Chapter Summaries

Tony Stark rescued the officials with Su Ming’s help, but a red semi-truck driven by Su Ming destroyed his Mark 42. As Tony prepared to use the House Party Protocol to rescue Pepper, Su Ming struck a bargain to claim Tony’s armors if they survived the battle.

• Tony used the Mark 42 to help the officials reach safety, then remotely flew the armor over the cheering crowd.
• A red semi-truck smashed the Mark 42, and Tony realized Su Ming had destroyed it.
• Su Ming snapped his fingers and shattered the ice bridge into glittering crystals as the crowd watched.
• Tony remembered Pepper was still held by Killian and asked JARVIS about activating the House Party Protocol.
• Su Ming warned that Tony’s armors might not defeat Killian and said he wanted them; Tony agreed to give them to Su Ming if they survived the battle.

Su Ming and his allies traveled to the Roxxon Norco cargo ship to rescue Pepper and the president, whom Killian planned to execute publicly. As the fight began, Su Ming appraised the ship and the nearby offshore drilling platform.

• Tony told Rhodey that the officials had been rescued but the president was still missing, and Rhodey questioned how Tony would save Pepper.
• Alisha revealed that she had already located Pepper on a cargo ship off the East Coast of Florida, and Su Ming opened a portal for the group.
• Su Ming, Tony, Rhodey, and Peter arrived aboard the Roxxon Norco, where Killian had Pepper restrained and the president suspended above an oil tanker for a livestreamed execution.
• Tony fired at the guards and missed, while Peter silently took down distant guards and drew the attention of Killian's men.
• Su Ming appraised the Roxxon Norco cargo ship at 200 million dollars and the offshore oil drilling platform at 2 billion dollars.

Tony deployed his Mark suits to fight the Extremis Soldiers at the drilling platform while Su Ming and Peter supported the armor legion. The battle continued as Su Ming salvaged and exchanged damaged suits, bringing his account balance to $23.5 billion.

• Tony summoned all thirty-four Mark suits from Mark 8 to Mark 41, and the armor legion began attacking the Extremis Soldiers.
• Peter rescued Mark 31 Piston, then Su Ming immobilized and exchanged it for $1.8 billion.
• Su Ming froze and launched metal spears to kill the Extremis Soldiers holding Peter, allowing Peter to resume fighting.
• Mark 41 Bones knocked several soldiers from the platform, and Su Ming used Heat Vision to destroy them after they climbed back up.
• An Extremis Soldier exploded and sent a steel beam crashing down, so Mark 38 Igor held it up while Su Ming safely lowered the beam and exchanged Igor for $1.6 billion.
• Su Ming restored Mark 35 Red Snapper's helmet and exchanged the suit for $1.5 billion, raising his account balance to $23.5 billion.

Tony tried to save Pepper, but she fell into the flames, leaving him convinced she was dead and driving him to attack Killian. Su Ming rescued Tony’s Nightclub armor and claimed it, while Tony charged back into battle and Su Ming wondered how to save the remaining armors from the Clean Slate Protocol.

• Tony flew to Pepper, but Killian destroyed the reactor in his Silver Centurion armor and trapped him beneath the rubble.
• Tony cut off Killian’s arm, but the severed limb melted through the structure and sent Pepper falling into the flames.
• Tony equipped the Nightclub armor and fought Killian, who damaged the suit with his Extremis heat.
• Su Ming pulled Nightclub away from Killian with Magnetic Control, kicked Killian through several shipping containers, and declared the armor his.
• Believing Pepper had died, Tony equipped Shotgun and charged at Killian, while Su Ming considered how to save the armors during the Clean Slate Protocol.

Su Ming repeatedly repaired and redeemed Tony’s damaged armors while rescuing Tony from Killian, who had nearly defeated him. Tony trapped Killian in the self-destructing Mark 42, but Su Ming saved and redeemed the valuable armor before blasting Killian himself.

• Su Ming restored the damaged Mark 33 Silver Centurion and redeemed it, then repaired and redeemed the severed Mark 40 Shotgun Armor.
• Killian damaged Tony’s Shotgun Armor, but Su Ming grabbed Killian’s burning arm and repeatedly smashed him against a steel framework before throwing him toward Tony.
• Mark 42 Prodigal Son arrived but crashed apart, so Tony secretly restarted it and trapped Killian in its components while preparing to self-destruct.
• Su Ming stopped the explosion, disengaged and restored Mark 42, then redeemed it for $5 billion.
• Su Ming told the frozen Killian he would still have to take the explosion and struck him with compressed energy.

