Kurt asks Damask what Apocalypse was planning to send as his second line of the attack, but she says she doesn't know. It turns out that the second wave is already here, and that wave is a one man incorporeal force called the Shadow King. He moves from one citizen of Avalon to another, causing chaos.
Damask tries to attack him, using her psychic blades (which are similar but different to Psylocke's psychic knife. These look more like chains). However she only manages to damage the host. She explains to Kurt that the Shadow King moves along another plane to move from host to host, so Kurt hatches a plan, hoping that it is the same plane he uses to teleport, as the Shadow King takes over Mystique's body.
Kurt holds hands with Switchback and Damask, and the three of them teleport together. Switchback uses her time traveling powers to keep them in the plane longer, and then Damask is able to attack the Shadow King directly. It works and seems to kill him. However his influence on one of the mutants there lasts long enough for him to try to fire off a shot at Destiny, but she is saved when Doug jumps in front of her and takes the blast.
Destiny has seen enough, and now agrees to go with them to take down Apocalypse once and for all.
While there wasn't a whole lot to this particular series, I think the characters involved were enough to keep me interested. It's a nice little diversion from the storyline happening in America.
I didn't like this specific series when it started, but the last two issues have definitely grown on me. It's still a bit 90s extreeeeeme with its grimacing edge and posing (and the revelation that "X-Calibre" is taken from the bullet Kurt was looking at in the last issue), but this was a good way to bring the story to a head and had some strong moments, both conceptual and character-wise.
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