Recaps

At Xavier’s Institute, Heisenberg declined Charles’s request to help confront Magneto over the attack on a US military base, while agreeing to keep teaching the students. Back at the Hellfire Club, he caught Mystique infiltrating the lounge and learned she had come to find out why Erik had returned to action.

• Hank brought Heisenberg to Charles’s office, where Charles explained that Magneto’s group had attacked a US base and rescued mutant test subjects, killing soldiers and researchers.
• Charles asked Heisenberg to join him in confronting Erik, but Heisenberg refused, supporting the rescue and saying he would only fight if the world faced a greater danger.
• Heisenberg returned to the club and observed that Magneto was attacking mutant research facilities while Emma and Gambit worked to support the rescued children and the club.
• Mystique disguised herself as Azazel and entered the lounge, where Heisenberg recognized her, restrained her, and asked why she had come.
• Mystique apologized for infiltrating the club and explained that she wanted to understand why Erik had ended his seclusion and returned to the world.

Heisenberg explained that he led the Hellfire Club and made Mystique a pawn after she uncovered the club’s role in the attack. As Erik’s family arrived, his wife learned he had a son with Mariah, and Erik walked into a confrontation with both women.

• Heisenberg told Mystique that Erik could not hide from human-mutant conflict, revealed himself as the Hellfire Club’s leader, and assigned her a pawn badge.
• Heisenberg reassured Mrs. Eisenhardt that Erik had survived the operation, but she learned another woman claiming to be Erik’s wife was waiting outside.
• Mariah arrived, and Mrs. Eisenhardt learned that Erik had left Mariah while she was pregnant and had not known about their son, Pietro.
• Mrs. Eisenhardt and Mariah bonded over raising their children and Erik’s past abandonment of Mariah.
• Erik returned with Pietro, saw Mrs. Eisenhardt, Mariah, and Mystique together, and received a slap from each woman before dragging them out of the room.

Charles used Cerebro to contact Erik and learned that Erik wanted him to join the Hellfire Club, while fiercely defending his actions against humans. Charles admitted his institute could not protect mutants as a whole, but remained determined to restrain the club’s violence and investigate its mysterious new White King.

• Charles contacted Erik through Cerebro but withdrew when he saw Erik being beaten by his two wives, then tried again after Erik had calmed them.
• Erik described his years of hardship and condemned Charles for opposing his past attempts to retaliate against humanity.
• Erik argued that Charles’s approach had failed mutants and urged him to join the Hellfire Club, where he had reserved the Black King position for him.
• Charles broke down, acknowledged his institute had helped only a small number of mutants, and said he could not justify stopping Erik from fighting for mutant interests, though he opposed indiscriminate killing.
• Charles told Hank to investigate the Hellfire Club’s new White King, whose appearance and identity no one in the club seemed able to remember.

Erik and Raven prepared to relocate the club’s headquarters to Berlin while Heisenberg turned his attention to Phoenix. At Xavier’s Institute, Alex brought his cousin Scott to seek help with his powers, and Jean grew closer to Heisenberg as she watched Scott arrive.

• Hank vowed to uncover the identity of the White King after Charles reported Erik’s invitation and their disagreement.
• Erik told Heisenberg that Charles would resist their plans, and Heisenberg sent Erik and Raven to arrange the club’s move to the Berlin Zoo and prepare an underground passage.
• Heisenberg spoke with Gannata at Xavier’s Institute, where she said she had slept beside Jean, and he discussed how to handle Phoenix without triggering her dark side.
• Alex brought Scott to Xavier’s Institute to get help controlling the powerful energy released by his eyes, and Heisenberg and Jean escorted them to Charles’s office.
• Jean invited Heisenberg for a drink, and he declined to serve her alcohol until she came of age, then patted her head as she celebrated their growing closeness.

Moira MacTaggert witnessed En Sabah Nur awaken beneath Cairo, triggering a catastrophic earthquake, while Jean Grey’s nightmare let Phoenix’s power distort reality at Xavier’s Institute. Heisenberg woke Jean and helped her regain control, while Charles reminded them of the school’s rules on teacher-student relationships.

