Recaps

Zhao Fan and Old Dog fought through a swarm of mutant beetles in Hydra’s underground facility and found the leaking energy source Dr. Evelyn Reed wanted. Zhao Fan entered the corrosive pool to close its valve, but a surge of green liquid struck his chest.

• Zhao Fan and Old Dog fought off Hydra Parasitic Guards while Benjamin activated the tunnel’s exhaust fans, allowing them to reach a blast door.
• Zhao Fan and Old Dog entered the laboratory and discovered a huge living mass and a leaking pipe filled with glowing green liquid.
• Dr. Evelyn Reed ordered Zhao Fan to close the valve and retrieve a sample, while his system urged him to absorb the compatible energy source.
• Zhao Fan waded through the corrosive pool and used Kinetic Repulsion to turn the seized valve.
• A torrent of green liquid burst from the valve and sprayed Zhao Fan’s chest.

Zhao Fan survived sealing the Hydra nutrient-solution leak, used the opportunity to absorb its energy, and officially joined S.C.U. as Captain Zhao. After Benjamin uncovered a Hydra transport route ending in New York, Shadow recruited Zhao to plant a device on a D.O.D.C. convoy, but Zhao discovered its hidden self-destruct function and decided to alter her plan.

• Zhao Fan absorbed the leaking Hydra solution, healed his burns, sealed the valve, and earned Evelyn's approval and an official S.C.U. position.
• Evelyn's team examined Zhao Fan and sent a sample of the solution to the lab, while Zhao insisted he wanted no more missions like the one in the shelter.
• Benjamin showed Zhao Fan a Hydra transport record linking an unstable container to New York, and Zhao received a message from Shadow requesting a meeting.
• Shadow offered Zhao Fan one million dollars to install a signal device on a D.O.D.C. transport carrying special cargo.
• Zhao Fan analyzed Shadow's device and discovered that it could block communications and self-destruct with enormous force.
• Zhao Fan accepted the job but left planning to modify the device with Benjamin rather than follow Shadow's plan.

Zhao Fan tested his new Hard Carapace ability and ordered Benjamin Lee to turn Shadow’s explosive signal amplifier into a Chitauri creature lure with an EMP failsafe. He planted the modified device beneath the Fortress transport carrying the Heart of Leviathan, and its signal began attracting numerous biological responses.

• Zhao Fan tested Hard Carapace by resisting a tactical dagger and combining hardened knuckles with Kinetic Repulsion to destroy a titanium-alloy dummy.
• Benjamin Lee discovered that Shadow’s signal amplifier had multiple detonation triggers, and Zhao Fan instructed him to rework it into a powerful alien-remnant lure that would destroy itself with an EMP.
• Zhao Fan learned that the Fortress transport carried an active Heart of Leviathan sample under liquid-nitrogen conditions.
• Zhao Fan and Old Dog positioned themselves along the convoy route while Benjamin Lee looped the security drones’ footage.
• Zhao Fan attached the modified device beneath the Fortress truck and escaped as it drove on.
• The signal lure activated, and Zhao Fan’s system detected extremely numerous high-energy biological responses nearby.

Zhao Fan and Old Dog used an ambush on a D.O.D.C. transport to steal and absorb the Heart of Leviathan, gaining new abilities before escaping the battlefield. With Shadow’s assassin captured and Shadow’s location traced to a hotel near Stark Tower, Zhao Fan set out to collect the rest of his payment.

• Zhao Fan’s signal lured Chitauri and mutated beetles into attacking the D.O.D.C. transport, while Benjamin’s virus cut off outside communications.
• Zhao Fan and Old Dog joined the fight under false pretenses, and Zhao Fan killed the largest beetle to enter the cargo compartment.
• Zhao Fan defeated Shadow’s assassin and absorbed the Heart of Leviathan’s energy, acquiring Mental Pressure and Bioelectric Burst.
• Zhao Fan planted a device to disguise the drained heart, then escaped through a sewer with Old Dog and the unconscious assassin as Colonel Rhodes arrived in War Machine.
• Benjamin tracked Shadow to a luxury hotel near Stark Tower, and Zhao Fan decided to confront her and collect the outstanding payment.

