, who replies that this is over. She adds that the outcome of the greater conflict with the Serpent is still undecided. ‘Go home’ Hela tells the young mutants, announcing that conflict calls her, and she cannot have distractions around her when she goes to Asgard’s side. Mirage frowns and pauses. ‘Don’t mention it’ she mutters after getting no thanks from Hela for their part in saving her and Helheim. ‘I won’t’ Hela replies before the New Mutants begin to vanish before her.
‘And she didn’t’ Mirage remarks as she and the others materialize in the brig on Utopia. They stand in front of the cell where their former teammate Illyana “Magik” Rasputin is housed. She frowns, and remarks ‘So, you’re back. How was Hell?’


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‘Okay. Here we are. Are well…sure we’re sure about this?’ Danielle Moonstar a.k.a. Mirage asks as she and her companions stand in a street and look up at something. ‘Yeah’ Nate Grey a.k.a. X-Man remarks ‘Yes’ Amara “Magma” Aquila declares. ‘Si’ Sunspot a.k.a. Bobby DaCosta agrees. ‘Yes’ Doug “Cypher” Ramsey announces. Hidden beneath baggy sweat clothes and a large hood, Warlock smiles and concurs with his self / friends. Mirage smiles as she holds up a set of keys. ‘Alright. We’re doing it’ she announces.
Two days earlier…
Utopia, ‘I had a dream. I was home. Utopia. And I was walking around, looking for -’ Xi’an Coy Mahn a.k.a. Karma and sometimes called “Shan” remarks. ‘Where were you looking for?’ a voice asks her. Karma explains that it is not important. ‘Face, anybody, really’ she adds, before explaining that there was no one here, that everyone had gone. ‘Do you think your dream was about what’s happening at the moment?’ the voice calls out. ‘The exodus to Westchester, I mean’ the voice adds. Karma replies ‘Maybe. Probably’, but explains that is not important either, and adds that it was weird that Utopia was so empty. ‘But that’s not - the reason I mention it at all is that there was this feeling…this feeling that it was a memory. It was now. I mean, it was the present. But it felt like a memory from years ago’.
Inside the counseling room on Utopia, Karma sits across from Gus Grim. The now grown “Inferno Baby” called Face sits at Karma’s side. ‘What is your earliest memory, Mr Grim?’ Karma enquires. Gus goes wide-eyed, he is surprised at the question, before replying ‘Uh, well, I guess…a clothespin doll. I was three, or four. My aunt made it for me. I don’t know why I remember that’. Karma asks Gus if that memory seems fresh to him, to which Gus confirms that it does. ‘But also ancient?’ Karma asks. ‘I’m not that old -’ Gus begins. ‘You know what I mean’ Karma tells him. Gus reveals that he remembers it like it was a minute ago, but that he feels the distance of years. Karma tells Gus that is what her dream felt like - an old memory, like she was looking back at now. ‘But I was much older. And sadder’ she explains.
Gus Grim asks Karma if she thinks she will move to Westchester, to which Karma replies that she thinks the school is the best place for Face to be, and that she needs to be with him. ‘So that’s yes?’ Gus enquires. ‘Yes’ Karma tells him. Gus asks Karma about her teammates - about Dani and Douglas and Amara and the others. ‘What if they choose to stay here?’ he enquires. ‘Maybe - maybe that’s why, in the future, I become sad’ Karma states. Gus asks Karma if she thinks they will go to Westchester, or if they will stay, to which Karma states that she doesn’t know.
Outside, Amara sits on a fallen pillar at the beach surrounding the island, while Bobby kicks a football against the rubble. ‘What do you think? Go or stay?’ Magma asks. ‘I think there used to be room to play a little soccer here’ Sunspot replies, before pointing out that since the Sentinel attack, there is barely enough space for keepy-uppy. ‘There’s space in Westchester’ Amara points out. Sunspot muses that he could get himself a place in the city - living large. ‘I could afford that’ he adds. ‘I know’ Amara mutters. ‘I am independently wealthy. I have independent wealth’ Bobby states. ‘I know’ Amara mutters once more. Bouncing the football on his knee, Bobby tells Amara that she could come live there with him. ‘That’s never gonna happen, Bobby’ Amara replies, running a hand through her hair. ‘Okay. Just saying’ Bobby mutters as he kicks the ball hard, and starts to walk away. ‘Where are you going?’ Magma asks him. ‘To get my ball back’ Bobby tells her.
In the refectory, Warlock and Cypher sit opposite each other at a table. ‘Query, self / friend’ Warlock states. ‘Just thinking’ Doug replies. ‘Request output’ Warlock asks. ‘Oh you know, it’s so…’ Doug begins, before speaking in binary. Warlock smiles and responds in the binary language also. They continue to speak like this for some time. ‘Well, if you must put it like that, I suppose’ Doug remarks in English. Warlock speaks in the binary code some more, and Doug smiles: ‘Which I believe is precisely what I was saying’ Doug adds.
Meantime, in the counseling room, ‘Something odd happened to me a few days ago. I didn’t know where I was’ Sam “Cannonball” Guthrie remarks. ‘When, Sam?’ Gus inquires, while Sam recalls walking through empty rooms. Sam explains that he knew he was on Utopia, but couldn’t remember when. He adds that he felt like he missed something important, like he had forgotten someone’s birthday - but worse than that. Sam explains that the next thing he knew, he was sitting in Cyclops’s office, staring at the calendar. ‘I’m not well. I’m not right’ Sam declares as he leans back on a sofa. ‘That form of blackout -?’ he begins. Gus tells him that it could be many things. ‘Look, Mr Grim…I wanted to say thank you for taking the time to talk to me. I won’t be here next time you visit’ Sam announces, declaring that he thinks Westchester is the best place for him.
Meantime, in the Danger Room, X-Man and Hope Summers are battling side by side against a large tentacled robot. ‘So, you thinking about going?’ Hope asks. X-Man replies that he has only just got here and called this place home, and points out that Cyclops is his father. “But?” Hope asks. ‘No but’ Nate replies. ‘Come on. He’s your father like he’s my grandfather, which makes you my - the family dynamic is too insane to even think about’ Hope decides as she punches back one of the tentacles. Nate reveals that he wants to get to know Cyclops. ‘I want to get to know who he is’ Nate adds, before dodging one of the tentacles, announcing that he doesn’t really understand the split between Cyclops and Wolverine.
‘I mean, I get what it’s about. But where I come from, there was no such thing as childhood. I mean at all. I’ve no reason to go to Westchester. Cyclops is right’ Nate explains, declaring that there is no point shielding kids from life. ‘That said, I’m kind of used to being…me. I want to know Cyclops better, but it feels like a retrograde step to move back home’ Nate adds as he punches one of the tentacles. Hope kicks one of the attacking tentacles and replies that it doesn’t bother her, before asking Nate why he wants to know Cyclops better. ‘However insane it is, he’s my father’ Nate replies. ‘And I’m your…whatever I am’ Hope remarks. ‘Dammit!’ Nate exclaims as several tentacles move towards him.
Hope lunges at Nate and pushes him to safety, before calling out to Danger, ordering the session to be shut down. ‘I got careless. I cannot get used to my telekinesis not being there’ Nate explains, to which Hope assures him that it will come back. ‘You’re not my whatever I am, by the way. You’re my hope’ Nate tells the young woman. ‘God, that’s corny’ Hope laughs. ‘Tell me you’re not that corny when you try to pick up girls’. Trying to summon his telekinesis again, Nate replies that these days, he cannot pick up much of anything.
