Chapter Summaries

Su Zhou seized Yondu’s ship, controlled its crew, and assigned Malekith to sort the Ravagers for punishment and imprisonment. After learning Star-Lord was pursuing the Orb while Ronan hunted him, Su Zhou bet Yondu that Star-Lord would reach Knowhere, wagering Yondu’s freedom against lifelong service for him and his son.

• Su Zhou used the Mind Stone to empower the Dark Elves, who carried the Ravagers and weapons to Yondu’s ship and took it over.
• Su Zhou accessed Yondu’s bounty terminal, ordered Malekith to send high-bounty criminals to prison and put petty thieves to hard labor, and healed Yondu’s broken leg.
• Su Zhou ordered Yondu to recruit more crew members and learned that Star-Lord planned to find the Orb despite Ronan’s interest in it.
• Yondu explained that Star-Lord could sell the Orb to Tivan, the Collector of Knowhere, and worried about his son’s safety.
• Su Zhou bet Yondu that Star-Lord would reach Knowhere, promising to free Yondu if he failed and demanding that Yondu and Star-Lord serve him for life if he succeeded.

Su Zhou visited the Collector, Tivan, and used the Mind Stone and his telepathy to take control of him. He left Tivan pretending to resist again while secretly making him Su Zhou’s subordinate.

• A red-haired attendant showed Su Zhou, Yondu, and Malekith around Tivan’s collection, where Su Zhou lingered by Cosmo’s enclosure.
• Tivan received the three and was surprised to learn that Su Zhou was their leader.
• Su Zhou revealed his Infinity Gauntlet and two Infinity Stones, prompting Tivan to offer to buy it and boast that his collectibles were expensive.
• Su Zhou kept probing Tivan’s thoughts with [Telepathy] and used the Mind Stone to control him.
• Su Zhou ordered Tivan to return to his earlier defiant attitude, and Tivan obeyed.

Su Zhou took Cosmo and Carina into his service and settled his group in Knowhere, where he promised Tivan he would protect the settlement. When Yondu reported that Star-Lord had been arrested, Su Zhou refused to let him intervene and ordered him to recruit wanted criminals instead.

• Su Zhou learned how Tivan's immortality and limited foresight had helped him make Knowhere a respected neutral hub, and promised to punish anyone who caused trouble there.
• Tivan agreed to let Cosmo and Carina leave with Su Zhou, and Su Zhou made Carina his personal secretary.
• Su Zhou's group settled into a villa provided by Tivan, where Yondu reported that Star-Lord had been arrested and was headed to Kyln High-Security Prison.
• Su Zhou dismissed Yondu's worries and ordered him to recruit high-bounty criminals, permitting ruthless tactics against criminals but not innocent people.
• Su Zhou kicked Yondu out with his Yaka Arrow and brainwave amplifier, then told Carina to run a bath.

Su Zhou arranged clothes for Carina and Cosmo while planning to recruit criminals on Knowhere and farm justice points. Malekith then summoned him to deal with a blond Kree woman who had arrived amid a chaotic attack.

• Carina washed Cosmo in the bath while Su Zhou searched Knowhere's markets and reflected on the criminals and scientists Yondu was recruiting.
• Su Zhou ordered Carina to dry Cosmo and get new clothes, so Yondu delivered two boxes gifted by Tivan.
• The system awarded Su Zhou 1,000 justice points for HYDRA's destruction, and he planned to reach the SSS-rank skill pity guarantee on Knowhere.
• Su Zhou reviewed his character trial cards and the progress of Master of Disguise before Malekith called him over.
• Malekith reported that a blond Kree woman had flown through space without a spacesuit, and he shouted for everyone to surrender before she wrecked his warship.

Su Zhou confronted a blonde woman who had attacked his Ravagers and demanded his Infinity Stones and gauntlet. After she overwhelmed him, he used Oboi’s martial arts to strengthen his defense and counterattack, leaving their fight underway.

• Su Zhou left Carina with Cosmo and teleported to Malekith near the starport, where he found the Ravagers surrendered and their ship undamaged.
• Su Zhou challenged the masked blonde woman, but she charged at him before he could learn her name.
• The blonde shattered Su Zhou’s Shields of the Seraphim with one punch and knocked Malekith unconscious with the shock wave.
• The blonde demanded Su Zhou surrender his Infinity Stones and Infinity Gauntlet, threatening to take them by force.
• Su Zhou used a character trial card for Oboi and strengthened his defenses with the Stigmata and Mind Stone.
• The blonde struck Su Zhou with a knee, but he endured it and knocked her away with a punch from the Infinity Gauntlet.

