Chapter Summaries

Su Ming used Strangle to turn a German mech against the German Army, helping Cable and his team escape before destroying the mech with its Cosmic Cube battery. In the sewers, Cable confronted Su Ming about the wrong Timeline, and Su Ming urged him to help find and kill the force behind the German Army.

• Su Ming piloted the captured mech with Strangle, attacking German troops and drawing fire away from Cable's team.
• Cable led Boom-Boom, Shatterstar, and the others through a sewer entrance while Sunspot helped Su Ming fight off flying saucers.
• Su Ming triggered the mech's self-destruct, escaped into the sewers, and reunited with Cable's team.
• Cable told Su Ming that the Timeline was wrong and accused him of being a time traveler who might have caused the changes.
• Su Ming said Wade already knew about the problem and persuaded Cable to focus on finding the powerful enemy threatening the world.

Su Ming learned that Namor’s scattered body parts were moving toward Paris and changed the resistance’s plans to meet the mysterious delivery. The teams prepared to pursue the fragments and hold off the German Army while they waited for the pieces to arrive.

• Su Ming ordered Cable to recall the three women and Modi because the situation outside had changed.
• The X-Men and Holloway returned with medical supplies, while Monark warned Su Ming that Namor’s fragments were converging on Paris.
• Su Ming suspected the fragments’ movement was a trap but decided they had to confront whoever was behind it.
• Su Ming split the forces into two teams, assigning himself Sunspot, Boom-Boom, Surge, and Magik to hold off Zemo and the German Army while Cable led the team pursuing Namor’s fragments with Monark’s guidance.
• The group accepted Su Ming’s plan and rested while the fragments continued toward Paris.

Baron Zemo prepared to use Red Skull as bait to capture Captain America, while Red Skull secretly planned to use his own short-lived clones. Red Skull showed Doctor Zola a mysterious black substance he had acquired from Strucker.

• Zemo arranged for Red Skull to lure Captain America out in exchange for supporting Red Skull's proposal, then prepared traps and weapons for the ambush.
• Zemo reassured his young son Helmut that he was going out to kill a dangerous enemy and promised to return soon.
• Red Skull accused Zemo of making a fool of him, killed two guards in a rage, and forced Zola to agree that Zemo was unfit to lead Hydra.
• Red Skull asked Zola about the living clones acquired from Mister Sinister, learning they could survive for only four hours after thawing.
• Red Skull took Zola into a metal-walled secret room and revealed test tubes filled with churning black liquid, an item he had acquired from Strucker.

Red Skull ordered Arnim Zola to arm a Clone with a remotely detonated Death Spore Bomb for a planned attack on Zemo and Captain America. As Zola rushed to prepare it, he considered transferring his consciousness into something Red Skull could not destroy.

• The chapter explained that Loki had stolen Death Spore Flowers from Helheim, brought them to Earth, and given them to Baron Strucker, who developed them into a virus and bomb.
• Red Skull showed Zola the Death Spore Virus and ordered him to equip a Clone with the bomb and Cosmic Cube batteries within twenty minutes.
• Red Skull planned to detonate the Clone remotely during its fight alongside Zemo, killing both Zemo and Captain America.
• Zola took a test tube of the virus to his laboratory and hurried to prepare the Clone, while planning a way to escape Red Skull by transferring his consciousness.

Su Ming led the assault on Concorde Square after Red Skull and Zemo threatened to kill French hostages unless Captain America appeared. He ambushed Zemo, then plunged into the Hydra forces disguised as Captain America, beginning a battle against hundreds of soldiers.

• Su Ming ordered the operation after learning that Red Skull and Zemo had captured resistance fighters and demanded Captain America’s appearance.
• Su Ming and the others traveled through the sewers toward Concorde Square, while Su Ming left four allies behind to provide support.
• Zemo prepared to execute the hostages if Captain America failed to arrive before the deadline, while Red Skull stood beside him.
• Su Ming hurled a shield transformed from Godslayer at Zemo, but Red Skull pulled Zemo out of its path.
• Su Ming leaped into the Hydra formation, seized an energy rifle, and fought the soldiers while dodging their fire.