• Moira infiltrated the mill in Cairo, photographed the golden pyramid, and escaped as En Sabah Nur’s awakening triggered an earthquake that collapsed the cavern.
• Heisenberg sensed the awakening in Berlin and ordered Emma to expand the Awakened’s influence while Magneto and Remy accelerated their operations.
• Gannata sensed Phoenix’s disturbance at Xavier’s Institute, and Heisenberg went to Jean’s room after learning she was trapped in a nightmare.
• Heisenberg entered Jean’s dream and woke her, stopping Phoenix’s influence from rotting the bedroom and potentially threatening reality.
• Jean told Charles and Heisenberg that she had seen En Sabah Nur awaken and a coming catastrophe, then clung to Heisenberg as Charles discussed the school’s rules and her future after graduation.

Charles learned that Jean’s powers had been restrained through altered memories, then discovered that the global earthquake originated in Cairo and involved Moira MacTaggert. He reunited with Moira at the CIA, learned she was widowed, and awkwardly used his powers to control her.

• Jean thanked Heisenberg and Charles before going to sleep, and Charles confessed that he had altered her memories and thoughts to restrain her powers.
• Hank told Charles that the earthquake had affected the entire globe despite causing little damage, and Charles spotted Moira in Cairo through Cerebro.
• Charles and Hank identified Moira as the CIA agent in Cairo, and Charles planned to meet her with Hank and Alex.
• Charles admitted to Alex that he had erased Moira’s memories of their relationship and still could not forget her.
• Charles and his friends entered Moira’s CIA office, where she praised his work and told him that her husband had died.
• Charles blurted out that Moira’s widowhood was great, then controlled her as Alex laughed at his awkwardness.

Charles, Hank, and Alex learned that the ancient mutant king Apocalypse had awakened and returned to Cairo, while Apocalypse remembered his rise and long imprisonment. After killing the men who threatened Ororo, he followed her to a hideout full of mutant children, determined to understand the modern world.

• Hank summarized Moira’s files about the golden pyramid and the legend of En Sabah Nur, while Charles decided to search for Apocalypse and potentially locate mutants he had contacted.
• Apocalypse recalled how he rose from slavery by taking over bodies, defeated Pharaoh Kang, gathered the Four Horsemen, and fell into a long slumber during an attempted transfer of a restoration ability.
• After awakening in modern Cairo, Apocalypse watched Ororo steal bread and followed her when the stall owner and his men chased her into an alley.
• Apocalypse turned the stall owner’s men to ash and merged the stall owner with a wall, then Ororo led him away to her hideout.
• Apocalypse saw the mutant children at Ororo’s hideout and resolved to learn how the modern world worked.

Apocalypse awakened Ororo’s powers and recruited her as his rider, then traveled with her to Berlin to seek Caliban and other powerful mutants. After Magneto resisted Apocalypse’s attempt to control him, Apocalypse learned of the White King and eagerly awaited meeting him.

• Ororo sent the children away, and Apocalypse used his powers to learn her language and persuade her to join him.
• Apocalypse unlocked Ororo’s mutant power, changing her appearance and making her loyal to him.
• Ororo told Apocalypse about Magneto and Professor X, then directed him to Caliban in Berlin.
• Apocalypse and Ororo arrived in Berlin, found Caliban, and demanded that he help gather warriors.
• Caliban summoned Red Devil, who brought Magneto; Apocalypse empowered Magneto, but Magneto resisted and called for the White King.
• Azazel fled with Caliban, while Apocalypse looked forward to meeting the White King and making him his knight.

Heisenberg arrived at the underground shelter and effortlessly defeated Apocalypse, who had been forcing Magneto to submit. Apocalypse survived and demanded to know whether Heisenberg was Pharaoh Kang, but Heisenberg mocked him instead.

• At the zoo, Heisenberg and Emma discussed animals and the difficulty of understanding people before Azazel and Caliban arrived with news that Apocalypse had defeated Magneto.
• Heisenberg rejected Azazel's offer to rescue Magneto alone and went to confront Apocalypse, moving Magneto out of danger as he arrived.
• Emma examined Magneto and explained that Apocalypse had altered his subconscious with false memories and expanded abilities.
• Heisenberg punched Apocalypse, forced him to kneel, stopped Storm's attack, and crushed Apocalypse's body before the mutant regenerated.
• Apocalypse questioned why Heisenberg let ordinary humans rule and asked if he was Pharaoh Kang, but Heisenberg called himself Apocalypse's daddy.

