Arc 2Su Chen’s Mutant Uprising

Su Chen avenged himself on General Stryker’s forces, survived a trap at the public trial, and erased those who had altered the timeline. He led the Mutants against S.H.I.E.L.D. and then faced Thor as he pursued the Tesseract.

  • Su Chen killed Kingpin, absorbed Black Sky’s power, and moved into a Manhattan apartment with Su Shan while the Hand pledged allegiance to him.
  • Baron Mordo and the Kamar-Taj sorcerers attacked Su Chen, but he developed resistance to their magic and destroyed them before entering General Stryker’s secret laboratory.
  • Su Chen freed the Mutant prisoners, subdued Juggernaut, and destroyed Stryker’s base before planning to kill Stryker at his public trial.
  • At the trial, Su Chen discovered that Stryker and the hearing attendees were impostors who had trapped him with a black hole, but he adapted, defeated the superheroes, and destroyed the courthouse.
  • Logan’s attempt to travel back and kill Su Chen triggered a timeline collapse, and Su Chen’s reality-altering power erased Logan, Shadowcat, Amplifier, Stryker, and others involved.
  • Su Chen accepted the Mutants’ allegiance and led them to seize S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Triskelion and Helicarrier, then learned HYDRA had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and set out for the Tesseract facility.
  • Thor arrived with Asgardian warriors and fought Su Chen, who absorbed his divine lightning, damaged Mjolnir, and sent Thor crashing into a mountain.
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Ch. 26Chapter 38

Su Chen’s reality-altering power killed Professor Charles and several X-Men, while Jean Grey’s sealed memories resurfaced and unleashed Dark Phoenix. After escaping the collapsing school with Su Shan, Su Chen reappeared on a highway and reunited with Mindy as the world reacted to the day’s destruction.

  • Su Chen’s power killed Storm, melted Colossus, and caused Professor Charles’s mind to wither into brain death.
  • Jean Grey recalled the memories Professor Charles had sealed away, and Dark Phoenix emerged as she lost control of her destructive power.
  • Su Chen took the suffering Su Shan and escaped the collapsing Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters through space.
  • Mindy drove toward the capital searching for Su Chen, then crashed her sedan after he and Su Shan appeared on the road.
  • News spread that Su Chen had destroyed the Vault and killed military representatives, while reports revealed the deaths at Xavier’s School and Dark Phoenix’s disappearance.
  • Nick Fury ordered the Phoenix incident classified at level nine and worried that no one could stop her if she lost control.

Ch. 27Chapter 39

After public debate erupted over Su Chen’s actions, he vanished for a week while Su Shan recovered. He then joined Hit-Girl Mindy in attacking Fisk Tower to avenge Big Daddy Damon, where he faced the Hand’s assassins.

  • Tony Stark prepared to expose his files on Su Chen, but Daisy Johnson released them first and condemned General Ross.
  • News that Su Chen had killed Professor Charles and several X-Men turned public opinion against him, and Su Chen disappeared for a week while Su Shan recovered.
  • Mindy entered Fisk Tower and killed the gangsters in the lobby, then Su Chen arrived with Su Shan to help fulfill Big Daddy Damon’s wish for revenge against Kingpin.
  • The Hand’s ninjas attacked in the dark, but Su Chen’s mysterious power destroyed them, leaving Mindy stunned and Su Shan laughing that her brother must be craving doughnuts.

Ch. 28Chapter 40 / Chapter 41

Su Chen and Hit-Girl fought their way through Fisk Tower, where Kingpin tried to summon the Hand’s ancient patron, Black Sky. The entity rejected Kingpin and chose Su Chen as its host, attempting to pour its power into him.

  • Su Chen restored the lights in Fisk Tower, and Mindy shot the remaining enemies in the hall.
  • Kingpin learned that Su Chen and Hit-Girl were approaching, then ordered the ritual to begin.
  • Su Chen defeated Bullseye, discovered his adamantium spine, and shaped it into a flying blade.
  • Su Chen, Mindy, and Su Shan reached the top floor as Black Sky descended and abandoned Kingpin for Su Chen.
  • Black Sky called Su Chen its perfect host and tried to force its evil power into his head.

