Chapter Summaries

Killian tried to use an Extremis-powered explosion at Stark Tower to damage Tony and Stark Industries, but Su Zhou and the newly empowered twins saved everyone nearby. Su Zhou then confronted Killian over staging a Ten Rings attack, and Killian attacked him.

• Tony pulled Pepper behind him and accused Killian of being untrustworthy, while Killian denied the accusation.
• Happy tried to stop a bald Extremis-infected man, who exploded inside Stark Tower.
• Wanda used her Chaos Magic to contain the blast as Pietro moved more than twenty people to safety, and Su Zhou helped Wanda stabilize her power with the Mind Stone.
• Su Zhou joked with Tony and Pepper, filmed their reactions, and asked Killian where he had found the actor who played a Ten Rings terrorist.
• Killian realized Su Zhou had exposed him and punched at Su Zhou's face.

Su Zhou exposed Killian’s Extremis operation and let Tony fight him while Wanda and Pietro protected civilians. After Wanda restrained Killian, Su Zhou appeared with a sacred sword through his chest and asked whether he wanted to go to Heaven or Hell.

• Su Zhou caught Killian’s punch, shattered his fist, and threw him through Stark Tower’s window into the pool before sending the explosive hand into the Mirror Dimension.
• Su Zhou let Tony take on Killian and questioned Maya about her Extremis research while Pepper kept her from leaving.
• Killian emerged from the pool glowing with heat and damaged Tony’s armor in their close-range fight.
• Su Zhou warned Tony that Killian’s men had attacked Rhodey and were targeting the president, then secretly asked Wanda and Pietro to protect civilians.
• Wanda restrained Killian with Chaos Magic, and Su Zhou appeared beside him and drove a sacred sword into his chest.

Su Zhou killed Killian and contained the explosion of his headless body by sending it into the sky inside a dazzling burst of Holy Energy. He left Wanda with dubious bomb-handling advice while Tony fled to rescue Rhodey, leaving Maya and Pepper behind.

• Killian let Su Zhou's sacred sword pierce him and struck back, but Su Zhou caught and crushed his fist before stabbing him and cutting off his head.
• Su Zhou erased Killian's head, then threw the still-living body into the air as it began to explode.
• Su Zhou surrounded Killian's body with Holy Energy and directed the resulting blast high above Stark Tower, where it burst without causing casualties.
• Su Zhou told Wanda to throw any bomb about to explode in a crowd high into the sky before it detonated.
• Tony announced that he was going to rescue Rhodey and flew away, leaving Su Zhou with Wanda, Pietro, Pepper, and Maya.

Su Zhou gathered the Avengers at Stark Tower and used a healing spell to treat their lingering injuries, including Natasha’s infertility. The spell left Natasha in pain and caused Bucky’s metal arm to hurt, so Su Zhou asked Steve to hold Bucky down.

• The Avengers returned from Sokovia and met Wanda and Pietro at Stark Tower.
• Wanda told Su Zhou that the new surroundings felt unreal, and he conjured drinks for her before Natasha teased them.
• Su Zhou asked Natasha to find a quiet room so he could heal her, but other Avengers gathered to request treatment too.
• Su Zhou rejected Banner’s request to cure Hulk and pointed out that Pietro had no injuries to heal.
• Su Zhou cast Oshtur’s Winds of Revival, clearing the Avengers’ lingering injuries and restoring Clint’s hearing.
• Natasha collapsed in pain as the spell began restoring her reproductive system, while Bucky clutched his metal arm in agony; Su Zhou asked Steve to hold Bucky down.

Su Zhou healed Bucky by replacing his metal arm with a magically regrown one and healed Natasha’s bullet scar, prompting her to kiss him and head for the pool. At the Avengers Compound’s pool party, Su Zhou noticed Wanda watching Dr. Helen and teased her about it.

• Su Zhou cut away Bucky’s mechanical arm and used holy energy to regrow his left arm, explaining that the Super Soldier Serum would strengthen it over time.
• Natasha discovered that her bullet scar had disappeared, thanked Su Zhou with a kiss, and announced she was going to put on a bikini.
• The Avengers and their guests turned their gathering into a pool party at the Avengers Compound.
• Su Zhou brought Wanda a cocktail and asked whether she liked Dr. Helen, and Wanda asked how he knew she had been watching her.

