BIOGRAPHY: Page 4
Ashamed, Nate went to the Brooklyn Bridge, from where he attempted to erase everyone’s memory of him. There was no way he could undo the damage, but at least he could make the people forget. Connecting with every single mind in New York, he subconsciously called for help. Spider-man picked up the message and came to the bridge, despite it being the site where his old lover, Gwen Stacy, had been killed - an event he blamed himself for. Spider-man wanted Nate to stop what he was intending to do, resulting in a battle between the two friends. With his energies out of control, Nate accidentally recreated a simulacrum of Gwen, only it was a version of her counterpart from the Age of Apocalypse.
On top of it all, a group called Psi-Ops attacked. They had been formed with a single task: to arrest Nate. Spider-man and Nate managed to drive them off and Gwen vanished as well. In the aftermath, Spider-man forgave Nate, but then they parted ways, each having to deal with their losses themselves. [X-Man #37-38]
However, another person had registered Nate’s distress call too - Madelyne Pryor. Having left the Hellfire Club a few weeks ago, she now returned to Nate’s side as he decided to leave New York. Out in the Canadian wilderness, Nate meditated, experiencing a precognitive vision in which he would fight some madman near a pyramid, only to take out half the planet in a fatal discharge of energy. Fully awake again, Nate started an argument with Madelyne, who claimed that he needed her. Nate, on the other hand, stated otherwise, so she teleported away, well aware that he had accidentally breached a wall to the dimension where the Great Beasts were held. After seeing Nate fail to defeat the mystical beings alone, Maddie returned and with her advice and tactics, Nate used his powers in new ways until the Beasts were detained. [X-Man #39-40]
The battle took a lot out of Nate and when the Psi-Ops came looking for him, Madelyne teleported him to the cabin in Switzerland where they had first met. Once recovered, Nate attempted to do a telepathic search for Threnody, but Madelyne tried to stop him. She even followed him to the astral plane, but Nate evaded her traps and started his search. Unfortunately, Nate was suddenly hit by the effects of the Psi-War between Psylocke and the Shadow King that resulted in a temporary world wide loss of telepathic powers. Nate was painfully drawn back to the real world and Madelyne’s form smashed into smitherines. [X-Man #41]
Two weeks later, Madelyne reassembled herself, though Nate’s telepathy was still gone. They went to Ireland and when some techno-gnomes caused an earthquake, they managed to contain it and save the population from any real damage. Nate and Maddie became local celebrities and, without his telepathy, Nate had no choice but to trust her when she claimed she had good intentions and wanted to be there for him. By then, a mysterious stranger called Ness caught up with them. Ness was actually short for Witness and he had shared Nate’s precognitive vision. He kind of looked like Nate’s opposite, having white hair with a brown streak, but before being able to further explain, a second attack of the gnomes separated him from Nate. [X-Man #42]
Once more, Nate was completely drained after dealing with the techno-gnomes and needed a full week to recover. Around the same time, a creature kept killing people by leeching off their energy and flesh until only their bare bones remained. At first, Nate feared that he himself was the creature, killing in his sleep possibly to replace his own drained energies, but then he and Maddie found the person responsible - Holocaust. 
Instantly, he and Nate battled and Apocalypse’s son quickly gained the upper hand. With his telepathy missing, Nate had to think up new ways to use his telekinesis and he came up with a telekinetic body armor. Working together Maddie and Nate defeated Holocaust and actually believed him dead, though he managed to escape in the last instant, drained of almost all his energies. [X-Man #43-44]
Soon afterwards, the person behind the techno-gnomes was revealed as Blaquesmith. With Cable missing for weeks (he was in SHIELD custody) and several signs pointing towards Stryfe’s imminent return, Blaquesmith had been testing and preparing Nate for the great conflict to come. Right as Nate and Madelyne arrived in Blaquesmith’s base in Latveria, a giant pyramid fell from the sky, the same one in Nate’s vision. It carried the Dark Riders and Stryfe, miraculously back from the dead. Psynapse, one of the Riders, accidentally reactivated Nate’s telepathy with his attack and even removed some mental blocks, causing Nate to emerge more powerful than before. Confused by his new status, Nate was easily captured by Stryfe, who planned to add his power to his own. By then, Cable returned, but he too was no match for his evil clone. Only Maddie remained free and she pretended to join Stryfe, in order to absorb some of the energy he had gained. When Cable and Nate freed themselves, she gave these energies to Nate. Stryfe punished her by siphoning her dry of her own psi-energies, nearly discorporating her. While Cable tended to her, Nate attacked Stryfe and was ready to hit him with a final outburst that would have caused the destruction seen in the vision, but Ness arrived on the scene in time. With his advice, Nate managed to defeat Stryfe with his own power-leeching equipment and the disaster was avoided. [X-Man #45-46, Cable (1st series) #63, X-Man #47]
Since he had abandoned his family and left his tribe, the Hellbent, Ness claimed that he had no place to go and returned with Maddie and Nate to Ireland. When Emma Frost saw news reports of the island nation’s newest hero, she recognized him as a mutant and tried to perform a mindscan from half a world away to determine if he would want to join Generation X. Although he still lacked full access to his own telepathy, Nate recognized the intrusion and was able to trace it back, making contact with the White Queen’s mind. Before their connection broke, he saw the image of the Dark Beast from the Age of Apocalypse in her memory and felt that he had to investigate. As he arrived in Massachusetts, Generation X had just been kidnapped by McCoy and Nate agreed to help Emma free them in turn for her information on the villain. Together, they found the young mutants in the hidden labs of the Dark Beast, only the evil scientist himself escaped. Emma avoided revealing her true connection to him, but as the Dark Beast had betrayed their old alliance, she gave Nate some leads on his other hide-outs. However, it was clear that he would no longer hide in any place that Emma knew about. Before they parted ways, Frost hinted that Nate already had his telepathy back, but subconsciously continued to suppress his access to it. Over in Ireland, while Nate was away, Maddie and Ness avoided each other. Both of them feared that the other would get too much influence over Nate, endangering their own secret agendas. [X-Man #49-50, Generation X #50]
Nate called Maddie to teleport him back to Ireland, where they found some Psi-Ops, now calling themselves Gauntlet, waiting for them. Their powers totally shielded them against Nate’s energies. He could not directly affect them and the fight seemed to be a stalemate. However, Maddie managed to make a crack in one of their armors and finally Nate could affect him. The Gauntlet and his teammates were defeated when Nate dropped an entire house on them. However, the Psi-Ops sent an entire army as back-up.
Madelyne gave him all the energy she could spare and tried to teleport away, but was hit by a blast rendering her unconscious. To prevent her from further harm, Nate encased her in a protective bubble of earth and asked Ness to watch out for her, while he continued to fight the Psi-Ops. The only way to overcome them was to destroy the Psi-Op’s ship and drop it on them. Ness tried to bring Madelyne to safety, but found the bubble empty. Madelyne had already woken up and teleported to safety. From the nearby shadows, she watched as Ness was grabbed by the remaining Psi-Ops and killed in the exploding ship’s crash-landing. Yet, as the battle had taken a lot out of X-Man, her source of energy, she looked drained and withered like an old woman. In no shape to continue whatever plans she had with Nate, she left to recover. [X-Man #51-52]