Chapter Summaries

Su Ming arranged escape and new lives for the surviving gods and Gorr’s family after the planet was overrun by Symbiotes. He sent Gorr, Aya, and Aggor to Spartacus Star, then left Monark behind as he prepared for his next operation.

• Su Ming traded portal passage for contracts, then recognized Guguwa as the God of Bombs and bargained for ten bombs powerful enough to destroy Earth.
• After Cloak confirmed no other gods remained, Su Ming offered Gorr’s family a home on an atheist world and arranged for them to develop Cave Fruit Ball.
• Gorr resolved to live for his wife and son, and Su Ming sent the family through a portal to Spartacus Star.
• Monark asked whether Gorr should be told that his wife and son were Symbiotes, but Su Ming said they were still his family and sent Monark to replace Kaecilius.

Su Ming waited while Pym and Janet used Pym Particles to shrink the giant Planet Bomb, and Kaecilius joined the battle against the Symbiotes. After Pym completed the task, Su Ming prepared to return to Earth and told Janet that he had killed her father’s murderer, leaving her grateful and relieved.

• Su Ming gave Monark a red stone as false proof of Gorr’s death and sent him back to tell Thor and the others the mission was over.
• Kaecilius arrived, and Su Ming explained that he had brought him to witness the limits of technology and the dangers of relying only on magic.
• Kaecilius entered the Symbiote battle to test his soul-draining magic while Su Ming waited for Pym and Janet to finish their work.
• Pym returned with the Planet Bomb reduced to a small sphere, and Su Ming put it away and announced they were going home.
• Su Ming told Janet that he had killed the murderer of her father, and Janet thanked him, relieved that her father could rest in peace.

Su Ming and Kaecilius traveled to New York’s underground city to seek the ruler of its sewer-dwelling creatures, hoping to force a group of giant slugs out of hiding. The chapter ended with a goblin confronting them as Su Ming announced that the Sorcerer Supreme wanted to negotiate.

• Su Ming sent Janet and Pym away, falsely assuring them that Janet’s enemy was dead.
• Su Ming told Kaecilius that giant slugs from the Cosmos Dimension had killed Janet’s father and were hiding in New York’s sewers.
• Kaecilius explained that the slugs feared fire and that their internal brood pouches could burst and spread their offspring.
• Su Ming and Kaecilius used a Teleportation Portal to reach the underground city beneath New York.
• A goblin challenged the visitors, and Su Ming asked it to tell Shakara’s father that the Sorcerer Supreme had come to discuss a condition.

Su Ming and Kaecilius traveled through an orderly, steam-powered Underground City and reached the Succubus city lord’s palace to discuss trade. They were admitted to the palace and found the city lord conducting an interdimensional summoning ritual.

• A goblin guide led Su Ming and Kaecilius through the city, where demons and goblins worked and traded without hostility toward humans.
• Su Ming learned that the goblins made goods such as Steam Flashlights and Steam Wine and wanted knowledge, fuel, and surface ingredients in trade.
• The goblin brought them to the city lord’s gate, and Su Ming paid him with Spicy Strips before the guards admitted them.
• Su Ming and Kaecilius followed the butler through the luxurious palace into a darker hall, where a male Succubus performed a summoning ritual.
• Kaecilius identified the ritual as an Interdimensional Summoning Array, and Su Ming chose to watch rather than interrupt.

Su Ming confronted Satana after a Succubus summoned her in an underground New York city. He agreed to let the Succubus remain in the Main Dimension if the underground races helped drive something in the sewers to the surface.

• A Succubus sacrificed a goat to summon a Hell Lord while Su Ming and Kaecilius watched.
• Satana appeared and explained that the Succubus family had once helped her and Daimon, so she had come to repay the favor.
• Satana tried to persuade Su Ming to let the Succubus stay, but he demanded a suitable price instead.
• Su Ming offered the Succubus permission to remain in the Main Dimension in exchange for the underground races helping force something in the sewers to the surface.

