Chapter Summaries

Su Quan entered the Sentinel Special Services Bureau and negotiated with Dr. Campbell to collect the bounty on himself. He took the ten million dollars through a portal, leaving the agents stunned and demanding the money back.

• The Bureau surrounded Su Quan after he appeared at its headquarters, and Dr. Campbell came forward to speak with him.
• Su Quan considered killing Dr. Campbell but decided against it, reasoning that the Hound mutants and the mutant ability amalgamation technology still needed him.
• Su Quan told Dr. Campbell he had come to collect the bounty on himself and offered information about his abilities.
• Dr. Campbell raised the reward from one million to ten million dollars, and agents brought out five suitcases of cash.
• Su Quan sent the suitcases through a portal, and the Bureau agents were left demanding the money back.

Su Quan told Dr. Campbell he possessed 128 abilities, then revealed several before the Sentinel Special Services Bureau tried to capture him. He escaped Pulse’s power-nullifying attack, killed Pulse, and prepared to leave while Dr. Campbell demanded to know how his abilities had remained usable.

• Su Quan told Dr. Campbell he had 128 abilities and demonstrated magnetic-field control, two forms of teleportation, flight, and psionic armor.
• Dr. Campbell ordered Pulse to use his special energy pulse on Su Quan, but Su Quan remained able to use his powers.
• The agents swarmed Su Quan, believing he could no longer fight, while Dr. Campbell said he wanted to keep him alive.
• Su Quan appeared outside the crowd, teleported behind Pulse, and killed him with a twist of his neck.
• Su Quan stored Pulse’s body in his portable space and asked Dr. Campbell if he had any other tricks before leaving.
• Dr. Campbell demanded to know why Pulse had failed to nullify Su Quan’s abilities.

Su Quan escaped the Sentinel Special Services Bureau after killing Pulse and securing ten million dollars. He spent the money on supplies for the Mutant Underground Organization, then returned to the base, where John asked whether he had encountered Pulse.

• Su Quan told Dr. Campbell that Pulse could not eliminate his ability because Su Quan was stronger, then vanished from the bureau.
• Dr. Campbell dismissed the agents and accepted responsibility as they blamed him for the failed operation and its costly payout.
• Su Quan returned to Tex's Bar with five suitcases of money, recounted what happened, and took Sonia shopping.
• Su Quan and Sonia spent three hours buying clothes, necessities, and food before spending the evening together.
• The next day, Su Quan brought the supplies to the Mutant Underground Organization's base and learned his bounty had risen by five million dollars.
• John approached Su Quan and cautiously asked whether he had encountered Pulse at the Sentinel Special Services Bureau.

Su Quan explained the Hound Program and proposed rescuing mutants by bringing them to Void Island, then confirmed that he came from another universe. He described the multiverse and Void Island’s future, while the group expressed trust in him and asked about people and worlds he knew.

• Su Quan told Lorna and the others that Pulse had been turned into a hound by the Hound Program and urged them to rescue mutants and destroy the program.
• Su Quan offered the group a place on Void Island, which he ruled, where mutants could live safely in exchange for accepting management and working.
• Xian Zhe reasoned that Su Quan came from a parallel universe because he had no history in their world and could manipulate space-time dimensions; Su Quan confirmed her guess.
• Sonia, Clarice, Xian Zhe, and John voiced their trust in Su Quan and interest in Void Island, while Lorna clarified that she was surprised by the parallel-universe revelation rather than suspicious of him.
• Su Quan described the multiverse, the worlds he managed, and his plan to bring Void Island to his universe, then told Clarice that another Clarice Ferguson had the same powers but a different appearance.
• Lorna asked whether Su Quan was Magneto’s son from another world, and Su Quan said he knew two Magnetos, one young and one old.

Su Quan and Sonia joined Clarice in rescuing mutants whose shelter had been raided, but a telepath among the survivors exposed Chloe, a Hound working for Dr. Campbell. After Chloe attacked the group, Su Quan caught her from behind and revealed his speed was greater than hers.

• Su Quan told Lorna and the others about the familiar mutants he had met across other worlds and the doubles expected on Void Island.
• Sonia reported that Void Island had grown to more than three hundred residents as she reunited with Su Quan.
• Clarice told Su Quan and Sonia that Sentinel Special Services Bureau had killed her adoptive parents while they helped mutants, and the three went to Eternal Grace Church to find the survivors.
• A blonde teenage telepath named Esme sensed strange thoughts in a short-haired girl, who attacked Su Quan, Sonia, Clarice, and Esme with super speed.
• Su Quan identified the attacker as Chloe, a Hound marked with Trask's symbol, and stopped her by grabbing her from behind.

