Part of the "Inferno" X-Over
Story: Speed Demon! (28 pages)
Feature Characters: Leech, Artie, Skids, Rusty, Rictor, Boom Boom, Wiz Kid
Regular Characters:
Guest Stars: X-Factor: Beast, Iceman, Marvel Girl, Cyclops (as a projection from Artie)
Villains: Limbo demons including N'Astirh, Crotus
Other Characters: Tim, Helen, and baby Timmy; Jermaine, baby Russel
Credits:
Writer: Louise Simonson
Pencils: Jon Bogdanove
Inks: Al Milgrom
Letters: Joe Rosen
Colors: John Wellington
Editor: Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
Synopsis: NOTE: this is part of the Inferno crossover.
N'Astirh makes a deal with Hodge, granting him immortality. His servants bring Artie and Leech to him, thinking they are babies, and he yells at them for incompetence, and says they can eat the mutants after their work is complete. He is having trouble doing magic on earth; the ether is too dense.
Artie is able to send a visual message that guides the X-Terminators to him in New York. But Rusty makes them stop and try to call X-Factor. To get a quarter, Boom Boom demolishes a Pepsi machine, but Taki rebuilds it. Rusty can't get through on the phone, so they head to New York, after stopping to get some clothes (courtesy Taki's trust fund) and take the name X-Terminators (after X-Factor, see X-Factor 8).
The demons find baby Timmy in the ‘burbs, attack his parents and kidnap him. They observe the X-Terminators and hear that Taki's computer has a spellchecker, and think that will help N'Astirh cast spells, so they pursue them.
New York is hot and full of trash, and the phones still don't work. Only Taki believes they are fighting goblins, and when he follows one alone, he is kidnapped. That convinces the rest of the team, who fight off the demons but can't save Taki. N'Astirh is about to enter the computer age.