Chapter Summaries

Alex ordered the X-Men to destroy the X Weapon Project base and recover Magneto and his group after humanity's actions reignited mutant-human tensions. Gambit's squad attacked the base while Charles, Alex, and The Mimic infiltrated the Pentagon, where Charles finally located Magneto.

• Alex ordered the X-Men to destroy the X Weapon Project research base and told Emma to demand Magneto's return from Nick Fury, using force if necessary.
• Charles visited Nick Fury, learned that the U.S. military held Magneto and his group in a prison beneath the Pentagon, and warned Fury to keep his distance from the mutants.
• Gambit led Daken and the X-Men into the X Weapon Project base, where they broke through its defenses and fought the soldiers guarding the entrance.
• William Stryker ordered the scientists to activate the unfinished Weapon Eleven as the X-Men breached the base's floodgate.
• Alex, Charles, and The Mimic infiltrated the Pentagon, and Charles finally sensed where Magneto was being held.

Charles, Alex, and The Mimic rescued Magneto and Mystique from their underground cells in the Pentagon while an attack on the X Weapon Project base distracted the guards. They escaped the prison, but found the Pentagon surrounded by soldiers.

• Charles discovered that Gambit and the others had thrown the X Weapon Project base into chaos, prompting soldiers to move Magneto and Mystique.
• Charles realized Magneto and Mystique were imprisoned underground and planned to attack the soldiers escorting them without killing them.
• Alex used a controlled Energy Impact Beam to disable the soldiers and rescued Magneto and Mystique.
• The Mimic concealed the group while Charles used his telepathy to disrupt surveillance and help them flee the underground prison.
• Charles and the others reached the Pentagon, where countless soldiers had surrounded the building.

Charles and the others learned that someone had falsely announced a mutant war on humanity, while Daken confronted Deadpool inside the X Weapon Project base. The chapter ended with Gambit stepping in to fight Deadpool as the X-Men arrived.

• Charles used telepathy and learned that the American soldiers had heard that mutants declared war on humanity, then urged the group to escape.
• Magneto and Mystique woke up and revealed that humans had weakened them with drugs developed through secret research programs.
• Daken reached the X Weapon Project laboratory and saw William Stryker's message falsely declaring war on humanity.
• Deadpool appeared, rescued Stryker, and cut off Daken's Bone Claws with his Adamantium swords.
• Gambit and the X-Men arrived, and Gambit moved in to face Deadpool while Daken warned him about Deadpool's strength and possible teleportation.

William Stryker controlled Deadpool from a hidden room, turning him against the X-Men with commands that unleashed his powers and killing mode. Deadpool began slaughtering the team while Gambit and Daken struggled to stop him.

• Gambit attacked Deadpool with explosive playing cards, but Deadpool regenerated and nearly killed him before a Teleporter rescued him.
• Stryker commanded Deadpool to use his eyes, and Deadpool fired powerful red beams that Gambit and other X-Men struggled to block.
• Stryker activated Deadpool's strongest Kill Mode, leaving him a mindless killing machine.
• Deadpool used teleportation to ambush the X-Men and killed five of them while avoiding Daken.
• Stryker celebrated as Deadpool continued attacking the X-Men, and Gambit could do little to stop him.

Charles and his allies escaped the Pentagon and returned to Mysterious Valley, where Alex struck Magneto after learning Gambit's team was in trouble. At the X Weapon Project base, Deadpool had massacred most of Gambit's X-Men, and Alex arrived to face him as William Stryker ordered Deadpool to attack.

• Magneto led Charles's group out of the Pentagon while wounding rather than killing the soldiers, and they met The Sage and the X-Men outside.
• After returning to Mysterious Valley, Alex punched Magneto and ordered him and Mystique locked up when Emma reported that Gambit and his team had gone missing.
• Deadpool continued killing Gambit's X-Men, while William Stryker watched and prepared to command Deadpool to finish them off.
• Alex appeared at the secret base, saw the dead X-Men, and demanded to know who had done it.
• William Stryker changed his command and ordered Deadpool to take Alex out.

