Chapter Summaries

Sing Sing and Christina escaped the destruction of the D-7 Deep Well Base using cheap Bamboo-copters, but the base and its records were destroyed before Sing Sing could find Little Jacob Gavin. The survivors landed in the wilderness, where Sing Sing wondered where to search next.

• The commander died beneath a falling spotlight as the collapsing tower trapped Coyote and left Stinger badly injured.
• Sing Sing used two Bamboo-copters to carry himself and Christina through a hole in the tower before it exploded.
• Their Bamboo-copters broke during flight, and Sing Sing and Christina survived a fall by landing on a sand dune and rolling into shrubs.
• Christina mourned the destruction of the base while Sing Sing revealed he had come to find Little Jacob Gavin and had lost the records and experimental data that might help him locate the boy.
• Sing Sing remembered his cousin waiting in the 749 Bureau medical ward and wondered where to search for Little Jacob next.

Sing Sing returned to Wendover with Christina, learned that Prism could not reveal where Jacob was taken, and recruited Christina into the 749 Bureau. After hearing that Old Goldhead and Silver Fox had gone to Alkali Lake, he set his sights on New York to confront the bald man who knew more than he let on.

• Sing Sing brought Christina to Old Feng's restaurant and questioned the captive Prism, who said Lady had arranged Jacob's transfer and he knew nothing about it.
• Sing Sing called Wandering Girl, who explained that Milk was undergoing a compulsory crash course after drawing her sword over a school word problem.
• Wandering Girl arrived, took Prism and Arclight to the Abnormal Human Research Center, and helped persuade Christina to join the 749 Bureau.
• Wandering Girl told Sing Sing that Old Goldhead and Silver Fox had left for Alkali Lake in Canada, and that Uncle Biao wanted him to keep watch if convenient.
• Sing Sing decided to head to New York and confront the bald man who knew what was happening.

Sing Sing visited the X Academy, learned that Scott had withdrawn from the X-Men after a devastating defeat, and paid his respects at a grave before asking Charles about Miss Sinister. Charles revealed that Claudine Renko was a clone of Nathaniel Essex and warned that her powers could disable nearby mutants, leaving Sing Sing with a clearer picture of the threat he faced.

• Sing Sing arrived at the X Academy and learned from Hank and Charles that Scott had abandoned his powers after losing teammates and killing mind-controlled mutants during the X-Men's defeat.
• Sing Sing declined to press Scott about joining the 749 Bureau and went to a solitary grave, where he reported that he had avenged the dead person by killing Tunsley.
• Sing Sing returned to Charles and Hank and demanded the truth about Miss Sinister and her red diamond mark.
• Charles identified Miss Sinister as Claudine Renko, a female clone of the deceased Nathaniel Essex who inherited his genetic knowledge and scientific research.
• Charles explained that Claudine's diamond marks could disintegrate matter and cause paralysis, while her Mind-Reversal Field could sever mutants' X-Gene commands and strip them of their powers.

Sing Sing tracked a possible Silver Peak base in Louisiana, then confronted the despairing Scott Summers and challenged him to reclaim his courage. He left Scott with a copy of How the Steel Was Tempered and a 749 Bureau recruitment card, and Scott showed a first spark of hope.

• Sing Sing used the containment tower’s clues to help Hank locate a suspected Silver Peak facility in the Black Swamp Preserve, Louisiana.
• Sing Sing visited Scott Summers, who was hiding in a dark, filthy room and blaming himself for deaths caused by his powers.
• Sing Sing slapped Scott and urged him to stop hiding while Mutants were being slaughtered and needed a leader.
• Sing Sing gave Scott How the Steel Was Tempered with a 749 Bureau business card tucked inside and told him to join the Bureau when he was ready.
• Scott picked up the book and card, and a spark returned to his eyes as Sing Sing left and privately celebrated slapping Cyclops.

Sing Sing disguised himself as Chef Zhou Dafu and investigated reports of disappearances and strange activity around Black Swamp in New Orleans. After learning that glowing iron boxes were being taken to the Sugar Refinery, he found a Red Diamond chip at his feet.

