Chapter Summaries

Su Ming, Peter, and Storm traveled through the underground world, purifying creatures infected by the Brood Virus and sending reinforcements to seal the entrance. They found the enormous Celestial corpse and a motionless Iron Suit, which Peter recognized as Tony Stark’s.

• Su Ming used fire to purify the infected stream and ordered Adjutant to send equipped forces to guard the route in.
• Su Ming teased Peter about getting Tony Stark to compensate him with an AI assistant, but Peter refused to demand one.
• Storm denied that Wade was a Mutant, then grew angry again when Su Ming brought up Wolverine and Daken.
• Su Ming, Peter, and Storm passed infected salamanders and bats as Su Ming distracted Storm with stories about Wolverine.
• The trio reached the Celestial corpse beside an underground sinkhole and found an Iron Suit lying motionless nearby.
• Peter recognized the suit as Mr. Stark’s and cried out.

Su Ming confronted Tony at the ruined Celestial site and discovered Tony had faked being dead to force answers about his family. The chapter ended with Su Ming revealing that Tony’s parents and Cassandra were alive and relaxing in Hawaii, leaving Tony furious and in tears.

• Su Ming pulled Little Bug away and checked on Iron Man, who had been dragged from the Black Mud near the dead Celestial.
• Tony sat up, revealed he had recognized Su Ming’s deception, and explained that he had identified the supposed bodies as Synthezoids.
• Tony threatened to overload his Arc Reactor and take Peter and Storm with him unless Su Ming showed him his parents and Cassandra.
• Su Ming disabled Tony’s remote and ordered the Adjutant to teleport Howard, Maria, and Cassandra to the site.
• The Adjutant showed Howard and Maria playing mahjong in Hawaii with Cassandra’s parents, and Tony ground his teeth as tears streamed down his face.

Su Ming examined the Brood Virus leaking from the ancient Celestials corpse and had it sent to the Antarctic Sanctum Sanctorum for study. After Tony revealed that he had turned Howard's Space Cutter into a portable wormhole generator, the group used it to leave the underground chamber and return to Wakanda's palace.

• Su Ming asked Peter and Ororo to examine the black fluid leaking from the Celestials corpse, and Peter explained that he could not understand how a machine could fester.
• Su Ming noted that the Seeder's corpse had produced pus for 1.6 million years without decomposing, then ordered the Adjutant to send it to the Antarctic Sanctum Sanctorum for study.
• Su Ming confronted Tony about entering Wakanda, and Tony revealed that he had modified Howard's Space Cutter into a portable wormhole generator.
• Tony rushed Peter and the others through the wormhole and returned to Wakanda's palace before Peter could finish mentioning Douyin.

The group returned to Wakanda, where Tony Stark met T'Challa and handed Shuri his wormhole generator to study with Peter. Storm tried to call Professor X about Wolverine’s actions, but accidentally exposed Peter’s embarrassing video; Peter was left fearing his teacher might contact Aunt May before he attacked Tony in anger.

• T'Challa welcomed Tony and reminded him to give Wakanda advance notice before visiting, while Tony brushed off the warning.
• Tony gave Shuri his wormhole generator to examine with Peter, and Storm asked to borrow Peter’s phone so she could report Wolverine’s misdeeds to Professor X.
• Storm accidentally opened a Douyin video on Peter’s phone, exposing its explicit content to the group before she left to make her call.
• Peter feared that his teacher would contact Aunt May after discovering what he had watched, and blamed Tony for the situation.
• Tony teased Peter about his tastes, so Peter leaped onto Iron Man and attacked him.

Su Ming arranged Wakanda’s cooperation in cleaning up Brood contamination, then left with Tony and Peter for the Dream Dimension and space. On Utopia, Professor X learned troubling news about Logan and summoned Jean to verify it without telling him.

• Su Ming explained the Celestial Seeder, Brood Zerg, Brood Virus, and underground contamination to T'Challa, who agreed to cooperate with the cleanup.
• Su Ming told T'Challa that Storm would travel with him and promised a wedding gift, while Storm said Professor X would keep an eye on things.
• Su Ming used Strangle to separate Tony and Peter, then took them and Storm away in a flash of blue light.
• Professor X struggled with anger over Logan and the Father Avengers Alliance, while Magneto urged him to explain what had happened.
• Professor X told Jean to come to his office and verify some matters without letting Logan know.

