While Ben has returned after his date with Wanda back in the academy, he didn't find the X-Men there.
From the X-Kids, he knows they go somewhere. So, he goes to the Control room, from where he located the X-Jet location. He takes another X-Jet and flies it towards the Professor's location.
At the tomb, Pyro relights the torches, and the battle begins. Cyclops dodges one of the statues' attacks and begins blasting it, but it doesn't yield a result.
It strikes again, bringing down a column, which narrowly misses Cyclops.
Next moment, the floor gives way, Kitty, Colossus and Kurt fall down. Another part of the floor descends with Scott, Pietro and Pyro.
Beast meanwhile takes on another statue, but it almost hits him. He clings onto a column, which is brought down moments later.
He jumps clear, but Charles' wheelchair is knocked over by debris, but Magneto manages to save Charles.
Magneto, Beast and Charles reach another room that is sealed off from the rest.
Jean rescues Bobby from a collapse, they're confronted by another statue. Bobby and Jean flee down a stair, but a piece of a column threatens to crush them.
Jean takes it away but gets knocked out by some debris. The statue pursues them while a door closes, trapping them with the statue.
Meanwhile, Pyro lights the room where he, Scott and Pietro are. They see two statues, Scott tells them not to move, but Pietro speeds off and the statues come to life. Scott and Pyro will have to fight.
Storm's in trouble, she's trying to bring Jean round while warding off the statue, They see two lion statues that come to life. Storm begins to blast them with lightning.
Elsewhere, Colossus tries to smash through a wall when suddenly Kitty phases through it. Kitty urges him to take it easy; Colossus asks her if she found anything but Kitty says she found nothing.
Kurt teleports in with Kitty's communicator, which was smashed except the flashlight attached to it.
Beast tries to radio Kitty, without success, "Charles we've got to look for them."
But Magneto interrupted him by saying, "No, we've got more important things to do."
"Yes, he is right Hank, they have been trained for it, they can handle it," Charles agreed, but he gave them a telepathic message where to find them.
Magneto sees some Hieroglyphics, "Beast, can you read them."
Beast nodded, "I can recognize certain signs," He pointed to a spider-shaped one he tells, "It was certainly Apocalypse's sign. The wall tells about a Pharaoh named Rama-Tut that came from the stars with advanced technology, which he used to take control of the kingdom."
Charles and Magneto were hearing everything with complete focus, while Beast continued.
"It was about a gray skinned mutant child that was left to die in the desert but was saved by a tribe of thieves. Its leader saw the child's powers and adopted it, giving him the name 'En Sabah Nur', 'The First One'."
"He developed into an undefeatable warrior. The Pharaoh Rama-Tut saw the warrior as a menace to the throne, so he ordered his death."
"The Pharaoh's army wiped out the tribe, but En Sabah Nur survived, vowed revenge and took the name of Apocalypse."
Elsewhere in the tomb, Scott and Pyro are still fighting the statues. Scott blasts off an arm from one and discovers the statues are robots. Pyro gets knocked over as Pietro arrives to tell he's found an exit.
At the other side of the wall, Bobby, carrying Jean, backs off as behind them the robot begins to break out of the ice.
Storm manages to destroy both lion robots, but it's exhausted her and she falls from the sky.
The robot breaks free, Bobby tries to ice it again, but he's run out of ice. The third robot attacks them, but is stopped by Jean.
She's relieved to see Scott, she tells him "I have received a message from the Professor." Scott tells her, "I have got it too."
Pietro tells them "I have found a way out," He picks up Pyro, and they all start following him.
Beast continues to translate the Hieroglyphics, "Apocalypse drove away the Pharaoh, Pharoah fleed, never appeared again."
"Apocalypse then discovered the source of Rama-Tut power. It was a vessel in this chamber, and inside the vessel a device is called 'The Eye of the Ages'."
"He learnt its secret of the strange technology and wanted to use it to reshape the world after his image."
Charles suddenly realizes, "So Apocalypse's objective is to change all humans into mutants."
"The eye was powered by Apocalypse himself. Apocalypse entered the vessel, but it drained him of his powers and left him helpless."
"Apocalypse was betrayed by his servants and locked into the vessel. It was hidden near the highest summits behind three portals, so he could never return." Beast completely explained them.
"So it means, we're not in Apocalypse's tomb," Magneto realized.
Charles added, "We don't even know now where it is."
Somewhere in the Himalayas, in the midst of a blizzard, two planes are standing next to each other.
While Sabretooth is sniffing the plane, Wolverine's studying the tracks and comes to the conclusion that Mesmero, Mystique and Rogue have been there.
Gambit adds, disapprovingly, they'd better follow the tracks instead of sniffing around.
While Ben was continuously flying toward the tomb.
Meanwhile, back inside the tomb, Kitty's phasing through a wall, while Kurt ports in.
They startle each other, Kitty asks Kurt to look for the Professor above them.
