At the same time, Remy ‘s powers strangely grew, apparently due to additional bio-energies of the green ghost woman running through his system. He was now capable of creating time-delayed charges. As he suspected the cause, he was not to eager to have himself examined by Moira MacTaggert at the Muir island complex. On the other hand, it provided him with a perfect cover for the next mission he had to do for the New Son – namely stealing certain data pertaining to mutants, collected and researched by Moira. Gambit underestimated the complex’s failsafes, though, and, when he accidentally activated them, the data core was about to be ejected into space. Remy jumped aboard the rocket and took a copy of the files, almost dying in the process. He then handed a second copy back to Moira, pretending he had saved her data. [Gambit (3rd series) #2]

Beginning to dislike the things the New Son made him do, Gambit secretly followed his contact, the Courier, to get more information on their mysterious employer, but instead stumbled into a meeting of a group called Crew A.S.K.E.W. Suddenly, a yellow gas cloud was released, disfiguring all the scientists, and afterwards two mercs called the Mengo Brothers arrived to transport all of them to the Pig. Gambit grabbed the canister with the gas and ran, but the Mengos chased him through New York. On the fighting scene was a homeless mutant named Quiet Bill, who randomly called up teleportation portals, and the captured scientists were sucked through them. Gambit made a deal with the Mengos, but doublecrossed them, keeping the canister. Knowing that the Pig would now want it back, he arranged for Quiet Bill to be left in the New Son’s care. [Gambit (3rd series) #3]

As curious as Gambit was about his mystery employer, the same seemed to hold true in reverse. The New Son had employed a mutant named Fontanelle, who could gain access to other peoples’ minds via their dreams, to interrogate all people who knew Gambit and sift through their memories. She started with those closest to him, like his adoptive father and his confidant, Tante Mattie. After having been visited by Fontanelle in their sleep, they summoned Gambit to New Orleans to warn him about her. Once there, Gambit also learned that the New Orleans guilds were falling into disarray, caused by the demise of their mutual benefactress, Candra. [Gambit (3rd series) #4]

In the wake of Joseph’s funeral, several X-Men including Gambit were kidnapped to another dimension, where they became embroiled in a battle between Juggernaut and the mysterious Trion. The X-Men eventually resolved this matter but, in the process, Gambit accidentally injured Marrow badly. Thanks to different laws of physics in this dimension, the X-Men’s powers were acting in bizarre unprecedented ways. Eventually, the X-Men were sent back to their universe but, unfortunately, several years into the past and several light-years away on the Skrull homeworld. A training camp for Skrull spies – Skrull mutants to be exact – who had to learn to pretend to be Earth superheroes. All for nothing, as Galactus arrived to destroy the Skrull world. Gambit grew increasingly worried about the critically injured Marrow – he felt especially protective about the former Morlock girl, considering his past (in fact she was the child he had saved at the massacre, although she wasn’t aware of Gambit’s role in it). Taking her to a Skrull clinic, he managed not only to heal her, but also to give her control of her painful bone-growing mutation and a more pleasant look. As a consequence, Marrow hero-worshipped him. [Uncanny X-Men #366-370, X-Men (2nd series) #86-90]

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