Phase 16 (The Apocalypse)
Spider-Man: Enter Sandman
Storm: Mistress of the Elements
Starjammers
Legend of the Wolverine: Deathstrike
Fantastic Four: Infestation
Iron Man 10
X-Men: Apocalypse Now
New Warriors: Salem
Alpha Flight: Battle of the Atlantic
X-Force
Avengers: Destiny War
Spider-Man Enter Sandman: Everyone's favorite Spider-Man returns in yet another adventure, this time against an unlikely villain: the Sandman. William Baker was just your average run of the mill crook, until one day as he escaped prison he fell into an atomic particle testing facility. As the facility was testing sand, the molecules of sand and the molecules of Baker came together, creating the Sandman.
With the ability to take on the form of sand, Sandman was suddenly able to enter banks he never thought accessible, all so that he could rob them and use the money to try and fund his child support so he can see his daughter. But unlike Scott Lang, Baker takes it too far when he murders a bank teller to get access to a bank. Fortunately, this also allows the cameras to get a good look at his face, and with his name now plastered throughout New York City, Spider-Man takes it upon himself to stop this villain.
As Spider-Man hunts after the Sandman, Baker recruits one of his friends from his time in prison to help him rob even more banks: Morris Bench. Heading to the same testing facility where he was transformed, Baker throws Bench in, but also notes that they are testing water instead of sand. The molecules combine, and Bench is transformed into Hydro-Man.
So, with two superpowered criminals on the loose, Spider-Man does his best to combat them alone, taking them on in their next big heist. However, they escape through the bathroom, and even with the money safe, the villains are still at large. As these villains can't be contained by mere webbing, he invents electric and incendiary webbings..
Then, through tracking the city's flow of water, he discovers the hideout of Sandman and Hydro-Man: a construction yard where they can look inconspicuous. Spider-Man heads in and duels against the two, eventually defeating them both individually, only for them to combine their bodies together as Mudman. While in the Mudman body however, the mind of Baker begins to realize all the terrible things he's done, and he decides to repent. Taking entire control over Mudman, Baker shrinks them down, and allows the body to be contained within a storage capsule. The two are then taken to prison, still combined as one.
After credits scene:
Peter Parker is in biology class when the principal walks in.
Principal: "Unfortunately, Mr. Warren is taking a leave of absence. We have a substitute here, and know that Mr. Warren will return."
Outside of the classroom, Miles Warren is shown with a locket containing the face of Gwen Stacy. He then crushes it in his hand.
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
Mudman is shown in their capsule, and the water and sand are slowly separating to different sides of the capsule. The face of Sandman is shown on one side, and the face of Hydro-Man is shown on the other.
Screen cuts to black.
Storm Mistress of the Elements: Ororo Munroe was born as a link of two worlds: a mother from an African tribe of blue eyed, white haired women, and an American archaeologist father. Though Ororo was born in America, she soon moved to Cairo before she turned one, and her parents died when a plane crashes into her house at age 5. She was then adopted by a thieves guild who raised her to be a master pickpocket.
Only when she reached puberty did she abandon this life and hunted for information on her family. Along the way, she meets a man who detects her on his trip to Egypt: Charles Xavier. He then reads her mind, allowing her to find her mother's original tribe. She returns to this tribe, and during this time she learns she is a mutant. As her abilities to control weather come in, Ororo takes on the name Storm and is worshipped as a Goddess by her tribe. With her help, the tribe prospers as frequent rainfall triples their crop production, and her lightning control holds off enemies.
However, she soon learns that she is not the only mutant, and there is another mutant who wants to take her place as the village object of worship: Mzungu. This energy absorbing mutant believes that if Ororo were to have her energy absorbed by him, he would become immortal and he would gain her powers, making him a literal God.
Storm tries to stand up against this villain, but finds herself unable to stop his chaos. So, Storm calls upon the man who helped her long ago: Charles Xavier. He agrees to help and sends his best students: the X-Men, specifically Cyclops, Jean Grey, Gambit, and the new recruit Bobby Drake, the Iceman. Together, they manage to freeze Mzungu for long enough to force him to absorb too much energy and explode. Thus, Storm's village is saved, but she doesn't want to be a god anymore, and chooses to come alongside the X-Men to Xavier's school.
