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Awakening
In a promotion video for the Brotherhood, Malon tells how she has renounced her family and she now calls herself Simone, a member of the Brotherhood. The video shows also recent actions of Malon and Bryson against the Reeves Corporation. Malon openly accuses her father of using mutant blood money to finance his empire. She then tells him that they will reveal his secret to the whole world.
After seeing this video, Malcolm Reeves smashes the TV-screen and asks Marshal what he is going to do about the Brotherhood. Marshall says that he’s going to act soon, but first he wants to know Reeves’ secret. Malcolm denies that there is any secret and orders Marshal to bring Malon back to him. Marshal remarks that he’s not working for Reeves and that he better tells him his secrets when he returns from his next interrogation with Bela, the captured Brotherhood member.
In London, Fagin and Asher have joined up with Bryson and Malon. Fagin is annoyed with Bryson and Malon’s behaviour and wonders when they can actually do something. Asher is beginning to doubt the Brotherhood and wonders when innocents are going to get killed. Meanwhile Bryson and Malon are discussing Bryson’s strange behaviour as of lately. Bryson tells her that he thinks that X is going to do something big without telling the cells of the Brotherhood. Malon convinces Bryson that they are doing a good thing by fighting Malcolm Reeves, but Bryson stills wants to send a message to X.
Bela is again being tortured by Marshal and this time Marshal wants to know about X.
In a small town Bryson is telling Malon his story. His sister was killed ba an angry mob that wanted to kill Bryson for being a mutant. His mother died shortly thereafter. The Brotherhood then contacted him and offered him a way to channel his rage. His invulnerability didn’t help against the pain in his heart though and therefore he decided to help Malon. Malon and Bryson start to make love, but are interrupted by Fagin who wants to take action. Bryson tells Fagin to think for himself and not follow X’s orders blindly, but then stops. He tells them that there are people outside. The next moment someone is shooting at them. The Brotherhood escapes through a secret tunnel. Outside several soldiers are standing and stop firing when the house is destroyed. Their leader contacts Marshal and tells him that they are retrieving the bodies.
At the end of the tunnel, Bryson gives money to Fagin so that he and Asher can run away. They leave. Bryson asks Malon if they are also leaving, but Malon tells him that they have unfinished business.
Malcolm Reeves is in his office when he notices that someone is burning through the door. Malon enters with Bryson. Malcolm Reeves is very happy to see his daughter alive, but Malon wants him to tell the truth about her and her mother. Malcolm tries to deny it, but Malon pushes on and finally accuses him of being a mutant himself. Malcolm then confesses, but tells her that her mother was being killed by her own powers and that she was going crazy. She wanted to go public, but Malcolm couldn’t allow that. Peri (the doctor who died in the last issue) thought he could cure her and that without her powers she would regain her sanity. The process failed and Malon’s mother died. Malon then tells him that she’s going to expose him. Her father goes berserk and activates his own powers (which make him look like Ghostrider in a business suit). Bryson attacks Malcolm and tells Malon to leave. Bryson throws himself and Malcolm out of the window. Malon is crying at the window when Marshal arrives. He tells her that she can set things right if she helps him locate X.
In the USA, Hoffman has found out that the London cell has been wiped out and that Marshal is about to find them. He despairs, but Orwell calms him down and X decides to set his plans into motion.


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Let Freedom Ring
In Philadelphia, X is preparing for a speech. Another mutant tells him that they are ready. The unnamed mutant tells X how honored they are to have him with them and that there were rumors that he went in hiding after the government took out the Brotherhood cells in London, Bangkok and Rome. The mutant then tells X that his coming out in the open is a sign that the Brotherhood is winning the war. X goes through the doors and starts speaking to a crowd of mutants,who hold signs with texts like “freedom for all means mutants too“, “stop mutant persecution“ etc. X tells the mutants that this is the greatest gathering of mutants in the history of the Earth and that they are not losing this war. He then points to the riot police who are coming to arrest X and tells his followers to stop them. Mutants and police start to fight, but X leaves with a weird smile on his face. He escapes through the sewers and enters a bar.
Several hours later, X is drunk and is chatting with a blond woman. Orwell then walks up to them. Orwell clearly disapproves of X’s actions earlier this evening. X explains to Mitzy, the blond woman, that Orwell is his “business-partner“ and that he disapproves of X’s decisions today. X then gets aggressive towards Orwell, telling him that today’s actions were necesarry. Orwell still thinks that the rally was a mistake, Hoffman then tells him that they are desperate. X tells Mitzy that he wants to go with her, because Orwell’s “badgering“ is driving him insane. Mitzy is confused: Orwell hasn’t spoken a word since he got in. Orwell telepathically tells X that today’s rally will mean trouble. He orders Orwell to contact the cells and tell them to prepare. Orwell mentions Marshal and X decides that something has to be done about him. X then tells Mitzy that he wants away from his business for tonight, but just as he’s about to kiss her, a man, dressed as Uncle Sam, draws a gun aaccuses them of being mutants. Mitzy panics, so far she belived Hoffman to be a weird movioe producer, but this is too much for her. The man says that he is not afraid of the Brotherhood and there will always be humans to fight them. Hoffman uses his powers on the guy and then leaves the bar with Orwell. Once outside the bar blows up.
Elsewhere, the tied up Mike Asher is watching the news about the riots in Philadelphia. Marshal asks him if he regrets that he can’t be there, but Asher answers that he’s done with the Brotherhood and that Marshal can stop making him view the news. Marshal replies that he wants to be absolutely certain that Asher is going to turn on the Brotherhood and that he isn’t going to run away if it gets dangerous. He then leaves.
Outside a man with red hair and glasses compliments Marshal on his work: not only did he capture three Brotherhood operatives in London, he also broke their spirits within record time. He then mentions that he admires the fact that someone of Marshal’s background and genetic ... , but doesn’t finish the sentence. The man then asks Marshal if he can help in any way, but Marshal replies, calling the man Beckman, that the enemy of his enemy isn’t his friend. Marshal then enters Malon’s cell, which is a bit more comfortable then Mike’s cell was and remarks that he was watching the same thing on TV as she is. He makes some remarks about the riot and Malon asks him what she should do. Marshal wants to know what X is up to, but Malon replies that she doesn’t even know X, she only knew Bryson Bale and he died. Marshal then tells her that the Brotherhood isn’t about mutant rights and revolution, it’s only about X himself and his personal vision about a mutant world order. Malon agrees to help Marshal.
In his home, X is looking at a picture of him and Marshal, both holding guns and wearing what seems to be military uniforms. He comments on Marshal’s habit to take everything personal and that he will be waiting for him.


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Loyalties
While looking at pictures of several X-Men and X-Force, Hoffman tells Orwell that the Brotherhood is under siege: the North-American cell is under attack by the X-Men, the Tokyo cell is wiped out by X-Force, Xavier has discovered all secret agents of the Brotherhood and Cable has taken out the Brazilian cell. Hoffman then blames Marshal, who turns out to have been one of the founders of the new Brotherhood. Orwell is not sure about Marshal‘s reasons for leaving and thinks that the fact that Hoffman took control of the Brotherhood was Marshal‘s reason for leaving.
At that point Malon, Asher and Fagin return to the Brotherhood. Hoffman is very pleased to see them and brings them up to date with the situation of the Brotherhood. He gives the three the order to kill one of the traitors. Fagin accepts and leaves after a long silence. Hoffman then tells Orwell that this is a test to see whether the three are still loyal. Outside the three are discussing what they should do now. Asher and Malon are clearly convinced of the benefits of aiding Marshal, but Fagin has his doubts about him.
Marshal obtains a body to use in the fake assasination. Marshal explains them that they should go to the address Hoffman gave them, the traitor wasn’t an informant to Marshal, so Marshal wants to question him. The dead body he has obtained, is a good match for the wanted man. The police and press will be tipped by Marshal and they will bring out the whole story. They should then return to Hoffman to find out what his big plan is.
A at least slightly drunk Marshal sits sometime later in his office, looking at a picture of Hoffman and himself. It turns out that both of them have been friends and rivals since high school and according to Marshal, the game was already decided long ago.
Meanwhile, Malon, Asher and Fagin are standing in front of their target’s apartment. Fagin still doesn’t trust it all, thinking that their target is some sort of super mutant who will kill them all. Fagin tells Malon to burn the lock, but the door is opened by a woman. Her name is Jane Smythe, appearantly the wife of their target, Dick Smythe. She then figures out that the three are sent by Hoffman and turns into a giant of a man: Dick Smythe. Dick grabs Fagin, but Malon shoots him and Fagin then uses his powers: growing spikes all over his body and he knocks Dick out, who reverts to Jane. Fagin is upset: their body double is a bearded man, while their objective is a small woman, but Asher has an idea.
Asher uses his super-charged blood to blow up the building with the body double inside. Marshal asks Asher for his pocketknife so they will have something for Hoffman to identify.
Orwell informs Hoffman that the three have succeeded and he gets an idea while looking at a big billboard in front of him. Asher gives Hoffman a bag, containing the hand of Jane Smythe. Hoffman is satisfied for now and reveals their next plan to them. They will hit on X-Force (The billboard shows a Coca-Cola add with Doop, U-Go Girl, the Orpahn and strangely enough Lacuna), showing the world that you are either with the Brotherhood or against them. In Hoffman’s mind, X-Force are collaborators and if they attack them, the Brotherhood will get some free publicity.
Asher asks who the target will be: the Orphan ? Hoffman compliments Asher, their group is indeed too weak to take on the full X-Force and so they should take out the leader, but tells him the next minute that he’s a fool: the leader can be easily replaced as X-Force has done before. If they really want to strike at X-Force, they will take out their heart. A picture of Doop is shown in the back.


