Chapter Summaries

Jupiter discovered that a video about He-El’s capture and escape had appeared across the internet, revealing the mistreatment he suffered at Anchorage Base and inviting the world’s media to meet him. Recognizing the danger and the story’s significance, Jupiter decided to go to Anchorage.

• Jupiter noticed an unexplained video appearing on The New York Times website and complained about the newspaper’s leadership.
• A reporter discovered that the video had appeared on every major media website and across the internet.
• Jupiter watched the video, which showed He-El’s capture, the twenty-one countries’ plans to exploit and dismember him, and his escape using superhuman powers.
• The video announced that He-El would answer questions about Earth’s future at Anchorage Base on February 29 and welcomed media outlets from around the world.
• Jupiter contacted her friend at Industrial Light & Magic, who confirmed the footage was real and said another alien had arrived on Earth.
• Jupiter concluded that He-El’s worldwide video was a dangerous warning and decided to go to Anchorage.

The United Nations blamed the Pacific Rim Coalition's twenty-one member states for provoking the alien, but the Security Council vetoed a proposal to make them accept responsibility and share their technology. With the public frightened by evidence that Earth could not defeat the alien, the United Nations chose to offer goodwill and send representatives to Anchorage Base to apologize and negotiate.

• A United Nations vote backed a proposal calling for the Pacific Rim Coalition's twenty-one member states to accept responsibility, but the Security Council rejected it by veto.
• Most leaders of the Pacific Rim Coalition's twenty-one member states apologized publicly and pledged to leave politics and devote themselves to charity.
• People flocked to the alien's video comment section, where they argued about the leaders' responsibility, Earth's military weakness, and whether to support or resist the alien.
• The Space Alien Support Association gained members by promising its followers safety, while other groups formed to resist the alien or threaten mutual destruction.
• The United Nations decided to placate the alien, stall for time, and consider offering him territory, then sent personnel to Anchorage Base to apologize and express goodwill.

As the world’s media gathered outside Anchorage Base, He-El destroyed a helicopter that approached him and rejected a United Nations meeting, saying he would make an announcement at the press conference in two days. He-El agreed to accept a secretary, and Jupiter prepared to take the position as February 29 arrived.

• Reporters and camera crews gathered outside Anchorage Base while He-El sunbathed beyond the dome.
• Wright and the Space Alien Support Association approached He-El by helicopter, and He-El destroyed the aircraft with his heat vision.
• Stacker told He-El that the United Nations wanted to talk, but He-El said he would announce his plans at the press conference in two days.
• He-El told Stacker to recruit people willing to serve under him, and Stacker agreed to make arrangements.
• Jupiter told Stacker she wanted to become He-El’s secretary, and Stacker warned her that she was making a deal with a tiger.

He-El announced his plan to conquer Earth, demonstrated his power by clearing the clouds and killing Knifehead, and warned that three nuclear missiles were approaching. He remained alone beneath the stars, preparing to walk out of the coming nuclear explosion.

• He-El told reporters that he intended to conquer the world and build an empire, while claiming Earth’s finance, economy, banks, and networks were locked down.
• He-El blew away the clouds with a hurricane from his mouth, then announced that he would take a day to clear out the most powerful nation and promised ordinary citizens better lives.
• He-El traveled to Challenger Deep and lifted Knifehead from the ocean with one finger before crushing it into a basketball-sized sphere with his bio-magnetic field.
• He-El detected three nuclear missiles approaching and told everyone to leave, declaring that he hoped the nations would stop resisting after he walked out of the explosion.

He-El announced that he intended to conquer Earth and would purge the United States’ leadership the next day, leaving the president and the powerful figures in the Oval Office desperate. After other nations refused to join a nuclear strike, the president authorized one against He-El.

• The president’s faction watched He-El announce that he planned to conquer Earth and would not leave for now.
• An elderly power broker fainted at He-El’s declaration, then faked a cerebral hemorrhage and fled to a deep underground shelter.
• He-El said he had locked down Earth’s finance, economy, banks, and networks, and announced that he would clear out the United States’ strongest ranks the next day.
• The Oval Office figures considered using nuclear weapons, but other countries refused to join them and advised the United States to surrender or wait.
• The president received approval to launch nuclear weapons and, under pressure from the others, pressed the red button repeatedly.

