Chapter 31: Poor Apocalypse
While watching the three coolies floating around and performing earth manipulation.
Andy also created an illusion barrier to not attract the attention from the people since they are near the city of Cairo.
Now he is just relaxing waiting for them to find the underground ruins.
While waiting, he couldn't help thinking of their battle earlier, because it is an easy fight.
The reason is the other two Lady Linnea and Selene Gallio were not strong as the comics, their situation is similar to Agatha Harkness, there power is reduced to "Cinematic Level".
The ability of Lady Linnea is not much compare to other two, but she is hella strong on her own and also has various magical power, superhuman strength and durability through magical means, projectiom of 'energy bolts', 'telekinesis', 'levitation', 'illusion', animate an inanimate objects to her liking like a giant hand made of stone, and a power to bestow eternal youth.
The famous mutant ability of Selene Gallio, the 'Life-Force Absorption' to stay young and immortal and if she only drained part of life force, she can control the victim's mind and turned them into 'Psychic Vampire' like her, she can also enchanced her overall physical abilities to superhuman levels by using life force.
With life force, she can use 'Telekinesis' to move inanimate object, use 'Inanimate Distingration' to her surroundings, 'Force Fields', and 'Concussive Blasts'.
She can psionically generate and project 'Pyrokoinesis' around her body or direct it to certain distances, she was also capable of controlling other source of flame to magnify the heat or just snuff it of, generate an illusory flame without damaging the object, and can also use the force field protecting her from the effects of heat and flame.
She has strong 'Telepathy', other than the standard mind-reading and communcating through mind over the vast distances, she is also capable of displaying psionic feats like 'Psi-Screen' to shield her mind, 'Mental Bolts' to cause the pain on the head and knocked unconscious the victim, 'Hypnotic Trance' to cause trance state the people arround her and to appeared faster in the victim's mind, and 'astral projection' strong enough to survive in her astral form.
She also has 'Immortality', she can regenerated injured or missing cells from fatal injuries. 'Rapid Healing' an ability to endured serious injuries without feeling pain.
Other than being mutant, she is a powerful sorceress and a potential Sorcerer Supreme, she can cast and counteract spells, project a bolts of mystical energy, and teleport spell.
A 'Darkforce or Shadow Manipulation' an ability to turn herself into shadow enabling her to blend in, and controlling the darkness arround her.
With the help of symbiote, she didn't need to absorb other life force anymore and can replaced it with just chocolate energy.
As for Agatha Harkness, she is not strong as she is in the [WandaVision] since she still didn't learn any Darkhold Magic.
Evem if that, she is still a poweful witch and majored in 'Dark Magic' and capable using variety of powerful magic such as 'energy manipulation', 'energy absorption', 'energy projection', 'telekinesis', 'energy detection' and 'levitation'.
She was also shown capable of 'mental manipulation', 'transmutation', 'conjuration', 'enchantment', 'teleportation, 'psychic shield', and 'necromancy'.
Seeing these powerful abilities, he coudn't help but smile, he even gained magic immunity and magic reflection through their battle earlier with the adaptation ability.
Actually, he also didn't expect the immortality that he always sought for would be achieved earlier.
Welp, he can also obtained this ability from Apocalypse.
While feeling happy having these powers, he also thinking of going to Kamar-Taj to learn more magic, especially the Mirror Dimension Magic.
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"I found it!"
After some time, Lady Linnea dug a tunnel and saw a five meters pyramid made of gold with runes or inscription.
Andy and the other two quickly flew beside her.
"Good job." Seeing the golden pyramid really get him excited.
"Uh, can i ask what are we looking for?" Agatha asked curiously when she saw how exicted he is.
"Well, we are looking for a powerful mutant who ruled Egypy since 8000 to 3600 BC, his name is En Sabah Nur and he is the same kind as Selene." He look at Selene Gallio, wondered if they know each other.
