Chapter Summaries

Chu Hang awoke on a World War II battlefield and copied a Healing Factor from a wounded soldier to survive a fatal injury. As a charge began, he realized the soldier was Logan, Wolverine, and wondered what he had copied.

• Chu Hang woke in a shell crater on a battlefield and learned that the Superpower Copier System had activated.
• A shrapnel wound left Chu Hang bleeding to death, so he targeted a bearded soldier who kept fighting after being shot.
• Chu Hang copied the soldier’s Healing Factor, and the ability rapidly healed his wound.
• As the soldiers charged, the bearded man revealed three bone claws, leading Chu Hang to recognize him as Logan, Wolverine.

Chu Hang survived his first battlefield charge with his newly acquired Healing Factor and helped Logan defeat a German machine-gun crew. After they became effective partners, a mustached officer approached them with an offer of a different assignment.

• Chu Hang was shot in the shoulder during the charge, but his Healing Factor expelled the bullet and healed the wound despite the pain.
• When a German MG42 pinned down Logan, Chu Hang ambushed the machine-gun crew with an entrenching tool and killed both soldiers.
• Logan praised Chu Hang, and after the battle Chu Hang explained his rapid healing before they introduced themselves and shook hands.
• Chu Hang and Logan fought side by side over the next two days, charging and ambushing German forces together.
• An officer in a bowler hat approached Chu Hang and Logan after they repelled a counterattack and offered them a more interesting job.

Chu Hang and Logan joined Dum Dum Dugan’s newly formed Howling Commandos after learning their target was Hydra. As the squad prepared to back up Captain America on a mission to rescue Bucky Barnes and other prisoners, Chu Hang realized his replication ability would remain on cooldown for more than four days.

• Logan refused Dugan’s offer at first, but Chu Hang persuaded him that joining the army would provide better support and tougher fights.
• Dugan brought Chu Hang and Logan to a secret underground facility and introduced them to the other recruits selected for the Howling Commandos.
• Dugan showed the recruits footage of Hydra’s energy weapons and explained that the squad would strike the organization behind enemy lines.
• Dugan revealed Captain America’s promotional footage and identified Steve Rogers as the only successful Super-Soldier program subject.
• Dugan announced that the Commandos’ first mission was to back up Captain America as he rescued Bucky Barnes and more than a hundred captured soldiers.
• Chu Hang checked his system, saw that his replication ability had over four days left on cooldown, and began planning how to survive and get close to Captain America.

Chu Hang prepared for a Hydra mission by gathering specialized cold-weather, climbing, survival, and explosive gear, while his ability to copy powers remained on cooldown. Dugan’s team flew toward Klausberg, Austria, to draw Hydra’s attention and support Captain America’s rescue operation.

• Dugan showed Chu Hang and the team their barracks, where Chu Hang met the other soldiers while Logan kept to himself.
• Chu Hang calculated that his copying ability would remain unavailable for four days and that he needed to keep himself and Captain America alive until then.
• At the armory, Chu Hang persuaded Dugan to equip the team with cold-weather clothes, a grappling hook, rope, high-calorie food, and extra C2 Plastic Explosive.
• Dugan briefed the team that they would raid Hydra’s weapons research factory in Klausberg, Austria, as bait and support for Captain America’s infiltration and rescue mission.
• Chu Hang boarded the C-47 with the team and watched the cooldown continue as they flew toward Austria.

Chu Hang and the Howling Commandos flew toward a Nazi factory on a mission to draw away its guards, but German anti-aircraft fire struck their transport plane. With the aircraft on fire and losing altitude, Chu Hang jumped into the darkness despite never having practiced parachuting.

• Dugan briefed the Howling Commandos on Operation Hell's Kitchen and ordered them to withdraw west after hearing three explosions from inside the factory.
• Chu Hang shared food and joked with the men, easing the tension in the cabin while privately worrying about his fear and Healing Factor cooldown.
• German anti-aircraft fire hit the C-47, setting its right engine ablaze and forcing Dugan to order everyone to jump.
• Dugan and the other commandos parachuted into the darkness, directing the survivors to gather near the factory lights and find Captain America.
• Chu Hang urged two terrified soldiers to jump, then leaped from the plane himself as it exploded behind him.

