Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and his companions watched a Kaiju emerge from a spatial fissure beneath Monster Earth and identified it as an invasion force from the Forerunners’ world. Su Ming resolved to stop the invaders from destroying Earth, while the Demon Witch waited by the passage for reinforcements.

• The Micro-Robots followed an underground fissure until they found a yellow, energy-filled spatial passage.
• A Category Two Kaiju called the Demon Witch crawled out of the passage as Su Ming explained that Kaiju were artificially created weapons from the Forerunners’ world.
• The Adjutant searched the multiverse for the Forerunners’ world but could not locate it.
• Harley asked whether the Kaiju were vulnerable to water, and Su Ming explained that they were powerful swimmers whose toxic biology could pollute Earth.
• The Demon Witch guarded the passage instead of advancing, and Su Ming made stopping the invasion his priority.

Su Ming and the Adjutant traveled to the Pacific Rim world, where he planned to help humanity fight the Forerunners by selling weapons rather than defeating them himself. After taking the Adjutant to Temple Street for her birthday, he arranged for an advertisement for new mechs to reach General Pete Coast.

• Su Ming left Harley to handle the Kaiju while he and the Adjutant traveled to the Pacific Rim world.
• Su Ming and the Adjutant arrived in Hong Kong and saw the coastal wall being built as humanity's defenses against Kaiju.
• Su Ming explained that he intended to sell weapons to General Pete Coast instead of personally entering the wormhole to destroy the Forerunners.
• The Adjutant bought a warehouse online, and Su Ming exchanged gold for cash before taking her to Temple Street.
• Su Ming treated the Adjutant to street food for her birthday while an advertisement for brand-new mechs was sent to the general's email.

Su Ming and Adjutant discussed the general’s reaction to their Jaeger advertisement while walking through the night market. After learning that General Pete Coast was heading to the advertised warehouse with his daughter and guards, they teleported back to prepare for his arrival.

• Adjutant said she had overeaten but did not need medicine, and Su Ming explained human expressions about the heart before asking about the general’s reaction to their email.
• Adjutant reported that General Pete Coast was suspicious after receiving their Jaeger advertisement through an internal Pacific Rim Defense Organization email address.
• Su Ming reasoned that the general would consider buying Jaegers because he supported Jaeger Pilots and needed more combat power against the Kaiju.
• Adjutant informed Su Ming that General Pete Coast had gone to the advertised warehouse with his daughter, two guards, and a driver.
• Su Ming and Adjutant left the night market and teleported back to the shop to prepare for the general’s visit.

General arrives with Raleigh Becket and Mako at the address of a mysterious seller who claimed to have brand-new Jaegers, hoping to strengthen humanity’s defenses against the Kaiju. He remains determined to inspect the machines despite Raleigh’s doubts and the conflict over the Wall Program.

• General brought Raleigh Becket and Mako on the subway to visit a mysterious Jaeger seller, while Raleigh complained about the Wall Program and his life after losing his brother.
• Mako insulted Raleigh for abandoning the Jaeger effort, and General rebuked her, explaining the physical and mental burden Raleigh had endured.
• General considered the Wall Program inadequate against increasingly powerful and intelligent Kaiju, and worried that his terminal illness left little time to help humanity.
• General explained that an unknown sender from Wilson Enterprises had offered new Jaegers, and that their designs looked different from existing models.
• Raleigh wondered if the machines were refurbished Jaegers from the Auckland graveyard, but General said he would accept even stolen, refurbished machines if they could help protect civilians.

General Pete Coast and his group visited Wilson Company in Kowloon West to inspect its advertised mecha, suspecting the shabby business was a scam. Brother Ye Su revealed a real Zaku Warrior and offered it to them for ten billion US Dollars, leaving the general stunned and facing negotiations.

• General Pete Coast and his group crossed the desolate Kowloon Docks and entered Wilson Company's warehouse office.
• Brother Ye Su served them tea and handed out a catalog listing mecha, including an enormous SDF-1 with an impossibly high price.
• Raleigh dismissed the catalog as a prank and urged General Pete Coast to leave, but Brother Ye Su invited him to inspect the cheapest unit.
• Brother Ye Su unveiled a black Zaku Warrior Brain-Controlled Type, and its red mono-eye lit up as the group stared in shock.
• General Pete Coast touched the Zaku and asked who Brother Ye Su's people were, and Brother Ye Su offered the unit for ten billion US Dollars with a seven-day return policy.

