Recaps

Ye Mo and Steve escaped the force-field cage and traced Bucky’s suppression signal to a relay station disguised as a UPS unit. They left the relay intact and prepared to locate the main controller, while Ye Mo’s neural load remained dangerously high.

• Emma Frost disrupted the force-field controls, allowing Steve and Ye Mo to escape the cage.
• Ye Mo detected a precise 3.2-second cycle resetting Bucky’s mental state and concluded that an external transmitter was suppressing him.
• Ye Mo and Steve followed the signal toward an abandoned substation, but Ye Mo stopped scanning when his neural load threatened to make him pass out.
• Emma Frost guided them to an abandoned power distribution room, where Ye Mo found a UPS unit blinking at the same 3.2-second interval.
• Ye Mo identified the room as a relay station and warned Steve not to dismantle the UPS before they found the main controller.

Ye Mo, Captain America, and Emma Frost prepared a plan to disrupt the signal controlling Bucky and give him a chance to regain his senses. They took their positions and waited for the signal to fluctuate or Bucky to return.

• Ye Mo explained that the control signal refreshed every 3.2 seconds and planned to locate and disrupt its source when the signal faltered.
• Emma Frost agreed to monitor Bucky’s consciousness and set up a psychic fog and warning rings around the perimeter.
• Ye Mo assigned Captain America to draw Bucky’s attention and confirm whether he hesitated, with the team withdrawing if the plan failed.
• The three checked their positions and conditions, exchanged stand-by messages, and waited for the next signal fluctuation.

Ye Mo, Captain America, and Emma Frost fought to stop the Winter Soldier and disrupt the UPS signal controlling him, but Ye Mo's powers failed and the team became trapped in a stalemate. Bucky briefly showed signs of recognizing Steve as the brainwashing protocol accelerated, leaving the battle and his fate unresolved.

• Ye Mo warned the others of an approaching breach, and three armored units attacked while the Winter Soldier confronted Captain America.
• Emma Frost fought off two attackers but was caught in a cryogenic net, while Ye Mo collapsed from neural overload and could not reach the UPS unit.
• Ye Mo noticed the UPS signal accelerating and warned that the level-two brainwashing protocol could overwrite Bucky's consciousness.
• Emma Frost charged the enemy formation to draw the attackers away from the UPS, while Captain America struggled to defend himself against Bucky.
• Bucky briefly blinked and shifted his blade aside after hearing Steve, but the UPS signal sped up and the battle remained at a deadlock.

Ye Mo used a force field to protect himself, Emma Frost, and Captain America while they tried to break the control over Bucky. Bucky briefly responded to Steve’s memories, but the signal surged again, leaving Ye Mo struggling to hold the shield as the enemies prepared to attack.

• The system granted Ye Mo the ability to generate a wide-area force field, which blocked the tactical units’ attacks and trapped the group inside a protective barrier.
• Ye Mo, Emma Frost, and Captain America realized Bucky was resisting his control and discussed using familiar memories to reach him during a signal interruption.
• When the UPS signal faltered, Captain America showed Bucky an old photograph and recalled their shared past in Brooklyn and during the war.
• Bucky slowly reached toward the photograph, but the UPS main unit accelerated and restarted the secondary protocol.
• Ye Mo reinforced the shaking force field as Bucky targeted Captain America and the tactical units advanced, while a tear appeared at the corner of Bucky’s eye.

Ye Mo used his newly awakened ice manipulation to slow Bucky and help Captain America reach him, but Steve’s memories only briefly disrupted Bucky’s conditioning. As Ye Mo exhausted himself trapping Bucky in an ice prison, the soldier’s programming took over again and the fight remained unresolved.

• Ye Mo unleashed a freezing field that slowed the tactical units, then raised an ice wall to block Bucky from reaching Captain America.
• Ye Mo gave Captain America an ice spike and shaped the frozen floor into barriers so Steve could maneuver around Bucky.
• Captain America fought Bucky and recalled their shared past, briefly disrupting Bucky’s programming with memories of their friendship.
• The green light on the UPS unit accelerated, then steadied, and Bucky returned to his vacant, programmed state.
• Ye Mo spent his remaining strength trapping Bucky in an ice prison while Captain America charged and urged him to come back.
• Bucky briefly reached toward Steve before the red frame flared and his mechanical arm raised its blade again.