Alex returned to find the X-Men slaughtered by Deadpool, who had been controlled by William Stryker, and destroyed the secret base after learning Stryker had escaped. Back in Mysterious Valley, the survivors unanimously supported Alex’s call for revenge against humanity.

• Alex found the X-Men dead, subdued Deadpool with his magnetic power, and accidentally freed him from William Stryker’s control by nearly tearing out his Adamantium skeleton.
• Gambit told Alex that Deadpool was the X Weapon Project’s only successful test subject and had rescued William Stryker, but Alex could not find Stryker in Deadpool’s fragmented memories and discovered he had escaped.
• Alex teleported the survivors and the corpses back to Mysterious Valley, then destroyed the secret base with an energy bomb.
• Alex declared that he wanted revenge, while Deadpool made irrelevant comments until Alex sealed his mouth with his power.
• Alex, Charles, Emma, and the others unanimously approved striking back at humanity.

Alex and twelve X-Men confronted humanity in Times Square, using a public display of mutant suffering and a battle with U.S. forces to retaliate and intimidate people. As the fighting continued and Elixir’s group rescued civilians, a flaming figure arrived to attack Alex.

• Alex appeared in Times Square with twelve X-Men, and Nick Fury arrived with soldiers and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to confront him.
• Alex lifted Nick Fury into the air and flung him over the horizon, then Sea Siren Sean disabled a tank and shattered a general’s loudspeaker with a sonic wave.
• Alex broadcast evidence of the X Weapon Project and declared that the mutants had come for revenge.
• The X-Men attacked the soldiers, who fired on them and caused civilian casualties and damage across Times Square.
• Elixir, Nightcrawler, and two less combat-oriented mutants rescued civilians while Alex watched the battle.
• A figure engulfed in flames flew toward Alex as the fighting continued.

Alex confronted the newly emerged Fantastic Four and warned them that humans would fear and persecute all superpowered people, not just mutants. After the Fantastic Four refused to leave, civilians and soldiers called for the heroes to defeat the mutants, and Alex invited the team to fight.

• Alex stopped Johnny Storm's flaming charge, extinguished his fire, and recognized Susan as his invisible accomplice.
• Alex identified Johnny and Susan as the Fantastic Four, and Susan confirmed Reed Richards and Ben the Thing were on their way.
• Reed and Ben arrived, and Reed proposed talking while Alex blamed the politicians for the conflict and ordered the Fantastic Four to leave.
• Reed refused to stand aside, while Alex warned that humans would fear the Fantastic Four as they feared mutants.
• Ben rallied soldiers and civilians to fight the mutants, and Alex stepped back to face the assembled Fantastic Four.

Alex fought the Fantastic Four, testing their abilities before unleashing his own power. He defeated Reed and walked free, while Reed acknowledged Alex's strength.

• The Thing struck Alex in the head, knocking him unconscious, and Johnny followed with a fireball that Alex absorbed.
• Reed recognized Alex's Energy Absorption and coordinated the Fantastic Four's attacks to overwhelm him while he was trapped.
• Alex copied Reed's elastic body to escape, but Susan's force field blocked his teleportation and Reed trapped him again.
• Alex released magnetic steel balls, but they bounced off Reed's rubber body and nearly injured Alex.
• Alex unleashed a powerful red energy blast that badly wounded Reed and forced him to release Alex.
• Alex asked Reed how he felt, and Reed admitted that Alex was very strong.

Alex learned that humans and mutants would eventually merge, but the process could take millions of years, so he sought help from Attilan to establish a home for mutants. Medusa proposed that Alex use his Magnetic Field Control to build a habitable planet near Earth, leaving him excited about the future of mutants.

• Otu told Alex that humans and mutants shared an origin and would eventually merge, though it could take hundreds of thousands or millions of years.
• Alex went to Attilan and asked Black Bolt to help X-Mansion build a free city on the Moon, but Black Bolt said the Inhumans could not build another Attilan.
• Medusa told Alex that the mutants did not need to settle on the Moon and suggested building a small planet with an Earth-like environment.
• Medusa explained that Alex's Magnetic Field Control could gather the materials needed to construct the planet, and Alex accepted the idea with excitement.
• Medusa asked Alex to offer the Inhumans refuge if they ever faced disaster, and Alex agreed before leaving to tell Crystal that mutants had a bright future.