Heisenberg defeated Apocalypse and ordered him to follow the Hellfire Club’s rules, after which Apocalypse and Ororo returned to Cairo and resumed their plans. Charles located Ororo through Cerebro and entered her mind, but Apocalypse invaded Charles’s psychic world, where both discovered they could not see the White King.

• Heisenberg battered Apocalypse, restrained Ororo with metal, and refused Magneto’s suggestion to recruit the defeated god.
• Heisenberg told Apocalypse to obey the Hellfire Club charter and leave him unprovoked, then returned to the club with Azazel and the others.
• Apocalypse healed Ororo, ordered her to call them Awakened rather than mutants, and decided to avoid Europe while pursuing his goals around Cairo.
• At Xavier’s Institute, Hank gave Alex laser-blocking glasses for Scott, while Charles used Cerebro to search Cairo for Apocalypse and newly empowered minds.
• Charles found Ororo and took control of her, but Apocalypse sensed Charles’s psychic power and entered his mind to seek a way to overcome Heisenberg.
• Apocalypse and Charles both realized they could not see the White King in Charles’s psychic world.

Apocalypse abducted Charles after overpowering him, and the ensuing blast destroyed Xavier’s Institute, though Heisenberg rescued everyone else and contained the explosion. He offered the displaced children a place at his Berlin castle, then summoned the Hellfire Club to bring Charles and the Institute’s children into the fold, leaving Hank to realize Heisenberg was the White King he had been investigating.

• Apocalypse searched Charles’s mind for Heisenberg, then seized Charles and teleported away while Alex’s Havok blast struck Cerebro.
• Scott tried Hank’s new glasses, saw Jean, and accidentally triggered an explosion that destroyed Charles’s castle.
• Heisenberg rescued the people inside the castle and compressed the spreading fire and debris, while Hank and Alex explained that Apocalypse had taken Charles.
• Heisenberg offered the children shelter at his Berlin castle and promised to arrange their transport.
• In Berlin, Heisenberg summoned Erik, Raven, Psylocke, Red Devil, and other Hellfire Club members to help Charles and recruit the Institute’s children.
• The Hellfire Club appeared beside Heisenberg at the ruined Institute, and Hank realized Heisenberg was the White King.

After Xavier's Institute was destroyed and Charles was taken, Heisenberg left Magneto and the others to arrange shelter and rescue plans while he and Gannata prepared a trap for the Phoenix fragment in Cairo. Heisenberg outfitted Gannata's devices with fragments of the Life and Anti-Life Equations, but their power overwhelmed her briefly.

• Magneto, Mystique, Red Devil, and the Hellfire Club arrived at the ruined Institute, where Magneto mourned the destruction and Heisenberg directed him to help the children.
• Mystique reassured the children that the Hellfire Club would shelter them, and she and Red Devil began moving them to Berlin Zoo.
• Heisenberg left Magneto in charge of the Institute's relocation, while Jean decided to help rescue Charles and joined Magneto's group.
• Heisenberg and Gannata traveled to Cairo, where he carved runes and equation fragments into her particle disintegration devices to build a layered trap for the Phoenix fragment.
• Gannata was briefly overwhelmed by the equations, and Heisenberg explained that their trap would block Phoenix's access to energy and isolate it before they fought it directly.

Heisenberg and Gannata prepared a trap for Phoenix while Magneto's group learned that Apocalypse had taken Charles and went to Cairo to rescue him. Apocalypse transformed Charles into a controlled psychic servant and rebuilt his palace in Cairo, where Magneto's group confronted him as Heisenberg and Gannata watched from above, ready to steer the fight.