Ye Mo stood between Bucky and Captain America, enduring repeated blows with his steel bones while refusing to let Bucky reach his ally. After Bucky paused and drew a blade from his wrist, Ye Mo braced for the fight to grow more dangerous.

• Ye Mo saw Captain America stumble and threw himself in front of him as Bucky attacked.
• Ye Mo endured Bucky’s punches and elbow strikes, warning Captain America to stay behind him.
• Ye Mo ignored the system’s warning that his steel bone structure was failing and kept blocking Bucky from reaching Captain America.
• Ye Mo weathered Bucky’s simultaneous punches, briefly dropping to one knee before forcing himself back upright.
• Bucky stopped attacking, then raised his mechanical arm and extended a blade toward Ye Mo’s throat.

Ye Mo unlocked rapid Tissue Regeneration and rejoined Captain America in fighting the controlled Winter Soldier. As the enemy’s signals faltered and Bucky briefly showed signs of resistance, Ye Mo and Captain America prepared to continue the battle together.

• Ye Mo activated Tissue Regeneration, healed his severe injuries, and stood up to face Bucky again.
• Ye Mo told Captain America he was his partner, and they coordinated attacks against Bucky by exploiting the delay in his programmed movements.
• Bucky recovered from their blows as Ye Mo’s energy waned, then began testing adjusted tactics while the pair searched for an opening.
• The green signal paused and Bucky’s targeting frame went dark, but it restarted in dark red as Ye Mo noticed a brief flicker of struggle in Bucky’s eyes.
• Bucky lunged at Ye Mo, who blocked the blade and regenerated his injured arm before telling Bucky he knew he was still inside.
• Captain America promised to cover Ye Mo’s back as they braced to fight again and machinery sounded closer.

Ye Mo, Captain America, and Emma Frost coordinated their attacks to disrupt Bucky’s control system and expose the device at the back of his neck. The chapter ended with Ye Mo’s fingertips hovering half an inch from the control module as Bucky’s system began an emergency reboot.

• Emma Frost detected that Bucky was resisting the control signal, and Ye Mo realized the interference created an opening.
• Ye Mo and Captain America blocked Bucky’s attacks while Emma disrupted his neural signals, allowing Captain America to knock Bucky to his knees.
• Ye Mo identified the control device at the back of Bucky’s neck and planned to reach it during the brief blind spot when Bucky rose.
• Emma interfered with Bucky as Captain America struck his chest, and Ye Mo slid toward the exposed control module.
• Bucky’s system began an emergency reboot and swung its mechanical arm back as Ye Mo reached toward the device.

Ye Mo destroyed the control device in Bucky’s neck, freeing him from remote control, but Emma Frost detected a dormant program beginning to activate. As Bucky fought the program and warned Steve to stay away, Steve reached him through their memories and helped him resist.

• Ye Mo tore open Bucky’s neck seam and destroyed the control device, while Emma Frost confirmed the remote signal had stopped.
• Bucky showed confusion and responded faintly to Steve’s memories of Brooklyn as Ye Mo and Emma treated his injuries.
• Ye Mo warned that whoever controlled Bucky would learn the device was destroyed, and Emma Frost detected a pulsing preset program in Bucky’s brain.
• Bucky began resisting the program, called Steve by name, and warned him that he might kill him.
• Steve placed a hand on Bucky’s shoulder and told him he would not hurt him; Bucky’s mechanical arm fell still and a tear struck the ice.

Bucky regained consciousness and recognized Captain America, while Emma Frost confirmed he was no longer under program control. The injured group remained together in the electrical room, with Captain America supporting Bucky as they faced the aftermath of his brainwashing.

• Bucky collapsed as the brainwashing conflict subsided, and Emma Frost sensed that he was fighting his memories rather than acting under program control.
• Bucky recalled his childhood with Steve and confirmed that he recognized Captain America, who reassured him that he was real and that Bucky was in control of himself.
• Bucky admitted that he remembered killing people, and Captain America told him he had to live to atone and that he still believed in him.
• Bucky reached for Captain America's hand, while Ye Mo and Emma Frost confirmed that Bucky was stabilizing and joked with him as he apologized for attacking Ye Mo.
• Captain America helped Bucky stand and promised not to leave him behind again, while Ye Mo and Emma Frost stayed nearby as the group paused in the electrical room.

