Chapter Summaries

Chu Hang destroyed the dark-gold Spider King, disabling the Mechanical Spiders and ending the battle. The survivors then learned that the breached base would self-destruct in three minutes.

• Chu Hang identified the dark-gold Spider King as the source controlling the Mechanical Spiders and ordered Steve to clear a path.
• Steve and Logan opened a route through the swarm, allowing Chu Hang to reach the Spider King.
• Chu Hang evaded the Spider King's attacks and shattered its red-glowing eye with a powerful kick.
• The Mechanical Spiders stopped attacking and shut down after their commander fell.
• A broadcast announced that the base's Final Purification Protocol had begun and it would self-destruct in three minutes.

Steve Rogers led the surviving soldiers through a collapsing Hydra base by detonating explosives to open an escape route. Chu Hang awakened after the blast with immense power and new knowledge, but his body began breaking down under the strain of his newly awakened spatial energy.

• Steve Rogers ordered the soldiers to gather their explosives, and Falsworth devised a demolition plan to break apart the wreckage blocking their escape.
• Steve detonated the explosives, opening a passage as the underground base began collapsing.
• Logan carried the unconscious Chu Hang through the passage while Steve shielded the soldiers from falling debris and escaped just before the base was annihilated.
• Chu Hang woke in the drainage tunnel with strange knowledge in his mind and an explosive new sense of power.
• Chu Hang began bleeding from his nose and ears as he realized his body could not withstand the awakening of his spatial energy.

Chu Hang survived the clash between his Healing Factor, Super-Soldier Serum, and spatial energy by combining them into a balanced new power. After demonstrating his spatial control, he faced approaching Hydra reinforcements in the tunnels.

• As Chu Hang's powers tore his body apart, Logan and Steve watched helplessly while his system counted down to his death.
• Chu Hang stopped resisting the energies and guided the spatial power into the Healing Factor, then used the Super-Soldier Serum's order to stabilize their new cycle.
• Chu Hang gained Life Reversion and beginner Spatial Control, recovered, and opened his eyes as Logan and Steve stared in disbelief.
• Chu Hang snapped his fingers, and Steve's cracked watch was replaced with an undamaged one through spatial control.
• Falsworth warned the group that Hydra reinforcements were approaching, and Chu Hang raised his glowing hand and called them lost rats.

Chu Hang tested his new spatial powers against Hydra soldiers, hiding their true nature from Steve after the fight. The group escaped the corridor with Hydra's reinforcements still a threat.

• Chu Hang used the Spatial Curvature Barrier to bend a barrage of bullets away from himself and the others.
• Chu Hang crushed a charging Hydra soldier with Spatial Fixed-Point Compression, blocking the corridor and killing the attackers behind him.
• Logan and Steve fought through the remaining Hydra soldiers, and the battle ended in less than thirty seconds.
• Steve demanded an explanation, so Chu Hang pretended to be exhausted and described his power as a limited biological force field.
• Steve helped Chu Hang up and ordered the commandos to gather their equipment and wounded and leave before Hydra reinforcements arrived.

Chu Hang and the Howling Commandos escaped Hydra’s destroyed factory and reached their emergency shelter. There, Logan challenged Chu Hang about his powers, and Chu Hang described their limits while Steve made the ability a top-level secret and promised to help him control it.

• Steve detected Hydra soldiers ahead and led the team through another passage, avoiding detection as they escaped through a ventilation shaft.
• The Commandos saw the Hydra factory burning and followed Steve to the Hunter’s Cabin to recover.
• At the cabin, Logan confronted Chu Hang, accusing him of faking his weakness and demanding to know what his power was.
• Chu Hang told Logan and Steve that he could distort or compress a small area, but using the power nearly killed him and he could not control it.
• Steve declared Chu Hang’s ability an S-Class secret and promised the team would help him learn to control it.

After waking in a cabin, Chu Hang learned to guide his Cosmic Cube power with his enhanced will and gently levitated a pebble, though the effort left him exhausted. The Howling Commandos then learned that Hydra forces had surrounded the mountain, trapping them.

