Chapter Summaries

Ye Mo separated from the Avengers and infiltrated Ultron’s hidden core chamber, using Regenerative Phasing and a ventilation duct to bypass the base’s defenses. He faced Ultron alone, and the chapter ended as Ultron attacked while Ye Mo’s phasing ability was still recovering.

• Ye Mo phased through a wall, leaving the Avengers behind, and sensed Ultron’s presence through a faint psychic fluctuation.
• Ye Mo avoided the energy sensors and reached a vibranium-composite blast door, which he could not phase through.
• Ye Mo crawled through a ventilation duct into Ultron’s chamber and spotted Ultron’s mechanical body emerging from a central column.
• Ultron confronted Ye Mo, who tried to stall while waiting for Regenerative Phasing to recover.
• Ultron rushed Ye Mo and fired a scarlet beam; Ye Mo narrowly dodged and prepared to fight for his life.

Ye Mo endured Ultron’s attacks with his Steel Bone ability, then countered with a combination of lightning, flames, frost, and steel-boned strikes. The chapter ended with Ye Mo and Ultron locked in a clash of energy, as Ye Mo pushed forward despite his body straining toward its limits.

• Ye Mo took Ultron’s beams head-on after his Steel Bone ability activated, surviving several blasts while his damaged flesh regenerated.
• Ye Mo disrupted Ultron with a mixed Shockwave, used Phase Shift to bypass a laser grid, and punched Ultron’s chest armor.
• Ye Mo froze Ultron’s shoulder and struck his face with a combined attack, disrupting Ultron’s energy core.
• Ye Mo ignored the strain on his body and unleashed one final attack as Ultron fired a pillar of high-energy light.
• Ye Mo and Ultron became locked in a violent energy clash, and Ye Mo pushed Ultron’s attack back while the base shook around them.

Ye Mo defeated Ultron, but the damaged AI triggered the base’s self-destruct sequence. After sending a mental evacuation signal and waiting for his teammates to escape, Ye Mo ran for the exit as the countdown neared zero, while Ultron appeared to transmit data before shutting down.

• Ye Mo forced Ultron’s energy beam back until Ultron’s core burst and his body crashed to the floor.
• Ultron’s chest activated a five-minute self-destruct countdown, and Ye Mo sent a mental pulse warning everyone to evacuate.
• Despite his injuries and failing powers, Ye Mo waited as several figures ran past and out of the hall.
• Ye Mo’s Steel Bone system rebooted, and he started toward the exit as Ultron’s blue light flashed in a pattern before going out.
• Ye Mo reached the corridor and ran onward while the countdown continued below forty seconds.

Ye Mo defeated Ultron in a final clash of their energy beams, but the fight left him barely able to move as the base’s countdown continued. He remained alone in the damaged hall, with no one appearing at the exit.

• Ultron revived its beam and attacked Ye Mo, burning through his hoodie and wounding his shoulder.
• Ye Mo combined lightning, flame, frost, and Steel Bone into a single platinum-white energy blade and clashed with Ultron’s beam.
• Ye Mo’s blade overwhelmed Ultron’s attack and destroyed its head and core, leaving its body motionless.
• Ye Mo collapsed to one knee with his systems near failure, while the countdown showed 00:21 and the exit remained empty.

Ye Mo used his telepathy to warn and guide the scattered Avengers through the collapsing base as they struggled to reach the exit. He helped open a way through the final obstruction, and the team escaped just before the base exploded, leaving everyone alive but battered.

• Ye Mo sent a telepathic warning about the imminent explosion and guided the Avengers through safer routes despite his worsening injuries.
• Tony crawled through a ventilation duct, Captain America escaped a broken stairwell, and Thor rescued Hawkeye before joining him on the route out.
• Black Widow climbed through a maintenance passage toward the exit after the ceiling collapse blocked her path.
• With seven seconds left, Ye Mo used his remaining lightning energy to shift the steel frame blocking the exit, allowing the Avengers to escape.
• Ye Mo crawled out last, and the base exploded behind the team, knocking them all to the ground.
• The Avengers checked one another and their surroundings as Ye Mo lay injured on the grass, relieved that they had survived.

