Chapter Summaries

After Dr. Zola's junk-data attack disabled the Sentinels, Emma Frost deployed the Third Legion while Hydra prepared to strike the Utopia Alliance headquarters with Amazo. Su Chen decided to return to Earth himself and punish those exploiting the crisis.

• Dr. Zola's virtual update flooded the Sentinels with exponentially multiplying junk data, leaving them unable to fight.
• Emma Frost ordered the Third Legion to take over the Sentinels' duties and contacted Su Chen about the attack.
• Red Skull planned to send Amazo against the Utopia Alliance headquarters once Su Chen began fighting Green Lantern.
• Hela offered to bring the Second Legion from Asgard to Earth, but Su Chen refused and chose to return alone.

Green Lantern arrived on Earth’s behalf and confronted Su Chen in space after the Sentinels abruptly stopped functioning. As they fought, Hydra activated Amazo and ordered it to annihilate the Utopia Alliance headquarters, while Green Lantern tried to drive Su Chen away from Earth.

• The Sentinels stopped attacking, and Green Lantern met Su Chen in space after Su Chen appeared near Earth.
• Green Lantern attacked Su Chen, who showed interest in the energy of Green Lantern’s ring.
• Red Skull and Madame Viper ordered Amazo activated and set its target as the Utopia Alliance headquarters.
• Amazo awakened at Baron Strucker’s base after the base’s occupants had been killed.
• Green Lantern used green mist and successive beams to weaken Su Chen’s connection to the outside and push him farther from Earth.

Green Lantern tried to destroy Su Chen by drawing him toward the Sun, but Su Chen resisted its heat and gravity and then charged back at him. Green Lantern unleashed layers of defenses and a massive construct, leaving the fight poised for Su Chen’s counterattack.

• Green Lantern lured Su Chen toward the Sun, then fired weapons at him as the solar gravity pulled them both closer.
• Su Chen endured the Sun’s heat, gained fire resistance, and used Cosmic Energy to anchor himself against its gravity.
• Su Chen reflected on Green Lantern’s ring and concluded that this fighting style would be more effective when used by a legion.
• Su Chen broke free of the Sun’s pull and charged at Green Lantern.
• Green Lantern formed layers of armor and a gigantic mountain to block Su Chen’s approach.

Su Chen prepared to break Green Lantern’s enormous metal mountain with a concentrated surge of Cosmic Energy. On Earth, Amazo attacked the Utopia Alliance headquarters, prompting Emma Frost and Nick Fury to ready defenses as a familiar burst of energy appeared.

• Su Chen gathered his power into his right fist as Green Lantern’s metal mountain advanced toward him near the Sun.
• Amazo attacked the Utopia Alliance headquarters, copying the Third Legion’s abilities and resisting its attacks and the Helicarrier’s fire.
• Emma Frost ordered the Sentinels prepared and refused to interrupt the Supreme’s battle, while Nick Fury called for the partly repaired Galactus Armor and energy cannon.
• A dazzling white light appeared outside the headquarters, and Emma Frost recognized it as the Supreme’s energy.
• Su Chen drew in surrounding Cosmic Energy and prepared to split Green Lantern’s mountain with his transformed right hand.

Su Chen killed Green Lantern, but the Green Lantern Ring chose Su Chen and submitted to his will, revealing its power and the Green Lantern Legion’s secrets. A message about the Energy Cannon and Amazo drew his attention back to Earth, where Red Skull celebrated the Utopia Alliance’s rising casualties.

• Su Chen destroyed the iron mountain, fatally wounded Green Lantern, and entered his mind to explain that he intended to conquer and protect the universe.
• Green Lantern sent his ring toward Earth, but it returned to Su Chen; Green Lantern died trusting the ring’s choice.
• Su Chen put on the Green Lantern Ring, subdued its energy with his will, and learned that its power came from courage and conviction.
• Su Chen rejected the ring’s offer to take him to the Green Lantern Legion and declared that the Legion should come to him.
• A Mind Network message told Su Chen that the Energy Cannon was ready to fire at Amazo, and he reviewed the earlier messages about the battle on Earth.
• Red Skull celebrated in the former Justice League meeting hall as reports showed the Utopia Alliance’s casualties rising and he believed Su Chen’s fight with Green Lantern had intensified.

