Chapter Summaries

Sing Sing tried to recruit the rescued mutants to the 749 Bureau by treating them to a barbecue, but Charles found that only three were willing to return to China. Sing Sing accepted their choice and planned to leave for Los Angeles while Deadpool escorted anyone who wanted to go.

• Charles thanked Sing Sing for rescuing the children and agreed to persuade them to return to China, but most of them wanted to be left alone.
• Sing Sing woke Deadpool and took him to buy food for a welcome barbecue at the academy.
• Sing Sing and Beast prepared the barbecue, and Deadpool encouraged the rescued mutants to eat and consider joining the 749 Bureau.
• Charles told Sing Sing that only three people were willing to go, including Bailey, and gave him the details of Yinsen Walker and Olivia Carter.
• Sing Sing accepted the recruits' choice, said he would search for Longneck, Geggebu, and Storm in Los Angeles, and offered to have Deadpool escort anyone who wanted to leave.

Sing Sing left three Mutants at the school, then tracked down Slug and learned about several potential recruits. Slug revealed that the spatial teleporter Tunsley Tate was in debt to gangsters and at risk of being sold to Stryker, leaving Sing Sing with less than a day to act.

• Sing Sing arranged for Beast and Deadpool to escort five Mutants who chose to stay in the United States, while Bailey and two others waited at the school for his return.
• Sing Sing found Slug spending the operating funds in a motel and beat him until Slug shared the information he had gathered.
• Slug told Sing Sing that Geggebu was hiding at an abandoned chicken farm near Los Angeles and that Storm had been seen helping hungry children on the West Coast.
• Slug revealed that Tunsley Tate was a male spatial teleporter who owed gangsters about a hundred thousand dollars and had less than twenty-four hours before they planned to sell him to Stryker.

Sing Sing urgently borrowed the X-Men’s stealth shuttle to reach a mutant in danger, despite having no piloting experience. After he and Slug flew off, Professor X explained to a broken Scott that the academy could no longer protect its own people.

• Sing Sing took Slug to X Academy and asked Professor X for a fast aircraft to rescue a spatial-ability mutant from Stryker’s lab.
• Professor X led them into a hidden hangar and showed them a stealth shuttle capable of reaching Mach three.
• Sing Sing admitted he had no pilot’s license, ignored the manual, and took off with Slug aboard.
• Scott arrived after the shuttle departed and questioned Professor X for handing over their trump card.
• Professor X told Scott that the aircraft could help children find safety and lives, while the X-Men could no longer protect their academy; Scott drank the rest of his liquor.

Sing Sing and Slug traveled by hidden shuttle to Los Angeles to find a spatial-type courier detained at an underground casino. Sing Sing reached the casino and announced that he was there to retrieve the Bureau’s employee.

• Sing Sing landed the shuttle outside Los Angeles, activated its invisibility, and learned from Slug where the courier had been caught.
• Sing Sing hotwired a Mustang despite insisting that taking it was an authorized emergency requisition, then drove with Slug to the Red Apple Pool Hall.
• Sing Sing knocked out one guard and defeated another after the men tried to stop him at the pool hall entrance.
• Sing Sing found the stairs to the underground casino and shouted that everyone inside was surrounded and must hand over their employee.

Sing Sing rescued the Vanisher from a casino and recruited him to China's 749 Bureau, then set off to find Geggebu at a chicken farm. After locating Geggebu with thermal goggles, Sing Sing prepared to approach him, with Storm still his final target.

• Sing Sing beat the casino guards and learned that the Vanisher was being held in a VIP room.
• Sing Sing offered the Vanisher a job with China's 749 Bureau, and the Vanisher eagerly accepted to escape his loan-shark debt.
• Sing Sing sent the Vanisher and Slug to wait at a stealth shuttle while he drove toward Geggebu's chicken farm.
• Sing Sing used thermal goggles to spot Geggebu's intense heat signature in the innermost row of chicken coops.

Sing Sing found Geggebu hiding in a chicken coop and recruited him for China’s 749 Bureau by promising him a safe life and a large chicken farm. After Geggebu signed a contract, Sing Sing took him toward East Los Angeles to find Storm.

• Sing Sing entered the chicken coop and calmed Geggebu, who had set himself on fire, by claiming Charles had sent him.
• Sing Sing persuaded Geggebu that his mutant abilities made him ideally suited to raise chickens and promised him fifty mu of land and a modern farm in China.
• Sing Sing showed Geggebu videos of other recruited mutants, and Geggebu agreed to join the bureau and fingerprinted the employment contract.
• Sing Sing learned from Geggebu that Storm was in a lawless East Los Angeles slum and invited him to help find her.
• Sing Sing concealed Geggebu under a black tarp and drove him toward East Los Angeles as Geggebu dreamed of raising twenty thousand chickens.

