Chapter Summaries

Sing Sing and his allies defeated Agent Smith’s operation, freed the Mutant students, and recruited Christopher Muse and Jacqueline Gavin into the bureau. The recovered ledger exposed hundreds of victims and revealed the Hellfire Club’s involvement.

• Sing Sing destroyed the explosive collars around the twelve students, and the remaining thugs refused Smith’s offer to kill him.
• Jacqueline emerged with enhanced strength, seized Smith, and Wade shot the fleeing thugs in the heels.
• Sing Sing revived Christopher with a tonic pill and offered him a full-time bureau position, which Christopher considered while thinking of the people he had treated.
• Jacqueline thanked Sing Sing and pledged herself to the bureau, while Sing Sing announced the Ivy League operation was over and arranged for the students to return east.
• Wade brought Sing Sing a ledger listing more than three hundred victims and their organ buyers, and Sing Sing found the Hellfire Club’s emblem on its last page.

Sing Sing exposed the Hellfire Club’s trafficking scheme, restrained Smith, and called the police before preparing to evacuate the rescued Mutant students. Jacqueline struggled to adjust to her new female body, and Sing Sing called the 749 Bureau for transport as a Russian-accented voice answered.

• Sing Sing and Deadpool examined a ledger listing Mutants for sale and learned that the rock boy was scheduled for organ disassembly.
• Sing Sing stored the ledger and tablet as evidence, tied Smith to a pillar, and called 911 to report the crimes.
• Jacqueline complained that her new body’s chest made running difficult, kicked Deadpool through a wall after his lewd remarks, and asked about sleeping arrangements at headquarters.
• Christopher and the rescued students warned Sing Sing that police and Smith’s mechanized forces were closing in, and Sing Sing promised them a ride across the Pacific.
• Sing Sing called for backup, and a voice with a thick Siberian accent answered.

Sing Sing arranged for Magik to open a portal from Detroit to retrieve his group, using a geometry problem to help her evade her math homework. Magik arrived with a precisely calculated portal, but Deadpool’s teasing prompted her to strike him with the Soulsword.

• Colossus kept Magik confined to study until she completed her chicken-and-rabbit and quadratic-equation papers, while Deadpool mocked her math struggles.
• Sing Sing called Magik and requested a portal to bring sixteen people from Detroit, then promised to seek an exemption from her homework.
• Sing Sing gave Magik a spatial-geometry problem, and Magik and Colossus worked through the calculations over the phone.
• Magik opened a three-meter portal in Detroit and stepped through wearing her school uniform with her calculations in hand.
• Deadpool teased Magik about her uniform and duck backpack, and Magik brought the Soulsword down on his forehead.

Sing Sing brought the rescued Mutant students and Jacqueline through Magik’s portal to the Bureau’s reception hall, where Hu Yingying announced that she would oversee the overseas recruitment program. The newcomers were sent for screening and registration under her instructions.

• Magik knocked Deadpool into the snow, then opened the way for Colossus and the rescued group to enter the portal.
• Sing Sing lined up the twelve students, Christopher, Jacqueline, and Deadpool and led them through the portal to the Bureau.
• The rock boy and red-haired youth left Detroit together, while Christopher accepted Sing Sing’s assurance that no one would force him to exchange blood.
• Hu Yingying arrived with elite agents and told Sing Sing she would liaise with him directly on the Overseas Special Talent Recruitment Program.
• Hu Yingying ordered the reception teams to screen and register the newcomers, issue meal vouchers and interpretation headsets, and handle them gently.

Hu Yingying welcomed the returning personnel and reassured the frightened children that they would not be interrogated or experimented on. Nina then warned Sing Sing that powerful figures were spying through the black book he carried, prompting him to tell Hu Yingying to seal it before handing it to intelligence.

• Hu Yingying signed Sing Sing's dispatch form and explained the bureau's rules for the returning personnel's first two hours.
• Deadpool tried to give Hu Yingying a stolen gold watch, so she kicked him through the security curtain and confiscated it.
• The children panicked at the noise, and Hu Yingying and Sing Sing reassured them that no one would take their blood or mistreat them.
• Nina confirmed that no one was following or plotting against the children, then warned Sing Sing that several old monsters were watching through black threads attached to his book.
• Sing Sing recognized the book's danger and told Hu Yingying to seal it before handing it to the intelligence section.

The 749 Bureau welcomed the rescued students and Jacqueline, reassuring them with friendly introductions, medical screening, and basic provisions. Remy LeBeau arrived looking for Jacob, and Sing Sing pointed him toward Jacqueline, leaving Remy stunned by her appearance.

