Chapter Summaries

Wang Bert uncovered a plot linking a mutant-creation facility to Brigadier General Lance, General Anthony, and Acton, then arranged a live raid to turn the public against them. Three days later, Wade and a team of Elite Mutants reached the New Jersey factory with a reporter and broadcast crew, ready to attack.

• Wang Bert learned that Acton would launch an operation in Las Vegas and Potter, and that Lance would visit Francis’s factory in three days with serum.
• Translucent identified Lance as a subordinate of General Anthony, so Wang Bert ordered Yuriko to photograph Anthony meeting with Acton and summoned Wade to prepare a live raid on the factory.
• Wang Bert revealed that Francis had tortured mutants and sold them as slaves, then explained that broadcasting the raid would fuel public anger against General Anthony and Acton.
• Wang Bert transferred Azazel’s brain into a bio-pod, made him a mechanical servant, and sent him to spy on Trask Industries and obtain Sentinel Robot data and special metal.
• Three days later, Wade, Wolverine, a team of Elite Mutants, a reporter, and a cameraman arrived by Teleportation outside the New Jersey factory, and Wade checked that the live broadcast was ready.

Treece livestreamed the horrific factory where people were tortured and killed in an attempt to create Mutants, while Wade and the Security Team dealt with the guards. The broadcast exposed the operation's military connections when Treece filmed Brigadier General Lance speaking with Francis.

• Translucent made Treece and the cameraman invisible and led them into the factory to livestream its interior.
• Wade teleported guards to the Security Team, who killed them as the team prepared to enter the factory.
• Treece's livestream revealed patients being tortured and killed as part of experiments to awaken their Mutant Genes.
• Translucent showed Treece the surviving Mutants being collared, abused, and treated as slaves.
• Translucent led Treece and the cameraman to Francis's office, where Brigadier General Lance ordered Francis to triple the factory's scale.

Iron Man’s live broadcast exposed Brigadier General Lance and Francis plotting to create mutant slaves and replace Iron Man, enraging the public and damaging Acton’s election prospects. Wolverine’s Security Team attacked the factory, and Wade captured Lance before he could kill himself, with Lance’s mention of General Anthony implicating another senior military figure.

• Brigadier General Lance and Francis discussed abducting vulnerable people, experimenting on them, and turning mutants into slaves while viewers watched live.
• The Professor refused Acton’s request to stop Iron Man’s broadcast, and Jean’s growing anger further stirred the black flames of the Phoenix within her.
• Wolverine led the Security Team in an assault on the factory, and Francis ordered the patients and mutant slaves sacrificed while Brigadier General Lance tried to escape.
• Wade shot the bodyguards, knocked down Brigadier General Lance, and fought Francis until Translucent struck Francis unconscious and claimed him.
• Treece revealed that the interview was being broadcast live, and Wade stopped Brigadier General Lance from shooting himself after Lance mentioned General Anthony.

Acton and General Anthony sought to silence Brigadier General Lance as their schemes became public, while General Anthony accepted power from Original Sin and Acton enlisted the Black King. At the mutant facility, Lance and more than a hundred patients accepted Original Sin’s offer, and the patients revolted as Sand Dust Angel tried to burn the place down.

• Acton and General Anthony panicked over the accusations against them, and General Anthony accepted Original Sin’s offer to become Sloth in exchange for power and help killing Brigadier General Lance.
• The Black King offered to help Acton if he would oppose Iron Man, and Acton agreed to make him an ally and target Lance.
• Wade questioned Brigadier General Lance about General Anthony’s role, while Lance denied the connection and condemned mutants.
• Original Sin offered power to Lance and more than a hundred patients, who accepted and attacked the facility staff and guards.
• Sand Dust Angel broke away from Wolverine and ordered the guards to ignite the gasoline around the facility.

Wolverine and the Security Team defeated Sand Dust Angel’s forces while Iron Man exposed the officials behind the anti-mutant plot and captured a Hellfire Club operative. As the Black King prepared his own countermeasure, Original Sin recruited a dying man in Japan as the Jealousy Envoy and ordered him to destroy Tokyo within ten days.