Su Zhou fought the blonde woman and trapped her in the Mirror Dimension to protect his spaceship. As their battle continued, Malekith and the Ravagers considered fleeing, while Su Zhou struck Malekith through a portal and the blonde woman landed another low blow.

• Su Zhou used Genital Retraction into the Abdomen to survive the blonde woman's knee strike, then sent her flying with a punch.
• Su Zhou pulled the blonde woman into the Mirror Dimension and followed her inside, intending to keep their fight away from his spaceship.
• After Su Zhou disappeared, the Ravagers got up and gathered around Malekith, who weighed whether they should escape or stay.
• Su Zhou opened a small portal and slapped Malekith for bad-mouthing him, shattering his mask.
• The blonde woman kicked Su Zhou in the philtrum while he was distracted, and called her technique "Women's Self-Defense Fundamentals Beginner Edition."

Su Zhou and Carol Danvers fought to a stalemate before discussing her plan to use the Infinity Stones to save their universe from the Time Variance Authority. When Carol doubted he could fight without powers, Su Zhou shot her to prove it, reigniting their fight.

• Su Zhou fought Carol Danvers for five minutes but neither could defeat the other, so he tried talking with her.
• Carol identified herself as a version of Carol Danvers from another universe and warned that the Time Variance Authority would erase Su Zhou's universe for diverging from the Sacred Timeline.
• Carol said she planned to gather the Infinity Stones and perform the Snap to restore the universe to the Sacred Timeline.
• Su Zhou offered to help attack the Time Variance Authority without powers, but Carol doubted him because superpowers and magic did not work there.
• Su Zhou put away his Infinity Gauntlet, drew an M9 pistol, and shot Carol in the forehead to demonstrate that he could fight without powers.
• Carol yelled at Su Zhou for shooting her, and they resumed their fight.

Su Zhou used his disguise skill to become Third Brother so he could endure Danvers's beating, then tried to persuade her to let him infiltrate the Time Variance Authority. He escaped the Mirror Dimension through a small portal and emerged among the Ravagers, who recognized him after he dropped the disguise.

• Su Zhou revealed that [Master of Disguise] let him adopt the appearance of a previously used character trial card, and he chose Third Brother to withstand Danvers's attacks.
• Danvers demanded the two Infinity Stones, but Su Zhou refused and insisted that he could deal with the Time Variance Authority.
• Su Zhou offered to infiltrate the Time Variance Authority and gave Danvers a day to consider whether to trust him.
• Su Zhou opened a small portal and escaped the Mirror Dimension while Danvers stayed behind to think over his proposal.
• The Ravagers surrounded Su Zhou with weapons and mistook him for a child before he removed Third Brother's appearance skin.
• The Ravagers fell silent and apologized after recognizing Su Zhou.

Su Zhou ordered the Ravagers to Xandar to seize the Orb after learning that Star-Lord and his companions were heading there, pursued by Ronan. Yondu captured Star-Lord’s ship and brought the group before Su Zhou, who recognized Rocket and ordered the Orb taken.

• Su Zhou ordered the Ravagers to beat a muttering subordinate, and Malekith reported that Star-Lord, Gamora, and the Orb were headed for Xandar while Ronan pursued them.
• Su Zhou told Yondu to wait for him at Xandar, planning to seize the Orb and get a new spaceship.
• Star-Lord’s group argued over Drax exposing their location, then headed to Xandar to seek help from the Nova Corps.
• Yondu captured Star-Lord’s ship near Xandar and brought Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot to his command room.
• Yondu introduced Su Zhou as his new commander, and Su Zhou greeted Rocket before ordering Yondu to seize the group and bring him the Orb.

Su Zhou claimed the Power Stone from the Orb and refused to pay the Galactic Awkward Dance Troupe, offering them a path out of prison if they earned a pardon from Xandar. He secretly arranged for Yondu to help them escape, intending to use Star-Lord as a pretext to confront Ego the Living Planet.

• Star-Lord dropped the Orb, and Su Zhou took it and explained that it contained the Power Stone, revealing the two Infinity Stones in his gauntlet.
• Su Zhou claimed the Orb as confiscated stolen property and threatened to return the five fugitives to prison instead of paying them.
• Drax insisted on killing Ronan, while Star-Lord asked whether the group could avoid prison; Su Zhou told them to earn an official pardon from Xandar.
• Su Zhou ordered Yondu to lock up the group but secretly told him to keep the guards lax, prepare their ship, and give them weapons so he could do them a favor.
• Su Zhou planned to use Star-Lord as a reason to confront Ego the Living Planet and make Star-Lord realize who his real father was.

