Hokay, can you say weird? And did anyone get the eerie feeling that we were reading an early script for "The Matrix?" Well, I was right in one sense about who saved Cable last issue: it involved Sanctity, although she wasn't the one who actually pulled Nathan into the rift. I was right that it was time-travel-related,thought. So Cable ends up in the "Maximum Secret" - oooh, scary - NOT! which is kind of like a monitoring station for all realities and times. Personally, I thought that Roma did that from Otherworld, but this seems to be more specifically oriented to time-travel. As everybody, should know, Cable's mission is to stop Apocalypse from taking over the world, preventing the future that he came from. What is revealed over the course of the issue is that all realities exist, and the fact that Cable has the memories of his childhood in the future means that that future will always exist, regardless of what he does. Cable figures this out on his own, and then has to undergo a battle of will with this guy Jacob (very normal name), who leads the chronologists, in order to free Sanctity, who they're holding and threatening to execute because of actions she has taken to manipulate time. Of course he wins, and Sanctity is freed, and everybody's happy, because the whole point of bringing Cable to the Maximum Secret was to get him to realize that he can't change to future, only affect it. He also remembers that he knows who The Twelve are, and that it's his job to find them. All in all, it's pretty lame, but one good thing that came out of it was a more consistent view of the Marvel Universe. As Rachel Summers figured out years ago in Excalibur, she couldn't prevent her past from existing, because it was her past, but she could go to that time and take action. Cable thinks that he might be able to act in the present to make a new timeline, but he's not sure. Anyway, this is a more philosophically consistent view of time-travel, which I like. In the sub-plot, Stacey gives Irene Cable's Psi-Mitar, and then Irene confronts Stacey about her feelings for Nathan. Irene then takes Stacey to the safehouse, and eventually she meets Blaquesmith, which is pretty shocking for her. We see more of B's belligerent attitude to Cable's gals, which is very much in character. On the flip side, Irene is ticked at him for trying to say who Cable can or can't love. Then Cable comes home. There's some interesting conflicts brewing there. Another interlude shows a Concorde jet with its crew slaughtered. Wanna bet Cable's going to fight whoever did that? Duh. Also in the subplot is the fallen acolyte from a few months back, the guy that Cable told to go home from Ch'vayre's monastery after he picked up the Psi-Mitar. The guy vowed to kill Cable as a false messiah, and he's training to do just that. Not that I'm so crazy about this plot thread, but at least it's being wrapped up, and not left in limbo like so many others.