Chapter II: The Rise of Apocalypse
Chapter III: Time at Full Circle
Section 8: Arrival and Establishment in the Current Era
Returning now to Nathan, who is next seen in the 20th Century, back for the first time since the delegation to the Askani, at a point before he was even born. Nathan journeyed to Muir Island, where he met Moira MacTaggert and a younger Rahne Sinclair. Nathan immediately learned the English language from Moira using his telepathy. Nathan told her that he needed her help in contacting Charles Xavier (CABLE #-1). Nathan traveled to New York City.
There, he attempted to stop the Vulture from committing one of his first robberies. He failed, but was befriended by a guard who worked at the jewelry store that the Vulture attacked. Franklin Rhodes, the guard, gave Nathan a place to stay. Frank could tell that Nathan was a veteran like himself. From Frank, Cable first learned of the existence of S.H.I.E.L.D. Meanwhile, a Canaanite veteran from the future was sent to the present to fulfill the Blood Rite by destroying Cable. The Blood Rite among Canaanites instructed them to avenge their fellow soldiers’ death in combat by killing their killers. D’Von Kray, the Canaanite veteran, arrived to the present in Canada. Wolverine defeated him and took him to Department H, where Kray was tampered with. They hoped to place him in Alpha Flight once he could be controlled.
D’Von Kray escaped and traced Cable back to NYC. When D’Von Kray located Cable, he killed his friend, Franklin. The department sent Wolverine after him and together he and Cable destroyed D’Von Kray. Wolverine did not leave Cable as an ally (CABLE/WOLVERINE: GUTS AND GLORY). Cable bodyslid to the Southern United States to rescue the young mutant know as Rogue from death at the hands of rednecks. Cable debated on whether he should take the girl with him on his quest. The Professor assured him she’d find her way to safety, and so Cable departed without her (CABLE #87). Blaquesmith traveled to the twentieth century, where he became associated with an organization whose aims, he believed, coincided with his own. His contact was Finality, a woman he later knew to go by the name of the Dark Mother. She served the Dark Sisterhood (CABLE #89). Elsewhere, Bolivar Trask was nearly complete in constructing the Master Mold, the original Sentinel. Lawrence, his precognitive son, was seeing images of a dangerous, mutant-filled future. A young Madame Sanctity traveled to this time from 2000 in the future. Cable’s sister, the Mother Askani, followed. [[[[[Sanctity, whose given name was Tanya Trask, was born some years before this time. Her mutant powers had manifested and they banished her to the time stream, which Mother Askani pulled her from and taught her the ways of the Askani.]]]]] Sanctity planned to change the course of history by preventing Trask from creating more Sentinels. Mother Askani stopped her and they returned to the far future. But unknown to Mother Askani, Sanctity had programmed the identities of the Twelve within the Master Mold! Who the Twelve were and what they would do remained an unknown for some time, but they came to play a pivitol role in the years to come (UNCANNY X-MEN #-1).
Unknown to them, the Mandarin was holding a mutant against his will in the hopes to isolate his X-Factor gene from the rest of his DNA to use its cellular structure as the basis to create an entirely new kind of army for himself. Cable and Bridge discovered that the Mandarin, whom they attacked in his own installation, was but a hologram. The Mandarin set the installation to self-destruct. Bridge escaped in a helicopter. Instead of escaping with only his own life to show for the raid, Cable carried the weakened mutant, whose name was Tremain, away from the installation before it exploded (CABLE #33 pages 15-19 and 23-26). He brought Tremain to America, and to Charles Xavier, who instilled thoughts of peaceful coexistence between man and mutant withing his heart (CABLE #72). Consisting of six operatives, the mercenary group first called the Wild Pack was quite formidable. Garrison Kane, G.W. Bridge, and Hammer were normal human operatives, while Grizzly, Domino, and of course, Cable had attributes which would make them more efficient than most. In addition to Cable’s rarely-used psi-powers, things had an unusual way of falling into place for Domino. Grizzly was empowered with superhuman strength. The weapons of choice for any given member of the Wild Pack was heavily artillery. A.I.M. hired the Wild Pack to retrieve a device that Hydra stole from them. They completed their mission and Cable parted ways with the Wild Pack after the device was returned. The Professor accessed Graymalkin in order to timeslide Cable back to the year 4000. Cable asked the Professor if he researched anything further regarding a topic Cable had been interested in; the subject of Externals, rare immortal mutants. The Professor reported that the mutant Sam Guthrie, living in the 20th Century, could possibly become an External, or even someone more powerful referred to as a high-lord. Official documents placed Samuel Guthrie’s presence well into the 24th Century. Cable desired to become associated with the boy and to mold him into a man. He had the Professor timeslide him back to the 20th Century, six months to a year before Guthrie would awaken as an External. [[[[[The Professor had known Sam Guthrie, a.k.a. Cannonball, while he was called Ship and was a part of X-Factor, but his memory programming was faulty in regards to personal recollections.]]]]] (X-FORCE #8 pages 2-23).
