Recaps

Professor Jackson discovered Apocalypse’s Golden Pyramidion beneath an Egyptian courtyard, while James Howlett faced Carter Slade’s Ghost Rider to obtain the Contract of San Venganza. After James survived the Eye of Judgment and subdued Carter, the dying Ranger gave him the Contract, leaving James to question the nature of gods, devils, and souls.

• Professor Jackson explained the ancient Apocalypse symbol to Egyptian followers, who led him underground to see their Golden Pyramidion.
• James Howlett asked Carter Slade for the Contract of San Venganza so he could draw Mephisto into Earth’s physical dimension and hunt Him.
• Carter transformed into the Ghost Rider and challenged James, who defeated him and endured the Eye of Judgment.
• James used Flail to extinguish Carter’s Hellfire and return him to his frail human form.
• Carter revealed the Contract hidden in a shovel and confessed his past service to the devil before he and his horse crumbled into ash.
• James took the Contract and Carter’s badge, questioned the Ancient One about gods and souls, and inscribed a memorial to Carter on the gravestone.

Professor Carlisle Jackson uncovered a legend that Apocalypse lay buried beneath an ancient Egyptian ruin, but his efforts to persuade the followers to stop digging ended when sunlight activated a Golden Pyramidion. The buried Apocalypse stirred as a powerful force swept across the world.

• Professor Carlisle Jackson pieced together the legend of En Sabah Nur, the first Mutant, who became Apocalypse and was buried with his Four Horsemen during a rebellion.
• Jackson urged Sened and the other followers to excavate the ruin more quickly, but Sened insisted they had to keep its secrets from outsiders.
• Sened threatened Jackson with a pickaxe after deciding the professor was an outsider, and Jackson fell through the covered entrance into the ruins.
• Sunlight struck the Golden Pyramidion, which trembled and sent golden light and threads streaming through the cave.
• A force surged out from deep beneath the earth, and Apocalypse stirred in the silence of the ruins.

Jean Grey experienced visions of apocalyptic disasters and unleashed a powerful force in the training room while James Howlett and other powerful figures sensed a disturbance. Deep underground, an ancient armored being awakened, emerged from the ruins, and ordered Professor Jackson to kneel.

• Jean Grey cheered Laura on as she fought Sharon Rogers, but visions of disasters suddenly overwhelmed Jean and a force sent Kurt teleporting away.
• James Howlett felt a foreboding while he and the Ancient One watched Johnny Blaze mourn his father, and Charles, Emma, and Magneto also sensed a disturbance.
• An ancient armored figure awoke deep underground, repelled the stone above him, and vanished in a burst of purple-red light.
• An earthquake collapsed the ruins where Professor Jackson and the Apocalypse worshippers had gathered, and the figure appeared in the courtyard.
• The armored stranger spoke ancient Egyptian to Professor Jackson, who fell to his knees after hearing, “Mortal, kneel.”

Apocalypse awakened in ancient Egypt and slaughtered his followers before ordering Professor Jackson to take him to Wong. At Superhuman Academy, Jean Grey’s vision of an apocalypse triggered a dangerous power surge, and Emma recognized that Jean had seen real scenes of the coming disaster.

• Apocalypse emerged from the collapsed cave and turned the kneeling followers into sand statues after condemning them for speaking his language.
• Apocalypse asked Professor Jackson what era it was, then ordered him to take him to Wong.
• Jean Grey lost control in the academy’s training room, and Laura braved Jean’s destructive force to wake her.
• Emma examined Jean, heard about her vision of collapsing mountains and splitting earth, and reassured her before sending the children away.
• Emma scolded Laura for recklessly taking injuries, then realized Jean’s vision had shown scenes of the apocalypse.

Apocalypse awakened in Cairo, absorbed modern knowledge, and took Professor Carlisle Jackson to witness the creation of his new order. Meanwhile, Mephisto offered Johnny Blaze his father’s soul in exchange for retrieving a contract, leaving Johnny to consider the deal.

• Apocalypse crossed Cairo’s streets and used a television shop’s electronics to absorb human history and knowledge through modern signals.
• Apocalypse told Professor Carlisle Jackson that mortals were unworthy of speaking his name, then teleported away with him to witness the rebuilding of his kingdom.
• After Apocalypse vanished, black smoke spread among the onlookers, causing hundreds of people to sicken, bleed, and suffer rotting flesh.
• Johnny Blaze rode across a Texas highway after burying his father and called for Mephisto to appear.
• Mephisto offered to return Johnny’s father and free him from the devil if Johnny retrieved a contract, then waited for his answer.

