Recaps

Ye Mo uncovered the Iron Chain virus hidden in Tony’s Mark III neural interface and warned Tony before Obadiah could use it. Tony agreed to fake authentication as bait while Ye Mo prepared to enter the data hub, but the power was cut as the operation began.

• Ye Mo infiltrated the cache and copied a recording revealing that Iron Chain would hijack Tony’s neural interface after seven minutes.
• Ye Mo sent Tony a warning, and Tony confirmed that the virus could detonate the armor if authentication was interrupted.
• Ye Mo and Tony agreed to fake a successful authentication so Ye Mo could enter the data hub and stop the virus.
• Ye Mo hid the copied data and marked the data hub’s core port with a Vibranium fragment while Obadiah and the Hydra supervisor remained unaware.
• Ye Mo refused the system’s prompts to absorb the ice control ability fragment, then the power went out in the ventilation shaft.

Ye Mo and Tony secretly stopped the Iron Chain virus during Tony’s armor demonstration, then discovered Obadiah was preparing a second attack on Stark Industries’ production line. The chapter ended with Ye Mo identifying Carl Rain, a former Mark II test engineer tied to Project Lazarus, as the infiltrator preparing to infect the entire factory.

• Ye Mo infiltrated the underground data hub and used the vibranium fragment to connect to the server while Tony began his public armor demonstration.
• Ye Mo traced and deleted the Iron Chain virus as Tony falsified the system logs, allowing Tony to finish the demonstration without revealing the attack.
• Tony and Ye Mo reviewed the backend logs, suspected Obadiah was preparing a hardware attack, and found an impostor posing as a maintenance worker in Passage B7.
• Ye Mo identified the worker’s device as a remote controller for the automated assembly system and agreed with Tony to let the intruder reveal the full plan.
• Tony named Carl Rain as a former Mark II test engineer secretly contacted by Obadiah, and Ye Mo matched him to the Project Lazarus subject KL-09, Blacksmith.
• Ye Mo saw Carl Rain prepare a miniature virus transmitter and warned Tony that the attack targeted the entire factory, not just one suit of armor.

Ye Mo and Tony tried to stop Obadiah's virus from synchronizing with the factory's main server, but an ambush left Ye Mo injured. Ye Mo infiltrated the main control room to reach Carl Rain and the virus box, where he triggered a trap and was confronted by her.

• Ye Mo spotted a tripwire and snipers, then he and Tony were surrounded by men in exoskeletons.
• Ye Mo took control of two attackers, but the scar-faced leader struck him and summoned automated turrets.
• Tony carried the injured Ye Mo through maintenance pipes while Ye Mo used the Gene Spiral Tower to strengthen his body.
• Ye Mo discovered Carl Rain connecting the virus box to the main server, with synchronization less than ten minutes away.
• Tony drew the guards' attention while Ye Mo phased through the wall into the main control room.
• Ye Mo triggered a hidden security trap, and Carl Rain turned to greet him.

After Ye Mo and Tony shut down the virus production line, Tony publicly revealed that he was Iron Man, strengthening their trust and unlocking the Gene Spiral Tower’s second floor. As they went to celebrate, a watcher identified Ye Mo as Mr. X, and suspicious figures appeared outside the bar.

• Tony drove Ye Mo away from the factory after JARVIS restored the data, shut down the production line, and locked the remote access ports.
• Tony announced that he was Iron Man at a press conference, while Ye Mo watched from the crowd.
• The trust between Tony and Ye Mo unlocked the Gene Spiral Tower’s second floor, revealing ability traces for High-Speed Regeneration and Metal Reconstruction.
• Tony learned that encrypted channels had become active, possibly due to Hydra remnants, and took Ye Mo to a bar.
• An unknown watcher paused footage of Tony’s reveal and kept a profile of Ye Mo marked “Mr. X: existence confirmed.”
• Ye Mo and Tony arrived at the bar, where two men in leather jackets watched them from outside.

Ye Mo and Tony detected Hydra agents watching them after Tony went public, then left the bar and discussed the threat. During their drive, Ye Mo sensed mutant residue on Tony’s clothes, and the chapter ended with a trench-coated man casting two shadows.

• Ye Mo used Telepathy to identify three unusually controlled people in the bar, including two men he recognized as low-level Hydra agents.
• Ye Mo and Tony feigned plans for a nonexistent press conference, planted a vibranium sensing chip, and left the bar without alerting the watchers.
• Tony told Ye Mo that the three watchers had withdrawn toward the eastern industrial district, and they discussed why Tony had publicly identified himself as Iron Man.
• After brushing Tony’s cuff, Ye Mo detected high-intensity X-Gene residue on his clothes but kept the discovery to himself.
• At a red light, Ye Mo spotted a trench-coated man carrying a briefcase whose shadow appeared twice.

