Recaps

Solomon encountered Azazel after Azazel’s uncontrolled teleportation brought him to Vought's Boss’s location, and revealed that he could use Sulfur Teleportation. Azazel came to believe Solomon knew the Neyaphem patriarch and asked about the fate of his people, but Solomon left him waiting for an answer.

• Azazel tried to teleport away, but Solomon’s Mind Control held him immobile, and Solomon received a notification that he had defeated Azazel.
• Solomon asked whether Azazel was one of the Neyaphem, and Azazel explained that he was the last survivor of the persecuted ancient race.
• Solomon used Sulfur Teleportation, shocking Azazel, then claimed the Neyaphem patriarch had taught him the ability and bound him to the Brimstone Dimension.
• Azazel doubted Solomon’s story at first, but Solomon’s explanation convinced him that the patriarch must have granted him access to the dimension.
• Azazel eagerly asked where the patriarch and other Neyaphem were, and Solomon said he had not seen the patriarch in a long time and did not know their whereabouts before beginning, “However...”

After Solomon reminded Azazel of an old promise to protect the Nephilim, Azazel returned to Shaw’s submarine and concealed what had happened. Shaw celebrated the team’s enhanced powers and threatened Vought’s Boss, while the White Queen feared his arrogance would bring them all to ruin.

• Solomon promised to care for Azazel on behalf of an old acquaintance, and Azazel left after offering him an awkward salute.
• Azazel returned to his isolated cavern, grieved over his family’s death, then buried his pain and teleported back to the Nuclear Submarine.
• Shaw asked how Compound V had changed Azazel, and Azazel reported his enhanced abilities while keeping Solomon and their encounter secret.
• Shaw declared that his transformed team could defeat Vought and threatened to make Vought’s Boss die an ugly death.
• Azazel silently withdrew from Shaw, while the White Queen realized Vought’s Boss had allowed them to take Compound V and feared Shaw’s overconfidence would doom the group.

Solomon confronted Logan in a Nevada bar and easily overwhelmed him in a fight. As Logan struggled to recover, Sabretooth burst in and claimed Logan as his prey.

• Solomon approached Logan at the bar, and Logan told him to leave.
• Solomon slammed Logan's head through the counter and told him to speak properly.
• Logan healed, extended his bone claws, and attacked Solomon, who broke his arm and blasted him into a wall.
• Sabretooth burst through the bar door and declared that Logan was his prey.

Solomon defeated Wolverine Logan and Sabretooth Victor in a devastating fight, then offered them a chance to join Vought. After explaining the corporation’s promises of protection, identities, fame, and wealth, he used Mind Suppression to subdue them both.

• Victor attacked Solomon to protect Logan, but Solomon broke his arm and knocked him aside.
• Logan and Victor launched a coordinated pincer attack, but Solomon dodged them and slammed Victor into the floor.
• Solomon battered both brothers until they were exhausted and left the bar in ruins.
• Solomon moved a barstool with an unseen force, sat down, and asked the brothers whether they had heard of Vought.
• Solomon described Vought’s offer of protection, legal identities, publicity, and wealth, then formally invited Logan and Victor to join.
• Solomon used Mind Suppression to defeat both brothers.

Solomon acquired upgraded healing, bone-spike, and claw abilities from Wolverine and Sabretooth, then left after Wolverine refused to join Vought. He traveled to find the young Pietro Maximoff, whose X-gene was close to awakening, and considered bringing him to Vought to develop his speed.

• Solomon gained super-speed regeneration, stronger bone spikes, and improved claws after defeating Wolverine and Sabretooth.
• Wolverine restrained Sabretooth and declined Solomon’s offer to join Vought until they learned more about the organization.
• Solomon departed without forcing them and wondered whether he could copy the properties of Wolverine’s future adamantium skeleton.
• Solomon traveled to a quiet American town and observed six-year-old Pietro Maximoff running around an oak tree.
• Solomon sensed Pietro’s nearly awakened X-gene and considered raising him at Vought with Compound V and training.

Solomon confronted Magda about Pietro’s mutant abilities and used Erik’s photograph to persuade her to hear him out. When she demanded proof, Solomon used psychic power to place Pietro in a terrifying illusion that ended with his mother being struck by a truck.