Mephisto transformed Johnny Blaze into a Ghost Rider and sent him to retrieve the contract in San Venganza. At the ruins, James Howlett and the Ancient One watched Johnny arrive while discussing the limits of seeing the future, and James asked her to summon reinforcements.

• Mephisto used Hellfire to transform Johnny Blaze into a Ghost Rider and ordered him to retrieve the contract and San Venganza.
• Johnny Blaze's motorcycle transformed into a flaming hellish bike, and he rode toward San Venganza.
• The Ancient One activated the Eye of Agamotto as she and James Howlett watched the ruins from a hillside.
• James asked whether the Time Stone could reveal every possible future, and the Ancient One warned that seeing outcomes could change them and cause new dangers.
• James saw that the Ghost Rider contract lay exposed inside the ruined church and asked the Ancient One to call in reinforcements.

James, Emma, Charles, and the Ancient One prepared to confront Mephisto over the Contract of San Venganza, while Johnny Blaze retrieved it from the ruined town. Mephisto took the contract and stripped Johnny of the Hellfire, then faced the Ancient One in the Mirror Dimension.

• Emma and Charles arrived at the New York Sanctum Sanctorum, where Sorcerer Matt and the other sorcerers prepared to take them to San Venganza.
• James and Emma discussed their suspicion that the strange power they had sensed was connected to mutants as Johnny Blaze entered the abandoned town.
• Johnny found the Contract of San Venganza in the ruined church, and Mephisto appeared and explained that it held the souls of the town's inhabitants.
• Johnny refused to hand over the contract until Mephisto showed him Barton Blaze's lifeless soul, then Mephisto swallowed the contract.
• Mephisto tore away Johnny's Hellfire and sent him through a portal before the Ancient One emerged to confront him in the Mirror Dimension.

James Howlett and the Ancient One fought Mephisto inside a vast Mirror Dimension while Kamar-Taj sorcerers and Charles Xavier worked to contain the battle. As James began wearing down the Hell Lord, Apocalypse returned in Egypt, destroyed the Giza monuments, and set out to find gifted children for his knights.

• Kamar-Taj sorcerers, Emma Howlett, and Charles Xavier helped stabilize the Mirror Dimension as the Ancient One faced Mephisto with James Howlett.
• James attacked Mephisto with his Bone Blades and Gang Qi, while the Ancient One fought beside him and the Hell Lord summoned waves of infernal creatures.
• Mephisto tried to break out by hurling powerful fireballs at the Mirror Dimension, but Emma and Charles reinforced its barrier and the Ancient One warped the space to keep him trapped.
• The Ancient One teleported James in front of Mephisto, and James dragged the Hell Lord back into the fight as he continued trying to exhaust him.
• Apocalypse stood atop the Khufu Pyramid with Professor Jackson, declared his return, and destroyed the pyramid complex before departing to find gifted children for his knights.

Apocalypse traveled to England’s Mutant Affairs Center and awakened Caliban’s powers, naming him the Pestilence Knight. Caliban told Apocalypse about other powerful mutants, and they set off for Siberia to seek more Horsemen.

• Director Garfield interviewed Caliban and asked him to demonstrate his ability to detect mutants.
• Apocalypse appeared at the center, sensed Caliban’s potential, and teleported to the recruitment office.
• Apocalypse awakened Caliban’s strength and fear abilities, causing him to grow into a powerful giant and frighten Garfield to death.
• Apocalypse named Caliban his Pestilence Knight and asked him to identify powerful mutants.
• Caliban mentioned Erik Lehnsherr, Rasputin, Wolf Tower, and an academy, then followed Apocalypse through a portal to Siberia.
• James Howlett continued fighting a devil lord in the Mirror World.

James and Ancient One fought Mephisto in the Mirror Dimension, where the demon transformed into his immense dimensional true form. James revealed his Six-Armed Wolf King Mystic Art and amplified his power, leaving the battle poised for another round.

• Ancient One supported James as he pinned Mephisto and battered the demon, who regenerated from his injuries and taunted James about the gods.
• Mephisto grew horns, restored his arms, and expanded into his nearly twenty-meter dimensional body, while James's attacks failed to stop him.
• Ancient One struck Mephisto with Saboteur's Thunder, but he knocked her aside and trapped James between his palms without crushing him.
• James revealed the Six-Armed Wolf King Mystic Art, using four extra energy arms to resist Mephisto and wrench his finger until the demon fell.
• James formed a Mystic Arts array that multiplied his strength and grew his body, then challenged Mephisto to continue the fight.