Sing Sing interrupted Agent Zero’s attack on Storm and incapacitated the armed men, then faced Agent Zero in a standoff. He started playing duel music and prepared to draw his knife as Storm held his phone.

• Sing Sing and Geggebu heard gunfire and thunder, and Sing Sing left Geggebu in the car to investigate.
• Sing Sing found Storm wounded and fighting Stryker’s men, with Agent Zero aiming at her.
• Sing Sing rushed the armed men and used his knife and inner qi to incapacitate them.
• Sing Sing introduced himself to Storm as the Chaoyang District Residents’ Committee and recognized Agent Zero as Stryker’s assassin.
• Sing Sing and Agent Zero faced off while Sing Sing played The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and told Storm to hold his phone.

Sing Sing defeated Agent Zero while protecting Storm, then pretended to pass out over a minor ear injury to secure her loyalty. Geggebu and Storm rushed him to the car, while Sing Sing counted the incident as a successful injury scam.

• Sing Sing and Agent Zero faced off as Storm watched, and Agent Zero finally fired two armor-piercing rounds.
• Sing Sing split the first bullet with a throwing knife and wounded Agent Zero's gun-holding arm with a second knife.
• Agent Zero fled into the darkness, and Sing Sing returned to Storm with a bleeding ear.
• Sing Sing complained about his workplace injury, then pretended to collapse when he noticed Storm's guilt and shock.
• Geggebu arrived in a red Mustang, and he and Storm dragged Sing Sing into the back seat to find a doctor.
• Sing Sing stayed limp as they loaded him into the car, pleased that he had secured Storm as an employee.

Sing Sing took Storm and Geggebu to a hidden wasteland shuttle after Storm recounted how the X-Men disbanded. He revealed the shuttle Charles had given him and brought the pair aboard, intending to return to the academy and sign employment contracts.

• Sing Sing redirected the car to an abandoned chemical plant in the Western Suburbs, pretending his wound required special treatment.
• Storm told Sing Sing how the Brotherhood of Mutants, the Hellfire Club, the military, and the government had turned a battle into a massacre, and how Charles had disbanded the X-Men afterward.
• Sing Sing urged Storm to join his organization in China, arguing that the X-Men had needed a proper organizational structure.
• Sing Sing activated a concealed button and revealed a black Tactical Shuttle, astonishing Storm and Geggebu.
• Sing Sing introduced Storm and Geggebu as new coworkers, then told them to board the shuttle and return to the academy to sign employment contracts.

Sing Sing returned to the ruins of X Academy with Storm and the other recruits, where Vanisher revealed his betrayal by killing Slug and teleporting away with Mueller. Sing Sing realized he had trusted Vanisher and watched Slug die despite his efforts to save him.

• Storm flew the shuttle back to X Academy while Sing Sing treated her gunshot wound.
• Deadpool greeted Sing Sing and showed him the captured Mueller, while Storm reunited with Beast.
• Vanisher stabbed Slug in the back and grabbed Mueller as Sing Sing threw his knife at him.
• Vanisher teleported away with Mueller, leaving Slug gravely wounded.
• Sing Sing tried to save Slug, but Slug died before he could speak.
• Sing Sing recognized the clues that Vanisher had deceived him and trembled beside Slug's body.

After Slug was buried, Sing Sing secured covert authorization and funding from Director Wang to retaliate against Silver Peak. He punished Deadpool for letting Mark Mueller escape, but Deadpool teleported away to seek help from the Avengers.

• Sing Sing attended Slug's funeral and learned from Professor X that he did not recognize Tunsley Tate.
• Sing Sing reported Slug's death and Mark Mueller's rescue to Director Wang, who approved unlimited funding while disavowing official involvement.
• Director Wang told Sing Sing that Ling Ling'er was in New York and Ling Lingwu had arrived in Los Angeles, prompting Sing Sing to prepare a two-pronged effort against Silver Peak.
• Sing Sing revoked Deadpool's eligibility for a permanent position and benefits over his failure during the operation, then offered him a small labor subsidy.
• Deadpool teleported away to find the Avengers and borrow tracking equipment to pursue Mueller, while Sing Sing dismissed Storm's concerns about them.

