Synopsis for "The Evolutionary War Part 1: Unnatural Selection"
The Purifiers, minions of the High Evolutionary, are scouring the tunnels deep below the Earth seeking to sterilize the various races of Moloids, Tyrannoids and Lava Men due to the fact that their master has deemed them an evolutionary dead end. As the heads of this operation Dr. Stack and Major Purge remark about how stupid the Moloids are. Unknown to them, one of the Moloids is a mutant with telepathic powers and when one of the Purifiers harms him he unleashes a telepathic scream. His cries for help bombard the psychic plane, also effecting Marvel Girl, who is aiding he comrades in X-Factor in helping repairing the damage done to New York City following an attack by Apocalypse[1]. Recovering Jean and preventing any further damage, the members of X-Factor have their Ship teleport them back to base to find out what's going on.

X-Factor is not the only ones who heard the cry for help, as at the secret base of Apocalypse, Caliban also detects the cry for help of the mutant Moloid and informs his master. Apocalypse is much interested in this turn of events as they counter his belief in survival of the fittest. While down below in Subterrenia, the the Moloids are being brought through the sterilization machine, and the mutant among them uses it's powers to make his fellow Moloids attack the people who would seek to commit genocide against it's people.

Meanwhile, Jean has convinced her comrades in X-Factor to go to investigate the cry for help she received and they begin to travel down into Subterrainia. Finding an access to the underground world, X-Factor is shocked to find dead Moloids when they reach their destination. Before they can act on anything, they are suddenly swarmed by an army of Moloids under the control of the telepathic mutant that brought them down there.

In deep space, the High Evolutionary watches as the sterilization mission is underway, when suddenly he is interrupted by Apocalypse who teleports on board his space station. The two argue their belief systems, the High Evolutionary believing that his sterilization of the Moloids would be for the best of all beings on the planet, while Apocalypse believes that they should be left to their own devices -- arguing that the weakest should be culled by nature, not the grand design of an individual. When the High Evolutionary refuses to see things the same was as Apocalypse, the eternal mutant attacks the Evolutionary. His blast ruptures the Evolutionary's space station causing both men to be pulled out into the vacuum of space -- Apocalypse laughing the whole time.

On the planet below, X-Factor attempt to fight off the attacking Moloids when Marvel Girl spots the mutant Moloid due to it's different skin color. Pulling it away from the horde with telekensis, she passes the frightened creature over to the Beast and they manage to calm it down. Realizing that they pose no threat, the mutant Moloid tells them it's origins through primitive mental images. How it was born a mutant and from it's first day of awareness it had the ability to control his fellow Moloids -- a simple feat due to their near mindless nature -- and helping them prosper until the Purifiers came. As if on cue, the ones that would seek to create the eventual extinction of the Moloids attack, once more sending the Moloids into a panic and X-Factor struggling to try and help.

In space, Apocalypse uses his powers to protect himself from the vacuum of space and continues to battle the High Evolutionary. The two clash both physically and ideologically over their beliefs on how evolution should work on their planet. The Evolutionary argues his justification based on the fact that he is like unto a god on an evolutionary level and he wishes his fellow man to achieve this status, while Apocalypse -- centuries old -- argues that only time and war will determine who is the strong. Unable to convince the Evolutio

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