Chapter Summaries

Su Zhou, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent whose Justice Points system rewarded him for killing criminals, exasperated Nick Fury with his violent methods and threats. Nick assigned him to protect Tony Stark in the Middle East, where Su Zhou expected to earn points from the terrorists who would kidnap him.

• Su Zhou explained that his system awarded Justice Points for killing criminals, and his killing spree had earned him only 68 points and reprimands from S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra.
• After Su Zhou argued that he used various agencies' credentials when shooting criminals, Nick Fury decided he could not easily discipline or fire him.
• Nick Fury assigned Su Zhou to protect Tony Stark during his upcoming trip to the Middle East.
• Su Zhou accepted the assignment because he anticipated earning Justice Points from the terrorists who would kidnap Tony Stark.
• Before leaving, Su Zhou accused Nick Fury of embezzling agency funds and warned that he would continue investigating after returning.

Su Zhou used Hydra intelligence to locate Tony at a Ten Rings base and attacked the terrorists before they could stop Tony from completing his armor. After killing several fighters and destroying vehicles, he advanced toward the base, eager to earn more Justice Points.

• Su Zhou explained that he was using his Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. positions to pursue missions and earn Justice Points while delaying Tony's rescue until Tony became Iron Man.
• Su Zhou prepared weapons and armor, then took a sniping position overlooking the Ten Rings base where Tony was being held.
• When the terrorists rushed toward Tony's cave, Su Zhou shot several of them, including a squad leader, and guarded the cave entrance.
• Su Zhou shot up the base and punctured the fuel tanks of several armed trucks, causing them to explode.
• Su Zhou killed the driver of a charging truck, sending it crashing and causing its passenger's rocket to hit another truck.
• Su Zhou switched to his M4A1 and used the smoke from the explosions to advance toward the base.

Su Zhou wiped out the Ten Rings fighters guarding Tony Stark and used his Justice Points to draw the conceptual skill [Mount Akina Driving God]. He reunited Tony with Yinsen and identified himself as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, leaving Tony irritated by Su Zhou’s description of him as an unlucky playboy.

• Su Zhou used an automatic rifle and two pistols to kill the Ten Rings fighters while earning enough Justice Points for a draw.
• Su Zhou drew [Mount Akina Driving God], a skill that let him catch any vehicle except a Mercedes-Benz.
• Su Zhou resumed attacking the Ten Rings with gunfire and grenades as Tony waited for his armor to finish powering up.
• Tony emerged from the cave and found Yinsen alive and the Ten Rings fighters dead, with Su Zhou checking the bodies.
• Su Zhou introduced himself to Tony as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, warned him to lower his flamethrower, and called Coulson to request a pickup and two cheeseburgers.

Su Zhou freed Tony Stark and Yinsen, then arrested them over Tony’s reactor and Yinsen’s surgery. After Rhodey and Coulson arrived, Su Zhou accused S.H.I.E.L.D. leadership of misusing funds and left for home, prompting Coulson to warn Nick Fury.

• Su Zhou and Yinsen removed Tony’s crude armor, and Su Zhou questioned Tony about his chest reactor and Yinsen about his medical license.
• Su Zhou handcuffed Tony and Yinsen, accusing Tony of tax evasion and Yinsen of practicing medicine without a license.
• Rhodey and Coulson arrived to find the Ten Rings base burning and Tony unconscious in handcuffs.
• Coulson took the handcuff key and weapons from Su Zhou, who insisted he had been carrying out his duties.
• Su Zhou accused Nick Fury and Coulson of involvement in misusing S.H.I.E.L.D. funds, removed his tactical vest, and boarded the helicopter to go home.
• Coulson called Nick Fury and warned him that Su Zhou was coming home.

On the flight back to America, Su Zhou persuaded Tony Stark to shut down his weapons division and recruited him to investigate S.H.I.E.L.D. and Howard Stark’s death. Tony agreed to help uncover the truth, while Su Zhou vowed to arrest anyone responsible, even the president.

• Tony woke on the plane, thanked Su Zhou for rescuing him, and said he had decided to close his weapons division.
• Su Zhou released Tony from the stretcher and gave him hamburgers, then asked him to hack into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s systems to investigate his superior.
• Su Zhou revealed that Howard Stark had helped found S.H.I.E.L.D. and questioned whether Howard and Tony's mother had really died in an ordinary car accident.
• Tony agreed to help investigate his parents' deaths, and Su Zhou promised to arrest whoever was responsible, even the president.