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The Eagle And The Serpent
While watching X-Force participating in a parade, Hoffman tells Asher, Fagin and Malon that the Brotherhood is in turmoil. Marshal’s actions have taken out most of the cells (many others were taken out by Cable, the X-Men or X-Force in the Brotherhood #8), but that killing Doop can save the revolution. Hoffman also tells them that there are other Brotherhood members to help them. The three young mutants leave the building and Hoffman tells Orwell that he doesn’t feel guilty about sacrificing them, since they were willing to sell him out.
Outside Fagin is very nervous about the plan: Marshal hasn’t told them how they are supposed to get away during the action. Asher wants to tip off X-Force about the hit, Fagin tells them that X-Force is just in it for the money and that Marshal only cares about getting Hoffman. They come to the conclusion that the only ones they can trust are themselves.
From a building Hoffman is observing them, telling him that Marshal should be close and feeling over confident. A three-eyed girl and a guy with lobster-like claws are in the public and Marshal picks them out as Brotherhood members. Outside the building, Hoffman and Orwell split up and Hoffman tells him that they are going to rebuild the Brotherhood afterwards and that the world will remember them.
Asher is hoping that they can help X-Force and that he maybe can become a member after all of this. Malon calms him down. Orwell passes them and telepathically instructs the ‘lobster-man’. Asher, Fagin and Malon try to attract the attention of X-Force, but the ‘lobster-guy’ jumps in front of them and starts to shout that he and his brethren will kill X-Force. A fight erupts between X-Force and the Brotherhood operatives that were hiding among the crowd. Before they can explain that they tried to warn them,  Fagin, Asher and Malon get attacked by X-Force as well.
At the sidelines, Hoffman faces Marshal. Marshal wants to attack, but he is grabbed by Ms. Finger, a tentacled mutant who can become invisible. She keeps Marshal’s mouth shut and Hoffman walks towards his helpless foe, intending to finish what began years ago.
In the middle of the battle, Fagin and Malon decide to try and escape, only Asher thinks they should still try to explain. Before they make a decision, Fagin gets his chest ripped open by Vivisector and Malon is knocked down by the Orphan. She stumbles backwards and falls into the Spike’s spikes. Asher still tries to stop the fight, but nobody pays any attention to him. Vivisector cuts his arm, and with blood running from it, Asher fears that his power will kick in and set everyone on fire. He still tries to talk to Doop, but he gets teleported by U-Go Girl, who drops him from a great height onto a car.
Having observed the battle, Hoffman tells Marshal that the last traitor has died. However Marshal signals that he ahs something important to say and Hoffman tells Ms. Fingers to release his mouth. Marshal answers that Asher wasn’t the last traitor. Hoffman thinks that Marshal is talking about himself and orders Ms. Finger to kill Marshal, but she is knocked out by Orwell. Hoffman is shocked that Orwell has betrayed him and Marshal explains that they three have founded the Brotherhood, but that Hoffman betrayed them by turning the Brotherhood into his personal crusade. Marshal explains that he wanted to kill Hoffman long ago, but Orwell always held him back hoping that Hoffman could be converted or that he still served a purpose.
Marshal then realizes that Orwell has played them both against each other, but already in the next second he tells Orwell that he’s just kidding, he will kill Hoffman and then take control of the Brotherhood as the new X. Since the government has given him a license to kill, he can use it to weed out the weak and start a new revolution. Hoffman fires a lightning bolt at Marshal, but he ducks and Orwell gets hit instead. Marshal thanks Hoffman for killing Orwell, since he couldn’t trust anyone who could sell out his friends. Lying injured in the car, Asher watches Hoffman and Marshal fight. Since they both used them he uses his last strength to guide his blood to them and ignites it. Then Asher dies as well.
Having defeated all other Brotherhood members, X-Force walk to Asher’s body and the Orphan asks if anyone knows what really happened here. U-Go Girl answers: “the end of the revolution ?” and the team walks away.


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The Devil’s Herald!
Stan Lee, in Cable’s costume, is slashing his way through the comic page with a large knife, introducing himself in the process. Stan goes on to try to briefly explain Cable’s rather confusing backstory, while at the same time showing a rather humorous bit of attempting to pick up Cable weaponry, which should be physically impossible.
The story opens in on Moira MacTaggert and her ward, Rahne Sinclair, traveling by boat to the city of Stornoway in Scotland. Moira had received word from Angus MacWhirter that some sort of trouble was brewing so she decided to investigate. After arriving, Moira finds out from MacWhirter that there is a stranger in town, and that Reverend Craig is exciting the populous with his speeches of fire and brimstone. No sooner do Moira and Rahne get to town than they find Craig has organized a lynch mob against the mysterious stranger, who is dressed in oddities and some sort of armor, and unable to speak English.
 Craig is quick to call him the devil’s herald, exciting the crowd even further. Moira quickly jumps in to protect the stranger, stating that the man could just as easily come from up above rather than down below. Craig reluctantly agrees, but all illusions are thrown out the window when one of the onlookers touches the stranger’s mechanical arm, and is surprised to find the metal alive.
 Fearing that the crowd is now in a killing frenzy, the stranger uses some sort of mental projection to alter their perception of the actual events. Instead of Moira and Rahne protecting a weirdly dressed stranger, they are introducing a fine and respectable gentleman to Reverend Craig. Moira, is of course, confused by everyone’s sudden change of mood, and as the crowd disperses, the Reverend Craig politely reminds Moira that he expects to see her and Rahne in church the next Sunday.
 Later, back at Muir Island, Moira suspects that there is much more to the stranger than meets the eye, and has brought him with them to further examine him. For the first time the stranger seems to be at peace, but in actuality the man is deep in thought.
 He remembers a battle which occurred long ago, as he was leading a pack of rebels against the forces of the Canaanites in a huge and terrible battle. The stranger does battle with a particularly huge Canaanite, and slays him with his sword. However, the “Askani’son” as his fellow troops calls him, is suddenly caught in an explosion, but he emerges from the fire…his battle not yet finished.
 In the present, a tear comes to the stranger’s eye. Concerned, Moira brings the stranger into her lab, and then proceeds to introduce him to a series of tests. She places him into a sensor array which she had been working on in order to examine him further. However, as soon as she activates the system, the stranger suddenly goes into convulsions, his mechanical arm suddenly flares outward like a tree sprouting roots, directly into the machinery around him. Moira attempts to shut down the machine, to no avail, and she rushes to his side to help remove him from the sensor. There is a feedback and the machinery suddenly explodes sending Moira crashing to the floor. Moira barely recovers when she finds herself in even more danger, and a huge chunk of metal debris threatens to crash down on top of her, crushing her to death.
 Suddenly, the stranger jumps to her aid, using telekinesis to shove the falling debris out of the way. However, the effort appeared to weaken the man event further.
 Moira leans down to check on him, when suddenly the man looks up and connects their mind for a split moment. Moira becomes frightened by the experience, but the man quickly speaks to calm her, stating that he is sorry. Moira is now surprised that the stranger can speak English, at which point the man explains that he learned it from Moira’s own mind while they were in rapport. He explains that he is from the future, and that he traveled back in time to make contact with a man named Xavier, whom his history speaks of his great importance in this era.
 Moira, of course, knows of Xavier and offers to help the stranger get in contact with him. The stranger, however, is in no hurry…stating that if anything, all he has is time. He explains that while he was within her mind, he learned of her son, but promises to keep it a secret. When Moira asks if the stranger has a name, the man said he had many.
 Meanwhile, in Switzerland, lost somewhere deep in the mountains, there is an Egyptian temple carved out of the side of the mountain. Inside, a tomb opens, and a shadowy figure emerges. The figure is named Apocalypse, and his equipment has awakened him after detecting the stranger’s temporal shift through time. Apocalypse wasn’t due to emerge from stasis for another century, but the stranger’s arrival changed that…in a way making Reverend Craig correct. Cable was the Devil’s Herald.
As the story ends, Stan Lee end caps the story, and once more attempts to pick up one of Cable’s huge guns, which brings about “The Ever-Lovin’ End!”


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The Wolf-Pit
Chicago, Illinois. 2118…
While traveling through the remains of Chicago, Bishop meets some scavengers who may have encountered Cable. Apparently, one of the vagrants insinuated something sexual was occurring between Cable and the under-aged girl in his protection; Cable made sure the joker learned his lesson. Bishop gives this battered man a few more drinks, and after loosening up a bit, he boasts that he intends to teach Cable a lesson…as soon as his body heals up, that is. He even know where he lives, the vagrant brags.
After getting the information he needs, Bishop travels to Cable’s reputed residence. Upon seeing the building firsthand, he understands why Cable chooses to live there; the abandoned, crumbling building is so dark on the inside that none of its potential traps or alarms would be visible. As Cable only needs a moment’s notice to escape from Bishop into the timestream, Bishop has to catch him by surprise. As he walks down the remnants of a hallway, something about one of the nearby doors draws his attention.
Meanwhile, on the other side of a door, Cable and the mutant messiah child, now around two years old, sleep peacefully. The toddler hears a noise in the hall and excitedly runs toward the door. Cable wakes just in time to see her enthusiastically shouting “nay-nay” as she nears the only wall between them and the dangers of the outside world.
