AT THE HULKS' APARTMENT, MOLE MAN STARTS SPILLING THE BEANS...
MOLE MAN: So, like, thousands and thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt...
MOLE MAN: This creepy looking baby with grey skin and blue lips was found by a settler of Akkaba.
MOLE MAN: The kid looked so weird he was taken to Baal, an Egyptian warlord who lived according to the maxim of "survival of the fittest"...
MOLE MAN: Baal recognized the child's uniqueness and named him En Sabah Nur--"The First One."
MOLE MAN: Baal sent the freakish child away so that it could mature in safety...
MOLE MAN: For hundreds of years, En Sabah Nur grew and was nurtured by Baal's teachings, and he too became obsessed with the notion of the strongest being those who would survive...
MOLE MAN: ...for En Sabah Nur was strong, he being the first known mutant among the human race...
MOLE MAN: ...though he eventually took the name...Apocalypse.
MOLE MAN: For thousands of years, Apocalypse has been bent on one thing...world domination.
MOLE MAN: During the late Nineteenth Century, Apocalypse found his greatest pupil...
MOLE MAN: Nathaniel Essex was a brilliant scientist and geneticist...
MOLE MAN: ...he was also a faithful student and ardent admirer of Charles Darwin. Soon, Essex became obsessed with human evolution, and in particular, the role of...mutation.
MOLE MAN: Essex believed in accelerating the process of evolution by promoting mutation.
MOLE MAN: Essex's wife tried to dissuade him, begging him to consider the morality of his crusade.
MOLE MAN: She considered his motivations to be not only immoral, but completely...sinister.
MOLE MAN: Eventually, the ancient mutant Apocalypse sought Essex out, for he believed their goals to be aligned.
MOLE MAN: Essex agreed to subject himself to Apocalypse's experiments. In the process, however, Essex lost what little was left of his humanity and, as Apocalypse's mutant disciple, took for himself a new name...
MOLE MAN: ...the last word spoken to him by his heartbroken wife...
MOLE MAN: ...Sinister! Apocalypse wanted Sinister to create a genetic plague that would mutate every human being on Earth...
MOLE MAN: But Sinister betrayed Apocalypse, and instead infected him with a technovirus that forced the ancient En Sabah Nur into a period of extended--but not permanent-- hibernation.
MOLE MAN: For well over a century, Mister Sinister has been obsessed with mutation and change. With the Monad, he has created not just the pinnacle of human evolution. It is the end, as well as the beginning, of existence as we know it. More importantly for Sinister, it will be the final end of Apocalpse.
DEADPOOL: Maybe it's just because I'm a borderline schizophrenic, but that all makes perfect sense to me.
WOLVERINE: But doesn't Sinister know he'll be wiped out by the Monad, too? And what about Dr. Doom? How'd he get tangled up in this?
MOLE MAN: Sinister plans on traveling to a different time or different dimension or something; he'll save himself. But as for Doom...
MOLE MAN: ...well, to be perfectly honest, Doom hasn't told me his plans. All I know is, he wants the Monad for something, and he wants it desperately....
TO BE CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 20: LOGOS!!!
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