Recaps

Dilos warned Nick Fury that he would destroy S.H.I.E.L.D. if it tested his limits again, then continued his search of U.S. dams for the unusual object Cassandra had told him to find. At Reeve Dam, Dante detected something unidentified more than three hundred meters underground, and Dilos prepared to dig it up.

• Dilos told Nick Fury he would attend the hearing and used an overwhelming force to leave him incapacitated as a warning against testing his limits.
• Dilos ordered Nick Fury to tell the hearing’s organizers that everyone expected to attend must show up, or he would bring them by force.
• Dilos left Sullivan Company and used his spatial pendant to travel to the outskirts of Metropolis, where he continued searching dams.
• Dilos asked Dante to scan Reeve Dam, and a deep scan detected an unidentified object more than three hundred meters underground.
• Dilos decided to dig up the object, believing it might be the reason Cassandra had directed him to search the dam.

Dilos recovered a Kryptonian spacecraft from beneath a lake and brought it to his underground base on Isla Sorna. Thundercracker translated its message, revealing that it carried Kara Zor-El, and Dilos learned that the Kryptonian girl had been sent to be cared for as a treasure.

• Dilos used telekinesis to pull an unidentified object from beneath the lake near Reeve Dam.
• Dilos uncovered a Kryptonian spacecraft marked with Kryptonian symbols and glowing Green Kryptonite.
• Dilos decided not to open the spacecraft at the lake and transported it to his laboratory on Isla Sorna.
• Thundercracker recognized the spacecraft and explained that he had learned Kryptonian writing and language while fighting Kryptonians.
• Thundercracker translated the message, which said the spacecraft carried Kara Zor-El and asked that she be treated as a daughter.

Dilos learned from Thundercracker about the long war between Cybertron and Krypton and asked him to disable the Kryptonian ship without damaging it. Before Thundercracker could act, Dilos told him to use the Pioneer to copy the ship’s Kryptonian language and writing first.

• Thundercracker reacted with schadenfreude when Dilos said Krypton had been destroyed in a civil war, then wondered how Dilos knew.
• Thundercracker explained that Cybertronians had fought Krypton over resource mining and had gained an intelligence advantage by deciphering Kryptonian communications.
• Dilos recalled Jor-El’s scientific abilities and decided he wanted the Kryptonian ship’s technology preserved.
• Thundercracker said he could use quantum weapons from the AllSpark to disable the ship and make it open its hatch.
• Dilos gave Thundercracker the AllSpark, then stopped him and ordered him to have the Pioneer copy the ship’s Kryptonian language and writing first.

Dilos used Thundercracker and the AllSpark to activate the Kryptonian spacecraft and discovered Kara Zor-El alive inside. After Kara woke, Dilos introduced himself and told her she was on Earth.

• Dilos used the Pioneer's learning device to acquire Kryptonian and Cybertronian knowledge, then organized it with the help of his enhanced brain.
• Dilos and Thundercracker entered a shielded chamber, where Thundercracker used the AllSpark to activate the Kryptonian spacecraft.
• The spacecraft shook, rose, and opened its doors after its golden lights faded.
• Dilos sensed that someone inside the spacecraft was alive and found Kara Zor-El asleep within it.
• Kara woke, asked who Dilos was and where she was, and Dilos answered that they were on Earth and introduced himself.

Kara Zor-El arrived on Earth and met Dilos Sullivan, who recognized her identity and arranged a place for her to stay. Dilos suspected something was wrong with her mind and kept her away from sunlight, while Kara worried about her mission to protect the long-grown Kal-El.

• Kara gave Dilos Sullivan the false name Selena Jones, but he revealed that her spacecraft identified her as Kara Zor-El.
• Kara admitted that she was sixteen and from Krypton, and Dilos noticed an unusual black-red energy in her spiritual light.
• Dilos brought Kara to a furnished room in his base and sealed off her spacecraft, including the red-glowing crystal inside it.
• Dilos sent Dante information about Kryptonian language and warned him not to let Kara come into contact with sunlight, then promised Thundercracker an upgrade with Vibranium and the AllSpark.
• Kara remembered her mission to take care of Kal-El, unaware that he had grown up as Clark Kent, while Dante knew he was already with Chloe.

Dilos brought Thundercracker to the energy shielding chamber and upgraded him with Cybertronized Vibranium and the AllSpark. Thundercracker’s strength increased dramatically, and he ended the chapter kneeling before Dilos and awaiting orders.

