Chapter Summaries

Logan questioned Heisenberg’s motives but relaxed after Heisenberg insisted he wanted nothing from him and healed two attendants Logan injured in a nightmare. Heisenberg then welcomed Laura with thirteen crates containing the people who had experimented on her, leaving her facing the choice of what to do with them.

• Logan challenged Heisenberg about what he wanted, and Professor X urged Logan to stop questioning their unexpectedly comfortable situation.
• Heisenberg brought a general before Logan to demonstrate how little power or value the authorities held to him, and Logan agreed to enjoy the hospitality.
• Logan woke from a nightmare after accidentally severing two attendants’ arms, and Heisenberg healed them instantly.
• The person in charge reported that Laura had arrived, and Heisenberg ordered soldiers to bring out thirteen crates of gifts for her.
• Laura entered the courtyard, where Heisenberg revealed Zane Rice, Donald Pierce, and eleven other people involved in her experiments and surgeries.
• Laura extended her claws as Logan recognized their resemblance to his own, and Heisenberg urged her to decide what to do with her former tormentors.

Heisenberg urged Laura to decide whether to take revenge on the people who had tortured her, and she killed them before he comforted and welcomed her. At the beach, Professor X’s past loss of control resurfaced, leaving Laura to ask what had happened to him and Logan.

• Logan objected to Heisenberg asking Laura to kill, while Heisenberg reminded Laura of the pain and abuse she had suffered and the others still enduring it.
• Laura beheaded Dr. Rice and killed the other twelve people, then broke down over the blood on her hands until Heisenberg cleaned her and reassured her.
• Heisenberg thanked Gabriella for caring for Laura but sent her home, while Professor X and Logan argued with him about whether Laura should have been asked to take revenge.
• Laura changed into a beach dress and joined Heisenberg, Professor X, and Logan, but Logan’s mention of Xavier’s Institute caused Professor X to recall the Westchester disaster.
• The person in charge explained that Professor X’s loss of control a year earlier had killed more than six hundred people, including 142 mutants and seven X-Men, and Laura asked Heisenberg what had happened to the two old men.

Heisenberg massacred forty-seven thousand soldiers to teach X-23 that reckless actions have consequences, then resurrected them and gained a stronger connection to the universe’s sun. He left X-23, Old Wolf, Professor X, Caliban, and the others to share breakfast, where X-23 asked for cake and Heisenberg rejected Professor X’s offer to pray.

• Heisenberg asked X-23 whether the soldiers deserved to die, then killed forty-seven thousand of them with a tap of his finger.
• Heisenberg challenged X-23 to consider the soldiers’ families and asked whether she would restore them; she said she would, and he resurrected every soldier.
• The female supervisor knelt before Heisenberg, and he healed her knees while telling her to treat him with respectful ease.
• Heisenberg invited X-23, Old Wolf, Professor X, and Caliban to breakfast; X-23 asked for cake, Old Wolf requested Canadian-style pancakes, and Caliban corrected his name before Heisenberg renamed him Taliban.
• Professor X began to teach X-23 to pray before the meal, but Heisenberg interrupted him and told everyone to eat instead.

At a holiday feast, Heisenberg reunited Laura with the mutant children she had escaped the laboratory with and welcomed them to Mexico. Seeing the children together inspired Professor X to vow to build a nation for mutants, with Logan agreeing they still had work to do.

• Old Wolf gave Laura turkey, and she asked Heisenberg what a holiday meant before enjoying dumplings and other foods.
• Old Wolf and Professor X toasted the day, and Laura ate so much that Heisenberg used Holy Light to ease her swollen stomach.
• Laura told Heisenberg she wanted to find her escaped friends, and he brought them from the Canadian border to the feast by joining the distant landscape to Mexico.
• Heisenberg welcomed the bewildered children and arranged food and seats for them, while Laura reunited with her friends.
• Professor X resolved to rebuild a nation for mutants in Erik’s memory, and he urged Logan to help guide the children.

Heisenberg remade Earth to give mutants a chance to develop by erasing humanity’s industrial civilization and returning everyone to a primitive starting point. He left Professor X and Logan to face the upheaval and build a future for mutants.

• Professor X argued that Heisenberg alone could shape the future and offered to help him guide the mutants.
• Heisenberg announced a civilization-building game and made genetically modified crops and related information disappear to remove a threat to mutant births.
• Heisenberg erased cities, vehicles, technology, industrial materials, and clothing around the world, leaving humanity in chaos and stripping modern civilization away.
• Heisenberg gave the female supervisor a group of warriors and workers, then transported her outside the courtyard and removed the ordinary human servers.
• Professor X realized Heisenberg had destroyed civilization’s head start and urged Logan to help rebuild a mutant nation, while Logan discovered his briefs had vanished.

