Chapter Summaries

The PPDC prepared the No. 001 Female MUTO Jaeger for its first full-machine trial after improving the Brain Bridge Link and buying Warp Group technology to complete the Drift System. As the test was about to begin, Stacker Pentecost realized that technical consultants Dr. Reed Richards and Tony Stark were missing.

• Dr. Reed Richards and Tony Stark helped improve the Brain Bridge Link, and earlier limb tests successfully activated the Female MUTO Jaeger.
• After Drift System research stalled, the PPDC bought patent licenses from Warp Group, unknowingly giving Carl a profitable way to sell and renew the technology.
• The PPDC selected four cadets whose pairs achieved high Synchronization Rates, though Drift testing revealed risks including Memory Prison, Privacy Collapse, and Ghost Drift.
• The PPDC completed preparations for the No. 001 Female MUTO Jaeger's full-machine trial, with the first pair of pilots entering the cockpit.
• Stacker Pentecost asked where Dr. Reed Richards and Tony Stark were as the test was about to begin.

Reed Richards witnessed a disastrous first test of the PPDC’s Female MUTO Jaeger, followed by a successful second test ordered by Stacker Pentecost. He then sought Victor von Doom’s help for a space mission, and Doom demanded a controlling share of its results and patents.

• Reed Richards arrived as the Female MUTO Jaeger began its first full test, which ended with the pilots lost and the Jaeger charging its plasma cannon at the control room.
• Reed Richards urged the staff to cut the Jaeger’s power, but one pilot died and the other fell into a coma after the neural interface was terminated.
• Stacker Pentecost ordered a second test with backup pilots, and the Jaeger passed without incident.
• Reed Richards and Ben Grimm visited Victor von Doom to request use of the Doom Group’s protected space station for research during an approaching solar-wind radiation storm.
• Victor von Doom demanded a seventy percent share of the project and all application results and patent rights.

Reed Richards agreed to help Victor von Doom reproduce Tony Stark’s Arc Reactor technology in exchange for free access to a space station and shuttle, enabling Doom’s Quantum Gate Project. Doom pursued the project to reach the dimension where he believed he could rescue his mother’s soul from Mephisto, guided by visions from his Tzeentch magic Flame of Destiny.

• Ben Grimm objected when Victor von Doom demanded seventy percent of Reed Richards’s research, but Doom offered a different arrangement involving the Quantum Gate Project.
• Victor von Doom told Reed Richards that Einstein’s Unified Field Theory experiment had opened a gate to another dimension and revealed that Doom’s team had recently sent a drone through their own Quantum Gate.
• Victor von Doom offered Reed Richards free use of a space shuttle and space station if Reed recreated the Arc Reactor technology he had studied while working with Tony Stark.
• Reed Richards accepted Doom’s offer despite Ben Grimm’s warning, and Doom said Susan Storm would oversee the arrangements and accompany them to the space station.
• Victor von Doom’s assistant questioned the deal, and Doom explained that the Quantum Gate Project could raise Doom Group’s value while secretly advancing his plan to save his mother Cynthia from Mephisto’s Hell.
• Victor von Doom recalled learning Tzeentch magic and mastering Flame of Destiny, whose visions led him to believe that the dimension linked by the Quantum Gate contained a temple and a way to rescue his mother.

Reed Richards joined Susan Storm and Victor von Doom’s Quantum Gate experiment, which relied on Warp Group technology to receive images from another dimension. The team successfully transported a chamber containing a chimpanzee and received clear footage, leaving Susan and the others eager to investigate the primitive landscape.

• Susan Storm showed Reed Richards and Ben Grimm footage of a barren world captured by a Warp Group drone, and explained that its receiver could transmit data across dimensions.
• Susan Storm said the drone’s technology came from Warp Group and warned Reed to resolve the Quantum Gate’s energy problem quickly; Ben Grimm joked that Reed had lost her.
• A week later, Reed Richards and Ben Grimm placed a chimpanzee in the transport chamber, and the Quantum Gate successfully sent it and the exploration device away.
• Warp Group technicians restored the video feed, and the team confirmed that the chimpanzee’s vital signs were normal.
• Susan Storm and Victor von Doom examined the remote world’s primitive terrain and discussed using it to study the origin and evolution of life.

Victor von Doom traveled through the Quantum Gate to investigate a mysterious temple and discovered a metal journal suggesting that the planet’s green energy came from refined demons. He returned to Earth with samples, while the planet transformed into a vast labyrinth after the group departed.

