Chapter Summaries

The X-Men evacuated the students while Clark and Qin Jiayin stayed behind to face Kara and Martian Manhunter. Kara overpowered them, but Dilos broke free of his transformation and struck her to protect Qin Jiayin, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Charles ordered the X-Men to evacuate the students, while Clark and Qin Jiayin chose to remain behind.
• Clark knocked Chloe unconscious so Blink could evacuate her, while Qin Jiayin refused to leave Dilos.
• Charles fainted as the X-Men prepared to retreat, and a sudden explosion marked Kara and Martian Manhunter's arrival underground.
• Kara urged Clark to accept his supposed destiny, but Clark rejected her and attacked her with Heat Vision.
• Kara broke through Qin Jiayin's shield, sent her crashing into a wall, and grabbed Clark by the throat.
• Dilos burst through the infirmary wall and struck Kara in the face, declaring that he would kill her for attacking his wife.

Diloss rescued Qin Jiayin and Clark from Kara and Martian Manhunter, then transformed into a beastified state to confront the two aliens. He left the fight poised to unleash his still-growing power against them.

• Diloss healed Qin Jiayin with true essence, and her injuries rapidly recovered as her body began growing stronger.
• Diloss evaded Martian Manhunter's attack, carried Qin Jiayin and Clark out of the damaged school building, and explained how true essence protected them from friction.
• Kara and Martian Manhunter approached with energy barriers active, and Diloss recognized Martian Manhunter and resolved to kill them for the damage to the school.
• Diloss entered his beastified state and enhanced his body a hundredfold with true essence, terrifying Clark, Kara, and Martian Manhunter.

After waking Qin Jiayin, Dilos overwhelmed two alien attackers and carried them toward Smallville to confront the Kryptonian Machine. Watching the satellite footage, S.H.I.E.L.D. identified several people involved and classified Dilos, Lindsey Wells, and the green-skinned alien as Level Ten threats.

• Dilos apologized to Qin Jiayin, then seized the two aliens and carried them toward Smallville at immense speed.
• Clark Kent watched Dilos depart and wondered whether Dilos was more alien than he was.
• Nick Fury and his agents reviewed S.H.I.E.L.D.'s satellite footage and identified Charles Xavier, Lindsey Wells, Dilos Sullivan, Clark Kent, Qin Jiayin, and the shapeshifting green alien.
• Coulson and Natasha connected Dilos and other Smallville mysteries to Lex Luthor and Agent Zero.
• Nick Fury assigned Level Seven threat status to Qin Jiayin and Clark Kent, Level Nine to Charles Xavier, and Level Ten to Dilos, Lindsey Wells, and the green-skinned alien.
• Nick Fury gave Lindsey the codename Supergirl, labeled the green alien Unknown Lifeform No. 5, and named Dilos God Among Men.

Dilos fought Kara and Martian Manhunter in midair, gradually increasing his strength and speed when their protective shields withstood his attacks. The chapter ended with Dilos gathering his power and tearing apart both shields.

• Kara and Martian Manhunter broke free from Dilos and managed to block his attacks after their strength and reactions surged.
• Kara pinned Dilos's arm, but he used her to disrupt Martian Manhunter's punches and slammed her into him.
• Dilos doubled his output and overwhelmed the pair with more than a thousand punches in a second, though their shields held.
• Dilos increased his power to four hundred times its normal level and battered the shields until Kara and Martian Manhunter were bruised and vomiting blood.
• Dilos gathered his true essence and blood and qi, then used a burst of strength to tear apart the two aliens' protective shields.

Dilos killed Kara and the Martian Manhunter, then confronted the Kryptonian machine intelligence hidden in the cave. He used an unstable Pym Particle device to create a simulated black hole that pulled in and destroyed Clark's spaceship and the intelligence inside.

• Dilos crushed the aliens' bracelets, then stabbed Kara and the Martian Manhunter through their hearts and spines, killing them.
• Dilos challenged the machine intelligence in the cave, dodged its golden beam, and argued with it about fate and the world's destruction.
• Dilos broke open a pendant filled with Pym Particle solution, triggering an explosion that formed a simulated black hole.
• Clark's spaceship escaped the simulated black hole briefly, but Dilos struck it with his energy beams and knocked it back into the vortex.
• The simulated black hole absorbed the spaceship and its explosion, destroying the machine intelligence inside.