At a gathering with the Avengers, Su Zhou encouraged his friends to pursue new relationships while Wanda grew closer to him. The party was interrupted when Sylvie arrived with news that Loki was missing.

• Wanda and the Ancient One secretly chatted through Su Zhou’s magic notes, and Wanda learned more about Su Zhou’s past.
• Su Zhou gave Scott a divine-energy feather for Cassie and encouraged Steve, Natasha, and Dr. Banner to consider new relationships.
• A rainbow-colored light appeared on the Stark Building, and the Avengers sprang into action.
• Sylvie arrived and told Su Zhou that Loki was missing.

After Loki vanished beyond even Su Zhou and Heimdall’s ability to find him, Su Zhou went with Wanda and Sylvie to ask the Ancient One for help. She opened a portal to Loki’s location and warned that only Su Zhou should cross, leaving him to face the danger alone.

• Loki disappeared, and Heimdall, Su Zhou, and the Avengers could not locate him.
• Su Zhou brought Wanda and Sylvie to the Ancient One, while Pietro stayed with the Avengers.
• The Ancient One used a strand of Sylvie’s hair to open a portal and said Loki was on the other side, possibly at the end of all things.
• Su Zhou gave Wanda the Mind Stone to keep safe and prepared to cross the portal alone.
• Su Zhou joked that only Steve Rogers could fight him to a draw.

Su Zhou left Kamar-Taj for a gathering of Lokis, where he learned that Wolverine’s repeated time travel to stop Ultron threatened to make parallel universes collide. After beating the assembled Lokis, Su Zhou recognized the crisis as resembling Secret Wars 2015.

• The Ancient One warned Su Zhou that the danger ahead was serious, so he equipped the Infinity Gauntlet, three Infinity Stones, and Uru armor before entering a portal.
• The Ancient One agreed to teach Wanda and Sylvie while Su Zhou traveled to the Loki gathering.
• Su Zhou found a crowd of Lokis and grabbed the Loki from his universe, provoking the others to confront him.
• Alligator Loki lunged at Su Zhou, who shoved his gauntleted fist into its mouth and then beat the other Lokis in a one-sided fight.
• The Loki from Su Zhou’s universe explained that Wolverine’s time-travel missions to kill Dr. Hank Pym had destabilized time and threatened to make parallel universes collide.
• Su Zhou recognized the situation as resembling Secret Wars 2015.

Su Zhou learned that another World Tree was collapsing despite seventeen Lokis being sent to help, and Loki, God of Stories, asked him to take on a mission there. Su Zhou agreed in exchange for a drawerful of Infinity Stones and whatever equipment he wanted, including an Adamantium Blade and a Vibranium Shield.

• Loki explained that another World Tree was collapsing and that seventeen versions of him had gone there without returning.
• Su Zhou sent Loki back through a portal and saw Wanda studying the Darkhold under the Ancient One’s guidance.
• Su Zhou confronted Loki, God of Stories, who admitted he had sought Su Zhou because he was the only one capable of helping.
• Loki, God of Stories, offered to send Su Zhou to the other World Tree and promised that its God of Stories would bring him back after the mission.
• Su Zhou accepted the mission and asked for Infinity Stones, an Adamantium Blade, a Vibranium Shield, and other equipment.

Su Zhou arrived on Earth-616 amid the multiversal collisions and met with the Illuminati. He warned them that their Earth was doomed, without explaining why.

• Su Zhou found the Time Variance Authority abandoned and discovered that Loki, the God of Stories, was dead.
• Su Zhou stayed on Earth-616 and met Doctor Strange, who brought him to the Illuminati.
• Su Zhou revealed that he was the Lord of the Dark Dimension and carried the Phoenix Force, making the Illuminati wary.
• Su Zhou displayed eighteen Infinity Stones and threatened to send the Illuminati to work for him in the Dark Dimension.
• Tony eased the tension by offering Su Zhou a drink, and Su Zhou told the Illuminati that their Earth was doomed.

Su Zhou left the Illuminati with a summoning incantation before being transported to the film-and-television version of Earth-616. He found Bucky and Sam in the forest, destroyed Redwing, and was attacked by Sam.

