Recaps

Su Zheng visited Professor X’s school, gained protection against telepathy, and revealed Wolverine’s past to him. The next morning, Su Zheng encountered Wolverine and learned through a system prompt that he was actually Mystique in disguise.

• Su Zheng wiped Professor X’s clothes and bald head, completed a mission, and gained passive defense against telepathy.
• Professor X asked whether Su Zheng was Magneto’s child, then showed him around the school, where Su Zheng spoke with Storm.
• Professor X could not enter Su Zheng’s mind and sent Jean Grey to fetch him for dinner.
• After dinner, Su Zheng told Wolverine about his centuries-long life, his real name, and his family, leaving Wolverine shocked.
• Su Zheng stayed at the school, and the next morning a system prompt revealed that the Wolverine before him was Mystique and offered three choices.

Su Zheng exposed Mystique, recognized her plan to abduct Rogue for Magneto’s Magnetic Device, and tried to recruit her. After overpowering her and threatening to reveal the plan to world leaders, he got Mystique to agree to work for him temporarily.

• Su Zheng chose a reward that gave him Captain America’s shield and decided to recruit Mystique rather than pursue or help her.
• Su Zheng recognized Mystique disguised as Wolverine, revealed that he knew her real name, and invited her to join him.
• Mystique transformed back into her blue-skinned form and attacked Su Zheng, but he bound her with steel rebars using magnetic powers.
• Su Zheng revealed that he knew Mystique’s plan involving Rogue and Magneto’s Magnetic Device, then threatened to expose it to world leaders.
• Mystique agreed to work for Su Zheng temporarily to protect the mutants from the consequences of the plan becoming public.

Su Zheng made Mystique his subordinate and claimed he would become powerful enough to end mutant oppression. Two days later, Magneto arrived at the school demanding Mystique and Rogue, and Mystique appeared beside Su Zheng as a confrontation was about to begin.

• Su Zheng persuaded Mystique to stay with him by promising to become stronger than Magneto and Professor X combined, and she agreed while still wondering if he was Magneto's son.
• Su Zheng introduced Mystique to Professor X and the others at lunch, and he announced that she was now his subordinate.
• Two days later, Magneto came to the school to rescue Mystique and take Rogue before a worldwide leaders' summit.
• Magneto demanded that Professor X hand over Mystique and Rogue, but Professor X refused and falsely claimed Mystique was not there.
• As Magneto prepared to attack, Mystique arrived and instinctively stood behind Su Zheng.

Su Zheng prevented Mystique from rejoining Magneto and revealed that he could control magnetic fields. When Magneto confronted him, Su Zheng chose the system’s offer to take over the Brotherhood in exchange for doubling his constitution.

• Magneto called Mystique over, but she chose to stay beside Su Zheng.
• Magneto realized Mystique’s choice was tied to Su Zheng and reacted with disbelief.
• Sabretooth and Toad emerged as Magneto’s only accompanying subordinates, and Wolverine charged Magneto in anger.
• Magneto flung Wolverine toward Su Zheng, who stopped him in midair with magnetic-field control.
• The system offered Su Zheng three choices, and he chose to take over the Brotherhood for a doubled constitution.

Su Zheng rejected Magneto’s demand to join him and demonstrated his newly enhanced physical strength by defeating Sabretooth and Toad. Magneto gathered metal to capture him, but Tony and Banner arrived to support Su Zheng as the confrontation escalated.

• Su Zheng told Magneto he was not his child and demanded that Magneto hand over the Brotherhood, then secretly texted Iron Man for help.
• Magneto sent Sabretooth to attack Su Zheng, but Su Zheng dodged his claws and punched him through a house.
• Su Zheng caught Toad’s tongue and flung him into the sky after Toad tried to sneak up on him.
• Magneto decided to capture Su Zheng as well as Rogue and ordered him to come along.
• Tony told Su Zheng that he and Banner had arrived, but Magneto raised a vast mass of metal and declared Su Zheng had no choice.

The Hulk arrived to help Su Zheng fight Magneto, and together they forced Magneto to retreat. Su Zheng killed Toad, while Sabretooth surrendered; Jean Grey then invited Su Zheng to her room.

