Chapter Summaries

Sing Sing showed Professor X and Beast that former Mutants, including Wolverine, were thriving in China, then offered them contracts to join the 749 Bureau. Deadpool’s attempt to win over the group was ignored, leaving Professor X and Beast to consider signing.

• Sing Sing argued with Beast and promised Professor X that the 749 Bureau could help him regain his lost powers.
• Sing Sing opened a group video call, and Wolverine appeared contentedly eating garlic in China.
• Deep Abyss, Soft Serve, Polaris, Toad, and other Mutants joined the call and surprised Professor X and Beast with how well they were doing.
• Deadpool barged into the call to promote himself, but the other Mutants dismissed him and left.
• Sing Sing handed Professor X and Beast contracts and asked whether they would sign or use their thumbprints.

Sing Sing tried to recruit Professor X and the X-Men to the 749 Bureau, insisting that Mutants could live as respected workers in his country rather than being treated as weapons. He laid out the contract and asked Professor X whether he would keep hiding with the children or come with him to try a better life.

• Professor X declined Sing Sing's offer, saying his disability would make him a burden, and invited Sing Sing and Deadpool downstairs to sit.
• Beast led the group through a concealed staircase into the X-Men's shabby basement, where Professor X asked Sing Sing whether he meant to build an army or pursue an even worse plan.
• Sing Sing explained that Mutants were mistreated in the United States but could work, follow rules, and receive wages, health care, and pensions in his country.
• Sing Sing gave Polaris and Riptide as examples of Mutants serving in civilian jobs and argued that development, not war, motivated his recruitment.
• Deadpool enthusiastically agreed with Sing Sing and complained about being cheated out of pizza coupons after taking bounties.
• Sing Sing placed the contract on the coffee table and asked Professor X to leave the ruins with him for a few days of decent living.

Sing Sing offered to recruit three marginalized young Mutants for jobs in China after Professor X admitted he could not leave his estate. Sing Sing reluctantly agreed to take them, including Bailey Hoskins, whose self-detonation ability would kill him, and demanded reimbursement from Professor X.

• Sing Sing tried to persuade Professor X that China's 749 Bureau was legitimate, but Charles said Stryker and others would stop him from leaving the estate.
• Professor X asked Sing Sing to take three Mutants with him: Longneck, Robert Herman, and Bailey Hoskins.
• Charles explained that Longneck could stretch his neck 1.8 meters, and Sing Sing offered him work maintaining streetlights and drains.
• Charles said Robert Herman was made of highly flammable transparent pink bioparaffin and dreamed of raising chickens, so Sing Sing offered him a poultry-breeding job.
• Charles revealed that Bailey Hoskins could detonate himself only once and would be reduced to ashes, prompting Sing Sing to protest that he was being asked to recruit a human bomb.
• After Charles pleaded for Bailey's safety, Sing Sing agreed to take all three and demanded a proper invoice for the costs of the trip.

Sing Sing learned that the three Mutants and Ororo were in Los Angeles, then eagerly agreed to go after Ororo when he realized her weather powers could help relieve droughts. Professor X explained that he had taken a serum to limit his telepathic power because the government feared him.

• Sing Sing discovered that the three Mutants were in Los Angeles and protested the extra travel costs.
• Beast and Professor X told Sing Sing that Ororo, also known as Storm, was in Los Angeles searching for wandering Mutants.
• Sing Sing decided Storm’s weather powers could help with drought relief and declared her a valuable asset for the Agriculture Department.
• Sing Sing agreed to travel to Los Angeles to recruit Ororo, while Deadpool asked to come along and was told to stay behind.
• Beast questioned whether Professor X could trust Sing Sing, and Professor X explained that he had taken a serum to limit his telepathy and avoid provoking a government purge.

Professor X hoped Sing Sing could find a way through the hostility facing Mutants, while Sing Sing prepared to leave for Los Angeles. Deadpool ambushed him, then became his unwilling massage client and lost his hidden cash.

