BIOGRAPHY - Page 2
Shortly thereafter, the Reavers were attacked by a bunch of reprogrammed Sentinels. Hopelessly outnumbered, Pierce decided to run and told Gateway to take him to the person behind the attack. Gateway did as told and Pierce found himself at the Hellfire Club in New York, with three Sentinels in tow, as Gateway couldn’t close the portal fast enough. Trevor Fitzroy, who had sent the Sentinels to Australia, was also attacking the Hellfire Club and, during the resulting battle between Fitzroy, the Hellfire Club and the Sentinels, the students of the Hellfire Club’s White Queen, Emma Frost, were killed. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #281]
Several weeks later, Jubilee accompanied Wolverine on a reconnaissance mission to the Reavers’ base. As they searched through the remains of the damaged buildings and wrecked Sentinel parts, they were caught up in Gateway’s teleportation vortex that shunted them into the past, showing Jubilee the true reasons behind the death of her parents. [Wolverine (2nd series) #72]
With Pierce severely damaged, Gateway was finally free to do as he pleased. However, he blamed himself for the deaths of Emma Frost’s students, the Hellions. [Generation X (1st series) #25] A few months later, when Emma Frost re-opened the Massachusetts Academy together with Banshee to train Generation X, intended to be the next generation of X-Men, Gateway rescued a female mutant from the villain Emplate and dropped her off at the Academy.
When the two teachers and their charges, including Jubilee, noticed Gateway on their lawn, he spoke a single word: “Penance.” Though he actually meant to express his need for atonement, Generation X would use the word as codename for their new, apparently mute member.
Gateway continued to appear at the Massachusetts Academy in a rather irritating manner, sometimes sitting on the roof, sometimes on the front lawn, interacting with the staff and the students as he saw fit. During that time, it also became clear that, prior to their joining Generation X, Gateway had been serving as a mentor to the St. Croix twins, who – at the time – had merged together in order to impersonate their older sister, Monet. [Generation X (1st series) #1-2, 5, 7]
When the X-Men investigated the Juggernaut’s mysterious disappearance, Gateway tagged along and soon picked up an energy trail leading to the Ultraverse, where the Juggernaut had found a new home for himself. [Exiles vs. X-Men] Curiously inspecting the alternate dimension, Gateway became aware of a threat that endangered both universes.
The Phoenix Force had accidentally been transported to the Ultraverse, where an alien entity 
wanted to drain its energies. Gateway left cryptic warnings of with a few Ultras [Prime (2nd series) #2, Mantra (2nd series) #2] before he returned to the Massachusetts Academy, where he inscribed an image in traditional Aborigine manner into the ground. It showed the Phoenix Force and all the mutants and Ultras that would be involved in the conflict. Once the X-Men in question had gathered, he teleported them to the Ultraverse where they helped the local heroes to set the Phoenix free. [Phoenix Resurrection: Genesis, Phoenix Resurrection: Revelations]
Another severe crisis that Gateway made his presence known was the emergence of Onslaught. Without warning, he teleported four of the most powerful X-Men to a realm where they faced one of Onslaught’s emissaries. The mutants barely survived the ordeal. Apparently, the incident was meant to alert the X-Men to the grave danger Onslaught posed. [X-Men (2nd series) #50] Later on, Gateway clued Wolverine in to the origin of Onslaught by teleporting him in time to the moment of his creation. [Wolverine (2nd series) #104]
Gateway’s time at the Massachusetts Academy came to an end when Black Tom Cassidy took almost all of the students hostage. Only the teachers and Penance remained free and Gateway teleported away, realizing that, no matter what the outcome of the situation, his time with Generation X was over. [Generation X (1st series) #25] He returned to the Australian Outback, where - for reasons unknown - he reluctantly provided instant transportation for the Viper and Spiral during once of their schemes. [Beast #1, 3]
One day, without warning, Gateway teleported Wolverine and Jubilee to a cottage in the Swiss Alps, inside which they found Donald Pierce. Apparently, Gateway had been keeping tabs on the activities of his former enemy, who was trying to upgrade his cybernetic components with future technology and indestructible adamantium. The two mutants successfully managed to interfere with Pierce’s scheme, preventing the Reavers’ leader from becoming too powerful in the long run. [Wolverine (2nd series) #141]
A group of X-Men next met Gateway shortly after Psylocke had been killed by a villain named Vargas. While mourning her passing on a beach in Valencia, Spain, Bishop suddenly found himself pulled into Dreamtime, where he encountered both the X-woman’s spirit and Gateway. Halfway through the vision, the time-displaced Bishop realized that Gateway was his ancestor, apparently his great-grandfather. [X-Treme X-Men #4] Given Gateway’s age and the fact that Bishop was born about 60 years in the future, there stands reason to believe that Gateway has already sired Bishop’s grandparent, though their name and gender have yet to be revealed.
