Chapter Summaries

After escaping into the Paris sewers, Su Ming turned Deadpool’s three competing partners into contestants in a contest to destroy German targets. The women accepted the three-day Wade Cup Grand Prix, while Su Ming planned to profit from their recordings and leave the consequences to Wade.

• Su Ming and his group escaped through the ground into the Paris sewers, where Monark drowned rabbits in the sewage after exhausting himself with spells.
• Su Ming handed Deadpool’s battered body to Cable and confronted Vanessa, Domino, and Inez about disrupting his plan.
• Su Ming proposed that the three women compete for three days by destroying German targets, promising to support the winner’s relationship with Wade.
• Su Ming arranged for Cable to provide recording devices and banned outside help or interference between contestants.
• The three women agreed to compete, while Su Ming planned to turn their recordings into films and blame the contest on Wade.

Su Ming organized the X-Men and his allies after a civil war, then led the group through the Paris sewers to make a concealed route into the Catacombs. He began digging toward the underground quarry system beneath Paris, where the group could hide and watch the airships.

• Su Ming assigned Cable and his team to support the contestants, then sent Mandy and Weasel away with Deadpool's shell.
• Su Ming led the X-Men through the sewers and learned that Surge and Rogue could not safely intervene in the earlier fight.
• Su Ming ordered the X-Men to follow his commands and avoid dying in World War II.
• Su Ming drew Godslayer and began digging through a wall toward another underground system beneath Paris.
• Magik recognized the destination as the Catacombs and joined Su Ming as he explained their history and extent.

Su Ming led his group into the Paris Catacombs, planning to reach the 4th district and find the French resistance. Hearing gunfire in the sewers, he went to investigate as Nick Fury, Peggy Carter, Steve, and their allies fled German soldiers.

• Su Ming used Godslayer to break into the Catacombs beneath the 17th district and explained his plan to reach the 4th district through the underground passages.
• Gunfire overhead led Su Ming to leave his group and return to the sewers to find out who was fighting.
• Nick Fury carried the unconscious Steve while fleeing through the sewers with Peggy Carter, the Howling Commandos, and French guerrillas pursued by German troops.
• Peggy Carter urged Nick Fury to take Steve and escape while she and the French fighters covered their retreat.
• Nick Fury handed Steve to Peggy and stayed behind with the Howling Commandos to buy the others at least three minutes.

Nick and Peggy’s team was trapped in a London sewer while fleeing Hydra, and Su Ming arrived just in time to save Nick from a mutant dog. The chapter explained how Steve had been sent to France, where Red Skull’s ambush left him gravely wounded, as the survivors faced pursuit through the sewers.

• Nick told Peggy to escape with the unconscious Steve while he and the others stayed behind to cover their retreat.
• A ceiling-crawling mutant dog attacked Nick, but Su Ming’s Godslayer cut it in half before it could kill him.
• Nick recognized the black-and-yellow armored rescuer as Deathstroke, the mysterious mercenary who had previously defeated him.
• SSR had sent Steve and the Howling Commandos to France after reports of Red Skull, and the military had secretly replaced the touring Captain America with an actor.
• Red Skull’s forces ambushed Steve’s group in Paris with Energy Weapons, leaving Steve riddled with wounds before Peggy and Nick carried him away.
• Red Skull ignored the retreating team and headed north to investigate an explosion while Paris’s garrison and Secret Police pursued them.

Su Ming protected Nick Fury and the others from German troops and mutant dogs in the Paris sewers, then explained how they could exploit the enemy’s tactics. After Su Ming single-handedly crushed the attack, Nick recognized how far his abilities surpassed Steve’s.

• Su Ming used his symbiote armor to strip a mutant dog to its bones, then stood unhurt under German gunfire while he spoke with Nick Fury.
• Nick told Su Ming that the German soldiers were mechanically modified and worked alongside mutant dogs.
• Su Ming explained that the grenadiers followed the dogs’ charges and suggested collapsing the sewer ceiling to block the enemy’s advance.
• Su Ming charged the Germans with Godslayer and had his symbiote seize weapons and fire into their ranks, quickly defeating them.
• Su Ming returned to Nick, who compared him with the injured Steve and wondered whether SSR had been deceived by Dr. Erskine.

