Chapter Summaries

Heisenberg recruited Remy LeBeau as the White Bishop and Azazel as the Black Bishop of the Hellfire Club, then brought them and Emma to Poland to find Magneto. The chapter ended as Erik noticed a Bentley outside his isolated home.

• After Gambit failed to escape, Heisenberg restored the wrecked casino and asked Remy LeBeau to become a Hellfire Club bishop; Remy accepted the White Bishop role.
• Heisenberg offered Azazel the corresponding Black Bishop position, and Azazel accepted before he and Remy went to buy matching suits.
• Heisenberg gave the four of them chess-piece badges, then Azazel teleported them to a town in Poland to find Erik.
• Emma located Erik’s home, and Azazel brought a Bentley for the group to travel in.
• Erik put his daughter to bed and returned to his bedroom, but headlights outside drew his attention; he recognized the Bentley and its driver through the window.

Heisenberg and Emma arrived at Magneto’s home to recruit him into the rebuilt Hellfire Club, but Magneto asked them to leave his family in peace. After Heisenberg won his trust with a friendly visit and a gift for his daughter Nina, Magneto was left stunned by Heisenberg’s ability to create a living parrot.

• Magneto prepared to drive Emma, Gambit, Azazel, and Heisenberg away, but stopped when he saw Heisenberg in the car and heard his daughter upstairs.
• Heisenberg persuaded Magneto to let them inside, and the group shared cola while Magneto introduced himself as Erik Eisenhardt and his daughter as Nina.
• Heisenberg told Nina she was a natural-born Great Druid and formed a living parrot from leaves for her, which she named Pixar.
• Magneto felt the parrot’s heartbeat and blood, then asked Heisenberg in disbelief how his power could create life.

Heisenberg confronted Erik with the danger of remaining hidden and revealed that Nina was a mutant, persuading Erik to join the Hellfire Club. Erik accepted the title of Black Queen after learning Charles was Heisenberg’s candidate for Black King, and his wife arrived with coffee.

• Erik examined the parrot Heisenberg had given Nina and demanded to know what Heisenberg wanted from him.
• Heisenberg warned Erik that others would find him and that hiding put his family at risk.
• Heisenberg revealed that Nina was a mutant, and Erik agreed to join the Hellfire Club to help secure her future.
• Erik objected to being named Black Queen, but accepted after Heisenberg said Charles could take the Black King position.
• Erik’s wife brought out coffee and admired the parrot as a queen.

Magneto joined Heisenberg’s revived Hellfire Club, persuaded his wife to leave with him, and traveled with the group to recruit two knights. When Caliban revealed that Quicksilver was Magneto’s son, Magneto realized he had met him five years earlier and asked whether he could still quit.

• Magneto welcomed Azazel and Remy LeBeau, then agreed with Heisenberg to recruit Charles after securing his family and meeting the chosen knights.
• Magneto persuaded his wife to leave their home with him, promising to fight for a world where their daughter could live openly as an Awakened.
• Heisenberg brought Magneto and the others to Caliban and Psylocke in Germany, where Caliban reacted to Magneto wearing the Black Queen badge.
• Heisenberg asked Caliban for Quicksilver’s and Wolverine’s locations, and Caliban revealed that Quicksilver, Pietro Maximov, was Magneto’s son.
• Magneto realized that Pietro had helped rescue him from the Pentagon five years earlier, demanded his location, and discovered that his son was Heisenberg’s chosen knight.

Heisenberg and Magneto set out to recruit Quicksilver and attack a U.S. military facility in the Rocky Mountains, where Wolverine and hundreds of Awakened were held. They found Quicksilver in Sokovia, where Magneto reunited with his son and explained why he had left Mariah.

• Caliban located Wolverine at a Rocky Mountains military base holding at least fifty Alpha- and Beta-level Awakened and hundreds of others, and Heisenberg ordered a raid after recruiting Quicksilver.
• Heisenberg, Magneto, and their group traveled to Sokovia, where Magneto recognized Quicksilver’s mother, Mariah, at her home.
• Quicksilver revealed his extraordinary speed while welcoming the visitors and serving them drinks, then cautiously confronted Magneto about his absence.
• Magneto embraced Quicksilver, apologized, and explained that he had left Mariah to pursue revenge against the Hellfire Club and protect her from danger.
• Quicksilver accepted Magneto’s apology and vowed to kill anyone from the Hellfire Club if he encountered them.

Magneto revealed the Hellfire Club’s identities to Quicksilver, who joined the team as the White Knight before they set out to rescue mutants from Stryker’s Rocky Mountain laboratory. Heisenberg exposed the base by destroying the mountain around it, while Stryker realized the scale of the attack and prepared to flee.

