Chapter Summaries

Lu Wen used a temporary combat trait and his Nuclear Chest Cannon to injure Homelander before escaping. Homelander later fled a fight in Vermont when Soldier Boy prepared another chest blast, and Lu Wen revealed that his earlier attack had weakened Homelander’s arms.

• Lu Wen used the temporary trait to overwhelm Homelander with skilled attacks, then blasted him into the sky with his Nuclear Chest Cannon and escaped before the trait expired.
• Homelander returned with burned arms but chose not to pursue Lu Wen, then went to Vermont and changed into a new uniform.
• At the Vermont orgy ruins, Butcher and the others attacked Homelander, whose injured arms left him weakened.
• Homelander broke free just before Soldier Boy’s chest cannon could hit him and fled into the sky.
• Lu Wen told Marvin that his chest blast had injured Homelander’s arms, and Marvin cursed Soldier Boy and the others for failing to keep Homelander there.

Lu Wen joined Hughie and Butcher in the woods, where Soldier Boy arrived and attacked Mind Stone Storm before clashing with Lu Wen. Butcher stopped their fight, and Soldier Boy carried the unconscious Mind Stone Storm deeper into the woods while the group turned back to business.

• After Frenchie and Kimiko arrived at Marvin's house, Lu Wen left and later followed Hughie's coordinates to Butcher, who was asleep under Mind Stone Storm's illusion.
• Lu Wen gave Mind Stone Storm mirrored sunglasses, but Soldier Boy suddenly appeared, knocked Mind Stone Storm unconscious, and confronted the others.
• When Soldier Boy tried to punch Hughie, Lu Wen caught his hand, and the two fought with a series of heavy blows.
• Lu Wen and Soldier Boy argued about their earlier encounter until Hughie warned that Mind Stone Storm was still alive.
• Butcher stopped the fight with his golden beams, and Soldier Boy carried Mind Stone Storm away into the woods.

Lu Wen mocked Butcher’s plan to fight Homelander and later entered Vought Tower with The Deep to reach the Compound V warehouse. After killing The Deep, Lu Wen faced armed guards and several Supes, then unleashed an orange light from his chest as the confrontation began.

• Lu Wen told Butcher that Homelander had recovered from their earlier fight and agreed to be called when the group went after him.
• Soldier Boy chased Lu Wen into the woods but failed to catch him, leaving him furious.
• At Marvin’s house, Lu Wen declined to join the group’s discussion about killing Soldier Boy and left to scout Vought.
• Lu Wen beat The Deep in an alley and forced him to lead the way to Vought’s Compound V warehouse.
• The Deep led Lu Wen through Vought Tower, where Lu Wen killed him near the warehouse guards.
• Lu Wen faced armed security and five Supes, then released orange light from his chest.

Lu Wen injected Compound V to temporarily amplify his powers, then found Homelander and Soldier Boy fighting at Vought Tower and challenged them both. With enhanced strength and combat skills, he gained the upper hand, leaving Homelander pinned beneath him as he struck him repeatedly.

• Lu Wen broke into Vought Tower’s warehouse, took the stored reagent cases, and injected himself with a vial of Compound V.
• Lu Wen followed the sounds of fighting to the recording studio, where Maeve was grappling with Homelander and Soldier Boy was fighting the others.
• Lu Wen kicked Homelander away, pushed Maeve out of the fight, and threw Butcher from the room before declaring that he would settle his score with Homelander and Soldier Boy.
• Lu Wen spent four thousand points to obtain two minutes of the Winter Soldier’s Military Combat and fought Homelander and Soldier Boy together.
• Lu Wen twisted Soldier Boy’s wrist and punched him into a wall, then threw Homelander to the floor and began pummeling his face.

Lu Wen used his copied chest-blast power to defeat Soldier Boy and drive Homelander away from Vought Tower. After berating The Boys, he fired another blast at Homelander and vanished in the explosion, leaving Homelander facing Butcher and the others as Lion El'Jonson stepped forward.

• Lu Wen fought Homelander and Soldier Boy at once, then called on The Boys to subdue Soldier Boy while he kept Homelander occupied.
• Lu Wen copied Soldier Boy’s chest-blast power, hurled Homelander into Soldier Boy’s path, and blasted both men through the tower wall.
• The Boys restrained Soldier Boy and used Frenchie’s nerve agent, while Soldier Boy’s charged blast failed to overcome Lu Wen’s stronger attack.
• Lu Wen scolded Butcher for his reckless V24 use and the team’s infighting, then prepared to leave as Homelander returned.
• Lu Wen fired another chest blast at Homelander, vanished in the resulting explosion, and left Homelander facing The Boys as Lion El'Jonson stepped forward.