• Chu Hang woke in the Howling Commandos’ cabin and pretended to be gravely weak so the Strategic Scientific Reserve would not take him for study.
• Steve Rogers coached Chu Hang in moving a pebble, and Chu Hang used his enhanced will to calm and guide his spatial energy until the pebble floated.
• Chu Hang collapsed from exhaustion after succeeding, and Logan called him an interesting monster and gave him the cracked pebble as a trophy.
• Steve told the team he believed Chu Hang could learn to control his power, while Chu Hang privately resolved to master it further.
• Jones rushed into the cabin and reported that at least two battalions of Hydra troops, Tiger Tanks, and energy weapons had surrounded the mountain and sealed its routes.

After Hydra surrounded the Howling Commandos with overwhelming forces, Steve planned a breakout through a dangerous cliff gap. He prepared the squad to move after dark and asked Chu Hang to use his heightened senses to scout for them.

• Jones reported that at least two Hydra battalions, Tiger Tanks, and energy weapons had closed off the routes down the mountain.
• Logan said Hydra was targeting Steve and Chu Hang, and Falsworth reported that the squad had very little ammunition or explosives left.
• Steve identified a steep cliff in the northwest as the weakest point in the encirclement and rallied the Commandos to break through.
• Steve asked Chu Hang to serve as the squad's eyes and ears, and Chu Hang agreed while secretly exhausting his mental power to listen outside.
• Chu Hang announced that the squad would move after nightfall.

Steve, Logan, and Dugan destroyed Hydra’s surveillance device in a blizzard, completing the first stage of the main quest and triggering chaos in the camp. Chu Hang relayed Steve’s order as the Howling Commandos began their breakout toward the western cliff.

• Steve ordered Falsworth to turn the C4 and Hydra communicator into a bomb, then led Logan and Dugan into the storm while Chu Hang stayed behind.
• Chu Hang used his enhanced hearing and telepathic messages to guide the team around Hydra patrols and a hidden sentry.
• At the target ridge, Logan launched the C4 toward the approaching Eye of Odin, and Dugan detonated it on Steve’s command.
• The explosion destroyed the surveillance device, completed the first stage of “Desperate Survival,” and alerted the Hydra camp.
• Steve ordered the team to break out toward the western cliff, and Chu Hang led the Howling Commandos out of the cabin.

Chu Hang and Falsworth’s team fought through a Hydra ambush while Steve Rogers’s group moved toward the cliff. With Hydra’s main force closing in and an abyss ahead, Chu Hang prepared to teleport as the escort mission ended.

• Chu Hang used his perception to warn Steve Rogers about approaching Hydra forces and direct him toward the cliff.
• Chu Hang alerted Falsworth’s team to an ambush, then secretly deflected enemy fire and guided Jones’s grenade into a Hydra machine-gun position.
• Steve Rogers, Logan, and Dugan arrived, helped defeat the remaining Hydra soldiers, and joined the team.
• Logan detected Hydra’s dogs and main force approaching, so Steve carried Chu Hang toward the cliff.
• The group reached the cliff with Hydra closing in behind them, and Chu Hang prepared to teleport as the escort mission completed.

After Chu Hang spotted a ledge below a cliff, the Howling Commandos escaped their Hydra pursuers and went on to cripple Hydra operations across Europe. In spring 1945, they accepted a mission to destroy Red Skull’s Valkyrie bomber, while Chu Hang secretly focused on reaching the Cosmic Cube.

• Chu Hang spotted a ledge and cave below the cliff, and Steve ordered the Howling Commandos to descend there while fighting off Hydra soldiers and Hounds.
• Chu Hang used a Spatial Barrier to deflect bullets during his descent, and the whole team reached the cave safely.
• Over the following months, Chu Hang helped the Howling Commandos evade patrols and build their abilities as they sabotaged Hydra operations and rescued prisoners.
• Colonel Phillips and Peggy Carter briefed the Howling Commandos on Red Skull’s Valkyrie bomber and its planned attack on the United States.
• Steve accepted the mission to find Red Skull’s base and destroy Valkyrie, while Chu Hang resolved to copy the Cosmic Cube’s energy.

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.