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The Avengers remained tense and at odds with the X-Men, and Captain America organized a mission to retrieve Hope from Utopia as a potential weapon against the Phoenix Five. When the Avengers covertly inserted into Utopia, Cyclops and Emma opposed them. Hope was willing to go 
along with the Avengers, out of fear of what the Phoenix was becoming, but Cyclops refused to let her go with these enemies of the state. He was halted only by the arrival of the Scarlet Witch, whose magic still resonated with the Decimation spell and painful rejected the Phoenix power within him. Hope left with Wanda and the Avengers, trying to make sense of what was expected from her now.
Hope trained with the Avengers for a time in an effort to better understand her connection to the Phoenix. She learned from Spider-Man and also discovered a secret history of the Phoenix with Iron Fist’s hidden city of K’un-Lun, where a redheaded girl named Fongji once became both the Iron Fist and the avatar of the Phoenix Force. The Avengers recovered their fallen members from a prison run by Magik and Colossus, and Spider-Man nearly died tricking the two Phoenix Five into taking each other out. However, the redistributed Phoenix Force made Cyclops powerful
enough to track the Avengers to K’un-Lun and rip through dimensions to find Hope. She confronted Scott with Lei Kung the Thunderer and Shao Lao the Undying, the dragon spirit behind the Iron Fist. Cyclops shot down the dragon, but Hope somehow tapped into the dragon’s power through the past connection between the Iron Fist and the Phoenix. With the power of the Iron Fist, the Scarlet Witch and the Phoenix flowing through her, Hope struck Cyclops with literally impossible force, launching him out of the K’un-Lun pocket dimension and casting him all the way to impact on the moon.
More and more X-Men defected from the increasingly unstable and draconian “Phoenix Two,” leading the mutants and Avengers to formulate a strategy together. Hope traveled to the Jean Grey School and reunited with Idie, happy to learn she had been thriving away from Hope’s influence and combat situations. Hope was still frustrated over what her role was meant to be in all of this, and turned her anger on Wanda. The powers of the Phoenix and the Decimation fought directly, releasing tons of energy before the two women calmed down and separated. Iron Man charted the data on the scuffle, and predicted that the power of Hope and Wanda together may be enough to wrestle the Phoenix away from Cyclops and Emma Frost.
The united power of the Avengers and X-Men came for Cyclops and Emma at Utopia, but the end results proved to be tragic. Scott shut down Emma himself in order to claim her portion of the Phoenix Force, and killed Charles Xavier when the professor tried to stop him. Scott went full 
Dark Phoenix, creating chaos and catastrophe around the globe. As he cast aside all other attackers, Hope and Wanda came for Scott together. Wanda’s hex power hurt the Phoenix, and Hope continued to mimic Wanda’s hex power and channel it through a version of the Iron Fist. They defeated Cyclops, and the Phoenix left Scott just as it had left all the other defeated hosts. Now, it was Hope’s turn.
As predicted, the released Phoenix Force entered its intended host, bestowing the cosmic power upon Hope Summers. Hope’s first act as the Phoenix was to undo the damage brought about by Cyclops, restoring monuments and reversing natural disasters caused by his Dark Phoenix rampage. When she was done, though, Hope started to see how she could do more. So much more. It was Wanda who reached out to Hope after that, with her own opinion on why Hope was truly chosen as avatar of the Phoenix. With a lifetime of struggle, of training, of self-reliance long 
before she activated her mutant powers, Hope was capable and independent even without her abilities. Her destiny was not to wield the Phoenix Force, but to be strong enough to let it go. Hope accepted Wanda’s help, and together the two of them fully reversed the Decimation spell, restoring the X-Gene and evolution to the human race, and expelling the Phoenix Force from Hope and the planet at the same time. [Avengers vs. X-Men crossover]
In the aftermath, Hope’s destiny was fulfilled and she had to decide what to do with the rest of her life. During the Phoenix Five crisis, Cable had recovered from his coma and left in secret without telling anyone. He warned Hope off coming to look for him in a note. Captain America and the Scarlet Witch helped Hope assess her opportunities in life, and Hope decided she wanted to try living like a normal person. She was provided with foster parents and entry was arranged at one of the best private schools in the country. Hope tried to fit in at first, learning lessons in life from the Lights and everything they had incidentally taught her. Over time, however, she became worried about her father and snuck off to find him. After a fruitless couple of weeks, Hope returned home to find another note waiting for her. Reading the message, she turned around and saw Cable. Nathan assured Hope that he was okay, and would always be watching out for her. [AvX: Consequences #1-5]
Still, Hope was restless in her quiet life and decided to pursue Cable anyway. She hooked up with Domino and got Neena to bring her to Nathan. As it happened, Cable had been suffering side effects from Hope’s Phoenix-charged removal of the techno-organic virus from his system. Nathan had wanted to get himself right before seeking out Hope to go into retirement together, and was being attended to by Doctor Nemesis and Forge. His plans for the future went sideways when 
Cable started receiving precognitive visions of imminent threats that needed attention. Hope was eager to help Nathan and this newly-assembled X-Force, but he had Nemesis knock her out instead and teleported her home to keep her out of trouble. The mission went poorly, and X-Force ended up branded as terrorists by the authorities. Cable visited a furious Hope at her new home and told her that, for her own sake, she was better off not going on the run with him and the team. [Cable and X-Force #1-5]
Naturally, Hope had her own ideas. She followed up on a message from Cable’s old mentor, Blaquesmith, looking into the source of Cable’s new visions. It turned out Blaquesmith and a future version of Hope were responsible for triggering these changes to Cable’s abilities. Hope visited Old Hope’s future, in which Nathan did retire with her and sat out the threats that piled up in the days that followed until it was too late to reverse them. Old Hope and Blaquesmith gave 
Cable the visions in order to get him involved, but were unprepared for the seizures and other side effects leaving Nathan so debilitated in the visions’ wake. Armed with an Askani psimitar, Hope found Nathan suffering his latest seizure and stabbed him, expelling the pent up psychic energy that was causing him trouble. Cable and Hope were reunited, and Nathan could now process the visions without harming himself. [Cable and X-Force #9-14]