Chapter Summaries

Alex explained that Black Bolt’s sonic wave gave him a brief chance to compress, rather than end, his Terrigen Mist mutation, which remained linked to his soul and restricted his Soul Transfer. After discussing his possible mind-related change, the group considered where the Inhumans could settle, and Medusa chose the Moon while Alex planned to stay in Mysterious Valley.

• Medusa asked Alex about his Second Mutation, and he said he had halted it himself with help from Black Bolt’s sonic wave.
• Alex explained that he had compressed the purple Mutant Energy, slowing the mutation, but could not separate it from his soul or use Soul Transfer until the mutation was complete.
• Alex said the mutation seemed to have affected his mind and might benefit him, reassuring His Highness Alex.
• Alex suggested the Inhumans settle on the Moon and glanced at Otu, whom only he seemed able to see.
• After conferring with Black Bolt, Medusa decided to migrate the Inhumans to the Moon, while Alex chose Mysterious Valley as his temporary home.

Alex discovered that the ring from The Ancient One was an Inheritance Ring and absorbed its extensive knowledge of Eastern Sorcery and Western magic. Crystal then told him that all the geneticists once sent to Alex City had disappeared, leaving the cause unknown.

• The Sage told Alex that Charles and the other altered people had awakened but remained emotionally distressed, and Alex went alone to the depths of Mysterious Valley with Vivien Leigh, Monroe, and Audrey.
• Alex and the three women tried to identify and open the ring, but their attempts with different methods and incantations failed.
• Crystal arrived and explained that the ring was an Inheritance Ring that only needed to be worn.
• When Alex put on the ring, The Ancient One's voice spoke in his mind and the ring sent him extensive magical knowledge, which he studied intently.
• Crystal snapped Alex out of his concentration and told him that the geneticists previously sent to Alex City had all disappeared.

Alex and Crystal traced the missing geneticists to Mount Wundagore, where Alex uncovered High Evolutionary working with a newly empowered Erik. The confrontation began with Erik standing between Alex and High Evolutionary, who remained trapped under Alex’s watch.

• Crystal told Alex that High Evolutionary was suspected of kidnapping geneticists, and Alex left with her to find him.
• At Mount Wundagore, Crystal was sickened by the polluted air, leading Alex to suspect High Evolutionary was conducting experiments there.
• Alex blasted the mountain with a massive Energy Ball, forcing High Evolutionary and Erik out of the smoke.
• Alex was shocked to find Erik beside High Evolutionary, while Erik refused to leave and declared himself Magneto.
• Erik used dramatically increased magnetic power against Alex, but Alex broke free and realized High Evolutionary had boosted Erik’s abilities.
• High Evolutionary tried to flee, but Alex’s powerful will locked onto him and stopped him.

Alex and Crystal defeated Erik, but the High Evolutionary escaped Mount Wundagore with two newborn infants. After returning to Mysterious Valley, Alex took Erik to S.H.I.E.L.D. because the X-Mansion had no prison capable of holding him.

• Erik trapped Alex in special energy-absorbing metal while the High Evolutionary escaped Crystal's attack and fled Mount Wundagore.
• Crystal's assault weakened Erik's focus, allowing Alex to break free and defeat him with her help.
• Alex and Crystal discovered the High Evolutionary had escaped, while Erik turned against him for abandoning him.
• After Alex and Crystal returned to Mysterious Valley with Erik, Emma warned that the X-Mansion could not safely imprison him.
• Alex took Erik to S.H.I.E.L.D. in search of a prison capable of holding Magneto.
• The High Evolutionary returned to his laboratory, took a newborn boy and girl, and left Mount Wundagore with them.

After Apocalypse left the world with a sudden wave of newly awakened people, Alex discovered they were Inhumans exposed to Terrigen Mist released by Maximus. The chapter leaves Medusa and the Inhuman royals preparing to decide how to handle the new Inhumans while Maximus lies unconscious.