[Note: In Generation X (1st series) #14, a dazed and confused Bishop briefly mistook Monet for his mother. Keeping the established connection between Gateway and the St. Croixs in mind, it’s outright possible that one of the St. Croix girls will eventually date Gateway’s potential son, thus becoming Bishop’s grandmother.]
When the X-Men traveled to Australia shortly thereafter, they also met Gateway in the physical world. Once again a helpless victim of the Reavers, he was freed by his mutant allies and handed them one of the volumes of Destiny’s diaries they had been searching for in return. How long the book containing the deceased precog’s prophecies had been in his possession is unknown. [X-Treme X-Men Annual 2001]
Months later, both the diaries and Gateway were targeted by Mr. Sinister’s Marauders. The evil scientist wanted to make sure that the X-Men couldn’t learn of his upcoming plans by any means possible, so he had ordered the termination of all potential sources of future knowledge, including people like Gateway who could perceive other times and other realities. [X-Men (2nd series) #202]
It seems that the reports of Gateway’s death were over-exaggerated, though, for several weeks later Gateway showed up alive and well, tutoring Eden Fesi, a young man of Aborigine descent 
with limited reality-bending powers. Nick Fury tried to recruit Fesi for one of his three secret teams of super-powered teenage operatives, but Gateway refused... the first time. When Fury sent his trusted aide, Daisy Johnson, to also try recruiting Fesi sometime later, Gateway allowed his protegé to leave the Outback and be part of Johnson’s group. The old Aborigine explained that he was okay with Eden being part of Daisy’s squad, as she would protect him. [Secret Warriors (1st series) #4] Gateway’s decision turned out to be a wise one for, while the squad that Eden was initially supposed to join was killed in the field, Daisy managed to keep her group of people alive.
Gateway would soon re-enter the X-Men's lives again when some old foes of his showed up to cause trouble. Lady Deathstrike and her Reavers were after a way onto the X-Men's island base of Utopia and decided to use Gateway and his teleportation powers. Kidnapping his entire tribe, Lady Deathstrike held them hostage and threatened to kill them unless Gateway did their bidding. He reluctantly agreed but he also managed to sneak a message to Deadpool, who was working for Wolverine on his secret X-Force team. X-Force arrived just in time to save Gateway's tribe and take down Deathstrike and her Reavers. [Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #5.1]
As one of the few people to know of X-Force's existence, Gateway travelled to the team's base, Cavern X, and aided them when they were in dire need of his powers. [Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #19-20] Sadly, his association with them would prove his downfall, as they had attracted 
the attention of the newer and deadlier Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. The Brotherhood took control of Ultimaton, the robotic defense system for Cavern X, and put it into a self-destruct mode. To stop X-Force from escaping, Ultimaton snapped Gateway's neck before anyone could act. With Cavern X about to blow up, Psylocke was forced to take control of Gateway's dying mind to use his powers one last time. With his dying moments, he managed to save X-Force's life before he was consumed by the explosion in Cavern X. [Uncanny X-Force (1st series) #27-28]
