Recaps

Madara Uchiha entered New York City and explained why he rejected mutual understanding in favor of the Eye of the Moon Plan. The Akatsuki members showed doubts about his plan, and Deva Path Pain proposed ruling the world instead.

• Madara Uchiha questioned whether the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki’s attachment to New York City proved that people could understand one another.
• Madara Uchiha argued that mutual understanding was naive and declared that the Eye of the Moon Plan was the only path to peace.
• Obito told Kingpin about Madara Uchiha’s strength, including how he had scared off Minato Namikaze, Tobirama Senju, and the others.
• Madara Uchiha described capturing the Tailed Beasts, reviving the Ten-Tails, and placing everyone in dreams beneath the God Tree.
• Kingpin inwardly rejected the plan, and he noticed that most of the Akatsuki members, including Obito, also seemed unconvinced.
• Deva Path Pain suggested that Madara Uchiha use his power to rule the world and end conflicts between nations.

Madara Uchiha rejected Nagato’s plan for peace through fear and argued that lasting peace required satisfying everyone. The Akatsuki attacked New York City to draw Wu Chen and Minato Namikaze out, while S.H.I.E.L.D.’s superheroes rushed to defend it.

• Madara Uchiha told Nagato that using the Ten-Tails to restrain nations would only lead to more wars, and Nagato began to reconsider his ideals.
• Madara Uchiha ended the discussion and spotted Iron Man and Thor flying toward the Akatsuki.
• New York City residents fled the Akatsuki’s approach and called S.H.I.E.L.D. for help.
• S.H.I.E.L.D.’s superheroes abandoned their planned ambush and headed for the New York Basin, while Wu Chen was away checking on Minato Namikaze and the others.
• The Akatsuki had attacked New York City to force Wu Chen and Minato Namikaze, both perfect Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, to appear.

Grieving relatives attacked the Akatsuki, but Deva Path Pain repelled them, and Madara Uchiha used the clash to argue for the Eye of the Moon Plan. Thor and Iron Man intervened, but Kingpin and Madara quickly struck them down.

• Several hundred armed mourners opened fire on Deva Path Pain, who used Shinra Tensei to send the bullets back at them.
• Madara Uchiha claimed the mourners' attack proved that the Eye of the Moon Plan was the true path, then defended himself with Susanoo against Thor and Iron Man's attacks.
• Thor told Iron Man to rescue the civilians while he held off Madara Uchiha.
• Kingpin struck Iron Man with Samehada and sent him flying.
• Madara Uchiha's Susanoo slashed Thor with its sword of light and sent him flying.

The Avengers arrived amid the Akatsuki’s deadly clash with armed civilians, and the heroes split up to fight the attackers. Madara Uchiha summoned his Complete Body Susanoo and kicked Hulk away, while Obito remained motionless on the battlefield.

• Iron Man and Thor agreed to prioritize saving people, but Deidara and Deva Path Pain had already killed many of the civilians who attacked the Akatsuki.
• Hulk, Captain America, Black Widow, and Hawkeye arrived, and Hulk charged at Madara Uchiha while the others attacked Kingpin.
• Iron Man fired particle beams at Deva Path Pain, and Thor threw Mjolnir at Deidara as Obito stayed out of the fights.
• Madara Uchiha summoned his Complete Body Susanoo and kicked Hulk away with tremendous force.

The Akatsuki defeated the Avengers in New York while Loki escaped the Helicarrier and headed for Stark Tower to open a space-time portal. Nick Fury chose to call Wu Chen for Konoha’s help instead of sending a distress signal to a powerful heroine.

• Susanoo defeated Hulk, and Bruce Banner fell unconscious amid the ruins.
• Deva Path Pain shattered Tony’s armor and knocked him unconscious, while Kingpin and Deidara overwhelmed the other Avengers.
• Thor realized he was the last Avenger still fighting after Deidara’s clay clone exploded and sent him flying.
• Loki escaped the Helicarrier with controlled agents and went to Stark Tower, planning to open a space-time portal.
• Nick Fury learned of Loki’s escape and the Avengers’ defeat, then called Wu Chen to ask Konoha for help.