Su Zhou opened the Orb with the Reality Stone, absorbed the Power Stone, and confronted Ronan after contacting his ship. He entered Ronan’s command room and kicked him through its equipment, then ordered the Ravagers to take possession of Ronan’s warship.

• Su Zhou used the Reality Stone to open the Orb and placed the Power Stone into his Infinity Gauntlet, stabilizing himself with the Mind Stone and his Stigmata.
• Su Zhou contacted Ronan, announced Xandar’s bounty on him, and demanded that his crew surrender.
• Ronan saw Su Zhou’s three Infinity Stones and asked who he was, and Su Zhou identified himself as a sorcerer from Kamar-Taj.
• Su Zhou opened a portal into Ronan’s command room, kicked Ronan into wrecked equipment, and told the Ravagers to have Yondu claim the warship.
• Ronan got back up and attacked Su Zhou with his war hammer, while Su Zhou demanded the hammer in return.

Su Zhou defeated Ronan aboard Sanctuary I with the Power Stone, the Universal Weapon, and telepathy, then confronted Nebula. Nebula offered to buy her freedom, but Su Zhou ordered her to surrender and prepared to take her into custody.

• Su Zhou blocked Ronan's attack, blasted him through the command room, and took his Universal Weapon.
• Su Zhou used telepathy to immobilize Ronan and beat him unconscious with a rapid melee combo.
• Nebula hid in the command room and regretted siding with Ronan against Thanos after seeing Su Zhou defeat him.
• Su Zhou confronted Nebula and demanded her cooperation, while Nebula offered to pay for her life.
• Su Zhou rejected Nebula's offer and told her to put on specially made handcuffs.

Su Zhou turned Ronan’s forces over to Xandar for Justice Points and bounties, then prepared to travel to the Time Variance Authority. He left Danvers with the Infinity Gauntlet and instructions to keep his organization running, revealing that its work centered on collecting bounties.

• Su Zhou used [Mind Control] on Ronan, and the Ravager Legion supervised the surrender of Ronan’s troops to Xandar over three days.
• Su Zhou left Nebula in the Galactic Awkward Dance Troupe’s cell, declined Xandar’s medal and celebration, and gave Ronan’s Universal Weapon to Malekith.
• Su Zhou freed Danvers after seventy-two hours and asked her to take him to the Time Variance Authority; Danvers agreed on the condition that she keep his Infinity Gauntlet and three Infinity Stones in case he failed.
• Su Zhou gave Danvers the Infinity Gauntlet and explained that she would use the Reality Stone to impersonate him and keep his organization running while he was away.
• Su Zhou took Danvers’s portal tablet and told her to preserve wanted criminals for their bounties, prompting her to realize his organization was driven by bounty hunting.

Su Zhou left Danvers in charge of his subordinates and traveled to the Time Variance Authority, where its power-suppressing effects left him without most of his abilities. After the TVA raised an alarm and sent guards after him, he fought his way toward the administrators.

• Su Zhou introduced Danvers as his representative and told Yondu to secretly free his son, seek Danvers's help if needed, and trust Su Zhou to deal with Ego later.
• Su Zhou activated the time tablet and stumbled into a TVA office, where he briefly greeted the startled clerks before leaving.
• Su Zhou realized the TVA had disabled his stigmata, telepathy, and magic, but found that his spatial ring still worked.
• Su Zhou armed himself with two M9 pistols, triggering a TVA alarm that identified him as an intruder in office area B54.
• Su Zhou ran toward the TVA's administrators, encountered more than a dozen guards, and opened fire after they ordered him to surrender.

Su Zhou fought off Time Variance Authority guards, then encountered Deadpool hiding in a tailoring workshop. Deadpool revealed he had come to the TVA because someone stole one of his Adamantium katanas, while Su Zhou recognized the sword might be in his own spatial ring.

• Su Zhou shot at the TVA guards, discovered they could slow time around themselves, and fled while using ricochet shots to wound his pursuers.
• After evading several groups of guards, Su Zhou hid in a tailoring workshop, knocked down a bearded man, and found Deadpool in the changing room.
• Su Zhou shot Deadpool in the head, but Deadpool healed and came out to complain about the attack.
• Su Zhou asked which Deadpool he was and why he was at the TVA, and Deadpool said he had come to find a replacement for his stolen Adamantium katana.
• Su Zhou remembered the Adamantium Blade in his spatial ring and tried to steer Deadpool away from asking about the sword.