• Magneto told Quicksilver that he, Azazel, Emma, Gambit, and Heisenberg belonged to the Hellfire Club, and Quicksilver agreed to join as the White Knight.
• Heisenberg marked the unprotected members with his sun emblem, and Azazel teleported the group to the snowy Rocky Mountains.
• Heisenberg destroyed the mountain concealing Stryker’s laboratory, then sent Magneto and the others to attack and rescue the imprisoned mutants.
• Stryker’s soldier reported that the mountain had disappeared, and Stryker initially dismissed his warning before checking the surveillance footage.
• Stryker ordered the Weapon X subjects released, called for military support, and arranged a helicopter escape.

Magneto and the Hellfire team attacked Stryker’s research base, killed its soldiers, and rescued the imprisoned Awakened while Emma recovered research files. The rescued children were brought to Heisenberg, who transformed the snowy clearing into a summer garden as Azazel returned with another child.

• Magneto led the team to the base, where Gambit charged the soldiers’ bullets and sent them back as explosive projectiles.
• Magneto sealed the base while Emma directed Pietro to bring medicine to the suffering captives and Azazel to evacuate those who needed no treatment.
• Magneto stopped Stryker’s helicopter and took his research files, but killed Stryker after Emma found evidence of drugs that could suppress mutant abilities.
• Azazel began teleporting imprisoned children to Heisenberg, while Gambit and Pietro worked to open the cells and help the captives.
• Heisenberg made the snow vanish and flowers bloom around a rescued girl, and Azazel returned with a boy, bewildered by the transformed clearing.

Heisenberg welcomed the rescued Awakened and offered them a place with the Hellfire Club, while Pietro and Gambit freed prisoners and hunted down the base’s soldiers. Wolverine escaped the base under Magneto’s blockade, where Magneto captured him and witnessed his extraordinary regeneration.

• Azazel left Number 148 with Heisenberg, who asked the rescued Awakened whether they remembered their homes and invited them to follow him as kin.
• Pietro and Gambit broke into laboratories, killed soldiers, and helped controlled researchers restore injured Awakened.
• Pietro and Gambit discovered Wolverine’s trail of corpses and left his escape to Magneto while they continued clearing the laboratories.
• Wolverine tore through the base’s rear gate and Magneto’s metal blockade, losing his flesh but passing through on his Adamantium skeleton.
• Magneto pulled Wolverine back to himself and Emma, where Wolverine regenerated completely and covered his crotch as he faced them.

Magneto and Emma freed Wolverine from Stryker’s base, restored his memories, and brought him to meet Heisenberg. Heisenberg ordered Wolverine to join the Hellfire Club as its Black Knight.

• Magneto removed the Adamantium bullet from Wolverine’s head, restoring his memories, and Emma shared Magneto’s and Quicksilver’s memories with him.
• Wolverine argued with Magneto over their past, then accepted clothes from Azazel and learned that the Hellfire Club wanted him as its Black Knight.
• Wolverine tried to leave, but Azazel teleported him to Heisenberg, who sent Azazel to continue rescuing their brethren.
• Heisenberg explained his plans for the mutants and ordered Wolverine, whom he called Jimmy, to become the club’s Black Knight, marking his shoulder with a sun emblem.

After rescuing mutants from Stryker’s research base, Heisenberg assigned the Hellfire Club its next missions and promised that governments would soon face other crises. He then erased the base and restored the forest, leaving Magneto and the others stunned by his power.

• Pietro and Wolverine agreed that joining the Hellfire Club suited them as they helped clear the last laboratory and prepared to kill its researchers.
• Emma organized the injured mutants’ rescue while Gambit played with the children, and Magneto told Heisenberg that saving them had changed his outlook.
• Heisenberg tasked Magneto with leading rescues of imprisoned mutants, assigned Remy and Emma to build and manage the club’s funds, and gave Azazel, Pietro, and Wolverine support roles.
• Heisenberg reassured the group that he had a plan to draw pressure away from the Hellfire Club and then destroyed the research base, restoring the land to forest.
• Magneto and the others watched in awe as Heisenberg’s power transformed the ruined base and barren ground.

At Xavier’s Institute, Heisenberg declined Charles’s request to help confront Magneto over the attack on a US military base, while agreeing to keep teaching the students. Back at the Hellfire Club, he caught Mystique infiltrating the lounge and learned she had come to find out why Erik had returned to action.

