Recaps

Natasha took Xia Yu to an amusement park to cheer him up, where they enjoyed games and rides before Peter Parker confronted Xia Yu about supposedly betraying Aunt May. Peter struck Xia Yu with unexpected strength, sending him crashing through a restroom stall and wall.

• Natasha disguised herself and Xia Yu and took him to a crowded amusement park, where her excitement gradually lifted his mood.
• Xia Yu used his Space Ring to steal a row of claw machines, then he and Natasha won toys at a shooting game and gave them away to couples.
• Natasha screamed on the roller coasters despite her past battlefield bravery, and Xia Yu enjoyed their date with her.
• Peter Parker confronted Xia Yu in the men's restroom, insisting that Xia Yu was Aunt May's boyfriend and warning him not to hurt her.
• Xia Yu tried to slip past Peter, but Peter's palm strike sent him crashing through a stall and the wall behind it.

Xia Yu brought the newly empowered Peter Parker and Aunt May to the Avengers’ base after Peter accidentally hurt him while protecting her. Aunt May agreed to let the Avengers examine Peter, provided she could stay with him, and Xia Yu decided to call Tony to handle the situation.

• Xia Yu took Peter and Aunt May back to the base, then asked Hawkeye to keep the amusement-park incident out of public view.
• Peter apologized to Xia Yu, and Xia Yu explained his past encounter with Peter at the Stark Expo, though Natasha and Peter questioned parts of his story.
• Peter told Aunt May that a spider bite had given him enhanced senses, strength, speed, balance, wall-crawling, and a danger-sensing ability.
• Aunt May feared Peter might be harmed or captured, but Natasha reassured her that the Avengers would only perform examinations with her present.
• Aunt May insisted on sharing a room with Peter, and Xia Yu called Tony to ask him to handle Peter’s situation.

Xia Yu brought Peter Parker and Aunt May to meet Tony Stark, introducing Tony to the young Spider-Man and explaining Peter’s sense of responsibility. Tony’s anger toward Xia Yu remained, but Peter’s words caught his attention.

• Xia Yu learned Tony and Pepper were in Los Angeles, then decided to bring Peter Parker to meet Tony.
• Peter told Xia Yu how the spider bite gave him powers and how he chose to use them to help people.
• Xia Yu showed Peter and Aunt May around the Avengers Compound, where Peter excitedly explored its technology.
• Xia Yu took Peter and Aunt May through a portal to Tony’s mansion, where Peter enthusiastically questioned Tony about his home and inventions.
• Tony complained that Xia Yu had brought uninvited guests, and Xia Yu explained Peter’s powers and his commitment to helping others.
• Tony’s eyes lit up when Xia Yu repeated Peter’s belief that failing to help someone could make him responsible for their harm.

At the Avengers base, Xia Yu and Tony discussed the Siberia incident and Tony’s plans to help veterans, but Tony revealed he had donated all of Herbal medicine’s profits using Xia Yu’s forged signature. Xia Yu ended Christmas Eve furious and eating a miserable hot pot.

• Xia Yu welcomed Tony and Pepper to the base, where Tony asked whether Steve had told him about Siberia.
• Tony told Xia Yu he could not face Bucky and planned to deal personally with the five frozen super soldiers in Siberia.
• Tony explained that he would fund a veterans’ support foundation with the year’s earnings from one of his companies.
• Tony revealed that he had donated Herbal medicine’s nearly eight hundred million dollars in profits and forged Xia Yu’s signature on the paperwork.
• Xia Yu grabbed Tony in outrage, but Tony taunted him and left to join Pepper by the turkey.
• Xia Yu spent Christmas Eve eating hot pot that tasted worse than any he had eaten before.

Odin and the Ancient One discussed Xia Yu’s role as a variable in the universe’s fate, while Xia Yu spent Christmas Eve with Tony, Spider-Man, Aunt May, and Happy. The chapter ended with Old Master Li confronting Xia Yu and asking if he had been cursing him in his thoughts.

• The Ancient One visited Odin after her attempt to glimpse Xia Yu’s future through the Eye of Agamotto backfired, and Odin advised her to guide Xia Yu rather than try to control fate.
• Xia Yu and Tony drove Spider-Man and Aunt May home, giving Spider-Man a private-database tablet and a new phone.
• Xia Yu and Tony visited Happy in the hospital, and Xia Yu went out to buy him Coke and fries.
• Xia Yu encountered Old Master Li outside a fast-food restaurant and was pulled into a vast white space with him.
• Old Master Li sensed two Infinity Stones on Xia Yu, then accused him of cursing in his thoughts, leaving Xia Yu pale with fear.