A “European businessman” by the name of Mr. Tolliver hired the six to complete a mission for him, which they did. During the World Series, Tolliver called the Wild Pack back to his house outside of Jutenberg, Austria.
Although they never met Tolliver at that point, his representative greeted them. They had another job to do. But before they left, they were faced with the conflict of changing their group name. The “Wild Pack” was already taken. So from then on, they were the Six Pack. The new mission led them to a base in the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan.
Tolliver was allied with Stryfe, and he had delivered the Six Pack to him, as Stryfe had requested. Cable, with quick thinking, set explosives. Stryfe requested his Zero unit, which also traveled through time, teleport him out of the base (Zero has teleportational abilities). Before the explosives discharged, Cable bodyslid the Six Pack away from the base. Over the course of following months, Stryfe had the Six Pack hunted down without repose. The Six Pack tracked Stryfe to the Cordillera de Carabaya, a rugged mountain pass in Uruguay.
They set up charges once they infiltrated his base. Hammer downloaded information from Stryfe’s computers onto a disk. While doing so, Stryfe appeared and took Garrison Kane hostage. Six Pack’s artillery was futile against Stryfe’s TK field. Cable tried to bodyslide them out, but Stryfe’s facility was shielded to block his teleport wavelength. Stryfe would release Kane if Hammer returned the disk. Hammer was prepared to do that, but Cable needed that disk and ordered Hammer not to return it to Stryfe. Time was ticking, and charges were set to explode. As Hammer approached Stryfe to return the disk, Cable shot his friend in the back. Before Cable could get to the coveted disk, Stryfe telekinetically retrieved it and released Kane. Stryfe teleported away with Zero’s assistance. Cable abandoned the rest of the Six Pack and had the Professor timerip him out, since he couldn’t bodyslide. The other five members of Six Pack survived. Hammer was forevermore confined to a wheelchair/life support device after being shot in the back. After an ordeal such as this one, as anybody could imagine, Cable did not visit Six Pack again, which disbanded anyway (CABLE: BLOOD AND METAL #1 pages 1-9, 20, and 28-37 and #2 pages 8-13, 17-22, and 31-39).
X-Factor was founded to be a group devoted to helping mutants, while posing to the public as mutant hunters. Consisting of the original X-Men; Jean Grey, Marvel Girl; Scott Summers, Cyclops; Bobby Drake, Iceman; Warren Worthington III, Angel; and Hank McCoy, the Beast, X-Factor was summoned to attend a case that would forever change not only their lives, but the lives of everyone around them, most notably Nathan’s.
They investigated a man named Mike Nowlan who, knowing the consequences on his own body, turned to drugs in order to keep his mutant power latent. He knew from past experience that he had the ability to augment other mutants’ powers through touch and close proximity. There was a time when mutants the world over sought him out to give their powers a boost. He became like a drug unto them.
At present, the Alliance of Evil was after him, acting under the mandate of their hidden employer, Apocalypse. The Alliance of Evil consisted of mutants one and all; Stinger, Timeshadow, Frenzy, and Tower. Once X-Factor found Nowlan, they attacked, with an ace in the hold. They held his lover as insurance for his cooperation. Nowlan was coerced into powering the Alliance up. With such an advantage, they dispersed X-Factor with little difficulty, and they took Nowlan back to Apocalypse, who planned to use him to augment the powers of all mutantkind.
When his girlfriend was threatened by the Alliance, Nowlan struck them with more power than some of them could handle. Apocalypse ordered he be placed on a monitor machine that would block his power. Though annoyed, he is pleased with them for the open conflict they waged with X-Factor, fellow mutants. Here, he shows his ultimate goal that the weak be “winnowed” from the strong.
