Chapter Summaries

After waking in White Glove’s building, Alex learned that the camp was under control but that more than twenty thousand prisoners had been sent elsewhere. A telegram ruled out escape into the Soviet Union, but a second message gave Alex and Toby a dangerous new route out of Auschwitz.

• Alex woke beside Audrey, Ella, and Toby Manes, then learned that the concentration camp was under control and the nearby camps had not noticed the previous day’s upheaval.
• Toby told Alex that over twenty thousand captured prisoners had been sent to other camps, and Alex promised to save them.
• Alex ordered Toby to prepare capable men for a surprise attack and checked the camp’s limited weapons and ammunition.
• Alex learned from Howard’s telegram that the Soviet Union would not accept them, leaving no safe route across German-occupied territory.
• A second telegram suggested a dangerous escape plan, and Alex reassured Toby that Howard Stark could make it work.

Alex and the seventy thousand people he led from Auschwitz reached Finland, where he learned that Britain planned to honor him for the escape. As the group traveled toward a ship bound for home, Alex embraced the prospect of becoming a celebrated hero.

• Neil Grant, a Finnish general, welcomed Alex and invited the group to Finland.
• Finland sent nearly a hundred ships to transport the seventy thousand people from Estonia to Finland.
• After a night in Helsinki, Alex and the others boarded a train for Inari to continue their journey home by sea.
• Toby told Alex that Churchill had invited him to dinner and that the king would award him the Victoria Cross, while the United States might award him the Medal of Honor.
• Alex reflected on his anonymous deeds in his previous life and resolved to become a famous hero in this one.

Alex used Metal Control to stop a German attack on the ships carrying seventy thousand people, then exhausted his Psionic Power and fell into the Patsjoki River. Red Skull captured Alex and Toby’s search party but left for Tønsberg after receiving news of the treasure he had pursued for years.

• Neil guided the ships carrying seventy thousand people and two thousand Finnish soldiers toward the Patsjoki River and the sea.
• Alex removed the iron chain blocking the river, then used Metal Control to repel German bullets and shells from both banks.
• Alex collapsed into the river, and Toby jumped in with nearly a hundred others to search for him while Neil led the ships onward.
• Red Skull ordered his agents to find Alex, killed a soldier who reported the river was too swift, and captured Alex, Toby, and the others.
• Red Skull received news from Tønsberg, ordered Alex and the prisoners taken to the base, and hurried toward the treasure.

Alex was held captive in Dr. Zola’s underground laboratory, where Zola drugged him and took 2,000 milliliters of his blood. After failing to find an escape route, Alex learned that Red Skull planned to keep him as an experimental subject.

• Alex woke imprisoned in a sealed box and was repeatedly forced to drink a foul liquid that made him fall asleep.
• Dr. Zola revealed himself in the laboratory, knocked Alex unconscious with green gas, and drew 2,000 milliliters of blood from him.
• Alex searched the laboratory for a ventilation duct or another escape route, but found no way out and discovered armed guards outside the main door.
• Red Skull arrived with scientists and demanded that Zola finish a project within two days.
• When Zola asked what to do with Alex, Red Skull ordered him kept for use as an experimental subject.

Alex grabbed the Tesseract to escape Red Skull and was transported back to his Brooklyn apartment, where he discovered that his teleportation had recovered. Red Skull and Zola successfully converted the Tesseract’s energy, while Alex tested his newfound ability to travel between locations by thought.

• Red Skull brought the Tesseract to Zola’s laboratory, where Zola began operating his energy-conversion machine.
• Red Skull overrode Zola’s cautious settings, causing the Tesseract to flood the laboratory with blue energy.
• Alex teleported behind Red Skull and struck him with a sledgehammer, but Red Skull survived and chased him.
• Alex grabbed the Tesseract and vanished, leaving Red Skull and Zola to discover that the machine had produced a blue energy block.
• Alex awoke in his Brooklyn apartment and realized the Tesseract had returned him from Europe.
• Alex teleported to London by thinking of it, then returned to his apartment and confirmed that his teleportation had recovered.

Alex reunited with Neil Grant and Audrey in London after their escape from Finland, then met Churchill and prepared to receive a medal. After the ceremony, Alex declined further celebrations and left Britain by ship with Audrey and Ella for New York.

