I would love a Magma, Wolfsbane, and Dani Moonstar team book!

[Slicknickshady]

Pfft. This guy. Bringing logic to a sleep deprived, emotionally distraught, quick-to-thread--- ahh nevermind.

Relax dude. It's not that serious.

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Uncanny X-Men #189 Jan 1985
"Two Girls Out to Have Fun!" Guest-starring Magma of the New Mutants.
Rachel Summers and the New Mutant known as Magma take some time together to bond and see the sights that New York City has to offer.
As they visit that Statue of Liberty, all Rachel can recall is the apocalyptic future she comes from where mutants are hunted down
and where she spent a brief time as a "Hound", mutants forced to hunt other mutants by the repressive and anti-mutant government that runs her world.
She recalls how one time she was brought out into the bay to track down mutants who were gunned down.
When the memory makes her begin to cry, Amara asks her what's wrong and Rachel shrugs it off as being "something" in her eye.

Meanwhile, aboard the sailing ship Norway, Storm is bidding farewell to her fellow X-Men as she takes a leave of absence
to return to her native Africa to determine what to do with her life now that her powers have been taken away.
As the group enjoys champiegn, they all have a tearful good-bye, Storm tells Nightcrawler to send her love to Kitty.

As Rachel and Amara continue their sight seeing, Miguel Rodriguez continues his daily labors, hauling fish on a dock.
When he walks past the changing room, he spots some of his co-workers snooping in his locker.
Miguel swats them away to see that the amulet he found earlier is still there.
When it begins talking once more, offering him untold power, he rejects it, feeling that it is evil, and slams his locker door shut.

As Rachel and Amara exit the New York Metropolitan Museum, Rachel detects Selene's thought patterns.

Rachel and Amara decide to follow her. The two track their mutual enemy to the gates of the Hellfire Club.
The two sneak in and put on some maids outfits so that they can snoop around.
As it turns out, Selene has come to the Hellfire Club to petition for membership as the new Black Queen.
Sebastian Shaw is hardly impressed, and tells her that it is a position that must be earned.
Selene gives him a show of her powers, animating the ground around him and almost crushing him.
Deciding that she will prove to him her worth, even though Shaw realizes that she would likely seize control of the Hellfire Club from him
she teleports away to bring him a present. Left alone, Tessa asks Shaw if he will admit her into the club.
Shaw tells her that, given the circumstances, he may have little choice in the matter.

Upstairs, Rachel continues to pose as a maid when she is approached by who she thinks is Selene and lashes out with a psi-blast.
It turns out to be an illusion and that she had really attacked Amara. She is then caught from behind by Selene,
who uses her powers to enslave both Rachel and Amara and bring them to Sebastian Shaw.
Upon doing so, Tessa silently remarks how Rachel has a striking resemblance to Jean Grey.

Deep inside Rachel's mind, she struggles to free herself, not wishing to become someone's slave, and manages to break Selene's hold on her.
Establishing a psi-link with Amara, she struggles with her to free her from Selene's control as well.
Forcing her to use her powers in the psychic plane that has been created causes Amara to snap free from Selene's control.

The two mutants then battle Selene. However they are easily over powered. Before things can escalate further,
Colossus, Rogue and Nightcrawler arrive. Nightcrawler teleports Selene away, and the mental projection of Professor X appears

and demands to know what's going on. When Amara insists on getting revenge on Selene, Xavier tells her to stand down.
When Shaw tells the X-Men that he has no quarrel with them and that kidnapping Rachel and Amara was not his idea,
the X-Men decide to depart without further incident. When Rachel asks if her psychic SOS helped the X-Men locate her,
Xavier points her attention to the outside, where damage caused from Magma's powers were visibly evident.

Elsewhere, Jamie Rodriguez waits for a subway train after his busy day at work, listening to the latest news broadcast regarding
Dazzler's outing as a mutant and the continued debate over the Mutant Control Act that is working its way through Congress.
As he listens, he doesn't notice a mugger sneak up being him and stab him with a knife from behind.
As Jamie collapses to the ground, the thief grabs the amulet that has dropped out of his pockets.
Upon doing so, it releases the forces trapped inside and begins engulfing the entire subway platform with Eldridge fire, the start of a terrible transformation.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by John Romita, Jr. and Dan Green.

