Logan's training continues...and he's got his sights set on Sabretooth.

The X-Men were training in the Danger Room. Their objective was to catch Magneto. However, all of their attacks proved futile. Cypher, Sunspot & new comer Psylocke watched from the observation room. Sunspot was angry that Shadowcat was classed as an X-Men even though she was younger than some New Mutants members. Psylocke wondered where she would fit in; as an inexperienced X-Men, or a mature New Mutant.

The training session was also observed by Spiral, Mojo & Major Domo. Domo's accounts showed that the adventure in the Wildways (see New Mutants Annual #2) had cost Mojo greatly. However, Mojo dismissed Poverty and began scheming to have the X-Men as his own performers. Mojo pressed a button on his control display.

In the Danger Room a magical ball of plasma energy appeared. It caused all of their mutant abilities to go haywire; Wolverine's claws extended & Colossus reverted to human. It exploded, throwing a blond man on the floor and covering everyone in the Danger Room in a strange ectoplasmic goop. Psylocke ran into the Danger Room with a medi-kit. Using her telepathic powers, she could sense that the blond man's memories were jumbled and incoherent. Nightcrawler observed that the mysterious new arrival only had three fingers on each hand, to which Storm reminded him that he only had two. From up in the control room, Cypher asked for a sample of the slime that they were all covered in, but it suddenly disappeared. The X-Men left the Danger Room. Storm carried the stranger, and realised that he was abnormally light for a man of his size. Magneto ordered them all to be decontimated, but Psylocke couldn't shake the feeling that something was horribly wrong.

As the sun rose the next morning, Storm thought someone had played a pracical joke by swapping her rob for one much larger. She greeted her plants just as a terrible scream filled the mansion. Magik called everyone into her bedroom to see Lockheed guarding a terrified and remarkably smaller Shadowcat. The New Mutants arrived first and were rudely pushed out of the way by the X-Men. All the New Mutants were unaffected, but they quickly noticed the change in height and age of the X-Men. In the secret underground complex, Cypher used a holographic display to highlight the problem. The X-Men refused to accept that they had shrunken in height & age, and continued to display bratty behaviour. Psylocke arrived to notify them that the mystery blond man had woken up.

In the sick bay, all the girls swooned around the blond man's bed. He was an amnesiac who didn't know his own name. The New Mutants huddled in the corner ,ignored by the increasingly immature X-Men. Cypher and Warlock entered the Danger Room to see if they could find any traces of the slime that had covered the X-Men. Warlock was against a gestalt merge, but Cypher stated it was his decision. By merging, they detected traces of the Transmode Virus. However, it wasn't from Warlock's father Magus, but was similar to the technology responsible for transforming children into Mojo's Bratpack (see New Mutants Annual #2). They went to warn the others.

Psylocke had used her telepathy to discover the stranger's name, and the location of the creature who was to blame for their current situation. Rogue was smitten with Longshot, and Wolverine was gung-ho for a fight. The ran to the door, but were blocked by the New Mutants. Mirage tried to explain that they shouldn't leave, but was distracted by Warlock & Cypher's arrival. Taking the opportunity, Magneto zapped the New Mutants with an electro-magnetic bolt. The X-Men stepped over the unconscious New Mutants and climbed into the limousine.

They left the car in central park, but by then many of them had decreased in age to a point that their mutant powers would no longer work. As one of the oldest, Magneto still had powers and used it to distrac

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