Su Zhou befriended Tony after rescuing him, then received a S.H.I.E.L.D. mission to investigate the power source in Tony’s cave-built armor. He drove off to see Tony while Coulson and Nick Fury worried that his investigation might uncover their secrets.

• Su Zhou and Tony left the plane together, surprising Coulson and Rhodey with how quickly they had become friends.
• Tony reunited with Pepper Potts and told her that Su Zhou had rescued him, then handcuffed him over suspected tax evasion and unregistered medical equipment.
• Coulson ordered Su Zhou to investigate the power source in Tony’s armor and gave him three days, but Su Zhou accused him and Nick Fury of trying to cover their tracks.
• Su Zhou drove away to investigate, while Coulson warned Nick Fury that Su Zhou was persistent and could not be trusted to overlook wrongdoing.

Su Zhou escorted Tony Stark away from reporters and, at Tony’s home, revealed that he had come for the energy source in Tony’s chest. Tony agreed to help Su Zhou access S.H.I.E.L.D.’s database and handed him a device to plant on one of its computers.

• Su Zhou fired a warning shot to clear a path through reporters and drove Tony and Pepper Potts to Tony’s home without breaking traffic rules.
• Happy praised Su Zhou’s driving and asked him to teach him when Su Zhou was on vacation.
• At Tony’s mansion, Su Zhou teased Tony and Pepper, then explained that he was there on an assignment concerning the energy source in Tony’s chest.
• Tony asked what Su Zhou wanted from him, and Su Zhou requested a device to breach S.H.I.E.L.D.’s database firewall.
• Tony gave Su Zhou a small device and said he would handle the rest once Su Zhou placed it on a computer inside S.H.I.E.L.D.

Su Zhou used his new Super Vision to expose a Skrull impersonating Nick Fury and shot it, then mistook the real Fury for another alien and subdued him. He left Fury tied up and unconscious while waiting for Coulson to arrive.

• Su Zhou used a Justice Point from Tony to draw Super Vision, which let him see through objects and detect hidden trackers.
• While riding with someone impersonating Nick Fury, Su Zhou spotted that the driver was not human and shot him, revealing a Skrull.
• The real Nick Fury appeared and angrily confronted Su Zhou, who shot him in the thigh, handcuffed him, and accused him of colluding with aliens.
• Su Zhou called Coulson to report the supposed alien conspiracy, then revived Fury after he stopped breathing.
• Su Zhou tied Fury to a tree branch, and when Fury began to curse, Su Zhou pulled the rope tight and knocked him unconscious again.

Su Zhou tortured Nick Fury while pretending to investigate the Skrull, then accused him of colluding with aliens and demanded that Coulson surrender. The chapter ended with Su Zhou pointing his gun at Coulson as the Hydra agents watched.

• Su Zhou told Coulson that he had killed the Skrull in the Land Rover and arrested Nick after Nick attacked him.
• Su Zhou shot Nick in the thigh to wake him, and Nick was relieved to see Coulson until Coulson announced his arrest.
• Coulson accused Nick of colluding with aliens, while Su Zhou tightened the noose and demanded information about the invaders.
• Nick revealed that the Skrulls had been on Earth for decades and were friendly S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, but Su Zhou broke his pinky when he swore at him.
• Coulson questioned whether Nick had been wronged, and Su Zhou pointed his gun at Coulson and ordered him to get down with his hands on his head.

Su Zhou forced Coulson and the Hydra agents to take the captured Nick Fury to a secret base, while concealing his own Hydra ties. Nick woke during the drive and Su Zhou broke another of his fingers to silence him.

• Su Zhou held Coulson at gunpoint and agreed to hand Nick Fury over only if he could watch him closely.
• Coulson accepted Su Zhou's conditions, and the Hydra agents bound Nick Fury and loaded him into their van.
• Coulson ordered the van to take Nick to Base X1 on Manhattan Island instead of returning to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Su Zhou spotted surveillance devices in the van and silently warned the Hydra agents not to act.
• Nick Fury woke up bound in the moving van and demanded to know where they were taking him.
• Su Zhou snapped Nick's other little finger when he began to curse.

Su Zhou interrogated Nick Fury about the aliens and threatened to pull out his teeth until Nick explained that the Skrulls were refugees protected by a powerful superhero. The chapter ended with Su Zhou furious that Nick had let Skrulls work for S.H.I.E.L.D. despite lacking the power to refuse their protector.