[Zelena]

Rachel Summers and the New Mutant known as Magma take some time together to bond and see the sights that New York City has to offer.
As they visit that Statue of Liberty, all Rachel can recall is the apocalyptic future she comes from where mutants are hunted down
and where she spent a brief time as a "Hound", mutants forced to hunt other mutants by the repressive and anti-mutant government that runs her world.
She recalls how one time she was brought out into the bay to track down mutants who were gunned down.
When the memory makes her begin to cry, Amara asks her what's wrong and Rachel shrugs it off as being "something" in her eye.

Meanwhile, aboard the sailing ship Norway, Storm is bidding farewell to her fellow X-Men as she takes a leave of absence
to return to her native Africa to determine what to do with her life now that her powers have been taken away.
As the group enjoys champiegn, they all have a tearful good-bye, Storm tells Nightcrawler to send her love to Kitty.

As Rachel and Amara continue their sight seeing, Miguel Rodriguez continues his daily labors, hauling fish on a dock.
When he walks past the changing room, he spots some of his co-workers snooping in his locker.
Miguel swats them away to see that the amulet he found earlier is still there.
When it begins talking once more, offering him untold power, he rejects it, feeling that it is evil, and slams his locker door shut.

As Rachel and Amara exit the New York Metropolitan Museum, Rachel detects Selene's thought patterns.

Rachel and Amara decide to follow her. The two track their mutual enemy to the gates of the Hellfire Club.
The two sneak in and put on some maids outfits so that they can snoop around.
As it turns out, Selene has come to the Hellfire Club to petition for membership as the new Black Queen.
Sebastian Shaw is hardly impressed, and tells her that it is a position that must be earned.
Selene gives him a show of her powers, animating the ground around him and almost crushing him.
Deciding that she will prove to him her worth, even though Shaw realizes that she would likely seize control of the Hellfire Club from him
she teleports away to bring him a present. Left alone, Tessa asks Shaw if he will admit her into the club.
Shaw tells her that, given the circumstances, he may have little choice in the matter.

Upstairs, Rachel continues to pose as a maid when she is approached by who she thinks is Selene and lashes out with a psi-blast.
It turns out to be an illusion and that she had really attacked Amara. She is then caught from behind by Selene,
who uses her powers to enslave both Rachel and Amara and bring them to Sebastian Shaw.
Upon doing so, Tessa silently remarks how Rachel has a striking resemblance to Jean Grey.

Deep inside Rachel's mind, she struggles to free herself, not wishing to become someone's slave, and manages to break Selene's hold on her.
Establishing a psi-link with Amara, she struggles with her to free her from Selene's control as well.
Forcing her to use her powers in the psychic plane that has been created causes Amara to snap free from Selene's control.

The two mutants then battle Selene. However they are easily over powered. Before things can escalate further,
Colossus, Rogue and Nightcrawler arrive. Nightcrawler teleports Selene away, and the mental projection of Professor X appears

and demands to know what's going on. When Amara insists on getting revenge on Selene, Xavier tells her to stand down.
When Shaw tells the X-Men that he has no quarrel with them and that kidnapping Rachel and Amara was not his idea,
the X-Men decide to depart without further incident. When Rachel asks if her psychic SOS helped the X-Men locate her,
Xavier points her attention to the outside, where damage caused from Magma's powers were visibly evident.

Elsewhere, Jamie Rodriguez waits for a subway train after his busy day at work, listening to the latest news broadcast regarding
Dazzler's outing as a mutant and the continued debate over the Mutant Control Act that is working its way through Congress.
As he listens, he doesn't notice a mugger sneak up being him and stab him with a knife from behind.
As Jamie collapses to the ground, the thief grabs the amulet that has dropped out of his pockets.
Upon doing so, it releases the forces trapped inside and begins engulfing the entire subway platform with Eldridge fire, the start of a terrible transformation.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by John Romita, Jr. and Dan Green.[/CENTER]

When I prefer the X-men not to be murderers, the fact that Selene killed Amara's mother and many other people and would be probably to do it again is still serious stuff and I think that Xavier sweeps it under the carpet a bit too easily for my taste.