Deadpool took Su Zhou through a random door into another universe, leaving him stranded in Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man world. Su Zhou watched Spider-Man fight Doctor Octopus while demanding that Deadpool send him home.

• Deadpool opened a door into a pitch-black stairwell, and Su Zhou followed him into a world of random doorways between universes.
• Su Zhou returned to Queens, New York, where he spotted Spider-Man fighting Doctor Octopus on a moving train.
• Su Zhou demanded that Deadpool take him back, but Deadpool said he could not find his own way home.
• Su Zhou took Deadpool’s guns and shot him in the head, then put his weapons in his spatial ring.
• Su Zhou watched the fight from the alley as Deadpool recovered and talked about other versions of Spider-Man.

Su Zhou trapped Deadpool in an endless-falling portal loop and hurried after Doctor Octopus’s runaway train, hoping to follow him back to Marvel’s main universe and eventually find the Time Variance Authority. He rescued a passenger and joined Spider-Man in stopping the train, leaving Parker exhausted but revived by Su Zhou’s warm power.

• Deadpool mistook Su Zhou for Strange, and Su Zhou sent him into a looping portal that made him fall endlessly.
• Su Zhou explained that following Doctor Octopus could lead him back to Marvel’s main universe and then to the Time Variance Authority.
• Su Zhou flew after Doctor Octopus’s runaway train and caught a passenger the villain had thrown out.
• Su Zhou met Spider-Man Parker at the front of the train as Parker tried unsuccessfully to stop it with his legs.
• Parker slowed the train by webbing himself to nearby buildings, but the strain left him close to passing out.
• Su Zhou placed a hand on Parker’s shoulder, restored his strength, and told him he had done very well.

Su Zhou defeated Doctor Octopus on the railway bridge while Parker tried to persuade his former teacher to stop. The passengers restrained Su Zhou with spider silk before he could decide what to do with the unconscious villain.

• Su Zhou pulled Parker to safety as Doctor Octopus forced his way through the train passengers, who stood up to protect Spider-Man.
• Parker recognized Doctor Octopus as his teacher and tried to convince him to remove the machinery controlling him.
• Su Zhou charged Doctor Octopus, knocked him off the train, and used his Adamantium Blade to sever the mechanical tentacles.
• Su Zhou defeated Doctor Octopus with a punch, earning 100 Justice Points, and decided he had not meant to kill him.
• Someone stuck Su Zhou's hands and feet with spider silk and warned him that killing people would make him a criminal.

Su Zhou freed himself from Parker, kept watch as Doctor Octopus was arrested, and later released Deadpool from six hours of free fall into a pile of drugs. Deadpool survived the landing and reveled in the drugs while Su Zhou watched.

• Su Zhou convinced Parker that he had not meant to kill Doctor Octopus, then left through a portal after warning Parker to act responsibly.
• Su Zhou watched Parker remove Doctor Octopus's mechanical apparatus, learn Mary Jane's location, and hand Doctor Octopus over to the NYPD.
• Su Zhou hid his presence, ate in Chinatown, and went for a foot wash before realizing he had forgotten Deadpool for six hours.
• Su Zhou found Deadpool in an alley and dropped him onto six sacks of drugs, slowing his fall so he would survive.
• Deadpool sprang up, celebrated the drug-fueled high, and rolled around in the drugs as Su Zhou watched and worried about what might happen if Deadpool became a genius.

Su Zhou tried to get Deadpool to leave for a world with the Time Variance Authority, but Deadpool insisted on meeting Spider-Man. Su Zhou agreed to help Deadpool win Parker over by making him play a villain, while planning to travel with him.

• Deadpool refused to take Su Zhou to the Time Variance Authority and explained that he had to interact with Spider-Man for his mission.
• Su Zhou tried to persuade Deadpool to seek out Thor instead, but Deadpool insisted that he would not give up on this Spider-Man.
• Su Zhou returned Deadpool's weapons and agreed to help him, on the condition that Deadpool take him along to whatever world he visited.
• Su Zhou attempted to use telepathy to make Deadpool forget about a familiar-looking blade, but Deadpool's mind overwhelmed him.
• Su Zhou proposed that Deadpool act like a villain so Spider-Man could see his good side and team up with him, and Deadpool joked that he could steal Parker's boyfriend.