Tony and his allies fought Killian’s Extremis Soldiers while rescuing the President, and Su Ming helped Tony survive the destruction of Mark 42. The battle ended with Pepper revealed to be alive and empowered by Extremis, leaving Tony stunned by his wife’s strength.

• Peter Parker rescued Rhodey from two Extremis Soldiers, helping him recover his armor and evacuate the President.
• Tony ordered JARVIS to blow up Mark 42, and the explosion blasted Tony off the platform before Su Ming slowed his fall and saved him.
• Peter Parker pulled Tony clear of a falling construction beam, then Killian emerged from the flames and announced that he was the Mandarin.
• Pepper struck Killian with an iron rod, revealing that she had survived the fire and gained powerful abilities from the Extremis Virus.
• JARVIS sent Mark 9 to attack Pepper, but Su Ming blocked it with a steel plate, and Tony called Pepper his wife and praised her strength.

Pepper used her Extremis-enhanced strength to defeat Killian and reunited with Tony, who promised to devote less time to his armor. As Tony prepared to destroy his suits for Christmas, Su Ming stopped time and secretly moved every armor into his warehouse before letting the explosions proceed as expected.

• Pepper dodged Mark 9's attack, then used a missile and steel pipe to blast Killian apart.
• Pepper reunited with Tony and confronted him about nearly getting her killed and shutting himself away in the lab.
• Tony promised Pepper he would cut back on distractions and told JARVIS to carry out the Clean Slate Protocol.
• Su Ming froze time, opened portals, and moved all of Tony's armors into his warehouse while replacing them with explosive energy.
• Su Ming released time, and the armors appeared to explode normally while Tony embraced Pepper.

Su Ming used his time-stopping power to take Tony’s suits while Tony destroyed them as a Christmas gift for Pepper. Exhausted and flickering from low energy, Su Ming was mistaken for a threat by Tony and Pepper, and Tony joked that he should leave his last words.

• Pepper admired Tony’s fireworks as he mourned the destruction of his suits.
• Peter helped the drained Su Ming sit down, and Su Ming praised him for helping secure Tony’s suits.
• Peter interpreted Su Ming’s exhaustion as proof that he had secretly faced a great danger to protect everyone.
• JARVIS told Tony that nearly twenty suits were still operating despite the Clean Slate Protocol, and Tony suspected a system problem.
• Pepper activated her Extremis abilities and shielded Tony when they saw Su Ming flickering in the darkness.
• Tony and Pepper realized the apparent threat was Su Ming, and Tony told him to leave his last words.

After Tony and Pepper thanked Su Ming for helping defeat their enemies, Su Ming revealed that Tony’s ten-billion-dollar commission was only a discounted price, prompting Pepper to secretly attack him with her Extremis-powered heat. Su Ming absorbed the heat without harm, and Tony ended the contest by asking him for a ride home.

• Pepper thanked Su Ming for completing Tony’s commission while Tony tried to hurry her home.
• Su Ming told Pepper that the ten-billion-dollar fee was only twenty percent of his usual price, angering her and Tony.
• Pepper secretly heated Su Ming’s hand with her Extremis powers as Tony watched, hoping to teach him a lesson.
• Su Ming absorbed Pepper’s heat until her power faded and she began to feel cold.
• Tony pulled Pepper away, admitted defeat when Su Ming asked if he wanted to keep playing, and asked Su Ming for a ride home.

After sending Tony, Pepper, and Peter home, Su Ming exhausted his energy healing Peter and began looking for a nuclear power plant to recharge. Alisha found an offshore plant in the Indian Ocean and uncovered its connection to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Project Insight.

• Su Ming sent the freezing Tony and Pepper through a portal to Stark Tower, where Tony vowed never to hire Destiny again.
• Su Ming used Word Becomes Law to heal Peter's burns, then watched him return home before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Su Ming called Alisha and asked her to find a nuclear power plant so he could restore his energy.
• Su Ming redeemed Killian's offshore oil platform and nearby ships for $3 billion, leaving a vast whirlpool in the ocean.
• Alisha reported that she had hacked S.H.I.E.L.D.'s system, discovered Project Insight, and found its nearby offshore nuclear power plant in the Indian Ocean.

