Chapter Summaries

Dilos searched Lucian’s memories after defeating him and uncovered the identity of the assassin organization that had been targeting him. After S.H.I.E.L.D. wiped out the Werewolf den, Dilos parted ways with Coulson while anticipating a future confrontation with the League of Assassins.

• Dilos knocked out the elderly Werewolf doctor and searched Lucian’s memories, discovering the assassin organization behind the attacks on him.
• Coulson’s S.H.I.E.L.D. agents sealed the Werewolves’ escape tunnels and killed or captured the survivors.
• Dilos brought the unconscious Lucian and the doctor to Coulson, who learned the kidnapped researchers had been killed.
• Dilos refused Coulson’s offer to join S.H.I.E.L.D. and said they would work together again.
• Dilos spotted a shadow on a distant rooftop and identified the League of Assassins as his next target.

Dilos explained the League of Assassins’ extreme aims and recent operations to Lex, then urged him to use a new enhancement serum as they prepared to build their strength. Meanwhile, Ra's al Ghul investigated the League’s string of failures and concluded that its intelligence network had been compromised, leaving him ready to reorganize the organization.

• Dilos told Lex that the League of Assassins sought to destroy corrupt societies, and Lex agreed that the organization could not take on the whole world.
• Dilos said the current operation would keep the League occupied and offered Lex a serum that enhanced his physical abilities and supported further improvement through training.
• Lex declined to choose metahuman abilities until they had gathered more data, and he challenged Dilos’s boast about his own powers.
• Ra's al Ghul questioned a League assassin about the failed mission, learned the target was an unusually strong mercenary hired by Lex Luthor, and dismissed the assassin.
• Ra's al Ghul reviewed the League’s recent failed operations and missing men, suspected hidden forces and a traitor, and decided the League needed to be reorganized.

Dilos and Clark discussed Dilos’s political ambitions and Clark’s changing views, while Clark admitted he wanted to become someone Chloe could rely on. As Clark chased after Chloe, Dilos reflected on the months since the London incident and remembered the call telling him Clark was covered in blood and unconscious.

• Chloe scolded Dilos for reading her writing and left the warehouse to continue working outside.
• Dilos defended his ideas about freedom, law, and governing the United States, while Clark questioned whether he planned to become president.
• Clark apologized for criticizing Dilos and explained that considering other perspectives had changed his views.
• Clark told Dilos he wanted to be someone Chloe could rely on, and Dilos urged him to go after her.
• Clark chased Chloe, and Dilos reflected on the time since the London incident before recalling Chloe's call about Clark lying unconscious and covered in blood.

Dilos and Lex rushed Clark to Lex’s Smallville lab, where Dilos used his An Jin and acupuncture to stabilize the gravely injured Clark. Clark was out of danger, and Dilos asked Chloe and the Kents to explain what had happened and why Clark had lost his powers.

• After hearing that Clark was injured, Dilos and Lex hurried to Lex’s Smallville lab, where Chloe and the Kents waited anxiously.
• A researcher reported that Clark had multiple broken bones, internal bleeding, and a concussion, while his unusual DNA made treatment difficult.
• Dilos sensed that Clark’s strength had fallen to an ordinary human level and used acupuncture and An Jin to clear pooled blood and stabilize him.
• With Dilos directing the treatment, the researchers helped Clark recover until he was out of danger.
• Dilos drew Chloe and the Kents aside and asked them to recount the day’s events and explain Clark’s loss of powers.

Dilos reassured Chloe and the Kents that Clark was recovering, while Lex offered them shelter in his laboratory and revealed his meteorite experiments could grant people superpowers. The chapter ended with Dilos setting out to investigate Clark’s loss of powers and find whoever attacked him.

