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C.29: Survival of the Fittest
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Objectives:
* Defeat Apocalypse

Areas:
* Hall of the Dead (X)
* Vault of Ages (X - Change Team only)

Items:
* Danger Room Disc Qualifying Exam 500 - Hall of the Dead, immediately
  to your left as you enter
* Data disc: Hall of the Dead, down the left path in the room after
  the Living Monolith battle
* Homing beacon: Hall of the Dead, in the room with the data disc, stand
  roughly in the center of the room, on the lower level, and wait for
  "Use loose stone" to appear, then press Use to reveal the beacon
* Tech station (+10 Speed): Hall of the Dead, past the Monolith battle,
  in a room with a glowing statue, Use the statue to reveal the station
* Weapon cache: Hall of the Dead, in the room with the Xtraction point
* Sketch book (Holocaust, Archangel, Apocalypse): Hall of the Dead,
  in the room with the Xtraction point
* Homing beacon: Vault of the Ages, in a side alcove of the main arena
* Tech station (+10 Strike): Vault of the Ages, one of the generator rooms
  is reached by a hall that splits, take the left-hand hall to get to
  the tech station

Recommended Team:
* Nightcrawler with Master of Chaos comes in real handy during the
  battle against Apocalypse and the Four Horsemen

Return to the Ancient Labyrinth's Xtraction point room. Use the pedestal in 
front of the anubite statues to place the sun crystal on it and open the 
door into the Hall of the Dead. As you enter the Hall, directly to your 
left is the Qualifying Exam 500 Danger Room disc.

The next room contains a boss fight against the Living Monolith. This is a 
long fight, but not an especially difficult one. Monolith is powered by the 
sun's rays reflected to him from the four pedestals on the sides of the 
room. When all four pedestals are active, Monolith is invulnerable. You can 
de-activate a pedestal for a short period of time simply by standing on it. 
This will cause the pedestal to rise up.

You do not have to remain standing on the pedestal as it rises, nor do you 
need to de-activate more than one pedestal at a time (de-activating more 
than one pedestal does not make Monolith any more vulnerable than de-
activating just one).

With one pedestal not reflecting light to Monolith, he is vulnerable to 
your attacks--though, only just barely. You'll be hard pressed to do a lot 
of damage to Monolith, so this battle is one where you just keep pounding 
and use health and energy packs like water.

Run to one side of the room and raise a pedestal. Beat on Monolith for a 
bit, then raise the other pedestal on that side of the room. Keep 
alternating the pedestals and keep Monolith vulnerable and keep hitting 
him. He will, eventually, go down. Head through to the next large room and 
take the left-hand door.

In the room at the end of the hall is the final data disc. You can also 
reveal a homing beacon by Using a "loose stone" in the floor. Just walk 
around the lower level near the center of the room until you get the notice 
on your screen.

Return to the previous room and continue deeper into the Hall. In the next 
room is a glowing statue. Use it to reveal a +10 Speed tech station and 
open the door into the next room. That room has a sketch book (Holocaust, 
Archangel, Apocalypse), a weapon cache and an Xtraction point.

Since you're headed back to base for a rest and refit, might as well use 
the Secret portal next to Forge and rescue Iron Man. In the X-in-a-circle-
shaped room, there are three different devices that need to be activated in 
each corner other than the one through which you enter.

Once all three are activated, Tony Stark appears in the center of the room. 
Talk to him, and, if you've recovered all his armor, you will unlock Iron 
Man as a playable character. When you're ready for the climactic battle, 
return to the Hall of the Dead and exit to the Vault of Ages.

NOTE: You might want to put Nightcrawler on your team and buy the ability 
to redistribute his skill points. Buy up every level of Teleport Frenzy and 
Master of Chaos that you are able to purchase. Also put points into 
Teleport Mastery and Critical Strike. (Or, you can just ignore that advice 
and make the final battle a lot tougher. Your call.)

When you first fight Apocalypse, he actually seems a bit of a pushover, 
and, truth be told, he is. If you know what you're doing (and, since you're 
reading this, you will know what to do), this climactic battle turns out to 
be pretty anti-climactic. First, you have to fight Apoc straight up. He's 
not that tough. Spam Nightcrawler's Teleport Frenzy on him and he'll go 
down fairly quickly.

He jumps into his machine and powers up. OK, two can play that game. Jump 
into the machine yourself and you'll be imbued with the Power of the Four. 
You now have:

* Emma Frost's Psychic Beam (Attack button)
* Quicksilver's Speed Charge (Smash button)
* Polaris' Magnetic Burst (Jump button)
* Sabretooth's Regeneration (Use button)

The two you want to use most are Emma's and Polaris' powers. Using these 
powers does not consume energy, but you do have a limited amount of time 
you can use them. You'll get a yellow gauge at the bottom of the screen 
showing your remaining power. You can increase this power by picking up a 
yellow DNA Orb--looks like a yellow Xtreme token. These orbs will start 
dropping like flies, so you shouldn't have any problem staying powered up.

Continue to ignore Apoc and run to one of the two doors from which power 
conduits come into the room. Just walk through the door (in your powered-up 
state of course) and blow (Polaris' Magnetic Burst) through the enemies 
beyond.

If you happen to enter the room that branches right and left, go right. 
Either way you will reach one of the two generators powering Apoc's 
machine. He'll be there ahead of you, so fight him (lots of Psychic Beam 
and the occasional Magnetic Burst work really well).

When he's defeated, he returns to his machine to power up, so take the 
opportunity to destroy the generator. You can only use melee attacks (not 
powers) on the machine, and the best way is to use the Power Jump (Jump + 
Smash). If you remained imbued with the Power of the Four, you should 
destroy it in two or three hits. Otherwise, it's going to take a while.

Once the generator is destroyed, you lose your Power, so run back to the 
main room and use Apoc's machine again and head for the other generator. 
Defeat Apoc, destroy the generator, go back to the main room.

Now it's a straight-up fight again, but Apoc starts by summoning his Four 
Horsemen (Abyss, Mikhail, Holocaust and Archangel). If, at any point, you 
defeat Apoc and a Horseman is still alive, he'll use the Horseman to 
regenerate (the Horseman will be turned into a statue).

So, here's where Kurt's Master of Chaos comes in handy. Run (or, better, 
teleport) to a Horseman that is far away from Apoc and unload Master of 
Chaos on him. Nightcrawler's Xtreme power is the exception to the rule of 
not using Xtremes on bosses--if no other enemy is near, every Chaos attack 
hits the one target. One MoC should take out each Horseman.

Now it's just a matter of beating down Apoc and he's not that much harder 
now than he was when this whole fight started. Truthfully, if you do this 
right, it will take you less time to get the ending cinematics than it did 
to read this explanation.

After the credits roll, you're back in the Vault of the Ages. In a side 
alcove is a homing beacon (or XP reward). In the generator room that 
branches, on the left path, is a +10 Strike tech station.

That's it!

You've defeated all the enemies. Collected all the goodies. Unlocked 
Deadpool and Iron Man (and, hopefully, Professor X by beating all the 
Danger Room courses) and it's time to start a new game. Just choose New 
Game and you'll get the option to start with default characters or 
characters as they were in a saved game.

Good night, Bub.