Wu Chen and the reanimated shinobi arrived at the battlefield and rescued the injured Avengers while Hashirama Senju confronted Madara Uchiha. Madara began explaining how his experience founding Konoha had changed his outlook, leaving Hashirama still waiting for an answer.

• Wu Chen used the Role-Playing System to bring Minato Namikaze, Tobirama Senju, Might Guy, and Hashirama Senju to Stark Tower.
• Wu Chen, Tobirama Senju, and Minato Namikaze used the Flying Thunder God Technique to rescue Tony Stark, Hawkeye, Black Widow Natasha, and Dr. Banner, while Thor pulled Captain America from the water.
• Might Guy blocked the Akatsuki members as Hashirama Senju faced Madara Uchiha, allowing Tobirama Senju to treat the Avengers.
• Hashirama Senju questioned Madara about the Akatsuki's crimes and his plans.
• Madara said that founding Konoha with Hashirama and losing the position of Hokage had taught him something, but Hashirama pressed him to answer his question.

Madara Uchiha explained that he planned to revive the Ten-Tails and use Infinite Tsukuyomi to trap the world in a dream where everyone could be happy. He defended the plan as a way for ordinary people to escape their pressures and warned Hashirama Senju that they would all remain there that day.

• Madara Uchiha told Hashirama Senju that people had feared him despite his efforts to understand them, leading him to reject Hashirama's path of mutual understanding.
• Captain America inferred that Madara had once been part of Konoha before leaving to pursue his own ideals, and Tobirama Senju silently acknowledged he was right.
• Madara Uchiha revealed his plan to gather the Nine Tailed Beasts, revive the Ten-Tails, summon the God Tree, and cast Infinite Tsukuyomi over the world.
• Hashirama Senju called Madara's plan an escape and urged him to come to his senses, while Madara argued that people would welcome a world free of pressure.
• Madara Uchiha said the Rinnegan had revealed secrets on the Uchiha ancestral inscription that proved the plan was possible, then warned that no one would leave that day.

Loki and Dr. Selvig opened a portal with the Tesseract, revealing a dark realm filled with creatures. As the heroes criticized Madara Uchiha’s plan, Tony spotted Chitauri emerging from a portal above Stark Tower.

• Loki overheard Tobirama Senju and Madara Uchiha discussing the Akatsuki’s plan and dismissed it as ridiculous.
• Loki told Dr. Selvig to activate the Tesseract device, which opened a portal into a dark realm where red-eyed creatures gathered.
• Tobirama Senju healed the superheroes, who then rejected Madara Uchiha’s plan.
• Tony asked Wu Chen to send him to Stark Tower so he could retrieve his newly developed Iron Man Armor.
• Tony saw a portal open above Stark Tower and Chitauri pour through it, then warned the others about the new threat.

Tony Stark and Wu Chen realized the Chitauri army was invading through the portal above Stark Tower, and the Avengers urged Konoha and the Akatsuki to stop fighting and face the aliens. Hashirama Senju asked Madara Uchiha to join forces, but Madara objected as the Chitauri flooded the sky over New York.

• Tony Stark pointed out Stark Tower, and Wu Chen identified the invading force as the Chitauri army Loki had mentioned.
• The Avengers recognized the Chitauri as a threat to humanity and considered the danger of letting them establish a foothold on Earth.
• Wu Chen understood the Avengers wanted Konoha and the Akatsuki to cooperate, then spoke privately with Hashirama Senju.
• Hashirama Senju approached Madara Uchiha and proposed that they join forces to wipe out the aliens.
• Madara Uchiha protested that they were enemies as the Chitauri poured through the space portal and filled the sky over New York City.

Madara Uchiha called a truce between the Akatsuki, Konoha, and the Avengers so they could fight the Chitauri, while Wu Chen returned to Stark Tower with Tony and discovered the custom Iron Man Armor Tony had made for him. The chapter ended with Tony urging Wu Chen to put on the armor and try its ninjutsu-boosting devices.