After credits scene:
A shot of San Francisco is shown at night. Suddenly, an angelic figure with large wings is shown flying off the Golden Gate Bridge.
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
Storm is shown taking a backpack to a locker, which she opens, revealing her classic X-Men costume.
Screen cuts to black.
Starjammers: Years ago, Christopher Summers, father of Cyclops, was abducted by the aliens known as the Shi'ar, and saw his wife murdered when he tried to escape the slave pits. Sent to another world, Christopher tried to stop the beating of a feline woman, only to be beat himself, and eventually, helped other members of the slave pit escape aboard a ship and form the Starjammers.
The team is composed of Christopher Summers, who now calls himself Corsair, his new lover Hepzibah, the reptilian Ch'od, the powerful Shi'ar Korvus, and the last member of his own race Raza Longknife. Together, this group is an immense powerhouse of pirates intent on ending the Shi'ar Empire.
Recently, they found themselves a new member floating about space looking for a cause: Carol Danvers, now calling herself Binary. With Binary joining their quest, they journey to a Shi'ar world where the strongest of their Imperial Guard have assembled. So, as a way to show the galaxy that the Shi'ar are truly meant to fall, the Starjammer challenge the leader of the Imperial Guard, Gladiator, and his fellow members to arena combat. They of course agree, and the teams are set. Going against the Starjammers are Gladiator, Astra, Electron, Fang, Flashfire, and Manta.
During the arena combat, the Starjammers are able to defeat Electron and Fang, but see Raza lose to Manta. However, during the break period before Gladiator and Corsair are to fight, Manta heads backstage and tries to assault Corsair so that he is weak for the fight. Corsair calls out this attack in the arena, but Gladiator doesn't seem to care. The audience, however, wished to see a fair fight, and Gladiator is shamed for allowing his team to taint it. As a result, his powers start to weaken as he loses self-confidence, allowing Corsair to beat him.
Thus, only Binary and Flashfire are left, which ends with Binary destroying Flashfire. So, the Starjammers have won, and the arena's audience knows how strong the "best warriors of the Shi'ar" really are. But when the group tries to leave the planet, they are chased after by Gladiator, who wants vengeance.
The group then has a dogfight with him in space, ending with him crashing towards the planet, and the Starjammers escaping to fight another day.
After credits scene:
On Earth, a young child is shown at Xavier's school for the gifted when he is abducted into a Shi'ar ship. Two crewman approach.
Crewman 1: "Gabriel Summers, you are to be returned to D'Ken of the Shi'ar. Please come quietly."
Gabriel: "Leave. Me. Alone!"
Gabriel then explodes into fire and the ship ignites. Gabriel is then seen flying through space.
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
D'Ken is shown on his throne, with Warbird at his side. A guardsmen approaches.
Guardsman: "Emperor D'Ken, the Imperial Guard was defeated in arena combat by the Starjammers."
D'Ken: "Execute one of them so the others learn not to fail again. And get me information on these Starjammers. I will have them dealt with."
Guardsmen: "Right away, Emperor."
Warbird then looks to her husband and smiles with evil intent.
Screen cuts to black.
Legend of the Wolverine Deathstrike: in World War II, Kenji Oyama was terribly scarred during a failed suicide attack. As a result, he felt great shame in this, and threw himself into his work, creating a method for Adamantium to be grafted to someone's bones. Along with this, he had a daughter: Yuriko Oyama, who he scarred to show his ownership over. He would then bond adamantium to her, granting her incredible strength and endurance. However, he would later be killed by an explosion in one of the tanks, coating him in adamantium and suffocating him.
So, his daughter decided to become an assassin dedicated to killing all those who brought shame to her family's honor. One of those people is Colonel William Stryker, who led the Weapon X Department and stole her father's greatest work. Tracking him with an adamantium tracker, she hopes to find him, but comes across the Wolverine instead.
During their fight, Deathstrike is mortally wounded, as she has no healing factor herself. She is then found by Stryker, who takes her to Alkali Lake, where he grants her powerful cybernetic implants, including one that controls her thoughts. Along with this, he coats a set of claws he has extracted to create another assassin: X-23. This girl, created from the DNA of Wolverine, has been trained to be the ultimate killer. Now, with adamantium claws and a triggering scent that causes her to enter a murderous rage, Stryker sends Yuriko and X-23 to kill Wolverine.