Bishop bursts through the door in the hallway…but sees only an empty room. A familiar noise draws his attention, however, and he turns around. He sees an electronic baby doll resting on the floor, repeating the words “ma-ma, ma-ma” over and over again. He picks it up. The doll’s eyes turn bright red and its “ma-ma” changes to a rapid beeping. Bishop realizes he has stumbled into a trap. He runs to the edge of the floor and dives off the tower, mere moments before the doll explodes behind him. As he plummets toward the fractured concrete below, Bishop reaches upward with his robotic arm and extends its tentacles, which manage to snag one of the building’s few remaining pillars of support. The wire tentacles slice through the concrete like warm butter. Bishop continues to fall, and resorts to channeling the remnants of his charged energy toward the ground to buffer the impact. This maneuver slows his descent enough to save his life, but the building still crumbles down on top of him. He blasts his way out, screaming in both pain and anger as the concrete clears. Yeah. Cable was here, he says.
Somewhere in the future…
Cable gets up and washes his face at the sink, one of the few amenities provided by the bombed-out apartment they currently call home. The moon shining through what used to be a roof provides his only light. After finishing with himself, he cleans the dirt off the little girl’s face too. “Go nay-nay?” she asks. Yes, Cable agrees; it is time to go. “Oh kay nay-nay,” the child says.
Later, the two walk through a sunny forest. The child runs ahead, chasing a purple butterfly. “Wait!” Cable shouts. In her excitement, she runs right by a ferocious mammal hiding in the bushes.
Chicago, 2118…
Bishop travels back one day earlier in time in an attempt to catch Cable planting the explosive doll. After learning Cable paid someone else to plant it, Bishop realizes that tracking Cable through time is a billion times more difficult than tracking him on land; the possibilities are infinite. So, he focuses on narrowing things down. He knows Cable can no longer bodyslide, having lost that ability when Providence Island sank beneath the ocean. He also knows Cable won’t travel by boat or airplane, as both are too traceable. This leaves one option: Cable must be traveling on foot. But where, and when, would he go?
Bishop assumes Cable would stick to future timelines, as he knows them best. In this sense, Cable has an extraordinary advantage; while Bishop’s knowledge of history extends eighty years into the future, Cable’s extends twenty centuries. Though I don’t think we’re in the same future anymore. I seem to have chased Cable into Hell on Earth, Bishop says as he examines the ravaged landscape . A world gone wrong. A world that could have been saved, if there were any mutants around to save it. Suddenly, Bishop has an idea.
New Siberia, 2592…
Bishop journeys to an isolated shack in the middle of a savage desert. The sign on the door reads Professeur René Merryweather, Les Sciences Biophysiques de Mutation. Bishop knocks. A long-haired Caucasian man answers the door. Bishop struggles to understand the man’s language, which combines elements of French, Arabic, and English. René, however, is pleased to meet someone else who actually remembers mutants ever existed. He comments that Bishop must be a huge fan; one rarely sees someone with an “M” tattooed over their eye anymore.
Continuing, Merryweather confirms that the history books do tell stories of a man known as the “Last Mutant” who traveled with a child. This man was reportedly sighted in Chicago in the early 21st century, a fact which Bishop can easily attest to. Merryweather drops another cryptic clue, adding that some people believe this “Last Mutant” is also the “Mysterious Savior of Cedar Rapids.”
Cable’s present, somewhere in the future…
The two haggard, spiky bear cubs encircle the defenseless little girl. Cable approaches from behind and lifts his gun. “Little girl,” he says, “…run.” The first beast lunges at the toddler, but Cable manages to blast it out of the air with his pistol. The child runs. The other beast leaps over its fallen comrade and chases after her. Cable follows, slaying another of the animals as he runs, before finding himself surrounded by an entire pack! One of the animals leaps at him from behind and sinks its fangs into his shoulder. He grabs it by the head and throws it off before continuing on his way. Once more, however, he finds himself surrounded. While he picks them off with his pistol one shot at a time, the mutant child cowers behind a tree.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 2151…
After learning all he can from Merryweather, Bishop travels to the frozen wasteland that used to be Cedar Rapids. While René reiterated that all information he has is merely legend, Bishop refuses to leave any clue uninvestigated. He travels through the ruined city, largely ignored by its bundled residents, searching for signs of Cable’s trail. Upon seeing a statue of Cable in the town plaza, however, Bishop realizes he has come to the right place. At the statue’s fit rests a sculpture of several dead beasts, an element that verifies something else Merryweather told Bishop: in the mid-22nd century, animals who mutated to survive the harsh environmental conditions acquired a taste for humans. According to the legend, a mutant with a glowing eye who carried with him a child arrived and eliminated the scourge of the feral creatures. It seems Cable single-handedly saved the town of Cedar Rapids.
Without any concrete dates, Bishop begins to ask passersby about the statue. The first man he asks freezes in place and stares at Bishop in shock. “It is as he foretold,” he announces before speaking of a prophecy. The other villagers, their attention focused on this interaction, soon join him in reciting the prophecy, which tells of a man who would one day come in search of Cable and his child.
Cable’s present…
The little girl crouches next to a tree and cries. Suddenly, a grizzled, scale-covered paw reaches around the trunk, and a beast lurches forward and snarls at the terrified child. It opens its mouth to bite her, but Cable stabs it through the throat. He grabs the wounded beast from behind and smashes it against a nearby tree, then kneels down and scoops up the little girl whose life he has sworn to protect. “It’s okay, now. It’s okay,” he tells her. She looks up into his eyes and smiles. Her tears finally cease. As they walk away, however, Cable hears a sudden, metallic CA-CHUNK! coming from the ground. Pain begins shooting up his leg. Maintaining his composure, he looks down, and sees he has just stepped into a large bear-trap. Nearby, another pack of monsters growls from the dark shadows of the woods.
Cedar Rapids, 2151…
“KILL THE BABYKILLER!” the villagers shout.
Oh yeah. Cable was here, Bishop thinks as he draws his gun. The rabid villagers, bearing weaponry of their own, encircle Bishop. Another trap. And this time, it’s Cable’s own damn cult, he thinks as he accumulates charged energy in his hands. Cable did always have that messianic quality about him, but Bishop feels like screaming at these people; Cable is not Jesus! Before he can finish that thought, one of the villagers stabs him in the back of his right shoulder. Bishop falls to the ground and realizes it is time to leave. He triggers his time-travel device and jumps forward nine days. Much to his surprise, he pukes on the ground upon arriving; by now, he figured he would no longer feel the stress of time-travel. Feel like I’ve had the damn flu for 100 years, he thinks. After pulling the dirty knife out of his shoulder, Bishop decides to confront the old man who sent him to this deathtrap.
Cable’s present…
Cable grunts in pain as he tries to free himself from the bear-trap and control his bleeding. The little girl grows frightened of the noises she hears from the woods. Cable senses she might run again. He tries to compel her to stay with him, but the eyes glowing in the forest convince her otherwise.
New Siberia, 2592…
Bishop wastes no time in neutralizing Merryweather. Immediately after entering, he knocks him down with a charged kinetic blast. René looks up and tells Bishop he refuses to help a monster like Bishop. “My great-great-grandmother’s journals chronicle the history of mutantkind in great detail,” he says. “Specifically how you tried to destroy them all.” Bishop cracks a joke about Merryweather’s jumbled speech patterns. You’ll never find her, Merryweather says. He tells Bishop it’s pointless to torture him for information, as he has a painkilling circuit hardwired into his spinal column. He will laugh all the way into the next world.
That, Bishop understands. He approaches, puts his face right in Merryweather’s, and states he has no intention of torturing him.
Cable’s present…
As the helpless Cable watches in horror, a gargantuan, scale-covered bear crashes through the line of trees. It turns its glowing red eyes toward the baby girl and stalks after her. Cable pulls out his pistol and fires a high-powered shot right at its torso. The shot sears its flesh, but bear does not even flinch. This might be the end for both of them.
New Siberia, 2592…
I took no joy in killing Merryweather, Bishop says. But, the man had caused him enough trouble already. Although it was hard for Bishop to understand the old man, his repeated use of the word “journal” stood out. After burying the old man’s body, Bishop spends weeks digging through the old files and scrapbooks, reading Merryweather’s ancestors’ historical records chronicling Nathan Christopher Summers. After a while, however, something becomes very clear: all the records are false.
Bishop realizes that at some point in her career as a journalist, Irene Merryweather began inventing news stories about fake Cable sightings all over the world, with the sole intention of confusing Bishop. From these fake stories, a worldwide cult developed, and each new generation created its own myth about Cable. Each cult looked up to him with fervent admiration, and cult would die to defend him. Essentially, Cable created 500 years of death traps, while managing to keep the true record of his travels with the baby out of documented history, and out of Bishop’s reach.
After five more weeks of searching Merryweather’s cabin, however, Bishop stumbles across hidden vault containing a notebook. He reads it, and believes it might actually be Cable’s actual history. Much of it is written in code, some of it undecipherable. Bishop does manage to interpret the journal’s final entry, though, which simply reads “Rocky Mtns, 2276 NDS R.I.P.” Rest in peace, Nathan Dayspring Summers, Bishop says to himself. It may be another trap, but he needs to check anyway. His quest, after all, doesn’t end until he sees the bodies.
Rocky Mountains. 2276. Cable’s present…
Finally free of the bear-trap, the hobbled Cable crawls toward the child. Bishop, meanwhile, puts his back to the wall of an abandoned, concrete cabin in the woods. Cable’s a soldier, he thinks. He knows the art of the trou de loup – the wolf pit. The series of traps you leave an enemy while you retreat to safety. While fully aware of the lessons he learned from the wired building, and the town full of crazed villagers, Bishop kicks the door in and levels his gun. The room is empty. Did Cable leave a trap there too? He cannot say for sure, but it is evident someone was in this room very recently.
