<div class="floatleft">(http://images.wikia.com/marveldatabase/images/3/3f/En_Sabah_Nur_(Earth-58163).jpg)</div><br/><hr/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>  Name:</strong>       En Sabah Nur<br/>  <strong>Title:</strong>          Apocalypse<br/>  <strong>Affiliation:</strong>  The Vision<br/>  <strong>Location:</strong>   Giza Plateau, Cairo<br/>  <strong>Tags:</strong>         War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Wade<br/><br/></span></span><hr/><hr/><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">     The dry, hot air dissipated the further they traversed inside the large stone structure. They had entered the largest Pyramid on the plateau, and were beginning their decent through a newly open side passage just off the main corridor. The door had been hidden perfectly, and had been masked by an ancient device that hid the empty space behind the brick hallway's wall. To any type of radar, or seismograph, or any other form of earth/density reading technology it gave off the same signature as any other part of the passage wall: solid stone.<br/><br/>     But Apocalypse had known that it was there somewhere, he had his superhumans cracking, digging, and walking-through the stone searching for it. Finally the narrow passage had revealed itself. Mr. Sinister wasted no time taking his leader to the spot and the grey-skinned leader of The Vision quickly began descending. There was a humid-musky smell of old earth and stale air. It smelt very similar to death - but without the sharp and putrid scent of rotten flesh.<br/><br/>     A thin smile began to grow on Apocalypse's face as he continued down the long staircase, every so often it would twist to the left or the right on an unpredictable course. The stairway walls were cut unevenly and even the width of the stairs was not consistent. It felt like they were walking through a narrow crack in the ground that had rough stairs fashioned into the bottom of it. It took about ten minutes for them to finally reach the archway at the bottom - some hundred or two-hundred feet below ground. <br/><br/>     The floor at the bottom of the stairs was beautifully tiled and the moment En Sabah took his first step on the glossy surface, ruins along the floor began to glow. His smile widened into fullness. The glow then spread along the floor, lighting up a long chain of ruins that hugged the wall of the massive chamber that was now illuminating itself before their very eyes. <strong>"Magnificent."</strong> He glanced to the left and then the right of the large finished cavern. In it's center loomed a thirty-foot tall crystal pyramid - with bricks so perfectly lain it almost looked like a single gem. Once the ruins on the floor finished the circuit, they followed a center-line out from the back wall directly into the pyramid's base. <br/><br/>     Almost instantly an eerily organic groan emanated from the crystal pyramid and the ground vibrated in a deep, but soft thrum. Slowly at first it began, before speeding up to a continuous hum where no individual thrum could be distinguished. The small pyrmaid glowed a deeply saturated blue that painted both Sinister and Apocalypse's muted skin tones into full color. Sinister stood with a look of pure and dumbstruck awe on his face. The gemstone pyramid resembled the tesseract with a dancing blue flame in it's center - except it wasn't cubical. <br/><br/>     Sinister broke the silence between them first, "It looks like the Tesseract that the Asgardians stole away." Sinister was a very knowledgeable villain. He had studied past villains of the earth to perfect his own crafts - and the day that Loki had used the Tesseract to open a portal into deep-space was among those studies. If that little cube could do something so unbelievable - he couldn't imagine what this could do.<br/><br/>     <strong>"Fool."</strong> Sabah said coldly. <strong>"You limit it's potential with such narrowed experience. This is but one of twelve - and these pyramids of power gave <em>birth</em> to that trinket cube."</strong> He reached back with one of those massive grey and blue arms and pushed Sinister backwards. <strong>"Leave me. I must unlock the combination."</strong> En Sabah was very protective over this ancient knowledge, he did not want any - even one as loyal as Mr. Sinister - to be aware of it's secrets. They would witness them - and possibly utilize them, no doubt - but they would not be in complete control. Apocalypse reserved that role for himself.<br/><br/>     As Sinister departed back up the long flight of stairs, En Sabah Nur stepped towards the glowing, humming, gemstone pyramid - his right arm extended forward towards it's surface. As he neared he could feel the heat radiating off of it. He could feel the vibration, the power, reaching out - reverberating beneath his own skin. When his palm finally made contact it's surface was cool to the touch. Apocalypse spread his fingers wide and a bright white circle lit up beneath each fingertip. <br/><br/>    He closed his grey, colorless eyes and remembered the ancient rituals his father's people had taught him. For the code was hidden amongst their ancient ritualistic movements and dances. Just as the other twelve had been. Carried on through tribes of the superstitious over the whole face of the earth. Thought once to be nothing but pagan religious expressions - they were infact the key to a technology that far-surpassed what this world currently knew to be 'cutting-edge'. His fingers worked the specific pattern from the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh's 'Dance of Divinity'. </span></span></div>