In almost any version of the Marvel Universe, Storm seems destined to become one of the X-Men's greatest members. While the mutant corner of the Marvel Universe has given birth to some of the most iconic comic book characters of all time, Storm stands tall as one of the most o profoundly popular superheroes in pop culture. And in the Age of Apocalypse, Storm stood as another iconic X-Man before being transformed into something else entirely.
The Age of Apocalypse was an alternate timeline created by the reality-bending son of Charles Xavier, Legion. David Haller believed that the only way to bring about his father's vision of unity between mutants and humankind was to eliminate Magneto's influence, so Legion took to the past to kill Magneto before he and Charles could have their falling out. However, Legion killed Xavier instead by accident, leading to a future where the X-Men weren't around to stop Apocalypse's rise, and the ancient mutant soon took hold of nearly the entire world.
While Storm was most visible as a member of the X-Men team in Fabian Nicieza and Andy Kubert's Amazing X-Men, her story began long before then. When Apocalypse's reign through the various world governments that remained into disarray, Ororo Munroe took up a new role as a guardian in a small part of Africa. As the Windrider, she protected her land and its people from the war between humans and mutants that was tearing apart the rest of the world. However, Apocalypse destroyed what she had created before bringing her to Sinister and Dark Beast. The two maniacs molded her into a warrior for Apocalypse's army, and the tyrant renamed her Storm. While in the care of Dark Beast, the villain subjected her to psychic torture at the hands of the Shadow King, which she narrowly overcame. Her defeat of the Shadow King on the astral plane caused a massive power outage, during which Ororo made her escape.
Storm made her way across the globe, eventually landing in Europe where she was confronted by Quicksilver, who assumed she was an agent of Apocalypse. Once the two had sorted the situation out, he invited her to join his father's X-Men to fight Apocalypse. As a member of the team, Storm fought Apocalypse and his Horsemen on multiple continents and formed a romantic relationship with Quicksilver.
In the core Age of Apocalypse crossover, the two would be instrumental in Apocalypse's defeat, saving a time-displaced Bishop, who helped them in their final strike against the evil mutant overlord. Following Apocalypse's demise at the hands of Magneto, Storm was one of the mutants sanctioned by the government to root out and eliminate Sinister and anyone else who had willingly aided Apocalypse during his reign, which she did rigorously.
However, the Age of Apocalypse universe isn't known for happy endings, and Storm's story in that particular world is tragic enough, her ultimate fate puts everything else she had been through to shame. Weapon X, the Age of Apocalypse's Wolverine, was unfortunate enough to become the heir to Apocalypse after the mad mutant's downfall, and he brought Storm with her.
When a craft of Celestials landed in Manhattan, Logan offered himself in exchange for the Earth's safety, only to be remade by the Celestial's technology. After emerging as a twisted version of his former self, Weapon X captured Storm and forced upon her the same technological torture he had endured, which her blind in a body of unfeeling living stone. Renamed Orordius, Storm's lost sight was replaced with precognitive abilities. After being forced into serving her fellow former X-Man, Orordius was unceremoniously killed in Rick Remender, Mark Brooks and Scot Eaton's Uncanny X-Force #13.
While the Age of Apocalypse turned the lives of many X-men into tragedies, few were as pronounced as Storm, who was transformed from the caring Windrider into a deadly freedom fighter before ending her days as a statuesque servant to the kind of tyrant she once fought against.