Ch. 29Chapter 42

Su Chen defeated Kingpin and Black Sky, gaining the Hand’s allegiance. He then settled with his sister in a Manhattan luxury apartment, where Su Shan told him their mother would have been proud of him.

  • Black Sky’s will tried to inhabit Su Chen, but Su Chen absorbed its power before Black Sky withdrew into Kingpin.
  • Black Sky took control of Kingpin, but Su Chen smashed Kingpin into the floor and killed him, destroying the invading will.
  • The Hand’s ninjas pledged allegiance to Su Chen, and Hit-Girl Mindy explained that they served whoever proved strongest.
  • Su Chen and his sister moved into a luxury apartment in Manhattan, while most people believed he had disappeared into seclusion.
  • Su Shan told Su Chen their mother would have been proud of him, and Su Chen noticed he had grown taller after his fight with Hulk.

Ch. 30Chapter 43

Su Chen detected that someone had altered reality by inserting a memory into his mind, and his killing intent and evolving genes reacted. The chapter revealed that Logan had traveled back over a year to kill Su Chen before the tragedies of the future, and he broke into Su Chen’s home.

  • Su Shan reminded Su Chen of a strange figure that had once frightened their mother, and Su Chen realized the memory had been inserted through an alteration to reality.
  • Su Chen sensed an unknown person had tampered with his and Su Shan’s memories, and his killing intent and genes began to change.
  • Shadowcat led the surviving X-Men in sending Logan into the past to rescue Su Chen and prevent the events that had destroyed their lives.
  • Logan arrived more than a year too early, decided to kill Su Chen instead, and rode to his home in Moss Town.
  • Logan broke into the house through a window and spotted a woman in pajamas.

Ch. 31Chapter 44 / Chapter 45

After Wolverine’s failed attempt to kill Su Chen in the past, Su Chen sensed that someone had tampered with the timeline and decided to execute General Stryker publicly. Following information from a Rising Tide hacker, he found Stryker’s hidden mountain base, where a sorcerer appeared and called him a vessel of an evil god.

  • Wolverine returned to his timeline after Shadowcat’s power failed, and Iceman suggested finding a mutant who could amplify her abilities.
  • Su Chen sensed the failed timeline interference, while Mindy told him that the Rising Tide had sent information about a secret base belonging to General Stryker.
  • Su Chen told Mindy he would execute Stryker in public at his upcoming trial, and she promised to support him.
  • Su Chen traveled alone to a remote mountain region and found a concealed metal entrance to Stryker’s base behind a waterfall.
  • A magical ripple altered the surroundings, and a sorcerer emerged through a fiery portal and told Su Chen that they had been looking for him.

Ch. 32Chapter 46

Baron Mordo and the Kamar-Taj sorcerers trapped Su Chen in the Mirror Dimension, believing he carried the power of the evil god Black Sky. Su Chen killed several attackers, but Mordo bound him with magical ropes and hundreds of copies of himself.

  • Baron Mordo confronted Su Chen about the lingering traces of Black Sky and brought him into the Mirror Dimension with the Kamar-Taj sorcerers.
  • The sorcerers attacked Su Chen by raising and folding mountains, but he dodged their assaults using his spatial perception and Telekinesis.
  • Su Chen vanished from sight and killed a sorcerer with a blade formed through Telekinesis Molding.
  • The Kamar-Taj sorcerers renewed their assault, and Su Chen killed two more by striking through spatial rifts.
  • Baron Mordo created hundreds of copies and bound Su Chen's limbs with magical ropes.

Ch. 33Chapter 47

Baron Mordo trapped Su Chen with magic, but Su Chen adapted by developing magic resistance and absorption, then defeated him. Enraged by the mages’ attempt to destroy him, Su Chen unleashed a power that erased Baron Mordo’s squad and began disintegrating Baron Mordo as he warned Su Chen that he had made an enemy of Kamar-Taj.