The two find him, and though he is unable to kill either of them, he is able to escape them after they throw him off a mountain. As he recovers on the side of the mountain, with only his basic skills, Wolverine receives a call from Charles Xavier, who tells him that if he wants to do real good, he should come to his school to join the X-Men. Wolverine then explains that he works with nobody and for nobody, followed by him being attacked by Yuriko, now codenamed as Lady Deathstrike, and X-23.
Meanwhile, Xavier explains that Wolverine will always be hunted unless he has others to protect him, and that this is the best way to maintain that protection. Wolverine disagrees, but has little time to respond as he is fighting. During this fight, Wolverine chops off Deathstrike's arms, leaving her powerless in the snow while he fights X-23. He then throws her from the mountain, and after Xavier says he can help Wolverine remember his past, draws him to the mansion.
At the mansion, Professor X revives some of Wolverine's forgotten memories of his time at Weapon X, but this is paused as Wolverine detects X-23 entering the building. He and the professor journey to the front door, where she is waiting. Before she can attack, however, Professor X wipes her memory. Thus, he admits the mind wiped X-23 to his school, and accepts Wolverine as an X-Men.
After credits scene:
In Japan, the body of Lady Deathstrike is seen on an operating table. Her body is being re-assembled, and in the shadows, Silver Samurai's armor stands.
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
Professor X enters the room the X-23 only to see the window open and the bed empty. He then shakes his head and leaves.
Screen cuts to black
Fantastic Four Infestation: On a space station circling Saturn, a team of astronauts has called in an emergency to Damocles Base, which has been answered by the Fantastic Four. The four fly to Saturn, where they dock with the station and meet with the only survivor: John J Jameson III, son of J Jonah Jameson of the Daily Bugle. When the Fantastic Four ask about what the emergency beacon was about, Jameson explains that some creature has snuck aboard and killed every crew member except him.
Johnny, of course, thinks that this will be easy for someone with his abilities, but little does he know how wrong he is. However, the rest of the team, remembering their run-in with Annihilus, is more cautious and orders a lockdown of the ship. This fails, though, as the ship misunderstands their request and locks each team member in a different section of the ship. To get back together, they have to reach their reset switches to deactivate their lockdowns.
They soon find out, though, that the alien is in Jameson's section, as it kills him. It then breaks through the steel of the wall to attack Sue, who surrounds herself in a force field. Thus, the rest of the team has to reach their switches before Sue runs out of oxygen. During this chase, they find Jameson alive, having activated his reset switch just in time. But when the team has only one reset switch to activate, Jameson's secret is revealed: he is dead, and his body is being paraded around by the parasite inside him, which bursts out as a new alien.
With only seconds left, the team opens the doors distracting the alien long enough for Sue to escape, as well as long enough for the new alien to realize it can't burrow itself into Ben. The four meet in the dining hall, where they see the dead bodies of many of the station's crew: all torn open by parasites, confirming that there are more than two aliens present. This becomes even more clear as the aliens then start pouring into the room, until Johnny goes supernova while Sue shields her teammates, actually killing a few of the creatures.
After close examination in the sealed medical bay, the Fantastic Four see that the aliens are all controlled by one point: a queen. Coining the term and calling the aliens the Brood, the Fantastic Four head out towards the very core of the ship, where they believe the Brood Queen is lurking.
This turns out to be correct and by the end of the final battle, the queen has been roasted thoroughly and the station is destroyed, preventing the Brood from leaving the station and infecting Earth at the cost of all the research done by the crew.
After credits scene:
The space station is shown crashed on Titan. The body of John J Jameson III is then touched by the hand of a Titan, who heals him and brings him back to life.
As he is brought back, he is stabbed by a terrigen crystal.
John Jameson is then surrounded by a rock cocoon, which eventually breaks around his face, revealing wolf-like eyes.
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
Sue Storm is seen in the bathroom, while Franklin sleeps in his bed. She then looks at a home pregnancy test and to her shock, it is a positive: Sue is pregnant once more.
Screen cuts to black.
