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“Fall down Magnus”, Holocaust commands Magneto, who stands bleeding and is trying to defend himself. Magneto tells him “never” and explains to Holocaust the promise that he had made years ago as Charles Xavier died in his arms that he would fight for Xavier’s dream. Holocaust lashes out and then lifts Magneto’s bleeding body off the ground and causes him to kneel in front of the throne that Apocalypse sits upon. Holocaust tells Magneto that his dream is dead and that the Age of Apocalypse is finally absolutely true! Apocalypse sits on his throne and tells Holocaust that Magneto knows he is telling the truth because Magneto has lost the fire of defiance in his eyes. Apocalypse next asks Rex about the trap they were preparing for the rest of Magneto’s X-Men and Rex confirms that the trap is set. Magneto smiles, still bleeding, and tells Apocalypse that his X-Men are not foolish enough to risk everything on just saving him. Apocalypse smiles back and tells Magneto that everything is not centered around him - it’s not Magneto who is the bait. Apocalypse reveals that from the Shadow King’s siphoning of Bishop’s memories he guessed the Magneto’s plan to undo history and then Apocalypse shows Magneto the M’Kraan crystal. The X-Men will not come for him but they will come for that, he tells Magneto. Shocked by Apocalypse’s knowledge of the plan Magneto feels somewhat defeated which gives Apocalypse enough of an opening to knock Magneto to the ground. “Apocalypse rules all he surveys”, he tells Magneto as he knocks him to the ground, but Magneto just smiles once more because he knows that Apocalypse’s palace may stand but his empire is crumbling.
Outside the palace a guard asks the approaching Angel to “halt” because Apocalypse has ordered all outside visitors banned from the palace for the moment. However the Angel was not asking permission and quickly deals with the two guards to go on and roam through the pens looking for his employee and friend Karma. Sadly, Warren is angry and mad at the time an Infinite guard screams out to him if there is a problem and Warren before recognizing the voice till it is to late kills the guard with his gun. To late though he realizes the Infinite guard was Karma. As he pulls her dying body from the suit of armor, she apologizes for having let him down. After all she learned from him about wheeling and dealing; she helped Apocalypse for free. “No, not for free“, the Angel thinks, there is always a price and Apocalypse will pay for Karma’s death dearly!
Elsewhere in Apocalypse’s pens one of Blink’s teleportation gates opens and the X-Men and their friends arrive in hopes of finding the M’Kraan crystal and fixing reality. Rogue shouts out her orders for the X-Men to be ready for anything and to hit hard and fast. She is surprised though to find no one guarding the pens and no fight to get into in Apocalypse’s pens. “What’s the scam?” Jubilee asks, as she uses her powers to shed some light for the team to see through the rubble. Rogue tells Jubilee to ask questions later and to be glad that “luck” is shining on them right at this moment. “LUCK?!” Colossus asks, because he worries for his sister since he does not want to risk her life on a foolish quest that may be a suicide run for them all. Colossus angrily demands to know why the pens look so empty. Gambit believes he may have found the person to answer Colossus’ worries as he pulls a gray furred mutant out of the shadows. Shocked at his appearance Rogue asks if it is a man and Colossus finishes her sentence by saying or is it a “beast”. A little of both McCoy replies, it is him who Gambit pulled from the shadows, he is bleeding and heavily injured. The Beast explains to them that he was “blind” for believing that he was the king of the pens because in the land of the “blind” the one eyed man is king, the dark Beast mutters through a bloody mouth.
Outside of the pens Cyclops and Jean Grey hold hands as they both blast their way to freedom, followed by hundreds of prisoners. They are trying to cross the river to New Jersey because they believe once there they will have a better chance to escape Apocalypse’s hellish domain. “Follow us! ” Cyclops screams to the prisoners behind him as he and Jean clear the way. Unknown to the two would-be heroes though a silent hooded figure follows them, hidden among the crowd. He never takes his eyes off of the pair  – it’s Havok, and he plans to kill his brother for his betrayal.
In the tunnels below the palace, the X-Men look up and stare with amazement as the Angel flies high above them with bombs strapped to his waist. The Angel has had enough of Apocalypse and even though the Infinites on the ground number in the hundreds and every one of them fires their plasma blasts towards him. For too long the Angel has been playing on both sides of the fence, and now he is seeking final redemption. Warren whispers a last prayer of forgiveness as he dives towards the force field generator that protects Apocalypse’s palace from outside interference. As Warren hits the ground the bombs go off and the generator is destroyed by the detonation. The Angel will not be mourned but his death allows another player to enter the fight. With a look of being pissed off, Nate Grey climbs the palace wall seeking vengeance!
Meanwhile Apocalypse taunts Magneto telling him of how only hours ago he learned from the Madri of the M’Kraan crystal’s powers. Laughingly he talks of how the world always turns to his vision and everything moves to his … Apocalypse is suddenly interrupted by one of the Shadow King’s hosts ranting of how the Southwest Kingdom is gone! “What?” whispers Apocalypse as he turns to Rex and asks him to explain what the Shadow King is ranting about. Rex confirms it; the Eurasian High Council managed to set their radioactive bombs off in the Mid-West from with in North America! “ What Have You Done? ” screams Magneto as the blood flows from his open wounds and he realizes that the death toll from such an attack would have casualties in the millions. Apocalypse ponders for a moment, then sends Rex to expand the Sea Wall Defense Grid across the Atlantic Ocean. While running to do his master’s bidding Rex asks to consider the consequences. Apocalypse answers Rex by telling him that it will be all the part of a greater design and commands Rex to “Go!” As Apocalypse prepares to fire a blast towards Magneto to kill him he apologizes for not having more time to torture him.
Without any sign of attack Apocalypse is thrown backwards into Holocaust who has been watching Magneto’s torture all along. Holocaust, shocked at his master being taken by a sneak attack so easily asks who the man is that is now standing in front of him, who also was the one to attack Apocalypse? “The nail in your coffin” Nate Grey replies, and he tells the two mutants that he is there to destroy them. Standing up Magneto asks if Nate is “the very mutant Forge promised he would someday deliver” to him? Nate requests him to stay out of the fight but Magneto places his trademark helmet on his head and tells him to think again. Magneto explains that Nate has bought the universe a few more seconds and that together they will make the most of them.
Meanwhile in the crystal chamber below a few guards stand by and are shocked to see blinking holes in the atmosphere around them. Shocked at the unknown occurrence they are ill prepared for the kinetically charged cards that come flying through the holes and explode in their faces. Colossus busts through the wall, explains to the dead or unconscious guards, that the blinking holes were what he calls a “distraction”. The rest of the X-Men follow behind him and Iceman wonders out loud why the Dark Beast has to travel with them. Jubilee and Shadowcat explain to Iceman that it is because they can keep a better eye on him if he is with them.
As they proceed towards the crystal, Destiny’s second sight is bombarded with visions of another reality. With the vision she collapses holding her head and mutters that every word of Bishop’s story is true. Time is broken and this reality was never meant to be. Her and Illyana have no choice but to help facilitate Bishop’s journey to the past so that he might repair the continuum and restore the timeline to what it should be. Quicksilver quickly assures her that he will assemble a team to escort them through the M’Kraan crystal, but Destiny declines – only she Bishop and Illyana can enter the M’Kraan crystal, because they no longer have counterparts in the other reality. Quicksilver asks why that would be, but suddenly he and all present realize that it can only mean that in the “correct“ timeline, Destiny and Illyana are dead. As the team stands in shock, Destiny reminds them “We haven’t time to minimize losses” as she knows they have little time left for this world.
Suddenly, Nate Grey and Holocaust burst through the wall above the X-Men. They are still fighting as they fall. Rogue immediately flies up and commands Nate to pull back because she is unaware of Nate’s full powers and believes Holocaust is too much for him to handle. Magneto flies down from the hole that Holocaust and Nate fell through and he tells Rogue to leave Nate alone since he is fighting for a cause and that him and the X-Men should do the same. As he reaches the ground he stands in front of his X-Men who await his instructions. However Magneto says that there will be no more orders, reality is crumbling and they only have one chance at saving the other true reality. He next bends on one knee and places his large hand under Illyana’s chin. He tells her that he is not commanding her but asking her to travel into the M’Kraan crystal and help Bishop restore the true reality. Illyana, head hidden in shadows, asks Magneto if the other reality has no Sugar Man and if little girls can walk around unafraid? Unknowing of what to say, Magneto tells the girl that he does believe with all his heart that this world is a better place. Head bowed she asks if Magneto promises? Colossus interrupts, saying that he can’t promise, but Bishop steps in front of the girl and tells her about the other world. Although he can not promise her that there will be no bad people in this other reality, he knows that there at least is hope. Illyana makes a decision and says that she would rather have hope than nothing at all.
Finishing her sentence, a laser blast blows up chunks of debris behind Bishop giving Destiny, Bishop, and Illyana enough of a warning for them to run to the crystal. While they enter the M’Kraan crystal Colossus confronts Magneto and warns him that if he is wrong and his sister dies for nothing that, no matter in what reality, the two of them will be enemies forever! Magneto responds if he is wrong the penance Colossus speaks of will be the least of all their concerns. As more guards storm into the room, Magneto commands the X-Men to protect the crystal before it is too late!
