Thanks for the review Delora2047. I think that Illyana's powers were defined as her Magik not working at all on Earth except when the writers thought it convenient to the plot. In The issues I'm currently redoing she did cast spells, some powerful ones at that on Earth. I always felt that the idea of her powers not working on Earth was lame in the extreme and only there so that the solution to every problem would be her spells. That's why I consider making her a New Mutant a mistake. But here I don't care about the other characters. And the Belasco spelling, whoops. I guess every time I read his name I read what I wanted to see, because to me Belesco sounds better than Belasco when they're spoken. Hope you continue to enjoy!

Disclaimer: I own no one in this story

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In the room she shared with Kitty Pryde Illyana sat in the air, hovering over a pentagram of silver fire. As her spell took effect she left her body and her astral form traveled to Massachusetts in the blink of an eye.

Kitty Pryde was supposed to have called the night before. She didn't, and the X-Men had not returned, so Illyana had become slightly worried. After all, Kitty was in the territory of some of the X-Men's most dangerous enemies, The Hellfire Club.

Illyana's worries turned out to be justified, as her astral form found Kitty held in a bunker below the Massachusetts Academy by Emma Frost, the White Queen.

Illyana's first instinct was to attack the Queen and teleport Kitty out of there, but in this astral form she could not interact with anything. It was good solely for spying, as it was undetectable to anyone but another magic user. And Illyana still needed it to find out what happened to the X-Men and Doug Ramsey, the boy Kitty came to the academy with.

In her attempts to break Kitty the White Queen revealed that Doug thought she was with him and would have no idea she was in trouble. Kitty felt hopeless. Doug would never get help and if the X-Men were going to rescue her they would have done so already. She was about to give in when something, or rather someone, caught her eye.

She looked right at where Illyana's astral form was, smiling as if she could see it. The idea that Kitty could see Illyana was stunned the young sorceress, who just stared back at her smiling roommate.

The White Queen also noticed the resurgence of confidence in Kitty. Her first thought was that Charles Xavier must be communicating with Kitty telepathically. She turned around and, to Kitty's horror, shot a psibolt in the direction Kitty was looking, obliterating Illyana's astral form.

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At the X-Men's mansion a loud and painful scream woke up the entire junior team, the New Mutants. They raced towards the room the scream came from, Illyana's room. Finding the door locked, Sam kicked it open, only to face a demon.

That demon, and several others, immediately flew out of the room and into the hall. The whole team except Dani chased after them. Sam was the first to catch one, catching up to it with his superior speed by blasting towards it. Shockingly, the demon dissolved in his hands, and Sam, still blasting, was too surprised to stop and crashed through a window. Roberto, Rahne, and Amara all had similar experiences.

Meanwhile, Dani was trying to help Illyana, who was still floating above the silver pentagram, but seemed unconscious. Smoke was rising from her body and solidifying into more demons. Dani tried to reach Illyana, punching a demon to clear a path, but that demon also dissolved. Other demons grabbed her and threw her to the floor. She hit her head hard, and, barely conscious, summoned an illusion of what the demons were most afraid of. It turned out to be the same demonic version of Illyana that S'ym feared. The apparition growled at the demons, who cowered in fear and disappeared in wisps of smoke. Barely awake, Dani thought that her illusion walked up to her, picked her up, and placed her on a bed.

Dani muttered to herself. "My illusion. It was so horrible, so… evil. But Illyana isn't…"

"Thanks for the vote of confidence Dani." a normal Illyana replied, wishing that that was true.

"Are you gals okay?" came Sam's voice from the doorway. He and the rest of the New Mutants stood at the entrance to the room with stern expressions on their faces. "Cause if you are we've got some questions for Illyana."

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Illyana sat on one side of the dining room table, facing the New Mutants, who stood or sat on the opposite side. She weighed her options. She could modify their memories, like she did Stevie Hunter's. And every person who would see her powers in the future would also lose that memory. She realized that she was on a dangerous path, but she might still have taken done it if she wasn't thinking about Kitty.

"Well, we're waiting girl." Sam said, impatient.

'Out with it.' she thought. "Those weren't real demons, exactly. They were more like echoes of the real things."

"And where did they come from?"

"Belasco's ultimate plan was to make me a conduit between dimensions. Apparently he succeeded somewhat."

