Chapter Summaries

Neji Hyuga joined Charlotte Doyle’s group, and Charlotte promised to bring the team’s deceased loved ones back when he had enough power. Meanwhile, Banner returned to Betty and Charlotte practiced combining his new eye abilities and Ninjutsu.

• Charlotte greeted Neji Hyuga, who had arrived that morning, and brought him to breakfast with the others.
• Rock Lee welcomed Neji excitedly and explained how he had recovered from his injuries and come to Charlotte’s world.
• Charlotte told the group that he would eventually bring their family members, including those who had died, to this world.
• Charlotte asked Winston to arrange identities for Neji and Kakashi, while Tsunade examined the supernatural creatures and Selene led ninjas to purge vampires from other branches.
• Banner searched his old laboratory at Culver University but found his research records missing, then reunited with Betty, who brought him home.
• Charlotte trained to switch between the Sharingan and Byakugan and to master the Ninjutsu he had acquired.

After three days of training, Charlotte and Tsunade went out to investigate an attack in Queens and encountered Abomination. Charlotte chose to test his strength, knocking the monster into the ground with a powerful kick as Tsunade and the soldiers watched.

• Charlotte spent three days training his Ninjutsu and taijutsu while receiving sign-in rewards.
• Tsunade told Charlotte she planned to study live Vampires and suggested Selene take the Ninjas on missions.
• Charlotte and Tsunade left the Agency after hearing explosions and gunfire, then saw Abomination attack the street.
• Abomination hurled a car at Charlotte, who kicked it back into the monster.
• Charlotte refused Tsunade's offer to help and struck Abomination with Heavenly Spear Foot, driving him into the ground.

Bruce Banner jumped from the helicopter to confront the monster his team had created, but transformed into the Hulk after landing. Charlotte and Tsunade fought Abomination and Hulk as Iruka evacuated civilians, leaving Charlotte and Abomination trading powerful blows.

• Bruce Banner persuaded General Ross to let him jump from the helicopter, kissed Betty, and leaped toward the battlefield.
• Charlotte struck Abomination into the ground and cratered the street with a Strength of a Hundred punch.
• Banner hit the street beside Tsunade, transformed into the Hulk, and was immediately kicked away by her.
• Abomination abandoned his interest in Hulk and attacked Charlotte, who met his punch with Strength of a Hundred.
• Iruka sent the Agency staff to the basement and carried injured civilians away from the fighting.
• Charlotte and Abomination were both knocked back by their punch collision, then laughed off the exchange.

Tsunade demonstrated Strength of a Hundred against Hulk, repeatedly knocking him down as he rapidly healed, while Charlotte faced Abomination. Ross tried to take control of the fight, and Nick Fury sent agents to the scene to prevent Ross from provoking a conflict with Charlotte and the others.

• Ross ordered his troops to retreat, record the fight, and gather information about Charlotte, while Betty watched Banner transform from the helicopter.
• Tsunade explained Strength of a Hundred to Charlotte, then uppercut Hulk into the air and slammed him into the ground with a flying kick.
• Hulk healed his injuries and tried to run toward Charlotte, but Tsunade split the ground beneath him and resumed her attack to keep him away from Charlotte.
• Hill showed Nick Fury footage of the fight on 71st Avenue, and Fury recognized the location as Charlotte Agency.
• Ross refused to share control or information with Fury and cut off their call, prompting Fury to dispatch a Quinjet and agents to the scene.

Charlotte used the Byakugan and Gentle Fist techniques to disable Abomination, but the creature regenerated and struck him through a building. Charlotte opened the Eight Inner Gates, reached Kage-level power, and charged back at Abomination.

• Charlotte used his Byakugan to locate Abomination's vital structures and cut the muscle groups and meridians throughout his body with a modified Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.
• Abomination collapsed, while General Ross watched the fight from a helicopter and ordered his soldiers to keep observing.
• As Charlotte gathered chakra for a blow to Abomination's heart, Abomination recovered his arm and sent Charlotte crashing through a building on 72nd Avenue.
• Charlotte opened the Eight Inner Gates, blasted away the rubble, and surged with green chakra as Ross ordered the helicopter to follow.
• Charlotte sprinted at Abomination with tremendous speed, appearing in front of him like green lightning.

