Recaps

Chu Hang helped the Howling Commandos choose a dangerous canyon as their route into Red Skull’s fortress, then spent the night preparing for the mission and learning about the Cosmic Cube. He left for the coming assault determined to steal some of the Cube’s energy.

• Peggy Carter briefed the Howling Commandos on their mission to find and destroy Red Skull’s Valkyrie base, and Howard Stark supplied energy-resistant weapons and gear.
• Steve Rogers asked Chu Hang to study the map, and Chu identified Death Valley as the likely entrance to the fortress; Steve convinced Colonel Phillips to approve the route.
• At an officers’ pub, Chu Hang and Logan drank and discussed the danger of the mission while Steve promised Peggy Carter he would dance with her when he returned.
• Howard Stark explained his research into the Cosmic Cube, and Chu memorized the details as he formed a plan to steal its energy during the assault.
• Chu Hang returned to his room and awaited the mission, confident that success would bring him closer to his goal.

Chu Hang and the Howling Commandos descended into a trap-filled Alpine canyon to find Hydra’s hidden base. He discovered that the enormous glacial waterfall was a holographic projection concealing the entrance, and prepared to use Howard Stark’s energy condenser.

• Chu Hang boarded the C-47 with Steve Rogers and the Howling Commandos, carrying the unstable Cosmic Cube energy within him and Stark’s condenser as a possible tool.
• When an energy turret attacked during the descent, Chu Hang warned the team and Steve blocked its beam with his shield while Falsworth disabled it.
• Chu Hang used his heightened senses to guide the Commandos past mines, tripwires, and other traps as they rappelled into the canyon.
• After the C-47 departed, the team searched for Hydra’s entrance, and Chu Hang recognized the waterfall as a hologram hiding an alloy door.
• Chu Hang told the Commandos not to trust their eyes and revealed that the waterfall was Hydra’s entrance.

Chu Hang proved that the waterfall concealed a Hydra door when Steve’s shield struck an invisible barrier and exposed the metal wall behind it. The team discovered the door was too thick to breach and found a hidden keyhole, which Chu Hang matched with a Hydra Energy Block he had taken earlier.

• Chu Hang told Steve to throw his shield at the waterfall, and the impact briefly revealed a massive Hydra wall behind the illusion.
• Steve caught the rebounding shield as Howard and the Howling Commandos reacted with shock, while Chu Hang claimed he had only guessed.
• Falsworth scanned the door and concluded it was at least thirty meters thick and beyond the reach of their explosives.
• Chu Hang found a concealed panel beneath the ice, and Steve pried away its cover to reveal a glowing Hydra keyhole.
• Chu Hang produced the Energy Block taken from a Hydra patrol squad leader and asked whether it would fit the slot.

Chu Hang used a Hydra Energy Block he had kept as a souvenir to open the hidden entrance to Hydra’s enormous underground hangar. Steve led the Howling Commandos inside, ordering them to stay hidden until they could destroy the Valkyrie.

• Chu Hang revealed that he had a standard Hydra Energy Block, astonishing Howard Stark and the Howling Commandos by explaining he had taken it from a dead Hydra squad leader as a souvenir.
• Steve confirmed that the Energy Block fit the panel’s slot, and Chu Hang inserted it to activate the hidden door.
• The holographic glacier waterfall vanished, revealing a colossal gate that opened into a brightly lit underground hangar filled with Hydra troops and aircraft.
• Chu Hang recognized the Valkyrie at the far end of the hangar as the setting for the final battle.
• Steve ordered the team to stay in the shadows and destroy the Valkyrie without being discovered, then led them into the hangar.

Steve Rogers and Chu Hang attacked Hydra’s underground base, pursued Red Skull aboard the Valkyrie, and fought to stop the bomber after Red Skull was consumed by the Cosmic Cube. Chu Hang copied the Cube’s residual energy and passed out, while Steve crashed the Valkyrie into the Arctic ice; Chu Hang’s fate remained unknown.

• Steve led the Howling Commandos into Hydra’s base, and Falsworth detonated explosives to create a diversion.
• Steve chased Red Skull toward the Valkyrie while Chu Hang blocked the Bat fighters and crushed them with his spatial powers.
• Red Skull seized the Cosmic Cube, and its energy disintegrated him and sent him into the unknown depths of the universe.
• Chu Hang copied the Cube’s residual energy, was overwhelmed by it, and lost consciousness.
• Steve failed to regain control of the Valkyrie and steered it into the Arctic ice, bidding farewell to Peggy over the radio.

