Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo used himself as bait to lure Datu into a dark alley after recognizing the Malaysian thug who had tried to rob him before. Datu opened the briefcase, recoiled from the strange contents, and threatened Chen Mo for his money as the silver-gray mass began crawling out.

• Datu spotted Chen Mo carrying a briefcase and followed him from the night market while his boss was away.
• Datu cornered Chen Mo in a dead-end alley, believing he had trapped an easy target.
• Chen Mo handed Datu the briefcase, intending to put the thug to use after sensing his hostile intentions.
• Datu opened the briefcase, panicked at the strange lump inside, and threw the case to the ground.
• Datu demanded Chen Mo's money without noticing the silver-gray matter crawling out from beneath the briefcase.

Chen Mo watched Riot parasitize Datu and studied how the symbiote merged with its host’s body and consciousness. He took control of Datu and then made Riot emerge from his skin and clothes.

• Riot crawled onto Datu and began parasitizing him after losing the vacuum environment.
• Riot merged completely with Datu, enhancing his physical abilities while leaving no outward trace.
• Chen Mo discovered Riot’s newborn consciousness was absorbing Datu’s spiritual energy, memories, and thoughts.
• Chen Mo used mind control to stop Datu and take control of both consciousnesses.
• Silver-gray liquid began emerging from Datu’s hands and arms at Chen Mo’s command.

Chen Mo tested his telekinetic control over Riot and investigated how its newborn consciousness fused with a human host. After discovering that Riot could absorb his telekinesis and form a stronger connection with him, he let it resume draining Datu to see how much it would absorb.

• Chen Mo controlled Riot outside Datu to form a tentacle and a crude blade, confirming he could direct the symbiote without merging with it.
• Chen Mo separated Riot's consciousness from Datu's and stopped it from absorbing the host's mental energy.
• Chen Mo fed Riot a strand of his telekinesis and discovered that he could still sense it inside the symbiote.
• Chen Mo gave Riot more weakened telekinesis, strengthening their connection until he could make it form a smooth, sharp blade.
• Chen Mo stopped feeding Riot and removed the barrier, allowing it to resume absorbing Datu's mental energy.

Chen Mo tested Riot’s parasitism on Datu, then erased Riot’s renewed consciousness and allowed the symbiote to bond with him. He began feeding its infant-like consciousness controlled wisps of his mental energy.

• Riot stopped absorbing Datu’s mental energy after restoring its consciousness, leaving Datu’s mind reduced to a tiny fragment.
• Chen Mo detached Riot from Datu, released his control over Datu, and left him unconscious.
• After Chen Mo released his control over Riot, it attacked him, and Chen Mo erased its consciousness again with telekinesis.
• Chen Mo let the instinct-driven Riot cover his Vibranium Nanotech Combat Suit before it seeped into his body through his palm.
• Chen Mo found Riot’s weak, seedlike consciousness trying to absorb his mental energy and fed it small wisps he controlled.

Chen Mo used his psychic power to remake Riot’s newborn consciousness, placing the symbiote completely under his control. He tested Riot’s weapon-making and transformation abilities, leaving with a powerful and versatile new tool.

• Chen Mo fed the newborn consciousness his psychic power until it recovered and became completely controllable.
• Chen Mo formed a silver-gray greatsword modeled after the King's Sword and cut the suitcase in half.
• Chen Mo changed the weapon into several different blades and legendary weapons before turning it back into a throwing knife.
• Chen Mo spread Riot over his Vibranium Nanotech Combat Suit and transformed it into his black Alloy Combat Suit.
• Chen Mo realized Riot could provide weapons, clothing, disguises, and other forms beyond the items he had stored.

After bonding with Riot, Chen Mo gained a major physical boost and headed to San Francisco to pursue the Life Foundation. Meanwhile, the Foundation's search team recovered the crashed spacecraft's three sealed symbiote chambers, and Dr. Drake learned that every astronaut had died.