• Li Qianhuan welcomed the frightened newcomers with fireworks, food, and stories about her life at the 749 Bureau.
• Hu Yingying arranged noninvasive health screenings, and all twelve students and Jacqueline passed the safety checks.
• Hu Yingying gave the newcomers temporary identity cards, access cards, living allowances, and emergency contact information.
• Remy LeBeau rushed into the lobby asking Sing Sing where Jacob was.
• Sing Sing pointed out Jacqueline, and Remy dropped the playing cards in his hand when he saw her.

Gambit discovered that Jacob had survived Omen’s attack but had been transformed into Jacqueline, and he joined the 749 Bureau. Hu Yingying began briefing the new Awakened on their rights during their adaptation period, while Christina celebrated earning her first wages and Geggebu and Baobao arrived with free-range chickens.

• Gambit was shocked by Jacob’s new appearance until Jacqueline explained that Omen had left only her brain alive and Sing Sing had saved her.
• Jacqueline vowed to tear Silver Peak apart, and Gambit offered to work for the 749 Bureau as a handyman skilled in explosives and lockpicking.
• Hu Yingying led the new comrades to the sunlight adaptation dormitories and began reading them the bureau’s eight basic rights.
• Christina showed off the money she earned carrying water jugs and promised to treat her new coworkers to pearl milk tea.
• Geggebu and Baobao arrived at the dormitory courtyard with free-range chickens for the bureau.

The 749 Bureau welcomed Christopher with a hot-pot feast, then began its third-phase adaptation course for the new recruits. After Hu Yingying turned Magik’s math problem into a Limbo portal tactical exercise, Sing Sing finished the day teaching mobile payments and fraud prevention.

• Geggebu and Baobao delivered free-range chickens and eggs, and Christopher asked to join the 749 Bureau.
• Sing Sing prepared beef and chicken hot pot for the group, while Hu Yingying assigned Deadpool to wash the pots after he failed to answer her question about the law.
• Hu Yingying began the 30-day adaptation course, and Magik destroyed the classroom blackboard after losing her temper over a pool word problem.
• Hu Yingying replaced the problem with a Limbo portal calculation, which Magik solved before returning to her seat to copy the tactical model.
• Sing Sing taught the students how to use mobile payments and avoid telecommunications fraud, then the medical department director and Da Vinci summoned him.

The twelve new students underwent voluntary ability assessments at the Bureau’s Ability Safety Boundary Assessment Center, and their abilities led to tailored training and job assignments. Christopher’s healing power revived a carp in seconds, prompting Sing Sing to appoint him deputy chief physician at the Clinical Emergency Center.

• Hu Yingying explained the voluntary safety assessments, and Cornerstone demonstrated his strength before Sing Sing assigned him to civil engineering and infrastructure work.
• Arc, Tar, and Cursor demonstrated their abilities, earning placements in the State Grid’s inspection class, the Special Metallurgy Laboratory, and Da Vinci’s mechanical engineering lab.
• Lin Xiaoyu displayed optical camouflage, and Abby and Bella showed sound-based calming and healing abilities; Hu Yingying arranged their studies and medical laboratory training.
• Jacqueline bent an alloy target with a kick, then Deadpool provoked her and Gambit by teasing them about her and Remy.
• Christopher healed a nearly dead grass carp in seconds, and Sing Sing appointed him deputy chief physician of the Bureau’s Clinical Emergency Center.

A Le interrogated Robbie and Philippa, exposing how the Silver Peak Consortium had abandoned them and pressuring them to reveal Miss Sinister’s plans. He sent them to the labor reform ward with new intelligence about a Zero Gene Furnace and an alliance with the Black King, then went to inform Ah Qi.

• A Le used details about Robbie’s mother and Philippa’s lost house to convince Robbie that the Silver Peak Consortium had discarded them.
• Robbie revealed that Miss Sinister had a Zero Gene Furnace beneath the Roswell Desert, where mutant X-Gene solution was being stored.
• Philippa disclosed that the Black King had joined Miss Sinister in a plan to combine twelve high-risk abilities into an ultimate living weapon.
• A Le arranged a year of nursing-home fees for Robbie’s mother and sent Robbie and Philippa to the labor reform ward in striped uniforms.
• Arclight argued with Sabretooth in the ward, and A Le docked Victor five reform points for breaking a knitting needle.
• A Le headed upstairs to deliver the prisoners’ information to Ah Qi.

Chan Ka-kui taught Ichirai Hisako and Ueda Kenji a close-combat lesson by using discarded furniture and other objects to counter their powerful abilities. After the newcomers gained a new respect for his tactics, Chan fled when Old Zhang threatened to deduct money for the wrecked furniture.