After the Mutant Underground captured Chloe, Sonia uncovered that the Hound had been tortured and drugged by Trask Industries, while Esme concealed the true extent of her psychic abilities. The group learned Chloe might be dying, and Clarice asked Su Quan whether she could be saved.

• Su Quan and the others returned to the Mutant Underground base with the unconscious Chloe, whom Clarice had caught carrying a tracking beacon.
• After Chloe woke and resisted Sonia’s dream smoke, Esme used her mind control to hold Chloe still so Sonia could examine her memories.
• Sonia discovered that Chloe had been tortured at a secret military base and forced into the Hound Program with an addictive drug that damaged her body and mind.
• Xian Zhe found that Chloe had been arrested after destroying a doctor’s office when the doctor refused to treat her sick child.
• Sonia warned that Chloe might be dying, and Clarice asked Su Quan if he could save her.

Su Quan exposed Esme’s hidden abilities and her plan to use the Sentinel Special Services Bureau to recruit Lorna—or possibly him—for the Hellfire Club. He assigned the Underground Organization to gather information on Trask Industries, then confronted Jess Turner at bureau headquarters to ask whether he had made his choice between his position and his daughter.

• Lorna and the others agreed to target the Hound Program, while Su Quan explained that Esme was concealing her psychic strength.
• Su Quan revealed that Esme belonged to the Hellfire Club and that her sisters Sophie and Phoebe had been captured on purpose to draw the Underground Organization into a fight.
• Xian Zhe reasoned that Esme hoped to recruit Lorna if the organization suffered heavy losses, and Su Quan realized Esme might instead be targeting him.
• Su Quan ordered the others to collect information on Trask Industries and seek out Otto, then went to speak with Jess Turner.
• Su Quan appeared in Jess Turner’s office at Sentinel Special Services Bureau headquarters and demanded to know whether Jess had chosen his position or his daughter.

Jess Turner agreed to become a mutant in a week, asking Su Quan to resurrect his daughter if the experiment killed him. Su Quan learned where Sophie and Phoebe were held and who killed Clarice’s adoptive parents, then took Clarice and Esme to confront the killer, Herbert.

• Jess Turner chose the mutation experiment and asked Su Quan to resurrect Grace if he died.
• Jess Turner told Su Quan where Sophie and Phoebe were detained, and Su Quan said he wanted to keep them from reuniting with Esme or being taken by Trask Industries.
• Jess Turner identified Herbert, the second strike team captain, as the killer of Clarice’s adoptive parents.
• Su Quan returned to the underground base and told Clarice who had killed her adoptive parents.
• Esme asked to accompany Su Quan and Clarice, and Su Quan teleported them to a parking garage where Herbert sat in a car.
• Su Quan gave Clarice a dagger and told her to take her revenge.

Clarice avenged her adoptive parents by killing Herbert in the underground parking garage, while Esme worked to ingratiate herself with Su Quan and Clarice. The Sentinel Special Services Bureau identified the killers and treated Herbert’s death as a major challenge to its authority, setting up a forceful response.

• Esme offered to help Clarice, then tried to use her gratitude and praise to grow closer to Su Quan and cast doubt on Clarice’s relationship with him.
• Clarice returned from killing Herbert, and Esme sincerely helped wipe the blood from her face, winning Clarice’s trust.
• Su Quan gave Clarice the Adamantium dagger, and she accepted it.
• Surveillance footage let the Sentinel Special Services Bureau identify Su Quan, Clarice, and Esme and discover that Clarice had killed Herbert to avenge her adoptive parents.
• The bureau viewed Herbert’s death as a threat to its authority and feared that failing to punish the killers would embolden mutants and undermine its agents.

After the Sentinel Special Services Bureau put Clarice, Esme, and Su Quan on a bounty and offered immunity to anyone who revealed their locations, Esme feared the underground organization might turn against her. She privately confessed her feelings to Su Quan, hoping to secure her place with the Hellfire Club, while Su Quan suspected she had another motive.

• Xian Zhe told Lorna that Clarice and Esme had been placed on a bounty, Su Quan's bounty had increased, and the Bureau was offering immunity for information about their locations.
• Esme panicked about being targeted and possibly sacrificed by the Hellfire Club, while Clarice apologized for involving her; Su Quan assured them he could protect them.
• Esme asked to speak with Su Quan alone and warned that immunity could tempt the underground organization's members to leave or betray the group.
• Su Quan doubted Esme's explanation, and Esme told him she had fallen for him at first sight and recited a poem about loving him.