• Dilos told Chloe and the Kents that Clark’s fading bruises suggested his suppressed powers were returning and that he should recover within a week.
• Lex invited Chloe and the Kents to stay in his laboratory, and Jonathan agreed to leave Clark there after Lex warned that someone might have targeted him.
• Dilos apologized for Jonathan’s hostility, while Lex explained he had arranged evacuation teams and planned to erase the researchers’ and guards’ memories and destroy Clark’s blood.
• Lex told Dilos that meteorite radiation had given every human test subject superpowers, though the powers varied in strength and usefulness.
• Lex proposed that Dilos use genetic technology to create a dragon capable of breathing ice and fire, and Dilos agreed the project was possible but would take time.
• Dilos decided to investigate why Clark’s powers vanished and identify his attacker, while Lex agreed to look after Chloe and the others.

Dilos investigated the attack on Clark, erased evidence that could expose him, and tracked the three robbers to a nightclub. There he discovered that they could pass through solid objects by vibrating their bodies at the molecular level.

• Dilos entered the police investigation and learned that Clark had vanished after falling from the fourth floor during the robbers’ escape.
• Dilos altered officers’ and witnesses’ memories, destroyed evidence, and checked the other crime scene and police station to protect Clark.
• Dilos tracked the robbers’ gunpowder scent to the Happy Life nightclub and found the three men hiding stolen money in the owner’s office.
• When the robbers attacked, Dilos dodged them and froze all three with his psychic power.
• Dilos studied the men’s memories and deduced that they could pass through solids by vibrating at the molecular level.

Dilos captured the three men who had attacked Clark and learned their meteorite-based tattoos let them phase through solid objects, though the power had severe limits. Meanwhile, Alec Summers's anger and despair triggered strange red eye beams and an uncontrolled phasing ability, leaving him terrified in his room.

• Dilos explained that the three attackers could phase through solid objects using meteorite-based tattoos, then handed them over to Lex at the castle.
• Lex learned the tattoos could be washed off and their powers were limited, and Dilos said Metahuman blood serums remained their best option.
• At home, Alec Summers's father scolded him over the incident that nearly got Clark killed, and Alec felt increasingly rejected.
• Alec's eyes turned red and fired beams that blasted a hole in the street outside his house.
• Alec hid in his room, unaware that his fingers had phased through the blanket he clutched.

The Kents learned why Lex and Dilos had to move Clark discreetly and apologized for mistrusting Lex, clearing the tension between them. Meanwhile, Alec caught Mark’s attempted slap with unusual strength and left for the school bus, revealing that something about him had changed.

• Dilos explained that government and military surveillance made it dangerous for Lex to move Clark openly, and the Kents agreed to keep the situation confidential.
• Chloe and Martha apologized to Lex, and Jonathan admitted he had unfairly assumed Lex shared Lionel’s motives.
• Lex accepted Jonathan’s apology, and they shook hands as Dilos felt relieved that the misunderstanding was resolved.
• Mark scolded Alec again over what had happened to Clark, and Alec angrily talked back.
• Mark tried to slap Alec, but Alec caught his arm with unusual strength, then told Mark to figure out how he had done it and left for the school bus.

Dilos confirmed that Green Kryptonite had drained Clark’s stored energy and worried about the danger of overlooked fragments in Smallville. He arranged for Chloe to stay with Clark while he went to investigate Alec Summers, who was beginning to notice changes in his body.

• Dilos found that Clark had lost his stored energy and had become physically like an ordinary person after exposure to a tiny Green Kryptonite fragment.
• Dilos worried that Smallville’s remaining Kryptonite could hurt Clark again and recalled that Lex was developing a detector to locate it.
• Dilos asked Chloe whether Alec Summers had been with Clark before Clark lost his powers, then arranged to get Chloe excused from school so she could stay with Clark.
• Dilos suspected Alec might have gained lightning-based powers and considered using his genes to create a serum.
• Alec noticed sharper senses, greater strength, improved memory, and faster reflexes, then worried that others—including his crush Heli—would reject him as a Mutant.

Alec struggled with fear that his mutant secret had been discovered, then discovered he could move at incredible speed. He fled home for help, only to find his mother fainting after he appeared in front of her.