• Alex approached an RAF airfield but retreated when British soldiers threatened to shoot him for entering the restricted area.
• Alex followed news of the escape group to the Port of London, where he used Teleportation to appear beside Neil Grant.
• Neil told Alex that he had handed him and others over on the Patsjoki River to save seventy thousand people, and Alex said he understood.
• Audrey ran to Alex and embraced him, and Neil explained that the group had reached London by sailing around the North Sea blockade through the Atlantic.
• Neil reported to Churchill, who welcomed him and greeted Alex before inviting him to dinner at the Prime Minister's residence.
• Alex received clothes and a bow tie for his medal ceremony, then declined further invitations and sailed for New York with Audrey and Ella.

Alex returned to New York, reunited with Steve, Bucky, Monroe, and Vivien Leigh, and arranged for Vivien to look after Audrey and Monroe. After finding no trace of Hydra in Berlin, he settled Audrey and her mother nearby, but a new upheaval began as he was ready to rest.

• Alex returned to America and reunited with Bucky, Steve, and Monroe, while Audrey and Ella met Vivien Leigh.
• Alex treated everyone to a meal in Chinatown and learned that Vivien had cared for Monroe and helped her appear in a movie.
• Alex asked Vivien to look after Audrey, and she agreed to care for both girls.
• Alex teleported to the abandoned laboratory in Berlin, searched for Red Skull, Zola, Hydra, and Toby Manes, and returned to America without answers.
• Alex gave Vivien his completed stories and found a nearby home for Audrey and Ella; after taking them to see Ghost, he faced a sudden new upheaval.

Alex, Bucky, and Steve began recruit training together, but Alex and Bucky were assigned to the 107th Infantry Regiment while Steve joined another unit. After Steve was bullied and Lieutenant Daniel punished all three, Alex accepted the punishment to leave a good impression on Dr. Abraham Erskine, who had arrived to select a subject for the Super Soldier Program.

• Alex, Bucky, and Steve were drafted and sent to a recruit training base in New Jersey.
• Alex and Bucky excelled in assessment training and were assigned to the 107th Infantry Regiment, while Steve joined another unit.
• Alex and Bucky found Steve injured after soldiers bullied him, and they stood beside him against the hulking soldier.
• Lieutenant Daniel blamed the three recruits and ordered them to run thirty kilometers with full gear, adding twenty more when they protested.
• Alex stopped Bucky from fighting and accepted the punishment, then ran with Bucky and Steve while spotting Dr. Abraham Erskine with Colonel Phillips.

Alex watched Steve Rogers prove his courage during training and learned that he, too, had been selected as a test subject for the Super Soldier Program. He accepted the opportunity, though he was surprised to be chosen alongside Steve.

• Dr. Abraham Erskine and Colonel Phillips debated selecting Steve Rogers or Alex for the serum, and Erskine said he had prepared enough for only one subject.
• Phillips announced that the Strategic Scientific Reserve would choose pioneers for its super-soldier program, and Agent Carter arrived to oversee the recruits’ intensified training.
• Phillips staged a grenade test, and Steve threw himself over the grenade to protect the others while Alex watched.
• Carter told Steve that he had passed the test, then informed Alex that he had passed too and would become one of the first super soldiers.
• Alex questioned why he had been selected, then agreed that he wanted to become a super soldier.

Carter brought Alex and Steve to Dr. Abraham’s secret laboratory, where they received the super soldier serum and Vita-Rays. Both emerged transformed, but as the crowd helped them down, Alex was still asleep when a gunshot rang out.

• Carter led Alex and Steve through the antique shop’s secret entrance to the laboratory, where they met Howard and Dr. Abraham.
• Alex and Steve lay on the experimental platforms while Dr. Abraham explained the serum and Vita-Rays procedure.
• Dr. Abraham injected the serum, and Howard activated the Vita-Ray machine as Alex and Steve endured the painful process.
• The platforms opened to reveal that Steve had grown tall and muscular and Alex had become stronger; Alex remained asleep while Steve celebrated their success.
• As the crowd helped Alex off the platform, someone noticed he was asleep, and a gunshot followed.

