Chapter Summaries

Zhou intervened when five armed foreigners cornered a wounded woman, then recognized her as Silver Fox after she paid him an appearance fee. She pressed a knife to his neck and demanded to know who had told him that name.

• Zhou threw a pig butchering knife that sliced through the foreigners’ guns, then knocked two guards unconscious and dodged the others’ gunfire.
• The woman stabbed the captain in the back and killed him before Zhou could finish the fight.
• The woman confronted Zhou, and he insisted he was a respectable businessman before asking her to pay his appearance fee.
• The woman gave Zhou two hundred-dollar bills, and he recognized her from a drawing in Logan’s diary.
• The woman put a blade to Zhou’s neck and demanded to know who had told him the name Silver Fox.

Sing Sing treated Silver Fox’s memory-triggered headache and learned she had come to Seattle seeking answers, where she witnessed Scatter kill members of the X-Extraordinary Generation. He recruited her to help investigate, while Scatter pursued and wounded another young cloaked vigilante.

• Sing Sing mentioned Logan Howlett, triggering Silver Fox’s memories and a painful headache, then eased it with Inner Qi.
• Silver Fox explained that she had lost her memory and followed a feeling to Seattle, where she saw Scatter kill four people connected to the X-Extraordinary Generation.
• Silver Fox described Scatter talking to thin air and bowing toward a wall, and warned that the factory was guarded by dozens of armed people, including Mutants.
• Sing Sing decided to capture Scatter before entering the factory and persuaded Silver Fox to join him by promising to help restore her memories.
• Scatter caught a young man in a blue cloak, broke his wrist, and ignored his plea to be spared before flashing a V sign at empty air.

Sing Sing and Silver Fox checked into a cheap Seattle hotel, where Sing Sing discovered and captured Mondo hiding inside the wall. Mondo revealed that Colossus had sent him, prompting Sing Sing to welcome him as an ally and ask where Colossus was.

• Sing Sing brought Silver Fox to a budget hotel and joked with the landlady while taking instant coffee packets.
• Silver Fox searched their room for security risks as Sing Sing sensed someone hidden inside the wall.
• Sing Sing threw his Pig Butchering Knife into the wall, exposing Mondo, a mutant who could change the state of his matter.
• Sing Sing questioned Mondo about who had sent him, and Mondo said Colossus had.
• Sing Sing abruptly treated Mondo as a friend and asked where Colossus was and how he had learned Sing Sing was there.

Mondo told Sing Sing that the Core Zone had captured Magik and several of his Mutant friends, and that Colossus had gone to seek allies. Sing Sing persuaded Mondo to sign a 749 Bureau employment contract and promised to rescue the captives, but Mondo said he needed to consult his mentor first.

• Mondo explained that the Core Zone had captured Magik and other Mutants, while Colossus had sacrificed himself to help Mondo escape and then gone to find allies.
• Mondo revealed that Colossus had instructed him to look for Stephen Chow, whom Mondo recognized by his odd speech and love of money.
• Sing Sing showed Mondo a Labor Security Contract Letter of Intent and described the benefits of working for the 749 Bureau.
• Silver Fox warned Mondo that Sing Sing might be manipulating him, but Sing Sing promised to protect the captives and threatened the Core Zone.
• Mondo agreed to take Sing Sing to meet his mentor before deciding whether to sign.

Sing Sing met Colossus and Jubilee in their underground hideout and agreed to help rescue Colossus’s sister, Illyana, from Sugar Man’s Core Zone. After learning about the forces holding her, Sing Sing planned to capture a street killer and interrogate him for information.

• Mondo led Sing Sing and Silver Fox through an underground passage to his mentor, Colossus, and Jubilee.
• Colossus said he would join Sing Sing if Sing Sing helped save his sister, and Jubilee attacked Sing Sing with a burst of plasma after he called her a fellow countrywoman.
• Colossus and Jubilee explained that Sugar Man’s enhanced forces had captured Illyana, known as Magik, for her ability to connect to the dimension of Limbo.
• Sing Sing decided the group should capture the killer spreading panic in the streets and interrogate him about the Core Zone.
• Sing Sing told the injured Colossus and Jubilee to stay behind and said he would deal with the street killer himself.

