Last Man Standing

• Writer - Robert Weinberg
• Penciler - Essad Ribic
• Inker - Lary Stucker
• Lettering - Richard Starkings
• Lettering - Comicraft
• Lettering - Saida Temofonte
• Colorist - Hi-Fi Design
• Ass't Editor - Pete Franco
• Editor - Mark Powers
• Editor in Chief - Joe Quesada

Summary

  Irene and Blaquesmith wait for Cable to return, while the witches observe.

  Cable meditates to regain strength and battles the T-O virus. Rachel tells him it's just a nightmare; Gaunt is playing with his mind, and he is a sadist. The Phoenix force left her during the million dark years, so she just has her native telepathy and telekinesis. They hug, family despite alternate realities.

  Rachel says Gaunt is techno-organic; Gaunt says he is bored and lonely: peace and seclusion are his hell.

  They bare-knuckle fight, with steel knuckles. Gaunt wins. But Cable manages to get his blood on him, and his virulent T-O virus takes over Gaunt, felling him. It will take decades for him to learn to control it.

  Rachel takes Cable back into the timestream; they go past the sun's death and slingshot to the past.

  Gaunt's judges thank him for reuniting the Summerses and put him to death.

  Back home, Cable tells Rachel everything that has happened since she left, including the fact that she will become Mother Askani. She decides to take some time off, maybe go to college. Cable agrees not to let anyone know she's back.