Suddenly, ‘Hey, Summers - think fast!’ Mirage shouts as she raises her bow and fires an arrow at X-Man, who dodges just in time. ‘&*&%$!’ Nate shouts. ‘You could’ve -’ he remarks, staring at the arrow stuck into the wall. ‘Yeah, I could, because funnily enough I know how to aim this thing. I wanted to force a response. You managed a little telekinetic push there, Nate’ Dani tells Nate as she walks over to him, explaining that the arrow is about eight inches of where she would have expected it to be. ‘In me, you mean?’ Nate asks. Hope announces that she thinks Nate is getting stronger, before Mirage tells Nate that there is something she wants to talk to him about - the whole team, actually.
Shortly, ‘This sounds ominous’ Magma remarks as she, Bobby and Cypher sit in front of Mirage, while Nate and Warlock - his regular yellow form replaced by a black form - stand on either side of the others. Mirage assures Magma that this is not ominous, before pointing out that that they have all seen what has been happening. ‘What I want to say is - what I want to say is, if any of you want or need to go to Westchester with Logan, that’s fine’. She adds that if they want to talk it through with her, they can, or with Gus Grim, who is visiting Utopia today. ‘Westchester / Utopia? Is binary choice only choice?’ Warlock asks. ‘That’s a good question’ Doug remarks. Mirage reveals that she has been thinking about that. ‘Let me ask you something…’ she begins.
Later, ‘So?’ Mirage asks. ‘So…’ Gus replies as they stand on the edge of Utopia. ‘As I understand it, Cyclops and this Wolverine guy got into it. Over what the X-Men should be’ Gus remarks. ‘It was ugly. Don’t ask’ Mirage tells him. ‘Okay. But now Wolverine is moving to this school in Westchester, and half the X-Men are going with him?’ Gus enquires. Mirage replies that it is split them down the middle. Gus asks Mirage if she has spoken to Karma and Cannonball, to which Mirage replies that she has, and that she knows what they need. ‘I’m okay with the choices they’ve made’ she announces.
‘Are you going?’ Gus asks. Dani reveals that her loyalties lie with Cyclops, as he believed in her and gave her a job to do. The other day, she heard Colossus refer to her team as the New Mutants. ‘He didn’t mean anything by it. It’s just, we’re the generation that came after his. He still thinks of us as kids. As the new ones’ Dani tells Gus, adding that it made her think, and explains that her team is an odd fit, as they are not all mutants. ‘I don’t have abilities so I might as well be plain human. Warlock is an extra-terrestrial. I - my point is…Logan wants to defend the children. Cyclops wants to defend the species. Both of those views require a certain separation from the real world. The actual world’ Dani declares.
Mirage announces that she believes in the struggle for mutant rights, but that she also believes that part of that fight is interfacing with that world so you can change it. ‘You can’t just sequester yourself from the outside world until it’s the way you want it to be. You have to go out there and be part of it’ she declares, before asking Gus what he thinks. Gus smiles and replies that he thinks Danielle has already made a decision. ‘I think you’re just rehearsing how to say it’ he tells her.
Soon, Cyclops is sitting at his desk, tapping away at his computer keyboard, when Mirage enters the office. ‘What do you need?’ he asks her. ‘Just to speak to you for a moment’ Danielle replies. What Mirage speaks to Cyclops about cannot be heard as she makes a lot of movements with her arms, and Cyclops does a lot of frowning - before they hug.
Now…
Danielle and her teammates smile - or in some cases frown - as they stare up at something. ‘All right. We’re doing it’ Mirage remarks as she holds up a set of keys. They stand outside 1128 Mission Street, in San Francisco, California, a large-enough, three-storied red house. A moving truck is parked out front, and boxes have already been unloaded onto the street. ‘Welcome to our new home’ Mirage remarks. The others go over and start bringing the boxes into their home, while Mirage’s mobile phone rings. ‘Scott?’ she asks as she answers. ‘You’re in the middle of a move. You must be busy’ Cyclops remarks from his office, his eyes not moving from his computer screen. Mirage smiles and explains that they are only unpacking, nothing that cannot wait. ‘What do you need?’ she asks. Cyclops replies that he has another loose end that needs to be tied up, someone he wants her to look for. And on the computer screen is an image of…Blink!


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Two months ago:
Gehring, Arizona, ‘Come on, come on! I need you back to the end of the street!’ a fire fighter shouts at some civilians who are standing nearby watching a shopping mall which is currently ablaze. ‘Come on!’ the female fire fighter orders. ‘What the hell is this?’ a nearby civilian asks. The fire fighter informs him that something caught the mall, that the whole west side of town has gone up. ‘I can see that’ the civilian replies, explaining that he is in fact referring to the weather. The fire fighter looks up and sees what appears to be purple lightning crackling across the sky. The fire fighter replies that she doesn’t know what it is. ‘I’ve seen dry season storms before, but this…’ she remarks.
Suddenly, ‘Heeyyy! Help!’ an employee of Borri King calls out on top of the roof of the store. ‘Damn it. Hold on!’ the fire fighter tells him, before she climbs up some nearby crates until she reaches the roof. ‘I got you’ she tells the young man as she walks over to him. ‘How do we get back down?’ the man asks. ‘Working on that’ the fire fighter tells him, when suddenly, the roof caves in. ‘Watch it!’ the fire fighter shouts. ‘Oh crap’ the employee mutters as they begin to fall - when suddenly, there is a BLINK, and a voice from above tells them to ‘Hold on’, as a figure clad in pink and green touches the two, and they re-appear back down on the ground.
‘What just happened? What - what -’ the fire fighter asks, looking up, she sees the young mutant called Clarice Ferguson, known as Blink, standing over her. ‘How’d we get down here? How’d you do that?’ the young man asks. ‘Glory be!’ the fire fighter gasps as a large donut statue falls from a nearby roof. ‘Stay still!’ Blink tells her, as she fires several bursts of energy at the statue - and it vanishes. Blink suggests to the fire fighter that she tell her chief and the Fire Service that this is not a natural event. ‘Someone started it?’ the fire fighter asks. ‘Some-thing. Something chaotic’ Blink replies, looking up at the angry sky. Blink announces that it is getting worse, and tells the fire fighter and the young man to go the other way. ‘What’s your name?’ the young man calls out as they turn around, only to discover that she has vanished. ‘She was right here’ the fire fighter declares.
Present:
1128 Mission Street, San Francisco, California. An elderly woman blinks twice from behind her thick spectacles, and asks ‘You are people move in?’, to two young people who are unpacking a moving truck. ‘No, we just love boxes’ Nate Grey a.k.a. X-Man mutters. ‘What you say?’ the elderly woman, propped up by a walking frame asks, as Nate strides towards the front door to the large three story home. Danielle “Mirage” Moonstar” tells the old woman to ignore him, as he was joking. ‘Ah. I am enjoy joke’ the woman remarks, before Dani introduces herself. ‘I guess we’re your new neighbors’ she adds. ‘I am Livitz’ the old woman replies, shaking Dani’s hand.
‘Mrs Livitz?’ Danielle asks. ‘Of Mr Livitz. He previously dead already. I am lives in under rooms’ Mrs Livitz explains. ‘The basement apartment?’ Mirage asks. ‘Is under rooms’ Mrs Livitz replies, pointing. Dani asks Mrs Livitz where she is from, and the old woman replies ‘I am born Latveria, I am lives since here also there’. The old woman smiles, and continues, ‘Livitz am makes you special prokporzhki prod for welcome. You is bring your grumpy boys-friend’ Mrs Livitz tells Danielle, smiling. Dani smiles back and replies ‘Oh, that sounds…delicious’, but tells Mrs Livitz that there is no need. ‘And he’s absolutely not my boyfriend’ Dani adds.