X-Factor was drawn to the base. Suzy, Nowlan’s girlfriend, was killed in the ensuing fight. Mike hit the contendants with an incredible wave of energy, then withdrew it all back into himself, an act which killed him as well. The police took the Alliance of Evil into custody, but Apocalypse disappeared beneath his facility (X-FACTOR #s 5-6). The entity known as Malice was expelled from Alison Blaire, the Dazzler, through the efforts of the X-Men. Dealing with the body-snatcher caused distrust to be sown amongst the X-Men (UNCANNY X-MEN #214). Master Mold began to track down and attack members of the Twelve. It attacked both Cyclops and Franklin Richards, but it failed to destroy them (X-FACTOR #14 & POWER PACK #36). Madelyne Pryor, in turmoil, had a flashback to the plane crash, her earliest memory. In it, the Marauders Arclight and Scalphunter acted as paramedics tending Madelyne after the crash. She escaped their ambulance, and they gave chase behind her.
She woke up in a hospital, baby Christopher stolen, to find that she’d been in a coma for months, her existence erased while she was incapacitated.
Meanwhile, Wolverine sensed Jean Grey while investigating her sister, Sara Grey’s, demolished home. He disbelieved his senses, assuring himself that Jean Grey died on the moon long ago (UNCANNY X-MEN #215).
The Marauders attacked Polaris as Havok left her for New York and the X-Men. Possessed by Malice beforehand, Polaris single-handedly resisted the rest of the Marauders. Afterwards, she claimed leadership of Sinister’s Marauders (UNCANNY X-MEN #219).
Apocalypse sent his Horsemen forth from aboard his sentient Ship to defeat X-Factor. Famine, an anorexic girl, Pestilence, an orphaned Morlock, and War, a United States veteran, waged battle against them. Their initial fight in Central Park lent itself to the Horsemen’s favor. The Beast was touched by Pestilence, and he fell gravely ill. The Horsemen were teleported back to the Ship, on which Apocalypse prepared his fourth Horseman, Death, for conflict. Death was in truth the Angel, sans his wings. He was promised new ones in exchange for his servitude to Apocalypse (X-FACTOR #19). Sinister scolded his Marauders for “botching” the murder of Madelyne Pryor. He disciplined Sabretooth when he attacked him, reminding them all of his leadership. He ordered that she be killed before the X-Men could get involved, and they immediately departed for the hospital in which she was being held.
The X-Men were called upon by Madelyne to protect her before the Marauders could attack. The team arrived, led by Wolverine in Storm’s absence. Fighting commenced, Madelyne was extracted safely, and she thenceforth remained with them to further guarantee her safety. Havok was forced to confront Polaris, still possessed, and although he failed in trying to kill her, he by trying succeeded in making a murderous gesture (UNCANNY X-MEN #221).
Apocalypse kidnaped X-Factor and forced them to witness from his Ship the Four Horsemen’s seige on Manhattan. The Beast, his intelligence impaired by Pestilence’s sickness, used his head regardless to free his friends from their shackles. Marvel Girl and Cyclops were expelled from Ship, and they fought the three lower Horsemen in Central Park. The Beast, still on the Ship, inadvertantly destroyed its cloaking mechanism, revealing the floating behemoth to the citizens below it. Other capacities of the Ship were disrupted, such as its stabilizer, causing it to swerve out of control, teetering at the brink of crashing. Scott and Jean observed its course from without, and watched in horror as it grazed the antenna of the Empire State Building. Jean attempted to support the dislodged hunk with her telekinesis, and to prevent it from falling to the streets below, but Pestilence and Death appeared to give them trouble. The Power Pack, too, showed up to lend a hand. Half of the structure Jean was supporting crumbled despite her telekinesis, pulverizing Pestilence, below it, as it fell. Pestilence was killed. Apocalypse teleported War and Death back aboard Ship to assist in dealing with Iceman and the Beast. Riding Pestilence’s mechanized mount, Cyclops and Marvel Girl adjourned there as well to play a part in the final blowout. Iceman wagered he could awaken Warren from the Death persona by allowing the Horseman to kill an ice decoy of himself. His gamble payed off, and Warren was restored among them, however unstable. Apocalypse gathered his troops, War and Caliban, and departed, leaving X-Factor to worry about landing his Ship. The Ship landed in a—relatively—steady manner, coming down flat on top of X-Factor’s base of operations. Everything changed, X-Factor revealed themselves to the public as mutants (X-FACTOR #25). Apocalypse withdrew Famine from her destructive mission in ruining America’s farm land (X-FACTOR #26). The X-Men, due to magical enchantment, were “killed” insofar as any technological device was concerned—without exception to Sinister’s monitoring systems (UNCANNY X-MEN #227). Ship awoke and strove to kill X-Factor and their