XM #98] What happened to Apocalypse and the Living Monolith after their defeat?
Mystery: After Apocalypse merged with Cyclops in Apocalypse: The Twelve, the merged being put the heroes through various fake alternate realities, but in the end they persevered and destroyed the illusions. Before Cable could kill Apocalypse, though, he, still merged with Cyclops, and the Living Monolith escaped to whereabouts unknown. Resolution: Both, Apocalypse and the Monolith, would be missing for quite some time. While the Living Monolith has yet to resurface, Apocalypse was later seen in X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1-4 still merged with Cyclops, though his hold on him weakened to the point where Cyclops was an amnesiac man lost in the Middle East with vague memories of Apocalypses past. In the end, Cable and Phoenix separate and disrupted Apocalypses essence, thus freeing Cyclops.