Wade is dealing with this second part of the franchise with a personal tragedy. As his eyes opened as a result of this tragedy, he joins the X-Men group where he studies under Colossus’s tutelage, being helped by Negasonic Teenage Warhead and her boyfriend, Yukio. However, when Wade meets a young mutant named Russell Collins – who calls himself Firefist – Wade is forced to make a very difficult choice that takes his life to a totally different direction. To make things worse, the mutant that can travel over time, Cable, is now only destroying Russell, and to help him, Wade is building a team to deal with Cable.