• The Hulk crashed into the battlefield and broke free after Magneto bound him with steel.
• Su Zheng disrupted Magneto's magnetic field, letting the Hulk leap up and punch through Magneto's metal defenses.
• Magneto fled, and Su Zheng stopped the steel carrying Toad and killed him with a punch.
• Mystique stayed put, Sabretooth surrendered, and Wolverine reacted to his biological older brother's surrender.
• Jean Grey praised Su Zheng and invited him to see the cat in her room that could do backflips.

After Magneto’s attack on Professor X’s school, Su Zheng stayed with Jean Grey for a few days before Fury called with news that Magneto planned to turn summit leaders into mutants. Su Zheng agreed to stop him after Fury offered to make the Illuminati an officially recognized organization under Su Zheng’s leadership.

• Hulk defeated the remaining enemies, then left the school after Su Zheng influenced him to go.
• The students and staff thanked Su Zheng, while Rogue came out of the safe room and felt grateful that he had protected her; Wolverine kept Sabretooth imprisoned.
• Su Zheng made things official with Jean Grey and later returned to his villa, while Wolverine stayed at the school to join the X-Men.
• Fury told Su Zheng that Magneto intended to operate his machine himself and transform the leaders at a summit, even at the cost of his life.
• Fury offered to recognize the Illuminati as a government organization led by Su Zheng, and Su Zheng agreed to stop Magneto.

Su Zheng and the others confronted Magneto atop the Statue of Liberty as his Magnetic Device began activating. Magneto offered Su Zheng leadership of the Brotherhood, and the system presented Su Zheng with three choices while the battle remained unresolved.

• Su Zheng led Tony, Banner, Cyclops, Storm, Jean Grey, and Beast into the Statue of Liberty to stop Magneto.
• Magneto sent the untransformed Banner plummeting from the statue and began delaying the group as the Magnetic Device activated.
• Tony charged the machine but Magneto hurled him into debris, while Magneto's subordinate removed Cyclops's glasses and Magneto sent Cyclops falling.
• Su Zheng saved Cyclops from the fall, but Magneto restrained Storm and Beast and pinned Su Zheng with his control of the magnetic field.
• Magneto asked Su Zheng to take over the Brotherhood and protect mutants, and the system offered Su Zheng three choices with different rewards.

Su Zheng rejected Magneto’s offer and used his newly gained ability to erase mutant powers, defeating Magneto and stopping the machine. He brought Magneto back to the mutant school, where Mystique saw him in X-Men custody.

• Su Zheng chose the option that gave him the ability to erase mutant powers and invited Magneto to join the Illuminati instead of joining the Brotherhood.
• Su Zheng’s offer confused Magneto and embarrassed Jean Grey when Su Zheng joked about finding Magneto a sister-in-law.
• As the Hulk climbed back up the Statue of Liberty, Magneto tried to restrain Su Zheng, but Su Zheng erased Magneto’s and his subordinate’s abilities.
• Su Zheng bound Magneto, stopped the machine, freed Storm and Beast, and repaired Iron Man’s suit.
• Su Zheng and the X-Men escorted Magneto back to the mutant school, where they encountered Mystique.

Mystique learned that Su Zheng had captured Magneto and asked him to erase her mutant ability so she could discover her original appearance. Su Zheng used his power on her, leaving her transformation—and the fact that she was unclothed—about to end.

• Storm told Mystique how Su Zheng had defeated and captured Magneto, astonishing her.
• Professor X examined Storm's memories, and Su Zheng suppressed Professor X's mutant powers for invading her mind.
• Su Zheng handed Magneto to Professor X and warned that Magneto's powers would return once Su Zheng left.
• Su Zheng tested his ability on Jean Grey and found that it could not erase the Phoenix Force.
• Mystique came to Su Zheng's room, asked him to erase her mutant ability, and promised to become his loyal subordinate.
• Su Zheng used his ability on Mystique, who had forgotten that she was naked.

Su Zheng restored Raven’s original appearance, and she stayed close to him as his self-declared maid rather than risk losing the effect. When Tony invited Su Zheng to watch his race, Su Zheng recognized that Ivan was about to attack and went to protect him.

