Chapter Summaries

Apocalypse and Magneto attacked Xavier's School, forcing Chu Hang and the injured X-Men to defend the students and confront them. Chu Hang battled Apocalypse while working with Charles to break Apocalypse's mental hold over Magneto, and Charles reached Erik's imprisoned consciousness as Erik confessed his guilt.

• Chu Hang warned Charles that Apocalypse and Magneto were approaching, and the X-Men prepared the students' evacuation and the school's defenses.
• Chu Hang assigned Charles to reach Magneto's mind while he and the others defended the school from Apocalypse's attack.
• Apocalypse arrived with Magneto and attacked the main building, but Chu Hang stopped the first wave and met Apocalypse's golden domain with his own.
• Chu Hang fought Apocalypse while probing the runic barrier imprisoning Magneto, and Charles used the Brainwave Amplifier to reach Erik's consciousness.
• Charles found Erik trapped in a white mental space, where Erik told him he could feel the victims' fear and pain when Apocalypse forced him to kill.

Charles restored Erik’s memories and freed him from Apocalypse’s control, allowing Erik to attack Apocalypse alongside Chu Hang. As Apocalypse threatened the school, Chu Hang helped Jean awaken and merge with the Phoenix Force, leaving her facing Apocalypse with a power that could threaten him.

• Charles reached Erik’s consciousness, reminded him of his family and their ideals, and broke Apocalypse’s golden brand.
• Erik destroyed the metal sphere around the school and attacked Apocalypse with a barrage of steel spears.
• Chu Hang struck a crack in Apocalypse’s shield with the Dark Trident, wounding him, but Apocalypse retaliated and hurled Erik into a crater.
• Chu Hang marked the school’s living beings with his laws, then urged Jean to guide the Phoenix Force toward protecting them.
• Jean accepted the Phoenix Force and unleashed a golden-red domain that stopped and consumed Apocalypse’s attack before it reached the infirmary.
• Jean told Apocalypse that his era had ended, as Chu Hang copied her awakened Phoenix Force.

Jean defeated Apocalypse with the Phoenix Force, but the awakened power spiraled out of control and threatened Xavier's School and New York. Chu Hang entered Jean's mind and strengthened her telekinesis, creating a cycle that let her control the Phoenix Force; she ended the chapter with perfect control and immense power.

• Jean pierced Apocalypse's golden domain with a Phoenix Force spear, erasing him completely.
• After Apocalypse died, the Phoenix Force erupted around Jean, and Scott, Ororo, Psylocke, Angel, and Professor Charles failed to reach or calm her.
• Chu Hang used the Phoenix Force he had copied to protect himself as he approached Jean and entered her mental world through a passage formed with his laws.
• Chu Hang used Ability Amplification to strengthen Jean's X-Gene and telekinesis, then carved a circuit linking them to the Phoenix Force.
• The Phoenix Force settled into the circuit, and Jean regained control, drew the tornado back into herself, and demonstrated precise command of her flames.

Chu Hang copied Jean’s Phoenix Force and nearly died when its source confronted him and he tried to tame it. Jean used a life-merging ritual to anchor him, helping him absorb the power as his laws evolved, and the chapter left him rising toward Cosmic Overlord-level.

• Chu Hang’s copied Phoenix Force overwhelmed his body, and the Phoenix Force’s source confronted him with the choice to surrender it or risk death taming it.
• Chu Hang refused to give up the power and dropped his defenses, using the Phoenix Force as fuel for his laws as his consciousness began to collapse.
• The Fire Phoenix told Jean she could save Chu Hang by linking their consciousnesses and life energy through a Life-Merging Ritual.
• Jean sent her Phoenix Force and life energy into Chu Hang, forming a cycle that stabilized his essence and helped his Devouring Law absorb the Phoenix Force.
• Chu Hang’s laws transformed as the Devouring Law fused with the Greed Concept into the Insatiable Evolutionary Drive, and his aura rose toward Cosmic Overlord-level.

