Chapter Summaries

Su Quan demonstrated his powers to the amnesiac Logan, then left him with Professor X. The next morning, Su Quan experimented with overlapping space across timelines and argued with Storm before Jean Grey summoned them to see the Professor about Logan.

• Su Quan stopped Logan's attacks with spatial manipulation and revealed that he had given Logan his Adamantium skeleton, then demonstrated Magneto's, Sabretooth's, and gravity-based abilities.
• Professor X arrived, praised Shadowcat and the others for their mission, and spoke with Logan, who demanded to know what had happened to him.
• Su Quan left Logan with Professor X, who hoped to keep Logan at the school rather than lose him to Su Quan's recruiting.
• The next morning, Su Quan practiced overlapping space between timelines and briefly brought Angel Salvadore from another timeline into view.
• Storm questioned Su Quan about his experiment, and he silenced her before explaining that he had no intention of merging the timelines.
• Jean Grey arrived and told Su Quan and Storm that Professor X wanted to see them about Logan.

Su Quan reunited with William Stryker at the Alkali Lake Dam and claimed the debt Stryker owed him, receiving access to his captured mutants. After drinking together, Stryker led Su Quan to a row of sleeping mutants and began introducing them.

• Su Quan left Jean Grey and teleported to William Stryker's base at the Alkali Lake Dam, where he fought Yuriko Oyama and gained her Healing Factor.
• William Stryker welcomed Su Quan, agreed to repay his debt, and explained that Yuriko Oyama had been given a healing factor and Adamantium skeleton to help her seek revenge on Wolverine.
• Su Quan and William Stryker drank together while Stryker described Yuriko Oyama and the mutants he had gathered for him.
• William Stryker led Su Quan to sleeping mutants in a laboratory-like prison and introduced Heather Cameron, Hisako Ichiki, Megan Gwynn, Jean Marie Bobby, and Amara Aquilla.

Su Quan accepted William Stryker’s seven mutant gifts while recognizing that Stryker planned to control him. When Deathbird tried to inject him with control serum, Su Quan defeated her and revealed he had anticipated Stryker’s scheme; Deathbird’s spirit emerged, and Su Quan explained he had spared Stryker’s son for this moment.

• William Stryker presented Su Quan with seven sedated female mutants, and Su Quan agreed to take them while choosing to try Yuriko Oyama first.
• Su Quan recognized that Stryker intended to turn him into a puppet and had arranged the gifts to lull him into trusting the plan.
• Deathbird awoke beside the sleeping Su Quan and tried to inject him with control serum, but the Adamantium needle was flattened and the serum could not be injected.
• Deathbird attacked Su Quan with her steel claws, but he remained unharmed and struck her, causing her spirit to separate from her body.
• Deathbird realized she had regained her clarity and explained that Stryker had controlled her; Su Quan said he already knew Stryker used Jason Stryker’s brain fluid and had spared him for this moment.

Su Quan freed Deathbird and Nightcrawler from William Stryker's control and thwarted Stryker's attempt to inject him with a serum. He demonstrated that he could scramble space to counter teleportation, then offered Nightcrawler a chance for revenge.

• Su Quan returned Deathbird's soul to her body, restoring her free will, and agreed to let her kill William Stryker herself.
• Deathbird rampaged through the facility while Su Quan used psychic power to reveal Stryker's location to her.
• Stryker sent Nightcrawler to inject Su Quan with a serum, but Su Quan took the syringe and shattered it against his own neck.
• Su Quan freed Nightcrawler from control and showed him that scrambled space made his teleportation land in the wrong place.
• Su Quan explained his spatial technique to Nightcrawler and asked whether he wanted revenge.

Su Quan defeated William Stryker’s plan at the dam base, where Deathbird killed Stryker and Jason Stryker before joining Su Quan. He rescued seven sleeping mutants and brought them to the Hellfire Club, while sending Nightcrawler and the Adamantium to another timeline.

• Su Quan offered Nightcrawler a choice, and Nightcrawler chose to follow him and work for him.
• Su Quan dismantled much of the base’s Adamantium shielding before William Stryker appeared with the controlled Deathbird and Jason Stryker.
• William Stryker ordered Deathbird to kill Su Quan, but she broke free of his control and stabbed him to death.
• Deathbird killed Jason Stryker and then asked to join Su Quan, who agreed to take her with him.
• Su Quan erased the base’s records and teleported away with Deathbird, Nightcrawler, seven sleeping mutants, and the Adamantium.
• Su Quan sent Nightcrawler and the Adamantium to another timeline, then brought Deathbird and the seven mutants to the Hellfire Club.

