As Apocalypse’s gene bomb is counting down to detonation, Havok looks at the captive Wasp, his wife in another timeline, and asks Cyclops wistfully if she could be spared. The answer is no. Nightcrawler bamfs in to summon them to battle….
Outside, the new Avengers team made up of inverted villains is in battle with the all-new, all-evil X-Men. Inside the ship, Deadpool and his sidekick Spider-Man take on Apocalypse, with ‘Pool now a hippie spouting New Age jargon to get the villain to relax peacefully. The brawl spills out into the street, with Carnage of all people saving Spidey’s life….
In Latveria, Scarlet Witch is aiming toward wiping out her family including Magneto and Quicksilver, who are trying to protect the inverted Doctor Doom. She calls on the Lords of Chaos to curse those who are of her blood, critically injuring her brother. When Magneto stands unharmed, she realizes that he is not her real father; she then blasts him. Doom escapes via a portal as Wanda vows to destroy Latveria….The bad new Captain America meets with the superior Iron Man and the other inverted Avengers to form a temporary alliance to destroy Steve Rogers and the X-Men….
Back at the X-Men/Avengers battle, touch-feely Deadpool is trying to find Genesis inside the brutal and vicious Apocalypse. The giant mutant tears ‘Pool’s head off. Meanwhile the gene bomb is ticking…three seconds…two seconds…one….