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Classic X-Men # 16
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A crowd once attacked Magneto, preventing him from rescuing his daughter Anya from a fire. Enraged, he used his newly manifested powers to slay the mob and the innocent onlookers. (Classic X-Men #12)
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Years after Illyana’s funeral, reality was briefly re-written by the deranged Scarlet Witch. In the altered timeline, mutants ruled the world with Magneto’s family, the so-called “House of M”, being in charge. Illyana was very much alive and a junior SHIELD agent in training of the group called the Hellions.  She was presumably younger than the other members as she had grown up naturally instead of spending several years in Limbo. The Hellions had a feud with the Xavier Institute students but eventually worked together to expose a ring of Japanese geneticists. While the others were left fighting, Illyana was ordered to teleport away to expose everything. [New X-Men (2nd series) #16-19]
Right thereafter, most the Scarlet Witch’s tampering was undone, and it seemed Illyana was again gone. However, there were some unexpected after-effects to the event. Spying from another dimension, Belasco had witnessed his former pupil being alive and wanted her to return to his side. When he couldn’t locate Illyana, he assumed she had gone into hiding, which is why he returned to Limbo to vanquish Illyana’s successor, the new Magik aka Amanda Sefton. Driven by his obsessive love for her, Belaco then attempted to recreate Illyana from shards of her being. What he got was a soulless version instead – the part demonic Darkchild who had all of Illyana’s memories but not her soul. Disgusted by his creation, Belasco banished the Darkchild from his castle.
To find the real Illyana he kidnapped the ones he last saw with her - the (counterparts of the) students of the Xavier Institute. One group of students became his prisoners whom he tortured for information while a second group landed in another part of Limbo, due to the influence of the Darkchild. She offered to help them rescue their friends, but for that she needed a new Soulsword. The Darkchild more or less forced Pixie to agree and then created a bloodstone from a part of Pixie’s soul for an amulet of her own, causing a Souldagger to  manifest for Pixie. Actually the Darkchild wanted to take more of her soul, but was stopped by Rockslide. Teaching Pixie a teleportation spell that allowed her to transport the entire group to Belasco’s citadel, Illyana was able to destroy her former master. Now mistress of Limbo, Illyana greedily intended to take the rest of Pixie’s soul for her own. However that moment the X-Men came to the rescue and Illyana was ashamed when Colossus saw her in her demonic state. As she teleported everyone but herself back to the Xavier Institute, she vowed she would regain her soul. [New X-Men (2nd series) #37-41]
A first step to that would be getting back the Bloodstone amulet with three pieces of her soul and her own Soulsword. Soon Limbo was embroiled in conflict. While Illyana was searching for those objects, she was unaware that the other side’s leader, Witchfire - the mysterious daughter of Belasco - had the bloodstone amulet and planned to complete  her father’s work. When on Earth Pixie accidentally hurt Nightcrawler and drew the Soulsword out of him, Darkchild sensed her magical weapon and teleported into the Danger Room to confront them. After a heated battle with Pixie, Illyana regained her Soulsword and instantly became more human again in body and personality. Still she fled from the X-Men and teleported back to Limbo where unfortunately she became a prisoner of Witchfire.
Fortunately, the X-Men sent a squad after her. Some among the group, like Colossus, came because they wanted to save her, while others, like Pixie, had more selfish motives for coming. In fact, Pixie wanted to achieve the same as Illyana, namely reclaim the missing piece of her soul. However, things didn’t quite work out like that. Intent on getting five bloodstones to complete an amulet and evoke the Elder Gods, Witchfire magically combined the amulet containing Illyana’s three bloodstones with Pixie’s single one and proceeded to draw a fifth and final bloodstone from Pixie’s soul.
With Illyana freed by Nightcrawler and the other X-Men who kept Witchfire momentarily busy, Illyana and Pixie managed to pry the fifth bloodstone loose before the dimensional walls came tumbling down, though instead of directly returning to Pixie’s essence, the newly created bloodstone became part of her Souldagger. In the confusion, Witchfire managed to escape with the amulet. Still feeling inhuman, Illyana did not want to come with the X-Men despite her brother’s pleas. However after Nightcrawler and Cyclops lectured her on the meaning of humanity and family she promised to give it a try. [X-Infernus #1-4]
Her resolution didn’t last. Illyana left again and spent years searching for the bloodstones. In her travels she eventually met Witchfire again  and killed her with the Soulsword. Upon her rival’s death, the Darkchild learned that Witchfire had lured the X-Men and the New Mutants into a trap. For reasons unknown, Xavier’s students had travelled to Limbo just as the Elder Gods were about to arrive. Illyana tried to warn her former teammates of the imminent danger, but arrived too late. All of the X-Men and the New Mutants died in battle. At that point, Illyana decided to travel back in time, to a point shortly after she started her quest, to make sure that the timeline she had just witnessed would not come true. [New Mutants (3rd series) #9]
As she arrived, Cyclops had just sent Dani Moonstar and Karma on a mission to locate a new mutant in a small town. Illyana managed to convince Cannonball that their two friends were in grave danger, and he in turn gathered the remaining members of the original New Mutants for a rescue mission. Once the group made it to the small town, Magik got distracted by the abduction of a young girl named Marci. Illyana was able to empathize as Marci’s situation reminded her of her own peril as Belasco’s slave. Eventually, the New Mutants learned the identity of the culprit behind all their troubles; it was Legion, who had absorbed both the personalities of Marci and Karma into his own scattered psyche. These two were not the only ones Legion had absorbed, and while the many personalities in his head were fighting for dominance, he gave the New Mutants a run for their money.
 Eventually Illyana allowed him to absorb her psyche too. In Legion’s mind, she pragmatically killed several uppity personalities with her Soulsword until she was led to the prisoners and the peaceful central personality of Legion was restored to being the one in charge. When Karma learned that an evil personality of Legion had abused and killed Marci right before the child’s personality was absorbed, Illyana offered her Soulsword for her to kill that personality. Once back in the physical world, Illyana willingly took the rap for having killed that one as well. [New Mutants (3rd series) #1-5]
While her teammates are loyal to her – though Magma is somewhat suspicious – Illyana so far has been mysterious, at times calculating, at times childlike, willing to break rules the others wouldn’t. She is also avoiding her brother Colossus, who keeps reminiscing about the past and his little sister as he remembers her. Illyana, on the other hand, knows for sure that she isn’t the same person anymore and rather than live in the past she is preparing herself for the challenges the future may hold. [Nation X #1]
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