• Su Zheng used his ability to reveal Raven’s original body, and Raven ran into another room after realizing she was naked.
• Days later, Raven followed Su Zheng and Jean Grey while carrying their shopping, then claimed she was Su Zheng’s maid when Jean asked her to leave.
• Tony met Su Zheng while wearing the Iron Suit, offered him a suit, and invited him to watch a race.
• Su Zheng accepted Tony’s invitation and recognized Ivan at the racetrack as the events of Iron Man 2 began.
• Ivan attacked the race by splitting the leading car with an electric whip, while Tony raced in second place.

At the race, Su Zheng used his magnetic powers to save Tony from Ivan’s attack after the plot changed and Tony was in second place. Su Zheng chose the reward that increased his magnetic power, leaving Tony alive and deeply indebted to him as the crowd watched in chaos.

• Tony pushed to catch the leader, but Ivan sliced the leading car in half with his electric whips and targeted Tony’s car.
• Su Zheng’s system offered three choices, and he chose to save Tony in exchange for a ten percent increase in magnetic power and one hundred Iron Suits.
• Su Zheng unleashed his magnetic powers, freezing Ivan, Tony’s car, and metal objects around the racetrack in midair.
• Tony realized Su Zheng had saved him again and worried that he might end up working for Su Zheng for the rest of his life.
• The crowd reacted in panic and excitement as Su Zheng walked onto the racetrack and Ivan struggled to move his armor.

Su Zheng stopped Ivan from killing Tony at the racetrack and made Tony and Ivan compete to build Iron Suits in exchange for his help. After S.H.I.E.L.D. took Ivan away, Su Zheng said he would save Tony and make him build suits for the rest of his life.

• Su Zheng carried the suspended phones and metal objects across the racetrack, disarmed Ivan, and stopped him from attacking Tony.
• Tony offered to repay Su Zheng, and Su Zheng asked him to build one hundred Iron Suits.
• Ivan offered to build even more suits if Su Zheng stayed out of his fight with Tony, prompting Tony and Ivan to outbid each other.
• Su Zheng sealed Ivan's mouth with an iron sheet and planned to have S.H.I.E.L.D. imprison him.
• After S.H.I.E.L.D. took Ivan away, Su Zheng returned the phones and told Tony he would save him and make him build Iron Suits.

Su Zheng revealed that Tony was dying from palladium poisoning and helped him use his father’s relics to create a new element that saved his life. Tony then tried to bargain down Su Zheng’s demand for one hundred personally built Iron Suits, but Su Zheng refused.

• Su Zheng exposed the purple lines around Tony’s Arc Reactor, revealing that he knew about Tony’s palladium poisoning.
• At Tony’s seaside villa, Su Zheng told him to create a new element, and Director Fury arrived with Tony’s father’s relics.
• Su Zheng explained that the relics contained clues to a new element, and Tony found its structure in a model inside the box.
• Su Zheng used his magnetic powers and an Electromagnetic Cannon to clear space for Tony to forge the new element.
• Tony tested the new element, saw his palladium poisoning recede, and thanked Su Zheng for saving his life.
• Su Zheng reminded Tony that he owed him one hundred Iron Suits, and rejected Tony’s offer to make only fifty.

Su Zheng took Tony's eight Iron Suits and brought Jean Grey to live with him, then learned that hundreds of Steel Warriors were attacking Tony. The chapter ended as Su Zheng faced a system choice about how to respond.

• Tony agreed to build Su Zheng a hundred Iron Suits, while Su Zheng took every suit in Tony's room despite Tony's protests.
• Su Zheng returned to his villa with Jean Grey and Raven, and Jean later asked him for an Iron Suit.
• Tony called Su Zheng for help after hundreds of Steel Warriors attacked his home.
• Su Zheng suspected that Fury had freed Ivan to build suits for S.H.I.E.L.D., only for Ivan to seize control of them.
• The system offered Su Zheng three choices for responding to the attack, including sending Jean, killing Fury, or going himself.

Su Zheng chose combat skills and accidentally used them to take Raven down before hurrying to help Tony. He arrived at Tony’s ruined villa as Ivan’s Iron Suits overwhelmed Tony, Fury, and their allies, leaving them close to defeat.