• Professor X told Beast that Sing Sing's disregard for the distinction between Mutants and ordinary people might let him survive in a hostile world.
• Sing Sing complained about the cost of traveling from New York to Los Angeles as Deadpool attacked him with two Adamantium swords.
• Deadpool injured himself on a tree branch, then introduced himself and admitted Stryker had paid him a deposit to attack Sing Sing.
• Deadpool begged Sing Sing to take him to Los Angeles, and Sing Sing knocked him limp with his Cook Ding Cuts Up an Ox technique.
• Sing Sing searched Deadpool's suit, took his hidden money, and left him sprawled on the ground.

Sing Sing escaped with Slug but was teleported to Magneto, who questioned him about Professor X. After revealing Professor X had lost his powers, Sing Sing tried to recruit Magneto to work at a steel mill, leaving Magneto stunned with the flyer in his hand.

• Sing Sing pulled Slug from the bushes, stole a pickup, and filled its tank with money and Pizza Hut coupons.
• Sing Sing asked Slug about Longneck, Gegbu, and Bailey, but Slug knew nothing about the Los Angeles figures.
• Azazel appeared in the pickup and teleported Sing Sing to a dilapidated factory, while Slug turned the truck around and headed back to the city.
• Magneto threatened Sing Sing and demanded to know Professor X's condition and what deal they had made.
• Sing Sing told Magneto that Professor X had lost his powers, then offered him a 749 Bureau job as a senior technical adviser at a steel mill.
• Magneto stared in disbelief at the recruitment flyer Sing Sing handed him.

Sing Sing tried to recruit Magneto and Azazel to a steel mill, but Magneto sealed him inside an iron ball and Azazel teleported it far from New York. Sing Sing escaped in Alaska and faced a hungry brown bear.

• Sing Sing offered Magneto a steel mill job and suggested Azazel use his teleportation for express delivery.
• Magneto trapped Sing Sing inside a giant iron ball, then ordered Azazel to dump it far from New York.
• Azazel teleported the iron ball away, and Magneto kept the recruitment notice before leaving.
• Sing Sing cut his way out of the ball and found himself in snowy Alaska with no phone signal.
• A large brown bear emerged from the trees, and Sing Sing challenged it to become his mount.

Sing Sing forced a brown bear to submit and rode it through the snow until it fled near an isolated cabin. He approached the cabin seeking shelter, where someone opened the door and aimed a loaded shotgun at his chest.

• Sing Sing fought the charging brown bear, kicking it into submission and making it carry him through the snow.
• Sing Sing complained about his wilderness assignment and planned to claim workplace injury compensation from Director Wang.
• Sing Sing noticed a cabin below the slope, but the brown bear refused to approach and ran into the pine forest.
• Sing Sing walked to the cabin and knocked, calling out that he was there to read the water meter.
• Someone opened the cabin door a crack and pointed a loaded double-barreled shotgun at Sing Sing's chest.

Sing Sing reached Margaret’s isolated home in Alaska after escaping the gangsters who kidnapped him, and persuaded her to let him inside. After she fed him, he learned the highway was closed and every other way out was unavailable, leaving him stranded for at least ten days.

• Margaret confronted Sing Sing with a shotgun, questioned his identity and story, then invited him inside.
• Sing Sing took off his shoes, warmed himself by the stove, and complained about Margaret’s potato and onion soup and hard bread.
• Sing Sing told Margaret he was headed to Los Angeles to find four unemployed people, including someone who could make artificial rain.
• Margaret told Sing Sing the highway was closed, there were no nearby train tracks or reachable airport, and the snowmobile was broken.

Sing Sing and Margaret endured a worsening blizzard in an isolated Alaskan cabin as their food ran out and help failed to arrive. Late at night, someone knocked at the door, and Margaret aimed her shotgun at it.

• Sing Sing discovered the cabin's landline and his phone had no connection, then complained that he was stranded without internet or help.
• Margaret said the cabin had run out of food and warned Sing Sing not to consider eating her hunting dog, Old Harry.
• Margaret said her son planned to bring supplies, but the snow kept Sing Sing, Margaret, and Old Harry trapped with dwindling food.
• After three days, the cabin's food was gone, and Sing Sing and Margaret waited through the storm as their hunger worsened.
• Someone knocked on the door late at night, and Margaret grabbed her shotgun and demanded to know who was outside.

During a blizzard, Sing Sing mistook Darwin for an attacker and fought him until Margaret revealed he was her son, Armando. After recognizing Darwin’s adaptive mutation, Sing Sing eagerly tried to recruit him for the 749 Bureau’s disaster relief vanguard.