Iron Man 10: Tony Stark returns as the invincible Iron Man, ready to face off against another impossible challenge. Unbeknownst to Tony, however, his previous escapades have been closely monitored by one man: The Controller. Once a scientist known as Basil Sandhurst, the Controller uses both his own technology and that of Zeke Stane to create his many creations, from exoskeletons and full body suits to mind control collars. His plan is simple: take control of New York City through his collars, and use the people as an army. However, he has to beat the one man smart enough to stop him: Tony Stark. Thus, he studied him closely, following each event Tony participated in and researching his vast array of Iron Man suits.
Now that he's ready, the Controller gets on live TV, offering a challenge to Tony: come stop him in the news station, or everyone there dies. Tony arrives in his newest Iron Man suit, the SKIN armor, but finds himself out-classed, as the Controller is able to disable the suit's arc reactor with a single hand gesture on live TV. It seems as though this discredits the Iron Man, and the Controller is shown throughout the city as an unstoppable force of destruction. The Controller comes back on TV, however, and shows that he doesn't plan to kill all of New York City, but wants to save it from itself. He then explains that he will stop at nothing to take control of the city's population and ensure that no crime occurs ever again. Tony then goes on TV, saying he will stop the Controller, though no one believes him anymore.
In an attempt to overpower the Controller, Tony reassembles the Iron Legion: War Machine, Rescue, Force, Hogan, and Cabe. This, however, is just as ineffective, as the Controller is also able to disable their suits with relative ease. With little recourse left to take, Tony goes back to the drawing board, watching the footage of the Controller beating him over and over again. That's when he sees that the Controller is directly interfacing with the arc reactor from his own suit, and that through Zeke Stane's technology, he can disable it remotely.
So Tony designs a new armor that connects directly into Tony's body and powered by his own energy: the Prometheum Armor. Heading back to fight the Controller, Tony is fortunate in that the suit is now immune to the Controller's tricks. With this armor, he is able to beat the Controller and ensure the freedom of the people of New York City.
After credits scene:
Stark is in his lab when he is approached by Dr. Hank McCoy, better known as Beast.
Stark: "Dr. McCoy! Great to see you!"
Beast: "Thank you, Mr. Stark. What is it you wished to see me about?"
Stark: "I was speaking with the professor about the Avengers and said I thought we should get some mutant representation on the team. He recommended you for the team."
Beast: "I'd be honored, Mr. Stark."
Stark: "Welcome to the Avengers, Dr. McCoy."
Screen cuts to black as the Avengers theme plays.
After credits scene 2:
Tony is working on a new Iron Man suit, one which is labeled on his computer as Sentient AI Test 151. Suddenly, the armor lights up.
Screen cuts to black.
X-Men Apocalypse Now: Thousands of years ago, a man named En Sabah Nur was born as the world's first mutant in Egypt. He was treated as a God and spent his time growing his power, including obtaining Celestial technology that he wore as an armor. Naming himself Apocalypse, he would have his four horsemen follow him through his countless battles, killing all who opposed him. Then, he needed to regenerate his body, and entered a slumber. He has now awoken in modern times. He then assembles a group of four horsemen composed of Autumn Rolfson as Famine, Plague as Pestilence, Abraham Kieros as War, and Warren Worthington III as Death.
With a team of four powerful horsemen, Apocalypse hopes to rid the world of the weak to pave the path for the strong by bringing about armageddon. This won't be allowed, though, by one team who learns of his plan: the X-Men. When Professor X detects a powerful mutant in Egypt, he sends his X-Men (now composed of Cyclops, Storm, Iceman, Jean Grey, Wolverine, and Rogue) there to see if they can recruit him to their side.
What they find, however, is a powerful mutant who has no regard for human life, who kills without any care, and is willing to sacrifice entire nations to push his ideology. This is even more clear when he attacks the United Nations with his horsemen, having them maraud and raid the summit, to show humanity that even united, they are powerless to stop the coming of Apocalypse. Apocalypse then uses his power of telepathy to locate the strongest telepath on Earth: Jean Grey. Seeing in her a power untold of, he wishes to grant himself that power so that he may cleanse the Earth.
