(Cover Date: July, 1988)

Summary: After Colossus expresses his concern that Illyana may be in danger, Gateway teleports him to Limbo, where Illyana, as the Darkchilde, is facing off against S'ym & his demon horde. Illyana thinks that Colossus is a necromantic shade of her dead brother. She takes him to rescue the New Mutants, who are being held by characters out of a Russian novel due to some sorcery. Colossus' organic steel banishes the witch-crone, Baba Yaga, along with the others. Illyana saves the New Mutants from Baba Yaga's spell using a counterspell in Limbo. Colossus vanishes after encouraging his sister to strive to be good & to not succumb to evil. S'ym reforms after having been shattered by Colossus & reasserts his control over his horde. more