Chapter Summaries

The Avengers defended the core device from Ultron’s robot army while Xia Yu used the Reality Stone to create energy constructs. As the robots fell, the Avengers concentrated their attacks on Ultron, and Xia Yu joined them with a torrent of sword-shaped energy.

• The Avengers assembled at the church as Ultron summoned another robot army, and Xia Yu sent Scarlet Witch to the base.
• Thor, Rhodey, Falcon, and Xia Yu attacked the main force while the other Avengers fought robots around the core device.
• Xia Yu created two energy Hulks, and Thor teased Hulk before Hulk used him to smash robots and hurled him at Ultron.
• Ultron blasted Thor away, but Tony and Vision joined Thor’s assault and began melting Ultron’s outer shell.
• After Bucky joined the fight with a machine gun, Xia Yu left the battle against the robots and sent a torrent of sword-shaped energy at Ultron.

Xia Yu and the Avengers stopped Ultron’s plan, destroyed the airborne landmass without devastating the city, and tracked down Ultron’s final body. Scarlet Witch destroyed him herself, completing Xia Yu’s mission.

• Hulk punched Ultron away before Xia Yu could finish confronting him, and the Avengers shot down the fleeing robots.
• Xia Yu and Tony discussed how to deal with the airborne landmass, then Xia Yu, Vision, and Thor raised it high into the ionosphere.
• Thor detonated the core device with a lightning strike, and the heroes destroyed the falling debris before it could harm the city.
• Vision tracked Ultron’s last body near Sokovia, and Xia Yu stopped Vision from killing him so Scarlet Witch could take revenge for her brother.
• Scarlet Witch pulled a heartlike component from Ultron and crushed it, extinguishing his eyes and completing Xia Yu’s mission.

After the Avengers faced public criticism over Ultron, Xia Yu explained their role in the disaster and spent more than three months absorbing the Mind Stone while the team developed new armor and a spaceship. Xia Yu and Vision finally awoke with a stronger connection, and a little boy from Tennessee arrived to bring the Avengers trouble.

• Xia Yu explained how the Mind Stone and Tony Stark's experiment had led to Ultron, winning most people's support for the Avengers.
• Xia Yu absorbed the Mind Stone while Vision remained still with him for more than three months, and the science team developed a new alloy and began building the Avengers' spaceship.
• Tony Stark and the science team completed new-alloy nanotech Armor for the Avengers, and Rhodey left the military to join the team.
• Xia Yu and Vision awoke, and Vision sensed a strong connection to Xia Yu that came from the Mind Stone.
• Xia Yu discovered that he could sense emotions and mental restraints more clearly after absorbing the stone.
• A little boy from Tennessee whom Thor had brought over arrived and brought trouble to the Avengers.

Harry came to the Avengers' base to confront Thor over a promise Thor had forgotten to keep. Thor remembered the boy from Tennessee and faced the Avengers' ridicule, while Harry's promised workshop and visit remained unresolved.

• Harry arrived at the Avengers' base and told Peggy Carter he was looking for Thor, who owed him a promise.
• F.R.I.D.A.Y. announced Harry's arrival, and the Avengers gathered to find out why he had come.
• Thor watched the gate footage, recognized Harry from Tennessee, and explained the promise he had made to him.
• Peggy brought Harry inside, where Thor tried to explain himself and the Avengers mocked him for forgetting his promise.
• Thor tried to shift blame to Hawkeye, who pointed out that Thor had made the promise and was old enough to remember it himself.

Xia Yu helped Little Harry after Thor failed to bring him to New York, and Thor donated his salary to the boy’s education. Xia Yu then visited Odin in Norway, where Odin attacked him with a broom and summoned Sif.

• Little Harry told the Avengers how he had traveled alone from Tennessee to New York to confront Thor for breaking his promise.
• Jane comforted Harry, the Avengers helped him contact his mother, and Tony helped redesign his home and build devices for him.
• Thor donated his Avengers salary to fund Harry’s future schooling, and Harry became friends with the Avengers.
• Xia Yu traveled to Norway after learning Odin had driven away his caregivers, but Odin chased him with a broom and accused him of knowing what he had done.
• Odin called Sif out to meet Xia Yu, leaving Xia Yu alarmed.

