Magik is fighting for her life in Limbo as, changed by the Magus, the demons, led by S’ym, are revolting. With no choice left, Magik puts her Soulsword into the ground with all her power and thinks of Professor X. Xavier is on a fringe planet, where the Starjammers are trying to make a deal to get new weapons. However, when a scared Illyana appears in the slave market Xavier rescues her and blows their cover. Aboard the Starskimmer, they learn Illyana’s tale. Xavier, Illyana, Binary and Lilandra leave to save the other New Mutants and find Limbo restored to loveliness for as long as the Soulsword is stuck there. Illyana takes it back though and the black magic that goes with it to save Xavier from S’ym. The group saves the lost New Mutants but, when they return to the Starskimmer the ship, indeed the whole planet, is already under attack by the Magus. The battle is fierce and hopeless seeming, although Xavier manages to prop up and support the teammembers, until finally Cypher and Warlock manage to rewrite the Magus’ DNA, turning him into a Technarch infant, so he is no longer a threat. Warlock then tells Xavier that he is truly his father in spirit.
- Writer: Chris Claremont
- Artist: Jackson Guice