Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Su Chen shattered Mjolnir, defeated Thor, and struck him with a reality-erasing power as the Bifrost carried him back to Asgard. Heimdall treated the badly wounded Thor and watched Su Chen on Earth, but Su Chen sensed the spying and forced Heimdall to look away.

• Thor tried to rise and attack Su Chen, but the Bifrost enveloped him and carried him away.
• Su Chen snapped his fingers and inflicted a powerful annihilating attack on Thor before the Bifrost vanished.
• Su Chen sensed the Bifrost's spatial passage and wondered about the wider world beyond Earth.
• Heimdall caught the gravely wounded Thor in Asgard and urged him to recover his courage without Mjolnir.
• Heimdall watched Su Chen and considered relying on the Destroyer while Odin slept.
• Su Chen detected Heimdall's observation, and Heimdall's eyes burned until he stopped watching.

Su Chen learned that Asgard had sent Thor and warriors to kill him, then captured the stranded warriors and resolved to destroy Asgard. Mutants seized S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility and the Tesseract, while Su Chen woke to a growing mutant power and uncertainty about what to do next.

• Su Chen used telekinesis and mind-reading to capture the Asgardian warriors and learned about Asgard, Thor, Odin, and their mission to kill him.
• Su Chen suspected Odin’s attempt to prevent the Twilight of the Gods had created the grudge that might bring it about, and vowed to wipe out Asgard.
• Juggernaut led Mutants in an assault on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility, where they overwhelmed the remaining personnel and took control.
• Mutants found laser weapons powered by the Tesseract and celebrated its potential as the foundation of their new dynasty.
• Su Chen woke at the Triskelion after General Stryker had died in the global reality fluctuations, and felt lost as Mutants began building a new power on the east coast.

After choosing to build an interstellar empire, Su Chen strengthened his hold over the mutant factions and became intrigued by Reed's research into parallel universes. The reality alteration caused by his rampage also set new threats and upheavals in motion across Earth.

• Su Chen decided to live for himself and make conquering the stars his goal, then told Mindy to stay by his side as his friend.
• Mindy reported that the mutants had repelled S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attacks, while Multiple Man said they were tracking the agency's remnants; Su Chen left the matter to his subordinates.
• Su Chen learned that Electron had found Reed's research on parallel universes in the Baxter Building, and Su Shan joined him in investigating it.
• The reality alteration weakened Earth's Sanctums, giving Kaecilius an opening to target them and prepare for Dormammu's arrival.
• Black Bolt ordered the Inhumans to spread Terrigen Mist and demand an explanation from humanity, threatening to destroy its cities if they refused.
• Ms. Hill became the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. after agents delivered an old pager to her at the secret base N-51.

Director Hill’s team confirmed that Nick Fury’s pager could broadcast a powerful signal into space, while Valeria planned to build a device to reveal Earth’s coordinates. As the X-Men struggled after more students joined Number One Mutants, Legion arrived demanding to know where Professor Charles was and killed a Mutant who answered him.

• A science team confirmed that Nick Fury’s old pager sent a powerful signal into space, and Valeria decided to build a device that would broadcast Earth’s coordinates.
• Captain America Steve questioned whether Iron Man Tony was truly dead, prompting Director Hill to suspect that Hydra scientist Arnim Zola might be involved.
• The X-Men realized that students were leaving to join Number One Mutants and feared that their location would be exposed.
• David Charles Haller, known as Legion and Professor Charles’s son, arrived in hospital pajamas and demanded to know where his father was.
• When a Mutant told Legion that Professor Charles was dead, Legion killed him.

David left the X-Men after Iceman told him where to find his father, then hunted them as ordered by Galler. Meanwhile, Su Chen learned that Magneto was resisting the annexation of the Brotherhood of Mutants and went to confront him on the Brotherhood’s island.

• David’s ruthless personality threatened the X-Men, but Iceman persuaded him to seek his father by going to the capital to find Su Chen.
• David revealed that Galler had ordered him to take half the X-Men’s lives, then chased them as they fled.
• Emma Frost told Su Chen that Magneto had refused to surrender the Brotherhood of Mutants, and Su Chen decided to address the resistance.
• The chapter described the irreconcilable differences between Magneto and Professor Charles and Magneto’s resentment of Su Chen’s success.
• Su Chen arrived on the Brotherhood’s island with Emma Frost and other Mutants, where Magneto asked if Su Chen had come to kill him.

