Cable #94

Publisher
Marvel
Year
2001
Month
8
LastChanged
1/16/2024 5:45:19 PM
Countdown
Armageddon Approaches

Summary

  Irene investigates the epidemic of amnesia among young women, when time freezes and Alecto (iss. 85) appears, now the guise of biker chick Cyanide Jane. Her younger sister is in ancient Greece as the Delphic oracle, and her older sister is teaching math to aliens in the future. They are caretakers of the the multiverse and appeared to Cable as Macbeth's witches (iss. 79), to keep him on course. Irene rebels, but Alecto says many alternate realities will perish if they don't play along. She already knows Irene will secretly chronicle everything, so she scrambles her thought patterns to keep her safe from telepaths and leaves. Time resumes; Cable calls Irene, asking to meet at Marshall Fields, but then he nabs her and brings her to his safe house.

  Weeks ago at the student rally: Rachel claims to be FBI and explodes the bomb away from innocents. She interrogates Moore and drops out of college, deciding to find Cable and rejoin the fight.

  Cable knows where Finality is, but she's too well-protected. She wants to conquer the world and make it a matriarchy, enslaving men.

  In 1660, a meteor fell on Hamburg, Germany, and six children found it before it disintegrated. Five died, but Knoblach grew up to marry a wealthy English lady and move to Virginia; their children were Gloria, William, and Fiona. Gloria was hung as a witch in Massachusetts; Fiona went mad; William went to Tibet and became Clarity. Fiona had her parents killed in a boat fire and inherited their estate; she wed various wealthy men and she bore them seven daughters, so now she has nearly 30,000 descendants: the Dark Sisterhood.

  The president pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House are simultaneously killed, and Cable is blamed in the news. Irene realizes the "Sixth Progression" refers to Anderson's succession to the White House, and the President and his Cabinet are in danger.