Under Cable's guidance and leadership, this group soon gained quite a reputation. They were first known as "The Wild Pack" though later, due to some copyright infringement difficulties, they changed their code-name to "The Six Pack"
Cable used his orbital spacestation "Graymalkin" to seek out "hot spots" and would always find a low key reason to go in with his group. Cable never trusted any of them, other than Domino, with the real reason that he chose the missions that he did. Though he did trust G.W. Bridge with the fact that he was a mutant.
He wanted Stryfe. Nothing else mattered, at this point.
For although The Askani'Son had a destiny to fulfill as "The Chosen One" Cable ignored this after the death of Aliya, and the kidnapping and turning of his adoptive son. Cable took mercenary jobs for pay as a low profile way of getting into any hot spots the "Professor" found. One prime example of this is when the hostage crisis in Iran flared up some years ago. Cable saw simularities in this to "The Chaos Bringer's" M.O. so he promptly took a job for his Six Pack to go in on the pretense of "industrial espionage" to see if he could find Stryfe's hand in it.
It is not known by any, other than Cable and Domino themselves, why Cable never trusted any of the others with his true motives. It is a fact that Domino knew almost from the beginning. Cable's trust of Domino was so complete that he, fairly recently, "psi-linked" with her, a trust so deep that when the one weeps the other truly does, in this case at least, taste salt.
An even larger mystery is how much a third character knew of Cable's (thought at the time) loss of his adoptive son. This character seemed to know quite a bit about Cable and Cable spoke as if he had known this characters father. I speak of none other than Shiro Yoshida aka Sunfire, the radioactive inferno. The relationship between these two has never been explored or fully explained. We do have some very important clues however. We'll address this in more detail a little further on.
Unknown to either Cable or Stryfe, at this time, Tyler had not been killed by the plasma bolt fired by his father. This news had been kept from Stryfe (Who really didn't care much either way since he only saw Tyler as a means to cause Nathan more pain). General Haight the defacto ruler of the Canaanite Government (Supposedly the good General is under the command of the ruling Council, but to see them it is plain that he rules the council through fear. Maintained mainly from his cyborg program. Each of these are a virtual one-man-army unto themselves. If any Council member doesn't agree with Haight, said Council members have a habit of disappearing, never to be heard from again. It has been strongly hinted that Donald Pierce's cyborg implants may have come from General Haight) Distressed that Stryfe and or Cable might do something that prevents the timeline in which he is virtually ruler of the most powerful governmental body left on the planet. General Haight sent Tyler Dayspring, going by the name of Tolliver back in time to make sure that neither did anything to alter the timeline.
Tolliver had hired the Six Pack for many of the jobs that had taken them very close to Stryfe himself. Tyler (as Tolliver) had finally snapped due to all the mind altering he had been put through. He now wanted nothing but the death of both his adoptive father and Stryfe. Ever the master of manipulation Tyler finally brought the two he hated most together. He hired the Six Pack to go into Afghanistan just as things were beginning to heat up there. As he new Cable would already be looking for an excuse to investigate the area. He used the pretense of contracting the Six Pack to eliminate soviet interferance of one of his opium routes. The same route he had hired Stryfe to maintain for him. He undoubtly planned on one killing the other and he then being able to take out the already weakened victor.
Dom sensed Nathan "bugging out" as soon as they had entered the underground lair. Cable knew the technology was too advanced. Much of it had come from his and Stryfe's century two thousand years in the future. Sensing the nearness of his foe Cable pushed ever onward until after making their way through a few dozen or so guards...finally....Stryfe!
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