• Solomon stopped Magda from shutting the door and showed her a photograph of Erik, then told her Erik was at Vought International.
• Solomon warned Magda that Pietro’s X-Gene was close to awakening and offered to take the family to Vought for safety and training.
• Magda refused to believe Solomon and demanded proof that Pietro was a mutant.
• Solomon invaded Pietro’s mind and created an illusion in which a truck killed Magda as she saved him.
• Pietro cried out in grief, and the illusion began rewinding time and space.

Solomon forced Pietro to relive his mother’s death until the boy’s X-Gene awakened and gave him super speed. Pietro saved Magda in the illusion, then nearly injured her when he awakened in reality, leaving Solomon to stop him and put him to sleep.

• Pietro watched his mother die in Solomon’s illusion forty-nine times as he struggled to reach her.
• On the fiftieth repetition, Pietro awakened his super speed, rescued his mother, and escaped the truck in the slowed-down world.
• Pietro woke in the courtyard with his super speed fully awakened and rushed toward Magda.
• Solomon intercepted Pietro safely and warned him that uncontrolled speed could kill Magda.
• Magda accepted that Pietro was a Mutant, and Solomon calmed the boy with psychic power until he fell asleep.

Solomon defeated Pietro during the boy’s first power awakening and persuaded Magda to return to Vought for her children’s safety and training. Magda agreed on the condition that Solomon keep Pietro’s parentage secret from both Pietro and Erik.

• Solomon defeated Pietro and upgraded his Super Speed ability to level 6.
• Solomon explained that Pietro had reached ten times the speed of sound and warned Magda that the boy could seriously harm himself or others without training.
• Magda admitted she feared Erik would reject her and the children, and Solomon argued that Erik would value his Mutant child.
• Solomon warned that the military could seize Magda and Pietro for research after Pietro’s powers became known.
• Magda agreed to return to Vought if Solomon kept Erik’s paternity secret from her and Pietro.

Solomon persuaded Magda to let Vought activate Wanda’s dormant X-Gene, warning that it might awaken dangerously without warning. After bringing Wanda and Magda to Vought Tower, he began the procedure, and Wanda reacted violently as Compound V entered her body.

• Solomon discovered Wanda hiding in the Maximoff home and recognized that her X-Gene was dormant.
• Solomon told Magda that Wanda’s dormant X-Gene could awaken unpredictably and offered to activate it safely at Vought.
• Magda agreed to let Solomon protect Wanda and manage her power alongside Pietro.
• Two hours later, Solomon took Wanda and Magda to the Vought Tower laboratory and ordered a comprehensive examination.
• Researchers injected Wanda with Compound V, and she screamed and struggled against the restraints.

Solomon took Wanda to the Gobi Desert as Compound V awakened her X-Gene, giving her Telepathy and Telekinesis. After returning her safely to Magda, he observed Darwin's adaptive evolution during tests and considered how stronger base attributes could make the ability far more powerful.

• Wanda's awakening unleashed a psychic pulse that knocked out nearly everyone in Vought Tower, so Solomon teleported her and her bed to the Gobi Desert.
• Wanda's uncontrolled Telekinesis lifted rocks and trees, and Solomon suppressed the power until her energy subsided.
• Solomon put Wanda to sleep and gained Mind Control and Telekinesis upgrades from the system.
• Solomon returned Wanda to the laboratory, reassured Magda that she was safe, and left her with the medical team.
• Solomon watched Darwin withstand Wanda's psychic pulse through adaptive evolution and concluded that increasing Darwin's base attributes would strengthen his ability.

Solomon discovered that Darwin’s Adaptive Evolution rapidly improved his physical abilities under extreme stress and tested the power by making him lift increasingly heavy weights. The chapter ended as Darwin strained to raise a one-ton alloy block and his body evolved again.