Su Ming forced the Succubus city lord to seal New York City's sewer outlets to drive dangerous creatures out of the sewers, with Kaecilius supervising the work. After the city lord summoned his daughter Shakara, Su Ming considered how to feed Strangle and the Cloak of Levitation.

• Satana refused Su Ming's invitation to help and vanished after he warned her to register her entry into the Main Dimension.
• Su Ming ordered the Succubus city lord to block all of New York City's sewer outlets, threatening to erase the underground residents if they failed.
• Su Ming assigned Kaecilius to supervise the operation and assist the underground creatures with magic.
• Su Ming asked the city lord to summon his daughter Shakara after learning that her brothers had died fighting vampires.
• Su Ming fed Strangle an apple, then tossed the Cloak of Levitation a wand to gnaw on and considered finding it a steadier food source.

Su Ming negotiated with Shakara to make Monster Metropolis a trade hub in exchange for helping her become its queen, while Kaecilius prepared a plan to flood New York’s streets with sewer water. The chapter ended with Su Ming ordering Kaecilius to alert Master White and prepare the New York Sanctum.

• Shakara met Su Ming and revealed that her father had falsely claimed her brothers were dead to protect his bloodline, while treating her as expendable.
• Shakara warned Su Ming that Satana was likely deceiving her father, who planned to use steam technology to open a passage to the Hell Dimension.
• Su Ming offered to help Shakara rule Monster Metropolis if she made it a trade hub between Kamar-Taj and the underground world, and she accepted.
• Kaecilius returned and reported that New York’s sewer water was rising, ready for the planned wind Magic Circle to force it onto the streets during peak water use.
• Su Ming praised Kaecilius and ordered him to notify Master White and have the New York Sanctum prepare.

Hank Pym woke beside Janet after their night together, then was caught in a catastrophic sewage eruption that flooded his house and New York. Janet left him to deal with the mess and flew toward the ocean, while the city’s fate remained uncertain.

• Hank Pym woke beside Janet and reflected on their relationship and his encounter with Deathstroke and Mage.
• Sewage erupted from every drain in Hank Pym’s house, covering him in filth as he struggled to escape the bathroom.
• Janet blamed Hank Pym for the disgusting disaster and flew away after telling him to fix the house.
• Janet discovered that sewage was flooding streets across New York and saw residents fleeing the chaos.
• Janet avoided helping, climbed above the flooded city, and flew toward the ocean to enjoy the sea breeze and wash her uniform.

Deathstroke and Kaecilius used citywide magic to manage the flooding and yellow mist in New York until Deathstroke spotted a gigantic slug moving toward the George Washington Bridge. They flew closer and hid nearby to watch it, leaving others to test the monster first.

• Kaecilius struggled to maintain thousands of Magic Circles while Deathstroke watched the flooded, mist-covered city from the Empire State Building.
• Deathstroke gave Kaecilius an authorization note to claim reimbursement from the Nameless Ones for his spellcasting costs.
• Deathstroke spotted a huge green monster in the distance and told Kaecilius to stop casting.
• Deathstroke and Kaecilius flew toward the monster as it crawled onto the George Washington Bridge, causing panic and straining the structure.
• Deathstroke hid with Kaecilius in a rooftop utility room and decided to observe the monster while others tested its weaknesses.

Su Ming and Kaecilius watched a giant acid-filled monster rampage across a bridge in New York while assessing its strength. After Kaecilius drove off the Air Force with Chain Lightning, New York’s Vigilantes arrived, and one was immediately dissolved by the creature.

• Su Ming and Kaecilius observed the monster devour vehicles, crush a train, and kill people on the bridge as they judged its abilities.
• Su Ming told Kaecilius to prepare Teleportation Magic and wait for the military to test the monster before they intervened.
• Four F16A fighter jets attacked the monster with AGM-65 Maverick missiles, but it emerged unharmed.
• Kaecilius struck the fighter formation with Chain Lightning, damaging its electronics and forcing the pilots to retreat.
• New York’s Vigilantes arrived and attacked the monster, but a Captain America-like hero plunged into its body and was dissolved into ash.

