After his son Warlock refuses to kill him and joins the New Mutants on Earth, Magus follows him before being repelled by the X-Men Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Rogue.

A combined force consisting of several Avengers, Wolfsbane and two newer super-powered people, Hope and Psimon, confronted him during his attack on New York.

Magus was defeated when Douglock combined his abilities with Hope's matter-transformation powers and was thought to have returned to his home planet.

[volume & issue needed] It was eventually discovered that before Magus left Earth, he placed an offspring underwater.

"[5] As it was in a mindless state, Bastion rewrote its programming and infected Donald Pierce and the Leper Queen, as well as reviving the lifeless remains of Bolivar Trask, Cameron Hodge, Stephen Lang, Graydon Creed and Reverend William Stryker with the Technarch virus.

[6] Later the All-New X-Factor, a privately owned and operated super-team handpicked by Serval Industries' CEO Harrison Snow, while investigating a high tech organization rival to Serval Industries, unexpectedly discover that Magus was once again on Earth and heading up the corporation.

Presented with the fact that Magus only is merely running his own corporation, the All-New X-Factor was forced to leave.