Su Ming rescued Captain America, Peggy Carter, Nick Fury, and the French resistance fighters from the sewers, then won the resistance over with his French and slogans. As Nick watched him, he wondered what Deathstroke was seeking in Paris.

• Su Ming found Steve unconscious and assessed his injuries while Peggy watched him warily.
• Peggy told Su Ming that Lorraine still thought about him, and Su Ming said he would visit her at headquarters.
• Su Ming checked Peggy's gunshot wound and greeted the French resistance fighters in fluent French.
• Su Ming praised Paris and rallied the resistance fighters, who welcomed him as one of their own.
• Nick directed the Howling Commandos to collect weapons and carried Steve while wondering why Deathstroke had come to Paris.

Su Ming refused Fury’s offer to hire Deathstroke and used the guerrillas’ distrust of the SSR to take control of them. He led them back through the Catacombs toward the doctor and the X-Men, while Peggy and Fury were forced to follow.

• Fury asked Su Ming to help the SSR take out Red Skull, but Su Ming refused and said he would fight alongside his French friends.
• Su Ming spoke French to the guerrillas and persuaded them to leave with him, abandoning Fury, Peggy, Steve, and the commandos.
• Peggy realized the SSR had no supplies or safe route without the guerrillas, so she told the team to follow their singing.
• Fury accepted that the team had to follow Deathstroke and worried about how thoroughly he had manipulated them.
• Su Ming led the guerrillas through the Catacombs toward the doctor and the X-Men, and the guerrillas praised his use of the tunnels.

Holloway treated the wounded guerrillas and Captain America while Peggy Carter and Nick Fury joined Deathstroke’s group in the catacombs. After saving Steve, Deathstroke demanded payment from Peggy by asking to borrow someone from the SSR, and she immediately refused.

• Holloway treated the guerrillas as Su Ming told the X-Men to use codenames.
• Peggy Carter, Nick Fury, and Steve entered the tunnel and asked Deathstroke for help.
• The X-Men moved Steve off the bones, and Holloway treated his severe wounds without anesthesia.
• Deathstroke told Peggy that he wanted to borrow someone from the SSR for a few days.
• Peggy refused, believing Deathstroke had set his sights on Little Rose.

Su Ming explained why the Allies should not kill Red Skull, since doing so might hand the Cosmic Cube and Germany’s growing military power to The Mustache. The group continued through the underground passages, and Su Ming left Peggy and Fury with a plan to return quietly while he pursued more urgent threats.

• Su Ming told Peggy that he wanted to borrow Howard Stark and warned her that Steve was no match for Red Skull yet.
• Su Ming explained that The Mustache had grown stronger than Hydra and that killing Red Skull could let him seize the Cosmic Cube, so the SSR should avoid acting rashly.
• Peggy asked what the group should do, and Su Ming advised them to pretend nothing had happened, return to the SSR, and keep pursuing Red Skull without killing him.
• Su Ming said he would address the threat from U-Man and the replicated Namor before investigating The Mustache and the Cosmic Cube.
• When Peggy asked why he had kidnapped Dr. Erskine and taken the Serum, Su Ming falsely claimed that Erskine had hired him because he no longer trusted the SSR.
• Nick Fury believed Su Ming’s explanation and connected it to Erskine’s earlier escape from Germany.

Su Ming brought Steve and the others to the Paris guerrilla headquarters, where Holloway treated the wounded and Rogue led a supply mission. With the rest exhausted or occupied, Su Ming left alone to threaten the airships with an anti-aircraft gun and lure the aerial laboratory away from the fleet.

• Nick agreed to abandon the Super Soldier operation once Steve recovered, and Su Ming told him and Peggy that Steve would take responsibility for the failed mission.
• Su Ming led the group to the guerrilla headquarters beneath Paris, shared food, and arranged for Holloway to treat the wounded.
• Su Ming sent Rogue and the Avenging Angel with the others to raid a German Army hospital for medical supplies and food.
• After deciding that everyone else needed to rest or had other duties, Su Ming left the headquarters alone.
• Su Ming planned to seize an anti-aircraft gun and threaten the airships so the aerial laboratory would separate from the fleet.

