...Cauldron Bubble

• Writer - Robert Weinberg
• Penciler - Michael Ryan
• Inker - Scott Hanna
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Saida Temofonte
• Colorist - Gloria Vasquez
• Editor - Mark Powers
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Cable tries to reorient himself and finds Eyla singing and painting in the woods, with her pet sabretooth. She hospitably takes him to Niers, a city on Harmony, which is earth in the distant, utopian future. He father realizes Cable is from the past and tells him there is a war with the Ranshi in another timeline. They throw a party for him, say they can cure his t-o virus, and mention that they prevent mutants. Just then the Ranshi attack, and Cable is pushed back to the present.

  Shire mesmerizes his audience. Archaeologists Oxton and Berger are stopped by superstitious natives. Aenteros possessing Blockade breaks out of and burns down the SHIELD hospital.

  Irene gets Cable to meet Clarity, a secretive reporter she knows. He is able to process information like a computer, watching all news channels simultaneously. Just then, both Blockade and the Ranshi attack.