Su Ming and Kaecilius watched a giant Gamma-mutated slug slaughter the Masked Vigilantes on a bridge. The First Line arrived to fight it, but Su Ming expected the monster to overwhelm them as well.

• Su Ming and Kaecilius watched the slug advance while the Masked Vigilantes' attacks failed to slow it.
• The slug lashed out with its tentacles, killing many Vigilantes and sending the survivors fleeing.
• Deathstroke recorded the carnage as the slug crossed toward New Jersey.
• The First Line team—Yankee Clipper, Black Fox, Liberty Belle, and Nightingale—arrived and attacked the monster.
• Su Ming assessed the team's abilities and waited to see how many would die and how much of the slug's strength they could reveal.

Deathstroke left the bridge battle to confront Nick Fury, who was watching the monster from a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicopter while considering selling stolen Gamma Ray files to the military. Their conversation revealed that the Avengers had disbanded, and Fury began explaining why his first team had failed.

• Deathstroke told Kaecilius to save Black Fox if he was about to die, then flew to the black S.H.I.E.L.D. helicopter across the river.
• Fury watched First Line struggle against the monster and hoped its strength would increase the value of the stolen Gamma Ray files he planned to sell.
• Deathstroke startled Fury by appearing at the helicopter, then entered and asked about Dugan, the Howling Commandos, and the Avengers.
• Fury said the Avengers had disbanded and called their formation a mistake.
• Fury explained that Kraven cared only about killing and that Silver Sable had joined S.H.I.E.L.D. while supporting Symkaria through the Wild Pack.

Su Ming and Fury watched First Line battle a monster as the US Army arrived with more than a hundred Captain Americas and Sentinel Robots. The military’s new weapons joined the fight, while Su Ming remained determined to uncover what Fury was hiding.

• Su Ming teased Fury while the two watched Nightingale and Liberty Belle fight the monster, and Deathstroke judged that three of the four fighters would die.
• Fury revealed that the US Army had brought over a hundred Captain Americas, produced through the military’s Department K.
• Su Ming identified the machines concealed beneath tarps on the New Jersey riverbank as Sentinel Robots.

Su Ming and Fury watched the military battle a monster with Sentinel Robots, while discussing the robots’ limits and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s strained relationship with the military. Fury proposed exploiting the military’s predicament for access to research and energy weapons, but Su Ming chose to wait until the crisis worsened before negotiating.

• Su Ming recalled how Magneto had been diverted to Canada while the military developed Sentinel Robots using Mystique’s genes.
• Su Ming explained to Fury that the first-generation Sentinels lacked intelligence and would struggle against the monster’s overwhelming strength.
• Fury admitted that S.H.I.E.L.D. had little intelligence on the military’s activities because Howard had forbidden illegal operations against it.
• Fury identified General Ross as the frontline commander and offered to bring Su Ming down to speak with him.
• Fury offered to trade access to military research, including Area 51 energy weapons, in exchange for helping exploit the military’s predicament.
• Su Ming told Fury to wait until the military was desperate and before it launched a nuclear missile to negotiate.

General Ross gave a live interview from the military command post while his forces prepared to confront the monster on Washington Bridge. After Captain America's severed arm landed around his neck, Ross kept the broadcast going, leaving the reporter stunned.

• General Ross sat for a televised interview as soldiers established a temporary command post beside the river.
• Ross promised New Yorkers that the military would try to rescue everyone and suggested the Soviet Union might be responsible for the sewer attack despite lacking evidence.
• Ross claimed America's technology could not create the monster but insisted it must have a weakness and said he was confident the military could defeat it.
• Captain America's half-charred severed arm flew from the bridge and wrapped around Ross's neck during the live broadcast.
• Ross removed the arm, handed it to his aide, and continued his prepared statement while the horrified reporter froze and failed to ask her next question.

The yellow-green monster devastated the bridge, killing the imitation Captains, while Liberty Belle and Yankee Clipper rescued a trapped mother and her baby. Su Ming recognized the infant as Wade’s younger self, cleared a path for their escape, and left them to reach the hospital.

