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X-Men Vol 2 18
History
I've been from the future to the past and back again, only to realize that I'm always running out of time... Just like everyone does... Because time itself has always been there ever since, and there's no way out of it...
- — Cable
- — Cable
Early Years
Before his birth in the spring of 2014, the destiny of Nathan Christopher Charles Summers was somehow already planned before his parents had the chance to get together and planned to conceive an offspring. The mad mutated geneticist Mister Sinister had analyzed and predicted that a distinct union between the X-Men Scott Summers and Jean Grey would produce a powerful genetically superior mutant. Sinister hoped he could control such a mutant and use it to overcome or control his and master and eventually, immortal adversary, Apocalypse. However, it would later that Sinister would use for other nefarious purposes, after it was shown later on that he has found a way to put Apocalypse back into deep hibernation by infecting his mind with a more lethal, modified version of the Techno-Organic Virus of his own design, derived from samples Apocalypse had first introduced to him before.
Ultimate War
At some point later on, specifically prior the traumatic and life-changing events of Ultimate War, Scott and Jean have started professing their great and undying love for each other to the point once more, through thick and thin, where Scott eventually proposed to Jean, marking another great step towards their fruitful relationship, a relationship that has lasted for several years by then. When they suddenly meets the unexpected, Jean later became pregnant and had a son whom they named Nathan Christopher Charles Summers, "Nathan" came from a random telepathic suggestion as she listened to some of the residents across the Westchester County through the Cerebro, later to be revealed as a Mister Sinister in disguise, who was still in hiding in preparation for the Movement, "Christopher" from Scott's father, and "Charles" from both Scott and Jean's father figure and mentor, Professor Xavier.
Unfortunate to Jean, Scott was away helping the X-Men during a mission when she was having her painful labor at the mansion. Because of this, one of the X-Men's greatest adversary, Sinister himself had paid to visit Jean inside the mansion undetected, disguising himself as one of its residents. As Jean immediately detected of Essex's hostile presence, she tried to warn everyone else inside the mansion, only to be single-handedly overpowered by Sinister as he counteracted most of Jean's telepathic attacks at him. Painfully asking Essex why he came into the mansion, Sinister maniacally ridiculed her question, telling her that he came to give her his late gift for not attending her baby shower. Screaming with pain, it triggered a disturbance into Professor X's mind, who immediately hears her cries telepathically after their mission, causing for Scott to extremely worry as they returned into the mansion.
Born Into War
By the time Scott and the X-Men has arrived to occupy during her child birth, they were late, Sinister had already left without everyone else knowing and she had already given birth to her child with the help of some of the mansion's residents. However, it was already too late for them, since Sinister has secretly infected the child with a mysterious pathogen known as the Techno-Organic Virus — something that Sinister had been secretly experimenting as a prototype — that was rapidly spreading through his body and, sadly enough, it already did kill the child before they could have save him, as he was born in the world.
Stricken with grief and loss for losing their first and only son, Scott and Jean had vowed vengeance against Essex, as they did, during the eventual finale of Ultimate War after using all their fullest and mightiest powers at Essex in order to defeat the cynical and sadistic villain, incinerating the villain into ash and apparently killing him, successful into avenging the "death" of their son Nathan, once and for all. Nathan's infant body was eventually cremated, along with all the other fallen heroic mutants who have risked their lives were buried at the newly-established memorial garden of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, behind the X-Mansion, as an act of honoring those who have passed away for the sake of the greater good.
Saved Out of Time
On the bright side of it all, it was not necessarily the end for their son's life, revealing that Nathan, has survived his birth, though due to the devastating effects caused by being infected with the Techno-Organic Virus as a newborn, has made the infant Summers to be in a catatonic state. This was only revealed after when Essex had decided to take the catatonic infant from the morgue, as he replaced his place with a bio-organic dummy in his own design, that even the best known telepaths such as Xavier and even Jean herself, wouldn't have detected its ingenuity, in any sorts of ways.
Essex tried to raise and build the infant as a biological weapon, but it was eventually prevented when a mysterious figure known as Mother Askani had created a psi-bond with him, while promising to protect him and always be there for him since she apparently knew about the "original" fate of Nathan. Askani infiltrated his hidden laboratory, located in the underground dungeons of the mutant island Genosha, right after his death during Ultimate War, wherein she took and saved the infant into her home reality in the future timeline of the late 37th-early 39th century. Scott and Jean had no way of knowing that their son had turned out to be alive, was raised and had already grown up, living in an alternate future reality of their present.