Charlotte killed Abomination and stored his body, while Tsunade defeated Hulk before learning he had come to help. Hulk fled as General Ross’s troops arrived in the city.

• Charlotte struck Abomination into a trench, then pierced his chest and destroyed his heart with Infinite Dance.
• Charlotte stored Abomination’s corpse for Orochimaru or Sasori rather than letting the military take it.
• Betty asked Ross to help Banner after seeing Tsunade beat Hulk, and Ross realized Abomination was dead and his body was gone.
• Hulk saw Abomination’s death and disappearance, understood his task was over, and fled when he landed.
• Charlotte stopped Tsunade from chasing Hulk and explained that Hulk had helped them, prompting Tsunade to punch him for not warning her sooner.
• Hulk escaped across the buildings as General Ross’s troops and tanks arrived.

General Ross confronted Charlotte and Tsunade over Blonsky’s missing body, but Tsunade attacked when Ross’s soldiers aimed their weapons at them. The standoff ended with Ross and his troops battered and an armored vehicle trapped in a massive crack in the street.

• Betty watched Hulk flee and hoped he would avoid both the military and a fatal beating.
• Ross reviewed Charlotte’s sparse file, recognized his ties to Stark Industries, and arrived with troops at 71st Avenue, Forest Hills.
• Ross thanked Charlotte and Tsunade, then demanded they return Blonsky’s body, claiming the creature was military property.
• Charlotte denied taking Blonsky, while a noncommissioned officer told Ross that the soldiers had no evidence of what happened to the body.
• Ross ordered Charlotte to hand over Blonsky’s body, and his soldiers aimed their weapons at Charlotte and Tsunade.
• Tsunade stomped the street open, dropped an armored vehicle into the crack, and rebuked Ross for threatening Charlotte.

Charlotte refused to admit taking Blonsky's corpse as General Ross tried to negotiate its return. Nick Fury arrived with S.H.I.E.L.D. authorization, took control of the scene, and Ross withdrew his troops while demanding that S.H.I.E.L.D. recover the corpse.

• Charlotte used his killing intent to intimidate Ross and the soldiers, while Ross ordered them not to provoke him.
• Ross offered to pay Charlotte for his help, but Charlotte denied taking Blonsky and challenged Ross to provide evidence.
• A S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet arrived, and Charlotte explained the organization to Tsunade.
• Nick Fury showed Ross Pentagon authorization giving S.H.I.E.L.D. control of the matter.
• After receiving a call from the Pentagon, Ross agreed to leave but demanded that Nick Fury retrieve Blonsky's corpse, then ordered his troops to retreat.

After helping end the battle, Charlotte met with Nick Fury, who thanked him and invited him to join an alliance for handling threats to Earth. Charlotte refused and mocked Fury’s attempt to recruit him, leaving the meeting tense.

• Iruka finished rescuing civilians and returned the Charlotte Agency staff to their posts.
• Nick Fury and Hill met Charlotte after Ross and the others withdrew, then followed him to the agency’s reception room.
• Fury thanked Charlotte and Tsunade for stopping the disaster, but Charlotte demanded hundreds of Energy Blocks as practical thanks.
• Fury invited Charlotte to join an alliance that would include Tony Stark, but Charlotte rejected the proposal as a house-playing game.
• Fury warned that other extraordinary forces existed, and Charlotte laughed at his claim, leaving Fury and Hill visibly displeased.

Nick Fury tried to recruit Charlotte and extract information, but Charlotte refused to share secrets without a paid commission. After learning Blonsky and Banner had both escaped, Fury left to report back to S.H.I.E.L.D., where he ordered the conversation classified and considered whether a more powerful organization protected the world.

• Nick Fury asked Charlotte why he dismissed S.H.I.E.L.D.'s cause, but Charlotte said the secrets required a costly commission and refused credit.
• Nick Fury asked Charlotte to return Blonsky's corpse, and Charlotte revealed that the yellow monster had vanished while Banner fled.
• Nick Fury realized Ross had misled him and swore when he understood Blonsky might still be alive.
• Nick Fury and Hill left Charlotte Agency and discussed Charlotte's arrogance, restraint, and possible connection to Hidden Leaf Village aboard the Quinjet.
• Nick Fury ordered Hill to keep the conversation confidential and wondered whether an unknown organization protected the world.