Ye Mo tracked Emma Frost to a Hydra-held factory and activated ice manipulation to break through its defenses. He reached the sealed basement door where she was being held, but his new ability was still fusing and threatening to freeze his nervous system.

• Ye Mo detected Emma Frost's faint distress signal near an abandoned factory and found her imprisoned beneath an anti-mutant shielding field.
• Ye Mo activated the ice manipulation ability despite suspecting Hydra had set a trap, and the fusion began interfering with his other powers and movement.
• Ye Mo infiltrated the factory through a ventilation duct, disabled cameras, and froze two guards at the basement stairway.
• Ye Mo reached the high-pressure field zone door and shattered it with ice while his fusion remained incomplete and dangerous.

Ye Mo followed Emma Frost’s psychic warning to a high-security room and fought through armed guards to free her. After his ice manipulation shut down, he forced it back with an electric shock, froze the guards, and offered Emma his hand as they prepared to escape.

• Ye Mo detected Emma Frost’s warning through the shielding field and stopped four approaching guards with ice.
• A captured guard revealed that Emma Frost was held behind the red-lit alloy door, and Ye Mo forced it open using a vibranium fragment and ice.
• Ye Mo found Emma Frost restrained in a chair with a countdown timer running and learned that touching her lines would trigger the anti-intrusion system.
• Ye Mo shorted the chair’s control circuit with the vibranium fragment, freed Emma Frost, and caught her as she collapsed.
• When the guards rose again under remote control and his ice manipulation entered forced dormancy, Ye Mo shocked his arm with exposed wires to restore his power.
• Ye Mo encased all four guards in ice and held out his hand to Emma Frost, telling her they should leave.

Ye Mo rescued the weakened Emma Frost from the collapsing Hydra base, and they escaped in an armored vehicle. As they drove into the blizzard, Emma asked what their relationship was, but a figure appeared in the road before Ye Mo could answer.

• Ye Mo carried Emma Frost out of the secret chamber and sealed the corridor behind them in ice.
• Emma told Ye Mo she had trusted he would come because the system warned her as he drew closer, and the Gene Spiral Tower unlocked another floor when his rescue earned her trust.
• Ye Mo and Emma escaped through a ventilation duct as the base collapsed, while Emma sensed a remote consciousness probe scanning them.
• Ye Mo started an old armored vehicle, opened the base’s iron gate with an ice spike, and drove with Emma into the blizzard.
• Emma asked Ye Mo what they were to each other, but he slammed on the brakes when a figure appeared in the road.

Ye Mo absorbed and mastered Ice Manipulation while recovering with Emma Frost in a remote cabin, then tested his new control and combined it with Thermal Vision. Tony arrived, and after they sparred, Ye Mo left with him to get back to work while Emma remained asleep.

• Ye Mo brought the unconscious Emma Frost to a cabin, sealed it against the cold, and activated the newly absorbed Ice Manipulation ability.
• Ye Mo healed his wounds and practiced shaping ice, then combined Ice Manipulation with Thermal Vision to detect movement through temperature changes.
• Ye Mo saw Tony approaching and learned that Ice Manipulation had reached its maximum level and could be combined with other abilities.
• Tony arrived at the cabin, and Ye Mo used ice to trap him in a playful sparring match before helping him up.
• Ye Mo left with Tony to get to work, while Emma Frost slept in the cabin and Ye Mo stabilized the room's temperature with ice.

Ye Mo and Tony investigated a suspected Hydra operation at a S.H.I.E.L.D. logistics center and discovered a plan to reverse-engineer Tony’s reactor and test armor technology on Mutants. They left without exposing themselves, planning to trace the operation’s superiors while strengthening their defenses.

• Ye Mo found an encrypted signal pointing to a S.H.I.E.L.D. logistics center and warned Tony that the staff’s minds appeared formatted and focused on obtaining MK-series core data.
• Tony and Ye Mo approached the center, where Ye Mo used an ice network to read thoughts revealing Project Titan Forge, a 72-hour launch timeline, and reactor reverse-engineering.
• Ye Mo learned the operation was connected to residual Hellfire Club signals and feared Emma Frost would be targeted if the trail reached their hideout.
• Ye Mo revealed he had placed an ice film in the ventilation ducts to record conversations, and he and Tony agreed to let the conspirators believe their plan was progressing so they could trace the chain of command.
• Tony marked the base without reporting it, while he and Ye Mo planned upgrades to the armor’s security and Ye Mo prepared to reinforce psychic shielding and develop signal tracking.
• As the vehicle reached a red light, Ye Mo suddenly traced a line of ice across the windshield.

