Recaps

Xia Yu contacted the Guardians of the Galaxy and learned that both Sovereign and Thanos had placed bounties on him. He then confronted the Skrull impersonating Nick Fury aboard the Helicarrier and pressed the pager to summon Captain Marvel.

• Xia Yu called Star-Lord and learned the Guardians had not yet accepted Sovereign's job, while Thanos and Sovereign were both seeking him.
• Xia Yu decided to contact S.W.O.R.D. and Captain Marvel and confront the Skrull posing as Nick Fury.
• Xia Yu visited Nick Fury aboard the Helicarrier and demanded information about S.W.O.R.D. and Captain Marvel.
• Talos denied being a Skrull, but Xia Yu revealed the pager and pressed its button despite Talos lunging for it.

Xia Yu exposed Talos’s disguise and triggered Captain Marvel’s pager, then confronted Nick Fury over his secrecy and S.W.O.R.D. The chapter ended with Nick consulting Carol Danvers, who wanted to meet Xia Yu.

• Xia Yu activated the pager, revealing Captain Marvel’s emblem and confirming that the signal had been sent.
• Xia Yu asked Talos to reveal his true Skrull form and questioned why he had stayed on Earth to work for Nick Fury.
• Nick Fury called Xia Yu, who challenged his secrecy and said he knew about S.W.O.R.D. and the universe’s future threat to Earth.
• Xia Yu told Nick to return to Earth soon or risk having his space-station base destroyed, then ended the call.
• Nick Fury told Carol Danvers that Xia Yu knew about their base, and Carol said she wanted to meet him.

Xia Yu briefed the Avengers on Thanos, the Infinity Stones, Nick Fury’s S.W.O.R.D., and the Skrulls, explaining how he had learned about them. He urged the team to prepare for threats beyond Earth and to create a safe battlefield, then said they would talk with Nick Fury after his return from space.

• Xia Yu gathered the Avengers at the base and told them about the Infinity Stones on Earth, the Ancient One, S.W.O.R.D., the Skrulls, and his plans for a floating continent.
• Rhodey asked how Xia Yu knew so much, and Xia Yu and Thor credited Odin’s warnings and visions of the future.
• Hawkeye questioned whether Nick Fury had been replaced, so Xia Yu showed the team a video of Talos changing back into a Skrull.
• Xia Yu explained that the Mind Stone had helped him sense something strange about Nick Fury and said Skrulls could not copy him because of the Infinity Stones’ essence and the Aether.
• Xia Yu called for allies across the universe and a battlefield away from Earth, while Tony pointed out that Rhodey’s idea of lifting land into space ignored the need for air and a livable environment.
• Xia Yu said Nick Fury would return from space in a few days, when the Avengers could discuss what he had been doing.

Nick Fury returned to Earth and faced Natasha and Hawkeye’s anger over Talos impersonating him, while Xia Yu accused him of keeping the Avengers in the dark. Xia Yu warned Nick about magical threats beyond his knowledge, then opened a portal after Nick asked whether Dormammu could defeat Carol.

• Nick Fury arrived at Xia Yu’s base, where Tony and Rhodey mocked him before he went inside.
• Natasha and Hawkeye confronted Nick over Talos impersonating him and reporting their conversations to him.
• Xia Yu interrupted Hawkeye and accused Nick of acting as though only he could keep the world in order.
• Xia Yu warned Nick about threats including Dormammu, Kamar-Taj, and Hell, and told him to put Earth and the Avengers first.
• After the room fell silent, Nick asked whether Dormammu could swallow Carol in one gulp, and Xia Yu opened a portal with golden sparks.

The Ancient One visited Xia Yu and gave Natasha a magical weapon, then demonstrated the hidden dangers of the universe to Nick Fury by sending his soul on a journey through other dimensions. Nick returned shaken, and Xia Yu asked the Ancient One to explain more about the threats facing Earth.

• The Ancient One arrived through a portal, and Xia Yu stopped Thor from raising his hammer against her.
• The Ancient One gave Natasha a Magic Baton and offered to help her control it.
• The Ancient One told Nick Fury that Carol could not face future crises alone, but Nick said he trusted only what he saw with his own eyes.
• The Ancient One knocked Nick Fury's soul from his body and showed him the universe and other dimensions, including Dormammu's Dark Dimension.
• Nick Fury asked whether the Ancient One had fought the beings he had seen, and she replied that she had faced more.
• Xia Yu served the Ancient One tea and asked her to tell everyone about threats they did not know.

