Chapter Summaries

The Federation prepared to send Kakashi Hatake, Uchiha Obito, and Might Guy through the Light Ring, but its activation produced a smaller ring as well. Before the team could depart, a bald monk unexpectedly emerged from the original ring and forbade the Dimensional Gate.

• Dana oversaw preparations and briefed Kakashi Hatake, Uchiha Obito, and Might Guy on their planned exploration of the Marvel World.
• Yotsuki Mao reminded Dana not to enter the Light Ring himself, and he promised to stay behind.
• The Light Ring split off a palm-sized counterpart, which Dana identified as a dormant gateway to a new world.
• Dana confirmed the larger Light Ring still led to the familiar world and that the team could proceed with equipment tests.
• A lean, bald monk emerged from the Light Ring, sensed an aura belonging to his future disciple, and declared the Dimensional Gate forbidden.

Ancient One crossed a Dimensional Gate to Dana’s world and tried to close it, but Dana attacked and killed her. As she died, she said this was the thirty-eighth time, and another Ancient One emerged from the Gate.

• Ancient One discovered a strange Dimensional Gate near Hawaii and used the Eye of Agamotto to glimpse the future.
• Ancient One crossed the Gate and asked Dana to close it, but Dana refused because it was his hope of finding his missing family.
• Ancient One began casting a spell to close the Gate, so Dana opened the Sixth Gate and struck her through the chest.
• Ancient One told Dana that this was the thirty-eighth time before the distorted space shattered.
• Another figure stepped out of the Gate and repeated Ancient One’s warning that Dimensional Gates were forbidden.

Ancient One repeatedly tried to close the Dimensional Gate, but Yotsuki Dana stopped her and gradually realized that time was being rewound. As the cycles accumulated and distorted time and space, a black statue of the Sage of Six Paths stirred deep beneath Cloud Peak Tower.

• Ancient One used the Time Stone to rewind events around the Dimensional Gate and tried more than a hundred times to get past Yotsuki Dana and close it.
• On the 139th cycle, Dana recognized Ancient One and briefly sensed that time had rewound before the cycle began again.
• On the 192nd cycle, Dana questioned Ancient One's lack of resistance and realized that time was being rewound.
• On the 262nd cycle, Dana identified the time rewinds and bound Ancient One with Sage Lightning Chakra, but the preset rewind still reset the rooftop.
• Repeated cycles distorted time and space, and a faint fluctuation moved the black Sage of Six Paths statue in Cloud Peak Tower.

Dana broke Ancient One’s time-reversal loop by sealing her with a Truth-Seeking Orb and sending her into space as a second moon. In the Marvel Universe, Nick Fury arrived to investigate the Light Ring after satellites detected a strange anomaly.

• During the 312th reversal, a black statue appeared beside Dana, and on the next cycle the Sage of Six Paths explained that sealing Ancient One might stop the time loop.
• Dana used the Truth-Seeking Orb and Six Paths: Planetary Devastation to seal Ancient One, ending the reversal once they left Cloud Capital.
• Dana sent the growing stone sphere into space, creating a second moon, and retrieved an eye-shaped treasure from it.
• Dana told the black statue he planned to use the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, while the Sage of Six Paths recalled a prophecy about Dana and a second moon.
• In the Marvel Universe, Coulson showed Nick Fury satellite footage of the Light Ring, and Fury reacted with alarm.

After Dana discovered that time discrepancies surrounded the Light Ring and that he could create a spatial barrier, he abandoned the Federation’s original plans and began outlining new goals for the world beyond it. Meanwhile, Nick Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to probe the still-inactive Light Ring with a can of beer.

• Dana told Dodai that an enemy had rewound time hundreds of times, then ordered repairs and further observation before anyone entered the Light Ring.
• Orochimaru reported that time readings differed near the Light Ring, and Dana found that the Eye of Agamotto did not respond to him.
• Dana discovered he could create a spatial barrier with the Light Ring and concluded that the Federation’s plans for the world beyond it needed to be redesigned.
• Dana outlined new goals, including finding magical talent, exploring the wider universe, and recruiting people for the Federation, then called a strategy meeting and asked for Chishin Yusuke.
• Nick Fury grew impatient with S.H.I.E.L.D.’s lack of progress at the Light Ring and ordered the Black Turtledove to throw a can of beer through it.

Nick Fury’s team watched three young visitors emerge from the Light Ring and make peaceful contact with S.H.I.E.L.D. The visitors identified themselves as a special police force pursuing House Winterplum, while Obito, Kakashi, Might Guy, and Orochimaru left the area for Nepal as part of a separate plan.

