Chapter Summaries

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.

Chu Hang, Carol, and S.H.I.E.L.D. recovered Dr. Mar-Vell’s space coordinates from her old Project Pegasus office with Monica’s help. They prepared to take the Quinjet into space, while Chu Hang warned Fury not to mistake the Avengers Initiative for the greatest power on the board.

• Fury ordered the beacon protocol activated and arranged transport to the old Project Pegasus base, while Chu Hang identified Monica as the key to its systems.
• Chu Hang, Carol, Maria, Monica, Fury, and Coulson flew to the base, where Chu Hang forced open Dr. Mar-Vell’s office door.
• Monica unlocked the computer with the password “SKY” and opened the “Home” folder by singing “Twinkle, twinkle, little star,” revealing coordinates in deep space.
• Fury ordered the Quinjet prototype prepared, and Chu Hang, Carol, and Talos planned to follow the coordinates to find the laboratory and confront the Kree.
• Before boarding the Quinjet, Chu Hang warned Fury not to put all his eggs in one basket or assume his trump card was the biggest one.

Carol, Chu Hang, and Talos reached the hidden space station Mar-Vell, where Carol began confronting her lost past and reconsidered her plan for revenge. As they entered the station, its automated system identified them as unknown visitors and initiated a defense protocol.

• Carol, Chu Hang, and Talos traveled into orbit, where Chu Hang warned Carol that revenge against the Kree Empire would not bring down its deeply rooted system.
• Carol sensed a faint energy signal, followed Chu Hang’s guidance to call to it, and revealed the camouflaged space station Mar-Vell.
• Talos reacted with emotion to the station, while Carol recognized a photograph of herself with Doctor Lawson and began to reconnect with her past.
• Talos heard a sound in the corridor and took a fighting stance as Chu Hang sensed other life signals aboard the station.
• The station’s automated voice announced that the visitors had failed identity verification and initiated its Tier-One Defense Protocol.

Chu Hang led Carol and Talos through Doctor Lawson’s space station, where they found the Cosmic Cube and evidence that Talos’s family was alive. As Ronan’s fleet arrived to demand Carol and the Cube, Chu Hang focused on the hidden Flerken beneath the laboratory.

• Chu Hang redirected the defense Drones’ pulse rays to destroy them and passed through the station’s energy barriers, allowing Carol and Talos to follow.
• The station recognized Carol as Doctor Mar-Vell and admitted the group to the core laboratory, where they found the Cosmic Cube.
• Talos discovered a star map and a personnel list showing that Sola and Elu were alive, while Chu Hang sensed hundreds of people hidden in a folded subspace beneath the laboratory.
• Chu Hang identified an adult Flerken among the hidden life signs and prepared to copy its ability.
• A Kree fleet led by Ronan’s Dark Aster arrived, and Ronan demanded Carol and the Cosmic Cube within thirty seconds.
• While Carol readied herself and Talos despaired, Chu Hang ignored Ronan’s threat and locked onto the Flerken signal.

With the Mar-Vell Space Station under attack, Chu Hang rescued Talos’s Skrull family and refugees, discovered a new pocket-space ability through the orange cat, and sent the civilians, Carol, and the Cosmic Cube to safety. Left alone amid the station’s destruction, he faced Ronan and the Dark Aster, preparing to fight.

• As Ronan counted down to the station’s destruction, Chu Hang opened a hidden subspace passage and reunited Talos with Sola, Elu, and hundreds of Skrull refugees.
• Chu Hang touched Elu’s orange cat and learned to weave space, gaining the ability to open a pocket dimension.
• When the Dark Aster’s kinetic shells shattered the station’s shield, Chu Hang used his Subspace Stomach to store the Skrulls and the cat.
• Chu Hang sent Carol and the Cosmic Cube into the pocket dimension, then remained behind as the station broke apart.
• Ronan learned that the targets and Cosmic Cube had vanished, then saw Chu Hang floating unharmed among the station’s ruins and challenging the Dark Aster.

Chu Hang defeated Ronan’s Kree fleet, forced Ronan through a spatial rift, and struck a deal with Nick Fury to stay out of sight while helping Earth only when a world-ending threat arose. More than a decade later, Fury contacted him about a missing weapons supplier in Afghanistan.

• Ronan ordered his fleet to attack Chu Hang, who bent space to deflect the barrage and turn the Kree ships’ weapons against one another.
• Chu Hang appeared on the Dark Aster’s bridge, stopped Ronan’s Universal Weapon with two fingers, and sent Ronan through a spatial rift.
• At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Fury offered Chu Hang protection and resources in exchange for his help against catastrophic threats, and Chu Hang agreed on the condition that Carol could remain Captain Marvel and the Skrulls would be left alone.
• Chu Hang disappeared from S.H.I.E.L.D.’s sight, while Carol became a cosmic guardian who occasionally visited Earth.
• In 2008, Fury called Chu Hang and told him that a weapons supplier vital to the military had disappeared in Afghanistan.