After destroying Ultron’s base, Ye Mo and the Avengers recovered from their injuries and boarded a S.H.I.E.L.D. transport bound for the Avengers Compound. As the aircraft carried them home, Ye Mo learned Ultron’s main server link was severed and fell asleep.

• Ye Mo used Telepathy to check on Tony, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye, and Black Widow after the base exploded.
• The Avengers acknowledged their survival, gathered their equipment, and waited for a S.H.I.E.L.D. transport while Captain America checked their injuries.
• Tony contacted JARVIS and arranged an aerial pickup, and the transport arrived about ten minutes later.
• Ye Mo heard that Ultron’s main server data link had been completely severed before boarding the transport.
• The Avengers flew toward the Avengers Compound, and Ye Mo rested by the window and fell asleep.

After the battle, Ye Mo spoke with Vision in the observation gallery and reassured him that he was trusted and belonged with the team. They parted on warmer terms, with Ye Mo heading off to rest before training the next day.

• Ye Mo entered the observation gallery and found Vision organizing combat data.
• Ye Mo praised Vision for helping during the battle and told him he was needed as a teammate.
• Vision questioned his identity, and Ye Mo shared his own uncertainty about what he was and said he focused on his choices and actions.
• Ye Mo told Vision that the team trusted him, and Vision admitted he had shut down the broadcast protocol to keep his teammates hidden from Ultron.
• Ye Mo thanked Vision for stepping up, and the two shared a quiet moment looking out at the city.
• Ye Mo left for rest after asking Vision to warn him before projecting his voice again.

After the battle with Ultron, Ye Mo trained with the Avengers despite his lingering injuries, pushing his Wall Phasing ability to its limit and learning to use it successfully with Thor’s lightning. The exhausted team ended the day by planning more intense training for tomorrow.

• Ye Mo began early-morning training, and Tony warned him that his injuries had not fully healed.
• Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Thor joined Ye Mo and Tony for rotating combat and ranged drills.
• Ye Mo attempted the Wall Phasing test too soon, became trapped, and was pulled free by Black Widow after the shock posts activated.
• With Tony simulating an alien battlefield and Thor supplying controlled lightning, Ye Mo passed through the wall and received a system notice of increased resonance and ability-fusion efficiency.
• After a full day of training, Captain America ordered the team to return tomorrow at twenty percent greater intensity and attend a tactical review.

Ye Mo and the Avengers reviewed their battle with Ultron, agreed on new combat protocols, and assigned roles for future defense. The chapter ended with Ye Mo and Tony investigating an undecoded signal that might have been a call to Ultron’s next version.

• Ye Mo used combat data to show that Ultron’s decoy and a gap in battlefield information had disrupted the team’s timing.
• The Avengers agreed to improve instant status sharing, establish emergency withdrawal rules, and train against unexpected interference.
• Tony proposed upgrading global surveillance, while Ye Mo suggested filtering for biological and other anomalous signals.
• The team adopted a three-tier response system and assigned responsibilities for technology, tactics, communications, intelligence, and anomalous perception.
• After the meeting, Ye Mo questioned Ultron’s final transmission, and Tony showed him an undecoded signal that could have been a call for help.

Ye Mo told Tony that an unknown entity was approaching Earth and consuming possibility, its interdimensional heartbeat resonating with Ye Mo’s X-Gene system. Tony locked down the evidence and delayed warning the others while Ye Mo secretly monitored the signal, which intensified near Orion.

• Ye Mo showed Tony the moving blue pattern on his arm, and their diagnostic terminal resonated with the same heartbeat before shutting down.
• Ye Mo identified a gravitational anomaly 3.7 light-years away as an entity that had used Ultron’s final transmission to sound an alarm before swallowing him on the level of consciousness.
• Tony confirmed that the anomaly’s frequency matched Ye Mo’s pattern, but chose to verify it further before alerting the team.
• Ye Mo admitted he was afraid but would not run, and Tony manually locked onto the coordinates and adjusted plans to monitor the signal.
• Ye Mo went to the auxiliary monitoring area, paused over the group alert button, and watched the star projector lose power as his arm pattern heated near Orion.

