Earth-295

As Charles Xavier lay dying, the man who would have become his greatest foe promised to make the world a better place. Erik Lensherr, soon to be known as Magneto, headed down a different path. He attempted to carry on Xavier’s dream of peaceful coexistence between the emerging mutant race and humans.

He failed.

With the battle between Legion and a team of X-Men sent back in time to stop him seen worldwide on television, mutants were revealed for the first time a full decade before they were seen in the normal Marvel Universe. Apocalypse made the decision to move up his quest for the creation of a world in his image - a world where mutants ruled and Survival of the Fittest was the only law.

With no resistance from the Avengers or Fantastic Four, two teams that were not yet in existence, Apocalypse was able to take over the world. Magneto would do his best to fight against Apocalypse but he would fail. As Apocalypse triumphed in North America, Magneto gathered a team of mutants that he called the X-Men in memory of his dead friend. These X-Men would grow into a team during a darker age, with a darker mission, and they would work from the shadows. Mutants and humans would endure years of war as the X-Men struggled to break Apocalypse’s hold on the planet. And, as time moved on, it became more and more obvious they were fighting a losing battle.

The humans of free Europe were left with little choice but to consider using nuclear weapons against the power of Apocalypse or be driven into extinction by Apocalypse and his mutant army.

It was not until the reemergence of a man Magneto had not seen since the day of his dear friend’s murder all those years ago that the X-Men found any hope. The mysterious man known as Bishop claimed a better reality existed. A place of hope. A place that died along with Charles Xavier. One where the X-Men were led by Charles Xavier and the world was a better place. Magneto believed him. He sent his X-Men on missions to find ways to fix the past so they would not have to endure this awful future.

Magneto believed he had succeeded. Apocalypse was defeated. The X-Men were able to right the wrongs of the past and repair the damage done by Legion. Charles Xavier survived and his reality was set right. Incredibly, the Age of Apocalypse continued on. And, as nuclear warheads rained down on North America, Magneto’s X-Men were left to accept their fate. But somehow they survived. And Magneto and his X-Men must pick up the pieces.