After Jean saved Chu Hang from the runaway Phoenix Force, her soul fragment helped his clone break through to the Cosmic Overlord-level and allowed his true body to enter the X-Men Universe. Chu Hang merged with the clone and left, while Jean remained bound to him by their deepened soul connection.

• Chu Hang woke in the Xavier's School infirmary and learned that Jean had used the Life-Merging Ritual to stabilize him, sharing her life force and part of her soul.
• Chu Hang realized Jean's soul fragment had anchored his origin, enabled his breakthrough, and connected him to the X-Men Universe.
• Chu Hang sensed his true body approaching through a rift in the sky, and Charles ordered everyone at the school into the shelter.
• Chu Hang's true body descended into the infirmary and merged with the clone, reaching the Mid Cosmic Overlord-level and stabilizing his connection to the universe.
• Chu Hang marked Jean so she could summon him in danger, then left through a spatial rift as Jean felt their soul entanglement persist.

After returning from the X-Men Universe with the Phoenix Force and a new anchor, Chu Hang learned that Kang-117 had destroyed seven universes under the Anti-Monitor’s influence. He planned to unite key universes into a Multiverse Alliance before the Void Land could break through, leaving Wanda behind to help Loki coordinate the Time Variance Authority.

• Chu Hang stabilized his mid cosmic overlord-level strength and told Wanda that Jean Grey had saved his clone and left a soul fragment in his essence.
• Wanda sensed Jean’s love for Chu Hang, then asked him to keep her as the deepest anchor in his essence, and he promised he would.
• Loki told Chu Hang that Kang-117 had erased seven universes and was collecting temporal energy for an unknown being who promised him uniqueness across the Multiverse.
• Chu Hang judged the Anti-Monitor more likely than Eternity to be behind the sacrifices, while Wanda sensed expanding fractures near the Void Land.
• Loki explained that Kang-117’s targets formed a pattern that could destabilize the Multiverse, and that the Time Variance Authority’s squads had failed to stop him.
• Chu Hang decided to send avatars to key universes to build alliances, while Wanda stayed with Loki to support the Time Variance Authority.

Chu Hang sent a powerful clone to Universe B-7 to establish an anchor point, investigate Compound V, and assess Homelander. After uncovering Vought’s deception and Homelander’s fractured mind, the clone learned that Homelander’s childhood abuse had left him suppressing a destructive urge behind the image of a hero.

• Chu Hang created a clone with ten laws and sent it through a rift to Universe B-7 to investigate its powers and recruit or eliminate Homelander if possible.
• The clone arrived in Manhattan, heard people arguing over whether The Seven were heroes or corporate frauds, and sensed Homelander’s deeply twisted consciousness through Telepathy.
• At an internet café, the clone found evidence of Vought’s deadly Compound V trials and watched footage showing Homelander and Queen Maeve abandon a doomed plane to protect their public image.
• The clone sensed The Seven at Vought Tower and focused on Homelander, finding his thoughts fractured between self-loathing, rage, and a need to be loved.
• The clone uncovered Homelander’s memories of laboratory tests and isolation, and learned that he maintained his heroic persona through fragile illusions about being loved.

Chu Hang's double infiltrated Vought Tower, uncovered how Compound V created Metahumans, and examined Homelander's unstable biology. He copied the Alchemical Law and left with a new understanding of how powers could be created.

• Chu Hang's double used a stolen access card to search Vought Corporation's archives and learned that Compound V was a catalyst developed from the genetic material of three captured Metahumans.
• Chu Hang's double read Homelander's file and discovered that Vought had created him as a baby with an extreme dose of Compound V, despite reports of his severe emotional impairment.
• Chu Hang's double secretly entered Homelander's lounge and found that Compound V had left unstable purple substance and an alchemical sigil in Homelander's cells.
• Homelander pulled back the curtains, declared that he was a hero everyone loved, and repeatedly wounded his hand to control his inner darkness.
• Chu Hang's double copied the Alchemical Law from Compound V's underlying principles, then left Vought Tower with the knowledge that it could create powers through equivalent exchange.