He-El endured the blast and heat of a seventeen-megaton nuclear bomb, leaving world leaders stunned to see his silhouette still standing inside the fireball. As they insisted he could not survive, another nuclear bomb struck the fireball.

• Three nuclear bombs launched from California, Oregon, and Nevada converged on He-El over the Pacific Ocean.
• The first seventeen-megaton bomb struck near He-El, whose biological magnetic field dispersed the blast and resisted the intense heat.
• He-El remained standing inside the enormous fireball as the explosion churned the Pacific and sent a shockwave toward Anchorage Base.
• The people in the Oval Office reacted in disbelief and feared that He-El had survived the nuclear blast.
• Another nuclear bomb plunged into the fireball.

He-El survived a neutron bomb and a seventy-megaton three-stage bomb, which burned away his skin before he regenerated. He then controlled the enormous fireball over the Pacific and raised it on his fingertip like a star.

• The ten-megaton neutron bomb detonated, but He-El’s barriers stopped its blast and his cells absorbed its radiation.
• The Oval Office and world leaders watched in despair as He-El remained standing after the second nuclear strike.
• A seventy-megaton three-stage bomb launched from Nevada struck He-El, melting eighteen million of his biological magnetic field barriers.
• The bomb’s heat broke through He-El’s remaining barriers and burned away his skin, but his cells rapidly restored it.
• He-El spread his biological magnetic field around the fireball, made it rotate, and lifted it atop his index finger.

After surviving a nuclear blast, He-El absorbed its radiation and demonstrated that he could create a nuclear explosion himself. He then announced that he was Dawn, had locked down Earth’s networks and weapons, and would begin conquering the nation in Alaska within twenty-four hours.

• People around the world reacted with shock and fear to He-El surviving the nuclear bomb, while several elderly officials in the Oval Office died from the shock.
• The president recalled the workers who had first motivated him to enter politics and wondered how He-El would treat ordinary people.
• He-El absorbed the nuclear radiation and dismantled the fireball with his biological magnetic field.
• He-El created a second nuclear explosion by accelerating Heat Vision particles into an energy-filled cell, naming the technique the Heat-Vision Nuclear Bomb.
• Dawn broadcast a message across Earth, announcing a global lockdown of networks and weapons and warning civilians to stay home as the conquest began in Alaska.

Dawn seized control of Earth’s networks and weapons as He-El began conquering Alaska by taking command of its military. Colonel Bale obeyed the new orders and was promised a promotion, while a crimson morning star appeared in the sky.

• Dawn announced that Earth’s networks, weapons arsenals, and nuclear missile protocols were under her control and warned civilians to remain home.
• He-El flew to Anchorage City, changed into his familiar clothes, and used his biological magnetic field to search for the military base holding civilians.
• The command center ordered Colonel Bale to follow its instructions, and Major General Chris was reduced to blood mist after Bale received the orders.
• Bale acknowledged the orders and was promised a promotion, while Colonel Anston died after refusing to comply.
• Bale learned that senior officers across the base had vanished and saw a crimson morning star streak across the night sky.

He-El conquered Alaska and swept across the United States, replacing officials and killing military leaders while Dawn took control of communications and command. After destroying criminals and the president, He-El settled atop the Capitol at dawn to bask in the sun.

• He-El conquered Alaska in minutes, removed its senior officials, and installed new mayors and police chiefs.
• He-El eliminated senior military generals while Dawn took over the command center and stabilized the lower-ranking officers.
• As He-El crossed the states, he killed gangs, looters, and other criminals, and people online praised him for ending their crimes.
• The president read public comments about He-El and wondered what the alien wanted before Heat Vision cut through the White House and killed him.
• He-El reached the Capitol at dawn, sat atop the building, and basked in the sunlight.