Speaking the same words “too late!” Jean Grey stands on the bridge connecting New York to New Jersey as she realizes that nuclear bombs have destroyed half of the West Coast of America. Cyclops stands behind her as she tries to inform him on what she has just felt and he, trying not to believe she is telling the truth, asks her if she is sure because the sky is clear. However Jean knows what she is talking about. Like the Shadow King she felt the psychic backlash of a million victims, and she senses that the next wave of bombs will hit them. In a last attempt she creates a telekinetic shield in the sky to hold back the bombs. Unknown to the pair Weapon X parachutes down behind them looking to make peace with Jean.
Back in the heart of the stronghold, Holocaust blasts his fists into Nate trying to take him out of the fight. Holocaust asks Nate about why he thought he was powerful enough to contend with his father? In answer Nate blasts thousands of psionic spikes into Holocaust and tells Holocaust that he comes with good references and calling Holocaust a loser he walks off to face Apocalypse himself.
(Armageddon minus thirty minutes)
While the X-Men are battling the incoming hordes, no one notices the tiny Sugar Man leaping out of his hiding space in Colossus’ boot and although he does not look to be very intelligent he knows that this reality is doomed and dives into the M’Kraan crystal. While the X-Men keep on fighting against incredible odds Colossus decides that he wants to be beside his sister at the end of his reality. So he runs towards the crystal but Iceman tries to stop him, though Colossus shatters his body with ease. Since Destiny told them that none of the others were allowed to enter the crystal since it could affect the other reality, Gambit blasts Colossus in the back knocking him down.
Inside the M’Kraan crystal Destiny shows Illyana facets of the true reality that is shown in many reflections on the crystal surface. Looking into the future, Destiny knows what powers Illyana would one day develop and she says that the next step is up to little Illyana. Illyana is unsure what to do, but Destiny advises her to just open her mind and imagine her powers manifested and so it will be. Illyana does as she is asked and is surprised as a dimensional doorway appears in front of them. Destiny and Illyana say farewell to Bishop and wish him good luck in his mission as he walks through the portal alone.
(Armageddon minus twenty-five minutes)
The Human High Council knows that the end is near. Apocalypse has upgraded his defense grid and it is no longer limited to defense. Within moments the Council and all of England will be dust. Moira and her husband Bolivar Trask hold one another for a final time, as they await the end.
Half a world away, Apocalypse watches on his screens as his defense grid gets larger and larger and he smiles because he now realizes that man and mutant will probably kill each other in this final war. Perhaps his centuries old machinations have strengthened wolves and sheep equally he thinks to himself and smiles.
(Armageddon minus twenty minutes)
Apocalypse is knocked to the ground by a magnetic explosion and as he gets up he is surprised to see Magneto and Rogue standing in front of him. Apocalypse says that he thought Magneto had ran away because he was a coward. Striking back at Apocalypse’s comment, Magneto tells him that he is as much a coward as Apocalypse is a genius. Magneto takes to the air and draws metal from the nearby machinery and rubble to make himself a giant suit of armor. Completing his powerful combat suit, Magneto taunts Apocalypse asking if he realizes he is not the first dictator to discover the concept of  “survival of the fittest”? Magneto talks of how as a child he had to hear Hitler rant and rave similar propaganda, and like back then the so called weak overthrew the strong. Magneto charges towards Apocalypse and hits him in the face-knocking Apocalypse to the ground. As Magneto prepares to strike Apocalypse for the final time, Rogue reaches up and stops him by asking him to wait. Confused Magneto looks up to see Guido carrying Charles Lehnsherr in and Charles begs his mother and father to save him. With a smirk on his face Apocalypse rises to his feet and asks Magneto “You were saying?”
(Armageddon minus fifteen minutes)
Weapon X ends his descent to the bridge below and he runs towards the spot where Jean is, thinking that although they will all die, he won’t be alone in the end. Yet before he is able to reach his love, he witnesses Havok blasting Jean in the back, fatally wounding her. Turning to Cyclops, Havok mentions the irony of the situation as apparently both brothers had a thing for traitorous redheads. Havok asks Cyclops to not hurry and get up because he wants to take his time killing him. “Time?” Cyclops screams back at Havok as he tells him that Jean was going to be the only person able to stop the bombs from raining down on them. He asks Havok if dying is the only thing they will do together. “Not even, Judas.” Havok dryly replies as he kills Cyclops.  As Cyclops’ corpse lays on top of Jean’s dying body Havok gloats of how after being in Cyclops’ shadow all of his life he has now succeeded in surpassing his brother. Though Havok does not have long to gloat as Weapon X sneaks up behind him and kills him calling him a murderer. Logan comes close to Jean as she speaks her last words about how he was always with her in her heart and finally she succumbs to her injuries. Weapon X leans over her body and he thinks of a mystical bird called Phoenix, that would rise from it’s own ashes, but sadly he thinks Jean is not that bird.
(Armageddon minus ten minutes / ca. 20 years in the past)
Bishop arrives at a familiar scene as he watches Legion preparing to stab Magneto with his psi-knife. Bishop knows that within the next seconds Charles Xavier will jump in front of the psi-blade in order to save his friend, and he intends to stop this initial event from happening. However before he can do anything, Bishop faces himself, or actually the twenty years younger version of himself who demands to know who he is.
(Armageddon minus eight minutes / present)
Back in Apocalypse’s tower the Dark Beast watches as Morph is nailed by a stray blast and he jokingly says he will get some ice to put on Morph’s wounds. What he is really doing is setting a transporter to send him directly into the heart of the M’Kraan crystal. Seeing the Dark Beast dematerializing, Quicksilver rushes to the control panel and tries to scatter the Beasts atoms by quickly changing the coordinates of the transporter. Blink congratulates Quicksilver for his actions but when they check the coordinates that the Dark Beast had programmed, they can only hope that Pietro’s stunt worked and the Dark Beast does not interfere with their plan.
(Armageddon minus five minutes)
Shadowcat stands between Colossus and Gambit, who begs her to run because Colossus has gone insane over the loss of Illyana. However Shadowcat loves her husband and believing that he would never hurt her, she stands in his way without phasing. She is wrong, as Colossus charges forward; he accidentally hits his wife and kills her. Realizing what he has just done, Colossus screams in agony and Gambit takes the opportunity to explode a piece of debris in Colossus’ back, fatally wounding him. As he sinks to the ground, Piotr’s body turns from hard steal to flesh and when he looks up to see his sister Illyana emerging back from the M'Kraan crystal. With his dying breath Colossus asks Illyana to hold him as he goes. Illyana has no time for good-byes though as Quicksilver picks her up and saves her from a couple of Apocalypse’s guards. Quicksilver apologizes for her loss and asks her what Colossus said and she replies that he said he was scared and now she tells him she is scared also.
(Armageddon minus four minutes)
Guido screams in pain as an angry mother named Rogue absorbs all of his power from him. She next asks if he wants it back and as he begs her to return him his power, she punches Guido through the nearest wall probably killing him. Standing over little Charles she tells Guido that this is for toughing her son. Meanwhile Magneto and Apocalypse oppose each other and when Charles asks what his Daddy is fighting for, Rogue tells him  “for us all“.
For a heartbeat Magneto goes down giving Apocalypse enough time to run down a hallway holding onto the original piece of the M’Kraan crystal. He talks to himself of how he knows this world is lost to him but he says he is going to use the M’Kraan crystal to send him to a different reality where he will be able to conquer that reality. “Yadda, Yadda, Yadda,” Nate Grey says as he knocks Apocalypse to the ground from behind. Nate Grey picks up the M’Kraan crystal shard and tells Apocalypse that the only way he will leave this reality is by prying the M’Kraan crystal out of his lifeless fingers. Apocalypse asks if Nate does have any last words. “Four in fact. This One’s For Forge!” Nate tells Apocalypse as he kicks Apocalypse in the jaw knocking him back once more.
(Armageddon minus three minutes / ca. 20 years in the past)
The old Bishop strikes his younger self in the stomach and tells him, no matter what will happen to him, to not forget this very moment. Legion prepares to strike Magneto and Xavier screams “No!” while Legion tells Magneto that he hopes he will find peace in death. The older Bishop screams for David to stop and shocked that someone knows his real name Legion turns to see Bishop lunging for him. Before he can defend himself Bishop pushes Legion away from both Magnus and Xavier. Holding Legion to the ground Bishop orders him to give up, but Legion begs Bishop to let him up because he is trying to make the future better. With that said, Bishop plunges Legion’s psi-blade into his own chest and absorbing and releasing the psi-energy back into Legion, Bishop creates a feedback that only one of them can survive. While Legion is dying, he gets to see the images of the Age of Apocalypse in Bishop’s mind and understands that instead of creating a glorious future he caused a nightmare. Bishop comforts Legion, as he now gets consumed by his own energies and he too already starts to fade, and with him all memory of Legion’s crime. Before both of them are fully gone, Bishop lectures Legion that out of all the mutants in the world he had the most potential, but he squandered it and Xavier would not be proud. Then both of them fade away into nothingness.
