Recaps

Dilos prepared eight enhanced-suit rings to confront a dangerous enemy, then traveled to Peter Parker’s home to destroy evidence that could be used against him. He reassigned Selene to protect the X-Mansion and left to deal with the threat.

• Dilos obtained eight ability-granting rings from Dr. Connors and discussed developing enhanced suits as magical accessories.
• Dilos teleported to a safehouse in Queens, changed several rings into bracelets and waist ornaments, and used Mystique’s ability to disguise himself as a teenager.
• Dilos went to Peter Parker’s home to destroy Peter’s father’s notebook, briefcase, and secret laboratory before S.H.I.E.L.D. could use them against him.
• Dilos met Selene and told her to leave Peter’s side and secretly protect the X-Mansion.
• Dilos recalled how Peter had gained powers from his father’s Mutant Spider and how Selene had saved Ben Parker from a gunman.

Dilos secured Richard Parker’s hidden locomotive-laboratory to prevent its research from reaching S.H.I.E.L.D., then tested the Quicksilver-enhanced suit and discovered it could propel him at up to fifty times the speed of sound. He headed for Central City, where Flash had been born.

• Dilos used his abilities to shrink Richard Parker’s locomotive-laboratory and locked it away in his private laboratory.
• Dilos put on the Quicksilver-enhanced suit and learned to use its superspeed abilities.
• Dilos discovered the suit’s force field let him reach five times the speed of sound without sonic booms or collisions.
• Dilos pushed his speed to fifty times the speed of sound, but sensed that going faster could damage the suit.
• Dilos found that his True Yuan energy replenished the suit’s biological energy but did not strengthen its abilities.
• Dilos raced to Central City at fifty times the speed of sound.

Harrison Wells, secretly Albert Swan from another universe, struggled to find a way home after discovering that this universe’s laws required far more Speed Force than he could produce. Just as he decided to turn his research toward strengthening his body, he learned that Barry Allen had disappeared.

• Harrison asked Gideon to verify his formula, but learned that opening a wormhole would require vastly more Speed Force than he and Barry could provide.
• Harrison recalled how he had been thrown into this universe by Barry Allen, taken Harrison Wells’s identity, and secretly killed Barry’s mother to make Barry develop the Speed Force.
• Gideon argued that this universe’s restrictive laws also protected Harrison from temporal changes and the destruction of other universes.
• Harrison resolved to research genetics so he could strengthen his body and eventually control his own fate.
• Harrison received an urgent call informing him that Barry Allen had disappeared.

Barry Allen woke from his coma and learned from Dilos that he had become a Mutant and that Harrison Wells was the speedster who killed his mother. Dilos offered to prove Harrison’s identity by returning with Barry to S.T.A.R. Labs.

• Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow discovered Barry Allen had vanished from S.T.A.R. Labs and hurried to tell Harrison Wells.
• Dilos explained to Barry that his genes had changed and revealed that the lightning-fast killer of Barry’s mother had been found.
• Barry reacted excitedly to the news but rejected Dilos’s claim that Harrison Wells was responsible for his mother’s death.
• Dilos recounted how he infiltrated S.T.A.R. Labs and overheard Harrison Wells speaking with Gideon, confirming that Harrison was Reverse-Flash and the real Harrison Wells was dead.
• Dilos offered to take Barry to S.T.A.R. Labs to verify the accusation, and Barry listened after they left the restaurant.

Dilos brought Barry back to the control room and exposed Harrison Wells as Eobard Thawne, the man who had killed Barry’s mother. After Dilos struck Thawne down, Barry awakened his speedster powers and charged at him.

• Harrison Wells and Cisco searched Central City for Barry, who had disappeared.
• Dilos used spatial movement to bring Barry to the control room, where Caitlin, Cisco, and Harrison greeted them with suspicion.
• Dilos identified Harrison as Eobard Thawne and revealed that Thawne had killed the real Harrison Wells thirteen years earlier.
• Thawne revealed his red lightning and fled from his wheelchair, but Dilos used his speed suit to intercept and knock him away.
• Barry recognized Thawne as his mother's killer, unleashed golden lightning, and charged at him.

