With the help of Cannonball, Karma, Psyche, and Sunspot, the Professor was saved and he agreed to train the team of New Mutants. Rahne soon became involved in a rescue mission to save the Professor from Donald Pierce, who was still affiliated with the Hellfire Club. Doctor MacTaggert became a surrogate mother to the young mutant and took her under her protection, then took Rahne to America, to be schooled by Professor Charles Xavier. At the end of the chase, Rahne fell unconscious and reverted to her naked human form at the feet of Dr. Led by Reverend Craig, they chased Rahne across the Scottish highlands. A group of terrified, religious locals believed that she had been possessed by the devil. When Rahne first developed her mutant power of lycanthropy, she was mistaken for a werewolf. Reverend Craig's treatment of Rahne during her first fourteen years was harsh, instilling a strict religious and traditionally Catholic moral code into her from a young age to compensate for his own lapse in character which led to her conception. Her father was the local Presbyterian minister, Reverend Craig, who raised Rahne as an orphan without revealing that he was her father from an illicit relationship.

Rahne's mother, a local sex worker, would never know her as she died in childbirth the night she was born. Moira MacTaggert, who happened to live locally. Rahne Sinclair was born in the north highlands of Ullapool, Scotland and was delivered by Dr. 1.7 Xavier Institute and the Paragon Squad.

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