BIOGRAPHY - Page 3
Cable and his team abandoned the mansion bunkers and moved into the old Sentinel base in the Adirondack Mountain range. Nathan used his students as a strike force against a number of terrorists such as the MLF, Black Tom and Juggernaut, or the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Meanwhile, a joint venture by S.H.I.E.L.D. and Department K created Weapon P.R.I.M.E, an 
assault team designed to bring Cable to justice for his past. The group included Rictor and Cable’s former teammates, Kane and G.W. Bridge. Around the same time, “Domino” was revealed to be the shape-shifting Copycat, under the employ of Tolliver, and X-Force was separated from Cable after a combined assault on their base by Weapon P.R.I.M.E. and explosives set by Tolliver. In the confusion, Cable slipped away with Copycat and had her lead him to Tolliver‘s hideout. Once there, Cable found the real Domino chained to a wall - she had been held captive by Tolliver for the better part of a year. Copycat was surprised too, as she had believed the real Domino dead. During the fight, Tolliver tried to escape with a helicopter, but Cable jumped aboard and set the copter on fire. He body-slided to safety before the explosion, thus failing to notice Tolliver’s clothes and a latex face mask swimming in the ocean afterwards. Obviously, he had survived as well. [X-Force (1st series) #10-15]
Cable decided to operate free of "the kids" for a while and came across a plot of Stryfe's to collect historical artifacts relating to Apocalypse. He returned to his safehouse in the Swiss Alps, where he was attacked by Garrison Kane, demanding answers about his past. They fought, but Cable ended up in a better position. Still, he was shocked when Garrison revealed a hologram of the face behind Stryfe’s mask and Nathan learned for the first time that Stryfe was his identical twin - he had never seen him without his helmet before. Cable and Kane agreed to put aside their differences and hunt down Stryfe together, but they ended up captured by him and the MLF. History seemed to be repeating itself, as Stryfe threatened to kill Kane if Cable would not hand over the link to his Time-Displacement chamber. Cable and Kane chose to fight and Stryfe nearly killed Kane before teleporting away with Zero. This time, Cable made the right decision; instead of going after Stryfe, he took Kane to the Askani future, where his life could be saved and had him outfitted with advanced synth-org bionics. [Cable: Blood & Metal #1-2]
Shortly thereafter, Stryfe made an assassination attempt on Charles Xavier and infected him with another techno-organic virus, all without his helmet on in order to frame Cable. At the same time, Cyclops and Jean Grey were kidnapped and the two ended up being Stryfe’s captives. When Nathan eventually returned from his trip to the future, he found that he was not only on the run from S.H.I.E.L.D, Department K, Tolliver and the Mutant Liberation Front, but from the X-teams as well. He broke into Department H in order to find evidence, but ended up running into Wolverine and Bishop, there for the same reason. After a short conflict, the three joined forces when Cable managed, at least temporarily, to convince them of his innocence. They later deduced Stryfe's base was on the moon and stormed the stronghold in order to free his captives. Alongside an assault team of X-Men and Apocalypse himself, they managed to fight through dog-soldiers and the Dark Riders.
Cable, Cannonball, Polaris and Havok made their way out to a secondary atmospheric base to which Stryfe had fallen back, but only those two of Summers genetic code managed to make their 
way through its pre-programmed force field. Inside, Cable and Havok fought Stryfe and managed to free Scott and Jean. While Havok took care of his brother and Jean, Cable engaged Stryfe in a one-on-one battle. The enemy then startled everyone present with the information that he, Stryfe, was the time-displaced son of Cyclops, whereas Cable was a partially damaged clone of him, his damaged body parts having been replaced by bionics. Cable then simultaneously triggered an explosive device and a temporal portal. Locked in their life-and-death physical struggle, both he and Stryfe were sent tumbling into the timestream. General consensus was that both had died as a result. [X-Cutioner’s Song crossover]
Actually, though, they both managed to escape the time-flow back into the future. However, Stryfe ended up as a secondary consciousness in Cable's mind, as his own body had been destroyed. Nathan regained control of his body without realizing Stryfe was inside his mind and tracked down Kane and the Clan Chosen. From them, Cable learned that the Canaanites had built a new timex unit (a time travel machine), which at all costs had to be destroyed for the Canaanites 
would use it to go back in time and eradicate all opposition. Hope, Dawnsilk, Eleven, Tetherblood, Boak and Kane accompanied him and battled their way to the unit’s center. Hope connected with Eleven to scan for the right past timeline to which they wanted to send Kane and Cable back; Kane, to get home, and Cable to ensure the timeline’s safety. To their surprise, they discovered that the machine had already been used to send back one Canaanite operative. After Kane and Cable disappeared, the Timex was destroyed by Clan Chosen. [Cable (1st series) #1-2]
