Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo arrived in Las Vegas in 1962, exchanged gold for cash, and discovered that the club he had approached was the Hellfire Club in the world of X-Men: First Class. He heard a woman report that people had disappeared inside the club, and she decided to seek an expert in genetic mutation.

• Yang Bo appeared on a Las Vegas rooftop, saw women entering a club, and followed one of them toward the Atomic Club.
• A doorman demanded an invitation, so Yang Bo left and exchanged a gold nugget for money at a nearby bank.
• Yang Bo learned that the year was 1962 and considered visiting a casino before heading back.
• The woman who had entered the club ran to a car and called someone, reporting that people had disappeared inside the Hellfire Club.
• Yang Bo recognized the Hellfire Club from X-Men: First Class, while the woman told her companion they would find an expert in genetic mutation.

Yang Bo infiltrated the Hellfire Club, found that the Black King was gone, and installed a Teleportation Stone Tablet in his hidden dance hall to return to his own world. There, he began organizing a biology lab and recruited Dr. Banner into his super-soldier plans.

• Yang Bo used invisibility and silence to sneak past the Hellfire Club's guard and search its private rooms for the Black King's hidden chamber.
• Yang Bo found the Black King's room empty, then replaced a dance hall's steel pole with a Teleportation Stone Tablet.
• Yang Bo used the tablet to teleport back to the Quantum Tunnel laboratory, surprising Dr. Erik.
• Yang Bo told Dr. Erik about his plan to create super soldiers and called Anna to buy biology lab equipment and syringes.
• Dr. Banner arrived with Cull Obsidian, and Yang Bo announced that Banner had officially joined the ranks of the working stiffs.

Yang Bo traveled to the University of Cambridge to find the young Professor X, but he could not locate him before meeting CIA agent Moira MacTaggert. After realizing she was also searching for Professor Xavier, Yang Bo accused her of following him.

• Yang Bo returned to the mutant world, collected the Teleportation Stone Tablet, and planned to find Professor X or the Black Emperor.
• Yang Bo used Ivan's cloaked aircraft to fly from Las Vegas to the University of Cambridge.
• Yang Bo asked a student about Professor Charles Francis Xavier, but the student had never heard of him.
• Moira MacTaggert approached Yang Bo, and he recognized her from their encounter the night before.
• Yang Bo asked Moira why she had flown from Las Vegas to London, then claimed she was following him to find Professor Xavier.

Yang Bo met Professor Xavier at Cambridge and asked how much blood could be safely drawn from someone of his build. He left with Xavier’s answer and Moira’s contact information, planning to visit Xavier that evening.

• Yang Bo accompanied Moira to the auditorium and told her he wanted to ask Xavier about safe blood draws.
• Yang Bo and Moira found Xavier and Mystique leaving the auditorium together.
• Yang Bo asked Xavier how much blood he could safely donate, and Xavier said 200 cc was ideal, with up to 300 cc possible in special circumstances.
• Yang Bo thanked Xavier and left, while Xavier remained unaware of Yang Bo’s intentions.
• Moira gave Yang Bo her business card and hurried after Xavier, and Yang Bo memorized the contact details before making the card vanish.

Yang Bo confronted Professor Xavier at his home and forced him to help collect a blood sample, while Mystique tried and failed to stop him. Xavier and Mystique remained in Yang Bo's power as he drew blood and told Moira that he was an ordinary warrior.

• Yang Bo followed Xavier, Mystique, and Moira to Xavier's home and demanded Xavier's cooperation with a blood collection.
• Xavier tried to use his telepathy on Yang Bo, but could neither sense nor affect him.
• Mystique attacked Yang Bo twice, and he subdued her by striking her wrist and kicking her supporting leg.
• Yang Bo struggled to draw Xavier's blood, and Xavier agreed to hold the collection kit and guide him through the process.
• Moira realized that Xavier and Mystique had special abilities, and Yang Bo claimed he was a battle-hardened warrior rather than a mutant.

Yang Bo collected blood samples from Xavier and Raven while explaining that he wanted to study how mutant abilities could be switched on or off. He demonstrated mind control on Xavier, who briefly revealed his attraction to Moira before breaking free and confronting Yang Bo.