Su Ming sold a customized Zaku Warrior to the Hong Kong Shatterdome after the Black general saw its capabilities and agreed to pay with Kaiju remains. The deal left Su Ming aligned with the Jaeger Faction as political tensions with the Wall Builders Faction threatened the future of the Jaeger program.

• Su Ming demonstrated the Zaku Warrior’s speed, flight, and combat potential to Raleigh and the Black general.
• Su Ming offered the general a pilot manual and a virtual cockpit training program, persuading him that the mecha could be deployed quickly.
• The Black general agreed to buy one Zaku Warrior with a Kaiju head as payment and promised further orders if its performance proved successful.
• Su Ming and the general sealed the deal, with Su Ming agreeing to sell the mecha exclusively to the Hong Kong Shatterdome.
• The general warned Su Ming that the Wall Builders Faction would likely exploit the mecha’s weaknesses to undermine the Jaeger Faction.

Su Ming traded a Zaku to General Pete Coast and later visited the Hong Kong Shatterdome to watch Raleigh Becket pilot it against a new Kaiju. Raleigh’s shouted sortie phrase sent the Zaku’s output to maximum, leaving Mako questioning the machine’s design.

• Su Ming sold the Zaku and its training program to General Pete Coast, then asked him to bring any Kaiju corpses for future trades.
• Su Ming spent a week sightseeing and sampling food with the Adjutant before she warned him that a Kaiju had appeared in Challenger Deep.
• Su Ming and the Adjutant teleported to the Hong Kong Shatterdome, where General Pete Coast let them observe the Zaku’s first sortie.
• Raleigh Becket hesitated over the required launch phrase, then shouted it and sent the Zaku’s output gauge to maximum as it raced ahead of Crimson Typhoon.
• Mako asked Su Ming whether the Zaku’s engine really gained power when its pilot shouted.

Su Ming and Brother Ye Su explained that the Zaku’s Mental Power Sensing Framework required pilots to shout emotionally charged lines to unlock its full performance. As Raleigh raced toward the unknown Kaiju, the general agreed to broadcast the battle worldwide.

• Su Ming described the Zaku’s shout-activated system, and Mako admitted that reciting its embarrassing lines would be difficult for her.
• Brother Ye Su explained that language stirred emotions and Mental Power, prompting Mako to decide to practice the lines after the battle.
• Raleigh shouted another line as he approached the Kaiju, which was swimming toward Hong Kong beneath the surface.
• Deathstroke urged the general to broadcast the fight, and he assured the general that the Zaku Warrior could handle the estimated Category Four Kaiju.
• Raleigh shouted “Char! You tricked me! Advance! Zeon!”, and the general ordered the communications satellites to broadcast the battle worldwide.

Su Ming used Raleigh Becket and Zaku Warrior to demonstrate humanity’s new aerial weapon against a Kaiju, while a global broadcast turned Raleigh into a hero. The fight began with Zaku Warrior striking the monster from the sky and cutting off one of its horns.

• Adjutant broadcast Zaku Warrior and Raleigh Becket worldwide as Su Ming watched the public react with hope and excitement.
• Raleigh shouted strange lines from the cockpit, and viewers mistook his behavior for the effects of piloting a Jaeger alone.
• Raleigh reached the Kaiju’s location, fired the Mega Particle Cannon from the air, and wounded the creature beneath the water.
• The Kaiju surfaced, and Zaku Warrior descended from the sun with a Heat Hawk, severed one of its horns, and charged in for another attack.

Raleigh’s Zaku dominated the Kaiju battle while Su Ming and the Black general negotiated another Jaeger purchase. The general agreed to trade the Kaiju’s corpse and villas on Victoria Peak for a Kampfer, which Mako would test-drive.