Cable and Kane arrived in the present inside the Time-Displacement Core of his space station. Unfortunately, Graymalkin had come under assault in their absence and the module now rested at 
the bottom of the ocean. Although it seemed they were trapped, Cable eventually managed to gather enough energy to activate the internal body-slide systems, which transported to duo to Switzerland and later to X-Force's current base in the ruins of Camp Verde. There, a Six Pack reunion resolved a number of lingering feelings between the Pack members and Cable, though they still decided to go their own way without him. [Cable (1st series) #3-4]
At Camp Verde, Nathan waited for X-Force to return from the mission they were currently on, and resumed his place among them. An encounter with Magneto and Exodus revealed that the master of magnetism had assumed control of parts of Graymalkin, remodeling them into his own Avalon space station. Cable managed to retrieve the station’s intelligent program, Professor, but not without serious physical damage to his body at Magneto's hands. While he was recovering at Camp Verde, Cable transferred the Professor in the base's computer systems. [X-Force (1st series) #24-25]
Shortly afterwards, while visiting the grave of his mother, Madelyne Pryor-Summers, Cable and Domino were confronted by Mr. Sinister. There, the evil scientist provided Cable with all the answers he had been searching for regarding his origin, his purpose and his identity. When all parties involved in the X-Cutioner's Song conflict learned of the lineage of Stryfe, they were taking Stryfe's word for granted. However, Sinister now revealed to Cable that they were all misinformed. The true son of Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor was Cable. Stryfe was but a clone and not vice versa as they had believed. Sinister further revealed to Cable that the arms dealer Tolliver, who had given Cable so much trouble over the past several months, was none of other than Cable's adopted son, Tyler. Before leaving, Sinister created further turmoil by causing Stryfe's personality to emerge and gain dominance over Cable’s body.
The Askani Sisterhood sent back a second operative to warn Jean and Scott of the reappearance of Stryfe, but the woman was intercepted by Zero and Tyler. Still, she managed to send a telepathic warning to Jean. Using his empathic powers on Askani II, Tyler tried to find out the truth about Cable and Stryfe. From visually displaying her memories, Tyler and Stryfe, who had tracked down the energy signature of the time traveler, learned that it was Stryfe who was the clone and not Cable. The knowledge was too much for Stryfe to handle and he refused to believe it, starting a fight with Tyler. Zero finally saw that they would cause unwanted destruction, so he teleported in Xavier, Cyclops, Jean and Domino. Together, they convinced Stryfe of letting go and, with his consciousness expunged, Cable was himself again. In the confusion, Tyler escaped. [Cable (1st series) #6-8]
Some time later, several members of X-Force went missing, as they had been kidnapped by a bunch of spoiled, rich mutants, who referred to themselves as the Upstarts. These Upstarts considered life a big game and would regularly compete against each other. This time, their targets were the former members of the New Mutants and the Hellions – and whoever would capture most of them would be the winner. When X-Force fought Trevor Fitzroy, one of these Upstarts, Cable tricked the villain into defeating himself. Fitzroy’s power allowed him to absorb other people’s life force to power up his chronal portals. Cable disguised his cybernetic arm with synthetic flesh and, when Fitzroy touched this arm in order to use his ability, he ended up draining his own life energies as he couldn‘t absorb energy from inorganic materials.
Eventually, X-Force tracked down the mastermind behind the Upstarts‘ competition, an omnipath called Gamesmaster, who mentally manipulated Cannonball and a few others into fighting Cable. 
Not wanting to harm the student who was almost like a son to him, Cable desperately tried to overcome Cannonball’s possession and his telepathic abilities re-manifested themselves for the first time in over a decade. During the Younghunt (an adventure involving X-Force and the New Warriors), Cable's telepathic abilities manifested themselves for the first time in over a decade. [Younghunt crossover] In the weeks that followed this incident, Cable began to learn how to use them once more.
Soon thereafter, the various X-Teams found themselves under attack by the Phalanx, a techno-organic collective. One of these creatures invaded X-Force’s base, though when it tried to assimilate their computer systems and databanks it was defeated by the computer’s sentient 
system, the Professor. Surprisingly, the encounter altered the Professor somewhat, enabling him to form himself a humanoid body and interact with X-Force directly. He even came up with a new name for himself – Prosh, an amalgam of the terms “Professor“ and “Ship.” Before long, though, it was discovered that Prosh’s presence on the planet was seriously disruptive to other technology, including Cable's techno-organic virus, making it hard for Cable to maintain his balance in his constant struggle to keep the infection at bay. As such, Prosh absorbed a bit more mass to turn himself into a vessel capable of interstellar travel and he left Earth to explore the stars. [X-Force (1st series) #39]