Chapter Summaries

Thirteen-year-old Su Chen was taken to a mutant research facility, where his fear and desperation triggered psychic powers and rapid genetic evolution. As the chapter ended, bullets could no longer harm him, and he attacked the soldiers with a force that distorted reality.

• Soldiers dragged Su Chen into a laboratory, where General Marcus and the researchers planned to study his extraordinary healing.
• Su Chen unleashed psychic force, knocking researchers into a wall and breaking free of his restraints.
• Soldiers shot Su Chen, but his wounds healed instantly and his skin evolved to repel further bullets.
• The doctor in the white coat recognized that Su Chen's genes adapted to external threats, while one soldier kept firing at him.
• Su Chen shouted at the soldier, and the soldiers entering the laboratory clutched their chests and screamed in pain as reality warped around them.

Su Chen fought his way out of the research base as his body rapidly evolved new powers in response to danger. After defeating a powerful attacker whose adamantium claw could no longer pierce him, Su Chen discovered that the man could heal as well.

• Su Chen killed the soldiers and doctor in the laboratory, then developed resistance to the nerve gas and used Telekinesis to break through the sealed door.
• Su Chen left the laboratory as General Marcus ordered the base’s security forces to stop him.
• Su Chen halted armor-piercing bullets with Telekinesis and sent them back at the soldiers, then smashed alarms, cameras, and a security door as he advanced.
• A towering attacker cut Su Chen’s waist with an adamantium claw, but Su Chen healed and his skin quickly evolved until the claw broke against him.
• Su Chen hurled the attacker into a wall, but the wounded man began healing and told Su Chen he was not the only one with that ability.

Su Chen escaped through the experimental facility, killing the Weapon X operatives and overwhelming its defenses, so General Marcus ordered a nuclear self-destruct and fled. As the blast engulfed Su Chen, his body began breaking apart while his cells absorbed the nuclear energy.

• Su Chen’s Reality Warping killed an attacker, and he used telekinesis to blast through the facility’s security personnel.
• General Marcus learned that the X Poison Gas and Weapon X operatives could not stop Su Chen, then ordered the facility’s self-destruct device activated.
• General Marcus escaped in a Black Hawk and assumed Su Chen had been killed in the nuclear explosion.
• Su Chen had turned back to free the imprisoned Mutants, not to attack General Marcus.
• The nuclear blast tore apart Su Chen’s skin, but his cells greedily absorbed its energy.

Su Chen survived the nuclear blast, gained Energy Manipulation, and destroyed the helicopter carrying General Marcus and the others. Lost in a snowfield and desperate to find his sister Su Shan, he triggered Reality Warping and appeared in a neon-lit city.

• Su Chen absorbed the nuclear energy, healed, and gained Energy Manipulation as the blast’s mushroom cloud collapsed.
• Su Chen saw that the prison and its inmates had been destroyed, then fired an energy beam at the fleeing helicopter and killed General Marcus, Weapon X, and everyone aboard.
• Su Chen left the crater and searched the endless snowfield, determined to return to his sister Su Shan.
• Overcome by despair at being lost and alone, Su Chen unintentionally triggered Reality Warping and appeared in a city.
• Su Chen recognized that Reality Warping had brought him there, then walked out of the alley and looked around at the city’s buildings.

After arriving alone in Manhattan, Su Chen was lured into an alley by Matthew, who planned to sell his organs. Su Chen used an uncontrolled power to kill Matthew and turned on the accomplice at the illegal clinic.

• Su Chen worried that he could not find or contact his younger sister, Su Shan, and could not control his reality-rewriting ability.
• Hungry and penniless, Su Chen accepted doughnuts from Matthew, who invited him to an alley under the pretense of showing him a nightclub act.
• Su Chen overheard Matthew and a clinic worker arranging to sell his organs and confronted Matthew.
• Su Chen crushed Matthew's neck and heart with an invisible force, killing him.
• The clinic worker emerged, and Su Chen lifted him off the ground with his power.

