BIOGRAPHY - Page 2
Within a year, the Clan Chosen’s numbers had grown into a small band of guerrilla soldiers and freedom fighters. Dayspring, Aliya and Tetherblood were joined by Kore, Flintshard, Bava, Spheeris and others. Stryfe also developed his own following, though. He fixated on reclaiming his adopted father’s kingdom and rejected Canaanite rule. Stryfe gathered a small band of loyalists called his Mutant Liberation Army as a third faction against both Dayspring and Haight. One day during a raid on the Canaanites, however, all of Nathan’s new allies were lost. Temporal fluctuations caused some to vanish from existence, or merge with each other, or worse. Blaquesmith emerged from the shadows to warn Dayspring of a time storm that threatened all that he knew.
An incredulous Dayspring followed Blaquesmith to a nearby hidden bunker, one whose A.I. immediately recognized him. Blaquesmith explained to the teenager that it was part of his destiny to one day return to the era of his birth as a mercenary and “time cop” known as Cable, where he established many such bunkers to support his mission. However, the elder Cable had given way 
to sentiment and did not correct a time anomaly involving the original X-Men, who traveled into their future and remained for an extended period. The current temporal storm happened / would happen because Iceman of the original five was killed by the mutant hunter Ahab before returning to his original time, wrecking the timeline and causing a paradox that threatened the past, present and future.
For the first time, Dayspring learned that not only were his parents Scott Summers and Jean Grey of these original X-Men, but that they also raised him in the identities of Redd and Slym Dayspring. Blaquesmith impressed upon him the extent of his elder self’s failure and provided 
Nathan with a time-jump device and a version of the Graymalkin program to link him to these past safe houses. Dayspring returned to his base camp in order to recruit the rest of the Clan Chosen for this mission into the past. Instead, he bore witness to Aliya and Tetherblood being torn apart by the reorganization of time. Having lost his entire unit, the young Nathan Dayspring was determined to erase the mistakes of his older counterpart. [X-Force (5th series) #5]
“Kid Cable” first time-jumped to several decades from “now,” accessing records of the present closer to his target in order to coordinate his mission parameters. Once he had his bearings, Kid Cable time jumped to intercept Bobby Drake before Ahab’s Hounds got a lock on him. He was opposed by his own older self, the Cable of that era. Kid Cable was disgusted with his future 
counterpart’s dereliction of duty. They fought one another over Bobby Drake’s tranquilized body, as Cable tried to explain the risks were worth the reward of letting the O5 return home only after an extended stay. Kid Cable wasn’t interested in hearing excuses. In a convenience store on a side street of Manhattan in the early 21st century, Nathan Summers gunned down and murdered his own later incarnation.
Kid Cable acquired the tranquilized Iceman and placed him in stasis back at his safe house. His next move was to abduct the Mimic, who permanently possessed the power templates of the original X-Men. The O5 had changed so much from their time in the present that Angel now possessed new wings made of cosmic fire, and that needed to change. Cable made his next 
strike at the Xavier Institute where he ambushed the remaining O5 and tranq’ed Angel. Despite his skills, he was spotted and accosted by furious versions of his own parents. Kid Cable cut his losses and bodyslid away with only Angel at this point. He then used future tech back at base to surgically remove Mimic’s wings (copies of Angel’s in the first place), and then graft them onto Warren Worthington in place of his new ones.
Cable’s desperate hit-and-run tactics only threw the X-Men off-balance for when Ahab began making his own strikes. He ‘ported in during Ahab’s attack on the mansion and snapped up young Hank McCoy right under the Hound Master’s nose. Kid Cable’s luck ran out, however, when Jean 
Grey tracked him and led Domino and a vengeful X-Force to his base. Cable’s old team wanted justice for his death, even against his younger self. Still, Jean kept all the tempers at bay by immobilizing the parties with her telekinesis, forcing Kid Cable to actually talk out his intentions. Once they were on the same page, Cable teleported X-Force and the O5 to the Searebro base where Ahab was after teen Cyclops, last of the O5 members.
Ahab had an edge thanks to the subverted mutant children Manon and Maxime, who could psychically implant years of torture and conditioning into someone’s mind, changing X-Men into Ahab’s loyal Hounds with a mere touch. Kid Cable was fixated on bringing the O5 to the past now 
that they were ready, but Jean forced him to look at the bigger picture and win the war, not just the battle. First, they time-jumped to the near future, where Ahab first abducted the twins. Ahab pursued them but Kid Cable and Cyclops destroyed his time ship, the Pequod, leaving the Hound Master without transportation through time. Meanwhile, Jean communed with the younger twins and learned the trick for reversing their Hound programming.