Dilos stopped Barry from chasing Albert, captured Albert, and used a truth serum to uncover his crimes and his origins from a parallel universe. After Dilos took Albert away for further questioning, Barry realized Albert’s confession could prove his father’s innocence but did not know where Dilos had gone.

• Dilos restrained Barry and used his superior speed to stop Albert from escaping, then struck him into a wall.
• Dilos applied a truth serum made from a clone of Jason’s pituitary fluid, and Albert answered his questions.
• Albert confessed that he had killed the real Harrison Wells and deliberately caused the particle accelerator accident to copy Barry’s Speed Force.
• Albert revealed that he had killed Barry’s mother to take revenge on Barry’s counterpart from another universe.
• Dilos took Albert away to question him further and obtain the technological knowledge in his mind.
• Barry realized Albert’s confession could clear his father, but wondered where Dilos had taken him.

After uncovering Albert Swan’s crimes, Dilos mined his memories for scientific knowledge and used them to advance his research. He completed a genetic-analysis program and, after negotiating a combat-suit order with Nick Fury, asked him about showing Harrison Wells footage of Dilos fighting.

• Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow learned that Albert had caused Central City’s tragedies, leaving them devastated by their complicity and losses.
• Dilos used Albert’s false identity to arrange Barry’s father’s release, then had Gideon organize Albert’s scientific knowledge into a document of over a million pages.
• Dilos accelerated his learning with the Quicksilver-enhanced combat suit and mastered Albert’s biology and chemistry knowledge, which helped resolve part of his decay-rate algorithm research.
• Dilos programmed software that could identify the functions of most genes and said he planned to build a machine to produce serums and develop genetic medicines.
• Nick Fury offered to buy fifty enhanced combat suits and asked Dilos to become a scientific consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Dilos asked Nick Fury what had happened when he showed Harrison Wells footage of Dilos fighting.

Dilos confronted Nick Fury about the impostor Harrison Wells and warned him about trouble inside S.H.I.E.L.D., then returned to S.T.A.R. Labs and offered Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow jobs. The chapter left Cisco and Caitlin waiting to respond to his offer.

• Dilos told Nick Fury that the real Harrison Wells had died thirteen years earlier and gave him the location where the body was buried.
• Dilos warned Nick Fury that suspicious elements had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and said he had acquired ownership of S.T.A.R. Labs.
• Nick Fury reluctantly let Dilos leave, concerned about his power, the enhancement armor, and the satellites belonging to S.T.A.R. Labs.
• Dilos teleported into S.T.A.R. Labs's control room and startled Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow.
• Cisco Ramon told Dilos that Barry was spending time with his father after Barry's boss gave him a month off.
• Dilos offered Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow jobs at S.T.A.R. Labs.

Dilos recruited Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow to work for him and explained his vision for a hero team. He left them with his definition of heroes: people who balance self-interest with compassion and unite the good in others.

• Dilos offered Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow work under him so they could atone for the particle accelerator accident, and they accepted.
• Dilos described his planned team’s combat and support roles, naming Cisco and Caitlin as its physics engineers and medical personnel.
• Cisco and Caitlin questioned whether a team that took paid jobs could truly be heroic, and Dilos argued that heroes needed a measure of selfishness.
• Dilos revealed a terrifying, demonic side and said he could rule the world and torture humanity, but chose a gentler approach because there were still good people worth protecting.
• Dilos told Cisco and Caitlin that heroes should save people, awaken the good in them, and bring their scattered hearts together.

Dilos welcomed seven recruits to his Hope team at S.T.A.R. Labs and urged them to fight both crime and the persecution of mutants. The recruits embraced his vision, and the chapter ended with Dilos welcoming them as members of the team.

• Dilos reviewed the seven recruits on his list with Qin Jiayin and noted that Pyro John and Shadowcat Kitty had applied to join.
• Dilos teleported with Qin Jiayin to S.T.A.R. Labs, where he greeted Colossus Piotr, Pyro John, Shadowcat Kitty, Ice Girl Kuya-Tas, Cecilia Spink, Bender Kate, and Smith Joestar.
• Dilos announced that the team's first mission would be to catch a superpowered criminal who had robbed three banks in Central City that month.
• Dilos encouraged the recruits by speaking about the discrimination and persecution mutants faced and calling on them to help build a better future.
• The recruits' fear and uncertainty gave way to pride and hope, and Dilos welcomed them to the Hope team.