Inside, X-Man approaches Bobby “Sunspot” DaCosta and Warlock, who are setting up one of the living areas. ‘Dani’s met the neighbor - some dotty old bag from - where’s Latveria?’ Nate asks. ‘Latveria? Our neighbor’s Dotty Doom?’ Bobby asks, smiling. Nate telekinetically lowers some boxes to the floor and remarks that he doesn’t get it. Bobby walks over to Warlock, who is peering out one of the windows. ‘What’s up, self/friend?’ Sunspot asks him. With his eyes acting like binoculars, Warlock announces that the large man who lives in the domicile opposite has been watching them from his bedroom window for the past 23.37 minutes. ‘Query: Normal?’ Warlock enquires.
‘He’s just curious about his new neighbors, you know’ Sunspot replies. ‘Self does not’ Warlock declares. Turning away from the window, Bobby starts dancing and exclaims ‘Maybe we should throw a little paar-taay. Get to know the local life’ Bobby suggests. Nate sits down on one of the boxes and mutters that he can’t believe he moved out of Utopia to live in this…place, and listen to Sunspot use words like “paar-taay”. Sunspot quickly tells Nate that their life could have been a lot sweeter. ‘I have means, my man’ Bobby boasts. ‘So you keep telling us, Bobby’ Nate mutters, who knocking back a drink.
Mirage enters the room, carrying some more gear, she tells Bobby that Nate is right. ‘This is the deal - we live in the real world, like real people. No free ride off your private fortune’ she exclaims, adding that this will do them good, as none of them knows enough about life. ‘I beg to differ’ Nate remarks. ‘Life as it’s lived here on Earth. Today. By people who don’t have super powers or secret identities’ Mirage tells Nate. ‘Can I just buy us a 3-D home cinema with -’ Sunspot begins, but Dani interrupts him, telling him no. ‘Real life sucks’ Sunspot mutters. Warlock extends his neck and brushes his face up against Sunspot, ‘I’ll be your 3-D home cinema, self/friend’ Warlock declares. Nate mutters that he knows Magma has an excuse for not helping with the move, but asks why Cypher couldn’t lift a finger. ‘He’s working on a task for me…our next mission’ Dani explains.
‘Hey’ Dani calls out as she enters an empty room where Doug “Cypher” Ramsey is sitting on the floor, tapping away at his laptop computer. ‘So I met our neighbor from downstairs. Mrs Livitz’ Dani tells Doug. ‘Ah. Latverian’ Doug replies without looking up. ‘Apparently she’s going to make us pokie prod something’ Mirage tells Cypher. ‘Prokporzhki prod. Braised pork, potatoes, allspice, cream and paprika’ Doug explains. ‘How’s it going?’ Mirage asks him, leaning over. Doug reveals that Cerebro has matched Blink’s mutant bio profile with a number of natural disasters. ‘Natural disasters?’ Mirage asks. ‘Blizzards. Storms. Floods. A firestorm in Arizona’ Doug explains, adding that he is speed reviewing footage from all the events.
‘I’ve seen her three times so far’ Doug announces. ‘What’s she doing?’ Mirage asks. ‘Saving lives. That’s what it looks like’ Doug tells Dani, who asks what the connection is, between the events. ‘So far? It’s Blink. Clarice Ferguson is the principle common denominator’ Doug explains. Mirage asks if Blink is causing these disasters, pointing out that her teleport powers have major applications. Doug replies that he doesn’t think she is. ‘Why would she?’ he asks. ‘I don’t know!’ Mirage replies, throwing her hands into the air. ‘Why didn’t she stay with the X-Men when we offered her a home?’ Mirage points out. ‘Why did she run? What’s she doing? What happened to her when she came back from the dead?’
Cypher narrows his eyes, and reminds Dani that coming back from the dead doesn’t automatically make you a bad person. Sitting down next to him, Dani tells Doug that she knows, and that she didn’t mean him. Dani tells Doug that she just wants to know what Blink is doing, and asks if there are any other patterns. ‘Of course. Everything’s linked’ Doug tells her, announcing that the connections include wildlife migrations, eighteen separate regional advertising campaigns, cell phone coverage areas… his voice trails off. ‘Okay’ Mirage remarks, before Doug tells her that four of the disasters began at the same time of day, and six of them happened in places that had been visited by the same touring company of Shakespearean players.
‘Okay’ Mirage replies, before Doug continues, revealing that nine sites are served by the same air carriers, and all have branches of Starbucks, while six have recent reports of ball lightning, and three had hosted concerts by the band called Diskhord. Doug announces that five have statistically high numbers of road accidents, seven have branches of the so-called Church of Higher Visitors - ‘Okay. Okay’ Dani exclaims, getting Cypher to stop talking. Doug looks at Mirage and frowns, telling her that he is looking at all patterns. ‘That’s the thing with a teleporter. There’s no point working out where she’s been. If you want to find her, you’ve got to work out where she’s going’ Cypher states.
Meanwhile, at a Ribstickers BBQ restaurant, Amara Aquilla a.k.a. Magma sits at a booth with the manager, while an employee washes the floor nearby. ‘So, Miss…Amara…why do you want a job at Ribstickers?’ the manager asks. ‘Because I want a job to see what a real job is like, and also to earn money to pay rent’ Amara replies, smiling. ‘Honest. I like honest’ the manager remarks, before asking Amara what makes her qualified. ‘I can fry food and smile’ Amara tells him. The man laughs, when suddenly, Amara’s phone beeps. ‘Sorry. I’m sorry’ Amara declares while reaching into her bag for her phone.
‘Okay, small tip. Maybe you should have turned off the phone before the interview…’ the manager suggests. Looking at the phone, Amara goes wide-eyed and tells the manager that she has to take this, before announcing that she has to go. ‘I’m sorry. I’ve got to’ Amara declares. ‘You’re interviewing for a job’ the manager points out. ‘I’m sorry’ Amara tells him, before she gets up and rushes out the door. ‘Hey! Heeey!’ the manager exclaims. Following Amara into an alley, he gasps: ‘What the -’, as he sees a sleek jet take off vertically into the sky.
Later, Stroud on Lake Michigan. The sky is a dirty purple color, as people gather for a concert. With a hood covering some of her face, Blink walks into a secure area. ‘Hey! You can’t go back there!’ someone standing nearby exclaims. ‘Yeah, I can. I’m with the band’ Clarice tells him,. ‘You Joey’s new girl?’ one of the men asks. ‘No. I’m Tina’s’ Clarice replies as she makes her way backstage. ‘Dig it’ one of the men exclaims, while another announces that the band is starting. ‘What’s with the insane weather, huh?’ the first man remarks as the clouds overhead swirl. ‘I know. Like a storm coming’ the other man agrees.
Backstage, the chants of the crowd can be heard. ‘Diskhord! Diskhord!’ the crowd cries over and over. Blink peers out at the crowd from where she stands. The band appears on stage. Two men and a woman, all wearing masks and an assortment of punk/grunge clothes. The band begins to play and the crowd goes wild. Energy seems to radiate from the band members, while Blink narrows her eyes as she watches them from backstage. Suddenly, the male guitarist lurches forward, and purple energy pours from his body, upwards, off the stage and into the darkened sky.
‘ETA Stroud, six minutes’ Warlock reports from inside the New Mutants’s Blackbird jet. ‘Nap-of-the-Earth, and stealth, please, self/friend’ Cypher tells Warlock. Mirage tells her team that when they get there, they are to fan out and scope the area for Blink. ‘Why’s she so special?’ Nate enquires. ‘She’s one of us. We -’ Mirage begins, but Warlock interrupts, announcing that the meteorological conditions have begun to fluctuate. ‘Extreme electromagnetic -’ he begins, but stops himself. ‘Warlock?’ Cypher calls out, concerned. ‘Self does not heart this data. Caution advised. Self-friends, we are flying into a maelstrom’ Warlock announces. Mirage urgently tells him to turn around, but it’s too late, as they are struck by a charge of lightning!