• Sing Sing traveled from Xavier's School to New Orleans and disguised himself as a French chef to avoid Silver Peak's watchers.
• At a Royal Street food market, Sing Sing impressed a crowd by carving alligator meat and used the performance to question the stall owner.
• The stall owner warned Sing Sing that fishermen had vanished near Black Swamp and described a red-eyed monster and glowing iron boxes moving toward the Sugar Refinery.
• Sing Sing connected the reports to Miss Sinister's suspected underground base and its experiments on captured humans or Mutants.
• At a fried oyster stall, Sing Sing found a black chip marked with Miss Sinister's Red Diamond symbol.

Sing Sing tracked a suspicious chip to Old Pierre’s voodoo shop and learned from the spirit of Thuram that strange crates and a monster had been seen near an abandoned sugar mill, while a lead pointed to Blood Willow Manor. As infrared lasers targeted him through the shop blinds, Sing Sing realized the chip was a tracker.

• Sing Sing followed the chip’s energy trail to Old Pierre’s shop and dispelled the hallucinatory smoke with medicated balm.
• Sing Sing questioned Old Pierre, who described seeing glowing iron crates near an abandoned sugar mill and a monster that killed Thuram.
• Sing Sing sensed a strange soul resonance in Old Pierre and knocked him unconscious, whereupon Thuram’s spirit spoke through him.
• Thuram revealed that he was a Mutant whose soul had become trapped in Old Pierre’s body, and told Sing Sing about Blood Willow Manor.
• Sing Sing prepared to leave, but infrared lasers targeted his chest, leading him to realize the chip was a tracker.

Sing Sing defeated the Silver Peak Consortium's Cleaners, tortured their leader into revealing the location and password for Blood Willow Manor, and took his pass chip. He left the shop and headed by airboat into Atchafalaya Swamp.

• Sing Sing fought off six Cleaners after they stormed the shop, using a wok, a cleaver, and his martial arts to disable them.
• Sing Sing forced the Cleaner leader to eat fiery alligator offal until he revealed that Blood Willow Manor was in Atchafalaya Swamp and gave the password, "Only dead water tonight."
• Sing Sing found the pass chip in the leader's chest armor, then knocked him unconscious.
• Sing Sing offered Thuram a ride, compensated him for the shop damage, and left.
• At Blackwater Pier, Sing Sing hotwired an airboat and headed into the swamp.

Sing Sing fought his way through the Black Swamp, destroying the mercenaries’ assault boats and following a map through the waterways. He reached Blood Willow Manor, where the story left him facing its white main building.

• Sing Sing’s hovercraft was wrecked by the mercenaries and bioengineered alligators, so he bounded across the water and blinded a gunner with a reflective folding stool.
• Sing Sing split one assault boat in two with his Pig Butchering Knife, and the alligators devoured the men who fell into the water.
• Sing Sing boarded the remaining assault boat, disarmed and threw its adjutant into the water, then kicked the other mercenaries overboard.
• Sing Sing found a waterway map in the cabin and followed its red dotted route through the Black Swamp.
• Sing Sing reached Blood Willow Manor and saw its four-story white main building emerge from the mist.

Sing Sing broke through the haunted mansion’s tricks and guards, then discovered its underground laboratories had been abandoned after a violent escape. In a clean lab, he found a specimen labeled as Little Jacob Gavin, whose extracted shapeshifting properties had been retained as bait.

• Sing Sing exposed the mansion’s ghost effects as holograms and sound equipment, then smashed a projected mask.
• Sing Sing defeated a scaled attacker and two guards with a folding stool and Dragon Claw Hand.
• Sing Sing used a looted access chip to open a hidden door beneath the study and slid into the underground facility.
• Sing Sing found wrecked laboratories and evidence of an orderly mass relocation, recalling Stinger’s warning that Louisiana was bait.
• Sing Sing entered a pristine laboratory and found tissue labeled as Little Jacob Gavin, with his consciousness shattered and shapeshifting properties extracted.

Sing Sing found Little Jacob reduced to a living brain wired to a life-support tank, rescued him, and prepared to take him back to Remy. As Sing Sing left the abandoned manor, Miss Sinister taunted him remotely and promised more surprises.

• Sing Sing discovered Little Jacob’s brain alive in a tank, with his body cut apart nearby.
• Sing Sing identified himself to Little Jacob, promised to get him a new body, and saw the brain respond with a Morse code distress signal.
• Sing Sing carefully cut the life-support tank free and carried it in a military shoulder bag after deciding not to risk storing it in a Mini Dimensional Box.
• Miss Sinister contacted Sing Sing, revealed she had watched him and that the manor had been abandoned for three days, then said she had prepared gifts for him.