Magneto challenged Su Chen to a fight, offering the Brotherhood of Mutants’ allegiance if he died, while warning that Earth hid terrible threats. Su Chen overwhelmed Magneto and walked toward his fallen body, but a woman flew toward them before the confrontation was resolved.

• Magneto recalled his mother’s murder and refused Su Chen’s demand to surrender, instead challenging him and promising the Brotherhood would submit if Magneto died.
• Su Chen effortlessly neutralized Magneto’s magnetic attacks, including iron spikes and an attempt to manipulate the iron in his body.
• Magneto hurled a metal building at Su Chen, who destroyed it with a punch and sent the debris back at Magneto with Telekinesis.
• Su Chen broke through Magneto’s energy barrier and struck him, sending him flying over a hundred meters and leaving the Brotherhood convinced the battle was decided.
• Su Chen walked toward Magneto’s fallen body as the Brotherhood members held back, and a woman flew toward them.

After Wanda pledged herself to Su Chen, he formed the Mutant faction Utopia and learned of the Sentinel project and the West Coast Avengers. Utopia began preparing to conquer the West Coast, while Electron warned that Tony Stark might have survived by uploading his consciousness.

• Wanda asked Su Chen to spare Magneto and offered her allegiance, then summoned a tsunami to prove her power before Su Chen stopped it.
• Su Chen left Magneto behind, gathered the Brotherhood of Mutants aboard an aircraft carrier, and named his faction Utopia, with Emma Frost as Queen and himself as king.
• Utopia learned that the West Coast Avengers were forming and that the military had developed Sentinels using stolen Mutant genes, prompting Su Chen to announce a campaign to conquer the world.
• Mutants discovered Tony Stark's Iron Man armors being mass-produced at Stark Industries, along with his plan to create an Iron Legion and an adaptive artificial intelligence.
• Electron warned Utopia's leaders that Tony might have survived by uploading his consciousness to a network, despite his decaying body being found.

The Mutant Electron discovered a massacre in Yorktown City, where David Haller was killing Mutants and had crushed a pilot in a shrunken Iron Man Armor. Su Chen confronted David, who demanded that Su Chen return the old man, and their battle began with David healing from Su Chen’s attacks.

• The Mutant Electron searched the network for traces of Tony Stark and found footage of a man in hospital pajamas slaughtering Mutants in Yorktown City.
• David killed Mutants along the riverside, crushed a pilot trapped in a shrunken Iron Man Armor, and threatened to kill everyone present.
• Su Chen emerged from a ripple in space, and David accused him of taking the old man and attacked him with mud and water.
• Su Chen absorbed David’s elemental attack, caught and crushed his wrist, then hurled him through several buildings.
• David healed his injuries, praised Su Chen, and called on the other personalities in his mind to meet their new family member.

Su Chen fought David, whose Legion abilities unleashed hundreds of attacks and whose personalities sought to absorb Su Chen’s consciousness. After David froze time and tried to reach through Su Chen’s body to crush his heart, Su Chen moved and punched at him despite the time stop.

• David revealed demonic souls surrounding him and launched a barrage of attacks using many abilities at once.
• Su Chen adapted to the assault, absorbed its energy, and punched David in the face, but David transferred the damage to a stray dog.
• Mutants watched the battle devastate the city as David’s many personalities emerged and Emma Frost saw them surrounding him.
• David stopped time and tried to reach through Su Chen’s body to crush his heart.
• Su Chen moved despite the time stop and raised a fist to strike David.

Su Chen overcame David’s ability to stop time and continued extracting the personalities in his mind, leaving David helpless. The watching mutants saw Su Chen win as he seized David again.

• Su Chen resisted David’s time stop and walked toward him.
• The watching mutants declared that Su Chen had won and marveled at David’s sudden defeat.
• David cried out as Su Chen seized him and extracted a mass of conscious personalities from his mind.