The four X-Men (Bishop, Iceman, Storm and Psylocke) that followed Legion to the past are left wondering what just happened. Iceman asks Storm if what he saw was actually real and if they won without even having to lift a finger. Storm turns to Iceman and tells him that she has a feeling that the war was fought on a battlefield unknown to them, and she wonders out loud if their very future will change because of the war fought without even their knowledge. Suddenly a vortex opens and Iceman and the rest of the team begin to get sucked back into their true time since Legion is no longer there to anchor them in the past.
Magnus and Xavier also feel the tug of the time stream and Xavier explains to his friend that it must be the time stream somehow fixing itself. Next, Gabrielle stands in front of Xavier and Magnus and asks whom the young man she can barely remember was and why he said he was her son. “Do you remember being in danger?” Xavier asks Gabrielle and she tells him that she does not but she feels an almost loss like something maternal she can’t explain.
(Armageddon minus two minutes / present)
Apocalypse is reeling in pain as Magneto and Nate Grey use all their force of their mutant powers together against him. However Holocaust sneaks in behind Nate Grey and tries to take him out of the fight, giving Apocalypse the slightest chance to fight back against Magneto, whose attention was averted for just a moment to check on Nate’s well being. As Apocalypse attacks Magneto, Nate Grey battles Holocaust and with the only weapon at his disposal being the M’Kraan Crystal shard, he jabs it deep into Holocaust’s chest hoping to damage his armor. Yet instead, it causes a backlash of energy that engulfs both Nate and Holocaust, who then vanish without a trace. Meanwhile Apocalypse has his hands around Magneto’s neck, choking him and he asks Magneto why he has decided to apparently give up since he no longer fights back. Magneto smirks as he tells Apocalypse the reason he has not been fighting is because he has been concentrating. As electricity crackles around Magneto’s hands, Apocalypse is ripped in half by Magneto’s power’s finally killing Apocalypse. Apocalypse’s head lies on the ground and Magneto taunts Apocalypse one last time telling him that after twenty years of posturing about how only the strong will survive what does that make him now? Magneto walks away thinking out loud that if the two of them had worked on the same side what a world that would have been.
(Armageddon minus one minute)
Magneto stands on a cliff looking over Apocalypse’s city and he sees the bombs coming closer to him and his family. Magneto asks Rogue and Charles to come close to him so he could hold them one last time. Magneto explains to Rogue that if Bishop completed his mission and he saved the other reality then hopefully they will all be just memories when the bombs fall. Rogue asks Magneto if he really thinks Bishop was able to set the timelines right. Magneto tells her that they can hope, and if they only deserve one thing, it’s that – hope. Magneto next tells her that only because he met her, he knows how much hope means. As the bombs fall and a white light engulfs the two mutants and their son, Magneto talks about Xavier’s dream one last time about how that no matter what he never gave up on the dream and with his last breath he thanks Xavier for changing his life.


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Age of Apocalypse
A man narrates what has happened. He is on earth but a different one than he is from. On this one, Mutants took over led by Apocalypse. Humans did not go quietly and a long, bloody war took place.
Apocalypse was destroyed, but in his place came Weapon Omega. He was once Logan, a mutant who aided in the human resistance. He has been infected with the Apocalypse seed since and is intent on destroying the human race than Apocalypse, believing he has been charged with this task from the Celestials, omnipotent beings from the stars.
Weapon Omega and his Minister of Death, Azazel, stand in the bloody aftermath of a slaughter of the last enclave of man, the Vestry. Weapon Omega declares the age of man over and gives the humans credit for their tenaciousness. He says he was built for the fight not the victory but the coming battles with other mutants for evolutionary Supremacy would keep him busy. Azazel informs him of a celebration of the victory but Weapon Omega tells him to go. He has to find Jean Grey… his wife.
In a hovercraft, Jean Grey and Sabretooth talk to Bolivar Trask. Jean wonders if there were any survivors. Trask tells her there were 16,251 humans in the Vestry. He doubts there are half that many humans left in the whole world now. Jean tells Victor, Sabretooth, that she can’t feel any psychic signatures. Victor reminds her that both he and she have lost their powers and they are going to have to get used to it.
Trask tells Victor that he is under arrest. Jean is appalled. Prophet, William Striker aka Prophet enters and says Victor is lucky because all other former Apocalypse Hounds were killed on sight and he is being allowed to live. Prophet promises that Victor will be treated fairly due to his assistance to the human resistance. Victor says he knows he should pay for his past crimes but he is not going in a cell and he does not trust his life with Prophet and Trask.
Victor attacks Prophet but is easily subdued. Prophet explains that he has studied Victor’s fighting style and it is dependent on his healing ability. Prophet suggests he should learn some defensive maneuvers.
At the humans’ base Trask tells his daughter Francesca, A.K.A. Fiend, to be careful. Fiend is a member of Prophet’s team and an expert with a blade. Prophet tells Trask that he and his team will be gone for a few months. Fiend informs Jean that Victor will be okay and that Prophet believes mutants and humans are the same. Prophet tells Jean that she could use the time to discover that her lost powers were the least of her talents. Jean asks what his plan is and he replies “…To kill your husband.”
In New Apocalypse, formerly Manhattan, the narrator describes that the “haves” live in gleaming towers whereas the “have nots” live in the dregs and are forced to register their powers to see how they can be used. One of the clerks is Zora Risman, A.K.A. Deadeye. Deadeye is another member of Prophet’s team “—Whose photographic memory is only surpassed in sharpness by her aim.”
In a night club in the Dregs, Greydon Creed is trying to pickup a mutant girl when he gets a text that says “COFFEE!” He orders a lot of coffee because the text meant he is being called by Prophet to join the team as Horror Show.
At the Hellfire Club, Donald Pierce is beating his fellow members at cards when he too gets a text with a girl’s name on it. He excuses himself from the game and his present company which he secretly despises and goes to join Prophet's team as Goodnight.
People are rioting in the Dregs due to a pamphlet that has been published comparing humans to mutant and showing that they are the same. Watching from above is Prophet’s team, The X-Terminated. Prophet reads from the pamphlet and tells his team they are there to save the author. Through his pamphlet he has caused more of an uproar in the people in a few days than The X-Terminated have done in two years. Therefore he has been marked for execution.
The narrator reveals the author of the pamphlet is him. His name is Harper Simmons; he is a reporter in his reality of earth. He is serving soup when Keeper Murdock, known as Daredevil in Simmons’ reality, stops the soup line and demands Simmons steps forward or every third person in the line will be killed.
Murdock points to one man and orders him to be killed when Simmons steps forward. He is shot with a tranquilizer dart and The X-Terminated attack Murdock and his men. They are able to save Simmons and get away before the Samurai Sentinels arrive, but “They say once the keeper has heard your heartbeat you’re his forever.”
Once Simmons wakes up, he tells them he is from another Earth. He was investigating a prison break of the mutant Dark Beast by Sugar Man and found their secret lab. They returned while he was poking around and opened a portal. They went through the portal and set the lab to explode. Simmons’ only escape was through the portal.
Prophet asks Simmons to take him to where he came through the portal as it could give them some knowledge. Simmons takes them to an abandoned work dispensary. Prophet’s sensor picks up power readings behind a wall. Fiend opens the secret door only to find Weapon Omega’s men being led by Cyclops…..


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The X-Terminated vs. Cyclops
At the humans’ base below the irradiated zone of the former state of Nevada, Dr. Moreau tries to convince Bolivar Trask to let him experiment on Jean Grey or Victor Creed to determine the effects of the Scarlet Witch Bomb. Trask tells him that they are not lab rats to be dissected and they are more valuable than that. Dr. Moreau does not believe Weapon Omega cares for Jean or that they are even people. Trask tells him that Jean is to be trained but so far she hasn’t left her room.
Jean is in her room trying to move a pencil with her mind. When she can’t she picks it up and breaks it. She visits Victor in his cell and they discuss the loss of her powers. She tells him she is to be retrained and that she will try to convince Trask to free him. Victor tells Jean not to sell herself short because she lost her powers. With her knowledge of Weapon Omega she could be the most important person in the world.
In New Apocalypse Cyclops places the X-Terminated under arrest. Prophet tells them to trust in the system which is their contingency plan. Deadeye strikes first and a battle between Cyclops’s men and the X-Terminated ensues. Fiend takes out a Shocker while Goodnight protects Harper Simmons.
Everyone escapes to the sewer except Deadeye who was knocked out by Cyclops’ optic blast and captured. Fiend stays behind and stows away in a large computer.
Cyclops is mad that mere humans made them look like amateurs and t his men to finish disassembling the lab while he reports to Weapon Omega.
In his tower, Weapon Omega is being told by Azazel that Omega Red is refusing to respond to communications and has telepaths put up a psionic shield around his areas. Azazel says he has the Shadow King working on taking them down but Weapon Omega says not to. He doesn’t want this war to be too easy.
