Biography page 2
One thousand years forward from the time period where Hope was born, they hit a wall. A temporal barrier somehow prevented Cable’s mechanism from taking them forward OR backwards in time from that point. Arriving in future Westchester on the outskirts of an urban sprawl, Cable and Hope sought cover rather than exposing themselves to the locals. They were soon surprised by X-Force (as Cyclops had found a way to track Cable’s movements in the timestream) and the immortal Deadpool. They were all in danger, however, for Bishop had recruited Cable’s old nemesis Stryfe. Helping him kill a weakened Apocalypse led to Stryfe’s rule with Bishop at his side, a trap designed to catch Cable and the girl.
While tempers flared between Cable and X-Force, Stryfe’s troopers attacked them. When they were unsuccessful, Stryfe himself struck and abducted Hope and Warpath, who was trying to protect her. Back at his citadel, Stryfe focused on Warpath, but Bishop had his eye on the prize, even after 12 years lying in wait with Stryfe. Bishop released nanites to take out Stryfe and then tried to kill Hope. However, Stryfe recovered in time to stop Bishop with his telekinesis. Surprised by Bishop’s interest in the girl, Stryfe became intrigued and temporarily confused Hope with his identical likeness to Cable. Bishop recovered and the two fought, joined by X-Force. In the 
ensuing melee, Stryfe captured Hope, intent on using her as a new host body for himself. Archangel and a recovered future Apocalypse joined the fray as well and assaulted Stryfe, whom they quickly beat into submission. Bishop escaped into the timestream and Apocalypse took possession of Hope, but Archangel bargained with his former master for her release. After the battle, X-Force let Cable and Hope leap back into the timestream, but Hope, having made friends, didn’t want to leave. [Messiah War crossover]
During the timeslide, Hope threw a temper tantrum and kicked Cable away. As a result, they became separated and she emerged alone, two years earlier than him. The nine-year old girl spotted two cities in the distance and decided to move towards the nicer-looking one, populated by the descendants of Stryfe’s army. The Clean City and the Unclean City were at war to become the last survivors of humanity after the devastation Bishop wreaked upon the world. On the streets, Hope was befriended by a boy named Emil, who was instantly smitten with her. Bishop had tracked her and befriended Emil’s father, offering to save his people for finding Hope. The 
descendants of Stryfe’s Celestial City had built a space craft to leave the broken Earth behind, but they needed the power cell from Bishop’s artificial arm to power it. Still, Emil kept Hope a secret and helped her survive without alerting his father for two years. Hope and Emil became close, but she always kept an eye on the horizon, waiting for Nathan to come and find her.
From Cable’s perspective, it was only hours after they separated that he found Hope in the city. He had stolen a power source from the Unclean City’s attempt at a ship, and was now posing as Stryfe to commandeer the Clean City’s ship so they could escape the dying world. Hope wanted to bring Emil with them, but the boy’s father had gone with Bishop to the Unclean City following reports of Cable’s arrival. Emil refused to leave his father, and Cable forcibly brought Hope on board the ship before it blasted off, leaving him behind. [Cable (2nd series) #16-17]
Time passed out in space, as the crew searched for a viable world to terraform and replace Earth. Hope was still angry with Cable, and eventually slipped up calling him the wrong name in front of Stryfe’s descendants, leading them to realize he wasn’t their old master. Cable was down in the brig when Emil and the “Archbishop” caught up with them. Bishop had convinced Emil he really 
was Hope’s teacher looking out for her, and they rebuilt the Unclean City’s ship with Bishop’s power cell to pursue them into space. Once they reunited, Hope explained the truth to Emil, and the two of them fought back against Bishop. Matters became even more complicated when an Acanti space whale containing a horde of Brood also assaulted their docked ships.
