Chapter Summaries

Solomon stopped Homelander from killing Butcher, and Butcher revealed his deductions about Solomon's powers and hidden strength. The chapter ended with Solomon confirming that Butcher had guessed correctly.

• As Homelander prepared to kill Butcher, Solomon ordered him to put Butcher down, and Homelander obeyed.
• Butcher accepted Solomon's help to stand and said Solomon was more mysterious than he appeared.
• Butcher told Solomon and Hughie that he believed Solomon was a Supe who could copy other Supes' powers.
• Butcher explained that clues involving The Female, Mesmer, Solomon's job interviews, and his custom stun baton had led him to suspect Solomon could foresee the future and was stronger than Homelander.
• Solomon asked what had first aroused Butcher's suspicions, and Butcher described how surveillance footage and Mesmer's account had exposed Solomon's copied abilities.
• Solomon admitted that Butcher's deductions were correct.

Solomon revealed that he had copied Soldier Boy’s powers and arranged a truce between Homelander and Butcher, offering Hughie a safe life. With his plans for this world complete, Solomon prepared to leave for another world and reviewed his abilities, including biological immortality and Soldier Boy’s radiation shockwave.

• Butcher asked Solomon whether he had come to copy Soldier Boy’s powers, and Solomon confirmed that he had already absorbed them.
• Solomon offered to help Butcher reunite with Becca, and Homelander agreed on the condition that Becca remain with Ryan until he was grown.
• Butcher and Homelander set aside their feud and discussed plans for Ryan and Becca.
• Solomon told Hughie that his wanted notices would be revoked and offered him a safe life and a place at Vought.
• Solomon decided his plans in this world were complete and prepared to travel to another world.
• Solomon reviewed his superpower panel and noticed that he had gained biological immortality and Soldier Boy’s radiation shockwave.

Solomon harvested abilities from Supes across the world, gaining new powers and strengthening existing ones as he prepared to leave The Boys world. The chapter ended with him attending the final full meeting of The Seven before his departure.

• Solomon reviewed Soldier Boy's powerful attributes and concluded that expanding Compound V was his best path to further growth.
• Solomon harvested abilities from the Red River Institute and a nursing home, but their weakened Supes yielded few gains.
• Homelander recalled the surviving Blood Debt Payback Squad to Vought International, allowing Solomon to absorb their abilities and improve his powers.
• Solomon gained Shield and Healing, strengthened several existing abilities, and acquired Super-Speed Time by upgrading his super speed through Mr. Marathon.
• Solomon prepared to leave the world despite being unable to find Bombsight, Torpedo, or Private Angel, then joined Homelander, Queen Maeve, Second-Generation Black Noir, Starlight, and A-Train at the final full meeting of The Seven.

Homelander introduced Soldier Boy as the newest member of the Seven, but Soldier Boy immediately confronted Solomon, intending to kill him. Solomon broke Soldier Boy’s arm with ease, revealing that he was stronger than Soldier Boy had expected.

• Homelander welcomed Second-Generation Black Noir and announced Soldier Boy as a new member of the Seven.
• Soldier Boy joined Vought after killing the remaining members of the Blood Debt Payback Squad, and agreed to kill Solomon in return for being rescued.
• Soldier Boy ignored Homelander’s welcome and demanded that Solomon give up his seat, insulting him and revealing his hostility.
• Homelander tried to defuse the confrontation, but Soldier Boy reached for Solomon’s shoulder.
• Solomon caught Soldier Boy’s wrist and snapped his arm, leaving Soldier Boy shocked by Solomon’s strength.

Solomon overpowered Soldier Boy and spared him after Homelander pleaded for his life. He revealed that Edgar had likely manipulated Soldier Boy into fighting him, leaving Soldier Boy furious and suspicious.

• Soldier Boy admitted Stormfront, whose real name was Clara, had been his old flame and said he wanted to avenge her.
• Homelander tried to stop Soldier Boy from fighting Solomon, fearing Solomon would kill him.
• Solomon immobilized Soldier Boy, lifted him by the neck, then threw him to the floor and warned him to grow stronger before challenging him again.
• Solomon mocked Soldier Boy for letting Edgar use him as a weapon and said Edgar had arranged for the woman who rescued him to find him.
• Soldier Boy realized Edgar had manipulated him again, while Solomon ordered him to sit down and behave.