Lu Wen rescued Tadashi Hamada from a burning building in San Fransokyo and brought him to the hospital, where he met Hiro Hamada and Aunt Cass. Tadashi remained in emergency care as Lu Wen waited with his family.

• Lu Wen arrived at the technology expo fire after receiving Tadashi Hamada’s plea for help and freed him from the debris.
• Lu Wen carried Tadashi out of the collapsing building and got him to emergency medical staff.
• Lu Wen went to San Fransokyo General Hospital and found Hiro Hamada and Aunt Cass waiting outside the emergency room.
• Lu Wen told Hiro and Aunt Cass that Tadashi had been alive when he rescued him and that Tadashi had asked him to look after Hiro.
• Aunt Cass thanked Lu Wen and invited him to sit and wait with them.

After Tadashi Hamada survived emergency surgery but remained unconscious in critical condition, Lu Wen promised to stay with Hiro and look after him. Lu Wen went home with Cass for the night, leaving Hiro at the hospital beside the intensive care unit.

• A doctor told Hiro and Cass that Tadashi was out of immediate danger but had severe burns, broken bones, internal injuries, and brain trauma, and would need close observation.
• Hiro followed Tadashi to intensive care, then sat on the floor outside the unit while Cass comforted him.
• Lu Wen introduced himself to Hiro as a Supe and explained that Tadashi had hired him to look after Hiro.
• Cass took Lu Wen home, where he explained that Tadashi's order required him to stay and care for Hiro.
• Cass gave Lu Wen a guest room and pajamas at her home above the café for the night.

Lu Wen waited for Venom to recover and helped Hiro through his worry for Tadashi while encouraging him to eat and regain his energy. After Tadashi stabilized, Lu Wen tested his strength with Hiro and piqued the young genius’s curiosity about his abilities and the superpowered world he came from.

• Lu Wen asked Venom whether he could repair brain damage, and Venom said he could heal only limited damage that spared important neural regions.
• Cass asked Lu Wen to bring Hiro breakfast at the hospital, where he coaxed the worried boy into eating by challenging him to test his strength.
• A week later, Tadashi was out of danger, while Lu Wen continued visiting the hospital and waited for an old professor to produce more microbots.
• Hiro measured Lu Wen’s strength at three tons of normal force and sixty tons of maximum explosive force, leaving him stunned.
• Lu Wen described powerful people and monsters in his world, and Hiro eagerly asked how Lu Wen gained his abilities.

Lu Wen used Venom to heal Tadashi and brought him home, leaving Hiro and Cass amazed by the recovery. He then activated Baymax and assigned the healthcare robot to monitor Tadashi as he recovered.

• Venom finished recovering, and Lu Wen took him to the hospital to heal Tadashi.
• Lu Wen sent Hiro to retrieve Tadashi’s belongings, blocked the hospital camera, and had Venom repair Tadashi’s injuries.
• The doctors confirmed Tadashi no longer needed hospitalization, and Hiro returned home to find him apparently uninjured.
• Cass thanked Lu Wen with a home-cooked dinner, while Hiro asked how he had healed Tadashi and Lu Wen told him to keep guessing.
• Lu Wen activated Baymax and set the robot to monitor Tadashi’s condition.

Lu Wen tracked Hiro with a button-sized device while spending a relaxed day at Cass's shop and growing closer to her. Hiro returned late after spending the day out with Baymax, then sneaked out again that night while Cass dozed against Lu Wen.

• Lu Wen had Hiro make a button-sized tracker and sent Venom to follow him and identify the professor's microbot production equipment.
• Hiro left with Baymax, and Cass happily believed he had gone to school.
• Lu Wen and Cass flirted at the café, and Cass offered to make him dinner and invited him to stay a few more days.
• Hiro returned late with Baymax, and Lu Wen agreed not to tell Cass that they had been out all day.
• Cass told Lu Wen she was happy Hiro had gone to school and invited him to watch television with her.
• Hiro and Baymax quietly sneaked out again while Cass dozed against Lu Wen, who stayed still and let her rest.

