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...and while they're soon due in London for Erik's upcoming trial, they suit up and spring into action to rescue the kids and Ororo from Loki's machinations.
In our last issue of Uncanny X-Men, Rachel had found some small degree of closure, resolving to both amend her past...
...to a ghastly scream from the shared room of Kitty and Illyana, where a psychic vision of the New Mutants' fate has been transmitted to Kitty by her "best friend" 😉–their bond so intense even Rachel is confused (jealous, probs) by it.
The X-Men don't leave their own behind...
...the Enchantress, forcing the Asgardian to drop her wards, allowing Illyana access to the full extent of her mutant powers.
With her darkness reincorporated, Illyana's vengeful streak–one likely retraumatized by having been held hostage by another powerful mage–takes hold...
...same isn't as easily said for Rahne, whose faith if anyone's I'd expect would guard her from corruption.
In the Asgardian desert, Claremont manages to wrap up Karma's obesity plot in between pages. I'm left with a mixed bag of emotions–on one hand, I am happy its over, but...
...young Scot, but his pleas for life and love and denied by Rahne, ever trapped between her desires and her faith.
Her isolation makes her the among the next of the Darkchylde's targets, and the mutant is overpowered and submits to the Enchantress's thrall.
It seems that if...
...have identified him as easiest to capture, but the Darkchylde seems unaware that what makes the New Mutants individually great is when they're together.
On the other side of Asgard, Rahne's dalliance with the wolf-prince Hrimhari has inspired... errr... an awakening in the...
...disenchant the girl, and both are then able to eavesdrop on Loki's designs for Ororo.
The god of mischief has commissioned a new hammer in the spirit of Mjolnir, a weapon named Stormcaster to be weld to reunite Ororo with her lost mutant powers and, alongside her, elevate...
...where she finds herself at the wrong end of a fire extinguisher (Claremont really doesn't care for Amara, does he?) and Sam Guthrie, who has taken up the dwarfs' cause and fights alongside them.
Having successfully stopped Amara's attack, Sam and the dwarfs are able to...
...accidental ascension as a Valkyrie of Asgard.
Dani's relationship to Brightwind is only just beginning, but will become a hallmark of her character as she develops over the years–and an important ground for stories exploring the conflict between these two aspects of her...
...yesterday's tweets led us to the first meeting of Dani Moonstar and the trapped pegasus, Brightwind.
While Dani's ~animal empathy~ plays into some not-great-tropes about indigenous mysticism, that expectation is somewhat subverted when its spiritual nature leads to her...