After escaping the illegal clinic, Su Chen took the money, bought new clothes, a phone, and doughnuts, then planned to find his younger sister and seek revenge on General Stryker. As he learned about Mutants, a girl named Mindy approached him at the restaurant.

• Su Chen entered the illegal clinic, took its ill-gotten cash, and left wearing a new coat.
• He bought clothes and a phone, then purchased doughnuts and ate in a restaurant.
• Su Chen planned to find his sister Su Shan and remembered General Stryker as the man who had captured them.
• Su Chen searched online and learned about Mutants, their X-Gene, and Stryker's reputation.
• Mindy placed a lemon soda on Su Chen's table and asked whether he was going home and had finished his homework.

Su Chen practiced Reality Warping while wandering Manhattan and encountered Mindy, who was fighting attackers as Hit-Girl. When a car sent by Kingpin’s men charged at them, Su Chen crushed it with his powers and disappeared, leaving Mindy shocked.

• Mindy teased Su Chen at a restaurant and told him to go home after buying him lemon tea.
• Su Chen practiced making coins appear and disappear with Reality Warping as he searched Manhattan for a way to find his family.
• Su Chen heard a fight in an alley and saw Mindy, as Hit-Girl, kill several attackers before he turned to leave.
• Mindy called out to Su Chen, and a white car raced toward them; Su Chen flattened it with his powers.
• Su Chen mocked Mindy with her own words and vanished before bystanders arrived, while Mindy returned to her safe house and removed her disguise.

After the Department of Defense learned Su Chen had survived the destruction of the experimental base, General Ross claimed him as a test subject and sent troops to capture him. In Central Park, Hit-Girl Mindy tried to lead Su Chen to safety, but a sniper shot him in the forehead with an adamantium bullet, which stopped only partly embedded in his skin.

• The Department of Defense decoded the base's black box and confirmed Su Chen had survived the nuclear self-destruction and reached Manhattan.
• General Ross and General William Stryker argued over Su Chen, and Ross won approval to claim him as a test subject.
• Su Chen sat in Central Park, feeding a stray cat while using his reality-rewriting ability to enhance himself and thinking about finding his younger sister.
• Hit-Girl Mindy found Su Chen and urged him to come with her to a safe place.
• A sniper sent by General Ross shot Su Chen in the forehead with an adamantium bullet, which failed to penetrate beyond a slight embedding.

Su Chen and Mindy were surrounded in Central Park by General Ross’s forces, and Su Chen fought back with telekinesis and newly demonstrated reality-altering power. The chapter ended with Su Chen meeting Abomination head-on and stopping the monster’s charge with a punch.

• Su Chen reflected an adamantium sniper bullet into the rooftop sniper and told Mindy that soldiers were closing in around Central Park.
• Su Chen shielded Mindy from gunfire and attacked the surrounding troops with telekinetically launched needles after they addressed him as Number 5162.
• Abomination smashed through Su Chen’s barrier, but Su Chen blasted him away with a telekinetic air cannon.
• General Ross ordered the use of sonic weapons, causing Mindy pain and making Su Chen’s ears bleed as they healed.
• Su Chen’s furious command caused the sonic vehicles to explode, silencing the weapons.
• Su Chen charged Abomination and, despite being sent flying, halted the monster’s momentum with his fist.

Su Chen defeated Abomination in Central Park and killed the soldiers attacking him, while a girl in a pink dress fought the remaining enemies. He then took flight to pursue the people who had ordered the attack as they fled the park.

• Su Chen repeatedly overpowered Abomination, whose strength could not match his own.
• Su Chen used telekinesis to stop incoming bullets and send them back at hidden soldiers, killing them.
• Su Chen shattered Abomination's arm, tore off one of his fingers, and killed him after he reverted to human form.
• The girl in the pink dress killed soldiers with butterfly knives and an automatic rifle.
• Su Chen flew out of Central Park, tracking the fleeing attackers by their sounds.