[mikeydiaz81]

Uncanny X-Men #189 Jan 1985
"Two Girls Out to Have Fun!" Guest-starring Magma of the New Mutants.
Rachel Summers and the New Mutant known as Magma take some time together to bond and see the sights that New York City has to offer.
As they visit that Statue of Liberty, all Rachel can recall is the apocalyptic future she comes from where mutants are hunted down
and where she spent a brief time as a "Hound", mutants forced to hunt other mutants by the repressive and anti-mutant government that runs her world.
She recalls how one time she was brought out into the bay to track down mutants who were gunned down.
When the memory makes her begin to cry, Amara asks her what's wrong and Rachel shrugs it off as being "something" in her eye.

Meanwhile, aboard the sailing ship Norway, Storm is bidding farewell to her fellow X-Men as she takes a leave of absence
to return to her native Africa to determine what to do with her life now that her powers have been taken away.
As the group enjoys champiegn, they all have a tearful good-bye, Storm tells Nightcrawler to send her love to Kitty.

As Rachel and Amara continue their sight seeing, Miguel Rodriguez continues his daily labors, hauling fish on a dock.
When he walks past the changing room, he spots some of his co-workers snooping in his locker.
Miguel swats them away to see that the amulet he found earlier is still there.
When it begins talking once more, offering him untold power, he rejects it, feeling that it is evil, and slams his locker door shut.

As Rachel and Amara exit the New York Metropolitan Museum, Rachel detects Selene's thought patterns.

Rachel and Amara decide to follow her. The two track their mutual enemy to the gates of the Hellfire Club.
The two sneak in and put on some maids outfits so that they can snoop around.
As it turns out, Selene has come to the Hellfire Club to petition for membership as the new Black Queen.
Sebastian Shaw is hardly impressed, and tells her that it is a position that must be earned.
Selene gives him a show of her powers, animating the ground around him and almost crushing him.
Deciding that she will prove to him her worth, even though Shaw realizes that she would likely seize control of the Hellfire Club from him
she teleports away to bring him a present. Left alone, Tessa asks Shaw if he will admit her into the club.
Shaw tells her that, given the circumstances, he may have little choice in the matter.

Upstairs, Rachel continues to pose as a maid when she is approached by who she thinks is Selene and lashes out with a psi-blast.
It turns out to be an illusion and that she had really attacked Amara. She is then caught from behind by Selene,
who uses her powers to enslave both Rachel and Amara and bring them to Sebastian Shaw.
Upon doing so, Tessa silently remarks how Rachel has a striking resemblance to Jean Grey.

Deep inside Rachel's mind, she struggles to free herself, not wishing to become someone's slave, and manages to break Selene's hold on her.
Establishing a psi-link with Amara, she struggles with her to free her from Selene's control as well.
Forcing her to use her powers in the psychic plane that has been created causes Amara to snap free from Selene's control.

The two mutants then battle Selene. However they are easily over powered. Before things can escalate further,
Colossus, Rogue and Nightcrawler arrive. Nightcrawler teleports Selene away, and the mental projection of Professor X appears

and demands to know what's going on. When Amara insists on getting revenge on Selene, Xavier tells her to stand down.
When Shaw tells the X-Men that he has no quarrel with them and that kidnapping Rachel and Amara was not his idea,
the X-Men decide to depart without further incident. When Rachel asks if her psychic SOS helped the X-Men locate her,
Xavier points her attention to the outside, where damage caused from Magma's powers were visibly evident.