Charlotte sparred with Tsunade to test his abilities against a Kage-level fighter, but Tsunade stopped when she realized she could not hurt him. She then coached him on Strength of a Hundred and Strong Fist, while Nick Fury retrieved a strange pager from his safe.

• Tsunade took Charlotte to the Training Room and challenged him to spar, promising not to hold back.
• Charlotte activated the Sharingan and fought Tsunade with taijutsu, but she repeatedly outpaced and overpowered him.
• Charlotte tried shuriken, Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu, and Chidori, but Tsunade evaded his attacks with the Substitution Technique.
• Tsunade ended the spar after realizing her attacks could not injure Charlotte, then agreed to teach him how to improve his Strength of a Hundred and Strong Fist techniques.
• Nick Fury returned to his office and placed a strangely shaped Pager on his desk.

Nick Fury kept his pager ready after reviewing Charlotte’s fight with Abomination, while Charlotte trained, signed in, and bought ninja fragments. In Mexico, Coulson met Temari and arranged to fly her to Charlotte’s agency in New York, where he began asking about her headband.

• Nick Fury watched footage of Charlotte fighting Abomination, kept the pager on him, and left his office.
• Charlotte reflected on his training with Tsunade, signed in for 300 Reputation Points, and bought four Rock Lee fragments and four Shisui fragments.
• Temari met Coulson in Mexico City after learning the location of Charlotte Agency in Queens.
• Coulson offered Temari a ride to New York on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s private jet, and she accepted.
• On the plane, Coulson asked Temari why her headband differed from the Hidden Leaf Village’s.

Temari met Coulson and cautiously revealed that she was a Sunagakure Ninja, while Coulson failed to learn much about the Ninja from her. Meanwhile, Nick Fury received word of more Leaf Ninja at Charlotte Agency, and Charlotte saw news linking him to the defeat of Abomination before speaking with Tony Stark.

• Temari told Coulson that her Headband represented Sunagakure and identified herself as its Ninja.
• Coulson listed the Hidden Leaf Ninja he knew, and Temari reacted briefly to Tsunade Senju's name before refusing to share information.
• Hill told Nick Fury that Kakashi Hatake and Neji Hyuga had appeared at Charlotte Agency, and Fury ordered Coulson to report back after dropping Temari off.
• Charlotte watched a report speculate that he was the mysterious person who defeated Abomination, then continued searching online for mysterious items.
• Tony Stark called Charlotte about the news, and Charlotte said Tony's Mark II could not handle Abomination or Hulk.

Lord Charlotte arranged to buy Dave’s Dragon Ring for one hundred thousand US Dollars, hoping to use its magical power as a recharge item. Dave prepared to meet him at New York University, unaware that the ring’s sale was drawing the story toward its beginning.

• Lord Charlotte found Dave’s Dragon Ring listing and called to arrange a cash purchase at New York University.
• Lord Charlotte had Iruka prepare one hundred thousand US Dollars, then left the Agency through its back door to avoid the gathered media.
• Dave woke up and celebrated his birthday with Bennett, telling him he had been asked to give a physics lecture.
• Dave showed Bennett the Dragon Ring and said its buyer planned to meet him at the university with cash.
• Bennett suggested throwing a party that night if Dave sold the ring.

Charlotte bought Dave’s Dragon Ring at New York University, where it attached itself to Charlotte despite Dave believing only he could wear it. Meanwhile, Coulson brought Temari to the Charlotte Agency, where Iruka recognized her as a Sand Ninja.

• Dave agreed with Bennett that he needed to find a way to finish the Tesla Coil experiment and graduate.
• Charlotte arrived at New York University in heavy rain and exchanged one hundred thousand US dollars for Dave’s Dragon Ring.
• The Dragon Ring crawled onto Charlotte’s finger, surprising Dave, who wondered whether others could be special too.
• Coulson drove Temari to the Charlotte Agency, then left to report back to his Director.
• Temari entered the agency carrying Kamatari, and Iruka recognized her as a Sand Ninja.

Temari arrived at Charlotte's Agency, where Iruka checked her in as the first Ninja from outside Konoha. At the Triskelion, Coulson and Nick Fury discussed the threat and intelligence surrounding Charlotte's group and Sunagakure, while Charlotte returned to the Agency and waited for Temari.

