Chapter Summaries

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.

Thor’s Power of Thor fully awakened, and his lightning clashed with Captain Marvel’s punch and Xia Yu’s counterattack, devastating the desert. Nick Fury recovered Thor and Captain Marvel, but Xia Yu remained missing.

• Thor’s Godhead and bloodline power surged, restoring and strengthening his body until he unleashed a massive bolt of lightning.
• Xia Yu used the Aether as armor and fired energy beams at Captain Marvel and Thor, whose attacks collided with his.
• The collision created a huge shock wave that blasted a vast crater into the desert.
• Nick Fury found Thor unconscious in the crater and detected that his injuries were slowly healing.
• S.W.O.R.D. ships searched Maria Star and found Captain Marvel unconscious in space beyond the planet’s orbit.
• Nick Fury searched Maria Star for Xia Yu, but found no sign of him.

Thor awakened the Power of Thor and recovered from Xia Yu’s mind control, while Nick Fury and Captain Marvel tried to understand Xia Yu’s disappearance. Thor and Captain Marvel concluded that the Tesseract’s energy had probably teleported Xia Yu through a wormhole.

• Thor’s awakened power destroyed the transparent box holding him, and he attacked Captain Marvel before Nick Fury calmed him down.
• Thor endured lingering pain from Xia Yu’s mind control, then learned that the awakening had cleansed his body and soul and broken the control.
• Thor discovered he could summon lightning without his hammer, but his attempt to contact Xia Yu got no response.
• Thor and Captain Marvel agreed that a change in the Tesseract’s energy had likely opened a wormhole and teleported Xia Yu away.

Xia Yu woke up badly injured in a scavenger’s dwelling on Sakaar after the Tesseract’s energy teleported him there. He learned that a boy named Tate had rescued him and introduced himself while recovering.

• Thor’s lightning overwhelmed Xia Yu’s attack, but an energy reaction opened a portal that cut off the blow and sent Xia Yu away.
• Xia Yu woke in a battered shelter, too injured to move, and realized he would need time to recover before contacting the Avengers.
• Tate entered carrying scavenged bread and told Xia Yu he had found him two days earlier after he fell from the sky.
• Tate explained that the planet was Sakaar, where scavengers survived by searching through trash dumped through wormholes.
• Xia Yu thanked Tate for saving him, and the two exchanged names.

Xia Yu recovered in a hut on Sakaar and learned about Tate’s harsh life and his wish to leave the planet. Unable to get Sakaar’s coordinates yet, Xia Yu promised to help Tate escape and contacted Star-Lord while they waited for his recovery.

• Xia Yu contacted Thor and asked him to come to Sakaar, but Thor said finding the planet’s coordinates would take time.
• Tate returned bruised after scavengers took a cake from him, and Xia Yu promised to help him leave Sakaar.
• Tate told Xia Yu about his mother, his adoptive father, and how he had survived alone among the scavengers.
• Xia Yu made a fruit cake appear and gave Tate food and drinks from his ring.
• Xia Yu told Tate they would go into the city after he recovered, then contacted Star-Lord.

While recovering in Tate's shack, Xia Yu gave the boy clean food, water, and a bath, then promised to take him off Sakaar. When cannibal scavengers came looking for Tate and tried to seize Xia Yu, he killed two of them and let a witness flee, expecting the scavengers to return before he left for the city.

• Xia Yu used supplies from his ring to make Tate's shack more comfortable, and Tate secretly drank some of the bathwater.
• Xia Yu told Thor to meet the others while he stayed with Tate to recover, and he promised Tate that nothing on Sakaar could stop him from leaving.
• Two scavengers entered the shack, and Tate identified one of them as a man who had beaten him.
• When the scavengers threatened to eat Xia Yu, he killed both of them and let another scavenger outside escape.
• Tate warned that the escapee would bring others, but Xia Yu said he intended to deal with them all at once.