Chu Hang survived a nighttime parachute jump after struggling to find the ripcord, then crashed into a pine tree and landed in snow. Alone in the forest, he headed toward the factory where his team was meant to gather, but a sound in the darkness alerted him to a possible nearby threat.

• Chu Hang remembered Dugan's parachute lesson, found the ripcord, and yanked it open despite the painful force of the harness.
• Chu Hang spotted his teammates in the sky but failed to steer toward them and drifted farther away in a crosswind.
• Chu Hang's parachute snagged in a pine tree, and he cut himself free before plunging into a pile of snow.
• Chu Hang used his compass and the distant firelight to orient himself and set out toward the factory in the east.
• Chu Hang heard a branch snap nearby, raised his submachine gun, and waited to learn whether the sound came from a teammate, German soldiers, or an animal.

Chu Hang ambushed and killed a four-man patrol after being dropped into a snowy forest. He discovered Hydra insignias on the soldiers and realized his parachute jump had landed inside the security perimeter of a secret Hydra base.

• Chu Hang heard a disciplined patrol approaching and hid behind a fallen pine tree.
• Chu Hang silently killed the last German soldier, but the other three noticed he was missing.
• Chu Hang exchanged fire with the remaining soldiers, using a grenade to create an opening and shooting two of them.
• Chu Hang rushed the final soldier during a reload, broke his wrist, and killed him with an elbow strike.
• Chu Hang searched the bodies and found Hydra insignias and tattoos, identifying the area as a secret Hydra base.

After killing four Hydra soldiers, Chu Hang looted their weapons and supplies and found a patrol map, a communicator, and a mysterious Energy Block. Hearing search dogs approach, he fled into the snowy forest, choosing a remote hiding place instead of heading toward the Hydra factory.

• Chu Hang searched the dead Hydra soldiers and took their MP40, ammunition, grenades, food, map, and communicator.
• Chu Hang discovered a glowing blue Energy Block in a soldier's spilled backpack and pocketed it.
• Chu Hang heard search dogs approaching and realized Hydra had sent a larger search party.
• Chu Hang used the map's patrol routes to choose a remote direction and disappeared into the forest as the snow covered his tracks.

Chu Hang escaped Hydra’s search dogs by running through a stream and hiding in a concealed cave, where he examined the patrol map and Energy Block. As he searched deeper into the cavern, he heard a heavy metal object scraping in the darkness and realized he might not be alone.

• Chu Hang ran through snow and underbrush while Hydra soldiers pursued him with tracking dogs.
• Chu Hang crossed a freezing stream to throw the dogs off his scent and found a concealed cave entrance beneath shrubs.
• Chu Hang squeezed into the cave, ate a compressed biscuit, and studied Hydra’s patrol map while safeguarding the Energy Block.
• Chu Hang saw the search party’s lights moving away and decided to inspect the cave before resting.
• Chu Hang heard a heavy metal object scraping across stone deeper in the cave, and his lighter went out in the darkness.

Chu Hang found Gabe Jones trapped in a cave and freed his injured leg, but Gabe could barely walk. With the Superpower Copier's cooldown leaving Chu Hang only three days to find Captain America, he faced the added burden of escorting Gabe through the darkness.

• Chu Hang heard scraping in the dark and cautiously answered a voice calling out in English.
• Chu Hang recognized Gabe Jones, who had been caught in a bear trap after becoming separated from the others.
• Chu Hang pried open the trap with his bare hands, allowing Gabe to pull out his badly injured leg.
• Chu Hang treated Gabe's wounds and gave him food and water.
• Chu Hang realized he had three days to find Captain America, while Gabe's injury made their escape much harder.

Chu Hang rescued the wounded Gabe Jones and improvised a sled to get him moving toward a hunter’s hut. After they traveled through the night, Chu Hang spotted the factory much sooner than expected and realized the map might be wrong.