Cyclops comes in and reports what just happened. He says the humans were the best squad he had seen. Weapon Omega orders Cyclops to find them and kill them and have the Shadow King interrogates the captured Deadeye and tear her mind apart.
Back at the human base, Jean reports to Trask for training. Trask introduces her to Henry Peter Gyrich. Gyrich lost his legs in the war but has learned to adapt and trains everyone in all kinds of combat. Gyrich says they are just going to evaluate her and see where she stands.
She says she has been trained in all kinds of combat by “true elite fighters”. Gyrich throws a cup of coffee at her. She tries to dodge it but it still hits her in the head and he insults her. When she is gone Trask asks Gyrich what he thought. Gyrich said her reaction was almost quick enough and she didn’t whine. He thinks she will be a fine warrior and knows who her mentor should be.
At the lab, a worker asks a big Lizard man McCoy’s Hovercraft  is to descend and to retrieve the lab equipment. The worker asks if should tell them the area is not secure. The lizard man says no and to let them come in because he knows what could happen if you keep McCoy waiting.
Workers carry out the big computer Fiend is hiding in. She is hacking into the computer system.
Simmons has been given a suicide pill like all of the X-Terminated. He is scared as Goodnight tells him to get a piece of rebar to break open the hatch. Horror Show says there is not enough time as he blows it open. The team is able to rescue Deadeye and escape to the sewers.
The next day at human base, Jean reports to Trask and tells him not worry about the day before, she is not going to quit. Trask says he knows but that is not why he has brought her there. He informs her that thanks to Fiend they have hacked into the Dark Beast’s mainframe and have discovered something terrible. One edge the humans have had was most of the most powerful mutants on earth were dead. Now thanks to the Celestial Life Seed Weapon Omega is resurrecting them….


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Back from the Dead
At the Hellfire Club Goodnight, known here as Donald Pierce, is beating Sebastian Shaw at poker. Shaw leaves the game and Pierce is curious as to why Shaw is acting strange. Shaw says he has more important things to worry about.
Goodnight reports Shaw’s behavior to Prophet. Goodnight tells Prophet that “Sebastian’s worked for years to get the club into a position of power and if the Alphas come back—“ Prophet finishes the sentence, “—Then he returns to being a peddler of a nightclub servicing the perversions of the elite.”
Goodnight asks if he should try to get more out of Shaw. Prophet tells him not to and says he himself should talk to Shaw. He has a special mission for him.
Elsewhere, Sugarman speaks disturbing rhymes and recipes as he and Dark Beast work on resurrecting Alex Summers aka Havok. McCoy warns Sugarman that they need to be sure he is ready since they have only so much energy left from the Celestials’ Life Seed. A lab assistant comes in and says they have disposed of Pyro’s body. Sugarman and McCoy start the resurrection process.
A ship approaches the Alpha Lab and tells them to be ready for the arrival of the Minister of Famine, Cyclops. The process is a success and Havok is resurrected. Cyclops comes in just as his brother wakes up. Cyclops wanted Havok destroyed and threatens to take the head of who had this done. McCoy tells Cyclops that he would have to take it up with Weapon Omega since he ordered the resurrection of Havok so he could be his new Minister of War.
Workers bring in McCoy’s equipment including the mainframe Fiend is hiding in.
At Humanity’s Last Stand in Nevada, Simmons muses he always wanted to be a war correspondent but he never thought it would like this. He tries to interview Deadeye. She says her brother died in the war with Apocalypse and that is why she got involved with the resistance. Simmons recalls to himself that her brother in his world was a mutant-hating Purifier. She blows him off and tells him to come back when he experiences more of their reality.
Jean Grey approaches Simmons and asks where Horror Show is. Simmons, who is taken back to be talking to her, tells Jean he was last seen in the training center. Horror Show is drunk and taking on three practice bots and tearing them to shreds.
“They told me not to actually destroy them.” Jean says as she enters the room. Jean tells Horror Show she is a friend of his father. He retorts he has no father. Jean tells him that Creed has changed and it might be time for some forgiveness. Horror Show grabs Jean’s arm and says she doesn’t know what Creed did to him. She takes him down with a fireman’s carry and says that is the only move she has and to stay down. She then says he has to sober up or Prophet will sideline him.
In New Apocalypse Shaw exits the club and asks Edmund, the guard, if it is quiet. Edmund agrees it is too quiet but his ears and eyes have never failed him. Edmund tells Shaw to be careful; Shaw says he would welcome a fight. Prophet is waiting for Shaw around the corner. Prophet says he is not there to fight, not this time, and hands Shaw a file.
Prophet, Deadeye and Horror Show are heading to the Alpha Lab while Prophet talks to Trask over the radio. Prophet tells Trask that he gave Shaw all he had on Azazel the Minister of Death. Trask asks if they had heard anything from Fiend but they hadn’t.
In the Lab, Fiend watches as Emplate is resurrected and then they try for Abyss. Fiend tries to cut the line to the resurrection tank when Emplate catches her. She cuts the tube but is taken by Emplate. She is dragged away, bleeding from her head.
The rest of the X-Terminated take out some Infinites outside the lab. Horror Show cuts a hole in a steam tube for Deadeye to go down so she can set up a shot. Prophet tells Show they will go in the front door and turns to find them surrounded by Infinites and Dead Man Wade.
Back at New Apocalypse, a man is reading a book on Radiobiology in a study when there is a knock at the door. The man asks “Who is it?” “My Name is Goodnight.” Goodnight tells the man he has information for him. The man asks What information. “for starters I know something you don’t. I know who you are. Dr. Bruce Banner… …Also known as The Incredible Thing.”


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The Resurrection Agenda
In a room covered from floor to ceiling in books, a man clutches his head and says that calling him Dr. Bruce Banner is madness. Sat on the other side of a desk, Goodnight tells him that not remembering that he is a genius is madness and what happens when he gets angry.
Stuttering, Bruce says he doesn’t have any anger, to which Goodnight replies that he recognizes the jittering as being from the pens and having telepaths putting blocks in his mind. He continues to say that he spent four years in the pens as part of the Reaver program and asks Bruce if he knows what that was. Bruce replies that it was a cybernetics project and Goodnight clarifies that they infused normal humans with cybernetics. He helped develop the technology and felt he had no choice in it. Thousands died because of what he did, including the person he was trying to protect. He has spent every day since trying to atone and his comrades in arms look at him with suspicion as if he is about to turn. Of course he acts like an arrogant ass and gives them no reason to think otherwise, but that’s just him. As he finishes speaking, he suddenly leaps across the table and kicks Bruce off his chair.
The X-terminated did what had to be done, no matter how ugly and no matter what the cost. Today looked like the cost was going to be high.
Elsewhere, at a secret lab, a newly resurrected Emplate drags the unconscious body of Fiend to Dark Beast and the Sugar Man. He tells them she severed the plasma line and he left her breathing on the off-chance she would be of some use to them. Dark Beast replies that she has too much value as Abyss is a lost cause, to which Sugar Man chips in and calls him a fly in the soup of life. Dark Beast quips that humans are like cockroaches; you think there couldn’t be any more and then you turn the light on and there’s one in the refrigerator.
The X-terminated’s mission took them to the gene lab of Dark Beast, where they discovered he had found a way to bring back some of the worst and most powerful mutants back to life. They had encountered one of these formerly dead men, a man named Cyclops. That was bad enough, but now there were over sixty incubators, with sixty monsters inside, waiting to return to the world.
In the vents above Dark Beast and his team, Deadeye watches the scene below but remains quiet. As Fiend regains consciousness Dark Beast tells her she caused him to lose a very valuable asset. She sluggishly congratulates herself but he tells her there is nothing good left for her kind; they are being exterminated. As Deadeye sits up in a pool of blood, Dark Beast says if he had more time he would see that she wished for Abyss’s void. As it is though, they have bigger fish to fry and then orders her to be dumped in the gene vats.
Fiend knew the risks of getting caught and, no matter what he friend’s personal feelings were, there would be no cavalry.
As Dark Beast walks away, he orders for his minions to triple the guard and to do a complete telepathic and physical scan of the complex. He has business to get on with. As the guards go to grab Deadeye, she suddenly produces some blades and slashes their throats. As they fall, she flings a knife at Dark Beast, but he manages to dodge out of the way as it hits the machinery behind him. He comments that he has to do everything himself and then lunges at her, landing on her chest and slamming her head into the floor.
Another guard approaches and says he caught a pair of humans attempting to enter the complex through the steam pipes and one of them is Blood Prophet. Dark Beast muses that this operation seems to warrant the head cockroach, so there may be more to this than first thought. He orders the guard to take Deadeye and have her mind drained for information and then dispose of the body. The guard replies that Prophet claims to be in possession of the overlord’s wife, Jean Grey.
New Apocalypse:As Bruce collides with a pile of books, he yells in pain. Goodnight calmly assumes the telepaths didn’t neuter him completely and he can see all the books about radiobiological isotopes around him. Something drew him to risk discovery, some spark inside.