  • Baron Mordo bound Su Chen with magic ropes that drained his strength and sealed his abilities.
  • Su Chen developed magic resistance and absorption, broke the ropes, and drained Baron Mordo’s magic as the mage’s duplicates vanished.
  • Su Chen shot a red-robed mage with a laser and punched Baron Mordo out of the air, shattering his magic barriers.
  • Angered by the mages’ false accusations, Su Chen used a power that made the red-robed mages disintegrate and shattered the Mirror Dimension.
  • Su Chen erased Baron Mordo’s squad and began disintegrating Baron Mordo, who warned that Su Chen had provoked Kamar-Taj.

Ch. 34Chapter 48 / Chapter 49

After Mordo escaped death through a magical puppet, Su Chen’s anger and sense of persecution triggered a wave of withering that destroyed General Stryker’s secret laboratory. He took control of the Weapon X subjects and, while heading for the prison, felt unexplained hostility toward Logan.

  • Mordo warned that the Sorcerer Supreme Ancient One would judge Su Chen, then used dark magic to make a puppet die in his place.
  • Su Chen’s darkening mindset unleashed withering power that erased people throughout General Stryker’s secret laboratory.
  • Su Chen entered the laboratory, read the researchers’ memories, and learned that his unusual blood had led General Stryker to target him for the Weapon X Program.
  • Su Chen killed the researchers and turned the Weapon X subjects in the nutrient tanks into mental puppets.
  • Su Chen recognized Logan’s name in the records and sensed an inexplicable hostility toward him before heading toward the prison area.

Ch. 35Chapter 50

Su Chen freed the Mutants imprisoned at Stryker's secret base and discovered that Juggernaut had been held in a specially reinforced cell. After Su Chen released him, Cain Marko challenged Su Chen for insulting Magneto.

  • Su Chen used Telekinesis to break the prisoners' chains and told them they were free.
  • Multiple Man recognized Su Chen and told the other Mutants about his feats, while Su Chen learned that Stryker's men were still capturing Mutants.
  • A voice from a deep underground cell demanded to be released and defended Magneto.
  • Su Chen used Telekinesis to break Juggernaut's restraints, and Cain Marko smashed through the cell door.
  • Cain Marko confronted Su Chen, who said he could defeat him in one move.

Ch. 36Chapter 51

Su Chen freed the Mutants from the Weapon X base, destroyed the facility, and prepared with Su Shan and Mindy for General Stryker’s public trial. A suited visitor found their warehouse and claimed he came alone and meant no harm.

  • Su Chen subdued Cain Marko with Telekinesis, and Cain pledged to serve him after deciding the stronger man was king.
  • Su Chen let Multiple Man and the other Mutants leave, then crushed the base’s black box and destroyed the facility and surrounding mountain.
  • Su Chen met Mindy and Su Shan in a concealed warehouse and said he planned to kill General Stryker during the public trial the next day.
  • A suited man knocked at the warehouse, revealed that the manager had helped him find them, and assured Su Chen and the others that he was alone and would not expose them.

Ch. 37Chapter 52 / Chapter 53

Su Chen rejected HYDRA’s attempt to recruit him, while HYDRA confirmed him as a future threat and chose not to interfere with the X-Men’s plan. Meanwhile, Wolverine Logan prepared to use Kitty Pryde’s time-travel ability to kill Su Chen before he awakened.

  • A HYDRA agent tried to recruit Su Chen by offering him power, but Su Chen mocked him and erased him when he became hostile.
  • Hit-Girl Mindy recognized HYDRA’s return, while Su Chen dismissed the group and reflected on the many forces pursuing him.
  • Baron Strucker learned that the contact agent had died and accepted the Zola Algorithm’s identification of Su Chen as a threat to HYDRA.
  • Quicksilver Pietro brought the mutant Amplifier to the X-Men, but Kitty Pryde said she needed until the next day to control her ability.
  • Wolverine Logan planned to travel back to a time before Su Chen awakened and kill him to avenge Charles and change the future.