• Chen Mo tested Riot's boost, which raised his physical abilities from eight times to ten times an ordinary person's, then withdrew Riot and left the laboratory.
• Chen Mo used Riot as comfortable clothing, checked out of his hotel, and flew first class from Borneo to San Francisco.
• The Life Foundation search-and-rescue team reached the crash site, recovered the astronauts' bodies, and secured the three sealed symbiote chambers for transport to San Francisco.
• Dr. Drake arrived at the Life Foundation command center and learned that the spacecraft's main body was destroyed and all the astronauts had died; he asked whether the samples had been recovered.

Chen Mo infiltrated the Life Foundation headquarters and used mind control to make Dr. Drake grant access to the company’s isolated research server. While copying its data, Chen Mo discovered the Life Foundation had developed a drug that could keep all forms of cancer stable and controlled, potentially allowing patients to live a normal lifespan.

• Chen Mo flew to the Life Foundation headquarters in San Francisco and used J.A.R.V.I.S. to bypass its security systems.
• Chen Mo placed Dr. Drake under mind control and had him lead Chen Mo into the research server room.
• Dr. Drake entered his highest-level authorization password, allowing J.A.R.V.I.S. to access and copy the Life Foundation’s research data.
• Chen Mo learned that the Life Foundation had developed a drug that could suppress cancer cells and control all forms of cancer with long-term use.

After copying the Life Foundation’s biomedical and aerospace research, Chen Mo considered how to deal with Dr. Drake and realized he might be able to read memories directly. He began testing the idea, hoping to use Riot’s shapeshifting to assume Dr. Drake’s identity.

• Chen Mo judged the Life Foundation’s advanced medicines and interplanetary spaceship technology to be valuable assets for his plans.
• Chen Mo copied the Life Foundation’s biomedical and aerospace data and decided to take the other three symbiotes when they arrived.
• Chen Mo weighed Dr. Drake’s crimes and considered erasing his consciousness, but instead thought about reading his memories.
• Chen Mo reasoned that Dr. Drake’s memories combined with Riot’s shapeshifting could let him impersonate Drake convincingly.
• Chen Mo experimented with telekinesis on Dr. Drake and quickly found a way to begin reading his memories.

Chen Mo killed Dr. Drake, assumed his identity with Riot, and took control of the Life Foundation. When Eddie Brock arrived to interview him, Chen Mo chose to meet the reporter himself.

• Chen Mo read Dr. Drake’s memories about the Life Foundation, then killed him with an energy bullet and erased his remains.
• Chen Mo used Riot to transform into Dr. Drake and walked past a security guard without being recognized.
• The next day, Chen Mo ordered equipment for the foundation and told his assistant to receive the visiting students.
• Dr. Dora Skoles told Chen Mo that the TV reporter had arrived for an interview, and Chen Mo asked to see the reporter alone.
• Chen Mo recognized the reporter as Eddie Brock and decided to compensate him in another way, though Dr. Skoles wondered why he had not changed into formal clothes.

Chen Mo exposed Eddie Brock’s plans and warned him to consider the consequences before acting, then let him leave without pursuing the matter. As Eddie relaxed at home, three symbiotes recovered from the crashed spacecraft arrived at the Life Foundation and were secured in the laboratory.

• Chen Mo told Eddie Brock that his planned confrontation could cost him his job and his girlfriend, then advised him to gather evidence before acting.
• Eddie Brock left the Life Foundation and found that his boss and girlfriend seemed unaware of what he had done.
• Chen Mo regarded his advice as compensation for taking Eddie Brock’s chance to become Venom.
• Three symbiotes arrived at the Life Foundation headquarters in an armored vehicle escorted by two SUVs.
• Dr. Dora Skoles secured the symbiote samples in the laboratory without beginning experiments, following Chen Mo’s orders.

Chen Mo reorganized the Life Foundation, obtained advanced pharmaceutical equipment and manufacturing technology, and absorbed three symbiotes so he could take them back to the real world. With his objectives complete, he prepared to do one last thing before leaving.

