Technically, Cable #12 is part of the prior story but nothing really happens in it and it ends with the beginning of this extended story. Just getting that out of the way first, before someone says that I numbered this arc wrong.
In fact, you could make the argument that every single issue of this volume of the Cable series is just lead-in to this event. I’m not saying that this volume isn’t good–it is quite good–but it’s pretty much just been Cable trying to hide Hope by time jumping
This is more of that. It’s cool, though.
Cyclops decides that Bishop has to be stopped before he can kill Hope, so he assigns X-Force the task of jumping through time to find them. They teleport to Cable’s supposed location, and have 32 hours to complete the mission before their time travel devices kill them.
They quickly meet Deadpool.
Wolverine is the first to track down Hope.
In this alternate future, Stryfe controls Earth. We learn this from alternate future Deadpool, and it’s nice to see him teamed with Cable again. The team has to fight their way through the threats of this future and get back to their own era before their devices kill them.
Along the way, the team has to cross paths with Apocalypse (giving Angel some time to romance his old days as one of the Four Horsemen). We also see that Angel can switch at will between his Angel/Archangel identities.
Apocalypse ends up redeeming himself and murders his son Stryfe, enabling the X-Force team to return to their timeline. He also turns Hope back over to Cable, but warns him to teach Hope that emotions will be her undoing.
Seemingly confirming what Apocalypse says, Hope chooses to return with the X-Force, leaving her protector Cable behind.
It ends just before the conclusion of X-Force #13, with X-23 returning to the Earth-616 time stream just before Leper Queen can kill Boom Boom.
A one-page epilogue shows Bishop still determined to kill Hope. Only now we understand why: Apocalypse will hunt her and if Cable hasn’t taught her to avoid emotionalism, Apocalypse will take her for his next host body.
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