The Ancient One explained the Infinity Stones, Earth’s past guardians, and a coming crisis that would draw the Avengers into events across the universe. She said Xia Yu had altered the fate she and Odin had foreseen, and the chapter ended with Xia Yu warning Nick Fury that future allies had to prioritize Earth and work together.

• The Ancient One gathered the Avengers and explained the origin and significance of the Six Infinity Stones, Kamar-Taj’s role, and the threats Earth had faced.
• The Ancient One said the Avengers were the next generation of guardians and that her successor and Odin’s heir would join them as Earth became central to events involving the Stones.
• The Ancient One revealed that Xia Yu’s arrival had changed the future: the Stones now revolved around him, and he could absorb their energy.
• Thor objected to the suggestion that Odin’s power was fading, but Xia Yu said Odin’s eventual departure was part of destiny.
• The Ancient One brought the group into the Mirror Dimension to demonstrate that unseen forces and spaces existed beyond ordinary understanding.
• Xia Yu warned Nick Fury to make Earth or the Avengers his priority and to stay away if he could not cooperate.

Xia Yu learned from the Ancient One how absorbing four Infinity Stones had begun to form a cycle and discussed the possibility of eventually wielding all six. After the Ancient One left, Nick Fury decided to speak with Carol Danvers about returning to join the Avengers, while Xia Yu said he would wait for her.

• The Ancient One explained that the four stones Xia Yu had absorbed were beginning to form a cycle, and that all six could give him the power of a newborn universe.
• The Ancient One offered Xia Yu the Time Stone, but he declined because he needed to complete a mission first.
• The Ancient One told Xia Yu she believed he could give the universe a better ending, then warned him she had little time left and departed through a portal.
• Xia Yu asked Nick Fury about his decision, and Nick chose to talk with Carol Danvers about returning to join the Avengers, with the option of returning alone.
• Xia Yu told Nick to tell Carol that he would be waiting for her at the base.

Scott Lang invaded the Avengers Compound to steal a device for Dr. Pym, but Falcon detected him and fought him. After disabling Falcon’s equipment, Scott entered the compound, where Xia Yu confronted him and said the device was not there.

• Dr. Pym sent Scott Lang to steal a Stark Industries device, but Scott found the Avengers Compound and ignored Dr. Pym and Hope’s warnings to abort.
• F.R.I.D.A.Y. detected Scott, and Falcon confronted him after identifying him as a man who could shrink to ant size.
• Scott introduced himself as Ant-Man and said he wanted to borrow equipment, but he shrank and attacked Falcon when Falcon tried to escort him inside.
• Scott disabled Falcon’s flight and scanning systems, slipped into the compound, and searched a warehouse while Dr. Pym lost contact with him.
• Xia Yu told Scott that the device he sought was not there and that a missile had destroyed everything that used to be there.

Xia Yu caught Scott breaking into the Avengers warehouse and offered him a chance to join the Avengers if he handled the mission involving Darren Cross. He gave Scott signal-proof earpieces and planned to persuade Dr. Pym after the mission.

• Scott accidentally fired an alien gun, and Xia Yu caught it before the blade it triggered could hurt him.
• Xia Yu told Scott the warehouse had no signal-masking prototype and explained the Avengers had been monitoring Darren Cross and Scott.
• Xia Yu offered Scott Avengers membership and help clearing his criminal record if he completed the mission.
• Scott hesitated because Dr. Pym had invented his Ant-Man equipment and would oppose working with the Avengers.
• Xia Yu gave Scott earpieces that could bypass signal jammers and told him to say they had nothing to do with Stark.
• After Scott left, Xia Yu considered how to persuade Dr. Pym to join the Avengers.

Xia Yu prepared to intervene as Dr. Pym's team and Darren Cross's Hydra buyers converged at Pym Technologies. He brought three new Avengers to make a dramatic entrance, while Ant-Man walked into Cross's trap.

• Xia Yu told Talos to watch Pym Technologies after learning Hydra still had resources and sought the Wasp suit.
• Scott returned to Dr. Pym's house with Xia Yu's earpiece, and Pym accepted it after Scott explained it was alien technology.
• Darren Cross increased security around the Wasp suit, while Dr. Pym enlisted Scott's former cellmates to help stop the sale.
• Xia Yu watched Pym Technologies through miniature portals, then summoned Rhodey, Vision, and Wanda to join him in making arrests.
• Darren Cross revealed to Dr. Pym that Hydra representatives would pay twice the price for the Wasp suit and that the suit in the trap was only a virtual image.