After Heisenberg’s transformation leaves the world in a primitive state, Logan and Professor X lead the mutant children into a forest, where they build shelter and begin organizing for survival. Heisenberg visits their new home, promises to help for three days, and tells Logan that he can recover and must protect the children after Professor X dies.

• Logan uses Professor X to cover himself, then gathers the mutant children and leads them into a frost-covered forest where they find shelter from the heat.
• Professor X assigns the children to dig caves, prepare fires, and search for food while Logan and X-23 lead a hunting party.
• The children build a cavern, and Logan returns with prey to find the group warm and organized inside.
• Professor X tells Logan that humanity has fallen into chaos while the mutant children remain hopeful, and Heisenberg arrives to praise their new beginning.
• Heisenberg promises to stay for three days, urges Logan to become a leader, and explains that the end of genetically modified food and renewed hope can help restore Logan’s health.
• Logan vows to take Professor X out to sea someday, and Caliban celebrates that he can now bask in the sun.

Heisenberg left the mutant children after three days, then found the female supervisor dead in Mexico and revived her with powers as Bone Woman so she could take revenge. He later realized he had gone to the wrong universe when he tried to meet Gannata, and asked her to send the location again.

• Heisenberg said goodbye to Old Wolf, Charles, and Caliban, while Charles proposed renaming mutants as Awakened and Logan agreed.
• X-23 woke after Heisenberg left and, urged by Old Wolf, decided to carve a stone statue of him.
• Heisenberg returned to Mexico, found the female supervisor's corpse, revived her, and transformed her into Bone Woman with a bone sword and the power to seek revenge.
• Heisenberg checked Gannata's Twitter messages and told her he had gone to the wrong universe, asking her to send the address again.

Heisenberg watched Bone Woman take revenge on the former United States president’s daughter, then left Old Wolf’s universe after Gannata replied. He arrived at Gannata’s home, where she showed him a news report about mutants and said her universe also had a Phoenix girl.

• Heisenberg saw the violence spreading across Earth and watched Bone Woman attack the settlement where the former United States president’s daughter had gained control of soldiers and women.
• Bone Woman confronted the president’s daughter, revealed that she had deliberately provoked her into killing her so Heisenberg would revive her with greater power, and beheaded her.
• Heisenberg left Old Wolf’s universe after Gannata replied and used the location data she sent to travel to her home.
• Gannata complained that Heisenberg had appeared in her bedroom without warning, then demanded food as compensation.
• Gannata showed Heisenberg a television report about mutants and told him that Xavier’s Institute in her universe had a Phoenix girl too.

Heisenberg agreed to help Gannata stop Phoenix Fragments from gathering in the universe in exchange for a share of her Devouring Authority and a Phoenix Force sample. They traveled to Xavier’s Institute to investigate the Phoenix host and, as Charles’s psychic power reached their car, created a false story for him to see.

• Gannata told Heisenberg that Phoenix had destroyed her previous universe and explained that she wanted to drive the Phoenix Fragments out of this one.
• Heisenberg negotiated for Devouring Power and a Phoenix Force sample as compensation, then accepted Gannata’s commission despite her lack of a plan.
• Heisenberg dragged Gannata out to investigate Phoenix, and she distracted a patrol officer who mistook their argument for a couple’s quarrel.
• Heisenberg obtained a Rolls-Royce and drove Gannata toward Xavier’s Institute, where they agreed to conceal their abilities and presence.
• Charles reached toward Heisenberg and Gannata psychically, so they created a false worldview in which Heisenberg was Gannata’s uncle and she had awakened a Mutant Ability.

Charles met Heisenberg and Gannata at Xavier's Institute, concluded that Heisenberg's mutant ability had awakened, and invited him to teach while allowing Gannata to stay. Heisenberg accepted, leaving Gannata to conceal her reluctance behind a tearful display of gratitude.

• Charles reviewed Heisenberg and Gannata's memories but could not initially tell which of them was a mutant.
• Heisenberg and Gannata argued over their plan, and Heisenberg agreed to remain at the institute while Gannata handled preparations, despite her hunger and refusal to help.
• Jean Grey welcomed Heisenberg and Gannata, then led them to Professor X, while Heisenberg's charm flustered her.
• Charles brought them to the lake, inferred that Heisenberg had concealed his mutant ability, and asked him to demonstrate it.
• Heisenberg made a cube-shaped section of the lake vanish, and Charles offered him a teaching position at the institute.
• Heisenberg accepted the position, and Charles invited Gannata to stay with him; she pretended to cry and thanked them both.