After Dr. Abraham’s death, Alex proposed forming a small strike team to attack Hydra, and gathered Steve, Carter, Howard, and Bucky for the mission. The team prepared to leave for London, while their family celebrated their new identity as the American Brothers.

• Alex woke in a hospital and learned from Steve that Dr. Abraham had been killed by a Hydra agent.
• Grieving and furious, Alex demanded to fight Hydra, but Colonel Phillips ordered him and Steve to undergo further testing in Alamogordo.
• Alex proposed a small Allied strike team to target Hydra laboratories, and Phillips agreed to take Alex and Steve to London the next day.
• Alex recruited Carter to lead intelligence and logistics, then persuaded Howard to join as the team’s engineer.
• Alex and Steve invited their family to a Brooklyn gathering before departure, and Bucky accepted Alex’s invitation to join the strike team.
• Audrey and Vivien Leigh suggested the name American Brothers for Alex, Steve, and Bucky.

Alex arrived in London with Steve and Bucky, failed to find Marx at his old address, and joined the others for a rescue mission to save captured members of the 107th Infantry Regiment. After jumping from Howard’s plane near Hydra’s base, Alex used Teleportation to bring Steve and Bucky safely to the ground and revealed that he was a mutant.

• Alex went to Eisenhart’s listed address but learned that Marx had moved out and left without finding him.
• Steve showed Alex the uniform he had designed, and Alex approved it.
• Carter told Alex, Steve, and Bucky that Hydra had captured members of the 107th Infantry Regiment and that they would have to rescue them from a heavily guarded base.
• Alex, Steve, and Bucky flew toward Klausburg with Howard and Carter, then jumped from the plane before Howard could drop them at the entrance.
• Alex used Teleportation to land with Steve and Bucky, explained that he was a mutant, and reassured them that they were brothers.

Alex, Steve, and Bucky infiltrated Hydra’s camp and freed the prisoners, then Alex searched the isolation ward while Steve led the others out. Alex found an unconscious red-haired woman there and carried her away.

• Alex, Steve, and Bucky sneaked into Hydra’s camp aboard a truck and discovered its factory full of giant bombs and Tesseract-powered weapons.
• Alex assigned Steve to handle the patrols and Bucky to free the prisoners while he fought through the guards.
• Bucky freed the captives, including a one-eyed Black man and a strong white man who bent open a cage, and Steve led the group out through the factory.
• After learning that prisoners had disappeared into an isolation ward, Alex went to search it while Steve and the others fought their way out.
• Alex found an unconscious red-haired woman on an operating table and carried her out of the factory.

Alex and the others escaped the Hydra base, where he met Natasha Romanoff, Nick Fury, and Logan, who fought alongside them. The group formed the Howling Commandos and chose Steve as captain, while Alex recognized that his Chinese heritage could limit his future leadership.

• Alex rescued Natasha Romanoff and met Nick Fury as the group fought its way out of the Hydra base.
• Alex and Logan teleported into the enemy force blocking their route, defeated it, and Alex copied Logan’s healing ability while learning his combat techniques.
• Alex invited Logan and Nick Fury to join the strike team, and both accepted.
• Nick Fury proposed the name Howling Commandos, which Alex and the others adopted.
• Alex suggested Steve become captain, and Steve and Bucky realized Alex’s Chinese heritage could hinder his advancement.

Steve accepted a mission to destroy a Hydra base in Berlin and capture Baron Zemo, whose weapons were devastating Allied forces. Alex went ahead to investigate and discovered that Hydra was conducting a deadly virus experiment on young prisoners, then attacked the guards as the scientist charged at him.

• Carter briefed Steve and the others on the Berlin mission, explaining that Hydra's mysterious weapons were causing severe Allied casualties.
• Steve accepted the mission, and Alex left ahead of the team to scout the base.
• Alex returned to the underground base where he had once been imprisoned and found more than a hundred unexplained corpses in its tunnel.
• Alex discovered a factory staffed by Hydra agents beyond a newly sealed exit and overheard plans to test Death Spores on a dozen young men.
• Alex teleported outside the iron door and killed five Hydra agents, then faced a scientist who charged at him.