Director Zhou led Mondo and Silver Fox to trap the killer Scatter in an abandoned slaughterhouse, where he taunted Scatter after realizing the hovering sphere was only a livestream camera. Scatter fired a volley of blades at Director Zhou.

• Director Zhou insisted on confronting Scatter and recruited Mondo as a decoy while Silver Fox warned that Scatter’s blade gun made the plan dangerous.
• Mondo wandered under a streetlamp in South Harbor District as bait, while Director Zhou and Silver Fox hid nearby.
• Scatter appeared through the fog and shot silver blades at Mondo, whose iron arms deflected them before he pretended to flee.
• Scatter chased Mondo into an abandoned slaughterhouse, where Director Zhou shut the gate and trapped him with Silver Fox.
• Director Zhou identified Scatter’s hovering sphere as a harmless livestream camera and mocked Scatter’s appearance.
• Scatter, enraged by the insults, fired rapidly spinning silver blades at Director Zhou.

Sing Sing fought Scatter in the butcher shop, outwitting him with dirty tricks before Scatter injected himself with a strength-enhancing drug. Sing Sing then shattered Scatter’s blades with an Inner Qi-powered punch and sent him crashing across the floor.

• Sing Sing parried Scatter’s thrown blades and mocked his attacks before the two fought at close range.
• Scatter copied Sing Sing’s footwork, but Sing Sing targeted his lower body with the Pig Butchering Knife and forced him to defend himself.
• Sing Sing lured Scatter between iron racks, where adhesive trapped his boot, then dropped a bucket of rotten offal over his head.
• After the livestream donations encouraged him to continue, Scatter injected himself with a glowing green drug and attacked with greatly increased speed and strength.
• Sing Sing channeled Inner Qi into his arm, shattered Scatter’s twin blades with a punch, and struck him through two rows of iron racks.

Sing Sing and the others captured Scatter and learned that he had come from the Mojoverse to run a deadly reality show and help Sugar Man manage the Core Zone. After Scatter revealed little about the prison camp, Sing Sing decided the group would attack Sugar Man’s operation.

• Sing Sing defeated Scatter, and Silver Fox found a communicator containing records that linked him to the Mojoverse and Sugar Man.
• Silver Fox discovered that Sugar Man had captured Magik to drain her power and use dimensional energy in dangerous experiments.
• Sugar Man threatened Silver Fox over the communicator, and Sing Sing warned him before crushing the device; Sugar Man then ordered Grag and the gene guards to hunt them down.
• Colossus, Li Qianhuan, Silver Fox, Sing Sing, and Zhou prepared to infiltrate the locked-down Core Zone and questioned Scatter, who said he knew little about the camp.
• Sing Sing knocked Scatter unconscious and declared that the group would destroy Sugar Man’s livelihood.

Sing Sing led Mondo, Colossus, Li Qianhuan, and Silver Fox through an underground route into the Core Zone to rescue Illyana. Their intrusion triggered the facility’s defenses, and the five fell through a vanished floor.

• Sing Sing assigned Mondo to transport the team, Colossus to guard the rear, Li Qianhuan to draw enemy attention, and Silver Fox to gather intelligence.
• The team entered the underground passage through rock dissolved by Mondo, while Sing Sing tried to restrain the unconscious Scatter with an improvised technique.
• Mondo opened a passage through a thick steel wall, and the team found themselves inside a guarded underground fortress.
• The Core Zone detected molecular alteration in its outer wall and activated its defenses, making the floor disappear beneath the five.
• Sing Sing, Mondo, Colossus, Li Qianhuan, and Silver Fox fell into the abyss.

After the underground palace divided the group into isolated passages, Sing Sing defeated No. 1.2 and his armed men. No. 1.2 revealed that the others and Illyana were in the B4 Zone teleporter core, and Sing Sing found a maintenance passage leading there.