Magneto realized that Charles had been controlled and ordered Jean Grey to kill Logan, so he pretended to comply and fled Utopia with Jean and Logan. He escaped the pursuing Mutants and set out to find Deathstroke for help.

• Charles abruptly insulted Jean Grey and ordered her to kill Logan, while Magneto intervened to protect her from Phoenix.
• Jean Grey regained control of herself, and Magneto led her out of Charles's office, suspecting that Charles was being controlled.
• Magneto put on his helmet, took Jean and Logan onto a flying disc, and flew away from Utopia Island.
• Mutants pursued Magneto, who summoned a Black Dragon from metal in the seabed to block them and destroyed the Brainwave Amplifier beneath the former school.
• Magneto told Logan that Charles and the other Mutants had been controlled, then immobilized Logan and urged him to listen.

Deathstroke secured the Leopard God's promise to protect Earth while he traveled to the Kepler Nebula, but Adjutant interrupted with footage of Magneto fleeing Utopia with Phoenix and Wolverine. The group prepared to respond to the trouble there.

• Deathstroke fed the Leopard God roasted quail and asked him to guard Earth while he and his friends traveled to the Kepler Nebula.
• The Leopard God agreed, citing his connection to Earth and the Vishanti's responsibility to protect it.
• Adjutant appeared and told Deathstroke that Magneto was looking for him because something had happened in Utopia.
• Adjutant showed footage of Magneto fleeing Utopia with Phoenix and Wolverine while using his magnetic powers destructively.
• Storm worried about what had happened to Utopia, while Tony noted that the Avengers could not intervene there.

Su Ming joined Magneto, Jean Grey, Wolverine, and the others to investigate Charles’s mysterious control of Utopia’s Mutants. After finding the island dark and hostile, he ordered a massive release of Voodoo Mushroom powder to stop its inhabitants from acting against them.

• Magneto told Su Ming that Charles had been controlled and had used his powers to control other Mutants, while Jean Grey recounted that Charles had ordered her to kill Wolverine.
• Su Ming gave the group thought-blockers and explained that High Evolutionary had created experimental turtle-monkey hybrids, prompting Tony to recall meeting the scientist years earlier.
• The group arrived at Utopia and found the island dark, with Jean sensing hidden Mutants radiating killing intent.
• Jean said Utopia housed a little over three hundred and twenty thousand Mutants, and Adjutant reported that they had more than three million tons of dried Voodoo Mushroom powder.
• Su Ming ordered one hundred tons of Voodoo Mushroom powder detonated over Utopia so its inhabitants’ bodies would stop obeying them.

Su Ming and his allies prepared to enter Utopia Island by scattering Voodoo Mushroom powder over it. As Magneto recovered from his injury, he explained why he believed Su Ming would help the Mutants, and the group prepared to land.

• The Adjutant teleported a container above the island and scattered Voodoo Mushroom powder over it.
• Deathstroke healed Magneto's missing palm with a potion, while Jean Grey apologized for Phoenix's attack.
• Magneto told Su Ming that Beast Hank was the only other X-Man left at the school and could rebuild the Brainwave Amplifier.
• Magneto said he trusted Su Ming to help because Su Ming had chosen the Mutants for his universe and Utopia existed through his support.
• Tony realized Deathstroke had influenced the events that led to Utopia's recognition, but kept his thoughts to himself.
• Su Ming said the mushroom powder had nearly settled and asked Ororo to blow away the excess before they landed.

After Storm cleared the mushroom powder from Utopia, Su Ming’s group found Charles missing and his wheelchair spinning in the Principal’s office. They investigated the scene but found no useful clues, leaving Tony to claim that aliens had taken Charles.

• Storm blew the mushroom powder off Utopia, clearing the streets and the brainwashed residents’ wigs along with it.
• Su Ming’s group found Charles missing from the Principal’s office, where his wheelchair spun by itself.
• Jean Grey explained that Charles’s paralysis came from his superpower, while Magneto and the others discussed why Jean could not safely use the Brainwave Amplifier.
• Su Ming and Strangle searched the clean office and ruled out several possible methods of controlling Charles, concluding that the unknown enemy had specifically targeted him for another reason.
• Wolverine, Jean Grey, Magneto, and Ororo listed Charles’s skills, but none of their suggestions helped identify the enemy.
• Tony declared that aliens had taken Charles.

