New Mutants #5-6: And Now For Our Corporate Mandated Toy Based Crossover

We open with Xavier dealing with his psychosomatic pain and getting all flustered because his attempt to work out his legs disrupted his psychic connection with the New Mutants, who are attending a local fair. Lilandra tells him to chill.

Anyway, Roberto is excited because "Team America" a motorcycle stunt group is going to be performing. During the show, a group of armed people attack, trying to draw out a mysterious Dark Rider, who appears whenever they are in trouble. Anyway, the New Mutants and the attackers tussle, then Silver Samurai shows up, beats the shit out of them, then the Dark Rider appears and SS beats them too, and unmasked the Dark Rider is... Dani? He escapes with the captured New Mutant.

Viper and Silver Samurai show up to Team America and insist that they steal some crystal they want in exchange for their hostage. But then, Xavier and the New Mutants show up to explain who the Dark Rider is: Apparently Team America is a mutant that can project their combined experience on to one person. They had instinctually used it on Dani in the earlier fight. Xavier intends to train them to steal the crystal, so they can get enough time to get the X-Men involved.

Karma has other ideas though. The New Mutants attack her uncle, the corrupt General to convince him to tell them about Viper's whereabouts, when threats don't work, she agrees to serve him for one year in exchange for the information, much to everyone else's objections.

With everything set up we get two action scenes. Team America infiltrating and stealing the crystal, and the New Mutants attacking Viper's stronghold. Both are successful, but in the middle of each, Xavier and Karma were attacked by some mysterious psychic entity.

With Dani saved, Viper's base explodes with the team still inside...

X-Tra Notes: Team America is dumb. It was 100% just a thing to sell toys, as the toy company that got Marvel to make them had all the molds from when they did an Evil Knievel toyline, but no longer had the rights to it. The storyline itself isn't great, but it does set up the "death" of Karma and the return of a one off villain thought dead.