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Sole Survivor
High over Stroud, Michigan, the Blackbird jet belonging to the New Mutants is knocked about mid-air, thanks to a storm that rages on and on. Purple energy - like lightning - strikes the jet, where inside, Danielle Moonstar a.k.a. Mirage, Bobby “Sunspot” DaCosta, Amara “Magma” Aquilla, Doug Ramsey a.k.a. Cypher, the alien mutant Warlock, and their companion Nate Grey a.k.a. X-Man hold on for dear life. ‘Terminal dive!’ someone shouts. ‘These Blackbirds are supposed to be cutting edge flying machines! How come we crash them so much?’ Mirage mutters. ‘Oh, now’s the time for that conversation!’ X-Man mutters, adding that if they start it now, they can probably get halfway through before they nosedive into the ground.
At the controls, Warlock announces that he is set for multi-friend evacuation. ‘Friend-selves should -’ he begins, before energy strikes up through the controls and renders him unconscious. ‘Warlock’s fritzed!’ Sunspot exclaims. ‘By lightning? Since when does lightning -’ Magma begins, before Mirage orders X-Man, who has taken over the controls, to pull up. ‘I’m trying!’ Nate shouts, while Doug looks at his immobilized best friend. Suddenly, ‘What the hell?’ Nate exclaims as Clarice Ferguson, better known as “Blink”, lands on the front of the Blackbird. ‘It’s Blink’ Mirage remarks. As the Blackbird almost crashes nose-first into the ground, Blink teleports the jet, and the young mutant heroes inside, to safety, carefully returning the jet much closer to the ground, and on a level setting, the Blackbird screeches and bounces along the ground, before coming to a stop.
‘She just took us, turned our nosedive into a slide, and put us down! Man!’ Bobby exclaims as he and the others emerge from the vessel. ‘You’ve’ finessed your skills’ Mirage remarks to Blink, who asks the New Mutants what the hell they are doing here. ‘That’s actually our line -’ Sunspot begins as he and Mirage approach Blink. Mirage interrupts Roberto, telling him to shush, before she addresses Clarice, explaining that they were looking for her, and that they are here to help. ‘I had to leave the venue to come and save you’ Blink replies. ‘The…venue?’ Dani enquires. ‘I was in with the band. Finally. I was…’ Clarice begins, to which Mirage asks her ‘What band?’ after remarking that Doug mentioned something about a band. ‘It’s not the band, it’s something they’ve got. Something they’ve found. It’s doing all this. All these events’ Blink declares.
‘I…’ Mirage begins, but Blink tells her to go home, and remarks that she has to start over. ‘We came to find you. To help -’ Mirage calls out, but Blink retorts that she doesn’t want help. ‘But w-’ Dani begins, however Blink ignores her, and teleports away. ‘Touchy’ Sunspot mutters, when suddenly, Blink teleports back to the New Mutants. ‘On second thought, maybe I could use some help. But we do it on my terms or I’ll blink you all to Timbuktu’ Clarice declares. Mirage and Sunspot look at each other out of the corner of their eyes, hoping Blink didn’t hear them talking. Blink announces that the band is called Diskhord, and are pretty small-time, but are making a cult out of themselves.
Shortly, walking down the side-walk, Warlock has been revived, and the New Mutants follow Blink. ‘What kind of music is this?’ Sunspot enquires. ‘It’s noisy crap but you know “the kids dig it”’ Blink explains. ‘He likes Rihanna’ Magma jokes. ‘Only for the hotness’ Sunspot replies. ‘And Shakira’ Magma adds. ‘Shut up!’ Sunspot exclaims. Blink remarks that she already regrets letting this conversation go past the “leave me the hell alone” point. X-Man tells her ‘This is atonement’. ‘I beg your pardon?’ Blink asks. Nate reveals that he read her file, as prep for this mission. ‘I’m a mission now?’ Clarice asks. ‘You were missing and there was concern’ X-Man tells her, before remarking that he understands that this is atonement, as she was used, bad things happened and they weren’t her fault, but she decided they were.
Mirage looks at X-Men suspiciously, as Nate declares ‘You turned down the offer to stay with the X-Men and went off to wander the Earth and help people. This is atonement’. ‘It is?’ Clarice asks. ‘Textbook’ Nate confirms. ‘Who the hell is this person?’ Blink asks, turning to Mirage, who introduces him as Nate Grey. ‘And you haven’t smothered him in his sleep becaaaause?’ Clarice asks. ‘I figure I take him on a few more missions and some giant robot will do him in for me’ Mirage mocks. Nate grimaces, while Clarice smiles and tells Dani that she likes her. The young mutants continue on their walk towards the concert, with Dani asking Blink if this is atonement. ‘Absolutely. Penance. Whatever you want to call it. I’m shriving myself’ Blink remarks.
Glancing at a Diskhord poster stuck to a wall, Blink explains that it started with accidents - storms and floods. ‘I’d teleport in to help people. Just get them out of danger’. Blink reveals that this last month or so, she has begun to realize that not all of the emergencies were natural. Clarice explains that this band tours, and where they go trouble happens. ‘It was fairly small stuff at first. Now it’s getting worse. Major disasters’. Mirage suggests that they could just be unlucky, or really badly managed, but Blink tells her that the incidence is too high, that it almost as if their performances draw these disasters down. ‘Like a lightning rod?’ Mirage asks. ‘Sometimes literally’ Clarice explains. ‘Storms. Fires. Floods. I was trying to get close tonight. Close enough to see how it works. I may already be too late’.
Warlock explains that the energy that struck him was not local, and Cypher asks his friend to define “local”. ‘Adjective, not of this planet or dimension. That was why self was knocked for total loop’ Warlock reveals. Mirage asks Warlock if he is all right now, to which Warlock replies that his self-repair is dandy. Mirage enquires as to whether Warlock could sniff out the energy pattern once more, to which Warlock grins and replies ‘Most enthusiastically’. Dani smiles and announces that they have their bloodhound. Arriving at the entrance to the concert grounds, Mirage announces ‘Spread out, and go steady. Keep in contact. The rest of us will try moshing’, and with that, the team enters the large crowd of Diskhord fans.
Mirage, Magma and Blink stay together, and move towards the front of the party-goers, where they can get a better look. Suddenly, the three members of the band are surrounded by a strange energy. ‘Okay, that wasn’t a stage effect’ Mirage remarks. ‘Neither is that!’ Magma exclaims, as a tornado moves towards the concert arena, and a storm brews all around them. Cars are knocked into the air, and Blink shouts ‘They just generated a twister!’. The New Mutants leap into action to protect the crowd from any flying cars, and Sunspot mutters that this is out of hand. ‘We’ve got to get these people out of the way! Bobby! Nate! Amara! Keep the crowd safe!’ Mirage orders.
In the parking lot nearby, Warlock and Cypher walk through the pouring rain, but Doug is aware of the danger back at the concert, and tells Warlock that they have to get back. ‘Self can hear it talking. It is here. Self can smell it’ Warlock replies as they approach a bus. ‘You’re right. I can hear it too. Oh - I can hear it and it’s not very nice’ Cypher exclaims as they enter the bus, and find a small trunk, with green energy glowing inside it. ‘Careful, self-friend!’ Warlock urges Doug as he crouches down and opens the lid to the trunk - only for the energy to crackle around them, and Doug screams when he sees what is inside - a tentacled, multi-eyed creature. Blood pours from Cypher’s nose, and he passes out. Warlock rushes back out into the rain, away from the bus.