Bred Into War
Nathan Summers grew up as the ruthless freedom fighter and Askani'son, Cable
Upon arriving in this future Earth, in which a domain known as Omega World was ruled by Alpha Apocalypse and his massive antibodies in the form of his Horsemen and Champions, who were currently on a cold war against the kingdom ruled by Lord Sinister — Apocalypse's former greatest follower — and his mutated forces for hundreds of years since Sinister's betrayal, Nathan was lovingly nurtured by the mysterious woman who took him from his timeline, Mother Askani, and raised Nathan with the rest of the Clan Askani. The Clan was a secret religion and alliance of freedom fighters and nomadic survivors, with some time-travelers like Mother Askani returning to the modern era back and forth, dedicated to upholding the X-Men's selfless beliefs and battling Apocalypse. Realizing how their prophecy was coming into fruition, the Clan Askani worshiped Nathan as the prophesied "Dayspring" and "Askani'son."
Mother Askani placed the infant Nathan in an futuristic incubation crib to preserve his life, where after several days after his eventual recovery from the virus due to the help of a newly-developed antidote, began to raise Nathan as the new face and the messianic figure of the Clan Askani and this reality itself, deciding to raise the infant as a brave and mighty soldier who could potentially succeed her as the future leader of the Clan Askani once he has already grown up, along with his entire training and education finished in a world ran by chaos and savage civilizations.
For the next several years of his life in the divergent future reality, Nathan had grown up just as Mother Askani and the prophecies had hoped and expected for him to be, becoming the one of the bravest and most skilled fighters the heroic clan ever has to offer in years, since it first formed. Later on, Nathan joined the higher ranks of Mother Askani and the clan, enacting their calculated attacks against Omega World and the Citadel of Sinister and fighting both forces from the more conserved yet dominant Alpha Apocalypse and rivaling the adaptive yet merciless Lord Sinister; Nate subsequently gained a notorious, honorific "nom de guerre" of his own: Cable.
During his extreme training as the perfect super-soldier of the Askani, Mother Askani has also introduced Nathan his own mutant powers and abilities, learning to harness and completely learn what he's truly capable of (being the son of Jean Grey and Scott Summers), but without having to fully reveal his true parental heritage, due to Mother Askani believing, that it is "what's truly best for his own good," replacing it with a made-up tragic story that both of Nate's parents were killed, decades before the formation of the Clan Askani, in the crossfire between Apocalypse's and Lord Sinister's forces.
In his first few years as the soldier the Clan Askani has once prophesied about, Nathan felt loneliness. However, all of that did thankfully change, when Nate eventually meets the very special woman that would change his entire life during as brutal mission against Lord Sinister as they infiltrated his kingdom, in the search for the prototype of a biological weapon that would ultimately decimate all of the world's mutant population if they lose the chance to stop it. At the same time during this very mission, Cable then learned through the words of Lord Sinister himself after he and his unit were able to surround and restrain him, implying that just as he once pictured him in his vision. Attempting to turn the young soldier against his allies when he found out the true identity of Nathan Dayspring and its correlation with the House of Daysprings, Sinister told Cable about his true origins, and how his parents are still alive, and well in the past.
Unfortunately, this revelation would be the domino effect in making the rest of the mission of the Askani fail with their progress, and although all of the Legacy Virus samples were destroyed through incineration, Lord Sinister was able to escape from the captivity of Cable and his unit and still successfully made him and his forces wreak havoc on Apocalypse's vast citadel, destroying it in the end of their failed mission. Sadly enough, Nathan's unit was all decimated by Sinister's forces, except for him, and yet, he wouldn't have made the kingdom alive, if it wasn't for the woman whom he met earlier, who later introduced herself as Aliya Dayspring. Realizing that he somewhat stole her and her family's surname just for a messianic title, Cable sincerely apologized to her and his family, though she insisted to him that apologizing wasn't necessary, saying that most of her family had already died a long time ago protecting and fighting for the prophecy of the Askani'son. Nathan would later impress the young woman and the two begin to feel an romantic attraction and spiritual connection with each other, a connection that would develop overtime.
