Recaps

Alexander assigned the Winter Soldier to train Su Zhou and offered him a lesser Super-Soldier Serum if he passed an assessment. Su Zhou skipped the training and began a five-minute fight against the Winter Soldier while possessed by Alfred, leaving the battle underway.

• Alexander introduced the Winter Soldier and offered Su Zhou a lesser serum for passing an assessment.
• Su Zhou scanned the Hydra agents, then asked to take the assessment immediately instead of training for three days.
• Alexander agreed and ordered Crossbones to take Su Zhou and the Winter Soldier to the training room.
• Crossbones shut the door to start the five-minute test, and the Winter Soldier charged at Su Zhou.
• Su Zhou used his Alfred trial card, threw the Winter Soldier across the room, and attacked with Black Tiger techniques.

Su Zhou defeated the Winter Soldier in a brutal close-combat match, impressing the HYDRA observers. His trial ended with his physical fitness enhanced and 100 Justice Points awarded, leaving his improved abilities and new reward to carry forward.

• Su Zhou targeted the Winter Soldier’s mechanical arm with a coin, making it malfunction before countering the dagger attack.
• Su Zhou swept the Winter Soldier off his feet and launched him into a wall with a series of powerful kicks.
• Crossbones and Alexander watched in astonishment as Su Zhou revealed his kung fu skills, and Alexander ordered Crossbones to end the match and protect the Winter Soldier.
• Su Zhou’s character trial card expired, and the system granted him an all-around physical fitness enhancement that healed the cracks in his heart.
• The system awarded Su Zhou 100 Justice Points for defeating HYDRA’s Winter Soldier.

Su Zhou drew a nerfed telepathy skill and secretly tested it on Crossbones, learning his thoughts and influencing what he said. Hydra brought Su Zhou to a laboratory and strapped him into an electric chair, where six syringes injected him with secondary serum.

• Su Zhou drew [Telepathy], a weakened skill with no offensive capabilities, and suspected it let him read minds and memories.
• Su Zhou used [Telepathy] on Crossbones, read his memories and thoughts, and discovered Crossbones was excited about Su Zhou joining the Avengers.
• Crossbones asked why Su Zhou had stopped, and Su Zhou covered his distraction by asking about the secondary serum and its energy requirements.
• Su Zhou used telepathy to influence Crossbones, who advised him to stay conscious during the serum injection for better results.
• Crossbones took Su Zhou to a laboratory, where Su Zhou declared "Hail Hydra!" for the cameras and sat in an electric chair.
• Six mechanical arms injected Su Zhou with six syringes of secondary serum at once.

Su Zhou endured a brutal secondary-serum transformation powered by an electric chair and gained a new stunt skill. After recovering, he was sent to confront a rampaging yellow Hulk in hopes of earning reinstatement and joining the Avengers Initiative.

• The secondary serum and electric chair painfully remodeled Su Zhou’s body, and he used Chan Ka-Kui’s character experience card to endure the strain.
• Su Zhou used Telepathy to take refuge in Crossbones’s mind, acquired the Stunt Master skill, and reviewed a month of Crossbones’s memories.
• After thirty minutes, Su Zhou’s transformation ended, and he discovered his strength had greatly increased.
• Crossbones praised Su Zhou’s endurance, gave him his clothes, and heard a report that a yellow Hulk was rampaging on Broadway.
• Crossbones ordered Su Zhou to join the response, promising reinstatement if he performed well, and Su Zhou agreed after saying he needed to get his equipment.

Abomination rampaged through Broadway, and Su Zhou arrived as Batman to confront him. After Abomination sent him crashing into a restaurant, Su Zhou provoked the monster again, and as Abomination charged in to strike him, Su Zhou called on the system to use the Third Brother character trial card.

• Abomination rampaged through Broadway, prompting Nick Fury to try to contact Tony, who had blacklisted Coulson.
• Su Zhou appeared as Batman, gliding from a rooftop and landing before Abomination while the crowd cheered.
• Abomination spat out Su Zhou's bullets and punched him through a restaurant, sending the crowd fleeing in panic.
• Su Zhou threw a frying pan at Abomination, then kicked him in the face and flew back into the restaurant.
• Abomination charged into the restaurant and swung at Su Zhou, who called on the system to use the Third Brother character trial card.