Alex explained Medusa's Asteroid Project to Crystal, then returned to Earth and proposed moving mutants to an asteroid as their future refuge. The group began preparations, and Alex left to seek Reed Richards's help with the science behind the plan.

• Alex described the Asteroid Project to Crystal, who supported the plan and looked forward to visiting the asteroid.
• Alex returned to Mysterious Valley and summoned Emma, Charles, and the other X-Mansion leaders to discuss the future of mutants.
• Logan preferred staying in the valley, while Charles warned that mutants' room to survive on Earth was shrinking.
• Alex proposed using an asteroid as a refuge, and Emma and the others listened as he explained the plan.
• Charles suggested Reed Richards as a scientist who could help, and Alex left to meet him while the others began preparing for the Asteroid Project.

Alex visited the Fantastic Four and asked Reed Richards to help build a planet where mutants could live. After demonstrating his power and restoring Ben to human form, Alex secured Reed’s promise to help.

• Alex found the Fantastic Four at their new building and destroyed the government’s hidden listening devices and cameras.
• Alex asked Reed to help create an Earthlike artificial planet where mutants could live.
• When Ben doubted that Alex could build a planet, Alex turned him into a stone sphere and trapped Johnny in a cage of flames.
• Susan explained Ben’s distress, and Reed said he had preliminary results, so Alex freed Johnny and restored Ben to human form.
• Ben thanked Alex, and Reed promised to do everything he could to help build the planet.

Alex visited Tony Stark and found him depressed and drinking after being shaken by Apocalypse’s power. He planted the idea of the Iron Man Armor in Tony’s memories, then left to gather materials in space, while Tony woke up inspired to build the armor.

• Alex left the Baxter Building and visited Stark Tower, where Pepper Potts told him Tony had stopped coming to work and had handed company matters to Obadiah Stane.
• Alex found Tony at his seaside villa hosting a drunken party, sent the women away, and used Telepathy to discover that Tony felt helpless after witnessing Apocalypse’s power.
• Alex planted memories of the Iron Man Armor in Tony’s mind and altered his memories about its energy supply before departing.
• Alex returned to Mysterious Valley, told Charles to stay in contact with Reed, and went into space to gather materials for an asteroid.
• Tony woke up, recognized the Iron Man Armor images Alex had placed in his mind, and regained confidence as he resolved to pursue the idea.

After Alex restored Ben, Victor Von Doom learned about Reed’s Cosmic Energy Ray plans and used the blueprints to enhance his own powers. He emerged from the experiment declaring himself Doctor Doom.

• Reed marveled at Ben’s restored human form while Johnny, Susan, and Ben left the Baxter Building.
• Victor watched footage of Alex at the Baxter Building and destroyed the screen in anger.
• Victor visited Reed, learned Alex had restored Ben, and received Reed’s blueprints for reversing the Cosmic Energy Ray.
• Victor modified the plans into an enhanced Cosmic Energy Ray and activated it in his company’s laboratory.
• After the experiment darkened the lab and wrecked the machine, Victor emerged with greater power and crushed the mechanical chamber.

Victor became Doctor Doom and attacked Reed, taking him from the ruined laboratory. Susan went after Victor, while Ben used Reed's machine to regain his Thing powers and set out to help.

• Victor's transformation advanced until his face and body became metallic, and he returned to Reed's laboratory as Doctor Doom.
• At a stunt show, Susan hurried invisibly toward the Baxter Building after a report of a Manhattan power outage, while Johnny became the Human Torch during a motorcycle stunt.
• Victor attacked Reed with electricity, incapacitated him, and left the laboratory in ruins with a note bearing the name Victor Von Doom.
• Susan and Ben found the note and realized Victor had also been changed by the space mission; Susan rushed off to save Reed.
• Ben regretted losing his powers, activated Reed's unfinished machine, and transformed back into the Thing.