Bishop sees a strange-looking cockroach walking along a stick. He picks up one of the many jars that litter the floor and catches the bug. As he holds it in his hand, he thinks about the nonsensical pattern behind Cable’s journey. Why does he always jump forward in time? If Bishop were trying to avoid mention in the historical record, he would jump all over the timestream. Cable’s pattern makes no sense…unless, he has no choice. Then, it hits him: Cable doesn’t have a choice at all. His time-travel machinery must have been damaged when Bishop shot him at the diner.
Nearby, the monstrous bear stalks the helpless little girl in the woods. She cradles herself beneath a large tree, repeating her comforting mantra of “nay, nay, nay, nay…” The bear overhears.
Bishop comes across fresh drops of blood on the forest floor. While it could be animal blood, he decides to follow it anyway. He fails to realize when his path brings him within ten meters of the bear. Only a few meters from the bear sits the mutant child, and only a few more meters from her, Cable drags himself across the ground. The bear hears Bishop’s approach, growls, and turns to him instead. It lunges. And I thought that cockroach was ugly, he says when faced with the mutated monster. He manages to blast it in the chest with a stream of charged energy, stopping it in the air. The bear, however, refuses to die. It lunges once more, and Bishop dives out of its way. He draws his gun and fires several rounds in its chest, but the bullets do nothing to abate it. It knocks him to the ground and tries to bite his head off. Bishop just barely manages to hold its massive jaws at an arms length. He reaches up, places his hands around the bear’s temples, and fries its brain. The 800-pound bear collapses on top of him.
With his head pinned to the side, Bishop spots his target crawling helplessly across the ground: Cable. Summoning the last of his strength, he raises the bear carcass and lifts his gun. “Rest in peace, Nathan Dayspring Summers,” he says as he fires. Cable dives out of the way. After throwing off the bear, Bishop stands up and shouts into the woods. “I know your secret, Cable,” he announces. Unless Cable can find a time-machine repair-shop in the Rocky Mountains, he can only jump forward in time. Cable ducks out from behind his cover and fires back at Bishop. He misses. Bishop just stares back at him cruelly, fully understanding the situation at hand. If Cable has not jumped away yet, it means either his time machine is broken, or he does not have the little girl with him. Either way, it ends right here, Bishop thinks. “You’ve just run out of road, Cable,” Bishop says. “You had to know it’d happen someday. Nobody runs forever.”
Cable frantically scours the area for signs of the child. However, he finally sees her in an unusual place, sitting high up in a tree. He reaches up and orders her to jump down into his arms. “No nay-nay! No jump!” she says. Cable begs. She refuses again, this time saying she’s scared.
“I’ll never, ever let anything happen to you, little girl. You know that,” Cable pleads.
Bishop lifts his rifle and locks the child in his sights. Just as she jumps down to Cable, he fires. The tree explodes. Satisfied, Bishop walks over to the site of the kill to confirm it, but he grumbles upon realizing Cable’s time device must still work. Both he and the child are gone.
At sunset, as he sits by himself in a canyon, Bishop has a startling epiphany. Had he not shown up when he did and killed that bear, it would have eaten the baby. Cable was incapable of protecting her; it would have eaten her, then killed Cable. Irene Merryweather’s journal was not a trap this time around. It was history. And Bishop just rewrote history. I saved the baby, he says. I just $%&ing saved her. It won’t matter in the long run, he tells himself. With the information he has now, tracking Cable will be much simpler. Bishop boots up the chronal components of his robotic arm and jumps back to North America in the year 2008. Sooner or later, Cable will run out of road, and Bishop will be there to smash his foot down on the accelerator.


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Cable’s gravesite
The X-Men are gathered together as one of their brethren is ready to be lowered into the ground. Those assembled shift their glances downward as Deadpool in a priest’s frock reminisces over the events of Second Coming and how his old friend died trying to save the world… as usual.
Later, after the casket has been placed and everyone else moved on, Deadpool glances down into Cable’s open grave. For once he’s almost speechless. He just doesn’t know what to say as it all feels so anti-climactic.
Reaching into his satchel Wade pulls out a large bottle of liquor. He tells Nate he’s tempted to dig up his metal arm, seeing as that’s all that’s left of him, drive out to the desert, hit a few cheap bars, try to get it lucky and then bury it under a Joshua Tree all Grand Theft Parsons-style.
However, Deadpool reasons, society would probably think that creepy and the voice inside his head agrees. Instead Wade lifts up the bottom of his mask and chugs some of that alcohol. He then tips the bottle over and drains some of the contents onto Nate’s casket. “Here’s to you, ol’ buddy…” he says, but then turns the bottle right side up, deciding Nate’s passing deserves more than just prayers muttered over his metal arm. He drops the bottle onto the casket, a wide smile breaking over his masked face. He knows just what to do.
(A map ranging from North America to Europe appears below this scene. On the map is a simple bi-plane carrying Deadpool and heading eastward. There is a line of red dashes trailing from the back of plane to North America, a scene reminiscent of one you would find in an Indiana Jones movie.)
Rumekistan?
Deadpool comes skipping out of the airport, his suitcase on wheels following him into the air with every leap. He turns and begins walking the streets, his brain filling up with memories of Cable’s rule of this country only a few short years ago.
The streets are desolate, garbage strewn all over the place, a few rats here and there. Deadpool comes across two children playing with a beheaded doll. Nearby, some unexploded ordnance leans against the alley wall. He remembers Cable’s attempts at creating a utopia here, until he had to leave and take that brat (Hope) out into the future.
Wade stretches his arms out wide as if he’s about to give the biggest hug he can. He approaches the kids playing with the doll and yells, “These were his people!” The children run off in terror.
flashback
Barjnov, Rumekistan
Cable and Deadpool walk through a very similar garbage-strewn street. Deadpool’s in the middle of asking Cable why he didn’t choose a place like Hawaii to lead. Staying serious Nathan explains that if he can stabilize this country it will be a force of change throughout Europe, and then beyond. Deadpool still argues Cable should have went with Catalina Island, with its close proximity to the coast where he can bodyslide over and meet with his entertainment lawyers and then hop over to the Coffee Bean on Beverly Drive.
end flashback
However, Deadpool admits he came to understand what Nate was trying to do and that he cared for these people. So Deadpool thinks he should unite the people of Rumekistan in a three day-long festival of music, food and fun. He even wants to start it off with a museum in honor of their national hero.
“We could call it Cablepalooza! Or maybe Nathanstock!” he cries aloud scaring the nearby citizens who were already staring at him in fear. The oblivious Deadpool doesn’t notice what his actions are doing as his imagination conceives the wonders of an amusement park. “You survived a battle to the death with Apocalypse… but can you survive the ride?” he thinks to himself while envisioning a huge rollercoaster outfitted with a tunnel resembling Apocalypse’s head, mouth open wide.
The next image that pops into ‘Pool’s scrambled brain is a shooting gallery. He pictures children trying to handle giant guns bolted to a counter while firing at targets for prizes. This amuses Wade as Nate really loved his guns.
Last into his mind comes the Nate-themed restaurant. Deadpool thinks the waiters should be dressed like Cable and should serve up only the finest in techno-organic fare. Deadpool scrunches his brow realizing just how awesome his ideas are. His only problem is finding the right wheel to grease so he can get this whole thing going.
Presidential office, thirty-seven minutes later
Deadpool stands in the office of the President. He’s offering him buckets of grease, literally, but the president assures Deadpool he’s never heard of “Kable” or “Nadine Summer.” Wade sits down in a nearby chair and folds his hands behind the back of his head. He chocks up the official’s lack of cooperation as a bargaining tactic. He promises he can bring attention to the obscure former Soviet nation, suggesting he could book Lady Gaga.
The President has heard enough and presses a button underneath his desk. Guards swarm the room, some with weapons drawn. Deadpool’s told to freeze or perish, but he thinks it’s just another bargaining tactic, a ballsy one at that. He figures it wouldn’t look good if he killed everyone so he decides to play it cool.
The President gets up from his chair and in his native language orders the guards to take the “spy” to the detention center. Deadpool thinks the Prez is trying to be slick speaking in Rumekistanian, but Wade believes he is fluent. His inner voice disagrees with him, but to prove his point Deadpool translates the President’s orders as: “Take this squirrel to the William Shatner Festival and feed him gravy.”
Reaching into his side holsters Deadpool removes his handguns and places them down on the President’s desk as a sign of goodwill. Immediately after, the guards beat him to the ground with batons and electrically charged staffs.
It’s at this point Deadpool’s inner voice tells us, the comic reader, the reason why this whole “Cable” thing is a surprise to these people. As it turns out the boundary lines in Eastern Europe are redrawn rather quickly and Deadpool’s actually in the wrong country. The reason the voice hasn’t told Deadpool this is because, quite frankly, he wouldn’t believe it and would just dismiss it as another voice in his head.
As the troops drag a barely conscious Deadpool out of the office and toward the detention center he mentions his offer of Lady Gaga again. Nobody answers him and as he begins to slip into unconsciousness he’s reminded of the first time he met Nate, and as he recalls it was love at first sight.
Via internal singing Deadpool recaps the fight he and Cable got into when they first encountered each other. He was getting his butt handed to him by the Askani-Son and resorted to throwing a knife into his thigh. When he leaped at him to finish the job Cable landed a powerful uppercut that made him see stars.
Speaking of, the stars start to fade away as Wade wakes up in a cell with three other prisoners standing over him. As he rubs his head in an effort to shake the cobwebs Deadpool asks how long he’s been out. Speaking in his native tongue one of the prisoners explains he was brought in last night and was singing something in his sleep. Deadpool thinks he was hit harder than he thought because now he can’t understand a word of Rumekistan.