In the comics, they're both members of a powerful group of mutants the Externals, and the 9 members of the Externals has strong connection to each other and has their own exclusive pyschic-link.
Selene raised her eyebrow when she saw Andy looking at and said, "What? i don't know him"
"Is that so?" He nodded and already expected this answer since he didn't gain her 'resurrection ability', this ability can bring her back from life as long as there was still Externals.
If he gained that ability, he is sure that his symbiote will evolved and he will become unkillable as long as there was a symbiote remaining.
"Yes, i'm sure." Selene is certain she didn't know him.
"What about you?" Andy asked Lady Linnea since she is the oldest and maybe more knowledgeable.
"I also don't know him, we witches spend our time on Witch Dimension and only occasionally goes out for something, maybe there are other witches who knows him." Lady Linnea answered and also the reason why they didn't know much about the situation of the outside world.
"Wait, what? Witch Dimension?" Andy was confused, when did Marvel have that kind of dimension, he only knows the Mystic Dimension where the powerful Trio of Vishanti resides.
"Yes, it's a dimension created to shelter us witches 18,000 years ago by the leader of our Witches Alliance, Lady Zhered-Na." She explained to the the dumbfounded Andy.
"....." Andy rubbed his temple, he is getting more and more confused about the situation of his universe.
He knows Zhered-Na, she was a powerful Sorceress of Atlantis, even Agamotto trained her as his successor.
She possessed a vast precognition ability, she predicted the Great Cataclysm that would cause the Atlantis to sink into the sea, she was exiled later by the ruler of Atlantis at that time believing she was insane.
The problem is how the heck she is still alive, he knows that she was plotted and killed by D'Spayre, a powerful demon and conceptual entity.
After thinking carefully, he decided to not bother much about this and will not go to trouble the Witch Dimension because he doesn't know if Zhered-Na will predict his plan, and he also don't know how powerful she is given the fact that she can create a dimension.
So for now, he will bring these three witches with him as a coolies.
"Then what about Selene? is she also a resident of the witch dimension?" Andy asked because the abilities of Selene, her power is destined to make her an enemy of everyone unless she is also bestowed with eternal youth to calmed her.
"Yes, she is also a member of the witch alliance." Lady Linnea answered.
"...." Andy was speechless again, he really cannot speculate about the history of his comprehensive universe based on the comics.
"Well, we will talk about later, let's go down for now." He could only stop the topic first, its more important to obtained the abilities of Apocalypse.
Andy flew down the tunnel, he first touched the the gold pyramid and swallowed it.
After he is done, he nodded to the other to start digging. The four of them raised their staff and used the earth manipulation.
A few minutes later, they successfully cleared all the huge stone debris and saw the well preserved body of Apocalypse.
"It's amazing... to think that his body is still in good condition, what are you going to do with him?" Agatha asked curiously and wondering what's the use of finding a dead, is it for experiment?
"This guy is still alive." With her ability, Selene can still feel a powerful life force hidden in the body.
"You are right, this guy is only in suspended animation because his ritual was interrupted."
Andy can only shook his head, to think the powerful mutant in the comics will be reduced to this situation.
Well, it is in his favor that Apocalypse were reduced to cinematic level, if not then don't think of getting his abilities easily.
He's already contented of gaining his abilities since it will become really useful for the future, and his abilities can come in handy to his next destination.
He summoned a symbiote and throw it to to body of Apocalypse and the symbiote swallowed him along with his stone bed.
After the symbiote formed a huge cocoom sealing him inside, he then infused him with energy to awakened him.
Meanwhile, Apocalypse was awakened from his deep slumber and opened his eyes and his vision is full of darkness.
"???" He was confused and hasn't thought much about his own situation when drowsiness suddenly struck him and was forced to go on deep sleep.
Poor Apocalypse, he only opened his eyes for one second before going to sleep again.
After confirming that he obtained thr abilities, he then used the telekinesis to lift the symbiote cocoon containing Apocalypse and flew out of the ruins.