Ye Mo and Tony trained together to improve their combat coordination and planned to sabotage the Titan Forge test before its data could be stolen. Their preparations were interrupted when ice began spreading through an external ventilation shaft, though Ye Mo insisted he had not caused it.

• Ye Mo and Tony practiced combat simulations, combining ice defenses and ambushes with Tony’s attacks, and Ye Mo unlocked the fourth floor of the Gene Spiral Tower.
• Ye Mo and Tony planned to disrupt the Titan Forge test: Ye Mo would interfere with its readings while Tony planted a virus, and Tony would pose as bait to encourage data theft.
• They refined their tactics and synchronized attacks to Ye Mo’s heartbeat, improving their coordination through successive simulations.
• Tony proposed combining Ye Mo’s ice powers with his propulsion system, but an alarm revealed abnormal cooling and spreading ice in an external ventilation shaft.
• Ye Mo pointed out that the ice was not his doing.

Ye Mo and Tony tested an ice-based thruster upgrade that made Tony’s armor faster and harder to track. As mysterious ice crept toward the energy core and reacted to their movements, they pretended not to notice so Ye Mo could trace its signal source.

• Ye Mo created high-density ice cores that released cold mist, and Tony installed them in front of his armor’s leg thrusters.
• Tony tested the upgrade and found that it increased his speed and agility while reducing his infrared signature.
• Ye Mo and Tony noticed the spreading ice approaching the energy core and suspected it was gathering information about their responses.
• Ye Mo laid an ice line to trace the signal while he and Tony acted as though they were continuing their thruster tests.
• The ice stopped near the main control area, then began moving again after Tony staged a fall and Ye Mo laughed.

Ye Mo and Tony fought off Hydra infiltrators after an ice-based EMP exposed their defenses, discovering Hydra was working with the Hellfire Club and targeting Ye Mo as Mr. X. As more attackers surrounded the base, they prepared to counterattack, with Ye Mo planning to find the commander.

• Ye Mo detected seventeen attackers approaching through the east gate, underground pipes, and rooftop vents, and Tony donned his armor while Ye Mo activated the defenses.
• Ye Mo and Tony let the attackers believe the frontal assault had them pinned down, then Ye Mo identified a commander wearing a Hellfire Club insignia glove.
• Ye Mo and Tony ambushed the intruders, freezing and capturing several Hydra operatives while Tony destroyed the rooftop attackers' drone supplies.
• An electronic voice addressed Ye Mo as Mr. X, and additional enemies began approaching from underground and outside the main entrance.
• Ye Mo and Tony agreed to counterattack, with Tony drawing the front assault while Ye Mo went after the commander, as heavy machinery began breaking through the door.

Ye Mo and Tony repelled a Hydra assault, then uncovered evidence that the Hellfire Club had been monitoring Ye Mo since his first public appearance as Mr. X. The chapter left them facing a new message on a backup terminal identifying Ye Mo as “test subject 07.”

• Ye Mo and Tony coordinated ice and fire attacks to defeat the Hydra forces and capture a data chip bearing Hellfire Club markings.
• Ye Mo found encrypted footage of a gray-robed figure with a Hellfire insignia, but remote deletion began before they could secure the logs.
• Ye Mo and Tony linked the footage’s timestamp to Ye Mo’s press conference and recalled a logistics staff member wearing a black communication device.
• Ye Mo concluded that the staff member may have relayed information about Mr. X from the logistics support center, where Hydra and Hellfire signals had overlapped.
• A backup terminal activated and displayed the message, “Welcome back, test subject 07.”

Ye Mo used Ice Manipulation to capture three attackers and learned they were transmitting encrypted intelligence about him. After discovering a Hellfire beacon inside the base, he planned to let the enemy keep watching so he could trace their signal and set a trap.

• Ye Mo sealed two attackers inside the eastern service space and trapped another at the southern drainpipe, then obtained their encrypted frequency after verifying his captive's statement with Telepathy.
• Ye Mo and Tony discussed using the frequency to trace the attackers' relay and planned to let the enemy make further moves so they could follow them back to their command center.
• A backup terminal received a message saying the observed behavior matched a predictive model, and Ye Mo found a Hellfire encryption beacon embedded in its motherboard.
• The captive revealed that a commander wearing a communicator monitored the operation and that his only known codename was White Raven.
• Ye Mo decided to leave the hidden beacon in place and mislead the watchers, forming an ice crystal as he planned to make them think he had lost control.