With the men just standing there looking at him Deadpool pleads with them to be happy. He grabs the nearest guy by the collar and brings him face to face. He reminds him their former leader, Cable, knew all about the power of working together to fight impossible odds.
flashback
There’s a huge battle going on and Cable bodyslides right into the middle of it. Surprisingly, Deadpool bodyslides right next to him. At first Cable is confused how Deadpool followed him there, but quickly realizes that when he absorbed Wade’s essence their DNA blended so now whenever he bodyslides… but Deadpool finishes the sentence for him, “I go too?”
The pair take off running barely dodging an incoming artillery round. Body parts go flying as the explosion lands just behind them. Deadpool jokes that with this bodysliding thing he’ll never have to fly coach again.
end flashback
Deadpool tells the prisoners he and Cable were like peas and carrots. The man with the scraggly beard finally speaks up (in English) and says he thinks he remembers Cable. This excites the excitable Deadpool. As the man describes Cable he says he had blonde hair. When Deadpool corrects him the scraggly-bearded man quickly agrees. The old man then says Cable was his personal hero since he was a small boy. The short-haired man behind him holds up his hand and says, “Me, too!”
Pumping his fist into the air Deadpool is so enthused to have finally found Nate’s people. The bearded man asks the short-haired one who the Nate guy is. The short-haired man tells him to shut up, as this crazy man could be there last chance to get out of there.
Sure enough, Deadpool calls the guards over using a sing-songy voice. When the two guards open the door to the cell they find Deadpool standing over the badly contorted bodies of his three cellmates. The guards are shocked and disturbed by the sight, so Deadpool jokes for them not to get bent out of shape.
With his rifle pointed at Deadpool one of the guards motions the Merc with a Mouth to the wall. The guard keeps asking over and over again what Deadpool did. Deadpool’s upset because he can’t understand his captor, though he still swears he’s fluent in Rumekistani.
All goes according to plan as the distracted guards are ambushed by the “beaten” cellmates. “Viva La Rumekistan!” Deadpool shouts as he turns around and takes down the guard with the rifle in his back.
Deadpool and his new crew escape the building and rush through an open section of fence. One of the escapees tries telling Deadpool of a planned invasion come dawn, but Deadpool doesn’t understand him and takes off in another direction. He tells his new-found friends that he has a memorial concert to plan and complains that the Lady Gaga wench hasn’t been returning his texts.
Making his way under a bridge Deadpool comes across a woman huddled down near some steps with a crying infant in her lap. Deadpool comes over and starts making goofy faces trying to keep the kid from crying. The mother is scared at first, but then the baby responds well and starts to smile. He starts saying things like, “woobsie floobsie nanny nanny poo poo face”, which prompts Wade’s internal dialogue to tell him he’s finally speaking fluent Rumekistan.
flashback
This baby stuff reminds Deadpool of when Cable reverted into an infant during House of M. Deadpool being Deadpool he recalls wiping Nate’s nose, changing poopy diapers and being puked on by the little rascal.
end flashback
Leaving the woman and her soothed child Deadpool decides to find a bar to drown his sorrows in. It doesn’t take long before his mission is accomplished and Deadpool is knocking them back (even though they taste like airplane fuel). With a slur Deadpool looks around at his fellow patrons and asks if any of them remembers their fallen hero “Nashan Dayshring Summas.” With empty glasses littering the bar in front of him Deadpool passes out, his head resting on the bar. The barkeep heads to a nearby phone while keeping an eye on his newest customer.
flashback dream
Deadpool is in the midst of trying to arrest Hercules and Captain America for failure to register with the new Superhero Registration Act when Cable attacks. Deadpool opens fire with a volley of tranquilizer darts, however they ricochet off Nate’s t-o and most of them come back and hit him in the face and upper chest.
The Merc with a Mouth quickly succumbs to the tranqs leaving Captain America to question what to do with him. Cable suggests duct tape, lots of duct tape, saying they need one roll for his mouth alone.
end flashback dream
President’s office
A large balding man comes running into the president’s office. He starts yammering on about a phone call he received from his cousin about some stranger who wandered into his bar. The President says if this is a joke he’s going to be really pissed, but the plump man says it’s not, that it’s the prisoner with the mask and that he’s escaped.
The president stands to his feet in a fit of rage. How did he escape, he yells, but before he can get an answer another man runs into the room and says they’ve intercepted a huge shipment of boxes from the U.S. addressed to a Mr. Wade Wilson. The President demands to know what’s in the boxes addressed to their former captive.
the bar
Singing and leaping as he exits the bar Deadpool is as refreshed as ever. When a half-dozen sighted lasers light up his head and upper torso his mood is ruined. He whips out his swords and asks who wants some. His response is volley of gunfire that tears him up.
President’s Office
After being bandaged Deadpool is brought before the president. His sits cross-legged in a chair, sipping on some tea. The president stands in front of him and says they’ve opened his package. “Not on a first date you haven’t…” Deadpool starts, but the president interrupts barking they’ve found his shipment.
In a nearby room, said shipment contains weapons, ammo and pouches galore. The president says it’s clear Wade’s a terrorist and will be executed as an enemy of the state. An incredulous Deadpool points out it’s the gear of their former leader, Nathan Summers. He explains he had the stuff sent there for display in a museum to be erected in his honor.
“I’m no terrorist,” he finally shouts into the President’s face, and then sits down calmly as he recalls this country’s former terrorist ways.
flashback
sewer beneath Barjnov, capitol city of Rumekistan
Deadpool and Cable are up against Cable’s former group of mercenaries, the Six Pack. They were sent on a mission to destabilize Rumekistan, paid to shame Cable in the eyes of the world. Deadpool was secretly part of the Pack and recalls shooting Nathan in the heat of the moment.
However, Nate eventually forgave him figuring he couldn’t be mad at Deadpool for being who he is. Though, with a forceful telekinetic push he sends Deadpool skyward telling him to get the hell out of Rumekistan and never return.
end flashback
The president is still angry, but is open to an explanation. He tells Deadpool once again he doesn’t know who Cable is. He then asks if he’s sure he’s in the right place. Deadpool, arms folded behind his head, assures the president he can read a map and says he spent a lot of time in the sewers of Barjnov and recognizes the stench.
The president walks over to a large map conveniently located on a nearby wall. He admits that this once was Rumekistan, however as of a few months ago, Old Rumekistan’s borders are about 450 miles to the north. Wade hangs his head in disbelief. His internal dialogue won’t stop laughing.
New Rumekistan’s president continues the geography lesson telling Wade about an impending coup by so-called freedom fighters from the east. He tells Deadpool his spies have sent him reports of a mighty invasion force preparing to strike.
“Save the baby… Save the baby…” Deadpool says over and over again, partially ignoring the president, his thoughts going to the baby he met on the street not long before.
flashback
Which reminds Deadpool of the time he and Cable saved baby Hope from the hospital in Alaska. Cable and Hope were hunkered down by an ambulance taking fire from the Purifiers when Deadpool’s timely arrival allowed them to escape. Deadpool’s inner voice then makes fun of the fact that he’s flashbacking to events that occurred in the previous issue. They argue back and forth until the flashback ends.
end flashback
Yet another man comes running into the president’s office with word that the invasion has begun. Deadpool gets up from his seat and makes his way over to the dozens of packages addressed to him. He rips them open and starts pulling out weapons and belts and pouches. He even opens one containing a white wig and places it on his head. When he’s finished he looks like an old school Cable wearing a Deadpool costume. He proudly declares himself Cable-Pool, and when his internal voice tells him that’s messed up, Wade points out that it’s better than “Dead-Nate.”
Deadpool takes off, busting through the front door and into the mayhem. Machine guns blazing he takes cover behind the skeletal remains of a burned out car. He then speeds out into the open killing dozens of men in his wake. He even sends some rounds through a man wearing a Thor helmet.
As Deadpool continues the rampage he begins to realize what Nate was about, not just the violence, but about living larger than life, reaching his potential as a mutant and forcing others to reach their potential too, all the while keeping his eye on the world, past, present and future. To Wade, all this metaphysical  hoo-ha comes down to one simple truth Nate taught him, “Guy with the bigger gun wins.”
When Deadpool returns from his mind jaunt he’s standing atop several dozen dead bodies. He asks if it’s all over and his inner voice tells him it is. He asks if they’re all dead and his inner voice concurs. “Ick,” Deadpool says as he leaps down to the ground amidst the blood and the guts. He then takes off running saying this was all for Nate, since he always loved a good fight.
city streets
It’s daytime and the streets are lined with cheering citizens throwing confetti and releasing balloons into the air. As thanks for Deadpool saving them they’ve agreed to hold a celebration for their national hero… Nathan Summers. Leading the parade is Deadpool still in his Cable gear.
Later that night, Lady Gaga performs the tribute concert in front of thousands of people. Wade, still wearing the wig and the pouches, dances on stage as Gaga belts out the lyrics.
Nathan’s gravesite
His head lowered, a solemn Wade stands in front of Nathan’s burial marker. He’s finishing up his fantastical story of his adventures in New Rumekistan. His final words… “And you were there, too, Nate. You were there too.”


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Conquest, chapter 1
Time / Location is determined 100% - Nobileen, Arizona, United States, 1974.
Locals going about their business suddenly stop and stare at something – or someone – walking past them towards a saloon at the end of the dirt street. A frightened man rushes out of the saloon and looks up.
Inside the saloon: 'So when y'reckon we're done bein' here? Move on?' a blond man asks sitting around a table with several men wearing hats playing cards. The saloon staff go about bringing drinks to customers, while several well-dressed men lean against the bar. Saloon girls stand with them, while the bodies of a man and a woman, possibly a saloon girl, lay strewn on the floor, blood splattered around them. 'What'ya mean, Al? I'd say we ain't but started' one of the men tells the blond man. An older man calls the second man Clyde and announces that he agrees. 'Considerin' what we're packin' we got this town sewn up. Seems a shame t'hit the trail just yet. Mean t'say... look at'em. Folks here to scared t'squawk' the older man declares, as the men and women at the bar watch them.
