BIOGRAPHY - Page 5
Xuân soon decided that she wanted to take a step back from engaging in mutant heroics. Instead, she spent a lot of her time keeping watch over and teaching the now adult Limbo Baby, Face, who was brought to Utopia. Despite being warned by Dani how dangerous Face was, Xuân was determined to do right by him. When Dani arranged for a psychiatrist to interview the members of 
her team, Karma, despite stepping back from an active role on the team, was also interviewed. The psychiatrist accused her of being selfish in the way that she alone was teaching and looking after Face. [New Mutants (3rd series) #25, 28]
When a schism separated the mutants of Utopia, Karma opted to leave Utopia for Westchester, where Wolverine had re-established a school for gifted youngsters, the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, and took Face with her, believing he would benefit from the school environment. [New Mutants (3rd series) #33] At the School, Karma was assigned the role of Junior Staff Member. [Wolverine & the X-Men (1st series) #1]
Karma reunited with her good friend Kitty Pryde, who was co-headmistress at the Jean Grey School, and the two of them took Karma's younger siblings to the American Museum of Natural History. It was there that Karma broke down in front of her friend. She was upset about how the decisions of others had impacted so greatly on her life, like her father and older brother, and the men who killed her mother and assaulted her. She lamented losing her leg and seemed conflicted about ever getting involved with the X-Men. Her general belief was that, with or without the X-Men, her life was a mess. Kitty tried to comfort her friend, but Karma was not reassured that all was well.
When Karma left the museum with her siblings and Kitty, she grabbed a woman who tripped up some stairs. The woman touched Karma's arm and thanked her for helping her. Karma then received a call from Wolverine, who wanted her help with a problem. Karma reluctantly agreed to help out but told Wolverine that she was done with X-Men business after this.
The group of X-Men found themselves battling several Marauders, who were working with Chimera and the Vanisher. Karma was able to detect that the villains were being manipulated and severed the mental hold that Chimera was under. Chimera didn't know who was controlling her, and, to prove it, she reluctantly let Karma enter her mind. However, entering Chimera's mind, Karma found herself in some nightmarish realm where she was smothered by maggots. She quickly left Chimera's mind, and lied to the X-Men, telling them that she found nothing. Karma returned to the central city apartment she was staying in and, later that night, awoke to find that woman who she bumped into at the museum in her apartment room. The woman's name was Susan Hatchi, and she was impressed that Karma broke her hold over Chimera and was interested to see how she would handle the X-Men.
Karma was taken to one of Susan Hatchi's many business facilities, this one a weapon's development factory. There, Karma was forced to mentally attack Wolverine, Iceman, Gambit and Warbird and manipulate Northstar's fiancé, Kyle Jinadu. This led to a fight between the mind-controlled X-Men members. At some point, Karma was skewered with a harpoon and, when Northstar found her and Kyle in the tunnels beneath the Hatchi facility, Karma took a gun and 
warned Northstar to stay away from her, that she wasn't safe to be around. With the X-Men apparently free from her control following their fight, Karma slinked off into the tunnels, believing she was better off alone.
Karma fled the tunnels and found herself wandering the streets. Trying to break Hatchi's nanotech control over her, she reminded herself about her brother and sister. She made her way back to the Jean Grey School, where Susan Hatchi and some of her hired soldiers were waiting for her. Susan confessed to controlling Karma with nanotech because she was the most powerful of the X-Men, and she liked power. However, Karma felt there was more to it than that, and started to strangle Susan until she was pulled away by Susan's guards. Karma tried to warn Wolverine, who was complaining of a sore stomach, not to come any closer when she saw him approaching the forest where she and Susan were fighting. Unfortunately, it was too late, as Susan detonated an explosive within Wolverine.
Karma was kidnapped again by Susan and taken to an old Russian military facility, where experiments were being carried out on civilians. Karma was hooked up to some equipment and held prisoner, unable to escape. Fortunately, the X-Men were able to track her to the facility, thanks to the Hatchi explosives they discovered within Wolverine once he was medically examined and recovered. Now that she was free, Karma and the X-Men who rescued her were confronted by Susan Hatchi again. By now Karma had remembered meeting Susan once before, long ago when they were children – sisters – their father had two families.
While Xuân's family was well looked after by him, Susan (or Da'o as she was then known) and her mother were not. As the X-Men were shocked to learn that Karma and Susan were related, Susan once again demonstrated her mastery of nanotech by infecting the X-Men with nanoworms. This caused Northstar to go blind – and Susan threatened to do the same to New York unless the X-Men took control of Madripoor for her.
Karma and the other X-Men who had been involved in the Hatchi goings-on arrived in Madripoor where they faced off against humans infected with nanotech that Susan was using as her own “X-Men.” This fight was filmed and screened on live television by the media, which was seen by Karma and Susan's father – who had somehow been brought back to life. This was part of Susan's plan to enact revenge against her father for abandoning her. When Karma refused to kill her father for Susan, Susan ordered the nanoworms be released across New York, but her plan was foiled by the X-Men. Karma then used Susan's moment of confusion to enter her sister's mind, learning more about her, and assuring her that she wasn't alone. However, at that moment, their father still considering her a threat, pulled the trigger, shooting Susan dead. Karma's father was then taken away by authorities and he told Karma to forget about him, as he would be dead soon anyway.
Afterwards, Karma inherited Hatchi Tech, a privately held company worth billions of dollars. Karma decided not to tell her younger siblings about their father being alive, but that she would tell them about their sister, Susan. [Astonishing X-Men (3rd series) #49-56]
Despite living on the other side of the country, Karma maintained a connection with her former New Mutants team, assisting them on occasion. [New Mutants 3rd series) #46] The New Mutants also visited Karma at the Jean Grey School. During one such visit, Karma was with Face when the youth suddenly lost control of his powers and seemingly killed Karma. However, this was part of a bizarre alternate reality and Karma was revealed to be alive and still taking care of Face. [New Mutants (3rd series) #47, 49] Karma remained working with the X-Men squad with who, she had worked during her family crisis. Also during this time, she formed a connection with the alien Warbird, due to them both feeling like outcasts. [Astonishing X-Men (3rd series) #57-58]
Karma also began to worry for the safety of her younger siblings, wondering if they would ever escape the relentless attacks on mutantkind, and whether her siblings would get to live “normal” lives. [Astonishing X-Men (3rd series) Annual #1] Karma also considered selling Hatchi Tech but, after looking into some of the weapons and technology that her sister was developing, decided against it, for fear that they would fall into the wrong hands. [Astonishing X-Men (3rd series) #62] Karma later aided her new friend Warbird, who was having a crisis of identity – unsure she could be the warrior she was born to be, and make beautiful art at the same time. Karma assured her that the two could go hand-in-hand. Around the same time, the squad with whom Karma had been working ceased operating together and disbanded. [Astonishing X-Men (3rd series) #68]