While finding love with Aliya, comradery and new family with Clan Askani and their smaller task force, Clan Chosen, Cable would also come face to face with threats from either Apocalypse and Sinister or the outside wastelands who stood in their way in bringing about the end of both the former tyrants. Some of his enemies spanned from the subterranean mutant deceitful and deranged Goblin Queen who supposedly ruled the underworld to the Alpha's adopted children and deadliest warriors known as the Dark Riders, which included the mysterious assassin Stryfe, the Inhuman general Gauntlet, and the tactical lieutenant Genesis, whom the latter was the unhinged brother of Aliya Dayspring who sided with Apocalypse due to his mutant supremacists views and his delusion that he was the "Dayspring" in the prophecy of Askani. Cable's ruthless adversaries only hardened him into bettering himself as a brilliant tactician and ruthless defender who would do whatever it takes in order to protect his people and eventually slay Apocalypse, who was now attained his status as an External mutant hellbent on conquering worlds beyond Earth as he was fully imbued by the cosmic powers of the Celestial Gardeners, becoming their herald for a time before betraying them to harness his powers only for himself and his Omega World.
Truth of Divergence
Cable decided to meet Mother Askani in secret and confront her about what Lord Sinister has told him at his citadel. At first, Mother Askani repeatedly doubted that she doesn't know anything about what he was told, but after, Mother Askani had no other choice but to tell Cable the truth about his past, admitting that Nate was the prodigal mutant son of the past X-Men couple, Jean Grey and Scott Summers. These mutants were revealed to one of the greatest heroes on Earth and the Milky Way Galaxy since the 21st century, and in this timeline, their prime version of Nathan — known as Nate Grey — remained under the experimentations of Sinister for a time until he grew up into adolescence, before his survival was discovered by the X-Men.
In Nate's place since his presumed death for decades, five unnamed children of Grey and Summers (dubbed the "Phoenix Five") were born and grew up to be among the newest and most powerful members of the X-Men, and were also among the leading pioneers of humanity's collective intergalactic expedition to peacefully develop communities and initiate diplomacies outside of Earth as a part of their mission to counteract the provocative threat of Master Mold and the lesser Nimrod Sentinels. However, at some point in 2035, a greater threat rivaled the Sentinels when Apocalypse has gathered enough enhanced followers and alongside Mister Sinister once more after showing his loyalty to Apocalypse in desperation, they finally coerced Nate into his growing alliance as a part of the Great Trials, this godly mutant's endgame to reshape all of life on Earth into his image, Omega World, with Apocalypse being its self-proclaimed Alpha.
When the X-Men declined and fought against Apocalypse for almost a decade, the Alpha had already absorbed enough powers of other mutants for his own to face and kill most the X-Men and secretly extract their DNA, to which Apocalypse and even Sinister had preserved in the next thousands of years among other samples of fallen enhanced individuals whom they had slayed under the hands of their forces. While most of the X-Men in the modern age were slain, Jean Grey managed to snap their prodigal son into his normal self, giving him her and the X-Men's memories before being taken over by the Phoenix and leaving Earth. With no one as powerful and courageous left to face Apocalypse beside the guilt-ridden Nate, entire civilizations and races were wiped out in its wake throughout their millennia of conquest and slaughter, with some of the only survivors lived under his rule in the now created Omega World within the continent of what used to be most of the Americas.
While Apocalypse became the founder and Alpha of Omega World, turning the whole biosphere into his and his people's paradise, his Horsemen started to function as his active antibodies, cleansing Omega World of anything that could do him harm as they slowly tried to expand their master's domain by facing off against the surviving allies of the X-Men led by restored and revered Nate Grey, a group that would eventually be named the Clan Askani. After fighting for hundreds of years as a messianic figure for mutantkind on Earth, Grey would meet his demise at the hands of the all-powerful Apocalypse, although he sacrificed his life so that Mother Askani, revealed to be a surviving granddaughter of Jean Grey and Scott Summers, and the rest of Askani could retrieve a significant invention of the missing Nathaniel Richards, who reluctantly and indefinitely exiled himself into the Microverse to survive from his injuries battling Apocalypse and his Horsemen.