• Nick Fury had agents test the Light Ring with beer cans, and a hand reached through to catch one.
• Uchiha Shisui and two teenagers emerged from the Light Ring, landed on the water, ran across the sea, and leapt onto the ship.
• Nick Fury ordered his agents not to fire, and Coulson approached the newcomers and received a slug that enabled mental communication.
• Uchiha Shisui introduced himself as a member of the Cloud-Lightning Federation Special Police Force and asked Coulson to help find House Winterplum.
• Obito watched the meeting from Kamui Space as Kakashi explained the plan, and Might Guy mentioned Senior Red Heart’s intelligence.
• Obito, Kakashi, Might Guy, and Orochimaru left for Nepal, where Orochimaru planned to try learning magic.

Nick Fury questioned Uchiha Shisui, Deidara, and their quiet companion about House Winterplum and arranged three days of legal paperwork while they warned Earth could not handle the fugitive. In Kathmandu, Kakashi, Obito, and Orochimaru split up, with Orochimaru set to investigate Kamar-Taj and the others heading for Kolkata.

• Nick Fury brought the three visitors to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Los Angeles base and questioned them about House Winterplum's Dimensional Gate and abilities.
• Deidara called Earthlings weak, while Uchiha Shisui insisted that they needed legal documentation and warned that House Winterplum was extremely dangerous.
• Nick Fury offered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s help with their paperwork, and Shisui agreed to wait three days before continuing the search.
• Kakashi, Obito, and Orochimaru arrived in Kathmandu through Kamui Space, where Orochimaru planned to learn the local language and investigate Kamar-Taj.
• Orochimaru advised the others to obtain local communication devices, and Kakashi reminded him not to reveal classified jutsu as Kakashi and Obito set off for Kolkata.

Dana oversaw preparations for the Light Rings while Shisui's squad toured Los Angeles under S.H.I.E.L.D. supervision. When the squad encountered a hostage-taking by the Ten Rings, Shisui prepared to act and pursue the plan to become superheroes.

• Dana refused Mao's request to join the mission, inspected the renovated Light Ring facility with Kurotsuchi, and received Chishin Yusuke's report on the S.H.I.E.L.D. ship guarding the portal.
• Coulson and Natasha took Shisui, Uchiha Itachi, and Deidara on a tour of Los Angeles after Nick Fury arranged for them to leave the S.H.I.E.L.D. base under supervision.
• Nick Fury redirected Coulson and Natasha to respond to a reported Ten Rings attack, and they drove the three visitors toward the scene.
• The Ten Rings attackers seized hostages in a café, and Shisui's squad stood across the street despite the gunmen's warnings.
• A gunman fired at Shisui, whose blade sliced the bullets in half, and Shisui offered to take over from the hiding agents.

Uchiha Shisui rescued hostages from the Ten Rings in a café, and a live broadcast turned his dramatic rescue into a public debut as a superhero. As Coulson prepared to take the visitors back, Iron Man arrived and Uchiha Itachi recognized him as a mission target.

• Coulson, Natasha, Uchiha Itachi, Deidara, and Uchiha Shisui reached the café, where Shisui killed the armed men guarding the entrance.
• The Ten Rings leader broadcast his demands while using a hostage to display them, and Shisui entered the café after the gunmen outside were dealt with.
• Shisui deflected gunfire and defeated the armed men, while Uchiha Itachi killed a fleeing terrorist outside.
• Shisui covered the rescued girl with his cloak and comforted her, and the live footage prompted the hostages to cheer and embrace him.
• Nick Fury told Coulson to bring the visitors back, but Iron Man arrived above the café, and Uchiha Itachi identified him as a mission target.

Shisui’s rescue of a hostage made him a viral superhero, drawing Nick Fury and Tony Stark’s attention to his abilities and origins. Shisui revealed Chakra and hinted at resurrection, prompting Fury to move the discussion to a secure location and restrict the footage.

• Footage of Shisui’s rescue spread online, and people nicknamed him the Black Blade Hero.
• Nick Fury reviewed the footage and reports, noting Shisui’s storage scrolls and red eyes, while Hill reported that Stark was already questioning the visitors.
• Stark followed Shisui, Itachi, and the third visitor to the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, where Shisui admitted they came from another world to capture a cross-dimensional criminal.
• When Stark pressed him with questions, Shisui explained Chakra and demonstrated a Rasengan before describing its attributes and advanced uses.
• Shisui mentioned that advanced Chakra could revive the dead and preserve eternal youth, then privately thought that his plan had succeeded.
• Nick Fury ordered everyone to move the discussion to a more secure location and told Hill to lock down the camera footage at classification level ten.

