X-Force

After spending years fighting for survival and suffering atrocities, mutants strive to have a stake in their future and protect it with their black ops team known as X-Force!

Born of Necessity

When the mutant soldier from the future Nathan Summers, AKA Cable, travels to the present to prevent his apocalyptic future (Reality-4935) from coming to pass, he takes Charles Xavier, AKA Professor X’s former students the New Mutants under his wing, shepherding them as their previous mentors are unavailable. 

Hard-Hitting Heroes

Cable offers them structure and training, teaching them more aggressive methods for dealing with threats to mutantkind, while alienating other mutant groups, such as the X-Men, dedicated to achieving peaceful co-existence with humans. Eventually, Cable reorganizes the New Mutants as X-Force, a more proactive and violent strike team. X-Force’s roster consists of Cable, the rocketpropelled Sam Guthrie, AKA Cannonball, the plasma-generating Tabitha Smith, AKA Boom-Boom, the super-strong James Proudstar, AKA Warpath, the gladiator warrior Gaveedra-Seven, AKA Shatterstar, the cat-like Maria Callasantos, AKA Feral, and the mercenary Domino (secretly Vanessa Carlysle, AKA Copycat, in disguise).

Frequent Foes

S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander G.W. Bridge takes an interest in X-Force, whom the team goes up against on multiple occasions. The armored despot Stryfe, a clone of Cable, the Mutant Liberation Front (MLF), and immortal sorceress Selene, are also repeat offenders. 

Squadron Goals

While they have mutant protection at the core of their mission, they use a proactive approach, taking down mutant threats before they become a problem, leading them to look as bad as the enemies they attack. This perception, and Stryfe’s actions, left them on the run a lot. But they have allies in their fight, including the X-Men, X-Factor, and the Uncanny Avengers. Though they have been known to butt heads, like when Alex Summers, AKA Havok’s Uncanny Avengers found X-Force at the scene of a mass murder. But misunderstandings often get cleared up between the allies. 

X-Force also teams up with the reformed Champions of Los Angeles, sorceress Jennifer Kale, and ex-British spy Peter Wisdom.

Always on the Run

One of X-Force’s first missions was tracking down the mutant Alliance of Evil, which was escorting Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) operative Erika Benson, AKA Harness, in using her mutant son Gilbert Benson, AKA Piecemeal, to collect an ambient energy A.I.M. hoped would re-form the reality-manipulating Kevin MacTaggert, AKA Proteus; all parties were unknowingly manipulated by mutants Mortimer Toynbee, AKA Toad, and the immortal External/Highlord businessman Gideon in a competition for power. Eventually battling against, then working with, Dwayne Taylor’s New Warriors, the Muir Island X-Men and Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops’s X-Factor, X-Force was instrumental in preventing Proteus’ permanent resurrection. 

The team then turned their efforts toward destroying the MLF and their leader, Stryfe, training for six weeks before attacking their Antarctica base; Stryfe escaped in the melee. 

Cable continued to train his soldiers, quickly learning Feral was prone to animal rages when provoked, nearly disemboweling Cannonball during a training exercise. X-Force’s brutal activities drew the attention of S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander G.W. Bridge, a former ally of Cable’s, who made it a S.H.I.E.L.D. priority to take down the team. During this time, former New Mutant Roberto Da Costa, AKA Sunspot, now allied with Gideon, who long posed as a Da Costa family friend, attempted a corporate buy-out of Arianna Jankos’ Jankos Corporation. Jankos hired mutant villain Black Tom Cassidy to take Sunspot and Gideon hostage in a New York skyscraper, demanding billions from their corporations for their release. After enlisting the help of his partner-in-crime Cain Marko, AKA Juggernaut, Tom was opposed by his cousin, Theresa Rourke, AKA Siryn, X-Force, and Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man, on the takeover’s third day. They defeated Tom and Juggernaut and freed the hostages, with X-Force teleporting away before Bridge and S.H.I.E.L.D. could take them into custody; Siryn, already at loose ends from her previous possession by the psychic Shadow King, joined X-Force. Following his rescue, Gideon lied to news reporters, saying Cable masterminded his kidnapping, turning an already anti-mutant public opinion against X-Force. 