The invention was a time-sliding device which Richards had repurposed and hid in order to avoid his fate as Kang the Conqueror, and at the hands of Clan Askani, Mother Askani had to fabricate and strengthen the prophecy of the Askani'son in order to reignite the hope and the purpose of the clan, and the surviving groups of people who still looked up to them in times of darkness that they would free the world from Apocalypse's oppressive rule. They traveled to the past year of 2014, a few months before Ultimate War, where they kept an eye over the first child of Jean Grey and Scott Summers with Mother Askani's psionic bond. This was the moment Mother Askani has found her answer to justify the prophecy and fulfill her late uncle's promise by rescuing the infant from the Legacy Virus and raising him into their timeline, training the present Nate to become the one who will slay Apocalypse and bring an end to Omega.
Stryfe's Severe Strike
Cable faces off against his future darker clone, Stryfe
Months after the unexpected death of Apocalypse at the hands of Lord Sinister and the takeover of Omega World at the hands of Essex's forces, the Stryfe was one of the named survivors who vowed to deliver the same blow at the now expanding kingdom of Sinister, and if he wouldn't be able to control his rage towards Sinister, he maybe could deliver even far worse. As a consequence of Lord Sinister's actions on ultimately destroying the vision of Apocalypse with the help of traitors led by the Goblin Queen, Stryfe continued his war against Sinister all by himself and some of Apocalypse's remaining forces, continuing to fight the fights, and battle the battles of his master.
The schism ended when Cable and the Clan Askani prevented all the chaos and destruction continuously caused by Stryfe as the rightful successor of Apocalypse, but at the cost of losing most of the Clan at the hands of Stryfe, including Mother Askani, before he would go on to kill Lord Sinister with the Sword of Apocalypse to avenge Apocalypse. Cable caught up with Stryfe and confronted him right after Sinister's assassination, wherein Stryfe was brutally knocked out and defeated by the heroic soldier. However, Stryfe revealed himself to be a clone of the late Nate Grey in an attempt to confound Cable, going as far as trying to offer his hand to him so that they could unravel his past together.
When Cable refused to side with him, Stryfe had already retrieved a miniaturized time device from Mother Askani, successfully traveling back in time moments before Cable could have stop him in doing so. Distraught and enraged by his success to travel and commence his plan's next step to awaken the past version of his fallen master, Cable was also granted by a dying Mother Askani the chance to travel back in time and follow to where Stryfe was going to next: the modern era, Cable's true home reality, and prevent him from awakening Apocalypse and ruining the reality's timeline itself and subsequently "converging" the present with their alternate future via accelerating Apocalypse's return by about a few years early.
Blast from the Past
Cable struggled to confront and search for Stryfe across the timestream in the span of what Cable would describe to be decades, a time in which he fought other threats in other timelines when he temporarily joined the multiversal-hopping team, Exiles, before eventually reaching the present to continue his mission to stop the Stryfe's Chronic Convergence. Cable first landed in the narrowest streets of New York City in the year of 2025, around the peak of summer, a landscape which he originally found to be the most underwhelming timeline in comparison to his travels during his previous missions with the Exiles. He had hoped to arrive at Xavier's Mansion in Westchester County to warn the only people he knew about the threat of Stryfe and Apocalypse, but he was yet to master the artistry of time travel. Still figuring out how to get to the mansion, Cable suddenly finds himself in the street to be in a middle of a "gang war," between notorious triads of criminals against a hooded "gangster" whom they described as a "one-man army."
In all of a sudden interest, Cable hid and watched the entire shooting commence, which seemingly ended with the "one-man army" gangster getting repeatedly shot, apparently killing the latter. Cable decided to leave the warzone, but after seeing that the gangster easily got back up after five seconds and started once again, Cable remains to watch it for a while as he tactically but calmly eliminated all of the gangsters. After eliminating the hostiles with ease, Cable approached the mysterious man at the last second, shooting off the remaining two gangsters, gaining his attention towards the hooded man. Followed by the man thanking for his help, Cable asked who he was, although the hooded man didn't take him at first, with him farcically calling himself names (e.g. Wolverine, Mistress Death, Luke Cage, because of his hood disguise, and even the actor Ryan Reynolds, whom he told shared a striking resemblance to him, before he had cancer), revealing the man to be a humorous regenerating degenerate, rather than a serious fellow, much to Cable's dismaying confusion. After their first meeting, the finally revealed and introduced himself to be Wade Wilson, also known as the infamous Merc with the Mouth: Deadpool.