Heading to Xavier's mansion, Apocalypse kidnaps Jean, taking her back to Egypt to his pyramid, where he begins the ceremony of transferring her energy to him. Apocalypse soon realizes, however, that even his sway is not permanent, as Death, now calling himself Archangel, turns on him, giving the X-Men enough time to enter the chamber. Inside, they see Jean's powers unleashing, and finally, she explodes, using her immense power to drain Apocalypse of his strength, rendering him a weak and defeated creature, with no ability to rise. Thus, the world is safe thanks to the X-Men.
After credits scene:
Apocalypse's defeated body is shown lying in the pyramid, when suddenly Mister Sinister arrives.
Sinister: "En Sabah Nur, you shall be the first of a new breed of mutant. The Apocalypse will come, but not from you."
Screen cuts to black as Sinister laughs.
After credits scene 2:
Jean is shown sleeping in her bed, and in her dreams, a fiery form of herself is fighting against her, trying to break loose.
Screen cuts to black.
New Warriors Salem: The New Warriors are back (now composed of Richard Rider, Firestar, Speedball, Justice, Rage, and Sun Girl) to fight evil. This involves the team being called to the town of Salem, where they have been told supernatural villains have been appearing. When the team arrives, they find seven Witches and Wizards that they attack. However, they soon see that they're wrong and that these aren't the attackers of Salem, but in fact the protectors.
These seven, known as Salem's Seven, called upon heroes to help them fight an evil force of demons that keep arriving in their town. Suddenly, a group of three armor-clad beings teleport in, claim that the blood of Salem is tainted, and call out that they intend to cleanse it. During the fight, these creatures tell Justice of how they once tried to help mankind, but were betrayed. They then recoil in disgust when Justice uses his powers, claiming he is tainted by other-dimensional power. Finally, Justice is able to break off the helmet of one of the villains, revealing a hairy humanoid, followed by the three teleporting away.
Justice, taking a hair left on the ground, travels with the rest of the New Warriors to the Baxter Building, where they request Reed Richards look into the species they came from. Reed, having traveled through time during his journeys with the Fantastic Four, realizes just what these beings are: the Evolutionaries, a race that came before humanity who were given intelligence and powers by the Eternals to complete a very special mission for them. This mission turns out to be to protect the most advanced race of humans, who in modern time, happen to be mutants. Believing that the only way to save the mutants would be to destroy the rest of humanity, the Evolutionaries are clearly misguided, as Justice points out.
The group is then alerted by Speedball, who didn't join them at the Baxter Building, that an Evolutionary arrived in a subway station and started killing. The New Warriors reach this location to find Speedball fighting the being, to little effect. With the combined work of the team, they blow off his chest piece, allowing Nova to shoot himself right through its torso. As the team heads back to the Baxter Building, the chest plate is found by a teenage gang member: Trey Rollins. Seeing this as his ticket out of the slums, he tries to pawn it, but accidentally activates it and has it attach to his chest, giving him the armor of Aegis. The New Warriors track the energy surge and find Aegis, who wishes to join the team. They accept, and hunt after the energy signatures, finding the remain two of the Evolutionaries on an island, where they have kidnapped an inhuman, mutant, and Atlantean.
They are then met with High Evolutionary, now evolved to his full form again, who explains that after he evolved back to his original state, he was contacted by the Celestials, who told him they were to judge Earth and they expected only one dominant species: humanity. Thus, he researched and awoke the Evolutionaries to cleanse the planet in time for their arrival. By the end of the conversation, High Evolutionary surrenders, seeing the planet as doomed, regardless of what he does. So, the world is saved by the New Warriors, with their newest member, Aegis, alongside them.
After credits scene:
High Evolutionary is shown in Prison 42.
Evolutionary: "Exactly as planned. Escape the Celestial's wrath, return after they wipe out humanity, and return a conquering hero."
He then smiles.
Screen cuts to black.
Alpha Flight Battle of the Atlantic: Alpha Flight is back with a slightly smaller roster of Guardian, Aurora, Northstar, Sasquatch, and Snowbird while Shaman helps the First Nations repair from the Great Beast attacks. Along with this roster, a new member has risen up the ranks of Department H to join Alpha Flight: Marrina. Now on Alpha Flight, she has again started hearing messages from something calling itself the Master of the World. This, of course, draws her attention, as she first heard this voice when it told her to join Beta Flight. So, she requests time off to investigate this voice, which the team agrees to, and Marrina heads to the center of the Atlantic, where an alien starship is floating.
