Recaps

Du Mu took control of Hydra’s S.H.I.E.L.D. network by putting Nick Fury in charge, then used Hydra’s resources and new rewards to strengthen his position. At a secret base, he confronted the unstable Winter Soldier and planted false memories that tied him to a twin brother named Kiba and called Steve his first love.

• Du Mu canceled the order to assassinate Nick Fury and made him the public manager of Hydra’s embedded S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, while keeping control behind the scenes.
• Du Mu received mission rewards, recycled the kunai and Black Pot, and kept the Tongue Disaster Eradication Seal to protect secrets.
• Du Mu ordered Hydra agents to send S.H.I.E.L.D.’s technological data to Strucker in Sokovia.
• Du Mu visited the Winter Soldier at a secret base and learned that his brainwashing was failing and his memories were returning.
• When Bucky attacked, Du Mu subdued him and claimed Bucky was his twin brother and that he himself was named Kiba.
• Du Mu concealed Steve’s identity by telling Bucky that the blond figure from his memories had been his first love.

Du Mu sent Bucky to Sokovia, where Zemo took charge of him and equipped him with advanced gear. After Bucky easily defeated Pietro in a sparring match, Du Mu ordered Bucky to assassinate Pietro around the clock until he could evade him.

• Du Mu convinced Bucky that Stevie Rogers had been his first girlfriend and urged him to recover his blurred memories, but Bucky refused.
• Du Mu had a researcher reattach Bucky’s metal arm and arranged for him to go to Sokovia, sending Zemo his activation password.
• Zemo welcomed Bucky to the fortified Hydra research base and recognized him as a valuable combatant.
• During a training match, Bucky used modified bullets and a ricocheting shield to defeat Pietro, then flew him through the air with Falcon’s flight gear.
• Du Mu mocked Pietro for losing and ordered Bucky to assassinate him at all hours until he learned to evade the attacks.

Du Mu traveled to Knowhere to find spacecraft blueprints and made money by robbing would-be attackers, then ran into Quill and the other Guardians. Quill's group arrived with a big deal for Du Mu, but Gamora took over the negotiations before he could explain.

• Sokovia prospered under Du Mu, who decided to build spacecraft of his own rather than rely on stolen ships.
• The Broker told Du Mu that Knowhere's lawless black market could provide spacecraft blueprints, and Du Mu set off for it.
• Du Mu arrived at Knowhere, guarded his ship with steel robots, and robbed several groups who tried to attack him.
• Du Mu mistook Quill for another attacker and beat him before recognizing him by his forty-thousand-Unit bounty.
• Quill brought Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, and Drax to meet Du Mu, but Gamora pushed Quill aside to discuss their big deal.

Du Mu agreed to help Gamora sell the Orb to Taneleer Tivan, the Collector, and delivered it to him on Knowhere for four billion Units. After learning the Orb was an Infinity Stone, Du Mu received his quest rewards, including a 300-kilogram Pharaoh’s Scepter.

• Gamora offered Du Mu a share of four billion Units for helping deliver the Orb, and he accepted her quest.
• Du Mu retrieved the Orb and learned Quill had tracked him with a device secretly placed on his spaceship.
• Quill and Rocket Raccoon explained how the Guardians of the Galaxy had escaped prison and formed their temporary team while waiting for Du Mu.
• Gamora led Du Mu and the others to the Collector’s collection, where Du Mu asked about buying rare species and joked about grilling them.
• The Collector identified the Orb as an Infinity Stone and paid Du Mu forty energy crystals worth one hundred million Units each.
• Du Mu completed the quest and received Ten Thousand Ghost Coins and a Pharaoh’s Scepter that weighed 300 kilograms.

Du Mu and the Guardians of the Galaxy witnessed the Power Stone destroy a planet, then watched an alien maid perish when she tried to wield it. As Ronan arrived to seize the Orb, Du Mu stayed behind to fight him and sent the Kree warrior crashing through several walls with a single staff strike.

• The Collector revealed the Power Stone's destructive power and warned that ordinary beings were annihilated if they tried to wield it.
• The alien maid grabbed the Power Stone, unleashed energy throughout the exhibition hall, and exploded; Du Mu survived and resealed the stone inside the Orb.
• Gamora urged the Guardians to give the Orb to the Nova Corps, but Rocket Raccoon reported that Ronan had arrived at Knowhere, prompting Gamora's escape quest.
• Drax charged at Ronan and was knocked back, while Ronan demanded that Du Mu hand over the Orb.
• Du Mu told the Guardians to retreat, then blocked Ronan's attack and struck him with a staff, sending him through several walls.