Hiro upgraded Baymax and pursued the masked man, Callaghan, but the group was forced to flee until Lu Wen rescued them. After Fred brought everyone to his mansion and they suspected Alistair Ge Li, Lu Wen spent all his points buying temporary traits and listed them on the Dimensional Market.

• Hiro vowed to avenge Tadashi and upgraded Baymax to help catch the masked man.
• Hiro and Baymax tracked Callaghan to the docks, where Callaghan attacked them with the Swarm Robots and the friends fled in a car.
• Lu Wen used Venom’s webbing to swing after the group and rescued them after their car plunged into the sea near a broken bridge.
• Fred led the group to his mansion, where they learned he was a billionaire family’s young master.
• The group suspected tech capitalist Alistair Ge Li, and Lu Wen decided to acquire his portal technology.
• Lu Wen spent his 10,120 points on 100 one-minute Gray Traits and listed them in the Dimensional Market at double the purchase price.

Lu Wen joined Hiro and the others in confronting Callaghan, while secretly aiming to claim the microbot production line. After Hiro captured Callaghan, Lu Wen took the line, but the surrounding robots activated and carried the portal away.

• Lu Wen revealed Venom to Hiro's team, fended off their attempts to examine the Symbiote, and asked Hiro to make him laser-blade bracers.
• After Hiro reported finding Callaghan, Lu Wen collected his new bracers and went with the team to the abandoned island research base.
• Callaghan ambushed the group with a boulder, but Lu Wen used Venom to hold it back and then fought through Callaghan's microbots.
• Hiro and Baymax knocked Callaghan down, while Lu Wen went underground to locate and claim the automated production line.
• After Lu Wen stored the production line in System Space, the microbots surged around the portal and carried it upstairs.

Lu Wen rescued Hiro and his friends during the portal disaster, seized control of the microbots, and secured Krei's signature on a contract. After helping save Abigail and returning safely from the portal, Lu Wen told Hiro that Tadashi had awakened, and the group reunited with him at the hospital.

• Lu Wen found Tadashi awake and took him with Cass to the hospital for an examination.
• Lu Wen rescued Hiro's friends from the microbot swarm at Krei Tech and made Krei sign a contract covering Tadashi's expenses, funding the Hamada brothers' research, and handing over Silent Sparrow materials.
• Lu Wen took control of the microbots with Callaghan's mask and turned the portal's intake skyward, limiting the destruction.
• Hiro and Baymax entered the portal to rescue Abigail, while Lu Wen secretly followed and helped them escape safely.
• The police arrested Callaghan, and an ambulance took Abigail away as the portal collapsed.
• Lu Wen revealed that Tadashi had awakened, and Hiro and his friends rushed to the hospital, where Hiro embraced his brother.

Lu Wen wrapped up his business in San Fransokyo, said goodbye to Cass and the Hamada brothers, and collected the promised equipment and Baymax. After returning to his own world, he contacted Tony and traveled to the Stark Estate in Malibu.

• Lu Wen said goodbye to Cass at her café before leaving San Francisco.
• Lu Wen collected Ge Li’s hard drive and two prototypes, and warned Ge Li to pay the Hamada brothers what they were owed.
• Lu Wen picked up the new Baymax and its data from Hiro and Tadashi, then said farewell to the brothers.
• Lu Wen teleported home and learned from JARVIS that 181 days had passed and Tony was developing armor at his private villa.
• JARVIS arranged Lu Wen’s trip to the Stark Estate, where Happy brought him by helicopter.

Lu Wen visited Tony and brought Baymax, neural-controlled swarm robots, and other technology for Tony to study. Tony insisted on working despite Baymax's warnings, so Lu Wen had Baymax knock him out to make him rest.

• Lu Wen surprised Tony in his lab and introduced Baymax, who warned Tony that he was dehydrated and exhausted.
• Tony demonstrated that his Mark 42 Prototype's neural controls were malfunctioning and struggled to assemble the armor.
• Lu Wen showed Tony Hiro's neural sensor controlling swarm robots and explained that a fourteen-year-old had created it.
• Lu Wen gave Tony the sensor, its production line, Silent Sparrow's portal prototype and documentation, and Laser Wrist Blades in exchange for sharing research results.
• Baymax repeatedly warned Tony to sleep, and Lu Wen ordered Baymax to catch him; Baymax knocked Tony out.