Su Ming defeated Hydra’s soldiers but escaped Red Skull’s Cosmic Cube blast and its deadly black smoke. He left the battlefield as a mysterious figure arrived, recovered Zemo’s badge, and decided to act quickly.

• Su Ming killed hundreds of Hydra soldiers, while Red Skull dragged Zemo into a charge against him.
• Red Skull detonated a Cosmic Cube weapon, and Su Ming escaped the blast with help from Strangle and the cloak.
• The black smoke turned Hydra soldiers, including Zemo, into ash, while most of the hostages escaped.
• Su Ming assessed his damaged armor and injured Strangle, then left the battlefield.
• A mysterious figure arrived, retrieved Zemo’s Hydra badge from the ash, and said he needed to act soon.

After Baron Zemo’s death, Heine delivered his weapons and Hydra badge to young Helmut, who took over his family’s identity and began planning revenge. Heine reflected on how events had shifted from history, then walked into a dark district where an unseen black creature approached him and his guards.

• Heine told Helmut Zemo that Captain America had killed his father and urged him to remain loyal to Germany and Hydra.
• Helmut examined his father’s unbloodied sword, suspected Heine had concealed the truth, and vowed to avenge the Zemo Family.
• Helmut armed himself, disguised himself in purple corduroy to resemble his father, and set out to secure the family’s influence before the news spread.
• Heine regretted that Red Skull had escaped and that Deathstroke, not Captain America, had fought Zemo, but decided to steer events back toward their historical course.
• Heine wandered into a deserted, pitch-black district, where he and his guards sensed danger as a black creature flowed toward their feet.

Su Ming ambushed Heine, a Hydra agent who was secretly a Synthezoid, after discovering him restoring Zemo’s weapons and badge to Zemo’s son. He captured Heine and learned that the King of Kings was behind the scheme, then let Strangle eat him.

• Su Ming hid near the place where Zemo died and watched a Hydra agent retrieve Zemo’s weapon and badge for his son.
• Su Ming used fires to steer the agent, Blue Glove, and his guards into an ambush.
• Strangle trapped and killed Heine’s guards while Su Ming attacked Blue Glove.
• Su Ming deduced that Blue Glove was a Synthezoid and hammered him into the ground.
• Blue Glove revealed that the King of Kings was his master, and Su Ming ordered Strangle to eat him.

Su Ming discovered that Kang the Conqueror was behind the attack and recovered a device from Blue Glove, whose death was undone by a replacement body. He met Magik and the others in Notre Dame's Bell Tower, where Sunspot identified the device as a signal transmitter similar to one found in a Sentinel Robot.

• Su Ming learned that his enemy was likely Kang the Conqueror, then let Strangle devour Blue Glove and recovered the agent's shapeshifting gloves and a small sphere from his skull.
• Blue Glove returned to life in a secret factory beneath the Reich Chancellery after his memories were uploaded into a spare body, and he decided to report to Kang while letting Deathstroke believe he was dead.
• Su Ming met Magik, Surge, Sunspot, and Boom-Boom in Notre Dame's Bell Tower and showed them the sphere he had found.
• Sunspot recognized the sphere as a signal transmitter similar to one he had seen inside a Sentinel Robot's head.

Su Ming identified Kang the Conqueror as the enemy behind the Blue Gloves and organized the group’s next steps after they recovered Namor. The team gathered at the Bone Hall to plan how to restore the branch Kang had cut from the Time Tree.

• Su Ming realized the transmitter could let Kang track him and that defeating Kang was necessary to stop the Blue Gloves from returning.
• Cable reported that the team had recovered and reassembled Namor, though his left hand was missing and he remained unconscious.
• Su Ming sent Monark to London with Namor and ordered Nick Fury, Peggy Carter, and Steve to return to the United Kingdom with a warning about Blue Glove assassins.
• Su Ming kept the SSR away from the Magic World, while the Great Mage secretly mishandled Namor during his examination.
• After the X-Men returned to the Bone Hall, Su Ming announced that Kang the Conqueror was their enemy and called on the normal-Timeline team to help restore the severed branch.

