In an alternate dark future, Nathan Daystrom Summers, the child of Jean Grey and Scott Summers was fighting a losing rebellion against the forces of the Anti-Life Equation. One by one the forces of free humanity fell to the insidious infection that was the Equation. The aging speedster, the Flash, Eobard Thawne had just been killed and now Nathan himself was the only metahuman left unaffected.
Nathan Daystum Summers. Cable. A man that the Equation felt was the perfect vessel for its essence.
Cable searched for the source of the Anti-Life. He was aided by strange visions that seemed to be forgotten memories but couldn't have been. The reflections in the mirror looked like him but subtly different. It was impossible that he had forgotten a completely different life. Then at the heart of the Equation infection, in a place that once was known as Pleasent Hill, he found the source of his hallucinations.
It was him. Or rather, a recreation of him.
The man who Cable named X-Man was Nathan Grey. Presumably spurred on by the knowledge of the future, a 21st-century geneticist called Nathanael Essex took genetic material from Jean Grey and Scott Summers and made his own version of Cable. Seeking to improve already potent psychic abilities, he added New God DNA into the mix.
X-Man attacked Cable immediately and nearly killed him. In order to flee from the compound, Cable had to tax his own telepathic and telekinetic abilities to their maximum, almost completely burning himself out. Despite this, he was gravely wounded in his escape and had to be cybernetically reconstructed.
Obtaining a time machine, Cable went into the past. He first plucked X-Man during his mid-teens and flung him into the further past. When that didn't seem to change the future for the better, he went into the past himself to do what he needed to do. Along with mercenaries Domino and Deadpool he would kill Nate Grey once and for all.
The trio's attack on the Hammond Institute would fail and Cable found himself incarcerated. He would later join the Avengers as Team Omega and would aid them in their battles against Weapons Plus and The Light.
Always in the back of his mind was the vision of his "twin brother", the swirling epicenter of a storm that would end all of creation. Now despite everything that has happened. Despite everything that he and his allies have done. That vision was coming true.
Serving as host and beacon to the Anti-Life Equation, Nate drew Darkseid to Pleasant Hills. During the battle, the New God decimated the assembled heroes and was about to kill Mel with his Omega Beams. X-Man was able to snap out his trance long enough to interpose himself in from of the goddess. Despite all of his telekinetic strength, the beams cut through the force-shield and obliterated Nate into dust.
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