• Victor von Doom celebrated the successful chimpanzee test, then sent Reed Richards and Susan Storm to the space station before preparing to enter the other realm himself.
• Victor von Doom and three researchers arrived on a barren planet, where they found responsive green energy beneath the soil and Victor spotted a distant temple.
• Victor von Doom entered the ruined temple, followed a mysterious voice to a black obelisk, and unearthed a metal journal depicting horned demons being refined into green energy.
• Victor von Doom considered using Tzeentch's Blessing to read the journal but left with the researchers as a violent thunderstorm approached.
• Victor von Doom and the researchers returned safely to the Quantum Gate Project laboratory with collected samples, and the planet changed into a labyrinth after they left.

Victor von Doom returned from Tzeentch’s Crystal Maze with the Mechanical Book and learned that ten days had passed and the Fantastic Four had been taken by the military after gaining powers from cosmic radiation. At Area 57, Nick Fury set out to recruit them for the Avengers, but Reed Richards escaped before Fury could approach Ben Grimm.

• Tzeentch and Carl completed their scheme to transform Victor von Doom, and Victor returned from the dimension believing he had spent only a few hours there, though ten days had passed on Earth.
• Matt told Victor that Susan Storm, Reed Richards, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm had been irradiated and taken by the military; Victor ordered the returned energy tested and records concealed to protect the Mechanical Book.
• Victor told the hostile Doom Group board that he would reverse the company’s losses, while the directors gave him one week to do so.
• At Area 57, the military tested the four newly powered subjects, and Nick Fury demanded custody of them for his planned Avengers team.
• Reed Richards escaped his laboratory, and Nick Fury went to Ben Grimm’s holding area to try to recruit him.

Ben Grimm agreed to join S.H.I.E.L.D. if Nick Fury helped him find Reed. Victor von Doom learned from Terra Log how Argent Energy was made and how it had doomed Holy Terra, but he dismissed its warnings; the board threatened to remove him unless he fixed the Quantum Gate Project.

• Ben Grimm demanded to know where Reed was, and Nick Fury told him Reed had escaped.
• Nick Fury persuaded Ben Grimm to join S.H.I.E.L.D. by promising medical help and agreeing to find Reed.
• After the Quantum Gate Project failed to reconnect with Holy Terra, the Doom Group board summoned Victor von Doom to ask for help.
• Victor von Doom revealed that he had used Tzeentch's Blessing to understand Terra Log and learned how the Empire had refined Argent Energy and fallen to demonic corruption.
• Victor von Doom decided to use the Demon Alchemical Formula to pursue his goals, believing Tzeentch had chosen him, despite the warnings in Terra Log.
• Ned Cissell threatened to remove Victor von Doom as chairman and give control of Doom Group to his investment advisers unless he fixed the project.

Victor von Doom faced a boardroom coup over the Doom Group and the Terra Log, then arranged to sell the company to the Warp Group while keeping the book. He began signing the deal in front of the board, leaving Ned Cissell shocked and demanding an explanation.

• Ned Cissell threatened to remove Victor von Doom unless he fixed the Quantum Gate Project and handed over the Terra Log, while Victor realized his assistant Matt had betrayed him.
• Victor von Doom refused to surrender the Terra Log and decided to sell the Doom Group to the Warp Group rather than let the board seize it.
• Victor von Doom met with Helmut Zemo and agreed to transfer the Doom Group’s shares while retaining the Terra Log.
• Victor von Doom arrived early for the board meeting, and Zemo entered with two Phase One Thunder Warriors after they forced their way past the board’s guards.
• Victor von Doom began signing the share-transfer agreement in front of the board, and Ned Cissell demanded to know what he was doing.

Victor von Doom transferred his Doom Group shares to the Warp Group, which Zemo took over with General Ross’s help. After Carl learned Victor had returned to Latveria, General Ross asked him to investigate a missing Vatican forbidden relic and retrieve it.

• Victor von Doom signed over his Doom Group shares to the Warp Group despite Ned Cissell’s objections.
• Zemo demanded that the remaining shareholders sell all their shares, and Ned Cissell and the board members left in anger.
• With the Department of Defense backing the Warp Group as a strategic partner, Zemo acquired all of the Doom Group’s shares two days later.
• Zemo reported that Victor von Doom had returned to Latveria, and Carl anticipated that Tzeentch’s plan was working.
• General Ross asked Carl to investigate a missing Vatican forbidden relic after its guards, including an angel’s representative, were killed.

Carl accepted the Vatican Holy See’s assignment to recover the Thirty Pieces of Silver after linking the monastery massacre to Marduk Kurios’s plans against Heaven. He sent Frank to find Logan Howlett, who was fleeing the Reavers with Professor X and Laura after learning that Laura was the X-23 mutant test subject.

