Editing Rachel Summers (section)

===Askani===
Rachel remained with Excalibur until an incident caused Captain Britain to be lost in the timestream. She exchanged places with the time-lost Captain Britain<ref>''Excalibur'' #75 (March 1994)</ref> and emerged two thousand years in the future, in a world conquered by [[Apocalypse (comics)|Apocalypse]] and crushed under his iron fist.<ref>''[[The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix]]'' #1–4 (May–Aug. 1994)</ref> She gathered together a group of rebels and founded the [[Askani]]. She trained one of her followers to [[time travel|travel back in time]] and bring her "brother" Nathan forward in time when he was infected with a [[techno-organic virus]].<ref>''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]]'' #68 (July 1991)</ref> The Askani [[Clone (genetics)|cloned]] Nathan in case he was not able to survive the virus. Apocalypse's followers attacked the Askani and took the clone (who would later become the [[supervillain]] [[Stryfe]]), leaving Rachel critically injured. Hooked up to life support, she drew the minds of Scott and Jean into the future, as "Slym" and "Redd", to raise Nathan and tutor him in the use of his powers. Rachel finally died ten years later and sent Scott and Jean back to their original bodies seconds after they had left.

After Nathan, now known as [[Cable (comics)|Cable]], had finally defeated Apocalypse, he went into the timeline to retrieve Rachel. There, he discovered a Rachel ''sans'' Phoenix Force. With the premature death of Apocalypse, the Askani timeline had been diverged from the mainstream Marvel Universe, [[Earth-616]]. As a result, she had been flung into the far future, yet subjectively a short time after she had been lost in the timestream, as the slave of a creature called "Gaunt", who had used her to lead Cable there for a "battle of the ages". Cable defeated Gaunt in the battle and Rachel, now free, was able to use her residual Phoenix Force to return them both to the present.<ref>''Cable'' vol. 2 #85-86. Marvel Comics.</ref> She then decided to take a break from superheroics and enrolled in college after she made Cable promise he would not tell anyone she was back. Despite her efforts to live a normal life, however, she was kidnapped by the telepath [[Elias Bogan]]<ref>''X-Treme X-Men'' #23. Marvel Comics.</ref> and subsequently rescued by the X-Men.<ref>''X-Treme X-Men'' #44-45. Marvel Comics.</ref>