THE DEVIL'S HERALD

Click on the image above to hear Cable's voice.
On the day Cable first "time-ripped" to our century he landed in a small village, on the Scottish coastline, called Stornaway. This village is quite close to Moira MacTaggert's Muir Island. Therefore when his sudden appearance startled the locals, a friend of Moira's called her and she and a young Rahne Sinclair (later to become Wolfsbane, a founding member of the New Mutants) found themselves boating on a coarse towards destiny.
The villagers were fast turning into a lynch mob set to beat the truth out of this oddly dressed, huge stranger, who didn't speak any language they had ever heard, when one of them touched Cable's metal arm and discovered that it was, somehow, alive. Just as they were about to attack enmasse Cable used his telepathy to wipe everyone's, but Moira and Rahne's, memories of the entire incident and made himself to appear as a normally dressed man from this time period. Moira then took this stranger whom she already suspected of being a mutant to her lab on Muir Island.
After saving Moira's life during a lab accident Nathan probed her mind and learned to speak our language. He then told her he was here to find Charles Xavier. Moira told him that she knew Xaiver and would help him. (It was probably during the time period from this moment until Cable actually met Xavier, that he and Moira grew very close. Exactly how close is still not known, for certain, though in Cable issue #9 it is clearly implied that they were lovers at some point in the past and this time period seems the only logical choice.)
Click on the image below to hear Professor Xavier speak.

All we know, so far, of this first meeting between Cable and Professor Xavier is from Cable issue #45 where Cable states, "I recall our first meeting...I looked at the mansion. A place so old and yet so well maintained. I had come from a future where nothing old is allowed to stand. Nothing beautiful from the past was allowed to remain. And I was entranced, with every arch and eaves and gable. This building, I said, it's beautiful. Beautiful yes, Xavier replied. But I want to make it better. I want to make it like nothing the world has ever seen. I can help you Charles, I told him, I can give you science this world won't see for two millennia. And in return, Xavier taught me how live in a past I could never have hoped to grasp otherwise. He taught me philosophy and Shakespeare and beer. He taught me that I was a mutant...but I was also a man."
Now we know where the Danger Room, Cerebro and all that other cool high tech stuff The X-Men had came from. I am speaking, of course, of all the high tech they already had even before they added on the Shi'Ar thecnology. The X-Men it would seem, owe a lot to our boy Nathan, but fate always balances the scales, as we shall now learn, for as a direct consequence of Cable's "time ripping" back to our century, one of the greatest evils this planet has ever known was re-awakened. Yes I speak of the eternal one himself, "Apocalypse"

Cable was indeed "The Devil's Herald" for Apocalypse had been in his rejuvanation chambers since the late nineteenth century. (After the story chronicled in the "Futher Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix" mini-series) His machinery picked up the massive power surge and electro-magnetic pulse caused when Cable "time ripped" not only himself but a huge space station called "Graymalkin" back to our century. (This space station was later, in Cable issue #25, taken over by Magneto and renamed Avalon. This space station allowed Cable to transport instantly from one place to another, a process he called "body-sliding" it also contained the "time displacement core" itself. The time displacemant core was stolen from the Caananites by Cable and his band of freedom fighters who called themselves The Clan Chosen after their leader The Chosen One aka Cable. The reason Cable went to these extreme lengths was that an evil rivaling that of Apocalypse himself had came back to our century. The man whom Cable had been at war with since his teenage years. The man who had caused the death of Aliya, she who was Cable's wife and kidnapped their son and used his awesome telepathic abilities (along with the aid of a so called "brain scrambling" mutant named "Frisco") to turn Tyler against his own father.
Cable in defence of one of his Clan Chosen members was forced to, Cable thought at the time, kill his brainwashed son. Cable's hate for this man would drive him to betray not one, but two teams that were totally devoted to him. Cable would stop at nothing to destroy the one called, Stryfe

Stryfe: The Chaos Bringer after destroying the two Cable loved most in the fortieth century, Stryfe was still not content. He escaped Cable's wrath and came back to the twentieth century, to sow more discord and chaos.
It was then that Cable "aquired" the time displacement core from the Caananite's and incorporated it into Graymalkin's mainframe. Then he 'time ripped" the whole station back to the twentieth century. Along with the "Professor" (The living essence of X-Factors alien ship which had been with Cable since childhood, though Cable himself was unaware of this presense until Blaquesmith made it known to him.) Cable sought out Professor Xavier, because he assumed that a psi talent as great as Xavier's would have sensed Stryfe's presence upon his arrival. But by this time Stryfe and Cable both were adept at keeping up psi-shields strong enough to block their telepathic abilities from even so powerful a psi as Professor Xavier. Although Jean Grey Summers as "Redd" taught Nathan much, most of her teachings were on keeping the techno-virus in check. She and Scott were pulled back to the present before she could begin to teach Nathan the more advanced abilities of raising and maintaining a "psi shield." No, Cable was taught this skill by Blaquesmith and Aliya, his wife, from the sisterhood of the Askani', while Stryfe was taught by the unbalanced Mother Sanctity of the Askani')
When Cable discovered that Xavier would be of no help to him, he set about searching for signs of Stryfe in his own way. He recruited five of the absolute finest warriors of this or any other century:

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