• Carl brought General Ross into the Warp Group and told him to coordinate with the Vatican Holy See about the assignment.
• Bishop Warren McCoy explained that the Thirty Pieces of Silver had disappeared after the monastery guards, including an agent of an angel, were massacred.
• Carl connected the attack’s timing to demons involved in Marduk Kurios’s scheme and requested photos of the crime scene.
• After seeing the massacre photos, Carl asked Frank to find Logan Howlett near the Mexico border.
• Logan bought a pickup in Oklahoma City while fleeing with Professor X and Laura after the Reavers killed Gabriela and captured Caliban.
• Logan learned from Gabriela’s videos that Laura was X-23, a mutant child created by Alkali Genetics Company and marked for euthanasia.

Logan Howlett discovered that the rendezvous point in Laura’s comic was real, then found Professor X’s psychic storm had frozen everyone around the Harris Casino Hotel. After Logan rescued Charles and Laura and fled north, he argued with Charles about the seizure and Laura’s care as Frank followed them on Carl’s orders.

• Logan Howlett learned that Laura was his biological daughter but still decided to deliver her to North Dakota.
• While waiting for his replacement pickup, Logan found the Eden coordinates in Laura’s X-Men comic matched those in the envelope and regretted taking the job.
• Logan returned to the hotel, where Professor X’s psychic storm had frozen the Reavers and everyone nearby; Frank and Laura were able to move despite it.
• Logan killed the Reavers in the room, injected Charles with a sedative, and escaped with Charles and Laura while refusing Frank’s offer to work for the Warp Group.
• Frank followed the family at a distance, trusting Carl’s prediction that their trip would not be peaceful.
• On the drive north, Logan heard reports of the hotel incident, asked Charles about his medication, and scolded Laura before telling Charles he could no longer care for her.

Logan Howlett drove Professor X and Laura toward North Dakota while worrying about Frank, who was following them, and the Reavers behind them. After they stopped to help a farm family and shared dinner, Professor X urged Logan to keep Laura and find warmth in family, but Logan left without answering.

• Professor X told Logan that Laura and the other mutant children near their destination could signal hope for mutants, while Logan remained skeptical about Eden.
• Professor X revealed that Frank was following them and had a distinctive psychic presence, making Logan uneasy.
• Logan and Professor X helped Will's family after their vehicle crashed and horses escaped across the highway.
• At dinner, Professor X and Logan joked about the school Charles had founded, and Will's son Nate mentioned wanting to drop out.
• Logan agreed to stay overnight at the farm, then accompanied Will to repair the water pump.
• Professor X urged Logan to keep Laura and find a home and family, but Logan rejected his hopes and left the room.

X-24 murdered Professor X and the farmer’s family, then took Laura, while Logan Howlett agreed to help Frank’s Boss in exchange for Professor X’s resurrection. Logan fought X-24 despite his failing health, and just as X-24 was about to kill him, a gunshot blasted X-24 away.

• Will explained that Alkali Beverage Company had been sabotaging his farm and helped Logan repair the water supply pipe.
• X-24 infiltrated the farmhouse, stabbed Professor X, fought Laura, killed Nate, Catherine, and Will, and carried Laura away in restraints.
• Logan found Professor X dying, and Frank offered to revive him with a Rapid Resurrection Potion if Logan helped his Boss; Logan accepted and charged after X-24.
• The potion began taking effect as Logan fought X-24, but his weakened healing factor and declining strength left him badly outmatched.
• A gunshot struck the back of X-24’s skull and blasted him away, exposing the adamantium beneath the ruined flesh on his head, neck, and shoulders.

Frank used the [Rapid Resurrection Potions] to revive Professor X and the Will family, recruiting Logan Howlett into the [Warp Group] in exchange for three years of unpaid service. Logan delivered Laura to her mutant companions in North Dakota, then left after she revealed she could speak and accepted his phone number.

• Frank revived Professor X, and Logan Howlett freed Laura and agreed to take her to [North Dakota] before completing his mission for Frank.
• Professor X asked Frank to revive the Will family, and Logan offered to serve the [Warp Group] for three years in exchange for their lives.
• Frank revived the family, and Professor X used Frank's psychic badge to help them forget the attack before Logan and his companions resumed their journey.
• Dr. Zander Rice injected the wounded X-24 with a healing serum and ordered Donald Pierce to gather more men to hunt Laura and the other mutants.
• Logan brought Laura to her companions in North Dakota, learned she could speak, and gave her his phone number before leaving.

Carl Mala learned that the Holy See had exiled Sister Grady and secretly imprisoned Daimon and Satana Hellstrom, then brought Logan Howlett to investigate the monastery massacre. Logan identified two unusual intruders by scent but could not find a useful lead, leaving the mystery unresolved.

• Bishop Warren McCoy told Carl that Sister Grady had become an angelic host, and Carl uncovered the Holy See's factional persecution of her and its secret prisoners, Daimon and Satana Hellstrom.
• Carl welcomed Frank and Logan Howlett, explaining that Logan's sense of smell could help solve the monastery's mystery.
• Frank revealed that they had taken Professor X to a Warp Group hospital and left a Thunder Warrior and a psychic-resistant badge to protect him.
• Logan entered the monastery's hidden chamber and analyzed the scents amid the remains of the guards and their killers.
• Logan reported that two intruders with strange scents had slaughtered fifteen human guards, but he had found no useful clues.