Odin confronted Xia Yu over his drunken kiss and groping of Sif, using threats and a dramatic tantrum to demand an answer. Sif joined Odin’s act, and the chapter ended with Odin chasing Xia Yu with a broom while Sif watched and smiled.

• Xia Yu tried to leave, but Odin stopped him and threatened to expose his involvement with Sif to his girlfriend and the press.
• Odin accused Xia Yu of taking advantage of Sif, while Xia Yu admitted inwardly that he had kissed and groped her after she got drunk.
• Sif served coffee and avoided meeting Xia Yu’s eyes as Odin demanded to know what Xia Yu would do about the incident.
• Xia Yu asked Sif to confirm that their encounter was a misunderstanding, but she acted aggrieved and asked Odin to decide the matter for her.
• Odin struck Xia Yu with a broom and chased him toward the cliff as Sif watched with a smile.

Sif came to Earth, reconsidered her feelings for Thor, and gradually became convinced she loved Xia Yu. After Odin and the Ancient One schemed to bring them together, Odin cornered Xia Yu by a cliff and demanded he take responsibility for Sif.

• Sif realized her feelings for Thor were more like those for a brother and traveled to Earth to gain experience.
• Sif saw Xia Yu’s image across the United States, then spent months reading romance stories and watching love films as her feelings for him grew.
• Sif met Odin in Norway and learned that Loki had been impersonating him; she stayed with Odin after seeing how frail he had become.
• Odin learned about Sif’s feelings for Xia Yu and decided to help bring them together, later taking Sif as his goddaughter.
• The Ancient One advised Odin to appeal to Xia Yu’s sense of face, status, and responsibility toward women.
• Odin chased Xia Yu to a cliff and insisted he take responsibility for kissing and touching Sif, while Xia Yu recognized the setup and resisted.

Xia Yu refused Odin’s demand that he marry Sif, though he said he might consider her if Natasha died of old age and he still wanted a wife. Sif later invited him to a bar in Norway, where she ordered several bottles of strong liquor and startled him by asking for a private talk.

• Xia Yu told Odin he would not take responsibility for his past intimate contact with Sif because it had happened while she was drunk and he already had a girlfriend.
• Odin insisted Xia Yu marry his goddaughter someday, and Xia Yu said he might consider Sif if Natasha died of old age and he still wanted a wife.
• Odin spoke excitedly with Sif, then dismissed Xia Yu, who left through a portal after offering to help if needed.
• Sif contacted Xia Yu and asked to talk, so he traveled to a small bar in Norway to meet her.
• Sif arrived in modern clothes and an orange-red BMW i8, then ordered two bottles each of the strongest vodka and whiskey.
• Xia Yu asked Sif if she planned to get him drunk and defile him.

Xia Yu and Sif talked over drinks about her uncertain feelings for him and her decision to explore life beyond Asgard before choosing a partner. They parted as friends, though Sif left open the possibility that she might return if she realized she loved him.

• Xia Yu worried that Sif might get drunk, and she assured him Earth alcohol would not affect her easily.
• Sif recognized that Xia Yu was trying to turn her down and admitted she did not know whether her feelings for him were love.
• Sif explained that living on Earth had made her question her old life in Asgard, so she planned to meet more people and discover what kind of partner she wanted.
• Sif and Xia Yu drank together and discussed her experiences on Earth, then embraced and parted as friends.
• Sif told Xia Yu she might return if she realized she loved him, kissed his cheek, and drove away.

After Nick Fury reported that Scott Lang had been released from prison, Xia Yu ordered him watched and considered how to obtain Dr. Pym’s Quantum Realm technology. Agent Hill uncovered Pym’s plan to recruit Scott, while Xia Yu ended their conversation by teasing her about how he knew the future.

• Xia Yu woke from a nightmare when Nick Fury called to report that Scott Lang had been released from prison.
• Xia Yu told Nick to keep watching Scott and reflected on Dr. Pym’s distrust of the Stark family and the value of the Quantum Realm.
• Nick assigned a team to monitor Scott, his former cellmate, and his housemates, and Agent Hill discovered that Dr. Pym was setting Scott up for a theft and grooming him as the next Ant-Man.
• Agent Hill asked Xia Yu whether he planned to recruit Scott and how he had known to watch him before his release.
• Xia Yu promised to explain over a meal, then told Hill to search Google for “predict the future” and Scott Lang before hanging up.

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.