Recaps

Wu Chen advanced his Naruto role-play plans as Minato worked with S.H.I.E.L.D. to investigate the One-Tail and Obito recruited Kingpin into the Akatsuki. The arc left Thor unable to lift Mjolnir after reaching it at the S.H.I.E.L.D. camp.

• Wu Chen drew Deidara and Nagato, created the Six Paths of Pain, and assigned Obito and Deidara to divert Minato while Pain prepared to act in New York.
• Minato and Tobirama told Nick Fury about the weakening One-Tail seal in New Mexico, and Minato accepted a ten-million-dollar commission to investigate it.
• Obito and Pain tested Kingpin, recruited him into the Akatsuki, and ordered him to gather intelligence and evacuate his gang from New York.
• Wu Chen met Tony and Pepper at Stark Tower, reassured them about Tony’s safe treatment, and accepted VIP tickets to the Stark Expo.
• Minato and Coulson searched the New Mexico camp for the One-Tail seal, while Minato demonstrated Mjolnir’s movement to Hawkeye and accepted him as a disciple who would protect Wu Chen.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. confiscated Jane’s research, and Jane found Thor and agreed to drive him to Mjolnir in exchange for help recovering it.
• Minato used a harmless sealing array to persuade Coulson and Hawkeye that the One-Tail was beneath a hill, then returned to the camp as Thor fought his way to Mjolnir.
• Thor reached for Mjolnir but could not lift it, and he fell to his knees in despair.

Minato Namikaze and Thor stopped Loki’s Destroyer, but the Akatsuki’s attack on the town left Minato pursuing Tobi and Deidara. Back in New York, Wu Chen defeated Ivan Vanko, then faced the Six Paths of Pain as Tobirama Senju took on the Akatsuki to protect him and the crowd.

• Minato Namikaze redirected the Destroyer’s scorching ray with a sealing formation and helped Thor defeat it, while Thor regained Mjolnir and his powers.
• Tobi and Deidara arrived with the Akatsuki, destroyed the town, and fought Minato and Thor before escaping with the One-Tail Shukaku.
• Thor returned to Asgard, where Odin banished Loki, and Wu Chen gained Minato Namikaze’s Spiral Flash Series Ninjutsu, Obito Uchiha’s Chakra, and Wood Release.
• Wu Chen found Ivan Vanko working with Hammer Industries, then helped stop the Iron Soldier attack at the Stark Expo and killed Vanko with a Rasenshuriken.
• Kingpin gave the Animal Path information about Wu Chen, and the Six Paths of Pain confronted Wu Chen at his food truck, declaring their plan to use the Tailed Beasts to create the Ten-Tails.
• Nick Fury sent Tobirama Senju to protect Wu Chen, while Kingpin joined the Six Paths of Pain and Wu Chen vanished from Stark Tower.
• Tobirama Senju stayed behind to defend civilians, fought the Six Paths of Pain, and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to appear beside Preta Path and sever his neck.

Wu Chen and his allies defeated the Six Paths of Pain after Deva Path Pain destroyed New York, then used the Dragon Balls to revive the good people he had killed. The Dragon Balls scattered afterward, and Wu Chen ended with six of them while Minato Namikaze pursued the last one.

• Wu Chen fought Kingpin while Deva Path Pain battled Tobirama Senju, and Pain unleashed an amplified Shinra Tensei that destroyed New York City.
• Wu Chen faced the remaining Paths of Pain, defeating the Preta, Human, and Asura Paths before confronting Deva Path Pain with Tony Stark’s help.
• Wu Chen, Tony, Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, and Thor prepared to fight the Akatsuki, but Minato proposed using Konoha’s resources to undo the destruction.
• Minato obtained a billion dollars’ worth of gold from Nick Fury, and Wu Chen used the gold to acquire the Seven Dragon Balls.
• Wu Chen and Minato returned to the ruined city with the Dragon Balls, and Wu Chen summoned Shenron to revive all good people killed by the Six Paths of Pain.
• The Dragon Balls turned to stone and scattered, and Wu Chen collected six while Minato went after the seventh.

Wu Chen helped rebuild New York, strengthened his ties with Konoha, and used an avatar to take Stephen Strange’s magical talent and status. As the Akatsuki continued capturing Tailed Beasts, Wu Chen prepared Konoha for the coming battles and recruited Might Guy.

• Wu Chen rescued New York’s survivors with Wood Release, built housing for them, and learned that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.
• The Ancient One took the Dragon Balls in exchange for teaching someone from Konoha magic, and Wu Chen began planning to take Doctor Strange’s status and magical talent.
• Wu Chen gained Tobirama Senju’s forbidden technique development ability and Nagato Uzumaki’s Sage Body, then drew Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju.
• Nick Fury rebuilt S.H.I.E.L.D. with Minato Namikaze screening recruits, while Akatsuki captured the Three-Tails and Seven-Tails and attempted to capture the Two-Tails.
• Wu Chen created Wu Chén with an Incarnation Technique Scroll, and they visited Stephen Strange in San Francisco.
• Wu Chen used the Heaven-Seizing Creation Jade Disc to transfer Strange’s status and magical talent to Wu Chén, then took him to Kamar-Taj to study magic.
• The Ancient One foresaw Wu Chén becoming the next Sorcerer Supreme and decided to give him the Dragon Balls when he left Kamar-Taj.
• After Deidara and Obito captured the Four-Tails, Wu Chen drew Might Guy, who later opened the sixth gate and nearly defeated Deidara while protecting the Five-Tails.