The team was soon attacked by Toad’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and Masque’s Morlocks, during which Cannonball was seemingly killed by Karl Lycos, AKA Sauron, but inexplicably recovered, apparently an immortal mutant. Not long after, the team learned the shape-shifting Copycat—under orders from Cable’s arms-dealing enemy Tolliver—had been impersonating the luck manipulating Neena Thurman, AKA Domino, who was being held prisoner by Tolliver. Simultaneously, believing Stryfe to be Cable, the Canadian government’s Department K lent their super-team to S.H.I.E.L.D. to help them stop Cable. This team, Weapon: PRIME (Prototype Induced Mutation Echelon), consisted of Cable’s former friend and cyborg Kane, the savage Yeti (a partially controlled Wendigo), the battle-suited Tigerstryke, the super-strong mercenary Ted Winchester, AKA Grizzly, and the earthquake-generating former New Mutant Julio Richter, AKA Rictor, who blamed Cable for his father’s murder, not knowing Stryfe was actually responsible. Following PRIME’s attack, Cable and X-Force were separated. With Cable gone, Rictor left PRIME and joined X-Force. Meanwhile, Cable defeated Tolliver’s mercenary employee Wade Wilson, AKA Deadpool, and rescued the true Domino. But it wasn’t the first time X-Force encountered Deadpool–Cable, Boom-Boom, Warpath, Cannonball, and Domino previously traveled to the past to find Deadpool messing with the timeline and attempted to stop him.

Without Cable, Cannonball, the team’s deputy leader, assumed command of the team, quickly growing into a determined, capable commander. After Gideon learned Sunspot was not an immortal mutant like he thought, he turned Sunspot over to Dr. Segismund Joshua for experimentation, which drastically increased Sunspot’s powers and transformed protoplasmic mutant Project 19 into a genetic duplicate of Sunspot; calling itself Reignfire, the duplicate escaped and assumed control of the MLF. After the team rescued him, Sunspot then joined X-Force. 

After Stryfe attempted to assassinate Charles Xavier, X-Force was targeted for capture by the combined forces of the X-Men and X-Factor, who believed Stryfe was Cable. After Cable was seemingly killed battling Stryfe, and the truth of Stryfe’s identity was revealed, X-Force was briefly detained at Xavier’s mansion, but they soon left, realizing their methods had permanently deviated from Xavier’s. At this time, Boom-Boom began calling herself Boomer. 

The team relocated to Camp Verde, Warpath’s former Apache reservation, and a few weeks later, investigating Graymalkin, Cable’s orbital space station, brought them into conflict with S.H.I.E.L.D. and the armored Jim Rhodes, AKA War Machine, the team confiscating Cable’s hardware and equipment in the process. The team soon battled the immortal mutant Externals and Gideon, who was attempting to study Cannonball, to explore his alleged immortality. Through all this, a romance bloomed between Cannonball and Boom-Boom (now Boomer), and a deep friendship grew between Siryn and Warpath, one that was strained at times by her alcoholism, until she later achieved sobriety after confronting her past. Also unknown to the team, a secret romance developed between Rictor and Shatterstar as well. 

After rescuing former New Mutants Rusty Collins and Sally Blevins, AKA Skids, from anti-mutant groups, X-Force discovered Cable was alive, shortly before battling Bennet du Paris, AKA Exodus, on behalf of Max Eisenhardt, AKA Magneto, who invited the team to his cause. Rusty and Skids accepted, and Cable was severely damaged when the team rejected Magneto’s offer, requiring nearly two weeks to recover and rebuild his cybernetic systems. 

When the Reignfire-led MLF kidnapped national security advisor Henry Gyrich, X-Force stepped in to rescue him when other mutant teams were bound by politics and red tape. The team was shocked to find former New Mutant Danielle Moonstar, AKA Moonstar, a member of the MLF, not knowing she was secretly working undercover for S.H.I.E.L.D.’s G.W. Bridge; during the battle, Feral defected to the MLF, and Sunspot was lost after being teleported away by MLF member Locus. Soon joined by the true Domino, a number of team members were among the surviving former teen mutant teams—the Hellions and New Mutants—targeted by the Gamesmaster in his Upstarts’ “Younghunt” contest. Aided by the New Warriors, X-Force rescued those the Upstarts had captured and helped end the contest, along the way coming into contact with Dani Moonstar, AKA Moonstar, once more, who arrived at an uneasy truce with her former friends, but refused to reveal her undercover status with the MLF. 