Sing Sing fought Marauders Bora and Bloodlust after they cornered him in the operating room and tried to seize his brain. He escaped their initial attacks but was trapped against a frozen wall as Bora prepared a barrage of icicles.

• Sing Sing entered the operating room and found Marauders Bloodlust and Bora waiting to attack him.
• Bora opened a spatial rift that unleashed a freezing blizzard, while Bloodlust charged Sing Sing across the ice.
• Sing Sing dodged Bloodlust’s claws and Bora’s frost attacks, using slippery floors and Bloodlust’s body to obstruct Bora’s aim.
• Bloodlust used the ice to evade Sing Sing’s kick and slashed his chest, driving him into a frozen wall as he protected the brain in his bag.
• Bora gathered more than a hundred icicles above Sing Sing and announced that her blizzard would bury him.

Sing Sing fought Bora and Bloodlust while protecting the brain in its life-support tank, ultimately defeating both Marauders despite being badly wounded. Before he could restrain them, a ring of black light swallowed the unconscious women, leaving their whereabouts unknown.

• Sing Sing dodged Bora’s ice spears and Bloodlust’s attacks, then used steel-studded cleats and a pipe to disable Bloodlust’s strikes.
• Sing Sing knocked Bloodlust into rubble with a palm strike, but Bora unleashed a powerful blizzard and widened her spatial rift.
• Sing Sing broke through Bora’s ice wall, seized her wounded shoulder, and kicked Bloodlust away as she attacked from behind.
• Sing Sing slammed Bora into the ice, stopping the storm and confirming the brain in the tank was safe, then prepared suppression restraints.
• A ring of black light appeared beneath Bora and Bloodlust and vanished with their unconscious bodies before Sing Sing could restrain them.

Sing Sing recruited Deadpool to help find the mutant healer Christopher Muse, who could restore Gambit’s friend from the brain in Sing Sing’s satchel. They reached Detroit after a long ride, where an RPG rocket suddenly targeted them as they prepared to land.

• Sing Sing encountered Deadpool in the swamp and docked his pay and employment points for abandoning his post and stealing cigarettes.
• Sing Sing offered to forgive Deadpool’s fine and restore his employment assessment if he found a mutant healer.
• Deadpool named Christopher Muse, and Hank confirmed that Muse had a rare power to restore damaged cells and reverse near-death states.
• Deadpool said Muse was hiding in Detroit’s slums, so Sing Sing flew there with Deadpool on a damaged hover motorcycle and the brain in his satchel.
• As Sing Sing and Deadpool prepared to land above Detroit, someone fired an RPG rocket at them from an abandoned factory.

Sing Sing and Deadpool fought their way through a chaotic Detroit street while protecting the brain in Sing Sing’s bag. After learning that Christopher Muse was in danger of being captured at a slaughterhouse, they rushed toward the site as an explosion lit the sky.

• Sing Sing used Deadpool as a shield against an RPG, then landed safely with the brain while Deadpool complained about his injuries.
• Deadpool charged into a gunfight, using a gangster as a shield, as looters and rival gangs clashed around them.
• The Blood Crow Gang tried to rob Sing Sing, but his sealed-barrel technique injured their leader and he defeated more than twenty armed thugs.
• Sing Sing forced a surviving gangster to reveal that Christopher Muse ran a clinic beneath a slaughterhouse three blocks away.
• The gangster warned that a slave-catching team was about to capture Christopher for a major conglomerate, and an explosion erupted near the slaughterhouse as Sing Sing called Wade into action.

Stephen Chow and Deadpool stormed a slaughterhouse to rescue Christopher Muse from a slave-catching squad that wanted to enslave his healing abilities. Stephen offered Christopher a government job in the East, but the defeated Captain Barton activated a self-destruct core before Christopher could answer.

• The Blood Crow Gang and Captain Barton cornered Christopher Muse and demanded that he sign a lifetime contract and wear an inhibitor collar.
• Barton used sonic drones to incapacitate Christopher, but Stephen Chow and Deadpool smashed into the slaughterhouse and attacked the captors.
• Deadpool drew the squad's gunfire while Stephen killed two laser operators with invisible finger force, then shattered Barton's axe and defeated him.
• Stephen introduced himself as director of the 749 Bureau's Overseas Special Talent Recruitment Office and offered Christopher a government job in the East.
• Barton activated a self-destruct core in his chest, and Deadpool warned that the device was about to explode.