Solomon announced that Vought would publicly distribute Compound V and revealed that Congresswoman Neuman would support the plan while improved success rates made mass production possible. He told the Seven they would suppress rogue Supes and become genuine heroes, leaving them to face the consequences of his decision.

• Soldier Boy abandoned his defiance and silently took his seat after Solomon overpowered him.
• Homelander introduced Solomon, who announced plans to bring Compound V into the open and produce Supes in large numbers.
• Ashley warned that revealing Compound V would trigger a public relations crisis, but Solomon ordered her to manage the risks.
• Starlight and Maeve warned that widespread injections could kill people and destabilize society, while Solomon cited Neuman's support and improved success rates.
• Solomon told the Seven they would control rogue Supes and use the opportunity to become real heroes.

Solomon ordered Vought to proceed with making Compound V widely available, putting Homelander in charge while he prepared to leave. After reflecting on what he truly wanted, Solomon activated the World Traversal Function and disappeared from the world.

• Solomon overruled Maeve, Starlight, and the others, ordering them to plan the public release of Compound V under Homelander's supervision.
• Solomon told Homelander he would leave for three to six months and grant him full authority over Vought's affairs.
• Homelander assured Solomon he would increase the number of Supes tenfold, and Solomon agreed to delay his departure for a few days.
• Solomon spent several days relaxing in New York, then realized he was driven by curiosity about other worlds and the pursuit of greater power.
• Solomon settled the remaining arrangements with Homelander, activated the World Traversal Function on Vought Tower's rooftop, and vanished as his Clone collapsed.

Solomon arrived in an unfamiliar, ordinary world and used his psychic abilities to investigate a group of muggers. After reading their memories, he learned it was June 1962 and found no evidence of supernatural forces.

• Solomon emerged from a dark alley and realized the city seemed technologically underdeveloped.
• A gang of thugs surrounded Solomon and tried to force him back into the alley to rob him.
• Solomon used Mind Control to immobilize the leader and read his memories, learning the date was June 1962.
• When a thug threatened him, Solomon hurled him into a wall with Telekinesis and read another man's memories.
• Solomon immobilized the remaining thugs and searched their memories, finding no signs of supernatural abilities or unusual events.
• Solomon concluded that the world was most likely an ordinary human world without supernatural forces.

Solomon investigated the world’s hidden powers, traced strange police reports to Xavier Mansion, and confirmed he was in the X-Men world in June 1962. He identified the coming Cuban Missile Crisis and assessed that Charles and Magneto were stronger than him in their respective abilities.

• Solomon trapped the thugs’ consciousnesses in the Mind Stone Prison and decided to investigate New York’s elites for information.
• Solomon searched wealthy New Yorkers’ memories, found no clues, then read the New York police chief’s memories and discovered reports of unexplained supernatural incidents.
• Solomon used the clues to identify 1407 Graymalkin Lane and confirmed the mansion was Xavier Mansion in the X-Men world.
• Solomon determined the timeline was June 1962, four months before the Cuban Missile Crisis, and learned that Charles and Mystique were still in Britain.
• Solomon concluded that mutants were this world’s only supernatural system and judged Charles’s Mind Control and Magneto’s magnetic powers stronger than his own.

Solomon left the deserted Xavier estate and decided to build Vought International in New York, using it to bring mutants into public life and draw them to him. One day later, Vought Tower opened as the company’s headquarters, and its recruitment announcement offered mutants highly paid hero positions.

• Solomon considered following the existing plot or seeking out mutants himself, then decided to make mutants come to him by building his own organization.
• Solomon planned to establish Vought International, present mutants as superheroes, and recreate Cerebro to locate mutants around the world.
• Solomon left Xavier estate and sped toward New York City to begin his plan.
• One day later, the Empire State Building was renamed Vought Tower, and Vought International established its headquarters there.
• Vought International announced an open recruitment drive, including a high-paying hero position available only to mutants.