• Eddie Brock investigated the Life Foundation but decided not to oppose it unless it committed further wrongdoing.
• Chen Mo used J.A.R.V.I.S. to purge and reorganize the Life Foundation, killing Roland Treis and appointing Dr. Dora Skoles and Dr. Dan Lewis to its new management team.
• Chen Mo acquired advanced pharmaceutical equipment and its manufacturing documentation, then stored multiple sets in his nearly full space.
• Chen Mo erased the consciousness of three symbiotes and merged them into his body, where Riot suppressed them and put them into dormancy.
• Chen Mo finished his preparations to return to the real world but decided to do one last thing before leaving.

Chen Mo visited Mrs. Chen’s store and found a gang thug robbing her at gunpoint. Eddie Brock hesitated to intervene, leaving Chen Mo poised to deal with the robber.

• Chen Mo arrived at Chen’s Store and saw Eddie Brock enter ahead of him.
• Mrs. Chen warned Chen Mo that the neighborhood was unsafe, while Eddie Brock browsed for food.
• A gang thug entered and demanded whiskey and change without paying.
• The thug threatened Mrs. Chen, slammed the counter, and pointed a pistol at her.
• Eddie Brock hid behind a shelf, wanting to help but fearing he would only become another victim.

Chen Mo confronted a gunman robbing Mrs. Chen’s store while Eddie Brock debated whether to help. The gunman’s pistol jammed, but after Eddie was knocked aside, Chen Mo took the weapon from him and fired it.

• Chen Mo walked toward the gunman despite Mrs. Chen’s warning, and the man pointed his pistol at him.
• The gunman tried to shoot Chen Mo, but the trigger would not move, so he tried to fix the pistol.
• Eddie Brock decided to help Chen Mo and charged the gunman, shouting for them to take him down together.
• The gunman kicked Eddie Brock away before Chen Mo could join the attack.
• Chen Mo pulled the pistol from the gunman’s hand with his power and fired it.

Chen Mo killed the gangster with a futuristic energy pistol, then claimed to Mrs. Chen and Eddie Brock that he was an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. He described the secret organization’s origins and mission, leaving them shocked and convinced by his account.

• Chen Mo offered the burly man his energy pistol after making him think his own gun had fired, then vaporized him with a blue beam.
• Chen Mo helped Eddie Brock to his feet while Mrs. Chen and Eddie stared in disbelief at the weapon and the gangster’s disappearance.
• Mrs. Chen asked who Chen Mo was, and he identified himself as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Chen Mo told them S.H.I.E.L.D. had grown out of the Allied Powers’ Scientific Strategic Reserve during World War II and worked to protect Earth and humanity.
• Mrs. Chen and Eddie Brock listened in shock and accepted Chen Mo’s explanation of the secret organization.

Chen Mo invited Eddie Brock and Mrs. Chen to join S.H.I.E.L.D. as Level One agents, promising that they could gain superpowers. After demonstrating his telekinetic control, he described an Iron Man transformation to match Eddie's wish for strength and near-immunity to attacks.

• Chen Mo formally invited Eddie Brock and Mrs. Chen to join S.H.I.E.L.D. as Level One agents after praising their character.
• Eddie Brock and Mrs. Chen doubted they were fit to become agents, and Eddie offered to help with publicity instead.
• Chen Mo promised they could gain superpowers and used telekinesis to lift, disassemble, and reassemble a pistol before them.
• Eddie asked for immense strength and protection from attacks, specifying that bullets should not hurt him and that attackers should hurt themselves.
• Chen Mo proposed an Iron Man transformation that would give Eddie superhuman strength and steel-like defense, explaining that it could be undone whenever Eddie wanted.

Chen Mo recruited Eddie Brock and Mrs. Chen into S.H.I.E.L.D. and gave them the mutant powers they chose. He revealed that the organization’s headquarters would be the store and that its entire roster consisted of the three of them.

• Eddie Brock and Mrs. Chen agreed to join S.H.I.E.L.D. after Chen Mo explained their duties and the threats that would require them to act.
• Chen Mo injected Eddie Brock and Mrs. Chen with X-Gene Serum, granting Eddie an Iron Man transformation and Mrs. Chen telekinesis.
• Eddie Brock and Mrs. Chen practiced their new abilities and became excited about their powers and their membership in S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Eddie Brock asked about S.H.I.E.L.D.’s headquarters and membership, and Chen Mo said the store would serve as headquarters and that the organization had three agents, including himself.