Elsewhere, Jamie Rodriguez waits for a subway train after his busy day at work, listening to the latest news broadcast regarding
Dazzler's outing as a mutant and the continued debate over the Mutant Control Act that is working its way through Congress.
As he listens, he doesn't notice a mugger sneak up being him and stab him with a knife from behind.
As Jamie collapses to the ground, the thief grabs the amulet that has dropped out of his pockets.
Upon doing so, it releases the forces trapped inside and begins engulfing the entire subway platform with Eldridge fire, the start of a terrible transformation.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by John Romita, Jr. and Dan Green.

One of my favorite stories, and one of the first comics I bought.

[MYCMTSC]

Magma's the worst. Krakoa has me excited for almost every character, even VULCAN, Goldballs, and Cypher (sorry yall Krakoa is the first time I really liked him), but for some reason just still not digging the idea of more pitiful black-face Alison Crestmere.

I'd rather Dani/Rahne/Xi'an or Dani/Rahne/Surge/Wind Dancer.

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Uncanny X-Men #190 Feb 1985
"An Age Undreamed Of!" Guest-starring the Avengers, the New Mutants and Spider-Man.
The military has come to New York in full force after a strange mystical barrier has erected itself around
the island of Manhattan, transforming the teeming metropolis into a Hyborean realm of barbarians and magic.
In Washington DC, there is an emergency meeting with National Security at the White House.
There, Valerie Cooper briefs those gathered of the situation going on in New York.
She explains that anyone who crosses the mystical barrier into the city is
transformed into a barbarian from a bygone era with no memory of their previous life.
However, those who stumble out of the area are restored to normal.
Intelligence has gathered that an evil sorcerer named Kulan Gath is responsible for the spell.
Attempts to contact the Avengers and the Fantastic Four have failed.
However Val confirms that a number of the Avengers, X-Men and Spider-Man have been spotted active in the city.
All of them, with the exception of Spider-Man, have been transformed.

When the talk focuses on members of the X-Men, a bunch of anti-mutant rhetoric gets passed around until a commanding military officer
speaks up about how this is exactly the sort of bigotry that America fought against when they battled the Nazi's during World War II.
Val breaks up the debate and tells them that she hopes the super-human community trapped within the mystical barrier can resolve their problem.

Within the barrier, Storm of the X-Men has been transformed into a warrior woman aboard a passenger ship.
She is awoken when her sleeping quarters is broken into by the Morlocks, who now are enforcers for Kulan Gath.
They arrest her because her existence displeases their master and they are about to brand
her with a hot iron collar, but Storm manages to break free, knocking over the hot coals.
As the other Morlocks attempt to avoid the flames, Storm climbs up to the mast head, but Callisto follows after her.
Unarmed, Storm is defenseless when Callisto slashes her stomach open with a knife.
This causes her to briefly remember her previous identity.
With the boat burning up quickly, Storm grabs Callisto and swings out to the water.
Being sure that Callisto takes the brunt of the impact, Storm swims away from the blaze and passes through the mystical barrier.
She and Callisto are restored back to normal and Storm retains all her memories.
Swimming toward a military vessel, Storm wonders what Kulan Gath has done to her other friends.

At that very moment, Kulan Gath is doing everything in his power to convert those who would stop him into his loyal slaves.
To this end, he magically merges Professor X and Caliban into a single entity to better hunt his foes and has Sorcerer Supreme,
Dr. Strange, mystically warped so that he cannot utter a magic spell or cast any with his fingers, rending him harmless.
With these threats neutralized, Gath orders prisoners to be brought to them.
The most recent prisoners are members of the New Mutants.
However, while he is capable of transforming Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Sunspot and Mirage into his loyal slaves,
his spell has no effect on Warlock who manages to escape. When it is explained that Warlock does not come from Earth
and is immune to the Master Spell, Kulan uses his magical might to force Caliban/Xavier to deal with the Technarc.
Gath is unaware that he is being spied upon by Selene who also has not been affected by the spell and has decided to overthrow him.
Selene teleports into the city where she kills a number of Kulan Gath's minions in an attempt to recruit Rachel Summers and Magma to her side.

