Chapter Summaries

Wolverine defeated Shingen Yashida and learned from Su Quan how the X-Weapon Project gave him his Adamantium skeleton and how he lost his memory. Su Quan restored the Silver Samurai Armor and Wolverine’s claws, then brought new mutants to the Hellfire Club and opened a gate to the new timeline.

• Wolverine used the Embrace Kill to seize the Silver Samurai’s katana and kill Shingen Yashida with a single blow.
• Su Quan cleared the room, healed Wolverine, and explained his past with William Stryker, the X-Weapon Project, and the events that caused Wolverine’s memory loss.
• Wolverine learned that Su Quan had killed Stryker and confronted the implications of Su Quan’s role in his suffering.
• Su Quan reversed time to repair the Silver Samurai Armor, restored Wolverine’s claws, and took the group away.
• At the Hellfire Club, Su Quan welcomed Phoenix Jean Grey, Storm Ororo Munroe, Shadowcat Kitty Pryde, Human Torch John, Iceman Bobby Drake, and Petra among the mutants.
• Su Quan opened a spacetime gate to the Void Island of the new timeline, where Red Devil, Angel Salvadore, Havok, Shell, Lightning, Cold, and Nightcrawler waited.

Su Quan sent the gathered mutants to Void Island, then traveled to the Gifted World to recruit more. There, he met Clarice after she escaped the police through a portal, and she invited him to come with her.

• Su Quan told the White Queen to lead the mutants in building Void Island while he searched other worlds for recruits.
• Su Quan revealed that the next world had five daughters of the White Queen, and the White Queen planned to tell the Little White Queen.
• In rainy Atlanta, Clarice escaped pursuing police by opening a purple teleportation portal and landing in an abandoned factory.
• Su Quan appeared above Clarice on a floating sword and introduced himself after teasing her with cryptic remarks.
• Clarice recognized Su Quan as a mutant and invited him to come with her, warning that his appearance was dangerous.

Su Quan and Clarice met the mutants John Proudstar and Lorna Dane, who had come to find Clarice after her escape from a mutant detention center. Su Quan overpowered Lorna with magnetic-field control, and she demanded to know his relationship with Magneto.

• Clarice panicked when strangers arrived and threw glass bottles at John Proudstar and Lorna Dane before learning they were mutants.
• Clarice introduced Su Quan, and John and Lorna discovered him floating in the air on a knife.
• Su Quan told Lorna he liked her, then blocked her attempt to control his knife with his own Magneto-kinesis.
• Su Quan used magnetic-field control to pull Lorna in front of him, and she asked what his relationship was with Magneto.
• Su Quan denied having any relation to Magneto and acted as if he did not know whom she meant.

Lorna fought off the police during the escape but was captured, while John got Su Quan and Clarice safely to the Mutant Underground base. There, Xian Zhe began questioning Clarice and Su Quan.

• Lorna disabled the police vehicles and held off officers attacking the factory, giving John, Su Quan, and Clarice time to escape.
• Lorna stayed behind to fight the police, was subdued with a stun gun, and was arrested as John drove away with Su Quan and Clarice.
• John brought Su Quan and Clarice to the Mutant Underground base, where a fear-inducing mutant guarded the entrance.
• Xian Zhe introduced herself and began questioning Clarice, who said her name was real and that she had no family to contact.

Su Quan and Clarice stayed with the Mutant Underground while John and the others learned that federal authorities were investigating a high school mutant attack and that Lorna had been captured. Su Quan confirmed he had some connection to Lorna but criticized the group for blaming them after Lorna chose to help, leaving Clarice to question his confidence and his harsh words.

• Xian Zhe agreed to shelter Su Quan and Clarice temporarily, and Su Quan showed John how he could summon and dismiss his silver blade.
• News reported a mutant attack at a Bellevue District high school, prompting John, Xian Zhe, and Sonia to recognize they would need to rescue Lorna and the two accused mutant children.
• John told Xian Zhe and Sonia that Su Quan shared Lorna's ability and might be connected to her, so Sonia went to question him.
• Su Quan asked Sonia if she had a boyfriend, then said he could not deny a connection to Lorna but that they were completely unrelated.
• Sonia asked Su Quan to help rescue Lorna, but he blamed Lorna's recklessness and told Sonia the group had chosen to help them without being asked.
• Sonia, John, and Xian Zhe walked away, while Clarice reproached Su Quan for insulting people who had saved them.