• Dilos and Thundercracker passed the Cybertronian workers building Dilos’s underground space carrier on Isla Sorna.
• Dilos explained that the carrier required vast quantities of metal and that he planned to prioritize its defenses before Cybertronizing it with the AllSpark.
• In the energy shielding chamber, Dilos gave Thundercracker the AllSpark and nearly twenty kilograms of Vibranium ore for his upgrade.
• Thundercracker’s body fused with the Cybertronized Vibranium as the AllSpark enhanced his Spark, increasing his strength by more than eighty times and greatly boosting his combat power.
• Thundercracker restored his usual camouflage and knelt before Dilos, declaring himself reborn and asking for orders.

As Dilos waited for Kara’s hearing, Qin Jiayin found him beneath the stars and comforted him. Their sincere affection triggered a breakthrough in both of them, and Qin Jiayin discovered a new clarity and strength.

• After Thundercracker’s upgrade, Dilos stationed him at the underground base on Isla Sorna, while Kara remained in a room prepared for her pending the hearing.
• With less than eight hours before the hearing, Dilos sat atop S.T.A.R. Labs, unable to sleep and trying to quiet his thoughts beneath the stars.
• Qin Jiayin approached Dilos unnoticed and embraced him, easing the pressure he had been carrying.
• Dilos recognized that Qin Jiayin had touched a realm beyond ordinary spiritual energy, and the two shared a heartfelt kiss and silently conveyed their gratitude and affection.
• A mysterious force passed between Dilos and Qin Jiayin, and both felt a shackle break as they entered transformations.
• Qin Jiayin experienced a breakthrough that sharpened her perception and gave her confidence she could withstand the two people who had invaded X-Mansion.

Dilus discovered that he had reached the Guoshu realm of Shatter the Void, See the God, and Remain Unbroken, while Qin Jiayin gained the ability to anticipate his moves. The two celebrated their breakthroughs by sharing an intimate night together.

• Dilus accidentally activated the hidden power in his blood and qi, enlarging his hand and blasting a huge crater into the ground.
• Dilus recognized that he had achieved the Guoshu realm of Shatter the Void, See the God, and Remain Unbroken, and considered how True Essence power could replenish his blood and qi.
• Qin Jiayin dodged Dilus's attempts to pinch her cheek before he could make them, and Dilus realized she had gained the foreknowledge associated with utmost sincerity.
• Dilus used his greater speed to pinch Qin Jiayin's cheek, then pulled her close and kissed her.
• Dilus and Qin Jiayin shared their desires and used spatial movement to reach their private room, where they spent the night together.

Dilos and Qin Jiayin prepared to attend the hearing in Washington, while crowds of mutant supporters and opponents gathered outside the US Capitol. At the X-Mansion, Charles urged everyone to trust Dilos, and the chapter ended as Thundercracker’s disguised aircraft appeared over the crowd.

• Dilos and Qin Jiayin prepared to leave together after Dilos proposed and gave her a ring.
• Thundercracker arrived in a silver-and-black disguise to take Dilos and Qin Jiayin to Washington.
• Large crowds gathered outside the US Capitol, where anti-mutant protesters shouted insults and burned a Dilos-like doll.
• At the X-Mansion, Scott, Jean Grey, Wolverine Logan, Storm Ororo, and the students watched the protests on television.
• Charles reassured the X-Men that Dilos could handle the hearing, and the group spotted Thundercracker’s plane arriving over the Capitol.

Dilos and Qin Jiayin arrived at the US Capitol in a futuristic aircraft, stunning the crowd with their appearance. They headed into the Capitol together as the aircraft vanished behind them.

• A futuristic aircraft descended vertically and landed near the US Capitol, alarming police and exciting onlookers.
• Dilos and Qin Jiayin stepped out of the aircraft in formal suits, drawing gasps and admiration from the crowd.
• Dilos took the briefcase from Qin Jiayin, and the couple walked up the Capitol steps arm in arm.
• The aircraft closed its hatch, took off, and vanished while the crowd kept watching Dilos and Qin Jiayin.

Dilos and Qin Jiayin’s dramatic arrival at the Capitol Building won mutants admiration and dominated television coverage. As Tony Stark watched the spectacle, he decided to prepare a new Mark armor and go join the action, while Pepper warned him not to provoke Dilos.