• Nick Fury told Alex that nearly a hundred thousand people had become mutants within three days, though they had previously been ordinary humans.
• Alex put Erik to sleep and, after hearing Nick Fury's account, suspected the new mutants were Inhumans.
• Alex contacted Medusa and explained to Nick Fury that the people were Inhumans, likely awakened by Terrigen Mist released by Maximus during the battle in Attilan.
• At Attilan, Maximus proclaimed that Inhumans were destined to rule the world, but Black Bolt punched him unconscious.
• Medusa set aside Maximus's punishment and called on the Inhuman royals to discuss what to do about the newly awakened Inhumans.

Alex learned that governments were preparing to target superpowered people and that William Stryker had resumed developing Sentinel robots. Medusa decided to bring the hundred thousand newly awakened Inhumans to Attilan in batches, while Alex City would be rebuilt to house them, despite Alex warning that his own situation was worsening.

• Nick Fury said S.H.I.E.L.D. planned to contain the hundred thousand newly awakened Inhumans and dissect them for research, and Alex warned him that provoking the Inhumans would be dangerous.
• Nick Fury told Alex that countries were turning against superpowered people and planned to act within two or three years, while William Stryker had resumed his Sentinel project.
• Alex erupted in anger, demanded details from Nick Fury, then left Erik in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s custody and returned to Attilan.
• Medusa told Alex that Attilan would bring all the newly awakened Inhumans back in batches because they could not abandon them.
• Medusa said Alex City would be rebuilt to house the Inhumans, and Alex agreed while warning that his own situation was also worsening.

After the Kree abducted a hundred thousand newly awakened Inhumans, humanity sought cooperation with Attilan. Alex identified the aliens as the Kree Empire and asked what humanity proposed.

• Alex apologized to Black Bolt and Medusa because he had found no trace of the captured Inhumans.
• Nick Fury arrived to negotiate and revealed that powerful aliens had abducted the Inhumans, forcing humanity to seek cooperation.
• Nick Fury described the aliens as blue-skinned, and Alex identified them as the Kree Empire.
• Medusa explained that the Inhumans' origins were tied to the Kree.
• Alex asked Nick Fury how humanity wanted to cooperate.

Alex agreed that X-Mansion would protect Earth from alien threats in exchange for mutants receiving equal rights and legal protection. He reassured the Inhumans about the Kree, then realized Mr. Sinister might be using the blood he had given him and failed to locate him; humans named Alex and the X-Men Earth Defenders.

• Nick Fury told Alex that humans wanted him to protect Earth from alien invasion, and Alex agreed on behalf of X-Mansion in exchange for recognition and equal rights.
• Alex assured Medusa that humans would not move against mutants for three to five years and said the Kree would not return to Earth soon because of a protection agreement.
• Alex explained that the Kree had captured newly awakened Inhumans to research genetics and overcome their stalled evolution, easing Medusa's fears about their lives.
• Alex remembered giving his blood to Mr. Sinister and tried to use his Mind Mark to find him, but the mark and Teleportation failed.
• Alex searched Earth for Mr. Sinister and High Evolutionary over the next few days without success, while humans formally named Alex and the X-Men Earth Defenders.

Alex led the X-Men through a demanding campaign to fight crime and promote mutant integration, then proposed opening a school of magic alongside Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. The chapter ended with Emma worried about the dangers of teaching magic to humans, while Alex reassured her that admissions and teaching would remain under their control.

• Alex and the X-Men continued fighting crime around the world, and Alex told them their efforts would eventually focus on superpowered cases and difficult missions.
• Alex ordered Remy to return to X-Film Company after the campaign and help promote mutants through Hollywood films.
• Alex explained that he had sent mutants into society and government jobs to encourage humans to accept them.
• Emma questioned whether Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters should be accompanied by a Hogwarts-style magic school, and Alex said he intended to create one.
• Emma feared that humans learning magic could threaten the world, but Alex said they would control enrollment and serve as the teachers.

Alex watched over the thriving academy city, where Hogwarts students led by Stephen Strange prepared to face Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. After promising to strengthen the Magic Academy’s training, Alex decided it was time to take things further as superheroes increasingly appeared around the world.

• Hogwarts and Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters filled the academy city with thousands of magic apprentices and mutant children.
• Alex taught a lesson on magical arrays at Hogwarts before leaving by Teleportation.
• Stephen Strange recalled Alex’s request to meet that night as other students urged him to defeat Scott Summers and Xavier’s students.
• Stephen greeted Scott Summers as the two school groups met for another confrontation.
• Audrey and Monroe asked Alex to intervene, and Alex promised to strengthen the Magic Academy’s training and take things further.