Ling Lingwu uncovered evidence of Silver Peak’s human experiments and rescued researchers who could testify at The Hague, while the group planned how to target the company without triggering its safeguards. Ling Ling'er took charge of the New York operation, with Sing Sing agreeing to draw Silver Peak’s fire as Ling Lingwu continued investigating.

• Ling Lingwu told Sing Sing and Ling Ling'er that he had recovered evidence from New York City Hall and rescued Silver Peak researchers from a shipping container in Brooklyn.
• Ling Lingwu arranged to send the researchers to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to testify against Silver Peak and its political allies.
• Sing Sing explained that Silver Peak’s board held the algorithm and that cracking its data would destroy files on the remaining laboratories.
• Ling Lingwu showed the group a detailed blueprint of Silver Peak’s New York branch, and Ling Ling'er said he would take it and handle the operation alone.
• Sing Sing and Ling Ling'er argued over who would attack Silver Peak, while Ling Lingwu warned them to avoid a diplomatic incident and protect the rescued mutants.
• Sing Sing agreed to draw Silver Peak’s fire and withdraw while Ling Ling'er carried out the operation.

Ling Lingwu uncovered a hidden leader behind Silver Peak, while Ling Ling'er headed for the top floor and Agent Zero killed Mueller. Sing Sing launched a forced demolition at Silver Peak’s Brooklyn Navy Yard facility, destroying its guards and infrastructure as alarms summoned a response.

• Ling Lingwu told Sing Sing that Silver Peak’s real boss was a mysterious woman called “the lady,” then left to investigate her.
• Ling Ling'er said he was heading to the top floor, and Sing Sing urged him to stop acting mysterious.
• Agent Zero told Mueller that the lady was displeased with his failure, then shot him dead and received authorization to attack an approaching 749 Bureau agent.
• Sing Sing arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, declared Silver Peak’s buildings illegal structures, and killed four guards with his spear.
• Sing Sing triggered the alarm, charged into the cargo terminal, kicked a container into an electrical substation, and brought down a gantry crane.
• Silver Peak security reported a high-risk intruder in Zone C and called for heavy weapons while Sing Sing stood on the rubble and beckoned.

Ling Ling'er infiltrated Silver Peak Biopharmaceuticals and fought his way into its genetic research area, where Agent Zero confronted him. Ling Ling'er revealed that Agent Zero’s gun had no bullets and identified himself as Yan Shuangying.

• Ling Ling'er entered the headquarters through a ventilation shaft and killed the three guards outside the underground base.
• Ling Ling'er defeated the six-man security team at B1 and used the captain’s hand to open the gate to B2.
• Ling Ling'er photographed the incubation pods and research data, but Agent Zero shot and destroyed his camera.
• Agent Zero pointed his pistol at Ling Ling'er, who claimed it had no bullets; when Agent Zero pulled the trigger, the gun clicked empty.
• Agent Zero fired at the ceiling to confirm the gun still worked, then found it would not fire at Ling Ling'er, who said he was Yan Shuangying.

Yan Shuangying fought and killed Silver Peak’s defective Wolverine and Agent Zero clones in the laboratory. A woman then praised him over the speakers as the facility sealed B3, while surveillance showed Sing Sing facing Gambit and two others at the shipyard.

• Yan Shuangying recognized the clawed attacker as a Wolverine clone and noticed Agent Zero was working alongside him.
• Yan Shuangying revealed his concealed steel claws, fought the Wolverine clone, and discovered that its claws and healing were inferior to the real Logan’s.
• Yan Shuangying tore a claw assembly from the clone, then killed him after Clone Agent Zero accidentally shot him.
• Yan Shuangying dodged Clone Agent Zero’s gunfire and killed him by throwing the detached claw assembly into his neck.
• A woman addressed Yan Shuangying as Ling Ling'er and thanked him for disposing of Silver Peak’s substandard samples.
• The facility locked the gate to B3, and surveillance showed Sing Sing facing Gambit, Remy LeBeau, and two others at the shipyard.

Sing Sing and Gambit fought Silver Peak’s clones in the Brooklyn Navy Yard while Yan Shuangying faced a force of clones beneath the laboratory. Yan Shuangying split the attackers with a trap and prepared to strike back as the countdown continued.

• Sing Sing rejected Gambit’s offer to leave and confronted the two clones alongside him.
• Clone Agent Zero and Clone Wolverine attacked Sing Sing, while Gambit’s explosive cards damaged the clone Wolverine and targeted the clone Agent Zero.
• A woman over the loudspeakers ordered Gambit to keep his promise, and Gambit faced Sing Sing’s demand to step aside.
• Yan Shuangying recorded the woman’s voice and saw a ten-minute countdown begin, but the laboratory’s signal jamming prevented him from warning Xiao Qi.
• Ten Clone Wolverines and ten Clone Agent Zeros emerged to attack Yan Shuangying, who blocked their bullets with a tray and used planted explosives to divide them with the fire doors.