Su Quan showed Sonia the past events that led to Lorna’s capture, explaining why he had not intervened and revealing that he planned to rescue Lorna to win her over. Sonia apologized for her accusations and asked him to help, while Su Quan admitted he had let Lorna be captured partly to teach her a lesson and partly to play the hero.

• Su Quan explored the Mutant Underground Organization’s poor living conditions and argued with Sonia about her accusations.
• Su Quan took Sonia to the alley where Lorna had been captured and rewound time to show her what had happened.
• Sonia apologized to Su Quan and explained that Lorna had once given her hope when she was being hunted.
• Sonia asked Su Quan to rescue Lorna and offered to agree to any condition, but Su Quan said he would rescue her regardless.
• Su Quan explained that he had allowed Lorna’s capture partly to teach her a lesson and partly to create an opportunity to play the hero, then asked Sonia whether she would tell Lorna.

Su Quan and Sonia went to the Strucker home as Sentinel Special Services Bureau agents arrived to take Andy and Lauren into custody. The agents forced their way inside, and Andy's anger triggered another surge of his unstable powers.

• Sonia warned Su Quan not to hurt Lorna, and he challenged her about how important Lorna was to her.
• At home, Andy and Lauren told their mother, Caitlin, that they were mutants and that Lauren had secretly used her powers before.
• Su Quan and Sonia arrived and warned Caitlin that Jess Turner and the Sentinel Bureau were coming for her children.
• Jess Turner arrived with agents and said Andy and Lauren had to go with them temporarily under the Patriot Amendment Act.
• Caitlin refused to let the agents take her children, but they pushed inside and knocked her to the floor.
• Andy shouted at the agents, causing the room to shake, and angrily ordered them out.

The Stryker family escaped the Sentinel Special Services Bureau with Lauren’s powers, while Su Quan and Sonia returned to the Mutant Underground Organization and promised to help find Lorna. The next morning, Reed decided the family had to flee the country, and Lauren suggested contacting the two mutants who had helped them.

• Lauren blocked the agents with an air wall, and Caitlin drove the Stryker family away while Andy failed to use his power.
• Su Quan told Sonia he had acquired Lauren and Andy’s powers, then teleported with her back to the Mutant Underground Organization base.
• Sonia told John, Xian Zhe, and Clarice about Su Quan’s abilities and said he would help recover Lorna and handle the Stryker family.
• At a diner near Atlanta, Reed urged his family to flee because the Sentinel Special Services Bureau would keep hunting them.
• Lauren suggested that the family seek help from the two mutants from the Mutant Underground Organization who had helped them escape.

Lauren’s dream proved real when Su Quan appeared after she called his name, and he brought the Stryker family to the Mutant Underground Organization’s base. Reed wanted help getting his family safely to Mexico, but Su Quan left them to speak with the organization, where Sonia recognized them.

• Lauren told Reed, Caitlin, and Andy that she had dreamed of Su Quan and the Mutant Underground Organization’s abandoned-bank base.
• When Lauren called Su Quan’s name, he appeared, startling her family and confirming her dream was real.
• Reed asked Su Quan to get his family to Mexico and offered information about Polaris, but Su Quan said Lorna could summon him too.
• Su Quan told Reed he was saving the family and offered to take them to the Mutant Underground Organization’s base to discuss matters there.
• Su Quan transported the Stryker family to the base, where Lauren recognized the place from her dream and Su Quan introduced Reed to Sonia.

Su Quan took Lauren to retrieve their things, then faced a Sentinel Special Services Bureau team that had surrounded them and demanded Lauren’s surrender. After demonstrating his control over air and disarming the agents, he left the team leader seeking a deal.

• Su Quan took Lauren to the car and agreed to bring her to the beach, where she asked why she dreamed of him and could summon him by calling his name.
• Sentinel Special Services Bureau agents surrounded the car, and Su Quan introduced himself before the agents’ feet sank into quicksand.
• The agents opened fire, and Lauren shielded them with an air wall until Su Quan replaced it with a nearly invisible barrier and showed her how refined his control was.
• Su Quan pulled the agents’ weapons away and told them to remember his name, then asked Lauren to gather their things.
• The team leader threatened Su Quan and offered to overlook his actions if he handed Lauren and her family over.