News that Vought International was recruiting mutants reached Charles and Raven in England, prompting Raven to head to New York while Charles stayed to defend his dissertation. At Vought Tower, Solomon’s mutant screening had been thrown into chaos by ordinary applicants using tricks, though some genuine mutants had begun to apply.

• Charles read the newspaper report about Vought International recruiting mutants and realized there might be many others like him and Raven.
• Raven proposed traveling to New York to investigate while Charles stayed in Oxford for his dissertation defense, and he agreed.
• Raven packed and flew to New York that day as mutants around the world were drawn toward Vought’s recruitment.
• Solomon set up a screening rule requiring applicants to demonstrate mutant abilities, but ordinary applicants used magic tricks to fool the human interviewers.
• A handful of genuine mutants applied to Vought Tower amid the growing crowds and confusion.

Solomon welcomed weak mutants to Vought International, hiring Angel Salvadore as its first official superhero and planning to make the company a sanctuary for mutants of every power level. The chapter ended with visibly mutated mutants conducting interviews openly inside Vought, demonstrating the acceptance Solomon wanted to offer.

• Angel Salvadore applied to Vought International, revealed her wings and corrosive saliva, and became its first official superhero.
• Vought hired several other mutants with weak abilities, whom Solomon considered for support roles rather than superhero positions.
• Solomon outlined six mutant power levels, from epsilon to omega, and recognized that low- and mid-level mutants made up most of the population.
• Solomon decided to welcome mutants of every strength and appearance to make Vought a sanctuary for their kind.
• A four-armed delta-level mutant and a blue-skinned epsilon-level mutant conducted interviews without concealing their appearances.

Raven Darkhölme discovered that Vought International employed other mutants and welcomed her after she demonstrated her shape-shifting ability. She learned that mutants could receive ordinary jobs or qualify for dangerous, high-paying hero positions, and asked what hero work involved.

• Raven waited in a long line of applicants at Vought Tower and entered the interview room when her number was called.
• Raven saw that her interviewers were mutants and transformed into her blue, scaled form, confirming her own mutant identity.
• The Four-Armed Man and the Blue-Skinned Woman welcomed Raven, and she concealed Charles's existence while admitting she had thought she was the only mutant.
• The Blue-Skinned Woman explained that Vought offered stable ordinary positions to mutants without combat abilities and reserved hero jobs for exceptionally gifted fighters.
• Raven asked what a hero position involved, and the Four-Armed Man prepared to explain Vought's job details.

Raven demonstrated her shapeshifting ability during her Vought interview and qualified for a contracted hero role, then went to the mutant-only thirtieth floor to meet other mutants. There she met Angel Salvadore, Vought’s only official hero, who was waiting for training and missions to begin.

• Raven chose to pursue a public hero career and showed the interviewers that she could perfectly replicate people she had seen.
• The Four-Armed Man praised Raven’s talent, recorded her information, and gave her an access card for the mutant activity area on the thirtieth floor.
• The Four-Armed Man directed Raven to leave through a rear exit to avoid attracting attention from the waiting applicants.
• Raven took the elevator to the thirtieth floor and found Angel Salvadore waiting alone in the banquet hall.
• Angel told Raven that she was Vought’s only contracted hero and was on standby because the company lacked enough heroes to begin specialized training and mission assignments.

Raven met Anqi, Vought International’s first contracted hero, and learned about her wings and corrosive-acid abilities. Anqi encouraged Raven about her shapeshifting power, and the chapter ended as Sandra and Hirna arrived with another mutant, Sean Cassidy.

• Anqi welcomed Raven and explained that joining Vought had transformed her life after years of hardship.
• Anqi demonstrated that she could fly with her wings and said she could also spit highly corrosive acid.
• Raven revealed her shapeshifting ability by copying Anqi’s appearance, and Anqi praised its potential as a hero power.
• Raven suggested the aliases Morph or Mystique, while Anqi chose Angel as her own hero name.
• Raven and Anqi talked together for hours until Sandra and Hirna arrived with Sean Cassidy, a newcomer whose powerful ability might qualify him to become a contracted hero.

