 Illyana spends three years learning magic from Belasco, while secretly reading every book in his library, plotting his downfall.Alone in her room, she attempts to imitate the creation powers Storm showed her by forming an acorn from a part of herself, only to find the acorn is black and rotten.Hearing Belasco's voice outside her room, she panics, and her mutant power to create teleportational light discs manifests itself.