Su Quan told the seven rescued mutants that William Stryker was dead and that they belonged to him, then offered them a chance to leave if they could defeat him. After freezing Magma and knocking out Pixie, he challenged the remaining mutants to attack together, and they began their assault.

• Polaris woke first, and Su Quan explained that Deathbird had killed William Stryker and that he had rescued the captives.
• After the other six mutants woke, Su Quan identified himself and declared that they belonged to him, offering freedom to anyone who could beat him one-on-one.
• Magma attacked Su Quan with streams of lava, but he froze the magma and turned her into an ice-covered statue.
• Pixie attacked with illusion dust, but Su Quan swept her into a wall with a fierce gust of wind.
• Su Quan challenged the remaining mutants to attack together, and Polaris grabbed him from behind as Boom-Boom's energy orbs struck and exploded.

Su Quan defeated the seven mutants and healed them, then asked the last holdout whether she wanted help saving face. The chapter left her response unresolved.

• Su Quan appeared behind Boom-Boom and controlled her into attacking the Armor Warriors, earning ability rewards as the mutants fought.
• Su Quan redirected Firestar’s flames, then slammed her into the ground and made Armor surrender.
• Su Quan gathered and healed the seven mutants, who acknowledged their defeat and accepted the stakes.
• Su Quan asked the only mutant who had not stated her position whether she needed help keeping her dignity.

Aurora surrendered after her timid personality resurfaced, and Su Quan left her and Magma in White Queen’s care while granting White Queen the Phoenix Force. Later, Su Quan tried to persuade Storm to leave the X-Mansion with him, but she challenged the idea that they had anything between them.

• Aurora’s frightened personality tried to flee, but Su Quan’s control of space returned her to the room; he recognized her multiple personalities and accepted her surrender.
• Su Quan left Aurora and Magma with White Queen and instructed her to find Jimmy with Cerebro and notify him without acting.
• Su Quan bestowed the Phoenix Force on White Queen, who asked whether she could use it within the Time Variance Authority.
• Su Quan spent time at the X-Mansion while waiting for his remaining plans involving Jimmy and Shingen Yashida to progress.
• Storm confronted Su Quan about recruiting mutants, and he told her to leave the academy with him or become a stranger; Storm protested that they had no relationship.

A reality-warping mutant turned a missile aimed at the academy into a threat, but Su Quan stopped it and identified the attacker as Kevin_Machtag. The professor realized Kevin_Machtag was Moira MacTaggert’s son as the X-Men prepared to confront the military squad outside.

• A missile flew toward the academy, and Storm’s wind turned into rose petals before Su Quan froze the missile in space.
• The professor arrived with the X-Men, Nightcrawler, and Anna, and reported that a military squad outside planned to destroy the academy and arrest the mutants.
• Su Quan revealed that the missile had been a tree branch altered by an enemy whose reality-warping power worked only within his line of sight.
• The professor borrowed a soldier’s eyes to find the unseen mutant in the squad and recognized him as Kevin_Machtag.
• Jean Grey asked about Kevin_Machtag, and the professor said he was Moira MacTaggert’s son.

Proteus, formerly Kevin_Machtag, attacked the X-Men academy to take revenge on Charles Xavier and revealed that he had escaped after killing his mother, Moira MacTaggert. He warped reality to overwhelm the X-Men, leaving them caught in a devastating explosion.

• Su Quan recalled Proteus's immense psychic and reality-warping abilities, his need for new hosts, and his weakness to metal.
• A squad in a black Jeep stormed the academy, but Nightcrawler caught their bullets while Charles Xavier put the attackers to sleep.
• Proteus confronted Charles Xavier and blamed him and Moira MacTaggert for imprisoning and torturing him in an experimental chamber.
• Proteus said a power outage let him escape his failing body and that he had killed Moira MacTaggert.
• Proteus turned Charles Xavier's wheelchair into a giant python and warped Colossus into a distorted paper-like form.
• Jean Grey pulled Charles Xavier away as the python became a missile and exploded, while Petra's attempt to raise an earth barrier turned the ground into butterflies.