Goodnight takes a wallet out of his jacket and shows Bruce the picture of a woman and asks if he recognizes her. Grabbing Bruce by the scruff of the neck, he thrusts the picture in his face and tells him they were engaged when he was an army researcher in Aberdeen. In the early days of the war, Bruce clashed with her father when his gamma radiation experiments failed to produce credible super soldiers. Goodnight says the names General Ross and Betty Ross, to which Bruce reacts to the woman’s name.
Goodnight goes on and says that General Ross took her to Europe with the Human High Council, but that’s not what Apocalypse told him. He said that he had her and Goodnight asks if Apocalypse told him he would hurt her. Or did he work on his gamma experiments just to prove they worked? Bruce, kneeling on the floor begs him to stop, but Goodnight ignores him and kicks him into a stack of boxes. Bruce finally gets angry, growls for him to stop and then transforms into the Thing. He grabs Goodnight’s arm, picks him up and then says he wanted him and now he has him. He has ten seconds to talk because soon he will be without arms and legs.
Goodnight winces through the pain and tells the Thing that he has reliable information that Betty Ross is still alive. If Bruce wants her location, he needs to provide a little service for him. The Thing snarls at him and suggests he let Goodnight keep his arms and legs. As much as he likes those body parts, under the circumstances that just won’t cut it.
Gene Lab:Prophet and Horror Show are escorted into the lab, tied up with energy ropes from one of the guards. Prophet demands to be released, as his life depends on it, but the guard advises against it as they are wily. Horror Show asks Fiend if she is alright but Dark Beast tells them none of them are and tells Prophet to talk fast. He replies that he does have her but that’s not what he would like to discuss.
Dark Beast becomes angry and says that the only reason they are alive is because he has something the overlord wants. Dark Beast tells him he will have his telepaths rip the information from his mind but Prophet replies there is no time as they are on his schedule. He says it is a short one for all of them and then tells Dark Beast to scan the lining of his chest plate as the device inside is radiological and large enough the Celestial pods powering the machines in the lab. He tells Dark Beast that he will never escape the blast radius and backs it up by asking what he has to lose. Dark Beast reluctantly asks what he wants but, before he gets an answer, a huge crash rips through the complex and everyone collapses to the floor.
One of the guards says the complex is under attack and sensors indicate it is a single entity. The Thing then bursts through the wall with a flurry of guards attacking. Dark Beast spins around and asks a guard tells him where the Thing came from and then asks Prophet if it is his doing. Before he can answer, Prophet is suddenly struck in the head by a bullet fired by Deadeye. As he falls to the ground, Dark Beast demands to know who shot him but instead another gunshot rings out and the guard holding Horror Show falls. Dark Beast is confused but, when a bullet nearly hits him, he makes a run for it. Sugar Man, who is still holding Fiend, also tries to escape but he is shot in the head by Horror Show.
One of the guards finally shoots Deadeye in the vent and alerts the Skinless Man, whose finger-like tendrils seeks her out and wrap around her. She reaches into a pouch, takes out a syringe and then injects one of the tendrils. The Skinless Man screams in pain and then collapses down dead on the floor. As Horror Show ties up the Sugar Man, he tells Fiend it’s time to hightail it but she asks about Prophet. He replies that Prophet is dead and they will be too if they don’t get out of there soon.
Dark Beast runs down a corridor and his computer system tells him procedure shows he runs an autonomous operation. He replies he doesn’t care about procedure. Unless the overlord wants to see what happens if the Celestial energy pods explode, he needs help now. Blame can come afterwards when he is far away from there. With that, he jumps in an escape pod and flies away from the base.
Prophet used to say little man find their own destruction, we only need to open up the many paths of chaos and let them find it.
As the Thing continues to rage on in the lab, Azazel and Weapon Omega teleport in to view the carnage. Azazel asks if his master wants to take care of it himself and Weapon Omega marvels at the Thing’s handiwork but notes it’s a shame it’s at his expense. It means he can’t just let it go, and with that he unsheathes his claws.
Elsewhere in the lab, Prophet staggers up from the floor and groggily mutters he told Deadeye to make it look real, not be real. He says he is alone in the lab and then asks if the doctor is receiving him.
Back at their base, Dr. Moreau confirms he is and as the other scientists gather around tells them they are hooked in. Behind him, Bolivar Trask asks if he can shut down life support but Dr. Moreau replies there is none as the bodies are technically dead still. He can ensure they stay dead though and they watch as he disengage the vessels from his computer.
It was a simple matter of draining the energy from the Celestial Life Seed, as the energy restored life. No more energy, no more resurrection.
Dr. Moreau asks Prophet if it is working and he confirms that he can see three pods completely drained and there are three more to go. Dr. Moreau tells him to set the bomb and get out of there, to which Prophet says he will as what else would he be doing. Unbeknownst to Dr. Moreau, Prophet has brought up Monet St. Croix’s vessel and has begun the resurrection process on her.
The Thing has gone completely insane and he screams at Weapon Omega and demands to know where Betty is. He says he destroyed his mind, his life and turned him into a monster. Fighting him, Weapon Omega calmly scorns him and says he was given everything he asked for and he had more power than most mutants dream of. Yet for all of it he is just another whiney human. With that, he stabs the Thing through the chest with his claws.
In the category of great unanswered questions, they always wondered if Prophet knew Banner wouldn’t make it. Because as far as anyone else knew, there was no Betty Ross alive out there. Or maybe there was.
In the lab, Prophet finally arms the bomb with a two-minute countdown as Horror Show and rest escape with the Sugar Man. Somewhere else, Monet St. Croix’s eyes open as Dark Beast’s lab explodes in a ball of flame.


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The Kid with Kaleidoscope Eyes
From Rahway, Elizabeth and West Orange up to East Rutherford, New Jersey was one giant industrial complex. There is a joke in there but no-one would get it. In the Age of Apocalypse, they call this the Omegaworks Sentinel Assembly, where everything from stealth Mark IXs to Infiltrators to Big Samurais were churned out there. Thanks to Mesmero, it ran as efficiently as the mechanical products it produced. The mutant with the ability to control minds on a mass scale that they say is almost on par with the Shadow King himself. In the world where prosperity was based on survival of the fittest, Mesmero was prince and that’s just how he liked it.
The thrill of the hunt never held and appeal for Mesmero, as life was as simple as a thought for him. He wished it and others obeyed. To keep that life, though, he was going to have to work for it.
In his sentinel factory, the green-skinned Mesmero is controlling a group of mutants as they work on the factory floor building the Samurai units. His attention is caught by a teenage boy and a group of skin-headed girls. The boy holds his arms out and tells Mesmero he comes with outstretched arms and dreams better than his. The grinning boy tells the man to join them and then slowly says Mesmero’s name. Mesmero grins as he recognizes the man as Quentin Quire and tells him he has heard of his clubhouse full of magicians and fortune-tellers. Killgrave told him that Quire tried to recruit her into his cult and they had both laughed about it.
Mesmero suddenly stops talking as he sees a purple skinned woman step forward and recognizes her as Kara Killgrave. She solemnly says to join them and Mesmero angrily asks Quentin what he did to her. The rest of the woman start chanting for him to join them and Quentin sneers, telling him that they are the Overmind and the women are his mind-dolls. The women continue to chant as Quentin says the Overmind underminds.
Elsewhere, the Shadow King monstrous face appears on a giant monitor and he tells Weapon Omega that Quentin Quire has claimed Mesmero as his own. He says the he inspected the boy a few years ago and he was nothing but a mildly talented telepath but now he has somehow created a psychic pyramid scheme. Starting with the most minor of telepaths he fed his own limited skills to increase his power, now he claims both Moondragon and Mesmero. The Shadow Kind continues and says Quire calls his collective the Overmind and, if that isn’t some direct statement to Weapon Omega, then he doesn’t know what is.
Weapon Omega points out that the Shadow King is his chief telepath and that this is his jurisdiction and so he should deal with it. The Shadow King protests slightly and says that his power is expanding in ways he never expected but Weapon Omega tells him that, if he can’t handle it, then maybe Quire should take over his job. In his apartment, the obese human form of the Shadow King tells Weapon Omega he understands and then signs out.
Humanity’s Last Stand:In the lab, Dr. Moreau readies an injection needle. He tells Jean she will feel a slight twinge, after which she will feel a slight fluttering from the implant if there is any telepathic activity nearby. On the other side of the room, Fiend tells Jean that she will be thankful for the butterfly if she is ever caught in a crowd sweep. She must remember that it’s only a warning system though but she can teach her some mental diversion techniques they use.
Jean takes her up on the offer and says that it’s official now that she has no telepathic abilities anymore. The only thing she does have is a splitting migraine, just in time for her training session with Graydon. Fiend warns her to be careful as there is a reason why they chose Horror Show as his codename. Jean asks if she thinks he would hurt her but Fiend and Dr. Moreau just look at each other in silence.
