[Xavier] Previously on X-Men: Evolution...
[Xavier] Mesmero was just another puppet.
There was someone else pulling the strings.
A mind more powerful than anything I've ever encountered.
The relic will help unleash the most powerful mutant
the world has ever seen.
You will know him as... Apocalypse.
[clanking]
Ah!
-Unh! -[groans]
The girl is under Mesmero's control, Charles.
She attacked us to absorb our powers.
Unh!
First, we must prevent Rogue from securing the final key,
and in the likely event we fail...
We find the door first and defend it.
-Rogue. -Mesmero.
[Xavier] With Cerebro amplifying my powers, I just may be able
to interpret the jumbled knowledge I took from him.
[Xavier] I believe the door is housed in an underground chamber.
[rumbling]
-[Scott] Huh? -[Jean] Huh?
-[rumbling] -[Scott] Hey, what's that?
We're trapped!
[Magneto] Pyro!
[gasps]
[grunts]
Unh!
[grunts]
[screams]
[Nightcrawler] Whoa! What the...
[rumbling]
[screaming]
[rumbling]
Rah! Unh!
Uhh!
Unh! Oh.
[rumbling]
[grunts]
[gasps]
[crackling]
Unh! Oh!
[grunting]
[Iceman] Whoa!
Jean!
[rumbling]
[theme music playing]
[rumbling]
[Beast grunts]
[fizzling]
Nobody move. OK, nice and slow,
let's find us a way out of here.
[Quicksilver] You got it!
[creaking]
[grunts]
[laughter]
[grunting]
[stomping]
Jean! Jean, wake up!
[ice crackling]
[rumbling]
[roaring]
[gasps]
[grunting]
[yelling]
Whoa! Take it easy, tank.
I said let me check it out first.
What did you find?
Nothing. Just more tunnels.
[Nightcrawler] I found the headset, but it won't do us any good.
Then we must keep looking for the others.
Hello, Shadowcat, do you read?
Anybody? We need to search for them.
[Magneto] No. We must not lose sight of the objective.
[Xavier] Yes, he's right, Hank.
They've been trained to take care of themselves.
I'll send out a telepathic message
telling them all where to find us.
How is your ancient Egyptian?
[Beast] Rusty, but I do recognize some of these markings.
Especially that one.
[Magneto] Apocalypse.
This speaks of an age when the Pharaoh Rama Tut
seemingly fell from the stars
and brought with him some kind of...
No, it doesn't translate. "Technology," I think.
Anyway, he used this as a source of power to take control of the land.
[crackling]
[Beast] During this time, a mutant gray-skinned infant
was abandoned in the desert to perish.
[baby crying]
The child's cries were answered when he was found by a tribe of bandits
ruled by a warrior named Baal.
He saw the power in the child and took him as his own.
He named him "En Sabah Nur," which means "The first one."
Under Baal's protection and training, Nur became a powerful warrior.
His speed and strength were without equal.
No one could touch him. He was... unnatural.
Rumors of En Sabah Nur's inhuman might had reached the Pharaoh Rama Tut,
who saw Nur as a threat to his rule and ordered his destruction.
[men shouting]
In the end, Baal and his army were defeated.
Only En Sabah Nur remained.
[yells]
Since nothing could withstand his wrath,
En Sabah Nur took the name... Apocalypse.
[grunting]
They're mechanical!
[laughter]
Uhh!
I found a way out, so let's finish these guys!
Huh?
[ice cracking]
-[roaring] -[thunder rumbling]
[grunting]
[crash]
[gears whining]
Uhh!
[cracking]
No.
[grunts]
I'm--I'm totally iced out!
[Jean groans]
Uhn!
[Quicksilver] Look out!
[creaking]
[Jean] Scott!
We're all right.
[Jean] Did you get the professor's message?
Yes. He's somewhere above us.
[Quicksilver] Follow me. There's a tunnel.
[Beast] Apocalypse hunted down the pharaoh,
who fled, never to be seen again.
Apocalypse then discovered the source of Rama Tut's power
deep within these chambers... a vessel.
And inside the vessel a device called "The Eye of Ages."
He mastered the secrets of this strange technology
to reshape the world in his own image.
Mutants.
He was going to turn humans into mutants.
All humans.
[Beast] The Eye was powered by A pocalypse himself,
but when he activated it,
his life force was nearly depleted,
and it was then that he was betrayed.
Fearful of the future he planned,
his trusted council sealed him inside.