Chu Hang awakened in 1995 after spending fifty years frozen, then was taken to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Project Pegasus for examination. When an unidentified flying object breached the base, he recognized the start of Captain Marvel’s origin event and saw a chance to escape and resolve the cosmic energy inside him.

• After fifty years of destruction and repair within his body, Chu Hang washed ashore near California and woke in 1995.
• Nick Fury and Phil Coulson detained Chu Hang after he claimed it was 1945 and brought him to Project Pegasus.
• Chu Hang learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. was studying Cosmic Cube energy and discovered his damaged Superpower Copier system warned him not to use its copying function.
• An unidentified flying object breached Project Pegasus, and Chu Hang recognized the incident as Captain Marvel’s origin event.

Chu Hang escaped his S.H.I.E.L.D. cell during an assault and fought his way toward the archive where Carol Danvers would trigger the Lightspeed Engine. As Carol fired at the engine, the Cosmic Cube energy inside Chu Hang resonated with it, and blue light engulfed the scene.

• A nearby explosion damaged Chu Hang's cell door, and he slipped into the corridor and armed himself with a dead agent's pistol and ammunition.
• Chu Hang followed Nick Fury and Phil Coulson toward Sector B7, then killed a Skrull disguised as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
• Chu Hang reached the hangar and saw Carol Danvers, the dying Mar-Vell, and Yon-Rogg amid the wreckage and fighting.
• Mar-Vell spoke to Carol before dying, and Carol resolved to fire at the damaged Lightspeed Engine.
• As Carol pulled the trigger, the Cosmic Cube energy in Chu Hang's body resonated with the engine, and blue light swallowed everything.

After Carol’s explosion, Chu Hang copied Carol Danvers’s nascent Binary power and fused it with the Cosmic Cube Energy inside him, surviving the transformation as the system went dormant. He hid rather than confront Yon-Rogg, who took the unconscious Carol aboard a Kree ship.

• Carol pulled the trigger, and the Lightspeed Engine erupted in blue light that blasted Chu Hang’s shipping container across the hangar.
• As the Cosmic Cube Energy inside Chu Hang surged out of control, his system offered to copy Carol Danvers’s Binary power, and he accepted despite its warnings.
• Chu Hang’s copied power fused with the Cosmic Cube Energy, remolding his body; the fusion succeeded, but his system entered forced dormancy.
• Chu Hang suppressed the golden and blue energy leaking from his body and took cover as the ruined hangar came into view.
• Yon-Rogg approached the unconscious Carol, and Chu Hang chose not to intervene because he was exhausted and feared becoming a target of both the Kree and S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Yon-Rogg picked up Carol and prepared to leave aboard a Kree spacecraft while Chu Hang resolved to survive and wait for a better chance.

Chu Hang hid in the hangar as Yon-Rogg tried to take Carol, then used the chaos caused by Goose’s attack to escape. After the Kree retreated with Carol, Chu Hang broke open a locked maintenance passage and disappeared into the darkness.

• Chu Hang sensed the energies of Carol, Yon-Rogg, the Kree soldiers, and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents while recovering from his fusion with the Cosmic Cube and Carol.
• Nick Fury and Coulson confronted Yon-Rogg, who fired at Fury, but Coulson shoved him out of the beam’s path.
• Goose attacked Yon-Rogg with her Flerken tentacles, and Fury was injured when Goose accidentally scratched his left eye.
• Chu Hang used the battle as cover to reach a maintenance passage while Fury, Coulson, and the others focused on Goose and Yon-Rogg.
• Yon-Rogg retreated to his spacecraft with Carol, and the remaining Kree withdrew from the hangar.
• Chu Hang twisted apart the maintenance door’s lock with a faint golden glow and slipped inside.

Chu Hang escaped S.H.I.E.L.D.'s underground base through its sewage system after discovering his new power was difficult to control and his system had gone dormant. He reached the shore free but exhausted, with no money or identification and no idea what to do next.

• Chu Hang rested after escaping his cell, found that his system was unresponsive, and used Energy Perception to navigate the base toward its sewage system.
• Nick Fury learned that Chu Hang was missing, ordered a secret search of the base, and watched Goose warily after she devoured the alien squad.
• Chu Hang followed the sewage pipes to the sea and tore the iron grate from the outlet with his remaining strength.
• Chu Hang reached the beach and realized he had escaped with no money, identification, or clear plan for surviving in the modern world.

