Madelyne survived and came into the care of the the X-Men, while Sinister took Nathan to his secret lab hidden under the State Home for Foundlings, an orphanage in Nebraska. Sinister sent his Marauders to capture Christopher and to kill Madelyne, before she could be exposed as a clone. Sinister hired Madelyne to fly a cargo to San Francisco for big money and she took Nathan. Scott left little Nathan and Madelyne to reunite with Jean and the other founding members of the X-Men to form a new team, called X-Factor, in New York. Everything worsened when Jean was discovered alive. Over time Scott and Madelyn's marriage became strained Madelyne resented the fact that Scott was rarely home and that he continued to miss Jean.
After loosing in a battle for leadership of the X-Men, Scott retired from the X-Men and together he and Madelyne raised the child in Anchorage, Alaska. Young Nathan Summers was so powerful that, upon his birth, he woke Apocalypse from his hibernation.Īfter the X-Men defeated Fenris, baby Nathan met his alternate reality, teenage, half-sister, Rachel Summers, and she created a psi-bond with him, while promising to protect him and always be there for him.
While Scott was battling Fenris at the trial of Magneto on the first day of spring, Madelyne had a son in the kitchen of the X-mansion who she named Nathan Christopher Charles Summers - Nathan from an implanted suggestion by Mister Sinister in Madelyne, Christopher from Scott's father, and Charles from his father-figure. They quickly married and Madelyne later became pregnant. Scott was instantly drawn to Madelyne because she strongly resembled his true love, Jean. Sinister arranged for her to meet Scott as a pilot for Scott's grandparents. Madelyne had been a failed experiment, until she was brought to life by the portion of Jean's consciousness that had been borrowed by the Phoenix Force and a spark of the Phoenix Force which had been rejected by Jean's body while in the cocoon. Sinister's plan, then, was to produce a child from the union of Madelyne and Scott, whom he believed would become a genetically superior mutant. At the time, Jean was believed to be acting reckless, so Sinister created a clone of her and named the clone Madelyne Pryor, creating a false background for her. Sinister hoped he could control such a mutant and use it to defeat Apocalypse. Sinister, found that a union between the X-Men, Scott Summers (Cyclops) and Jean Grey (Marvel Girl), would produce a powerful mutant. "Just think of me as one of those crazy relatives you don't want visiting too often." He was sent to the future and came back as an adult, and later joined the X-Men, and has been an enemy and ally to Deadpool. Cable is the son of Scott Summers and Madelyn Pryor.