"But what happened to you that they came out now?"

"I was worried about Kitty, so I went to the Massachusetts Academy in an astral form to check on her. She and Doug Ramsey are being held captive there by the White Queen. The White Queen is a telepath. She sensed my astral form and disrupted it, adversely affecting my physical body." Illyana left out the part that it was actually Kitty who detected her astral form.

"But isn't your Mutant power to teleport?"

"It is. I'm actually more than a mutant. I'm also a sorceress." Illyana watched as all of the New Mutants' faces contorted in horror and disgust. She wondered if her brother, Kitty, and the X-Men would react the same way.

Illyana then stood up. "Where do ya think your going?" Sam asked.

"To rescue Kitty." Illyana answered.

"Wait." Dani said. "Since the X-Men aren't around, lets call the Fantastic Four and the Avengers. They're professionals and are better suited for this than any of us." Illyana nodded. It would be better if she didn't have to use her powers at all.

Unfortunately neither super team could be reached. "The Avengers, Fantastic Four, and X-men disappear on the same day? That's freaky." Roberto said. "What do we do now?"

"I'm going to rescue Kitty myself." Illyana said.

Dani said "We'll come with you."

"Dani's right." Amara added. "Regardless of how we feel about Kitty, she is our classmate and we have a duty to her."

"This complicates things." Illyana said. "I was willing to teleport myself, but I've only used that power consciously to move from place to place in Limbo, to get out of Limbo, and to send S'ym back to Limbo. I've never gone from place to place on Earth. I'm not willing to take that risk with six people." The New Mutants all looked relieved, especially Rahne.

"So how are we going to go?" Dani asked.

"If we're gonna be superheroes," Roberto said, smiling, "then we're gonna go in style."

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While they waited for the greyhound bus Roberto called everyone went to prepare. Illyana was furious as she went back to her room.

'Blasted hypocrites!' she thought. 'They demand that the world not judge them because their different and then don't extend that courtesy to me.'

She opened her closet and saw Kitty's first uniform, which was identical to what the New Mutants wore. 'If I'm going to be fighting with them then I guess I should wear what they wear, but I never want to be one of them.'

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The bus ride was fairly silent. Dani was looking over everything she found on the Hellfire Club with Sam, Roberto was showing Amara any sights they passed, and Rahne was doing a bad job of hiding the fact that she was staring at Illyana in disgust.

Sam noticed that something was wrong with Rahne and walked over to her. He asked if she was okay.

"Shh, Sam." Rahne whispered. "She'll hear you."

"Who?" he asked. "Illyana?"

"Sam, she's a witch."

"So? You're a werewolf."

"I know. Witch and werething are both the spawn of Satan."

"Hold it right there child." Sam said. "I'm a religious guy myself. And I'm a few years older than you. What you can do doesn't make you good or bad. It's what you do that does that. Give yourself a chance to prove that you're good, then give Illyana the same."

Illyana, who heard the whole thing, thought 'If you only knew, Sam… If you only knew…'

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When they arrived they hid in the woods near the Academy and took off their school clothes, revealing their uniforms underneath. They all stopped and stared, however, when they saw that Illyana also had a uniform.

"We didn't know the professor had given you a uniform." Sam said.

"He didn't." Illyana answered. "This was Kitty's. And let me make one thing clear. I have no intention or desire to ever be a New Mutant." With that, she started to walk toward the school.

Dani caught up with her and asked "Why are you being so cold?"

"I'm just returning the favor." she replied.

As they approached the building Illyana cast a cloaking spell to hide them. She then led them throught the school to the bunker where Kitty had been held. She dropped the cloaking spell when they found Kitty tied up in the center of the bunker.

When Illyana tried to untie Kitty her hands passed straight through her roommate. "it's a telepathic illusion!" she shouted. "We've been tricked!" Inwardly she cursed herself. 'I should've noticed. First S'ym and now this. I've got to pay more attention to my mystic senses."

Suddenly, the rescue party was surrounded by armed guards. And above them was another telepathic mirage, of Kitty and the White Queen.

"Welcome to my school." the White Queen said. "I'm sure you'll enjoy it here."/

I always thought that given how the New Mutants treated her it was kind of strange that she agreed to join them so quickly. Oh, and future updates will probably not be this fast.