Chapter Summaries

Captain Marvel, Carol, exposed the threat Galactus posed to Earth and arrested Valeria and the S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel involved. As panic spread worldwide, Su Chen learned the news in Yorktown City and remained composed.

• Carol killed a challenger, condemned the persecution of Mutants, and called for the conflict to end while warning that Valeria's actions could doom Earth.
• Su Chen killed Black Bolt and Maximus, while Lockjaw escaped after a psychic attack disrupted his teleportation.
• At the Triskelion, Su Chen ordered his subordinates to create a stable spatial passage using the Tesseract and received important news from Emma Frost.
• Carol arrested Valeria and implicated S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel, then broadcast footage of Galactus destroying an alien world to people across Earth.
• People around the world panicked at the possibility of Earth's destruction, while Su Chen listened to Emma's news from Yorktown City and stayed calm.

Su Chen negotiated with Captain Marvel Carol over an alliance against Galactus, demanding control of Sentinel technology and access to Helen Cho’s X-Gene awakening serum. Carol accepted his first two demands but rejected the third, leaving their negotiations at an impasse.

• Su Chen learned that Helen Cho had agreed to work with Utopia and that her X-Gene awakening serum produced stable results.
• Carol arrived at the Caesar Building and offered to mediate between Su Chen’s side and its enemies.
• Su Chen demanded the death penalty for those involved in the attempts to banish or kill him, and Carol agreed while also promising to clear his name.
• Su Chen demanded that Utopia take over Sentinel technology and that no one be denied the awakening serum; Carol accepted the first demand but refused the second.
• Su Chen defended his ambition by reminding Carol that laboratories had hunted him and treated him as a guinea pig, leaving their talks unresolved.

Carol and Su Chen reached a preliminary agreement to cooperate against Galactus, but Su Chen refused to change his plans or forgive those who had wronged him. As Carol restored order and cleared Su Chen’s name, public opinion increasingly praised him, leaving Franklin Richards furious and despairing.

• Carol agreed to work with Su Chen against the coming Galactus crisis, while worrying that his power and influence would become difficult to control.
• After Carol left, Su Chen told Emma Frost to keep their plans to conquer Asgard and Attilan unchanged and ordered her to implicate more people.
• Carol founded S.W.O.R.D., began recruiting allies, and brought charges against people involved in the false accusations against Su Chen, including Director Hill and Valeria.
• Many people protested Carol’s actions, but others defended Su Chen and argued that he could become a savior against Galactus.
• Franklin Richards cursed at online supporters of Su Chen and insisted that Su Chen had killed the Fantastic Four and other superheroes.

Franklin Richards lost control of his growing powers after blaming Su Chen and the world for his family’s ruin, destroying a city and fighting Captain Marvel Carol. He escaped Carol and appeared above the Caesar Building in Yorktown City, intent on confronting Number One Mutants.

• Franklin Richards argued online about the scandal surrounding S.H.I.E.L.D. and S.W.O.R.D., then erupted in a wave of light that engulfed a city.
• S.W.O.R.D. detected Franklin’s outburst, and Captain Marvel Carol flew down to confront him while the new superheroes went after escaped supervillains.
• Franklin attacked Carol with an energy beam, but she struck back and forced him to teleport away from her blast.
• Franklin opened a spatial vortex that banished Carol from Earth, but she returned by collapsing space, prompting him to flee.
• Franklin appeared above the Caesar Building in Yorktown City, where he prepared to confront Number One Mutants.

Reed's son challenged Su Chen in Yorktown City and threatened his family and Utopia, but Su Chen easily countered his attempt to banish him and pulled him close. After Su Chen struck and apparently destroyed his head, Reed's son reassembled his body from blood.

• Reed's son publicly challenged Su Chen above Yorktown City, drawing ridicule from the residents.
• Su Chen arrived to cheers, and Reed's son threatened to kill Su Chen, his sister, and everyone in Utopia.
• Reed's son unleashed a spatial banishment attack, but Su Chen sealed the black hole and restored the collapsed space.
• Su Chen used spatial power to pull Reed's son through the void and grabbed him.
• Su Chen punched Reed's son, blowing apart his head, but Reed's son escaped as a fountain of blood and reassembled his body.