After destroying the Kryptonian Machine, Dilos warned the factions watching him that he knew they were monitoring him, then returned toward the X-Mansion. S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra began planning how to approach or exploit him, while Dilos had already made sure his home held no useful DNA samples.

• Dilos surveyed the crater left by the mimetic black hole, took the two corpses, and vanished after warning the satellite watchers that he could see them.
• Nick Fury ordered Coulson and Romanoff to contact Dilos at the X-Mansion and told agents to monitor him cautiously and secure his and Clark Kent's homes.
• Nick Fury worried about Dilos's intelligence, power, and ties to the X-Mansion, and considered accelerating a plan.
• Hydra leaders debated obtaining Dilos's DNA, but the woman among them urged caution and warned that S.H.I.E.L.D. was watching his home.
• Dilos had already removed anything from his home that could provide DNA, leaving any possible hair samples to belong to a mouse.

After resolving the Krypton incident, Dilos discussed his recovery and the improved Venom Suit with Lex, who was eager to gain powers of his own. When S.H.I.E.L.D. arrived at LuthorCorp, Dilos prepared to use its people as pieces in his plans.

• Dilos finished returning the detained superpowered people and their families to Smallville and altering the memories of those involved, while the giant crater drew public attention.
• Lex asked whether Dilos had suffered hidden injuries in the battle, and Dilos explained that his true essence energy and inner sight let him fight for months and repair injuries.
• Dilos showed Lex a Venom Suit recreated with Dr. Connors's life serum, explaining that it had lost some functions but gained Alicia's spatial transfer ability.
• Lex learned that his own suit was being developed with two or three added abilities and said he wanted to fight alongside Dilos if the Kryptonians returned.
• Lex received word that S.H.I.E.L.D. representatives had arrived, and Dilos said they were important pieces on the world's chessboard.

Dilos met with Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, then proposed a biotechnology arms deal instead of discussing the alien corpses. He revealed a new product, the Enhanced Battle Suit, Version 2.0, and left the meeting poised to present it.

• Dilos met Nick Fury, Coulson, and Natasha at LuthorCorp after S.H.I.E.L.D. sought information about the aliens he had defeated.
• Dilos refused to provide meaningful details about the aliens and redirected the discussion toward supplying S.H.I.E.L.D. with biotechnology weapons.
• Dilos offered to help mass-produce super soldiers, while Nick Fury questioned his age and ability to do so.
• Lex revealed that Dilos had created the Super Anti-Toxin Serum and was his chief biological scientist.
• Dilos claimed he had developed a more refined bioweapon and opened a silver briefcase to reveal the Enhanced Battle Suit, Version 2.0.

Dilos Sullivan demonstrated the enhanced suit to S.H.I.E.L.D., and its tests convinced Nick Fury of its extraordinary military value. Fury chose to pursue a careful relationship with Dilos rather than provoke him, while planning to improve the contract and withdraw surveillance from his family.

• Dilos demonstrated the mass-producible enhanced suit to Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. by having a bodyguard test its capabilities.
• Hill reported that the suit greatly enhanced its wearer, resisted weapons and harsh conditions, and had caused no harm during testing.
• Nick Fury judged the suit a perfect product but noted its hundred-million-dollar price, then decided to revise the purchase contract to draw Dilos closer.
• Nick Fury rejected sending a subordinate to recruit Dilos as a consultant and said he would approach him himself.
• Nick Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to stop monitoring Dilos's family, believing the agency should avoid offending Dilos unless he threatened humanity.

Dilos investigated the identity of the Kryptonian girl in his underground base and discovered she was Lindsey Wells, the missing adopted daughter of Harrison Wells. Suspecting Harrison might be Reverse-Flash and a threat, Dilos resolved to eliminate the uncertainty, while Harrison secretly investigated Dilos at S.T.A.R. Labs.

• Dilos traveled between the X-Mansion and Isla Sorna, training Jia Yin and researching the two surviving aliens in his underground base.
• Dilos found that Kara Zor-El had partly human genes and traces of Green Kryptonite alteration, then asked Lex to investigate her identity.
• Dilos searched Chloe's archived news records and learned the girl was Lindsey Wells, who disappeared during a meteor shower in Smallville fourteen years earlier.
• Dilos discovered Lindsey's adoptive father was Harrison Wells and suspected he might be Reverse-Flash, deciding he had to remove the potential threat.
• At S.T.A.R. Labs, Harrison Wells examined Dilos's portrait and wondered why Dilos possessed immense power despite not appearing in any parallel universe.

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.