• Madara Uchiha ordered the Akatsuki to stop fighting Konoha and the Avengers and attack the Chitauri, prompting both sides to agree to a temporary truce.
• Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha went to Stark Tower, where Madara kicked Dr. Selvig away from the Tesseract portal generator and Thor caught him before he fell to his death.
• Madara Uchiha failed to destroy the portal generator, so he and Obito unleashed enormous fire techniques against the Chitauri swarming over New York City.
• Wu Chen returned to Stark Tower with Tony, who put on his Iron Man Armor and revealed a custom sky-blue suit made for Wu Chen.
• Tony gave Wu Chen a pair of smart bracelets and explained that the armor was designed to boost the power of his Ninjutsu.

Wu Chen received Tony’s blue Iron Man Armor and set out to chase Loki, believing Loki’s people could close the spacetime portal. Meanwhile, Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha battled the Chitauri as more invaders and Leviathan war beasts arrived.

• Wu Chen appreciated Tony’s gift of a specially designed blue Iron Man Armor, though he doubted Tony’s device could enhance Ninjutsu.
• Wu Chen activated the armor, and it assembled around him automatically.
• Tony suggested testing the new armor against the invading aliens, but Wu Chen told Tony to rescue the others while he chased Loki.
• Wu Chen spotted Loki riding a Chitauri spacecraft near Stark Tower, then took flight to pursue him.
• Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha unleashed enormous Fire Style attacks that burned many Chitauri, but more poured through the portal.
• Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha spotted three new Leviathan war beasts and agreed to divide the four total between them.

During the battle against the Chitauri, Deva Path Pain and Deidara used their abilities while Konoha fighters and Akatsuki members fought together. Deidara’s Clay Bombs crippled thousands of Chitauri, leaving Minato Namikaze and the Avengers to finish them off as Hawkeye questioned their supporting role.

• Deva Path Pain repelled the Chitauri with Shinra Tensei, and Tobirama Senju teleported him out of an ambush before Pain killed the attacker.
• Might Guy guarded the front while Deidara prepared thousands of Clay Bombs to target the Chitauri.
• Deidara sent the Clay Bombs onto the Chitauri and detonated them, killing or paralyzing many of the invaders.
• Minato Namikaze and the Avengers finished off the disabled Chitauri, and Hawkeye wondered whether they would only provide support.

Hashirama Senju rescued New York’s trapped civilians while Deidara eliminated the Chitauri on the ground, leaving the Avengers to support the fight. Loki lured Wu Chen and Thor toward the Leviathans, and Minato Namikaze sent Captain America and the others after them.

• Hashirama Senju used Sage Art: Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to carry trapped people out of New York City.
• Minato Namikaze reassured the Avengers that support and finishing off enemies were important jobs.
• Wu Chen and Thor chased Loki, who planned to lead them to the Leviathans and their Chitauri troops.
• Loki discovered that all the Chitauri on the ground had been killed, but gained confidence when more emerged from the space portal.
• Minato Namikaze spotted Wu Chen waving as he passed with Thor and told Captain America and the others to help them.

Minato Namikaze helped the Avengers intercept Loki so they could learn how to close the portal. After Wu Chen captured Loki, Loki refused to cooperate and declared himself a god.

• Minato Namikaze explained that Loki might know how to close the portal, and Captain America ordered Hawkeye to ambush him while he and Black Widow waited below.
• Hawkeye used a Chakra-enhanced arrow to blow up Loki's flying craft, sending Loki crashing into a car.
• Wu Chen and Thor arrived, and Wu Chen dragged Loki from the wreckage and demanded to know how to close the portal.
• Loki insisted the Avengers would lose, and Thor asked Wu Chen not to kill him or hurt him too badly.
• Loki shouted that he was a god and would not be pushed around by ants.

Wu Chen forced Loki to admit he did not know how to close the space-time portal, while Madara Uchiha and Obito Uchiha destroyed the four Leviathans and eased the pressure on New York. Dr. Selvig regained consciousness and resolved to atone for his role in opening the portal.