Reed's son tried to defeat Su Chen by sending his will through time, but failed and suffered severe soul injuries. Su Chen overwhelmed him with reality warping and Telekinesis, leaving him trapped as Su Chen declared that he would die.

• Reed's son sent his will into the past to kill a young Su Chen, but Su Chen destroyed it.
• Reed's son tried to look into the future for a way to defeat Su Chen, but the future was hidden and his will was annihilated.
• Su Chen attacked Reed's son with reality warping and psychic power, erasing his right hand and many traces of his existence.
• Reed's son failed to escape through space or stop time after Su Chen blocked those abilities.
• Reed's son tried to flee by flying, but Su Chen trapped him with Telekinesis and said death was his only outcome.

Su Chen killed Reed's Son after erasing his attempt to self-destruct, then returned to Utopia and appointed several Mutants to positions in his court. The Prophet warned that an enemy from space would soon attack the former S.H.I.E.L.D. facility to steal the Space Stone.

• Reed's Son tried to destroy himself and harm the Mutants, but Su Chen erased the thought before he could act.
• Su Chen's reality-warping power erased Reed's Son, and the Mutants below cheered their king.
• Captain Marvel Carol praised Su Chen and left to continue planning against Galactus and his Heralds.
• Su Chen appointed Scarlet Witch Wanda, Blink, and two other Mutants to positions in his court.
• The Prophet warned Su Chen that a visitor from space would attack the former S.H.I.E.L.D. facility and steal the Space Stone within the week.

Utopia continued consolidating Sentinel technology and developing its scientific and magical programs while Su Chen supported Su Shan and Mindy in their studies. That night, Thanos sent Loki to Earth to claim the Tesseract, and Utopia prepared to confront the intruder as the artifact began opening a portal.

• Emma Frost reported that Utopia had begun taking over Sentinel technology and was removing the X-Gene detection device, while Dr. Helen Cho and Erik Selvig advanced their research.
• Su Chen learned that Su Shan had connected with magical elements and promised to arrange further instruction, but Su Shan protested against extra lessons.
• At dinner, Mindy asked to be tested for a latent X-Gene, and Emma Frost agreed; Su Chen encouraged Mindy to keep training.
• Thanos ordered Loki to retrieve the Infinity Stones and claim Earth, promising him the planet once he succeeded.
• The Tesseract began destabilizing at the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility, and Multiple Man calmly evacuated Utopia personnel while alerting Emma Frost and Su Chen.
• Erik Selvig observed the Tesseract’s rising energy and interference waves as an unknown presence tried to open a space portal from beyond Earth.

Loki arrived through the Tesseract’s gateway to claim the Space Stone, but Su Chen confronted him and overpowered him. After identifying Loki, Su Chen left him battered and facing the revelation that his opponent knew who he was.

• The Tesseract’s energy opened a spatial gateway, and Loki emerged to claim the Space Stone.
• Loki mocked the humans and raised the Mind Stone Scepter against them.
• Su Chen appeared and blocked Loki’s energy beam with a Telekinetic barrier that absorbed its power.
• Loki attacked Su Chen’s mind with the Mind Stone, but Su Chen’s Mental Barrier stopped the assault.
• Su Chen charged Loki and struck him through a wall, leaving him injured and his armor broken.
• Su Chen repeated Loki’s insults back to him and declared that he knew Loki’s identity.

Loki failed to seize the Tesseract from Su Chen, so he traveled to Asgard and used the Mind Stone Scepter to control Heimdall and open the Bifrost. The Chitauri Army began invading Earth, and S.W.O.R.D. detected the attack.

• Loki drove the Tesseract out of control, but Su Chen calmed the spatial fluctuations and absorbed its surging energy, stabilizing the facility.
• After escaping, Loki decided to use the Bifrost to bring the Chitauri Army to Earth and seize the Space Stone later.
• Loki disguised himself as an Asgardian warrior, controlled Heimdall with the Mind Stone Scepter, and activated the Bifrost.
• The Bifrost transported Chitauri warriors and war machines to a major city on Earth, beginning the invasion.
• S.W.O.R.D.'s headquarters ship detected the vast energy fluctuation and the Chitauri Army's arrival.

