Chapter Summaries

Su Chen fought the Hulk, whose rage continually increased his strength and healing, while Su Chen's own power grew through their clashes. The chapter ended with Su Chen rapidly pounding the Hulk with his fists.

• Su Chen charged the Hulk and sent him flying with a punch, then continued attacking before the Hulk could recover.
• The Hulk's humiliation and rage overwhelmed Banner's control, causing him to grow larger and stronger.
• Su Chen welcomed the Hulk's increasing power as his system recorded gains to his physical durability and strength.
• The Hulk repeatedly leaped at Su Chen, but Su Chen's punches sent him crashing through buildings and left him bleeding.
• The Hulk healed and grew stronger, but Su Chen struck again and began hammering him with a rapid barrage of punches.

After defeating Hulk and evolving further, Su Chen was confronted by Professor Charles in a mental world, where his psychic resistance and mental power rapidly grew. Charles revealed that Su Chen’s sister, Su Shan, was at his school and had tried to prevent the X-Men from intervening, leaving Su Chen focused on whether Charles was telling the truth.

• Su Chen overwhelmed Hulk in their fight, and his evolving body became strong enough to withstand a nuclear explosion with little injury.
• Professor Charles contacted Su Chen and brought him into a mental palace, where Su Chen’s mental energy, psychic resistance, and Mental Barrier increased.
• Su Chen resisted Charles’s mental world and grew into a towering figure, demonstrating newly awakened control over mental energy.
• Charles told Su Chen that Su Shan was at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters and had tried to keep the X-Men from intervening.
• Su Chen warned Charles not to lie and recalled the school’s address.

Su Chen arrived at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and defeated Cyclops Scott with a Heat Vision beam. He reunited with his younger sister Su Shan, while Professor Charles sent the watching students back to their dormitories.

• Su Chen used his power to appear at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
• Cyclops Scott attacked Su Chen, who absorbed Scott's laser and copied its energy into Heat Vision.
• Su Chen's golden beam overwhelmed Scott's red laser and knocked him through the doors.
• Su Shan ran to Su Chen and tearfully embraced him after they had been apart for more than twenty days.
• Su Shan told Su Chen that Professor Charles had found her but could not locate him, and Professor Charles dismissed the watching students to their dormitories.

Su Chen rejected the X-Men’s demand that he accept their help and take responsibility for the fear he had caused, while Professor Charles and Jean Grey insisted he had to face consequences. When Jean suppressed Su Shan and Professor Charles attacked Su Chen psychically, Su Chen’s mutant genes began evolving in response.

• Storm and the X-Men urged Professor Charles to arrest Su Chen, while Su Shan defended her brother and condemned their willingness to appease humans.
• Professor Charles offered to address General Stryker’s crimes and clear Su Chen’s name, but Su Chen refused his help and rejected the idea that he needed redemption.
• Jean Grey offered to become Su Chen’s guardian and control him, while Professor Charles and Storm argued that Su Chen had to pay for his actions and had endangered the X-Men’s work toward peace.
• Su Shan tried to leave with her weak spatial transportation ability, but Jean Grey suppressed her thoughts and caused her pain.
• Su Chen flew into a rage and prepared to attack, but Professor Charles shattered his mental barrier and tried to seize control of his body; Su Chen’s mutant genes began evolving to counter the psychic assault.

Su Chen fought off the X-Men as they attacked him, and their assault threatened his sister Su Shan. Enraged, he unleashed Reality Warping, leaving the outcome of the clash unresolved.

• Professor Charles escaped Su Chen’s mental domain with Jean Grey’s help as Su Chen absorbed his mental energy.
• Quicksilver tried to strike Su Chen but fled after Su Chen tracked him through bullet time.
• Nightcrawler attacked from behind, but Su Chen seized his tail and punched him, fatally injuring him.
• Su Chen stopped Colossus with one arm while Storm, Jean Grey, and Professor Charles joined the attack.
• Su Chen shielded Su Shan from the assault, then shouted “Die!” and unleashed Reality Warping.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.