• Wolverine killed Sand Dust Angel, ordered the Security Team to kill the Evil Believers, and told the surrendered mutant slaves Iron Man would free them from their collars.
• Brigadier General Lance used his power to torment Wade and flee, but Iron Man stopped Shadow from stabbing Lance and captured him; Original Sin then shattered Lance’s Soul Stone.
• During Treece’s livestream, Lance identified General Anthony as the planner behind the anti-mutant campaign and confirmed Acton was his ally; Acton killed himself after the revelation.
• Original Sin warned the Black King that Iron Man would target the Hellfire Club, but the Black King refused to abandon the club and claimed he had a trump card.
• Original Sin recruited a dying old man as the Jealousy Envoy, restored his youth and power, and ordered him to destroy Tokyo within ten days.

Wang Bert destroyed a mutant-making operation, won public support, and accepted the post of Secretary of Defense, while Magneto rejected peaceful coexistence and Quicksilver tried to persuade him. The chapter leaves the Brotherhood divided, with Domino urging Quicksilver to overthrow his father before Iron Man moves against them.

• Wang Bert sent Treece and Keli away, then ordered Wade to help Logan finish the fight and destroy the remaining enemies in the factory.
• Wang Bert freed the mutant slaves, promised them support, and led his Security Team to destroy the operation’s other seven bases.
• After General Anthony disappeared and Acton died by suicide, President Richard nominated Wang Bert as Secretary of Defense, and Wang Bert accepted while promising to reform the military.
• Professor Xavier, Jean, and Storm discussed how Wang Bert’s control of the military could improve mutant-human relations, while Magneto insisted that peaceful coexistence would fail.
• Quicksilver argued with Magneto and tried to persuade him to abandon the Brotherhood’s terrorist methods, but Magneto rejected him and continued working on the Mutant Transformation Device.
• Domino urged Quicksilver to organize dissenting mutants and overthrow Magneto to save him from Wang Bert, but Quicksilver refused to betray his father.

Quicksilver agreed to lead the Brotherhood toward amnesty and peace talks with Iron Man’s backing, while the Human Supremacy Organization prepared antidotes, Sentinels, and cloned mutants to oppose Iron Man. Wang Bert then asked the Professor to personally watch Magneto.

• Domino persuaded Quicksilver to rally Brotherhood members with a government amnesty promise, and Quicksilver agreed to meet Iron Man before acting.
• Wang Bert guaranteed amnesty, offered help in bringing Magneto in alive, and assigned Domino to assist Quicksilver.
• The Human Supremacy Organization decided to fund the development of an antidote, Sentinels, and a mutant army, after Dr. Rice revealed he had cloned Wolverine Logan.
• Wang Bert told the Professor about Quicksilver’s plan and asked him to personally watch Magneto.

Bert Wang restored Nightcrawler and discussed mutant-human relations with Jean before Black Phoenix emerged through Jean and unleashed a series of disasters against her. Bert entered Jean’s mindscape and confronted Black Phoenix, who refused to explain Wanda’s past and warned that Wanda was in danger in the future.

• Bert Wang told the Professor he planned to deal with the Hellfire Club and agreed to help Kurt recover.
• Bert Wang gave Rogue a potion to suppress her powers and used Money Power to restore Nightcrawler’s strength.
• Bert Wang explained his approach to mutant-human coexistence to Jean, then Jean’s body was taken over by Black Phoenix, who kissed him and summoned deadly storms.
• Bert Wang moved Jean to an uninhabited hill and protected her from lightning, earthquakes, meteorites, spatial rifts, and hurricanes before knocking her unconscious.
• Bert Wang entered Jean’s mindscape and found Black Phoenix contained behind the Professor’s Mind Barrier.
• Black Phoenix refused to reveal why Wanda restarted the world and warned Bert Wang that Wanda was struggling in the future and might die without his help.

Wang Bert confronted the Hellfire Club and overwhelmed Black King, but a mysterious child froze time to save him. The child recognized Wang Bert and blamed him for his strange existence, leaving Wang Bert demanding an explanation.