Next moment, Scott and the group blast through the wall, followed quickly by robots. As Bobby, Scott and Pyro begin to fight them, the others flee.
Charles, Magneto, Beast reach a closed door and are intrigued by it. Magneto breaks it open and sees the vessel.
"It is a Rama-Tut vessel," Magneto was amazed to see this.
"Yes, I believe so," Charles agreed, he was amazed, as he continued, "It is really amazing to see it perfect even after passing 5000 years."
When they approach it, a cryptic code on the vessel lights up and the vessel itself opens up. The three men aboard the craft.
"Looks like it is the base of the Eye of Ages," Beast recognizes it.
"Where is the Eye of Ages?" Magneto asked. Charles discovers a cerebral interface. He puts it on.
Suddenly, Beast receives a message. "Hello, Wolverine speaking, we've followed Rogue to Tibet, and that she's there with Mesmero and Mystique."
Magneto suddenly understands the reference to the mountains and that Apocalypse must be there.
Wolverine tells Beast his coordinates, but then, he, Sabretooth and Gambit are knocked down by a psychic attack from Mesmero.
Charles's mental block saves them, however. Sabretooth tells Logan that Mesmero ordered him to throw him off the cliffs. Gambit kindly asks if they'd both jump off.
Meanwhile, in the Himalayas, Mesmero, Rogue and Mystique enter a cave and walk up to the third portal. Mesmero reveals, "The third key is none other than you Mystique."
"I thought you only needed Rogue," Mystique reacts startled.
"You both are needed," Mesmero replied, but that doesn't satisfy Mystique.
"You have said, there was no risk for us both, lair." Mystique shouted at him.
Mesmero nodded, and agreed, "You won't be forgotten by Apocalypse."
"Why, I wasn't hypnotized like Rogue," Mystique asked, Mesmero responded he couldn't.
While she continued, "So, what I need to do."
Mesmero points to a small hole in the portal, "It leads to Apocalypse's sign. You just have to lay your hand on it, the door will be opened,"
Mystique morphs into a King Cobra and slithers through the hole. She finds herself in a round room with a small pillar.
She hesitates for a moment and then puts her hand on the pillar. As the walls begin to rotate, Mystique wants to retract her hand but finds herself stuck to the pillar.
Mesmero lies about her, and Mystique turns into stone. Rogue enters the room and starts descending a staircase.
As Mesmero looks on, he suddenly notices the entrance to the cave's beginning to glow.
Outside, Gambit has just charged it. The stone blocking the entrance explodes and the team rushes in.
Mesmero's awaiting them, and tells them they can't stop destiny. Wolverine, Gambit and Sabretooth each try to tackle Mesmero, but he manages to ward off their attacks.
Meanwhile, Rogue reaches the 'Eye of the Ages'. She takes off one of her gloves and touches the 'Eye'.
It opens up, emitting a fierce green light.
Inside it, there's a very old looking En-Sabah-Nur, but as Rogue looks at him, he starts to open his eyes.
Meanwhile, Ben has reached the tomb, he quickly gets inside, and using Time Pause, he stops the time.
As all the robots had stopped, Ben started breaking them with the team and also started breaking all of it. And in just a few minutes, all of the robots are broken.
"Ben, you didn't need to come," Xavier said. He knew Ben was on a date with Wanda, so he didn't want to disturbed him.
"Where is Rogue?" Ben asked, when he didn't find Rogue, he knew she was still a little bit unstable, and in some big problem.
"We are going towards her," Xavier answered as they boarded the vessel. Team then flew towards the Himalaya.
Back in the cave, the fight's still on, Mesmero takes down Wolverine, but this enables Sabretooth to get close enough to Mesmero to knock him out.
This causes Rogue to wake out of her hypnosis, but as she begins to stare around, Apocalypse grabs her hand and begins sapping out the personalities the Rogue had absorbed.
Apocalypse turns young again.
Wolverine sprints into the round room and discovers the petrified Mystique.
He then continues to go downstairs and sees Rogue collapsed. As he checks her for signs of life, he sees Apocalypse rise out of the 'Eye' and begin hovering in mid-air.
Wolverine seeing, Apocalypse glide through the air, he overcomes his amazement and pops out his claws. However, as he tries to jump on Apocalypse, some sort of pulse shock throws him back.
Xavier's group descended on the vessel, they ran for the round room but before they even reached it, Apocalypse came 'floating' out.
While everybody prepares themselves to fight, Apocalypse flies toward the vessel.
Ben was able to hold the vessel with his time powers, but Apocalypse fired an energy attack on.
Ben stopped the attack and continued focused on stopping the vessel, but again Apocalypse continuously fired so much attack, which knocked him out.
And he was left in a perilous situation and collapsed on the ground, and since he has overused his powers, so it was its side effects.
Then Apocalypse entered the Vessel and disappeared with the Vessel.
Magneto said in a grief tone, "We... failed." While Charles added, "Yes, and our greatest battle is just beginning."