Captain Marvel Carol destroyed the first Chitauri invasion, but learned that Thanos’ army had targeted Earth while Galactus was still on the way. As humanity panicked, Su Chen set the X-Gene Awakening Plan in motion, and Earth’s unusual potential for evolution was explained.

• The Chitauri invaded a city on Earth, and Carol identified them as Thanos’ army before destroying the attackers with her Binary power.
• Loki learned that Carol had wiped out nearly the entire first wave, then decided to use the Chitauri to reclaim Asgard’s throne before targeting Earth and the Nine Realms.
• Humanity learned the invasion was connected to Thanos and continued to fear Galactus’ arrival, while Carol confirmed the danger to the world.
• Su Chen launched the X-Gene Awakening Plan as people sought powers to defend themselves.
• The chapter explained that Earth’s extraordinary evolutionary potential had drawn the attention of the Kree and the Cosmic Celestials.

Su Chen accelerated the awakening of Mutants across the world and planned an academy city to train them as Earth faced an alien invasion. As Utopia expanded, its psychic network located Jean Grey, whose Dark Phoenix personality and sealed memories had resurfaced.

• Captain Marvel Carol learned that thousands more Mutants had awakened and worried about Su Chen's growing influence while acknowledging the danger facing Earth.
• Su Chen and Emma Frost discussed Loki's use of the Bifrost to send Chitauri to Earth and how the alien threat was driving humanity to seek power.
• Su Chen credited Helen Cho's X-Gene stimulation technology for the mass awakenings, established Mutant ability rankings, and proposed an academy city for new Mutants.
• Emma Frost told Su Chen that Utopia's psychic network had found Dark Phoenix.
• Jean Grey stood on a resort island from her childhood after her psychic prison broke, releasing Dark Phoenix and fragments of her sealed memories.

Dark Phoenix revealed Jean Grey’s memories of accidentally causing the tsunami that killed her parents, then seized control of Jean’s body and sensed the Phoenix Force approaching. When Su Chen arrived, Dark Phoenix attacked the resort island and fought him as he charged through her annihilation waves.

• Dark Phoenix restored Jean Grey’s childhood memory of causing a tsunami that killed her parents, weakening Jean’s consciousness and taking control of her body.
• Dark Phoenix sensed the Phoenix Force answering her call and believed devouring it would increase her power.
• Su Chen arrived on the island after a psychic alerted Utopia, and Dark Phoenix demanded that he kneel and swear loyalty.
• Dark Phoenix unleashed the Phoenix Force, destroying the beach and forcing the tourists to flee.
• Su Chen charged through Dark Phoenix’s annihilation waves, while the energy protecting his body endured their attacks.

Su Chen fought Dark Phoenix on a barren island, where her Phoenix Force initially overwhelmed him and began to crack his body. Under the assault, he awakened Molecular Reconstruction and adapted to her attacks, leaving him walking out of the crater with new molecular perception.

• Su Chen carried Dark Phoenix across the sea and smashed her into a barren island.
• Dark Phoenix grew more powerful as her anger rose, summoned a black phoenix phantom, and unleashed annihilating waves that devastated the island and battered Su Chen.
• Su Chen's body began to break down under the Phoenix Force, triggering his awakening of Molecular Reconstruction.
• Dark Phoenix lashed Su Chen with waves of annihilation, but he caught the whips and healed from the damage.
• Su Chen adapted to the attacks, crushed both whips, and walked out of the crater sensing microscopic particles around him.

Su Chen adapted to the Phoenix Force by gaining molecular reassembly and decomposition, then overwhelmed Dark Phoenix with attacks she could barely withstand. He left her badly injured and trapped before him, while she insisted that she was immortal.

• Su Chen restored his clothes and the devastated island by reassembling their molecules, then used decomposition to blast a large gap through Dark Phoenix's waist.
• Dark Phoenix attacked with annihilation waves and phoenix flames, but Su Chen's evolving body resisted the damage and healed almost instantly.
• Su Chen altered reality to close the distance, punched Dark Phoenix, and used an invisible field to pull her back when she was thrown away.
• Su Chen struck Dark Phoenix again, nearly severing her at the waist, while taunting her about losing her arrogance.
• Dark Phoenix smiled hysterically through her pain and claimed that she was immortal as the Phoenix's host.