Ch. 38Chapter 54

Odin foresaw Ragnarok and sent Thor toward Earth, while the world prepared for Su Chen’s public trial of General Stryker. Su Chen arrived in the capital after promising Su Shan he would return, and the waiting heroes prepared to confront him.

  • The Days of Future Past plan was described as bringing Professor Charles and the X-Men back from the dead while Logan alone remembered the past.
  • Odin awoke from a vision of Asgard’s destruction, suspected Ragnarok would begin on Earth, and ordered Thor to lead a team to Midgard.
  • Reporters and spectators gathered for General Stryker’s public trial as Reed and Tony discussed whether Su Chen would appear and how he might arrive.
  • Su Chen ate breakfast prepared by Su Shan, promised to return after taking revenge, and left her with Mindy before heading to the trial.
  • Su Chen teleported from Yorktown City to the capital, saw the crowds around the courthouse, and noticed a nearby stadium.
  • Reed assured the assembled superheroes that his equipment could defeat Su Chen, while the others waited anxiously for his arrival.

Ch. 39Chapter 55

Su Chen brought the stands of a stadium to the courthouse, trapping it inside a ring and confronting the superheroes gathered there. As they urged him to abandon his hatred, he rejected their appeals and blamed the world for making him its target.

  • Tony and Dr. Banner reviewed Su Chen’s powers, and Tony warned Reed that Su Chen seemed to evolve in response to outside stimuli.
  • S.H.I.E.L.D. detected huge energy surges in the capital and New Jersey, then focused on the attack in the capital.
  • Su Chen used Telekinesis to uproot a stadium’s stands and crash them down around the courthouse, blocking the S.H.I.E.L.D. force outside.
  • Su Chen descended inside the ring of stands as Human Torch, Thing Ben, Invisible Woman, Mister Fantastic Reed, War Machine, Falcon, Hawkeye, Iron Man Tony, and Hulk confronted him.
  • The superheroes urged Su Chen to let go of his hatred, but he recalled his persecution and rejected their calls to repent.

Ch. 40Chapter 56 / Chapter 57

At a sham public hearing, Su Chen exposed a Weapon X shapeshifter posing as General Stryker, only to discover the courthouse crowd was part of a trap to banish him from Earth. As the Negative Zone Collapse pulled at him, his body evolved a Space Anchor ability and began resisting the force.

  • Su Chen tore open the courthouse and seized the apparent General Stryker, intending to execute him before the world.
  • Su Chen discovered that Stryker was actually a shapeshifting Weapon X member, and the captive struggled toward him with a device strapped to his body.
  • Human Torch and Invisible Woman pushed the captive toward Su Chen, while Mister Fantastic Reed activated the Negative Zone Collapse to create a black hole that would banish Su Chen from Earth.
  • Invisible Woman and the gathered hearing attendees used their psychic powers to push Su Chen toward the black hole as he resisted with Telekinesis.
  • Su Chen tried to teleport, but the black hole swallowed the spatial ripples, and his evolution granted him increased strength and the Space Anchor ability.
  • Su Chen realized that Stryker and the hearing attendees were impostors involved in a coordinated trap, and he held firm against their combined force.

Ch. 41Chapter 58 / Chapter 59

Su Chen defeated the Fantastic Four and killed the telekinetic users who had tried to banish him from Earth. Mister Fantastic, Reed, failed to kill Su Chen with a second collapsing black hole and lay dying from a bloody wound.

  • Su Chen snapped the necks of the telekinetic users, including Invisible Woman, while Human Torch and Thing charged him.
  • Su Chen knocked Human Torch and Thing away with Telekinesis, and Invisible Woman died as Reed cried out in grief.
  • Su Chen sent the Hulk flying and confronted Reed, who wrapped himself around Su Chen and detonated a collapse device.
  • Su Chen extinguished the collapsing black hole with his bare hands, leaving Reed desperate and fading from blood loss.