Zhao Fan defeated Shadow, seized her New York underground network, and used her information to secure S.C.U. greater authority. After discovering Hydra’s activity in Sokovia, he accepted Nick Fury’s offer to intercept a shipment of Wakandan vibranium, leaving S.C.U. drawn into a larger conflict.

• Zhao Fan survived Shadow’s failed explosion and confronted her at the Four Seasons Hotel, where he resisted her gunshot and used Mental Pressure to extract her secrets.
• Zhao Fan took Shadow’s money and intelligence, while Benjamin arranged evidence that led the police to her smuggling operation.
• Dr. Evelyn Reed quietly accepted Zhao Fan’s list of Hydra infiltrators, and S.C.U. received higher clearance, an armory, and a helicopter.
• Benjamin identified a Leviathan Heart energy reading near Baron Strucker’s fortress in Sokovia, and Zhao Fan decided to prepare for Hydra’s next move.
• Nick Fury visited S.C.U.’s base and offered Zhao Fan a deal to intercept Ulysses Klaue’s vibranium shipment in exchange for help tracking Hydra.
• Zhao Fan accepted Fury’s offer after his system identified vibranium as a valuable upgrade material.

Zhao Fan confronted Dr. Evelyn Reed about his abnormal abilities and proposed a secret research partnership in exchange for protection and resources. Evelyn agreed to conceal his data and support him within limits, leaving them as accomplices in a private alliance.

• Evelyn analyzed Zhao Fan's battle data and questioned him about his unusual abilities and the Leviathan core sample.
• Zhao Fan offered to provide Evelyn with research access to his body in exchange for secrecy, resources, and her future protection.
• Evelyn agreed to store his data in a privately encrypted database and provide information about high-energy supplies.
• Evelyn and Zhao Fan toasted their new partnership and agreed to pursue evolution together.

Zhao Fan and his S.C.U. squad raided Hydra safe houses across New York, stealing weapons, money, explosives, and a powerful decryption key. After their first two attacks, they left Hydra’s remaining network crippled and stripped of vital resources.

• Zhao Fan sent Benjamin Lee to provide remote support while he and Old Dog Jose set out to raid three Hydra safe houses before the organization could evacuate its supplies.
• At the Old John Cold Chain Logistics warehouse, Zhao Fan incapacitated the guards, smashed through the entrance, and defeated the Hydra agents as Old Dog covered the rear.
• The squad recovered twenty prototype energy pistols, C4 explosives, and a master decryption key, which Zhao gave Benjamin to secure their communications and erase their traces.
• At the Pink Panther casino, Benjamin cut the power and triggered the fire alarm, allowing Zhao Fan and Old Dog to seize cash and gold from three Hydra agents fleeing with briefcases.
• Hydra’s New York remnants suffered heavy personnel losses and lost their weapons, funds, supplies, and intelligence, while the raiders left no traceable surveillance footage.

Zhao Fan’s team raided Hydra sites, seized money, weapons, and a fragment of the Cosmic Cube, then struck a deal with Dr. Evelyn Reed to keep their gains and pass her intelligence on Hydra. After two weeks of hiding and training, Zhao Fan developed unstable spatial abilities, but Evelyn summoned him and his team to headquarters over a new emergency.

• Zhao Fan’s team broke into a Hydra operative’s apartment, forced him to reveal accounts and intelligence, and transferred Hydra funds while leaving him alive with Hydra’s emblem crossed out on his face.
• Zhao Fan discovered and secured a Cosmic Cube fragment hidden behind a painting, then returned with his team to their Queens base.
• Dr. Evelyn Reed confronted Zhao Fan’s team over their crimes, accepted their Hydra intelligence for S.H.I.E.L.D., and agreed to help legalize some weapons and money while taking Stark pistol samples.
• Over the next two weeks, Evelyn and S.H.I.E.L.D. purged Hydra outposts as Benjamin cracked the Stark pistols and Zhao Fan gained Basic Space Resistance and an unstable Phase Blink ability.
• Evelyn contacted Zhao Fan and ordered him to bring his team to headquarters because a major incident had occurred.

After learning that Hydra had seized control of S.H.I.E.L.D. and targeted D.O.D.C. personnel, Zhao Fan rescued Evelyn from the New York headquarters. Evelyn revealed that Project Insight was due to launch the next day, and Zhao Fan accepted a quest to recover a repulsion engine core and the Zola Algorithm motherboard; the chapter left them fleeing a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicopter attack.