James and the Ancient One bound Mephisto inside the Mirror Dimension and began exhausting his hellish energy so the Vishanti seal could imprison him. As their God Hunt continued, Steve Rogers discussed a strange case with Peggy and Raven outside the Mirror Dimension.

• James held Mephisto back with Crimson Chains while the Ancient One bound him with dozens of mystic chains.
• Mephisto revealed that the Ancient One had been drawing power from Dormammu’s Dark Dimension, but she stayed silent and continued restraining him.
• James gouged out Mephisto’s right eye and rejected his attempt to turn James against the Ancient One.
• The Ancient One explained that they needed to deplete Mephisto’s energy before she could seal him with the Seal of the Vishanti.
• James and the Ancient One attacked the bound Mephisto together as hundreds of Kamar-Taj mystic masters supported the God Hunt.
• Outside the Mirror Dimension, Steve Rogers discussed a strange case with Peggy and Raven at the Order Whip headquarters.

Raven and Alex led an Order Whip team to investigate Jason Stryker, whose psychic illusions had trapped his mother and spread across a Louisville neighborhood. They found that his powers had harmed over a thousand people, and the chapter ended with Jason collapsing under Lazaro’s attack as Raven called for emergency services.

• Raven and Peggy briefed Steve on the Louisville incident and revealed that Jason Stryker was the son of William Stryker.
• Steve approved Raven joining Alex’s team to investigate Jason, a minor whose unstable psychic powers might require academy discipline or confinement.
• Jason struggled to keep his mother, Marcy, immersed in an illusion while exhaustion and the surrounding disturbance overwhelmed him.
• Raven, Alex, and Lazaro arrived in Wolf Fang wearing brainwave isolation helmets, and Lazaro used his power to make Jason vomit and collapse.
• Raven called for police and emergency services after learning Jason’s illusions had affected over a thousand people, causing deaths and lasting mental damage.

While Laura and her friends were caught trying to skip class, Silver Fox redirected them toward a lesson about Rasputin. Meanwhile, Apocalypse and Caliban traveled through Siberia to find powerful mutants, and Apocalypse condemned mutants who accepted life under human rule.

• Laura finished reassuring Emma, then invited her friends to plan an outing instead of attending class.
• Silver Fox caught Laura, Jean Grey, Kurt, Warren Worthington, and Jubilation Lee preparing to skip class and told them to attend a history lesson about Rasputin.
• As the children learned about Rasputin’s rise and death, Caliban told Apocalypse the story while leading him across Siberia toward a village of mutants.
• Apocalypse mocked Rasputin for serving a mortal ruler and declared that mutants were born to rule while ordinary humans were their slaves.

Apocalypse found Alexandra Rasputin and her son Peter in Siberia, transformed Alexandra into his War Knight, and took them with him. Meanwhile, Bucky reviewed Jason Stryker’s case and sent him to Wolf Tower before summoning LeBeau for a fight.

• Apocalypse subdued Nikolai and learned that Alexandra Rasputin and her son Peter were being treated as bargaining pieces by the man she called her cousin and husband.
• Apocalypse transformed Alexandra into the War Knight, increasing her power to Alpha Level 5 and forging armor for her and Peter.
• Apocalypse led Alexandra and Peter through a portal, leaving their village destroyed.
• Bucky reviewed Jason Stryker’s file and ordered him transferred to Wolf Tower after learning his illusions had harmed thousands of people.
• Bucky told a guard to bring LeBeau so he could spar with him.

Remy LeBeau fought Warden Barnes in Wolf Tower, showing how much he had improved while imprisoned. Barnes stopped Gambit’s strongest strike with a Mystic Art of Lord Wolf, and the chapter ended as a portal opened above the prison.

• Guards escorted Remy LeBeau from his cell to meet Warden Barnes, and Gambit complained about his isolation and asked to be moved nearer the new prisoner.
• Barnes removed Gambit’s energy-suppression armor and offered better living conditions if Gambit could hurt him, along with a possible reward if he won.
• Gambit charged his staff with mutant energy and attacked Barnes, forcing the warden to dodge and block rather than take the blows directly.
• Gambit feinted and thrust at Barnes’s chest, but Barnes summoned a blood-red energy shield that stopped the attack.
• Barnes countered with an Adamantium short sword, while guards discussed how Lord Wolf’s Mystic Art could be learned through the Killing Technique path.
• A purple-red portal opened above Wolf Tower with a thunderous crash.