Ch. 42Chapter 60

Su Chen killed Reed after the public hearing revealed itself as a plot to banish him from Earth, then unleashed a crushing Telekinesis attack on the trapped heroes and officials. The courthouse and enclosing wall were destroyed, leaving the attackers buried beneath the impact as the chapter began to recount how they had planned the scheme.

  • Su Chen pierced Reed with Telekinesis spikes and killed him.
  • Viewers watched the broadcast as Su Chen’s enemies revealed their plan to push him into a collapsing black hole, and he defeated them.
  • Mutants outside the enclosing wall confronted S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and cheered when Su Chen rose into the sky.
  • Su Chen deflected War Machine and Falcon’s missiles, then sent a mass of Telekinesis crashing toward the people inside the wall.
  • The force pinned the surviving heroes and courthouse occupants to the ground before destroying the courthouse and collapsing the enclosing wall.
  • The narration recalled that the conspirators had chosen to banish Su Chen because his healing and rapid adaptation made him difficult to defeat.

Ch. 43Chapter 61

Su Chen defeated the Hulk and left the assembled superheroes and S.H.I.E.L.D. forces devastated, while Mutants began fighting the surviving agents. At S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, Nick Fury ordered a global alert and began evacuating personnel as the exile plan’s failure threatened the organization.

  • Bruce Banner took control of the Hulk and charged Su Chen with a collapsing black hole device, but Su Chen kicked him down and the device swallowed him.
  • The blast left War Machine and Falcon dead, while Ben and Tony survived with severe injuries; Su Chen remained unharmed.
  • Surviving Mutants celebrated Su Chen’s victory and attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel around them.
  • Nick Fury declared the exile plan a complete failure and ordered a global alert, preparations to launch the headquarters aircraft carrier, and an immediate evacuation.

Ch. 44Chapter 62

Nick Fury saw Su Chen pause during the public trial, while Wolverine Logan traveled back in time to kill the younger Su Chen. Su Chen’s future will took control of his past self and stopped Logan before he could reach him.

  • Nick Fury regretted not using S.H.I.E.L.D.’s emergency signal as agents reported that Su Chen had stopped moving in the crater.
  • The remaining X-Men watched the public trial and prepared to send Wolverine Logan into the past to change the timeline.
  • Wolverine Logan traveled back more than a year, stole a Mustang, and reached Su Chen’s home intending to kill him.
  • Su Chen sensed the attempt to alter the timeline and sent a strand of his future will back to his twelve-year-old self, bringing his powers with it.
  • Su Chen’s mother fainted after seeing Logan, and Logan burst into Su Chen’s bedroom but was immobilized and lifted by Su Chen’s Telekinesis.

Ch. 45Chapter 63

After the X-Men’s attempt to alter the past failed, Su Chen discovered that its ripple through reality had caused his mother to die a day earlier. Overcome with rage, he unleashed a reality-altering force that erased Wolverine, the X-Men involved, and people across Earth, along with the world’s memories and records of them.

  • Su Chen recognized Wolverine as the man who had frightened his mother, learned of the X-Men’s plan, and restrained him with Telekinesis.
  • Shadowcat cut off the energy sustaining Wolverine’s time travel, collapsing the timeline and sending Su Chen’s consciousness back to his body one year later.
  • Su Chen sensed that reality had changed and discovered that his mother’s death had been moved a day earlier by the timeline’s collapse.
  • Grief and anger overwhelmed Su Chen, and his reality-altering fluctuations spread across Earth as the sky briefly darkened.
  • Logan began disintegrating, followed by Shadowcat, Amplifier, and others involved in the plan.
  • People across the world withered away as records and memories of the vanished were erased from reality.