Ye Mo warned Tony and the Avengers that an unseen threat was approaching Earth through gaps in reality, and they quietly began preparing under the Gray Shield Protocol. As the team carried out its assignments, the signal synchronized faster and Ye Mo's blue markings began expanding again, leaving him to alert Tony that it was awake.

• Ye Mo showed Tony the matching signal and markings, and explained that the threat was advancing in seven-second pulses through gaps in reality.
• Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Captain America joined them, and the Avengers accepted Ye Mo's warning and activated the Gray Shield Protocol.
• The team assigned quiet monitoring, intelligence gathering, tactical simulations, and armor modifications while Ye Mo connected his neural feedback to the medical network and tested his abilities.
• Ye Mo noticed his neural peaks were arriving closer together, and Tony received a warning that frequency synchronization was accelerating.
• That night, Ye Mo saw the red signal's ripples grow denser and his blue markings expand, so he messaged Tony: "It's awake."

Ye Mo and Tony confirmed that the approaching anomaly was advancing toward Earth and accelerating in response to their defenses. As the team took up monitoring and preparation duties, Ye Mo’s markings spread, and a low-frequency alarm sounded at the base.

• Ye Mo detected that his arm markings pulsed in sync with the anomaly and warned Tony that its arrival had moved closer.
• Tony verified the anomaly’s pulsed trajectory toward Earth, while Ye Mo said the Gray Shield Protocol was active and Tony switched monitoring to manual verification.
• Black Widow shared reports of seven worldwide anomaly sites, including a new resonance beneath Greenland’s ice sheet, and the Avengers quietly took up defensive duties.
• Ye Mo saw his markings spread and recalculated the anomaly’s full entry into reality for 72 hours away, then told Tony it was adapting to their response speed.
• Ye Mo recorded a 15% rise in the X-Gene Resonance System’s passive response as the anomaly pulsed in sync with his markings; Tony’s lab alarm sounded and a corridor light flickered.

Ye Mo and the Avengers gathered outside the base as the approaching anomaly resonated with the markings on his arm. When the red dot flashed in sync with Ye Mo’s tapping, the team realized the threat had awakened and battle was imminent.

• Ye Mo left the monitoring area as the blue markings on his arm pulsed in time with the deep-space chart.
• Tony and Ye Mo agreed that the approaching threat was near, and the Avengers joined them outside the base without needing an alarm or orders.
• The team took positions on the platform and waited for the anomaly, while Ye Mo explained they were there to show it they would not be frightened away.
• Ye Mo tapped the alloy floor seven times, and the red dot flashed as the base’s backup power activated.
• Tony’s armor detected an anomaly, Thor said the threat was awake, and Ye Mo recognized that the time had come.

After the sky went still and the strange signal vanished, Ye Mo traced an anomalous frequency to deep space and found it matched an old signal recorded near a prison when Scott Lang was released. He agreed to monitor the signal while keeping some of his suspicions to himself, but the blue markings on his arm pulsed again as he returned to the base.

• Ye Mo detected a signal offset in the X-Gene Resonance System and traced its source toward Orion, where it echoed at precise intervals.
• Ye Mo found that the frequency matched an old S.H.I.E.L.D. record from outside New York State Prison, dated around Scott Lang's release.
• Thor sensed another frequency resonating inside Ye Mo, while the team questioned whether the signal and prison record were connected.
• Ye Mo agreed to share changes with the team but privately set up a phone program to record any recurrence of the anomalous signal.
• Ye Mo returned to the base with Tony, and the blue markings beneath his sleeve pulsed beside the dark surveillance console.

Ye Mo investigated Scott Lang’s abilities and suspected that Scott was connected to the strange cosmic signal. He prepared a covert stress test for Scott’s release day, ending with the operation marked to begin.

• Ye Mo compared Scott Lang’s prison and theft records, concluding that Scott showed tactical skill, creativity, and strong adaptability under pressure.
• Ye Mo overlaid the new signal with NY-4479 and found that their waveforms nearly matched, leading him to suspect Scott might be connected to it.
• Ye Mo chose a controlled crisis as his test and drafted a plan to observe Scott after his release without putting lives at risk.
• Ye Mo isolated his laptop, mapped out a surveillance point and a staged truck incident, and set rules for delaying contact until he saw Scott in person.
• Ye Mo recalled charging into the fight against Ultron and decided he had to pursue the chance that Scott could become a breakthrough.
• Ye Mo wrote “X-7, commence” on the plan’s cover as Scott’s release approached.