• Alec brooded in a café about his secret and watched Heli with her boyfriend, Bright.
• Dilos joined Alec and questioned him about his accident and possible superpowers, making Alec flee the café.
• Alec ran so fast that the world seemed to slow around him, and Dilos suspected he had a superpower.
• Dilos froze nearby onlookers with telepathy and vanished from the café area.
• Alec arrived home at super speed and frightened his mother into fainting.

Dilos visited the recovering Clark and was teased about his romantic feelings for someone in New York. At Alec’s home, his parents’ fear and rejection drove him to turn against them and confront the police, declaring that he lived only for himself.

• Dilos visited Clark, who had recovered from his injuries, and joked with Chloe about how dating Clark had changed their closeness.
• Jonathan, Martha, Chloe, and Clark teased Dilos about finding a girlfriend, and he admitted he liked someone but did not know if she felt the same way.
• Alec pleaded with his mother not to fear him, but Mark confronted him with a golf club and condemned him for being a mutant.
• Alec realized his parents had rejected him because he was a mutant, and he blamed them for shattering his hopes and trust.
• Alec opened the door to face the armed police, his eyes glowing red, and declared, "I only live for myself!"

Alec discovered that bullets could not harm him and unleashed his heat vision and strength against the officers trying to arrest him. After learning S.H.I.E.L.D. was on its way, Dilos raced to rescue Alec and pushed his speed toward the sound barrier.

• Alec let officers shoot him and found that their bullets only bent against his unharmed body.
• Alec blasted a police car with heat vision, then attacked the officers after they emptied their guns.
• Lex told Dilos that S.H.I.E.L.D. was heading to Smallville because Alec's parents had reported him to the police.
• Dilos revealed his superhuman speed to Chloe and the Kents, then hurried toward Alec's home.
• Dilos entered the Spirit Snake Wild Dance state and felt immense pressure as he approached the sound barrier.

Dilos broke the sound barrier and reached Alec’s house, where Alec had defeated the police without killing them. Dilos carried Alec to a forest, but his speed and momentum injured them both, and Alec attacked him with heat vision as they faced off.

• Dilos forced his way past the sound barrier, discovered he could move through the air, and flew toward Alec’s house.
• Dilos found wrecked police cars and unconscious officers outside Alec’s house, while Alec stood unharmed and noticed him.
• Dilos grabbed Alec and carried him toward a secret base, but pain forced him to land in a nearby forest.
• Dilos and Alec crashed through trees and rocks before coming to a stop, leaving both of them battered.
• Alec recognized Dilos and, after standing up, fired pale-red heat beams from his eyes at Dilos.

Dilos confronted Alec about his emerging Metahuman powers and challenged his belief that he could escape. After outpacing Alec and dodging his attacks, Dilos began trying to beat him into submission.

• Dilos dodged Alec's heat vision and watched him destroy a tree with the blasts.
• Dilos identified Alec's powers and explained that he had come to keep a government Metahuman agency from capturing him.
• Alec doubted Dilos's intentions, but Dilos reminded him that he had already overpowered and carried him there.
• Alec ran away at high speed, but Dilos entered the Spirit Snake Wild Dance state and easily caught up while matching his pace.
• Alec fired heat vision at Dilos and then charged with a punch, but Dilos dodged and gently pushed him off balance.

After realizing he had bullied Alec, Dilos apologized and tried to persuade him to talk rather than leave him alone. Meanwhile, S.H.I.E.L.D. lost track of Alec and Agent Hand ordered her team to kill him and the unidentified person if they interfered.

• Alec accused Dilos of humiliating him, prompting Dilos to recognize that his own arrogance and aggression had gone too far.
• Dilos apologized to Alec and offered to let him hit back, then suggested they talk while S.H.I.E.L.D. searched for them.
• Alec stayed with Dilos and listened as his anger began to fade.
• Agent Hand learned that an unidentified person had taken Alec away at supersonic speed, and ordered her team to locate them.
• Agent Hand classified Alec as a level-seven threat and ordered her operatives to kill him and the unidentified person if necessary.