Chu Hang's duplicate exposed Vought's crimes and the truth about The Seven through a global broadcast, triggering worldwide outrage and destroying the company's public standing. Homelander rejected Vought's attempt to abandon him and flew into the night, while Chu Hang's duplicate waited to see what he would do next.

• Chu Hang's duplicate hacked Vought's global servers, stole records of Compound V experiments and The Seven's crimes, and sent the files to The Boys, news outlets, and connected devices worldwide.
• Chu Hang's duplicate used the Laws of Space and Reality to broadcast footage of Vought's infant experiments, Homelander's training, and The Seven's crimes across the world.
• People around the world erupted in outrage, while Vought's stock crashed, governments froze its assets, and the FBI arrived at its headquarters.
• Ashley and Vought's board decided to blame the deceased former CEO, disband The Seven, and publicly cut ties with Homelander.
• Homelander confronted the board, rejected Ashley's explanation, and flew away after Queen Maeve, Starlight, and Black Noir tried to stop him.
• Chu Hang's duplicate sensed Homelander's darkness erupting, shut down the computers, and opened a spatial rift as he awaited Homelander's next move.

Homelander destroyed Vought Tower, the laboratory where he was created, and a Compound V production plant as hatred drove him to attack Vought. Chu Hang's clone intervened by altering the Compound V in Homelander, leaving him incapacitated and permanently weakening his powers by thirty percent.

• Homelander used his Heat Vision to destroy the Seven's emblem and collapse the upper half of Vought Tower.
• Homelander broke into Vought's Long Island laboratory, smashed its test chambers and Compound V stores, and destroyed the building's supports.
• Homelander attacked the New Jersey Compound V plant, ruptured its reactors, and triggered a fire as workers fled.
• Queen Maeve, Starlight, and Black Noir watched the ruins of Vought Tower and resolved to stop Homelander.
• Chu Hang's clone arrived through a spatial rift, found Homelander at the plant, and used a runic array to rewrite the Compound V inside him.
• Homelander collapsed in agony as his powers ran wild, while Chu Hang's clone left an anchor that restrained him and permanently reduced his power by thirty percent.

Homelander's power began to fail as he attacked Vought targets, and Starlight confronted him at the Vought Memorial Museum. Chu Hang's clone rescued Starlight and revealed that Homelander would destroy himself, leaving Starlight to return to Queen Maeve with a new understanding of the danger facing them.

• Homelander's power weakened, but he destroyed twelve F-22s and demolished Vought's European headquarters in London.
• Starlight left Vought's command center and flew to the Vought Memorial Museum, where Homelander destroyed the building and threatened to kill her in front of the cameras.
• Homelander overpowered Starlight, but Chu Hang's clone appeared, caused Homelander intense chest pain, and took Starlight through a spatial rift.
• In a Lower Manhattan alley, Chu Hang's clone told Starlight to stay alive if she wanted to change things and said Homelander would destroy himself.
• Starlight called Queen Maeve and agreed to return to base to discuss Homelander, Vought, and the man who had saved her.

Starlight tracked the unknown energy reading to a hidden Vought laboratory and discovered that Soldier Boy, a far more powerful early Compound V subject, was about to awaken. Chu Hang's duplicate tried to contain him, but Soldier Boy emerged and attacked, leaving the duplicate to exploit the energy anchor and Starlight readying a beam.

• Starlight found an unexplained energy fluctuation in eastern Brooklyn and went to investigate despite Queen Maeve's warning.
• Starlight broke into a hidden underground Vought facility, where Chu Hang's duplicate revealed that Soldier Boy was thawing and could be three times stronger than Homelander.
• Chu Hang's duplicate placed a temporary energy anchor in Soldier Boy, but the failing freezer could not prevent him from waking.
• Soldier Boy burst through the chamber door and attacked Starlight with uncontrolled energy, overpowering her beam.
• Chu Hang's duplicate resonated with Soldier Boy's Compound V conduits, making his energy turn chaotic as Starlight prepared her strongest attack.