He-El announced his plans to unify Earth, appointed mayors, and promised superpowers to his most valuable subordinates, while the crowd celebrated him as a benevolent guardian. When reporter Kevin insisted He-El was kind, He-El rejected the claim and then killed Kevin and the reporters behind him with Heat Vision.

• He-El addressed the crowd, demanded that world leaders surrender authority, and explained the mayors’ salaries, death quotas, and duties.
• He-El promised superpowers to the thousand subordinates who contributed most to unifying Earth, inspiring people worldwide to seek his favor.
• Kevin praised He-El as a kind guardian deity, and He-El warned him that he was not kind.
• Kevin defied He-El’s threatening Heat Vision and argued that his actions proved he protected civilians and sought to prevent bloodshed.
• He-El let his Heat Vision fade as Kevin celebrated, then suddenly killed Kevin and the reporters behind him.

He-El learned from Ciri that his genes included an unusually stable foundation and open genes capable of awakening many more powers. Ciri’s theory that he had been engineered to carry an overwhelmingly powerful gene made He-El wonder who had created him, but the chapter ended before he named them.

• After nearly killing the panicked crowd, He-El flew to Anchorage Base and questioned the turmoil in his emotions.
• Ciri greeted He-El at the biological research lab and shared a lollipop with him while reporting on her experiments.
• Ciri explained that He-El’s foundational genes were exceptionally stable and that his open genes could grant him additional powers and let him give powers to others.
• He-El concluded that many of his potential abilities would awaken as he absorbed sunlight and considered how much stronger beings elsewhere in the universe were.
• Ciri speculated that He-El’s genes had been designed to support an overwhelmingly powerful gene, prompting him to wonder who had created him.

He-El awakened telepathy, discovered that he could receive and alter other people’s thoughts, and tested its limits on Ciri. He set out for Washington, D.C. to find a master psychologist whose methods could help him develop a Thought Imprint.

• He-El learned that the genetic serum was finished and ordered Ciri to prepare five thousand doses.
• He-El awakened telepathy and received the thoughts of everyone in Anchorage Base.
• He-El tested his new ability on Ciri and found that transmitted thoughts faded quickly and could be distorted by her own thoughts.
• He-El decided to study psychology and develop a Thought Imprint by learning from someone skilled at manipulating minds.
• He-El searched for a master psychologist and flew toward Washington, D.C.

Jupiter cleaned up the massacre at the Capitol Building, then secretly joined the Humanity Self-Rescue Heroes Association as its members discussed their failed attempt to manipulate He-El. When a Gentle-looking Man tried to quit and join the alien, Jupiter attacked him and invoked the blood of Kevin and ninety-three fallen warriors.

• Jupiter coordinated the evacuation, removal of the reporters’ remains, and cleanup of the Capitol Building plaza after He-El’s massacre.
• Jupiter rode in a modified Beetle, spoke with Dawn, and entered the sewers to reach a secret meeting of the Humanity Self-Rescue Heroes Association.
• The members discussed how He-El saw through Kevin’s psychological manipulation and admitted that their plan had failed.
• A Gentle-looking Man announced he was leaving the association to become He-El’s subordinate and gain superpowers.
• Jupiter attacked the Gentle-looking Man at the exit and told him the blood on her heel belonged to Kevin and ninety-three fallen warriors.

Jupiter subdued the Gentle-looking Man and led the Humanity Self-Rescue Heroes Association in planning its next moves against He-El. The group decided to infiltrate Dawn’s political organization, secure superpower slots, and use Edward Yorton’s psychological expertise while preparing to turn He-El’s power against him.

• Jupiter kicked the Gentle-looking Man unconscious after he declared that he wanted to become the alien’s subordinate and gain superpowers.
• The Association debated whether psychological manipulation could still work, and Jupiter assigned Edward Yorton to interpret He-El’s behavior and lead that effort.
• Jupiter ordered members to join Dawn’s organization and help manage He-El’s Earth Empire from within.
• The group set a goal of securing at least 900 superpower slots so its researchers could develop applications capable of killing He-El.
• Jupiter urged the members to press forward despite the likelihood that they would die, and the assembled faces remained confident.

