COVER BY: Marko Djurdjevic
WRITER: Duane Swierczynski
PENCILS: Gabriel Guzman

PRELUDE TO "X-MEN: SECOND COMING" EVENT! The penultimate chapter in the X-Men saga that began with "Messiah CompleX" continues here! Now that Hope's told Cable that she's ready to join the X-Men in the present, Cable risks it all to repair his busted time machine. Finally, after years of being stuck in a one-way trip to oblivion, Cable and Hope leap into the past. But the Mutant Messiah and her surrogate father miss the mark by more than a few hundred years, finding themselves in a primitive Manhattan - and hunted by a mutant who just doesn't know the meaning of the word "quit."