• Wu Chen grabbed Loki and slammed him against the car until Loki admitted he did not know how to close the space-time portal.
• Obito Uchiha used Kamui and Fire Style to cut apart and destroy two Leviathans.
• Madara Uchiha struck down the other two Leviathans with his Skeletal Susanoo.
• The President and other officials discussed whether to launch a nuclear missile, and Nick Fury reassured them that Konoha and the Avengers could keep the Akatsuki in check.
• Dr. Selvig regained consciousness, remembered what had happened under the Mind Stone Scepter's control, and decided to atone for his actions.

Wu Chen proposed that the heroes counterattack the Chitauri by attacking their king through the portal before shutting it down. The group agreed to send powerful bombs through the portal, and Deidara volunteered to make one.

• Dr. Selvig returned to normal and told Thor and the other heroes that Loki’s Scepter could shut down the portal device.
• Wu Chen recalled that the Chitauri army would die if their king was killed, and decided that closing the portal alone would not be enough.
• Wu Chen proposed attacking the Chitauri before closing the portal, and Thor, Tony, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Captain America agreed.
• The heroes planned to throw bombs through the portal and then close it.
• Deidara arrived on a clay bird and offered to make the biggest, most powerful bomb ever.

Deidara made a massive bomb to send through the portal and destroy the Chitauri mothership. Wu Chen and Tony carried it toward the portal while Thor escorted them, and Hawkeye took Dr. Selvig up the wall to prepare to close it.

• The superheroes accepted Deidara’s offer to make a bomb rather than rely on the United States government.
• Deidara completed an egg-shaped C3. 30 bomb and said its blast could cover half of New York City.
• Wu Chen and Tony agreed to carry the bomb through the portal, while Thor promised to protect them and Hawkeye planned to take Dr. Selvig to the roof.
• Hawkeye carried Dr. Selvig onto a vertical wall and ran upward without using a rope.

Barton brought Dr. Selvig to the roof, where Selvig explained how to close the portal, while Wu Chen and Tony sent a giant explosive puppet through it toward the Chitauri motherships. The portal closed and the puppet destroyed the motherships, leaving the invasion halted.

• Barton carried Dr. Selvig to the roof, where Selvig told him to use the Mind Stone Scepter to close the portal.
• Wu Chen and Tony pushed the giant bomb puppet through the space-time portal toward the Chitauri motherships.
• Wu Chen and Tony returned to New York as Hawkeye thrust the Mind Stone Scepter toward the Tesseract.
• Deidara detonated the giant egg puppet, destroying the mothership and nearby ships as the portal collapsed.

After the Chitauri invasion ended, Wu Chen warned that the truce between Konoha and the Akatsuki was over. Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha left New York to fight, while their allies followed and postponed their own battle.

• The Chitauri collapsed and their aircraft lost control, prompting the people of New York and several Avengers to celebrate victory.
• Wu Chen reminded the Avengers that the Akatsuki had only allied with them against the alien invasion, and they found Konoha and the Akatsuki facing off.
• Hashirama Senju proposed fighting Madara Uchiha outside the city, and Madara accepted the challenge.
• Obito Uchiha said the others should stop fighting for the day and followed Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha with Deidara and the rest.
• Kingpin noticed the Akatsuki's restraint and kept his suspicions to himself.

As the group left New York, Deidara questioned Madara Uchiha’s dream plan and proposed ending wars through world unity and expansion into space. The group reached the coast, where Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju prepared to fight again.

• Deidara told Obito that Madara Uchiha’s dream plan would make life boring by taking away the real process of creating and enjoying explosions.
• Deidara proposed unifying the world and finding a common enemy to reduce wars, impressing the Avengers, Konoha, and the Akatsuki.
• Tony considered whether unifying writing and language could prevent conflicts and form a bold idea.
• The group reached the coast and found Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju waiting to face each other.
• Madara Uchiha charged at Hashirama Senju with the Uchiha Gunbai, and Hashirama Senju charged back with a kunai.

Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha fought in a rare Taijutsu duel before escalating to Susanoo and Wood Release. Their battle drew worldwide attention, while the Konoha and Akatsuki groups watched with concern for their leaders.