Su Chen killed Dark Phoenix with his new atomic disintegration power and left to study his molecular-level abilities. In space, Captain Marvel Carol split the incoming Phoenix Force into five fragments, which fell to Earth and created new Phoenix Hosts who were mentally corrupted against Su Chen.

• Su Chen disintegrated Dark Phoenix after Jean Grey refused to help her, then tested his ability to reorganize nonliving matter and repaired the island and his clothes.
• S.W.O.R.D. technicians reported that Su Chen had defeated Dark Phoenix, while Carol sensed Phoenix waves still approaching Earth.
• Carol entered Binary mode and blasted the incoming Phoenix Force, but it split into five flames that fell toward Earth.
• The five fragments entered Cyclops, a nursing home, an underground desert, the sea, and somewhere in Africa, creating Phoenix Hosts tainted by hatred of Su Chen.
• Carol ordered S.W.O.R.D. to watch for the Phoenix Hosts and to inform the leader of the Utopia organization.

Silver Surfer entered Earth's atmosphere and began altering the planet's environment as he flew, while S.W.O.R.D. tracked the resulting disasters. The chapter ended with S.W.O.R.D. identifying the source of his Cosmic Energy as his surfboard.

• Carol learned that an unidentified object was approaching the Solar System and ordered S.W.O.R.D. to investigate.
• S.W.O.R.D. identified the object as Silver Surfer, and Carol ordered a worldwide alarm and preparations to defend Earth.
• Su Chen watched the city descend into chaos and welcomed the chance to face Galactus and his heralds.
• Silver Surfer confirmed that Earth was a Living Planet, evaded Carol in space, and sent word of it to Galactus.
• Silver Surfer flew over Earth, causing ice, heat, melting glaciers, and withering forests as natural disasters spread.
• S.W.O.R.D. tracked Silver Surfer and determined that his ability to transform matter and energy came from his silver surfboard.

Su Chen went to the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility, took the Tesseract, and gained control of the Space Stone. As the Silver Surfer approached Yorktown City, Su Chen prepared to use his new power against him.

• Captain Marvel Carol pursued the Silver Surfer as he sped away and hid his presence.
• Su Chen teleported to the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility to obtain the Tesseract.
• Su Chen safely removed the Tesseract from its device, shattered its casing, and revealed the Space Stone.
• The Space Stone resonated with Su Chen, giving him complete control of its power.
• A Utopia subordinate warned that the Silver Surfer would soon fly over Yorktown City, prompting Emma Frost to worry about the blackout and possible disaster.

Su Chen appeared over Yorktown City as the Silver Surfer approached, drawing the attention of the world and the cheers of the city. As the Silver Surfer prepared to speed past him, his instincts warned him of danger.

• People around the world watched the live broadcast as the Silver Surfer was expected to pass over Yorktown City.
• Su Chen appeared above the city in a commanding new look, and its residents cheered for him.
• Su Shan cheered for her brother from the top floor of the Caesar Building.
• Su Chen sensed the approaching Silver Surfer with his Combat Intuition and readied himself.
• The Silver Surfer spotted Su Chen and planned to speed past him, but his instincts suddenly warned him of danger.

Su Chen used the Space Stone and reality-altering power to trap Silver Surfer in a spatial cage, then attacked him while the world watched. Silver Surfer recovered from Su Chen’s blows and blocked his next punch, declaring himself Galactus’s Herald as the fight continued.

• Silver Surfer sensed danger as he approached the coast, but Su Chen severed the surrounding spatial structure and trapped him inside a Heaven and Earth Cage.
• Silver Surfer praised Su Chen’s idea but said the cage would not make him helpless, while reporters broadcast the confrontation to humanity.
• Silver Surfer unleashed his Cosmic Energy, and Su Chen used the Space Stone to close the distance and smash through his shield, shattering his arms and sending him flying.
• Su Chen shortened the distance again and struck Silver Surfer, who regenerated his arms and blocked the next punch.
• Silver Surfer declared himself a Herald of Galactus, and Su Chen’s mutant genes began adapting his physical strength after his punch was stopped.