Free Their Compatriots!

"Charles's dream was wrong!"

"He taught us peace, taught us coexistence, but decades have passed. What did we get? Nothing but discrimination, slaughter, and endless tragedy!"

"From this day onward!" She spread her arms.

"I, Ororo, declare that the infighting among all Mutants ends here!"

"We will unite! We will become one! We will no longer be the side that passively takes beatings! We will take the initiative and wage war against all the old powers that persecute and enslave us!"

"Humans can never coexist peacefully with us! Because they fear us, and they envy us! We are the future of evolution, while they are the past destined to be eliminated!"

"Natural selection, survival of the fittest!"

"This is the universe's only truth!"

Her speech was filled with incitement, instantly igniting the fury and hatred in the hearts of every Mutant present!

They raised their arms and let out deafening roars!

"War! War! War!"

Yet Storm's next words brought everyone's cheers to an abrupt halt.

"I know you are worried. I know you are afraid." Her voice rang out once more.

"But we are not fighting alone. Because we have welcomed a true monarch capable of leading us to victory!"

"He is the oldest and most powerful being in Mutant history!"

"He will lead us in purging this filthy world and building an eternal empire that belongs only to Mutants!"

"Now, let us welcome his return together!"

"Apocalypse!!!"

As her words fell, the space behind the X-Men suddenly began to distort.

A towering figure slowly stepped out.

He was no longer the young child who had needed protection before.

Now, he wore a ferocious suit of blue-black armor. His skin was rock-like gray-blue, and even his lips were an eerie blue.

He stood three meters tall, his muscles knotted and