• The Black general recalled how The Stranger had destroyed Horizon Brave, and Su Ming joked that the new Kaiju was its parent.
• Raleigh resumed attacking the Kaiju with the Zaku, pursuing it underwater and overpowering it despite its corrosive attacks.
• The Black general offered the Kaiju’s corpse for Neo Zeong, but Su Ming said it was worth only a Custom Gouf or, with villas on Victoria Peak, a Kampfer.
• Raleigh hurled the Kaiju skyward while shouting about pushing back a rock, interrupting the general’s negotiations.
• The general agreed to the Kampfer deal and asked for Mako to test-drive it, while Su Ming gave them champagne and promised promotional gifts.

Raleigh destroyed the Kaiju with the Zaku Warrior, giving humanity a victory and time to prepare for the next invasion. Su Ming settled into a villa on Victoria Peak, explaining that he wanted to help humanity unite before beginning a cosmic voyage.

• Raleigh severed the Kaiju's limbs and head, then cried as the Zaku Warrior played music in its cockpit.
• People across the Pacific celebrated the Kaiju's defeat, while the Black general took Mako and the guards to test machines with Su Ming.
• Mako tested a new machine, and the general gave Su Ming the keys to a villa after the Kaiju corpse was delivered.
• Su Ming told the Adjutant that he had bought the villa to observe humanity's alliance and planned to bring in new monsters if humanity divided after the Kaiju were gone.
• Su Ming said he would treat the Black general's illness so he could see him pilot a Gundam, and ordered the Adjutant to make the global hail larger.

Deathstroke learned that Wall Builders politicians planned to undermine General Black and ordered them replaced while directing the Adjutant to deal with Kaiju-worshipping cultists. General Black found that the politicians had abruptly switched sides and secured major funding, but the chapter ended with news that three Kaiju had appeared on the ocean's surface.

• The Adjutant told Deathstroke that Wall Builders politicians were coordinating to remove General Black and halt Jaeger operations.
• Deathstroke ordered the politicians involved killed and replaced with Synthezoids, and told the Adjutant to make the cultists worship Deadpool.
• The Adjutant joined Deathstroke in the pool to learn how to swim.
• General Black recalled that the Wall Builders politicians had apologized and begun supporting Jaeger construction after the previous day's battle.
• General Black received news that three Kaiju had been spotted on the ocean's surface.

Deathstroke watched the Kaiju battle and learned that Mothra had awakened in Southern Yunnan. He ordered a peaceful approach to recruit her and offer her a safe home for herself and her offspring.

• Deathstroke watched the live broadcast as Raleigh and Mako launched to fight three Category IV Kaiju, while Zombie Tyrannomon continued overpowering monsters near the breach.
• Deathstroke asked the Adjutant whether any native monsters had appeared, and she reported that Mothra had awakened in a cave in Southern Yunnan.
• The Adjutant showed Mothra singing as nearby people prepared offerings, and Deathstroke noted that she was gentle and appeared to be preparing to lay eggs.
• Deathstroke told the Adjutant to send a Synthezoid to negotiate with Mothra, offering her and her children a safe planet and nuclear waste as a gift.

Su Ming negotiated with Mothra and learned she would let her larvae move to another world after they hatched, while the team supplied her with nuclear waste to help her injuries. Meanwhile, the modified Jaegers fought Leatherback and two other Kaiju, and Leatherback’s electromagnetic pulse failed to affect them.

• Mothra accepted the nuclear waste and told the Adjutant that she was dying but would let her children go with the team.
• Su Ming ordered the Adjutant to send another ton of nuclear waste into Mothra’s cave in the hope that radiation would heal her injuries.
• Strangle said she could communicate with the Forerunners, but Deathstroke refused to risk connecting to their Mind Network.
• The Zaku Warrior and Kampfer engaged Leatherback and two other Kaiju.
• Leatherback unleashed an electromagnetic pulse, but it had no effect on the Omega Energy-powered Jaegers piloted by Raleigh and Mako.

Raleigh and Mako fought three Kaiju in their new mechs, using shouted activation phrases to maintain their performance boosts. Raleigh killed the rhino-like Kaiju and moved to attack the crocodile while Mako kept the turtle occupied.

• Raleigh shouted a slogan and beheaded the rhino-like Kaiju with his Zaku Warrior's axe.
• Raleigh told Mako to keep shouting so her mech's performance boost would not expire.
• Mako dodged the turtle's attack and shouted an activation phrase, resetting the overclock countdown.
• Raleigh ordered Mako to keep the turtle occupied and flew behind the crocodile to strike it with his axe.

