When Mirage is severely injured after a confrontation with the mystical Demon Bear, the same creature believed to be responsible for the deaths of her parents, it's up to her teammates The New Mutants to find a way to thwart the deviant machinations of the sinister entity before it infects the world with it's shadow. Meanwhile, Mirage clings to life in the Mid-County Medical Center near Salem, New York, unable to aid her friends in their fight.