• Dilos and Qin Jiayin entered the Capitol Building in a showy display that left onlookers stunned and sparked mixed reactions to mutants.
• The Superpowered Guard Team, the students and X-Men at X-Mansion, Lex Luthor, Chloe and Gabe, Michael Corvin, and Selene watched the scene and reacted with admiration or surprise.
• Tony Stark lamented that Dilos and the mutant news had repeatedly stolen his headlines.
• Tony ordered JARVIS to prepare a new Mark armor, saying he planned to join Dilos.
• Pepper warned Tony not to act recklessly, and JARVIS offered to verify Tony’s claims about his dating habits with recordings.
• Tony headed to the basement to revise JARVIS’s programming.

Diloss, Qin Jiayin, and Hank McCoy entered a live congressional hearing where Diloss intended to pursue mutants' legitimate rights as well as explain the events under scrutiny. They took their seats under the watch of soldiers, reporters, and wary senators, and Senator Stern announced the hearing's start.

• Hank McCoy greeted Diloss and Qin Jiayin, then explained that they should calmly present their account while he handled the others.
• Diloss told Hank he planned to fight for mutants' legitimate rights, and Qin Jiayin assured Hank that Diloss had prepared carefully.
• The three passed through metal detectors and entered the crowded hearing hall as reporters photographed them and armed guards watched nervously.
• Diloss sat between Qin Jiayin and Hank at the hearing table, and Senator Stern announced that the hearing had begun.

Dilos Sullivan defended the Superpowered Guard Team at a hearing over its Gotham City rescue, arguing that the accusations reflected broader injustice against Mutants. After an anti-Mutant activist challenged his account, Dilos openly condemned the crowd’s self-righteous ignorance.

• Senator Stern opened the hearing by calling for fairness, and Dilos immediately broadened the dispute to the treatment of Mutants.
• Dilos told the cameras that the rescue was real and claimed his strength could destroy dozens of skyscrapers with a few punches.
• Cohen Cyrus challenged Dilos’s claims, argued that Mutants had caused the crater together, and accused the team of failing to rescue Gotham’s citizens for ulterior reasons.
• Dilos secretly had Dante record Cohen’s remarks and waited for Thor’s arrival to expose the activist.
• Dilos called the critics self-righteous fools and said such people had always been numerous.

At a public hearing, Dilos rebuked Cohen-Siris and the crowd for condemning him without knowing what happened in Gotham City. He demonstrated his power by opening spatial portals and detonating an immense energy blast above the U.S. Capitol, leaving the hearing silent and terrified.

• Hank urged Dilos to stay calm, but Dilos stood by his remarks and dismissed Cohen-Siris's accusations.
• When Cohen-Siris insulted him, Dilos overwhelmed him with an excruciating psychic attack and then condemned the crowd for fearing his strength while ignoring his explanations.
• Dilos described the poisoned Gotham City sewers, the criminal organization behind them, and the Superpowered Guard Team's rescue efforts, demanding to know what the crowd actually understood.
• Dilos opened a portal to the sky and Qin Jiayin disabled the soldiers' guns with energy blades when they aimed at him.
• Dilos opened another portal showing the U.S. Capitol, sent a massive gold-and-blue energy sphere through the first portal, and detonated it high above the Capitol.
• After the blast shook the Capitol and terrified the people outside, Dilos told the crowd they were not worthy of deceiving.

At the hearing, Diloss demonstrated his terrifying power, then argued that Mutants were part of humanity and represented its ongoing evolution. As Senator Stern tried to shift blame for anti-Mutant hostility onto Mutants, Diloss saw through his maneuver and prepared to counter it.

• Diloss used the Disintegration Destruction Bomb to frighten the hearing audience and released his control over the senators.
• Qin Jiayin withdrew her energy blades after Diloss signaled her, leaving the soldiers disarmed.
• Diloss declared that he would reclaim the rights Mutants deserved and explained that Mutants evolved from ordinary people with dormant superpower genes.
• Diloss told the audience that all humans would eventually evolve into Mutants, while Senator Stern questioned his claims and pointed to crimes committed by Mutants.
• Senator Stern acknowledged that Mutants should not be hated but tried to place greater blame on them, and Diloss recognized his scheme.