After Charles Xavier vanished, Su Ming investigated the mansion and considered whether aliens had kidnapped him for political leverage. Emma Frost arrived, agreed to help find Charles in exchange for letting Hellfire Club students visit Su Ming’s other universe, and revealed that Hank had already left his laboratory.

• Tony theorized that aliens had kidnapped Charles to pressure the Shi'ar Empire, and Su Ming asked the Guardians of the Galaxy to investigate.
• Su Ming used the Time Stone to confirm that Charles had suffered a sudden change rather than been attacked, then led the group toward Hank's laboratory.
• Deathstroke's Symbiotes seized Emma Frost, but Su Ming recognized that she had only just arrived and released her.
• Emma explained that she had come to discuss letting Hellfire Club students visit Su Ming's other universe, and Su Ming agreed on the condition that she help find Charles.
• Emma checked for brainwaves and told Su Ming that Hank had already left the building.

Su Ming and his group investigated Hank’s laboratory for clues about the missing island residents, while he told Peter Parker about his parents’ S.H.I.E.L.D. backgrounds. The group opened the laboratory door and entered to continue their investigation.

• Su Ming sent Jean Grey and Ororo to identify which island residents had gone missing, and Logan went with them.
• Su Ming, White Queen, Magneto, Tony, and Peter took the elevator to the basement and headed for Hank’s laboratory.
• Tony cracked the laboratory’s electronic lock while Su Ming told Peter that his parents had been S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in the scientific division.
• Tony rejected the idea of becoming S.H.I.E.L.D. director and opened the laboratory door.
• Su Ming entered Hank’s laboratory with the group and warned Tony not to repeat his boast.

Deathstroke and his companions searched Hank's laboratory and discovered that someone had taken the Tokamak Device powering its equipment. Tony and Magneto set out to rebuild the Brainwave Amplifier so Emma could use it to locate the missing people.

• Peter asked Deathstroke whether his parents might have faked their deaths, but Deathstroke told him Hydra had killed them with a Sonic Gun, prompting Peter to rush outside and vomit.
• Tony reported that the laboratory's Tokamak Device had been taken and said he could repair the Brainwave Amplifier if Magneto helped him.
• Emma agreed to use the Brainwave Amplifier to search for the missing people once Tony repaired it.
• Tony dragged Magneto off to help with the repairs, and Magneto revealed that he had known Howard and played mahjong with him.
• Emma asked Deathstroke about other multiverses, but he told her to focus on helping him find the little bald guy.

Su Ming planned to locate Charles and Hank with the Brainwave Amplifier, but the Adjutant revealed that Klyntar was heading toward Earth. After a torpedo passed harmlessly through the living planet, Su Ming ordered magical defenses and prepared for its arrival.

• Tony built a new Super Enhanced Brainwave Amplifier Generation 2 with Magneto's help.
• The Adjutant reported that Klyntar was approaching Earth, and Su Ming recognized it as Knull's attack aimed at Strangle.
• Peter refused a Symbiote, while Tony said he wanted to study one for bionic armor research.
• Su Ming ordered a Nuclear Flame Cyclone Torpedo launched through a Boom Tube, but it passed through Klyntar without harming it.
• Su Ming ordered Wanda to project the Chaos Dimension and deploy Blood-Seeking Ice City and God Eater, while Peter and Tony tried to alert people close to them.

Su Ming concluded that Knull had come to Earth to reclaim Strangle, and decided to let the invasion unfold while watching how Earth’s defenders responded. He told his teammates who had abducted the missing Mutants, then learned that everyone else in Utopia was under the influence of Voodoo Mushroom powder.

• Su Ming reasoned that Knull had awakened and was targeting Strangle because it carried traits from Dragon and had devoured All-Black the Necrosword.
• Su Ming decided to keep Earth as the battleground and let Knull invade, hoping Vishanti, the Hell Lords, and Earth’s heroes would help deal with him.
• Su Ming told his teammates that old acquaintances had abducted the little bald guy and Blue Cat, and asked whether anyone else had gone missing in Utopia.
• Jean Grey reported that the other residents were present but had lost their souls and stood like puppets.
• Deathstroke said the residents had inhaled Voodoo Mushroom powder and that an African shaman or witch doctor would be needed to undo its effects.

