The Apocalypse Mechanism

During The Evolutionary War , the High Evolutionary plans to rid the Earth of those he feels are preventing evolution. Believing this disrupts the natural order and his own plans, Apocalypse battles the High Evolutionary. This results in a brief fight between Apocalypse and Loki. Apocalypse learns of Sinister's intention to create an adversary powerful enough to destroy him: Apocalypse, viewing him as a threat and realizing that Nathan's energy is the very energy that awoke him all those months earlier, [32] sends his newly formed group, the Riders of the Storm, to abduct the Summers child.

Apocalypse at this time had conquered the city of Attilan , home of the Inhumans , as well as enslaved part of its population. Although Apocalypse is severely defeated, the young Nathan is infected with a techno-organic virus and is sent to the future with a woman named Askani to be cured.

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In the future, Apocalypse has conquered the Earth and ruled until the 39th century. By this time, Apocalypse's body had grown feeble: Apocalypse plans to transfer his consciousness and power into the clone's stronger body, but perishes in combat with the real teenage Nathan. In the present, Apocalypse is prematurely awoken from his regeneration chamber by his Riders now calling themselves The Dark Riders , who inform their master that his Horsemen have kidnapped Cyclops and Jean Grey, supposedly under his instructions in actuality, Mister Sinister, who was posing as Apocalypse.

After a battle on the Moon with his former servants, the Dark Riders who had joined Stryfe , Apocalypse is left for dead by Archangel. The Dark Riders' new leader, Genesis the adopted son of Cable, who had traveled to the present to ensure Apocalypse's rise and exact revenge on his father , plans to resurrect Apocalypse by sacrificing the lives of the people in villages neighboring Akkaba. During this time, Wolverine is held captive by Genesis, who attempts to restore Wolverine's lost adamantium skeleton and turn him into a Horseman as a gift for Apocalypse.

Wolverine breaks free and kills Genesis along with nearly all of the Dark Riders. Genesis had built a sarcophagus with Apocalypse's likeness which is empty, [38] since Apocalypse had already revived [39]. After a long healing slumber, Apocalypse, fully restored, awakens with Ozymandias at his side and quickly learns of the present danger: Once on the astral plane, Apocalypse would remove the captive Franklin Richards , greatly weakening Onslaught. The plan succeeds, but is interrupted by the Invisible Woman , who had invisibly accompanied the pair, having suspected Apocalypse's motive in wanting to actually kill her son.

However, the reprieve in battle gave Onslaught the time to escape, prolonging the conflict. Following the events of the Onslaught saga, the gamma-spawned powerhouse, the Hulk and his human alter ego, Banner, are split into two separate entities: Hulk now draws upon energy derived from Franklin Richards' pocket universe.

Apocalypse recruits the Hulk to become his Horseman, War, with intentions of using the Hulk's nexus-energy to overcome the Celestials. To test this newest recruit, Apocalypse set War against the New World Order, a shadow cabinet organization that intends to conquer the planet. Hulk comes to his senses after injuring his friend, Rick Jones.

Despite this apparent setback, the incident was still a victory for Apocalypse as it was a successful testing of newly understood Celestial technology. Apocalypse activates the self-destruct mechanism on the sword of War, which the New World Order had obtained, destroying their headquarters. The Hellfire Club later awakens Apocalypse's long-hidden Harbinger from its deep sleep: Apocalypse releases his Horseman Caliban and his scribe Ozymandias from his possession, to fend for themselves, if they were to survive the coming events.

Apocalypse then appears, activating a bomb inside the Harbinger which would destroy all of New York, but Cable manages to prevent this disaster. When Magneto is disrupting Earth's magnetic field , Apocalypse sends a Skrull impersonating the mutant Astra having dealt with the original Astra to stop the Master of Magnetism. Intending to start an all-out war between the humans and the subterranean-dwelling Deviants as part of his plan to test the strong, Apocalypse sets off nuclear warheads at Lemuria , causing the Deviants to further mutate which also restores Ikaris' father Virako to life.

Apocalypse launches an attack at San Francisco , using a mentally controlled Deviant, Karkas , now a gigantic monster, that the Eternals are forced to battle.