Su Ming reached the hidden Poseidon No. 2 Nuclear Power Station in the Indian Ocean while his energy dwindled, only to be met by armed guards who opened fire. The chapter also followed Captain America as he reunited with Peggy Carter and set out to rescue hostages aboard a hijacked cruise ship.

• Steve Rogers found Peggy Carter, and they reunited after seventy years apart before she died with regret that they could no longer be together.
• Steve met Sam Wilson during his morning run, then Natasha Romanoff collected him for a mission to rescue S.H.I.E.L.D. agents from a hijacked cruise ship.
• Steve planned to infiltrate the cruise ship alone and jumped from an aircraft without anyone seeing a parachute.
• Su Ming traveled through the Indian Ocean toward a nuclear power station as his energy fell to nine percent and his physical strength dropped sharply.
• Su Ming found and boarded Poseidon No. 2, a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility secretly staffed by Hydra members, and guards surrounded him.
• A commander ordered the guards to kill Su Ming, and they fired dozens of rifles at him as he conserved his remaining energy.

Su Ming breached the guards’ defenses and absorbed the energy from their grenades, then discovered that the facility was conducting Hydra-style human experiments under a S.H.I.E.L.D. cover. He left the commander fleeing by speedboat and prepared to deal with the facility without holding back.

• The guards fired at Su Ming, but their bullets ricocheted and wounded one another while he walked toward the building unharmed.
• The guards threw grenades at Su Ming, who gathered them in his arms and absorbed the explosions to recharge himself.
• Su Ming vanished from the guards’ sight, and they celebrated until their wager ended with Johnny accidentally firing most of a magazine into his teammate’s vest.
• The commander watched his guards fool around, then escaped Poseidon 2 in a speedboat with his supplies.
• Su Ming descended through laboratories filled with human test subjects and recognized the facility’s experiments as Hydra’s work beneath a S.H.I.E.L.D. cover.
• Su Ming decided he would no longer hold back and used Appraise.

Su Ming broke into the Poseidon No. 2 Offshore Mobile Nuclear Power Station’s reactor and absorbed its energy, destabilizing the ship and forcing its personnel to scramble for escape. As Su Ming continued charging, the chief engineer triggered the reactor’s self-destruct, and the crystal sphere began to explode.

• Su Ming fought through the station’s guards, reached the reactor, and absorbed radiation and lasers while advancing naked through its defenses.
• The station chief learned that Captain Jack Sparrow was unreachable and ordered staff to prepare helicopters and tamper with the other aircraft.
• Su Ming pressed his hands to the Fission Crystal Sphere and drained its energy, disrupting the reactor and shutting down the ship’s engines.
• As the ship tilted and began to fall, Su Ming used Magnetic Control to hold it in midair while continuing to absorb energy.
• The reactor’s chief engineer activated the self-destruct switch, and the crystal sphere contracted before violently exploding.

Su Ming absorbed the energy from the reactor explosion, salvaged the facility for $98 billion, and flew to a cruise ship for food, where he encountered Captain America stopping a hijacking. The hijacker leader demanded ten billion dollars, and Su Ming questioned whether that was a lot.

• Su Ming contained the reactor explosion by absorbing its energy, reaching 130% charge and leaving a huge crater in the ship.
• Su Ming found clothes, then exchanged the remains of the facility for $98 billion, bringing his account balance to $145 billion.
• Su Ming flew to a nearby cruise ship and secretly feasted while Captain America and Natasha led S.H.I.E.L.D. forces in rescuing the hostages.
• Captain America confronted the hijacker leader, who challenged him to fight without his shield, and Su Ming stepped in to support Steve.
• The hijacker leader bragged that he had demanded ten billion dollars, and Su Ming asked whether that was a lot.

Su Ming subdued the kidnappers, sparred with Steve, and demonstrated that he could contain a grenade explosion with one hand. He left through a portal, while Steve and Natasha wondered what his mission had been.

• Su Ming knocked out the kidnapper leader after the man mocked him for dismissing the ten-billion-dollar ransom.
• Steve challenged Su Ming to a hand-to-hand spar, but Su Ming kicked him through a hatch despite holding back.
• Natasha copied S.H.I.E.L.D. information from the ship, and Steve objected that their mission was only to rescue hostages.
• The kidnapper leader threw a grenade, and Su Ming caught it and contained its explosion in his hand.
• Su Ming opened a portal and left, prompting Steve and Natasha to wonder about his mission and his authority as Destiny.

