Chapter Summaries

After returning to New York, Charlotte was dragged by Tsunade into a sparring session disguised as training. Meanwhile, Ivan Vanko escaped detention and agreed to work with Justin Hammer, who planned to use Ivan’s technology against Tony Stark and Charlotte Doyle.

• Ivan Vanko waited in detention for Tony Stark, unaware that Tony had already learned what he wanted from Charlotte.
• After they returned to New York, Tsunade hauled Charlotte to the Training Room and started sparring with him under the pretense of correcting his ninjutsu.
• Ivan Vanko escaped the Monaco detention center with help from a switcheroo and was taken to Justin Hammer’s factory.
• Justin Hammer offered Ivan resources in exchange for help making weapons, and Ivan agreed to work with him.
• Ivan insisted that Hammer retrieve his bird, then told him how Charlotte had rejected his offer to work together.
• Justin Hammer vowed that he and Ivan would make Tony Stark and Charlotte Doyle pay, while Ivan privately doubted Hammer understood Charlotte.

Rhodey warned Tony that officials suspected Stark Industries of illegal experiments and might target Charlotte Doyle, but Tony insisted Charlotte could defeat the military and urged Rhodey to prevent a confrontation. At the Charlotte Agency, Tsunade sparred with Charlotte, who recovered from their fight faster than she could heal him.

• Pepper Potts and Natasha handled calls and press inquiries at Tony's villa while Rhodey arrived and went downstairs to find Tony.
• Rhodey told Tony that officials wanted to seize the Iron Man Armor, investigate Stark Industries, and scrutinize Charlotte Doyle.
• Tony warned Rhodey that Charlotte was stronger than he or the military and said the military should not provoke him.
• Rhodey rushed to the Air Force Base to report the danger, and Tony removed his Arc Reactor and drank Chlorophyll.
• Tsunade sparred with Charlotte at the Charlotte Agency, then found that he had recovered before she could treat him.

Charlotte and Tsunade grew closer as they talked about her wish to see Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju again. Kakashi’s team finished clearing the Eastern European vampire branch and prepared to return to New York, while Charlotte woke the next morning ready to attend Tony’s birthday party with Tsunade.

• Charlotte and Tsunade lay beneath an artificial starry ceiling, and Tsunade wished to see Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and the Senju clansmen again.
• Charlotte promised Tsunade that she would see her great-grandfather and second-grandfather again, and she shared stories from her childhood with him.
• Kakashi ordered the team to hand the Eastern European vampire stronghold over to the High Table and return to New York the next day.
• Catherine and Michael reported that all Blood Cores had been collected and that some werewolves wanted to pledge themselves to Charlotte.
• Charlotte woke after drinking and talking with Tsunade, checked in for 50,000 Copper Coins, and went downstairs to prepare for Tony’s birthday party.

Justin Hammer brought Ivan Vanko to his armor factory, where Ivan quickly cracked the software and agreed to help him prepare for the Stark Expo. At Charlotte Agency, Charlotte fused Young Kakashi Hatake with Anbu Kakashi Hatake, leaving Kakashi with a combined set of skills and a Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

• Justin Hammer showed Ivan Vanko his Iron Man armor factory and explained his plans to challenge Tony Stark at the Stark Expo.
• Ivan Vanko cracked the factory's software, dismissed it as garbage, and removed an armor's helmet to inspect it.
• Ivan agreed to help Justin prepare the armors, and Justin left the factory operation in his hands.
• Charlotte rated Kakashi's team's mission A-rank, deferred action against the vampires, and assigned the werewolf matter to Ginny.
• Charlotte sent the other team members away and fused Young Kakashi Hatake with Anbu Kakashi Hatake.
• The fused Anbu Kakashi Hatake gained a Three-Tomoe Sharingan and the combined skills of both versions.

Charlotte fused Anbu Kakashi with Kakashi Hatake, giving him more Chakra and strength, then sent him back into the battle lineup. After Kakashi asked Charlotte to bring back his lost loved ones, Charlotte summoned Naruto for a fusion, while Sasuke confronted Itachi during training and was caught in his genjutsu.

• Charlotte placed the fused Anbu Kakashi back in the conference room, where Kakashi absorbed Anbu Kakashi's memories and learned of his future losses.
• Kakashi asked Charlotte to bring Obito, Rin, Minato, and his father to this world, and Charlotte said he would try but could not promise when.
• Kakashi told Naruto that Charlotte wanted to see him, and Sasuke went to train after seeing Kakashi's transformation.
• Sasuke attacked Itachi with Chidori in the Training Room, but Itachi turned into crows and trapped Sasuke in a genjutsu.
• Itachi praised Sasuke for reaching two tomoe, while Charlotte recalled Naruto to the System Space and fused his card, officially introducing Genin Naruto Uzumaki.