• Solomon copied Darwin’s Adaptive Evolution and deduced that Darwin’s spirit attribute had increased after surviving Wanda’s psychic storm.
• Solomon subjected Darwin to sustained psychic pressure and observed Darwin’s spirit attribute rise from level 1 to level 1.1.
• Solomon ordered a weightlifting test, and Darwin’s muscles and bones adapted as he lifted 50 kilograms and then 100 kilograms.
• Darwin evolved further under a 500-kilogram iron block, growing taller and stronger before pushing it upward.
• Solomon ordered Darwin to lift one metric ton, and Darwin’s body began another genetic leap as he strained beneath the alloy block.

Solomon pushed Darwin through extreme speed training, forcing his adaptive evolution to develop his eyesight, reflexes, legs, and lungs while his regeneration repeatedly healed catastrophic injuries. Darwin survived being thrown at Mach 1 and was still rebuilding his shattered body when the chapter ended.

• Solomon saw that lifting the one-ton alloy block had raised Darwin’s strength and regeneration attributes to level 1.
• Solomon brought in A-Train, who carried Darwin around a track at Mach 1 and forced his eyes and brain to adapt to the speed.
• A-Train repeatedly dropped Darwin onto the track, breaking his legs as they healed and evolved to withstand high-speed running.
• Darwin eventually matched A-Train’s pace, but A-Train released him and sent him tumbling into a wall.
• Darwin lay in a pool of blood as his broken bones and torn muscles began rapidly repairing themselves.

Solomon pushed Darwin through brutal training until his adaptive evolution became permanent and freely usable. Meanwhile, Charles and Moira learned that Shaw’s plan to provoke nuclear war had reached its final stage with Russian missile sites in Cuba.

• Solomon had A-Train subject Darwin to hours of lethal training, driving his stats to level 3 and teaching his body to suppress pain.
• When Darwin reached a growth bottleneck, he permanently evolved teleportation and a sound-nullifying field, revealing that his X-Gene could now preserve and activate new abilities at will.
• Darwin remained excited and devoted to Solomon after the ordeal, while Solomon concluded that Darwin needed to raise his other stats and then his energy level.
• At a secret CIA base, Charles and Moira received photographs showing Russian missile sites being deployed in Cuba.
• Charles realized that Shaw was pushing America toward attacking the Russian fleet, which could trigger nuclear war and fulfill Shaw’s plan.

Charles persuaded Moira to seek Vought’s help against Shaw’s plan to start a nuclear war, proposing a live broadcast of the battle in Cuban waters. After Charles explained the crisis to Alex, Alex asked to join Vought instead.

• Moira reported Shaw’s threat to Charles and asked him to stop Shaw before he could launch nuclear weapons.
• Charles proposed working with Vought and using the CIA’s resources to broadcast the coming battle worldwide.
• Moira agreed to negotiate with the CIA and military for on-site broadcasting rights while Charles handled Vought.
• Alex questioned why he had been freed from prison and asked Charles to explain the crisis.
• After hearing about Shaw’s plan, Alex asked whether he could join Vought.

Alex Summers agreed to join Vought while promising to fight Sebastian Shaw in Cuba, and Raven prepared to report to Solomon after reflecting on her growing powers. At Solomon’s apartment, Raven tried to seduce him by changing her appearance, and the chapter ended after they spent several hours together.

• Alex Summers accepted Vought’s offer and agreed to help stop Shaw in Cuba, repaying Charles for getting him out of his cell.
• Raven considered how her copied powers and Erik’s strength could help defeat Shaw but decided not to act against Vought’s plans.
• Raven went to Solomon’s apartment, found his Marilyn Monroe poster, and transformed into Monroe to attract him.
• Solomon used his psychic power to show Raven beauty templates, and she changed into a series of different forms for him.
• After several hours together, Raven lay exhausted in Solomon’s arms and remarked that she had thought he would not be tempted by women.

Solomon agreed to Charles’s request for Vought’s help against Sebastian Shaw in Cuba and let Raven believe she would join the mission. After Alex Summers joined Vought and Compound V transformed his powers into cosmic-energy-fueled plasma, Solomon challenged him to attack at full strength.

