Angel is kidnapped by the Morlocks! This will be the first appearance of the Morlocks (with the exception of Caliban, who was retroactively made a member), a group of mutants who are mutated in ways that make them less acceptable to the surface world, so hide in an abandoned government built nuclear shelter built under NYC.
Anyway the team heads underground in chase (minus Wolverine, who is still in Japan), and run across a few of the Morlocks. This leads to Kitty getting infected by Plague, and she gets separated from the group and is deathly ill. Caliban finds her and tries to take care of her, but can't do much about it as Plague's powers are just deadly as hell.
The rest of the team gets captured, and the leader of the Morlocks, Callisto, apparently intends to force marriage on the captured Angel, cause you know, he's pretty and she is a selfish twat. The X-Men escape momentarily, and Nightcrawler holds Callisto captive, but then Plague hits Storm with her whammy juice, forcing Nightcrawler to surrender.
After this, Caliban shows up with Kitty because she asked him to save the X-Men, and she agrees to stay with him if he does. He asks Callisto to heal Kitty, but she refuses and says the only way to do it would be to beat her in 1 on 1 combat to take command of the Morlocks. Storm challenges her, and in a fight without powers, just stabs her in the heart.
She takes command of the Morlocks at this point and commands them to release everyone and heal her and Kitty. They then leave.
Along the way, we have multiple sideplots happening in the background. Scott is getting to know Madelyne Pryor and it is a super fast romance plot. He also reveals he is the mutant superhero Cyclops, and she is fine with it. There is also a sideplot happening involving something mysterious going on, Emma Frost was put into a coma by some mental force, Destiny is having some futures hidden from her. Also Rogue has ran off and Mystique isn't sure why.
X-Tra Notes: This is a pretty good story, with the first introduction of the Morlocks, and the beginning of "Mohawk Storm" (not the outfit, but the more wild and less "I am above everything" personality). Though honestly, I still feel the fight makes zero sense and is another case of "Storm is better than everyone at everything" that unfortunately a lot of X-Men writers, including Claremont, love. Seriously she fought one on one with no powers against a trained combatant who was both physically superhuman and possessed superhuman senses, while incredibly sick from Plague's powers (which hit Kitty so hard she couldn't even walk). It's honestly bullshit.
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