Su Ming waited for the signal to attack a German anti-aircraft position, then infiltrated it under cover of an explosion. He silently killed two guards and left the position poised for his assault.

• Su Ming watched the city and prepared to raid the anti-aircraft position when the three women began their operation.
• An explosion at an oil depot drew the airships’ searchlights away, and Su Ming flew toward the position beneath his Cloak of Levitation.
• Two German guards chatted as the veteran frightened the recruit with an invented tale about a black-and-yellow monster.
• Su Ming crept up behind the guards and killed the recruit without a sound.
• The veteran discovered the recruit’s body, looked up at Su Ming, and was killed.

Su Ming attacked German anti-aircraft emplacements across Paris, drawing the airships’ fire and throwing the occupied city into chaos. As he watched from Notre Dame, one airship began to flee.

• Su Ming killed two German soldiers, took their cigarettes and other belongings, and left a photograph on one corpse.
• Su Ming silently killed more than a hundred soldiers at an anti-aircraft emplacement, then fired its gun at the airships.
• The airships bombarded the emplacement and destroyed the gun, but Su Ming survived and escaped into the darkness.
• Su Ming moved on to attack nearly every anti-aircraft emplacement in Paris while Wade’s three women caused trouble elsewhere in the city.
• The German Army mobilized as Paris descended into chaos, and Su Ming watched from Notre Dame while one airship began to flee.

Su Ming pursued a German airship and fought through its zombie-filled gondolas, discovering that it was a trap rather than a laboratory transporting Namor’s fragment. He continued deeper into the airship, intent on finding out who had anticipated his plan.

• Su Ming used the Cloak of Levitation to pursue the fleeing airship through a barrage of anti-aircraft fire.
• He entered the airship and fought armed zombies, using his weapons and Gun-Fu to destroy them.
• Su Ming’s gunfire tore holes through the gondola, revealing the battle in Paris below and Cable’s team fighting near the Eiffel Tower.
• He crossed into the next gondola before the wrecked zombie-filled car broke apart and crashed into a building.
• Su Ming found an empty, dusty barracks and concluded that the airship was a trap designed to lure him away from the real target.
• He decided that whoever had seen through his plan would have left clues and continued searching the airship.

Su Ming fought and defeated a speed-mutated monster aboard the airship, then discovered that Baron Zemo had set a trap to destroy it. After the airship exploded, Su Ming prepared to continue his search for Namor’s fragment.

• Su Ming was ambushed by a fast, skinless monster with enormous fists, which knocked him through the airship compartments and out into the sky.
• Su Ming realized the monster was too short and weak to lift itself while carrying its heavy fists, then used the cloak to stay beyond its reach.
• Su Ming blinded the monster with a Flashbang, and the Cloak of Levitation wrapped it up and threw it from the airship, killing it on impact.
• Su Ming found a dusty laboratory, where a projection revealed Baron Zemo and confirmed that Zemo knew about his strength and intelligence.
• Su Ming destroyed the projector and camera, cut through a sealed door, and escaped through a porthole just before Zemo’s explosives destroyed the airship.
• Su Ming watched the burning wreckage fall and prepared for the next battle.

Su Ming escaped Baron Zemo’s aerial trap and returned to the guerrilla headquarters, where he learned that Zemo had mistaken Su Ming’s operation for Captain America’s plan. With Steve unconscious and Hydra’s other leaders potentially closing in, Su Ming recognized the need to end the danger in Paris quickly.

• Baron Zemo launched flying saucers at Su Ming, who used the Cloak of Levitation to evade them and escape through the sewers.
• Su Ming returned to the guerrilla headquarters and spoke with the commander, learning that Zemo had arrived in Paris and was staying in a small building.
• Su Ming concluded that Zemo had set his aerial trap for Captain America, believing Steve was targeting the laboratory airship.
• Su Ming considered the threat posed by Red Skull and the possibility that other Hydra leaders, especially Viper, might come to Paris.
• Su Ming looked at the unconscious Steve and decided the danger in Paris needed to be dealt with quickly.