• Yang Bo drew blood from Xavier and ordered him to draw a sample from Raven, threatening to do it himself if Xavier refused.
• Yang Bo complimented Raven’s golden eyes, learned her name, and gave her a Golden Apple after taking her blood.
• Yang Bo told Xavier and Raven that he wanted to find a way for people to become mutants or return to being ordinary humans.
• Yang Bo used a mind-control spell on Xavier, causing him to admit that he found Moira attractive before Xavier broke free.
• Xavier asked Yang Bo what he had done, and Yang Bo teased him about revealing embarrassing secrets.

Yang Bo persuaded Raven to leave Xavier and brought her through a teleportation tablet to Endstar, where she joined his organization. Raven began exploring the futuristic world as Yang Bo planned to introduce her to its people and arrange her equipment.

• Yang Bo revealed Professor X’s exposed secrets and offered Raven freedom, research, and the chance to remove her abilities.
• Xavier reluctantly respected Raven’s choice, and Raven decided to leave and try to become normal.
• Yang Bo led Raven into the woods and used the Teleportation Stone Tablet to take her to Endstar.
• Yang Bo welcomed Raven to Endstar and began showing her the Mothership, spacecraft, and robots while planning to visit Dr. Banner and arrange her equipment.

Yang Bo brought Raven to Dr. Banner’s laboratory and supplied blood samples for research into mutant abilities, then set out to find the Black King in Miami. He failed to find Shaw’s yacht and waited on the beach, while Shaw and Emma Frost approached the shore aboard their cruise ship.

• Yang Bo introduced Raven to Dr. Banner, who said the laboratory was nearly ready and accepted blood samples from mutants with mind-related and mimicking abilities.
• Yang Bo told Raven that Banner would work on removing her mutant ability, then planned to get her protective work clothes.
• Yang Bo flew to Miami to find Shaw, Emma Frost, Azazel, and Riptide, but could not locate Shaw’s yacht and guessed they had not arrived yet.
• Yang Bo camped on the beach and cooked seafood while he waited.
• Shaw and Emma sailed toward shore, and Shaw told Emma that provoking a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union would help expand their mutant ranks.

Yang Bo confronted Sebastian Shaw and his associates on a yacht, stopped their attacks with Time Dilation and magic, and took Colonel Hendry under his protection. The chapter left Yang Bo preparing to draw blood from Emma Frost, threatening to break her diamond form if she refused.

• The Black King questioned Colonel Hendry about their plan, then pulled the pin on Hendry's grenade and compressed the explosion between his hands.
• Yang Bo dropped onto the yacht, claimed Colonel Hendry, and said he had business with Sebastian Shaw.
• Emma Frost told Shaw that her telepathy could not sense Yang Bo, and Shaw attacked after Yang Bo said he was not a mutant.
• Yang Bo used Time Dilation to slow Shaw and froze Riptide in ice after Riptide tried to ambush him.
• Yang Bo asked Colonel Hendry to help draw Emma Frost's blood and threatened to break her diamond body with his Pickaxe.

Yang Bo subdued Emma Frost, Riptide, and Sebastian Shaw, drew their blood, and offered Colonel Hendry gold and future mutant powers in exchange for his cooperation. Hendry accepted the offer, while Azazel remained unaccounted for.

• Yang Bo rejected Emma Frost's attempt to seduce him, threatened Riptide with his Cleaver, and forced him to stop resisting and have his blood drawn.
• Yang Bo struck Sebastian Shaw after Time Dilation wore off, demonstrated that Datafication could bypass Shaw's energy absorption, and ordered him to join the blood-drawing line.
• Yang Bo collected the mutants' blood in a temperature-controlled case and invited Colonel Hendry to discuss what Hendry could offer him.
• Yang Bo offered Hendry a cubic meter of gold and the prospect of one or more superpowers in return for cooperation.
• Colonel Hendry accepted the offer and knelt to admire the gold block.

Yang Bo captured Azazel and challenged Sebastian Shaw’s plans to provoke conflict between humans and mutants. Shaw reconsidered his strategy after Yang Bo warned that widespread mutation could leave him powerless against stronger mutants.