• Su Zheng chose the combat-skills reward and reflexively threw Raven to the ground, stopping his punch just before it hit her.
• Tony called Su Zheng for help as Ivan’s forces attacked, and Su Zheng joked that Tony should make him twenty more Iron Suits before agreeing to go.
• Su Zheng arrived at Tony’s villa and saw that the battle had reduced it to ruins and devastated Fury’s forces.
• Fury, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Tony faced Ivan’s overwhelming Iron Suit forces, while Fury feared the losses and Hawkeye told Black Widow that dying beside her was not so bad.
• Tony shouted for Su Zheng as dozens of Iron Suits pursued him, and Su Zheng answered that he had arrived.

Su Zheng rescued Tony, Fury, Hawkeye, and Natasha from Ivan's missile attack, then killed Ivan and seized the remaining Iron Suits. Tony owed Su Zheng for saving his life again, while Fury promised a S.H.I.E.L.D. reward as cleanup began.

• Tony called Su Zheng, whose arrival reassured Tony, Fury, Hawkeye, and Natasha.
• Ivan ordered more than two hundred Iron Suits to fire their missiles, but Su Zheng froze the weapons and redirected the missiles into the sky.
• Su Zheng crushed Ivan inside his Iron Suit and gathered the remaining suits for Tony to improve.
• Tony thanked Su Zheng, who reminded him that he owed him for saving his life; Tony jokingly offered to marry him, and Su Zheng let the debt stand.
• Fury thanked Su Zheng, promised a S.H.I.E.L.D. reward, and offered to handle the cleanup.

Su Zheng faced down Director Fury with the Iron Suits and demonstrated his superior combat skills against Hawkeye and Natasha. The chapter ended with both agents exhausted after failing to land a blow on him.

• Su Zheng aimed the Iron Suits’ Gatling guns at Fury, forcing him to surrender, while Tony blamed Fury for Ivan’s resources and the danger at the villa.
• Natasha and Hawkeye urged Su Zheng not to kill Fury, and Hawkeye lunged at Su Zheng to restrain him.
• Su Zheng effortlessly dodged Hawkeye’s attacks and tripped him, then evaded his repeated close-combat moves without striking back.
• Su Zheng redirected the Iron Suits’ guns toward Natasha and told her and Hawkeye to attack him together.
• Natasha and Hawkeye attacked Su Zheng with a blade and a dagger, but after five minutes they had not touched him and were left exhausted.

Su Zheng defeated Natasha and Hawkeye in sparring, then fought Tony’s Iron Suit and overwhelmed JARVIS with his vast range of combat techniques. He continued beating Tony after Tony surrendered, while Fury reconsidered whether to retrieve Captain America from Antarctica.

• Natasha, Hawkeye, and Fury watched in shock as Su Zheng outclassed Natasha and Hawkeye in combat.
• Tony asked JARVIS to assess his chances against Su Zheng, then challenged him to spar in his Iron Suit.
• Su Zheng and Tony fought to a draw at first, but Su Zheng changed fighting styles, threw Tony’s Iron Suit down, and beat him while JARVIS struggled to analyze his techniques.
• Tony surrendered, but Su Zheng continued beating him, used magnetism to remove his helmet, and left him looking like a pig’s head.
• Fury hesitated over his plan to dig Captain America out of Antarctica after seeing how thoroughly Su Zheng had beaten Tony.

Su Zheng visited S.H.I.E.L.D. after hearing that Captain America had been recovered, hoping to trigger a system choice and earn the Red Queen AI. He entered Captain America’s room despite Fury’s warning, interrupting the frozen hero’s escape attempt.

• Su Zheng left Tony with more than two hundred Iron Suits and asked him to develop an AI-controlled, heavily armed version, while Fury’s request for suits was rejected.
• Su Zheng and an exhausted Tony went to S.H.I.E.L.D. to see Captain America, whom Fury had recovered after seventy years in a glacier.
• The system offered Su Zheng three choices, and he chose to tell Captain America the truth about his lost time to earn the Red Queen AI.
• Su Zheng opened Captain America’s locked door with his powers and walked inside, followed by Fury and Tony.
• Captain America abandoned his plan to escape through the window when Su Zheng and the others entered the room.