When Marrina enters the ship, she finds a man named Eshu, who calls himself the Master of the World. He then explains to Marrina that thousands of years ago, he was a simple hunter-gatherer who was abducted by a species known as the Plodex. The experiments lasted centuries, and while they granted him immortality, they were so excruciating that his rage allowed him to escape the confines of his cell, murder every Plodex on board, and take over the ship. However, when he landed the ship, he was unable to leave, so for the next ten thousand years, he released a distress signal from the ship, waiting for a Plodex to rescue him. This call was answered by Marrina, and due to her naivety, she frees him. She soon learns that, after thousands of years, he began to see humanity's evolution of civilization as a failure, and he now wishes to cleanse the planet of all modern civilizations and replace them with Stone Age societies.
As Marrina calls Alpha Flight for help, she is injected with something by Eshu, who transforms her into a feral monster. Alpha Flight fortunately heard her call for help and arrive, entering the ship, only to find feral Marrina attacking them. They manage to subdue her, but come face to face with Eshu's true power. Wearing an alien suit of armor, Eshu has incredible strength and endurance, as well as alien weaponry like laser beams and particle cannons. The group does their best to defeat him, but the only result is the explosion of the ship, and while Alpha Flight escapes it with Marrina, so does Eshu.
Now free of the ship, he tries to use his armor's power to raise the ocean, only to realize he needed the ship to do so. He is then arrested by Alpha Flight, and when Marrina awakens, her feral side has been undone. Thus, the world is safe again at the hands of the Canadian superteam, Alpha Flight.
After credits scene:
Guardian is shown walking into his house, kissing his wife.
Heather: "Glad to see you back! How was today?"
Guardian: "You...you have no idea…"
Heather: "But I could...I spoke with your boss today...he offered me this…"
Heather then holds up a female version of Guardian's suit.
Guardian: "They...they gave you my suit?"
Heather: "They made a newer version of your suit for me! That way we can fight crime and evil together! Isn't that great?!"
Guardian looks concerned, but then smiles.
Guardian: "Yeah...yeah! Welcome to Alpha Flight, Heather Hudson!"
Heather: "I even thought of a good name! Commander Canada!"
Guardian: "Um...we'll work on it…"
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
Shaman is shown in the center of a First Nation village with a hardhat on, guiding the people around him. He is then approached by two men with a totem pole.
Shaman: "Excellent, please place it here."
The two men place the pole.
Shaman: "Actually, place it to steps to the left."
The men then move the totem.
Shaman: "Actually, the spirits are telling me it should be four steps to the right."
The men then move the totem.
Shaman: "Wait wait wait! Two steps to the left."
The men then move the totem.
Shaman: "Wait...ugh...this could take a while…"
Screen cuts to black.
X-Force: Ever since Apocalypse rose up, Professor X has been speaking about creating multiple teams of mutants. The first one he wants to try is a more extreme and violent team to deal with more violent situations. This team is known as X-Force, and who better to start the team than two of the most dangerous mutants the professor has seen fight for good: Wolverine and Deadpool.
While Wolverine agrees, Deadpool is reluctant to join, at least until the professor ponies up a paycheck for each contract completed. This appeals to Deadpool so much that he offers two other mutants he knows who can join the team: Cable and Domino. With four people joining the team, Professor X recruits two other mutants: the Native American tracker Warpath and the flying Archangel. With these six members, X-Force is created as the more aggressive younger brother of the X-Men.
Their first mission is to travel to a faraway island where a mutant army is being built by some force that Professor X can't contact telepathically. Assuming it is a declaration of war or this is another Magneto scheme, the professor authorizes X-Force, and the six head out. When they reach the island, they find this massive mutant army, calling itself the Mutant Liberation Front. Kidnapping the terrorist officer Wildside, the team interrogates him, learning that the MLF is headed by some being that calls itself Stryfe, and that their goal is to build up an army of mutants strong enough to wipe out non-mutants. Deadpool then kills Wildside, and the team move farther into the island.
They eventually reach the inner-compound, where they find the MLF leader Stryfe. To their surprise, and Cable's surprise even more, the team learns that Stryfe is actually Cable. Cable then forgoes his mission and contacts Stryfe directly, to the team's dismay. Stryfe then explains that he is a clone of Cable, created in case the techno-virus that infected Cable killed him, but when it didn't, Stryfe was abandoned, and grew to loathe Cable.
