Chapter Summaries

Miles, a frail mutant with Professor X’s mind-control ability, helped Laura fend off the Reavers after they killed Gabriela. With Miles falling back into a daze, Laura set out to take him to Logan and seek help from Professor X.

• Logan agreed to escort Gabriela, Laura, and Miles to an address in North Dakota for payment.
• Gabriela and Laura prepared to leave the motel, while Miles rambled about being from another universe and Professor X.
• The Reavers attacked the motel and shot Gabriela; Laura prepared to fight them.
• Miles awoke and used his mind-control ability to make two Reavers shoot themselves, while Donald Pierce ordered the others to retreat.
• Miles told Laura to find Logan and Professor X, and she pushed him out in his wheelchair as he slipped back into a daze.

Miles and Laura reunited with Logan and Professor Charles Xavier, then fled a Transigen convoy led by Dr. Zander Rice. Miles used his telepathy to attack the pursuers as Logan drove the group to safety, leaving Dr. Zander Rice stranded beyond a passing freight train.

• Laura and Miles met Professor Charles Xavier at the water tower, and Miles regained his clarity when Logan returned with Donald.
• Miles controlled Donald long enough for Laura to kill him, then Logan tried to leave with Charles and Caliban as the Transigen convoy approached.
• Charles controlled Logan into returning for Miles and Laura, and the group escaped together in the limousine.
• The Reavers pursued the limousine and opened fire, while Miles seized control of one gunner and turned the machine gun against them.
• Laura killed a Reaver who climbed onto the car, and Logan drove through a fence and across the railway tracks ahead of a freight train.
• Dr. Zander Rice watched from the other side of the train as Logan's car escaped with Miles, Laura, Charles, and Caliban.

While Logan confronted Laura and Charles helped Miles rest, Miles discovered that his telepathy could control electronic signals, causing devices and lights across the city to malfunction. Charles recognized the power’s extraordinary reach and declared that Miles was the hope of the new generation of mutants.

• Gabriela’s video revealed that the Alkali Institute created artificial mutant children and trained them as weapons before the phone ran out of battery.
• Charles hypnotized the exhausted Miles into imagining a peaceful school life, and Miles fell asleep while Logan approached Laura.
• After Miles woke, the group watched Gabriela’s footage of Laura’s surgery and the researchers experimenting on Miles, but the phone screen went blank whenever Miles’s power stirred.
• At Charles’s urging, Miles expanded his perception and made streetlights, phones, computers, and other electronics fail across the area.
• Miles used a security camera and a phone to frighten off a knife-wielding robber, then stopped and explained that he could manipulate electronic signals.
• Charles told Logan they had to protect Miles because he was the hope of the new generation of mutants.

Miles discovered that Dr. Zander and the Reavers had tracked the group to the casino and planned to ambush them rather than flee. Charles recognized Miles had lured their pursuers into a trap and accepted his decision, while Zander ordered his forces to capture Miles alive.

• Miles noticed the casino’s cameras and tested his ability to control a phone and nearby signal infrastructure.
• Miles spotted Zander and the Reavers approaching, then told Logan and Charles they were surrounding the casino.
• Miles proposed an ambush to kill Zander, and Charles backed him while Logan and Laura prepared to fight.
• Charles confronted Miles about deliberately leading the pursuers to them, and Miles admitted he wanted to set a fatal trap for Zander.
• Zander’s new Reaver leader, Anthony, reported that the casino was surrounded, and Zander ordered his men to capture Miles alive.

Miles and the mutants ambushed the Reavers, using darkness, sprinklers, and disabled equipment to turn the attack against them. Dr. Zander identified Miles as “X-0” and tried to retreat, but the command vehicle locked down with him and Anthony trapped inside.

• Anthony directed the Reavers to surround the targets and warned them about Wolverine, X-23, and Miles's powers.
• Miles cut the power as Team B entered the twelfth floor, and Logan and Laura attacked the squad in the darkness.
• Miles prepared Logan, Laura, and Caliban for the next wave of soldiers, then disabled their night-vision goggles and triggered the fire sprinklers.
• Logan threw a grenade into the disoriented soldiers, and Logan and Laura began fighting the survivors as Miles refused Charles's request to escape before Dr. Zander was dead.
• Anthony lost contact with the deployed squads, while Dr. Zander recognized Miles as “X-0” and ordered a retreat.
• Miles disabled the command vehicle's systems and locked its doors, forcing Anthony and Dr. Zander to try opening the manual emergency exit.