After washing ashore in California in 1995, Chu Hang used his abilities to get clothes, money, and food, then found a business opportunity in the newspaper. He left before dawn with his first fortune in mind.

• Chu Hang recovered on a California beach and made his way toward the city to find clothes and food.
• Chu Hang heard three thugs robbing a waitress and attacked them, taking clothes and $127 while returning her handbag.
• Chu Hang bought a hot dog, Coke, and a newspaper at a convenience store.
• Chu Hang read the date, May 8, 1995, and spotted a report that Yahoo had secured funding and was preparing for an IPO.
• Chu Hang folded the newspaper, pocketed it, and disappeared into the darkness before dawn.

Chu Hang used his superhuman abilities to win thousands of dollars at the Queen of Spades casino, then fought his way out after Butcher accused him of cheating. He left with his first pot of gold and the newspaper pointing toward future opportunities.

• Chu Hang counted his remaining $103 and decided to use his enhanced abilities to earn money through gambling.
• Chu Hang asked a fat man at a bar where he could play high-stakes cards, and the man directed him to the Queen of Spades.
• Chu Hang used his memory and senses to win more than $5,000 at blackjack, then beat the casino manager's cheating attempt and reached a pile worth over $10,000.
• Butcher accused Chu Hang of cheating and ordered him to surrender his winnings and break one of his hands.
• Chu Hang killed one of Butcher's thugs, broke the other's knee, and fractured Butcher's wrist before leaving him a one-dollar tip.
• Chu Hang collected his chips from the casino manager and walked out with a bag of cash.

Chu Hang sought a forged identity so he could use his cash and invest in Yahoo’s upcoming public offering. After surviving Elias’s test, he hired the document broker to create a new life under the name Anthony Chen.

• Chu Hang counted Butcher’s $156,300 and decided he needed a legal identity to use the money and pursue investment opportunities.
• Chu Hang paid a bartender at Screaming Skull for a lead and learned to find Elias at The Book of Yesterday Bookstore.
• Elias instructed Chu Hang to leave a first edition of Moby-Dick at an alley as a test, where four armed men ambushed him.
• Chu Hang defeated the four attackers, and Elias led him to his identity-forging workshop.
• Chu Hang paid Elias a $50,000 deposit for a complete United States identity and chose the name Anthony Chen.

Chu Hang spent a week learning about the modern era and mastering his new spatial abilities before Elias gave him a flawless new identity as Anthony Chen. After successfully depositing his cash, he spotted Nick Fury and Phil Coulson outside the bank and escaped without being recognized.

• Chu Hang studied modern history, economics, and computers while training his fused power, learning to bend light, distort objects, deflect bullets slightly, and jump several meters through space.
• Elias gave Chu Hang forged records establishing him as Anthony Chen, a twenty-two-year-old orphan, and warned him that his new identity could bring both opportunity and danger.
• Anthony Chen deposited $55,300 into his new bank account, confirming that Elias's forged identity worked.
• As Anthony left the bank, he saw Nick Fury and Phil Coulson watching the entrance and suspected that S.H.I.E.L.D. was searching for him.
• Chu Hang watched Fury and Coulson leave, waited inside the bank, and slipped out through a side entrance before disappearing into the streets.

Chu Hang established a hidden base as Anthony Chen, moved his money into an online securities account, and trained while searching for people with unusual abilities. After finding evidence that Logan was alive and locating Xavier’s school, Chu Hang decided to become a hunter of superpowers.

• Chu Hang rented an apartment under the identity Anthony Chen, bought a computer, and transferred more than fifty thousand dollars into a newly opened securities account.
• Nick Fury and Phil Coulson investigated Anthony Chen, but Fury suspended active surveillance and redirected S.H.I.E.L.D. toward finding Carol Danvers and Chu Hang after learning about anomalous energy at Project Pegasus.
• Chu Hang studied financial news, trained his body, and practiced controlling his spatial energy while waiting for Yahoo’s public listing.
• Chu Hang searched the early internet for people with special abilities and found reports identifying Shadowcat, Kitty Pryde, and Logan.
• Chu Hang recognized Logan in a blurry photograph, saved the article and Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters as future leads, and resolved to hunt for superpowers.

After spending six years collecting mutant abilities, Chu Hang sensed Carol Danvers return to the Project Pegasus ruins and confronted her there. Their matching cosmic energy restarted his Superpower Copier, which let him choose among Carol’s abilities to copy.