Alex rescued a group of young men from Baron Strucker’s laboratory but was wounded during their fight. After learning Strucker’s identity, the team returned to the laboratory and prepared to attack him and his Hydra agents.

• Alex fought Strucker, was cut by his unusual Combat Knife, and escaped with more than a dozen young men using Teleportation.
• Alex handed the rescued men to Carter, then discussed his healed wound and damaged uniform with Steve, Howard, and Logan.
• Carter identified Alex’s opponent as Baron Strucker, a Hydra leader whose influence rivaled Red Skull’s.
• Alex persuaded the team not to pursue Strucker immediately so they would not jeopardize their mission to capture Baron Zemo.
• Alex Teleported Steve, Bucky, Logan, Nick Fury, and Natasha back to the laboratory and assigned them roles in an attack on Strucker and the Hydra agents.

Alex and the Howling Commandos defeated Strucker’s soldiers, but Strucker released Death Spores as a final attack. The gas left Bucky unconscious, and Alex returned to the empty base seeking an antidote after learning the virus could be slowed by cold.

• Steve led the Howling Commandos in an assault that overwhelmed Strucker’s soldiers while Wolverine wounded Strucker.
• Alex fought off the soldiers outside the base with energy guns and exploding energy crystals before returning inside.
• Strucker triggered the Death Spores, and Alex used his Psionic Power and Teleportation to take everyone back to camp.
• Bucky collapsed, and Howard explained that Death Spores were a deadly virus with no cure, though low temperatures could slow its spread.
• Alex went back to the base to find Hydra and an antidote, but found Strucker and everyone else there dead.

Alex and the others tried to save Bucky from the Death Spores by giving him their blood, but he remained unconscious and was frozen for transport to the United States. Enraged, Alex went to Berlin to attack Baron Zemo’s Hydra base.

• Alex suspected the Super Soldier Serum might have protected him and Steve from the Death Spores, then asked Howard whether their blood could save Bucky.
• Steve, Logan, Black Widow, and Nick Fury offered blood for Bucky, and Howard explained the Infinity Formula in Nick Fury’s body.
• After half a day of transfusions failed to wake Bucky, Alex vanished in rage while Howard arranged to keep Bucky frozen until a cure could be found.
• Carter arranged for Bucky to travel to the United States on a ship that left that night.
• Alex searched Berlin for Baron Zemo’s Hydra base, found a heavily guarded factory, and vanished inside with his dagger.

After returning from his attack on a Hydra base, Alex learned that Hydra had blown up the ship carrying Bucky. Enraged, he gathered the Howling Commandos and Steve and teleported them away to take revenge on Hydra, leaving Vivien Leigh worried about their safety.

• Alex returned to camp bloodied and told Carter the mission was complete, though Baron Zemo and the files had escaped.
• The next morning, Natasha told Alex that Hitler had ordered Hydra to hunt him down, and Alex learned Vivien Leigh had arrived with a troupe to entertain the troops.
• Alex warned Vivien Leigh to leave after the performance and asked whether Audrey and Monroe were well.
• Carter told Alex that Hydra had blown up the ship carrying Bucky, who had been sent back to America.
• Alex assembled the Howling Commandos, vowed to destroy Hydra, and took Steve with him as he teleported the team away.
• Vivien Leigh asked Carter what had happened and worried that Alex and the others would be in danger.

Alex and the Howling Commandos destroyed a Hydra force, captured its Land Cruiser, and used a Hydra radio to learn that Zola was traveling by train. Alex led the team onto the train, where Zola revealed that he had lured them into a trap.

• Alex and the Howling Commandos waited for Hydra troops and a Land Cruiser, then Nick's planted bombs wiped out nearly half the approaching army.
• The Commandos eliminated the remaining Hydra soldiers, captured the Land Cruiser, and found a Hydra radio inside it.
• Natasha learned from the radio that Zola was escorting equipment on a train, and Alex took the team to intercept him.
• Steve asked Alex whether Bucky might be saved, but Steve fell silent before Zola's train arrived.
• Alex teleported the Commandos onto the train, where Zola welcomed them aboard the Death Train and ordered them to die.