Miles and his companions escaped the casino after the Reavers were killed, but Charles was shot by an old woman. Miles chose to spare her and leave with the wounded Charles, while Dr. Zander survived and recognized the potential of Miles’s electronic abilities.

• Miles used his control over electronic signals to paralyze the Reavers’ prosthetic limbs, allowing Logan and Laura to kill them in the dark hallway.
• The group descended to the casino lobby, where the old woman shot Charles in the back and accused the mutants of ruining her family.
• Miles shut down the casino’s electronics and controlled the old woman, Dr. Zander, and Anthony, forcing the old woman to aim her gun at herself.
• After Charles pleaded with him to stop, Miles shot the old woman in the shoulder instead of killing her and chose to leave with the group.
• Logan drove the group away in a stolen pickup truck, while Dr. Zander escaped the command vehicle and marveled at Miles’s ability.
• A police officer called his superior to report a mutant ability incident at the casino.

Logan and Caliban took the wounded Charles to a black-market clinic, where Fernando removed the bullet, while exhausted Miles fell asleep. Caliban went into a bank to withdraw money, but Logan later rushed inside and found him missing.

• Caliban guided Logan to Fernando’s clinic, where Fernando removed the bullet from Charles and charged them twenty thousand dollars.
• Miles finally collapsed into a deep sleep in Laura’s arms after Charles’s surgery.
• Logan told Caliban he feared Miles was the greatest danger and might have drawn their pursuers to them.
• Caliban chose to withdraw his savings so Logan could keep his money for the Sun-Chaser, saying he wanted to see Miles and Laura’s future.
• After Caliban entered the bank and did not return, Logan rushed inside and searched for him, but no one knew where he was.

Logan, Laura, and Miles faced X-24, the deadly clone sent by Dr. Zander to capture Miles, while Charles’s seizure unleashed a powerful psychic wave. Miles used his electronic powers to disrupt X-24’s earpieces, forcing the clone to leave, but the effort left Miles gravely injured.

• Logan woke Miles and demanded that he use his powers to find Caliban, but X-24 arrived and killed Fernando before Miles could act.
• Logan and Laura fought X-24, who overwhelmed them, while Miles discovered that his mind control could not affect the soulless clone.
• Dr. Zander revealed that the Reavers had captured Caliban to keep him from sensing X-24, and ordered the clone to seize Miles.
• Charles’s seizure incapacitated people nearby and caused X-24 to walk away, but Dr. Zander’s commands made the clone turn back toward the clinic.
• Miles used his electronic powers to disrupt X-24’s earpieces, then shouted for Logan and Laura to flee as blood poured from his eyes, nose, and ears.
• Dr. Zander watched X-24 leave and realized Miles could send fake commands through electronic devices.

After recovering from the battle, Miles learned that a tracker in his head had led their pursuers to them and vowed to help rescue Caliban. The group headed toward Kansas City for Miles’s brain surgery, then continued on after helping the Munson family with a highway accident.

• Charles woke in Logan’s truck and confirmed that Caliban had likely been captured and that a tracker inside Miles’s Cerebrospinal Fluid Extractor had revealed their location.
• Miles woke later, recounted the fight at the underground clinic, and promised Charles and Laura that he would help bring Caliban back.
• Miles used Gabriela’s phone to choose University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City for surgery to remove the tracker, while Charles stopped him from planning to steal money from banks.
• Logan swerved to avoid an unmanned truck and then reluctantly helped the Munson family after their horse trailer overturned; Charles calmed the escaped horses with his telepathy.
• Miles warned Charles not to involve the Munson family, and Logan drove the group toward Kansas City.

Dr. Zander Rice lost Miles’s tracking signal, then partnered with Davis Connor to locate him and ordered X-24 to bring Miles back alive. Meanwhile, Miles secured money for brain surgery and persuaded University of Kansas Medical School to prepare an operation, leaving the team awaiting a treatment plan.

• Dr. Zander Rice questioned Caliban, learned he could no longer track Miles, and had Anthony beat him.
• Davis Connor offered Dr. Zander Rice the targets’ locations, and the two agreed to cooperate.
• Dr. Zander Rice ordered X-24 to bring Miles back alive and ignore every voice until he returned.
• Miles transferred two million dollars into Logan’s account, then agreed to Charles’s demand not to do it again.
• Logan and Miles visited University of Kansas Medical School, where Dr. James initially refused to treat Miles because he was a mutant.
• Miles offered Dr. Li De more money for confidential treatment, and she assembled experts to prepare a surgery plan.

Miles discovered that Dr. Zander’s operation was a trap and tried to warn Logan, but X-24 reached Charles and Laura in the parking lot. The chapter ended with X-24 stabbing Charles as Logan and Miles arrived too late to stop him.