• Raven told Solomon that Shaw had persuaded the Russians to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba and that Charles had offered Vought a global live broadcast in exchange for its assistance.
• Solomon accepted and let Raven volunteer for the Cuba mission with Erik and Charles, while privately judging that they would be outmatched by Shaw and the White Queen.
• Alex Summers arrived at Vought Tower, joined the company, and received Compound V under laboratory supervision.
• Compound V boosted Alex Summers’s abilities, improved his control, and gave him the power to absorb ambient cosmic energy and release it as plasma shockwaves.
• After Alex Summers’s awakening devastated the laboratory, Solomon invited him to fire his strongest attack and promised him Vought’s leadership if he could make Solomon move or ruffle a hair.

Solomon defeated Alex Summers in a test of their powers, then agreed to let him join the operation against Sebastian Shaw. In Washington, D.C., officials approved sending Vought International’s mutants after Shaw but rejected Charles’s request for a worldwide broadcast and secretly planned to eliminate the mutants afterward.

• Alex Summers fired a powerful Plasma Shockwave at Solomon, who stopped it with Heat Vision and forced Alex to exhaust himself.
• Solomon ended his lasers before they struck Alex, then told him he needed much more practice to pose a threat.
• Alex asked to join the operation against Shaw, and Solomon agreed, telling him to train with his new power.
• In Washington, D.C., officials accepted the plan to let Vought International’s mutants handle Shaw but refused to arrange Charles’s worldwide broadcast.
• The officials secretly planned to attack and kill the weakened mutants after they defeated Shaw.

Congress rejected Charles and Moira’s proposal to broadcast the truth about Shaw, while the President threatened to shut down Vought if it refused to act. Solomon revealed Vought had its own plan to seize worldwide satellite signals, and Charles was left stunned by how much Vought’s experiments had strengthened Raven, Erik, and Hank.

• The President ordered the CIA to force Vought to fight Shaw and threatened to raid Vought Tower if it refused.
• Moira told Charles that Congress had rejected the broadcast proposal and relayed the President’s ultimatum; Charles urged her to keep the military away from Vought and went there to negotiate.
• Charles and Moira told Raven that Congress had refused to endorse mutants, while Charles concealed the President’s threat.
• Solomon told Raven that Vought’s Public Relations Department was ready to take over satellite signals worldwide, and Raven passed his response to Charles and Moira.
• Charles explained the Cuban Missile Crisis and Congress’s position to Erik, Raven, and Hank; Erik crushed a metal cup and threatened the politicians if Washington attacked Vought.
• Raven copied Charles’s appearance and demonstrated a psychic power that blocked his mind-reading, leaving him astonished.

Raven demonstrated that Compound V let her copy other mutants’ X-Genes and urged Charles to join Vought, but he postponed his decision until after dealing with Shaw. A month of Vought’s specialized training strengthened its mutants as they prepared for the coming battle.

• Raven transformed into Erik and used his magnetic ability, explaining that she could replicate another mutant’s X-Gene by taking their appearance.
• Raven invited Charles to join Vought, while Moira encouraged him to follow his heart; Charles left with Moira and said he would decide after Shaw was dealt with.
• Raven wanted to kill Moira, but Erik warned that doing so would drive Charles away; Raven insisted Moira’s influence threatened Charles.
• Erik trained with Vought’s specialists and learned to improve his magnetic control, while Raven and Darwin received specialized training to develop their powers.
• A month passed as Vought’s mutants grew stronger through training, and a little over ten new mutants joined the organization.

As the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and Russia to the brink of nuclear war, a mysterious television channel broadcast the fleets’ confrontation live to the world. Russia ordered the Weihai freighter to turn back, but it ignored the command and kept approaching the embargo line, leaving the American commander preparing to fire.

• Russia's missile deployment in Cuba was exposed, and the United States president threatened a full nuclear retaliation if Russian missiles crossed the blockade line.
• As the fleets faced off and panic spread, a mysterious channel began broadcasting the standoff and the ships’ interiors live, drawing viewers around the world.
• With the Weihai freighter minutes from crossing the embargo line, both fleets sounded battle alarms and prepared for combat.
• A Kremlin directive ordered the Weihai to return to the Port of Odessa and abandon its voyage to Cuba, prompting cheers around the world.
• The Weihai ignored repeated orders to turn back and continued toward the embargo line at full speed.
• The American commander ordered his forces to prepare to fire.