Xia Yu and the rookie Avengers interrupted Darren Cross’s deal with Hydra and helped Ant-Man, Hope, and Dr. Pym escape immediate danger. After Xia Yu left the group to handle Darren, Cross shot Dr. Pym and fled.

• Darren Cross threatened Dr. Pym while Hope held the Hydra agents at gunpoint, but Xia Yu arrived with Scarlet Witch, War Machine, and Vision.
• Scarlet Witch disarmed Darren Cross, and Vision freed Ant-Man from the glass cage.
• Xia Yu sent the Hydra agents away with Wanda to investigate their allies, then let Dr. Pym and Scott decide how to handle Darren Cross.
• Scott chose to deal with Darren himself, and Xia Yu left after Dr. Pym thanked him for the earpiece.
• Xia Yu secretly watched through a Micro-portal as Darren Cross shot Dr. Pym in the right shoulder and escaped.

Hope and Ant-Man cared for the wounded Dr. Pym as Scott pursued Darren Cross to destroy the Wasp suit and prove himself. At the Avengers base, Xia Yu secretly watched the chase through a tiny portal, leaving the others baffled by his strange pose.

• Hope and Ant-Man checked Dr. Pym’s wound, and Ant-Man reassured Hope that he would survive.
• Hope urged Scott to chase Darren Cross and destroy the Wasp suit, while Dr. Pym warned Scott to call the Avengers if the danger became too great.
• Scott agreed to handle the mission himself, then shrank and left to pursue Cross.
• Xia Yu watched Scott’s fight through a tiny portal at the Avengers base, while Natasha explained his actions to Tony.
• Tony smacked Xia Yu’s butt and started filming him as Thor, Rhodey, Vision, and others arrived.
• Rhodey asked whether Xia had started shooting adult films.

Xia Yu watched Ant-Man’s fight with Darren Cross through a portal, then discussed Dr. Pym and Ant-Man joining the Avengers. Darren Cross abducted Scott’s daughter to lure him into a confrontation, while Xia Yu secretly installed cameras in the room where they faced off.

• A laser beam from the fight struck Xia Yu’s portal and hit his eyelid, so Natasha hurried over to check on him.
• Xia Yu explained his plan to bring Dr. Pym and Ant-Man into the Avengers, and the group discussed the idea.
• Ant-Man was arrested after defeating Darren Cross, but Darren escaped the bug zapper and flew to Scott’s ex-wife’s home to get revenge.
• After hearing that his daughter was being held hostage, Scott escaped his handcuffs and went into the house to save her.
• Ant-Man confronted Darren Cross, who was holding the little girl, and threw a shrinking device at the Wasp suit before shrinking himself.
• Xia Yu secretly opened several portals and installed cameras around the room without anyone noticing.

Xia Yu and the Avengers watched Ant-Man’s fight with Yellowjacket through hidden cameras, cheering and joking as the battle unfolded among toy trains. Ant-Man used an enlarging device on an ant, leaving the group to face the sudden appearance of a dog-sized insect.

• Xia Yu opened a portal to locate Ant-Man and helped the Avengers set up cameras in his daughter’s room.
• Tony Stark and Xia Yu brought out snacks and drinks, and the Avengers watched Ant-Man and Yellowjacket fight on virtual displays.
• Ant-Man and Yellowjacket traded attacks among toy train tracks while the Avengers cheered from the base.
• Yellowjacket took to the air and fired lasers at Ant-Man, who dodged and used Yellowjacket’s taunt to get an idea.
• Ant-Man threw an enlarging device at Yellowjacket, but it missed and transformed an ant into a dog-sized creature.

Ant-Man defeated Yellowjacket and returned safely from the Quantum Realm, earning hope that he would join the Avengers. As Xia Yu pushed ahead with the Avengers' spaceship, Captain Marvel called and refused to let Nick Fury return to Earth, prompting Xia Yu to say he would come get him.

• Ant-Man slipped into Yellowjacket's suit and caused him to collapse into a point of light, then returned from the Quantum Realm and reunited with Cassie.
• Xia Yu urged the Avengers to finish assembling their spaceship, which they named the Avenger.
• Nick Fury called Xia Yu and introduced Captain Marvel, who said she did not believe Earth's future faced a cosmic disaster.
• Captain Marvel said Nick Fury had to remain occupied with affairs across thousands of planets and that Talos could represent him on Earth.
• Xia Yu told Captain Marvel he would visit and bring Nick Fury home.