Later…As Jean fights Graydon, an injured Fiend looks on from the sidelines and gives her fighting tips. Jean lands a well-placed kick to Graydon’s head and he reels back and commends her. He then tells Fiend that a little less chatter would help as people learn from their mistakes. He says that Fiend was right though and Jean has left herself wide open. With that, he grabs her from behind and lifts her in the air but Fiend shouts out more advice to her. Jean flicks her head back and smacks Graydon in the face, causing him to let her go. As he holds his bleeding nose, Fiend tells Jean to pass on kneeing him in the groin as it will only upset the barmaids in the south end.
Graydon comments that Fiend has been teaching Jean some tricks, which he approves of. He then offers to take her for a drink so he can teach her a few of his moves. Jean accepts but only if they can visit the brig first, to which he groans and says that she needs to stop beating this Sabretooth thing to death. She replies that they visit his father or there’s no date, take it or leave it. Before he can answer, Prophet walks in and says he will have to leave it tonight. An opportunity vital to their cause has presented itself in New Apocalypse and he wants Jean to accompany him.
New Apocalypse:Jean and Prophet walk through the ruined slums of New Apocalypse in disguise, with Jean wearing a long black wig and Prophet without his trademark mask. Jean asks why she was chosen, as even she can tell her butt is being routinely handed to her in training. She hasn’t learned half of what she is being taught, which isn’t even one thousandth of what there is to teach. Prophet simply replies that experience is the best teacher but Jean counters that she isn’t ready for life and death undercover work yet. Prophet says that she was formally the premier telepath in the world and possessor of the Phoenix Force. Powers or not, that makes her an expert in the working mind, same as a concert violinist who has lost the use of his hands. Jean tentatively agrees with him as he says it’s those skills that make her uniquely qualified for this mission. She asks what mission that would be and he gestures to a rundown diner and tells her “Lunch.”
They enter the diner and are sat down by a waitress. Jean whispers that her butterfly implant in her head is buzzing like an electric razor and Prophet asks her what she perceives around her. He gestures to a man reading a newspaper and points out that he isn’t really reading it. Jean looks across and sees the man is holding the newspaper upside down and is staring at the two of them. Jean continues to look around and says the couple arguing in the corner is talking gibberish. She knows psychobabble and that isn’t it. Prophet seems pleased and he tells her to look at the woman over her shoulder and so Jean glances at the large woman sat at the bar. She says the woman has a dog and then corrects herself and says she had a dog.
As Jean suddenly realizes that nothing of what she is seeing is real, the patrons of the diner all get up and leave. All except the large woman, who starts to melt away as she mutters ominous phrases.
Once the illusion has dropped, Jean sees Quentin Quire and the Overmind standing before her. Quire continues to utter nonsense about the future being on the cusp of yesterday and then plainly tells Jean she shouldn’t have come. Prophet tells Quire they seek a conference with him and Jean notes she cannot move. Quire taunts them and says that the Shadow King sends strange puppets to amuse him with. Prophet replies that the Shadow King is afraid and a bounty has been put on Quire’s head. They are not come to kill him, instead they want to become allies against the Shadow King and Weapon Omega.
Quire seems to become angry and he continues to spout nonsense, causing Prophet to repeat his offer of becoming allies. Jean becomes annoyed with Quire, tells him to put another record on and says she used to be like him. Quire uses his telepathic powers to probe Jean’s mind but turns to Prophet and tells him the offering is dry. With Jean under Quire’s influence, Prophet tells the young man she is his charge and Quire is not to hurt her. The women of the Overmind gather around Prophet and hold a knife to his throat, causing him to threaten Quire’s life. Jean tells Prophet he is just a boy and they don’t kill boys, no matter what. Quire yells at Jean that the Overmind have her ashes and that the Phoenix should rise to join them.
Jean is suddenly transported into Quire’s mind and she finds herself in a place full of stairs and doors. Wearing a suit of armor and holding a flaming blue sword, Quire stands before her and declares she is the possessor of the Phoenix Force. Jean corrects him and says she was but he refuses to accept it and says tricks cannot confuse him. She and the Shadow King fear him but he will unify them all… with the Phoenix Force.
Jean tells him her powers and the Phoenix Force has left her, perhaps it is in the universe now. Quire angrily advances on her and tells her it is all lies and the Phoenix will rise from her ashes. Jean calmly tells him it will not and, as he points the sword at her face, she says she is there to help him and she can help him. He will not find what he seeks but she has much more to offer. She has been where he is now and has caused terrible harm. She asks him to go deep into her mind and see the day that all sense left her life.
Back then…In the ruins of New Apocalypse, Logan stands on a pile of rubble holding a child version of Apocalypse in one hand with his claws unsheathed on the other. A little way off, Jean screams at him to stop, as he is only a child and they can teach him differently. Logan replies that it is still Apocalypse and they should be thankful that is in a weakened enough form to kill before billions have to die. Jean tries to appeal to him and says that the Apocalypse power will find another vessel and it might be a child again or even a baby. Logan says he will be easier to kill then as he holds the struggling boy up high. He says he loves Jean but she has always been one step shy of doing what is necessary to save the human race.
Erupting into flames, Jean says she did not come back to have him to this and she will kill him if she has to. Logan replies she’d have to but she won’t. When the Celestial ship landed, she refused to come because she knew what she would find. She came back because she knows he is right. With that, Logan kills the boy, spraying blood everywhere as Jean looks on in horror.
Back in the mindscape, Jean is kneeling on the floor with tears in her eyes as Quire stands over her. She tells him Logan corrupted himself and took in the Apocalypse power, turning into Weapon Omega. She could have stopped him but instead she damned him, and now she is still trying to stop him. She says that if she had the Phoenix Force she would use every last ounce of it to release her husband. Quire looks at her and then states that she is not a liar and she is indeed empty. Jean stands up and tells him he is processing too much and that adding more power won’t stop the voices, it will only drive him deeper into madness. She can teach him to calm the voices and be at peace. Quire now points a psychic gun at Jean and contemplates the concept of peace.
In the real world, the Overmind’s grip on Prophet loosens slightly and he swats the hand holding a knife to him away. He reasons Jean must have distracted Quire and he then apologizes and takes out a flick knife, saying he cannot allow him to harm Jean. However, before he can do anything else Quire yells out “Bang!” and then collapses on the floor.
Prophet rushes to him but Jean tells him he is dead. He turned the gun on himself in the mindspace and she was unable to stop him as it was what he wanted. Jean laments that she could have helped him, as well as others, even without her powers. Prophet tells her it is very wise and he is sure she will have the opportunity. As they look at his body, Jean says that Quire’s true powers were his ideas but he conceived them faster than he could their consequences. Prophet says it was too bad as, under different circumstances, Quire would have been a very powerful ally.
Unbeknownst to Jean, Prophet holds a syringe full of Quire’s blood.


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Salvation
(New Apocalypse)Zora Risman, aka Deadeye, is dressed in civilian clothes and is walking through the ruins of the city as various mutants go about their daily business around her. Zora is a sure shot like no other man or mutant. She’s smart, sharp, mature and beautiful, she does her job, never fails, never complains. She also holds her cards so tight that not even she can see them.
(Mutant Powers Registration Center)Zora walks up to the office, holding a pamphlet, and thinks to herself that she would like some new shoes. She is greeted by some security guards who let her through into the admin area. There she greets Diane, a two headed woman, who is working in a little office and Zora gives her the pamphlet on a shoe sale. She glances down at a file Diane is holding and sees it is about a newly registered mutant. Zora goes and sits down at a desk and after a little while, asks Diana over an intercom if the chains are off the door. Diane confirms they have been for twenty minutes and they wonder where everybody is, as the whole building is empty.
In the streets of New Apocalypse, a woman floats high above a huge crowd and addresses the listening mass. With her arms held high, she says the war is over and Homo superior has taken their rightful place as the dominant species, yet here they reside in the filth and poverty. Why? Because there is so much blood on their hands but to rise above it they must first find forgiveness in themselves. The woman says it is why she has cast aside her old name. She is no longer Monet St. Croix, in the new world she is reborn and now she is Penance. Through her, they will all be renewed and together they will rebuild the world and claim the glory they were promised.
In their base, Weapon Omega and his group look at a holographic display of Penance’s address and Omega wonders if she is one of theirs. Dark Beast says the lab was blown to pieces and there was no way to take an inventory of all the bodies. Omega cuts him off and tells him he doesn’t want excuses, only answers. Dark Beast confirms Monet was one of those they were looking to resurrect but the lab was blown up before they could get around to her. He says he has no idea how she came back but he does know the Sugar Man never altered her cerebral pathways.
Omega asks if she is powerful and Dark Beast confirms she is, with strength, speed and invulnerability. Her flight and influence come from her mind and they are not directed like a true telepath but she is formidable all the same. As Omega stares at Monet’s image, he remarks she is perfect and that she is the future the Celestials charged him with creating. Dark Beast says that there is no way he can tell if she’ll be loyal but Omega disagrees and tells him that they just have to ask right.
Back in the mutant registration office, Zora and Diane are looking out of the window at Penance’s display. Diane says that Penance seems to really want to help people but Zora thinks that power corrupts. Zora tells Diane that, if she wants to go down, she will hold the fort, an offer Diane accepts. Zora’s phone starts buzzing and she sees a message from one of her teammates asking if she wants a balcony seat for act II.