Xia Yu met Old Master Li in a mysterious space, where the old man demanded photos from Sovereign before discussing the Infinity Stones and warning Xia Yu to follow the established course of events. Old Master Li sent Xia Yu back outside the fast-food restaurant, and Xia Yu went inside to buy food for Happy.

• Old Master Li followed Xia Yu across the stool and demanded the nude photos he had taken on Sovereign.
• Xia Yu handed over his phone, and Old Master Li admired the photo, scolded Xia Yu for not taking more, and asked him to take a video next time.
• Old Master Li showed Xia Yu a river and a boat, telling him to follow the established route and gather all six Infinity Stones before attempting to change anything.
• Old Master Li returned Xia Yu to the fast-food restaurant, where time appeared unchanged, and told him to leave.
• Xia Yu considered Old Master Li's warning, then went inside to buy food for Happy.

Xia Yu joined the Captain and Falcon in destroying a Hydra base in London, where an operative vanished just as Xia Yu was about to catch him. The group was left wondering who had taken Turner Reger and where he had gone.

• Tony took Xia Yu to a Hydra base in Siberia, found footage of Bucky killing Tony's parents, and destroyed the base and its five frozen super soldiers.
• The Captain invited Xia Yu to Peggy Carter's London manor, where Xia Yu met Falcon, also known as Sam Wilson.
• The Captain led Xia Yu, Falcon, and the others to destroy a Hydra weapons base in London's sewers.
• A Hydra leader named Turner Reger escaped through the sewers, but Xia Yu and the others cornered him in an abandoned factory.
• Turner Reger vanished as Xia Yu reached for his neck, and Xia Yu told the Captain he had not sent him anywhere.

During the Nine Realms alignment, Jane Foster was pulled through a sudden wormhole and stranded in an ancient, deserted hall. Thor set out to find her, while Jane discovered a strange stone sarcophagus with a dark red light beneath its floating lid.

• Xia Yu explained the Nine Realms alignment to Captain and Falcon, and Nick Fury’s team cordoned off the factory for investigation.
• Jane Foster and Dr. Selvig detected stable and irregular wormholes, and Jane demonstrated how a can repeatedly passed through one.
• Jane stayed behind to record the spatial fluctuations, but a wormhole suddenly took her away from Thor.
• Thor searched the factory for Jane before Xia Yu led him and the others outside to seek Heimdall’s help.
• Jane explored the deserted ancient hall and found a floating stone lid above a sarcophagus-like block, with a dark red light shining beneath it.

Jane Foster absorbed the Aether after finding it beneath Asgard, while Malekith and the Dark Elves awakened in Svartalfheim. When the Aether’s power burst from Jane and blasted Thor away, Xia Yu helped stop him and urged Thor to take Jane to Asgard.

• Jane Foster touched the Aether, which bonded with her and disappeared into her body as Malekith and the Dark Elves awoke in Svartalfheim.
• Jane wandered through the hall, returned to Earth through a wormhole, and searched for an exit from the factory complex.
• Thor asked Heimdall to find Jane, and Heimdall eventually spotted her back on Earth and sent Thor to her.
• As Thor approached Jane, a burst of dark red power blasted him away, and Xia Yu braced himself against the force to stop him.
• Thor found that the power stayed calm when Jane did, and Xia Yu told Thor to take her to Asgard while he went with them.

After Thor brought Jane to Asgard for treatment, Odin summoned Xia Yu and told him that Asgard’s coming destruction could not be changed without causing an even greater disaster. Odin sent Xia Yu back to Earth, leaving Thor and Jane in Asgard as events continued according to his plans.

• Thor carried Jane into the Golden Palace and summoned Asgard’s best witch doctor to examine her.
• Odin’s raven led Xia Yu to a balcony, where Odin spoke with him about Asgard’s fate.
• Odin told Xia Yu that Frigga would die soon and that trying to prevent it could doom Asgard and its people.
• Odin asked Xia Yu to keep Thor close and, if possible, to keep Loki close as well.
• Odin sent Xia Yu back to Earth, telling him that nothing in Asgard needed to be changed.