Su Zhou fought Abomination with the enhanced strength and durability of Third Brother’s character trial card, but Abomination grabbed him and slammed him around before Hulk crashed into the fight. The battle between Hulk and Abomination moved away, leaving Su Zhou battered among the wreckage and furious.

• Su Zhou caught Abomination’s punch, threw him into the restaurant’s cookware, and kept fighting despite the cramped space.
• Abomination hurled a stove at Su Zhou, sending him through a car and out onto the road, where Su Zhou protected his damaged Batsuit cape.
• Su Zhou hit Abomination’s knee with a car door, vaulted over the stove, and chopped off the thickest bone spike on Abomination’s back.
• Abomination grabbed Su Zhou by the ankle and slammed him around as Nick Fury watched in confusion.
• Hulk arrived and struck Su Zhou and Abomination with a car, then began fighting Abomination while Su Zhou crashed into another restaurant.

After his trial cards expired, Su Zhou gained the enigmatic Master of Disguise skill and used Telepathy to enter Hulk’s mind, where he spoke with Bruce Banner. He then entered Abomination’s mind, ready to beat up Emil Blonsky.

• Su Zhou discovered that using four character trial cards had given him the vague Master of Disguise skill instead of the defensive ability he expected.
• With no trial cards left and Hulk and Abomination fighting nearby, Su Zhou chose to use Telepathy rather than join their battle physically.
• Su Zhou accidentally entered Hulk’s mind and met Bruce Banner, who explained that he and Hulk took turns controlling the body.
• Su Zhou told Banner he could not restore his control, urged him to fight for the body, and warned him to leave the United States to avoid conflict with General Ross.
• Su Zhou entered Abomination’s mind, identified Emil Blonsky, and announced that he was there to beat him up.

Su Zhou entered Blonsky’s mind and beat him until he regained control, then hurried to the fight between Hulk and Abomination. He joined the battle by hurling a bone spike at Abomination.

• Su Zhou overpowered Blonsky inside his mind and kicked him until Blonsky regained his awareness.
• Su Zhou soothed Blonsky and persuaded him to take control of his transformed body, then withdrew from his mind.
• Su Zhou decided he needed a better weapon and thought about going to Wakanda for vibranium.
• Su Zhou ran toward Hulk and Abomination, noticing that Hulk had nearly subdued Abomination and that the fight had become less destructive.
• Su Zhou shouted for Hulk to move, threw a bone spike into the air, and leapt after it to attack Abomination.

Su Zhou captured Abomination alive by pinning him down and using telepathy to bring Blonsky back to human form. After receiving Justice Points and unlocking selectable reward roulettes, Su Zhou discovered the equipment roulette contained powerful weapons and an Infinity Gauntlet.

• Su Zhou used Bullet Time to dodge Abomination's back spikes and pin him to the road with a bone spike.
• Su Zhou used telepathy to suppress Abomination and work with Blonsky from within, capturing him alive.
• Abomination reverted to Blonsky, who thanked Su Zhou before passing out, and Su Zhou cuffed him.
• The system awarded Su Zhou 1,000 Justice Points for arresting Abomination and converted the basic roulette into selectable reward roulettes.
• Su Zhou inspected the character, skill, and equipment roulettes and spotted Gungnir, Mjolnir, and the Infinity Gauntlet among the equipment rewards.

After defeating Abomination, Su Zhou avoided the arriving authorities and met with Nick Fury, who questioned his hidden strength and warned him about the unidentified Kree. Su Zhou then prepared to spend his 1,000 Justice Points on a ten-pull, only to learn that beginner protection would end after it.

• Su Zhou called Agent Coulson, reported that Blonsky was unconscious and Hulk had fled, and told him to bring the director to Su Zhou’s apartment.
• Su Zhou slipped away from the scene as police sirens approached and returned to his apartment, where Nick Fury was waiting in the dark.
• Su Zhou dismissed Nick Fury’s questions about his strength, explaining that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s forms had never asked him to list superpowers.
• Nick Fury said S.H.I.E.L.D. had not found the Kree infiltrating Earth and suggested Su Zhou visit Tony; Su Zhou objected when Fury told him to steal something, but Fury left before he could respond.
• Su Zhou entered his mind to prepare for a ten-pull and learned that the beginner protection period would end after ten draws, with reward quality no longer guaranteed starting with the eleventh draw.

