BIOGRAPHY - Page 4
Meanwhile, Cable and Domino had begun to move beyond the realm of friendship for the first time in their long history together. Nathan asked Domino on a date and they were both surprised when she accepted. They were both rather nervous and Nathan didn’t make things any better when he accidentally mixed up some of the things he had shared with Domino, as he was referring to some of his experiences with Copycat. [Cable (1st series) #15]
At one point, Cable and Domino accompanied Storm to investigate the Morlock Tunnels and 
came across Caliban being hunted by the Dark Riders. This encounter led the four of them to Egypt and Apocalypse's birthplace of Akkaba. Cable filled in the others that, in the future that he originated from, the town's populace had been slaughtered in reverence to the Eternal One and, now here, in the present, someone had mimicked that tragedy nearly 2,000 years earlier. Further investigating, Cable and his companions met the orchestrator of these events and the new leader of the Dark Riders, a scion of Apocalypse known as Genesis. Nathan was shocked to learn that Genesis was none other than his adopted son, Tyler, driven completely mad after escaping his conflict with Stryfe earlier. Tyler planned to harness the power of Apocalypse for himself and Cable was forced to take his son down. Genesis and the Dark Riders escaped with their plans unfulfilled, but leaving Cable with yet another hole in his soul. [Cable (1st series) #17-19]
Shortly thereafter, a M'Kraan Crystal wave was about to destroy and remake reality, leaving the X-teams one hour for last things. Cyclops and Phoenix revealed to Cable that it had been they who had raised him in the future as Slym and Redd Dayspring. Nate had deduced that fact for himself 
previously, but he was heartened to have his parents share that with him nonetheless. When the crystal wave finally reached Earth, Cable shared a deep kiss with Domino, but what the X-Men had believed to be the end of the world turned out to be a hoax. [Cable (1st series) #20] The crystal wave briefly created the divergent timeline called the Age of Apocalypse, though the change was undone soon after and reality was rebooted to what it was before.
With the crystal wave having passed without effect – to his perspective at least, Cable reacted to a distress call from X-Force at the MLF's base in the Bahamas. He arrived and discovered, with the rest of X-Force, that their enemy Reignfire was actually one of the team’s own - Sunspot, who had been missing for weeks. Using his telepathic powers, Nate managed to bring Sunspot's old personality back to the surface, with the side effect of downloading a portion of his Askani knowledge into Bobby's mind. Additionally, Sunspot learned from the Askani teaching how to use his powers to fly. Around the same time, Cable moved X-Force back into Xavier’s mansion after yet another one of their headquarters had been destroyed by an enemy. [X-Force (1st series) #44]
Next, Cable received a psychic beacon from his old mentor, Blaquesmith, who had apparently 
also at some point time-traveled to the present. Someone had tracked down the telepathic Blaquesmith (something considered impossible) and accessed all his data on Nathan. Unable to identify the assailant, Cable could do nothing but ask Blaquesmith to keep him posted. [Cable (1st series) #21]
While searching for Tyler's current whereabouts, Cable startlingly came across the unconscious body of Aliya, ca. twenty years younger than when she died. Nathan was a bit confused, because as far as he knew she had never time-traveled. Regardless, she asked Cable to for help and, together with Domino, they returned to the Askani future timeline. Cable’s younger self, Nathan Dayspring, had befallen a strange illness, and could no longer carry on the fight. Stepping in for him, Cable helped Aliya to inspire the rebellion again and, once young Nate was feeling better, he and Domino returned home. [Cable (1st series) #23-25]
Shortly after returning to the present day, Cable was informed by Blaquesmith that a second psi-signature, identical to his own, had become active on Earth. Fearing the return of Stryfe, Cable tracked down his double and, for the first time, met Nate Grey, who had crossed over from the Age of Apocalypse. Having been created by that reality’s Mr. Sinister from DNA samples of Scott Summers and Jean Grey, this young man was nearly identical to Cable. In close proximity of each other, their powers began to interact, causing both of them in agony. Blaming Cable for the pain he was in, Nate Grey started a fight, which was eventually interrupted by Exodus, who considered this a good opportunity to use Nate’s mutant energies for himself.