Tony rebuilt the Brainwave Amplifier with Magneto’s help, and Emma used it to scan for unaffiliated Mutants. After the first scan found around three hundred thousand people, Emma still could not locate Hank, so Tony offered to run a targeted scan.

• Tony tore down Hank’s Brainwave Amplifier and rebuilt it with a wireless helmet, holographic projection, controller, and Arc Reactor.
• Magneto helped Tony shape the new equipment, and Emma put on the helmet and began scanning.
• Emma’s scan displayed records of roughly three hundred thousand unaffiliated Mutants, while China remained unscanned under S.P.E.A.R.’s jurisdiction.
• Tony celebrated the successful test and received whiskey from Su Ming after teasing him for a reward.
• Emma failed to find Hank, and Su Ming asked Tony about targeted enhanced scans.
• Tony claimed the device could scan for Mutants through lead and offered to demonstrate its massage chair.

Su Ming identified the Shadow King as the Mutant who had abducted Charles and Hank, and Ororo revealed her history with him. Su Ming explained the Shadow King's powers and the Multiverse's recent collapse, leaving the group with a chance to confront him while he was weakened.

• Su Ming named the Shadow King as the likely abductor, and Ororo recognized him as an enemy from her past.
• Ororo described how Amahl Farouk had attacked Charles after Charles defeated Ahmed el-Gibar, and how Charles had sealed the Shadow King in the Astral Plane.
• Su Ming explained that the Shadow King used multiple hosts, controlled minds through shadows, and had allied with Knull.
• Su Ming told Peter that the Multiverse's parallel worlds had vanished, eliminating the Shadow King's other known alt accounts and leaving him weaker.

Su Ming deduced that the Shadow King had taken Charles and Hank to his FBI safehouse in Washington, and the team prepared to confront him. The chapter ended with the Shadow King torturing Hank while Charles refused to reveal the secret he wanted.

• Su Ming explained that the Shadow King was likely heading to a nearby safehouse because carrying captives slowed his travel, and Peter and Tony understood his reasoning.
• Emma scanned the Hoover Building and detected Hank’s brainwaves in its basement alongside Jacob Reiss, an FBI deputy director.
• Su Ming arranged a presidential order and teleportation so the team could enter the FBI building without causing trouble.
• The Shadow King, controlling Jacob Reiss, interrogated Charles and stabbed Hank, demanding that Charles reveal a secret.
• Charles refused to cooperate, and the Shadow King continued torturing Hank while vowing to make Charles regret imprisoning him.

Su Ming led the Avengers and Mutants into the Hoover Building, where they ambushed and killed one of Shadow King's hosts. They rescued Beast, but Shadow King still had more than two hundred hosts on Earth.

• Su Ming used the presidential order to gain access to the Hoover Building, and the director evacuated everyone above ground.
• Su Ming assigned the team to prepare against Shadow King's abilities, while Tony, Ororo, Erik, Peter, and White Queen carried out their tasks.
• Su Ming punched through the floor and led the team into the basement, where he ambushed Jacob Reiss's avatar with a shield strike.
• The team attacked Jacob Reiss's avatar before it could react, killing the host.
• Su Ming told Tony that Shadow King still had more than two hundred hosts on Earth, then turned to save the injured Beast.

Ororo revived Charles, but Beast died from his wounds after Shadow King tortured him to pressure Charles. Su Ming decided to use Charles as bait to lure Shadow King back, while the team prepared to take Beast's body to Sepulk for emergency treatment.

• Ororo revived Charles, and the White Queen confirmed that Beast had died from blood loss caused by the Carbonadium dagger.
• Su Ming lifted Charles and explained that he would send Beast's body to Sepulk, while Magneto comforted Charles over Hank's death.
• Tony and Peter exchanged awkward remarks as Iron Man and the White Queen prepared Beast's body for transport.
• Su Ming sent Hank's body to Sepulk for stasis and tested the dagger's anti-healing effect on himself, which Strangle quickly repaired.
• Charles told Su Ming that Shadow King had sought information from him, and Su Ming proposed using Charles as bait for another attack.
• Charles agreed to cooperate and drank from the bottle Su Ming gave him as he grieved for Beast.