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Apocalypse is confronted by his centuries-old foe, Ikaris, who now is a Prime Eternal. Although Apocalypse defeats Ikaris, the Eternal still succeeds in destroying his ship and thwarting his plan. Supposedly lost diaries of the mutant seer Destiny surfaced, telling of twelve beings that could defeat Apocalypse once and for all. The Twelve legend was in fact a ruse, orchestrated by Apocalypse himself: The X-Men confront Apocalypse as he is close to merging with Nate, but are unable to stop him.

Cyclops pushes Nate Grey out of the way, merging with Apocalypse instead. Apocalypse hoped to lure the Twelve into empowering him with their energy, but eventually, the mutants realize their true predicament and Apocalypse teleports away. An amnesiac and powerless cyborg Cyclops regains control of the merged form, but Apocalypse begins to re-emerge. Jean and Cable are alerted to his location in Egypt, where Jean in the end manages to free Cyclops by telepathically tearing out Apocalypse's essence from her husband's body, rendering Apocalypse in an incorporeal astral form, which Cable apparently destroys using his Psimitar.

In the aftermath of the " Decimation " storyline, in which most of the mutants lost their powers, Apocalypse was revealed to be alive and well. The techno-organic virus, with which he long ago infected Cable, was revealed to be the means by which Apocalypse's spirit reconstituted itself. With only a drop of his blood into a vat of organs and blood, the virus would rewrite the genetic code of the material within to form a body for Apocalypse. Across the world—helpless mutants slaughtered. Something has woken me from my slumber.

Once, a sudden surge in worldwide mutant power stirred me from a similar sleep. Now—a plummet in global mutant capacity—has opened my eyes. Apocalypse finds himself on a planet with its mutant population reduced to a fraction of what it had been, only a few hundred remaining out of the millions who populated earth prior to his demise at Cable's hands. Reappearing inside a Sphinx -shaped ship, Apocalypse confronts the X-Men with his newly assembled cadre of Horsemen on the front lawn of the X-Mansion.

Apocalypse offers the mutants an elixir: In the end, Apocalypse's horsemen are lost, Ozymandias betrays him, and he is forced to retreat by a combined assault of the X-Men and the Avengers. Ultimately, it is discovered that the Celestials lent their technology to Apocalypse, requiring as payment greater sufferings later. He attempts to embrace death as an escape from his lifelong pact, only to find himself instantly resurrected and hearing a voice: It is time Apocalypse… it is time ". In a future timeline seen in the storyline " Messiah War ", a greatly weakened Apocalypse is attacked by Stryfe and Bishop , but he survives the attack.

Afterward, Apocalypse contacts Archangel in the future and begs him to kill him. Archangel refuses and instead hands over some of his techno organic wing blades to him, telling Apocalypse he no longer holds any control over him. Coming into contact with the blades rejuvenates Apocalypse and he offers to join forces with Archangel to kill Stryfe who is on the verge of killing X-Force, Cable, Bishop, as well as Hope Summers.

Apocalypse releases Hope into Cable's care, but says that he will return for her eventually. Apocalypse then drags Stryfe away, intending to use him as a new host body. In the " Heroic Age " storyline, versions of Apocalypse and his Horsemen from a possible future appear in the Avengers Tower after Kang breaks time itself. After a fight with the Avengers, he and his Horsemen disappear.

Apocalypse's followers, the Clan Akkaba , manage to bring about Apocalypse's return, albeit in the form of a child they will indoctrinate. Upon learning of Apocalypse's return, X-Force seeks to kill him, but when they discover he is a child, Psylocke decides to protect him, believing they can rehabilitate him and train him as a force for good. To the shock of the rest of the team, Fantomex fatally shoots the child.

In a storyline, as X-Force succeed in stopping the Deathloks inside the World , the home of all Weapon projects, it is revealed that Ultimaton , guardian of the World, is keeping watch over an incubating young boy labeled En Sabah Nur, aged days. During the storyline " Dark Angel Saga ", it is revealed that Apocalypse had fathered a son with Autumn Rolfson and she kept this a secret from Apocalypse out of fear of what he would do to him. Genesis is admitted as a student to the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning, where his classmates notice his resemblance to Apocalypse.