Esme’s staged confession to Su Quan became real, but he revealed that he knew she was a Hellfire Club member and had intended to manipulate him into rescuing Sophie and Phoebe. After overpowering her psychic attack, Su Quan admitted he wanted to try building a genuine relationship despite their deceitful start.

• Esme confessed to Su Quan through poetry, and the two spent the night together after he answered with playful romantic lines.
• The next morning, Esme realized her plan to fake a relationship had turned into a real one, while Su Quan quietly served her breakfast.
• Su Quan said he would not rescue Sophie and Phoebe yet, but told Esme to report to the Hellfire Club that she had handled him.
• Esme accused Su Quan of knowing her identity and attacked his mind with her psychic powers, but he blocked and then controlled her with his stronger telepathy.
• Su Quan told Esme he wanted to try making their relationship genuine despite the false premise that had brought them together.

Esme tested whether Su Quan would stand by her against the Hellfire Club, and he revealed that his influence extended beyond their world. Su Quan then took Lorna to confront Otto Strucker, where they uncovered that Otto had suppressed Reed’s mutant genes.

• Esme asked whether Su Quan dared to oppose the world for her, and he said he could handle enemies across multiple worlds.
• Esme chose to wait and share Su Quan’s promised gift with her Multiple Man sisters.
• Su Quan told Lorna that Esme was the White Queen’s daughter and asked her for Otto Strucker’s address.
• Su Quan and Lorna traveled to Otto’s antique shop in Chattanooga, where Su Quan questioned him about his research at Trask Industries.
• Lorna revealed that Reed was a mutant, and Otto’s reaction exposed that he had secretly suppressed Reed’s mutant genes.

Su Quan told Otto he could protect the Fenris Twins from losing control, but Otto refused to trust him without meeting them, so Su Quan left with Lorna after secretly obtaining Otto’s research and ability. They went to Trask Industries, where Su Quan used his psychic powers to make researchers produce a gene-suppressing serum, leaving Lorna stunned by the scale of his power.

• Su Quan explained that Lauren’s family had escaped to Mexico with his help and promised Otto that the Fenris Twins would not become uncontrollable if Otto cooperated.
• Otto asked to meet his grandchildren before handing over his research, but Su Quan refused and warned that Dr. Campbell would likely target him.
• Su Quan left the antique shop with Lorna, then revealed that he had already copied Otto’s research and acquired his self-detonation ability through psychic powers.
• Lorna suggested taking the research to Void Island’s mutant gene laboratory, but Su Quan chose Trask Industries for its ready laboratories and supplies.
• Su Quan teleported with Lorna into a Trask Industries laboratory, controlled the researchers, and implanted the research into their minds so they could make the serum.
• When Lorna asked how powerful his psychic abilities were, Su Quan said he could kill all sentient life on Earth instantly.

Su Quan and Lorna broke into Trask Industries, freed the mutants who had not yet become Hounds, and took control of the laboratory to test Otto's research on suppressing mutant genes. Dr. Campbell confronted them and realized the experiment might be connected to Reed, leaving Su Quan's purpose and Reed's involvement exposed to suspicion.

• Su Quan reflected on the disappearance of Professor X, Magneto, and the other mutants, then used his psychic powers to kill most of the imprisoned mutants who had become Hounds.
• Su Quan and Lorna entered Trask Industries' kennel, subdued a guard, and rescued the roughly twenty surviving mutants who had not been transformed.
• Lorna explained the rescue to the mutants while Su Quan had Friday copy files on the Hound Program and Zek's formula and used Trask's researchers to test Otto's work.
• Dr. Campbell arrived with agents and confronted Su Quan, suspecting he had come to verify Otto's research on suppressing mutant genes.
• Dr. Campbell connected the research to Reed, a former prosecutor and fugitive who fit the profile of someone whose mutant abilities had not awakened.

Su Quan confronted Dr. Campbell over his research into Reed’s mutant gene and rejected his attempt to negotiate, killing him and the agents who opened fire. He took Otto with him for his genetic research, then used his powers to send another squad of Trask Industries agents marching away.

• Dr. Campbell offered to cancel the bounties on the Underground in exchange for Su Quan leaving the research intact, but Su Quan refused and forced him to kneel.
• The agents opened fire, but Su Quan redirected their bullets and killed them; Lorna and the rescued mutants watched in shock.
• Su Quan killed Dr. Campbell and asked Otto what he planned to do, then told him to come along.
• A new squad of agents arrived, but Su Quan ordered them to turn around and march away, and they obeyed.