Having explaining that he was a time-traveler from the future to hunt down a time-displaced terrorist on the loose to the Deadpool, the anti-hero introduced Cable into his apartment where he met his girlfriend Vanessa Carlysle, and later to his usual bar and dispatch center, Sister Margaret's School for Wayward Children, to which Deadpool and his best friend Weasel excitingly suggested that they should form an organized strike team composed of mutants, although Cable immediately declined this idea, believing that they would all instantly be dead they even take a step in facing Stryfe, and continues his search for the time-displaced villain, with the help of his new friend, Wade, at least according to Wade himself, they were instantly friends, despite Cable's repetitive rejections.
The Search for Stryfe
After suddenly remembering what was the next step in fulfilling his Stryfe's plan to awaken Apocalypse from his deep sleep, Nate and Wade first started their search by the X-Mansion, after he remembers Stryfe had previously told him that Apocalypse would have been a lot more powerful and even more successful, if the Professor was already out of his vision, sooner that he'd expected. Cable infiltrated the mansion searching for Stryfe, while Deadpool distracts the X-Men and the residents inside the mansion, especially his good friends, Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
Cable continuously searches every room, with no signs or presence of Stryfe, right until he started detecting an anomaly-like presence inside the mansion through his powerful telepathy, indicating Stryfe was indeed, still inside the mansion, waiting for his perfect timing to strike at assassinating the Professor inside his office. Stryfe's bullet had infected Professor Xavier with the Techno-Organic Virus, which was still incurable at the current time. Cable tries to block the bullet from going towards the Professor, but Stryfe's bullet has already been fired. Cable tries to subdue Stryfe as he battle him in combat, but Stryfe claims that he is much stronger than he could possibly ever be, and Apocalypse's reemergence would soon be done. After Stryfe manages to get himself off from Cable's clutches, he immediately breaks the window of the office, where he landed outside the garden, and consequently escapes the mansion. Some of the mansion's residents have seen Stryfe escaping the mansion outside, but the X-Men didn't get the chance to see him, and instead they proceeded to run to Xavier's office, where they mistakenly saw Cable as the perpetrator of the attempted assassination on the Professor.
Thankfully, Cable has brought a several dosages of the Techno-Organic Virus on his own as back-up, albeit the confusion of the X-Men, including both of his parents whom he saw for the very first time, misunderstanding as seeing Cable beside the dying Professor X, made the heroes fire all their weapons and mutant powers against Cable, interrupting his intention to save Xavier. Cable then left the Xavier's office, teleporting himself on another room inside the mansion where Deadpool was currently in, giving Wade the virus' antidote and told him that he should give it to the X-Men to treat the Professor's condition, with Wade even mistakenly referred Xavier's condition to be his paraplegic state, before teleporting once more outside the mansion to track down and follow Stryfe's path and figure out his next destination, which was then later revealed to be in Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, located in the city of Cairo, Egypt.
Parental Reunion
On his way to Sister Margaret's School for Wayward Children, Cable tried to talk to Wade about the strike force team that he previously had come up with, only to find out that Wade was having a casual drink with his company, the lethal and savage X-Man Wolverine, who immediately battled Cable afterwards, engaging in a brief but brutal fight outside the bar. Wolverine then threatened to kill Cable for "attempting to kill" the Professor, only to be told by Cable that he tried to save him, followed by giving him the same treatment, beating Logan down until he went unconscious. Little did Cable know, Wolverine unknowingly called both of his back-ups before he was taken down, Jean and Scott to deal with Cable. Deadpool even swooped in the battle for a moment, trying, with him humorously telling Cable that his intentions were nothing personal, before Cable single-handedly knocks Wade out into the air.
