Heres my X-Men: Apocalypse story and characters that will be included:
After the events of DOFP we arrive in the 1980s. Xavier's school is thriving, Erik hasn't been heard from in years, & Mystique is nowhere to be found. Everything is calm on the surface but in the core of the universe a threat is bubbling.
Apocalypse, the very first mutant & most powerful of all laid dormant for eons but Logan's time travel leads to a ripple in the space time continuum that awakens the ancient mutant. He is stuck in the fabric of time as he is accidentally awoken too early. Through telepathy he contacts Nathaniel Essex, a local physicist that is intrigued with mutants & all things "out there". Apocalypse gives him the power to complete his theories of time travel & alternate dimensions. Essex is able to conjure Apocalypse back into reality and in return is granted the power of telepathy as well as being able to materialize energy.
Xavier feels something on the horizon that is very powerful but cannot fully see what is coming bc of Apocalypse's power, he blocks out telepathes from seeing his energy. He begins to assemble his X-Men team underneath the school. Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Warren Worthington, & Hank McCoy are the official first team of the new X-Men, they begin to search for Logan, Erik, & Mystique for help with the impending threat. Erik has formed a band of mutants, Mystique is still righting the wrongs of mutant damnation & Logan is missing in action presumably in the Weapon X program.
Essex now under the name Sinister forms a plan with Apocalypse to destroy the human race but Apocalypse needs more servants for his cause. He tasks Sinister with finding his new 4 Horsemen. Where else can you find powerful mutants that can fight a war? Xaviers School. Sinister transforms himself and arrives at Xaviers school scouting the talent. He's intrigued with Warren Worthington's flight ability, his encounter with Warren gives him enough time to plant the seed in his head that he can be part of a greater cause & poisons the young X Man.
Worthington can't sleep, Sinister's voice plagues his thoughts and he disappears from the school to seek out this greater cause. Arriving at Sinister's lab he is introduced to Apocalypse who turns him into the first Horseman of Apocalypse, outfitting him in a black and silver outfit & replacing his feathered wings with razor sharp vibranium wings. Warren is then tasked to find 3 more to round out the horsemen. He choose Sentry, Stryfe, & Apocalypse tasks him with tracking down Mystique to join his team of destruction.
While Archangel, Sentry, & Stryfe travel to find Mystique Xavier and the X-Men struggle to find Magneto. Charles uses cerebro to catch a beat on Erik's whereabouts and feels strongly he's forming his new Brotherhood of Mutants in New Orleans, the sudden density of mutant inhabitants leads Charles to believe Erik is up to something in Nola. Upon arriving Charles, Scott, Jean, & Hank encounter a group of Marauders & their leader, the powerful mutant known as Gambit. Gambit is reluctant to give them any info on Erik's whereabouts but after a fight he and his friend Auroro Moreau are the only ones left standing. Gambit, the survivor he is agrees to lead the X-Men to Erik and his Brotherhood on one condition, they take care of Auroro aka Storm, she was an orphan he had rescued from a secret mutant internment camp called Genosha just off the coast of New Orleans. Charles is impressed with Storm's gifts & agrees to take her in. The 6 mutants head off into the night on the words of a shifty cajun stranger.
We pick up with Erik giving a speech to a group of familiar faces, Peter & Wanda Maximoff sit at desks in the front of a classroom at an abandoned school, next to them sits Toad, Havok, Psylocke, & Fred Dukes, their plan...attack Genosha and free all the mutants held captive. We cut to Gambit fast talking & telling the X-Men he believes Erik is being held at Genosha...so he leads them there.
The short version of the story is that both groups of mutants attack Genosha running into each other in the process. Gambit was really tricking Charles & the X-Men to collect a overall bounty for anyone who could deliver mutants to Genosha. The X-Men realize this as the fighting erupts but Gambit saves the day and is reluctantly forgiven and let into the fold. While at Genosha, Logan is discovered to be there participating in the Weapon X program. He has is adamantium claws now but has no memory of the X-Men or Magneto.....not sure where to take it from here.
What do ya think?