Su Ming rejected a direct assault on Berlin and planned to use Apocalypse, a powerful Mutant buried in Egypt, to fight Kang the Conqueror. He assigned Holloway, Modi, and Weasel to prepare in Cairo while he took the rest of the team to find Apocalypse.

• Su Ming guessed that Kang was disguised as The Mustache and explained that Kang had taken control of Germany.
• Su Ming decided against storming Berlin and revealed that the team would go to Egypt to recruit Apocalypse against Kang.
• Su Ming recounted how Kang had manipulated Apocalypse’s childhood, only for Apocalypse to defeat Kang and become Egypt’s ruler.
• Cable agreed to the plan, saying he knew Apocalypse as a tyrant from his future, while the team rejected Mutant Supremacy Theory.
• Su Ming ordered Holloway, Modi, and Weasel to prepare in Cairo and marked possible pyramids on a map before leading the rest toward Apocalypse.

Su Ming led his team from occupied France by ship to Egypt, where Domino’s luck helped them locate the buried pyramid sealing Apocalypse. The group found the pyramid’s tip before dawn, with Deadpool crawling over to investigate.

• Su Ming’s team left Paris through the sewers, disguised themselves as German soldiers, and traveled by truck to Marseille.
• Domino obtained a yacht, and the group crossed the Mediterranean to Alexandria under a Stars and Stripes flag.
• Su Ming used his Captain America disguise to lead the team through Alexandria and onward to Cairo.
• Su Ming asked Cable whether his Psionic Power could sense Mutants, while Domino pointed toward a direction in the desert.
• Su Ming’s group followed Domino’s direction and discovered the golden tip of the pyramid sealing Apocalypse, where Wade crawled over to see what they had found.

Su Ming and his companions broke into Apocalypse’s buried pyramid and made their way toward the chamber where the Phoenix had sealed him. Su Ming planned to wake Apocalypse while Wade distracted him with accusations against Kang, and the group approached the red-lit burial chamber.

• Su Ming gathered the team’s explosives and had Cable blast an entrance into the pyramid.
• Su Ming explained that Apocalypse built his pyramid to rival Kang the Conqueror, while Wade complained about the tomb and its treasures.
• Su Ming told Wade to keep Apocalypse from thinking clearly by blaming Kang for atrocities against Mutants.
• The group passed through ruins scorched by the Phoenix Force and continued toward the chamber glowing red with heat.

Su Ming and his companions freed Apocalypse from the Phoenix Force’s seal, and Apocalypse awoke believing they were his loyal followers. After surveying ruined Cairo, he restored an ancient palace and waited on his throne to hear what they wanted.

• Su Ming used the Nightfall Greatsword and Tenth Metal to destroy the Phoenix Force binding Apocalypse.
• Apocalypse awoke, asked about the date and Nathaniel Essex, and Su Ming pretended not to know Essex.
• Apocalypse surveyed the ruined remains of his former territory and declared that he would restore his empire.
• Apocalypse flew with Su Ming and the others to Cairo, raised an ancient palace from underground, and made the city’s mortals ignore it.
• Apocalypse sat on his throne and waited for Su Ming’s group to explain what they wanted, considering making them all Omega Mutants.

Su Ming tricked Apocalypse into believing Kang the Conqueror was persecuting Mutants, and Wade’s exaggerated account convinced Apocalypse to attack him. Apocalypse flew with the others to Berlin and prepared to destroy the city.

• Su Ming asked Apocalypse to rescue the Mutants from a tyrant he identified as the First Pharaoh, and Apocalypse’s anger shook the city.
• Apocalypse healed Wade and questioned him, while Wade mistakenly asked if Apocalypse was his father.
• Following Su Ming’s cues, Wade blamed The Mustache for crimes against Mutants and provoked Apocalypse with insults.
• Apocalypse recognized The Mustache as Rama-Tut, or Kang the Conqueror, and flew with the others toward Berlin.
• Apocalypse saw the city’s flags, patrols, and factories and began gathering power to destroy it.