Su Zhou used the system’s equipment wheel, gaining an Adamantium Blade, a spatial ring, and several pairs of stockings, then visited Tony’s villa to discuss something with him. After Tony woke up and noticed a feminine scent, he mistook Su Zhou for a woman.

• Su Zhou used the system’s equipment wheel and received eight pairs of stockings, a spatial ring, and an Adamantium Blade.
• Su Zhou tested the Adamantium Blade by slicing a chair into pieces and stored the stockings in his spatial ring.
• Su Zhou went to Tony’s villa, ate breakfast prepared by Pepper Potts, and asked her to wake Tony.
• Su Zhou waited for Tony while playing Snake and placed a small plastic bag on the table.
• Tony came downstairs, smelled a woman’s fragrance, and asked whether Su Zhou was a woman.

Su Zhou gave Tony a piece of an alien combat suit to study, while Tony offered him Stark Industries shares and asked him to vote on Pepper Potts becoming CEO. The conversation ended with Su Zhou suspecting Tony was hiding something from him.

• Su Zhou explained that the black stockings in the bag were made from a female alien's combat suit and could withstand bullets, blades, and extreme temperatures.
• Tony invited Su Zhou to attend the Stark Expo opening ceremony with him, but Su Zhou declined and said Batman probably would not attend either.
• Tony revealed that he planned to step down as CEO and asked whether Pepper Potts could take over, prompting Su Zhou to realize Tony had palladium poisoning.
• Tony told Su Zhou he had given him three percent of Stark Industries, making him the largest shareholder after Tony and giving him a vote on the CEO appointment.
• Tony outlined plans to trade Stark Industries shares around the Expo and the launch of a new phone, and Su Zhou asked whether Tony was hiding something from him.

Tony concealed his worsening palladium poisoning from Su Zhou and began preparing for his death. The Ancient One abducted Su Zhou and questioned him about his origins, then discovered the stockings in his spatial ring.

• Su Zhou noticed Tony’s condition but left after offering help, while Tony decided to prepare a suit for Rhodey and arrange things for his friends.
• Su Zhou headed toward S.H.I.E.L.D. to warn Nick Fury about Black Widow’s assignment to Tony’s company.
• The Ancient One appeared through a portal, dropped Su Zhou through the floor, and asked which universe he came from.
• Su Zhou told the Ancient One he did not consider himself a threat to her universe, and she explained that his other-dimensional aura had drawn her attention.
• The Ancient One took Su Zhou’s spatial ring and teased him for filling it with only a few pairs of stockings.

The Ancient One recognized Su Zhou’s ability to navigate the multiverse and tried to recruit him as her successor. After trapping him in the Mirror Dimension to make him learn portal magic, she let him know she would wait at Kamar-Taj until he agreed to become Sorcerer Supreme.

• Su Zhou suggested Stephen Strange as the Ancient One’s successor, but she said Su Zhou had surpassed him and knocked his soul from his body to test his abilities.
• Su Zhou used Telepathy to return to his body, and the Ancient One explained that his ability to locate himself across the multiverse made him an ideal Sorcerer Supreme.
• The Ancient One left Su Zhou in the Mirror Dimension with a Sling Ring and told him to draw a portal if he wanted to escape.
• Su Zhou quickly learned the portal spell, opened a portal, and joined the Ancient One in her chamber.
• Su Zhou declined the offer to become Sorcerer Supreme, but the Ancient One insisted his brawling nature and aptitude for magic suited him and promised to wait at Kamar-Taj.

Su Zhou returned from learning portal magic and learned that Tony Stark was suffering from palladium poisoning, then confronted Nick Fury over withholding Howard Stark’s inheritance. The chapter ended with Su Zhou discovering that Fury’s supposed honey trap had been a 57-year-old woman.