• The isolation gates split Colossus, Li Qianhuan, Mondo, and Sing Sing into separate passages, leaving Sing Sing alone.
• No. 1.2 confronted Sing Sing with more than a dozen armed men, but Sing Sing taunted them and used a powerful flashlight to blind them.
• Sing Sing disarmed and injured the guards, then cornered No. 1.2 and demanded to know where his companions and Illyana were being held.
• No. 1.2 revealed that they were in the B4 Zone teleporter core and pointed out a ventilation duct leading there.
• Sing Sing identified himself as Stephen Chow of China's 749 Bureau and killed No. 1.2.

Silver Fox, Mondo, and Li Qianhuan fought their way through separate sections of the facility after being split up. Silver Fox and Mondo set out to regroup with their allies, while Li Qianhuan unleashed her energy attacks against Grag.

• Silver Fox used the darkness to kill three guards, then took an access card and communication device from a corpse.
• Mondo turned his body to stone, defeated the guards surrounding him, and sank through a wall to find the main force.
• Li Qianhuan destroyed the arena's six machine guns with energy balls and injured Grag, whose wound began regenerating.
• Li Qianhuan summoned dozens of colorful energy balls and sent them rushing toward Grag.

Sing Sing and his allies freed Magik from the device draining her dimensional energy and defeated Rastus, then tried to escape the collapsing laboratory. Their retreat was interrupted when Sugar Man dropped from the ceiling and attacked with his barbed tongue.

• Sing Sing entered the laboratory and found Magik restrained inside an energy sphere while Colossus fought Rastus.
• Li Qianhuan blasted a crack in the force field, and Sing Sing shattered it and freed Magik from the tubes and shackles.
• Colossus hurled Rastus into a control console, and Sing Sing pinned the monster to a wall with a steel column.
• Mondo arrived to evacuate Sing Sing, Magik, Silver Fox, Li Qianhuan, and Colossus, but the ceiling collapsed as they gathered to leave.
• Sugar Man descended through the rubble and struck at the group with his barbed tongue.

Sugar Man killed Mondo while he shielded Sing Sing, and Sing Sing swore to avenge him. The chapter ended as Sing Sing launched a deadly charge at Sugar Man.

• Sugar Man attacked with his tongue, and Mondo threw himself in front of Sing Sing to protect him.
• Mondo died after asking Sing Sing whether he had done the organization proud, and Sing Sing found his blood-soaked signed letter of intent.
• Sing Sing declared Mondo had died in the line of duty and vowed to kill Sugar Man.
• Sugar Man taunted Sing Sing and advanced with his weapons, but Sing Sing charged before he could finish speaking.

Sing Sing killed Sugar Man in a furious, brutal fight after avenging Mondo. As the others mourned and gathered around Mondo, the hall’s damaged control screen suddenly turned on.

• Sugar Man attacked Sing Sing with his four arms, but Sing Sing endured the blows and stabbed him in the eye.
• Sing Sing struck Sugar Man through the chest and pursued him as his wounds began to heal.
• Sing Sing kicked Sugar Man’s jaws shut, cutting off his tongue, then severed all four arms and beheaded him.
• Sing Sing returned to Mondo and gently straightened his clothes while Li Qianhuan, Colossus, Silver Fox, and Magik watched.
• The hall’s loudspeakers hissed, and the shattered main control screen lit up with a dark red glow.

Sing Sing confronted a mysterious woman who dismissed her victims as expendable and threatened that he would not leave Seattle alive. After she ended the transmission, Gambit attacked him with explosive playing cards, apparently under remote control.

• The woman identified Sing Sing as a 749 Bureau agent and revealed her contempt for Sugar Man, the rescued girl, and the dead victims.
• Sing Sing transmitted the woman's image and distinctive forehead mark to the 749 Bureau, then insulted her and vowed to make her pay for attacking his people.
• The woman ordered an unseen agent to kill Sing Sing or die trying, then cut the connection.
• Sing Sing sensed an imminent card attack and dodged several explosive playing cards.
• Sing Sing recognized Gambit in the shadows, but Gambit did not respond and threw another charged card at him.