Su Chen killed General Ross after the military’s capture attempt revealed that his powers far exceeded their expectations, then left with Mindy for her safe house. Meanwhile, Rising Tide hacked military systems, recorded the confrontation, and sold the footage to a Manhattan television station, setting the incident on course for public exposure.

• Su Chen overturned an armored vehicle with his body, then used telekinesis to kill its driver and General Ross after discovering the general was not Stryker.
• Su Chen rejected his Subject 5162 designation, resolved to end the threat to his peaceful life, and accepted Mindy’s invitation to leave Central Park.
• Rising Tide tracked the military operation, captured footage and confidential information, and sold an edited recording to a Manhattan television station.
• Mindy led Su Chen to her suburban safe house, where he saw her extensive collection of firearms.

After Mindy discovered that Big Daddy Damon had been taken, she and Su Chen followed a tracker to a trap and returned to the safe house without finding him. The news then blamed Su Chen for the Central Park battle and branded him a wanted Mutant terrorist, leaving the two children with no clear way forward.

• Mindy found her home ransacked, learned Damon was missing, and used a tracker to search for him with Su Chen.
• The tracker led Mindy to a deserted road where she found Damon's discarded shirt; attempts to contact his intelligence-agency friend also failed.
• Mindy and Su Chen returned to the safe house, where Mindy broke down over her inability to find or rescue Damon.
• A television report announced that Ross's troops had been wiped out in Central Park and aired footage of Su Chen fighting them.
• The military labeled Su Chen a Brotherhood terrorist and issued an S-class warrant for him.

After hearing that Big Daddy Damon had been shot dead, Mindy blamed Su Chen before falling asleep, and Su Chen’s grief and anger turned into a resolve to take revenge. He teleported to the Vault and began charging a nuclear blast above the building; Mindy woke to live coverage of his arrival.

• Mindy saw the report of Big Daddy Damon’s death, broke down, and blamed Su Chen for what had happened.
• After Mindy fell asleep, Su Chen embraced his anger and teleported from Manhattan to the Vault in the capital.
• Su Chen walked through the air toward the Vault as reporters watched and security personnel fired at him, but his telekinetic power deflected the bullets.
• Su Chen revealed that he had absorbed the energy of the nuclear explosion and began gathering it above the Vault.
• Mindy woke from a nightmare, realized she had hurt Su Chen with her accusations, and saw live coverage of him hovering above the building.

Su Chen unleashed the nuclear energy stored in his body, destroying the military’s landmark facility, then emerged from the blast unharmed. After a reporter broadcast his survival, Su Chen shot down the helicopter and faced arriving troops ordered to open fire.

• Mindy warned Su Chen not to attack, but he released the energy he had absorbed from a nuclear explosion, destroying the facility and killing those nearby.
• Tony Stark learned of the blast and, through JARVIS, discovered that Su Chen was still alive.
• Su Chen walked out of the nuclear haze, and a reporter identified him on live television as the wanted Mutant who had caused the explosion.
• Su Chen blasted the reporter’s helicopter out of the sky, and it crashed and caught fire.
• Biochemical troops arrived and were ordered to open fire on Su Chen.

After surviving the nuclear blast, Su Chen replenished his energy by absorbing the bombardment around him and wiped out the troops sent to contain him. The United States raised its alert and dispatched fighter jets, but Su Chen deflected their missiles and turned his attention to the aircraft overhead.

• Su Chen absorbed heat and kinetic energy from artillery explosions, then destroyed the artillery vehicles and soldiers with beams of energy.
• The government raised its alert to the highest level, classified Su Chen as an SSS-class fugitive, and ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to contact Tony Stark.
• A squadron of Raptor jets launched missiles at Su Chen, but he crushed them and redirected later missiles into Washington, D.C., damaging buildings.
• The pilots decided to stall Su Chen briefly and return to base, but Su Chen grew irritated by the jets’ noise and used his power to make them fall.

