"The X-Men need bodies. Mutants - or ex-mutants - to stand beside them," he said. "That's not a bad thing - far from it."

He wouldn't have set this up the way he had if it had been.

"But you've never been a team player." And the resemblance to Apocalypse would be problematic at a time like this. Nevermind... other factors, that Cable himself had been involved in. "Except for one team. In one place. There are people who need you for... more personal reasons."

And Cable - this time's Cable - would need Jono out of the way.