Temptation

• Writer - John Francis Moore
• Penciler - Jim Cheung
• Inker - Mark Morales
• Lettering - Chris Eliopoulos
• Colorist - Marie Javins
• Editor - Jason Liebig
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Bobby dreams of his girlfriend Juliana, who died taking a Hellfire Club bullet for him (Marvel Graphic Novel #4), then wakes in a fancy hotel. He is a celebrity, with groupies, and he saved one from a fall. He realizes it's an illusion from Selene and confronts her. She has X-Force in the Hellfire Club and is playing with their minds.

  James sees the massacre at Camp Verde but is not able to do anything about it; Meltdown sees a man in New York who had his head blow off; Sam sees coal miners dying of black lung; Jesse sees himself in a mental institution. Selene wants Bobby to join the Hellfire Club (his father was a member, New Mutants 12) and shows him a future where he advises the President and makes the world better for mutants. Bobby refuses and blasts away and frees his teammates.

  Blackheart advises Selene: appeal to his heroism. They send demons acting as Hellfire Club goons to fight X-Force.

  Dani is captive in the basement, where Blackheart is about to kill her, but then Hela shows up, claims her soul, and frees her. Dani uses her power to scare away the demons, then the team is confronted by Selene and Blackheart. They have taken Juliana from Purgatory and use her to blackmail Bobby into joining the Club, as Black Rook. Juliana's soul is put into a recently deceased girl's body in Baltimore.