Lu Wen left Tony Stark after urging him to seek help for his trauma, while Tony ignored Baymax’s advice and returned to work. On his way home, Lu Wen angrily kicked over vehicles sent by several groups trying to contact him, prompting Nick Fury to send Natasha to approach him more carefully.

• Lu Wen sold gray entries, bought fifty white entries for the Void Market, and told Tony to call when his Laser Wrist Blades were ready.
• Lu Wen left Tony’s mansion, and Baymax assessed Tony as possibly suffering from post-traumatic stress and recommended therapy, but Tony ignored the advice and went back to the garage.
• On his way home from the airport, Lu Wen kicked over multiple vehicles whose occupants tried to stop him, including cars sent by unidentified people.
• A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent told Nick Fury that the military, the government, and another unknown party had tried to contact Lu Wen, but he had overturned their cars.
• Nick Fury ordered Natasha to contact Lu Wen, warning her not to drive up to him and suggesting she bring a gift and knock on his door.

Lu Wen returned home to find it had been ransacked, then learned from Natasha that General Ross’s people had searched for him and tried to recruit him. After Natasha left, Lu Wen exchanged messages with Tony and discovered Venom wanted more chocolate.

• Lu Wen ordered Venom to clean the mess left in his house and wondered who had broken in.
• Natasha visited on Nick Fury’s behalf and asked where Lu Wen had gone while missing.
• Natasha explained that General Ross’s people had searched Lu Wen’s home and that Fury had kept Ross from pursuing him for now.
• Lu Wen rejected Natasha’s attempts to charm him and asked her to tell Fury that he wanted to be left alone.
• Lu Wen joked with Tony about keeping Baymax, then shared his chocolate with Venom, who asked for more.

Lu Wen visited Tony to collect upgraded weapons and equipment while Tony continued to deny his anxiety and insisted he did not like Baymax. The chapter ended with Baymax bringing them juice as Lu Wen teased Tony about their friendship.

• Lu Wen spoke with Tony by video call, and Tony said Lu Wen's Wrist Blades were finished and asked him to visit.
• Tony's assessments from JARVIS and Baymax showed his anxiety, but Tony dismissed their concerns while remaining inside his armor.
• Tony gave Lu Wen upgraded Wrist Blades, Neural Sensors, Micro-Robot and Green Goblin equipment-making machines, and three Gliders.
• Tony said he still needed time to study the Green Goblin Serum and planned to work on it with Banner when he was free.
• JARVIS revealed that he and Tony were fond of Baymax, and Baymax arrived carrying juice as Lu Wen teased Tony.

Lu Wen prepared Baymax to protect Tony and his home, then rushed toward Malibu as Tony's estate came under attack. Tony escaped the collapsing house with the help of the Swarm Robots, while Baymax gave him extra microbots for protection.

• After seeing a news report about Tony provoking the Mandarin, Lu Wen contacted Baymax with instructions and prepared to test the Extremis Virus in himself.
• Baymax told Pepper Potts about Tony's post-traumatic stress, and later helped her comfort Tony after a nightmare.
• Lu Wen headed toward Tony's home, while Baymax packed valuables and warned Tony and Pepper to run.
• Missiles and gunfire struck the estate, and Tony used the Swarm Robots to protect himself and evacuate Pepper Potts and the others.
• Baymax attached bags of microbots to Tony's armor, and Tony wrapped himself in the robots as the collapsing house sank toward the seabed.

Lu Wen rescued Pepper and Maya from Aldrich Killian’s attack and sheltered them at Happy’s hospital ward, while Tony pursued the Mandarin and was captured by Killian. Tony escaped using his Swarm Robots and began fighting his way through the guards.

• Lu Wen arrived at the Malibu Estate after the attack, took Pepper and Maya to a hotel, and waited for Killian’s men to come after them.
• Two Extremis soldiers attacked Lu Wen at the hotel, but he subdued them and blew them out the window with Pumpkin Bombs before moving the women to Happy’s hospital ward.
• Killian learned his men had failed to capture Pepper and Maya, then shifted his attention to his plans involving Colonel Rhodes and the president.
• Tony survived his crash into the sea, followed leads with a boy from Tennessee, and was captured after confronting the Mandarin in Miami.
• Killian questioned Tony and punched him before leaving; Tony used his Swarm Robots and pieces of armor to escape his restraints and defeat the guards around him.