Cover pencils by Ken Lashley, inks by Tom Wegrzyn. Age of Apocalypse; "The Infernal Gallop," script by Warren Ellis, pencils by Ken Lashley, inks by Tom Wegrzyn, Phil Moy, and Bud LaRosa; Switchback is taken to Avalon by Mystique; On orders from Magneto, Nightcrawler contacts Angel for help in finding his mother; Magneto commands Mystique to enter Avalon and contact Destiny; Kurt makes plans with Proudstar to get him to Avalon but their plans are overheard by Moonstar; She reports to Apocalypse who sends his own agents to find Avalon and destroy it; Destiny meets Switchback and foresees the end of Avalon; Cain (aka Juggernaut), Switchback, Angel, Nightcrawler, Magneto, Mystique, John Proudstar, Danielle Moonstar, Apocalypse, Damask, Destiny app; pin-ups of Magneto and Rogue, Legion, and The X-Men. Text piece about the Age of Apocolypse. 36 pgs., full color. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.
The Apocalypse is about to arrive to the paradise land of Avalon as it is what Destiny saw using her precognition powers. Meanwhile Nightcrawler is travelling in one of the refugee´s submarine but, as expected, nothing would be going easy on him. Hundreds of lifes at risk and the betrayal of a pirate.
Mother and son has reunited, the Darkholmes are arriving to Avalon, despite a reluctant Mystique. With them has come the assassins, known as pale riders, of Apocalypse and the final battle of Avalon has begun. Changing sides, death, assembling a team and the destruction of the paradise!
Having just killed Dead-Man Wade of the Pale Riders the members of X-Calibre must now deal with the Shadow King. The Shadow King was possessing mutants in Avalon and having them kill eachother. X-Calibre devises a plan to have Nightcrawler teleport and have his entry port stay open long enough to draw in the Shadow King to kill him. They are in the process but it goes slightly wrong. When they draw him in he releases a psionic blast of staggering purportions aimed at Destiny. He would have killed her save her adopted son, Douglas Ramsey, jumped in the way and took the hit, killing him. The Shadow King was also killed in the process. Now with her son dead Destiny decides to follow X-Calibre vowing to end Apocalypse's reign and seeing him die.The story continues in X-Men Omega. The end of Age of Apocalypse is approaching...
