Don't need to be a psychic to know where things are going. The writers are giving you red neon signs that Something Is Wrong through all the books. What was the last storyline you read about the villains before Krakatoa?
You're missing the implications. It's Apocalypse.I'm not sure you understand what issue #7 was about I can't help you there but i can say you're not looking at the issue ignoring the new KraKoa paradigm.
The process only works if you dead, then you get a new body - and he does by stabbing them with a huge sword. After beating them up first in a gladiatorial arena. You realise this is all pointless theater? They don't need to do this to get their powers back.Apocalypse Didn't kill anyone...
The Definition of Kill.....is to put a person to death
Deaths definition is ....the end of the life of a person or organism.
Aeros life was not ended....Sooooo
Edit: Nowhere in this do mutants have to do anything like Apocalypse wants to be reborn.
https://www.vox.com/2019/9/24/208799...-5-review-xmen
In Hickman’s interpretation of Goldballs’s powers, the gold balls are actually viable biological mutant eggs that can sustain life. That’s much more useful than plain gold spheres.
Add in a mix of healing powers from a mutant named Elixir, time travel from Eva Bell, reality warping from Proteus, synergy from Hope Summers, and some identity and consciousness transplants from Professor X, and the X-Men have essentially figured out how to rebirth the mutants who died in that final mission and any who could die in the future: