New Mutants #81

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Note: This is a 'filler' issue with a one-off flashback story.  The continuation of the Asgard story featuring the New Mutants is one-issue later in New Mutants  # 82. There was a wedding inside a catholic church in South America.  Magma stood overlooking the town from the mountainside.  She thought about how her own religion was considered barbarian yet it also had roots in Rome.  Transforming into Magma, she began to reshape the ground around her when Empath arrived.  He wore a suit and had arrived fresh from the marriage ceremony where he had been a guest.  As they walked back towards Nova Roma Empath called the Nova Romans pagan.  To retaliate Magma asked him to prove the power of his God.  When Empath was unable to provide evidence of God, she began to recall a story of when she had met one of her Gods. At a time before Karma had left the New Mutants, Magma still attended Xavier's School for the Gifted and Cypher was alive, the whole team had gone to the cinema.  They laughed at the terrible acting from the Hercules film, and Warlock took an interest in the tacked-on romantic sub-plot.  As they left the cinema the other continued to joke and play around.  However, Magma began to feel quiet & lonely.  That night she retired to her bedroom, lit the incense and began to pray to the Gods of Olympus for guidance.  A might breeze poured through the open window and a clap of thunder heralded the arrival of Hercules.  He stood in the open window, towering in the shadows.  At first he greeted Magma in Latin and she was over-joyed to be in his presence.  However, when she switched the light on she was shocked and angered to see that it was the same man who had been in the terrible movie she'd seen earlier that afternoon.Magma woke the other New Mutants, angrily pounding on their bedroom doors demanding an apology.  Magma believed that they were playing a practical joke on her, but the others were just as astounded to see Hercules there as she was....