Su Ming disguised himself as Captain America to lure Zemo into a one-on-one confrontation, then chose the Arc de Triomphe as the place to wait for him. He left Peggy and Fury behind and traveled through Paris toward the landmark.

• Su Ming used the symbiote and Godslayer to create a crude Captain America disguise and shield.
• Peggy Carter and Nick Fury realized that the apparent Captain America was Su Ming, who ignored their questions and left.
• The symbiote tried to alter the disguise to imitate Clark, and Su Ming stopped it after realizing it could read some of his memories.
• Su Ming considered how to draw Zemo out and rejected going to his likely trapped or false address.
• Su Ming chose the Arc de Triomphe as a protected location where Zemo might challenge him to a duel.

While forces prepared for the situation in Paris, Hydra’s leaders met through Hive’s Psychic Network to decide whether to break with the Führer. The motion failed, leaving Red Skull isolated as the others departed.

• Su Ming traveled through the sewers while the SSR, Britain, Torchbearer, Leviathan, and other factions made preparations or strategic adjustments.
• Hydra’s leaders gathered in Hive’s Psychic Network, and Red Skull proposed that Hydra withdraw from Germany and go underground before the Führer moved against it.
• Zemo, Viper, and Kraken opposed breaking with the Führer, while Red Skull, Zola, and Heine supported it; the other leaders abstained, so the motion failed.
• Zemo and the other leaders disconnected, leaving Red Skull, Zola, and Heine alone; Heine departed after telling Red Skull to return with a plan.

Heine reported to the blue-skinned Conqueror, who had disguised himself as The Mustache, about Hydra’s plans and Deathstroke’s interference. The Conqueror ordered Heine to send Deathstroke the Namor fragments while keeping their focus on the Cosmic Cube.

• Heine left the Psychic Network and met the Conqueror, who was disguised as The Mustache in the Reich Chancellery.
• Heine reported that Schmidt planned to challenge the Führer and that Hydra members had shifted their research toward the X-Gene and Atlanteans.
• The Conqueror explained that he had deliberately used the X-Gene project to divide Hydra and intended for Captain America to deal with Red Skull and Zola over the Cosmic Cube.
• Heine reported that Mr. Sinister had disappeared after Deathstroke disrupted his mission and that Deathstroke was gathering Namor fragments with an army from the future.
• The Conqueror ordered Heine to send Deathstroke all the Namor fragments to draw him away, while Heine continued watching the Cosmic Cube.

Su Ming traveled through Paris to find Cable’s team, while naming his increasingly self-aware symbiote Strangle. He reached the Eiffel Tower and found Cable and the others surrounded by German forces, then prepared to intervene.

• Su Ming surveyed the heavily patrolled streets of Paris and decided to find Cable at the Eiffel Tower.
• The symbiote rejected Su Ming’s suggested names and chose Strangle for itself.
• Su Ming accepted the name Strangle and communicated with the symbiote as it showed happiness and affection.
• The Cloak of Levitation guided Su Ming to a sewer exit near the Eiffel Tower, where he disguised it as a neck handkerchief.
• Su Ming found Cable and the others trapped on a tower platform, with Cable holding the stairs and Sunspot fighting airborne units and snipers.
• Su Ming positioned himself amid a group of German troops and began to act.

Su Ming fought the German mechanical forces disguised as Captain America and took control of a bipedal mech powered by a Cosmic Cube engine. He left the cockpit crew dead and drove the mech into the plaza.

• Cable blasted a German mechanical soldier apart while Shatterstar and Warpath fought nearby.
• Su Ming used Strangle to kill German soldiers as he advanced toward a large bipedal mech.
• Su Ming climbed onto the mech, broke into its cockpit, and had Strangle kill the crew.
• Su Ming examined the mech's controls and used Strangle's tentacles to operate them.
• Su Ming pushed the throttle forward and sent the mech sprinting across the plaza.