Du Mu fought Ronan and his Necro Corps on Knowhere, then escaped aboard Quill’s ship with the Guardians of the Galaxy. He took over piloting and steered them through a pursuing formation, only to find dozens more Necrocraft blocking their path as their ship continued to accelerate.

• Du Mu used the Pharaoh’s scepter and improvised attacks to fight Ronan while the Guardians fled with Drax.
• Du Mu blinded Ronan with a flashbang, tricked him with a feint, and battered his energy shield before the Necro Corps surrounded him.
• Du Mu escaped the soldiers’ gunfire and fled through Knowhere, but the Necrocraft pursued and began to encircle him.
• Quill and the Guardians returned in their ship and rescued Du Mu, then struggled to evade the pursuing Necrocraft.
• Du Mu took the pilot’s seat and flew straight through a narrow gap between two Necrocraft, causing them to collide.
• The Guardians saw dozens more Necrocraft blocking their route as Du Mu’s ship continued accelerating.

Du Mu piloted the Guardians of the Galaxy through Ronan’s blockade and escaped after more than five hundred space jumps, then asked Rocket Raccoon to design a ship. Rocket agreed after Du Mu offered him a juvenile female raccoon, while the group remained stranded on Bohert with the Orb.

• Du Mu drove the Guardians’ spaceship through the Necro Corps fleet and used repeated space jumps to escape Ronan’s pursuit to Bohert.
• The Guardians recovered from the jumps by vomiting, then joined Du Mu for a barbecue made from local game.
• The Guardians argued over whether to give the Orb to the Nova Corps or confront Ronan, but postponed the decision.
• Du Mu asked Rocket Raccoon to design a spaceship, and Rocket refused until Du Mu revealed a juvenile female raccoon from his inventory.
• Rocket learned that he was a raccoon and agreed to design a simple, easy-to-build ship capable of space jumps.

Du Mu secured funding and technology for Sokovia’s spaceship program by launching the Alien brand, while Rocket Raccoon strengthened Sokovia’s military research. Hill gave Du Mu a new S.H.I.E.L.D. mission involving Tony Stark, leaving him poised to take it on.

• Du Mu brought Rocket Raccoon’s spaceship blueprint to Strucker, whose engineers confirmed Earth could build it, but Sokovia lacked the money to begin production.
• Du Mu obtained obsolete alien technology and beauty-product formulas from Broker, and the Zemo family launched the Alien brand, whose popular products brought Sokovia substantial profits.
• Wanda demanded Alien beauty essence from Du Mu, then attacked Pietro when he burst into Du Mu’s office and interrupted them.
• Du Mu resumed spaceship development with the new revenue, while Rocket Raccoon became Sokovia’s technical consultant and helped upgrade its equipment.
• Du Mu pushed for stronger soldiers, prompting Hydra researchers to study Bucky’s blood for a replicable Super Soldier Serum.
• Hill handed Du Mu a new S.H.I.E.L.D. mission involving Tony Stark, while secretly testing Alien products under the pretext of investigating them.

Du Mu accepted S.H.I.E.L.D.’s mission to protect Tony Stark and became Tony’s bodyguard after warning him that angry Stark Industries shareholders knew his address. At Tony’s villa, Du Mu discovered Tony’s Hulkbuster armor and joked about contingency plans, prompting Tony to ask Jarvis for an anti-Du Mu plan.

• Hill told Du Mu that the Ten Rings had been bombing targets and that Tony had publicly challenged their leader, the Mandarin, after Happy was injured.
• Du Mu accepted the mission to protect Tony, hotwired Nick Fury’s car, and drove to Tony’s California home.
• Tony learned Happy was out of danger and refused Jarvis’s suggestion to hire a bodyguard, until Du Mu emerged through the floor and warned him about furious shareholders who knew his address.
• Tony hired Du Mu as his bodyguard, and Du Mu toured the lab and saw Tony’s collection of Iron Man armors, including the Hulkbuster.
• Du Mu asked whether Tony had contingency plans for the Avengers, and Tony told Jarvis to prepare an anti-Du Mu plan.

Du Mu showed Tony the advanced Spider-Man Suit, which Tony borrowed to study, while Maya Hansen arrived seeking Tony’s help with the unstable Extremis Virus and warning him of an assassination squad. As a missile approached Tony’s villa, Du Mu smashed it out of the air with a frying pan and demanded to know who had fired it.