• Chan Ka-kui invited Ichirai Hisako and Ueda Kenji to attack him together in a training exercise.
• Ichirai Hisako formed psychic armor and Ueda Kenji unleashed biomechanical tentacles, but Chan evaded them and used a folding chair and desk to disrupt their attacks.
• Chan used a broken desk leg to strike Hisako's armor helmet, then blocked Kenji's bone spears with a security door and charged back at him using the slide's momentum.
• Chan bound Kenji's legs with packing tape, covered his head with a woven sack, and sprayed both newcomers with a fire extinguisher until their attacks stopped.
• Chan explained that his approach was Furniture City Tactics and warned the newcomers not to rely too much on their abilities; they bowed to him in respect.
• Old Zhang threatened to deduct two thousand from Chan's allowance for the destroyed furniture, so Chan protested and ran out the back door.

Sing Sing took Magik and Li Qianhuan out to Wangfujing Street to give them a break from lessons, treating them to snacks and new clothes. As the girls watched children playing after dark, Magik asked whether children in China could safely enjoy the streets, and Sing Sing reassured her that they could.

• Sing Sing read Li Qianhuan and Magik’s complaints about difficult lessons and mock exams, then went to collect them from the classroom.
• Sing Sing brought the girls to Wangfujing Street, where they tried candied hawthorn and hot pear soup.
• Li Qianhuan dragged Magik into a clothing store and persuaded her to try a rabbit-ear hoodie and pleated skirt.
• Sing Sing bought the outfit for Magik and a red scarf for Li Qianhuan, then spent more money on clothes as they visited other stores.
• Magik watched children playing at night and asked Sing Sing whether they could safely run around; he said that children there could play without fear.

Sing Sing met Riptide and Anton at a night market, where they discussed Riptide’s special meteorological response brigade and Anton showed him a sketch. The outing ended at a ring-toss stall, where Illyana accused the vendor of using magic and Sing Sing tried to teach her how to win with skill.

• Sing Sing bought grilled cold noodles and spotted Riptide and Anton sharing chestnuts at a nearby table.
• Li Qianhuan confronted Riptide about his past, then Sing Sing asked how his plan for a National Special Meteorological Rapid Response Brigade was progressing.
• Anton showed Sing Sing a charcoal sketch of a cafeteria hot pot gathering, and Sing Sing invited the brothers to bring ingredients to the cafeteria sometime.
• Illyana tried and failed to win a large goose plush at a ring-toss stall, then accused the vendor of placing a force-field barrier on it.
• Sing Sing suppressed Illyana’s magic and explained how wind, angle, and spin could help her land a ring.

Deadpool tried to earn money by running a fake fortune-telling stall before Chan Ka-kui and Li Hongqi arrested him. Meanwhile, Marcus, Tasha, and Sophia were swept into a neighborhood dance, and Illyana won nearly every prize at a ring-toss stall.

• Deadpool pretended to read a young man's fortune and demanded grilled kidney skewers and soda as payment for a love talisman.
• Chan Ka-kui tore down Deadpool's sign while Li Hongqi confiscated his skewers and hauled him to a patrol car.
• Auntie Wang pulled Marcus into the square's dance, and other aunties brought Tasha and Sophia along.
• Illyana used her calculations to land all her rings on the stall's prizes, leaving the owner stunned.
• Li Qianhuan cheered Illyana and credited Instructor Hu's lessons.

Sing Sing’s group enjoyed a warm welcome from the elderly residents, then returned to the dormitory, where Jacqueline’s clothing mishap and Deadpool’s teasing sparked a fight. The chapter ended with Sing Sing calling the ensuing chaos lively nighttime cultural exchange and urging Christopher to practice sewing on Deadpool.

• Tasha repaired the speakers with her bioelectric power, and Auntie Wang and the other elderly women rewarded Tasha, Sofia, and their companions with snacks.
• Sing Sing gathered the group to head home, and Wandering Girl photographed them for the publicity department’s bulletin board.
• The group returned to the dormitory and found Jacqueline embarrassed because her jacket zipper had burst after she did chest stretches.
• Deadpool teased Jacqueline about her appearance, so she hurled a granite stone lock at him and smashed a hole in the courtyard wall.
• Sing Sing dubbed the commotion lively nighttime cultural exchange and told Christopher to practice sewing Deadpool’s mouth shut.

Jacqueline struggled with her transformed body and resisted the idea of wearing a bra, so Hu Yingying took her to a 749 Bureau tailor for custom tactical support gear. After Master Zhou measured Jacqueline and assessed her unusually powerful muscles, he said suitable material could solve her problem.