After Bucky’s conditioning was broken, Ye Mo offered him a chance to start over, and Bucky cautiously accepted his friendship. Bucky remained wary of losing control, but the four of them stayed together and agreed to face what came next.

• Emma Frost confirmed that Bucky’s brain no longer showed signs of programming intrusion.
• Ye Mo offered Bucky his hand and told him they were square; Bucky accepted the handshake and said he was not a hero.
• Bucky recalled fragments of his past with Steve, including their childhood jokes and shared pies.
• Bucky agreed to remember Ye Mo and said he wanted to avoid being controlled or hurting innocent people.
• Ye Mo asked Bucky to come to him first if he lost control again, and Bucky agreed.

Ye Mo detected a remote observer monitoring Bucky and the group, and they planned to lure the enemy into revealing itself by faking Ye Mo’s defection. The signal shifted toward them, and Ye Mo realized the enemy was preparing to approach.

• Ye Mo sensed a hostile signal observing the group and determined that its attention was focused on Bucky.
• Ye Mo, Emma Frost, Captain America, and Bucky agreed to remain cautious and use code phrases rather than reveal they had noticed the surveillance.
• Ye Mo rejected Captain America’s plan to stage a disagreement because it could destabilize Bucky, then proposed faking his own defection to bait a probing unit.
• Emma Frost agreed to simulate false emotional fluctuations while Ye Mo pretended to leave and planned to circle back through a ventilation duct.
• Ye Mo detected the signal shifting three degrees toward them and warned that the enemy was preparing to come.

Ye Mo and his allies prepared for an approaching force after detecting a signal and reconnaissance units closing in on their hideout. The scouts marked their location for a coming assault, and Ye Mo’s Regeneration recovered just as the group got ready to fight.

• Ye Mo detected a signal moving toward the hideout, and Captain America, Bucky, and Emma Frost took defensive positions.
• Emma Frost sensed movement in the underground pipes, and Ye Mo identified a reconnaissance machine approaching.
• Three tracked reconnaissance vehicles drew near, then stopped when their signal switched to a more secure channel to mark the group’s coordinates.
• Ye Mo warned that the main force could arrive within three minutes, while the group spotted a fast-moving shadow outside.
• Ye Mo’s Regeneration recovered, and he told the others they were ready.

Ye Mo and his allies planned to trick Hydra’s surveillance network and lure its forces into revealing their command post. Before they could begin, the reconnaissance vehicle withdrew and an unfamiliar third-party signal appeared, leaving them waiting for an unknown threat.

• Ye Mo explained that the enemy was tracking their abilities and proposed feeding it false data while preparing an ambush.
• Captain America, Bucky, Emma Frost, and Ye Mo agreed on roles and planned to fake Ye Mo’s collapse to draw out the enemy’s command personnel.
• The four returned to their positions and waited for Emma Frost to detect a signal fluctuation.
• Emma Frost reported that the reconnaissance vehicle had shut down and its signal vanished as a new, unfamiliar signal connected.
• Bucky and Captain America recognized the new signal as unlike Hydra’s usual protocol, and Ye Mo watched the entrance as the wind intensified.

Ye Mo and his allies discovered that Hydra’s signal had been relayed through an authenticated S.H.I.E.L.D. emergency channel, suggesting an insider was helping the enemy. They switched to physical signals and prepared to investigate the leak, but faint footsteps began closing in from several directions.

• Emma Frost reported that the east side was empty, while Bucky detected an old Hydra frequency hopping through the area.
• A green Hydra emblem appeared in flames outside, and Captain America ordered everyone to stay concealed.
• Ye Mo traced a reverse pulse through a S.H.I.E.L.D. emergency channel and concluded the display was meant to provoke them or alert an insider.
• The group suspected someone with S.H.I.E.L.D. access was helping Hydra and agreed to use only physical signals while investigating.
• Ye Mo heard faint footsteps approaching from multiple directions, and Captain America silently confirmed he had heard them.

Ye Mo traced Hydra’s real-time intelligence leaks to a disguised signal from station L-7 in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s logistics dispatch center, while Hydra attacked the outpost using knowledge of the team’s positions and habits. The team confirmed the mole’s transmission pattern but remained trapped under targeted fire, with the traitor still relaying their movements.