Su Quan returned with Lauren after escaping the Sentinel Special Services Bureau and sent the Reed family safely to Mexico, where Reed revealed Lorna’s likely prison and transport route. The group planned a rescue at Garland Detention Center, but Su Quan warned that Lorna might reject a quiet escape and want revenge.

• Su Quan refused Herbert’s proposed cooperation and teleported away with Lauren after Herbert offered to hand over the Stryker family in exchange for a promotion and favors.
• Su Quan told the Mutant Underground Organization that Herbert had approached him, then joked that he wanted to trade fugitives for prisoners.
• Su Quan opened a portal to Mexico, and Reed gave the group information about the prison and transport route before his family crossed through.
• Xian Zhe identified Garland Detention Center and recommended rescuing Lorna from her transport vehicle to avoid revealing the prison’s location.
• Su Quan said he would follow Lorna’s wishes, even if she wanted to take revenge and cause a major upheaval.

Su Quan explained that his space-time manipulation could permanently conceal the Mutant Underground Organization’s base and redirect attacks, making a rescue of Lorna safer. The group accepted his plan, while Su Quan reminded them that they had already decided not to abandon Lorna.

• Xian Zhe warned Su Quan that provoking the Sentinel Special Services Bureau could endanger the base and the mutants sheltering there.
• Su Quan demonstrated his spatial ability by making Xian Zhe and John’s attacks against Sonia hit themselves instead.
• Su Quan opened two connected portals and told Clarice he would help her develop her teleportation ability.
• Xian Zhe agreed that Su Quan’s permanent spatial alteration and the portals could help the group withstand an attack or escape.
• Su Quan pointed out that rescuing Lorna would provoke the Sentinel Special Services Bureau whether or not he helped, and Sonia declared that they would never abandon Lorna.
• The group recognized that they had begun treating Su Quan as one of their own but still needed time and proof of his leadership.

Su Quan ambushed the convoy transporting Lorna and freed her from the Sentinel Special Services Bureau. As the agents attacked, they trapped Lorna with a Sentinel Robot, and Su Quan disabled it with magneto-kinesis.

• Su Quan stopped the convoy, scattered its escort vehicles, and opened the box truck carrying Lorna.
• Su Quan freed Lorna from her glass prison and destroyed the inhibitor collar around her neck.
• Jess Turner recognized Su Quan as the mutant who had saved the Stryker family, then ordered the agents to open fire.
• Lorna blocked the agents' bullets with her magneto-kinesis, but a Sentinel Robot caught and tightened around her leg.
• Su Quan snapped his fingers and disabled the Sentinel Robot with magneto-kinesis.

Lorna fought the Sentinel Special Services Bureau agents while Su Quan stopped her from killing Jess Turner and offered him a chance to reunite with his dead daughter. He revealed that Jess could receive a portion of the Phoenix Force, but left him to choose whether to use it himself or seek help from another mutant.

• Lorna returned the agents’ bullets and pulled Jess Turner in front of her, but hesitated to kill him when he refused to back down.
• Su Quan suppressed Lorna’s magnetic field and healed Jess’s wounded arm, then offered him a chance to reunite with his daughter if he cooperated.
• Jess cursed Su Quan, but knelt when Su Quan implied that he could let Jess see his daughter.
• Su Quan explained that the Phoenix Force could bring the dead back to life, then said he would not resurrect Jess’s daughter himself.
• Su Quan offered Jess a portion of the Phoenix Force so he could try to resurrect his daughter, warning that not everyone could withstand its power.

Su Quan offered Jess Turner a way to resurrect his daughter by becoming a psychic Phoenix Apostle, either through genetic modification or by finding a trusted mutant psychic. Jess asked for time to decide, and as Sentinel forces closed in around Su Quan and Lorna, the chapter ended with Lorna realizing they were surrounded.