• A bald stranger charged into Margaret’s cabin and attacked Sing Sing after seeing him with a knife.
• Sing Sing and the stranger fought until Margaret recognized him as her son, Armando, and stopped them.
• Armando explained that his body had adapted to the polar-night blizzard by changing his skin, fat, and hair.
• Armando brought in a bag of food and supplies, and Sing Sing identified him as the mutant Darwin, whose body evolved to survive threats.
• Sing Sing introduced himself as a 749 Bureau recruiter and offered Darwin a job with benefits, urging him to discuss his career.

Sing Sing tried to recruit Darwin while they stayed at Margaret’s cabin, but Darwin refused and left when the weather cleared. As they crossed the snowfield, helicopters bearing the Silver Peak Consortium emblem appeared, and Sing Sing forced Darwin into a snowdrift to hide.

• Sing Sing cooked Darwin a meal and tried to recruit him to the 749 Bureau, but Darwin refused and warned him to stay away from the X-Men.
• Over the next three days, Sing Sing repeatedly pitched the job to Darwin until Darwin decided to leave Margaret’s cabin.
• Darwin hugged Margaret goodbye and set out across the snow, but Sing Sing followed him, claiming he needed a local guide.
• After they walked for nearly two hours, two helicopters appeared beyond the ridgeline.
• Sing Sing recognized the Silver Peak Consortium emblem on a helicopter and shoved Darwin into a snowdrift to hide from them.

Sing Sing and Darwin were cornered by Silver Peak mercenaries in an Alaskan snowfield, but Sing Sing used flying daggers and his knife to defeat them. He dragged Darwin onto a snowmobile and headed for Los Angeles, while Darwin protested in despair.

• Silver Peak mercenaries found Sing Sing and Darwin in a snow pit and opened fire, but Darwin’s body transformed into bulletproof armor that shielded them.
• Sing Sing tossed the one-eyed leader a fake key, and more mercenaries arrived to surround them.
• Sing Sing revealed his flying daggers and killed the front gunmen before charging into the crowd with the Sky-Iron Pig Butchering Knife.
• Sing Sing defeated the mercenaries, killed their leader, and identified himself as Director Zhou of the 749 Bureau.
• Sing Sing hauled Darwin onto a snowmobile and set off for Los Angeles while Darwin shouted that he wanted to go home.

Sing Sing and Darwin fell into an ice cave and discovered Ape-Man, a hairy, mechanically gifted scavenger. Sing Sing recruited him for a mechanical engineering job with China's 749 Bureau, and Ape-Man began considering the offer.

• Sing Sing and Darwin crashed through the snow into an underground ice cave, where Ape-Man confronted them and demanded they leave.
• Ape-Man led them to his cavern workshop, where Sing Sing and Darwin saw the machines he had built and repaired from salvaged parts.
• Sing Sing praised Ape-Man's mechanical talent and offered him a senior mechanical engineer and special equipment maintenance consultant position with China's 749 Bureau.
• Ape-Man worried that people would fear him because of his appearance, and Sing Sing reassured him that his fur was useful in the cold and invited him to join.

Sing Sing persuaded Ape-Man to join the 749 Bureau by promising to help find Devil Dinosaur and provide it with unlimited meat. The chapter ended with Ape-Man signing a contract he could not read, while Darwin watched in disbelief.

• Sing Sing urged Ape-Man to sign up, but Ape-Man said he needed to find his lost friend, Devil Dinosaur.
• Ape-Man described Devil Dinosaur as a huge, red creature, and Sing Sing claimed the 749 Bureau could track it down.
• Sing Sing promised Devil Dinosaur food, lodging, and a job, convincing Ape-Man to travel with him.
• Sing Sing got Ape-Man to press his thumbprint onto the contract, and Darwin silently watched the recruitment unfold.

Sing Sing, Darwin, and the ape-man escaped through a blizzard and reached a small town, where Sing Sing learned Slug had spent his money partying in Las Vegas. Sing Sing disguised the ape-man and persuaded Darwin to help them get to Los Angeles, promising they would part ways there.