Bishop and Cable both had to fight against the Brood to secure Hope, whom the Sleazoids had sensed from a distance as a powerful host for their young. Bishop ended up surrendering to the Brood Queen in order to lead her to Hope and get one last chance to kill her. Hope and Emil fled to the terraforming pods on his ship, only for Hope to learn there were only two. Hope refused to leave Cable behind, so Emil put her to sleep and loaded her into the first pod. The terraformers were designed to put a passenger in stasis for the long flight back to Earth to begin rebuilding the ecology. Emil knew Cable was better suited to protect Hope than he was, so he allowed Nathan to board the second pod. Nathan suggested for a moment that there was room in Hope’s pod for two, but Emil refused to lower her chances of survival. Cable and Hope were launched through space in the pods while Emil stayed behind to make one last attempt at killing Bishop and the Brood. [Cable (2nd series) #18-20]
Hope and Cable emerged from stasis sleep two years later as their pods returned to Earth. The terraforming necessary to make the planet fruitful again would take nearly eight years, forcing them to get by on what little water and animal meat they could find. As they hunkered down in a makeshift shelter, Hope told Nathan it was time. She felt it deep inside, a calling that told her now 
was the moment to return to the present and fulfill her destiny. As Cable processed this, Hope also told him she could sense Bishop moving towards them as well. Their old foe had escaped from Emil and followed them back to Earth in an Acanti star-whale. With no hesitation this time, Bishop took down Cable and shot at Hope right between the eyes. But, with a flash of telekinesis, the bullet never reached her face. Hope’s mutant powers had manifested.
Hope quickly floored Bishop with the new power she demonstrated, and Cable took advantage of the situation to cannibalize the working components of Bishop’s time-jump mechanism for his own. Now able to jump forward and backwards in time, Cable and Hope prepared to return to the X-Men. The mechanism proved faulty, however, first taking them back to 1614 AD. With each subsequent jump, they traveled later or earlier than their target date, drifting closer every time. Unfortunately, Bishop was also caught up in their wake. A failsafe in his cybernetic arm was transporting him with them through time with each jump. The three of them battled through the 
ages until they ended up in the 1990’s. Cable slipped Bishop’s time-jump mechanism back into his cybernetic arm with a timed detonator, sending their eternal foe into the far, far future, never to return. With Bishop and his time machine gone, Cable and Hope were now alone in the past. Cable’s forward-jumping time mechanism still worked, and they could now return to their proper era. After visiting one of Cable’s old safehouses to arm up, Cable and Hope were ready to return to the X-Men and complete her destiny. [Cable (2nd series) #21-24]
[Note: Hope’s age progresses inconsistently throughout the Cable series. The two of them spend roughly two years on the run prior to moving to New Liberty (#1-6). They spend two years in New Liberty (#7-10), another year on the run with Hope, then two years with the resistance (#11). After what seems like only days wandering the wastelands, they jump forward to Stryfe’s Celestial City (#11-12). After less than a day passes during the Messiah War crossover (#13-15), Hope is suddenly described as nine years old instead of six or seven. She spends two years alone in the Clean City (#16-17), and it was suggested at least two more years passed out in space (#18). Two MORE years (seeing a pattern yet?) passed in the terraforming pods on the way back to Earth (#20-21), although it’s not clear how much Hope physically aged in that time, but she was repeatedly referred to as 17 once they landed (#21-24). So, Hope ultimately emerged in the present during Second Coming as a 17-year old girl, but really only about 12 years were actually accounted for in the Cable series.]
Cable and Hope returned to the present in the wreckage of the X-Mansion in Westchester, unaware that the X-Men had relocated to San Francisco since Cable’s departure. They were 
almost immediately set upon by armored anti-mutant militants from the Right and the Sapien League. Cerebro had detected their return and Cyclops sent out Wolverine and a team of X-Men to locate them, but the fighting had already begun. Cable chose to secure Hope away from the X-Men until he learned how they had been targeted so quickly and easily after returning to this time period.
Wolverine’s team caught up with them and confirmed Cable was being tracked by Bastion using his own techno-organic virus. Nathan was a liability to Hope’s safety, so he agreed to let the X-Men assume command of getting her to Utopia, the X-Men’s island base off the coast of San Francisco. Rogue had helped lead the team to Hope, still feeling a connection to the mutant child who cleansed her mind back when Hope was first born. Rogue and Nightcrawler therefore joined 
together to protect Hope as they teleported across the country, and Cable and the other X-Men acted as a distraction. Bastion soon realized Cable had separated from the mutant messiah, though, and moved to intercept Hope personally. Nightcrawler was mortally wounded facing Bastion, and gave the last of his life to teleport Hope the rest of the way to Utopia, dying upon arrival.