Proteus attacked the X-Men and nearly killed several of them, while Su Quan demonstrated his control over space and warned Proteus not to provoke him. When Proteus endangered Storm, Su Quan refused to intervene and urged Jean Grey to overcome her fear and use the Phoenix Force.

• Proteus's transformed bomb critically injured Petra, Iceman, Human Torch, and Colossus, while Storm and Shadowcat protected themselves from the blast.
• Proteus tried to strip Su Quan's powers, but Su Quan's attack forced him out of his host and later destroyed another host with a metal punch.
• Su Quan restrained Proteus's unconscious soldier hosts with Adamantium bars and warned Proteus that he would kill him if provoked again.
• Proteus turned a teaching building into bees, exposing the students, then sent Storm soaring into the sky with inverted gravity and stripped her powers.
• Jean Grey tried to slow Storm's fall and begged Su Quan to help, but he refused and told Jean to release her inner restraints and use the Phoenix Force.

Jean Grey overcame her fear of the Phoenix Force to save Storm and fight Proteus, while Su Quan faced Storm’s anger over Colossus’s death. Su Quan resurrected Colossus with the Phoenix Force, leaving Proteus furious as he turned his attack toward Su Quan.

• Jean Grey unleashed the Phoenix Force, caught Storm, and charged at Proteus while Storm checked on the fallen X-Men.
• Storm blamed Su Quan for Colossus’s death, but he argued that he was not responsible for protecting the X-Men in the Professor’s battle.
• Su Quan offered to resurrect Colossus, and Storm agreed to his conditions if he brought Colossus back.
• Su Quan restored Colossus to life and regrew his severed arm by giving him the Phoenix Force.
• Proteus broke away from Jean Grey and attacked Su Quan, enraged that Su Quan had interfered and undone his casualties.

Su Quan defeated Proteus by consuming his soul, restoring the altered reality and reviving Colossus. After Colossus pledged to protect the academy and professor while Storm and Jean Grey were away, Su Quan joked with Storm about his awkward request.

• Proteus tried to possess Su Quan, but Su Quan used the Soul Eater's ability to pull out and consume Proteus's soul, killing him.
• Proteus's altered reality reverted, and the professor restored the injured and unconscious people while Su Quan recalled the Adamantium.
• Colossus thanked Su Quan for saving him and offered his life in repayment, but Su Quan asked him to protect the academy and professor after Storm and Jean Grey left.
• Su Quan teased Colossus by asking him to knock out Storm, then Jean Grey, and finally Human Torch, before revealing his real request.
• Storm asked whether Colossus had suffered side effects, and Su Quan jokingly claimed Colossus had suggested switching to a guy before explaining the actual request.

Su Quan brought Storm to a different mutant world and explained that Mr. Sinister’s Essex Corporation was imprisoning young mutants at a nearby sanatorium. He planned to infiltrate the facility to rescue its captives and investigate whether Mr. Sinister had created Madelyne Pryor, while Storm agreed to join him.

• Storm challenged Su Quan to win her devotion, and they spent the night together.
• Su Quan told Storm they were in another world, where Colossus’s younger sister Magik had been taken from the Essex Corporation sanatorium.
• Su Quan explained that Nathaniel Essex, also known as Mr. Sinister, used the sanatorium to collect mutant genes and train mutants as assassins.
• Su Quan revealed that Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Sunspot, and Mirage were imprisoned there, while mutant doctor Cecilia Reyes guarded them with her energy fields.
• Su Quan planned to infiltrate the sanatorium and check whether Mr. Sinister had cloned Madelyne Pryor, the Red Queen.

Su Quan brought Silk II and Magik from the void to his hotel room, while explaining that Doctor Manhattan’s repeated universe reboots had destroyed Silk II’s home. Magik learned she could visit her world again, but Su Quan warned her not to try escaping through Limbo.

• Su Quan sent Storm back to the academy and connected the hotel room to the void.
• Su Quan told Silk II that Doctor Manhattan had rebooted her universe and that she could not return home; she agreed to join Su Quan.
• Silk II brought Magik to Su Quan, who said he was taking her back to her former sanitarium in Limbo.
• Su Quan brought Silk II and Magik to the hotel, where Magik tried to leave through a portal and fell into the suite.
• Su Quan warned Magik he would erase her ability if she tried that again, and Magik challenged him to prove he could.