• Heisenberg explained that his and Gannata's preparations would limit Phoenix's energy output, and they sealed a large area with devices and Omega runes.
• Magneto questioned Alex and Hank, and Alex admitted that his Havok blast had destroyed Xavier's Institute after Charles was taken.
• Hank identified Apocalypse as Charles's captor, and Magneto gathered Jean, Emma, Hank, and Alex to find and rescue Charles.
• Caliban directed Magneto's group to the news, which showed Apocalypse rebuilding a massive palace in Cairo.
• Apocalypse empowered Charles, took control of his mind, and ordered him to locate Cairo's mutants before teleporting them away.
• Magneto's group arrived in Cairo to confront Apocalypse, while Heisenberg and Gannata watched and agreed to ensure Apocalypse played his part.

Apocalypse returned Charles to Magneto after Magneto invoked the White King's rules, but Charles remained under Apocalypse's control until Emma noticed and demanded he release it. Once free, Charles accused Apocalypse of destroying Cairo and killing its residents, while Magneto and the Hellfire Club refused to challenge Apocalypse, leaving Charles and Erik arguing over ordinary people's lives.

• Magneto confronted Apocalypse over Charles's capture, and Apocalypse returned Charles to him after recalling the White King's power.
• Emma recognized that Charles was still controlled by Apocalypse, so Apocalypse released his hold and Charles told Magneto how powerful Apocalypse was.
• Golden Wolf teased Quicksilver about Magneto and Charles's close relationship before Magneto placed Charles in a newly made wheelchair.
• Charles accused Apocalypse of destroying Cairo and killing millions, but Magneto accepted Apocalypse's explanation and apology on the Hellfire Club's behalf.
• Charles condemned Magneto for disregarding the dead, and the two argued over whether ordinary people were their kind or destined enemies.

Erik accepted Apocalypse’s invitation to celebrate his rebuilt palace, while Charles urged the mutants to fight him. As Apocalypse transported the White House to Cairo, Reagan launched nuclear missiles at the city and realized they could not be stopped.

• Erik silenced Charles and accepted Apocalypse’s invitation, bringing the Hellfire Club into the palace.
• Heisenberg and Gannata watched the unexpected truce and decided to wait overnight before provoking Charles.
• Apocalypse spread his power across Earth, learned of Erik’s hatred for Washington, and proposed enslaving the White House’s occupants.
• Apocalypse moved the White House and its surrounding land to Cairo, shocking the Hellfire Club.
• Reagan ordered a nuclear strike after seeing footage of Cairo and the mutants, then watched the missiles launch.
• Reagan saw Cairo outside the White House windows and realized the missiles were aimed at the city and could not be stopped.

Apocalypse teleported Washington and its people to Cairo, then entertained Magneto by humiliating the president and his officials while enslaving them. Heisenberg and Gannata watched their plan to provoke Jean falter, and Heisenberg decided they would join the banquet and seek another chance to hunt the Phoenix.

• Apocalypse transported the land and people around the White House to Cairo, then brought the president and other officials into his palace and changed their clothes into maid outfits at Magneto's suggestion.
• Apocalypse let Ororo kill the Secretary of Defense to enforce his orders, while Emma took Jean and the other women to the palace's bathing and beauty facilities.
• Emma told Jean she wanted to become Heisenberg's wife and teased Psylocke and Mystique about their attraction to him, calming Jean before she could lose control.
• Heisenberg and Gannata watched Jean's anger subside, then Heisenberg decided to join the banquet and wait for another opportunity to pursue the Phoenix.

Heisenberg joined Apocalypse, Magneto, and the others at a banquet in Apocalypse’s palace, where Apocalypse offered to strengthen their powers. When a nuclear missile targeted the palace, Apocalypse destroyed it and asked Heisenberg’s permission to retaliate against Japan, leaving Charles protesting that Japan had not been proven responsible.

• Gannata brought Heisenberg to Apocalypse’s palace, where Apocalypse ordered Reagan and other U.S. leaders to serve as banquet staff.
• Charles learned from Hank that Heisenberg was the White King, while Magneto tried to keep Charles from provoking him.
• Magneto proposed taking control of Europe and using a Cerebro device to extend Emma’s telepathic abilities, but Apocalypse offered to improve their powers instead.
• Charles spotted a falling nuclear missile, and Magneto said it was designed to evade his control; Apocalypse turned it to powder.
• Apocalypse demanded to know who had launched the nuclear weapons, but Charles refused to endorse retaliation against innocent people.
• Apocalypse asked Heisenberg for permission to destroy a city in the country responsible, and Heisenberg said he disliked Japan; Charles objected that Japan’s guilt had not been established.