En is worried when a visiting Deathlok , who reveals to the students their likely futures, shows reluctance to do so with Evan. When Evan presses him, Deathlok informs him that this is what Evan is at the school to discover. Deathlok then tells Wolverine that Evan has great potential and may be a great savior, or a conqueror. After being called Kid Apocalypse by Kid Omega , Evan begins learning about Apocalypse and is saddened that he himself looks like the villain, raising the possibility of a future that Evan rejects.

After saving Angel and discovering that he possesses the ability to see the essence of those he looks upon, Evan asks him to tell him what he sees when he looks at him. Angel tells En he sees only goodness inside him, which makes Evan happy, so he thanks Angel for being a good friend. In fact, Angel lied, as the only thing he could see was the dark image of Apocalypse. Hoping to sway the boy into becoming Apocalypse, the Brotherhood reveals to him that he is a clone and tells him of X-Force's assassination of the child En Sabah Nur from which he was cloned and the falsehood of his life under the tutelage of Fantomex.

After the Brotherhood reveals that they have killed Fantomex and further tortures Evan, Daken tells En that he has a choice: Daken offers Evan a suit of Apocalypse's Celestial armor to do with what he will, secretly planning to control the new Apocalypse through the psychic abilities of the Shadow King. After Deadpool's failed attempt to rescue Evan, the boy dons the Celestial armor to prevent Wolverine's death at Daken's hands and nearly kills Brotherhood members Sabretooth and Mystique.

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Enraged by the lies he has been told and filled with new-found power from Apocalypse's armor, Evan prepares to attack Wolverine himself, but Wolverine convinces him of the ultimate futility of revenge. Deadpool tells Evan he is not Apocalypse and that Deadpool will always be there for him when he needs him. Later Deadpool enlists Evan and Quentin's help to help him saving his daughter Eleanor Camacho from the Flag-Smasher , with Evan promising Quentin a bloodbath and some action to motivate him. He manages to save Ellie's life and proposes Deadpool to let Quentin erase from the girl's mind every memory of the ordeal.

Deadpool loudly refuses and to Evan's surprise, he hugs him and tells him to stay in school. Deadpool even comments on how changed Evan is. When Havok and Cyclops argue with Steve Rogers and the new Captain America over who should take custody of the body of Red Skull, Evan convinces the Summers brothers that Professor X is dead and they have other problems to deal with.

Acting as Apocalypse, 'En' vows to lead the mutants in an uprising, rallying the converted X-Men into helping him take Avengers Tower—now disregarded by the inverted Avengers after they captured almost all other heroes using Pym particles —to use as the site where he will detonate a Celestial-based 'gene-bomb' to wipe out all humans not carrying the X-gene. At the conclusion of the storyline, Evan is shown on the run with Deadpool.

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During the Apocalypse Wars, the Extraordinary X-Men travel thousands of years into Earth's future in order to rescue Colossus and his team of young mutants after they were investigating the sudden appearance of six hundred new mutant signatures in Tokyo. Arriving into Earth's future, the X-Men found themselves in a destroyed New York City and soon discovered that at some point Apocalypse had risen and what remained of Earth after his ascension became the Omega World, a huge structure composed of bubble worlds.

The ones who survived the Great Trials lived on Omega World under Apocalypse's rule as he functioned as the Omega World's heart, keeping it alive, while his Horsemen functioned as its antibodies, cleansing the structure of anything that could harm their master. Omega World crumbled as the result of Apocalypse being fatally wounded by Nightcrawler.

It's left unknown if this Apocalypse was actually a future version Evan or Apocalypse himself using a new host body. Apocalypse is later revealed back on Earth, no details about what the Celestials did to him were revealed, and is shown performing experiments to create an immortal vessel which he can then use as a host for his vast power and consciousness by utilizing a modified ancient Celestial technology known as the Finch, which can repair genetic decay.

His efforts are not in vain, as he begins to impose his own consciousness onto a human test subject, the fourth attempt, lending it his own regenerative powers to withstand the assault. However, the test subject resists the process, causing a massive chain reaction that bathes Apocalypse and the subject in a wave of energy. Apocalypse's mind and body are torn apart. He finds his mind wandering to that of his birth before his being is fused, mixed, and exploded along with this human form.

Once the wave subsides, Apocalypse finds himself in a strange new land that he deduces was the result of the explosion within the Celestial machine that must have caused a dimensional rift which threw him into another dimension. He also discovers that his body has changed as well.