Apocalypse was entombed, hidden in the highest reaches of the world,
and then locked behind three doors
in the hopes he would never again walk the earth.
And?
That's it. It just stops.
Then this isn't the tomb of Apocalypse.
And what's worse, we have no idea where it is.
[snarls]
[sniffing]
[Logan] Hmm. Three of them,
and since I can't detect a third scent, it must be Mystique.
[Gambit] How about you guys stop sniffing everything
and just follow the footprints?
[both scream]
[Shadowcat] I think we're close.
Why don't you go up and join the professor.
I'll look for the others.
And leave you alone with steel face?
Forget it. He shouldn't be trusted.
Oh, he's not that bad.
Kind of a softie, if you ask me.
[chuckles] He's just so quiet.
-[crash] -[gasps]
I... I grew concerned.
[Shadowcat] Oh, there you guys are!
[rumbling]
-[gasps] -[stomping]
[Beast] It does beg the question...
if Apocalypse is not entombed here...
What lies within this chamber?
[Magneto] Answers.
[creaking]
[Beast] Unbelievable.
Rama Tut's vessel?
[Xavier] Yes, I believe so,
and to think It's been buried under the sphinx
for over 5,000 years.
[humming]
[Beast] Looks like the base for the Eye of Ages.
But where was it taken?
[Xavier] A cerebral interface.
Perhaps this very vessel can tell us.
That's risky, Charles.
Yes. I know, but I believe it is the only way.
[powering up]
[beep on comlink]
[Logan] Hank!
[Logan] Hank, are you there?
I'm here. What's your status?
We've tracked Rogue to Tibet.
She's here with Mesmero...
and Mystique.
-They're in Tibet. -[Magneto] Yes.
"The highest reaches of the world."
That's where Apocalypse is.
Wolverine, what are your exact coordinates?
Right. Makalu Peak.
OK, got it.
Until we can get there,
[Beast] stop them any way you can.
[groaning in pain]
[everyone grunts in pain]
[all groaning]
Xavier's mental block just saved our lives.
Especially yours.
Mesmero was telling me to push you off the mountain.
Problem is, I'm still tempted.
[snarling]
[Gambit] Do me a favor.
Why don't you both jump off the mountain?
[rumbling]
[grunts]
[stomping]
Unh.
[gasps]
Whoa!
Whoa-oh.
-[Colossus yells] -[Jean grunts]
Yeah! What a team!
[heavy footsteps approaching]
[Mesmero] The day has finally come,
great Apocalypse.
I now deliver the final key,
the shape-shifting mutant,
-Mystique! -Huh?
What do you mean I'm the key?
You told me Rogue was!
You are both needed in order for Apocalypse
to cross this threshold.
[Mystique] Listen, circus freak,
I agreed to bring Rogue here because I was assured
our futures would be secure.
Were you lying then, too?
Apocalypse will not forget those who are loyal.
Why didn't you just enslave me like you did her?
[chuckles] I was unable.
Your powers of control are formidable.
I'd advise you to remember that.
Now, what is needed of me?
[Mesmero] Upon entering through there,
you will find the engraved sign of Apocalypse.
Place your hand upon it,
and the door will open.
[hissing]
[energy humming]
Huh?
[gasps]
[whirring]
[gasps]
[painful groans]
[screaming]
[buzzing]
[Gambit] Fire in the hole!
[snarls]
Destiny has dealt its hand.
Do not interfere!
[roars]
-[crackling] -[Logan grunts]
[Gambit] Ah!
[growling]
Ah!
[stomping]
[Cyclops breathes heavily]
[magnetic hum]
[Xavier] This is a vessel.
It...
It was built here on Earth ages ago.
Wait... ages from now?
It travels instantaneously.
I know how to operate it.
And I know where to take it.
[grunting]
Get aboard, now!
[screeching]
[grunts]
[grunting]
[groaning]
[Sabretooth yelling]
Oh!
[Mesmero moans]
Ugh.
[sigh]
[Rogue screams]
[gasping]
[panting]
[growling]
[Rogue grunts]
[growling]
[crackling]
[Rogue] Uhh...
[Logan] Rogue.
[gasps]
[panting]
[Xavier grunts]
[roars]
[Logan grunts]
[thundering]
[thud]
[groans]
[grunts]
[magnetic hum]
Uhh!
We...
failed.
Yes.
Our greatest battle...
is just beginning.
[theme music playing]