Su Ming diverted Apocalypse from destroying Berlin by pointing out Kang the Conqueror, who was hiding in the Reich Chancellery. After Apocalypse erased the guards and the forces sent against him, Su Ming offered to scout ahead before Kang could escape.

• Su Ming noticed the New X-Men’s concern for Berlin’s civilians and distracted Apocalypse by pointing out Kang the Conqueror.
• Apocalypse brought the group down before the Reich Chancellery, where he erased the Flag Guard after they opened fire.
• Apocalypse destroyed the flying saucers and giant robots sent against the group, killing their pilots and crews.
• Apocalypse challenged Rama-Tut to face him, while Su Ming worried that Kang might flee or launch a nuclear attack.
• Su Ming offered to scout the Reich Chancellery before Kang could escape.

Su Ming escaped Kang's temporal trap by changing the course of a discarded timeline, then returned to the Reich Chancellery and prepared to locate the device behind the trap. He left the X-Men with Apocalypse and planned to test magnetic detectors and EMP grenades against Kang's technology.

• Apocalypse opened the Reich Chancellery gates and shielded Su Ming as he entered.
• Su Ming fell into a wartime timeline and decided to change history so the timeline would collapse.
• Su Ming fought across the battles of Berlin and changed events enough to shatter the timeline.
• Su Ming returned from the multiverse selection screen to Berlin, where Cable and the others were waiting.
• Su Ming asked Deadpool to distract Apocalypse from the X symbol on the X-Men's uniforms.
• Su Ming asked Cable for magnetic field detectors and EMP grenades so he could find and disable Kang's temporal device.

Su Ming confronted Kang the Conqueror in the Reich Chancellery and learned Kang had secretly supported him since his arrival in 1925. Kang revealed that he had monitored Su Ming and tampered with his technology, while leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Cable built Su Ming a detector for magnetic disturbances, and Su Ming used it with EMP grenades to clear Kang's traps in the Reich Chancellery.
• Su Ming entered Kang's office, killed Blue Glove, and confronted Kang, who revealed his true identity beneath his Mustache disguise.
• Kang showed Su Ming a projection of his past activities, including his surveillance of Su Ming and his efforts to help him earn money.
• Kang explained that he had discovered Su Ming in 1925, recognized him as an outsider, and had planned to befriend him.

Kang showed Su Ming how he had secretly helped Wilson Enterprises prosper while suppressing its technological development and steering history toward Kang’s own plans. Kang offered Su Ming control of the world after conquering it, but Su Ming rejected his claims of goodwill and killed Blue Glove.

• Kang showed Su Ming how Heine had helped him profit from the 1929 stock market crash and explained that Heine was the Synthezoid Su Ming had killed three times.
• Kang revealed that Blue Glove had spread nanomachines among Wilson Enterprises’ scientists and equipment to block technological progress while allowing harmless consumer inventions.
• Kang showed Su Ming how Blue Glove had supported Wilson Enterprises financially and how Kang had used the Captain America experiment and Namor to distract secret organizations while building powered armor.
• Kang claimed he had only wanted to conquer the world and would give Su Ming control of the Timeline afterward.
• Su Ming rejected Kang’s offer as a deceptive promise and shot Blue Glove when he entered the room.

Su Ming tricked Kang the Conqueror into falling out of the Reich Chancellery, where Apocalypse confronted and telekinetically restrained him. Kang and Apocalypse then vanished using phase abilities, leaving Su Ming and the others trapped behind Apocalypse’s barrier as German forces closed in.

• Su Ming told Kang that the Apocalypse outside was a shapeshifter, then kicked Kang through the window when he came over to look.
• Su Ming killed Blue Glove again and destroyed the spare clones in the basement while Apocalypse recognized Kang and pinned him in the air with telekinesis.
• Kang activated a hidden device and disappeared, prompting Apocalypse to vanish after him using his own phase abilities.
• Deadpool commentated on the vanished combatants, and Cable reported to Su Ming that both had used Phase Shift.
• Su Ming found the group inside Apocalypse’s protective barrier as German soldiers and machines surrounded them, and he realized the barrier would not protect them from the approaching crowd.