Dilos discovered that Alec’s powers came from Clark’s energy, which was harming Alec’s body, and suppressed them with Blue Kryptonite. When S.H.I.E.L.D. closed in, Dilos escaped with Alec, while Agent Hand ordered the search to continue.

• Dilos used Blue Kryptonite to suppress Alec’s powers and stop the painful red patterns from spreading across his body.
• Dilos explained that Clark’s energy had transferred to Alec after a lightning strike interacted with the Green Kryptonite Alec carried, and he considered a way to help him.
• Dilos sensed S.H.I.E.L.D. agents approaching and told Alec that they had to leave before they were arrested.
• Dilos carried Alec away at high speed, escaping before S.H.I.E.L.D. reached them.
• Agent Hand’s team found no trace of Alec and planned to resume the search while a programmer worked on tracking his radiation.

Dilos treated Alec in a secret laboratory while S.H.I.E.L.D. agents gathered to assess the danger he and Dilos posed. Coulson and Hand prepared to pursue Dilos, but Coulson demanded an extraction plan before his team would join the mission.

• Dilos gave Alec Blue Kryptonite to suppress his powers and left him to recover in the laboratory.
• Coulson arrived with fifteen agents to reinforce Hand and examined the damage from Dilos and Alec's fight.
• Hand told Coulson that Dilos had overpowered Alec, could fly, and might break the sound barrier through sheer physical strength.
• Hand proposed capturing Dilos or gathering information while his power might be limited, and Coulson objected to risking his agents' lives.
• Coulson demanded an extraction plan before his team would take part in the mission.

Dilos discovered that S.H.I.E.L.D. had weaponized the Werewolf virus and approached its team, where he impersonated Nick Fury to confuse the agents. After Coulson exposed the deception, Dilos vanished and knocked several agents into nearby hidden positions.

• Dilos changed his appearance and used telepathy to locate Coulson and more than forty S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel in the forest.
• Dilos sensed that fifteen agents had been modified with a weaponized Werewolf virus, and the agents detected his unusual scent.
• Coulson and Hand agreed that Hand’s people would provide cover while Coulson’s people tested the unidentified target.
• Three S.H.I.E.L.D. agents approached Dilos, and he used his voice and mental suggestion to convince them that he was Nick Fury.
• Coulson exposed Dilos over the radio, but Dilos disappeared before the agents could aim at him.
• Dilos sent the three agents flying into concealed S.H.I.E.L.D. positions and silently mouthed that they were insignificant to Coulson and Hand.

Dilos fought the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and Quinjet attacking him, dodging their gunfire before destroying a machine gun with a supersonic punch. After evading a volley from a high-tech energy weapon, he faced the agents’ new threat with interest.

• Hand ordered the Quinjet to fire on Dilos, while Coulson lifted restrictions on the Mutant Squad and called for backup.
• Dilos used Spider-Sense and Snake-Step to evade the Quinjet’s machine-gun fire as the transformed Werewolves changed into rock-like forms.
• Dilos entered Enhanced Mode and then super-speed, punching a wave of air into a machine gun and making the Quinjet shake violently.
• Coulson and Hand ordered the aircraft to climb to five hundred meters to recover from the impact.
• Dilos dodged blue energy beams and noticed the high-tech light machine gun that had fired them.

Dilos battled Coulson's modified Werewolves, evading their coordinated attacks and defeating several of them with speed and martial arts. The Werewolves quickly recovered and surrounded him, leaving Dilos ready to continue the fight.

• Coulson's team transformed into modified Werewolves and tried to overwhelm Dilos, but he evaded their attacks in his supersonic state.
• Dilos sensed that the two Quinjets had moved out of range, then charged the Werewolves using Snake-Step.
• The Werewolves fired blue beams in Formation D, but Dilos accelerated and slipped through the barrage to reach a trio at close range.
• Dilos sent one Werewolf flying with a Half-Step Crushing Fist, then used his arms to block the other two attackers before knocking them down with Dragon Tail Cannon Hammer.
• The Werewolves recovered quickly and surrounded Dilos, who took up a Tiger Form stance and invited them to attack.