Naruto Uzumaki received his Headband from Charlotte and grappled with conflicting memories, while Charlotte spent the Blood Cores on recruitment and got disappointing results. Meanwhile, Tony Stark planned to give the military an older Mark II at his birthday party, then decided to celebrate on his own terms after talking with Natasha.

• Naruto Uzumaki thanked Charlotte for the Headband and left to challenge Sasuke.
• Charlotte recharged 326 Blood Cores for 19,560 Gold Coins, then spent Gold Coins to reach ten Ninja Recruitment Scrolls.
• Charlotte recruited ten times, receiving fragments for several ninjas, including one Akatsuki's Vermilion Bird—Itachi Uchiha fragment and four Kimimaro fragments.
• Tony Stark planned to stage a scene at his birthday party so Rhodey would take an older Mark II and satisfy the military.
• Natasha helped Tony get ready and advised him to do whatever he wanted with whoever he wanted, prompting Tony to come up with an idea.

Charlotte and Tsunade attended Tony Stark’s birthday party, where Tony appeared in his Iron Man Armor and behaved wildly. Rhodey arrived to find the party in chaos, while Pepper hoped Charlotte could talk Tony down.

• John Wick drove Charlotte and Tsunade to Tony’s seaside villa, where Charlotte answered reporters’ questions about Monaco and Tony’s birthday party.
• Pepper Potts greeted Charlotte and Tsunade, then went to check why Tony had not appeared.
• Charlotte and Tsunade sampled desserts before Tony emerged in his Iron Man Armor, dancing and showing off for the guests.
• Rhodey arrived after promising military officials that Iron Man would return to duty within twenty-four hours, and he found Tony drunk and partying onstage.
• Pepper told Rhodey she did not know what to do, and she planned to ask Charlotte to talk Tony down.
• Tony demonstrated how to urinate inside his armor, disgusted Tsunade, and Charlotte joked that Tony and Jiraiya would get along.

Tony staged a chaotic party and fought Rhodey after Rhodey put on the Mark II, until Charlotte intervened and punched Rhodey out of the villa. Charlotte asked Tony why he had given Rhodey the armor, and Tony awkwardly admitted that Rhodey had stolen it.

• Pepper Potts asked Charlotte to calm Tony, but Charlotte told her to let Tony relax as he blasted bottles onstage.
• Rhodey entered Tony's underground Laboratory, put on the Mark II, and confronted Tony at the party.
• Tony and Rhodey fought through the villa's Gym, trading blows with its equipment until Charlotte restrained them.
• Rhodey insulted Charlotte and raised his arm to fire a Repulsor Blast, so Charlotte punched him through the villa wall with Strength of a Hundred.
• Charlotte asked Tony why he had arranged the armor and staged the fight, and Tony said Rhodey had stolen it.

After Rhodey left with the Mark II, Charlotte told Tony that Howard had discovered a new element that could replace palladium and that S.H.I.E.L.D. had withheld the clues. Tony began investigating the Stark Expo plans, and he fired Natasha before Charlotte and his companions left.

• Rhodey flew away after Jarvis relayed Tony’s order to leave, while Tony handled the situation himself.
• Tony explained to Charlotte that he had let Rhodey take the Mark II to satisfy the military, and said the armor would self-destruct if they tried to copy it.
• Charlotte told Tony that Howard had helped found S.H.I.E.L.D., that his assistant Natalie was agent Natasha, and that Howard had left clues to a new element.
• Tony ordered Jarvis to turn the Stark Expo construction plans into blueprints after Charlotte said the Expo layout encoded Howard’s atomic model.
• Charlotte declined to discuss a commission fee until Tony verified his findings, then prepared to leave with Tsunade and John Wick.
• Tony fired Natasha and ordered her to leave immediately.

Nick Fury confronted Tony at his villa about his erratic behavior and revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. had been monitoring him. He gave Tony a box of his father’s belongings, leaving Tony eager to inspect it in his underground laboratory.

• Rhodey returned to the Air Force Base after piloting the Mark II through the night.
• Nick Fury arrived at Tony’s villa, where Natasha revealed she was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent sent to observe him.
• Nick Fury challenged Tony about his unusual choices and confirmed that Charlotte had eased his palladium poisoning.
• Nick Fury told Tony about his father’s Arc Reactor ambitions and the connection to Anton Vanko and his son.
• Two agents delivered a box of Tony’s father’s belongings, and Nick Fury left while Natasha and Coulson stayed behind.
• Tony asked Coulson to take the box to his underground laboratory so he could examine it.

