Cable

History:

The son of Cyclops and the Jean Grey clone Madelyne Pryor, (Nathan) Christopher Summers was born while his father and the X-Men were in France after their return from Asgard. Due to his mother's insistence that Cyclops leave the X-Men, and Scott's subsequent loss of his leadership to Storm in a duel, the entire Summers family moved to Alaska.

However, soon after Scott traveled to New York (to find that Jean Grey was still alive), the Summers home was attacked by the Marauders and young Chris was captured and brought to Mr. Sinister, the man who had engineered his existence. He remained in Sinister's lab until just before Inferno, whn his mother, now the super-powered Goblin Queen, came to take him back. Madelyne was going to scarifice Chris in order to permanently establish a portal between Earth and Limbo. The baby's fear was so string that it reached across the ocean to his "sister" Rachel, who came flying to the States from the UK, bringing Excalibur in her wake. In the end, Madelyne was defeated and she died, so Chris went to live with his father and Jean (who had inherited Madelyne's memories and so was pretty much the same as the baby's mother) in X-Factor's Ship. It was soon apparent that Chris was a very powerful mutant, as before he was a year old he was capable of generating an impenetrable forcefield around his body. This ability could at times be a liability, as it tended to repel Jean's TK. Life went on about as smoothly as possible for a super-powered family until the fateful day that Apocalypse, a long-time foe of X-Factor, sent his Dark Riders to attack Ship. During the battle, Ship was infected with a techno-organic virus and blew up, although it managed to lift off and save X-Factor. The mutants arrived atthe Inhuman city of Attilan in the Blue Area of the Moon. They teamed up with the Inhumans to defeat Apocalypse, who had established a base there, but at a terrible price. While his minions fought the heroes, Apocalypse had captured Chris Summers and infected him with a techno-organic virus that was killing him. After Cyclops blsted Apocalypse to bits, a mysterious time-traveler appeared calling herself Askani. She told Scott that she could save Chris, IF she could bring him to the future. Cyclops agreed and gave up his son to save his life, knowing that he would never see him again. Thankfully, this was not the case. Almost as soon as Chris arrived 2000 years in the future, the Clan Askani was attacked by Apocalypse's forces. Apocalypse ruled this era, and only the Mother Askani, who was really Rachel Summers, and her followers opposed him. As the attack began to wipe out the last of the Askani, Rachel put into motion two other plans: the first was to clone Nathan Christopher, who was dying from the T-O infection, and the second was to bring the minds of Cyclops and Phoenix forward to her time into specially prepared bodies, so that they could raise Nathan Christopher and protect him from Apocalypse. Unexpectedly, Nathan survived, but the clone was captured by Ch'vayre and was raised by Apocalypse to become Stryfe, the Chaos-Bringer, Cable's mortal foe. For 12 years, the Dayspring clan (as Slym (Cyclops), Redd (Jean) and Nathan came to be known) moved through Apocalypse's realm, hiding their true natures from the High Lord and just being a family. Redd was constantly teaching Nathan how to use his powers to control and hide his T-O infection. Finally, however, the Prelates caught up with them as Apocalypse was preparing to transfer his essence into the powerful young body of Stryfe. Clan Daysrping and some allies ended up breaking in and fighting Apocalypse. During the battle, Nate was contacted by his "sister" Rachel, who helped him fight off Stryfe before she finally died. The Daysprings were victorious, and Apocalypse died after failing to assimilate Stryfe, but immediately afterwards, Slym and Redd were pulled back to the 20th Century, as the Askani psychic powers holding them there finally wore off. Nate was left alone, but soon became fast friends with Tetherblood, and the two traveled the world together. After Apocalypse's death, the New Canaanites came to power, but were no better to the average citizen that their predecessor. During one Canaanite raid, Nate was injured, and his techno-virus flared up. Then, Nathan was contacted by the mysterious Blaquesmith, who sensed something within Nathan and pulled out a sentient energy field that called itself "Professor" (and which was the remnant of Ship). Nathan and the Professor were linked, and the Professor helped Nathan regain control. Blaquesmith told Nathan that he must go to Ebonshire, where the last of the Askani would train him in his powers so he could fulfill his destiny. Nate remained in Ebonshire only a short time, as the Askani were betrayed by 'Strator Umbridge, and the village was destroyed by the Canaanites. However, Nate met Aliya, the Askani novitiate who would train him and eventually marry him. After the fall of Ebonshire, Nathan, Aliya and Nate's best friend Tetherblood founded the Clan Chosen to pick up where the Askani left off. After fighting both the Canaanites and Stryfe for years, trying to return freedom to the people of Earth, the Clan Chosen had grown to a large size. Unfortunately, during one battle, Styfe set a bomb that killed Aliya, and also captured her son Tyler. Cable led a team into Stryfe's base to rescue his son, but it was too late. Tyler had been brainwashe into serving Stryfe and managed to trap Dawnsilk, one of the Chosen, with a neural tap, which would destroy her mind. Cable was forced to shoot Tyler to save Dawnsilk. Shortly thereafter, Stryfe used his Zero unit to travel back to the 20th Century as a means of escape. Cable followed Stryfe to the past, but was disoriented on arrival. He met Moira MacTaggert and then Professor Xavier, how helped him acclimate to this era. Later on, Cable incorporated the Professor into the space station