Chu Hang's double stabilized Soldier Boy with the Alchemical Law and the Law of Life, renamed him Benjamin, and bound him to a guiding anchor. As Homelander headed back toward the U.S. East Coast, Starlight agreed to accompany Chu Hang's double after demanding that he protect innocent people, and he opened a rift in space.

• Chu Hang's double rewrote the flow of Compound V in Soldier Boy's body and repaired his damaged gene chains, bringing the rampaging man back to awareness.
• Chu Hang's double named Soldier Boy Benjamin and planted a mental anchor that made him instinctively obey while retaining some free will.
• Benjamin demonstrated his strength by punching through a concrete wall, and Chu Hang's double told Starlight that Benjamin now lived for him.
• Chu Hang's double learned that Homelander was flying over the Atlantic toward the U.S. East Coast and said he would bring him down rather than kill him.
• Starlight agreed to go with Chu Hang's double on the condition that he not hurt innocent people, and he opened a rift in space.

Chu Hang's clone confronted The Boys with the truths behind their losses and offered them the chance to kill Homelander in exchange for their obedience. Butcher accepted, and The Boys prepared to follow Chu Hang's plan for a showdown in three days.

• Chu Hang's clone and Benjamin brought Starlight to a warehouse, where Billy Butcher and The Boys confronted them with weapons.
• Chu Hang's clone stopped The Boys' attacks, restrained them, and revealed the truths behind their personal tragedies and Vought's crimes.
• Chu Hang's clone showed Butcher the circumstances of Becca's rape, pregnancy, imprisonment, and death, then offered The Boys a chance to kill Homelander and expose Vought.
• Butcher agreed to obey Chu Hang's clone on the condition that Homelander would die, and Chu Hang's clone gave him intelligence about Compound V, superpowered people's weaknesses, and Homelander's movements.
• Chu Hang's clone promised to contact The Boys in three days and give them a way into Homelander's shelter in Vought Tower, then left with Benjamin and Starlight.
• Butcher and the others accepted Chu Hang's offer, and Butcher vowed that they would kill Homelander in three days.

Chu Hang's clone showed Starlight his plan to regulate Supes and demonstrated how Butcher, Hughie, and Frenchie exposed and beat A-Train. After Queen Maeve was brought to the safehouse, Homelander threatened the United States and attacked the White House, prompting Chu Hang's clone to accelerate the plan to confront him.

• Chu Hang's clone explained his proposed system for registering Supes, assigning them roles, and eliminating those who broke its rules, while Starlight challenged his authority.
• Chu Hang's clone directed Butcher, Hughie, and Frenchie to attack A-Train, suppress his powers, and expose evidence of his crimes and Vought's cover-ups.
• Benjamin brought Queen Maeve to the safehouse, where Chu Hang's clone offered her a choice to support his cause or remain vulnerable to Homelander and Vought.
• Homelander threatened to seize power within seventy-two hours and damaged the White House, while Starlight and Queen Maeve watched.
• Chu Hang's clone told Butcher to move up the plan and prepare for Homelander's return to New York.

Chu Hang's double gave The Boys Alchemy Serum, granting them powers to prepare for a fight against Homelander. He planned a trap in Lower Manhattan and left the team to carry it out themselves.

• Chu Hang's double introduced the Alchemy Serum, and Butcher injected it despite its irreversible effects.
• Butcher gained energy-enhanced attacks and tested them against Benjamin, while Chu Hang's double warned that the serum alone would not guarantee victory.
• Hughie gained short-range teleportation, Frenchie gained the ability to reshape nearby metal, and Mrs. M gained enhanced perception.
• Chu Hang's double outlined a plan to weaken Homelander with an Alchemy Force Field while Starlight and Queen Maeve lured him into an abandoned building and The Boys launched hit-and-run attacks.
• Chu Hang's double said he would not intervene, leaving the fight against Homelander to The Boys and their allies.