Alex proposed a competition between Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and the Magic Academy, but worried it might deepen tensions between humans and mutants. As the schools' latest match ended with Stephen defeating Scott, he left the Magic Academy celebrating and Scott determined to improve.

• Alex proposed an academy competition where the winner would earn the title of Star of the Academy and his personal guidance, with a special reward for the school with more winning students.
• Alex teleported Monroe, Vivien Leigh, and Audrey to the battlefield as Scott and Stephen fought.
• Alex, Jean, and Ororo recognized that Stephen was baiting Scott into exhausting himself with his red beams.
• Stephen struck Scott with magical lightning, giving the Magic Academy its first victory after more than a year of losses.
• Scott apologized to the mutants, acknowledged Stephen's strength, and vowed to work harder.

After learning that Magneto had escaped, Alex was unconcerned, but Nick Fury told him that Logan had been found and had fled after losing his memory. Alex tracked Logan to a forest, where Logan attacked him, so Alex knocked him unconscious.

• Ororo told the mutants to accept Scott's loss and train to win next time, and Scott went off to train.
• Alex met Nick Fury, who revealed that Magneto had escaped with Mystique Raven's help.
• Nick Fury showed Alex a photograph of Logan and explained that Logan had amnesia and had run away from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s agents.
• Alex teleported to the forest where Logan had last been seen and found him sleeping in a wolf den.
• Logan attacked Alex, who dodged his claws and knocked him unconscious with a blow to the back of his neck.

Alex explained to Stephen that the Magic Academy’s basic lessons were meant to help humans gain power and reduce their fear of mutants. After Stephen understood his role in changing human attitudes, Alex began teaching him true magic.

• Stephen visited Alex at night, and Alex welcomed him in after returning with the unconscious Logan.
• Alex asked Stephen about the Magic Academy, and Stephen admitted its lessons were too basic for some students.
• Alex explained that he had kept the lessons basic to help humans become strong enough to fear mutants less, and he described his hope for peaceful coexistence.
• Alex told Stephen that he wanted humans like him to influence the upper classes by remaining true to their beliefs, and Stephen agreed to do so.
• Alex began teaching Stephen true magic, and Stephen’s abilities improved dramatically over the following month.

Alex discovered that Logan had lost his memories and became violently uncontrollable whenever Alex tried to probe his mind. A S.H.I.E.L.D. investigation linked Logan’s condition to humanity’s X Weapon project, and Alex interpreted the findings as a declaration of war.

• Alex tried to reach Logan’s consciousness, but Logan went berserk, broke his restraints, and stabbed Alex before Alex struck him through the walls and subdued him.
• Alex took Logan to Mysterious Valley and called for Charles; Emma also summoned Nick Fury and Natasha.
• When Alex probed Logan again in front of Charles, Nick Fury, and Natasha, Logan went berserk, and Alex knocked him unconscious.
• Alex demanded to know what had happened to Logan, and Nick Fury promised to investigate while Charles said Earth lacked the technology to restore Logan’s memories.
• Two days later, Nick Fury gave Alex the investigation results, which tied Logan’s condition to humanity’s X Weapon project.
• Alex read the documents and angrily asked whether humanity was declaring war.

Alex demanded that humanity surrender everyone involved in the X Weapon Project, then agreed to spare presidential-level figures if they resigned while threatening to kill the rest. As the three-day deadline approached, Charles reported that Magneto had appeared in New York with a woman whose abilities The Sage could not sense, and Alex feared she was wearing gloves.

• Alex gave Nick Fury one chance to secure the surrender of everyone involved in the X Weapon Project, but Nick revealed that the project implicated more than half the world's countries and the President of the United States.
• Alex agreed to spare those at the presidential level if they resigned, but demanded that everyone else involved be left alive by none; he told Emma that humanity needed to learn mutants could be eagles as well as doves.
• Nick Fury told Alex that governments wanted seven days to decide, and Alex shortened the deadline to three days; Nick agreed and said he was on Alex's side.
• As the deadline approached, Alex and Emma hoped humanity would choose peace while ordinary people in Academy City remained unaware of the crisis.
• Charles telepathically told Alex that Magneto had appeared in New York with several people and a woman The Sage could not sense; Alex asked whether she was wearing gloves, and Charles confirmed it.