Ch. 46Chapter 64 / Chapter 65

Su Chen regained control after his rage rewrote reality across the globe, erasing people and changing the world's history. He sensed that his sister was safe and learned that Wolverine, Shadowcat, Amplifier, and Stryker had died.

  • Su Chen came to his senses in the crater as the reality-altering fluctuations faded.
  • Su Chen sensed that his younger sister was alive and well.
  • Su Chen discovered that Wolverine, Shadowcat, and Amplifier had died.
  • Su Chen learned that Stryker, the mastermind behind the journey through space and time, had also been erased.

Ch. 47Chapter 66

After reality-altering chaos erased much of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s forces, Su Chen accepted the Mutants’ acclaim as their king and ordered them to seize the Triskelion. The Mutants captured the headquarters, but a Helicarrier tried to escape before Su Chen pinned it in the sky and stopped its crew from attacking.

  • Su Chen accepted the cheering Mutants’ declaration that he was their king, while Multiple Man, Juggernaut, Su Shan, and Hit-Girl joined the crowd.
  • Su Chen ordered the Mutants to take down S.H.I.E.L.D., and they marched on the Triskelion as Agent Hill prepared to flee amid the chaos and lost communications.
  • At the Triskelion, the Mutants spotted a Helicarrier rising from a hidden underwater base beneath a nearby lake.
  • Su Chen used Telekinesis to pin the Helicarrier in midair, while Juggernaut and other Mutants rushed aboard to take it.
  • When gun barrels on the Helicarrier aimed at the Triskelion, Su Chen killed several operators by bursting their hearts.

Ch. 48Chapter 67

Su Chen seized control of S.H.I.E.L.D. assets and learned that HYDRA had infiltrated the agency and that a secret facility held the Tesseract. As he flew north to capture it, lightning struck at the Harrier fighters.

  • Su Chen visited the aircraft carrier with Su Shan and found advanced Harrier fighters aboard.
  • Su Chen stopped a HYDRA suicide bomber, read the agents’ memories, and learned HYDRA had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and planned to revive an exiled ruler.
  • Su Chen took over the Triskelion, while Mutants began cracking its systems and claiming other technological resources.
  • Mutant Electronic recovered records identifying the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility and its Tesseract, so Su Chen set out to seize it.
  • Franklin Richards and Valeria Richards left the Baxter Building with Ms. Hill, who planned to form the West Coast Avengers.
  • As Harrier fighters approached the northern facility, dark clouds gathered and lightning swept toward them.

Ch. 49Chapter 68 / Chapter 69

Thor led Asgardian warriors to Earth and attacked Su Chen during the Twilight of the Gods. After surviving Thor’s Mjolnir strike and knocking Thor back, Su Chen faced another assault as Thor called down divine lightning.

  • Thor arrived on Earth with Asgardian warriors through the Bifrost.
  • Su Chen shielded the Harrier jets from Thor’s lightning and confronted him in the sky.
  • Thor struck Su Chen with Mjolnir, but Su Chen’s genes adapted and healed him.
  • Su Chen charged back and sent Thor flying.
  • Thor steadied himself and summoned divine lightning against Su Chen.

Ch. 50Chapter 70

Su Chen adapted to Thor’s divine lightning and power, growing stronger until he broke Mjolnir and overwhelmed the thunder god. Thor refused to accept defeat and launched one final assault, but Su Chen struck him from the sky and left him bloodied in the ruins of a collapsed mountain.

  • Su Chen used his growing resistances and Divine Power Absorption to withstand Thor’s attacks and turn Thor’s divine lightning into a source of strength.
  • Thor’s power surged, but Su Chen matched him and then shattered a corner of Mjolnir, leaving cracks across the weapon and making Thor spit blood.
  • Thor, enraged by the damage to Mjolnir and Su Chen’s growing strength, unleashed the weapon’s full power and attacked again.
  • Su Chen met Thor’s assault with a full-strength strike that sent him crashing into a mountain, collapsing its peak and leaving him bloodied in shattered armor.
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