Biography page 5
Tensions remained on Hope’s rescue team. Hope and Gabriel were still cold to each other, especially with Pixie around. Similarly, Kenji had rejected Laurie and invited Martha Johansson to the group. Now that he was no longer trying to impress Hope, Gabriel was increasingly vocal about how his time powers were accelerating his aging, and he objected to shortening his lifespan 
for training exercises. In that same training exercise sparring with the X-Men, Kenji violated Magneto’s body, only for his organo-techno mass to be ripped in half by the Master of Magnetism. Hope’s team was on edge and barely in control, and Kenji in particular seemed to be avoiding outright super-villainy solely because of Hope’s active influence, which he openly fumed over.
Hope was visiting the Cerebra chamber when she spotted a mutant signature in Pakistan that she was unfamiliar with. The Stepford Cuckoos were cagey with their response, leading Hope to believe it was a new mutant signature her team needed to investigate. She gathered the Lights and they discovered an amnesic man with energy converting powers being manipulated by local warlords. Hope sympathized with the mutant and brought him back to Utopia, only for Scott and Emma to freak out over his true identity as the malevolent Sentinel financier, Sebastian Shaw. 
(Weeks earlier, Emma had mind-wiped Shaw to remove him as a threat and deliberately deposited him to the remotely place possible.) As Cyclops was challenging Hope’s judgment over trusting the amnesiac mutant, Kenji and her team were squabbling with some of Utopia’s residents outside. Scott pointed out how Hope couldn’t control the team members she already had, which provoked Hope to defy him and seize direct control over Kenji’s body, using his malleable form to end the fighting immediately through her will. [Generation Hope #13-15]
This violation was the final straw for Kenji, who had been cycling up the will to denounce Hope for weeks. Using his powers to influence the thoughts of others predisposed towards distrusting Hope, Kenji assembled a mob to bring her down and literally crucify the so-called messiah for her sins. Hope was forced to confront the extent to which she had alienated and disrespected her fellow mutants, while crusading to be their “messiah.” Still, even Laurie pulled back once she 
realized Kenji actually intended to kill Hope and not merely scare her. The other members of Hope’s team came to her rescue, holding off Kenji’s pawns while Hope and Kenji struggled with each other psionically. Hope and Martha confronted Kenji on the astral plane and Martha tore apart his mind with her psionic chaff, seemingly leaving him dead as his fluid mass dispersed without a mind to sustain it.
Afterwards, once all the victims had regained their senses, Hope met privately with her team. Laurie struggled to deal with the situation, as she still felt like Hope was manipulating them even if Kenji went too far. Hope apologized to her teammates for treating them like weapons, merely a means to an end for her goals. She opened up about wanted to stay isolated from others 
emotionally after her father died. Gabriel and the others acknowledged Hope was genuinely inspiring beyond the influence her powers might give her, and they were willing to continue working with her to locate and protect the new mutants that might emerge. [Generation Hope #16-17]
Hope remained active with the Extinction Team on various mission deployments. [Uncanny X-Men (2nd series) #4-8] However, she and Cyclops agreed that new mutants were the priority. This was demonstrated when Hope left in the middle of a team-up with the Avengers to respond to a new light emerging on Cerebra. The X-Men and Avengers had been dealing with escapees from the Peak, S.W.O.R.D.’s orbital space station. One of those escapees was the mechanoid Unit, who created a false mutant signature to lure Hope’s team to Canada. Cyclops and the Extinction Team followed after her and defeated Unit, locking him away in the X-Brig. This was what Unit wanted, however. Unit possessed information about the Phoenix and was willing to share it with Hope. The prison break-out was an excuse to position himself so that he would influence Hope’s response to the coming of the Phoenix to Earth. [Uncanny X-Men (2nd series) #9-10]
Indeed, it became increasingly clear that Hope Summers and the Phoenix Force were intrinsically linked. The X-Men had only possessed signs and portents up to a certain point, although Scott and Emma both suspected Hope’s origins almost from the start. When Hope started experiencing 
power flare-ups with fiery bird-like energy, the implications were obvious. One startling example came when Cable returned for Hope. While he did lose an arm in the Nimrod portal, Nathan had actually survived the portal’s closing and was only cast into a distant future. Finding signs that the Avengers had killed Hope before she could complete her destiny, Cable came back in time to stop them, giving himself over to the techno-organic virus to protect his daughter. The Avengers survived, and Cyclops and Hope even helped stop Cable’s rampage, but he was left comatose as the virus consumed his flesh. Standing over her father’s bedside, Hope tapped into the power of the Phoenix Force and cleansed him entirely of the techno-organic virus. Nathan slept on, but he was completely healthy for the first time since he had been an infant. [Avengers: X-Sanction #3-4]