• Su Zhou returned to his apartment through a portal and explained his new magic to Coulson.
• Coulson told Su Zhou that Tony had been attacked by Whiplash and was suffering from palladium poisoning.
• Su Zhou used a portal to find Nick Fury in a safe house and dragged him out of bed.
• Su Zhou slapped Nick Fury and demanded to know what else Howard had left Tony.
• Nick Fury said he had planned to give Tony Howard’s notes and videotapes, then claimed he had arranged a honey trap for Su Zhou.
• Su Zhou asked whether a 57-year-old single black woman counted as a honey trap.

Su Zhou visited Tony Stark and warned him that severe palladium poisoning left him only about half a month to live. Natasha then teased Su Zhou about stealing her stockings, leaving him exposed as the thief.

• Su Zhou left Nick Fury with Coulson and drove through morning traffic to Stark Industries.
• Su Zhou found Tony sparring with Happy and warned him that palladium poisoning could kill him within half a month.
• Pepper Potts rushed to Tony, who reassured her that he expected to fix the poisoning with new technology.
• Natasha offered Su Zhou a drink and invited him to investigate the theft of her black stockings.
• Natasha whispered that she knew Batman was skilled, and Su Zhou sprayed his drink while Happy caught it with his face.

Su Zhou exposed Natasha as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Black Widow, injected Tony with lithium dioxide to ease his palladium poisoning, and pointed him toward his father's legacy. He then took Natasha to his apartment and began to ask her about Hydra.

• Su Zhou revealed that Natasha was S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Black Widow and had been assigned to protect Tony and assess him for the Avengers Initiative.
• Tony fired Natasha, but she stayed at Stark Industries while Su Zhou completed his mission, and Pepper felt guilty for having helped her become Tony's assistant.
• Su Zhou injected Tony with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s lithium dioxide to ease his palladium poisoning and told him to examine the model of the expo for his father's legacy.
• Su Zhou opened a portal to his apartment and brought Natasha with him, leaving Tony, Pepper, and Happy stunned by the magic.
• At Su Zhou's apartment, he told Natasha to call him Su Zhou and asked whether she had heard of Hydra.

Su Zhou told Natasha that HYDRA had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and revealed that he had been its mole before deciding to turn against it. Natasha accepted his proposal to become allies after he admitted he admired her beauty, and they toasted their partnership.

• Su Zhou showed Natasha files linking Operation Paperclip and Doctor Zola to HYDRA's infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Su Zhou claimed that most of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s personnel, including Secretary Alexander, were HYDRA members, and Natasha drew her gun on him.
• Su Zhou explained that he had been recruited as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent by HYDRA but now wanted to help destroy the organization and its compromised host.
• Natasha lowered her gun but asked why Su Zhou had chosen her as an ally, and he cited her clean record outside HYDRA's files.
• Su Zhou told Natasha she was the most beautiful woman he had ever met, and Natasha toasted with him.

Su Zhou recruited Natasha to help him oppose Hydra while they continued their undercover work, and she persuaded him to take her shopping. The next evening, they attended the Stark Expo dressed in expensive clothes that emptied Su Zhou’s bank account.

• Natasha questioned Su Zhou’s plan to fight Hydra with only the two of them, and he suggested recruiting her friend Clint.
• Su Zhou told Natasha to keep working as usual and not reveal Hydra’s presence to anyone except Clint.
• Natasha convinced Su Zhou to take her shopping and agreed to become his personal assistant in exchange for a dress that would steal the spotlight.
• Natasha and Su Zhou arrived at the Stark Expo the next evening, wearing outfits that had cost him his remaining money.
• Su Zhou asked whether they could return the clothes after the event, but Natasha said they had no receipt.

Su Zhou and Natasha attended the Stark Industries Expo, where Tony warned them that Ivan was targeting Pepper. Tony also revealed that he had created a new element for his Arc Reactor, and Su Zhou reminded him that his father had discovered it first.

• Su Zhou brought Natasha to the expo in combat outfits, expecting trouble based on the disasters that had followed Tony's earlier events.
• Natasha asked Su Zhou for his spatial ring, while he complained that their expensive outfits had maxed out his credit card.
• Pepper asked Su Zhou to return Natasha, but Tony called and warned that Ivan was going to hurt her.
• Su Zhou rushed backstage with Natasha and Pepper as Tony told him Ivan had teamed up with Hammer Industries.
• Tony excitedly said he had upgraded his Arc Reactor with a new element, and Su Zhou pointed out that Tony's father had discovered it years earlier.

