NARRATOR: Previously on X-MEN...
CABLE: He's in the pyramid, forcing life through those decaying veins of his.
APOCALYPSE: Your attack was foreseen.
I allowed you to get this far so I might gain the one great power I lack,
a passport to the dimension of time.
SHARD: Forge, what is it?
FORGE: There is a massive impediment in the time stream.
SHARD: Bishop!
Call me Bender, so few do.
But that's because you're the only other one here.
But how did I get here?
Through the Axis, how else? All time travelers pass through there.
Anyone knows that.
(SCREAMING)
JUBILEE: The Nasty Boys got Jean and Cyclops! That means...
- XAVIER: Sinister! - I missed the wedding. I'm hurt.
Get away from him!
Who dares defy me?
A friend of Charles Xavier's.
- Drop him! - No chance.
BEAS T: Despite his newfound time travel abilities,
I believe Mr. Sinister is caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
What have you done with my wife?
Mrs. Summers is just another broken blossom,
floating through the winds of time.
ROGUE: No, you don't!
They've taken Jean to the one place you can't get to.
Another time.
(EXPLOSIONS)
Renegade ships!
Warn the Empress! We're under attack!
DEATHBIRD: The wall is breached! The palace will soon be mine!
I know already, Oracle. We must prepare for the worst.
Sister, has your jealous ambition so blinded you?
The throne should have been mine! Now it shall be.
You'll have to deal with me first, Princess.
Keep Gladiator busy! I'll deal with Lilandra.
As leader of the Praetorian Guard,
I cannot allow you to harm the Empress!
Then I give you my solemn vow, I will not.
But I do not speak for him.
What manner of being is this?
Get rid of her, Apocalypse, as you promised!
Prepare to serve your new Empress, Gladiator!
Let her go, if you wish to live!
What are you waiting for? Eliminate her!
In time.
Are you all right, my Empress?
Stop him! If he did not come for me...
Not her! The Empress! You promised to destroy Lilandra!
I lied. Farewell, Empress.
(LAUGHING)
I shall not be denied!
It is useless to continue your treachery, Princess.
- You have failed. - Traitors! Ingrates!
You cannot deny me my crown!
You should choose your allies more carefully, my sister.
I can't stop thinking about it, Professor.
Jean and I were both in the car when the blast hit.
Sinister's always wanted both of us. Why was she taken and I left behind?
I have been wondering the same thing, Scott.
I don't need my psychic abilities to know that you wish it had been you.
- What? - Professor! What is it?
- Lilandra! - I bring you a warning, Charles Xavier.
An earth creature, Apocalypse,
has taken one of my psychics named Oracle.
I do not know why he has appeared here.
But I knew I must contact you. Be warned.
What did she say?
Assemble the X-Men.
Sinister, why are you helping Apocalypse?
He can give me what I've always wanted.
The chance to create a new breed of human beings,
ones that I will personally select and genetically engineer.
But that would take generations.
Apocalypse may be immortal, but you're not.
From here I can exist in all times! Even as I begin the experiment,
I can leap through a portal and see its result.
And where is here?
Allow me to answer your question.
Here is the Axis of Time, where all times cross,
and where you will always remain, Jean Grey.
When I first attempted time travel,
fate, in its infinite wisdom, threw me off course into this,
the temporal control center of existence.
It has taken me centuries of searching to discover its many powers.
But working here, outside of time,
those centuries, in your time, have been merely the blink of an eye.
If you have become so powerful, why do you need us?
All in due time.
(LAUGHING)
XAVIER: A communication from Lilandra has given me a clue
as to why Jean was taken.
Mr. Sinister tried to capture both of us.
Luckily for me, he encountered some unexpected resistance.
Now Apocalypse has taken the Shi'ar courtier known as Oracle.
Sound like Sinister and Apocalypse working the same side of the street.
Each of us possess intense psychic power.
I am certain they will strike again.
We'll use Cerebro to track down other mutants with psychic powers.
And we'll be there when Apocalypse or Sinister strikes.
You are not suggesting using them as bait.
We have to. Warning them could reveal our plan.
Hey, if they be psychic, they already know, right?
That is not funny, Gambit.
You cannot endanger innocent people just to save Jean.
- This isn't about Jean. - XAVIER: Cyclops is right.
If Apocalypse and Sinister have joined forces,
and are able to instantaneously travel in time and space,
all existence is in danger.
You got that right.
I don't know how, but I believe my brother's life is at stake in all this.
(DOG GROWLING)
(DOG BARKING)
PS YLOCKE: Nice doggy.
Nap time.
I should have brought a shopping cart. Oh, well.
A discus from the first Olympic games, should be worth a few pennies.
ARCHANGEL: A ninja sports fan.
I keep my baseball cards in my...
Okay, that was two mistakes. Mine and yours!
You're not a common thief. What are you really after?
PS YLOCKE: I owe no explanations to the likes of you, traitor!
Agile.
I wonder what she looks like under that mask.
Nowhere to hide? What a shame.