• Chu Hang explained his unusual strength to Gabe and insisted that he would not abandon his teammate.
• Chu Hang used the map to choose a route to a hunter’s hut, then built a sled to transport Gabe’s injured leg.
• Chu Hang found wild Arnica, made it into a paste, and applied it to Gabe’s wound, easing his pain.
• Chu Hang dragged Gabe through the night toward the hut and later spotted the factory’s lights in the distance.
• Chu Hang compared the factory’s location with the map and suspected that the map was wrong.

Chu Hang realized Hydra had planted a fake map to lure them into an exposed trap, then found a hidden riverside cave where he and Gabe could take shelter. With the factory still unlocated and only two days before his power-copying cooldown ended, Chu Hang began doubting whether he should continue the mission with Gabe.

• Chu Hang noticed the factory was far closer than the map indicated and concluded that Hydra had set a trap for them.
• Gabe Jones offered to stay behind so Chu Hang could go alone, but Chu Hang refused to abandon him.
• Chu Hang listened for the river and led Gabe away from the map's route toward a lower, densely wooded area.
• Chu Hang found a concealed rock cave by the river, brought Gabe and their equipment inside, and camouflaged the entrance.
• Chu Hang checked his cooldown and worried that he had only two days to find the factory while caring for the wounded Gabe.

Chu Hang refused to abandon the wounded Gabe and used a captured Hydra communicator to listen in on enemy movements. As Captain America was surrounded and Hydra's elite tracker closed in on Chu Hang and Gabe's hiding place, they faced danger from both sides.

• Chu Hang rejected Gabe's suggestion to leave him behind and insisted they would survive or die together.
• Chu Hang gave Gabe the captured communicator, and Gabe listened to Hydra's German radio traffic.
• Gabe learned Hydra had found two parachutes and sent an elite tracking squad called the Hound to hunt them.
• A Hydra patrol reported spotting Captain America on the western ridge, and the command center ordered troops to surround him and capture him alive.
• The Hound reported finding traces of two people, one injured, and said he could smell Chu Hang and Gabe nearby.

Chu Hang and Gabe were trapped in a cave with the Hydra soldier Hound closing in, but Chu Hang devised a plan to lure him away with fake radio reports and an explosion. Hound believed the report and headed upstream, giving them a chance to escape.

• Hound told command he had scented Chu Hang and Gabe and would hunt them alone while the other Hydra forces pursued Captain America.
• Gabe offered to draw Hound away so Chu Hang could flee, but Chu Hang refused to abandon him and realized the other Hydra soldiers had been drawn west.
• Chu Hang proposed using the Hydra communicator and a C-4 explosion upstream to trick Hound into leaving the riverbank.
• Chu Hang planted the explosive upstream, then returned to the cave as Gabe rehearsed a panicked report.
• Gabe radioed that he had found the fugitives upstream in A3 Area, and Chu Hang detonated the C-4.
• Hound ordered the other units to hold position and said he would go to A3 Area himself.

Chu Hang escaped the cave with the injured Gabe and plunged into a freezing river to evade Hound, who pursued them through the treetops. Hiding in reeds with Gabe near death from the cold, Chu Hang decided he would lure Captain America to him rather than attempt a rescue himself.

• Chu Hang grabbed Gabe and fled the cave after Hound said he was on his way.
• Chu Hang and Gabe jumped into the river, and Chu Hang realized Hound was following them through the trees.
• Chu Hang dragged the nearly unconscious Gabe downstream and found shelter in a reed bed.
• Chu Hang stripped off Gabe's wet clothes and rubbed him with a dry shirt to try to warm him.
• Chu Hang checked his copy ability's cooldown, heard distant gunfire from the western ridge, and resolved to make Captain America come to him.

Freezing and close to death, Chu Hang devised a plan to lure Captain America toward the reeds by impersonating a Hydra commander and ordering troops away from the eastern encirclement. The fake order worked, but the Hound exposed the deception and declared that he knew where Chu Hang and Gabe were.