After leaving Eddie Brock and Mrs. Chen in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Venom world, Chen Mo returned to Castle and gave Wade, Agent Zero, and Bradley symbiotes. Wade bonded with Venom and gained increased strength.

• Chen Mo left Eddie Brock and Mrs. Chen to protect Earth as the two-person S.H.I.E.L.D. before returning to the real world.
• Chen Mo explained that he handled the consequences of his actions in each world before leaving, then summoned Wade, Agent Zero, and Bradley to Castle.
• Chen Mo presented the three men with black, yellow, and blue symbiotes as gifts.
• Wade mistook the black symbiote for elephant snot, but accepted it after Chen Mo threatened to take it back.
• Chen Mo guided Wade through feeding Venom's newborn consciousness with mental power until they bonded, raising Wade's physical attributes from six to eight times those of an ordinary person.

Chen Mo gave Agent Zero, Wade, and Bradley symbiotes, then assessed the gains from his trip to the Venom world. He chose to expand S.H.I.E.L.D. Company into a corporate group by establishing aircraft manufacturing and biopharmaceutical companies, while planning a spacecraft launch center for the industrial park’s third phase.

• Agent Zero, Wade, and Bradley shaped their symbiotes into combat suits and tested their new abilities.
• Chen Mo sent the three back to work, where Wade roped horses, Bradley drove an F1 car, and Agent Zero disguised himself as Victor to startle Wade.
• Chen Mo reviewed his gains from the trip, including Riot, the Life Foundation’s medicine formulas and equipment, and spacecraft manufacturing technology.
• Chen Mo established aircraft manufacturing and biopharmaceutical companies within S.H.I.E.L.D. Industrial Park and included a spacecraft launch center in the third-phase plans.

Chen Mo established S.H.I.E.L.D. Aerospace Company to develop aircraft manufacturing capabilities and prepare for eventually building spacecraft. He chose to begin with a long-range supersonic luxury business jet, leaving the company poised to pursue his own design rather than wait for an available aircraft.

• Chen Mo founded S.H.I.E.L.D. Aerospace Company to build up the resources and expertise needed for future spacecraft construction.
• Chen Mo decided to expand beyond automobiles into aircraft manufacturing, drawing on advanced technology he had acquired from HYDRA, S.H.I.E.L.D., and Wakanda.
• Chen Mo chose small and midsized luxury business jets as the company's first aircraft, aiming to build a long-range supersonic model for his own travel and the company's development.
• J.A.R.V.I.S. found that the Aerion AS2 cost 120 million dollars, reached only Mach 1.5, and would not be delivered for at least five years, so Chen Mo rejected waiting to buy one.
• Chen Mo reviewed the Concorde and Tu-144, whose accidents, high operating demands, and limited service had ended earlier attempts at supersonic passenger travel.
• Chen Mo decided to build his own supersonic business jet rather than wait for manufacturers to deliver one.

Chen Mo established S.H.I.E.L.D. Aerospace Company and began building a Mach 3 private jet based on HYDRA bomber technology. As his companies expanded, he faced a shortage of trusted senior managers and planned to recruit subordinates from the Iron Man world.

• Chen Mo transferred experienced staff and recruited aerospace specialists to establish S.H.I.E.L.D. Aerospace Company.
• Chen Mo chose to build a small supersonic private jet using plans for an outdated HYDRA bomber, with the first aircraft reserved for his own use.
• Chen Mo arranged for S.H.I.E.L.D. Aerospace Company to manufacture the jet’s specialized engines using S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto’s experience and HYDRA materials.
• Chen Mo decided to bring back subordinates from the Iron Man world to address his shortage of senior management talent.
• Chen Mo transferred Su Wan and Anna from the mature S.H.I.E.L.D. Auto and S.H.I.E.L.D. Machinery, assigning Michael and another senior executive to manage the companies.