Cable saved Nate, who in turn buried the beaten Exodus in the tomb that was originally his prison. However, Nate was seriously ticked off by now - so far everybody in the world had treated him like a criminal or wanted something of him and he had enough of it. Blaquesmith intervened, attempting to kill Nate, while Cable only reluctantly rejoined the fight, still trying to reason with the boy. As that failed, Cable worked Nate into such a fury that the boy overloaded himself and collapsed. However, despite Blaquesmith’s urgings, Cable did not want him to die. In Nate, he saw himself again, healthy, young and with a new chance for a happy life. He healed the boy, recharging his “psionic batteries,” a choice which cost him a lot as his techno-organic virus resurged. [Cable (1st series) #29-31, X-Man #14]
Soon afterwards, the truth behind Blaquesmith's mysterious attacker was uncovered when Charles Xavier was revealed to be the psi-demon Onslaught. Cable was investigating the destruction of Blaquesmith's ship in Baltimore and came under prolonged assault by Onslaught's agents: first his minion Post (aka agent Kevin Tremain from Cable's past) and then the Incredible Hulk himself. Cable was seriously injured as a result of the attacks and only suffered further harm in the coming battles with Apocalypse, Onslaught and the Sentinels. It was only through the intervention of Nathaniel Richards and Cable's friends that he managed to keep the techno-virus from totally consuming his innards in the aftermath of the Onslaught crisis. [Cable (1st series) #36]
Around this time, Cable began to form a deep friendship with Storm, though nothing romantic ever fully developed from this. He also isolated himself more and more from the X-Force team, leaving Domino in charge of most of the missions. Working as a solo operative, Nathan redesigned his costume to include additional hand-to-hand weaponry, including a pair of blades hidden in his shoulder harness. When the troops of Operation: Zero Tolerance lowered the hammer on the Xavier Institute, Cable took on the mission of saving or purging all the files Xavier had accumulated over the years: Cerebro Schematics, Xavier Protocols, Legacy Virus data, the Mutant Underground, etc. He came into conflict with Operation: Zero Tolerance's First Strike soldiers and Bastion himself but, in the end, he succeeded in his mission. When he had finished with the battle at the mansion, Cable tracked down X-Force and attempted to send them into hiding under fake aliases to avoid the coming dark days for mutantkind. However, they declined and broke ties with Cable and the X-Men, trying to live on their own instead. [X-Force (1st series) #70]
Immediately afterwards, Cable became involved in a plot by the Hellfire Club and an Askani cult to steal technology from Apocalypse himself. This led Nathan on a trek around the world with 
Irene Merryweather, a reporter who had unwittingly involved herself in the affair. Shaw and Pierce's actions also led to the awakening of the Harbinger, an agent of Apocalypse who possessed vast power and would one day bring about a new age of chaos, where only the strong would survive. Cable and Irene formed a partnership of sorts with her becoming his Chronicler, someone to record his activities for posterity and who had been predicted as part of the Askani legend of the Chosen One. Cable moved himself and Irene into a safe house, located in New York City. [Cable (1st series) #48-53]
He also met a local waitress, Stacey Kramer, and formed a friendship both with her and her disabled brother. Cable briefly encountered Domino again, only later to find that she had been beaten nearly to death by a hitman named Blockade. Enraged, Nathan went after the villain and ended the battle by wiping the man's mind clean. This action, in the heat of passion, placed him once more on SHIELD's most wanted list. [Cable (1st series) #55-56]
Cable would then rescue Blaquesmith from his imprisonment in a temporal prison and take his mentor back to the New York safehouse, only to discover that his psychic powers had been wiped 
clean by the Psi-War between Shadow King and Psylocke. As a result of that conflict, psi powers were temporarily negated on a global scale. Cable's telepathy was completely gone and his telekinesis was barely active, so Blaquesmith offered him a solution in the form of the self-same Askani cult responsible for the awakening of the Harbinger. Arriving in the Greek Islands, Cable met the cultists and laid claim to a Psimitar lance, a weapon which would harness the remains of his telekinetic powers in battle. The Psimitar became his primary tool in the months to come. [Cable (1st series) #57-58]