• Hank brought Heisenberg to Charles’s office, where Charles explained that Magneto’s group had attacked a US base and rescued mutant test subjects, killing soldiers and researchers.
• Charles asked Heisenberg to join him in confronting Erik, but Heisenberg refused, supporting the rescue and saying he would only fight if the world faced a greater danger.
• Heisenberg returned to the club and observed that Magneto was attacking mutant research facilities while Emma and Gambit worked to support the rescued children and the club.
• Mystique disguised herself as Azazel and entered the lounge, where Heisenberg recognized her, restrained her, and asked why she had come.
• Mystique apologized for infiltrating the club and explained that she wanted to understand why Erik had ended his seclusion and returned to the world.

Heisenberg explained that he led the Hellfire Club and made Mystique a pawn after she uncovered the club’s role in the attack. As Erik’s family arrived, his wife learned he had a son with Mariah, and Erik walked into a confrontation with both women.

• Heisenberg told Mystique that Erik could not hide from human-mutant conflict, revealed himself as the Hellfire Club’s leader, and assigned her a pawn badge.
• Heisenberg reassured Mrs. Eisenhardt that Erik had survived the operation, but she learned another woman claiming to be Erik’s wife was waiting outside.
• Mariah arrived, and Mrs. Eisenhardt learned that Erik had left Mariah while she was pregnant and had not known about their son, Pietro.
• Mrs. Eisenhardt and Mariah bonded over raising their children and Erik’s past abandonment of Mariah.
• Erik returned with Pietro, saw Mrs. Eisenhardt, Mariah, and Mystique together, and received a slap from each woman before dragging them out of the room.

Charles used Cerebro to contact Erik and learned that Erik wanted him to join the Hellfire Club, while fiercely defending his actions against humans. Charles admitted his institute could not protect mutants as a whole, but remained determined to restrain the club’s violence and investigate its mysterious new White King.

• Charles contacted Erik through Cerebro but withdrew when he saw Erik being beaten by his two wives, then tried again after Erik had calmed them.
• Erik described his years of hardship and condemned Charles for opposing his past attempts to retaliate against humanity.
• Erik argued that Charles’s approach had failed mutants and urged him to join the Hellfire Club, where he had reserved the Black King position for him.
• Charles broke down, acknowledged his institute had helped only a small number of mutants, and said he could not justify stopping Erik from fighting for mutant interests, though he opposed indiscriminate killing.
• Charles told Hank to investigate the Hellfire Club’s new White King, whose appearance and identity no one in the club seemed able to remember.

Erik and Raven prepared to relocate the club’s headquarters to Berlin while Heisenberg turned his attention to Phoenix. At Xavier’s Institute, Alex brought his cousin Scott to seek help with his powers, and Jean grew closer to Heisenberg as she watched Scott arrive.

• Hank vowed to uncover the identity of the White King after Charles reported Erik’s invitation and their disagreement.
• Erik told Heisenberg that Charles would resist their plans, and Heisenberg sent Erik and Raven to arrange the club’s move to the Berlin Zoo and prepare an underground passage.
• Heisenberg spoke with Gannata at Xavier’s Institute, where she said she had slept beside Jean, and he discussed how to handle Phoenix without triggering her dark side.
• Alex brought Scott to Xavier’s Institute to get help controlling the powerful energy released by his eyes, and Heisenberg and Jean escorted them to Charles’s office.
• Jean invited Heisenberg for a drink, and he declined to serve her alcohol until she came of age, then patted her head as she celebrated their growing closeness.

Moira MacTaggert witnessed En Sabah Nur awaken beneath Cairo, triggering a catastrophic earthquake, while Jean Grey’s nightmare let Phoenix’s power distort reality at Xavier’s Institute. Heisenberg woke Jean and helped her regain control, while Charles reminded them of the school’s rules on teacher-student relationships.

• Moira infiltrated the mill in Cairo, photographed the golden pyramid, and escaped as En Sabah Nur’s awakening triggered an earthquake that collapsed the cavern.
• Heisenberg sensed the awakening in Berlin and ordered Emma to expand the Awakened’s influence while Magneto and Remy accelerated their operations.
• Gannata sensed Phoenix’s disturbance at Xavier’s Institute, and Heisenberg went to Jean’s room after learning she was trapped in a nightmare.
• Heisenberg entered Jean’s dream and woke her, stopping Phoenix’s influence from rotting the bedroom and potentially threatening reality.
• Jean told Charles and Heisenberg that she had seen En Sabah Nur awaken and a coming catastrophe, then clung to Heisenberg as Charles discussed the school’s rules and her future after graduation.

Charles learned that Jean’s powers had been restrained through altered memories, then discovered that the global earthquake originated in Cairo and involved Moira MacTaggert. He reunited with Moira at the CIA, learned she was widowed, and awkwardly used his powers to control her.