Emma Frost and Nick Fury fired the repaired giant robot and Batman’s cannon at Amazo, reducing him to a beating heartlike core. As the core began to regenerate, the robot failed, leaving the survivors without one of their weapons for a second attack.

• Emma Frost ordered both weapons to fire as Amazo entered their range and noticed them.
• The giant robot unleashed a plasma attack, and Batman’s cannon struck Amazo with energy from the Red Core.
• The combined attacks devastated the battlefield, leaving a vast crater and Amazo reduced to a beating heartlike core.
• Emma Frost warned that Amazo could regenerate, and Nick Fury ordered both weapons recharged for another attack.
• An operator told Nick Fury that the giant robot had broken down and could no longer release energy.

Su Chen arrived as Amazo recovered and copied the Red Magic Cube and Arc Reactor, then challenged the stronger machine himself. Hydra ordered Amazo to capture Su Chen alive, but Su Chen stopped its enhanced energy beams with a black vortex.

• Emma Frost and Nick Fury watched Amazo reform with copied Red Magic Cube and Arc Reactor powers after their weapons and forces were exhausted.
• Su Chen appeared, praised Emma and Nick Fury, and told them the fight was now his responsibility.
• Su Chen confronted Amazo and welcomed its ability to learn as Hydra’s operators struggled to record his many abilities.
• Red Skull ordered Amazo to kill Su Chen and seize his body, while Dr. Zola ruled out the Sentinel virus as the cause of Amazo’s data overflow.
• Amazo fired enhanced red and white energy beams at Su Chen, who swallowed them in a black vortex.

Su Chen used the Green Lantern Ring to create black holes and copies of his defeated enemies, while Red Skull took control of Amazo and strengthened its ring power with his own will. Red Skull unleashed Amazo’s copied abilities and weapons against Su Chen, who ordered his green constructs to attack.

• Su Chen created dozens of black holes around Amazo, but Amazo escaped with super-speed and then copied the Green Lantern Ring’s power, which proved too weak under the technicians’ control.
• Red Skull took over Amazo through a transmission device, and his will stabilized the green energy and restored the robot’s advanced weapons.
• Su Chen created green constructs resembling enemies he had defeated, formed from his memories rather than their souls.
• Red Skull unleashed Amazo’s copied abilities, including lightning, frost, flames, and invisible attacks, while its advanced weapons fired at Su Chen.
• Su Chen stopped teasing Red Skull, raised his finger, and ordered his constructs to attack.

Su Chen overwhelmed Red Skull’s Amazo after enduring its copied attacks, then realized Red Skull had transferred much of his consciousness into the robot. He threatened to destroy Amazo, leaving Red Skull desperate to sever the connection.

• Su Chen and Red Skull’s Amazo fought amid the evacuation of the Utopia Alliance, while Nick Fury and Emma Frost fled aboard the Helicarrier.
• Red Skull purged Amazo of the Third Legion’s fading abilities and tried to make it learn Su Chen’s attack patterns.
• Su Chen interrupted Amazo’s analysis, smashed it into the ground, and lifted it by its damaged head.
• Su Chen recognized that Red Skull was controlling Amazo directly and threatened to harm his consciousness by destroying the robot.
• Red Skull ordered his staff to cut off his connection to Amazo, but a staff member warned that severing it suddenly would damage his consciousness.

Su Chen defeated Amazo with a hundred devastating attacks, destroying the robot and Red Skull’s consciousness through their connection. He called Emma Frost to recover Amazo’s remains for study and turned his attention to uncovering who had orchestrated the attack.

• Su Chen struck Amazo one hundred times, reducing his body to two writhing masses and splitting the clouds with his final blow.
• The controller connected to Red Skull failed, and the staff discovered that his body was alive but his consciousness had been destroyed.
• Su Chen contacted Emma Frost and told her to recover Amazo so its unusual material could be tested for use in the Sentinels.
• Su Chen abandoned plans to rebuild the ruined Avengers headquarters and told Emma Frost to choose a new location.
• Su Chen resolved to find out who had been pulling the strings behind the attack.

After Green Lantern died on Earth and his ring vanished, the Green Lantern Legion grew alarmed and sought help from its former member Sinestro. Sinestro ordered the Yellow Lantern Legion to assemble, fearing that an earlier threat had returned.