• Ye Mo detected a delayed, disguised self-check signal from station L-7, and Captain America ordered the team to cut communications.
• Hydra breached the outpost from three directions, revealing that the attackers knew its layout and could avoid the team’s defenses.
• Ye Mo traced repeated transmissions to L-7 and concluded that someone there was relaying the team’s positions in real time.
• Ye Mo captured the signal’s pattern as one transmission every 90 seconds with a fixed delay, and Captain America prepared a plan to intercept the next one.
• Hydra agents fired on Emma Frost, forcing Ye Mo to pull her down and Captain America to order the team to keep changing positions.

Ye Mo used Spatial Perception to trace the enemy’s battlefield signals to an operator at S.H.I.E.L.D.’s L-7 terminal and identified the routes Hydra agents were preparing to use. After Bucky briefly cut the relay, the team took their assigned positions and waited for the signal to return.

• Ye Mo traced the signal from the east wing’s third basement to the enemy’s tactical terminals and warned Captain America that the enemy was predicting their movements.
• Captain America assigned Bucky to disrupt the relay, Emma Frost to provide psychic warnings, and Ye Mo to save his strength for predicting the enemy’s charge routes.
• Ye Mo locked onto the next transmission and identified the operator at the L-7 terminal, while Bucky reached the relay box in the ventilation shaft.
• At Ye Mo’s command, Bucky broke the relay connection for two seconds, giving the team an eighty-second window.
• Captain America, Bucky, Emma Frost, and Ye Mo moved to their assigned positions and waited silently for the signal to resume.

Ye Mo, Captain America, Bucky, Emma Frost, and Black Widow joined forces to resist Hydra’s assault and hold their position. They stabilized the battle temporarily, but the enemy kept pressing in and the fight was far from over.

• Black Widow returned from the western passage and warned the team that Hydra reinforcements were approaching through the eastern breach.
• Captain America led the five-person team in a charge, while Ye Mo used his spatial memory to call out enemy positions despite his perception being on cooldown.
• Emma Frost absorbed a rocket blast, and Black Widow cut the enemy communications relay cable as the team fought through the first wave.
• Hydra reinforcements attacked from three passages and reactivated the electromagnetic net, while Bucky warned that the eastern wing was being flanked.
• Captain America ordered the team to break through, but they formed a circular defense instead and temporarily halted their retreat.
• Black Widow gave Ye Mo hemostatic gel as Bucky restarted his mechanical arm’s cooling fan and Emma Frost’s Diamond Form began to flicker.

Ye Mo, Emma Frost, Captain America, Bucky, and Black Widow turned back Hydra’s assault when Emma used mind control to sow chaos among its commanders. They secured a brief advantage, but Ye Mo spotted a faint glint of metal in the passage shadows as the battle remained unfinished.

• Ye Mo identified Hydra’s commander, and Captain America severed the antenna powering the electromagnetic net.
• Emma Frost mind-controlled six commanders, causing Hydra’s agents to attack one another and breaking the encirclement.
• Black Widow’s flashbangs and Captain America and Bucky’s charge scattered the enemy, while Ye Mo disabled two machine-gun positions.
• Hydra’s remaining agents retreated, and Captain America ordered the team to secure their position rather than pursue.
• Ye Mo noticed a faint glint of metal in the shadows at the end of the passage.

Ye Mo and the others captured a Hydra agent and uncovered the Scavengers Protocol, a plan to cripple S.H.I.E.L.D. and seize control of its command system. They traced the transport aircraft to Sea Wolf Cape and located Nick Fury, but a second wave of reconnaissance units approached as they prepared to fake a report.

• Ye Mo, Black Widow, Captain America, and Bucky cornered three fleeing men and seized an encrypted chip and a memory-erasing syringe from one of them.
• Emma Frost and Ye Mo frightened the captured agent into revealing that Hydra planned to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D.'s three main hubs in seven hours using the Scavengers Protocol.
• Black Widow identified the chip as linked to senior S.H.I.E.L.D. logistics access, and she and Ye Mo concluded that an insider had compromised the West Coast hub.
• Black Widow traced a transport flight to Sea Wolf Cape, while Ye Mo explained that canceling the protocol required Nick Fury's authorization key and biometrics.
• Ye Mo activated a tracker that pointed to Nick Fury nearby, and Captain America proposed rescuing him before intercepting the transport.
• When a high-frequency reconnaissance scan approached, Ye Mo asked Black Widow to fake a transmission reporting that the targets had been eliminated.