young charges. The children recognized that Ship was acting out of Apocalypse’s programming, and so they worked together to free it from Apocalypse’s influence. Following its release, Ship began a failsafe countdown procedure. Apocalypse had rigged it to detonate rather than to have it fall into the hands of others with its many secrets. Unwilling to let itself be destroyed, Ship instructed Cyclops and Marvel Girl to the bomb planted within its hull. With Iceman and Beast, they managed to hurl the bomb out to sea, where it exploded safely. Ship was inducted into X-Factor, and Apocalypse accepted this turn of events (X-FACTOR #28). Madelyne discovered that Cyclops was alive after viewing a news broadcast concerning the battle aboard Ship. Seeing Jean Grey with Cyclops, she felt as though her identity had been stolen from her. She experienced hallucinations centering on her indignation at seeing the two together. Drowning in delusion, she was tempted by the demon Sy’m, who was able to seduce her with the magical power he derived from Limbo, his demonic realm. The trauma done to her mind was so extensive that it caused her to collapse. Following her being rendered unconscious, the demon N’Astirh infiltrated the X-Men’s computer network (UNCANNY X-MEN #s 232-234).
Following her kidnapping by Genoshan Magistrates, Madelyne continued to be watched over and influenced by N’Astirh. When she was mentally probed during the Genoshan bonding process, Madelyne unconsciously mind-murdered a room full of scientists. The reverberations of their deaths could be felt by Psylocke, elsewhere on the island.
Later, the Genegineer viewed Madelyne’s dark thoughts recorded during the failed procedure. What he saw was a “childhood façade” imagined by Madelyne, and portraying her as a little girl. When questioned and denounced by the Genegineer, Madelyne confessed, after the procedure, that “I was sick. I got better.” The procedure unlocked a hidden understanding of who Madelyne was. In her thoughts, she displayed the Phoenix manifestation, reverted to a new Goblin Queen persona, and experienced recollections of Mister Sinister. On her own transformation, she commented, “From chaos, change, and change, growth. The pattern of life, as old as creation. Question, though, is this the growth, the change—or the chaos?”
When she escaped her cell at a later time, and stumbled upon Genosha’s creche for spawning mutants, she felt an undescribable familiarity. The Genegineer, finding her threatening to shoot shoot, was threatened with a pschic death which would pale in comparison to her previous mind-murder, should he decide to pull the trigger of his gun (UNCANNY X-MEN #s 236-238).
Mister Sinister lamented the X-Men’s “deaths.” Thought to be secure in his headquarters, he was attacked by Malice, who was upset over her seemingly permanent bond to Polaris’s body. Sinister placated her with assurances that this bond was in her own best interests.
Storm, viewing a video, discovered that Jean Grey was alive, after months of believing her dead on the moon. She attacked Wolverine, who had known for some time without telling her.
Madelyne and Havok consummated their growing infatuation with each other. She decided to repay the Marauders for what they did to her, and to retrieve her kidnaped son.
Sinister plotted to use baby Christopher to achieve his ends in killing Apocalypse. N’Astirh the demon, spying on him, became aware of this intention (UNCANNY X-MEN #239).
Scott and Jean visited the orphanage where he grew up in Sage, Nebraska, to find Christopher, who’d gone missing. They came across a child exhibiting telepathic and telekinetic powers while in a trance. Scott recalled the boy Lefty (Nate), who often hassled him and pushed him to exhibit his powers. Nanny and the Orphan-Maker arrived on the scene outside to steal the orphanage’s mutant children. Scott and Jean discovered a hidden elevator shaft and descended it. They encountered more passive zombies, and uncovered a room of chambers containing babies. Jean found baby Christopher among them. Cyclops and Marvel Girl sparred against Nanny and the Orphan-Maker when they crashed in uninvited. Careful not to injure the children, the fight rampaged through the orphanage. Demons sent by N’Astirh overwhelmed the place and stole baby Nathan (X-FACTOR #35). The X-Men, using their base of operations to track the Marauders to the Morlock alley, attacked their greatest enemies in full force. Colossus was shocked to see Riptide apparently alive again, after the X-Man had killed him during their previous battle. [[[[[This second Riptide was a clone of Mister Sinister's.]]]]] During the fighting, the Marauder Blockbuster was taken and transformed by a demonic presence transforming the fabric of reality in New York City. The transformation became more intense, making the landscape a bizarre caraciture of what it was. It began to change the X-Men as well. [[[[[This was all part of a co-plot in which two demon conspirators, Sy’m and N’Astirh, planned to extend their domain on the Earth.]]]]]