Apocalypse and his Riders found Wolf Tower and forced open its Vibranium entrance. Bucky emerged to confront them, and Apocalypse reacted with fury to the power of a man without mutant abilities.

• Alexandra Rasputin and Apocalypse reached the Arctic island after Caliban sensed Wolf Tower and unusual mutant presences beneath the ice.
• Apocalypse pulled Wolf Tower's entrance out of the ice while Bucky defeated Gambit in a sparring match inside the prison.
• Wolf Tower's alarms sounded, and Bucky armed the Frost Guards and led them toward the surface.
• Rasputin failed to open the Vibranium gate with her spatial powers, so Apocalypse unlocked it with telekinesis.
• Bucky emerged from Wolf Tower with a blazing crimson aura, and Apocalypse felt insulted by the power of an ordinary human and prepared to kill him.

Apocalypse and his two knights attacked Wolf Tower Prison, where Bucky and the Frost Guards fought back. Apocalypse crushed Bucky and headed underground, but Bucky’s skull began to regenerate as the chapter ended.

• Bucky ordered the Frost Guards to fire on Apocalypse, and Rasputin deflected their attack with her spatial powers.
• Bucky fought Apocalypse in the air while Caliban’s Mental Plague weakened the guards, but the Winter Wolves resisted and attacked the knights.
• Rasputin killed several guards with spatial distortions, while Bucky activated James Howlett’s Six-Armed Wolf King form and struck Apocalypse.
• Apocalypse immobilized Bucky and crushed him inside a mass of stone, then healed Rasputin and Caliban after the fight.
• Apocalypse led his knights into Wolf Tower Prison, and Bucky’s shattered skull began to move.

Apocalypse led Caliban and War Rasputin in breaking into Wolf Tower, freeing its prisoners and urging them to overthrow the human-led order. After mutant prisoners slaughtered the human inmates, Apocalypse unlocked Gambit's power and offered him a place at his side.

• Caliban and War Rasputin gathered Wolf Tower's prisoners in the training grounds after killing the guards and freeing the inmates.
• Apocalypse introduced himself as En Sabah Nur, freed the prisoners' restraints, and declared that mutants would rule while humans became slaves.
• Old Snake killed Fatso, and mutant prisoners attacked and killed the human inmates as Apocalypse watched.
• A mutant prisoner attacked the pale young man, but the attack turned against him and killed him.
• Apocalypse lifted Gambit into the air and unlocked his power, raising it to a level Caliban thought might be the peak of Level 5.
• Gambit removed his Vibranium suppressing armor, looked at Apocalypse, and sighed.

Apocalypse transformed Jason Stryker and the prisoners into his Horsemen and led them through a portal, while James Howlett battled Mephisto in the Mirror Dimension. Ancient One sealed Mephisto, but Zarathos’s spirit and Hellfire possessed James, leaving her to try to separate them.

• Apocalypse named Jason Stryker the Horseman of Famine and transformed him and the other mutants into armored Horsemen.
• Apocalypse opened a portal to a golden plain and led the prisoners through, leaving corpses behind in Wolf Tower.
• James Howlett continued weakening Mephisto, who released Zarathos’s spirit and Hellfire into James.
• Ancient One completed the Seal of the Vishanti and imprisoned Mephisto on Earth.
• Ancient One rushed to James and tried to tear Zarathos’s soul and Hellfire out of him.

After Apocalypse’s attack on Wolf Tower left Bucky and Old Wolf among the few survivors, Magneto learned that the mutant prisoners had been taken and set out to confront the intruder. Meanwhile, Apocalypse began remaking Cairo, declaring that his dynasty would rise again.

• Bucky survived the blizzard, found the badly injured Old Wolf, and carried him back into Wolf Tower.
• Bucky and Old Wolf mourned their fallen comrades and anticipated the Wolf Lord’s furious response.
• Alex found Erik Lehnsherr in seclusion near the North Magnetic Pole and told him that Apocalypse had breached Wolf Tower and taken the mutant prisoners.
• Erik learned that his father was away dealing with dimensional demon gods, then left with Alex for New York to act against Apocalypse.
• Apocalypse stood over the captured mutants and ordered his dynasty to rise again, causing Cairo and the Giza Plateau to collapse and transform.

Erik and the Order Whip team prepared to confront Apocalypse, but Azazel arrived and joined them as Apocalypse expanded his reach across the world. The chapter ended with an armored man confronting Apocalypse and asking him to judge his talent.