• Sing Sing reassured Jacqueline about her changing body, while Gambit teased her and Jacqueline threw a flip-flop at him.
• Hu Yingying punished Deadpool for sneaking into the women’s courtyard and told Jacqueline that a tactical compression garment could support her chest.
• Hu Yingying, Shi Xiaoyan, Christina, and Wendy Carter escorted a reluctant Jacqueline to the Red Star Special Labor Protection Alterations Shop.
• Master Zhou measured Jacqueline, noted that ordinary stretch fabric would tear under her strength, and assured her that the right material could work.

Jacqueline received custom tactical gear from Master Zhou and gained confidence after the 749 Bureau staff showed her care. Gambit lost at Chinese chess to Uncle Li, while Jacqueline ended the day asking Hu Yingying to join her covert field intelligence team.

• Longneck William brought No. 3 Blended Silk made from Sabretooth’s keratin, and Hu Yingying explained how the bureau had produced it.
• William described how Master Zhou’s custom jacket helped him live more comfortably, easing Jacqueline’s anger about the fabric’s origin.
• Gambit challenged Uncle Li to Chinese chess, lost money and cigarettes, and failed to secretly tamper with the board when Uncle Li dispersed his kinetic energy.
• Jacqueline tried on her new gear, praised Master Zhou, and celebrated how well it supported her.
• Jacqueline bought snacks for Hu Yingying, Wendy, Christina, and Shi Xiaoyan, then asked Hu Yingying to place her on the covert field intelligence team.

Sing Sing brought the bureau’s interns to the 749 Ecological Agriculture Demonstration Base and a nearby market, where they found work, friendship, and acceptance. The chapter left the awakened settling into ordinary life as part of a welcoming community.

• Illyana opened a portal to the 749 Ecological Agriculture Demonstration Base, where Geggebu, Baobao, and Luke Shaw welcomed the group.
• Toby Green and Olivia worked together to germinate wild Chinese notoginseng seeds in minutes, and Toby asked Sing Sing to let him spend most of his time helping develop grain seeds.
• Lao Zhou led the interns to Wangjiayu Village’s market, where Jiafeite worried that people would reject him because of his blue skin.
• Jiafeite and Ini and Mini cleared waste from a stall, while Tar lit its firebox; the grateful vendor gave them sesame kangkangmo.
• Baobao bargained for spices and chilies for the evening’s stewed chicken, and Sing Sing welcomed the interns’ growing place in everyday life.

Sing Sing hosted a celebratory barbecue at the farm with Moon-Boy, Devil Dinosaur, and the others before Uncle Biao summoned him to 749 Bureau headquarters. There, Sing Sing handed over scrap seized from the Blackheart Consortium, but Da Vinci and Jiang Si immediately resumed fighting over it.

• Marcus returned to the farm with supplies, and Devil Dinosaur emerged from the valley with Moon-Boy riding on his head.
• Sing Sing prepared a barbecue with help from Leo, while Christopher and Director Wang discussed improving the chicken soup with bioenergy.
• Li Qianhuan and Tasha set off plasma fireworks as the group celebrated, until Uncle Biao called Sing Sing back to headquarters.
• Sing Sing used Magik's portal to reach the Institute of Anomalous Engineering and Bionic Integration, where Da Vinci and Jiang Si fought over the scrap.
• Sing Sing dumped the seized mechanical and biological parts onto the floor and assigned the researchers to compete to make practical public-welfare inventions.
• Jiang Si and Da Vinci resumed fighting over the haul while Lao Zhou walked away, leaving their medical bills to the project insurance.

The 749 Bureau and Alpha Flight planned a coordinated assault on Silver Peak’s four remaining core bases and its North American outposts. As the teams prepared to deploy, Sing Sing learned that several familiar agents had been assigned to the field squads while the children and less battle-tested recruits would stay behind.

• Ling Lingwu and A Le reported that Prism and Arclight had revealed the locations of Silver Peak’s four remaining core bases.
• Director Wang assigned Alpha Flight the Calgary base and organized three bureau teams to attack the Roswell, Yellowstone, and Death Valley bases.
• Sing Sing questioned why Cao Dahua, Li Hongqi, Ma Jun, and Yang Jianhua had not been assigned, and Hu Yingying revealed four field squads tasked with clearing Silver Peak’s outlying sites.
• Uncle Biao explained that experienced veterans would join the squads, while Polaris, Soft Serve, Full Bars, Flower Bud, and the children would remain at headquarters to study.