X-Force battled the Reality-811 (“Days of Future Past”)’s future-technology-powered Sentinel Nimrod, then alongside X-Factor and Europe’s mutant team, Excalibur, X-Force fought the techno-organic alien collective the Phalanx. The team soon relocated to Arcade’s abandoned New York City Murderworld, and were surprised when they learned Moonstar secretly helped them bring Feral to justice for crimes committed prior to joining X-Force. Locating Sunspot, and subsequently confronting the MLF, Cable severed the control Reignfire had established over Sunspot, freeing him to rejoin X-Force alongside the mutant-tracking Caliban, replacing Cannonball, who had graduated to the X-Men, and Rictor, who left the team over Cable’s decision to telepathically link minds with the team. 

After moving into Xavier’s mansion after Murderworld was destroyed by Arcade, Siryn was named deputy leader after briefly going undercover to investigate suspected improprieties at the Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane. X-Force (including Boomer, now called Meltdown) battled Calvin Rankin, AKA Mimic, was briefly brainwashed by Sebastian Shaw and forced to attack Cable, and fought Fred Dukes, AKA Blob, and sorceress Selene, who killed a number of Externals to fuel her quest for power. During the battle, Warpath was badly beaten by Selene and left the team without notice to recover and travel with Gloria Munoz, AKA Risque, who had seduced him and kept him from telling the team where he was. When the team broke into a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier to rescue captive X-Man Cyclops, the team came into conflict with G.W. Bridge again, but fled with Cyclops before they could be detained. 

When the monstrous psychic entity Onslaught was born from negative aspects of Xavier and Magneto’s psyches, X-Force was entrusted by Cyclops to protect the immensely powerful psychic Nate Grey, AKA X-Man, from Onslaught. However, interference from Nathaniel Essex, AKA Mister Sinister, caused them to fail in their mission. 

For some time, Shatterstar had been struggling with a decrease in his warrior instinct, but resumed his normal capacity after his essence was mystically combined with comatose mutant Benjamin Russell by the madwoman Rita Wayword, AKA Spiral, assisting the team in putting Victor von Doom, AKA Doctor Doom’s time machine out of commission when Doom was believed dead, despite S.H.I.E.L.D.’s attempt to claim it first. 

After Rictor returned, Caliban began suffering crippling seizures, a by-product of his past genetic manipulations by En Sabah Nur, AKA Apocalypse, and ultimately left the team to recover. Risque’s ulterior motive was revealed when she betrayed Warpath to the Deviant named Sledge, who brokered a deal with Warpath to rescue Sledge’s ally Telford Porter, AKA the Vanisher, from an alien dimension in exchange for information about the slaughter of his Apache tribe. 

When the team joined forces with the MLF in battling the anti-mutant Operation: Zero Tolerance Sentinels, they learned the truth of Moonstar’s undercover status; she subsequently joined X-Force. However, while Warpath crossed dimensions to rescue Vanisher, Cable attempted to take the team underground with new identities, but X-Force refused and parted ways with Cable. Shatterstar and Rictor journeyed to Mexico, while Siryn, Warpath, Sunspot, Meltdown, and Moonstar roamed the United States. When Siryn and Warpath investigated his tribe’s massacre, Warpath was killed by Dr. Edwin Martynec (secretly a mutant who could transform into a hybrid coyote creature and was involved in the massacre). Warpath’s spirit became trapped in the demonic Blackheart’s realm at the behest of the spirit of the then-deceased Stryfe, who sought to sacrifice Warpath to return to life. With X-Force’s aid, Warpath defeated Stryfe (who was ultimately responsible for his tribe’s slaughter) and was resurrected. Wandering farther, the team encountered Selene in Texas, where they were joined by Cannonball, who entertained the idea of rejoining X-Force until learning Meltdown and Sunspot were having an affair. Cannonball left the group and ended his relationship with Meltdown. 

Soon after, the team was captured by Reignfire and Locus in Colorado and taken to Las Vegas, where they learned Reignfire’s true origins. With his teammate’s help, Sunspot defeated Reignfire, who was seemingly taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, but was actually given to the Damocles Foundation, an alliance of Deviants, Eternals, and humans devoted to directing the world’s fate by controlling the next dominant species. X-Force then moved into a new warehouse base in San Francisco before vacationing in Hawaii for two weeks, where they encountered the subterranean Lava Men, the Vanisher, and the Akua/Oceanic fire goddess Pele. Returning to San Francisco, X-Force aided Domino against her longtime enemy Ekatarina Gryaznova, AKA Gryphon, and gained a new teammate in electric-field-generating Jesse Aaronson, AKA Bedlam, a former member of Mutant Underground Support Engine (MUSE) that had to take neural-inhibiting narcotics to keep his powers from driving him insane. 