Xia Yu visited Scott at his ex-wife’s home and invited him to join the Avengers in front of his family. Scott accepted, and Xia Yu asked him to take him to see Dr. Pym.

• Xia Yu canceled the Avengers’ surveillance of Ant-Man, took an Audi R8 from Tony Stark’s garage, and traveled to San Francisco.
• Paxton explained that he had helped Scott secure a normal release after Scott escaped police custody.
• Xia Yu arrived during the family’s meal, greeted everyone, and gave Cassie Asgardian fruit juice.
• Xia Yu invited Scott to join the Avengers and told the family that Scott had fought an Avenger evenly.
• Scott accepted the invitation after Cassie urged him to join, and Xia Yu asked him to take him to Dr. Pym.

Xia Yu and Scott accompanied Tony Stark to Dr. Pym’s home, where Tony tried to recruit him into the Avengers but angered him by mocking the Ant-Man Suit. Pym drove them out after Scott and Hope kissed, leaving the recruitment effort unsuccessful.

• Tony Stark arrived at Dr. Pym’s home before Xia Yu and Scott to discuss bringing Pym into the Avengers.
• Dr. Pym shouted at Tony and defended his Pym Particles and Ant-Man Suit while Tony criticized the suit’s appearance.
• Xia Yu, Scott, and Hope all agreed that the Ant-Man Suit looked bad, further angering Dr. Pym.
• Dr. Pym accused Tony of wanting to steal his technology and ordered Xia Yu and the others to leave.
• Dr. Pym caught Scott and Hope kissing and sent them, Tony, and Xia Yu out of his house.

Xia Yu repeatedly harassed Dr. Pym to recruit him for the Avengers, escalating from daytime barbecues on his lawn to sneaking into his bedroom at night. Dr. Pym finally softened after firing dozens of bullets at Xia Yu, but when the police arrived, Xia Yu escaped through a portal and left Dr. Pym to face them.

• Xia Yu and Tony returned to Dr. Pym's house, then brought Thor and Rhodey to barbecue on his lawn and thwarted his attempts to drive them away.
• Xia Yu, Tony, Thor, and Rhodey kept barbecuing on Dr. Pym's lawn, using a signal jammer and a protective shield to counter his ants and gunfire.
• Dr. Pym expected the group to return on the seventh day, but Xia Yu instead entered his bedroom through a portal in the early morning.
• Xia Yu woke Dr. Pym by tickling his nose with a hair, then tried to persuade him to join the Avengers while Dr. Pym fired his guns at him.
• Dr. Pym's anger began to ease after he emptied several guns at Xia Yu, but the sound of sirens prompted Xia Yu to flee through a portal, leaving Dr. Pym behind as the police arrived.

After Xia Yu framed Dr. Pym for a late-night disturbance, Dr. Pym went to the Avengers Compound to confront him and the others. While waiting, he discovered Shuri’s advanced research and became so absorbed in it that Xia Yu and Tony watched their plan succeed.

• Xia Yu convinced the police that he was in New York, and Hope secured Dr. Pym’s release on bail after claiming he had been drunk and hallucinating.
• Dr. Pym went to the Avengers Compound to demand that Xia Yu, Tony Stark, and the others answer for disturbing his home, but Natasha told him they were out.
• After waiting several hours, Dr. Pym decided to cause trouble in the research department instead.
• Dr. Pym examined Shuri’s work, learned that she had improved a space-borne energy storage block, and became fascinated by the research.
• Xia Yu and Tony watched Dr. Pym become absorbed in the research and celebrated their plan.

Xia Yu persuaded Dr. Pym and his family to join the Avengers, and Dr. Pym helped the Science Team finish a formidable new spaceship. Xia Yu and Thor left for space to meet Captain Marvel and check on the Guardians of the Galaxy, while Nick Fury alerted Captain Marvel that they were coming.

• Xia Yu eased Dr. Pym’s anger, brought him together with Tony, Banner, and Shuri to discuss the Quantum Realm, and persuaded Dr. Pym and his family to join the Avengers.
• Dr. Pym agreed to let the Avengers use his technology without giving it all away, then accepted Xia Yu’s hot pot invitation and dropped his demand to beat him.
• Dr. Pym’s arrival accelerated construction of the Avengers Ship, a heavily armored, weapon-equipped spacecraft operated with F.R.I.D.A.Y. technology.
• Xia Yu chose to travel with Thor, entered Captain Marvel’s coordinates, and launched the Avengers Ship into space.
• Nick Fury called Captain Marvel after speaking with Xia Yu and told her, “He’s here!”