Su Quan and Laura arrived at the sanitarium, where Su Quan arranged a secret portal to Storm’s room and offered to help stabilize the young mutants’ powers. He met Rhane Sinclair and challenged her reluctance to leave, bringing her painful history with her werewolf identity to the surface.

• Doctor Reyes welcomed Su Quan and Laura, explaining that the company had sent them after Liana’s escape but that their stay was meant to be brief.
• Su Quan and Laura chose rooms near the young mutants, and Su Quan opened a portal through a wardrobe to Storm’s room and contacted her telepathically.
• Doctor Reyes briefed Su Quan on Moonstar, Wolfsbane, Sunspot, and Cannonball, and Su Quan volunteered to help stabilize their powers.
• Su Quan teleported to the lounge and met Rhane Sinclair, whom he called Wolfsbane after reading her file.
• Rhane told Su Quan she feared losing control and hurting someone, and Su Quan questioned whether that was truly the reason she wanted to stay.

Su Quan revealed the asylum’s purpose to Wolfsbane and offered to help her and the other mutants escape and defeat the Essex Corporation. Wolfsbane accepted his offer, and the room suddenly transformed as Su Quan prepared to take her elsewhere.

• Su Quan inspected Wolfsbane’s transformations and used his power to make her kneel, then admitted the asylum collected mutant genes and trained its residents as assassins.
• Wolfsbane refused to become an assassin, even when Su Quan warned that refusal could mean death.
• Su Quan offered to destroy the asylum and Essex Corporation and safely rescue its residents if Wolfsbane became his wolf cub.
• Wolfsbane agreed to his conditions after learning he opposed Doctor Reyes, then changed into her wolf form as Su Quan petted her.
• Su Quan outlined his plans involving Laura, Magik, Doctor Reyes, and Moonstar, then said he would take Wolfsbane out to build her confidence in him.
• As Wolfsbane rose to follow Su Quan, the room’s environment abruptly transformed.

Su Quan brought Wolfsbane back to the sanitarium and took charge of teaching the young mutants to control their powers. He left Sunspot humbled after trapping him without oxygen and forcing Mirage to pay for his release.

• Su Quan returned Wolfsbane to the sanitarium with a suitcase of supplies, and she left his room.
• Laura gathered Wolfsbane, Mirage, Cannonball, and Sunspot for a power-control class, but Su Quan appeared and announced he would teach them.
• Sunspot challenged Su Quan, who trapped him in an invisible barrier and cut off his oxygen.
• Mirage begged Su Quan to release Sunspot, and he demanded a kiss as the price.
• Mirage kissed Su Quan, who freed Sunspot and warned him against disobedience.

Su Quan trained Sunspot to control his flames and then tested Cannonball’s uncontrollable flight power, discovering that he could stop Cannonball’s high-speed charge with one hand. He suspected Cannonball might possess a hidden immortality ability and urged him to confront his fear of his own power.

• Su Quan explained how Sunspot could control the release of his solar energy, while Sunspot admitted he could only ignite his whole body or not at all.
• Su Quan called Cannonball forward and considered whether his rapid recovery from injuries hinted at an immortal ability like Mr. Immortal’s.
• Su Quan told Cannonball to charge at him, and Cannonball warned that he could not stop once his power activated.
• Cannonball launched himself at Su Quan, who caught him by the neck and abruptly halted his momentum.
• Su Quan advised Cannonball to practice controlling his power and told him that his greatest obstacle was his fear of it.

Su Quan guided the young mutants in practicing their abilities, then spoke with Doctor Reyes and demonstrated that he could break her energy field with a snap. Doctor Reyes immediately formed another field around him, leaving their test unresolved.

• Su Quan gave Mirage advice about discovering her psionic abilities and took Cannonball aside for combat practice.
• Su Quan repeatedly knocked Cannonball down to teach him how to stop during a charge, while Wolfsbane explained that his solo practice had often left him injured.
• At lunch, Doctor Reyes asked Su Quan about his powers, and he described his ability to manipulate space.
• Doctor Reyes tested her energy field on Su Quan, who disintegrated it with a snap of his fingers.
• Doctor Reyes released her energy field around Su Quan again.