• Du Mu extracted Tony Stark’s Skin Card and showed him the Spider-Man Suit’s nanotechnology, prompting Tony to borrow it for research.
• Tony went into seclusion to study the suit and gave Du Mu access to some of Jarvis’s privileges.
• Maya Hansen arrived and explained that her Extremis Virus could enhance and heal people but could also make them overheat and explode.
• Maya warned Du Mu that an assassination squad had targeted Tony, and Du Mu spotted a missile already heading for the villa.
• Du Mu leapt outside and destroyed the missile with a frying pan, then demanded to know who had launched it.

Du Mu defended Tony Stark’s seaside villa, destroying armed helicopters and defeating the Extremis Virus warriors who attacked him. The buzz-cut leader tried to self-destruct, but Du Mu kicked him into the sea before he could explode.

• Du Mu blocked a missile with a frying pan, then shot down three armed helicopters with his energy gun while Maya watched from the villa.
• Extremis Virus warriors ambushed Du Mu, but he dodged their attacks and discovered that decapitation killed them despite their rapid healing.
• More Extremis Virus warriors joined the fight, and Du Mu cut down most of them with Sif’s sword while evading their fire blasts with his rocket pack.
• The buzz-cut leader tried to detonate himself, but Du Mu interrupted him with a flying kick that sent him crashing into the sea.

Du Mu dealt with the Extremis soldiers attacking Tony’s villa, then learned from Maya Hansen that Aldrich Killian was behind the Mandarin’s attacks. After Tony refused to help Maya, Du Mu abducted her and persuaded her to join Hydra, leaving her horrified by the organization’s name.

• Du Mu killed the Extremis soldiers attacking Tony’s villa and received fire-related mission rewards.
• Maya told Tony and Du Mu that Aldrich Killian had hired the Mandarin as a decoy and was using the Extremis Virus to stage terrorist attacks.
• Maya asked Tony to help fix the virus’s flaw, but Tony refused, so she left the villa.
• Du Mu arranged for Hydra agents to abduct Maya and offered to help her research and erase evidence of her crimes if she joined his organization.
• Maya agreed to join, then learned that the organization was Hydra and realized she had joined a terrorist group.

Du Mu led a heavily equipped force to raid Killian’s Extremis research base, where Bucky and the troops overwhelmed the Extremis soldiers and captured Killian. Killian recognized Du Mu as the leader of the group he had impersonated and realized they were the real Ten Rings.

• Du Mu sent Maya to Sokovia and prepared to seize the data from Killian’s secret Extremis research base.
• Killian learned that the man who had saved Tony was Iron Glider, then discovered Maya had vanished and an armed force had breached his base.
• Killian ordered his Extremis soldiers to attack, but the armed troops blinded them with sonic devices and Bucky defeated them with his shield and metal arm.
• Bucky stopped Killian’s escape and Du Mu confronted him, explaining that Killian had used their name to deceive people.
• Killian realized Du Mu’s group was the real Ten Rings and regretted having borrowed its name.

Du Mu captured Aldrich Killian and transferred him and his Extremis research to Hydra’s Sokovian base, where Maya joined the organization and identified the virus’s instability as its key flaw. Du Mu then asked Rocket Raccoon to improve the formula, and Rocket confidently said he could fix it.

• Killian feigned surrender, attacked Du Mu, and failed to harm him even after activating the Extremis Virus’s intense heat.
• Du Mu ordered Bucky to take Killian to the research base, then incapacitated Killian with an electric shock when he tried to self-destruct.
• Bucky’s Sokovian soldiers transported Killian and his research, while Killian’s abandoned experimental base burned; Tony arrived at the ruins too late.
• Strucker and Maya reviewed Killian’s research, and Maya pointed out that the Extremis Virus could become unstable and cause its hosts to self-destruct.
• Maya embraced her new role at Hydra’s well-equipped research base, and Du Mu promised to find someone to address the virus’s flaw.
• Du Mu brought Rocket Raccoon the formula, and Rocket immediately recognized its weakness and said he could fix it.

Du Mu entered a new dungeon in 1987 and arrived at a remote American farm, where he met an elderly couple and learned the area had no known superheroes. A day later, Logan emerged from a secret laboratory and broke into the barn, leaving Du Mu to discover that this version of Wolverine had adamantium claws and hated his brother Victor.

• Du Mu delivered Rocket Raccoon's revised Extremis Virus formula to Maya, and Hydra began testing it on brainwashed prisoners, producing stable Extremis soldiers with a 30% survival rate.
• Du Mu accepted the system's invitation to a new dungeon and fell into a haystack beside Kent and Martha's farm, claiming he had forgotten his parachute.
• Du Mu paid Kent and Martha with a gold bar, learned the dungeon was set in 1987, and stayed in their son's room while studying the Darkhold.
• The next day, Kent went to investigate someone in the barn, and Du Mu found Logan naked, armed with adamantium claws, and fresh from an escape from a secret laboratory.
• Logan reacted with intense hatred when Du Mu mentioned Victor, then accepted shelter after Kent explained the situation.
• Logan accidentally wrecked the bathroom with his claws, and Du Mu told him he would have to pay for the damage.