Dilos exposed footage of mutants being tortured and dissected in experiments, including evidence that William Stryker experimented on his own mutant son, Jason. He condemned society’s persecution of mutants and urged mutants to unite and demand equal rights, leaving his message broadcast across the United States and the world.

• Dilos connected a device to the hearing’s television and played more than twenty videos showing mutants undergoing deadly experiments, including experiments conducted by United States soldiers.
• The footage revealed that William Stryker had experimented on his mutant son, Jason, convincing the hearing’s audience that mutants could be born into human families and were victims of persecution.
• Dilos denounced people who abused mutants and argued that society’s hatred helped force mutants into conflict with ordinary humans.
• Dilos addressed mutants watching around the world, urging them to stop hiding, unite, and claim the equal rights they deserved.

Dilos’s speech at the hearing moved viewers and helped turn public opinion in favor of mutants and the Superpowered Guard Team. The hearing ended with the senators agreeing to his request, and Dilos recognized that the fight for equal rights had only begun.

• Kuya-Tas, Cecilia, Kitty, and others at S.T.A.R. Labs wept as they watched Dilos’s speech, while the X-Men and mutants across the country were deeply moved.
• Charles felt hopeful that he might live to see humans and mutants coexist peacefully, and Hank realized the hearing could change mutants’ future.
• The audience applauded Dilos, and Senator Stern and the other senators agreed to his request before ending the hearing.
• Dilos answered reporters’ questions, then used telekinesis to shield himself, Qin Jiayin, and Hank as he led them away.
• Dilos’s speech and evidence spread worldwide, and support for mutants’ rights overwhelmed the anti-mutant movement and transformed the Superpowered Guard Team into popular heroes.
• After Dante told him about the shift in public opinion, Dilios reflected that the struggle ahead had only just begun.

After a celebration at the X-Mansion, Dilos and Qin Jiayin discussed their future and separated to handle urgent business. Above Earth, Megatron assessed the planet’s powerful inhabitants and decided that its danger made him want to conquer it even more.

• Dilos and Qin Jiayin held a celebration at the X-Mansion, where Dilos proposed and the guests partied until morning.
• Dilos and Qin Jiayin helped carry the exhausted guests to bed, then stayed at the school until everyone recovered.
• Dilos learned that Kara was still recovering in the lab and agreed to meet Qin Jiayin’s parents in China after urgent matters were handled.
• Dilos sent Qin Jiayin to Isla Sorna to watch over Kara and Thundercracker, then went to the Metropolis military district to meet Sam Lane.
• Megatron watched Earth footage and concluded that the planet’s powerful beings made it too dangerous for a small Decepticon force to invade.
• Megatron resolved to conquer Earth anyway and declared that Cybertron would be reborn there.

Megatron considered how to strengthen the Decepticons and overcome the threat posed by Dilos Sullivan. Soundwave revealed an object on Earth whose energy rivaled or surpassed the AllSpark, and Megatron recognized it as the Tesseract.

• Megatron reviewed surveillance footage from military bases and battlefields around the world and identified Dilos Sullivan as an obstacle to conquering Earth.
• Megatron weighed Cybertronian weaknesses and upgrade methods, regretting that Shockwave was no longer alive to solve their problems.
• Soundwave brought Megatron images of two powerful energy signatures, including one connected to Earth.
• Megatron recognized the Earth-based object as the Tesseract and celebrated the prospect of using it to rule Earth and become the overlord of the universe.

Megatron began preparing to secure the Tesseract by constructing a Space Bridge, while Dilos followed a Kryptonian distress beacon from Smallville to a remote Texas gas station. There he identified the elderly Deke-Sel as a Kryptonian and confronted him with Blue Kryptonite, demanding to know why he had come to Earth.

• Megatron chose to build a Space Bridge so the Decepticons could gather resources, shield the Tesseract's energy, and evade its pursuers.
• Dilos searched Smallville in disguise and found a Kryptonian distress beacon hidden in an old treasure chest alongside a photograph from a century earlier.
• Dilos read the beacon's code, which identified its owner as senior Kryptonian scientist Deke-El, and the object teleported him to a remote gas station in Texas.
• Dilos scanned the area, then approached an elderly man whose reaction to the name Deke-Sel revealed that he was Kryptonian.
• Dilos restrained the old man with Blue Kryptonite and demanded an explanation for his arrival on Earth.