• Sing Sing convinced Darwin to leave the cave with him and the ape-man, and the three trudged through a blizzard for nearly two days.
• After reaching a town, Sing Sing called Slug and learned he had spent Sing Sing's money on a Las Vegas nightclub memorial party and Ace of Spades.
• Sing Sing disguised the ape-man with a floral bedsheet so he could pass through town unnoticed.
• Sing Sing begged Darwin to help them reach Los Angeles and promised to buy Darwin a first-class ticket back to Alaska afterward.
• Darwin reluctantly agreed to take them to Los Angeles, insisting they would separate as soon as they arrived.

Zhou Xing, Darwin, and Moon-Boy prepared to travel from Alaska to Los Angeles, with Zhou Xing negotiating allowances and Darwin reluctantly providing the vehicle. They set off at dawn, while Darwin privately hoped the journey would keep danger away from his mother and decided to demand a business-class return ticket.

• Darwin took Zhou Xing and Moon-Boy to his comfortable home, where they ate and argued over the food.
• Darwin explained the road route to Los Angeles, and Zhou Xing chose to drive rather than try to take Moon-Boy on a plane.
• Zhou Xing tried to recruit Darwin as a part-time mechanic, but Darwin refused.
• The three loaded supplies into Darwin's RV, and Darwin drove them out of town at dawn.
• Darwin reflected that the trip would keep danger away from his mother and raised his expected return-ticket price after seeing Zhou Xing note a border-crossing allowance.

Sing Sing, Darwin, and Moon-Boy traveled through a blizzard, where Moon-Boy calmed an injured giant moose, before the RV reached a border checkpoint. A scan identified Darwin as a Mutant but found Moon-Boy’s genes did not match modern humans, and Snowbird and Sasquatch arrived to investigate them.

• Darwin adapted to the extreme cold and poor visibility, then braked to avoid a red-eyed giant moose blocking the road.
• Moon-Boy wrestled the moose, soothed it with rhythmic sounds, and removed the pain from its injured leg by identifying a sharp stone stuck in its muscle.
• After a day of difficult travel, the group reached the border crossing, where Sing Sing offered the inspector a cover story for their unusual passengers.
• The checkpoint scanner detected an X-Gene in Darwin and found that Moon-Boy’s genes did not match the modern human genetic database.
• Snowbird transformed from an owl into a woman, introduced herself as an Alpha Flight member, and ordered the group to leave the RV and cooperate with Sasquatch guarding the checkpoint.

Sing Sing, Darwin, and Moon-Boy were questioned by Snowbird and Sasquatch at a checkpoint during a blizzard. After Sing Sing explained his recruitment of Mutants and Moon-Boy described his home and friend Devil Dinosaur, Zhou Xing said they were searching for a lost dinosaur.

• Snowbird and Sasquatch stopped Sing Sing’s car and brought its occupants into the checkpoint for identity and travel checks.
• Snowbird questioned Darwin about crossing into Alaska, and Sing Sing claimed they were escorting him on a humanitarian mission while fleeing the Silver Peak Consortium.
• Sing Sing said the consortium had imprisoned Mutants for illegal experiments and defended taking Mutants to China as willing employees with contracts and benefits.
• Snowbird questioned Moon-Boy, who described his home and insisted his friend Devil Dinosaur was a living red dinosaur.
• Zhou Xing explained that they were looking for a lost family member, a gentle little dinosaur lost in the snow.

Snowbird asked Sing Sing how China viewed Mutants, and he explained that the 749 Bureau treated them as ordinary people while trying to recruit her. They then discussed Moon-Boy’s home and suspected it was the Savage Land, leaving Sing Sing stunned that dinosaurs might still exist.

• Snowbird asked Sing Sing how Mutants were usually viewed in China, and he tried to recruit her for several 749 Bureau jobs.
• Snowbird explained that she was content with Alpha Flight and described the hostility Mutants faced in Canada and the United States.
• Sing Sing told Snowbird that China considered Mutants normal people and that joining the 749 Bureau was voluntary.
• Snowbird accepted Sing Sing’s contact information in case Mutants needed help, then warned him about the trouble involving Silver Peak and Moon-Boy.
• Snowbird showed Sing Sing a map and suggested that Moon-Boy’s home was the Savage Land, a hidden region with dinosaurs.