'Raise ya' a man wearing a green hat sitting around the table declares. He then states that as far as movin' on is concerned, he is not in any hurry. 'Look around. We can take what we want, do what we, an' it's just like Butch here said... there ain't nobody s'got the means t'stop us'.
Suddenly, the saloon doors burst open, 'Well, lookie, lookie' the man with the green hat remarks. Clyde turns around to face the doors and remarks that he reckons this is the fella they were told about.
The men and the woman at the bar stare at the new arrival in awe, as standing before them is the mutant hero Cable a.k.a. Nathan Summers. Several large weapons are strapped to his back and more hang from pouches around his hips, from straps across his large chest or belted to his muscular thighs. 'Good... no need for introductions' Cable points out, his left eye glowing with energy.
Butch is tossed through the window, and Cable remarks 'Now...' 'Now, what?' the gangster with the green hat asks. 'You think we weren't expecting you?' Al calls out as he and the others get to their feet 'Maybe you got yerself a big gun, fella... but so do we!' Clyde calls out as he and the others raise their strange weapons, energy glowing around them. Cable smirks and declares that he has seen bigger.
Shortly, 'Know what time it is?' Cable asks as he stands inside the saloon. It is now riddled with gun shots, and Al hangs from the ceiling, upside down, tied up with a rope, while his fellow gangsters lay motionless on the floor. 'Question and answer time' Cable tells Al, who is wide-eyed and replies 'No! I won't! Can't say! He said he'd come back n'kill us if we told ya stuff!' Cable tells Al that it could happen – maybe. 'But he isn't here' Cable points out. 'I am. Now. Talk' Cable frowns, his face inches from the frightened Al's.
Al suddenly reveals that he and the boys held up a stage in Tuscon. 'So we wuz holed up on the hills outside o'here. Suddenly there was one heck of'a bright, loud whizbang. N'he apppeared out o'thin air' Al informs Cable.
Cable listens as Al continues, explaining that they were told he was looking for something, and wanted their help finding it, and said he had something to trade for their time – the guns. Holding the other end of the rope that Al is tied to, Cable asks 'He found what he was looking for? And Al reveals that he vanished back into thin air again. 'Where?' Cable asks. 'Three hours out' Al replies. 'Show me' Cable tells him, releasing the rope, and causing Al to fall to the ground, where he lands on his shoulder, while Cable walks out of the saloon.
Later, Cable and Al are on horseback as they ride across the sun-scorched landscape. 'He had some doodad with him. A gadget. Part'o the way there that doohickey started chirping like a canary' Al reveals. He soon alerts Cable to the location where the mysterious “he” got what he was after. 'He dug around – blasted away some of it with a different gadget -' Al begins. 'And then?' Cable asks. 'Over yonder. You see?' Al replies as they look out over a ridge, where the sprawling desert in front of them has some strange markings etched into it. 'That was burned into the rock where he vanished. Whatever it is' Al reveals. 'Well, I done told ya all I know. We done?' Al asks.  'Almost' Cable replies as a blue light starts to engulf him. 'Your friends in jail, back in town – go join them...or I'll come back' Cable warns Al. An instant later, Cable disappears in the blue light. 'I believe it, too' Al remarks to himself.
Cable slides through time again. A portal opens over a field. Cable falls from the portal and slams into the ground. He steadies himself and gets to his feet, discovering that he is in the middle of a strange sign that has been burned into the field. He uses his technology to determine his time and location and discovers, to 99% accuracy, that he is in Japan/Nippon, the Hida Province in 1543. Looking out over the field, Cable sees smoke rising from a forest at the foot of a hill. He smiles then starts to run down the path cleared through the field by the strange markings.
Shortly, Cable arrives at a village which has been set ablaze. Bodies of villagers lay strewn about the street which Cable makes walks down. He turns when he hears a noise, and looks over to see a woman clutching her dead baby. 'Are you a demon?' the woman asks in her native Japanese. Cable responds in Japanese, telling the woman that hr is no demon – at least not one who would do her harm. Cable asks the woman 'Who did this?' and she tells him that it was men – men with swords of fire. 'This village?' Cable asks. The anguished woman informs him that they are all dead but her – the “lucky one”. Cable moves closer to the woman and asks her what was the reason they attacked. 'Why do men of power ever do what they do? Because they can' the woman replies, still cradling her baby. Cable asks her who she holds and she tells him that it is her son. 'I will avenge him' Cable announces, before turning and walking down the flame-filled street. Cable walks up a slope and looks back at the village, now fully ablaze. He examines the hills and cliffs around him, then looks out over a lush forest and river.
Nearby, within the dense forest, several warriors are gathered around a fire. 'All I'm saying is the next time won't be as easy' a young warrior tells the others as he is crouched by the fire, roasting some meat on a spit. 'What are you talking about? What hope do they have?' one of the other warriors asks, before calling out to Itaru and asking him to talk some sense into him. 'No, I am the one with the sense! Word will have gotten to them. They will be ready' the young warrior announces. Itaru is standing away from the others and turns back to them, stating 'Ready for men, yes. But we are so much more now'. 'I know, but -' the young warrior begins, but Itaru silences him: 'No! I know! Your enemy is yourself! That we are ronin means we have no master, but you have further lost your will'. Itaru points out. The younger  ronin gets to his feet as  Itaru tells him that whatever spirit  he still retains, he should ready himself for the one they were foretold of. Itaru glances sideways when he hears a noise. 'Ah, and here we are. A haiku. I recall from youth. Boredom seeks the dance. Of wasted time and folly. Best to wait the course'.
Cable reveals himself, rushing through from the forest into the small clearing, two large weapons at the ready, the three ronin raise their swords which glow with amber energy. 'We were told to expect you' one of the ronin announces as Cable kicks another of them over. 'So were the last men I defeated' Cable announces as he drops one of his guns and knocks one of their swords out of their hands. 'Didn't help them' Cable remarks. 'Whoever they were, they may have planned for a fight' Itaru declares as one of his swords clangs against a large knife that Cable has produced. '...we prepared for a war' he reveals as Cable turns and sees several more ronin, some on horseback, rushing towards him. Several arrows are fired, an energy radiating around them, they plunge into Cable's side. 'Looks like the arrows drain his power! He is half the man he was!' one of the ronin announces. Cable pushes them away as they crowd around him. 'There! Strike!' Itaru calls out.
Suddenly: 'Yes!' the young ronin exclaims as Cable's bionic arm is severed by their energy swords. 'And so it is...”tomorrow” becomes yesterday' Itaru calls out as they stand over Cable's fallen body....


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Japan / Nipon, 1543, the Hida Province:The purple-hued night sky suddenly glows with a neon blue burst of energy, as a figure materializes from nowhere, leaving large markings in a field near a tall building.
That building is Amaru Castle, the summer palace of the most revered, admired and exalted Daimyo (Lord) Amaru Hideyoshi. Servants tend to Daimyo Amaru Hideyoshi, and a geisha whispers something into his ear. In his native Japanese, Lord Amaru tells her that she shocks him – and delights him, and that he looks forward to retiring with her.
Suddenly, a door into the chamber opens, and one of the men in the room asks 'Who is this devil?' while another declares 'Never mind who. How did he get in here?' and Lord Amaru calls out 'Well, dog? Speak!' The mysterious arrival wears a strange mismatched outfit – thigh-high brown boots, a red half-cape and a red and brown long top, with belts and other accessories. He replies 'Forgive the intrusion' and informs Lord Amaru that he seeks his assistance in finding something of great value to him.
'Assistance? Who are you to demand anything from our lord?' one of the men in the room asks as he and the other men get to their feet and raise their swords. 'Who I am is of no consequence. What matters is that I have much to give in return for your help' the mysterious man replies. 'Things of great worth... and even greater power'. Lord Amaru calls him “dog” and asks him what he could possibly want from him. 'Look around you! I already have wealth and power!' he instructs his ninjas to kill this fool and then find out how he got through the gates. The ninjas surround the mysterious arrival, who urges Lord Amaru to reconsider, adding that what he offers would benefit both of them. 'Enough!' Lord Amaru exclaims. 'Take this creature outside... and flay him alive' he instructs his men. 'This is regrettable, Lord Amaru. I sincerely hoped we could come to an agreement...' the mysterious man replies.
Amaru, the geishas and the man standing with him suddenly convulse strangely, while there is a strange noise, followed by the splattering of blood – the mysterious man has used a strange high-tech weapon to tear his way through the ninjas. '...but I'm sure I can find someone else' the strange man declares, standing over the bodies of the ninjas. He narrows his eyes, and Lord Amaru looks furious. 'I -' he begins, before the mysterious man turns and walks back through the chamber, out into a courtyard, where dozens of ninjas lay, already defeated. Once out of the palace grounds, he looks back up at the tall building – and it explodes.
'Isn't that Lord Amaru's castle?' a ronin asks from a hillside nearby where several are gathered. They look into the distance, where the night sky is lit-up by the explosion rising from the castle. 'Of course it is, fool! What else that size is around here?' another ronin asks. 'Certainly burns, I'll say that' one of them points out. A younger ronin supposes that it will be an accident, as he has not heard a whisper of the war between the lords. 'More's the pity' he adds, pointing out that they could fight their way back in – if there were, go from mere ronin back to being. There is a noise – a KRIK – 'Did you hear that?' one of the ronin asks the others. 'Someone's coming' the younger ronin declares.
