Lifedeath II, in #198, gets Storm away from the mansion and puts her beside Shani, a pregnant woman trying to get home. Ororo is still struggling, but somebody else needs help r…

Lifedeath II, in #198, gets Storm away from the mansion and puts her beside Shani, a pregnant woman trying to get home. Ororo is still struggling, but somebody else needs help right in front of her. Helping with the birth gives her something immediate to do that matters. She doesn't need lightning for it. She needs to stay there, use what she knows and help this woman through it. The Asgard story offers a very different way out. Loki gives her Stormcaster and the chance to wield that kind of power again. Of course, Loki has his own reasons for making the offer. Storm eventually rejects what he's trying to make of her. Then she returns to the leadership question in #201 and beats Cyclops in the Danger Room while she still has no powers. Scott is distracted by his own problems, and Ororo uses the situation and the room intelligently. She has already been leading these people. Taking away the weather control hasn't taken away her ability to understand a fight.