Sing Sing and Deadpool defeated the slave-catching team and Blood Crow Gang, then Sing Sing tried to recruit Christopher into China's 749 Bureau by promising him legal protection and a laboratory. The chapter ended with Sing Sing asking Christopher to regrow Jacob’s body from a brain, leaving Christopher horrified by the impossible task.

• Sing Sing kicked Barton through the slaughterhouse roof, where the cyborg exploded, while he protected Christopher from falling rubble.
• Deadpool reset his broken arm and killed the surviving gangsters and slave catchers as Sing Sing killed a sniper with a thrown fruit knife.
• Sing Sing introduced himself as a 749 Bureau recruiter and offered Christopher legal status, a laboratory, funding, and protection.
• Christopher explained that his healing ability had made him a target and asked for a few days to consider joining the bureau.
• Sing Sing presented Jacob’s brain and asked Christopher to regrow his body, prompting Christopher to protest that he was an ER doctor, not God.

Sing Sing and Christopher used Liger meat and Christopher's healing power to help Jacob regrow a body. The procedure succeeded, but Jacob's new body was female.

• Sing Sing proposed using genetically modified Liger meat to give Jacob's brain material to rebuild a body.
• Christopher agreed to try after Sing Sing threatened to fail his probationary assessment and cancel his benefits.
• Christopher used his power to turn the Liger meat into biological fluid, which Jacob's brain reshaped into a growing body.
• Deadpool livestreamed the procedure as Jacob's bones, organs, muscles, and skin formed.
• The process ended with Jacob Gavin alive in a newly grown female body.

Sing Sing and Deadpool faced a debt-collection convoy targeting Christopher Muse, whose student loan had ballooned to $894,600 despite years of payments. After learning the fund had trapped poor students and exploited those who awakened mutant abilities, Sing Sing sent Christopher to protect Jacob and went out to confront the mercenaries, while Jacqueline Gavin reacted to her transformation into a woman.

• John Smith surrounded the slaughterhouse with mercenaries and demanded that Christopher repay $894,600 or become a physician for the fund’s board or sell his body.
• Christopher explained that predatory loan terms and the loss of his medical license had made repayment impossible, even after he had paid $600,000.
• Sing Sing condemned the fund’s exploitation and promised to handle the debt collectors through the 749 Bureau, while Deadpool agreed to guard the entrance.
• After waking, Jacqueline Gavin cursed her transformation, and Sing Sing left Deadpool to guard the entrance while he went outside.
• The mercenaries fired tear gas, flashbangs, and bullets, but Sing Sing advanced behind a reinforced rolling shutter and then charged the lead armored truck with a blade.

Sing Sing and Deadpool dismantled Agent Smith’s mercenary force and confronted him over the Ivy League Student Aid Fund’s abusive debt contracts. Smith activated a deadly threat involving twelve enslaved students, leaving Sing Sing to face a choice between fighting them and risking their lives.

• Sing Sing split an armored truck and crushed or injured the mercenaries while Deadpool joined the fight and looted the fallen men.
• Sing Sing destroyed the flank pickups’ Gatling guns with chunks of concrete, and the surviving mercenaries fled.
• Deadpool took over the command vehicle before Sing Sing dragged Agent Smith out and confronted him about the students’ debts and exploitation.
• Smith revealed twelve students fitted with explosive collars and said they would die if they failed to kill Sing Sing or if his heart stopped.

Sing Sing defeated the students without killing them and promised to free them from their predatory loans if they joined the 749 Bureau, prompting all twelve to surrender. Smith then activated their explosive collars, and Sing Sing unleashed his Inner Qi as the countdown began.

• Sing Sing disarmed and subdued the students while criticizing their predatory loans, then revealed he was the director of the 749 Bureau's Overseas Talent Recruitment Office.
• Sing Sing promised to repay the students' debts and provide education, housing, and jobs if they returned east with him, and the students broke down and stopped fighting.
• Smith secretly found the remote and activated the explosives in the twelve students' collars.
• With the collars glowing and two seconds until detonation, Christopher watched helplessly as Sing Sing unleashed twelve streams of Inner Qi.