Carl offered Logan Howlett a Recovery Potion to restore his diminished senses, and Logan drank it, regaining his smell and much of his physical strength. With the potion’s effects surging through him, Logan prepared to investigate the crime scene again and identify the missing guard.

• Bishop Warren McCoy pointed out that fifteen of the sixteen guards had died and asked Carl to investigate the survivor, fearing it might be Sister Grady.
• Warren McCoy offered the Vatican Holy See’s support and alliance in exchange for a more thorough examination.
• Carl gave Logan Howlett a Recovery Potion, warning that its effects would last only a week and might be followed by a severe decline.
• Logan Howlett drank the potion and found that his sense of smell, healing factor, and other bodily functions had returned close to their peak.
• Logan Howlett reconsidered the possibility that the Warp Group could offer him and Professor X a safe haven, then asked Carl to let him examine the crime scene again.

Logan Howlett identified Sister Grady as the surviving guard and agreed to track her with Frank. In Houston, demons used a silver bullet to strip Sister Grady of her angelic power, but Frank and Logan intervened, killing the demons and leaving Logan stunned by what he had witnessed.

• Logan Howlett told Carl that a death-reeking demigod and a human woman had left the monastery, and he agreed to track the woman's scent with Frank.
• Sister Grady encountered two demon officers disguised as policemen, who revealed that Necrodamus wanted her captured.
• One demon shot Sister Grady with a silver bullet that dispersed her angelic power, and she realized Necrodamus was making bullets to fight angels from the Thirty Pieces of Silver.
• Frank killed one demon and stopped the other from executing Sister Grady; Logan then killed the remaining demon after it transformed.
• Frank told Logan that Carl's blessing could let him kill even Celestials, leaving Logan shocked by the existence of demons and the power Frank wielded.

Frank questioned Sister Grady about the stolen Thirty Pieces of Silver and learned that Necrodamus planned to turn the coins into angel-killing bullets, with help from his demigod enforcer Razan and a dwarf smith named Regnar. After Frank let Sister Grady go, mummies emerged from quicksand and attacked him and Logan Howlett.

• Sister Grady told Frank that Necrodamus had corrupted her and persuaded her to help steal the Thirty Pieces of Silver, then sent demons to silence her.
• Logan Howlett identified a deformed silver bullet as likely having been forged from the missing coins, and Sister Grady revealed Necrodamus intended to use them against angels.
• Sister Grady identified Razan, the Night Jackal, as a demigod who served Necrodamus, and said the Hellstrom siblings might know where to find Regnar, his former partner.
• Frank prepared to kill Sister Grady, but Logan Howlett stopped him, and Frank allowed her to leave.
• Quicksand opened beneath Sister Grady, and mummies dragged her under before rising to attack Frank and Logan Howlett.

Frank and Logan fought Razan’s summoned undead, but the endless scarab swarm overwhelmed them until Carl arrived and destroyed it. Carl then located Razan and discovered that a mysterious power protected her mind, possibly a blessing shared by gods such as Odin and Thor.

• Logan repeatedly cut down the mummies, but their cursed wrappings reassembled them until Frank burned them away with sacred psionic power.
• Logan revealed that Razan, the Night Jackal, was watching from a nearby rooftop and likely wanted to recover the special silver bullet.
• Razan replaced the mummies with a massive, coordinated swarm of black scarabs that forced Frank and Logan to retreat as they were surrounded.
• Carl arrived through a portal with Wanda and destroyed the approaching scarabs with a burst of energy.
• Carl used Psychic Perception to locate Razan, but a mysterious bloodline power blocked him from entering her mind.

Wanda used her Chaos Magic to erase every canoptek scarab on Earth, inadvertently killing Khepri and forcing Razan to flee. After witnessing Wanda’s power and Carl’s leadership, Logan Howlett considered leaving the X-Men behind and joining the Warp Group.

• Carl reasoned that Razan’s immunity to psychic intrusion suggested she descended from an orthodox Egyptian god.
• Wanda mistook Carl’s frown for anger and commanded the canoptek scarabs to disappear, erasing every one of them across Earth.
• Khepri lost his source of power and rapidly aged into yellow sand, while archaeologists elsewhere were saved from a scarab swarm.
• Razan failed to summon the scarabs or reach Khepri, realized Wanda might have erased them, and escaped on a mummified bird after Wanda spotted her.
• Logan Howlett admired Wanda’s power and the Warp Group’s loyalty to Carl, then considered embracing a new life.