At the stage, ‘ENOUGH!’ Mirage shouts as she climbs on stage and approaches Diskhord. The band all wear punk-rock clothes and have masks covering their faces. The male guitarist strikes a his guitar and flames shoot up around Mirage. ‘Don’t mention it’ Blink mutters when she pulls Dani to safety, before the flames can reach her. The young women re-appear in the air above the guitarist, and as Mirage drops down towards him, Blink shouts ‘Now! Take him down’. Mirage punches him in the face and tells him that the show is cancelled. The female guitarist looks concerned, and a twister emanates from her instrument. ‘Whoa!’ Blink utters as she falls backwards, before opening a portal, which sucks the twister into it - then teleports it back behind the female guitarist. ‘Back atcha!’ Blink exclaims as the female guitarist is carried away.
The drummer is about to slam his drum sticks down on his drums, ‘Don’t let him-’ Blink calls out to Mirage, but it’s too late, as the drum sticks strike the drums, and Mirage and Blink are knocked backwards. ‘Okay, that could possibly have gone better’ Mirage mutters, upside down, while Blink reports that the crowd has totally lost it, like a mob. Dani gets up, and Sunspot and Magma return. Dani, the storm -’ Sunspot calls out, to which Mirage tells her team to contain this and start saving people. ‘But the band -?’ Blink calls out. ‘Can wait! Do this now or people will die!’ Mirage orders.
And, as the storm passes. Firemen have arrived and the clean up process has begun. Mirage sits slumped over on some rubble, and Nate informs her that there are eight people wounded, some heavily, and one girl might lose a leg. ‘That’s eight too many’ Mirage declares. ‘The whole town’s trashed!’ Sunspot declares, and Mirage mutters that she hates it when it goes wrong. Blink teleports into view, and announces that she has found him. The others rush over to where Magma is kneeling beside an unmoving Warlock. ‘Zapped hard. The tour bus is gone, and so are the band’ Blink reports. Magma adds that she thinks they may have Doug.
‘Which is, obviously, bad’ Blink remarks. ‘But it’s not the really bad part’ she adds. Dani frowns, before Blink announces that Diskhord are drunk with whatever this power is. ‘They’re just riding out the rush. ‘If they get to a bigger population center, a city, they’ll do this again’ she declares, adding that it will be more than eight people next time, and that it will be worse than seriously hurt. ‘A lot worse’ she declares.
And as Diskhord’s tour bus travels onwards, a storm brews overhead. Lightning crackles in the sky, and Cypher lies motionless and bloodied in the back of the bus….


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Homing Instinct
‘I’ve figured it out. Go me’ Douglas “Cypher” Ramsey remarks to himself. He knows it has taken him a while, but to be fair, he has been unconscious for a stretch, not to mention taken hostage by a crazy metal band. ‘And, you know, empathically communing with a piece of sentient extraterrestrial technology’ Doug adds. Referring to the strange green, tentacled creature he found in a box, Douglas remarks that is what it is, part of a ship. He knows there is a more complicated name for it somewhere in the universe, but that ship is a word they understand. ‘It’s a ship that crosses universes. Travels between realities’ Doug remarks, adding that it is amazing stuff. Cypher would like to talk to it for longer, to learn where it came from, but they didn’t get much time to chat, and when they did, it was confused and upset.
The creature came so far, and from that came so many different fars. It came through so many places, so many simultaneous places, yet still it could not avoid the accident that left it so hurt and broken. Staring into the box where the creature is kept, Doug knows that it crashed, the ship crashed and suffered some kind of terrible accident. He closes the box, wide-eyed, realizing that the ship disintegrated and scattered across time and space, and a bit of it ended up here on Earth. Just a bit, like the mind, the black box, the sentience. Doug remarks that it has been trying to repair itself and send out a distress call ever since, as it wants to be rescued.
Sitting in the back of the metal band Diskhord’s bus, Doug holds the box containing the creature, which he now knows communicates using chaos energy, which is what powers it. Doug realizes that it is trying to generate a lot of chaos energy so it can make itself better and cry for help loud enough to be heard. Standing up and making his way to the bus door, Doug isn’t sure how a heavy metal band ends up with a piece of sentient extraterrestrial technology, but that is what happened. The creature has been using them, using the band and the energy of their shows to generate greater and greater levels of power. The creature is in their heads, rewiring them, so much so that they don’t even know what they are doing anymore. ‘They’re getting desperate. We nearly stopped them back at Stroud’ Doug remarks as he exits the bus, looking around at his surroundings, he realizes they have come here to play one last time.
‘To raise a chaos storm that will wipe the city of Chicago off the map and thus generate enough energy to make a call for help’. Doug declares. ‘You’ve got to stop them’ he adds, before remarking that, on the up side, his suit microphone has been working for the last ten minutes, so they should have heard all of this.
‘We did. We’re on it, Doug’ Danielle “Mirage” Moonstar replies as she and the rest of their New Mutants teammates - Bobby “Sunspot” DaCosta, Amara “Magma” Aquilla, the alien Warlock, and newcomer Nate Grey a.k.a. X-Man are teleported to Diskhord’s new concert venue in Chicago, courtesy of Clarice Ferguson the mutant known as Blink. The crowd are chanting Diskhord’s name, while energy rises from the heavy metal band. ‘Where’d this crowd come from?’ Sunspot enquires. ‘Flashmob’ Blink explains, adding that the band is well-versed in crowd sourcing. ‘So, even chaos-s[ace-demon-possesses death metal bands use Twitter?’ Sunspot jokes. ‘Kids today, huh?’ Blink remarks.
Suddenly, one of the crowd looks at the New Mutants, and as the rain falls down around them, shouts ‘It’s them! They’re the ones! The band said they’re not allowed here!’ The crowd moves towards the New Mutants, so Sunspot and Magma power up, and Bobby warns them all to back off. Blink points out that they have got to figure out what form the disaster is going to take this time. Mirage asks Blink to explain, so Blink tells her that the band manufactures natural disasters, basically industrial quality of bad luck, which is what generates the chaos energy. ‘It’s been blizzards, flash floods, the twister in Stroud -’ Blink begins, before Amara interrupts, announcing that she knows what it is. ‘Amara?’ Bobby asks. Wide-eyed and staring at the ground, Amara reveals that it is an earthquake, that the band are shifting tectonics.
Mirage asks Magma if she is sure, and touching the ground, Magma announces that she can feel it, and that it is going to be huge. ‘They’re going to split the lakeshore open. Sink half of Chicago. Drown the rest’ Amara reveals. Dani asks her if she can stop it, or block it, but Amara tells her that the scale is way beyond her levels of manipulation. ‘Yeah, that’s nonsense’ Bobby declares. ‘You don’t believe me?’ Amara asks him, to which Sunspot tells her that he doesn’t believe a word she says. ‘You said you don’t love me, and you’d rather date the Devil than me, and I couldn’t live if I thought that was the truth’ Sunspot exclaims, before asking Magma if she can do this. ‘You are such an idiot, DaCosta’ Amara smiles, as she concentrates on the ground. Dani tells Sunspot and Nate to cover Magma, while the crowd surrounds them, and Dani, Blink and Warlock head towards the band.