Joe West and the Central City officers confronted Clyde Matton, a metahuman who controlled the wind and lightning, but a mysterious group intervened as his tornado began lifting their cars. The Superpowered Guard Team shielded the officers and announced the start of their operation.

• Joe West and his officers tracked bank robber Clyde Matton to an abandoned farm after a witness captured his face and license plate.
• Clyde used powerful gusts to disarm and scatter the officers, then formed a tornado that trapped them in their police cars.
• The tornado lifted the police cars, leaving Joe and the other officers fearing they would be swept away.
• Nine masked members of the Superpowered Guard Team arrived, and a helmeted woman raised a protective barrier around the officers and their cars.
• A man announced that the Superpowered Guard Team's operation had begun.

Dilos coordinated the Superpowered Guard Team in their first battle against Clyde-Marton, turning his fire tornado into an opening for a team attack. Shadowcat knocked Clyde-Marton unconscious, securing the team’s victory.

• Pyro John turned Clyde-Marton’s tornado into a fire tornado, but Clyde-Marton broke through his limits and sent a massive wave of flames toward the team.
• Dilos used psychic suggestions and telepathy to rally the rookies, directing Pyro to hold back the flames while Bender-Kate, Ice Girl Kuya-Tas, Colossus Piotr, and Smith prepared ice projectiles.
• Colossus Piotr and Smith hurled ice blocks at Clyde-Marton, forcing him to dodge and weakening his control over the wind.
• Dilos signaled Cecilia to teleport Shadowcat Kitty above Clyde-Marton, and Shadowcat slammed him to the ground and knocked him unconscious.

After the team’s first mission, Dilos praised the young Mutants for working together and encouraged them to believe in their abilities. The team celebrated around him, united in their resolve to become a hero team.

• Dilos sent the team back to S.T.A.R. Labs after they defeated Clyde Martin and stopped his tornado.
• John bragged about holding Clyde Martin back, but Kitty, Bender, Piotr, Kuya Tas, and Cecilia reminded him that the victory had come through teamwork.
• Dilos credited the team’s cooperation and praised John for overcoming his fear and taking the lead.
• Dilos told the team members they had performed well, acknowledged their doubts about their powers, and called them heroes.
• Dilos promised to help them grow stronger and support one another, and the team crowded around him cheering.

Barry Allen asked to join Dilos’s hero team, but Dilos refused because Barry lacked control of his powers and his ideals conflicted with Dilos’s interests. Barry left S.T.A.R. Labs to act alone, while Dilos explained to Cisco and Caitlin why he believed Barry would be a liability to the team.

• Barry asked Dilos to let him join the team and offered to help while its members trained.
• Dilos rejected Barry, arguing that the police should seek proper resources to handle superpowered crime instead of relying on vigilantes.
• Barry appealed to Cisco and Caitlin, but Dilos said they were his employees and barred them from helping.
• Barry left S.T.A.R. Labs in a burst of yellow lightning and said he would act on his own.
• Dilos told Cisco and Caitlin that Barry’s selfless ideals and narrow perspective made him unsuitable for the team.

Jean Grey’s uncontrolled powers injured Scott and drew Charles into her dream, where he encountered Dark Phoenix and a figure resembling Dilos. Charles was left confronting the two figures inside Jean’s crimson nightmare.

• Jean’s powers shook the Mutant school, injured Scott, and began breaking apart the room around her.
• Charles dispersed Jean’s telekinesis, caught Scott, and ordered Blink, Ororo, and Logan to take him to the infirmary for Dilos’s medicine.
• Charles tried to awaken Jean through psychic resonance, but her mind shield and psychic attacks resisted him.
• Charles used his full power, broke through Jean’s psychic shield, and entered her dream.
• Charles saw Dark Phoenix in the ruined, crimson world and recognized the dangerous figure opposite her as Dilos.