Domino and Cannonball subsequently rejoined X-Force, soon fighting a battle that left Moonstar’s powers greatly enhanced after she was briefly merged with the cosmos by the reality-altering Arcadia DeVille; Moonstar could channel quantum energy and affect matter and energy at the subatomic level. The team battled the Deviant strike team the Sword, teamed up with the reformed Champions of Los Angeles against the Olympian death god Pluto, worked with sorceress Jennifer Kale against the mystic Pandemonia, and fought against Bedlam’s long-lost brother, Christopher Aaronson, AKA King Bedlam, and his New Hellions, which included former New Mutants, Hellions, and X-Force members Amara Aquilla, AKA Magma, Mari-Ange Colbert, AKA Tarot, and Feral. X-Force prevented Bedlam’s permanent revival of the destructive mutant Armageddon Man, but Feral tore Siryn’s throat during the battle; mute and unable to use her sonic powers, Siryn left the team, and Cannonball reassumed leadership. Around this time, Sunspot had to leave the country briefly, as photographs of Reignfire and Sunspot led authorities to believe he was a terrorist. 

Cannonball was then asked to come to the mutant nation of Genosha by former British spy Peter Wisdom to help prevent a powerful experimental processing unit containing the consciousness of MI6 scientist Archimedes Fogg from falling into the hands of Genosha’s then-ruler Magneto. They defeated Magneto by assisting his enemies the Genoshan Magistrates with an uprising, forcing Magneto to let X-Force leave with Fogg so he could deal with the Magistrates. 

Upon returning to America, X-Force was trapped in a series of mental fantasies while Selene and Blackheart tried to convince Sunspot to leave X-Force and assume his dead father’s position within the powerful and evil Hellfire Club. The team soon became embroiled in the Damocles Foundation’s plans to use Reignfire’s form to revive a Gatherer, an artificial creature created by the cosmic Celestials, but X-Force briefly worked with Selene to stop the Foundation. However, Selene took control of the Gatherer and was enraged when Moonstar and Arcadia destroyed it. Allied with Blackheart, Selene coerced Sunspot into joining the Hellfire Club by resurrecting his long-deceased girlfriend Juliana Sandoval, who sacrificed herself to save Sunspot’s life years before. Soon, due to a mental bond between Moonstar and Arcadia, Moonstar’s Demon Bear was accidentally recreated, which they defeated. But when Arcadia’s Reality-23100 counterpart, the Queen of Star Swords, subsequently attacked, Moonstar was forced to sacrifice her quantum powers to defeat her. 

Invited by Cannonball and Bedlam, Wisdom approached X-Force about entering the clandestine world of black-ops, telling them they could make positive change in the world by stopping unseen crimes against mutantkind. Cannonball, Meltdown, Warpath, and Bedlam accepted his offer, but Moonstar and Domino quit. After training for six months under Wisdom’s leadership, the team became a covert ops strike force, battling threats such as Dr. Niles Roman and his mutagenic bio-engine that threatened to trigger an all-out gene war in San Francisco by turning latent mutants into human-killing monsters. After Wisdom was seemingly murdered by Roman, but had actually gone underground, the team was rejoined by Domino, battled Marcus Tsung, a mutant with the gene for killing, and came into conflict with Roman again. Learning Wisdom’s sister Romany was creating spontaneous mutations in humans to harvest them for spare parts for an alien machine called the World Engine, which would ultimately rewrite the human genome to eradicate disease, genetic disorders, predisposition to crime, and gender disorientation, X-Force destroyed Romany’s ship, seemingly perishing in the ensuing explosion, but also secretly going underground. X-Force eventually came out of hiding, its members parting ways for various pursuits. 

X-Force briefly reunited when Cable reassembled Domino, Shatterstar, Warpath, Sunspot, Meltdown, and Cannonball to combat the mutant-devouring Skornn monster. Working alongside the Fantastic Four’s Ben Grimm, AKA Thing, and Johnny Storm, AKA Human Torch, Deadpool, and the MLF, X-Force destroyed Skornn; afterward, the team disbanded once more.