Energies rise from the band members who play their instruments with gusto As the drummer pounds his sticks against the drums, Dani fires an arrow down, which pierces one of the drums. The drummer turns and looks up at Dani, who warns him that the next one goes through him. The drummer ignores her and continues to pound the drums, and Dani suddenly slips from the ledge when energy strikes her. Blink looks up at Dani, before teleporting the drummer and his drum kit - several feet into the air, and letting him fall down, the drums piling up on him. ‘Drum roll, please. Anyone? Anyone?’ Blink jokes. ‘Crap!’ she exclaims as the drummer leaps up and lunges at her. Mirage lands on one of the drums, and kicks the drummer hard in the face. ‘That’s enough from you!’ she tells him.
Back on the ground, Bobby and Nate are keeping the band’s fans away from Magma. ‘The ground’s shaking!’ Nate announces. ‘Yes, thank you! We noticed!’ Sunspot remarks, while Magma declares that she cannot stop this. Sunspot kneels down beside her and tells Amara that she can. ‘Tectonic plates are your thing’ he reminds her. ‘Bobby…’ Amara begins, but Sunspot interrupts, telling Magma that she rocks his world, that she always has. ‘You’d never let anything else rock my world, right? Right?’ Bobby asks her, adding that she totally cancels out all other world-rockers. ‘Okay?’ he asks. ‘You are so lame, Bobby’ Magma mutters as she continues to concentrate on the serious task at hand.
Up on the stage, Warlock approaches the male guitarist and, grinning, exclaims ‘Your rock+roll, friend. It is noise pollution’. The guitarist suddenly smashes his guitar against Warlock, but Warlock isn’t harmed, and exclaims ‘Self doesn’t think much of your greatest hits’ before adding ‘See? Humor. Ba-dum’ as he turns his hands into large cymbals and clashes them on either side of the guitarist.  Suddenly, though, the female guitarist fires energy from her guitar at Warlock, causing him to keel backwards as part of his body is torn apart. ‘Warlock!’ Dani calls out when she sees him fall to the stage. She readies an arrow, but cannot fire it, as there are civilians between her and the guitarist. ‘Take the shot!’ Blink shouts. Blink then teleports the arrow straight to the female guitarist, knocking her back.
‘God, was that -’ Blink begins, but Mirage assures her it was blunt tip and non-lethal. X-Man calls out to Dani, informing her that Amara is holding the earthquake in check and is doing an amazing job, but that the chaos storm is reaching overload. Mirage tells Blink to grab Warlock, who has repaired himself and sitting up, and declares that they need to locate this black box. An instant later, Blink teleports Mirage, Warlock and herself to Cypher’s location. ‘Hi. Hi. Interesting night, huh?’ Cypher remarks as he hold the box out to them. ‘How do we shut it down?’ Mirage asks. Doug replies that he isn’t sure they can, as it has gathered critical levels of energy - of raw bad luck. Doug adds that they shouldn’t look at it, before telling Warlock that he did. Doug adds that he thinks it’s still in his head, kind of, like it got in the band’s head.
Mirage informs Cypher that the creature is going to sink Chicago with a super massive earthquake. ‘Conclusion: it has got to stop being here!’ Warlock declares. An instant later, Warlock has transformed himself into some sort of space-capsule, and with Blink inside him, they have teleported into space, well above Earth. ‘That’s the limit of my range! As far as I go!’ Blink tells Warlock. ‘Then together, self / friend! Throw!’ Warlock exclaims, as they hurl the box into space. ‘Let it be enough’ Blink remarks.
Back down on Earth, ‘Oh goodness!’ Cypher gasps. ‘Doug?’ Dani calls out. ‘It’s gone. There’s just a sense of loss’ Doug replies. He begins to cry, explaining that it is an emptiness, as the connection has been torn away. ‘Just give me a moment’ he asks. Suddenly, Warlock and Blink re-materialize near the bus, and Dani rushes over. Warlock releases Blink from inside him and announces that she will be ok, that the physiological effort of teleporting to her range limit exhausted him. Mirage suggests that they need to get her home, and Cypher agrees, before asking ‘Uhm. Where’s that?’
At the stage, the band begins to recover, and as the rain continues to pour down on them, the guitarist asks what they are doing here. ‘It’s raining mud, man!’ one of the audience exclaims. The female guitarist remarks that the last thing she remembers, they were playing the Axe House in Phoenix. Nate asks if the ground stopped shaking, and as she powers down, Magma smiles: ‘Ha! How’s that for stopping an earthquake with your bare hands?’ she asks. Magma and Nate embrace, causing Sunspot to shout ‘Wait. He gets the hug?’, before Magma goes over to Sunspot, and they embrace. ‘That’s more like it’ Bobby smiles. Magma quietly thanks Bobby for having faith in her, and tells him that this is simply a thank you. ‘Let us be clear. And that “rock my world” riff was completely dumb. And made no sense’ Amara adds. ‘Understood’ Bobby replies ‘You can let go now’ Magma tells him. ‘Will do’ Bobby remarks, still holding on to Amara.
Later, Scott “Cyclops” Summers sits in his office on Utopia, when his phone rings. ‘Dani. I was beginning to get worried’ Cyclops remarks. Dani informs him that they found Clarice, and that she is safe. ‘Are you bringing her home?’ Cyclops asks. ‘We’ve brought her home, Sir’ Dani tells him. Standing outside the house she shares with her teammates in San Francisco, Mirage reminds Cyclops that he said he wanted Blink found and returned to the mutant community. ‘I offered her a choice of what that community should be, and she picked the Westchester School. Not Utopia’ Dani reveals, adding that she thinks Blink made the right choice. When she gets no response, Mirage asks Cyclops if he is still there, and if she has disappointed him. Smiling, Cyclops tells Dani that he is not mad, and points out that she made an independent decision based on an individual’s needs. ‘It’s why I gave you this job. I’m proud of you’ Scott declares.
As Nate, Doug, Warlock, Bobby and Amara climb the steps to their front door, Nate asks if was really a good idea to just throw the creature into space. Doug explains that that much accumulated bad luck could not stay on Earth, not without killing the planet. Warlock states that the object is adrift, and that it will not bother anyone for a significant time period. He suggests that in the interim, the object will calm down and manage to call home for pickup. ‘Even so -’ Nate begins, but Bobby tells him to give it a rest. ‘I’m tired. And cold. But mostly hungry!’ Bobby exclaims. Amara points out that there is no food in the house because they haven’t finished moving in yet, and that they have no cash for take-out because they don’t have jobs. ‘Apart from the saving the world from a bad-luck bomb one, huh? This blows. Our home blows’ Bobby mutters.
Suddenly, ‘What’s that smell? It’s delicious’ Nate declares as a scent wafts down towards them. Doug smiles and announces that it is prokporzhki, revealing that is braised pork, potatoes, allspice, cream and paprika. ‘Is I make. For welcome!’ the elderly neighbor of the New Mutants declares as she opens her door, smiling. Nate is drooling, while Dani pushes her way past the boys, and greets Mrs Livitz. ‘Mrs Livitz, these are my friends. Guys, this is our neighbor, Mrs Livitz. She promised to cook us dinner’ Dani announces. ‘You are people come and enjoy eat?’ Mrs Livitz declares as she leads the New Mutants inside. ‘Yes, Mrs Livitz…we come and enjoy eat very much’ Dani replies. Soon, the New Mutants are seated around a small table, as Mrs Livitz dishes up their prokporzkhi, while suspiciously eyeing up Warlock, who is wearing an oversized sweater and hood.