Dilos captured Dek-Sel and read his memories, uncovering how Jor-El’s experiments and imperial ambitions helped trigger Krypton’s civil war and destruction. After learning Dek-Sel had fled to Earth to avoid the conflict, Dilos took him unconscious to his underground base on Isla Sorna, intending to use his scientific knowledge.

• Dilos restrained Dek-Sel, confirmed he had come to Earth as a refugee, and discovered he had a wife and child there.
• Dilos read Dek-Sel’s memories and learned that Jor-El had developed time-reversal technology, the Phantom Zone, and devices that enabled Kryptonian expansion.
• Jor-El used the Phantom Zone to imprison criminals and led Krypton into conflict with other worlds, then pursued godhood through experiments on prisoners.
• Dru-Zod exposed Jor-El’s control over the Council, and the resulting rebellion and civil war ended with Krypton’s destruction.
• Dek-Sel had escaped the civil war to Earth, and Dilos knocked him unconscious and teleported him to the base on Isla Sorna.

After copying Dirk-Sel’s mind, Dilos mastered advanced Kryptonian technology and devised a new serum method suited to his triple-helix genes. While Dante’s facilities spent nearly two months preparing the necessary equipment, Dilos began training under six thousand times normal gravity, worried that surviving Kryptonians would soon arrive.

• Aboard the Pioneer, Dilos copied Dirk-Sel’s knowledge, had him help organize it, then erased his memories of Dilos and his advanced Kryptonian science before sending him home for good.
• Dilos spent nearly seven days mastering Dirk-Sel’s technology and discovered that Kryptonian biotechnology could help him adapt serum to his unusual triple-helix genes.
• Dilos planned to use nanobiological robots to prepare his genes for a new serum, whose effects would remain dormant until activated later.
• Dilos upgraded Dante and gave it blueprints for new equipment, but Dante estimated the high-precision machinery would take nearly two months to produce.
• Dilos entered the gravity chamber and increased the training environment to six thousand times normal gravity as he worried that surviving Kryptonians might arrive soon.

Dilos studied Dirk Sear’s research on the Kryptonian biological field and experimented with activating one through his acupoints, qi and blood, and bioelectricity. He successfully awakened the field, destroyed the gravity chamber, and completed his Superman transformation.

• Dilos learned that Kryptonians used a biological field to protect their bodies, reduce air resistance, and fly, and he theorized that qi and blood might activate one.
• Dilos experimented with directing true essence and qi-and-blood power through his acupoints, sensing a warm current but failing to activate the field.
• Dilos perceived passageways connecting his acupoints and tissues, then tried channeling true essence through them while activating his qi and blood.
• Dilos guided his bioelectricity through the acupoints to combine with true essence, triggering a powerful energy that erupted from his body and wrecked the gravity chamber.
• Dilos discovered golden-blue patterns across his body and found himself floating above a crater, confirming that his biological field and Superman transformation were complete.

Dilos successfully activated his biofield and discovered that it enhanced his vitality, energy control, flight, and speed. After pushing his flight to two hundred times the speed of sound, he crossed the Arctic and Canada and prepared to test his strength.

• Dilos sensed that his experiment had created a biofield throughout his body and learned to control it instinctively.
• Dilos used the biofield to fly and race around his training room, then teleported to the Arctic Icefield to test his abilities.
• Dilos accelerated through the sky to one hundred times the speed of sound before drawing on his true essence energy to strengthen his biofield.
• Dilos combined his biofield with bioelectricity, vitality, and mental power, reaching two hundred times the speed of sound.
• Dilos crossed the Arctic Ocean and Canada before heading over the Pacific Ocean to test his strength.

Dilos tested his newly formed biofield and discovered that it greatly amplified his strength and let him control Heat Vision while moving. After Dante reported the results, Dilos learned that Hulk was fighting the military at Culver University and set out to handle him himself.

• Dilos punched the ocean and created a vast crater and towering waves after his biofield concentrated his body's kinetic energy.
• Dante reported that Dilos's biofield enhanced his strength by about two thousand times and that his punch released force equivalent to ten thousand times his normal state.
• Dilos tested his spaceflight and Heat Vision, finding that the biofield improved his energy control while his eyes still limited Heat Vision's power and duration.
• Dilos considered the threat posed by Jor-El and resolved to prepare for what was coming.
• Dante detected Hulk fighting the military at Culver University, and Dilos chose to go alone because the other team members could not handle him.