BIOGRAPHY Page 13
Angel continued to work at the Jean Grey School as both an X-Man and a student assistant. Many months passed and the X-Men went through a number of significant upheavals, including the release of the Terrigen Mists into the atmosphere. Mutants were severely affected by the mists, suffering sterility and potentially fatal illness. During this time period, Angel went missing from the Xavier School. He had begun feeling traces of the Apocalypse strain still in his system, and feared he would transform back into Archangel.
The naive Angel still had little life experience, however, and he was lured in by Genocide and the Clan Akkaba. Genocide convinced Angel that Akkaba was also penitent about their role in Apocalypse's former schemes. He convinced Angel to "purge the sin" from his body by allowing 
Akkaba scientists to amputate the techno-organic wings from Angel's back. Although they continued to grow back, Angel submitted to the process again and again in order to be "saved." Clan Akkaba had set up base underneath the city of Green Ridge, Colorado and, through their brainwashing techniques, developed a cult-like following. Angel innocently served as a revival preacher for Akkaba, drawing people in with a message of salvation.
In reality, Akkaba was using the severed wings for their genetic material, cloning a "Death-Flight" of Archangel doppelgangers. The more they harvested the wings from Angel, the more of this unholy host they could create. The Archangels were empty, nothing more than living weapons awaiting programming to be unleashed on their targets. Somehow, however, one Archangel was separated from the choir and crashed to Earth. He was found by Magneto in a time of great need, as the Terrigen mists had killed more than 60 mutants Erik was hosting on Genosha. Seeing Archangel as a metaphorical sign from the heavens, Magneto's fighting spirit was renewed. As 
Archangel was incapable of speech or independent action, Magneto brought him to Psylocke. Magneto knew Betsy would stay with "Warren" and try to cure his condition, which also meant Psylocke would be part of his new X-Men strike force, and her telepathy could guide Archangel like a predator drone for Magneto's cause.
Psylocke spent weeks trying to reach Warren's consciousness inside of Archangel, but to no avail. Eventually, she probed deep enough to reach back through Archangel to the mind of Angel, receiving a garbled message that brought her and Magneto to Green Ridge seeking answers. Angel met with his old friends when they arrived, although he didn't consciously know why they had come. Genocide and Clan Akkaba took the X-Men hostage in order to prevent them from stopping the Death-Flight. They provoked Psylocke into telepathically calling for her Archangel, reuniting the Flight as they began to cull the wheat from the chaff in Green Ridge.
Angel finally came to recognize how foolish he had been. He reached out to the Archangel drone and accepted that side of his personality. Somehow, Angel and Archangel merged to become a 
reincarnated Warren Worthington III, back to the way he had been when the Apocalypse Ascension first began. Warren remembered his life fully now, while still being susceptible to the Dark Angel's predatory nature. He reunited with Magneto and Psylocke as part of their X-Men, but also took a vow of pacifism until he was sure how much control he had over himself in this newest incarnation. [Uncanny X-Men (4th series) #1-10]
Archangel's new outlook made him much less useful to Magneto in his crusade against the Inhumans and in defense of mutantkind. He and Xorn took control of occupied New Attilan when the X-Men finally confronted the Inhumans over the threat of the Terrigen cloud. After the war ended, he became shepherd to the Sleepers, a group of mutants who paid the Someday Corporation to place them into stasis to avoid the Terrigen, only to be experimented on and turned into weapons by Someday and later Exodus. This new direction took him away from Magneto's X-Men, which collapsed entirely soon thereafter. [Uncanny X-Men (4th series) #18-19]
Archangel's connection to Xorn involved him in the mutant city-state of New Tian, ruled by Xorn on the west coast when Hydra's Steve Rogers overthrew the American government and claimed the rest of the States for Hydra. [Secret Warriors (2nd series) #2-4, X-Men: Blue #7] In time, Warren reasserted his old dynamic of being able to morph between Angel and Archangel forms at will. He needed to be mentally centered and peaceful in order to control Archangel and when that form was released, otherwise the Deathseed persona would take control again. The reincarnated Charles Xavier supposedly gave him more control, but his struggle remained an issue. [Astonishing X-Men (4th series) #1-12]
Nathaniel Grey, the X-Man, was empowered by a Celestial Lifeseed himself, and began a plan to save humanity by bending reality and pushing social evolution in the direction it needed to go. Angel was drawn by X-Man's siren call to become a member of the Horsemen of Salvation, serving alongside Magneto, Blob and Omega Red as agents of change. Warren was given inner peace by Grey's changes to his mind, allowing him to remain Angel at all times. However, the X-Man's vision of "the greater good" led the Horsemen to destroy the Xavier Institute and nearly kill the remaining X-Men when they opposed his plans.
In Chernaya, Angel and Magneto were removing weapons of war from the country's civil conflict when the X-Men intervened. Psylocke made an impassioned plea to Angel to see what he was doing, but it had no effect. Betsy was forced to use her psychic katana on Warren, forcibly drawing his Archangel personality back to the surface. Warren was freed of Nate's control, but was furious at Psylocke for the betrayal of stealing inner peace from his mind. Despite his anger, Archangel led the X-Men to where the X-Man was headquartered, leading to a massive struggle. Archangel refused to rejoin the Horsemen of Salvation when offerred, and battled against Nate alongside the X-Men. The fighting came to an end when X-Man swallowed the X-Men up inside his mindscape. [Uncanny X-Men (5th series) #1-10]
Thanks to the Lifeseed, X-Man was able to create an entire new reality where mutantkind was at peace. Warren and the X-Men were cast into roles in this timeline, as Nate sought to prove his vision of what life could be. Warren became head instructor at Cerebro, this reality's version of the Xavier school. [Age of X-Man Alpha #1] When the cracks in Nate Grey's reality started to show, the X-Men began reverting back to their original incarnations. Warren Worthington appeared as Angel when the X-Men started to leave X-Man's reality, but was back as Archangel when the team resurfaced back home. The current balance of his struggle between Angel and Archangel remains uncertain. [Age of X-Man Omega #1, Uncanny X-Men (5th series) #22]