• Erik rejected Steve's nickname for him and insisted that Order Whip could face Apocalypse without mobilizing Wolf Nest or Winter of the Wolf.
• Bucky tore off his empty sleeve and declared that the undead of Frost Guard were ready to fight, while Erik revealed he was just short of completing his secondary mutation.
• Azazel opened a portal into the council chamber and urged the team to handle Earth's problems while James fought aliens.
• Old Snake and Caliban captured Ororo and other mutants for Apocalypse's divine kingdom, while Apocalypse used Jason Stryker's power to draw mutants worldwide through portals.
• Apocalypse ordered Caliban to select gifted mutants and children, then a red-cloaked armored man emerged through a portal and challenged him to assess his talent.

Erik Lehnsherr and Apocalypse began a destructive battle in the royal palace as the Order Whip and Apocalypse’s forces fought across the capital. Steve Rogers, Bucky, and their allies faced the Horsemen and former prisoners, and the fighting remained unresolved.

• Alex, Raven, and the Order Whip forces attacked Apocalypse’s prisoners in the plaza while Erik confronted Apocalypse in the palace.
• Erik reclaimed Bucky’s Adamantium arm with magnetic force, and Bucky reattached it before Erik and Apocalypse exchanged threats.
• Apocalypse attacked Erik, who resisted with an electromagnetic field and began crushing Apocalypse’s armor and the palace around him.
• Apocalypse shielded Jason Stryker and fought Erik in midair while Gambit challenged Bucky and Steve on the palace floor.
• Bucky fought Gambit as Steve charged Apocalypse’s former prisoners, including the poison-using mutant Caliban.
• Azazel failed to breach Apocalypse’s shield around Jason and was drawn into a spatial battle with Lady Rasputin.

Laura Howlett realized an unknown force was abducting mutants through portals and followed them into Apocalypse Royal City, with Jean Grey close behind. There, Erik Lehnsherr pierced Apocalypse with Adamantium blades while Order Whip forces struggled against controlled mutant civilians.

• Laura woke Jean Grey from mind control, then charged through a portal after her nephew Kurt and the other abducted mutants.
• Jean Grey overcame her hesitation and followed Laura through the portal into Apocalypse Royal City.
• Erik Lehnsherr battled Apocalypse above the plaza, using his electromagnetic power to control Adamantium blades and metal structures.
• Apocalypse ordered Famine to turn the controlled mutant civilians against the Order Whip forces, and Alex Summers ordered his team to kill attackers without mercy.
• Apocalypse trapped Erik in an energy attack, but Erik struck him with Adamantium blades accelerated by the planet's magnetic field and declared that the true Progenitor had paved the way for a third mutation.

Erik Lehnsherr and the others battled Apocalypse and his Horsemen in the pyramid palace, while Steve ordered a retreat and Raven infiltrated the hall. The chapter ended with Apocalypse ordering Rasputin to stand down so he could face Steve himself.

• Erik Lehnsherr wounded Apocalypse with Adamantium shuttle spears, but Apocalypse regenerated and teleported past his attacks.
• Steve Rogers defeated Caliban as Old Snake escaped, then called for Azazel and the others to end the battle quickly.
• Azazel used a falling stone beam to attack Rasputin, but she survived by warping space around it.
• Steve ordered Alex and the team to retreat through Azazel's portal while Banshee's sonic attack struck the evacuation.
• Raven revealed that she had reached the hall and disguised herself, while the illusion-controlled mutants gathered outside the sealed entrance.
• Apocalypse told Rasputin to stand down and prepared to fight Steve.

Steve, Raven, and Azazel subdued War Knight Rasputin and her son Peter awakened a steel body, while Steve confronted Jason Stryker. Apocalypse defeated Magneto and intervened before Steve could kill Stryker, leaving the two powerful enemies facing off.

• Raven revealed herself after impersonating Apocalypse and knocked War Knight Rasputin down, while Azazel and Steve helped capture her.
• Peter Rasputin protected his mother from Azazel, and his body transformed into steel when Azazel's tail struck him.
• Steve and his allies confronted Jason Stryker as Angel Salvador attacked, and Azazel incapacitated her while the group hurried to stop Stryker.
• Apocalypse broke through Magneto's defenses and incapacitated him with a hidden power, while Steve and Azazel brought down the pillars supporting Stryker's platform.
• Steve broke through Stryker's energy barrier and attacked him, but Apocalypse stopped Steve and carried the still-breathing Magneto toward the ruined throne.