As spatial portals spread across London, Xia Yu and the Avengers warned residents and prepared Dr. Selvig’s team to counter the coming crisis. In Asgard, Frigga visited Loki before returning to Odin, and the two acknowledged that Ragnarok had long been set in motion.

• Portals caused increasingly bizarre accidents across London, prompting the government to issue a ban while crowds still came to experience teleportation.
• Tony hacked European television broadcasts to warn residents of a coming crisis in Greenwich after the United Kingdom's government rejected Peggy's request.
• Dr. Selvig assembled Daisy and Ian Boothby near an abandoned factory, and Tony and Banner joined his research team as the Nine-Star Alignment approached.
• Frigga visited Loki in his cell, but their conversation turned bitter when he denied that Odin was his father and then denied that Frigga was his mother.
• Frigga told Odin she would go see Thor while there was still time, and the two recognized that Odin had set Ragnarok in motion long ago.

Frigga said goodbye to Thor before Malekith’s Dark Elves attacked Asgard, and she was killed when Kurse destroyed the Golden Palace’s defenses. After Asgard mourned its dead, Odin sent Frigga’s funeral boat into the cosmos and resolved to join her there.

• Frigga met Jane Foster and asked her to look after Thor, then promised Thor she would keep Jane safe as he rushed to the dungeon.
• A Dark Elf transformed into Kurse with a Cursed Stone and escaped the dungeon while Loki directed him away from Thor.
• Malekith’s fleet attacked Asgard, and Kurse destroyed the Golden Palace’s defensive energy core from within.
• Kurse killed Frigga before Thor arrived, while Thor wounded Malekith; the Dark Elves retreated without taking the Aether.
• Asgard mourned its dead, and Odin sent Frigga’s burning boat into the cosmos, where her body became shimmering energy.

After Frigga's death, Thor persuaded Loki to help him escape Asgard and take Jane to the Dark World to destroy the Aether and avenge their mother. Thor and Loki reunited with Jane and Sif, ready to set their plan in motion.

• Odin rejected Thor's proposal to take Jane and the Aether to the Dark World, closed the Bifrost, and ordered Thor to leave without Asgard's army.
• Thor visited Loki in the dungeon and asked him to help escape and avenge Frigga, admitting that he did not trust Loki but their mother had.
• Thor laid out a careful plan, helped Loki escape, and endured Loki's teasing as they made their way through the Golden Palace.
• Heimdall drew Odin to the Bifrost while Sif rescued Jane from house arrest and waited with her to meet Thor.
• Loki greeted Jane with a flirtatious remark, and Jane slapped him for his role in the attack on New York.

Thor and Loki carried out their plan to remove the Aether from Jane, but Malekith escaped with it toward Earth. Loki appeared to die defeating Kurse, and Thor and Jane returned through a wormhole to London, where Dr. Selvig told them something that surprised them.

• Thor and Loki entered the Dark World, argued, and waited for Malekith to find Jane through the Aether.
• Loki tricked Malekith into drawing the Aether from Jane, but Thor's lightning failed to destroy it, and Malekith headed for Earth to use it during the Nine-Star Alignment.
• Thor fought Kurse and was overpowered until Loki stabbed Kurse and detonated a Singularity Grenade, which pulled Kurse into the void.
• Kurse ran Loki through before vanishing, and Loki appeared to die in Thor's arms, leaving Thor grief-stricken.
• Thor and Jane found the wormhole near the trash from Earth, returned to London, and spoke with Dr. Selvig, whose news surprised them.

The Avengers prepared for Malekith’s attack during the Nine-Star Alignment, with Thor explaining the Dark Elves’ threat and Tony distributing equipment for the spatial convergence. After everyone rested, Xia Yu received a mission to kill Malekith and recover the Reality Stone before the alignment ended.

• The government sealed off Greenwich, and the Avengers gathered there to prepare for the Nine-Star Alignment.
• Thor arrived at the Avengers’ base and told them that the Dark Elves had killed Frigga and that Loki had died saving him.
• Thor explained the Nine Realms, Malekith, the Aether, and the threats posed by Singularity Grenades and Kurse.
• Tony distributed teleportation devices and communicators, and Dr. Selvig said the Nine-Star Alignment would occur within twenty-four hours.
• Tmall gave Xia Yu a mission to kill Malekith and recover the Reality Stone before the alignment ended, promising him the ability to absorb its power and attributes.

