"You could," Cable said. But he didn't sound like he was particularly interested in that idea himself. "You might have lost your powers, but there are ways around that..."

He'd managed to find ways to simulate his own powers - the Cone of Silence, among other things. Long time ago, now. Suddenly he was briefly, but acutely, aware that Providence was still whole in this place and time.

He shook it off.

"But I'm not here to talk you into rejoining the X-Men - I'm here to talk you into the opposite."