Xia Yu waited at S.W.O.R.D. for Captain Marvel to return and tried to persuade her and Nick Fury to help Earth prepare for an impending crisis. Captain Marvel rejected his warning, and Xia Yu ended by promising she was about to see a threat beyond her imagination.

• Nick Fury showed Xia Yu around S.W.O.R.D. and explained how Captain Marvel had sheltered the Skrulls after the Kree Empire hunted them.
• Xia Yu told Nick Fury he would wait three days for Captain Marvel, then take him back to Earth if she had not returned.
• Captain Marvel returned with three transport ships after rescuing Skrulls from a Kree fleet, and Xia Yu waited while she and Nick Fury handled their arrival.
• Captain Marvel soon met Xia Yu and Thor, and Xia Yu challenged her to let Nick Fury leave for Earth's coming crisis.
• Captain Marvel dismissed the crisis as nothing beyond her experience, and Xia Yu warned her that she was about to see otherwise.

On Maria Star, Xia Yu sent Thor to attack Captain Marvel while he watched from S.W.O.R.D. Nick Fury's office. Thor struck first with lightning and Mjolnir, but Captain Marvel recovered, hit him back, and prepared to take her turn.

• Xia Yu told Thor to kill Captain Marvel, then disappeared as Thor flew out to fight her.
• Nick Fury searched for Xia Yu on the satellite feed, and Xia Yu appeared in his office and told him to watch.
• Thor surprised Captain Marvel with lightning, then pursued her with Mjolnir as she tried to evade him.
• Thor's hammer struck Captain Marvel in the abdomen and sent her flying, but she recovered and dodged his next lightning bolt.
• Captain Marvel flew up to Thor and punched him, interrupting his lightning attack before saying it was her turn.

Captain Marvel fought Thor after Xia Yu used the Mind Stone to make Thor believe the spar was a fight to the death. As Thor’s lightning overwhelmed her, Captain Marvel adapted her energy into a protective shield and began to rise.

• Captain Marvel battered Thor with a series of blows, fractured his spine, and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Thor recovered enough to paralyze Captain Marvel with lightning and repeatedly struck her from a distance.
• Xia Yu told Nick Fury that he had used the Mind Stone to influence Thor and that he wanted the fight to draw out Thor’s power.
• As the lightning attacks accumulated, Captain Marvel’s energy gathered above her and formed a shield that reduced their damage.
• Captain Marvel adjusted the shield to deflect the lightning and slowly rose from the ground.

Thor struggled to hurt Captain Marvel with lightning as she adapted her energy into a shield and prepared to attack. Xia Yu and Nick Fury watched the clash, which ended in a blinding burst of light when Thor’s Mjolnir struck Captain Marvel’s fist.

• Thor sensed Captain Marvel becoming more resistant to his lightning, then watched her fly upward and charge at him.
• Xia Yu considered the strengths and weaknesses of Captain Marvel and Scarlet Witch, then worried that Captain Marvel had grown stronger while Thor had not awakened.
• Nick Fury teased Xia Yu about the setback, and Xia Yu silently urged Thor to awaken the Power of Thor.
• Captain Marvel formed a golden energy shield that deflected Thor’s lightning and said her power had become easier to use.
• Thor swung Mjolnir into Captain Marvel’s fist, and their opposing energies produced a light that engulfed the battlefield and shocked Xia Yu and Nick Fury.

Captain Marvel battled Thor, then attacked him after his mind-controlled threats made her believe Xia Yu was a danger to the Skrulls. As Captain Marvel prepared a devastating final strike, Xia Yu opened a portal to intervene.

• Captain Marvel defeated Thor in a clash that left him badly injured, while Xia Yu and Nick Fury watched through a satellite.
• Captain Marvel questioned Thor about his hatred of the Skrulls and Xia Yu’s disappearance, and Thor threatened to kill every Skrull she protected.
• Xia Yu told Nick Fury that he had made Thor believe Captain Marvel had led the Skrulls in a slaughter of Asgard and could undo the mind control at any time.
• Thor taunted Captain Marvel and renewed his threats, causing her to attack him repeatedly as Xia Yu watched tensely.
• Captain Marvel rose high into the sky and dove toward Thor with glowing fists, so Xia Yu opened a portal to intervene.