Who: Charles and Tessa When: Around 1971 spring Where: Himalayas What:The rescue of Charles by Tessa
Charles was starting to get toward the end of his wondering, and he still had scurrying around in his mind the idea of opening a mutant school to help nurture and train young mutants to use their abilities in the right ways. His conversations with Lehnsherr making him think that maybe they could open a school together. This was what was making him go toward his home in the US, this need to do what he thought to do by devoting his life to protecting humanity from evil mutants and saving innocent mutants from human oppression.
On the way back he stopped in the Himalayas not knowing that his brother was also there. He was soon going to find out though, as Cain was afraid his interloping brother to ruin his plans. So, he followed his younger brother, his helmet to prevent Xavier getting into his mind in tact. He saw his chance when Xavier was hiking on one of the Himalayan mountain trails and hurled a rock at him crippling Charles and leaving him to die.
As Charles lay on the side of the mountain his legs crushed under the boulder that his brother threw on him he called out with his mental powers and touched the mind of a young mutant named Tessa. Tessa was not to far away in neighboring Hindu Kush mountains doing her own freelance Mercenary work. She felt pity on the man, finished what she did, and came to his aid. Charles was then airlifted to safety, and was taken to an Indian hospital to convalesce. When he was better, and back in New York was when once again he got a hold of the young woman who had saved his life. He gave her the code name Sage, and she was one of his first recruits even though no one knew so as she was his secrete weapon.