Raleigh and Mako fought a Turtle Shell Kaiju until it burst open and released Black Mud, revealing that the Hand of the Void had intervened in the Forerunner’s world. Su Ming assembled Dream and called for Wade and Big Cat to help confront the threat, planning to make the Hand of the Void stop targeting him.

• Raleigh and Mako battered the Turtle Shell Kaiju until its carapace opened and poured out Black Mud that revived fish and transformed the Kaiju into a mushroom-covered monster.
• Su Ming recognized the mutation and the emerging Evil Thought Nobles as the work of the Hand of the Void, then decided to intervene personally.
• Su Ming told the Adjutant to summon Wade and Big Cat while warning her to ensure Wade got dressed before teleporting him.
• Little Flower appeared as a kitten, explained that the Hand of the Void was a collective consciousness that could not be destroyed, and agreed to help Su Ming.
• Su Ming offered Little Flower bluefin tuna and sushi, then waited for Wade while Strangle blocked some of his sense of smell.

Su Ming and Mimi discussed the Hand of the Void and the corruption of the world inhabited by Silicon-based Lifeforms, while Deadpool arrived and offered to help. They prepared to travel to Challenger Deep to confront the threat.

• The cat finished a can of fish, swam in the pool, and discussed the Silicon-based Lifeforms with Su Ming.
• Su Ming showed the cat footage of the mech battle and said he suspected the Hand of the Void and his Evil Thought Nobles were in the occupied world.
• Mimi explained that the Hand of the Void was an External Force embodying evil thoughts from beyond the world and said she might be able to travel there with Su Ming.
• Deadpool appeared, joked about Lucifer, and claimed he could help fight the Hand of the Void with his greater popularity.
• Su Ming refused Deadpool’s joke and told Adjutant to send them to Challenger Deep.

Deathstroke and Deadpool crossed the Forerunner wormhole inside Strangle, disguised as a Kaiju. During the journey, Deathstroke explained that he had hoped to lure the Hand of the Void into a trap, but would now take the initiative against him.

• Deadpool struggled with the deep-sea pressure until the cat’s tail flame let him breathe underwater, and Deathstroke gave him five hundred dollars.
• Deathstroke used Strangle to imitate Kaiju DNA and carry him, Deadpool, and the cat through the Forerunner wormhole.
• Deadpool and the cat traded jokes as they drifted through the wormhole, while Deathstroke explained why the cat had fallen for Deadpool’s bad joke.
• The cat deduced that Deathstroke had displayed an Omega Energy-powered device to lure the Hand of the Void, and Deathstroke confirmed his original plan.
• Deathstroke said the Hand of the Void had used the Forerunners as a weapon, so he would strike first, and Deadpool objected to his concept being called “disgust.”

Su Ming, Deadpool, and Big Cat arrived at a desolate road where silver rainwater flooded the landscape. Su Ming concluded that the Hand of the Void had trapped them in a game and decided they had to wait for the bus, which appeared as the water reached their necks.

• Su Ming, Deadpool, and Big Cat emerged beside an isolated bus stop instead of entering the Forerunner world.
• Silver rain flooded the road, and Su Ming confirmed the water was pure H2O.
• Deadpool guessed they were trapped in a mercury prison, but Su Ming explained that the setting was likely a game prepared by the Hand of the Void.
• Su Ming chose to wait for the bus rather than let Big Cat tear apart the world, while Deadpool complained about the game.
• A battered bus drove across the rising water as it reached the two men's necks.

Su Ming and Deadpool boarded a strange bus traveling across silver floodwater as they searched for the Hand of the Void. Su Ming discovered the mantis driver was a false lead, while the reflections on the water began looking back at the passengers.

• Su Ming and Deadpool boarded the empty bus, and the mantis driver began driving across the silver water.
• Deadpool threatened to attack the driver, but Su Ming told him to leave it alone and wait for the game to unfold.
• After noticing a sign forbidding passengers from speaking to the driver, Su Ming had Strangle devour the mantis.
• Su Ming realized a Cockroach in the cabin was the real driver, while the mantis had no useful information about the Hand of the Void.
• Su Ming noticed that the passengers' reflections in the water were looking back at him and reacted with recognition.