• Chu Hang realized that Hydra's focus on Captain America and the Hound's diversion had left the reeds near the riverbank sparsely guarded.
• Chu Hang persuaded the nearly unconscious Gabe to help him draw Captain America toward them by sending a fake order over Hydra's command channel.
• Chu Hang impersonated a Hydra officer and ordered the troops in the eastern encirclement to redeploy south, claiming the Allies had been spotted there.
• When a young officer questioned the order, Chu Hang threatened him until the troops agreed to withdraw and began assembling.
• The Hound announced over the channel that the southern line was empty, revealed that he had located Chu Hang and Gabe, and declared the game over.

Chu Hang realized Hound’s public announcement had thrown Hydra’s squads into confusion and gambled that Captain America would charge through the loosened encirclement. He set a C-4 tripwire to draw Steve toward their hiding place, but Hound arrived downstream just as gunfire erupted from the western ridge, leaving Chu Hang and Gabe trapped between them.

• Chu Hang revived Gabe’s hope by explaining that Hound’s public-channel announcement would make the Hydra squads hesitate and disrupt their response.
• Chu Hang reasoned that Captain America would exploit the loosened eastern encirclement and charge toward the riverbank, putting them between Steve and Hound.
• Chu Hang hid Gabe behind a rock and rigged C-4 with a tripwire near the reeds to signal Captain America.
• Gunfire and explosions erupted from the western ridge as Captain America broke through, while Hound appeared downstream and locked onto the reeds where Chu Hang and Gabe were hiding.

Chu Hang and Gabe faced the Hound before Captain America could reach them, but Steve Rogers’s shield triggered Chu Hang’s tripwire and blasted the Hound into the river. As Hydra soldiers attacked, Chu Hang helped Captain America spot and eliminate three flanking enemies, while the battle continued.

• Chu Hang prepared to fight the approaching Hound while Captain America and Hydra pursuers raced toward the riverbank.
• The Hound spotted Chu Hang’s tripwire and moved to destroy it, but Captain America’s shield struck a nearby tree and rebounded into him.
• The Hound stumbled onto the tripwire, and Chu Hang’s C4 explosion hurled him into the river as Captain America arrived.
• Hydra soldiers opened fire, and Chu Hang took cover with Gabe before warning Captain America about three flanking soldiers.
• Captain America threw his shield toward the flank and silenced the three Hydra soldiers, then looked toward Chu Hang with surprise and gratitude.

Chu Hang fought alongside Captain America against a Hydra force and helped rout the enemy. After the battle, Captain America praised Chu Hang and welcomed him to the war.

• Chu Hang snapped out of his shock at seeing Captain America and charged out from cover to attack the Hydra soldiers.
• Chu Hang disabled a Hydra machine gun and warned Captain America of an energy-weapon operator, whom Captain America killed with a shield throw.
• Chu Hang provided suppressing fire while Captain America fought through the Hydra lines, and their teamwork drove the soldiers to flee.
• After the battle, Captain America asked whether Chu Hang and Gabe belonged to the Howling Commandos and learned Chu Hang was from D Company.
• Captain America praised Chu Hang’s performance and welcomed him to the war.

Steve Rogers assessed Gabe’s severe injuries as the Hound emerged from the river and attacked him. Chu Hang copied Steve’s Super-Soldier Serum while saving him from a knife strike, but the Hound stabbed Chu Hang, leaving him unconscious.

• Steve examined Gabe and said he urgently needed professional medical treatment.
• The Hound survived the C4 blast, emerged from the river, and charged at Steve.
• Steve blocked the Hound’s relentless knife attacks with his shield.
• Chu Hang’s Superpower Copier became ready, and he waited for a chance to touch Steve.
• Chu Hang shoved Steve out of the way of the Hound’s knife and copied Steve’s Super-Soldier Serum.
• The Hound stabbed Chu Hang in the flank, and Chu Hang collapsed unconscious.