Su Zheng bluntly told Steve Rogers about the seventy years he had missed and shocked him with claims about Peggy Carter and Bucky. He then took Tony Stark to install his newly acquired Red Queen AI on Tony’s computer, where Tony doubted Su Zheng had developed it.

• Su Zheng introduced himself to Steve Rogers, then revealed that Steve had slept for more than seventy years and that Peggy Carter had married and had a granddaughter.
• Su Zheng told Steve that Bucky had joined Hydra, leaving Steve stunned, and then departed with Tony to check on Red Queen.
• Nick Fury tried to comfort Steve by claiming Bucky was dead and had never joined Hydra, but Steve was upset by the news.
• At Tony’s villa, Tony showed Su Zheng five Iron Suits and said he still owed him eighty-six more, then asked for Banner’s help with the work.
• Su Zheng asked Tony for a top-tier computer to host his artificial intelligence, and Tony scoffed at the idea that Su Zheng had developed one.

Su Zheng installed the Red Queen in Tony's computer, impressed Tony with her capabilities, then took the computer, projection equipment, and five Iron Suits. Weeks later, the Red Queen told Su Zheng and Jean Grey that a hammer and a person had fallen from the sky.

• Su Zheng loaded the Red Queen onto Tony's computer, and she gathered information about the world before appearing as a 3D projection.
• Tony marveled at the Red Queen and peppered Su Zheng with scientific questions, but Su Zheng dodged them and carried off Tony's computer, projection device, and five Iron Suits.
• Tony realized Su Zheng had deceived him and ordered JARVIS to add artificial intelligence research to his plans, then discovered JARVIS's main unit was gone.
• Weeks later, the Red Queen woke Su Zheng beside Jean Grey and reported that a hammer and a person had fallen from the sky.

Su Zheng chose to insult Odin in exchange for the Matter Conversion ability, then used it to gather metal and create a giant middle-finger image labeled with Odin’s name. Thor, Jane, Tony, Captain America, and S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel saw the display, and Thor was stunned.

• Su Zheng arrived at the New Mexico site where Mjolnir had fallen and encountered mortal Thor and Jane.
• The Divine Choice System offered Su Zheng three options, and he chose to insult Odin for the Matter Conversion ability.
• Su Zheng tested his new ability by turning yellow earth into gold and then iron, before gathering metal from the surrounding area.
• Tony, Captain America, Thor, and Jane watched as Su Zheng formed a giant metal middle finger and wrote Odin’s name beside it.
• Thor was stunned when he saw Su Zheng’s creation.

Su Zheng provoked Odin, who answered with a display of divine power over New Mexico while secretly watching Earth. As Loki claimed Asgard’s throne and Thor’s allies set out to find him, Su Zheng told Tony and the others that gods were real, leaving Tony to challenge him to produce one.

• Odin watched Su Zheng’s metal middle finger from his coffin in Asgard, grew angry, and used divine power to summon dark storm clouds over New Mexico.
• Su Zheng recognized Odin’s hand in the clouds, which soon dispersed without striking anyone, and returned to Tony and the others.
• Loki announced that he would become Asgard’s new king, but the four warriors who remained loyal to Thor rejected his claim and left to find Thor on Earth.
• Tony asked why Su Zheng had built the metal middle finger, and Su Zheng explained that Odin was real, shocking the group.
• Tony insisted that gods did not exist and challenged Su Zheng to find one, while Su Zheng spotted Thor and Jane nearby with a mischievous smile.

Su Zheng brought Thor to the S.H.I.E.L.D. camp, where the others doubted his claim to be a god and examined Mjolnir. After Tony failed to lift the hammer, Thor declared that only he could wield it, and Su Zheng prepared to watch what happened next.

• Su Zheng introduced Thor to Tony and the others as a god, but they assumed he was pretending.
• Director Fury led the group to Mjolnir, and Su Zheng touched Captain America's shield to analyze its Vibranium.
• The group examined Mjolnir, while Tony failed to lift it even with Iron Suit gauntlets on both arms.
• Thor pushed through the crowd, declared that only he could lift Mjolnir, and approached the hammer as Su Zheng quietly waited nearby.