One of the ronin points out that it might be Lord Amaru's men seeking vengeance – if they think it was the ronin who torched the castle. 'What if it's the one who did burn it?' another ronin asks, while the older ronin tells the others that it doesn't matter, and to be ready. They turn and see a strange glowing energy blade – and the mysterious man who torched the castle is holding it. He tells the ronin to stand down, and explains that he is just a humble traveller – with something to trade.
Two weeks later:'We were told you would be a worthy opponent. An overstatement, apparently' the older ronin remarks as he and the other ronin stand over the one-armed Cable a.k.a. Nathan Summers, whom they have just fought and taken down. ...'unworthy of life!' the older ronin declares, preparing to bring the energy blade that he holds down on Cable – but Cable looks up, and grabs his own jagged knife that had fallen to the ground – and shoves itr through the ronins' chest. The ronin drops the energy blade, and Cable picks it up. He swiftly knocks one of the ronin off a horse, then leaps onto the horse, taking it as his own, he speeds off into the woods.
'Here! His weapon!' one of the ronin calls out as he picks up Cable's large gun, while others ready their energy swords. 'Let's see what it can do' the ronin with the gun suggests, opening fire into the woods, the energy blasts strike the trees near Cable – then a blast hits the horse, who topples to the ground, taking Cable down with it. The energy-blade carrying ronin amek their way into the woods as night still covers the land. 'Did you get him?' one of the ronin asks. 'Is he dead?' the ronin carrying Cable's cybernetic arm enquires. 'Find his corpse and you'll know' the ronin carrying the gun declares as the ronin spread out through the woods.
Suddenly, Cable drops down from the trees above, holding an the energy blade, he brings it down on two of the ronin. 'Back! Get back he's -' one of the ronin calls out before he is knocked over. Cable turns to the ronin holding his gun, raising the energy blade, he smirks at the ronin, then swipes forward with the blade, cutting the ronin to the ground, the ronin drops the gun. Cable knocks another ronin from a horse, while another ronin on a horse fires an energy arrow towards Cable, but the experienced warrior spins around and cuts the arrow in half with the energy blade, then hurls the blade to the ronin on the horse, striking the ronin through his chest. Holding his large gun, Cable calls out 'Now... by my count, there's just one of you thugs left. You' Cable turns to the younger ronin, who stands several feet from Cable, the forest floor covered in the bodies of the other ronin.
'I will not die quietly, nor meekly, devil!' the young ronin exclaims. Cable's left eye flashes, and replies that they will find out, but first – he wants back what is his, and fires a blast from the weapon, which strikes the ground where the young ronin stands. Energy rises up and tears the ronin's clothing to shreds, while Cable's bionic arm drops to the ground. Cable goes over and picks his bionic arm up. Cable re-attaches his arm, which connects to his shoulder with a strange effect, and he tells the ronin that he is lucky, he needs him alive – for now.
Later, 'It was all so simple' the ronin tells Cable as they stand on a small boat, out on a lake as the sun rises. 'Be quiet' Cable tells the young ronin, who paddles the boat with a large wooden pole. 'Our agreement with the man you are hunting – he said what he was looking for was under a waterfall at the base where two rivers meet' he explains, adding that they were supposed to be gods after that. 'Shut up, I said' Cable snaps. He tells the ronin to concentrate on where they are headed. 'I assure you, I have no need to... it's hard to miss' the ronin announces.
Shortly, Cable and the young ronin come to the spectacular waterfall, passing down a narrow river, they pull the small canoe-like boat to the shore, which is marked with strange patterns. The ronin informs Cable that it is here they last saw him, where the shape is now burned into the stone. 'He stood there and -' the ronin begins, but Cable interrupts him, 'Yeah, I know' and tells the ronin that he leaves him with his life – but no honor. The ronin shields his eyes as a blue energy engulfs Cable, who slides through Space-Time.
Cable falls through the ether of Space-Time, and eventually emerges through a portal, landing on his shoulder on a hard ground. 'Now, where have you taken us this time?' he wonders, the time and location determined to 97.5% as being the Yucatan Coast, South America in 1121, Mayan civilization, post-classic. 'Or, more likely...who have you sent to greet me?' Cable calls out as he shields his eyes from the blinding light around him, only to turn around and see Mayan warriors looming behind him, armed with glowing energy wings in the same technology that the ronin were using – and they don't look happy to see Cable!


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Several Mayan warriors armed with wings made of a strange technology pursue another Mayan warrior, who looks concerned, and thinks to himself that he wants to die – but as a sacrifice to their gods, not like this. He suddenly trips on a rock and falls to the ground. The Mayans swoop in and surround the one they call Kagan and tell him that it is useless, that he can't escape them. 'And nothing can save y-' one of the warriors begins, speaking in their native Mayan, but interrupted when they all turn to look at something – or someone – who has just arrived on scene. 'You!' Kagan thinks to himself. 'The one called Cable! I prayed you'd come!' Kagan recalls, as the heroic Nathan Summers a.k.a. Cable has arrived in this time period, 1121, on the Yucatan Coast, South America, in the Mayan civilization, post-classic period.
'It's him! Yes, the one foretold!' one of the Mayan warriors call out. 'The one who must die!' he adds as they Mayan warriors use their strange glowing wings to propel themselves towards Cable, who starts firing at them with his large gun, blasting them, they fall to the ground and retaliate by thrusting their strange wings against Cable, who is taken aback by the attack, so he continues to fire at the warriors, focusing on their wings, shattering them.
'Cable, beware! Another!' the Mayan called Kagan exclaims, wide-eyed, as one of the Mayan warriors remains hovering in the air above – then swoops downwards to attack Cable, who grabs the warrior by his head and slams him into the ground, sending shattered tech-feathers flying into the air.
'Now... how do you know my name?' Cable demands, turning to Kagan, who is backed up against a rockface, and reveals that he was told Cable's name – and to expect his arrival – they all were. 'He told you?' Cable asks, putting his gun back into the holster on his back. 'Yers, the one you seek. The man called Conquest' Kagan announces, adding that he can explain everything, but not here – it isn't safe – not after the noise from the fight – he is sure that others are on their way. 'Follow me' Kagan tells Cable, leading him through the jungle.
'My city' Kagan remarks as he motions to several Mayan structures and temples that are built in a clearing within the jungle. 'How long was Conquest here? This is much more advanced than -' Cable begins, but Kagan informs Cable that Conquest had nothing to do with this place – whatever wonders he see came from the gods who walked among them at a time before this. Cable and Kagan make their way into the city. 'Gods, eh? So what do I call you?' Cable asks. Kagan introduces himself. He begins to say something else, before Cable puts his arm around him and overs his mouth, pulling back – stopping Kagan from walking down a path and being spotted by a Mayan who strolls nearby. When the coast is clear, Kagan reveals that he is a priest. He shows Cable to his “temple”, and pressing his hand to a painting, he explains that it is hidden here, right under the noses of those who would harm him. The painting gives way, revealing a door which Cable and Kagan enter.
The temple is lit by flame, and they approach a platform, where Kagan tells Cable to look for himself. He refers to the calendar that stands above the platform, assuring Cable that it will help explain things, as well as answer any further questions Cable may have. Cable looks at the calendar and informs Kagan that he has seen something like this in the future - “the Mayan Calendar” he reveals, adding that he knows this one is different, but that they are very similar. Kagan places his hand on a dial and tells Cable that what he sees here, now, is but a signpost to the truth – that the past and future, now, then and tomorrow, it is all here if one knows how to look. 'It's the gods' own light that reveals all' Kagan remarks as his hand touching the dial activates a series of lights and images that are projected throughout the chamber.
'What kind of priest did you say you were, exactly?' Cable asks. Kagan explains that in his society, “priest” has many meanings – to those who pray, those who sacrifice in their gods' honor, and those like he, who seek to study and preserve the wonders given to them by those who came from the sky. 'The sky? You mean outer space?' Cable asks. Kagan tells him that they were more than men – that's all he knows, and they brought wonderful gifts. 'It's these I choose to preserve – for future generations – even as Conquest corrupts everyone with his weapons and the suggestion that we might become a nation of conquerors like him' Kagan explains. 'You mean like those “bird-men”?' Cable asks, referring to the warriors.
Kagan explains that they are ceremonial dancers, that their garb is supposed to honor Kukulkan, a god even still, but with their feathers glowing and deadly, they honor Conquest instead. 'And in return, he sought the location of a certain relic, right?' Cable asks. 'You mean the Time Sword. Well, part of it, anyway' Kagan replies. 'You know it?' Cable enquires as they look at a projection of the sword. 'Of course' Kagan responds, explaining thaty long before Kagan came here, he knew of the sword – how it was created and then broken into five pieces – after all, it was created long ago by the very same gods who gave them their powers, during the legendary War of Eterninhuma. As they stare at the projections of the five broken pieces of the Time Sword, Cable reveals that it was known as the Eternals / Inhumans War – when the Eternals created the Time Sword and the Inhumans destroyed it.
Kagan reports that the power of the sword itself then scattered those pieces throughout history. 'You see? It's all here if you know how to look' Kagan adds as they look at the symbols and images projected before them. Kagan reveals that Conquest seeks to reassemble the sword, and tells Cable that, as he already knows, Conquest sought the piece of the sword that was here, and it was the weapons he brought, how Kagan's people's eyes went wide at the sight of them. Kagan adds that he knew no good could come of Conquest having something that powerful. 'He has three sword pieces. If he's already moved on from here...' Cable begins, to which Kagan tells him that he has. 'I wouldn't tell him what I knew, but enough of the others did...that was why I was being attacked when you made your appearance – their revenge for my actions' Kagan explains.