Sing Sing fought Gambit and his two clones at the shipyard, defeating Clone Wolverine and Clone Agent Zero before challenging his cousin. The chapter left Sing Sing and Gambit facing off across a burning space after Gambit’s charged staff blasted metal from a container.

• Sing Sing deflected Clone Agent Zero’s bullets and fought Clone Wolverine while joking about their poor training and repairs.
• Clone Wolverine broke Sing Sing’s spear, but Sing Sing used the broken shaft to stab and kill him, then defeated Clone Agent Zero with a pig-butchering knife.
• Sing Sing asked Gambit to elope, but Gambit refused and challenged him to fight.
• Gambit used explosive playing cards to keep Sing Sing at a distance as they exchanged attacks around the containers.
• Sing Sing vanished in smoke and surprised Gambit, but Gambit’s charged staff numbed Sing Sing’s hand before Sing Sing kicked him away and escaped its blast.

Yan Shuangying and Sing Sing escaped the shipyard after Yan Shuangying warned that it would explode, while Gambit stayed behind and was taken by the shadow woman he owed a favor. The shipyard exploded, and Yan Shuangying then told Sing Sing that he had fought Agent Zero and Wolverine clones underground and made him write the operation report.

• Yan Shuangying arrived between Sing Sing and Gambit and warned them that the shipyard would explode in one minute.
• Sing Sing ran with Yan Shuangying and invited Gambit to flee with them, but Gambit refused and promised they might meet again.
• The shadow woman confronted Gambit for breaking his promise to kill the intruder, reminded him that he still owed her a favor, and enveloped him in shadows.
• The shipyard exploded as Sing Sing and Yan Shuangying escaped, and Yan Shuangying explained that a woman had started the underground purge countdown and knew his codename.
• Yan Shuangying revealed that he had fought ten Agent Zero clones and ten Wolverine clones, then ordered Sing Sing to write the operation report.

Sing Sing prepared to take Storm and several others back to China, while investigating the Silver Peak Consortium’s connection to Stryker and its clone assembly line. Professor X let the group leave with Sing Sing, who intended to recruit Storm and possibly persuade Professor X to join them later.

• Yan Shuangying gave Sing Sing a recording and left the academy to pursue a secret mission, while Sing Sing sent operation files to Ling Lingwu for investigation.
• Sing Sing visited Wang Pangzi’s grave and promised to settle the score with Tunsley the Vanisher, blaming himself for Wang Pangzi’s death.
• Sing Sing persuaded Professor X to let Storm visit China and privately planned to recruit her, while Professor X warned him not to use benefits or pressure her into staying.
• Sing Sing told Professor X that Silver Peak and Stryker appeared to be working together and that Silver Peak had built a clone assembly line.
• Sing Sing called Wandering Girl to arrange a return trip for six people, and she warned the group she would not be responsible if anyone fell into the Pacific during teleportation.
• Storm, Geggebu, Bailey, Yinsen, and Olivia gathered with Sing Sing and Wandering Girl at the academy entrance, and Wandering Girl prepared to teleport them away.

Sing Sing returned to the 749 Bureau with five passengers and reported unresolved threats and security concerns to Director Wang. As the newcomers began their examinations, Da Vinci rushed in to experiment on Sing Sing’s suitcase, receipts and all.

• Sing Sing brought Storm, Geggebu, Bailey, Yinsen, and Olivia back to the bureau, where Xiao Liu arranged their physicals and explained that ability tests and tissue sampling required consent.
• Sing Sing told Director Wang that Mueller remained missing, Silver Peak’s Algorithm Component was still unrecovered, and a purge had begun at the New York branch.
• Director Wang said Polaris and Soft Serve were working on the Qiongzhou Strait Cross-Sea Passage Project, and explained that Polaris’s contributions would be recognized discreetly to protect her identity.
• Director Wang revealed that Old Jin was giving the archives department testimony to resolve conflicts in North American historical records.
• Director Wang ordered Sing Sing to write his operation reports, including one about the shipyard, while Sing Sing denied responsibility for its destruction.
• Da Vinci tried to take Sing Sing’s suitcase to test a technology that compressed objects, and Sing Sing worried that it would shrink his reimbursement receipts.