Graymalkin, and was able to use its technology to teleport through time and space. As a front for his search for Stryfe, Cable organized and led the mercenary group the Six Pack, which was very good at what it did. It was during this time period the Professor found evidence that Sam Guthrie had apparently survived into the 24th Century. This indicated to Cable that Sam was an External. On one mission for the mysterious Mr. Tolliver, however, their fortunes changed when their intended target turned out to be Stryfe's base! Cable was shocked and Stryfe escaped. The Six Pack, having broken their contract, were hunted all over the world. Finally, Cable tracked Stryfe down and tool the Pack with him to the new base to steal Stryfe's command files. They got in and got the disk, but Stryfe had laid a trap. With nowhere to go, Hammer decided to give Stryfe the disk, but Cable freaked and shot his teammate in the back. Stryfe retrieved the disk anyway, and then detonated the base. While Cable got out, his teammate Kane was caught in the blast and lost his limbs, later replaced with bionics by Department K. After the Six Pack disbanded, Cable continued his mission to find Cannonball, and ended up trying to save Rusty and Skids from Freedom. Unfortunately, the M.L.F. had other ideas, and broke the mutants out of Federal custody themselves, getting Cable caught in the process. Cable quickly escaped and soon ran into the New Mutants, who were at the time staying with X-Factor. The kids were under attack by Freedom Force, and Cable's intervention helped them turn the tide and defeat their foes. Cable took over the leadership of the New Mutants, moved them back into the ruins of the X-Mansion, and began molding them into a harder-edged team. However, shortly after the mutants were captured and put on trial in Genosha, the New Mutants roster had dropped to two, so Cable began recruiting new members like Thunderbird II and Domino. Then two more refugees dropped into their laps, and the team reorganized under the name X-Force. In one of X-Force's first battles, Sam was impaled by on of Sauron's talons and was apparently killed. When he awoke (as Cable had gambled he would) Cable explained to him that he was an External. Shortly thereafter, Domino betrayed the team and destroyed their base, but not before the kids escaped. Domino was revealed to be Copycat, and Cable was presumed to have been caught in the explosion. In reality, Cable returned to find the real Domino, who was being held captive by Tolliver. At that time, Cable's old friend Kane (who now bore a BIG grudge against him) was tracking the M.L.F. and found out that Stryfe looked exactly like Cable. Kane hunted Cable down, confronted him with his evidence, and the two of them went after Stryfe. They failed to capture him, and Kane was once again injured, but Cable saved him by bringing him to the future. Months later, X-Force was shocked to see Cable shoot Professor X on television. Cable managed to elude the combined X-Teams long enough to gather some data from Department K, although he was confronted by Wolverine and Bishop, who gave him the benefit of the doubt after he teleported them all to Graymalkin. Cable joined the X-Teams in the final fight against Stryfe on the Moon and seemingly perished when he and his clone we sucked into a temporal vortex. Cable survived, Stryfe did not. However, Stryfe managed to porject his mind into Cable, and was sharing space with him for a while. Finally, Sinister told Cable that HE was the original Summers child, and Stryfe was the clone, and Cable convinced Stryfe to let go and accept death. Cable then returned to X-Force in time to assault Avalon in order to get the Professor out. Cable tried to blow up the station, but was badly wounded by Magneto. The Professor was again integrated into Cable's body for awhile, as he recuperated. Later on, when Legion went back in time to try to kill Magneto in the past, Cable used his latent time-travel ability, with the help of Xavier and Phoenix, to project himself back in time to contact Bishop, causing him to remember the ture timeline and reverse the Age of Apocalypse. Cable's powers had increased by this point to much greater levels, and he was using his telepathy and telekinesis much more easily. He moved X-Force back into the Mansion, but they left him when Bastion began Operation: Zero Tolerance and Cable wanted them to accept new identities. Soon after, Cable saved the life of Irene Merryweather, a reporter who was being hunted by the Hellfire Club. Irene became Cable's chronicler, taking down his story for posterity. By this point, Cable realized that is was HIS destiny to fight Apocalypse and prevent his timeline for coming to pass. His powers were growing to incredible leverls when the Shadow King's telepathic shockwave hit and completely depleted his powers, causing the T-O virus to rampage out of control. Only the Psi-Mitar, brought to this time by Ch'Vayre, allowed Cable to survive. The Psi-Mitar became Cable's chief weapon. He soon fought the Herald of Apocalypse over New York City, and with the help of the Avengers managed to keep the villain from destroying the city. Finally when Apocalypse made his bid for ultimate power, Nathan was revealed as one of The Twelve and was captured. Unfortunately, he could not defeat Apocalypse because the High Lord had Death III threaten to kill Caliban. Cable was forced to surrender, and even worse, to later stand by and watch as his father sacrificed himself to stop Apocalypse. After the final battle, Cable joined the X-Men to honor his father.

Six months later, Cable became embroiled in a battle between two spirits of the group called the Undying, as well as between the two timelines spawned from the result of that battle, the Ranshi Empire and Harmony. Each timeline sent forces from 2000 years in the future to the present, where Cable was said to be the nexus that would determine which timeline would survive.