• Evelyn told Zhao Fan that Nick Fury had been assassinated, Steve Rogers had been declared a defector, and Alexander Pierce had ordered a purge of D.O.D.C. personnel.
• Zhao Fan, Old Dog, and Benjamin drove to the D.O.D.C. headquarters, where they rammed the blockade and Zhao Fan entered the building alone.
• Zhao Fan fought through the Hydra-controlled building and rescued Evelyn from the sublevel three data center, where she had secured Stark Industries' data and core samples.
• Evelyn showed Zhao Fan Project Insight's three helicarriers and explained that Hydra planned to use the Zola Algorithm to target potential threats; Zhao Fan received an S-rank quest to recover a repulsion engine core and the algorithm's motherboard.
• A S.H.I.E.L.D. helicopter fired a missile into the laboratory, and Zhao Fan shielded Evelyn before they escaped through the blasted wall and ran toward Old Dog's vehicle.

Zhao Fan escaped S.H.I.E.L.D.’s attack with Evelyn and decided to travel to Washington to target Project Insight’s carrier engines. After evading a Sweeper inspection at a New Jersey freight yard, Zhao Fan and his team boarded a waste train bound for Washington.

• Zhao Fan and Evelyn escaped the administration building in Old Dog’s SUV, and Zhao Fan drove off the pursuing helicopter with a grenade.
• Benjamin told Zhao Fan that S.H.I.E.L.D. had sealed New York’s exits, so the group hid in an abandoned subway safe house and planned to head to Washington.
• Zhao Fan chose to target the engines on Project Insight’s carriers and learned from Benjamin about a freight train leaving New Jersey for Washington.
• Zhao Fan and his team disguised themselves as freight workers, but three S.H.I.E.L.D. Sweepers began scanning the train cars.
• Zhao Fan short-circuited a transformer to distract the Sweepers, then stopped one who caught him at the train door and boarded the departing train with his team.

Zhao Fan and his team infiltrated the D.O.D.C. processing station beneath the Triskelion to reach the Zola Algorithm and repulsor engine cores before Project Insight launched. After splitting up, Zhao Fan and Old Dog headed toward the Helicarriers while Evelyn and Benjamin stayed behind to maintain a network foothold.

• Zhao Fan kept the wounded Hydra agent alive so Benjamin Lee could use his identity and lower the train's security screening level.
• Benjamin hacked the train's clearance, allowing the team to reach the D.O.D.C. processing station beneath the Triskelion.
• Zhao Fan knocked out a foreman and two soldiers, then took the foreman's hazmat suit and access card.
• Zhao Fan assigned Evelyn Reed and Benjamin to guard a data node while he and Old Dog Jose went toward the Helicarriers.
• The system updated Zhao Fan's mission: he had to connect the universal key to command Helicarrier Alpha's internal server before the three carriers took off.

Zhao Fan and Old Dog boarded a rising Helicarrier and fought their way toward its core server room. They reached an unstable Extremis-enhanced giant guarding the room, while Old Dog moved to find a way to insert the key.

• Zhao Fan and Old Dog used a fuel pipe and grappling line to climb onto the Alpha as the Helicarriers launched.
• Zhao Fan guided Old Dog through the Alpha’s maintenance spaces and chose a hidden route toward the server room despite Hydra’s heavy defenses.
• Zhao Fan and Old Dog fought through Hydra soldiers in the corridors, with Zhao Fan using his oscillating alloy dagger and kinetic repulsion.
• A giant Extremis carrier blasted open the airtight door, and Zhao Fan shielded Old Dog from the flying door.
• Zhao Fan told Old Dog to reach the server room and insert the key while he prepared to fight the giant.

Zhao Fan defeated Hydra’s Furnace and used the master key to turn Helicarrier Alpha’s identification system against its crew, plunging the carrier into chaos. Steve Rogers saw the disruption create an opening against the Winter Soldier and charged back into the fight.

• Zhao Fan dodged Furnace’s attacks, absorbed his energy blast, and overloaded him until he exploded.
• Old Dog and Benjamin used the master key to change Alpha’s friend-or-foe codes, causing its systems to treat everyone as an intruder.
• Alpha’s weapons fired indiscriminately, attacking Hydra fighters and throwing the carrier into disarray.
• Steve fought Bucky Barnes aboard Helicarrier Charlie while Sam reported that Beta’s chip had been replaced.
• Steve realized Alpha’s system failure was helping them and charged at the Winter Soldier again.