Since Wanda Maximoff, AKA Scarlet Witch, went mad and depowered most mutants, an event known as M-Day, mutants suffered great losses, deaths, and a lack of births. When the first mutant was born in the form of a mutant girl named Hope, Cable protected her. Meanwhile, the X-Men’s leader Cyclops assembled an X-Force strike team of mutant warriors to do whatever necessary to save the infant and stop the mutant-fearing religious sect, the Purifiers, from destroying her. Led by James Howlett/Logan, AKA Wolverine, the team included the best trackers and killers, such as Warpath, Hepzibah, Rahne Sinclair, AKA Wolfsbane, and Laura Kinney, AKA X-23. As the team hunted Cable and the newborn mutant, they battled not only the Purifiers, but also the cyborg mercenaries, the Reavers and the Facility-created mutant eradicator Predator X. 

When the Super-Sentinel from the future, Bastion, with his anti-mutant forces and Nimrod Sentinels enveloped the X-Men’s island home of Utopia and part of San Francisco within an impenetrable energy dome, Hope, Cable, and the X-Men tried to locate its source. Meanwhile, Cable used his last jump in his time-traveling technology to take the team to Nimrods’ point of origin in the future where nearly all mutants had been exterminated. There, new mutant Doug Ramsey, AKA Cypher, and the team defeated the Master Mold Sentinel Generator, which shut down the Nimrods in the present as Hope destroyed Bastion and his dome encircling San Francisco.

After Wolverine promised Cyclops that X-Force would disband, he did the opposite by keeping the team together as a deadly strike team, and after many adventures and misadventures as the Uncanny X-Force, the team ultimately was disbanded. Psylocke became a teacher at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning but her issues with restraint led Wolverine to send her with Storm on a mission in Los Angeles. There, Psylocke and Storm effectively led a new iteration of X-Force with Charlie-Cluster 7, AKA Fantomex, Eugene Judd, AKA Puck, and the other, a fugitive squad led by Cable. 

But Cable was experiencing visions of a dark future, so he assembled a new X-Force to prevent the visions from coming to pass. His team consisted of Forge, Domino, Piotr Rasputin, AKA Colossus, and Dr. Nemesis, stopped one of his premonitions, which was a horrific virus at the factory of the mutant-hating Eat-More corporation. But the virus infected the workers leaving his team with no choice but to kill them. The Uncanny Avengers, led by Cable’s uncle Havok found X-Force at what appeared to be a mass murder. Cable teleported his team away leaving him and the others guilty in the minds of the public, forcing the Uncanny Avengers to hunt his team down, unaware that their actions saved mankind. 

Cable and his team laid low in Mexico until he had a vision that led to recruiting Boom-Boom, stealing a S.W.O.R.D. spaceship, and busting out an alien prisoner, all to prevent 6 million deaths. They soon received help from S.W.O.R.D.’s Abigail Brand but Cable’s visions came with worsening headaches and with looming crises to prevent at once, he split his fugitive X-Force into separate teams. But Cable collapsed in battle with the Uncanny Avengers and was taken prisoner, leaving the teams to tackle the missions he left behind. 

While Cable’s powers evolved, he suffered from seizures and powers that grew out of control. But he was able to share his vision with Havok, until his adopted daughter Hope returned from the future to stab her adopted pop in the head with a Psimitar that released excess power from his brain. Having seen the future Cable was trying to prevent, Havok let Cable go. Meanwhile, X-Force assaulted a Reaver camp and tried to halt a theft from an old Trask compound, inadvertently activating a Sentinel as an old enemy, the Adversary, took over Forge’s mind. Dr. Nemesis transferred his consciousness into Forge’s to help fight the Adversary as Boom-Boom helped keep him at bay. But their next trouble came when Cable’s evil clone, Stryfe, abducted Bishop, Hope, and Cable. 

Cable’s X-Force team and Psylocke’s Uncanny X-Force team banded together to build a telepathic amplifier to search the globe for their missing teammates. They ended up finding Spiral and searched her memories for answers. Finding them all, they worked together against Stryfe who, despite being stabbed by the Psimitar, dared Hope to mimic his powers and teleported away. Hope struggled with the veritable bomb he left her but Bishop guided her to direct the power upwards, which she did successfully.

