[@Savato][@AgentFallenSoul][@Absolis]
Apocalypse roared and raged, tearing a path of destruction as the Ethereal carefully kept it's distance. After but moments of rampaging through the city, the Ethereal's trap closed around him. Using the combined force of the Psychic Field and the Psi-Lance, it was able to pull off a powerful shot to the head. A lance of high-powered psionic energy shot at Apocalypse's face, as it turned to meet the blast. It was in that moment that the Ethereal realized it had found, perhaps, Apocalypse's single weakness. The only known way to even halt it's rampage, to get past it's indestructible physiology. The beam struck it in the face, and it was force back. Powerful energies tore their way through his flesh, revealing his heavily armoured skull beneath. The single organ that existed within Apocalypse's body was the brain, the central nervous system that ran the massive lump of organic material.

Slowly, the purple light cleared away, the psi-field falling. What it revealed was Apocalypse, standing upright. However, it's face seemed to have been stripped of flesh, torn down and almost hollowed out. It's skull remained, battered but sturdy. But it's brain seemed to have been destroyed, and the Ethereal could tell with a glance that the creature had been killed. It's consciousness had been snuffed out, all thought processes failing as the behemoth toppled to the ground. The giant was felled.

However, the Ethereal was not so easily fooled. While it could tell the being's conscious mind had been destroyed, it could tell with equal ease that the creature's body remained alive. Much more slowly than before, the wounds on it's face healed, and it's brain began to rebuild itself. Basterbine would be able to tell that the creatures Spiritual Energy remained, focused around the body and unable to leave despite it's apparent death. It was clear that this creature would not allow mere death to halt it's rampage, and would revive itself, given enough time. By their best estimates, the process would take about a day. What they were not aware of, of course, was that once Apocalypse had been revived it's adaptive evolution system would have kicked in. It's revived form would be faster, stronger, and almost completely immune to psionic attacks. Such was the power of Doomsday, inherited by this creature.