With Rogue gone and his dark past once again in the forefront of his mind, Remy became increasingly moody and angry. He turned this anger on Sabretooth, who was not only still in the mansion for treatment but was at this point, due to a battle with Wolverine in which he was almost lobotomised, an amnesiac and deemed harmless. Using Danger Room holograms Remy cruelly reminded Sabretooth of all of his victims and those who had died because of him. Storm put a stop to the torture, but not before Sabretooth had started to remember.
A short while later Sabretooth returned to his true nature and almost eviscerated Psylocke. While she was hovering between life and death, Remy was watching her and wondering how much she had seen in his mind before he managed to kick her out. Despite realising that his dark past would remain a secret for far longer if she were to die, he still did the right thing when her condition worsened, and kept her alive until help could arrive.
During this time Remy headed to London to discover the reasons behind the death of Detective Alexandra Davies whom he had met and romanced in his time before joining the X-Men, and four other women. What he found was that Wolverine was apparently behind the killings, unable to explain away his presence in London and the blood on his claws and uniform.
Remy believed Logan when his team-mate said it wasn’t him and after escaping from the police they eventually discovered that it was Mastermind II, daughter of the original Mastermind, and Arcade trying to set Logan up. Mastermind II believed that Logan had killed Arcade’s lover Locke, and agreed to help Arcade since she shared her father’s distrust of the X-Men, including Remy because of his connections to Logan.
However while mind-linked to Arcade, Mastermind II discovered that all was not as she had been told, distracting both the villains for long enough that Remy and Logan were able to break out of her illusions and get to the control centre of Arcade’s set-up. While they were there Mastermind II got to the truth of the matter, which was that Arcade had killed Locke and unable to face the truth had displaced the blame onto Logan.
She drove Arcade crazy and then left, using her illusions to put Remy and Logan back into London. While Remy was saying goodbye to Alexandra he decided that perhaps people like him and Logan weren’t meant to find anybody to settle down with, both too tainted by their dark pasts. He then asked Logan to return to the mansion with him, despite the fact that the man was slowly losing his humanity to his feral side.
Also at that time Bishop and Gambit started to make their peace, also finding that they made a pretty good team on several occasions, including dealing with Beast’s doppelganger who had come from the Age of Apocalypse timeline. Bishop still had his doubts about Remy’s intentions, not to mention about his past, but he wasn’t so sure anymore that Remy would be responsible for the end of the X-Men, despite still fearing that Remy would betray the X-Men at some point. Bishop was proven wrong a short time later, as the ‘X-Traitor’ he had been looking for was revealed to be Onslaught, who was Charles Xavier, influenced by his attack on Magneto's mind.
Rogue returned during the Onslaught saga with what appeared to be a de-aged and amnesiac Magneto calling himself ‘Joseph’, and despite the fact that she and Remy still obviously cared about each other they were not sure where they both stood. So Rogue turned to Joseph, who not only had obvious affection towards her but also found a way to negate her powers.
Hurt, Remy wavered between envy and jealousy of the couple, anger that the others seemed to give their former worst enemy the benefit of the doubt and understanding of the regrets of a dark past and wanting to help and support Joseph. All of this worked to cause more problems between Rogue and himself.
Remy, Rogue, Beast, Joseph and Bishop were then suddenly taken into space to battle the Phalanx for the Shi'ar. During the battle Rogue was captured by the Phalanx, and almost completely absorbed by them and thinking that she was about to die, she admitted she loved Remy deeply and always had. Remy had also been captured by the Phalanx but was able to escape using her distraction, and rescued her after telling her that without her he didn’t have a life. Remy also proved himself to a better strategist than Joseph.
Later, after seeing the massacre of Shi'ar that the Phalanx had perpetrated, Remy was once again reminded of his past and his guilt deepened and before they left to return home, despite the fact that everybody else was celebrating, he spent his time burying the dead.
However the trip home did not go as planned and after mysteriously returning without Bishop, the small group of X-Men and the bounty hunters Spat and Grovel, who were looking for Remy, were captured by Magneto's Nanny Robot in one of his citadel caverns in Antarctica.
Left somewhat alone and without their powers, which Nanny had negated, Remy and Rogue had a chance to talk and reconciled their differences, finally able to express their love for each other for the first time physically, although it is not known to what extent.
A short while later with the help of Joseph and Trish Tilby, who as a human Nanny didn’t detect, they were able to destroy the robot and escape. Remy however decided to finally face his past and let the bounty-hunters take him to their secretive master. The X-Men followed, determined to see him through whatever was going to happen and make sure that nothing untoward happened to him. They were joined by several other team members, including Archangel and Psylocke, to witness and participate in ‘the trial of Gambit’ at Magneto’s old base.
The trial was arranged and conducted by a man using the Eric the Red persona, a man who was eventually revealed to be the real Magneto, despite the X-Men’s belief that Joseph was Magneto.
Using Remy's self-hatred for what he had bought about, the emotions of the X-Men, many of whom had suffered during the Massacre, and selective information, Eric the Red ‘tried’ Remy for his involvement with both the Massacre and Sinister. During the kangaroo court, Rogue was forced to once again absorb Remy’s memories and her disgust and horror at what he had done led her to reveal his long-held secret past to everyone gathered.
Her absorption of his powers allowed her to break them all free however and an emotional Rogue rescued Remy from the destruction of the base. She took him outside of the base, away from Psylocke who was teleporting everybody else to safety, into the Antarctic cold only to recant her love for and trust in him, telling him that he had no home with her or the X-Men. She then left him in the snow, saying that although she wouldn’t leave him to die in the collapsing base she would give him the choice whether he lived or died out in the snow.
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