Cable & Deadpool

A Marvel comic book first published in 2004, it features characters Cable and Deadpool sharing the book.

If Looks Could Kill

Deadpool was hired by the One World Church, a group headed by a man named Anton Krutch, who planned to use Deadpool to steal the Façade Virus, a bioweapon they intended to use to turn everyone in the world blue for racial uniformity without genocide.

Meanwhile, Cable, his powers considerably enhanced by the events of Cable #100, recovered the unstable virus from a group of self-proclaimed anarchists calling themselves "The Scanners." They had stolen it from the developers and deliberately infected themselves to impersonate famous people, although two died, literally melted by the virus before Cable managed to save the third.he Deadpool then proceeded to shoot Cable in the head and take the virus back to Krutch.

While Cable recovered in Switzerland (having managed to prevent the bullet from entering his skull, he'd still been concussed), Professor Charles Xavier visted him at his request. When he asked Cable what he planned, Cable said he was angry at himself for being capable of so much and doing so little, before proceeding to take his safehouse apart brick-by-brick, then rebuilt it again. Professor X warned him that being able to take the world apart was very different from having the judgement to put it back together, and that if he tried, there would be no shortage of people who would try to stop them.

Meanwhile, Deadpool was being used as a guinea pig, to see if his healing factor could counteract the fatal side effects of the virus. Cable infiltrated the OWC, and tried to remain hidden for several days. When the Church revealed they'd known he was there all along, they showed him their "Deliverance Device," an optical means of infection, and proceeded to infect Cable in such a way as to disable his powers, reactivating his techno-organic virus.

Deadpool fought Cable around the Church, before Cable was finally immobilised by his T-O virus and Deadpool started to melt from the Façade infection. Straining, Cable managed to make a TK burst to swallow the liquified Deadpool, absorbing his healing factor and allowing him to purge them both of the Façade virus with his telekinesis, then regurgitated Deadpool, whose healing factor could now resolidify.

Cable immediately flew, under his own power, to Singapore in search of Krutch, with Deadpool following some time later on a plane. Cable proceeded to subvert the Deliverance Device - and Lightmaster, who had hired by Sunic to protect the virus but was actually a member of the One World Church, and who was key to the delivery - turning the world's population a shade of pink.

Two days later Cable used his control of the virus to return everybody to their normal colors, taking credit for this as a saviour.

Knowing that his enhanced powers could not last long before he burned out as X-Man almost did at those power levels, Cable arranged for what he thought would be the best thing he could do in his last days. He recreated his long-destroyed spaceship Greymalkin as the airborne city of Providence, although their earlier merger meant that the teleportation matrix on board registered Deadpool as him, meaning that he could not use it without taking Deadpool with him (and Deadpool could trigger a "Bodyslide" too), with messy results when he tried to "Bodyslide by One."

The Burnt Offering

Cable continued with his plan to espouse a philosophy of moderation, and offering invitations to the world's top thinkers, scientists and philosophers to live on Providence, in the face of a nervous SHIELD.

Delivering a stark message to the world's leaders, he deliberately set them all against him by threatening to throw all their missiles into the sun. Meanwhile, the X-Men, including his father Cyclops, hired Deadpool to put together the pieces of a mini-teleporter that they could use to stop him without quite knowing what it was. After they mounted an attack on Providence, Cable confessed to Deadpool, after DP had declined to play his role and disable him, that he'd wanted him to kill him, expanding on this to Cyclops that he knew he was about to burn out and wanted to set an example of how the world could work together, even if it was against him. However, the Silver Surfer, called by the Fantastic Four, saw his "passion" and, disturbed by it, defeated him in battle and ripped the techno-organic tissue from his body, disabling him. As Providence (supported by Cable's TK) prepared to crash into the ocean, Deadpool teleported to one of Cable's safehouses with him and, at his prompting, used the teleporter to lobotomise him to save him from burning out, giving him a few seconds to lower Providence gently into the ocean and give a final message to the world.

Thirty Pieces

Cable was left in a coma (bringing along GW Bridge's Six Pack with him), and with many people around the globe now referring to him as "the Saviour" and applications to immigrate to Providence going through the roof, Deadpool hired the Fixer to bond a benign techno-organic mesh (recovered from MODOK to Cable, saving him, although he remains hugely depowered. Agent X was hired by an unknown organization to stop Deadpool, but gave up that mission when Deadpool presented him with a better offer.