Ye Mo and Tony repelled a Hydra assault on the laboratory and secured the encrypted beacon. Their victory uncovered signs that someone had secretly altered the lab’s hardware, leaving them suspicious of a high-clearance insider or someone close to them.

• Ye Mo froze the corridor floor and trapped Hydra attackers while Tony prepared his armor to defend the laboratory.
• Ye Mo and Tony overcame the attackers, including a silver-suited commander, and Ye Mo contained a bomb in an ice coffin before it could damage the servers.
• The system announced that the sixth floor of the Gene Spiral Tower had been unlocked, and Tony and Ye Mo celebrated their teamwork.
• Ye Mo found an abnormal signal in the backend logs and discovered an unfamiliar old Stark Industries encryption module inside a computer.
• Ye Mo and Tony realized someone had replaced core equipment without triggering alarms, and the chapter ended with Ye Mo noticing a fine scratch and an irregularly blinking power light.

Ye Mo and Tony uncovered a hidden hardware backdoor in Tony’s armor and devised a plan to trace its transmissions without alerting whoever planted it. As Ye Mo prepared to launch the tracking protocol, the wire suddenly overheated.

• Ye Mo inserted the old chip and discovered an unauthorized signature linked to the MK-series armor controller, while he and Tony found that a disguised process was draining power.
• Ye Mo and Tony suspected an insider or logistics worker had planted the backdoor, and agreed to investigate secretly without involving S.H.I.E.L.D. or the Avengers.
• The armor reacted to their scan with a preset trigger, so Tony switched it to low-power standby while Ye Mo searched for the hidden power route.
• Ye Mo found an unlisted wire in the left shoulder that stayed active during standby, and persuaded Tony to leave it connected so they could trace its transmissions.
• A hidden data stream began uploading from the wire, and as Ye Mo prepared to track it, its temperature surged from 37 to over 60 degrees.

Ye Mo and Tony removed a hidden control module from Tony’s armor and traced its communications to a concealed site inside Stark Tower. The discovery pointed to a presumed-dead former employee and an unreported cache of decommissioned armor, leaving Tony facing a hidden command center on his own property.

• Ye Mo used intermittent Thermal Vision to locate a concealed module welded into the armor’s right-arm buffer layer.
• Ye Mo froze the module’s power input while Tony cut it free, revealing a device capable of remote activation, energy siphoning, and command overriding.
• Tony erased the module’s data and confirmed that the armor was functioning normally, while Ye Mo unlocked the seventh level of the Gene Spiral Tower.
• Tony found that the module had uploaded data to an address linked to an old Hellfire Club server, and Ye Mo connected the activity to a suspicious maintenance request.
• Tony identified Carl Rain, a former hardware maintenance engineer believed dead, in Stark Industries’ access records.
• Ye Mo traced the signal to a storage room on Stark Tower’s seventh basement level, where Tony realized someone had built a hidden command center using decommissioned MK III armor.

Ye Mo and Tony tested a new antivirus defense for Tony’s armor and confirmed it could block three simulated attacks. As Tony began developing further protections, Ye Mo spotted white mist escaping from the Sector B storage room.

• Ye Mo advised Tony to leave the underground location alone and focus on teaching the armor to recognize malicious programs.
• Tony installed a defense module in a spare armor unit, and he and Ye Mo tested it against three simulated attacks.
• The system blocked each attack, and a notification confirmed that the armor’s security level had risen to S.
• Ye Mo received notice that the eighth floor of the Gene Spiral Tower had unlocked and gained an empty ability combination slot.
• Tony began debugging an automatic decoy system while Ye Mo noticed white mist drifting from the Sector B storage-room door.

Ye Mo and Tony fought a mysterious attacker who copied and improved their techniques, then unlocked the Gene Spiral Tower's ninth floor during the battle. The attacker learned their combined approach and retaliated with copied ice and fire as the fight continued.

• Ye Mo detected an unseen observer in the Sector B storage room, and a man in a tactical exoskeleton burst through the floor and attacked Tony.
• The attacker copied Tony's combat moves and Ye Mo's Ice Manipulation Technique, using both with unnerving precision.
• Ye Mo and Tony combined ice compression with Tony's thrusters to blast the attacker through two walls, but he quickly began studying their new tactic.
• Ye Mo received a notification that the Gene Spiral Tower's ninth floor had unlocked, and the tower began scanning the battlefield.
• Ye Mo and Tony coordinated an attack that cracked the man's exoskeleton, but he memorized their rhythm and used an interference pulse to shatter the surrounding ice.
• The attacker copied their combined ice-and-fire technique and blasted the two of them with it.