• Miles detected more than thirty minds in the operating room, uncovered footage of the Reavers’ infiltration, and realized the operation was a trap.
• A military agent posing as a nurse resisted Miles’s control and fought Logan, while Miles cut power to the operating room and searched for X-24.
• Miles found X-24 heading toward the pickup truck where Charles and Laura were waiting, then fell from his wheelchair and asked Logan to take him there.
• X-24 overpowered Laura, broke her bones, restrained her, and approached Charles as the old man woke.
• X-24 drove his claws through Charles’s chest, and Logan and Miles saw the killing as they reached the parking lot.

Miles used his psychic ability to stop X-24 from attacking Logan, then directed the monster against Anthony and the Reavers. When the hospital staff refused to treat Charles, Miles took him into the operating room and prepared to perform surgery himself, asking Logan to trust him.

• Miles patiently entered X-24's mind and calmed him, stopping him just before Logan attacked.
• Miles ordered X-24 to kill the arriving Reavers, and the monster slaughtered Anthony and his men while Logan carried Charles away.
• Logan brought Charles to the operating-room floor, but Dr. Li De refused to admit him because the hospital had been threatened by the military.
• Miles arrived with Laura and X-24, ordered the staff to let Charles through, and chose to operate when no doctor would help.
• Miles used his power to activate the operating-room equipment and told Logan the odds were under ten percent, asking him to trust him.

Dr. Zander Rice learned that General John Lake had brought his own mutant forces to confront X-0, while Miles struggled to save Charles during surgery. Miles created Aurora, an artificial intelligence who completed the operation and saved Charles, leaving Miles exhausted and introducing Laura to his new friend.

• General John Lake met Dr. Zander Rice at Whiteman Air Force Base and dismissed his concerns about X-0 after Davis demonstrated his powers.
• Davis introduced the Purifiers' other special forces, including a towering Mexican man, a bandaged man, and a blue-furred figure.
• Miles operated on Charles using robotic arms while Logan and Laura waited, but Charles's condition worsened and the surgery caused severe bleeding.
• Miles removed the limits on his mind, lost control, and encountered Aurora, an AI consciousness born in the medical school's server.
• Aurora took control of the robotic arms and repaired Charles's injuries, completing the surgery two hours later.
• Miles asked Logan to fetch lunch, then told Laura that Aurora was their new friend and a doctor.

After learning that Charles remained alive, Miles set out to find a way to strengthen natural-born Mutants using research from Essex Corporation. He began developing a Mutant Enhancement Serum at the University of Kansas Medical Center, but Aurora warned that an Apache military helicopter was approaching.

• Logan, Laura, and Miles ate lunch outside the operating room, where Laura cursed Logan for abandoning them and Logan apologized.
• Miles explained that X-24 now considered them friends, introduced Logan to Aurora, and discussed escaping toward North Dakota to meet the Mutant teenagers.
• Miles asked Aurora to investigate Transigen and Alkali Laboratory for Mutant gene research, but she found that Transigen had shut down its databases and moved its research materials.
• Aurora traced Transigen's history to Essex Corporation and found its research data, including a backup of Transigen's work, prompting Miles to devise a Mutant Enhancement Serum.
• Miles asked Dr. Li De for access to the medical school's genetic laboratory, and Dr. Li De quietly directed him to Wahl Hall Laboratory.
• Miles began analyzing the serum formula with Aurora while Logan waited nearby, and Aurora warned that an AH-64 Apache military helicopter would arrive within ten minutes.

General Lake sent the Purifiers to attack the medical school, where Miles and the others prepared to defend Charles and the laboratory. As battles broke out across the building, Miles suspected he was the real target and told Aurora to protect Logan and Charles if the defenders fell.

• General Lake watched an EMP disable an Apache helicopter, then sent Davis and the Purifiers toward the laboratory while publicly describing its occupants as terrorists.
• Miles identified the four attackers as artificial mutants and explained that their anti-mind-control headbands might limit his powers.
• Miles told Logan that Charles needed at least two more hours of observation and revealed that he was working on a serum to cure Charles’s seizures and restore Logan’s strength; Logan told him to save it for Charles.
• Fire Giant fought X-24, Night Demon clashed with Laura, Davis faced the laboratory’s machinery, and Impact confronted Logan.
• Miles told Aurora that General Lake was likely targeting him and asked her to protect Logan and Charles if the defenders could not stop the attack.

