The battle raged on fiercely, to say the fight wasn't going very well for the mutants would be an understatement. It was all they could to keep themselves from getting killed. The sounds of battle could be heard echoing through the sky as time started ticking away for the teams.
Wolverine, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Ryu, and Peyton all carefully entered the Sphinx, all on the look out for Mystique. None of them liked how quiet it was, just then they felt a slight tremble and knew that something big had just powered up. Suddenly Mystique showed up out of nowhere morphing herself into a swarm of bats.
"Nightcrawler teleport yourself and Peyton to the other side of that door and see what you can do to slow Apocalypse down the rest of us will take care of Mystique and then join as soon as we can." Wolverine ordered.
Not arguing Nightcrawler grabbed Peyton's arm and teleported them in to the room where Apocalypse was working. Not happy about the interruption Apocalypse quickly incapacitated the two. Finished dealing with the intruders Apocalypse powered up The Eye of Ages and entered it. As he laid in the 'Eye' a bunch of lights shot out of him and shot upwards in a crazy manner until they hit a bunch of points on a holographic grid of earth that was being displayed above him.
Apocalypse started transferring his DNA through the lights, creating a huge black void around the earth. Fierce storms raged all around earth in various locations. The process of transferring his DNA caused Apocalypse a great deal of pain, but he knew it was a small price to pay for the new evolution of man.
After several moments of not hearing any thing from the other side of the door Ryu was beginning to get worried. Leaving Wolverine and Cyclops to deal with Mystique, Ryu quickly phased through the door and stopped short when he found Nightcrawler and Peyton's bodies. Kneeling down Ryu prayed he would find a pulse for both of them. Finding they both had slow but steady pulses Ryu let out the breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding.
Standing up Ryu moved farther into the room. Taking in the layout of the room Ryu soon found himself standing on the edge of a deep pit. Looking down he spotted both Apocalypse and the Eye of Ages. Immense amounts of energy surrounded Apocalypse and the 'Eye'; Ryu could tell he was almost ready to activate the 'Eye'.
Gathering up all of his energy Ryu prepared to throw everything he had at Apocalypse, but was stopped cold when he was hit by a telekinetic blast. Even though Apocalypse was in the 'Eye' he was still plenty capable of using his powers to defend himself. Ryu pulled himself up off the ground and once again charged up, throwing everything he had at Apocalypse.
The fight seemed to go on forever no matter what Ryu threw at him Apocalypse always seemed to find a way to turn that force back on Ryu. Beginning to feel tired and light headed Ryu knew he'd pushed his powers to their limits and just as he was starting to lose hope Wolverine, and Cyclops burst into the room and joined in the fight with Apocalypse. Giving a quick glance through the hole Cyclops had made through the door Ryu noticed a small group of mutants, he couldn't tell who though, dealing with Mystique.
Taking a moment to regain his strength Ryu watched as Apocalypse battled it out with the other two. Watching Ryu realized Apocalypse's powers didn't seem to be has powerful as they were when fighting him, that's when it dawned on Ryu: Apocalypse was some how drawing on his powers to amplify his own. With out Ryu in the battle Apocalypse had no one to draw power from.
Reaching into one of his pockets Ryu pulled out the small lead box Sam had been using to hold a small chunk of Naquadria. Something had told Ryu he would need the Naquadria, so before leaving the SGC he stolen a small piece. Ryu knew what he had to do, how to stop Apocalypse once and for all.
Ryu knew if there was no energy in his body Apocalypse would have nothing to draw on when Ryu came closer. Opening the box Ryu immediately felt the effects the Naquadria was having on his body. Knowing he would get only one shot at this Ryu held on tight to the Naquadria and ran to the edge of the pit, throwing himself over the edge.
The Naquadria combined with immense amounts of energy was too much for the 'Eye' causing it to become unstable and begin pulling itself apart. The energy consumed the 'Eye' Apocalypse, and Ryu and the entire Sphinx began shaking as the intensity of the power grew.
All the mutants hurriedly cleared out of and away from the Sphinx and watched as a giant explosion of energy consumed the Sphinx. The explosion was so huge and bright everyone watching was forced to turn away and shield their eyes, when they turned back they saw that where the great and magnificent Sphinx had once stood was nothing but a large pile a ruble.
With the destruction of the Sphinx the hold Apocalypse had, had over the Professor, Magneto, Mystique, and Storm disappeared and each was given back control of their own minds. When the explosion died down SG-1 and Jacob hurried off the helicopter and joined the small group of mutants gathered around the ruble. They were all frantic with worry about Ryu.
"Damnit were is he?" Jack growled when they couldn't find Ryu.
Seeing the look in Wolverine's eyes Jacob answered, "He made a his sacrifice, the greatest sacrifice any one could make he gave his life in order to stop Apocalypse."
Tears filled the eyes of everybody present as Jacob confirmed what they had feared, Ryu was dead he'd given his life to save them all. There was no fighting the tears and sorrow that washed over the group. Seeing the pure anguish on Peyton's face Jacob pulled the girl into comforting hug, even though he'd only met her a few hours ago the old man already had a soft spot for the girl in his heart. He hated having to see her lose the man she was so deeply in love with.