After Jean woke from a vivid apocalyptic dream, Charles reassured her and repaired cracks in the mental prison containing the Dark Phoenix. The strange images from the dream left Charles wondering whether they had been more than a dream as he went to check on Scott.

• Dilos's roar overwhelmed Charles in the dream, and a flood of images sent him into unbearable pain before he and Jean woke in her room.
• Jean told Charles she had dreamed of the world's end and feared a dark force in her mind would make her lose control.
• Charles comforted Jean by comparing her experience to his own, and she fell asleep peacefully.
• Charles checked Jean's mental prison, found cracks forming, and used his powers to repair and reinforce it.
• Charles recalled chaotic visions of heroes, destruction, X-Mansion residents, and Dilos appearing in different outcomes, then left to check on Scott.

Dilos put his hero team through a month of punishing training, sharply improving their combat skills and control of their powers. Afterward, Qin Jiayin confronted him over his harsh treatment, but accepted his explanation and left their future reconciliation up to his performance.

• Dilos drove John, Piotr, Smith, Bender, Kuya, Kitty, Cecilia, and Qin Jiayin through demanding combat drills and criticized their mistakes.
• After the team protested, Dilos insisted they prove themselves through results, and they continued training.
• The team improved their physical abilities, teamwork, and power control, while Dilos decided they needed about another month before training independently.
• Qin Jiayin told Dilos they might as well break up because he had spent the month scolding her.
• Dilos apologized and explained he had treated Qin Jiayin harshly so the other members would not exclude her, and she forgave him with a kiss.

After anti-mutant protests shook the Superpowered Guard Team, Dilios pulled the team out of Central City and began retaliating by encouraging would-be criminals to act. He then set out for other cities where anti-mutant demonstrations had appeared.

• Cisco Ramon, Caitlin Snow, John, Piotr, Cecilia, and Kuya reacted angrily to anti-mutant coverage, while Dilios urged the team not to condemn everyone.
• Dilios told the team to stop vigilante work in Central City and return to X-Mansion, leaving the protesters to face rising crime.
• With the team gone, Central City's crime rate rose and the anti-mutant demonstrations disbanded, though the rational camp's arguments had little effect.
• Dilios used his mental power, amplified by the Mental Amplification Device and true essence, to monitor people across a wide area and weaken the self-restraint of dozens contemplating crimes.
• Dilios watched crimes begin and used spatial movement to head for New York, Gotham, Metropolis, and other cities with anti-mutant demonstrations.

Dilos’s plan triggered a nationwide crime wave, but the Superpowered Guard Team’s work in Central City helped its members embrace heroism and shifted public opinion in favor of mutants. As media coverage spread, Dilos watched the growing support and declared that the rise of mutants was unstoppable.

• Dilos’s plan sent crime surging across the United States, and riots and copycat crimes followed.
• Dilos brought the Superpowered Guard Team back to Central City, where its members helped police fight crime and suppress riots.
• The team’s work earned cooperation from residents and strengthened its members’ resolve to become superheroes.
• News reports showed mutants saving civilians, prompting grateful witnesses and a police officer to speak in their defense.
• At S.T.A.R. Labs, Dilos watched favorable coverage with Qin Jiayin and told the team that the rise of mutants was unstoppable.

Dilos ordered the Superpowered Guard Team to stop acting without his approval, explaining that they needed to protect Mutants’ reputation and avoid undermining social order. He also oversaw security upgrades at S.T.A.R. Labs and decided to keep Barry Allen’s powers restricted for another year.

• Dilos told the Superpowered Guard Team to wait until police called for help before intervening in crimes, and the members accepted his reasoning.
• Dilos considered the risks facing Mutants and relied on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s support while keeping the team’s activities low-key.
• Cisco Ramon reported that renovations and security improvements at S.T.A.R. Labs were progressing quickly with John and Piotr’s help.
• Dilos recalled that he had secretly impaired Barry Allen’s control of his powers and had Caitlin Snow tell Barry that he needed a year to adapt.
• Dilos decided to plant another energy construct in Barry and keep his powers restricted for a full year.

