BIOGRAPHY - Page 3
The X-Men soon entered a dramatic new era as the Age of Krakoa brought about many changes for the better of mutantkind. Nathan Dayspring was welcomed back into the unconventional Summers family. Only a few years ago from his perspective, the Askani’son was a young teen when his elder sister Rachel died and his parents Slym and Redd vanished before his eyes. Now, they all had the opportunity to make up for lost time. One of the first habitat biomes grown from Krakoa was the Summer House, a residence for Cable’s extended clan on the Blue Area of the 
Moon, overlooking the Earthrise. Nathan not only got to spend family time with his parents and sister, but also his uncles Alex and Gabriel and even his visiting grandfather, Corsair and the Starjammers. Whether it was trading guns with Raza or scouting the Arak Maw with his kin, this time period in many ways helped make up for Nathan Christopher’s sudden exile into the future, reuniting him with the family that Apocalypse tried to take him from. [X-Men (5th series) #1-2]
Even so, Nathan was still a soldier in a time period without a war. Cable was not fully comfortable in the paradise atmosphere of Krakoa and sought ways to continue honing his skills. He and X-23 were recruited by Kwannon, the new Psylocke, who had her own mission against a nascent A.I. called Apoth. This trio was later joined by Bling! and Husk as a new roster of Fallen Angels, who prevented Apoth’s digital drug Overclock from devastating a human city. However, Psylocke chose not to continue their training and went her own way after Apoth’s defeat, leaving Cable in search of a new mission. [Fallen Angels (2nd series) #1-6]
Nathan started to acclimate more with Krakoa as they opened the Quarry, a cordial fighting ring 
overseen by the Silver Samurai. He won a marker by defeating his “Uncle Logan” in a single match. While on a double date with Armor and Pixie, Cable journeyed into the Arak Coral portion of Krakoa and discovered a sword known as the Light of Galador imbedded in the paw of an Arakki creature. He also started consecutively dating the Stepford Cuckoos (particularly Esme) while investigating a child kidnapping by the mutant worshipping sect known as the Order of X. While Nathan took the abduction of mutant babies personally, he was too baby-faced for the Philadelphia PD to take him seriously when he tried to ingratiate himself into their investigation on behalf of Krakoa.
While Cable and Esme Cuckoo were tracking the Order, they were attacked by Galadorian ronin, who detected the re-emergence of the Light of Galador. These cyborgs wanted the power of the sword to annihilate the Earth and remake their lost planet. Nathan managed to negotiate them into accepting a time machine instead, to go back and prevent Galador’s destruction during the 
Builders War. He had his first direct encounter with Deadpool after learning Wade had absconded with Old Man Cable’s body after its burial. Kid Cable found Deadpool incredibly annoying and couldn’t believe his older self had entrusted someone like Wade with preserving his remains.
Kid Cable recognized he could not go through with giving the mad ronin the time machine in Old Man Cable’s techno-organic arm and wanted to install a nuclear device in place of the time-jump mechanism. At first, Cable didn’t think he would have time or privacy to make the switch… until he started thinking fourth-dimensionally and realized he had all the time in the world. He mentally resolved that, decades in the future, he would remove the time machine from his arm and replace it with a nuke before encountering and dying to his own younger self. The timeline reset itself before his eyes, and so Nate and Esme managed to escape through a Krakoan gate just as the 
arm detonated and killed the mad Galadorians. Nate now understood why his older self hadn’t time-jumped away before he killed him… he couldn’t. However, he also recognized that he had not surprised and overpowered Old Man Cable, but that his future self knowingly went to his death. Kid Cable started to have doubts about whether he really “retired an obsolete version” of himself. [Cable (4th series) #1-4]
Krakoa was threatened when Apocalypse reconnected with his lost wife and children from the sister island, Arakko. Cast into the depths of Amenth thousands of years ago, the culture of Arakko was corrupted by the Helm of Annihilation, and now they sought the conquest of Krakoa. When Apocalypse’s grandson Summoner led his envoys into a trap, Cable and Rachel skimmed the mind of the unconscious Banshee to learn the truth. Majestrix Saturnyne of Otherworld also delivered them a clue through the psychic connection. Cable brought the mental image to Scott and Jean, who recognized it as S.W.O.R.D.’s space station, the Peak. The Light of Galador 
repowered the station’s singularity drive, but the Summers Clan discovered an invading viral intelligence known as the Vescora threatening the Peak, and so they left it offline until S.W.O.R.D. could be properly cleansed. In order to prevent Arakko from marauding across Otherworld until they reached Krakoa, Saturnyne declared a tournament of ten swordbearers, Krakoa’s and Arakko’s, to moderate the grievance. Cable and the Light of Galador were among those chosen to represent his nation.