After returning from a successful job, Su Ming gave Ned a limited-edition mechanical keyboard and Alisha a Graff Pink Diamond. Their argument over whose gift was better woke him, and he left Alisha admiring her gemstone while he recalled how he had acquired it.

• Su Ming returned to the base before dawn, gave Ned a limited-edition keyboard, and went to bed after repairing the Mark Armors.
• Ned woke, found the keyboard, and excitedly examined it until Alisha came out and scolded him for staring at her.
• Alisha found a pink diamond Su Ming had left in her room, then argued with Ned over whose gift was better.
• Su Ming woke to their shouting, stopped Alisha from grabbing a weapon, and agreed with Ned to end the dispute.
• Su Ming sent Ned through a portal, then told Alisha the gemstone was a Graff Pink Diamond and recalled asking a jewelry-store manager for the most beautiful and expensive jewelry.

Su Ming entered a bank vault, took its cash and valuables, and discovered a Starcore Fragment he could not exchange. After giving Alisha the Graff Pink Diamond, he encountered Steve and Nick Fury arguing about a mission and followed them to the Project Insight Hangar.

• Su Ming used Word Becomes Law to learn the Graff Pink Diamond's location, bought it from Lawrence Graff, and teleported into the bank vault before it opened.
• Su Ming disabled the vault's security, appraised and exchanged its cash and valuables for hundreds of millions of dollars, and found a Starcore Fragment worth 30 billion dollars that could not be exchanged.
• Su Ming gave Alisha the Graff Pink Diamond, which she excitedly accepted as he renamed it the Alisha Pink Diamond.
• Steve confronted Nick Fury at the Triskelion over being kept in the dark about a hostage-rescue mission, and the two argued about trust and compartmentalized management.
• Nick Fury took Steve to the Project Insight Hangar.

Nick Fury showed Captain America Project Insight, then tried to delay its activation after discovering restricted files and was ambushed by armed forces. He escaped the attack but suspected Alexander Pierce had betrayed him and called Su Ming for shelter.

• Nick Fury took Captain America to Project Insight, where Steve condemned the Helicarriers' ability to eliminate perceived threats before they emerged.
• Nick Fury discovered that he lacked access to certain Project Insight files and asked Alexander Pierce to delay the project.
• Nick Fury escaped an ambush by armed police and soldiers using his vehicle's weapons, but the Winter Soldier bombed it and found Fury had fled into a sewer.
• Nick Fury suspected Alexander Pierce had betrayed him and called Su Ming to ask if he could stay at his place.

After escaping a car crash, Nick Fury called Su Ming for help while Su Ming explored the system shop and redeemed the first level of Sorcerer Supreme. Su Ming tested his new rune abilities, then received a call from Nick Fury.

• Nick Fury escaped through the sewers after a crash and called Su Ming, thinking of him as the most reliable choice for the Avengers Initiative.
• Su Ming reviewed powerful future talents in the system shop and decided to acquire their initial forms, starting with Sorcerer Supreme.
• Su Ming redeemed Sorcerer Supreme Lv1 and gained the ability to weave rune-script chains.
• Su Ming tested rune shields and an energy whip in the training room, but failed when he tried to form a runic sword.
• Su Ming answered a call from Nick Fury, who might have a new job for him.

Su Ming rescued the injured Nick Fury by opening a portal from the sewer to his base and used Word Becomes Law to heal Fury’s arm. Fury asked whether Su Ming could restore his eye, but Su Ming declined, and Fury began explaining his sudden visit by saying his wife had kicked him out.

• Nick Fury called Su Ming while fleeing pursuers, and Su Ming agreed to pick him up despite teasing him.
• Su Ming opened a portal to his base, and Nick Fury hurried through it from the sewer.
• Nick Fury collapsed on Su Ming’s living room floor, exhausted and injured.
• Su Ming used Word Becomes Law to heal Nick Fury’s arm and scratches.
• Nick Fury asked whether Su Ming could fix his eye, but Su Ming said even Thor had been unable to restore it.
• Nick Fury awkwardly claimed that his wife had kicked him out.