Heisenberg began teaching history and theology at Xavier's Institute, where he introduced himself and Gannata to the students and answered their questions. After class, he asked Gannata to befriend Phoenix and keep her from noticing his projections while he left to speak with Charles.

• Heisenberg met Hank, who handed him lesson plans and passed the humanities teaching duties to him.
• Heisenberg introduced himself as the students' new humanities mentor, and Gannata arrived late and took a seat at the back.
• Karina Lair asked whether history had meaning for mutants, and Heisenberg explained how studying the past could help them think through questions.
• Heisenberg answered the students' questions about nobility and whether he had a lover, while Jean wished she had been bolder around him.
• After the students left, Heisenberg woke Gannata and asked her to maintain his presence at school, avoid letting Phoenix approach his projections, and build a friendship with Phoenix.

Heisenberg used a projection to spend time at Xavier’s school while his real body assessed the Apocalypse universe and planned how to approach the Phoenix Force. He then went to the Hellfire Club’s Paris branch and demanded to see Emma Frost, declaring himself her king.

• Heisenberg taught Charles’s students, then joined Charles and Hank for lunch while Gannata kept Jean away from his projection.
• At Mount Everest, Heisenberg scanned Earth and identified the universe as the one from X-Men: Apocalypse, locating Apocalypse, Wolverine, and Magneto.
• Heisenberg planned to befriend Jean, keep her alive, avoid provoking the Phoenix, and delay Apocalypse while preparing to obtain a Phoenix sample.
• Heisenberg appeared at the Hellfire Club’s Paris branch, asked for the White Queen, and was confronted by a crimson demon with a dagger.
• Heisenberg told the demon to take him to Emma Frost and announced, “Her king has arrived!”

Heisenberg subdued Red Devil and met the disgraced White Queen, Emma, at the Paris branch of the Hellfire Club. After Emma explained how the club had collapsed under the influence of Magneto, Charles, and Mystique, Heisenberg declared his intention to become the White King and rebuild it without relying on humans.

• Red Devil mocked Heisenberg, but Heisenberg seized him by the tail and knocked him unconscious before carrying him into the Hellfire Club.
• The club’s guards let Heisenberg pass, and two burly mutants joked about how soft Red Devil’s tail was.
• Heisenberg found Emma smoking in a disheveled office and criticized the state of the Hellfire Club.
• Emma told Heisenberg how Magneto had crippled her, Charles had made her followers afraid, and the club had lost influence to Magneto, Charles, and Mystique.
• Heisenberg asked Emma to make him the White King and proposed recalling all club members being sent to serve European elites, promising to rebuild the Hellfire Club without human support.

Heisenberg won Emma Frost’s interest by demonstrating his overwhelming strength and matter-altering abilities, then healed the crack in her diamond form. Emma accepted him as a potential White King, while the Hellfire Club members debated whether he could lead them against their rivals.

• Emma questioned Heisenberg about his powers, and he demonstrated that he could transform her fur into water and claimed he could control everything.
• Emma dressed for their public entrance, and Heisenberg changed into a white suit before introducing himself as Carthage von Heisenberg.
• Emma explained that Charles Xavier’s telepathy threatened Heisenberg and urged him to wear a protective helmet, but Heisenberg said telepaths could not affect him.
• Heisenberg persuaded Emma to transform into diamond, noticed the crack in her neck, and kissed it away, restoring her breathing.
• Heisenberg pushed Emma against a stairwell wall, while Hellfire Club members watched the surveillance feed and argued over whether he could become their new leader.
• After the club members scattered, Emma’s diamond form faded, and she warned Heisenberg not to disappoint her.

Heisenberg reunited with Emma at the Hellfire Club, where she named him the White King and gathered her mutants to meet him. After assuring her that he would not be ruled by power, Heisenberg demonstrated his abilities by transforming the nightclub into a replica of the White House.

• Emma warned Heisenberg that Charles's psychic abilities were far stronger than hers, and Heisenberg revealed that he was working undercover as a history teacher at Xavier's Institute.
• Emma introduced Heisenberg to the Hellfire Club's guards as the White King and brought him to the club's main hall.
• Emma cleared the human patrons, assembled the mutants, and asked Heisenberg whether he would become addicted to power.
• Treito explained that many club members were crowded around the unconscious Azazel to handle his tail, prompting Emma to order them back.
• Emma discussed moving the club's headquarters away from Paris, and Heisenberg agreed that the move was a minor matter.
• Heisenberg restored the smashed table and transformed the nightclub into a replica of the White House.

