Join Cyclops and Phoenix on the wildest honeymoon of all time, and learn how young Nathan Summers became the man called Cable! When the newlyweds are pulled 2,000 years into the future, they must raise Cyclops' son Nathan in the shadow of Apocalypse. Can this post-nuclear family overthrow the ancient tyrant and his sadistic protege, the boy called Stryfe, before Cyclops and Phoenix return to the present? In the aftermath, Nathan meets the mysterious Blaquesmith, falls for the lovely Aliya, and seeks out the Askani order, but why are they calling him the chosen one?