Apocalypse argued that humanity had no right to deny him the land he was reclaiming and persuaded the others to choose Tokyo as the target of his retaliation. He promised to announce the plan and spare time for evacuations, then offered to enhance Emma and the others so they could locate Awakened people in Tokyo, leaving Emma confused about whether he truly intended to destroy the city and Yasukuni Shrine.

• Apocalypse challenged Charles to defend humanity's actions and used Reagan's memories to reveal that Reagan himself had authorized the nuclear strike on Cairo.
• Gambit, Quicksilver, Red Devil, and Wolverine chose Japan over the United States as the target, and Apocalypse promised to destroy Tokyo by the following night while allowing Wolverine to evacuate his friends.
• Heisenberg approved Apocalypse's plan so long as no Awakened were harmed, and Apocalypse toasted him and condemned Reagan for lying.
• Emma arrived with Jean and other young women, objected to Heisenberg's attempted subject change, and refused to help identify Awakened people across Tokyo.
• Apocalypse offered to enhance Emma and the others so they could locate their compatriots before Tokyo's destruction, and Emma questioned whether he was serious about destroying Tokyo and Yasukuni Shrine.

Apocalypse enhanced Emma’s powers, then used her worldwide telepathy to announce that he would destroy Tokyo in half an hour. When Apocalypse began enhancing Jean, he discovered a terrifying power within her that erupted in crimson flames, prompting Heisenberg and Gannata to prepare for battle.

• Apocalypse enhanced Emma, letting her transform nearby matter into diamond and extend her psychic reach across the globe.
• With Emma transmitting his voice, Apocalypse declared himself humanity’s returning god and threatened to destroy Tokyo in half an hour.
• Apocalypse told Wolverine that his friends in Japan had time to escape, while Charles condemned the group for accepting the planned destruction.
• Gambit argued that humanity had harmed mutants, and Apocalypse urged Jean to trust her fellow mutants before beginning to enhance her abilities.
• As Apocalypse explored Jean’s power, he screamed that darkness and flames were awakening within her, and crimson fire burst from her body.
• Heisenberg and Gannata recognized the emergence of a powerful threat and moved into combat readiness.

Heisenberg and Gannata trapped the Phoenix fragment erupting through Jean Grey, using Apocalypse as bait and sealing a vast area around Cairo to cut off the Phoenix’s energy supply. Jean had surrendered control to the Phoenix and watched from within herself as Heisenberg prepared to fight it in a space isolated from the universe.

• Jean’s Phoenix Force overwhelmed Apocalypse, while Magneto, Red Devil, and Gambit failed to free him or stop the spreading energy.
• Heisenberg and Gannata arrived in combat armor, and Heisenberg tore Apocalypse free and sent him to Gannata, who ordered Red Devil to evacuate everyone else.
• Heisenberg held Jean and urged her to let the Phoenix take control while she watched from within herself; the Phoenix then burst out and blasted Heisenberg with energy.
• Gannata tore Apocalypse apart and forced him to produce thousands of duplicates, while Heisenberg used Apocalypse’s severed arm to provoke the Phoenix.
• Heisenberg and Gannata established four energy pillars and sealed a cube-shaped area around Cairo, removing its life, matter, and energy and cutting off the Phoenix’s means of replenishment.

Heisenberg and Gannata battled Phoenix in a sealed space while Charles and the others watched Cairo vanish from satellite feeds. Gannata summoned Galactus to confront Phoenix’s enormous projection, and the chapter ended as the two cosmic figures collided and disappeared.

• Gannata used her devouring power to counter Phoenix’s crimson energy while Heisenberg charged Phoenix under an artificial sun and punched her across the space.
• Charles and the others saw the second sun over Cairo and realized the city and the people Apocalypse had transported there had disappeared.
• Heisenberg tore off Phoenix’s head, then used the Life Equation and Anti-Life Equation to disrupt her control of her body.
• Gannata accidentally lifted Apocalypse’s main body instead of a clone, then threw a clone toward Heisenberg as he fought Phoenix.
• Phoenix manifested a massive crimson projection, and Gannata summoned Galactus, whose projection collided with Phoenix’s before both vanished.