Rhodey’s superior ordered the Mark II prepared for a public showcase, while Charlotte approved plans for an orphanage and sent his Ninjas to complete bounty missions as he prepared for looming threats. The chapter ended with the team setting out to fulfill his orders.

• Rhodey showed the Mark II to his superior, who ordered Hammer Industries to arm it and planned to showcase it at the Stark Expo.
• Ginny told Charlotte that the orphanage would open on June 1 with one hundred children from Hell’s Kitchen, and Charlotte named it Qidian Orphanage.
• Ginny reported that the base was nearly complete, and Charlotte agreed that Tony should provide the promised artificial intelligence equipment once it was ready.
• Charlotte considered the approaching threats of Thor’s training and Hell’s invasion, then told Iruka to summon the available Ninjas to the War Room.
• Charlotte ordered Kakashi, Itachi Uchiha, Yamato, Rock Lee, Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, and Umino Iruka to complete nine Continental Hotel bounty missions each day until further notice.

Charlotte prepared for the completion ceremony of the Heart-to-Heart Charity Foundation’s orphanage in Hell’s Kitchen, where Tony arrived to show off his new Arc Reactor. When Charlotte examined it, the system identified it as a rechargeable item, but he declined to recharge it in front of Tony.

• Charlotte assigned Catherine to take over the service desk and practiced ninjutsu in the System Space.
• Over the next four days, Charlotte collected check-in rewards, judged an imprisoned evil mage, and provided Tsunade with research material.
• Tony used his father’s legacy and Charlotte’s guidance to create a new miniature Arc Reactor, while Rhodey removed the reactor from the Mark II before Hammer received the armor.
• Charlotte and Ginny arrived at the orphanage’s completion ceremony, which Kingpin, the police, and the High Table secured for the day.
• Tony arrived with Pepper and Natasha, then entered the rest area and showed Charlotte his new Arc Reactor.
• Charlotte picked up the reactor, heard the system prompt that it could be recharged, and chose not to recharge it.

Charlotte negotiated to buy Tony's newly developed element, then accepted Rhodey's apology and made peace with him. At the Heart-to-Heart Charity Foundation event, Charlotte announced major support for orphans and explained the orphanage's safeguards against deliberate abandonment.

• Charlotte asked Tony to sell him the new element from the Arc Reactor, and Tony agreed in exchange for a promise concerning Rhodey.
• Rhodey apologized to Charlotte, and Charlotte accepted his apology and shook his hand.
• Tony toasted Charlotte and Rhodey after they made peace.
• Charlotte announced that the Heart-to-Heart Charity Foundation would spend one hundred million US Dollars each year supporting orphans and offer interest-free university loans to eligible children from Qidian Orphanage.
• Charlotte told a reporter that he could not help everyone and had chosen to focus on orphans in need.
• Charlotte said the orphanage would investigate abandoned babies and use the law against adults who deliberately abandoned children despite being able to raise them.

Justin Hammer confronted Ivan about the unusable, unmanned Iron Man Armor and demanded a successful, wearable suit. At Charlotte's orphanage opening, Kingpin promised to keep nearby streets safe, and Charlotte recruited Tony to join an upcoming battle against an invasion from Hell.

• Justin Hammer brought Ivan a parrot, but Ivan said it was not his bird.
• Justin discovered Ivan had built a mechanical head instead of a wearable helmet, and Ivan argued that unmanned armor was better.
• Justin left the factory angrily, demanding that Ivan make the armor a hit and make him famous.
• Kingpin promised Charlotte that gang members would not do business or start shootouts near the orphanage.
• Charlotte told Tony about Hell and invited him to join the coming battle; Tony rushed off to upgrade his equipment.

Charlotte prepared for Hell’s coming attack while Odin and Ancient One negotiated Asgard’s support for the Magic World. At the Stark Expo, Ivan Vanko hijacked Hammer Industries’ drones, forcing Tony to draw the threat away from the civilians.

• Charlotte recalled Neji Squad to help resist Hell’s attack and left Hidan to develop on his own.
• Odin banished Thor to Earth with his powers sealed, then agreed to aid the Magic World if it could not withstand Hell or Mephisto.
• Ancient One told Odin that Charlotte was Merlin’s chosen Prime Merlinian and promised Odin a meeting after Charlotte survived the attack.
• Ivan used Hammer’s money to build a hundred suits and called Tony, threatening to take revenge for what Tony’s father had done to his family.
• At the Stark Expo, Justin Hammer unveiled his drones and Rhodes’s modified armor as Ivan secretly activated and hacked them.
• Tony arrived at the Expo, identified Ivan as the likely culprit, and flew away from the venue to fight the drones outside.