• Su Zhou told the Illuminati to watch for a red Earth and gave Strange an incantation to summon him before departing.
• Strange identified Su Zhou as a likely incarnation of the triune Vishanti, while Tony and the others questioned his claim to be the Lord of the Dark Dimension.
• Su Zhou arrived on the film-and-television version of Earth-616 and learned that the old Avengers had disbanded and Walker was the government-recognized Captain America.
• Su Zhou found Bucky practicing a parachute-free landing while Sam watched with Redwing, then smashed the drone with his Vibranium Shield.
• Bucky mistook Su Zhou for Steve, but Sam attacked Su Zhou with submachine guns, and the Vibranium Shield blocked the bullets.

Su Zhou defeated Sam and Bucky, then explained that he came from another universe to prevent parallel universes from colliding. He urged Sam to take Super Soldier Serum and said Sam was the best choice to become Captain America.

• Sam and Bucky attacked Su Zhou after seeing the Hydra insignia on his shield, but Su Zhou knocked them both down.
• Su Zhou dissolved a tree Bucky threw at him with dark energy, then put away his shield to show he meant no harm.
• Su Zhou told Sam and Bucky that he came from another universe and had come to save theirs from parallel-universe collisions.
• Sam said he and Bucky lacked the ability to help, while Su Zhou predicted their current mission would fail and agreed John Walker should not be Captain America.
• Su Zhou praised Sam as the best candidate to become Captain America and told him to take Super Soldier Serum if he had access to it.

Su Zhou told Bucky and Sam that nine super soldiers were in a warehouse, then watched as they and Walker fought the Flag Smashers. After the fight, he asked Bucky and Sam to provide intelligence and help him get identification so he could stay at a hotel.

• Su Zhou revealed that the warehouse contained nine super soldiers and left Bucky and Sam to investigate.
• Sam and Bucky found that two trucks had already left, and Bucky chased one carrying a super-soldier girl.
• Walker joined the fight against the Flag Smashers, while Su Zhou watched from above and considered the source of the spatial energy that brought him there.
• After Bucky and Sam were knocked off the truck, Su Zhou showed them his white wings and explained that he needed their intelligence support.
• Su Zhou asked Bucky and Sam to help him get identification because he was undocumented and could not stay at a hotel.

Su Zhou gave Bucky a fake ID and offered to help him cope with his memories, then urged him to clear Sharon Carter’s name and pursue her. After pointing Bucky toward Baron Zemo and Southeast Asia, Su Zhou sensed a familiar spatial fluctuation and flew off to investigate.

• Bucky delivered Su Zhou a fake ID after he and Sam failed to secure official identification through their former status as Avengers.
• Su Zhou told Bucky he could alter how Bucky thought about his painful memories without erasing them, but Bucky reacted warily to the offer.
• Su Zhou explained that Sharon Carter had become a fugitive and urged Bucky to help clear her name and date her, but Bucky was unconvinced.
• Su Zhou told Bucky to seek Baron Zemo for information about the Super Soldier Serum and to head straight to Southeast Asia if Zemo directed him elsewhere.
• Su Zhou detected a spatial fluctuation like the one that had brought him to this world, took flight, and left to investigate.

Su Zhou flew to the Atlantic after detecting strange spatial fluctuations and found Wakanda fighting Talokan, but the fluctuations vanished when he arrived. After Namor attacked him again, Su Zhou announced he would deal with the fish-man before continuing his conversation with Shuri and Riri.

• Su Zhou reached the Atlantic and saw Wakandans and Talokanil battling around a black ship.
• Namor charged Su Zhou, who slapped him into the sea and sent a huge wave crashing against the ship.
• Shuri questioned Su Zhou, and he explained that strange spatial fluctuations had drawn him there but that he had no interest in the battle.
• Riri Williams appeared in her Iron Man Armor, and Su Zhou warned her that Stark Industries could sue her for using Tony Stark's intellectual property.
• Namor attacked Su Zhou again, and Su Zhou punched him away before saying he would kill the fish-man first.