• Black Phoenix told Wang Bert that Wanda had failed to advance to Creator God and was badly injured, while secretly plotting to make Jean fall in love with Iron Man.
• Wang Bert used Money Power to buy good luck and teleported alone to the Hellfire Club to confront Black King over the attempted assassination of Brigadier General Lance.
• Black King’s Elite Mutants attacked Wang Bert, but Wang Bert used spatial powers to defeat them and overwhelm Black King with a black hole and Space Energy.
• As Black King called for help, a mysterious child froze time, appeared before Wang Bert, and accused him of causing the child’s strange state.

Franklin revealed that he was an unstable future child of Reed Richards and Susan, and Wang Bert recruited him to help secure his existence and become the Mutant God. Wang Bert arranged for Angel to serve unknowingly as an undercover agent, but Original Sin rescued her and Black King during a clash, while the remaining Hellfire Club mutants surrendered to Wang Bert.

• Franklin confronted Wang Bert, explained that his existence depended on Reed and Susan getting together, and agreed to stay with Wang Bert and give him a drop of blood.
• Franklin set a Time Loop on Angel while Wang Bert recruited her as an undercover agent, sealed her memory of the arrangement, and attached his aura to her soul.
• Franklin fell asleep, ending the time freeze, and Wang Bert spared Black King because Franklin said Black King had cared for him.
• Black King refused to surrender and called on Doomsday Master, who shattered the space around him; Original Sin rescued Black King and Angel as Wang Bert used Money Power against them.
• Wang Bert freed the Elite Mutants from their looping fall and made them prisoners, and Hydro surrendered on their behalf.

As Original Sin prepared to destroy God's City on Election Day, Wang Bert learned of the threat and focused on Angel's situation. In Tokyo, Mariko discovered that her family had fallen under the Doomsday Master's influence, and Professor X learned that Yashida Ichirō and General Anthony planned to destroy Tokyo before he set out to help Yukio.

• Original Sin made Black King and Angel emissaries named Pride and Lust, sent them to help Greed with the God's City Destruction Plan, and planned to recruit Gluttony and use Jealousy and Sloth to destroy Tokyo.
• Wang Bert learned of the plan to destroy God's City on Election Day and returned to New York with captives, intending to eliminate Original Sin's emissaries and Evil Believers.
• Mariko visited Yukio in the Yashida family's dungeon, where Yukio warned her to leave Tokyo; Harada Kenichiro revealed that Yukio had been imprisoned for refusing to worship the Doomsday Master.
• Mariko found her father, Nobuharu, drunk and learned that Yashida Ichirō had recovered, grown younger, and claimed he could live forever, then secretly asked Professor X for help.
• Professor X found Black Qi corroding Yukio's mind, traveled to Tokyo with Nightcrawler and Cyclops, and learned that Yashida Ichirō and General Anthony planned to destroy Tokyo on Election Day.
• Yukio told Professor X that Yashida Ichirō had become Jealousy and a Doomsday Master's emissary; Professor X promised to consult Bert while Yukio endured the corruption.

The professor and Wang Bert learned that the Doomsday Master planned to destroy Tokyo and God's City simultaneously, so they organized separate investigations and preparations. Wang Bert recruited Yashida Shingen to uncover his father's plan, leaving the effort to save Tokyo dependent on Shingen's cooperation.

• The professor told Cyclops and Nightcrawler that Evil Believers planned to destroy Tokyo, and Wang Bert warned them to keep the intelligence secret.
• Wang Bert explained that the X-Men and Mutant Guardians would handle Tokyo while his team dealt with the messengers in God's City, with both groups preparing to fight on Election Day.
• Wang Bert found Yashida Shingen drunk at Yashida Estate and told him that his father despised him because he had taken power from him.
• Wang Bert offered to help Shingen inherit the Yashida Family and preserve Yashida Industries if he helped stop his father.
• Yashida Shingen agreed to investigate how Yashida Ichirō planned to destroy Tokyo.

Wang Bert prepared for the Doomsday Master’s planned attacks by arranging for the Mutant Brotherhood to protect America on Election Day and clear its name. He used a dream meeting to begin recruiting Brotherhood members to Quicksilver’s side, while Wang Bert studied Franklin’s time-controlling mutant gene.