Zhao Fan and Old Dog retrieved the Next-Generation Repulsor Engine Core from the failing Helicarrier Alpha, unlocking Zhao Fan’s System Space as the Helicarriers crashed. They survived the fall into the Potomac and saw Steve Rogers and Sam recover on the riverbank, while the Winter Soldier disappeared into the woods.

• Zhao Fan and Old Dog fought past automated sentry guns and reached the engine room, where Zhao Fan followed Benjamin’s instructions to safely detach the core.
• Zhao Fan stored the core in his newly unlocked System Space just as Beta rammed Alpha and the Helicarriers began to crash.
• Steve Rogers urged Maria Hill to fire the Helicarriers’ weapons, then refused to fight the Winter Soldier and reminded Bucky of their friendship before they fell into the Potomac.
• Zhao Fan and Old Dog escaped Alpha by jumping into the river, with Zhao Fan using Kinetic Repulsion to slow their fall and help them reach shore alive.
• Zhao Fan saw Sam pull Steve from the water as the Winter Soldier vanished into the woods, then left with Old Dog to reunite with Evelyn and Ben.

Zhao Fan and Old Dog escaped Washington with Evelyn and Benjamin after the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D., bringing Hydra data and a next-generation repulsion engine core. At a D.O.D.C. safe house, Evelyn promised to take control of the agency and make Zhao Fan’s S.C.U. an independent unit as Zhao Fan gained a new ability and prepared for the turmoil ahead.

• Zhao Fan and Old Dog followed Evelyn’s extraction route and escaped the National Guard cordon in a disguised hazardous-waste truck driven by Benjamin.
• Zhao Fan revealed that he could store the repulsion engine core in his System Space, while Evelyn confirmed the Hydra data drive and master key were intact.
• Evelyn proposed taking control of D.O.D.C. and making Zhao Fan’s S.C.U. its independent armed and intelligence unit, and Zhao Fan agreed.
• Zhao Fan received the advanced Kinetic Repulsion reward and tested Repulsion Shaping by slicing through a lead-sealed drum.
• Evelyn brought the group to a secret transfer station and arranged a flight to New York, promising a new S.C.U. base, budget, and cover as unsung heroes.
• Zhao Fan accepted the arrangements and set out with Old Dog and Benjamin, anticipating further threats in the chaotic Marvel world.

One week after the Washington disaster, Zhao Fan learned that D.O.D.C. would become an independent agency with authority over battlefield salvage, and he ordered the team to secure the Helicarrier wreckage. He examined his growing abilities and began planning armor powered by a Stark reactor, while preparing to face military observer Brock Rumlow.

• Evelyn told Zhao Fan that D.O.D.C. was being reorganized as an independent enforcement agency with priority rights over battlefield remnants, subject to oversight from the military, government, and Stark Industries.
• Zhao Fan ordered Evelyn to seek resources from Tony Stark and accepted the Washington cleanup assignment, where Brock Rumlow would serve as the military observer.
• Zhao Fan reviewed his abilities and realized that absorbing more energy was overloading his body, so he sought a core that could govern and strengthen his powers.
• Zhao Fan analyzed the Next-Generation Repulsor Engine Core and planned to use it as an external power source for a custom suit of armor.
• Old Dog warned Zhao Fan that Rumlow had become a pain-insensitive killing machine with experimental prosthetics, and Zhao Fan welcomed the coming confrontation.

One week after the Washington crisis, Zhao Fan and S.C.U. settled into their secret base while Evelyn warned that Rumlow was building a Hydra-backed team. She proposed using an art competition and a D.O.D.C. job to protect Maya Chen, leaving Zhao Fan to accept that his growing power would reshape the lives of those close to him.

• Zhao Fan adjusted to his enhanced energy perception in S.C.U.'s new Queens base as he questioned whether the group had become heroes or a necessary evil.
• Evelyn told Zhao Fan that Rumlow had formed Rattlesnake to gather escaped Hydra agents and pursue superhuman threats.
• Evelyn revealed that she had investigated Maya Chen and considered Zhao Fan's connection to her a vulnerability.
• Evelyn proposed that D.O.D.C. invite Maya to win an art competition and become director of its publicity department, with secure housing and protection.
• Zhao Fan agreed to let Evelyn arrange Maya's recruitment, then thanked her for protecting him and those he cared about.

