Once he recovers, Graydon tries to return to the folds of the "Friends of Humanity" organisation in the episode "Bloodlines"; the council that now rules over "Friends of Humanity", however, after having been made aware of his having a mutant for a father, have been digging further into his past and uncovered that his family tree "bares much mutant/rotten fruit"; they declare that, in order to lead the "Friends of Humanity" once more, he has to prove himself by killing Mystique (his birth mother) and Nightcrawler (his younger half-brother): Creed then kidnaps Mystique and sends Nightcrawler a letter, telling him that he must come to the Friends of Humanity base or they will kill his mother.