In the end of the battle, Cable and engaged in an uncontrollable psionic duel, only to end in a sudden tie, proving that they're telepathic abilities are just as equal and just as powerful. In the wake of the battle's aftermath, a weakened Jean still approached the lightheaded Cable, whereupon she counteracted Cable's psionic shields and successfully reads his mind, painfully revealing her and Scott as well, the entirely of Nate's life. Both Jean and Scott was in the realization of shock and awe, after discovering that all their previous years mourning for the great loss of the one they preciously created, their son was alive and well, all along. The three of them embraced as they all shed a tear, now that they have finally been reunited by fate itself.
After his brief but memorable and joyous reunion with his parents at the Xavier Mansion, Cable returns to the bar once more, and tells Wade and Weasel that he has now agreed to their suggestion, that they should form a mutant strike force team in order to take down Stryfe and prevent his ultimate crusade of reawakening Apocalypse, and prevent Nur and Stryfe from destroying this world as they turn this planet into the mutant paradise of his own image, once more, much to Wade's bliss and delight in his eventual agreement.
The X-Force
Cable and Deadpool, with help of Weasel, finally organizes the secret strike team of other mutants with Weasel to fight Stryfe and save the world from the destruction that would occur in his hands, consisting of Domino, Bishop, Psylocke, Angel, and Wolverine, whom Deadpool would later name the X-Force. While the X-Men believed in protecting humans from evil terrorist mutants, X-Force adopted a proactive but a more lethal approach and attitude towards mutant terrorists basic own Cable's basic philosophy, which he related to his team, was to get to them before they get to you. Together, the X-Force launched their first assault as they traveled to Cairo through an X-Jet, Logan had temporarily "borrowed."
Deadpool, Cable, and the rest of the X-Force has arrived at the museum to stop Stryfe's attempt to resurface his master, but face slight difficulty fighting the latter, who proves that Stryfe and his newly-built androids were indeed, according to Cable, too powerful for them. However, the eventually came in their senses, believing that although none of them may, they could still take down the guardian androids and distract them long enough for Cable to chase Stryfe to confront the mutant villain one last time, and foil his ultimate plan.
By the last second, Wade was successful in triggering all implanted explosives the below the museum's underground, destroying the entirety of Stryfe's (formerly Apocalypse's) laboratory in the process, seemingly ruining his plan to transfer his master's consciousness into a replicated empty body of Apocalypse. As Stryfe got himself back in their final duel, Stryfe manages to easily take down Cable once again. Even before Stryfe had the upper chance to squeeze the trigger at a weakened Cable, comes the rest of the X-Force to the rescue, whose combined efforts and power was able to defeat Stryfe, with Psylocke, Wolverine, and Deadpool delivering the final, deadly blow, impaling their razor sharp weapons through his chest, fatally injuring the latter.
In Stryfe's last, dying breath, he warns of Cable and the rest of the X-Force, that it has "already been done," despite on the fact that all Stryfe's schemes has finally prevented by the heroic strike team. Stryfe takes his final breath, and dies from his severe wounds, signifying the success of their mission, or did it? As the X-Force were successful in destroying the underground headquarters of Apocalypse, leaving the museum untouched, little did the heroic team know (except for Deadpool, who somehow has already expected for this to happen later on, due to his simple explanation of "comic book logic"), not even Cable himself, had the chance to discover the hard truth. In truth, the mission of Stryfe was a success in actuality, with later showing that Stryfe was able to transfer the stranded consciousness of Apocalypse into the body of an doctor and geneticist by the name of David Moreau, who was still currently in the city at the very time his battle against the X-Force has yet to start. When Nur had taken over Dr. Moreau, he easily disintegrated his consciousness as he replaces the doctor but not before taking some of Moreau's memories that he might have found very useful in his next step, implying that the mutant god couldn't handle having "another voice" inside his new head and body.
Even in death, Stryfe always knew in himself, that he was always one step ahead of everyone who tries to get in his way, no matter what kid of power they seem to possess over him. Even Cable himself has yet to find out what Stryfe has truly done not until later, which was reassuring the new rebirth of Apocalypse. For now, Cable and Deadpool has the X-Force finally be disbanded (for now), while Cable decides to stay in the present day, so he would be able to prevent the Earth from being destroyed by threats like or more powerful than Stryfe, and protect humanity itself from the hands of rogue terrorist mutants as he frequently helps the X-Men, becoming its part-time member, and even his own good friend Deadpool deal with most of his mercenaries complications, becoming each other's partners from time to time, and try into upholding the righteous idea of equality between the race of mutants and humans.
