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    Cable #16

    Cable » Cable #16 - The Phalanx Sanction released by Marvel on October 1994.

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    The X-Men vs. the Phalanx! Along with Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Wolverine, Cable stages an all-out assault on the Phalanx citadel! Can they take it down, or is all of mutantkind doomed to assimilation?

    Continued from Wolverine #85. Cable, Wolverine, Jean Grey, and Cyclops assault the main collective of the Phalanx in Tibet. While Wolverine heads off to free the X-Men, the others keep the Phalanx busy. Once free, the X-Men wipe out the Phalanx.

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    Within the Phalanx citadel in Tibet, Cameron Hodge alerts Stephen Lang to an aircraft on a collision course. Lange carries away Psylocke (whom he is secretly conspiring with to overthrow the Phalanx) as the plane crashes into the citadel. The previous occupants of that plane - Cable, Wolverine, Cycops, and Jean Grey - are now scaling the nigh-impenetrable north face of the cliffs in hopes of infiltrating the citadel without being detected.

    Lang okays a search for the attackers, but orders that the north face be exempt from search due to its treacherous heights. He then turns back to Psylocke and admits that all possible plans for humankind involves the liberation of the X-Men. He proposes a plan to Psylocke that includes her completely and willingly submitting to Lang's influence (which could allow the total assimilation of her body to the Phalanx), but with a fail-safe placed to free her upon the occurrence of a certain event. She reluctantly submits.

    On the north face, the remaining X-Men struggle to reach the citadel. A large overhang prevents the group from going any further and they determine to let Jean use a micro-burst of power to toss Cable up. The plan works, but the top of the overhang is sloped and Cable is unable to get a good hold. Wolverine jumps and clambers up Cable's back and is able to get a rope secured and lowered for the other two. Wolverine finally helps Cable up, but not before giving him a warning that if he ever hurts Jean (he had noted Jean's fear at seeing Cable struggle) that he would rip Cable apart; otherwise, the slate is now clean between the two.

    Inside the citadel, Hodge notes the slight blip on the north face and insists that Lang have it checked out. Lang refutes the notion as being illogical and orders searches to be conducted elsewhere. Lang then plants Psylocke and leaves to mull over part two of his plan - the release of the other X-Men.

    Hodge discovers Psylocke and she tells him - just as Lang planned - that Lang has partitioned off a part of his mind from the Phalanx collective. Hodge can't believe it. Despite this disturbing news, Hodge rescans the crashed plan and finds a techno-organic tendril. He surmises that the plane had been at Muir Island and the tendril will hold enough memory to reveal how the island had been lost.

    Under the citadel, Cyclops blasts a hole in the bottom of the structure and Jean psi-blasts Cyclops and Cable through the hole. Father and Son enter the citadel firing on all cylinders with Jean following closely behind with psi-attacks. Hodge leads the counterattack. Cyclops and Jean are knocked out and Cable is left to fend for himself.

    Amidst the chaos, Wolverine sneaks in. He finds "the Womb" where the other X-Men are being kept. He slashes at Bishop's containment field but only manages to put a small hole in it before being attacked by Phalanx member Brick and Dymphna. Wolverine throws Brick into Bishop's containment field and Bishop absorbs the alien's energy and blasts out of his prison. The rest of the X-Men are set free and they immediately join the fight. Hodge panics and orders Psylocke to take out Cable. This is Lang's trigger, which releases Psylocke from the Phalanx hold. She tells Jean and Cable to channel their psi-powers through her and she funnels it all on a focal point: the Phalanx Psi-Net. Bishop then begins to absorb all the energy he can from the citadel. Hodge draws power from the world-wide outposts, which destroys the other Phalanx strongholds. The citadel then begins to collapse.

    Lang stands high above the action and relishes in the defeat of both the Phalanx and the X-Men. The X-Men, however, are being extracted at that moment. Hodge, however, has found Lange and drags him into the citadel as it explodes.

    On the other side of the galaxy, a large techno-organic being senses the absence of the aliens on Earth.

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