• Hashirama Senju deflected Madara Uchiha’s Gunbai strike and attacked his neck, but Madara dodged and counterattacked.
• Hashirama Senju drove Madara back in their Taijutsu duel as spectators and reporters watched and filmed from shore and the Helicarrier.
• Madara Uchiha summoned Susanoo and attacked Hashirama Senju with its massive fist.
• Hashirama Senju used Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique to meet Susanoo’s attack, unleashing a shock wave that staggered ordinary onlookers.
• The Avengers and other observers were struck by Susanoo’s power, while the Konoha and Akatsuki groups watched their leaders with concern.

Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha fought across the sea, with Hashirama eventually trapping Madara’s Susanoo in four Wood Dragons that drained its Chakra. The onlookers thought Hashirama had won, but Kingpin suspected Madara still had more strength to reveal.

• Wu Chen carefully acted out the appropriate emotions while watching the fight.
• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha clashed at sea, and Kingpin and Tobirama Senju raised a Water Formation Wall to shield the shore from the battle’s aftermath.
• Hashirama Senju used a Wood Dragon to suppress Madara Uchiha’s Half-Body Susanoo, but Madara cut the dragon apart with his Susanoo’s giant sword.
• Madara Uchiha charged at another Wood Dragon and beheaded it, but Hashirama Senju sent four more dragons from the sea to coil around the Susanoo and absorb its Chakra.
• The spectators and livestream viewers sighed with relief at Hashirama Senju’s apparent victory, while Kingpin wondered whether Madara Uchiha had more strength to show.

Madara Uchiha broke free from Hashirama Senju’s Wood Dragons with his Perfect Susanoo, but Hashirama countered with the Wood Dragon-Man Technique and stopped its attack. As they fought to a stalemate at sea, the US president considered launching a nuclear bomb if Madara won.

• Kingpin and the Akatsuki remembered Madara Uchiha’s power and relaxed, while the Avengers realized Hashirama Senju was in danger but could not warn him.
• Madara Uchiha transformed his Susanoo into its Perfect form, broke the Wood Dragons, and attacked Hashirama Senju with four swords.
• Hashirama Senju summoned the Wood Dragon-Man Technique and caught the Perfect Susanoo’s blade, turning the fight into a stalemate.
• The Konoha and Akatsuki fighters shielded the shore from the battle’s shock waves as the fight churned the sea.
• The US president considered ordering a nuclear strike if Madara Uchiha won, though the fighters, spectators, and New York residents remained unaware.

Madara Uchiha mutated Perfect Susanoo and used Tengai Shinsei, summoning a gigantic burning meteor over New York. Hashirama Senju entered Sage Mode to prepare for the attack as the Avengers and everyone watching saw the meteor descend.

• Madara Uchiha severed the Wood Golem's arms with Susanoo's two-sword attack, but Hashirama Senju regenerated them and the fight remained a stalemate.
• Madara Uchiha rejected Hashirama Senju's offer of a truce and transformed Perfect Susanoo, giving it six arms that formed Hand Seals.
• Madara Uchiha's Susanoo vanished, and Hashirama Senju recognized the danger and entered Sage Mode.
• Nick Fury spotted something in the sky and warned the Avengers to look up.
• A huge burning rock emerged from the clouds and descended above New York's urban district.

Madara Uchiha summoned a meteorite toward New York City, forcing the Avengers and civilians to react as Hashirama Senju revealed his enormous Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands. The wooden statue rose nearly a thousand meters and turned toward the falling meteorite, with its hands clenched into fists.

• Madara Uchiha summoned a meteorite and aimed its landing point at the center of rebuilt New York City.
• Captain America and Tony urged the spectators to flee into the underground air-raid bunkers as the meteorite descended.
• Wu Chen called on Tony, Thor, and the others who could fly to attack the meteorite and break it apart.
• Hashirama Senju summoned Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, which rose from the sea as a towering wooden statue.
• Hashirama Senju made the statue look up at the meteorite and clench its enormous hands into fists.