Su Zhou defeated Namor and forced Shuri to choose whether to kill him, but she spared him to avoid becoming like Erik. Su Zhou then bound Shuri and Namor to crosses and threatened to destroy Wakanda, insisting that he would show her the darkest depths of the human heart.

• Su Zhou relentlessly beat Namor with a black-flamed greatsword and returned him unconscious to the Wakandans' ship.
• Su Zhou urged Shuri to avenge her mother by killing Namor, while Nakia called out to stop her.
• Shuri grabbed Namor by the neck but released him, saying she would not kill him or become like Erik.
• Su Zhou called Shuri useless, bound her to a black cross, and threatened to slaughter her people and destroy Wakanda.
• Shuri begged Su Zhou to spare the Wakandans, and he bound Namor to a cross facing her as he promised to show her the darkest depths of the human heart.

Su Zhou confronted Bast after she summoned him to the Wakandan conflict, and learned that the multiverse was collapsing and his interference could hasten its destruction. Bast warned him to act only at critical moments, leaving Su Zhou questioning how to use his power as a dimension lord.

• Su Zhou linked Shuri's and Namor's minds while Wakandan fighter jets attacked him, but the Dark Dimension absorbed their fire.
• Su Zhou met Bast inside Shuri's mindscape and explained that he was both the Lord of the Dark Dimension and the Lord of the Divine Dimension.
• Bast revealed that she had summoned Su Zhou hoping he would help save a universe threatened by the multiverse's collapse.
• Bast said dozens of Wakandas had already been destroyed and warned that Su Zhou's interference could accelerate the universe's collapse.
• Bast advised Su Zhou to intervene only at critical moments, prompting him to question what a dimension lord should do.

Su Zhou stayed out of the Wakanda and Talokan conflict after Bast warned him against changing events, then watched the events of Captain America 4 unfold. He helped Bucky connect with Sabra, leaving her with Bucky’s phone number and urging her to ask him out.

• Su Zhou withdrew from Shuri’s mind and left Wakanda’s conflict to Bast, after which Wakanda and Talokan made peace and the White Ape Tribe chief became Wakanda’s new king.
• Su Zhou went into hiding, kept in contact with Bucky, and later inspected the Celestial remains and adamantium found in the Pacific.
• Su Zhou watched Bucky visit Sam at the hospital and secretly confirmed that Ruth Bat-Seraph, also known as Sabra, liked Bucky.
• Su Zhou used Telepathy to make Sabra trip into Bucky’s arms, and Bucky caught her.
• Su Zhou offered Sabra Bucky’s phone number and encouraged her to ask him out, while Bucky accepted a Coke and nodded helplessly.

Su Zhou watched Sam fight Red Hulk, then pushed him to keep battling and talk Thaddeus Ross down until Ross reverted to human form. Afterward, Sam and Sabra went to the prison where Isaiah was being held, while a woman entered Su Zhou’s view.

• Su Zhou healed Joaquin and watched Sam battle Red Hulk while Joaquin worried from a nearby rooftop.
• Su Zhou called Sabra to have her find Ross’s daughter, then saw Sam use his vibranium wings to injure Red Hulk.
• Su Zhou rescued Sam from beneath a car, returned his shield, and urged him to keep fighting and talk to Red Hulk.
• Sam spoke to Red Hulk until Thaddeus Ross reverted to human form, and rescue workers and agents took Ross away.
• Sam and Sabra went to the prison where Isaiah was held, and a woman entered Su Zhou’s field of vision.

Su Zhou learned that Valentina had created the Sentinel Program and sent operatives to destroy its evidence. He found Yelena, confirmed she had demolished the laboratory, and warned her not to let Valentina discard her once she was no longer useful.

• Su Zhou discovered that Bucky was investigating Valentina’s failed Sentinel Program, which had killed every test subject.
• Su Zhou found the program’s laboratory in Southeast Asia destroyed and searched the city for the operatives responsible.
• Su Zhou located Yelena carrying a rescued hamster and appeared in front of her through a portal.
• Yelena attacked Su Zhou with a kick, Widow’s Bite, and a pistol, but he calmly asked whether she had blown up the laboratory.
• Yelena said she had taken the mission from the CIA to destroy a laboratory conducting experiments against humanity.
• Su Zhou identified himself and warned Yelena not to let Valentina discard her after using her.