As Storm expected, Mallory breezed through the first three levels of simulations, impressed by her effortless flying and fighting techniques. She had clearly earned her level six status through her capabilities of electrical field manipulation and electric constructs, which Storm found interesting as she had never come across someone who had such a broad range of power which could be used for each mutant and robot simulation as well as in each altered landscape simulation.
"Next…" Mallory shouted out as the last simulation fell out of the sky and disappeared before it hit the ground. Storm looked down at the control panel in front of her as she had placed herself in the observatory above the training room, she twisted a dial a click to the right and an automated voice echoed through.

Level Four beginning in three, two…

The landscape transformed into a city that had been left to ruin, with skyscrapers ablaze and thick smoke coating the ground. The heat from the buildings burnt against Mallory's face as she felt the energy of her power pulsating through her veins, she loved the rush it gave her and more recently she had begun to crave it more than ever. Remembering the years she had spent encased in what felt like a tomb helpless and repetitively abused in more ways than she could ever imagine, provided substance into her yearning for a chance to prove to herself that she was able to be more than just an experiment. She wanted to forget her vulnerability, her weaknesses, the pain that was currently taking hold of her heart and her head.
Gradually, she detected the movements of a new animations both mutants and sentinels with an assortment of new and more difficult powers for her to combat. She grinned to herself as she elevated herself into the air and used her powers to create an electrical exoskeleton around her body as armour.
The mutants came first, racing towards her from every direction. She threw a bolt down towards the ground which hit and then rippled out across the floor like a tidal wave, covering them and causing them all to collapse onto the floor, shaking violently as the electricity forced its way through their bodies.
The heightening hum of the sentinels that were closing in on her echoed through her chest, she could count four of them although she could feel that there were more encroaching. She looked up at them and saw that they were at least thirty foot high, so she flew up so she had a better perception of them as she calculated imminently how she could defeat them, when suddenly she felt an unbearable sharp pain in her head and she felt herself get drawn back somehow, even though she was not moving.

At the point, Storm saw Mallory still remaining hovering above the sentinels but her arms were beginning to develop an illuminating blue skin and her eyes growing black. Her brow furrowing in concern as she allowed Mallory to continue - unaware of what was happening in Mallory's mind, until the control panel abruptly began to spark and the lights inside the observatory flashed and short-circuited.
"What the hell…?" panicked Storm, as she covered her face to protect her from the sparks. She looked back through the glass to see Mallory's encircling her body with a blue aura that was growing larger and larger quickly, whilst lifting up her hands and throwing them to her side, causing the closest sentinel to be thrown into the sky like a ragdoll. Suddenly the aura expanded in a flash and caused all the sentinels and remaining mutants to disappear into tiny fragments.
"Next!" Mallory growled loudly, but her voice was not her own. It was a deep, dark echoing voice that escaped her lips. The blue skin slowly developing down her legs and up towards her chest.
"Something isn't right Mallory, we need to terminate now!" Storm shouted out over the sparks.
"I said…next!" the voice boomed, shaking the training room and the observatory. But before Storm could answer, Mallory lifted up her hand towards the observatory and twisted her wrist, turning and breaking the dial that was on the control panel in front of Storm.

The simulations from the previous level reanimated and extra copies spawned around them, which caused Storm's heart to race as she knew that she herself would be incapable of anything of that quantity on her own, but Mallory's face remained placid as she raised her arms up into the air. The sound of electricity crackled around the landscape as the enemies surrounded her.
The buttons on the control panels began to flash and a loud siren began to ring to warn the rest of the school above that it was getting severe. Storm attempted to fix it but was instantly thrown back as the electricity inside it shocked her.
"Mallory stop now!" Storm shouted at the top of her voice, but knew that it was useless, as the blue skin was now reaching her neck.
Just as the sentinels were about reach her, everything in the training room and observatory fell silent as the only noise was the power radiating from Mallory, the skin finally encasing her face. She leant backwards whilst still hovering in the hair and inhaled deeply as she roared out something that shook Storm to her core.

EN SABAH NUR.

With that, everything in the room dissolved into atoms in a split second, as well as the radiating skin that was covering Mallory. The electricity that encircled her disappeared as her head fell back limply as she became unconscious. As her body began to fall lifelessly to the floor, the main doors opened and Jean lifted up her arms and halted her only a few feet off the floor before gently placing her down. Storm eventually appeared down in the training room, looking incredibly dishevelled with tiny grazes over her arms and face.
She kneeled down next to Mallory, and brushed her matted brown hair out of her face.
"What the hell happened?!" snapped Scott, appearing behind Jean as he looked around at the large black marks across the walls.
"Pietro was right Scott…" Storm mumbled, her hands trembling as it began to set in what had happened. "It wasn't her…she changed halfway through – I saw it happen…it was so powerful"
"Tell me about it, the whole school shook from it…" he sneered, quietly.
As Hank came running in with Bobby and Colossus, Storm looked up at him and felt her chest tighten up as he looked down at her and gasped.
"I think I know who it is…" she mumbled, as Hank met her eye line. He knew instantly who she was talking about and felt his body go cold in dread.

We have finally introduced Apocalypse!
He is still in Mallory's subconscious, but we are beginning to see how he is easily able to take over her when using her powers.

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MH x