History Recap / XMenS2E8TimeFugitivesPart2

* TakeAThirdOption: Cable is able to save both the past and his timeline by taking advantage of Wolverine's healing factor.

Continuing from Part 1, Cable is fleeing the temporal storm rewriting his future of 3999 A.D. as he realizes that to save his future, he may have to aid Apocalypse in his plan back in the 1990s. As he reaches his own period's time machine and prepares to use it, Cable sees his son Tyler running towards him, only to fade from existence as he is claimed by the temporal storm. Not having time to grieve, knowing he can save Tyler by dealing with events in the past, Cable departs for the 1990s.

When he arrives, his first attempt to alter past events by confronting Bishop fails, so he then attempts to interrupt when Bishop and the X-Men are dealing with the mob against the quarantined mutants but is forced to retreat after being engaged by Rogue, who recognized him from Muir Island previously.

Taking refuge at his headquarters in a rundown motel, Cable has his computer give him the lowdown on the X-Men. When it gets to Wolverine and mentions his healing factor, Cable begins to formulate a plan to save both Bishop's future and his own future.

After confronting Wolverine back at his hideout, Cable takes him with him to Creed's headquarters in Virginia, just when Bishop and the other X-Men confront Creed and the disguised Apocalypse in the plague's laboratory. When Cable arrives, he blasts Apocalypse in the chest, forcing the genocidal mutant to drop his disguise, and the battle goes as before, but this time, when Bishop was about to protect Wolverine from being shot into one of the containers that the plague was in, Cable holds Bishop back, allowing Wolverine to be infected. This results in Wolverine's healing factor countering the plague by creating antibodies for it. Thus, with the cure in their possession, Cable and Bishop destroy the lab, but Apocalypse chooses not to destroy the X-Men like before. He chooses instead to flee, allowing Bishop to return to 2055, only to find from Forge that something else still has his future a mess, while back at the X-Mansion, Beast analyzes Wolverine's blood to find the antibodies to Creed's plague, mentioning how those will save a lot of lives in the future - both human and mutant alike.

And speaking of that, back in 3999, Cable returns to find his future safe, and reunites with Tyler.

* DidntSeeThatComing: After shooting him, Cable gets surprised by Bishop's energy power.

* HeroAntagonist: Cable struggles with being this. He's trying to save his own future, but he sympathizes with Bishop's situation and doesn't want anyone to die. He even hesitates during the perfect opportunity to kill him.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Cable's computer suggests just killing Bishop to solve everything.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Bishop's short temper doesn't help, but Cable doesn't exactly make the best case for listening to him; rather than explaining "if you do this, you and the X-Men will be killed", he says he can't let Bishop stop the plague.

* TeleportSpam: Cable fights Bishop by time-sliding several times to get the drop on him.

* VillainExitStageLeft: His plans thwarted by Cable, Bishop and the X-Men, Apocalypse merely escapes rather than take out his wrath on them and kill them all like in the previous timeline.

When he arrives, his first attempt to alter past events by confronting Bishop fails, so he then attempts to interrupt when Bishop and the X-Men are dealing with the mob against the quarantined mutants, but is forced to retreat after being engaged by Rogue, who recognized him from Muir Island previously.

After confronting Wolverine back at his hideout, Cable takes him with him to Creed's headquarters in Virginia, just when Bishop and the other X-Men confront Creed and the disguised Apocalypse in the plague's laboratory. When Cable arrives, he blasts Apocalypse in the chest, forcing the genocidal mutant to drop his disguise, and the battle goes as before, but this time, when Bishop was about to protect Wolverine from being shot into one of the containers that the plague was in, Cable holds Bishop back, allowing Wolverine to be infected. This results in Wolverine's healing factor countering the plague by creating antibodies for it. Thus, with the cure in their possession, Cable and Bishop destroy the lab, but Apocalypse chooses not to destroy the X-Men like before. He chooses instead to flee, allowing Bishop to return to 2055, only to find from Forge that something else still has his future a mess, while back at the X-Mansion, Beast analyzes Wolverine's blood to find the antibodies to Creed's plague, mentioning how those will save a lot of lives in the future, both human and mutant alike.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Cable and Bishop alike in their desperation to preserve their timelines, Cable initially tried to talk reasonably with Bishop about the situation, but getting brushed off instead of working together leads to a running shootout.
* OhCrap: Bishop when he realizes Cable is using a hologram as a decoy.

At the Professor's Senate hearing, after Creed is infected by his own plague, Cable arrives and escapes with Wolverine, but not without Jean probing his mind and learning some valuable information from it.

''Written by: Elliot S. Maggin''

* TakeAThirdOption: Cable is able to save both the the past and his timeline by taking advantage of Wolverine's healing factor.

* CurbStompBattle: Cable suffers this against the combined forces of the X-Men and Bishop, including Rogue decking him and Storm spamming numerous lightning bolts at him, and [[KnowWhenToFoldEm deciding to retreat for the time being]]. That said [[CurbstompCushion he does hold his own against them]] for a time while entirely on his own, battling all of them and the Friends of Humanity alike.

* EurekaMoment: While viewing intel about the X-Men, Cable gets an idea after learning Wolverine has a HealingFactor.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Cable initially tried to talk reasonably with Bishop about the situation, but getting brushed off leads to a running shootout.

* CurbStompBattle: Cable suffers this against the combined forces of the X-Men and Bishop.

* AdultFear: Cable witnesses his son, Tyler, erased from existence.

* StockFootage: Justified. Cable travels back to the point when Bishop arrived in Part 1, so some scenes and dialogue play out as they did before, while others get changed. Bishop's final scene also uses new dialogue over old footage from the end of the "Days of Future Past" two-parter.

* TakeAThirdOption: Cable is able to save both the the past and his timeline by taking advantage of
Wolerine's healing factor.