This honor weighed on Cable’s expectations, though. He was curtly dismissed by his “greatest nemesis,” En Sabah Nur, for his lack of experience or insight into the situation. He would have won his bout against Arakko’s Bei the Blood Moon, but he hesitated to deliver a killing blow and instead was mercilessly beaten by his more driven opponent. The breakdown at the end of the tournament led to Annihilation summoning the entire horde of Amenthi demons to invade Otherworld and the Starlight Citadel. Cable had been dealt the Fool card by Saturnyne’s tarot, and 
he finally realized what he was missing. As Scott and Jean brought the Peak through to Otherworld for reinforcements, Cable teleported up to the station and reopened the portal to the Vescora invasion, sending one endless force against another. The Vescora and the Amenthi Summoners occupied each other until En Sabah Nur claimed the Helm of Annihilation and brought an end to Arakko’s aggression. [X of Swords crossover]
Kid Cable went on to bigger things after the tournament, becoming security director for S.W.O.R.D. as it was reopened by Krakoa as a space and intelligence agency run entirely by mutants for Earth. Nate seemed to have a position of authority and influence in S.W.O.R.D., overseeing his sub-directors Random and Risque, but it was largely a sham. Commander Abigail 
Brand basically wanted Cable as a “nepotism hire” to grease the right wheels, and she felt he would be more easily manipulated than other candidates. [S.W.O.R.D. (2nd series) #1] When Knull, the King in Black, invaded Earth with his symbiote horde, Cable was one of several mutants infected by Knull’s control. He brought the symbiotes back to Krakoa, blaming himself afterwards for compromising security and once again not measuring up. [S.W.O.R.D. (2nd series) #2-4]
Cable returned to the mutant baby kidnappings by the Order of X, and asked Rachel for assistance. Her chrono-skimming power let them locate the Order’s current safehouse in Pennsylvania, where their monsignor had collected five mutant babies. The children were rescued, but Cable telepathically probed the monsignor and discovered he was only using the Order of X. His true master was the adult version of Stryfe, and ten mutant babies were missing, 
not just five. The monsignor killed himself rather than reveal anything further, and Cable kept his discovery a secret from Rachel, too. Instead, he turned to Domino for a little luck. The unlikely duo stumbled into Stryfe’s operation in Tokyo and discovered he was making clones of himself, at Kid Cable’s age, for a possible infiltration scheme. With all the clones dead in the ruckus that followed, Cable recognized he was out of leads. [Cable (4th series) #7-8]
Kid Cable tried searching for Stryfe, but he started to realize the limitations he had being several decades less experienced than his arch-nemesis. Rachel, Emma and the Cuckoos did a telepathic sweep of the present which turned up nothing. Cable tried to call in his marker from Logan, but only ended up embarrassingly blowing Wolverine’s cover on an X-Force operation. Magik helped him investigate in Limbo if Stryfe was trying to recreate the spell from Inferno but found no leads. He even sought out Wildside to find out if anyone in the old MLF had heard from 
Stryfe. Wildside wasn’t remotely intimidated, and Kiddy Cable had to be pulled off the terrorist by Hope Summers, of all people. Nate finally admitted that the old man wasn’t “obsolete,” and he wasn’t a “better version” of Cable. People feared and respected Old Man Cable in ways he just hadn’t earned. Kid Cable decided to ask Hope and the Resurrection Five to bring back the old man, despite Krakoa’s rules about duplicating mutants with resurrection protocols. [Cable (4th series) #9]
It was easier getting the Five and the Council on his side than it was Cyclops. Scott had treasured 
the opportunity to raise and spend time with his son as he was meant to, but Nate insisted it was necessary to deal with Stryfe. Nate also got a hard life lesson when one of the Cuckoos stopped by the Summer House just long enough to break up with him, given how neglectful he’d been to them during his hunt for Stryfe. At Arbor Magna, Xavier and the Five resurrected the adult Cable and he immediately activated a bodyslide back to Greymalkin II, his personal space station in this timeline which Kid Cable never managed to locate. Cable went on ahead as an advance guard to pinpoint Stryfe’s location, while Kid Cable was left behind to scrounge up some support.
Kid Cable found Domino and Deadpool and brought together his family for one last mission: Scott, Jean, Rachel and Hope. Nate also sought out Esme Cuckoo to apologize and brought her along to rescue the last of the babies. With Cable’s War Wagon, they found Old Cable fighting Stryfe in 
a demon dimension, ready to unleash a version of the Inferno spell. Esme got some insight into the never-ending mission of the Dayspring clan when she telepathically engaged Stryfe. She also admitted to Nate that Scott and Emma had asked the Cuckoos to get close to Kid Cable in the first place to confirm he wasn’t a version of Stryfe after all. The babies were saved, Jean and Esme cracked Stryfe’s defenses, and Nate and Nathan shot their nemesis dead.
Although the invasion was over, Cable and Kid Cable acknowledged that Stryfe would survive, 
through cloned bodies or another branching timeline, or some nonsense. They agreed Kid Cable would finally return to his place in the future, while Cable continued to safeguard and guide the present. As a child, Nathan Christopher was sent into the future by his father to save his life before he could understand. As a teen, Nate Dayspring was separated from Redd and Slym without understanding what they truly meant to each other. Now, as a young man, Cable got to say good-bye to Scott and Jean at his own pace. The old man loaded Nate up with the gear he needed for the future and Nathan said good-bye to himself as he returned to the Clan Chosen and the fight against Stryfe, which would occupy him for years to come. [Cable (4th series) #10-12]