Jupiter and her allies emerged from the sewers after planning a ten-year strategy against He-El’s Earth Empire, but He-El arrived and singled out Edward. He read Edward’s life through a tap on the brow, then left, while Jupiter vowed that humanity would make him regret ignoring them.

• Jupiter and her allies left the sewers after agreeing on a ten-year plan to oppose He-El’s coming Earth Empire.
• He-El descended before the group, overwhelming them with fear and ignoring Jupiter as he approached Edward.
• Edward concluded that He-El had recognized the threat of his Psychological Manipulation plan and accepted what he thought was certain death.
• He-El tapped Edward’s brow, absorbed his life into his mind, and departed without harming the group.
• Jupiter vowed that He-El would pay for disregarding humanity, while Edward wondered whether his plan had failed.

He-El absorbed Edward Yorton’s ideas about psychic abilities and ordered Dawn to deliver him a superpower gene serum. Edward received the serum and vowed to make He-El regret his arrogance.

• He-El reviewed Edward’s memories and was impressed by his ideas for psychic abilities, deciding to protect and empower him.
• He-El ordered Dawn to keep Edward Yorton under close observation and send him a superpower gene serum.
• He-El concluded that creating his ideal Thought Imprint would require many experiments and flew toward Anchorage Base before heading into space.
• A Dawn Dispatch courier delivered the serum and a letter to Edward at Yorton Manor.
• Edward read that He-El hoped he would develop an ability capable of harming the Master, then reached for the serum and vowed to make He-El regret his arrogance.

Three months after He-El conquered Earth, he oversaw the new regime from the International Space Station and sent a psychic projection toward Human Experiment Site One. On Earth, Lazarus committed to building kinetic energy for a future attack on the aliens, but he and Jupiter were startled when He-El’s psychic light appeared.

• He-El rested aboard the International Space Station as Dawn reported that most countries had transitioned to his rule and described Earth’s new laws, currency, food distribution, and superpower gene research.
• Dawn reported that criminals had been deported to designated human experiment sites and that 567 people had received superpower gene drugs.
• He-El created a psychic field projection and sent it toward the Golden Triangle, Human Experiment Site One.
• Jupiter met Lazarus, who said he would run for years to build kinetic energy and eventually strike the aliens, asking Jupiter to direct him if Gaia could not act in time.
• He-El’s psychic light flashed over Jupiter and Lazarus, and they recognized it as Edward.

He-El experimented with psychic abilities by manipulating and killing people in Tachai Village, then used mind-driven mutations to eliminate the guards and rulers of a desert nation. As he prepared to leave, psychic energy gathered from the city formed Edward Yorton’s face, revealing that Edward had reached out to him.

• He-El arrived at Tachai Village and implanted the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues into residents and armed squads, throwing the village into chaos.
• He-El experimented on the villagers with severed thoughts, created personalities, and Mist Corridor, then extinguished their thoughts and killed everyone in the village.
• He-El entered a desert nation's palace and used whispered suggestions to make guards suffer bizarre bodily mutations or abandon their weapons.
• He-El erased the resisting politician and watched the city's people kneel before him.
• As He-El prepared to leave, psychic energy gathered from people across the city and formed Edward Yorton's face.

Edward Yorton attacked He-El with a psychic tide drawn from the minds of more than five hundred million people, but He-El effortlessly learned and improved Edward’s technique. Edward revealed that the attack had trapped He-El in an accelerating series of dream layers where he would eventually fade away.

• Jupiter and Dawn, along with city mayors and members of the Humanity Self-Rescue Heroes Association, watched the battle through satellite surveillance.
• Edward Yorton gathered psychic power from more than five hundred million people and led the resulting psychic tide toward He-El.
• He-El dodged the psychic tide, learned Edward’s technique, and improved it into a more powerful and controllable ability.
• Edward admitted that He-El was unbeatable in the psychic dimension, while He-El praised Edward’s ingenuity and physical-world attack.
• Edward revealed that the psychic tide had concealed a trap in the dream dimension, where successive layers accelerated until He-El would fade away on the tenth layer.