Mutant Ultimatum
Cable hops back to the present to save his home from Mister Sinister's X-t(In)ction Event
With the defeat and death of Stryfe at the hands of Cable and the X-Force, their success had seemingly vanquished his reality-altering plan to converge his with the modern reality by reawakening this reality's Apocalypse, Cable slowly became enamored with his timeline and every life that still flourished seeing how much has changed since he left after Ultimate War, only to feel sometimes like he overstayed his welcome. However, little did they were aware of, another global threat was emerging from the darkness, in the form of a reborn Mister Sinister, with his new scheme in balancing all life on the planet with his "experiment of survival," subjugating millions of Mutants, Inhumans, Atlanteans along with many more species, through his new protocol of causing a global extinction event, although the progress of his machinations were challenged by the heroic forces composing the X-Men, Brotherhood of Mutants, S.H.I.E.L.D., and several more mutant-supporting groups across the world. As expected, the terrified and fearful Cable never even hoped such day would come by the time he came to the modern reality, realizing that his selfless actions might have created something worse than the prophesied threat of Apocalypse.
Now continuously filled with second thoughts and doubts, Nathan had the unsure and risky thought to undo his actions through reawakening Apocalypse once more in order to combat Mister Sinister without having to use his time-travelling ability, which could certainly cause some irreversible consequences to the timeline. Nevertheless of his hesitation, Nathan and the X-Force eventually decided to do whatever it takes just to keep the modern timeline from worsening that was Sinister's reckoning return, to which they made up their minds to fight fire with fire, and in this situation, they were on a mission to find the supposedly reawakened but weaker Apocalypse (who was currently in the form of Dr. David Moreau) and led him to siding with them against Mister Sinister, who was once a follower of the great En Sabah Nur, and finally end his plan to unleash unstoppable chaos and subsequently end most of life on Earth.
However, when the mostly neutral evil Hellfire Club had chosen to secretly collaborate with Sinister into manipulating Jean Grey and infecting her with the Techno-Organic Virus, she was driven mad as her symptoms from the virus worsened overtime, prompting the enraged Phoenix Force to slowly consume her out of her state of despair. Their inseparable connection and Jean's descent into rage and fear slowly gave rise to the Dark Phoenix, prompting Cable to hand over his duties as the X-Force leader to Wolverine and tended to his mother's needs as he predicted another threat that could end the Earth altogether which was the Phoenix itself. Cable joined his father Cyclops and his faction of X-Men as they followed the Phoenix in space when she left the Solar System and caused catastrophe across the galaxy. They successfully sedated the Phoenix back to Jean, but the damage was done when the entity has, in its words, wiped out a planet "filled with irredeemable chaos and evil" which could've occurred in other planets if they didn't stop her sooner.
With the assistance of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, the X-Men returned to Earth safely, only for Jean to break down worse when she was abducted by a supposed member of Clan Chosen, only to reveal herself as Madelyne Pryor, the Goblin Queen of Cable's future who became Hellfire Club's newest leader since following him and Stryfe in the present timeline and has now dedicated herself helping Mister Sinister with his X-t(In)ction Event with every ounce of her loyalty and knowledge of the future. The Goblin Queen sought to harness the Phoenix Force but the incompatibility of their bond only freed an enraged Jean Grey to break free and break loose, battling Pryor until she vanquished her and most of Hellfire until she was rescued and confronted by Cable, Cyclops and the New Mutants.
In the whole span of a week, the alliance of heroes had ultimately defeated Sinister along with his army and treated the Legacy Virus thanks to the sacrifice of a redeemed Apocalypse who lent his remaining nigh-godly powers to the mutant heroes, combined with the assistance of Cable's former comrade Deke Shaw who helped his ancestors make the virus' cure behind the scenes of the ensuing schisms, the ripple effects of the main timeline began having a tremendous effect on the prime reality due to the Chronic Convergence slowly merging the future he grew up with and the one he was born with, gradually and permanently regressed Cable's body into a younger state as one of the side effects of his prolonged exposure returning to the present and making enough significant changes to it. Even with his change, Cable was still motivated to better the future of both mankind and mutantkind in the present, knowing the fight was far from over after Apocalypse's death and Sinister's defeat.