In the ruins of an old church, Weapon Omega’s team meets with Penance as construction workers clear up around them. Azazel tells her Weapon Omega sends his regards and she asks who they are. Azazel introduces himself as the minister of death and informs her that Omega requests the pleasure of her company. He wants to discuss how she would aid him in her endeavor to service the citizens of his city. Azazel has also been permitted to offer her accommodation in the spires; they are quite luxurious. They would be a more suitable surrounding for one of her ability.
None of them notice that Prophet and Deadeye have scaled the walls of the church and have snuck in the open roof.
Penance declines their offer and tells them that, to heal the people, she must live with the people. She has heard of the overlord and she is sure that they will have many conversations about the conditions in the city, but for now she is busy. Cyclops tells her that it wasn’t a request but she ignores him and walks over to Colossus, another of Weapon Omega’s newly resurrected mutants. She sees that he is Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin, husband of Kitty Pryde, whom he killed. The steel man replies that he is Colossus and he has no wife. Penance says they have cut him but she believes she can restore that fragment. With that, she grabs his head and uses her powers to trigger his memories of before his death.
He sees going crazy over his sister and, charging forward, directly at his wife.
Colossus doubles over as he remembers his wife and states that he was so full of rage he did not see her. Penance says that it was a terrible thing but he is a good man and asks him to join her in her work there to cleanse his heart of the great stain on it. Colossus accepts but Azazel tells Penance that he would advise against taking things from the overlord. She asks Colossus to tell his friends to return at a later date but Cyclops informs her that she will be seeing Weapon Omega now.
Penance approaches him and starts reading his mind like she did with Colossus but instead he lets out an optic blast, catapulting her across the room. As she regains herself, she muses that they did a better job on him as Colossus grabs Cyclops’ arm and breaks it. Cyclops fires another pin-point beam at Colossus that pieces right through his shoulder.
Prophet and Deadeye watch the scene below and Deadeye comments that they might take care of this themselves. Penance looks at Azazel and calmly asks if they are to fight too but he says he finds this too interesting to leave. She disagrees and tells him perhaps it is time for him to go. Azazel teleports to Cyclops, grabs him and then the both disappear.
As soon as they have gone, Penance looks over her shoulder and demands the humans come from out of the shadows. As Prophet walks towards her, she says he is safe unless his intentions are less than honorable. He addresses her as Monet St. Croix but she corrects him and tells him that the old names are gone and she is now Penance. As Deadeye stares at her through a sniper rifle, Penance says that, if Prophet is testing if she can read his thoughts, she can assure him she cannot. Prophet gets to the point by telling Penance he gave her life, to which Deadeye is visibly shocked at learning. He confesses he destroyed Dark Beast’s lab and all the mutants he wanted to resurrect, all except for her. He asks her if she knows why he did it and she guesses that it’s because he thinks she would be a boon to their inferior race.
She sternly tells him she won’t be held in some quid-pro-quo as she had no choice in her resurrection and made no bargain for it. Whether she is boon or terror to their race will be up to his folly or fortune. Prophet says he expects no quid-pro-quo but he was hoping she would be more open-minded than current overlord. He wants to aid her in claiming power and for that he would like to make a bargain. From the shadows, Deadeye wonders what on Earth Prophet is doing. Penance asks what Prophet wants in return for her assistance.
As the X-Terminator’s ship flies back to base, Deadeye is shocked and furious that Prophet would give Penance the Sugar Man. As they land and exit the ship, she continues her tirade and tells him they nearly died getting him and now he offers the sadistic son of a bitch up as Penance’s chief scientist. All on the belief that she will keep her promise if she overthrows Omega and allows them to live on a preserve somewhere like zoo animals. Prophet replies that is better than living in a museum like dinosaurs.
Deadeye angrily tells him they have always differed on that and Prophet tries to reassure her they will have a place in the sun. She ignores him though and punches him square in the jaw, then storms away, telling him not to sell him on that crap like he does with the others. Bolivar Trask asks Prophet how it went with Penance and the man replies that it is a gamble but it went as well as can be expected.
Having watched the fight, Harper Simmons chases after Zora and catches up with her in the tunnels. Still angry, she lashes out at him and asks why he is recording everything he is. She shouts at him and wonders who he is doing it for. He asks her why she keeps fighting and she calms down slightly and says her brother hated them. She remembers he used to say “you let one of them live and they will live to destroy you.” Harper points out that the shoes is on the other foot, as she now lives to destroy them. He then asks if she does it for retribution.
Zora recalls that when she was a teenager the Apocalypse mutants laid Philadelphia to waste in a battle with the X-Men mutants. She and her brother were separated from the resistance and they were going to sail down the river to Delaware but, when they came through a thicket, they saw a mutant family. There were two kids, one of which was blue with eyes all over his head. The other looked normal and the parents looked like some kind of formidable betas or gammas. Zora says that the father breathed fire. She knows that, because she still has the burn scars all up her side. As she tells Harper that, she gestures to the side of her torso.
Matthew dropped the father with a bullet right through the eye and the mother went down right after. She didn’t know what the woman’s power was either, but Matthew shot the kids as they tried to run. The normal one’s neck exploded and the river took his body but the other one was only injured, Matthew wanted him alive.
Zora had passed out and when she woke she found Matthew had dressed her wounds. The blue skinned boy was leaning against a tree and there was a gun between him and Zora. She couldn’t move as she thought laser beams may have come out of his eyes but he just turned around and ran instead. She watched him get smaller and smaller as he fled. Then, just as he hit the ridge on the horizon, blue turned to red as Matthew hit him with a perfect shot. He was disgusted with her as he was sure the disgusting monster would have used his powers to kill them both.
Zora thinks he was right but Harper tells her Matthew shot a kid in the back and he is the one who is a monster. Zora retorts that mutants killed millions of kids but Harper asks her what powers the blue killed boy had. Zora looks down and replies that he could see bullets coming.
(New Apocalypse)In the church, Colossus says he doesn’t know what to do but Penance says that all he needs to do is help with the good work and his shame will pass with time. He replies that he will protect her with his life. A “bamf” sound rings out and they turn to see Azazel and Weapon Omega. Omega, having overheard the last bit of the conversation, says it’s a shame as he just brought Colossus back and he would hate to turn him into scrap metal already.
Colossus tells him he won’t find it so easy but Penance tells him to hush as Omega is plainly there for a conversation. He replies that he is there to see her kneel before him. Penance says that she heard the great Weapon Omega was unafraid of a little rivalry, to which he smirks at her and says he likes her style He is willing to give her a lot of leeway but she isn’t in his class so now it’s her play. Penance kneels down to Omega and he says he thinks they will get along and she will be expected for dinner.
After Omega and Azazel teleport away, Colossus helps her up, but she informs him they have another visitor. They see Deadeye with a shackled and gagged Sugar Man before them. Deadeye says that Prophet couldn’t come and that this piece of garbage is their part of the bargain. Penance remarks that the humans surprise her as they are all so good at hiding their thoughts, unless she really is obsessed with shoes. She says the wayward son will be reformed as his science will be of great use to the reformation. She instructs Deadeye to inform Prophet she will be in touch. Deadeye says she will and Penance picks up on a tone in her voice and guesses that she would rather kill her. Penance senses her hatred and the fact she is not quite as controlled as Prophet. As Deadeye walks away, she says that there is no one more in control than her.
Harper later remarks that, in her heart, Zora Risman believes her brother was right as he raised her, taught her, molded her. He could tell her that it makes all the difference between them, between good and evil, right and wrong. He could tell her but she would probably just shoot him.


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Weapon Omega, aka the Overlord, is the absolute ruler of over half the world and, in truth, the other half too. They just don’t know it yet. Thanks to Jean Grey, everyone knows he is now more than a mutant as he was empowered by cosmic beings known as Celestials. They have charged him with the task of heralding mutant evolution and, to that end, he is absolutely committed to the annihilation of the human race. Until he is gone, the X-terminators are nowhere.
(Humanity’s Last Stand)Dr. Moreau tells Prophet that Reed Richards was the world’s foremost authority on Celestials, as his mind was like no other. He was targeted early by Apocalypse’s forces but it is well known that his handwritten journals were never recovered. Apocalypse feared them so much he had a special taskforce created to locate them but they were never found. The rumor was Susan Storm and Ben Grimm took the journals to England when they joined the Human High Council. The council no longer exists but he has never heard of the journals being recovered.
As Dr. Moreau talks, he takes out a syringe and injects a human-shaped experiment in a stasis tube. The experiment resembles the basic skeleton and nervous system of a person and it floats in a vat of liquid. Prophet watches him and asks if he believes the journals will hold the key to separating Omega from the Celestial powers. Dr. Moreau replies that the only way for him to know that would be for him to examine them. The two men peer into the vat and stare at the rudimentary brain forming on the body. Dr. Moreau says the Quentin Quire experiment is going well and Prophet asks if he can isolate the brain. He says he can but it won’t have any memories. If Prophet had brought Quire’s head, he could have extracted quite a bit of information from it, but Prophet tells him the brain alone will be fine.