Xia Yu and the Avengers attacked Malekith’s ship as it emerged from the Thames, destroying it before he could disembark. Black energy then burst from the wreckage and struck Thor while Tony shielded the others, leaving the group braced for another attack.

• JARVIS located an approaching alien ship near the Old Royal Naval College, and Xia Yu led the group through a portal to the Thames.
• Captain America rallied the team, and the Avengers opened fire as Malekith’s sword-shaped ship surfaced.
• The Avengers destroyed most of the ship before Malekith could leave it, but JARVIS detected no life-forms in the wreckage.
• Xia Yu warned the group that Malekith had an Infinity Stone, and silent streams of black energy shot from the wreckage.
• Xia Yu intercepted some of the energy, while Thor was struck and sent flying; Tony formed nanomaterial shields to protect Captain America, Banner, Hawkeye, and Natasha.

Xia Yu’s team confronted Malekith and four Kurses, whose unexpected strength made the battle more dangerous than he had anticipated. Xia Yu tricked one Kurse into killing Banner’s apparent corpse, then Hulk ambushed and overwhelmed that Kurse as Xia Yu and Tony attacked the remaining enemies.

• Xia Yu warned the team that Malekith had brought four Kurses, and Thor said he could hold one off.
• Malekith mocked the Earth defenders, while Tony and Xia Yu traded insults with him.
• Xia Yu hurled Banner at the enemy, and a Kurse caught him and crushed his neck, mistaking the apparent death for the end of the attack.
• Hulk seized the Kurse who had killed Banner, smashed him into the ground, and stomped on him.
• Hulk charged the fallen Kurse again as Xia Yu and Tony attacked Malekith and the three remaining Kurses.

The Avengers attacked Malekith and his companions, while Xia Yu confronted Malekith directly. Xia Yu landed a relentless aerial combo, but a spatial ripple made both fighters vanish before the battle was settled.

• Captain, Falcon, Tony, and Xia Yu joined the attack on Malekith and the Kurse, and one Kurse sacrificed his arm to block Tony and Xia Yu's combined beam.
• The Kurse charged the Avengers, prompting Hulk, Thor, Tony, Falcon, and Captain to engage separate opponents while Xia Yu warned Natasha and Clint away from the spatial rifts.
• Xia Yu intercepted Malekith and dodged his energy blast before punching him hard enough to send him flying.
• Xia Yu pursued Malekith through the air and repeatedly struck him, noting how the Aether made him unusually resilient.
• A ripple opened in the air and took Xia Yu and Malekith away.

Xia Yu and Malekith fought across realms as the Nine-Star Alignment made space around Greenwich increasingly unstable. After Xia Yu deliberately let Malekith gain ground, a spatial rift sent Xia Yu to Niflheim, where he faced Hela.

• A spatial rift transported Xia Yu and Malekith to Muspelheim, where they fought without either gaining a decisive advantage.
• The pair reappeared on Earth, and the distorted space around Greenwich repeatedly displaced attacks, enemies, and allies during the Avengers' battle.
• Thor told Tony that he was on a subway heading to Greenwich, while Hulk appeared beside Tony after losing track of his opponent.
• Eight wormholes opened overhead as Xia Yu planned to let Malekith reach the Aether beneath them and remove it from his body.
• Xia Yu held back and was knocked away by Malekith, but a spatial rift then sent him to Niflheim, where he encountered Hela.

Xia Yu encountered Hela in Hell and tried to escape by disguising himself and then hurling stinky fermented tofu at her. Enraged, Hela caught up and shattered his Heaven Reliant Sword, leaving Xia Yu facing her next attack.

• Xia Yu recognized Hela and pretended he had wandered into the wrong place while trying to leave Hell.
• Hela saw through Xia Yu’s act and warned him to stop or die.
• Xia Yu threw a container of stinky fermented tofu at Hela, splashing her with its contents.
• Hela, furious, pursued Xia Yu and attacked him with summoned black swords and the Night Sky Sword.
• Xia Yu charged through the brittle blades, then met Hela’s strike with the Heaven Reliant Sword, which shattered.

