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Beast and Wolverine are not the only X-Men who have been offered membership to the Avengers. Other than Iceman and Archangel, even Dazzler was asked twice, but declined the offer both times. [Avengers (1st series) #211, 221] - Submitted by Quicksilver
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When James was haunted by nightmares about the death of his family and friends, Terry returned to the Camp Verde reservation with him to find out who was responsible for the murder of his people. Following a new lead, they uncovered that the massacre at Camp Verde was nothing else but a cover-up of some psychotic doctor having run medical experiments on the residents of the reservation. In the heat of the battle and due to amphetamines given to him, James’s heart gave out. While Theresa ran CPR on him, the rest of X-Force followed James to the afterlife to recover his soul. [X-Force (1st series) #72-74] This adventure seemed to clear the air between James and Theresa, as from then on they both seemed comfortable with each other as best friends, without any unresolved romantic tension.
After their teammate, Sunspot, got his assets unfrozen, X-Force ended their time on the road and permanently took up residence at a warehouse in San Francisco, California. Several old members  returned to the fold, but they also had to face one former teammate opposing them, as Feral had joined the new Hellions. Their leader, King Bedlam, had a plan to use a mutant known as the Armageddon Man to blackmail the US government for a large sum of money. X-Force successfully routed the Hellions and got the Armageddon Man back into stasis, but not before Feral lashed out at Siryn, severing her vocal chords with her sharp claws. While she was rushed to a hospital, the doctors could do nothing but stop the bleeding and confront Theresa with the fact that the damage might be permanent, leaving her unable to speak or use her powers. [X-Force (1st series) #87-90]
Theresa was depressed, even considering suicide. She withdrew from her friends and teammates and nearly started drinking again but instead went to an AA meeting to get her act together. Afterwards, she chose to leave X-Force. She gave Warpath a letter in which she explained her decision and went to visit a distant aunt, who had invited her to her ranch in Looking Glass, California. [X-Force (1st series) #91]
While getting to know her aunt better and waiting for her vocal chords to heal, Theresa felt compelled to visit an antique store.  The shop owner noticed the scars on her neck and insisted on Theresa trying on a necklace with a jewel pendant to cover them. The piece of jewelry had been salvaged from a passenger liner that sunk off the coast of North Africa during the war. Before Terry knew what was happening, the necklace took possession of her. Whatever spirit or entity the necklace was housing, it made Terry drink alcohol, much to the concern of her aunt. There wasn’t much she could do about it, though, as the necklace also was capable of accessing Siryn’s powers, and made her fly away from Looking Glass to whereabouts unknown. [X-Force (1st series) #99-100]
It is unclear what happened afterwards, but eventually Siryn got rid of the necklace and the entity it housed. As a result, she also lost her voice again, but not for long. Some time later, Deadpool arranged for Theresa’s powers to be restored. He took a commission by a  mysterious organization called the Watchtower to kidnap Wolverine in exchange for their restoring Siryn’s power, which they did. Ironically they cured her with a serum derived from the X-Man’s healing factor. While she disagreed with his methods, Theresa thanked Deadpool for his help and, as Wolverine managed to break free on his own, she didn’t give it much thought afterwards. [Wolverine (2nd series) #154-155]
After her father Banshee created a disaster with his paramilitary organization, X-Corps, Theresa joined Xavier’s outreach program X-Corporation Europe that replaced it. Multiple Man was also part of the new group and, while his reason for joining was to atone for his own involvement in the X-Corps debacle, Theresa hoped to make up for her father’s actions. Soon, the team found itself in the fight of their lives in the Channel Tunnel against the horrifying Weapon XII. Several bystanders, as well as X-Corporation member Darkstar, died during that fight. [New X-Men (1st series) #128-130]
Theresa’s involved with the X-Corporation came to an end during M-Day, when about 90% of Earth’s mutant population lost their powers. Anti-mutant groups quickly seized the chance to attack the few mutants left, and the headquarters of X-Corporation Europe was blown up by terrorists. As a result, the X-Men chose to shut down the organization entirely; after all, it had already lost its purpose with there being next to no mutants left to contact. Jamie Madrox had left the X-Corporation earlier on to start his own detective agency, X-Factor Investigations, in mutant town and he hired several former colleagues and friends, among them Siryn to help him run the agency. [X-Factor (3rd series) #1]
In the meantime, Siryn had developed another aspect of her power, enabling her to make people do what she wanted - a limited form of hypnotic suggestion - turning her into an actual “siren.” Initially,  Theresa was about to attack the mysterious organization Singularity and would have died during the assault, but she was saved by her teammate Layla Miller, who apparently foresaw this event and arrange for Siryn to take on a different case. When X-Factor managed to have Vaughan, a client of Singularity, turn himself in for murder, Singularity’s boss, Tryp Jr., took his frustration out on Siryn by hitting her with a tranq dart in the vocal chords and beating her up brutally. [X-Factor (3rd series) #2-4]
To make matters worse, she wasn’t found by her teammates but by a sadistic ex-mutant doctor called Leery, who kidnapped her and tied her up. Things quickly turned uglier and Leery might have mutilated or killed her, if not for Rictor turning up having expected Theresa for breakfast. That gave Siryn the incentive and opportunity to free herself and reuse her powers. [X-Factor (3rd series) #5]
 As if things weren’t bad enough, while still in recovery, Cyclops of the X-Men informed Theresa that her father, Banshee, had died in battle. Theresa’s reaction was unusual. She refused to mourn, insisting he wasn’t really dead. Given their crazy lifestyle, it was probably a ruse and he’d turn up, sooner or later again. Still, she attended Banshee’s funeral and cried by his gravesite. [X-Factor (3rd series) #7, X-Men: Deadly Genesis #6]
Using her “Siren power” Siryn managed to get the truth about M-Day out of Spider-Man, which created a rift between X-Factor and the X-Men, who had kept the truth about this event a secret. [X-Factor (3rd series) #8-9] Not much later, when X-Factor encountered Tryp Jr. again, Siryn was prepared and was wearing a Kevlar collar this time, determined not to get beaten the same way twice. [X-Factor (3rd series) #12]
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