• Jean thanked Heisenberg and Charles before going to sleep, and Charles confessed that he had altered her memories and thoughts to restrain her powers.
• Hank told Charles that the earthquake had affected the entire globe despite causing little damage, and Charles spotted Moira in Cairo through Cerebro.
• Charles and Hank identified Moira as the CIA agent in Cairo, and Charles planned to meet her with Hank and Alex.
• Charles admitted to Alex that he had erased Moira’s memories of their relationship and still could not forget her.
• Charles and his friends entered Moira’s CIA office, where she praised his work and told him that her husband had died.
• Charles blurted out that Moira’s widowhood was great, then controlled her as Alex laughed at his awkwardness.

Charles, Hank, and Alex learned that the ancient mutant king Apocalypse had awakened and returned to Cairo, while Apocalypse remembered his rise and long imprisonment. After killing the men who threatened Ororo, he followed her to a hideout full of mutant children, determined to understand the modern world.

• Hank summarized Moira’s files about the golden pyramid and the legend of En Sabah Nur, while Charles decided to search for Apocalypse and potentially locate mutants he had contacted.
• Apocalypse recalled how he rose from slavery by taking over bodies, defeated Pharaoh Kang, gathered the Four Horsemen, and fell into a long slumber during an attempted transfer of a restoration ability.
• After awakening in modern Cairo, Apocalypse watched Ororo steal bread and followed her when the stall owner and his men chased her into an alley.
• Apocalypse turned the stall owner’s men to ash and merged the stall owner with a wall, then Ororo led him away to her hideout.
• Apocalypse saw the mutant children at Ororo’s hideout and resolved to learn how the modern world worked.

Apocalypse awakened Ororo’s powers and recruited her as his rider, then traveled with her to Berlin to seek Caliban and other powerful mutants. After Magneto resisted Apocalypse’s attempt to control him, Apocalypse learned of the White King and eagerly awaited meeting him.

• Ororo sent the children away, and Apocalypse used his powers to learn her language and persuade her to join him.
• Apocalypse unlocked Ororo’s mutant power, changing her appearance and making her loyal to him.
• Ororo told Apocalypse about Magneto and Professor X, then directed him to Caliban in Berlin.
• Apocalypse and Ororo arrived in Berlin, found Caliban, and demanded that he help gather warriors.
• Caliban summoned Red Devil, who brought Magneto; Apocalypse empowered Magneto, but Magneto resisted and called for the White King.
• Azazel fled with Caliban, while Apocalypse looked forward to meeting the White King and making him his knight.

Heisenberg arrived at the underground shelter and effortlessly defeated Apocalypse, who had been forcing Magneto to submit. Apocalypse survived and demanded to know whether Heisenberg was Pharaoh Kang, but Heisenberg mocked him instead.

• At the zoo, Heisenberg and Emma discussed animals and the difficulty of understanding people before Azazel and Caliban arrived with news that Apocalypse had defeated Magneto.
• Heisenberg rejected Azazel's offer to rescue Magneto alone and went to confront Apocalypse, moving Magneto out of danger as he arrived.
• Emma examined Magneto and explained that Apocalypse had altered his subconscious with false memories and expanded abilities.
• Heisenberg punched Apocalypse, forced him to kneel, stopped Storm's attack, and crushed Apocalypse's body before the mutant regenerated.
• Apocalypse questioned why Heisenberg let ordinary humans rule and asked if he was Pharaoh Kang, but Heisenberg called himself Apocalypse's daddy.

Heisenberg defeated Apocalypse and ordered him to follow the Hellfire Club’s rules, after which Apocalypse and Ororo returned to Cairo and resumed their plans. Charles located Ororo through Cerebro and entered her mind, but Apocalypse invaded Charles’s psychic world, where both discovered they could not see the White King.

• Heisenberg battered Apocalypse, restrained Ororo with metal, and refused Magneto’s suggestion to recruit the defeated god.
• Heisenberg told Apocalypse to obey the Hellfire Club charter and leave him unprovoked, then returned to the club with Azazel and the others.
• Apocalypse healed Ororo, ordered her to call them Awakened rather than mutants, and decided to avoid Europe while pursuing his goals around Cairo.
• At Xavier’s Institute, Hank gave Alex laser-blocking glasses for Scott, while Charles used Cerebro to search Cairo for Apocalypse and newly empowered minds.
• Charles found Ororo and took control of her, but Apocalypse sensed Charles’s psychic power and entered his mind to seek a way to overcome Heisenberg.
• Apocalypse and Charles both realized they could not see the White King in Charles’s psychic world.