Ye Mo and Captain America’s team planned an infiltration of Sea Wolf Cape Base to investigate Hydra’s Scavengers Protocol and disable its signal relays. Ye Mo successfully combined Vibration Sense with Wall Phasing to scout the east-wing console, confirming it was active, while Black Widow set out to infiltrate the west sector.

• Black Widow fooled Hydra’s scanners with a false report, and Bucky identified the base’s control room and three backup nodes.
• Captain America assigned Black Widow to infiltrate the west-sector node, Ye Mo to scout the east-wing console, Emma Frost to monitor enemy minds, and Bucky to guard the perimeter.
• Ye Mo failed his first attempt to combine Wall Phasing and Vibration Sense, then successfully created Vibration-Sensing Phasing, which he could use once before needing to rest.
• Ye Mo phased through a wall, recorded the east-wing console’s details, and confirmed its serial number matched the mole’s chip and that its countdown system was online.
• Captain America sent Black Widow into the ruins toward the base while the others waited for her signal.

Ye Mo and the others learned that Black Widow had been trapped by Hydra forces, so Captain America changed the plan to rescue her first. Ye Mo phased through a wall to scout the maintenance corridor, where guards blocked the way, and heard Black Widow call from the ventilation duct.

• Ye Mo detected Black Widow's distress signal and learned that she was trapped between levels, surrounded by armed Hydra personnel.
• Emma Frost confirmed Black Widow was still alive but collapsed after using her telepathy to scan the area.
• Captain America abandoned the original plan and led the group toward the freight elevator shaft to rescue Black Widow.
• Ye Mo spotted a Hydra reconnaissance unit, and the group avoided it by crawling through a drainage ditch.
• Ye Mo used Vibration-Sensing Traversal to pass through a wall and found two guards outside the maintenance compartment.
• Black Widow called from the ventilation duct, complaining that the others were taking too long while she was about to be roasted.

Ye Mo used his newly awakened Steel Bone Structure to rescue Black Widow and help the team destroy two automated turrets. After he and Black Widow defeated a Hydra flanking squad, they rejoined Captain America, Bucky, and Emma Frost as the enemy encirclement closed in.

• Ye Mo broke through a wall, pulled Black Widow from a ventilation duct, and shielded her from an incendiary blast.
• Captain America, Bucky, Emma Frost, Black Widow, and Ye Mo disabled the right turret, then destroyed the left one with a miniature bomb.
• Captain America changed the team’s plan and assigned Ye Mo and Black Widow to support the assault while Emma Frost prepared another psychic disruption.
• Black Widow detected Hydra troops flanking through an eastern pipeline, so Ye Mo and Black Widow entered a maintenance passage to stop them.
• Ye Mo and Black Widow ambushed and defeated the Hydra squad, then returned to the others as searchlights revealed someone charging at the front of the enemy force.

Ye Mo integrated the Flame of Hela gene fragment and used uncontrolled fire to help Captain America and the others defeat a Hydra assault squad. The team regrouped amid the burning ruins, exhausted and expecting another wave of enemies.

• As Hydra troops closed in and the team came under heavy fire, Ye Mo integrated the Flame of Hela gene fragment.
• Ye Mo unleashed torrents of flame that broke apart the enemy formation, but his fire went out of control and damaged the ceiling.
• Captain America, Bucky, Black Widow, and Emma Frost exploited the flames to attack the trapped Hydra agents while Ye Mo struggled to control his new ability.
• Ye Mo concentrated his fire into two fireballs, helping the team rout the remaining enemies and force one survivor to surrender.
• After the battle, Ye Mo and the team took their positions and watched the darkness ahead as Ye Mo asked who was next.

Ye Mo and the team subdued the Hydra agents and discovered the Scavengers Protocol would target three S.H.I.E.L.D. hubs in seven hours. With the mole at post L-7 still unexposed, they held their positions and waited for the next threat.

• Emma Frost sensed three enemies poised to act, and Ye Mo sealed escape routes with controlled flames.
• Captain America questioned a surrendered agent, who revealed that someone at post L-7 was helping Hydra.
• Emma Frost froze three command-node enemies while Bucky disabled one exoskeleton and Black Widow captured another; the team then cleared the remaining positions.
• Black Widow found that the Scavengers Protocol had seven hours left before transferring command authority at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s three major hubs.
• Emma Frost detected a lingering signal from post L-7 as the team maintained formation and watched the dark corridor.