Biography page 4
Hope Summers and her team settled into a routine as new “lights” showed up on Cerebra, although none quite like the first Five Lights. The next new mutant was a fetus who became aware in the womb and resisted birth itself. Teon calmed him down long enough to be born and experience Hope’s touch, rendering his powers dormant until puberty like normal. As joyous as that mission ended, the mutant after that was a tragedy. A college student named Zeeshan took 
his own life after his powers manifested rather than live with becoming a mutant. Hope and the Lights all experienced a psychic shock at the moment of his suicide, underlining just how connected the new mutants and their messiah truly were. The more self-aware Lights like Kenji and Laurie began to bristle under the idea of how easily influenced they were by Hope. [Generation Hope #6-9]
One thing Hope struggled with was how distant Wolverine had been since her return from the future. Hope still remembered Logan and X-Force as the first mutants she ever met other than Nathan, and how they protected her from Stryfe. And yet Wolverine seemed determined to keep her at a distance since then. One day, Hope was kidnapped on the streets of San Francisco by agent of the Crimson Commando, a former mutant who lost his powers on M-Day. His mutation had been the only thing keeping him alive, and the dying Commando wanted Hope to do something as the “messiah” to save him. Wolverine came to save her, and together he and Hope 
beat Crimson Commando and all his men. Logan came clean with Hope that Bishop and others had given too many warnings about her future to ignore the possibility she might one day become a threat. If Hope ever became dangerous and corrupted by her power, someone would have to take her down. For Logan, it was easier not to get too attached if he ultimately had to do what needed to be done. Hope digested this, and gave Logan permission to end her life, if necessary. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #539]
Hope was forced to confront some harsh truths when the Hellfire Club initiated Sentinel attacks around the world. The Sentinels were mostly old, decommissioned models, so the X-Men didn’t take it too seriously, even though they scattered across the globe to deal with them. Hope and Gabriel went on a movie date in San Francisco while Laurie brought Idie to the Museum of Mutant History’s opening. When Hellfire attacked the museum, Laurie panicked and left Idie behind as the 
X-Men were defeated. A fourteen-year old girl who saw being a mutant as being a monster, Idie was left in a position where she saved the day and rescued a group of hostages, but killed a dozen Hellfire mercenaries in the process. Hope got to the scene and lambasted Laurie for leaving a soldier behind, but Laurie rounded on her and pointed out Laurie was only a “good soldier” when she was around Hope. Hope’s influence on the Lights shaped them in ways they didn’t even fully understand yet.
After scattering the X-Men with dilapidated Sentinels, Hellfire dropped a bleeding-edge Sentinel outside of the sparsely staffed Utopia for a kill shot. As Cyclops and Wolverine argued over 
whether the rock was worth defending, especially with only kids and trainees available as soldiers, Hope’s team had the same concern. Laurie felt guilty over what Idie was forced into, and she wanted to leave Utopia and take Idie with her. This time, though, Hope deliberately used her influence on Laurie, commanding her to remain and fight. And fight she did – Laurie belted the messiah and they fought on the sands of Utopia before putting aside their differences long enough to dismantle the new Sentinel. [Schism crossover, Generation Hope #10-11]
Afterwards, Logan broke with Cyclops and took half the X-Men back to Westchester to restart the school instead of turning more kids into soldiers. Although they were at odds, both Scott and Logan agreed Idie would be better off in a different environment for a time. Hope initially fought against letting Idie go and stormed off, with Laurie following her. Laurie brought a gun to the argument this time and was actually prepared to shoot Hope rather than allow her to continue influencing them. Instead of fighting back, Hope confided in Laurie. She opened up about how 
fragile she was after the death of Nathan and so many others just for her. If Hope was possessive of Idie or militant about pushing the others, it was because she needed what they did to matter, in order to make her father’s death matter as well. Laurie relented, at least for now, but she convinced Hope she still needed to do what was best for Idie in the moment, regardless of the ultimate destiny of the messiah and her Lights. Hope agreed, and wished Idie well in leaving with Logan and joining the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
Hope also suffered a setback in her personal life in her personal life when she found Gabriel in the medbay kissing Pixie. Gabriel’s time powers were slowly killing him, and he wanted to seize any opportunities he could when available. Hope and Gabriel stopped dating, but she also put on a military disposition when she recruited the teleporting Pixie to join their team. Hope rationalized that their rescue unit needed more rapid deployment after Zeeshan’s manifestation and death. While it was somewhat awkward, Pixie accepted. Alone and exhausted in her room, Hope was comforted by Teon as she tried to press through her adversities and live up to the destiny thrust upon her. [Generation Hope #12, X-Men: Regenesis #1]
In addition to the Mutant Emergence Rescue team she headed, Hope Summers was also recruited by Cyclops to serve with his alpha unit, the Extinction Team. With Logan and his school no longer under the immediate protection of Utopia, Scott wanted a team able to send a message to the world about the power and heroism of mutantkind. But, mostly the power. Only deployed in engagements of extreme necessity, the Extinction Team was called upon by S.W.O.R.D. when the enigmatic Dreaming Celestial began to act up from its resting place in Golden Gate Park. The X-Men discovered their old nemesis Mister Sinister had co-opted the Space God’s power for his creation engines, spawning an entire Sinister species.
Hope and the team engaged Sinister where he set up his engines at the Palace of Fine Arts. With his clones augmenting his existing telepathic powers, Sinister was able to override the mechanical psi-defenses of most of the team and enslave them. Emma Frost’s diamond form still protected her, though, and she and Hope had arranged an autonomous trigger for Hope to copy Emma’s diamond if she were compromised. Using Magik’s teleportation power to get away from Sinister and back to the high ground, Hope took up a sniper’s perch and shot him through the head. Unfortunately, the nature of the Sinister species was to choose a new Sinister-Prime upon the death of the previous one, leaving their enemy self-propagating. Hope fought Sinister on the psychic plane to keep him from locking down her teammates again. He tried to distract her by 
mentioning the Phoenix (a subject Cyclops had deliberately avoided with Hope up until then), but his banter merely annoyed Hope and she shot him again a few times. Sinister eventually retreated after having stored a sizeable amount of Celestial energy for the future. Hope and the Extinction Team stared down the Celestial Host themselves when they arrived to answer the threat to their brother. In front of a crowd of human onlookers, the Dreaming Celestial made it clear to the Host their power was not needed, for it was protected. [Uncanny X-Men (2nd series) #1-3]