• Chu Hang sold his Yahoo shares for twelve million dollars and invested in Amazon and Google.
• Chu Hang copied abilities from Storm Ororo, a Louisiana card-thrower, Beast, and Mystique Raven, then spent six years collecting more powers.
• In 2001, Chu Hang sensed Carol Danvers’s cosmic energy as she fell toward the Project Pegasus ruins and teleported there.
• Carol arrived at the ruins with fragmented memories and challenged Chu Hang, who revealed his stable golden cosmic energy.
• The resonance between their powers restarted Chu Hang’s Superpower Copier and unlocked Ability Analysis.
• The system presented Carol’s Binary, strength, endurance, flight, and energy absorption and release as abilities Chu Hang could copy.

Chu Hang used Ability Analysis to select and integrate a complete Binary template, stabilizing his Cosmic Cube Energy and gaining precise control over it. After suppressing Carol’s power and beginning to question her about her past, he fled with her as Nick Fury and Phil Coulson arrived at the ruins.

• Chu Hang learned that the Binary ability he had copied six years earlier was only 17% complete and had caused dangerous energy conflicts inside his body.
• Chu Hang selected the complete Binary template, which integrated and stabilized his Cosmic Cube Energy and improved his control over space.
• Carol experienced fragments of Chu Hang’s memories and watched him suppress her unstable Binary power with ease.
• Chu Hang asked Carol about her identity and forgotten past, but Nick Fury and Phil Coulson arrived before she could answer.
• Chu Hang grabbed Carol and flew away at supersonic speed, leaving Fury and Coulson staring after them.

Chu Hang took Carol to a remote salt flat, explained that their powers came from the same Lightspeed Engine accident, and helped her recover memories of her life before the Kree. Carol remembered her friend Maria and an address in Louisiana, and they flew there together as Nick Fury ordered a space-based weapons system deployed.

• Chu Hang carried Carol to a deserted salt flat, where she questioned him about their shared powers and her visions of his memories.
• Chu Hang said their powers came from the Lightspeed Engine explosion at Project Pegasus and challenged Carol's belief that the Kree had given her power and saved her.
• Carol attacked Chu Hang, but he stopped and redirected her energy beams, then soothed her unstable power and encouraged her to accept her memories.
• Carol remembered Doctor Lawson, Maria, and a home near an Air Force base in Louisiana, then asked Chu Hang to take her there.
• Carol took Chu Hang's hand, and the two flew southeast toward Louisiana as Nick Fury arrived at the empty salt flat and ordered authorization for a space-based kinetic weapons system.

Carol reunited with Maria Rambeau and Monica after returning to Earth, while Chu Hang guarded their reunion from S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury confronted Chu Hang at the house, but withdrew after Chu Hang demonstrated his power and revealed knowledge of the Avengers Initiative.

• Carol arrived with Chu Hang at Maria Rambeau’s Louisiana home and recovered memories of her life with Maria and Monica.
• Maria recognized Carol, and the two reunited before Monica joined them and embraced her Aunt Carol.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents surrounded the house, and Nick Fury and Phil Coulson came to question Carol and Chu Hang.
• Chu Hang refused to let Fury and Coulson inside, then exposed and incapacitated a hidden sniper with an unseen force.
• Chu Hang revealed that he knew about Fury’s secret Avengers Initiative and ordered the agents to leave.
• Fury ordered his team to withdraw after Chu Hang shut the door on him.

After driving off the one-eyed visitor, Chu Hang helped Carol settle into life on Earth while quietly refining his control over his powers. He showed Monica a glimpse of his abilities, but the peaceful days ended when an attacker arrived and fired a green energy beam at Maria’s house.

• Chu Hang sent the one-eyed man and his SUVs away, reassuring Maria and Carol that they were safe.
• The next morning, Chu Hang urged Carol to master control of her energy before the Kree found her again.
• Over the following days, Carol revisited familiar places with Maria while Chu Hang practiced manipulating space and watched for S.H.I.E.L.D.’s surveillance.
• Monica asked whether Chu Hang had knocked out the intruder, and he impressed her by shaping a floating droplet of lemonade into figures.
• Chu Hang sensed visitors approaching, rushed to the roof, and warned that they had come for Carol as a green energy beam shot toward Maria’s house.