Xia Yu escaped Hela and returned to Earth during the Nine-Star Alignment, where he and Thor entered the Aether mist to stop Malekith. Xia Yu’s Power Stone attack vanished in the mist, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Xia Yu used jars of fermented tofu and a pile of junk to delay Hela, then activated Tony’s device and teleported back to Earth while Hela’s sword grazed his Armor.
• Malekith stood beneath the aligned wormholes as the Aether drained from his body, while the Kursed kept the Heroes from reaching him.
• Hela’s flying sword killed a Kurse beside Xia Yu and Hulk, and Xia Yu sent Hulk to help Thor before flying toward Malekith.
• Xia Yu and Thor entered the dark red Aether mist, where their movements and energy were suppressed.
• Malekith declared that darkness would soon cover the Nine Realms, and Xia Yu’s blast of Power Stone energy disappeared in the mist.

Xia Yu and Thor defeated Malekith after Xia Yu discovered that physical attacks could overcome the Aether’s energy field. With Malekith dead, Xia Yu claimed the Aether while the wormholes still connected Earth to the other worlds.

• Thor’s gravity-measuring device pierced Malekith’s shoulder, and Thor used his watch to teleport away Malekith’s left arm.
• Xia Yu realized Malekith was vulnerable to physical attacks, then shattered his defenses and knocked him down, dispersing the Aether’s energy field.
• Xia Yu brutally beat Malekith for attacking Earth, destroying the Heaven Reliant Sword, and causing other losses, then left him alive for Thor to avenge his mother.
• Thor struck Malekith with Mjolnir, and the Dark Elf leader’s body exploded in midair.
• Tmall told Xia Yu the mission was complete and warned him that the Reality Stone held an unexpected surprise, so Xia Yu reached for the Aether.
• The Aether coiled around Xia Yu’s hand and climbed up his arm toward his body.

After absorbing the Aether, Xia Yu learned it could slowly take physical forms and used it to kill the remaining Kurses as the Avengers won the battle. The Nine-Star Alignment ended, while Hela raged in Hell and vowed revenge on Odin; Xia Yu relaxed and made Natasha a flower.

• Tmall told Xia Yu the Aether could slowly be absorbed and shaped into weapons or armor, though its full abilities required all six Infinity Stones.
• Xia Yu formed the Aether into a javelin and killed a one-armed Kurse by pinning him to a building.
• Xia Yu helped finish off the last two Kurses while Tony admired the Aether's weapon forms.
• The wormholes dispersed after the fighting ended, and the Avengers rested in the sunshine.
• Hela killed undead in Hell and vowed to torture Odin, who suddenly spat blood on Earth.
• Xia Yu sat with the others and conjured a flower for Natasha.

Xia Yu met Odin in Norway, where Odin recalled his past and revealed that Hela would eventually escape her prison. Odin proposed marrying Hela as a way to bring Xia Yu closer to the family, but Xia Yu refused and left their argument unresolved.

• Xia Yu studied Tony's Armor schematics for several days until he felt overwhelmed by the designs.
• Odin summoned Xia Yu to the Norwegian coast, where Xia Yu found him remembering the Frost Giants' invasion and Loki's adoption.
• Xia Yu told Odin he had encountered Hela and admitted that he was not strong enough to fight her.
• Odin explained that Asgard was the source of Hela's power and said he had devised a solution that did not require combat.
• Odin proposed that Xia Yu marry Hela, but Xia Yu refused, saying he already had a girlfriend and did not want Asgard's throne.
• Odin argued that Hela could share Xia Yu's long life, while Xia Yu accused him of foisting another family member on him.

Xia Yu rejected Odin’s idea of marrying Hela after reminding him that Ragnarok would still threaten Asgard, and Odin asked him to build a small house and keep Loki in check. Back at the base, Xia Yu reassured Natasha that he would find a way for her to live as long as he did, and vowed to extend that hope to the Avengers.

• Xia Yu reminded Odin that marrying Hela would not prevent Ragnarok or spare Asgard from its destined cost.
• Odin abandoned his plan for Hela, asked Xia Yu to build him a small house, and told him to visit Asgard and keep Loki from misusing the throne.
• Xia Yu returned to the base, where Natasha teased him about sneaking away, and he explained Odin’s request and family history.
• Natasha worried that she would grow old while Xia Yu lived for thousands of years, but Xia Yu promised to find a way for her to share his long life.
• Xia Yu kissed Natasha and resolved to give the Avengers long or everlasting lives.