Starlight and Queen Maeve lured Homelander to the Wayne Enterprises Building, where Benjamin, Butcher, Hughie, and Frenchie fought him inside an Alchemy Force Field. The battle left Homelander weakened and injured, but Frenchie had only just trapped his legs as the fight continued.

• Starlight and Queen Maeve challenged Homelander on a live broadcast, but he spotted their plan to draw him into the building and threatened to destroy it.
• Benjamin attacked Homelander on the rooftop, injured him in hand-to-hand combat, and was thrown through the rooftop door before Homelander entered the building.
• The Alchemy Force Field activated around Homelander, suppressing his powers as Benjamin attacked him again.
• Butcher arrived with the Alchemy Serum activated and punched Homelander through a corridor wall, injuring his face.
• Hughie teleported behind Homelander and fired an anesthetic bolt into his neck, then Frenchie used Matter Manipulation to bind Homelander's legs with metal rebar.

The Boys and their allies weaken and restrain Homelander, then Butcher kills him after Chu Hang's clone removes the false-divinity concept from him. The chapter ends with Butcher feeling only emptiness and Chu Hang's clone turning his attention to Queen Maeve and Starlight.

• Frenchie, Hughie, Butcher, Mrs. M, and Benjamin trap Homelander and exploit his weakened state to break his right shoulder and pin him against a wall.
• Queen Maeve punches Homelander, and Starlight blinds him with a beam before electrifying the rebar mesh around him.
• Homelander breaks free and tries to escape, but the Alchemy Force Field suppresses him; Benjamin, Butcher, and Queen Maeve hold him down while Hughie injects him with reinforced anesthetic.
• Benjamin drags the helpless Homelander before Butcher, who prepares to kill him after reminding him of Becca.
• Chu Hang's clone extracts Homelander's shattered false-divinity concept and tells Butcher to continue.
• Butcher punches through Homelander's chest and kills him, then feels empty as Chu Hang's clone looks toward Queen Maeve and Starlight.

After Homelander’s death, Chu Hang’s clone seized Vought and began turning it into a bureau to control superhumans. The chapter ended with Queen Maeve and Starlight assigned to lead the new organization and prepare to announce its creation.

• Chu Hang’s clone warned Butcher that Vought and the circulating Compound V remained threats, and Butcher chose to continue the fight.
• Chu Hang’s clone led Butcher, Hughie, Frenchie, Mrs. M, Queen Maeve, Starlight, and Benjamin through a rift into Vought Tower and declared the corporation his.
• Chu Hang’s clone froze the executives, revealed evidence of Vought’s crimes, and forced them to surrender the company’s authority.
• Chu Hang’s clone made Queen Maeve director and Starlight deputy of the new Superhuman Management Bureau, assigning them responsibility for supervising superhumans and addressing the public.
• Butcher reported that the building was sealed, and Chu Hang’s clone ordered Queen Maeve and Starlight to announce Vought’s transformation at a press conference.

After Homelander’s death, Maeve and Starlight announced strict registration and suppression rules for superhumans, while Butcher’s team began enforcing them. Chu Hang’s clone sensed public faith strengthening him but remained unable to surpass his Dimensional Clone limits, and Starlight asked whether he was leaving.

• Maeve admitted her role in Vought’s deceptions and said ordinary people had killed Homelander, while Starlight announced mandatory registration, suppression bracelets, and ability assessments for all superhumans.
• The president learned that Chu Hang was far stronger than Homelander and that thirty-seven Compound V-enhanced soldiers had gone missing, so the government chose to wait and observe.
• Butcher, Hughie, Frenchie, and Mrs. M confronted seven rogue superhumans; they killed six and captured one, then received orders to pursue The Deep and the remaining targets.
• Chu Hang’s clone sensed faith from people across the world gathering around him and strengthening his Alchemical Law, but recognized that he could not reach Cosmic Overlord-level.
• Starlight approached Chu Hang on Vought Tower’s top floor and asked if he was leaving.