Madelyne Pryor succumbed to her dark nature. In a bout of rage, she destroyed Jean Grey’s gravestone in the cemetery, and she transformed Jean’s parents into her enchanted demon servants. Recalling her wedding day to Scott, she deemed the vow he made a lie.
N’Astirh arrived and brought her to Nebraska, where she found her cloning cocoon, not sure what to make of it. Mister Sinister arrived, calling himself her “father.” Madelyne struck out at him, but Sinister bound her in chains while N’Astirh fled. Sinister began to confront her with the truth of her origins, but Madelyne argued for her existence, recalling a single memory of Jean Grey’s from before the plane crash. Sinister discounted it as such and told her the whole truth. Tormented by having to listen to her true past, Madelyne found strength to break free from Sinister’s chains and proclaimed her independence from him and his machinations.
Her servant and would-be-master, N’Astirh, returned to deliver her child to her, at Sinister’s pleadings that he shouldn’t hand over the greatest weapon he’d ever created. Now Madelyne, bearing the fruits of Sinister’s labors, Scott’s child and dreams for the future, and the one other being who gave her life any meaning, she held with baby Christopher all the cards for her revenge.
X-Factor showed up to retrieve Christopher, led to him through Jean. Madelyne denied Scott and Jean, and referred to Christopher as Nathan, so named after the bully from the orphanage. Cyclops hesitated to hurt her—she was, after all, his wife. In her madness, Pryor turned even against N’Astirh. She resented being used, manipulated, molded into what she’d become. A brood mare for Mister Sinister. But it was too late, for the damage had already been done. She pledged to kill her infant son.
The X-Men, changed by the effects of Inferno, attacked X-Factor and sought to protect Madelyne from them. Madelyne escaped with an enchanted Havok to prepare the sacrifice that would open the portal to Limbo. Jean Grey perceived her plan to sacrifice baby Christopher, and so she dissuaded the two teams from fighting one another.
After defeating the Technarch N’Astirh, the X-Men and X-Factor combined to face the Goblin Queen. It was Marvel Girl that tried to reason with poor Madelyne, who then attempted psionic suicide while dragging Jean with her. A remnant of the Phoenix Force harbored by Madelyne since her creation emerged to restore Jean to life, whole and renewed. The X-Men and X-Factor resolved to take the fight to Madelyne’s corruptor, Mister Sinister.
Jean Grey cried out in pain over the dead Goblin Queen, projecting a telekinetic forcefield to shield herself from a perceived attack. Madelyne’s and the Phoenix’s personas, without the Goblin Queen’s body to house them, were fighting to integrate themselves into Jean’s mind. As this proceeded, Mister Sinister, from his headquarters, launched his own psychic attack on Jean, aimed to cover his tracks and obliterate the memories of all three individual minds.
Various X-Men, led by Psylocke and Storm, entered Jean’s mind and encountered both Jean and a hostile Madelyne Pryor, still bent on revenge. To thwart Sinister, however, she resisted and defeated the attempted mindwipe.
Jean Grey, lifting Sinister’s location from her mind, discovered his base at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. The X-Men and X-Factor invaded their old home, finding it ransacked with Marauders scattered about the premises. Havok killed a demonized Blockbuster and Psylocke immobilized Sabretooth. Polaris attacked as well, but she was contained by Jean Grey. Before Sinister’s location could be extracted with the assistance of Psylocke, potentially killing Polaris in the process, Sinister detonated the school with the mutants inside.
The battle unfolded at the school. Amid the ruins of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, Mister Sinister posed over the X-Men he’d downed.
Cyclops, in order to confront Sinister head-on, zapped Polaris. Scott and Sinister shared a reunion of sorts, since the days of the orphanage, the significance of which Scott was not aware. Sinister held power over Scott, preventing him from firing his optic blasts against him.