• Wang Bert gave Yashida Shingen a teleportation bracelet and warned him that Yashida’s survival depended on him.
• Wang Bert told President Richard about the planned attacks on God’s City and Tokyo, then proposed that the Mutant Brotherhood protect America on Election Day in exchange for having its name cleared.
• Wang Bert ordered Domino to accelerate the Brotherhood’s change of leadership and arranged for Sleep Dream to recruit members through dreams for one million dollars a night.
• Wang Bert used Money Power to slow time around himself so he could study Franklin’s Mutant Gene.
• Quicksilver and Domino gathered most of the New York Branch in Sleep Dream’s dream, where Quicksilver persuaded them to support him against Magneto in return for pardons and a chance to protect Magneto.
• Sleep Dream marked the supporters, and Fire Palm revealed that he had been acting as Quicksilver’s plant.

Quicksilver led most of the Brotherhood in a revolt against Magneto, arguing that mutants wanted normal lives under Iron Man’s protection. Magneto refused to retire and challenged Wang Bert, who destroyed his mech, but Magneto continued fighting with its scattered parts.

• Magneto sent Quicksilver to investigate a suspected rebellion, unaware that Quicksilver was leading it.
• Quicksilver revealed that most Brotherhood members across the branches supported him and demanded that Magneto step down.
• Magneto refused to accept a pardon or abandon his cause, then used a gravity device to pin Quicksilver before agreeing to leave with Astra.
• Wang Bert and the Professor arrived, and Magneto challenged Wang Bert to defeat him rather than surrender.
• Magneto tried to trap Wang Bert with an electromagnetic field and gravity, but Wang Bert cut apart his mech with spatial attacks.
• Magneto blasted the shattered mech’s steel components toward Wang Bert as the battle continued.

Wang Bert defeated Magneto and forced the Mutant Brotherhood to surrender, then discovered Original Sin had recruited Kingpin by promising to resurrect his murdered family. After secretly saving their souls and traveling three months into the past, Wang Bert prepared a time loop to intervene before Kingpin learned of their deaths.

• Wang Bert trapped Magneto in a pocket space, made him surrender, and restrained his mutant powers with a bracelet.
• Magneto passed leadership of the Brotherhood to Quicksilver, while Toad and the others refused to surrender and were sent to prison.
• Wang Bert learned Magneto had another daughter, promised to help him find her, and sensed that Kingpin's wife and son had died.
• Original Sin recruited Kingpin as Gluttony, promising to resurrect his family if he helped cause chaos in New York on Election Day.
• Wang Bert traveled three months into the past, mastered the time Mutant Gene, secretly captured the souls of Kingpin's wife and son, and forged evidence that their souls had vanished.
• Wang Bert created a time loop containing himself and Kingpin as the assassins pursued Kingpin's family.

Wang Bert prepared Kingpin and the mutant forces for the Doomsday Master’s planned attacks, while Original Sin’s envoys finalized coordinated strikes on Election Day. As the attacks neared, Wang Bert assigned teams to defend God's City, Tokyo, and America.

• Wang Bert showed Kingpin his family’s deaths and future transformation into Gluttony, then recruited him by promising to revive their souls and hiding a gem in his soul with a Time Loop.
• Kingpin agreed to work for Wang Bert and asked for help going legitimate; Wang Bert erased his memories and returned to his own time.
• On Election Day, Greed and Black King prepared to poison God's City’s water and cut its communications, while Yashida Ichirō and General Anthony planned attacks on Tokyo.
• Kingpin prepared a riot and prison break in New York, while Original Sin readied Evil Believers to divide Wang Bert’s forces.
• Wang Bert told the assembled mutants that the Doomsday Master planned to destroy God's City and Tokyo, then assigned Wade’s Security Team to work with him and sent Professor Charles, Wolverine, the Mutant Guardians, and the X-Men to Tokyo.
• Wang Bert ordered Quicksilver Pietro to lead the Mutant Mutual Aid Society in protecting America, with his Iron Man Armor staying behind to assist.

The X-Men and Mutant Guardians attacked the Yashida Estate to stop Yashida Ichirō and General Anthony from destroying Tokyo. The chapter ended with the professor confronting General Anthony in the Mind World as both sides prepared for battle.

