

Alone, Magik thought about casting again the necromancy spell to have Colossus around forever, but she realized that this spell would turn her eternally into a demon and she wondered why she got off lucky the one time she used it. Gateway‘s portal opened and Piotr went back to Australia. Illyana was comforted, even though she believed him to be a ghost created by her necromancy spell. Colossus assured Illyana that she was a good person despite everything, as long as she tried to be good. The siblings comforted each other, realizing how much they missed each other. The fight went on and was quickly ended when Colossus punched Baba Yaga, who screamed in agony. She decided to use a necromancy spell to summon the dead back to life but, before she completed it, the true Colossus appeared through one of Gateway’s teleportation portals. Because sorcery is least effective against iron, she thought of her brother Colossus, since steel is a form of iron. Baba Yaga planned on eating the kids but Illyana could not counteract her magic directly. One night, Baba Yaga, the witch crone from Russian fairy tales, had come to slaughter the New Mutants only Illyana was able to escape the last second. Seeing how close to that image she already was, Illyana spared Forge. However, as she was about to kill him, Mirage pulled the vision from Magik’s mind she was most afraid of - a completely demonic version of herself. Illyana did not care much instead she took Forge, whom she was unable to beat on Earth, to Limbo.

Replaying the news broadcast off the X-Men’s apparent death with a videorecorder again and again, Magik discovered it was Forge who had cast the spell that caused the X-Men to “die.“ Planning revenge, she attacked Forge (the New Mutants in tow), but Freedom Force intervened, since Destiny was able to predict the plot.ĭuring the fight, Destiny foretold the Inferno event and that Magik would have to “leave and learn“ or Earth would never be the same.