Chu Hang stopped a Kree attack on Maria and Monica, then confronted Yon-Rogg and his squad in the sky. After defeating the soldiers and capturing Yon-Rogg, he left him on the lawn to answer for what he had done to Carol.

• Chu Hang caught the Kree beam aimed at Maria and Monica, compressed it into a sphere, and hurled it back into the sky, destroying the reconnaissance ship.
• Chu Hang appeared beside Yon-Rogg and five Kree soldiers, corrected Yon-Rogg about Carol Danvers’s name, and rebuked him for firing on a home.
• The Kree soldiers fired at Chu Hang, but his spatial-curvature field extinguished their energy beams.
• Chu Hang seized Yon-Rogg and crushed his shoulder, while the four other soldiers were killed in separate attacks.
• Carol watched as Chu Hang brought Yon-Rogg to the lawn, pinned him beneath his foot, and demanded a talk about what he had done to her.

Chu Hang learned that the Kree had altered Carol’s memories and installed an Energy Inhibitor, then stopped her from killing Yon-Rogg and impersonated him to deceive the Kree. He gained time to help Carol master her power and remove the inhibitor, and replicated Yon-Rogg’s Will Barrier ability.

• Chu Hang interrogated Yon-Rogg, who revealed that the Supreme Intelligence had ordered Carol returned and that an Energy Inhibitor suppressed her powers and filtered her emotions.
• Carol discovered the inhibitor beneath her skin and nearly killed Yon-Rogg in a rage, but Chu Hang calmed her and persuaded her to keep him alive.
• Chu Hang removed Yon-Rogg’s communications device, mimicked his appearance, and reported to the Kree that Carol had been captured and was being escorted to Hala.
• Chu Hang explained that the deception bought time for Carol to train and remove the inhibitor, while he sealed Yon-Rogg in Maria’s tool shed.
• Chu Hang used his weekly replication cycle to copy Yon-Rogg’s A-rank Will Barrier ability.

Chu Hang trained Carol to control her energy and helped her remove the inhibitor, allowing her to embrace her full power and become Captain Marvel. While Carol celebrated her new abilities, Chu Hang began planning a global investment empire.

• Chu Hang taught Carol to separate her emotions from her energy, and she gradually learned to hold a small, steady beam of light.
• Chu Hang took Carol to a remote wasteland, where she used a precisely controlled energy needle to sever the inhibitor’s connections to her nerves.
• The inhibitor’s removal unleashed Carol’s immense power, and Chu Hang guided her through her fear until she accepted and controlled it.
• Carol rose into the air with her power contained and became Captain Marvel.
• That night, Carol entertained Monica with light displays while Chu Hang drafted an investment plan naming future technology companies and considered using his abilities and future knowledge to build a global commercial empire.

Carol trained to control her energy while Chu Hang built a network of investments and identities. The chapter ended when a Skrull refugee ship appeared near the house just as Nick Fury arrived at the door.

• Chu Hang erased Carol's runaway energy sphere by redirecting it into space, then explained that she needed to master fine control before confronting the Kree.
• Carol practiced precise energy control while Chu Hang used fabricated identities to invest in companies such as Yahoo and Google.
• Chu Hang sensed an abnormal spatial disturbance near the northwestern woods and watched a concealed Skrull ship appear.
• Carol recognized the ship, and Chu Hang calmed her and identified the Skrulls aboard as refugees rather than an army.
• Nick Fury arrived alone at the front door as the Skrulls waited outside, leaving both groups gathered at the house.

Chu Hang brought Nick Fury, Carol, and Talos together to negotiate after Talos revealed the Skrulls’ plight and Doctor Lawson’s message exposed the Kree’s deception. Monica knew where Lawson’s hidden laboratory was, so the group agreed to search for it, while Talos’s people waited aboard their ship.

• Chu Hang invited Fury and Talos into the house and introduced the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and Skrull general to one another.
• Talos explained that the Kree had destroyed Skrullos and that Doctor Lawson had promised the refugees coordinates to a new home hidden in her laboratory.
• Talos played Lawson’s recording, which restored Carol’s memory and revealed that the Kree had deceived her; Chu Hang stopped Carol’s energy surge before it harmed anyone.
• Chu Hang outlined a plan to find Lawson’s laboratory, and Monica revealed that Lawson had taken her there on a computer and called it her office among the stars.
• Fury agreed to provide S.H.I.E.L.D. resources and an aircraft in exchange for intelligence, Carol chose to pursue the truth, and Talos agreed to keep his people aboard their ship.