Heisenberg and Gannata separated the Phoenix Fragment from Jean Grey and sent it through portals to other universes. After one portal dropped them into Manhattan and destroyed much of the city, Heisenberg caught the falling Gwen before Peter could reach her.

• Heisenberg and Gannata exhausted Phoenix by repeatedly throwing Apocalypse at her, then restrained her while Gannata attacked the Phoenix consciousness.
• Heisenberg punched the Phoenix Fragment out of Jean Grey, and Gannata captured part of it before Heisenberg returned Jean to Berlin.
• Heisenberg swallowed the Phoenix Fragment, and he and Gannata opened a multiverse portal to send it away inside a small sun.
• The portal brought Heisenberg and Gannata to Manhattan, where the sun vaporized much of the city as Electro fled and Peter rushed to save Gwen.
• Heisenberg appeared beside the falling Gwen and told her to trust his arms instead of Little Spider's.

Heisenberg saved Gwen from falling, then left with Gannata and Phoenix after revealing that he had accidentally entered her universe. In another universe’s ancient past, Iron Fist Wu Fengji confronted them, believing Phoenix had found a host there.

• Heisenberg caught Gwen in midair, carried her to a rooftop, and kissed her cheek before flying away with Phoenix through a dimensional portal.
• Gwen reunited with Peter, but he left to help New York after hearing about the disaster; she went home and decided she did not want the life of a hero’s girlfriend.
• Gannata teased Heisenberg for kissing Gwen as they traveled through the dimensional rift and emerged in Earth’s ancient past.
• The Jade Emperor told Fengji that her Iron Fist power was the strongest in history and sent her west to face the crisis awaiting her in Great Britain.
• Heisenberg and Gannata realized Phoenix had stabilized after finding a suitable host, then met Iron Fist Wu Fengji, who greeted them and prepared to confront them.

Heisenberg and Gannata encountered Wu Fengji, who absorbed the Phoenix Force and vowed to kill him after he cut off a lock of her hair and turned it into a powerful binding cord. Back in Cairo, Heisenberg erased Wu Fengji’s memories of him and Gannata, then demanded Gannata hand over her devouring power.

• Heisenberg introduced himself to Wu Fengji, who denounced him and Gannata as heathen and demoness before attacking Phoenix with her Iron Fist.
• Phoenix shattered into fragments and entered Wu Fengji, who sat down to force the Phoenix Force and Dragon Power into submission.
• Heisenberg disrupted the powers shielding Wu Fengji, cut off a lock of her hair, and infused it with Phoenix Force to create a cord capable of binding a multiverse.
• Wu Fengji swore to kill Heisenberg, and Gannata opened a passage that took them back to Cairo.
• Gannata said Wu Fengji had long searched across universes for two important people and suspected they were Heisenberg and herself; Heisenberg paid the system to erase Wu Fengji’s memories of them.
• Heisenberg told Gannata he would seek Wu Fengji out when he was stronger, then demanded that she give him her devouring power.

Heisenberg gained Gannata’s Devouring Authority, then returned to Berlin and declared Jean safe from the Phoenix power. He recruited Apocalypse, ordered Magneto to destroy Tokyo and rebuild it as a Dalian Style City, and warned Charles that war between humanity and the Awakened was inevitable.

• Gannata gave Heisenberg the code for her Devouring Authority, and he absorbed it while discussing their plans to study the Phoenix Force and the Life and Anti-Life Equations.
• Heisenberg returned to Berlin, found Jean asleep underground, and told the others that he had resolved the power inside her.
• Heisenberg offered Apocalypse a place in his camp, and Apocalypse chose to become his subordinate and join the Hellfire Club.
• Heisenberg assigned Magneto to destroy Tokyo and recreate Dalian there, while warning him not to copy its Japanese-style street.
• Charles confronted Heisenberg over the mass deaths and threatened destruction, and Heisenberg blamed Charles’s weakness before declaring war between humanity and the Awakened inevitable.