Meanwhile, on the Hudson River on the other side of the barrier, Storm and Callisto are aboard
a military ship trying to figure out what to do, now that they are locked up.
They are contacted by Selene telepathically through Rachel to warn them that Kulan Gath intends
to not only make his Master Spell permanent, but also to make it encompass the entire Earth.
She tells Storm and Callisto that while she cannot prevent another transformation
when they cross the barrier, she can at least make them remember their mission.
Agreeing to do something, Storm picks the lock to the room that they were locked in and they jump ship, heading toward the barrier.

Back on the other side, Spider-Man, one of the only people unchanged by the Master Spell, flees for his life.
Hunted by the New Mutants, Spider-Man ducks into a tavern and tries to fight them off.
Inside are the transformed Avengers, Captain America, Starfox and Wasp, as well as the X-Men Nightcrawler and Rogue.
The New Mutants succeed in capturing Spider-Man when Mirage notices young Illyana and recognizes her as a foe of her master.
Before she can take Magik prisoner, the Avengers step in and a fight breaks out.
Nightcrawler and Rogue decide to join the fight and help the Avengers.
As the battle rages, Colossus and Sunder enter the fray, turning the battle in a massive free for all.

Back on the other side, Storm and Callisto travel the Morlock Tunnels to the edge of the barrier.
Without hesitation the two pass through, once more being transformed into warriors and are instantly ambushed.

While above, the battle rages on until Magik begins using her magic.
She realizes that her Soul Sword frees those from Kulan Gath's control when she strikes her brother Colossus with the sword.

She is soon overwhelmed by attackers until Selene steps in and uses her powers
to slay most of the warriors, forcing the New Mutants to retreat from the battle.

With the fight over, Selene makes her presence known to the heroes and offers an alliance with them.
She is attacked by an astral image of Kulan Gath who swallows her up, transporting her off to be his prisoner.
He warns the gathered rebels to cease their quest to overthrow him, offering them pleasure
beyond their wildest dreams and teleports away, warning them not to cross his path again.
As Kulan Gath disappears, Storm and Callisto arrive and they and the others flee before the forces of Kulan Gath can storm the bar.
When Gath learns that his enemies have fled, Selene mocks him. This causes her to be tortured.
Gath then tells his minions that he wants all the rebels taken prisoner by sunrise and sends them back out into the city.

Meanwhile in the Morlock tunnels, the gathered rebels camp out for the night and begin comparing notes.
They all realize that Kulan Gath is their primary concern but worry that Selene's
brand of evil is something to be dealt with when Kulan Gath is defeated.
Deciding to work together, the heroes all call out "Avengers Assemble!
Although most are gathered together in this rallied cry, standing off to the side are Rachel and Magma.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by John Romita, Jr. and Dan Green.

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Uncanny X-Men #191 Mar 1985
"Raiders of the Lost Temple!" Guest-starring the Avengers, the New Mutants and Spider-Man.
With the island of Manhattan transformed into a hyborian era reality by Kulan Gath, the evil sorcerer has Spider-Man strung up and tortured.
He explains to the wall-crawler that he intends to use him as a sacrifice to make his Master Spell expand
the entire globe and become irreversible in repayment for his previous humiliation at the hands of Spider-Man.
When Spider-Man continues to joke despite his condition, Gath tortures him some more so that his screams echo across his castle.
Kulan Gath then goes and checks on his other prisoners, and tortures Selene for daring to oppose him
by mutating her beaten body so that she, like Dr. Strange, cannot cast or chant any magic spells.

When Mirage and Sunder report back saying that they have been unable to find the rebels,
he angrily turns them into stone until Caliban/Xavier also tells him that they also cannot detect their enemies.
Restoring Sunder and Mirage to normal, Sunder suggests that the rebels must be
hiding in the Morlock tunnels - the only place where magic cannot search for them.

While in the ruins of what used to be the New York Public Library, the gathered Avengers
and X-Men wander through the wreckage of Kulan Gath's most recent slaughter.
They are attacked by a woman named Arilynn, the sole survivor of the massacre,
who attacks them believing them to be the enemy as they include Callisto as one of their number.