The Weihai was revealed to be a ghost ship carrying the corpses of its crew, but the American fleet still prepared to fire as it neared the exclusion line. Charles tried to prevent war by arranging for Russia to destroy the ship, but Emma Frost’s powerful psychic shield blocked him, leaving him to plead with her.

• The live broadcast showed that everyone aboard the Weihai had been killed and the freighter was following a fixed course toward the exclusion line.
• Alexander Novits told the American fleet that Russia had lost control of the ship and asked it not to fire, but the American commander dismissed the warning and ordered his forces to prepare to fire.
• Charles told Moira that the crew was dead and asked her to contact American leadership, but she believed the Americans would fire once the ship crossed the line.
• Charles saw the American commander begin a five-second countdown and tried to control a Russian serviceman into launching a missile at the Weihai.
• Emma Frost blocked Charles with a powerful Psychic Shield, so he pleaded with her to stop supporting Shaw and avert a world war.

The White Queen embraced Shaw's plan as the American fleet launched a missile at the Weihai, triggering Russian and American counterattacks and the start of World War III. A Vought Mutant appeared in the sky and halted more than a hundred missiles, leaving the world's leaders stunned by the power of Mutants.

• The White Queen thanked Charles for opening her eyes and welcomed a new world for Mutants.
• The American fleet launched a missile that struck the Weihai, and Russian and American forces launched missiles at each other.
• More than a hundred missiles suddenly froze in midair before the exchange could escalate further.
• A man in a black combat suit hovered among the missiles with a V+7 emblem on his chest.
• The White House and Kremlin recognized the emblem as Vought International's logo, and the American president realized the man was a Mutant.

Raven revealed magnetic field powers like Erik’s and dragged Shaw’s nuclear submarine from the sea, prompting Erik to redirect the frozen missiles at it. Shaw absorbed the entire barrage unharmed, leaving the world to see him as a terrifying supervillain.

• Charles wondered whether Vought had staged its intervention to display overwhelming power as the world teetered on the brink of war.
• Raven arrived above the battlefield and used her magnetic powers to haul Shaw’s hidden nuclear submarine out of the deep sea.
• Shaw decided to make an entrance and had Azazel teleport him onto the submarine as it rose into the sky.
• Erik redirected thousands of missiles toward the submarine and launched them at Shaw.
• Shaw absorbed the missiles’ explosive energy and emerged unharmed, shocking viewers around the world.

Shaw faced Raven, Erik, and Vought’s fighters on an isolated island, convinced that his stolen Compound V enhancements made him powerful enough to defeat them. After their public confrontation, Shaw ordered his allies to attack, and Riptide unleashed enhanced tornadoes at Vought’s team.

• Azazel caught Shaw before he fell into the sea and teleported him to a nearby island.
• Raven and Erik flew down to confront Shaw, while A-Train and another Vought fighter arrived at their side.
• Raven demanded that Shaw abandon his plan to start a world war, but Shaw argued that mutants had to destroy humanity and build their own world.
• Shaw realized Vought had arranged the confrontation as a public spectacle, but believed his secretly enhanced forces could overcome them.
• Shaw ordered his allies to attack; Azazel vanished in crimson smoke as Riptide sent two enormous tornadoes sweeping toward Vought’s fighters.

Raven and Erik fought to break through the Hellfire Club’s defenses, with Raven revealing that she could mimic powers through skin contact and Erik defeating Riptide with a torrent of steel. As Riptide fell, Azazel teleported above Charles’s fighter jet, preparing to kill him and free the White Queen to dominate the battlefield.

• Raven used Super Speed to attack Riptide, then tried Telepathy when he escaped into the air, but the White Queen’s psychic barrier blocked her attack.
• Shaw realized Raven could mimic abilities by touching people and noted that she had copied powers from Vought mutants.
• Erik lifted wreckage from the Nuclear Submarine and used the steel to pin Riptide’s expanding tornado in place.
• Riptide enlarged the tornado, but Erik forced steel fragments through the wind field and struck him with heavy plates, sending him crashing onto the reef.
• Azazel teleported above Charles’s fighter jet, intending to kill him and leave the White Queen free to use her psychic powers.