Du Mu and Logan were ambushed by Stryker’s forces, but Du Mu used his powers and marksmanship to defeat the attackers. The chapter ended with Du Mu knocking Agent Zero unconscious after Logan recognized him as one of Stryker’s men.

• At breakfast, Logan told Du Mu that Victor had killed his wife, Kayla, after Logan left their Mutant special unit.
• A sniper shot Du Mu, who pretended to be wounded before revealing he was unharmed, and a helicopter then destroyed the barn with a missile.
• Logan and Du Mu fled the helicopter’s gunfire, and Du Mu hurled Logan into the aircraft, where Logan’s claws sliced through its rotor blades.
• Military SUVs attacked them, and Du Mu used Logan as cover while shooting the vehicles’ drivers with the Golden Desert Eagle.
• Agent Zero confronted them, but Du Mu intercepted his bullets, struck him with curving shots, and knocked him out with one punch.

Du Mu and Logan tracked down Logan’s former teammates to learn that Stryker and Victor were working together to capture Mutants for experiments on a mysterious island. After Fred revealed that an escaped test subject named Remy LeBeau was in New Orleans, Du Mu, Logan, and John prepared to pursue the lead.

• Logan told Du Mu that Stryker had tricked him into receiving Adamantium and planned to erase his mind, while Logan sought revenge on Victor.
• Du Mu accepted a quest to locate the mysterious island and joined Logan in searching for his former teammates.
• Du Mu and Logan found John Wraith in Las Vegas, and John directed them to Fred Dukes for more information about Stryker’s operation.
• Du Mu beat Fred until he admitted that Victor and Stryker worked together to capture Mutants for experiments on an island.
• Fred identified escaped test subject Remy LeBeau, known as Gambit, as a lead in New Orleans, and John agreed to accompany Du Mu and Logan.

Du Mu beat Remy in a series of high-stakes poker games, stripping him of his possessions and offering to forgive his gambling debt if he helped locate Stryker and Victor’s island. Remy described the island’s brutal experiments on Mutants, and Du Mu claimed to lead the Brotherhood before insisting it was called the Sisterhood.

• Du Mu challenged Remy to high-stakes Texas Hold’em and won the first hand with four Eights against Remy’s full house.
• Du Mu continued winning more than a dozen rounds, taking Remy’s fortune, possessions, and blonde companion while Remy kept gambling.
• Du Mu offered to waive Remy’s enormous debt if he helped with a task, then asked about the island where Stryker and Victor were.
• Remy admitted he had escaped the island and described it as a laboratory where humans conducted deadly experiments on Mutants.
• Du Mu claimed he was the leader of the Brotherhood, and when Remy recalled Magneto as its leader, Du Mu said Remy had mistaken the name for the Sisterhood.

Du Mu captured Victor after he attacked Logan and John, then used hypnosis and repeated punches to break Victor’s resistance and make him confess that he and Stryker had been working together. The group learned the truth about Kayla’s killing, while Remy remained under pressure to lead Du Mu to the island.

• Remy refused to take Du Mu to the island, but Du Mu made him choose between paying his debt and leading the way.
• Victor ambushed Logan and John, and Du Mu knocked Victor into a wall before shooting him when he tried to flee.
• John tied up the recovering Victor, and Logan confronted him about whether he and Stryker had planned Kayla’s death.
• Du Mu stopped Logan from killing Victor and tried to control him with psychic magic, but Victor resisted.
• Du Mu repeatedly punched Victor until his mental defenses broke, then controlled him and got him to admit that he and Stryker had worked together.

Du Mu, Logan, John, Remy, and Victor traveled to Stryker’s secret laboratory on Three Mile Island to rescue captured Mutants and find Kayla. After infiltrating the base, Du Mu spotted a familiar blonde among the prisoners and asked, “Emma, is that you?”

• Victor revealed that Kayla was alive, was a Mutant called Silver Fox, and had faked her death under Stryker’s orders.
• The System assigned Du Mu a mission to assemble at least six Mutants with powerful healing factors.
• Du Mu’s group flew to Three Mile Island, and Logan learned about another version of himself from a parallel universe through Du Mu’s videos.
• Du Mu and John reached the island, where Du Mu renewed his control over Victor after Victor’s healing began restoring his consciousness.
• John silently took down patrols, and the group infiltrated Stryker’s base; Logan went to search for Kayla while Du Mu led Victor and John toward the Mutant prisoners.
• Du Mu entered the prison area and recognized a blonde captive, asking if she was Emma.