• Yang Bo waited on the yacht with Magneto’s helmet as Colonel Hendry brought it to him for study.
• Azazel arrived and attacked Yang Bo, who knocked him unconscious inside a containment barrier.
• Yang Bo ordered Hendry to draw Azazel’s blood and strike his head with a frying pan while Shaw returned to squatting in the corner.
• Yang Bo invited Shaw to explain his plans, then warned that radiation-driven mutation could leave Shaw vulnerable to stronger mutants.
• Shaw reconsidered his plan, recognized its risks, and thanked Yang Bo.

Yang Bo watched Black King Shaw, Emma Frost, and Erik Lehnsherr clash aboard the cruise ship, then took the blood he needed. As the Coast Guard attacked and Emma Frost blocked Professor X’s telepathy, Yang Bo left invisibly with Azazel.

• Yang Bo noticed Erik Lehnsherr approaching, and Black King recognized him as Little Erik.
• Emma Frost restrained Erik with her telepathy, then knocked him unconscious with Yang Bo’s frying pan so Black King could draw his blood.
• The Coast Guard arrived, and Riptide overturned its speedboats with tornadoes while Emma Frost blocked Professor X’s telepathy.
• Yang Bo accepted Magneto’s blood, thanked Emma Frost for the food, and said he would take Azazel away.
• Yang Bo used an Invisibility Potion to disappear from the cruise ship with Azazel.

Yang Bo returned to Little Planet with Azazel and Magneto’s blood, then worked with Dr. Banner and Kaecilius to contain the mutant and address Kaecilius’s dangerous study of the Darkhold. He handed Magneto’s blood to Banner for research and revealed that vampires would also be available for experiments.

• Yang Bo brought Azazel to Little Planet, where Dr. Banner identified him as a mutant with teleportation, great strength, and a dangerous tail.
• Yang Bo summoned Kaecilius, who examined Azazel and offered to create an array that might restrict his spatial powers; they arranged to hold Azazel while Kaecilius worked on a solution.
• Yang Bo discovered Kaecilius had been studying the Darkhold, took the book, and ordered him to rest before continuing his studies.
• Yang Bo gave Dr. Banner Magneto’s blood and urged him to take the mutant’s powerful electromagnetic ability seriously.
• Yang Bo told Banner that vampires lived among humans and offered them for experiments, adding that a specialist in vampire blood would soon arrive to help.

Yang Bo learned that Karen and Banner had developed an inhibitor that suppressed mutant genes, and a serum that killed mutants by making their genetic structures collapse. The chapter ended with Mystique, whose mutant genes had been suppressed, proudly showing Yang Bo her human appearance.

• Yang Bo told Ivan to see if he could mass-produce Resistance Headbands for their people.
• Karen explained that the laboratory had developed a drug that suppressed mutant genes but could not safely alter them completely.
• Karen revealed that she had also created a serum that killed mutants when it injected into them.
• Yang Bo saw Mystique testing the inhibitor in the laboratory and recognized her after she approached him.
• Mystique introduced herself as Raven and celebrated having become a normal person, while Yang Bo asked her to put on clothes.

Yang Bo brought Raven to Xavier’s mutant gathering place, where he subdued Magneto and showed Xavier Raven’s new normal appearance and company-issued armor. Xavier was left astonished and asked whether the company was hiring.

• Yang Bo flew with Raven to Xavier’s estate outside New York, where he found Xavier, Beast Hank, and Magneto.
• Magneto attacked Yang Bo with a metal railing, but Xavier stopped him and warned him that Yang Bo was dangerous.
• Yang Bo produced blood collection kits, then used a special pistol to inject Magneto and knock him unconscious.
• Xavier attacked Yang Bo with his psychic powers, but Raven intervened and persuaded him to stop.
• Raven told Xavier she had become a normal person and demonstrated the nanometal armor she wore as her company uniform.
• Xavier stared at Raven’s armor and asked whether the company was hiring.

Yang Bo pressured Xavier to help him locate New York’s hidden mutants, offering a counteragent for Erik’s suppressant while threatening the mutants. Xavier agreed to go with him, and Yang Bo offered Hank a job in exchange for research on curing mutant genes.