Now fully prepared, Kid Cable sent the O5 back to the point where they first left the past. He then brought himself and Ahab back to the fight in the present. Jean used Manon’s memory trick to “bottle” all their memories until the timeline caught up to the present. The O5 forgot their 
experiences in the future and lived out the timeline as normal. But then, their older selves suddenly remembered all their lost experiences in the middle of the fight with Ahab, including adult Jean recalling young Jean’s understanding of Manon and Maxime’s abilities. Jean reversed all of the new Hounds’ programming, depriving Ahab of his troopers as well as his time machine. As Ahab teleported away to lick his wounds, Kid Cable departed as well, for he still had things to accomplish in this time period. [Extermination #1-5]
Although the O5 time loop was closed, Cyclops was also still dead in the present of this time period. While he had just “retired” his older self for making “sentimental” decisions, Kid Cable chose to orchestrate his father’s resurrection through a series of time jumps. Thirteen years ago, Nathan telepathically nudged a young Scott Summers to visit Cambridge the day Professor Tavin Tierney and his cybernetically controlled robot sought revenge for his dismissal. Cyclops suited up and saved the life of Paul Douek, the student who reported Tierney’s unstable behavior to the dean. Paul’s wife was expecting their first child, and he gratefully promised to do anything he could to repay Cyclops in the future.
Three years ago, Kid Cable visited Paul Douek, now a top engineer at Stark Industries. In order to repay Cyclops, Nate wanted Paul to rebuild and modify the Phoenix Cage technology Iron Man tried to use on the Phoenix Force when it came to Earth for Hope. Nate gave him two years to 
miniaturize a version of the Cage which could capture a small portion of Phoenix energy. Paul finished just as Cyclops died at the onset of the M-Pox crisis. He and Nate then surgically implanted the tiny Phoenix Cage in Scott’s corpse. Months later, the Phoenix Force temporarily resurrected Cyclops while negotiating with Jean Grey to be its host again. It returned him to the grave, but Paul’s Phoenix Cage siphoned off enough cosmic resurrection energy to bring Scott Summers back to life again when activated.
Kid Cable kept Cyclops in seclusion at his safehouse until their timelines synched up again after the O5 returned. Scott saw through Nate’s tough act about killing his future self and “keeping the timeline in order,” given the extensive actions Cable took to bring him back from the grave. Nate’s hardened exterior broke, and he admitted his father deserved a better death than the one he got. However, he also needed to make sure the Cyclops he brought back was the hero, not the 
revolutionary who died. At that moment, the X-Men needed everyone for a battle with the unstable Nate Grey but, at the same time, Kid Cable had arranged for Professor Tierney’s release and directed him Paul’s way. Cyclops had to decide between the mutant race and the life of one human father. Scott chose to save Paul, and Nate was happy to have put his father back on a nobler path. [Uncanny X-Men (5th series) Annual #1]
Cable’s next mission was to recover Rachel Summers, the Mother Askani, who was still trapped as a Hound in Ahab’s control. He connected with the time-traveling cyborg Deathlok as a partner, and they discovered unusually futuristic weapons coming out of the Balkan nation of Transia. Cable suspected Ahab, although in truth the weapons were more like those of his time 2,000 
years in the future, instead of Ahab’s mere decades. Deathlok was captured trying to infiltrate the Transian military when his image inducer malfunctioned, and Cable had to exfiltrate his partner under heavy fire. X-Force remained together to hunt Kid Cable down after he “retired” his older self, and they happened to arrive just in the middle of the Transian firefight.
Transia’s President had a “trade partner” from the future who wanted the nation to be used as a safe haven for mutants in exchange for their technology. On the other hand, Commandant Constantin of the Transian military was a rabid anti-mutant soldier who hired Ahab behind the President’s back to experiment on mutants and “cure” them. Cable’s raid gave Constantin an 
opportunity to kill the president, stage a military coup and blame X-Force for the “assassination.” Kid Cable found uncomfortable allies in Domino and her team, who were willing to help him against Constantin for now, but still wanted to settle up their accounts for Old Man Cable when the time came. Each member of X-Force spoke to Nathan in turn, trying to catch a glimpse of the man he was fated to become.
Kid Cable and X-Force raided the Transian facility and discovered the real figure behind Transia’s rise was none other than Stryfe. Having rode out the temporal storm in their own time, “Kid Stryfe” retraced Dayspring’s path by capturing his revived allies and determined to which era he traveled back. Transia was an elaborate trap for Cable, which had already netted Stryfe an amazing bonus 
when he acquired the young Mother Askani. Stryfe’s Mutant Liberation Army also forcibly enlisted the Transian mutants to bolster Stryfe’s MLA forces in the future. Unprepared to face his nemesis at this time, Nathan was overcome by Stryfe and his soldiers and dragged back to the future as their prisoner. Torture and a power dampening collar left Dayspring unable to control his techno-organic virus. It spread exponentially, even reaching the cell next door and infecting Aliya as well.
Fortunately, Deathlok and X-Force managed to reactivate the time portal and came to the rescue. Once they got to his cell and restored his powers, Kid Cable was able to absorb his virus back into his body and away from Aliya’s freshly infected cells. Stryfe attempted to use Rachel against the 
Clan Askani, but she overcame his control and thoroughly trounced the younger and less experienced telepath. Rachel was on the verge of killing Stryfe in order to prevent the Legacy virus and all the other atrocities to come in his future, but Cable stopped her. Having learned a lesson about the sanctity of the timeline, Dayspring recognized he could not kill his nemesis at this time. Instead, Rachel and Nathan joined forces and succeeded in mind-wiping Stryfe and his MLA to preserve the timeline. This act of maturity went a long way towards smoothing things over with X-Force, who finally began to see Cable in young Dayspring. There was more to accomplish in the past, so Nathan said good-bye to Aliya temporarily, promising to return when his work was complete. [X-Force (5th series) #1-10]