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Hot Date
‘How do I look?’ Amara Aquilla a.k.a. Magma of the New Mutants asks her friend and teammate Danielle “Mirage” Moonstar, as she stares into a mirror. ‘Great. Beautiful. Far too good for him. He’s a really luck guy’ Mirage replies. ’God Amara! This isn’t’ right! We -’ Dani begins,  but Magma tells her that she knows this has to happen, that it is a one-time deal. ‘I’m only going along with it to…you know…save our mortal souls’ she explains. Dani declares that there has to be another way and offers to call Hela, or even Cyclops, the Beast or Wolverine, as one of them will have the number for Doctor Strange. ‘Or Ghost Rider’ Dani adds, but Magma cuts her off, announcing that she is doing this, and she is going to be really careful.
Magma motions to the bracelet on her wrist and explains that it is a tech-tag that Warlock made for her, so that they can track her. Amara assures Dani that she is not going to agree to anything that will get her or the team into further infernal trouble. ‘One date. That’s all. One date. He agreed to let us out of Hell if I went on one date with him’. Looking in the mirror once more, Magma declares that she thinks she knows how to say “never going to happen”. ‘Ask Bobby’ she points out, causing Moonstar to just roll her eyes.
Outside the New Mutants’ San Francisco home, a cat hisses as a shadow falls upon it on the pavement, while inside, ‘This is killing me. Killing me’ Bobby “Sunspot” DaCosta mutters as he paces the hallway. ‘Think of it as a mission, Roberto’ a shirtless Nate “X-Man” Grey suggests as he sits on some stairs, telekinetically lifting some small discs into the air. ‘It’s not a mission, you dumb-ass! She’s going on a date with the Devil incarnate!’ Sunspot exclaims. Nate suggests again that it is a mission, and points out that Magma got the team out of eternal damnation by agreeing to one night out. ‘She’s doing this for the team’ he tells Roberto. ‘She’s going on a date. With the Devil!’ Sunspot repeats. Nate points out that Amara can handle herself. ‘I’ve seen her in action’ he adds.
‘He’s not some handsy jock or trust fund brat!’ Sunspot declares. ‘He’s the metaphysical embodiment of the source of all evil in the world!’ Nate asks if it is really that, or ‘Is it that she’s going out with anybody who isn’t you?’ Suddenly, the doorbell rings. Nate loses control of the objects he was lifting telekinetically, and Cypher a.k.a. Doug Ramsey, and the alien Warlock turn their heads from around the corner, as they and Sunspot all look at the door, wide-eyed.
The door opens, and standing before them is Mephisto, dressed in a blue suit and holding a bunch of red roses. ‘Hi. Here to pick up Amara? She ready?’ the Devil asks. Sunspot and the other boys all frown at Mephisto. ‘Well, this isn’t awkward at all’ he jokes, before Amara walks down the stairs, followed by Dani. ‘Wow. You look…wow’ Mephisto calls out. As Amara takes the flowers and heads out the door, Cypher tells her not to say yes to anything and not to agree to anything. ‘Watch what you say to him. Think how it might be interpreted. He’s all about lies!’ Doug declares, suggesting to Magma that she doesn’t use any phrases that leave loopholes for consequences or repercussions.
‘It’s a date, not a senate hearing’ Mephisto calls out, assuring the New Mutants that he will have Amara back by midnight. ‘After that, you know, be busy sacrificing virgins’ he remarks. Everyone looks shocked, but Mephisto quickly remarks ‘Too soon for jokes? My bad’. Walking down onto the pavement, Amara sees Mephisto’s red car and remarks ‘Uh…nice car’. ‘Hey, this is restrained’ Mephisto assures her, adding that he has a Phaeton made of adulterers’ hearts pulled by horses from the abattoir of all pestilence. ‘Trust me. You did not want me pulling up here in that baby’ Mephisto remarks as he helps Magma into the car. ‘What would the neighbors think?’
 At that moment, out of one of the windows across the street, a young man is standing at his window and sees the red car drive off down the street. ‘The Hell -?’ he utters as he gets his binoculars out.
‘Oh, and the jewelery? Too ostentatious’ Mephisto remarks as he takes Magma’s emergency bracelet and throws it out the car window, where it bounces along the street. ‘We have lost her already, selffriends’ Warlock states darkly as the New Mutants stand on the sidewalk and watch the car drive away. ‘Man!’ Sunspot complains.
Five minutes later, ‘You…brought me to Hell for our date?’ Magma asks as she sits down at a long table, placed beside a large window which looks out over a field of volcanos and lava pools. Mephisto’s waiter-like servants stand around, while Mephisto gushes that he is going all out tonight, and that she is getting all his best stuff. ‘This place, okay, is great! I know the owner. He owes me a favor’ Mephisto remarks. Motioning out the window, he tells Magma that this is the Third Circle, which is gluttony. ‘But I figure we’re eating anyway’ he adds, before pointing out that it overlooks the Bay of Agony. ‘Don’t let the name put you off’ he adds, telling Magma that it has amazing views and burning seas. ‘Of Magma. See what I did? Magma? Just for you, right?’ Mephisto smiles, adding that later on he has arranged for Mountains Etna and Krakatoa to come by and put on a little show for them. ‘Krakatoa?’ Magma asks. ‘Absolutely. East of wherever the heck I tell it to be’ Mephisto declares, adding that right now, they have the house band. ‘Fellas?’ he calls out, to where a group of five musicians stand ready.
‘Hey, man. Five, six, seven -’ the drummer calls out. Magma goes eyes-wide and stares at the stage: ‘The guy on keyboards, is that…?’ she asks, to which Mephisto, sitting at the other end of the table, replies ‘I know, right? Great, huh?’ and tells Magma not to get him started on the correlation between musical genius and going to Hell. ‘But speaking of which, the stand-up acts I’ve booked for later, after the volcanos -’ he begins, until Magma tells him to stop.
‘I’m sorry. Stop’ Amara declares. ‘What?’ Mephisto asks. ‘Just stop’ Amara exclaims, declaring that she thought she could do this, but that she can’t. ‘This isn’t real. This isn’t a real date. This isn’t a real anything’ she tells Mephisto. ‘I don’t know what I was thinking…’ Amara mutters as she stands up. Mephisto stands up as well and tells Amara to chill for a second, while Amara declares that her friends were trapped in Hell, that they were desperate, so she would have agreed to anything to help them get out. ‘I thought…one date, you know? But I was crazy, I can’t do this’ Amara exclaims, telling Mephisto that this is too much, way too much, that she can’t be here. ‘Every word I say, every word you say, I’m checking them for double meanings and riddles’.
Magma declares that she knows if she makes one slip, she is going to damn everyone she knows and loves. ‘You’re really not’ Mephisto announces. ‘That’s how you work. It’s lies and tricks and verbal contracts with hidden implications’ Magma exclaims. ‘I know it!’ she states, adding that tonight is not a way of clearing a debt with the Devil, but the Devil’s way of making that debt worse. Magma tells Mephisto to show her what she has to sign and then they can get it done. ‘Tell me what you want. Tell me what you need me to do to leave my friends alone’.
In the meantime, back in San Francisco, there is a “yip yip yip” noise, while Warlock skulks through the New Mutants’ home with a bowl of dog food. ‘Shhh’ the alien calls out before opening the door to one of the rooms, where a reddish-brown fire-breathing puppy with big eyes stares up at him excitedly. ‘You must be quiet, Hel-Hound puppy / friend!’ Warlock exclaims. He tells the puppy that it is his Asgardian secret. ‘Self does not pretend to understand such things, but there is imperative puppy quietness so that you remain hidden’ Warlock tells the dog, who just whines. Warlock sets the bowl of food down in front of the dog, who licks Warlock’s hand. ‘Warlock? Who was that?’ X-Man calls out from down the corridor. ‘Um. Nobody’ Warlock replies as he closes the door to the room with the dog.