After a terrorist attack known as the Alexandria Incident used a weaponized mutant to claim 3,000 lives and put Hope in a coma, Cable reformed X-Force with Psylocke, Fantomex, Dr. Nemesis, and Sarah Knuckey, AKA Marrow. They found and took down the man responsible: a Russian arms dealer called Volga who used a formula to create super-powered beings, but didn’t escape unscathed. Marrow discovered she was one of Volga’s test subjects and lost her unborn baby, while Cable was infected with Volga’s destructive serum and kept in stasis as a duplicate of him was created each day but doomed to die in 24 hours until he could find a cure. Fantomex suffered a mental breakdown as E.V.A. convinced him to murder anyone that was more perfect than him, so he killed Cable’s clones each day to fulfill that need. 

X-Force got word from British intelligence agency MI13, led by Pete Wisdom, that a secret organization, Yellow Eye, was surveilling every mutant on the globe. X-Force tracked down its base of operations but Fantomex’s mind snapped and he took down the members of X-Force, but luckily he was subdued by Domino. They soon discovered that longtime X-Men foe, Mojo, was behind Yellow Eye but Fantomex, who thought himself better than the others, had upgraded his powers with Volga’s bioweapon procedure and allowing him to lay waste to X-Force. The team escaped with Hope’s help, who had taken on another mutant’s consciousness, but once she saw recordings of X-Force’s misdeeds, she returned to her comatose state. Upset, Hope psychically broadcasted X-Force’s location to Fantomex leading to a final confrontation. Hope then used her mutant abilities and replicated Fantomex’s condition to find a cure for Cable, Fantomex, and herself, but Fantomex faced an army of Cable clones in the process. Hope then psychically expelled the Volga effect from Fantomex, but he was still all ego until Psylocke downsized it with her psychic blade, severing E.V.A.’s connection to him. Meanwhile, Hope cured Cable and persuaded Mojo to heal Cable’s eye and arm. When Cable recovered, Hope fired him from X-Force on account of his destructive path.

Domino led the next X-Force team, who sought revenge against Cable’s killer while Roderick “Rory” Campbell, AKA Ahab, a mutant hunter from the future, hunted a team of time-displaced X-Men, while a young Cable killed his older self. During this time, Ahab turned Shatterstar into a sleeper mutant-hunting hound, turning him against the X-Force, but Cannonball saved Shatterstar before it was too late. The time-displaced Jean Grey and X-Force then found Young Cable, who revealed that his older self did not fulfill his job to keep the timeline in order by letting the time-displaced X-Men stay in the present and allowing Ahab to risk taking them out and rewriting their history. Young Jean and X-Force helped Young Cable restore the timeline by returning the time-displaced group to their time before Young Cable vanished.

The vengeful X-Force searched for the Young Cable for killing their mentor, leading them to the country of Transia—a safe haven for mutant refugees but their military, led by Commandant Constantin, had been secretly killing them with futuristic weaponry. The weaponry attracted Young Cable and his partner, Deathlok (Earth-10511), and once the pair ran into X-Force, the team demanded answers. Young Cable was known as Nathan Dayspring Summers of Clan Chosen and his ultimate goal was to track down mutant hunter Ahab who had kidnapped his sister from an alternate timeline, Rachel Summers, who had been turned into one of Ahab’s mutant-hunting hounds. However, Young Cable found a time portal that led him to Stryfe and his Mutant Liberation Front (MLF), who had found Rachel first and psychically controlled her. They lured Clan Chosen and the Askani people into a trap. Young Cable traveled to the future as Stryfe’s captive while his techno-organic virus slowly consumed him. 

Meanwhile, X-Force fixed a time portal to rescue Young Cable, but were mistaken by Blaquesmith, a leader of the Askani, for members of Stryfe’s army until the real MLF attacked. Once free of Stryfe’s control, Rachel revealed to the MLF that Stryfe had lied to them and they attacked him instead. As Rachel attempted to kill Stryfe, Young Cable stopped her, reminding her that his older self stopped protecting the timeline for his own reasons and he didn’t want to do the same and not become the elder Cable that inspired X-Force. So the team locked Stryfe up and Rachel and Cable wiped his memory, saving the Askani clan and the future.

After the fall of Krakoa, a mutant paradise, an older Cable gathered several X-Force members from across different points in time to defeat Stryfe once and for all. Though, they ran afoul of Ambient-Energy Dampening Actualization Module Unit Zero, AKA Zero, and his alternate, ADAM Unit Zero, who interrupted their victorious defeat of Stryfe. ADAM collected Stryfe and Zero, leaving Cable and his team with a mission to go after them.