Du Mu freed Emma Frost and the other Mutants from Stryker’s prison, then confronted Wade Winston Wilson, a mouth-sewn experiment with Logan’s healing factor and other stolen abilities. As the rescued group escaped, Du Mu faced Wade and blocked his Adamantium blades with a pair of clawed alloy skeletons.

• Du Mu broke open the cages and freed Emma Frost and the imprisoned Mutants, then offered Emma a place as the Hellfire Club’s White Queen.
• Logan and Victor were thrown into a fight with Wade, who used his healing factor, Adamantium weapons, teleportation, and optic blasts to overpower them.
• Du Mu told John to evacuate the Mutants and held Wade back while Emma’s sister Kayla led her away.
• Du Mu shot Wade with energy bullets, then blocked his twin blades using alloy hand skeletons fitted with six claws.

Du Mu fought Stryker’s mute Deadpool but gave up recruiting him when he discovered the weapon had no mind to communicate with. A second, talkative Deadpool arrived from another universe, shot the first Deadpool, and introduced himself to Du Mu.

• Du Mu used Adamantium claws and his enhanced reflexes to block the mute Deadpool’s attacks, then battered him and blasted him with C4.
• Stryker watched the fight from the control room and learned that Du Mu had been a gang member whose gang was raided over suspected tax evasion.
• Deadpool regenerated from the explosion, but Du Mu found his mind blank and abandoned the attempt to recruit him.
• A red-suited newcomer shot the mute Deadpool and revealed himself as Wade Winston Wilson, a Deadpool from another parallel universe.
• Wade mistook Du Mu for Doom, learned Du Mu’s name, and admitted he planned to kill the actor who played him.

Du Mu recruited Wade, Logan, and Victor for his self-healing Mutant team, then subdued Stryker and looted the experimental base. With Logan staying behind, Du Mu paid Wade to use his time-travel device to take them to another parallel world and find more recruits.

• Du Mu recruited Wade for ten gold bars, persuaded Logan by offering to clear his debts, and compelled Victor to join, bringing the team halfway to its six-member goal.
• Wade explained that his device could travel among X-Men parallel timelines, and Du Mu arranged to use it to search for powerful healing-factor Mutants.
• Victor defeated the base guards, while Du Mu electrocuted and hypnotically controlled Stryker, ordering him to expose the military’s crimes and secrets.
• Du Mu found unrefined Adamantium and bullets in the base, while Wade recovered footage of Logan’s Adamantium procedure and provoked Logan into punching him.
• After John reported that Professor X had arrived, Du Mu stopped Wade from rushing outside and invited Logan to travel with them, but Logan stayed to be with Kayla.
• Du Mu offered Wade more money, and Wade agreed to take him to another parallel world using the time-travel device.

Du Mu and Wade went to Harrah's Casino to wait for Logan and another potential recruit, passing the time gambling. After Wade unexpectedly won money and Du Mu warned him not to spend it, everyone in the casino suddenly froze.

• Du Mu and Wade drove to Harrah's Casino, where they planned to wait for Logan and a little wolf.
• Du Mu and Wade changed clothes, and Du Mu persuaded Wade to remove his mask before calling his scarred face distinctively ugly.
• Du Mu won a huge pile of chips while Wade lost his stake, then Wade got lucky with the chips Du Mu gave him and won money of his own.
• Du Mu exchanged his winnings for cashier's checks and found Wade spending his winnings on fruit and two women.
• Du Mu warned Wade that gambling winnings could only be used for charity, and everyone in the casino abruptly froze.

Du Mu and Wade entered a parallel world where Charles Xavier’s powers had spiraled out of control, and Du Mu stopped the psychic attack with medicine. After meeting an aged, poisoned Logan and his daughter Laura, Du Mu invited them to join his team, but Logan refused.

• A psychic storm overwhelmed the casino, but Du Mu used the Dullard Ring to resist it and learned from Wade that Charles’s powers had gone out of control.
• Du Mu dragged Wade upstairs and found an aged, weakened Logan fighting armed men while Charles’s psychic force immobilized everyone.
• Du Mu took Laura’s syringe and injected Charles, ending the psychic storm; Logan then killed the remaining armed men and attacked Du Mu before Charles stopped him.
• Du Mu explained that he and Wade came from another parallel world to recruit Logan, but Logan refused and pulled Laura away when Du Mu offered her candy.
• Wade showed Logan his rapid healing after Du Mu shot him, while Du Mu continued trying to persuade Logan and Laura to join his team.