‘What did Warlock say?’ Sunspot asks. ‘He said it was nobody’ X-Man replies as they stand around in the kitchen, while Mirage and Cypher are making phone calls. ‘…no, everything’s great. I was just wondering if I could come over and say hi to Illyana’ Mirage tells the person she is speaking to. ‘Oh, she is? Oh’ Mirage remarks. ‘…Doug Ramsey of the New Mutants. Well, I was just wondering what would be the correct procedure if…you know, if a friend or a person or someone…was abducted by the Devil? Well, when will Doctor Strange be back?’
Back in Hell, ‘Amara! Listen to me. Can I level with you?’ Mephisto calls out as he follows Magma across the red ground. ‘I’m pretty sure you can do anything you want to’ Magma mutters in reply. ‘First, someone offers me a promise. I take it. That’s what I do. Sue me. A date with you? There’s leverage there. My business acumen took over. But second…once you’d said yes, I realized what I wanted was a date not an opportunity’ Mephisto explains. ‘What do you mean?’ Amara asks. Mephisto explains that he can get souls, that he is good at it and business is good. ‘You guys turning up in Hell like that? That was too easy. There was no sport in it. No satisfaction of a damnation well done’ Mephisto explains.
Mephisto tells Amara that he said yes because he wanted to go on a date with her, that she is really gorgeous with the magma hotness. Magma holds her hand out and tells Mephisto that she is not going to fall for this, asking for a contract to sign. ‘I’m serious’ Mephisto explains, before asking Magma why they left Utopia and moved to San Francisco. ‘We - we were tired of being freaks. We wanted to live in the real world for a change’ Magma replies. ‘I thought so. Sometimes I want that, too’ Mephisto announces. Magma goes wide-eyed, and stares up at Mephisto, who tells her not to look at him like that.
‘Yeah, I’m a universal archetype. I’m the personification of one of the core balancing forces of the universe’ Mephisto declares. ‘But the power that made me gave me a human mind and human emotions. That’s why I’m so good at what I do. I get under people’s skins because I empathize. I know how they work’. Magma continues to look at Mephisto, shocked, so Mephisto continues, declaring that sometimes he just wants to be that person for a while - he wants to live in the real world for a change. ‘And I thought that just for one night, I could - but that makes me the crazy one, right? Never going to happen. I’ll get them to bring the car around’ Mephisto sighs.
‘It was too much’ Magma exclaims, throwing her hands into the air. ‘What?’ Mephisto enquires. ‘Krakatoa. The Third Circle. The rock and roll hall of fame. Seriously too much’ Magma tells Mephisto. Mephisto adjusts his glasses and reveals that he hasn’t had much actual experience of going on dates. Magma smiles and tells Mephisto that he is shockingly bad at it. ‘It’s like you read about dates in a magazine and then did everything all wrong. Too much’ she remarks, adding that a girl likes to be impressed a little - not stunned into submission. ‘Is there anything I can do?’ Mephisto asks. ‘You can get the car’ Magma tells him.
Shortly, ‘Is this a bib?’ Mephisto asks as he sits across from Magma in a booth at a Ribstickers BBQ restaurant in San Francisco. The restaurant is quite busy, and Magma informs Mephisto that there is a lot of sauce involved in this food. ‘You come here a lot?’ Mephisto asks. Magma explains that she came here for a job interview once, but that didn’t go too well. ‘I think that’s why the manager’s giving me the evil eye’ The manager and several staff stare at Magma, to which Mephisto asks her if she wants him to have the manager boiled in oil. ‘No’ Magma replies. ‘I’m saying I can do that’ Mephisto tells her, but Magma answers ‘No’ once again. ‘Okay, that was just a little Devil humor’ Mephisto smiles, and while sipping her soda, Magma asks Mephisto to tell her about himself.
‘Well, you know I’m a workaholic. Hell is…it’s like the biggest multinational corporation you can imagine. I’m trying to expand our portfolio, we’re doing a lot subprime these days. Toxic debt’ Mephisto explains. ‘Be serious’ Magma smiles. ‘Oh, I am’ Mephisto assures her, revealing that Hell used to be the stick, back in the day. ‘Old Testament, Middle Ages…your case file got passed down to me if you gone done wrong’. Mephisto declares that you had to be good, as he was the threat, not the promise. As their meals are placed in front of them, Mephisto tells Amara that this is the Twenty-First Century, that people are smart, that they are much better informed about good and bad life choices. ‘I’ve had to diversify’ he explains.
‘How?’ Amara asks. ‘I do a lot of global charity work. Famine relief. Disease control. I’m working to improve life expectancy and quality of life’ Mephisto reveals. ‘You’re theDevil’ Magma points out. Eating away at his food. Mephisto points out that millions of people die of disease and hunger and other bad stuff, and that they die young. ‘It’s very tragic’ he remarks, adding that kind of short, horrible life gets them a direct pass upstairs, so he helps them live longer, better lives. ‘Thus, I increase the chances of them doing terrible things and therefore qualifying for Hell. Crazy, right? I do more good than UNICEF and they call me the Devil’.
‘Huh…’ Magma smirks, before Mephisto asks her if she has seen any good movies lately, and raises a small bowl of dip to his mouth. ‘Whoa. Be careful. That’s chipotle. Very hot’ Amara tells him. ‘Hey, brimstone? Ok?’ Mephisto replies. But after downing the chipotle, he tugs at the collar of his shirt, smoke coming out of his ears, and utters’ Wow. That’s piquant’. Magma just smiles.
Soon, Magma and Mephisto walk along the pavement, towards the New Mutants’ home. ‘I had a weirdly good time’ Magma announces. ‘Me too’ Mephisto tells her. ‘So’ Magma smiles as they stand at the front stoop. ‘So’ Mephisto replies, rubbing the back of his neck, before telling Amara that it’s all good, that she and her friends are totally even with him. ‘I appreciate you treating me like a regular person for a couple of hours’ he remarks. ‘Makes a real change for me’ he adds. Magma smiles and tells Mephisto that she appreciates him not tricking her into Hell for the remainder of eternity. ‘Least I could do’ Mephisto replies.
Magma climbs the stairs, before turning back to Mephisto, who asks her if she forgot something. Magma walks back down the stairs, then kisses a very surprised Mephisto on his cheek. ‘Night!’ Magma exclaims as she flies up towards the door, closing it behind her, leaving a shocked Mephisto standing on the street, rubbing his cheek.
Walking up the internal stairs, Magma finds her friends waiting for her on the landing. Mirage asks Magma if she is okay, to which Amara announces that she didn’t mean to wake them all. ‘We were awake. Waiting for you’ Sunspot tells her as she enters her room. Mirage turns to the men and points out that Magma is back home safe from her date with the Devil, so they should just give her some space. In her room, Magma puts one of the roses from Mephisto into a vase, and Danielle enters, asking Amara if she is okay. ‘He was kinda sad. We ended up having fun’ Amara replies. ‘FUN?’ Mirage exclaims. Magma sits down on her bed and assures Dani that the debt is clear and that she didn’t agree to anything. Mirage hesitates, and looks doubtful, before replying ‘Okay’.
Magma tells Mirage that she is tired and has to sleep, but thanks her for worrying. Exiting the room, Dani tells Amara that, in the morning, she wants details. Amara agrees. Removing her shoes, there is suddenly a tak tak at the window. Amara opens the window and sticks her head out, where she sees Mephisto down on the street, throwing pebbles up at the window. ‘Go home. Go to Hell’ Magma calls out. ‘Right. Funny’ Mephisto replies, before asking if he can call Magma again. Magma smiles down at him and replies ‘I don’t know. Can you?’ to which Mephisto begins to walk off down the street, and hands in pockets, remarks ‘Seriously. Smoking hot’.