Su Zhou forced Justin Hammer to reveal that Ivan was at Hammer Industries and arrested him as Iron Man battled the controlled Rhodey armor and Hammer’s robot soldiers. Su Zhou and Natasha headed for Hammer Industries to help Tony reboot the armor.

• Su Zhou pinned Justin Hammer down, broke two of his fingers, and threatened him until he admitted Ivan was at Hammer Industries.
• Su Zhou handcuffed Justin Hammer and told Pepper Potts to have the police take him away while he went after Ivan.
• Tony’s Iron Man Armor attacked him after Ivan took control of Rhodey’s armor, and Hammer’s robot soldiers joined the fight.
• Su Zhou explained that they needed to reach Hammer Industries to reboot Rhodey’s armor, then ran with Natasha to Pepper’s car.
• Su Zhou drove off with Natasha and told Happy to find Pepper and keep her safe.

Su Zhou and Natasha fought their way through Hammer Industries to reach Ivan’s control room, where Natasha rebooted Rhodey’s armor while he was still airborne. The chapter ended with Rhodey falling toward a botanical garden and Tony racing to save him.

• Su Zhou drove Natasha to Hammer Industries, knocked out the entrance guard, and explained that the Winter Soldier who shot her was a Hydra member.
• Su Zhou punched his way through twenty-one guards while Natasha questioned him about the Winter Soldier’s identity.
• Su Zhou knocked down the two guards outside room 3082 and found two dead men hanging inside the room.
• Natasha used the monitors to connect with Tony and Rhodey and began rebooting Rhodey’s armor system.
• Natasha rebooted Rhodey’s armor while he was flying, causing him to lose power and plummet toward a botanical garden as Tony rushed after him.

Su Zhou rescued Rhodey from a fall into Hammer Industries and helped him and Tony fight off the robot soldiers. As the battle seemed to end, Su Zhou spotted a much larger threat approaching through the sky.

• Rhodey woke up after Su Zhou caught him through a portal and stopped him from crashing into the ceiling.
• Su Zhou left Natasha behind at the computer, then promised to return for her after she angrily confronted him over the radio.
• Su Zhou and Rhodey fought the robot soldiers together while Tony battled the airborne robots.
• Tony asked to study Su Zhou's Adamantium Blade and mentioned the stockings, prompting Natasha to accuse Su Zhou of stealing hers.
• Su Zhou spotted a large figure approaching with blue flames shooting from its rear and warned Tony and Rhodey.

Su Zhou, Tony, and Rhodey fought Ivan, whose upgraded armor and electrified whips overwhelmed them. After Rhodey’s missile failed, Su Zhou reappeared behind Ivan, badly burned but alive.

• Ivan struck Su Zhou with a lightning bolt while Su Zhou approached him through the botanical garden.
• Ivan overpowered Tony and Rhodey, pinning Tony and wrapping an electrified whip around Rhodey’s neck.
• Rhodey fired his Ex-Wife missile at Ivan, but it fell into the water without harming him.
• Tony suggested a plan while aiming his repulsor at Rhodey, and Rhodey warned him not to blow him up.
• Su Zhou appeared behind Ivan, and Ivan stared in shock that Su Zhou had survived without armor.

Su Zhou defeated and killed Ivan with the Adamantium Blade, then escaped the robot soldiers’ self-destruct explosion through a portal. He reappeared before Natasha, who mistook his soot-blackened face for a black man and demanded to know who he was.

• Su Zhou used the Bolt character card to rush Ivan and cut off both of his armored arms with the Adamantium Blade.
• Su Zhou kicked Ivan down and stabbed through his chest reactor, then killed him when he tried to insult Howard Stark.
• The system awarded Su Zhou 400 justice points for killing Whiplash and stopping his slander of Howard Stark.
• Tony and Rhodey discovered that Ivan’s damaged robot soldiers were set to self-destruct and flew away, while Su Zhou escaped through a portal just before the explosion.
• Natasha confronted Su Zhou after he emerged from the portal, and his soot-blackened chin led her to mistake him for a black man.