Psylocke tried her might against him, stunned him, but Sinister overcame her as easily as the others. Rogue absorbed his personality, falling prey to Sinister’s dominant personality. Scott remembered Sinister from the orphanage, realizing the truth. Sinister regained form in his true body and pummeled Rogue with his elbow.
Mister Sinister explained to Scott how he’d put blocks on his optic blasts until he could learn how to control them. How he buried the truth so deeply that “even a master telepath would not suspect” him. How he was forced to give him ruby quartz glasses to hold back his power. How he kept him as a young boy, only to be lost to Charles Xavier. How he grew Madelyne in Jean Grey’s image to lead Scott away from the X-Men to acquire a child with his genetic potential.
Havok, also present, lashed out at Sinister, who told him how he didn’t want him over his brother. Malice bound Havok in a metal heap. The X-Men and X-Factor fought Sinister, wrested Jean from him after he snatched her, and freed Havok.
Havok force-fed Cyclops power so that he was able to incinerate Sinister where he stood (X-FACTOR #s 36-39 & UNCANNY X-MEN #s 240-243).
On Manhattan's Upper East Side, below ground and off of an abandoned subway platform, the Mad Thinker discovered a laboratory once used by Apocalypse. He employed the technology therein to awaken an android with the ability to analyze and mimic mutant abilities. Still loyal to Apocalypse despite attempts at reprogramming, the android dismissed the Mad Thinker and his agenda, and it instead engaged the nearby New Mutants in Central Park. On the cusp of being defeated by the children, the android retreated to report back to Apocalypse for an upgrade (X-MEN: ODD MEN OUT).
Apocalypse and Caliban fought Loki when the Asgardian came to offer him a role in his Acts of Vengeance (X-FACTOR #50). Caliban was sent to kill Archangel. He failed (X-FACTOR #53). Baby Christopher, or Nathan, as the name chosen by Madelyne sank in, was captured by Apocalypse and taken to Earth’s moon. There he was infected with the techno-organic virus, and, after Apocalypse was dealt with, seemingly for the final time, Askani took baby Nathan along with Ship to the far future (X-FACTOR #67-68).
Section 9: The Six Pack
Section 10: Background for the Present
Section 8: Arrival and Establishment in the Current Era
Nathan was transported back to the present with the Professor and his own orbiting space station/time machine, Graymalkin, named after the street on which the Xavier Institute lay. He arrived at about forty years ago, at approximately 1960. His arrival into the 20th Century somehow awoke the then-hibernating Apocalypse in Switzerland, ironically helping he who would become his sworn enemy begin his latest attempts to cull the weak from the strong.
Ch’Vayre was ordered by Madame Sanctity to steer Cable in fulfilling his destiny. A young man, she sent him from the future to the present [[[[[This is proposedly Ch’Vayre from before his time serving directly under Apocalypse.]]]]] (CABLE #42).Section 9: The Six Pack
Nathan came to be known as Cable in this era. He became a mercenary along with another man, G.W. Bridge, as a member of a group called the Wild Pack. On one mission, Cable and Bridge were to assassinate the warlord Mandarin in China.
After dealing with resistance, the Six Pack discovered whom the base belonged to. It belonged to Stryfe, revealed himself, in all his metallic glory, before them. He had traveled to the 20th Century as well. At that time, Cable was not aware that Stryfe was a physical duplicate of himself under his armor, only distinguishable by his lack of the techno-virus. Cable could never forget him, though, as he had taken his wife and son from him. Section 10: Background for the Present
Upon the Phoenix’s death on the moon, Sinister’s cloned brood mare, in Jean Grey’s image, came bursting to life. The clone showed some inherited “resonance” with the Phoenix force, leading Sinister to wonder if clone and original shared some sort of psychic bond. He fashioned for her a character and personality he deemed enticing enough to lure Scott Summers into procreating with her. He gave her limited memories of her life up to that point, then arranged for she and Scott to meet. Jean’s reemergence from Jamaica Bay preceding the formation of X-Factor necessitated the removal of the clone in order to cover Sinister’s tracks, and also because he had no more need for his creation [[[[[Madelyne, as the clone was to be known, bore Scott a son, Christopher, who would later grow to become Cable.]]]]] (UNCANNY X-MEN #241).