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Not only does he discover that he can bleed, something that should be impossible with his injury-resistant mutant physiology, but after a fight against a resident of the twisted dimension, which he was able to defeat, Apocalypse learns that his body is actively refusing physiological mutation. Needing to breathe air for the first time in centuries, he comes to a shocking truth as he watches his hand turn from its usual mutated appearance back to a human form.

He and other apes are tortured with the Finch, which was recovered and repaired by the human test subjects. When test subject D experiments on Apocalypse, he uses the last of his mutant power to try to transfer his mind into D and is finally able to possess him which restores Apocalypse to his former glory.

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Apocalypse was soon afterward captured by some mysterious force and is being held captive along with Kitty Pryde and anti-mutant senator Ashton Allen. Apocalypse is an ancient mutant born with a variety of superhuman abilities who further augmented himself after merging with Celestial technology.

He is an immortal being, [90] with total control over the molecules of his body, enabling him to alter his form as it suits him, [91] such as allowing his body to become extremely malleable and flexible, enhance his physical abilities, transform his limbs into weapons, wings, or jets, regenerate from fatal injuries, generate a wide range of powers at will, and adapt his body to apparently any disease or hostile environment.

Thanks to the aid of his mutant abilities allowing him complete control over his body, special "regeneration" chambers, [93] Celestial technology, [94] and changing bodies, Apocalypse has further enhanced his abilities and now he can generate almost any mutant power at his will. Frank Tieri , Interview about X-Men: Apocalypse vs Dracula [95]. Aside from his superhuman powers, Apocalypse is extraordinarily intelligent [96] and a scientific genius with knowledge in various areas of science and technology including physics , engineering , genetics , and biology , all of which are more advanced than conventional science.

Apocalypse is also a skilled demagogue and a master strategist. Apocalypse's blood can heal other mutants, but is fatal for humans.

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The Apocalypse Mechanism by J. Brilliant New Orleans Professor James Beauregard's life is spiraling into complete despair when a startling discovery is made halfway across the globe that requires his expertise. Is there really an ancient machine that could push civilization into the throes of oblivion?

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Will he find the key to stopping the world's oldest weapon of mass destruction, or will the Cult's wish to purge all evil be the Earth's demise? Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Apocalypse Mechanism , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The Apocalypse Mechanism. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jan 25, Susan Hampson rated it it was amazing.

So I met this unlikely hero of this novel on the day he wished to die, not that he didn't wish to die every day, because all he seemed to live for these days was the thought of ending it all. He owned a magnificent house and a family business both left to him from his father in his Will, as well as following his dream into a career that he loved, but it wasn't enough. Not after a terrible accident had robbed him of his wife and child the year before.

So gun in hand and a belly full of whisky h So I met this unlikely hero of this novel on the day he wished to die, not that he didn't wish to die every day, because all he seemed to live for these days was the thought of ending it all. So gun in hand and a belly full of whisky he would end it all, but the phone rang. It did for Dr. James Beauregard too, a professor of ancient history. This is quite an awesome adventure, I just kept getting visions of Harrison Ford and Karen Allen, from Raiders of the Lost Arc, taking the lead roles in my mind.

This book is steeped in history and ancient religious sects, well a particular one but Joshua Richardson makes it all so very fascinating that I hung on to every word. The good guys are amazing and the bad guys are frighteningly believable. This is a story of ancient tombs and prophecies that are about to be enforced on an unsuspecting world. A race against time to prevent actions being put into motion that will result in the end of the world as we know it. Nov 28, Steven Smith added it. A short while ago J. Richardson contacted me through the blog, asking if I would like to read and review his latest book, The Barataria Key which is published on December 21st.

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Early on Richardson introduces the mystery that unravels throughout the book. The core characters are introduced and built upon cleverly, slowly layering up their subtle intricacies allowing the reader the chance to feel like they really get to know the characters. This really hit home when I found myself rooting for them when things really went against them.

The mystery that they unravel was made more plausible because it is rooted in history, and the author went to good length to explain the history well enough to build a good level of context to things. However accurate or embellished the history may be, Richardson presented it witch such confidence as to imply a great amount of research had been done in the writing of the book.

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