Tracking him to this time period, Stryfe planned to destroy it, along with Cable, and rule it as his own world.
The team tries to fight him, but he is far too powerful to be beat by the standard conventions. Thus, Cable sacrifices his one lifeline back to the future, and sticks it directly through Stryfe. Sending him forward permanently, Cable defeats Stryfe, as he can no longer time travel, and is stuck in the future forever. Thus, X-Force returns, their first victory achieved.
After credits scene:
Members of the MLF are shown being shipped off from the island. One of them is dressed as an Asgardian. She then turns her head, showing herself off as Danielle Moonstar.
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
A Weapon X facility is shown, with a large steel crate in the center of the facility. There is a loud growl from within, with two glowing red eyes.
Screen cuts to black.
Avengers Destiny War: The Avengers return with a new roster (Captain America, Iron Man, Beast, Ant-Man, Rick Jones, and Spider-Woman). Due to his obtaining of the Destiny Force, Rick Jones has joined the team, and is now able to go back and forth between his Destiny Force powers and his gamma irradiated form of A-Bomb.
This team is just doing their normal patrols when they are contacted by someone they thought was long gone: Kang the Conqueror. Though the team initially fights him, Kang stops, saying he did not break out of the Negative Zone just to be defeated and thrown back in. The reason he escaped, as he explains, is that there is a disruption in the timeline that if not stopped will destroy everything. He tells of how the Council of Kangs, a group assembly of a multitude of Kangs across various realities, broke him out to correct an issue in the timeline: Immortus. He then says how Immortus is a time-traveler who has gone back to Ancient Egypt and become a pharaoh, and how he intends to kill the mutant Apocalypse in the time period, thereby altering the entire course of history. If he does this, then humans won't reach the Industrial Revolution, which first began when Apocalypse's technology was discovered. So, Kang offers a deal: he will send them back in time in exchange for the ability to take Damocles Base into the future where he can die an honorable death. As Beast points out, though this would mean SWORD would lose their greatest tool, Earth would lose one of its greatest threats.
Agreeing, the team is brought to Ancient Egypt by Kang, where they see Apocalypse ruling over his subjects, asking for a sacrifice in his name. One of the onlookers begins to approach him, and Kang makes it clear that this person is Immortus. Apocalypse tries to sacrifice Immortus, only to have the knife slip right through him. Suddenly, Immortus attacks Apocalypse while his allies cause a panic in the crowd and distract Apocalypse's four horsemen.
The Avengers spring into action and try to beat Immortus, but Apocalypse sees them as enemies and has his four horsemen attack them. In the end, Apocalypse is able to defeat Immortus, but not without many of his followers seeing that other god-like beings attacked him, and thinking that is proof of Apocalypse being a false god. Thus, a massive riot begins, with the crowd calling for the death of En Sabah Nur.
As Apocalypse backs into his pyramid, Immortus begins to regain his strength and pushes Apocalypse in, crashing the pyramid on top of him. Kang, seeing that this is not the point where Immortus must be stopped, brings the Avengers five years into the future, where Immortus has declared himself Pharaoh and has been living as a god-king for this time. They also see that Immortus has started digging for Apocalypse, trying to find his Celestial armor. That's when Kang realizes this is the event that needs to be stopped.
Thus, the Avengers attack Immortus, while Kang prepares a time portal. The battle rages for minutes, but eventually, the Avengers are able to throw Immortus into the future. In modern time, Immortus reveals his true identity: Kang. The allied Kang then explains that in a century, he would age and become Immortus, but wished to stop this one from preventing him from going back in time and finding Apocalypse's armor. So, the two Kangs fight, and eventually, Iron Man opens a portal, casting them both to the Negative Zone.
After credits scene:
An Asgardian male is shown in a dark prison when suddenly, the door opens, allowing him to walk out.
Unknown: "The All-Father returns."
Screen cuts to black.
After credits scene 2:
A serpent is shown on the ground, slithering. Suddenly, it jumps at the camera, and the logo for Avengers: Fear Itself is shown.
Screen cuts to black.