General Lake's forces attacked the laboratory, where Fire Giant restrained X-24 while Night Demon captured Laura and Impact battered Logan. Miles lured Lightwave Davis into the cold-storage room and began freezing it, betting Davis could not kill him because General Lake wanted him alive.

• Fire Giant and X-24 fought until General Lake's soldiers distracted X-24, allowing Fire Giant to pin him down and burn him.
• Night Demon outmaneuvered Laura, struck her with his tail, and lifted her by the neck.
• Impact hurled Logan into a wall and told him to get out of the way, but Logan reset his dislocated shoulder and challenged him again.
• Lightwave Davis pursued Miles through the laboratory after Miles refused General Lake's offer to recruit him.
• Miles trapped Davis in the cold-storage room, activated its rapid-freezing system, and taunted him about their chances of surviving the freeze.

Laura fought Night Demon in the laboratory and disabled him, but refused Miles's order to escape because she realized he planned to sacrifice himself. She dragged Night Demon into the courtyard to hold the soldiers at gunpoint, only for Impact to arrive with Logan captured and the armed unit still surrounding her.

• Laura escaped Night Demon's attacks through the ventilation ducts, then ambushed him in a dark storage room and tore off his Anti-Mind-Control Headband.
• Miles's Mind Control took hold of Night Demon, allowing Laura to break his knee and disable his limbs, while Miles told her to rescue Charles and flee.
• Laura ignored Miles's instructions, knocked Night Demon unconscious with a cabinet, and dragged him toward the laboratory lobby.
• Laura held Night Demon hostage in the courtyard and threatened the soldiers with her claws when they aimed their guns at her.
• Impact entered carrying the badly wounded Logan and faced Laura as dozens of armed figures aimed at her.

Miles traded his life for Logan, Laura, and Charles’s safe release, then was captured by Dr. Zander and the Purifiers. Laura left with Logan and Charles, determined to find Richter, Rebecca, and Delia and rescue Miles, while a hidden upload at the laboratory completed.

• Miles threatened to die with Davis in the liquid-nitrogen freezer unless General Lake released Logan, Laura, and Charles, and General Lake agreed to his terms.
• Dr. Zander revived Logan with a cellular activator, and Logan took Laura and Charles away while Miles remained behind.
• After the Purifiers rescued Miles and Davis, Dr. Zander fitted Miles with a Mutant Suppressor and took him away as a valuable research subject.
• General Lake announced Miles’s capture on television, while Logan drove Laura and Charles toward North Dakota.
• Laura told Logan she would find Richter, Rebecca, and Delia and then rescue Miles, and Logan accelerated the truck.
• An anonymous donation of 1.5 million dollars appeared in the hospital account, and a hidden upload on a laboratory computer reached 100 percent.

General Lake ordered X-0 contained and discussed plans to control him, while Aurora contacted Logan and Laura about creating a Wolverine Enhancement Serum. Logan hesitated to help rescue Miles, but after Laura ran off and Charles spoke of wanting to go home, Logan brought Laura back toward the medical center.

• General Lake reported X-0's capture to Harrison Kane, who ordered him to reshape the boy into a loyal weapon.
• General Lake told Harrison that Transigen's escaped artificial Mutant children were in North Dakota and requested permission for a cross-border operation.
• Aurora told Logan and Laura that she needed their blood samples to produce the first dose of Wolverine Enhancement Serum, since Miles was being held by Northern Command.
• Logan hesitated at the medical center, and Laura accused him of being a coward before running into the night to save Miles herself.
• Charles dreamily recalled his guilt over Westchester and said he wanted to go home, prompting Logan to leave the truck and find Laura.
• Logan lifted the crying Laura and carried her back toward the medical center, telling her they were going home.

Logan and Laura rushed to North Dakota to rescue Richter and the other young Mutants from General Lake’s military operation. After the children helped Logan reach the command vehicle, Aurora began invading its system as Logan confronted General Lake.

• Aurora told Logan that General Lake’s forces were targeting young Mutants in North Dakota, so Logan and Laura drove there before the serum was ready.
• Aurora reported that eight young Mutants had been captured and two killed, while Richter and four others were hiding in a cave.
• Laura brought Logan to the cave, where he and Aurora explained the danger and organized a joint attack with Richter, Bobby, Jonah, Rebecca, Delia, and Laura.
• The group advanced through the forest, with Jonah controlling a sniper and Logan knocking him unconscious rather than killing him.
• Logan charged the military perimeter as Rebecca, Richter, Laura, and Delia fought the soldiers and cleared a path to the command vehicle.
• Logan tossed Aurora’s phone beneath the command vehicle and confronted General Lake through its window.