Su Chen used his reality-altering power to cause fighter jets to crash, while Iron Man Tony Stark arrived and learned that Su Chen had escaped from a laboratory and could absorb energy. Tony activated the House Party Protocol, sending more than twenty remote-controlled Iron Man suits toward Su Chen to capture him without letting him absorb more energy.

• Su Chen caused several fighter jets to suffer simultaneous engine failures, and he used telekinesis to kill pilots whose parachutes were floating down.
• Tony Stark flew to Washington, D.C., while JARVIS investigated Su Chen’s unexplained abilities and monitored the battlefield.
• Tony attacked Su Chen with miniature missiles, but Su Chen absorbed the explosions’ heat, kinetic force, and impact energy.
• JARVIS broke into the defense database, and Tony learned that Su Chen had escaped a laboratory where he had nearly become a human experiment.
• Tony decided to capture Su Chen and activated the House Party Protocol, dispatching more than twenty Iron Man suits under JARVIS’s remote control.

Su Chen fought off Tony’s Iron Man armors and revealed how much his physique and abilities had evolved. After Tony’s restraint plan failed, Su Chen developed new perception traits and faced an invisible assassin who could teleport.

• Tony sent Heavy Tank and Sneaky Iron Man armors to restrain Su Chen, but Su Chen crushed the machines and left Tony stunned when JARVIS declared the plan a failure.
• Su Chen stomped the fallen robot and evolved heightened perception, tactile sensation at a distance, and low-light vision.
• Su Chen detected an invisible assassin approaching with a samurai sword and caught and crushed the Adamantium blade.
• The assassin vanished again and teleported behind Su Chen, then slashed at his back with another blade.

Su Chen fought General Stryker’s Weapon X soldiers and evolved new defenses and abilities in response to their attacks. After killing a teleporting assassin, he faced Banshee, Mind Catcher, Fat, and the Master of Disintegration, leaving the battle still in progress as his Telekinesis transformed.

• Su Chen awakened Spatial Detection, spotted the teleporting assassin, and killed him with a broken Adamantium blade.
• Tony Stark realized Su Chen was learning and evolving during combat as Stryker’s soldiers arrived and warned one another to be careful.
• Banshee and Mind Catcher attacked Su Chen with sonic and psychic powers, but his defenses nullified both attacks.
• Fat charged Su Chen and withstood his Telekinesis, while the Master of Disintegration attacked from the side.
• Su Chen struck the Master of Disintegration, healed his wounded fist, and developed resistance as his Telekinesis awakened Telekinesis Molding.

Su Chen fought off the special operations squad and recognized its members as artificially created superhumans connected to General Stryker. He used his reality-altering power to kill the reinforcements as well, leaving the sealed-off area littered with bodies.

• Su Chen killed Fat with telekinetic spikes and praised the gaunt man's ability to provoke his evolution.
• Su Chen pierced the gaunt man's head with a telekinetic spear after noticing surgical scars on his neck.
• Su Chen ignored Banshee's sonic attack and gained sonic immunity and a stronger mental barrier while fighting the squad.
• Su Chen seized a teleporter as he emerged, broke his bones, and identified the attackers as laboratory-made superhumans working for General Stryker.
• Su Chen ordered the remaining attackers to die, killing the squad and then crushing the hearts of hundreds of arriving reinforcements with his reality-altering power.

Su Chen rejected Tony Stark’s offer to clear his name and blasted him into the sea, insisting that he needed no redemption. As injured reinforcements began recovering, Bruce Banner transformed into Hulk, who charged at Su Chen and met his threat to kill him.

• Tony Stark tried to persuade Su Chen to stop by promising to expose General Stryker’s crimes and clear Su Chen’s name.
• Su Chen rejected Tony’s offer and blasted Iron Man into the distant sea with telekinetic force.
• More than ten fallen reinforcements began recovering, and Bruce Banner apologized before transforming into Hulk.
• Su Chen recognized Hulk and, as Hulk charged at him, declared that Hulk could die too.