• Su Zhou broke seven of Nick Fury's fingers and tied him to a chair while Coulson questioned him about the aliens.
• Nick Fury refused to talk about the Skrulls, and Su Zhou pocketed the pager that could summon Captain Marvel.
• Su Zhou threatened to pull Nick's teeth, prompting Nick to explain that the Skrulls had fled the Kree and been allowed to live on Earth by a superhero.
• Nick admitted that S.H.I.E.L.D. still could not refuse that superhero, and Su Zhou threatened to pull his teeth for letting Skrulls work for the organization.

Su Zhou pretended to resign from S.H.I.E.L.D. after hearing Coulson explain Nick Fury’s secret plans, then left to strengthen his connection with Tony. On the way, he fielded a call from Hydra and continued using Alexander Pierce’s authority to conceal his own plans.

• Nick Fury called on Coulson to explain why S.H.I.E.L.D. had diverted funds and allied with the Skrulls, and Coulson described their efforts to defend Earth and build the Helicarriers.
• Su Zhou handed Nick Fury his S.H.I.E.L.D. credentials, declared that he was quitting, and walked out of the interrogation room.
• Coulson freed Nick Fury, who complained about his broken fingers, while Coulson admitted that the director had kept his body modifications and other secrets from him.
• Su Zhou left the secret base, placed Tony’s metal button on a computer tower, and took a taxi toward Tony’s villa while congratulating himself on his performance.
• Su Zhou spotted the New York Sanctum’s symbol and decided to seek the Ancient One only after gaining a supernatural ability.
• A Hydra superior called Su Zhou after his resignation, and he invoked Alexander Pierce’s authority to shut down the questions before hanging up.

Su Zhou visited Tony Stark to discuss S.H.I.E.L.D. and ask for help investigating Hell’s Kitchen. Tony welcomed him as a friend and agreed to help with his next crime-fighting mission.

• Pepper brought Su Zhou to Tony’s lab, where Tony was using JARVIS to break into S.H.I.E.L.D.’s database.
• Tony showed off JARVIS, but the AI restricted Su Zhou’s access to the villa because Tony still held a grudge against him.
• Su Zhou told Tony what he had learned from Coulson about aliens and superheroes, and Tony laughed at Su Zhou’s nicknames for Nick Fury and Coulson.
• Tony granted Su Zhou the same villa access as Pepper after hearing the nickname “Mediterranean” for Coulson.
• Su Zhou asked Tony to find information on Hell’s Kitchen and said he planned to fight crime there, prompting Tony to imagine himself as Batman’s Alfred.

Su Zhou traded business ideas to persuade Tony Stark to give him combat gear, suggesting Stark Industries enter the internet and smartphone businesses. Tony embraced Su Zhou’s plans and shared them with Pepper, who was astonished by their potential.

• Su Zhou asked Tony for weapons, protective gear, a vehicle, and criminal intelligence, but Tony refused to sell weapons after Stark Industries shut down its weapons division.
• Su Zhou offered Tony ideas for making money, including Facebook and other online platforms, and explained that Stark Industries should build a better phone to attract users.
• Tony agreed that Su Zhou’s ideas could make Stark Industries enormously valuable, and Su Zhou urged him to buy back the company’s shares when the stock price fell.
• Tony ordered JARVIS to send Su Zhou’s ideas to Pepper as a ten-year development proposal, then celebrated with Su Zhou and Pepper.
• Pepper warned Tony about the expected stock plunge, but Tony showed her the proposal, and she marveled at its potential to make Stark Industries the world’s most profitable company.

Coulson and Nick Fury learned that Su Zhou had become a lethal vigilante in Hell's Kitchen, while Su Zhou revealed he had gained Bullet Time and remained defiant toward S.H.I.E.L.D. The chapter ended when Pepper Potts called to report that Tony had been kidnapped by a robot, giving Su Zhou a new job.

• Coulson reported to Nick Fury that a Batman-like vigilante had killed criminals in Hell's Kitchen and left a bat symbol, and he identified the vigilante as Su Zhou.
• Nick Fury recalled that his investigation had confirmed Su Zhou's warnings about Skrulls infiltrating the government and stealing S.H.I.E.L.D. research, including Dr. Bruce Banner's serum.
• Nick Fury tried to meet Su Zhou and then threatened to arrest him, but Su Zhou warned that he would kill any agents sent to capture him.
• Su Zhou revealed that he had earned 100 Justice Points and obtained Bullet Time, a skill that let him perceive bullets and react faster but placed dangerous strain on his heart.
• Pepper Potts called Su Zhou and told him that a robot had kidnapped Tony.

Su Zhou rushed to Tony Stark’s villa after Pepper Potts reported that Tony had vanished, only to find him returning in a newly built suit of armor. Su Zhou arrested Tony for flying without a license, then insisted on taking responsibility himself for blowing up the villa’s front door.