Cable continues to look at the symbols and tells Kagan that he wishes he could study all this – the Time Sword, the calendar – it is clearly all linked, even how the Eternals were here among these people at one point in the past. Cable adds that, first, he needs to find out where Conquest has gone, and Kagan reports that he might be able to help him. Motioning to the symbols, Kagan informs Cable that he has long studied the Time Sword's history, even re-created parts of it in effigy so that he might better understand it. 'And this is what the five fragments look like? You're certain?' Cable asks, looking at the give projections. Kagan assures Cable that he is sure, they are almost exactly the same, so Cable announces that he has an idea for another way Kagan can help him.
Shortly, they make their way through the city again, and crouched at the edge of a building, they look up at a tall temple that is lit up with dozens of small fires. Cable tells Kagan that there are two locations that Conquest could have jumped to, and he needs to get to one of them before him – either way, he is in need of the location of Conquest's departure. Kagan informs Cable that the sword piece was hidden in one of their greater temples – few knew or cared about it, before Conquest came – now, on Conquest's instruction, it is better guarded than anywhere. Kagan tells Cable that this is as far as he dare go. 'Call me Nathan' Cable replies, before telling Kagan that it has been an honor. Kagan thanks Nathan. He tells him that all he wanted to do was sacrifice himself, but now it seems that he must stay alive and hopefully steer his people away from the path they are on. 'Then I guess we both have a tough road ahead' Cable replies as he turns and makes his way to the large temple, adding that it is the path they have to take.
Cable starts to scale the temple, but the Mayans that guard it see him. They attack him with their time-displaced weapons, but he continues on his mission, making his way through the Mayan forces as he climbs to an opening in the temple. Making his way through the temple, Cable soon comes to several more Mayan warriors, each armed with the technologically advanced weapons that Conquest gave them. Cable is determined, and charges through them, knocking them backwards down a large flight of stairs – but Cable falls down with them, all the way to the bottom – where he is then set upon by nearly two dozen more warriors, each armed with the high-tech weaponry. Cable holds his ground, and knocks them all over with his large weapon as they lunge towards him.
Cable soon arrives at the top of the temple, where a strange marking has been imprinted into the temple rooftop. Cable hangs his head and tells himself that he has a 50/50 chance of beating Conquest to a piece of the sword. He slides into the Timestream, and eventually, re-appears on another strange symbol. Snow falls around him, and Cable takes a quick look around – when suddenly, he cries out in pain as he is struck in the back at close range. 'It appears it's that time, Cable. Finally... we meet' declares Conquest as he stands over Cable's body. Conquest carries a large gun of his own, and his red cloak blows in the howling wind, while soldiers on mechanical horses are grouped behind him in the Moscow area of Russia, in 1908.


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Conquest, chapter 4
The Winter Palace, St Petersburg, 1906, where Rasputin leads the technocrat called Conquest through the sprawling palace. 'It's through here, my Lord Conquest' Rasputin announces. 'Lead on then, Rasputin' Conquest responds, telling Rasputin that he is simply “Conquest” and that he should save “My Lord” for the god that he claims to serve. Rasputin asks Conquest to let him thank him for the amazing weapons that he has supplied him with – as with them he has won the loyalty of the Cossacks, which in turn helps cement his bond to the Tsar. 'Grigori... I don't care' Conquest replies. He frowns and declares that, furthermore, he can take away the “cyber-steeds” as easily as he gave them. 'If you want happy Cossacks... show me the relic' Conquest demands.
Conquest and Rasputin enter another chamber lined with exotic vases and other artefacts, many held in stasis tubes. 'The Tsar's Chamber of Wonders. Few have seen this place' Rasputin announces. 'And all I see are eggs' Conquest replies, asking if they are in a palace or a henhouse, he tells Rasputin that he is getting impatient. Rasputin leads Conquest through the chamber to where a strange blade is held on a podium and asks Conquest if this is what he seeks. 'It is' Conquest confirms, taking the piece of the Time Sword. Rasputin enquires as to whether this ends Conquest's time here, to which Conquest tells him that normally it would, but he is off a mind to do things differently.
Two days later, on a snow-covered field, Cable a.k.a. Nathan Summers is restrained by metal coils that have emerged from a strange object. 'It's time we talked, Cable' Conquest declares, flanked by Russian soldiers who are riding on the mechanical “cyber steeds”. 'No. It's time I took you down' Cable replies. 'Err, no' Conquest replies, admitting to Cable that he is curious as to why he is here, chasing him through time. 'Why do you care what I do?' Conquest asks. Cable grits his teeth and announces that he has seen what can happen messing with time. 'Not on my watch' he warns Conquest. “Not on my watch?” Conquest quotes. 'That's it? All right, so how did you even find out about me?' Conquest enquires. 'Are you joking? Reality's already a mess thanks to you' Cable explains, asking Conquest if he thought he wouldn't notice – history is being rewritten by all the weaponry that Conquest has scattered throughout the past. Cable literally saw New York warped as large jellyfish like pods started to tear the city up.
'If you assemble all the pieces of the Time Sword, there's no telling what horrors you'll unleash' Cable points out. 'Yes. Imagine what I could do with the Time Sword. It can literally slice through the reality of any era and recreate it to my needs' Conquest reveals, but Cable calls him a maniac and tells him that he will create havoc. 'Your havoc, my heaven' Conquest replies calmly, while Cable struggles to free himself from the coils. Conquest starts to ask Cable if he wants to know how he learned about the Time Sword, but Cable interrupts him, telling him that he doesn't care. 'Let me go. Big man, brave man, release me, we'll fight – man to man – see which of us is biggest' Cable suggests. 'That certainly sounds entertaining' Conquest admits, before revealing that he conquered his Earth's reality as much with strategy and forethought as he did with blood – certainly not by letting himself be goaded into combat. He remembers standing on a platform, overlooking a massive army and large advanced technological weapons, and tells Cable that with the Time Sword so close, and all the other worlds and realities he could conquer with it – it is all too close to do something rash, and Cable is simply too big a risk to his plans.
'You die' Conquest tells Cable. 'No' Cable replies, straining hard, he manages to tear the coils from the device they are connected to. 'NOT TODAY!' Cable shouts as he lunges at Conquest and forces him to the ground – an instant later, Conquest blasts Cable with energy emitted from his gauntlet, which knocks Cable backwards. Suddenly, 'Charge, my brothers!' one of the Russian soldiers cries out in his native Russian. 'Kill him!' another exclaims. 'Death to our enemy!' a third calls out as they move forward on their “cyber-steeds”, armed with the strange glowing technology that Conquest has been gifting to warriors throughout time. 'Come on, then!' Cable exclaims, grabbing one of the coils, he uses it to pull one of the soldiers off their steed, which comes crashing to the snow. Cable punches the warrior, before Conquest calls out 'Enough!' and fires another blast, which Cable dodges just in time. Cable looks over and sees his weapon lying in the snow. He picks the large gun up, grits his teeth and opens fire.
The soldiers are knocked from their steeds by the blasts from the weapon. One of the soldier gets close to Cable – who responds with a close-range blast, striking both the soldier and his cyber-steed. Cable turns and trudges through the snow, but several soldiers pursue him – until Conquest pulls one of the soldiers from their cyber-steed, pulling them into the snow, 'Get off! Now!' Conquest mutters as he starts to pursue Cable, who turns and opens fire at the other soldiers and their cyber steeds. Determined, Cable runs on through the snow, towards the Winter Palace, where Rasputin is waiting, and orders more soldiers to kill the intruder. 'Death to the monster!' Rasputin shouts. 'I've fought whole armies!' Cable informs Conquest, blasting him from the cyber-steed, before the next set of soldiers surround him. 'You... are... nothing!' Cable exclaims as he uses his large gun, smacking them all in their heads and taking them out with ease.
Cable turns to Rasputin, who holds his hands up and asks Cable to take it steady, suggesting they talk. 'Let's not' Cable replies as he slams his fist into Rasputin's face. 'Enough, Cable!' a voice calls out. Cable turns, but too late, as Conquest leaps from a cyber-steed, 'Fool!' he shouts, slamming into Cable and forcing him to the ground. Cable responds by punching Conquest in the face. Cable fires several blasts from his gun into the air, and Conquest holds him down, telling him that his gun is out. 'Now... I'll k-' Conquest begins, but Cable tells him that he won’t, and kicks Conquest off of him. Cable gets to his feet and Conquest looks up at him, telling Cable that he is a mystery. ''Yeah?' Cable replies. Conquest wipes his bloodied mouth, and remarks that he isn't sure what Cable was planning, running here, and adds that he hasn't left a marker to show Cable where he is headed. 'So where were you going?' Conquest enquires, adding that he already has this piece of the Time Sword.
'I wasn't running, I was testing you – seeing what kind of fighter you were' Cable explains, adding that as for the time marker, he doesn't need one – and Conquest goes wide-eyed as Cable reveals that he already knows where the last piece of the sword is. '“Conquest”...now you chase me' Cable calls out as he suddenly fades from view as a blue teleport signal engulfs him, and he disappears. 'What happened, Conquest?' Rasputin asks, rushing over. Conquest tells him not to ask stupid questions: 'He's gone, obviously, you deranged idiot!' Conquest mutters, announcing that he must act quickly – because if Cable gets the last piece of the sword before him, then it will all be for nothing. Rasputin watches as Conquest vanishes an instant later.
Cable has arrived in another time period. He knows that Conquest will come. 'Let him. I may not be able to dictate the terms of battle... but I can decide the battleground' Cable thinks to himself as he holds his large gun up and holds the fifth piece of the Time Sword as dinosaurs roam freely behind him!