No!
(EX CLAIMS)
- Are you all right? - Yes, I think.
- Thanks to you. - Watch that first step.
(GROANS)
Pleasant dreams, Warren Worthington. I knew you wouldn't let me die.
Fool.
- WOLVERINE: Anything? - No.
I think your computer got its zip codes scrambled.
If Bishop told you anything about us,
you'd know Cerebro don't make mistakes.
If you happen to see a beautiful, black-haired mutant psychic,
- wake me up. - Don't get too comfortable.
That's the last time I save a falling ninja.
What's this? Looks like my raven-haired sneak thief
has decided to extend her shopping spree.
Let's see where the night takes us.
(TIRES SQUEALING)
Hey, go easy on those tires.
Heard it coming, I'll take a closer look.
When something blows up, come running.
Not bad for a hairy old man.
I know him. Archangel. Destined to join the X-Men.
But whose side is he on now?
Professor, this is Shard. Something's up.
Archangel. Why is he there?
I'm putting Gambit and Storm on alert.
If there is trouble, I will pull them off their stakeout to help.
- You've been a busy little ninja. - Worthington!
Careful, I have a fondness for the 17th century.
I could've called the police,
but I wanted to give a fellow mutant the chance to explain herself.
What do you care about your fellow mutants?
You use your wealth to deny your mutant heritage.
You had a scientist try to cure you
and you waste your life hunting a creature who can never die!
My money is none of your concern.
You brood over your own troubles,
when you could be using your wealth and power for so much more.
Noble sentiments coming from a thief. Or is all this for a charity bazaar?
It's for my brother
who fights for the good of mutants, all mutants!
A thief with a cause is still a thief!
No knife in the back this time!
Wolverine?
Guess again!
You get the woman, Sabretooth. I'll deal with the winged wonder.
You get all the fun, Mystique!
Think again, honey!
Oh, man! Was that ever the wrong thing to do!
Looks like the kidnappers union will let anything in.
I'm collecting dues.
Thought you would have learned to watch your back!
Yeah, I keep underestimating the fairer sex.
Sure hope this stuff is insured.
(SCREAMING)
Okay, I'm through playing around!
What're you gonna do? Eat your spinach?
- Let's see what you had for breakfast. - Get off him!
Watch your own back, dearie.
(SCREAMING)
SABRETOOTH: Goodbye, runt!
Oh, man. Brush sometimes, will you?
(GROANS)
Now, where's my favorite new psychic?
Hurry! It's you they're after!
SHARD: Get back! Mystique is a shape-shifter!
She's taken on my shape to fool you!
Nice trick, but it's wasted on a psychic.
- And on this nose. - Blasted bloodhound!
I don't know how any of you know me or what you want, but I'm out of here!
So just back off!
MAGNETO: May I help?
Magneto!
How about a lift?
What is this, a science fiction convention?
I see I must persuade you.
(GROANING)
What do you want with me?
Don't worry. No harm will come to you yet.
Wolverine!
(SCREAMING)
A memento for my friends, the X-Men.
Don't think I've forgotten you.
- The portal! - MAGNETO: Grab on!
Wolverine! Wolverine!
GAMBIT: Look like we arrive too late, chere.
What happened? Where are the others?
We messed up. Psylocke's gone. Wolverine's inside.
Whirlwind, heed my command!
How nice to see you, Logan. All tied up and nowhere to go?
Just get me out of here.
Every mutant on earth seems to be in on this thing!
Archangel!
- SHARD: Is he... - He is unhurt.
I bet this clown knows what's going on. Maybe if I give the chain a squeeze.
MYSTIQUE: It's fortunate you came along when you did, Magneto.
We weren't expecting interference from the X-Men.
Apocalypse was monitoring your mission.
It was he who summoned me.
Too bad we lost Sabretooth.
Sabretooth is an unthinking animal. Such refuse is easily expendable.
APOCALYPSE: Your lack of sentimentality is refreshing.
You make a worthy partner, Magneto.
You know my price.
Resurrections are delicate procedures.
When all the psychics are in place, you shall see your beloved wife.
You had no trouble obtaining this one?
He was being watched by the X-Men, Storm and Gambit.
But they inexplicably abandoned their post.
It seems that Charles Xavier has deduced the pattern of my plan.
All the better as he will be my final prize.
I wanted to nail Apocalypse by destroying his Lazarus Chamber.
But now that that scum has my time travel band,
it's gonna be a whole lot tougher.
He can just go back to the past before we blasted the chamber
and rejuvenate himself again.
Our only hope is to go so far back
that we get rid of the chamber at its point of origin.
But, Dad, that's impossible.
You know time travel devices were judged too dangerous.
They destroyed them all.
And they would have nailed you if they'd known you had one.
Remember your history lessons, Tyler.
Nuclear disarmament, back in the 21 st century.
Every government kept one bomb, just in case.
The government still has a time machine?
Yeah, but they aren't letting anybody get near it.
It's in there.
And we're gonna borrow it.