Su Quan completed a serum for unawakened mutants and built a detector that identified mutant genes. After confirming little Dominique was a mutant, he left her and the Void Island community looking forward to her future.

• A researcher reported that Otto's serum had succeeded, and Su Quan sent Otto and the mutants through a spacetime gate to Void Island while giving Otto Zeke's formula and research instructions.
• Su Quan revealed a mutant gene detector to Lorna and Clarice, then demonstrated that it showed white for mutants and black for humans by testing Jess Turner.
• Su Quan used the detector on little Dominique, and it lit up white, confirming she had mutant genes.
• Dominique told Su Quan and the islanders that she wanted to become a mutant like her mother so she could help and repay them, and they celebrated her.
• Su Quan toured the developed Void Island and watched Esme and the two White Queens at work.

Esme met the two White Queens and learned that Su Quan could potentially resurrect her dead sisters, Celeste and Maddy. After returning to the Underground base, Su Quan set Esme the task of persuading or eliminating Reva Pege, while Jess Turner prepared to help free Sophie and Phoebe.

• Esme told the White Queens that Celeste and Maddy had died, while Sophie and Phoebe remained imprisoned by the Sentinel Special Services Bureau.
• The White Queen revealed that the Phoenix Force and psychic abilities could enable resurrection, and showed Esme her Phoenix power.
• Su Quan promised to help free Sophie and Phoebe and said he would resurrect Celeste and Maddy if Esme persuaded Reva Pege to join him or killed her.
• Jess Turner completed the psychic ability grafting experiment and agreed to cooperate in rescuing Sophie and Phoebe.
• Su Quan returned with the group to the Underground base and considered recruiting Rebecca, also known as Twist, for her space-time manipulation ability.

Su Quan found Rebecca imprisoned in Linwood Mental Hospital and offered to free her in exchange for her loyalty and obedience. After Rebecca agreed to follow his rules, he broke her mutant collar and revealed that he could use her spatial-reversal ability.

• Rebecca remembered how her parents had betrayed her, leading to her capture and imprisonment at Linwood Mental Hospital.
• Su Quan appeared in Rebecca’s ward with a can of Fat House Happy Water, convincing her he was real when she touched and drank it.
• Rebecca begged Su Quan to take her away, offering him her abilities, loyalty, and everything about her in return.
• Su Quan warned Rebecca never to kill anyone and said he would send her back if she disobeyed; Rebecca promised to follow his orders.
• Su Quan broke Rebecca’s collar and identified himself, then used her Spatial Reversal ability on the ward’s iron door.

Su Quan freed the patients from the psychiatric hospital, sent them to his mutant refuge on Void island, and invited X-Men member Evangeline Wheden to meet him. He asked her to transform into a dragon and consider changing allegiances, then claimed he came from the multiverse, prompting her to spit out her wine.

• Su Quan ordered Rebecca to free the willing patients and kill anyone who tried to stop them.
• Rebecca opened the wards, and the patients used their abilities to overwhelm the hospital staff and take over the facility.
• Su Quan opened a portal to Void island and sent the freed patients through it before criticizing Rebecca for returning covered in blood.
• Su Quan opened a portal into Evangeline Wheden's bedroom and asked her to show her dragon form and consider changing bosses.
• Su Quan explained that he wanted her legal expertise for his faction and was curious about her transformation, then told her he came from the multiverse.
• Evangeline laughed and spat out her wine when she heard Su Quan's claim.

Su Quan recruited Evangeline to work for him by revealing that he could move mutants to a safer world, then gathered her, Lorna, and Rebecca to explore Void Island through transmitted memories. He created a pocket space for Evangeline to transform, and the chapter ended with her losing control as a giant dragon while Su Quan teleported onto her neck.

• Su Quan told Evangeline that he had rescued mutants by sending them to another world and offered her a job, which she accepted.
• Su Quan summoned Lorna and transmitted memories of Void Island and the Marvel world to Lorna, Evangeline, and Rebecca.
• Evangeline explained that fully transforming into a dragon would make her lose control, so Su Quan created a pocket space where she could transform safely.
• Evangeline transformed into a towering blood-red dragon and roared, leaving Lorna worried about her loss of control.
• Su Quan teleported onto Evangeline's neck, preparing to handle the rampaging dragon.