• The monster released corrosive gas that incapacitated the imitation Captains, then smashed them and collapsed part of the bridge.
• Yankee Clipper urged Liberty Belle to retreat, but she stopped to investigate cries for help from a wrecked car.
• Liberty Belle and Yankee Clipper freed an injured woman and found her husband dead and her baby alive in the crushed back seat.
• Su Ming appeared, recognized the baby as Wade’s younger self, and revealed a clear path through the wreckage.
• Yankee Clipper carried the mother and baby toward the hospital as Su Ming told them to leave.

Su Ming questioned Liberty Belle about First Line’s staged team drama and learned that the members used it to attract publicity and earn money. He told her to leave the bridge as he began searching for survivors, while Black Fox had already been rescued and sent to Central Park.

• Su Ming watched the surviving knockoff Captains fight the Gamma Worms and told Liberty Belle that Black Fox had been rescued and sent to Central Park.
• Su Ming asked Liberty Belle why she cared about Black Fox despite the team’s apparent hostility toward him.
• Liberty Belle explained that First Line staged its conflicts for publicity and commercial contracts, though she and Nightingale really did share a relationship with Clipper.
• Su Ming told Liberty Belle and the person swimming below to leave, then spread shadowy tendrils across the bridge to search for survivors.

Su Ming used Strangle to rescue the few survivors and watched the Sentinel Robots battle the Gamma Worms while Fury negotiated with General Ross. The robots were being destroyed, and Fury offered S.H.I.E.L.D.’s help recovering Dr. Dean’s missing research materials.

• Strangle’s increased reach let Su Ming carry injured people to the military position, where only a dozen or so survivors remained.
• Su Ming told Liberty Belle that her team could earn more as selective Mercenaries, and she left after realizing the battle was beyond her strength.
• The Sentinel Robots arrived and attacked the Gamma Worms, but the creatures quickly crushed two and shrugged off the robots’ changing weapons and tactics.
• Dr. Trask ordered the remaining robots to attempt self-destruction attacks as their energy ran low.
• Fury told General Ross that S.H.I.E.L.D. could help recover Dr. Dean’s missing research materials if the military showed sincerity.

Su Ming prepared to defeat the Gamma Worms by exploiting their formic-acid biology and using baking soda, while teaching Kaecilius how to make himself indispensable. He sent Kaecilius to open a portal to the Wilson Group's Da Li Beverage factory so they could bury the monster in sodium bicarbonate.

• From the Washington Bridge pylon, Su Ming observed the Sentinel Robots' attacks and concluded that the Gamma Worms' strength kept growing.
• Fury signaled that the terms had been agreed upon, and Su Ming summoned Kaecilius to help carry out his plan.
• Su Ming told Kaecilius to find the beverage factory's baking soda reserves and explained that formic acid was the monster's weakness.
• Su Ming revealed that he had concealed the monster's distinctive scent by flooding New York's sewers, leaving himself as the only person who knew how to defeat it.
• Kaecilius opened a portal to the factory warehouse, and Su Ming planned to use twice the monster's body weight in baking soda to poison it.

Deathstroke identified the Gamma Worms’ formic-acid-filled body as vulnerable to baking soda and used vehicles loaded with sodium bicarbonate to weaken it. He burned the shrunken creature to ash, completing the mission.

• Deathstroke planned to neutralize the monster with baking soda after recognizing that it was full of formic acid.
• Su Ming and Kaecilius filled a derailed train car with baking soda, and the Cloak of Levitation smothered the nearby fire.
• Deathstroke hurled the baking-soda-filled train car into the Gamma Worms, triggering a painful reaction inside its body.
• Kaecilius opened portals while Deathstroke and Strangle launched baking-soda-filled vehicles at the monster until it shrank and stopped moving.
• Deathstroke tested the monster with an incendiary grenade, burning it down to its fingernail-sized original form and destroying it.
• Su Ming declared the mission complete and flew away.