• Pepper Potts told Su Zhou that Tony was missing and that she had seen a smoking metal figure leave his villa.
• Su Zhou realized Tony had built armor and might violate flight regulations, then hurried to the villa in a suit.
• Tony flew back to the villa in his red-and-gold armor and landed in the backyard.
• Su Zhou planted an explosive on the front door, blew it open, and rushed inside to confront Tony.
• Pepper Potts found Tony tangled in his armor, while Tony complained that Su Zhou had destroyed his door.
• Su Zhou handcuffed Tony for flying without a license, then cuffed himself and demanded that the police arrest him for the explosion.

Su Zhou turned himself in after blowing open Tony's door, but the police delivered him to a S.H.I.E.L.D. base, where Nick Fury revealed evidence of Skrull infiltrators. After confirming the threat and earning Justice Points, Su Zhou accepted Nick Fury's apology and asked whether he wanted him back at S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Su Zhou cuffed himself and asked the police to arrest him after blowing open Tony's villa door, while Tony explained that Su Zhou had acted out of concern for him.
• Su Zhou planned to use his arrest to avoid Nick Fury, draw out criminals connected to Hell's Kitchen, and investigate their leaders, but the police car took him to a S.H.I.E.L.D. base.
• Nick Fury showed Su Zhou documents detailing Skrull crimes and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s plans to deal with the infiltrators.
• Su Zhou's system awarded him 66 Justice Points for the Skrulls' expulsion, bringing his total to 88, and he realized the remaining infiltrators could earn him more points.
• Nick Fury admitted that a Skrull had impersonated him to order a transfer of S.H.I.E.L.D. funds, apologized to Su Zhou, and Su Zhou asked if he wanted him to return to work at S.H.I.E.L.D.

Nick Fury tried to recruit Su Zhou into the Avengers, but Su Zhou rejected the offer unless the team had independence and handled the consequences of its actions. Their discussion ended when Coulson reported that Obadiah had stolen Tony Stark’s Arc Reactor, prompting Su Zhou to demand a gun.

• Nick Fury explained the Avengers Initiative and invited Su Zhou to join alongside Captain Marvel and Bruce Banner.
• Su Zhou insisted that S.H.I.E.L.D. must not control the Avengers and rejected Nick Fury as the team’s leader.
• Su Zhou demanded that the Avengers make their own decisions and take responsibility for casualties and property damage, then refused to join until Nick Fury addressed the flaws in his plan.
• Coulson told Nick Fury that Obadiah had stolen Tony Stark’s Arc Reactor and that he was heading to Stark Industries with four agents.
• Su Zhou warned that five agents could not handle Obadiah and demanded that someone find him a gun.

Su Zhou watched Tony fight Obadiah in their armored suits and discovered that Obadiah had armed terrorists and sold Jericho missiles behind Tony’s back. When Obadiah ambushed Tony on the Stark Industries rooftop, Su Zhou activated Bullet Time and fired at the missile launcher on Iron Monger’s arm.

• Coulson and Pepper Potts entered the locked-down Stark Industries, where Iron Monger attacked the agents and Coulson escaped by pretending to be unconscious.
• Su Zhou watched Tony and Obadiah battle in their suits and spoke with Coulson and Tony by phone.
• Tony tried to lure Iron Monger to high altitude, but both suits lost power in the cold before Obadiah recovered and ambushed Tony on the rooftop.
• Su Zhou told Tony that Obadiah had sold weapons to terrorists and had recently sold twenty Jericho missiles.
• Obadiah kept his faceplate closed and fired his rotary machine gun at Tony, so Su Zhou aimed at Iron Monger’s missile launcher and fired after activating Bullet Time.

Su Zhou blasted Iron Monger’s rocket launcher to save Tony, but Obadiah survived and attacked him on the rooftop. Su Zhou fired a desperate ricochet shot as Obadiah closed his armor, then collapsed with his heart seemingly failing.

• Su Zhou shot Iron Monger’s rocket launcher, sending Obadiah falling from the Stark Industries roof and knocking Tony to the rooftop’s edge.
• Obadiah flew back to the roof and fired his machine gun at Su Zhou, who took cover behind an air-conditioning unit.
• Obadiah threatened Su Zhou and continued shooting while Su Zhou searched for a ricochet angle to pierce his armor.
• Su Zhou activated Bullet Time again, extended his M9 beyond cover, and fired as Obadiah closed Iron Monger’s armor.
• The gunfire stopped, and Su Zhou collapsed clutching his heart while hearing Nick Fury call his name.