Raven met several Mutants at Vought International and told Charles that the company offered them shelter and stable lives. Inspired by her account, Charles planned to travel to New York after his doctoral defense to meet the Mutants and Vought’s founder.

• Sean introduced himself and described his ability to control sound waves.
• Hirna lamented that her blue skin made her feel like an outsider, and Raven comforted her as the Mutants shared stories and hopes together.
• Back in her room, Raven remembered Charles and called him in Oxford to report what she had found at Vought.
• Raven told Charles about the Mutants she had met and Vought’s support for them, and Charles said he would come to New York after his defense.
• Charles reflected on the hardships Mutants faced, packed his defense materials and luggage, and prepared to leave for New York.

After earning his doctorate at Oxford, Charles Xavier met CIA agent Moira MacTaggert, who told him about two mutants and a possible crisis. Charles agreed to help her investigate, and they set off for CIA headquarters to seek official support.

• Charles Xavier passed his doctoral defense at Oxford and packed to leave for New York.
• Moira MacTaggert visited Charles and asked whether mutants already existed.
• Charles showed Moira a newspaper report about Vought International recruiting mutants, and he read her memories of encountering two unusual mutants.
• Moira explained that the two people she had met were mutants and asked Charles for help investigating a hidden crisis.
• Charles agreed, and he and Moira hurried to CIA headquarters to request approval to pursue the clues.

Charles accompanied Moira to CIA headquarters and tried to convince its officials that Mutants existed, but they dismissed his explanation until he demonstrated his telepathic abilities. The director ordered Charles and Moira detained, and a CIA official who secretly believed in Mutants offered to take them to his field base.

• Charles explained Mutant genetics to the CIA officials, but the director dismissed Mutants as ordinary people with physical deformities and ended the meeting.
• Charles revealed that he could read Moira's thoughts, but the officials mocked his claim until he mentioned the secret Jupiter Missile deployment in Turkey.
• The director accused Charles of being a spy, and Charles used telepathic communication to prove his powers to him.
• The director ordered Charles and Moira taken into custody, and a CIA official who believed in Mutants offered to guard them at his field base.

Moira joined Charles and the fat agent after learning Sebastian Shaw would be aboard a cruise ship that night. Meanwhile, Shaw traveled with Emma Frost, Azazel, and Riptide to investigate Vought International, but Emma detected a powerful psychic counterattack and ordered Azazel to teleport them away.

• Charles secretly immobilized Moira's colleague and invited her to meet him in the CIA parking garage.
• Moira met Charles and the fat agent, then told them Shaw would be aboard a cruise ship offshore that night.
• Shaw read about Vought International recruiting Mutants and decided to visit its founder with Emma Frost, Azazel, and Riptide.
• Azazel teleported the four from the cruise ship to Vought Tower, where Emma sensed Mutants gathered on the thirtieth floor.
• Emma's psychic search uncovered a powerful human presence on the ninety-ninth floor that counterattacked her, so she ordered Azazel to teleport them away.

Solomon failed to take control of the Black King when Emma Frost’s group teleported away from Vought Tower, but he expected them to return. Afterward, Emma insisted that the powerful telepath on the ninety-ninth floor was an ordinary human, leaving her unable to reconcile what she sensed with everything she knew about Mutants.

• Solomon blocked Emma Frost’s telepathic probe and tried to invade the Black King’s mind, but Azazel teleported the group away before he could take control.
• Solomon watched the newly hired Mutants on the thirtieth floor and decided to wait for the Black King to return to Vought Tower.
• The Black King asked Emma why she had ordered their retreat, and she described a powerful telepath on the ninety-ninth floor who seemed to be an ordinary human.
• Riptide suggested a hidden psychic Mutant might have masked his presence, and the Black King agreed to prepare before visiting Vought again.
• Emma accepted the Black King’s explanation outwardly but remained certain that the psychic force had come from Solomon, an ordinary human with superpowers.