(training room)Jean Grey stands in the doorway looking at Graydon Creed, who is laying on the floor with a bottle in his hand and two training robots standing over him. She goes over and crouches down next to him and tells him he looks like hell. He slurs at her that she should see the other guys but she looks around and tells him they look fine to her. She informs him that Prophet wants them all in the ready room in twenty minutes and, if he finds Graydon looking like this, he will be in the brig with his father. He sneers at the suggestion, drunkenly tells her how pretty she is and then promptly falls asleep.
Jean was going to make a cover story for Graydon but Zora thought it best if she just keep quiet. Thirty minutes later, they were en-route to the Gulf coast, and twenty-six minutes, eighteen hundred miles and two barf bags later they were on a submarine headed for England.
In the submarine, Fiend asks what they ever did to the Celestials and asks Jean is Omega ever told her. Jean replies that the moment the energies entered him he stopped being the man she called husband. Fiend suggests separating Omega from the energies but Jean looks weary and says she doesn’t want to think about that. Goodnight seconds that feeling and says this whole endeavor seems like a fool’s errand. Jean says that Magneto killed the first Apocalypse, to which Goodnight sarcastically suggests phoning Magneto up before pointing out Omega gutted him.
Prophet tells everyone to settle down as he needs them to be in the game for when they hit shore in a few hours. He tells them their contact is a man named Pete Wisdom and Goodnight asks if he is human or mutant. Prophet says that he is a mutant who works for a group called the Knights of Pendragon and he has had dealings with them before and he has no reason not to trust them. Deadeye snorts and says except for him being a mutant.
(Falmouth, England)The submarine anchors just off the coast and a small group get to the shore using a boat. They meet Pete Wisdom on the docks and Harper Simmons gets a good feeling from him right off the bat. He has been wrong a few times about bad feelings he’s gotten off people. Pete says that he has been having some nasty business with a group of neo-Apocalypse blokes up in Liverpool. He escorts the group to a car and says that, when Bolivar contacted him about the notebooks, he had no idea what he was on about. But he eventually managed to find someone who did. Deadeye asks who it is and Pete drives them to a house where they find Emma Frost waiting for them. Harper’s good feelings are never wrong, but this lady he had a bad feeling about.
Emma cuts to the chase and tells them all that Sue Storm is dead, confirming she was with her when she died. Pete tells them that Omega has pretty much left them to govern themselves here but he is still adamant about killing all humans. When he got wind that they were harboring a human, Omega sent his personal death squad of Azazel and a bunch of sniffers to purge the humans. Pete did what he could by getting as many humans out to the continent. Emma says that she and Sue were on a tanker but the chip’s captain betrayed them. For Sue, being captured was not an option as there was too much in her mind.
Fiend asks about Emma and Pete informs her that, whilst she is a mutant, she is a neuter. Emma explains that she was a telepath but she had an operation to remove the telepathic part of her brain. It is how she was allowed to join the Human High Council and fight against Apocalypse’s oppression. She fought with only death in mind, same as her friend Sue, but ultimately Emma was still mutant enough for the sniffers. The notebooks would be useless to them as Dr. Pym obsessed over them for years and they were beyond him.
Prophet asks about Doom and Emma confirms they knew he would be able to make sense of them but no one trusted him enough. When the death squads came, she had nothing left to lose and so she gave him the journals. Deadeye asks where they can find Doom and Emma replies “Latveria, of course.”
Back at Humanity’s Last Stand, Graydon is laying in his room but he is woken up by Henry Gyrich. Graydon says he is going to be sick and Gyrich, sitting in his wheelchair in the doorway, calls him pathetic. Graydon tells him he can do his job and to give him five minutes. He then asks if everyone else is in the ready room but Gyrich replies they left four days ago for Europe. He tells Graydon to get in the training room in twenty minutes or he will write a report and Prophet will kick him off the team. As Graydon sits up, a note falls off him. He picks it up and sees that it is off Jean, telling him to see his father or he won’t get straight otherwise.
(Latveria, Central Europe)Nestled between the Carpathian Mountains of Hungry, Serbia and Romania the Latveria of Harper Simmons’ world is ruled absolutely by Victor Von Doom. A megalomaniac villain as bad as they come. However, in this world, he is a freedom fighter who was long deposed of his ancestral home. The country itself is long longer a country; instead it is a giant processing plant. The apparatus of the gene pool for all mutants deemed unworthy, criminal or threatening to the powers-that-be are sent there. Here they are formed into a primordial soup and base genetic material for the experiments of the Sugar Man, Sinister and Dark Beast. However, it soon became apparent that wasn’t the whole truth
The X-Terminated hide a little way off one of the processing plants and stare at the many workers through a pair of binoculars. Fiend says that they are humans and Harper wonders why they haven’t been slaughtered. Prophet suggests that there must be a reason like experimentation or something. Fiend says they need to be freed but Goodnight tells her that they would all be captured and the best way to help them would be to do what they came there to do.
Prophet says that they can turn it to their advantage and suggests they split up with. He and Deadeye will locate Doom, whilst Goodnight goes with Jean, Harper and Fiend to find everything they can about the humans.
Goodnight’s group enters the slums of the plant and, as the walk through the alleyways, Fiend looks around and says this is why they fight to save humanity. Goodnight says it is a very different thing to saving humans. Harper nervously asks if they just start talking to people and Goodnight comments that he should know as he is a reporter. Harper says he isn’t a mutant but Goodnight says he will be fine and hands him a small device and calls it his mutant power.
Harper enters a pub and muses that saying he was nervous about pumping a bunch of mutants about imprisoned humans would be an understatement. He walks in the room and everyone stares at him suspiciously. Harper holds up his hand to say his name but the device causes it to erupt in flames and he lets out a cry of shock. In a bid to disguise his surprise, he says he is Ahmed and quickly hides his hand.
Elsewhere, Deadeye and Prophet make their way across the rubble and ruins and they manage to take out a couple of guards. Putting on their coats, Prophet says if Doom has returned here he has clearly gone underground. He then realizes Doom would be gathering followers in the human camps and Deadeye asks why he split the group up if their goal is the same. Prophet replies he doesn’t believe it is safe for them to all be together, at which point the two run into a group of mutants.
A giant T-Rex-like mutant tells they are wanted for questioning and Prophet yells to Deadeye that they can’t take them. The dinosaur mutant radios for back-up as his partner, a flyer, swoops down at Deadeye. Prophet throws some grenades, causing a huge explosion as Deadeye shoots the flyer down. She then unleashes an electric shock from her gun, stunning the man and allowing them to get away. They race up some stairs but see a fleet of Sentinels flying towards them. Before they can react, they see another figure flying in the sky and, as it destroys the Sentinels, they realize it is a man. As they shelter from the explosion, a woman comes out of the shadows and ushers them away down a dark passage.
She hurries them along and ignores Deadeye’s questions about who she is. As they enter a room, two huge metal doors slam behind them and a voice calls out to them, personally identifying them. They turn to see a Doombot standing before them and he explains there is a delicate plan in place and he couldn’t have them upsetting the status quo.
However the Doombot takes off its mask to reveal the face of a good-looking man beneath, a face Prophet recognizes as the real Von Doom. He tells them that the guards will be called out and they will go door to door. Prophet apologizes and explains it was vital that they come. Before he can finish Doom guesses they are there for the notebooks. Deadeye tells him he seems to know a lot and he replies that he is Doom and he knows more than they could possibly imagine.
(on the streets of Latveria)Harper meets up with his group again and tells them the information he found out from his pub pals. There are three camps with about twenty thousand of more people in them, which Goodnight seems surprised at. Jean asks why they haven’t been exterminated and wonders what they are doing with them. Harper informs them that what has them nervous is the fact the lesser mutants are being experimented on and exterminated whilst the humans are left alone. The word is the ruler is some kind of sadistic twist they call the Queen and they say she eats a human every day to stay young. Jean suggests that maybe they could free some humans and gain some allies and all they have to do is take out the Queen.
Suddenly the implant in Jean’s head triggers and alerts them to a telepath, but none of them can move anymore. A voice comes from behind them and tells them they are sorry they didn’t let her finish but they saw where this was all going. They turn to see Emma Frost walking towards them dressed all in white and she says she was right not to reveal herself to Prophet when they first met. She knew there would be more and, for the record, she doesn’t eat humans, she rips their minds apart piece by delicious piece.
(Humanity’s Last Stand)Sabretooth is woken up in his cell by a voice calling out to him. He sees his son Graydon standing in front of him, holding a bottle of alcohol in his hand. He says Jean has been hounding him to come see him and he wonders why she would do that. Sabretooth says he doesn’t know and Graydon replies that maybe it was so he could see his powerless mutant ass rotting in jail. Sabretooth asks if there is something he wants to get off his chest but Graydon gets angry and his father calls him “son.”
Graydon lashes out at his father, kicking him down and says Jean was right... it is cathartic. Imagine how great he will feel when he snaps his cowardly neck.