At D.O.D.C.’s New York art exhibition, Evelyn Reed used the event to assert the agency’s independence and announce Maya Chen’s appointment as its first public relations director. Zhao Fan watched from the shadows, believing D.O.D.C. would protect Maya even as her new life became an invisible cage.

• Maya Chen attended D.O.D.C.’s exhibition, where her sculpture, “Seed Beneath the Ruins,” drew the most attention.
• Zhao Fan and Old Dog Jose monitored the gallery from a rooftop, while Zhao explained that D.O.D.C. had secured the building and its systems.
• Evelyn Reed rebuffed Senator Stern’s, Stark Industries’ representative’s, and General Phillips’ attempts to influence D.O.D.C.’s funding, assets, and salvage operations.
• Evelyn named Maya the exhibition’s gold prize winner and announced that D.O.D.C. had hired her to lead its new Department of Propaganda.
• Zhao ended the rooftop watch and left, while Maya celebrated her new position inside the gallery.

Zhao Fan uncovered twelve unstable Hydra phase-change energy rifles in the Triskelion wreckage, but Brock Rumlow arrived with armed soldiers to seize them. Zhao Fan used legal authority, communications interference, and hidden sentry turrets to force Rumlow's convoy to withdraw, leaving him secretly tracked by a Nanobug.

• Zhao Fan discovered a sealed Hydra crate containing twelve fully charged phase-change energy rifles and ordered S.C.U. to move it to the New York base.
• Brock Rumlow arrived with a military convoy and demanded that Zhao Fan hand over the Hydra materials, but Zhao Fan cited D.O.D.C.'s authority and warned that the soldiers lacked proper protection.
• Rumlow knocked Zhao Fan's tablet aside and ordered his soldiers to aim their weapons at Zhao Fan and the cleanup crew.
• Benjamin disrupted the soldiers' communications, and Zhao Fan revealed hidden Tarantula sentry turrets that forced Rumlow to lower his weapons and leave.
• Zhao Fan revealed that he had secretly attached a tracking Nanobug to Rumlow's exoskeleton.

Zhao Fan and Evelyn Reed managed disputes over the Washington cleanup site while protecting the S.C.U.’s recovered Hydra technology from military and corporate claims. Evelyn arranged Maya Chen’s promotion and invited Zhao Fan to her celebration, but he chose to remain at the ruins, where Rumlow’s hostility still threatened them.

• Evelyn Reed refused General Ross’s demand to send troops into a Class A energy contamination zone and complained that the military, politicians, and Stark Industries were trying to claim wreckage and technology.
• Zhao Fan told Evelyn that he had secured twelve Hydra Phase-Change Energy Rifles and two exoskeleton thrusters in Underground Vault Three, where Benjamin was disabling their chips.
• Zhao Fan explained that Brock Rumlow’s Rattlesnake team had tried to seize a crate of quantum hard drives, and Evelyn warned that Rumlow would retaliate after Zhao Fan humiliated him.
• Evelyn gave Zhao Fan Maya Chen’s appointment letter and described her new director position, secure office, apartment, and surprise celebration at D.O.D.C. headquarters.
• Zhao Fan declined to fly to New York for Maya’s celebration and chose to stay at the Washington ruins, while Evelyn locked the unopened appointment letter in her safe.

Zhao Fan tested the Nightmare prototype, a bio-armor powered by the Helicarrier’s repulsor core, but its metal frame melted under the heat and energy. After the test revealed that vibranium could solve the material problem, he planned to steal some from Ulysses Klaue and recruit Kestrel for the operation.

• Zhao Fan and Evelyn prepared a full-system coupling test for the Nightmare prototype using titanium alloy plates and the salvaged repulsor core.
• Zhao Fan connected to the armor and fired an amplified blast that melted a steel target, but the armor’s conduits overloaded and its frame began to melt.
• Benjamin cut the power, and Evelyn diagnosed the prototype’s failure as a lack of heat resistance and energy conductivity in its materials.
• Zhao Fan’s system identified vibranium as a suitable material, so he revealed intelligence about Ulysses Klaue’s stolen stockpile in Africa.
• Zhao Fan decided to recruit Kestrel for an illegal operation and told Benjamin to offer knowledge and a chance to survive the coming chaos.