• The Green Lantern Ring bearers learned that Green Lantern had died defending a region of the Milky Way and that his ring had neither returned nor chosen a new bearer.
• The Green Lantern Ring bearers traveled to the yellow planet and told Sinestro about Green Lantern’s death and the missing ring.
• Sinestro recalled a past crisis and agreed that the Lantern Legions might need to unite again.
• The Green Lantern Ring bearers announced they would assemble the Green Lantern Legion and notify the other five legions before heading to Earth.
• Sinestro ordered the Yellow Lantern Legion to assemble and threatened to take the rings of anyone who refused.

Su Chen learned that Hydra had survived and crushed its remaining leadership, then reorganized the Utopia Alliance’s forces and decided how to handle Earth’s captured rulers and native mutants. The chapter ended with plans to expose the rulers’ crimes and distribute the X-Gene Serum, while mutants seeking dominance were told they would not control the alliance.

• Emma Frost told Su Chen that Hydra was behind the attack, and the First and Third Legions captured Dr. Zola after eliminating the remaining Hydra members.
• Su Chen ordered the Amazo recovered from Hydra’s base to lead the Sentinel Legion after Emma Frost reported that Amazo could not be fused with the Sentinels.
• Emma Frost reported that the Utopia Alliance had seized the surviving people in power and secured their weapons of mass destruction.
• Su Chen ordered the alliance to release recordings of the rulers’ statements so Earth’s people could decide their fate.
• Emma Frost told Su Chen that native mutants wanted to join the alliance and demanded oppressive rule over surviving humans.
• Su Chen said the mutants could join only by proving their abilities and loyalty, and ordered the X-Gene Serum distributed on Earth.

After Su Chen's victory, the Utopia Alliance exposed Earth 1's corrupt leaders, let the public choose their punishment, and reorganized the planet, then Emma Frost received Magneto and his remaining followers. Magneto's hope of joining the alliance turned into a tense confrontation in its headquarters hall.

• Videos exposing Earth 1's leaders spread online, and the Utopia Alliance presented the public with a vote on their fate.
• The public voted to execute the leaders by stoning, and the Utopia Alliance later abolished national borders and reorganized Earth 1 into regions.
• Magneto brought his remaining followers to the Utopia Alliance, hoping to join an organization that shared his mutant ideals.
• Magneto complained that Emma Frost received them in the hall, and his followers adopted hostile stances.
• Utopia Alliance members and Third Legion fighters responded to Magneto's group with wary, hostile looks.

Magneto and his followers visited the Utopia Alliance, where Emma Frost rejected their demands and showed them the Alliance’s overwhelming military strength. Magneto left after Emma declared that Su Chen should lead all Mutants on this Earth, while Emma told the Third Legion commander to learn from Magneto’s leadership.

• The Third Legion commander confronted Magneto, and his call brought Alliance members rushing to surround Magneto’s group.
• The First and Third Legions mobilized, surrounding the headquarters with soldiers and Sentinels as Emma Frost remained calm.
• Emma Frost told Magneto that the Alliance had transformed ordinary humans into Mutants with their consent and that the group was unqualified to become the Supreme’s guests.
• Magneto accepted that his group had no place in the Alliance’s plans and turned to leave with his followers.
• Emma Frost declared that Su Chen should be the sole leader of Mutants on this Earth, and Magneto left after saying he would consider the matter.
• The Third Legion commander called Magneto a coward, but Emma Frost said he should learn from Magneto’s conduct as a leader.

After bringing the alternate Earth under Utopia Alliance control, Su Chen, Emma, and Hela discussed how to extend their influence across the much larger universe. They rejected expanding the Legion of Death by killing and raising all inhabitants, and began considering how to form more legions, but found few suitable forces to recruit.

• The Utopia Alliance reorganized S.H.I.E.L.D. as its local branch, captured escaped superheroes with help from Professor X and the Mind Network, and secured Iron Man’s core program.
• Su Chen met with Emma and Hela in Asgard and concluded that the three legions were too small to conquer the entire universe.
• Hela proposed expanding the Legion of Death by raising fallen enemies, but Su Chen and Emma objected that it would leave a lifeless universe with little value.
• Su Chen decided the existing legions were sufficient for now, while Emma expected the Third Legion to grow as the serum awakened more New Mutants on Earth.
• Emma suggested recruiting the Nova Corps, but Hela dismissed them as weak and cowardly, and Emma noted that few other powerful forces were suitable allies.