• Iruka welcomed Temari to the Agency and arranged a guest room for her.
• Coulson reviewed footage of Charlotte's battle with Abomination and warned Nick Fury that Charlotte's group was more dangerous than the military's monsters.
• Coulson told Nick Fury that Temari was a Genin from Sunagakure and that her purpose for seeking Charlotte remained unknown.
• Nick Fury ordered Coulson to investigate Sunagakure and use Energy Blocks to obtain intelligence from both Ninja villages.
• Charlotte returned to the Agency, asked Iruka to send Temari to the Rest Area, and wondered whether Chakra could power magic as Temari approached with Kamatari.

Temari reported her journey to Charlotte, who planned to establish a separate base for Sunagakure while keeping her intelligence secret. Meanwhile, Maxim escaped the Grimhold and confronted Dave, demanding to know where the lasso was.

• Temari told Charlotte that she had encountered no strong people in Mexico and that Coulson had brought her to New York using a S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft.
• Temari said Coulson had asked about Konoha and Sunagakure, but she had disclosed only Sunagakure's name; Charlotte praised her and told her to learn about the world with Iruka and take missions at The Continental Hotel.
• Charlotte considered setting Temari up with an independent base and identity, then went to the Practice Room to test the Dragon Ring.
• Maxim escaped from the Grimhold, abandoned Balthazar inside it, and threw it from a window; Balthazar escaped before it shattered and headed toward a nearby building.
• Maxim appeared in Dave's apartment, mocked his old school essay, and asked where the lasso was.

Maxim chased David for the nesting doll, but Balthazar rescued him with the Iron Eagle before Maxim could catch him. Balthazar explained the doll's danger and discovered that someone else had put on the Dragon Ring, leaving the ring's whereabouts uncertain.

• Maxim threatened David to learn where he had thrown away the nesting doll, then summoned wolves from a photograph to chase him.
• David fled through the subway station, where the wolves turned into puppies when they leaped onto him.
• Balthazar arrived on the Iron Eagle, interrupted Maxim's spell, and carried David away as a train approached.
• On the rooftop, David told Balthazar how much he had suffered and said he wanted to forget magic and live normally.
• Balthazar explained that the nesting doll imprisoned dangerous Morganian Gang members, and David revealed that he had sold the Dragon Ring to someone who put it on.
• Balthazar tried to summon the Dragon Ring but failed, realizing that someone else had put it on.

Balthazar brought Dave to meet Charlotte, the Dragon Ring’s new owner, intending to teach him magic and recruit him to find the Grimhold. Charlotte demonstrated his own lightning technique, leaving Balthazar wondering where his power came from after Charlotte said it was not magic.

• Balthazar convinced Dave to help him find the Grimhold and went with him to meet the man who bought the Dragon Ring.
• At Charlotte Agency, Charlotte tested the ring and found that it increased the power of his elemental Ninjutsu by ten percent.
• Charlotte resisted a mysterious force trying to pull him and the ring away, then waited for Balthazar and Dave to arrive.
• Balthazar confirmed that Charlotte was the ring’s new master and offered to teach him magic and make him the new Prime Merlinian.
• Charlotte formed lightning in his hand, and Balthazar asked who taught him before Charlotte replied that it was not magic.

Charlotte learned that Balthazar planned to teach him magic and joined him and Dave in searching for the Grimhold in Chinatown. Balthazar found Maxim disguised as an old woman, but Maxim revealed he had freed Ah Luo and attacked Balthazar with silver needles.

• Charlotte told Balthazar that his powers came from Ninjutsu, and Balthazar explained the Morganian Gang and their conflict with Maxim.
• Maxim revisited the former Arcana Cabana, saw a memory of Dave throwing the Grimhold onto the street, and headed for Chinatown after killing a driver who interrupted him.
• Charlotte went with Balthazar and Dave to Chinatown, where Balthazar sent Dave to watch for Maxim and went upstairs to search for the Grimhold.
• Balthazar found an old woman at Ping An Tang and realized she was Maxim when she mistook Cantonese for Vietnamese.
• Maxim revealed the empty Grimhold lid and said he had freed Ah Luo, while a leaf-formed attacker launched silver needles at Balthazar.
• Balthazar blocked the silver needles with his magical trench coat and remained unharmed.