Tony fought the Hammer Drones as Ivan Vanko seized control of them, while Natasha learned Ivan was responsible and went to arrest him. Ivan then bombed the Charlotte Agency, leaving Charlotte carrying an unconscious Shizune from the ruins as Iron Man Armors filled the sky.

• Tony evaded and counterattacked against Hammer Drones while Rhodey warned him that some drones had changed course.
• Justin Hammer discovered Ivan Vanko had taken control of the drones, and Natasha subdued him and learned Ivan was at his company.
• Shizune explained that the agency's serum research could prevent werewolf transformations but still lacked a balanced vampire formula.
• Ivan sent missile-armed Hammer Drones to bomb the Charlotte Agency, destroying its upper floors and then shelling the ruins again.
• Charlotte escaped the destroyed agency carrying unconscious Shizune and saw Iron Man Armors filling the sky.

Ivan’s Hammer Drones attacked Charlotte’s Agency, prompting Charlotte and Tsunade to fight back and join Tony and Rhodey at the Expo. Tsunade defeated Ivan after he arrived in the Whiplash Mark II, killing him before he could detonate the drones.

• Ivan sent Hammer Drones to attack Charlotte’s Agency, where Tsunade and Charlotte destroyed the machines and set out for the Expo.
• Charlotte reached Tony’s location after Jarvis sent him the coordinates, while Happy and Natasha found Hammer Industries deserted.
• Tony and Rhodey fought Ivan’s Hammer Drones until Charlotte and Tsunade arrived and smashed the remaining armor soldiers.
• Ivan flew in wearing the Whiplash Mark II, and Tsunade battered off both of his armored arms.
• When Ivan threatened to take everyone down with him, Tsunade crushed his Arc Reactor and killed him before he could detonate the drones.

After the Hammer Drone attack, Charlotte learned that Hell would invade the Magic World the next day and gathered Tony and the Ninjas to prepare for the battle. They traveled to Merlin’s wizard tower, where Charlotte and Balthazar identified a great rift as the likely invasion site and began planning their defenses.

• Charlotte and Tsunade returned to the agency ruins, rescued Catherine and Shizune, and Charlotte received Ancient One’s warning that Hell’s invasion was imminent.
• Charlotte told Ginny that most of the agency staff had died, asked her to arrange funerals and rebuild the agency, and summoned Tony to the New York Continental Hotel.
• Charlotte issued combat supplies to the Ninjas and used Merlin’s teleportation array to take them and Tony to the Magic World.
• Charlotte and Balthazar visited the great rift where Hell’s invasion was expected to begin and planned to assemble the mage corps and prepare traps and defenses.
• Nick Fury learned that Tony had gone to meet Charlotte, while Coulson found Mjolnir in New Mexico and Thor was brought back after Jane Foster hit him with her car.
• Dave explained the Magic World to Tony, then received Charlotte’s message summoning them back to the magic tower.

Charlotte prepared for the coming invasion from the Hell Dimension by strengthening his summoned beasts and equipment, opening treasure chests, and recruiting Kankuro. He left the story with his forces preparing for battle and his own strength substantially increased.

• Charlotte bought ten of Tony's new Badassium crystals, recharged them for Gold Coins, and tallied his recent sign-in and mission rewards.
• Charlotte upgraded Gamakichi to level 50, unlocking the Ninja Turtle, whose skills included a squad-wide defense increase.
• Charlotte upgraded all six pieces of his equipment to Jonin grade, raising his strength by about 30%.
• Charlotte opened 100 Normal Treasure Chests, gaining Gold Coins, recruitment scrolls, resources, and enough fragments to recruit Kankuro.
• Charlotte recruited Kankuro, gaining one Chakra card, Kankuro's Puppet Manipulation Technique, and methods for making and using his puppets.

Charlotte recruited Sakura Haruno, used a blessing from Ancient One while making five ten-pulls, and added Sakon and Ukon and Jirobo to his ninja roster. He opened a battle slot, chose Kankuro, and brought him to the Great Rift Valley, where the group was preparing defenses and Temari greeted her younger brother.

• Charlotte recruited Sakura Haruno, gained another Chakra card, and bought 43 Ninja Recruitment Scrolls.
• Charlotte prayed to Ancient One before recruiting ninjas; five ten-pulls yielded fragments for several powerful ninjas and enough to recruit Sakon and Ukon and Jirobo.
• Charlotte recruited Sakon and Ukon and Jirobo, increasing his Chakra to 60 cards, then saved his remaining Gold Coins.
• Charlotte opened a battle slot and selected Kankuro, intending to pair him with Temari and establish a Sunagakure base.
• Charlotte took Kankuro to the Great Rift Valley, where mages and ninjas were setting traps; Tony asked about Kankuro, and Temari ran over to greet him.