Heisenberg joined Emma’s Hellfire Club as its White King, protected its members from psychic probing, and declared that they should call themselves the Awakened rather than mutants. He ordered Emma and the club to spread this new identity across Europe and win public and political acceptance.

• Heisenberg transformed the Nightclub hall, gathered Emma’s unruly subordinates, and accepted the role of White King while Azazel was unconscious.
• Heisenberg awakened Azazel, who accepted him as White King and asked him not to grab his tail again.
• Heisenberg placed Solar Runes on the club members, and Emma confirmed that the runes concealed Heisenberg’s identity from her psychic perception.
• Heisenberg argued that mutant abilities represented humanity’s evolution and announced that the Hellfire Club would use the name Awakened instead.
• Heisenberg ordered Emma to use the club’s resources to promote the Awakened identity through media, scientific advocates, and political leaders, and the members pledged to follow him.

Heisenberg learned that the Hellfire Club was broke, monitored, and staffed mostly by weak mutants, while Emma explained mutant ranks and placed her hopes in his potential. He removed the tracking chips from Emma and Azazel, then decided they would travel together to recruit powerful mutants and rebuild the club.

• The Hellfire Club's members told Heisenberg they lacked money, equipment, and enough capable people to carry out his plans.
• Emma and Azazel explained that the club had been suppressed for years, its leaders were tracked, and most of its remaining members had weak or flawed abilities.
• Emma outlined the mutant ranking system, including the speculative Omega rank, and said Heisenberg could become mutantkind's third banner against Charles and Erik.
• Emma offered her remaining twenty million pounds to recruit Gambit and Wolverine, but Heisenberg rejected her plan and removed her tracking chip, transferring it to an unconscious mutant.
• Heisenberg removed Azazel's chip as well and proposed that he, Emma, and Azazel travel to recruit powerful mutants and fill the Hellfire Club's vacant leadership positions.

Gannata was welcomed to Xavier's Institute by Jean and the other girls, who secretly drank and asked her about Heisenberg. Meanwhile, Heisenberg left Paris with Emma and Azazel to recruit Gambit and Caliban, and Caliban sensed their arrival at his Berlin smuggling hub.

• Jean and four other girls surprised Gannata with a cake, beer, and food, then asked her about her story and Heisenberg.
• Jean used psychic power to knock the other girls unconscious and asked Gannata to let her stay in her room for the night.
• In Paris, Heisenberg gave Azazel money to distribute as club dividends and use to influence intellectuals and the media.
• Emma and Heisenberg planned to find Gambit and recruit Caliban, and Azazel teleported them to Berlin.
• At Berlin's underground mutant smuggling center, Caliban sensed three powerful visitors approaching and recognized that two had supposedly been in Paris for ten years.

Heisenberg, the White Queen, and Azazel visited Caliban’s information business, where Heisenberg recruited Caliban and Psylocke into the Hellfire Club. The chapter ended with the club gaining two Level One members and Caliban preparing to discuss business with them.

• Heisenberg and his companions entered Caliban’s underground workplace, where older mutants recognized the White Queen and younger ones mocked the visitors.
• The White Queen used her psychic power to make the mutants in the hall return to their seats, while Azazel threatened Psylocke after she attacked Heisenberg with an energy blade.
• Heisenberg passed through Psylocke’s blade unharmed, and Caliban accepted that he had come to recruit him rather than merely request information.
• Heisenberg named Caliban the Hellfire Club’s first Level One member, marked his shoulder with a Solar Rune, and promised the club’s protection and support for his information business.
• Heisenberg marked Psylocke as well, making her the club’s second Level One member, and the group turned to discussing business with Caliban.

Heisenberg and Emma used Caliban’s intelligence to locate Gambit and Magneto, then recruited Caliban to build a global information network. They found Gambit at a Las Vegas casino, where he unleashed a violent shockwave after Heisenberg displayed his power.

• The White Queen asked Caliban for Remy LeBeau’s location, and Caliban identified him at the Kashmir Royal Casino in Las Vegas and located Magneto near the Polish border.
• Caliban revealed that Magneto had an Awakened daughter, and Heisenberg paid him ten million pounds to expand his intelligence network and warned him to control how he sold information.
• Heisenberg demonstrated how Psylocke could shape energy and transformed a chair into a laptop before teleporting with Emma and Azazel to Las Vegas.
• Azazel destroyed a surveillance camera and stayed behind while Heisenberg and Emma entered the casino and approached Gambit, who recognized Emma and tried to flee.
• Gambit confronted Emma and Heisenberg, questioned whether the Hellfire Club planned to rise again, and struck his cane against the floor, unleashing a shockwave across the casino.