Chapter 93: Fighting the Apocalypse

Chapter 93: Fighting the Apocalypse

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1st September 2005, Valley of Kings

(Jean Grey POV)

Magneto's mind was unprotected and Jean delved towards his mind and similarly to what she did to Angel, she destroyed the bindings on his mind. As she did so, the master of magnetism overwhelmed her and successfully summoned his helmet to him and put it on. He groaned as he held his head, "Thank you, girl. You have freed me," he said to her.

Jean sighed in relief, she had successfully broke Apocalypse's control over Magneto.

That's all of them gone. They just needed to take out the last guy and get the Professor.

Logan limped towards Magneto, "Do you remember what happened when you were under Apocalypse's mind control."

Magneto responded, "It's a little fuzzy," then his eyes widened, "we need to stop him."

Mystique looked worried at his frantic tone, "What is he planning?"

"It's about the pyramid, that's his goal. There's a temple underneath with some sort of mythical artifact. I'm not sure of the specifics but Apocalypse seems to think that he would easily win if got inside. The pyramid is just the key to enter the temple. We have to destroy it."

Storm interjected, "What about the Professor."

"He was in some sort of telepathic battle against Apocalypse. I don't know what happened but from the looks of it he was losing. Apocalypse is planning to use him as a weapon, a psychic enforcer with a permanent access to Cerebro. He would root out any thoughts of rebellion in Apocalypse's rule. A couple of hours ago he did something to anger Apocalypse. They went together in the pyramid, I'm not sure what happened to him after that."

"He's still alive," Jean spoke up, "I sensed his mind inside the pyramid. We just have to go get him."

"Trust me, young one," Mageto answered, "there are things far worse than death."

Jean felt a shiver run up her spine at the master of magnetism's answer. The certainty in his tone as he said that was a testament that he, in fact, experienced things worse than death. Could he be talking about being under Apocalypse's control.

Suddenly, a loud gong sound happened and Jean knew that something had happened. She turned towards the sound. It came from the Pyramid. It was fully built and it looked inhumanly perfect. Anything being built in the world has imperfections; it's a testament of the humanity of its builders. But the pyramid in front of the redhead was so perfect that it could have been in a geometry book. Considering Apocalypse's molecular manipulation, Jean had no qualms believing that the fist mutant had built this structure without a single molecule out of place.

The top of the pyramid then started to have some sort of orange glow. The glow took the shape for ancient Egyptian symbols that Jean didn't understand. The glow was slowly moving down towards the base of the pyramid, revealing more symbols on the surface of the pyramid.

"The pyramid is built. We only have minutes before it's charged up. We need to get destroy it now."

He raised his hands, and Jean thought he looked constipated. She snorted in amusement; he's a lot less terrifying when he's on their side.

"I can't take control over the metal. There's something blocking me, protecting the pyramid."

Logan sighed, "Alright, we'll do it the hard way. Cyclops, send your strongest attack at the pyramid."

"Yes, Logan," Scott confirmed on the comms.

Suddenly, a huge red beam of concussive force appeared and hit the pyramid. The impact was so violent that the entire view of the giant structure was veiled by dust and sand.

The first mutant then ran at tremendous speed towards Beast kicking him towards a rock who started to envelop him as if it was a liquid. He was then attacked by Mystique who shared a similar fate.

He then raised his hands, creating a giant hand made of sand that grabbed the flying Angel and pulled him into the ground and imprisoned him in sand.

Jean cursed, in a few seconds, they lost their front line team except for her. All that was left of their team was Scott, Blob, Avalanche and her. That's it. This team could barely handle Logan, let alone someone like Apocalypse. The redhead wasn't above saying that she froze in fear as Apocalypse looked at her, an angry expression on his face. Damn, did Logan's hit piss him off that much.

Of course, the rest of her teammates came in charging at him. Blob was first and tried to punch Apocalypse. The punch landed but the aged mutant didn't move. Apocalypse responded with a punch of his own, sending him flying towards Lance, knocking them both out.

Jean readied herself to fight him, resigning herself into a similar fate as her teammates. Scott then ran in front of her, "Don't worry, I got this Jean." He really was an idiot, wasn't he? There's something deeply wrong with that boy.

He then threw a concussive blast at Apocalypse who just used his force field to protect himself and kept moving forwards. Scott kept the concussive beam going, screaming as he probably powering it up with everything he had. However, Apocalypse kept walking forwards unbothered by the assault on his shield.

When he was almost a foot in front of Scott, he just punched him, sending him flying away, knocking him out.

All that was left was Jean and Apocalypse.

Her opponent leapt in the air, preparing to punch her and she created a telekinetic shield to protect herself. The impact caused an entire shockwave in the sand. However, neither of them had moved. Surprisingly, the shield held. Apocalypse was surprised as well, considering the slight widening of his eyes. Jean took that as a distraction and banished him away from her with all her might. The man was only sent back for a dozen yards and was still standing.

Jean was too tired now; she had never exerted herself that much in her life. Nothing prepared her for this. She prepared herself to fight Apocalypse. She knew that it would be in vain but she will go down fighting.

However, a giant beam of light, going into the sky from the top of the pyramid. Apocalypse froze, "Finally, it is time."

He just used the sand to transport himself towards the pyramid.

They had failed the pyramid was charged.

"Jean," the redhead heard from the comms, "I got the Professor out, he's asking for you. He says that he has a plan."

Jean immediately responded, "Take me there."

This was her chance for getting her answers. Even if she dies, she wants to know the truth.

Jean felt Kurt's teleporting her to a small cave where the Professor was lying down, "Jean," he spoke to her, "I have a way to fight Apocalypse, a last resort if you will."

"What do you mean, Professor, we lost."

"He still hasn't gotten the artifact yet. Until he does, we still have a chance."

Jean gave him an incredulous look, "Everyone is down. We have no chance."

"There's still us, my dear."

"You want to fight him telepathically?"

He smiled sadly, "Something like that."

Before she could register, Jean felt an attack on her mind. She didn't know what it was doing. Was this the Professor?

The last things she hears was the Professor's sad tone, "I'm sorry Jean, but this is the only way."

After that, her world was enveloped with flames.