Alex returned to Earth after sensing The Thing’s Mutant Energy fluctuate and discovered Doctor Doom had attacked the Fantastic Four. After freeing Reed and Susan, Alex offered to stimulate the team’s Mutant Energy so they could fight Doom.

• Alex sensed The Thing’s Mutant Energy fluctuating, returned to Earth, and found Reed’s laboratory in ruins.
• Johnny attacked Alex, but Alex subdued him and led him toward Doom’s company after locating The Thing there.
• Alex saw Doctor Doom’s advanced electromagnetic powers as Doom and The Thing crashed into a garbage truck.
• Alex flew into the building, freed Reed and Susan, and learned Doom had used Reed’s device to absorb their Cosmic Energy Ray energy.
• Reed asked Alex to help stop Doom, and Alex offered to stimulate the Fantastic Four’s Mutant Energy.

Alex stimulated Reed and Susan’s latent powers as the Fantastic Four fought Doctor Doom in Times Square. After Doom’s ambush nearly killed Susan, Alex intervened, leaving the team’s fate unresolved.

• Alex stimulated Reed and Susan’s potential and urged them to join Johnny and Ben against Victor.
• Reed and Susan entered the fight, with Reed restraining Victor and Susan shielding the surrounding spectators while Johnny unleashed a fire tornado.
• The Thing doused the red-hot Victor with water, but Victor used the steam to approach the Fantastic Four unseen.
• Alex warned the team telepathically as Victor burst from the steam and fired an electric bolt at an exhausted Susan.
• A flash of black light made Victor’s bolt disappear just before it struck Susan.

Alex secretly helped Reed, Susan, Johnny, and Ben defeat Doctor Doom while concealing his own role. As police and special agents arrived, Alex examined the captured Doctor Doom and discovered that his genuine and simulated Mutant Energy had fused together.

• Alex told Reed to fight Doctor Doom while he secretly stimulated Johnny and restored Ben's genuine Mutant Energy.
• Reed, Susan, Johnny, and Ben continued battling Doctor Doom, but their attacks failed to overcome his electromagnetic powers.
• Alex transferred energy to Susan, strengthening her Invisible Force Field enough to suppress Doctor Doom's electromagnetic field.
• Reed and the others used their earlier tactic to subdue Doctor Doom while Alex remained hidden.
• Police and apparent special-agency members arrived, and Alex examined Doctor Doom, finding that his genuine and simulated Mutant Energy had fused.

Alex drained Doctor Doom’s Mutant Energy, then learned from Nick Fury that humanity had secretly continued the Super Soldier Program using Steve’s serum and samples of Alex’s. The researchers had used up Alex’s sample decades earlier, but Alex remembered that Mr. Sinister still possessed some of his serum.

• Alex took Doctor Doom’s Mutant Energy, leaving him weakened and powerless.
• The Fantastic Four returned to the Baxter Building and told Alex that the authorities had taken Victor and wanted to investigate them as research subjects.
• Alex warned Reed that the Baxter Building laboratory was destroyed, then left to visit Nick Fury.
• Nick Fury told Alex that humanity had continued the Super Soldier Program and was reverse-engineering Dr. Abraham’s serum using Steve’s and Alex’s samples.
• Nick Fury reassured Alex that his serum had been used up decades earlier, and Alex remembered that Mr. Sinister still had some of it.

Alex learned that military scientist Bruce Banner was experimenting with gamma-irradiated Super Soldier Serum and decided to let events unfold rather than prevent the creation of the Green Giant. At Berkeley University, an accident exposed Bruce to the gamma-ray emitters as he shielded an injured colleague.

• Nick Fury told Alex that an American military scientist had used gamma radiation on the Super Soldier Serum.
• Alex realized the scientist was Bruce Banner and chose not to interfere with the experiment.
• Bruce entered the isolation chamber to help repair the equipment after the blond youth could not connect it.
• The gamma-ray emitters activated, and Bruce shielded the injured blond youth from the radiation.