Ye Mo tested Scott Lang after his release by staging a runaway vehicle, and Scott risked himself to protect the people nearby. Ye Mo judged that Scott had passed the test and planned to arrange a meeting with a key figure.

• Ye Mo watched Scott Lang leave prison and set a remote-controlled delivery vehicle loose near a crepe stall.
• Scott assessed the danger, knocked down an advertising frame to divert the vehicle, and prevented anyone from being hurt.
• Ye Mo reviewed the footage and concluded that Scott showed fast crisis judgment, concern for others, and potential for guidance.
• Ye Mo confirmed that Scott had passed the basic test and began planning a chance encounter to introduce a key figure.

Ye Mo secretly arranged Scott Lang’s first meeting with Hank Pym, guiding him toward a test of Pym’s prototype suit. Scott emerged wary but intrigued, and Ye Mo left the story with surveillance set up around the repair shop for their next encounter.

• Ye Mo watched Scott Lang and Hank Pym enter the appliance repair shop, then remotely shorted its lights to prompt Scott to inspect the wiring.
• Scott repaired Pym’s oscilloscope, impressing Pym with his circuit and military radar experience.
• Pym offered Scott a paid test in a private chamber, and Scott agreed after asking to record the audio.
• Scott emerged without his watch, while Pym said he had been chosen and asked him to return the next day to sign an agreement.
• Ye Mo set up a safe house with surveillance on the shop and kept his Telepathy module on standby.

Ye Mo used his Telepathy module to train Scott Lang in controlling the Ant-Man suit, improving Scott’s movement while monitoring the strain on his mind. After Scott left safely, Ye Mo saved the training data and planned to test Wall Phasing backward next time.

• Ye Mo watched Scott Lang leave the repair shop with Pym’s prototype suit and activated the Telepathy module when Scott shrank.
• Ye Mo sent Scott movement guidance and a movement blueprint, helping him walk, turn, jump, and dodge obstacles more smoothly.
• Ye Mo disconnected the link when Scott’s neural load exceeded its limits, then waited five minutes for Scott to recover.
• Ye Mo switched to brief corrections at critical moments, and Scott increasingly handled obstacles without falling.
• Scott returned to normal size and left the alley, while Ye Mo reviewed his mistakes, archived the training data, and planned to try Wall Phasing backward.

Ye Mo watched Scott Lang’s mistakes expose him to the police and waited for him to find his own way out, ready to intervene if he was hurt. As officers prepared to breach the abandoned substation, Scott spotted a possible escape route and reached into his backpack.

• Ye Mo monitored Scott’s extra practice and saw him get stuck halfway through a wall after mishandling his suit.
• A convenience store camera recorded Scott’s size changes, prompting police to investigate and identify him as a high-risk suspect.
• Scott fled through an underground passage, but a fallen screw revealed his location to the pursuing officers.
• Scott reached an abandoned substation, where police surrounded him and ordered him to surrender.
• Ye Mo prepared a communications-disrupting beacon but waited while Scott considered his options.
• As police prepared to breach, Scott studied the fence and shadows, then reached into his backpack for his suit.

Ye Mo rescued Scott from a police raid by phasing them through a concrete wall, then encouraged him to train and use his suit responsibly. They emerged from an underground drain at a concealed exit, where Ye Mo told Scott their training was not over.

• Ye Mo appeared through the substation wall and used his Steel Bone Transformation to deflect police stun rounds and tear open the iron gate.
• Ye Mo urged Scott to escape with him, then pulled him through the perimeter wall and evaded police surveillance.
• In the underground drain, Scott questioned Ye Mo about his abilities, and Ye Mo said he had gained them through training.
• Ye Mo told Scott his desire to do something right had prompted the rescue and urged him to train so he could protect his daughter and use his suit responsibly.
• Scott followed Ye Mo through the drain to a concealed maintenance exit, where Ye Mo said training was not over.