Vanisher appeared to taunt Sing Sing and deliver Lady's message before disappearing, leaving Sing Sing to face the brainwashed Gambit alone. Sing Sing survived Gambit's relentless attack, but Gambit kept charging cards into the unstable ceiling.

• Gambit attacked Sing Sing with a charged playing card, and Sing Sing deflected it with the Pig Butchering Knife.
• Vanisher appeared, mocked Sing Sing and Li Qianhuan, and told them to enjoy Remy's feast on Lady's behalf before teleporting away.
• Sing Sing ordered Colossus, Silver Fox, Magik, and Li Qianhuan to escape with Mondo's body, then stayed behind to confront Gambit.
• Gambit unleashed a barrage of charged steel cards, and Sing Sing deflected them, dodged their explosions, and used throwing knives to escape the final wave.
• Gambit attacked Sing Sing with his staff, then threw more charged cards into the already unstable ceiling without regard for his own safety.

Sing Sing fought Gambit through the collapsing laboratory as Gambit’s charged cards left Colossus with a shattered arm. Seeing Gambit’s body resist Lady’s control, Sing Sing charged forward to save his old friend.

• Gambit used collapsing debris and charged cards to corner Sing Sing in the wrecked hall.
• Gambit launched his Royal Flush, and Colossus returned to block the cards, sacrificing his left arm to the explosion.
• Sing Sing ordered Colossus to guard the passage entrance and promised to have his arm replaced.
• Gambit’s hand trembled as his body resisted Lady’s control, revealing that his old self was still struggling.
• Sing Sing rushed Gambit with the Pig Butchering Knife, determined to bring him back.

Sing Sing defeated the mind-controlled Gambit and learned that Gambit’s final words pointed to “Miss Sinister.” He carried the unconscious Gambit toward Colossus as the collapsing laboratory threatened to bury them.

• Sing Sing fought Gambit, trying to reach Remy through the mental control and enduring his relentless staff and card attacks.
• Sing Sing exploited Gambit’s hesitation to close in, disable his arms with nerve and acupoint strikes, and knock him unconscious.
• Gambit briefly regained clarity and said “Sinistre... Mademoiselle,” leading Sing Sing to suspect the name Miss Sinister.
• Sing Sing slung Gambit over his shoulder, retrieved the Pig Butchering Knife, and urged the injured Colossus to move before the laboratory collapsed.

Sing Sing and Silver Fox led their injured companions through the collapsing cannery and escaped through separate passages, though Mondo died during the flight. The survivors regrouped outside as the factory collapsed, then left before police and firefighters arrived.

• Sing Sing carried Gambit and helped the exhausted, one-armed Colossus break through rubble and climb out of a collapsing shaft.
• Silver Fox slapped Li Qianhuan out of her grief and led her, Magik, and Mondo's corpse through a maintenance passage to safety.
• Sing Sing and Colossus emerged from the shaft just before rubble sealed it, and they reunited with Silver Fox's group outside.
• Li Qianhuan lit Sing Sing's cigarette with a spark, and he said, “It's good to be alive.”
• The cannery collapsed into a crater, burying Sugar Man's remains and the experimental equipment.
• Silver Fox warned the others that police cars and fire engines were approaching, and Sing Sing and Colossus carried their companions away.

The group returned to the underground hideout, where Sing Sing captured Scatter’s Livestream Orb and learned how to shut it down. With several people badly injured, Sing Sing decided to take them to Alpha Flight in Canada, and called Little Snow to arrange beds.

• The group returned to the hideout, and Silver Fox checked that Scatter’s restraints were secure.
• Scatter’s Livestream Orb arrived and showed alien viewers offering gifts if Sing Sing killed him.
• Sing Sing interrogated Scatter, learned how to shut down and bind the orb, and stored it in the Dimension Box for Da Vinci to study.
• Sing Sing proposed taking the wounded group to Alpha Flight in Canada, and Li Qianhuan asked whether they would be fed.
• Sing Sing called Little Snow to request beds for the wounded, and Little Snow asked how many people were coming.