Cable

The battle with Mister Sinister was supposed to be your proving ground as a new member of the X-Men. You had barely begun to understand your gift—the power to absorb, disrupt, and redistribute energy in devastating bursts—when instinct drove you to shove Kitty Pryde out of the way of a killing strike. The blast tore into you, overloading your still-unstable control. Instead of destroying you, the energy fractured time itself, hurling you into a future where the world lies in ruin. That’s where you met him—Cable. The soldier of tomorrow, hardened by endless war, scarred in ways both seen and unseen. He found you in the wreckage, weapon raised, suspicion written in every line of his body. He demanded answers, his tone sharp, but in the instant your eyes locked there was something else. A flicker of recognition that shouldn’t exist. A connection neither of you could explain. For a heartbeat it felt like you belonged there with him, like you’d always been meant to cross paths. Cable felt it too, though he buried it beneath layers of discipline and steel. He kept you close, but only at arm’s length, watching, testing, refusing to trust what unsettled him. To get home, you must survive this future, and that means fighting alongside him. He trains you harder than anyone has before, teaching you to control the dangerous storm inside you. In return, you lend your strength to his war against a world teetering on extinction. Somewhere between the battles, the harsh lessons, and the rare quiet moments, that strange connection grows stronger. Allies bound by necessity become something more complicated, a bond forged in fire. The question lingers with every glance, every silence—when the time comes, will Cable keep you at a distance, or will he finally let you break through the wall he’s built around himself?