"Let's go." Andy smile cheerfully and said to the three women.
The three look at each other then smile bitterly and followed, it seems their life will spend following him from now on.
After arriving at the ground, Andy quickly unlocked all the newly added abilities.
First is 'Force Field Generations' an energy shield used by Apocalypse in the movie to withstand the combined attacks of Magneto, Storm, and Cyclops. Unfortunately, its a piece of paper in front of 'Phoenix Force'
Second is 'Portal Generation', Andy like this type of convenient teleport power, as long as he knows the location, he can open a two way portal.
Third is the 'Knowledge Absorption', Apocalypse use this on TV to extract data from the media network to learn modern knowledge in a minute, and this is the ability he needed for his next destination.
Fourth is 'Matter Manipulation', one of the most powerful ability of Apocalypse, he can manipulate matter to anything he wanted at a molecular level. Transforming sands to a metal, rubber, liquid, creating an Helmet for Magneto and transforming Angel's wings into metal wings, he is also shown in the movie to create Pyramid within second with this ability.
With this ability, Agnes and the others scientist in Umbrella Corporation will not be limited by time and can create adavnce technology.
Fifth is 'Telekinesis', this ability of Apocalypse is so powerful that also border on matter manipulation, it can pull dust-like particles from matter that he can turn into various objects, distintigrate the objects into particles, and can also levitate heavy objects of immense size. For example is when Apocalypse destroying the city of cairo and disintegrate all materials into sand and re-arrange the sand into materials needed to form a modernized pyramid.
Sadly, even with the knowledge absorption to build a modern style pyramid to prevent a similar event during his ritual, he forgot to build a door to block someone from entering the pyramid and the movie would end with his victory.
Sixth is 'Mental Manipualtion', this ability allowed Apocalypse to possessed the mind of Charles Xavier even with the help of Cerebro, it also come up with the 'mental shield'.
Seventh is the 'Adaptive Superhuman Reflexes', Andy think this ability is good just like how Apocalypse adapt to the supersonic speed of Quicksilver, its just it took a matter of seconds to activate. He also has 'superhuman durability' and 'superhuman strength'.
Eight is the 'Regenerative Healing Factor', this ability of surpassed the healing factor of Wolverine, it shown that Apocalypse was still healing from the disintigration power of the Phoenix. it also has the 'Immortality' that can keep him from aging and it also enable him to remain dormant for 5,000 years.
Ninth is the 'Essence Transference', Apocalypse use this to transfer his consciousness to other, it also come up with 'power abosorption' everytime he trasnfered his body to other mutant and obtained their abilities permanently.
With this ability, Andy can transfer his consciousness to control the symbiote personally, he can also transfer his essence to symbiote if his body is destroyed.
And lastly the 'Power Bestowal', this is the most anticipated ability for Andy, with this ability he can grants people with ability depending on their nature.
With the 'Power Augmentation' ability, he can also enhanced all the ability of Emma and the others, and when their mutant power is strengthened, the ability stored in symbiote database will also get stronger.
In the movie, Apocalypse didn't enhance the power of Charles Xavier because even him, he is not sure if he can occupied Charles' body if he strengthened his telepathic power. Imagine the power of Magneto when his mutant power is enhanced, he can control Earth's magnetic poles and cause a destruction on global scale.
If Andy enhance Charles telepathic power, he is sure that he will become as strong as when he is using Cerebro.
After succesfully mastering all the abilities of Apocalypse, he contacted Agnes Cully and ordered her to go to Los Angeles, California. He also let her unlocked the new powers to capture the slippery target in his next destination.
Before going to Los Angeles and meet with her, he need to go back to British Museum first to fix the mess of the battle earlier..
He opened a black portal back to the museum, he needed to place a new Staff of One for the witch in the future, and will talk about the three witches about his doubts while fixing the museum.
Andy and the other three witch step into the portal and disappeared in the dessert.