• Wang Bert sent the X-Men and Mutant Guardians to Tokyo and ordered the military to begin disabling the Sound of Death and the bombs.
• Yashida Shingen and Mariko joined the team at the estate, and the professor used his power to confuse its defenders while the mutants attacked.
• Yashida Ichirō revealed his Adamantium armor and fought Wolverine as Cyclops and Shockwave attacked him.
• General Anthony revealed his hatred of mutants and used manifested weapons to assault the X-Men before the professor drew him into the Mind World.
• The professor summoned mutant opponents to fight General Anthony, who formed a combat fortress and challenged them to battle.

The X-Men fought Yashida Ichirō while the professor battled General Anthony in the Mind World, as Iron Man’s forces thwarted Original Sin’s attempts to create chaos across America. Yuriko, Psylocke, and White Queen confronted Kingpin in New York, but their attacks failed to bring him down, and the fight remained unresolved.

• Magneto and the mutants attacked Anthony’s fortress in the Mind World, while Black King absorbed the barrage and blasted a hole through its defenses.
• The X-Men discovered that Yashida Ichirō could absorb and redirect attacks, and Banshee’s sound waves slowed him until the armor unleashed a counterattack that Nightcrawler helped him escape.
• Original Sin sent the Evil Believers to cause havoc, but Iron Man deployed the Mutant Brotherhood and had his military and police forces suppress threats across New York.
• Original Sin ordered Kingpin to advance the plan to destroy New York, but Iron Man’s forces arrested the gangs before they could act, and White Queen revealed the Hellfire Club had been wiped out.
• Yuriko, Psylocke, and White Queen attacked Kingpin, but his immense strength and muscular defenses let him injure Yuriko and force Psylocke to retreat; Psylocke then disappeared as Kingpin prepared to use her blade.

Yuriko used her newly awakened Life and Death ability to battle Kingpin while Psylocke and White Queen prepared a counterattack. Elsewhere, Wang Bert killed Greed and defeated Angel, then returned to find Black King and Wrath fighting Wade and the others.

• Kingpin’s sonic roar exposed White Queen, Psylocke, and Yuriko, and he knocked White Queen through several floors before pinning Psylocke to a wall with his sword.
• Yuriko revealed Life and Death, a powerful state that let her strike Kingpin at extreme speed and recover from his attacks.
• White Queen pulled Kingpin’s sword from Psylocke’s shoulder, and Psylocke prepared her ultimate move while White Queen offered to make Kingpin ignore them.
• Wang Bert trapped Greed and Angel at the waterworks, revealed that his allies were dismantling the poisoned-water devices, and attacked them.
• Angel used Greed’s eyes to make Wang Bert see Wanda, but Goddess Blessing swallowed her while Wang Bert destroyed Greed and his soul.
• Wang Bert returned to the real world, where Wade told him that Black King and Wrath were difficult opponents, and Wrath asked where Greed was.

Wang Bert stalled Black King while the Professor defeated General Anthony in the Mind World, and Original Sin brought Yashida Ichirō and Kingpin to the waterworks. With his enemies gathered, Wang Bert revealed his trap and launched three spatial spheres at Black King, Yashida Ichirō, and Kingpin.

• Black King merged with Wrath, gained the ability to absorb energy and mutant powers, and overpowered Wang Bert in their fight at the waterworks.
• Wang Bert secretly told Wade to eliminate the Evil Believers and evacuate the others, while he pretended to struggle so Original Sin would bring the remaining enemies together.
• In the Mind World, Jean manifested a black Phoenix that dismantled General Anthony's constructs, and the Professor destroyed General Anthony's soul.
• Psylocke's attack killed Yuriko temporarily when Kingpin escaped, but Yuriko regenerated and joined Psylocke and White Queen.
• Original Sin transferred Yashida Ichirō and Kingpin to the waterworks, where they charged toward Black King and Wang Bert.
• Wang Bert revealed that he had been waiting for them, restrained Black King, Yashida Ichirō, and Kingpin with spatial hands, and sent a spinning sphere toward each of them.