Before they can explain further, they are attacked by Kulan Gath's forces, led by the Scarlet Witch.
As the battle rages, Rogue loses her invulnerable diamond form, leaving her vulnerable to attack
and she is killed when she is stabbed in the back with an enemy sword.
Furious to see her comrade die in battle, Storm enters the fray like a woman possessed.

She is almost over powered when suddenly Warlock smashes through the wall and carries her away.
Unfortunately for Warlock, he cannot communicate with Storm due to the Master Spell making them speak two
different languages. The battle ends with the rebels fleeing and Starfox and the Wasp captured by the enemy.

They are taken to Kulan Gath, who uses his powers to transform them into powerful magical creatures to use against his enemies.
Meanwhile, on the rooftop of the building, Warlock attempts to communicate with Storm
with visual imagery showing her her previous self before the magical transformation.
Storm cannot fully understand what the creature is telling her, but the sight of
the old world allows her to begin to see through the illusion cast by the Master Spell.

Meanwhile, the rebels decide to try and sneak into Kulan Gath's palace.
The next day, with Captain America and Colossus posing as soldiers,
they pretend to be taking Magma and Rachel as prisoners to Kulan Gath.
However, Gath is waiting for them and sends his New Mutant and Morlock subbordinates against them.

As the battle rages on, Magik uses her Soul Sword to free her fellow New Mutants from Kulan Gath's control.

In the heat of the battle, Callisto is forced to slit Sunder's throat but vows to him that his death will be avenged.
Their fight spills into Kulan Gath's throne room where Spider-Man has been
mystically crucified onto a cross for the final sacrifice that would finalize the Master Spell.

As Kulan Gath watches on, the Vision then attempts to solidify himself in Colossus's body,
causing both men to explode, seriously wounding Captain America.
Nightcrawler, Callisto, Illyana and Arilynn attempt to storm Gath,
but are then turned into stone by the Scarlet Witch.

Having seen enough, Spider-Man uses the last of his strength to break free from his bonds despite the pain.
Spider-Man attempts to attack Kulan Gath directly, but is mystically struck down.
Watching from above, Storm and Warlock dive down to attack Kulan Gath,
managing to remove the amulet from around his neck. However before Storm can destroy it,
Magma manages to steal it away and uses it to restore Selene to normal. She then uses her power to strike down Warlock.
However, before Selene can use the power of the amulet for her own ends, Storm allows the dying Warlock to infect her
with the Transmode Virus. This causes Storm to regain her full memories and in turn infect Selene with the Transmode Virus.
With Selene under her control, Storm forces her to use her magics to free Dr. Strange.

Freed from his bondage, Dr. Strange deduces that the only way to undo the damage caused by Kulan Gath
would be to prevent him from casting his Master Spell to begin with. As such, Strange combines his magic with Illyana's
mutant teleporting power to alter history so that Kulan Gath never rose to power. Appearing in Dr. Strange's sanctum,
the only ones who remember the battle are Strange, Magik, Professor X, Storm, Callisto, Caliban, Captain America and Arilynn.
He tells those gathered that they will be the only ones who will remember the battle.
Because nobody knew how Kulan Gath gained his dominance,
they all wonder how history might have been effected in order to prevent events from unfolding.

At that moment, in the subway station where Jamie Rodriguez was supposed to be stabbed by a mugger, Nimrod
a mutant hunting super-sentinel from the future appears in the train station. Seeing a human being in jeopardy,
Nimrod blasts the mugger, incinerating him. The blast also knocks Jamie off-balance,
making the amulet fall out of his pocket and sink into the mud next to the subway tracks.
Helping Jamie up, Nimrod scans the area and notes an anti-mutant epitaph spray painted on a Dazzler movie poster
and realizes that mutants are considered a threat in this time and that it must carry out its prime directive to obliterate all mutants.

Story by Chris Claremont. Art by John Romita, Jr. and Dan Green.

[Hypestyle]

.... I hope that this team of ladies can continue in New Mutants and beyond.. without dying.