Ye Mo and Tony failed to catch the masked opponent, who had copied their combat techniques and escaped after testing them. The escape unlocked the tenth floor of Ye Mo’s Gene Spiral Tower, and Ye Mo decided to make their next encounter more challenging.

• The masked opponent escaped through a planned route after copying Ye Mo and Tony’s techniques, leaving behind a signal-blocking device.
• Ye Mo and Tony analyzed the opponent’s rapid learning, speculated that he recorded and replayed information, and planned to exploit his precise, predictable movements.
• The opponent reviewed battle footage in an abandoned building and updated his behavior model to 78 percent.
• Ye Mo received a notification that the opponent’s escape had unlocked the tenth floor of the Gene Spiral Tower and opened a new ability analysis slot.
• Ye Mo told Tony that it was time to make their class representative’s homework harder.

Ye Mo and Tony analyzed Taskmaster’s ability to imitate movements and planned to exploit its limits in their next encounter. They discovered a strange interruption in his copied ice shield’s energy signal, then found melted-ice footprints leading deeper into the maintenance passage.

• Ye Mo and Tony reviewed the fight footage and concluded that Taskmaster memorized the surface of abilities but could not reproduce their underlying power.
• Ye Mo and Tony planned to confuse Taskmaster with feints, deliberate mistakes, and unconventional combinations that could overload his nervous system.
• Tony suspected Taskmaster had an organization supporting his training, but Ye Mo chose to wait for him to reveal more clues.
• Ye Mo noticed a brief interruption in the energy signal when Taskmaster copied his ice shield and wondered if Taskmaster needed to clear his memory.
• Ye Mo and Tony headed to the underground energy sector and found melted-ice footprints leading deeper into the maintenance passage.

Ye Mo and Tony responded to the New Era Awakened’s coordinated weather attack on Manhattan and fought three mutants at Broadway. After Tony disabled two of them, Ye Mo outmaneuvered the wind controller and aimed an ice crystal at his throat.

• Ye Mo sensed a group of synchronized mental signals, and JARVIS reported extreme weather disasters at three Manhattan landmarks.
• Ye Mo and Tony flew to Broadway, where they found civilians trapped in ice and three mutants controlling electricity, wind, and rock.
• Tony’s electromagnetic pulse failed to affect the mutants, so Ye Mo used Ice Manipulation to free the trapped civilians while Tony fought the attackers.
• The electricity controller struck Tony with lightning, and the wind controller blasted Ye Mo into a police car, triggering Ice Manipulation’s cooldown.
• Ye Mo combined Thermal Vision with Telepathy to predict the wind controller’s attacks, while Tony’s missile and laser took down the other two mutants.
• Ye Mo closed in on the wind controller and aimed a high-pressure ice crystal at his throat.

Ye Mo activated Steel Bone Body and withstood the wind controller’s attacks, forcing him and the other two attackers to retreat while Tony Stark returned to the fight. As Ye Mo and Tony prepared to counterattack, a powerful silver-haired woman arrived, and her first wind blade flew at Ye Mo.

• Ye Mo’s Gene Spiral Tower activated Steel Bone Body, letting him withstand the wind controller’s blades and shock waves without serious injury.
• Ye Mo split the wind controller’s tornado, increasing his Steel Bone Body proficiency and unlocking the tower’s eleventh floor.
• The wind controller fled, and the rock man and electricity controller withdrew as civilians began calling Ye Mo the Ice Armor Warrior.
• Tony Stark landed beside Ye Mo, and they agreed they could now fight back together.
• A silver-haired woman descended from the clouds, took control of the wind, and sent a wind blade toward Ye Mo’s face.

Ye Mo persuaded Storm to join him in stopping the mutant attackers and used their coordinated ice storm to defeat them. After tracing a psychic watcher and capturing him, Ye Mo faced a new threat as a black aircraft descended from the northern sky.

• Ye Mo introduced himself to Storm as Mr. X and convinced her to work with him against the mutant attackers.
• Storm and Ye Mo combined wind and ice to overwhelm the wind controller, the rock man, and the electricity controller.
• Ye Mo detected a psychic probe and, with Storm's help, traced it to a man in a black trench coat at Madison Avenue and 23rd Street.
• Storm pinned the watcher to a wall, and Ye Mo demanded to know who had sent him.
• Storm spotted nonhuman arrivals as a black aircraft descended through a gap in the clouds.