As the aversion of the Chronic Convergence had regressed Cable's biological age and body back into a twenty years old man, Cable's parents — Scott Summers and Jean Grey — saw the reality-altering effects as a fruitful reward, with a grateful Cable realizing decades of his life were restored to the way it was supposed to be. Deciding to stay on his original home to serve the X-Men (starting off as a part-time) and protect lost members of mutantkind in the aftermath of the X-t(In)ction Event along with Deadpool and the former members of the now defunct X-Force, Cable would bid farewell to his former teammates in the Clan Chosen and Askani, spending their last night together rejoicing their overall victory before returning to their restored home timeline, which was now a less bleak future thanks to their valiant efforts.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Homo Superior Physiology: Cable is an Alpha-Level Mutant, a vastly powerful telepath and an Omega Level Telekinetic, as well as a possible Omega Level Telepath. As an teenager, Cable was infected with the Techno-Organic Virus, a future mutated variant of the Legacy Virus, and for the majority of his life, had to consciously keep the virus in check so that it did not consume more of his organic flesh. In rare instances when he was not preoccupied with staving off his T.O. infection, Nathan shown powerful abilities, however he was given a second chance to live a more normal life when the life-threatening effects of his infection was removed from his system by the Legacy Virus' cure in the present, thus the virus could no longer hold him back with how he uses his mutant powers in battle, albeit costed him most of the superhuman enhancements he received from the T.O. virus.
- Telepathy
- Telepathic Illusion
- Telepathic Cloak
- Mind Link
- Telepathic Camouflage
- Mind Control
- Mind Trap
- Mind Possession
- Mind Alteration
- Mental Amnesia
- Precognition
- Psionic Shield
- Psionic Blasts
- Astral Projection
- Mental Detection
- Telekinesis
- Intuitive Aptitude
- Matter Alteration
- Psionic Spike
- Force-Field Generation
- Concussive Blasts
- Telekinetic Flight
- Techno-Organics
- Cybernetic Eye
- Cybernetic Arm
- Superhuman Strength
- Cybernetic Restoration
- Limited Cyberpathy
- Superhuman Endurance (formerly)
- Superhuman Speed (formerly)
- Superhuman Agility (formerly)
- Superhuman Dexterity (formerly)
- Limited Time Travel
- Time Travel (formerly)
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Abilities
- Peak Human Conditioning
- Remarkable Acrobatics
- Peak Human Endurance
- Peak Human Speed
- Peak Human Agility
- Peak Human Dexterity
- Master Combatant
- Master Tactician
- Expert Strategist
- Gifted Intelligence
- Expert Teleporter
Strength level
Class 15+
Weaknesses
Techno-Organic Infection (formerly): Cable is limited in the use of his powers by the need to use them to restrain the T.O. Virus from spreading throughout his mind and body. An excessive effort could release the virus, and cause him to die slowly, turned into a cyborg. During his return to the present, he has since been cured from his lifelong, deadly condition when he was slowly treated with a tweaked version of the Legacy Virus Cure, considering the T-O Virus was a future, deadlier variant of the former.
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Belle: Chrono-Skimming A.I.
- M-Pox Counter Serum
- Dominus Objective
- Cone of Silence
Transportation:
- Cone of Silence
Weapons:
- Cable's Notable Arsenal:
- High-Powered Plasma Rifles
- Various Explosives
- Pair of Knives
Notes
- When the reality-altering effects of preventing the Chronic Convergence brought by the X-t(In)ction Event had shifted Cable's body from fifty three years old into a younger state, he was considered to be nineteen years old around late 2026, turning twenty in the following year. Currently, his updated birth year on legal documents was on January 2007.
- If Nathan Summers had lived a normal life without being exposed to living on a future timeline, he would have only been and looked thirteen years old as of 2027.
- If Nathan Summers had lived a normal life without being exposed to living on a future timeline, he would have only been and looked thirteen years old as of 2027.
- ↑ Modern Comics: X-t(In)ction Vol 1 1
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Nathan Summers (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Nathan Summers (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Nathan Summers (Earth-61615)
Discover and Discuss
- Search News for: Cable · Nathan Christopher Charles Summers · Nathan Summers (Earth-61615)
Links and References
- None.