• Yang Bo rejected Xavier as a potential employee and offered him a counteragent for Erik’s suppressant if he revealed where New York’s mutants were hiding.
• Xavier questioned whether Erik could recover his powers, but Yang Bo refused to negotiate as an equal and threatened to drain the mutants’ blood.
• Raven carried Erik inside and warned Xavier not to antagonize Yang Bo, then jokingly questioned whether Xavier was attracted to Erik.
• Yang Bo asked Raven to find out whether Xavier would help locate the mutants, and Xavier agreed to accompany him so he could influence their loyalties.
• Yang Bo gave Hank a Mutant Suppressant in exchange for a copy of his research on curing mutant genes and offered him a job.

Yang Bo and Xavier recruited Angel Salvador after visiting her at a strip club, and Yang Bo collected blood from her and Beast for Dr. Banner. When Ivan reported that the Ravagers had found Rocket and Groot’s location, Yang Bo and Ivan set off into space to find them.

• Yang Bo and Xavier visited Salvador at a strip club and offered her a place at the academy.
• Yang Bo paid Salvador for a performance and asked to see her cicada-like wings, while Xavier invited her to join the academy.
• After Salvador returned to the academy, Yang Bo collected her blood and argued with Xavier about his actions.
• Yang Bo placed the blood in a robot’s hands and told it to deliver the samples from Salvador and Beast to Dr. Banner.
• Ivan told Yang Bo that the Ravagers had sent Rocket and Groot’s location, and Yang Bo agreed to take Ivan along as his pilot.
• Yang Bo and Ivan boarded a ship and departed into deep space to search for Rocket and Groot.

Yang Bo and Ivan crash-landed on Sakaar, where scavengers attacked them. They escaped underground, and Yang Bo told Ivan to deploy his mechanical army against the locals.

• The spaceship was thrown off course and damaged, and Yang Bo healed Ivan after the violent shaking hurt his back.
• Yang Bo recognized the unfamiliar planet as Sakaar after Ivan spotted its strange Portals and garbage-covered surface.
• The spaceship crash-landed, and scavengers attacked; Ivan emerged in his Armor and killed the scavengers nearby.
• A cube-shaped aircraft bombarded Yang Bo and Ivan, forcing Yang Bo to grab Ivan and dig them underground with his Pickaxe.
• Yang Bo and Ivan hid in a tunnel a hundred meters below the surface, where Yang Bo told Ivan to send in his mechanical army.

Yang Bo and Ivan unleashed the Iron Legion against the scavengers searching for them on Sakaar, destroying their forces and aircraft. As more spaceships approached, Ivan revealed that one of Yang Bo’s combat ships carried a two-hundred-kiloton thermonuclear warhead, leaving Yang Bo stunned.

• Yang Bo ordered Ivan to activate the Iron Legion and eliminate the scavengers searching nearby.
• Yang Bo emerged from underground with Ivan and the mechanical army, which killed the scavengers in a barrage of laser fire.
• Yang Bo deployed more than twenty Small Combat Ships to attack the scavengers’ approaching aircraft.
• The combat ships overwhelmed the aircraft’s energy shields, and Ivan’s missile destroyed the leader’s ship and its crew.
• As more spaceships approached, Ivan revealed that one of his combat ships carried a two-hundred-kiloton Thermonuclear Warhead, and Yang Bo demanded to know where he had gotten a nuke.

Yang Bo and Ivan detonated a nuclear bomb on Sakaar, wiping out the nearby forces and unlocking several Minecraft mods, including IndustrialCraft 2. After Yang Bo encountered Valkyrie, she attacked him, and he asked what she would do in his place after the Grandmaster’s Scavengers had attacked him.

• Yang Bo warned Ivan not to blow up their surroundings, while Ivan lured enemy warships toward the ship carrying his nuclear bomb.
• Ivan detonated the bomb, destroying the nearby battlefield and driving the surviving ships back toward the city.
• Yang Bo emerged from underground and received notifications that IndustrialCraft 2 and several other mods had loaded successfully.
• A damaged ship crashed near Yang Bo, and Valkyrie jumped out and attacked him with her sword.
• Yang Bo blocked Valkyrie’s strikes with his Combat Sign and an invisible barrier, then introduced himself and asked what she would do in his position.