Zhao Fan defeated Kestrel and recruited her, revealing her identity as Yelena Belova and promising to fund her younger sister’s treatment. He equipped her at the S.C.U. base and prepared the team to steal vibranium from Ulysses Klaue in Africa.

• Zhao Fan stopped Kestrel’s attack with his powers and offered her medicine and work in the S.C.U.’s special operations auxiliary team.
• Kestrel accepted Zhao Fan’s offer on the condition that he pay her little sister’s remaining treatment costs, and revealed her name as Yelena Belova.
• Zhao Fan introduced Yelena to Old Dog, Ben, and Evelyn at the S.C.U. base, where Evelyn assessed her physical abilities.
• Evelyn gave Yelena nanofiber body armor and high-frequency alloy blades made from recovered mothership material.
• Zhao Fan briefed the team on their mission to steal vibranium from Ulysses Klaue’s shipyard in Africa and ordered them to return alive.

Zhao Fan’s team prepared to raid Ulysses Klaue’s shipbreaking-yard base in Africa and seize his Vibranium, which Zhao Fan needed to build a stronger energy system. As the Quinjet approached the Gulf of Guinea, the system assigned Zhao Fan a mission to take all of Klaue’s raw Vibranium and offered rewards for completing it.

• Benjamin Lee briefed Zhao Fan’s team on Klaue’s Vibranium theft, sonic weapons, and fortified base, and Zhao Fan assigned roles for the raid.
• Zhao Fan explained that Vibranium could contain and redirect his unstable energy, then gave Yelena Belova modified Widow’s Bite bracers.
• Old Dog Jose and Benjamin prepared their equipment while Evelyn Reed stayed behind to cover the operation from New York.
• Zhao Fan, Yelena, Old Dog, and Benjamin boarded the Quinjet and flew toward Klaue’s base, planning to disable its power and alarms.
• Klaue dismissed a radar anomaly and prepared his sonic bombs as Zhao Fan’s team approached; the system then assigned Zhao Fan a mission to seize Klaue’s raw Vibranium.

Zhao Fan, Yelena, Old Dog, and Benjamin launched a coordinated assault on Ulysses Klaue’s scrapyard to seize its vibranium. After Yelena disabled the command center and Zhao Fan fought through the guards, Klaue attacked him with a sonic cannon.

• Yelena infiltrated the scrapyard through a hidden waterway, eliminated sentries, and followed Benjamin’s directions to the command center.
• Old Dog detonated a thermobaric bomb in the southern fuel storage area, drawing away Klaue’s guards as Yelena entered the command center and Benjamin disabled its defenses.
• Zhao Fan crashed through the main gate, withstood the mercenaries’ gunfire, and forced a minor leader to reveal where Klaue and the vibranium were located.
• Zhao Fan sensed the vibranium and advanced toward Klaue’s palace while Old Dog attacked the remaining mercenaries.
• Klaue emerged with a sonic cannon, damaged Zhao Fan’s hard carapace with a high-frequency attack, and fired a sonic projectile at him.

Zhao Fan and his team defeated Ulysses Klaue by destroying his sonic weapons and exploiting a gap in the Sonic Maze, then captured him and seized his Vibranium. They escaped the shipyard with the ore and sonic technology as Zhao Fan prepared to return to New York with new resources for his armor.

• Zhao Fan dodged Klaue’s Sonic Crusher, then used heat and electricity to disrupt its sonic wave and destroyed the weapon with an internal shock.
• Klaue activated the shipyard’s Sonic Maze, but Zhao Fan found a weakened southern sector and directed Benjamin to disable its control system.
• Yelena wounded Klaue, and Zhao Fan and Yelena kept him alive as a captive and bargaining chip.
• Zhao Fan tore open the Wakandan-marked door and discovered raw Vibranium and an incomplete Sonic Solidification Generator blueprint.
• Zhao Fan ordered his team to collect the Vibranium, search for research materials, erase evidence, and keep Klaue alive.
• The team left the shipyard aboard a Quinjet, and Zhao Fan examined the Vibranium beside the Repulsor Engine Core in System Space.