Alex realized Magneto was targeting the summit of national leaders near the Statue of Liberty and rushed to stop him. He confronted Magneto as he prepared to use his machine on a young girl, but Magneto defended his plan and Alex recognized that the flawed machine could kill those it transformed.

• Alex ordered Charles to gather the X-Men and asked where Magneto was, then headed for the Statue of Liberty after learning Magneto had appeared there before.
• Alex's Teleportation sent him to Manhattan, and he spotted the Statue of Liberty and learned the leaders' summit was being held nearby.
• Mystique warned Magneto that someone was approaching, and Magneto ordered his allies to stop the intruder while preparing to activate his machine on a young girl.
• Magneto told the girl he wanted mutants to rule the world and accused Alex of allowing humans to persecute mutants.
• Alex emerged and urged Magneto to stop, but Magneto argued that turning humans into mutants would end their hatred.
• Alex recognized that Magneto's machine was imperfect and could kill the people it transformed.

Alex was trapped inside Magneto’s machine as it absorbed his energy and spread silver energy across Liberty Island. He transformed into a Black Hole to reverse the machine’s effects, then returned to Academy City.

• Alex freed the girl from the machine, but Erik’s magnetic force knocked him into the ability-absorbing sphere, where his energy began draining away.
• Erik told Charles and the others that Alex was inside the sphere, and Angel’s attack failed to stop it.
• The Sage recognized the danger of the spreading silver energy, but the X-Men’s attacks only strengthened the sphere.
• Alex transformed into a Black Hole, reversing the sphere’s rotation and pulling the silver energy back inside.
• The sphere vanished, Alex returned to human form, sent Charles a telepathic message, and teleported to Academy City.

Alex woke after three months in a Terrigen Mist-induced crystal state and learned that Emma, Vivien Leigh, Audrey, and Monroe had all survived. The women revealed their different ways of enduring the mist, and Monroe demonstrated her new, advanced shapeshifting ability.

• Alex's Terrigen Mist energy erupted, engulfing the four women and encasing him in crystal before he lost consciousness.
• Alex awoke three months later and found Audrey alive, then reunited with Emma, Vivien Leigh, and Monroe.
• The women explained that they had survived the mist because they were Inhumans, while Emma had protected herself with her diamond form.
• Monroe revealed that her mutation let her copy Audrey perfectly and transform into other forms, including a large cat.

Alex learned that Audrey could manipulate objects through Vibration Waves and that Vivien Leigh's Emotional Feedback made nearby people share her feelings. He encouraged Vivien Leigh and Monroe that their abilities could become powerful, leaving them hopeful as they continued to explore their new powers.

• Monroe transformed into a big cat and explained that changing into nonhuman forms consumed a great deal of energy.
• Audrey demonstrated how her Vibration Waves let her shatter glass and manipulate water by sensing and controlling vibrations.
• Vivien Leigh felt neglected when Alex focused on Audrey, and her sadness caused Alex, Emma, Audrey, and Monroe to cry as well.
• Vivien Leigh explained that her Emotional Feedback spread her unusual emotions to people nearby.
• Alex insisted Vivien Leigh could eventually control emotions and told Monroe that her ability was not simple either.

Alex learned that humanity had turned against mutants, dismantled his efforts to secure their place in society, and left the X-Mansion struggling. He decided that mutants could study magic at the academy, even as Magneto and the Brotherhood remained missing in government custody.

• Alex reassured Monroe that her shapeshifting could let her gain the physical abilities of the forms she took.
• Emma told Alex that humanity had abandoned its agreement with mutants, erased the X Weapon Project, and proposed a Mutant Registration Act.
• Monroe said X-Film Company had been shut down and mutants were being vilified worldwide, while Audrey noted that some humans still supported them.
• Emma explained that Charles had handed Magneto over to the American government, along with Mystique and other Brotherhood members, and the Hellfire Club had withdrawn from public view.
• Vivien Leigh told Alex that most Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry students had left, and Alex opened the academy to mutant students.