S.W.O.R.D. detected the Green Lantern Legion approaching Earth, and Su Chen flew out to meet them wearing the ring that had chosen him. He told the legion that Earth had entered an era of peace and that he had not inherited the previous bearer’s will, while the legion’s leader accepted him as a new member and offered to train him.

• S.W.O.R.D.'s Helicarrier No. 2 detected a powerful Green Lantern energy signature and identified the approaching force as the Green Lantern Legion.
• Su Chen told Hela and Emma Frost that they could deal with future plans later, then flew toward the legion using his Green Lantern Ring.
• The Green Lantern Legion wondered why the ring had not returned with its new user and halted to meet Su Chen.
• Su Chen assessed the legion's members and their willpower as a ring bearer approached him.
• Su Chen said the ring had chosen him because he was stronger, and the legion's temporary leader accepted him as a member and offered him training as the sector's new guardian.

Su Chen refused to join the Green Lantern Legion and mocked its claims of duty, prompting one member to attack him. Su Chen effortlessly defeated the attacker and began releasing Green Lantern energy on a scale that stunned the Legion, leaving them to witness its apparent transformation.

• Su Chen refused the Green Lantern Legion's invitation and said he was already protecting his sector better than they could.
• A Green Lantern Legion member grew angry at Su Chen's contempt and decided to teach him a lesson, while his companions tacitly allowed it.
• The member charged at Su Chen with a green energy hammer, but Su Chen stopped it with one finger.
• Su Chen broke through the member's energy shield with a roundhouse kick and sent him flying.
• Su Chen released increasingly powerful green energy from his ring, which spread far beyond him and began transforming into tangible energy.

Su Chen challenged the Green Lantern Legion and summoned an army of recreated enemies, Sentinels, and the Legion of Death to fight them. The battle began to turn against Su Chen’s forces as the Green Lanterns advanced, while a distant observer recognized the returning death energy and went to report it.

• Su Chen invited the Green Lantern Legion to attack together, and its members unleashed their combined power against him.
• Su Chen recreated former enemies and nearly ten thousand Sentinels, then drew on Hela’s energy in Asgard to form the Legion of Death.
• The Green Lantern Legion recognized the death energy and changed its goal to killing Su Chen, while a yellow figure trembled and decided to report the return of the feared force.
• Su Chen ordered his summoned army to attack and watched as it clashed with the Green Lantern Legion.
• Su Chen’s motley force was wiped out first, while the Sentinels Legion and Legion of Death fought in formation and suffered fewer losses as the Green Lanterns advanced.

Su Chen tested the Green Lantern Ring by creating a green legion, then discovered that death energy recalled a suppressed history involving the Green Lantern Legion. As nearly three thousand Green Lanterns unleashed their ultimate combat state, Su Chen began releasing the cosmic energy in every cell and transformed into his Energy Particle Body.

• Su Chen's green legion lost ground as the Green Lantern Legion overwhelmed it, while the Legion of Death remained the last major force protecting him.
• The Green Lantern Legion halted its attack, demanded Su Chen surrender the ring, and accused him of risking the universe by combining green energy with death energy.
• Su Chen asked Emma to search for records about green and death energy, but she found that information about the Green Lantern Legion had been deliberately deleted.
• The Green Lantern Legion members released their personal powers alongside their ring energy and entered their ultimate combat state.
• The three thousand Green Lanterns attacked together, and Su Chen released the cosmic energy in his cells, transforming into his Energy Particle Body.

Su Chen overloaded his Green Lantern Ring with Cosmic Energy, summoning the Ion Shark and startling the Green Lantern Legion. The Ion Shark welcomed him into the Legion, but Su Chen refused to join.

• Su Chen poured Cosmic Energy into his Green Lantern Ring, which awakened a connection to the Green Lantern Legion's power source.
• The Ion Shark appeared, suppressed the Green Lantern Legion, swept its members aside, and sent their emblem-bearing planet hurtling back.
• The relevant department observed the encounter and realized the Ion Shark was unknown to their records.
• The Green Lantern Legion recognized the Ion Shark as its revered Lantern Beast and watched as it circled Su Chen.
• The Ion Shark welcomed Su Chen to the Green Lantern Legion, but Su Chen said he would never join.