• Su Quan explained that resurrecting Jess Turner's daughter required a psychic to become a Phoenix Apostle, then offered to give Jess psychic abilities through genetic modification.
• Jess Turner struggled with the idea of becoming a mutant and asked Su Quan for time to think.
• Su Quan stopped time, gave Jess his contact number, and warned him to keep their potential cooperation secret.
• Su Quan kicked Jess Turner fifty meters away, knocking him unconscious, and time resumed as agents fired at Su Quan and Lorna.
• Sentinel vehicles, Sentinel Robots, and sniper-equipped helicopters surrounded the highway, and Lorna pulled Su Quan behind a battered box truck.

Su Quan used time stop to turn the Sentinel Special Services Bureau’s overwhelming assault against its forces and clear a path through the blockade. As he and Lorna walked away, one surviving agent was left facing Su Quan alone.

• Lorna urged Su Quan to stop time so they could retreat from the Bureau’s attack.
• Su Quan ignored Lorna’s plan to flee quietly and stopped the bullets, missiles, and Sentinel Robots around them.
• Su Quan sent the frozen bullets and missiles back at the agents and vehicles, then brought down a helicopter.
• Lorna followed Su Quan through the wreckage, stunned by how easily he had defeated the forces she could not handle.
• Su Quan disabled the remaining Sentinel Robots and approached the only agent still standing.

Su Quan rescued Lorna from the Sentinel Special Services Bureau, gave her a flying ring, and brought her back to the base. There, he learned that he was the country’s highest-priority wanted fugitive and proposed collecting the bounty on himself to fund the group’s dwindling supplies.

• An agent who survived Su Quan’s attack collapsed to his knees as Su Quan and Lorna left the scene.
• Lorna asked why Su Quan had rescued her, and he repeated that he did not want his dish to get cold.
• Su Quan slipped a flying ring onto Lorna’s finger, activated it, and taught her to fly before they returned to the base.
• Sonia welcomed Lorna back, and Xian Zhe told Su Quan that the Sentinel Special Services Bureau had issued a top-level nationwide wanted notice for him.
• Su Quan proposed giving the authorities genuine information about himself to claim the bounty, then pointed out the base’s urgent need for food, water, clothing, equipment, ammunition, and money.

Su Quan moved the Mutant Underground Organization into a Mirror Dimension hideout and began helping Clarice master her powers. He revealed that he could amplify, weaken, and eliminate mutant abilities, leaving Clarice alarmed about the danger of anyone learning this secret.

• Su Quan and Lorna returned to the base, where the group discussed the Sentinel Special Services Bureau and obtaining supplies.
• Su Quan protected the base by creating a Mirror Dimension space, and he and Clarice officially joined the Mutant Underground Organization.
• Su Quan brought Clarice into the Mirror Dimension and used his Amplification Aura to strengthen her portals.
• Su Quan weakened Clarice’s power, then eliminated it temporarily, restoring her appearance and revealing that he could remove mutant abilities.
• Clarice warned Su Quan never to reveal or demonstrate his ability to eliminate mutant genes because it could put him in grave danger.

Su Quan reassured Clarice that he would protect her secret, placed a mental barrier in her mind, and permanently enhanced her mutant ability. He then left the mirror dimension with Sonia to help a mother and daughter at Tex's Bar.

• Clarice asked Su Quan to erase her memories, but he instead shielded them from other psychics with a mental barrier.
• Su Quan told Clarice he could resurrect her if she were captured and had to take her own life to escape.
• Su Quan permanently enhanced Clarice's ability and urged her to master it so she could guide others through the mirror dimension.
• Su Quan encountered Sonia, agreed to help a mother and daughter, and vanished with her to Tex's Bar.

Su Quan and Sonia rescued Hila and Dominique from Tex’s bar and sent them to the Underground base. After sharing a drink with Sonia, Su Quan headed to Sentinel Special Services Bureau to claim the bounty on himself, where an agent recognized him.

• Sonia and Su Quan arrived at Tex’s bar, where Tex introduced them to Hila and her daughter, Dominique.
• Su Quan reassured Hila and her family, and Sonia escorted Hila and Dominique through a portal to the Underground base.
• Sonia asked Su Quan where he planned to go, and he said he would visit Sentinel Special Services Bureau before going to the mall.
• Su Quan left the bar to claim the bounty on himself at Sentinel Special Services Bureau, where an agent recognized him and shouted in alarm.