Dilos equipped the Superpowered Guard Team with enhanced battle suits and warned the women not to wear vulgar outfits in public. He then explained his views on American culture and argued that the country needed a powerful leader to enforce unchangeable rules while leaving other matters to democracy.

• Dilos gave the Superpowered Guard Team battle suits that added Sebastian Shaw's energy absorption and Wolverine's healing abilities to their existing powers.
• Dilos ordered the team members, especially the women, to avoid revealing outfits in public and said the suits would report violations to him.
• John asked Dilos why he cared so much about clothing, and Dilos blamed vulgar popular culture for weakening relationships and moral standards.
• John asked why no one addressed the problem, and Dilos cited profitable industries and political limits on regulation.
• Dilos told John that the United States needed both democracy and dictatorship, with a supreme leader enforcing ironclad laws and suppressing those who abused appeals to freedom.

John became convinced that Dilos could solve humanity’s deepest problems and resolved to follow him, while Dilos began planning new technology around Stark Industries. President Dean, unable to find William Stryker, gave up the search and turned his attention to Hulk.

• John reflected on Dilos’s ideas about Mutants, family, and society, and decided that Dilos could achieve world peace.
• John recalled Dilos’s nicknames, including God on Earth, and felt admiration and resolve to support him.
• Dilos continued studying Albert’s black-tech knowledge and considered developing new energy sources and a private artificial intelligence.
• Dilos examined a virtual model of Stark Industries in his underground laboratory on Isla Sorna.
• President Dean learned that William Stryker remained missing and concluded that he was likely dead.
• Dean called for his assistant to contact General Thaddeus Ross about Hulk.

General Ross received presidential backing to capture Bruce Banner within six months, while Dilos stole Stark Industries' technical data and Tony Stark struggled to survive captivity in Afghanistan. The chapter left Tony determined to escape as Dilos prepared to upgrade his base.

• President authorized General Ross to use increased troops and equipment to capture Bruce Banner within six months, leaving Ross uneasy about the political motives behind the order.
• Dilos used Gideon to steal weapons, Arc Reactor, and artificial intelligence data from Stark Industries and Tony Stark's residence.
• Dilos learned Gideon could disobey him because he did not possess its highest authority, so he planned to create an artificial intelligence of his own.
• Dilos planned to use the stolen data to upgrade his base's equipment.
• Tony Stark, still imprisoned by the Ten Rings after more than three months, encouraged himself to endure a few more days and vowed to escape.

Dilos founded Sullivan Company and sold S.H.I.E.L.D. a costly batch of Enhanced Suits and nutrient serums. After Nick Fury persuaded him to acknowledge S.H.I.E.L.D.’s help with Mutant rights, he asked Dilos to find Bruce Banner.

• Dilos watched Tony Stark’s announcement that Stark Industries would shut down its weapons division drive the company’s stock price down, and planned to profit when it rose again.
• After turning eighteen, Dilos founded Sullivan Company, hired Varna with Lex’s help, and set up the company’s staffing and legal team.
• Dilos offered S.H.I.E.L.D. Enhanced Suit Version 3.0 for one billion dollars each, and Nick Fury ordered suits and nutrient serums despite protesting the cost.
• Nick Fury offered Dilos full-fledged S.H.I.E.L.D. agent status, but Dilos refused and remained a consultant.
• After Nick Fury reminded Dilos that S.H.I.E.L.D. had helped promote Mutant rights, Dilos agreed to help find Bruce Banner.

Dilos learned that Nick Fury had arranged for him to find Captain America while secretly passing him information about officials who had targeted him. Before acting on that information, Dilos brought Selene to China to protect Qin Jiayin’s parents.

• Dilos realized S.H.I.E.L.D. had likely tracked Bruce Banner and that Nick Fury had used the Captain America documents to conceal his real request.
• Nick Fury gave Hill the sensitive information Dilos had requested and explained that he wanted to prevent Dilos from hunting the officials on his own.
• Hill worried that Dilos might destroy the United States, but Nick Fury said he would avoid killing unless the officials provoked him further.
• Dilos traveled to China with Selene and asked her to protect Qin Jiayin’s parents while he handled a dangerous task.