At S.H.I.E.L.D.'s West Coast base, Shisui revealed that Chakra could resurrect the dead and restore youth, drawing Stark's intense interest and Nick Fury's calculations. After the Black Blade Hero's actions went viral, Nick Fury proposed making Shisui and his companions official S.H.I.E.L.D. allies while Stark accepted an offer to become a scientific consultant.

• Stark forced his way into the sealed meeting room and pressed Shisui for details about resurrection.
• Shisui described Impure World Reincarnation, the Outer Path — Samsara of Heavenly Life, and Chakra surgery that could restore youth, but refused to prove he could resurrect anyone.
• Shisui reminded Nick Fury that he had promised legal identities and threatened to leave with his companions if S.H.I.E.L.D. could not provide them.
• Nick Fury showed the widely circulated reports of the Black Blade Hero and said the group's fame made their original international-police identities unsuitable.
• Nick Fury proposed that S.H.I.E.L.D. support Shisui's pursuit of House Winterplum and present him publicly as a S.H.I.E.L.D.-trained superhero, with Coulson and Natasha on his team.
• Stark accepted Nick Fury's offer to become an unpaid S.H.I.E.L.D. scientific consultant.

Dana planned to activate the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as the Ten-Tails in two weeks, while Shisui and Iron Man stopped a bank robbery in Los Angeles. Nick Fury then summoned them to India after House Winterplum destroyed a heavily armed force.

• Dana learned that hundreds of thousands of White Zetsu remained and scheduled the Ten-Tails ritual for two weeks later at a platform in the northern sea.
• Shisui and Iron Man pursued a fleeing truck through Los Angeles after Coulson identified its location.
• Shisui stopped the truck with Earth Release walls and knocked out the robbers while Iron Man arrived to help.
• Nick Fury reported that House Winterplum had appeared in India and that she had wiped out a force of one hundred armed personnel.
• Nick Fury ordered Shisui, Iron Man, and the others to prepare for the trip to India, warning they might face two troubles at once.

Kakashi, Obito, and Might Guy tracked their target to a Kolkata slum, where Guy disguised himself as Ma Dongmei and fought Hulk. As S.H.I.E.L.D. and the others arrived, Steve Rogers was knocked aside by Hulk, and Itachi jumped from the Quinjet to check on him.

• Kakashi and Obito sent Might Guy to draw out the target, and Guy used Transformation Jutsu to disguise himself as Ma Dongmei.
• Ma Dongmei lured Hulk into a prolonged fight, and S.H.I.E.L.D. learned that House was enjoying the battle rather than trying to end it quickly.
• Nick Fury introduced Steve Rogers to Shisui's group aboard the Quinjet, while Stark and Steve traded insults.
• India's forces struggled to respond as Hulk and Ma Dongmei fought outside the city, and Iron Man caught a soldier Hulk had thrown.
• Steve landed with his Vibranium Shield and was sent flying by Hulk, so Shisui sent Itachi down to check on him.

House Winterplum overwhelmed the heroes and declared that she would stay in their world as its Queen. Though Captain America rallied the others after Shisui was badly beaten, House caught his thrown shield, leaving the heroes facing her defeat and ambition.

• Iron Man attacked House Winterplum, but she struck him into the ground before the Hulk intercepted her.
• House blasted the Hulk away, then fought Shisui and Deidara, defeating Deidara and pushing Shisui to summon Susanoo.
• House intensified her power and shattered Shisui's Susanoo with a kick, while Obito's warning made her change her finishing move.
• House offered to leave the Cloud-Lightning Federation alone and announced that she would remain in this world and become its Queen.
• Captain America returned with Itachi, rallied the others, and hurled his shield at House, but she caught it and thanked him for the gift.

After House Winterplum defeated the team in India, Shisui urged Nick Fury to seek help from the Cloud-Lightning Federation. The World Security Council learned about the extraterrestrial visitors, and Alexander Pierce advised Fury to contact the Federation before it came looking for Black Blade Hero itself.

• House Winterplum used Steve Rogers's Vibranium Shield to overpower the team, while Shisui's giant energy construct bought time for the Quinjet to escape.
• Shisui told Nick Fury that House had recently become stronger and asked him to contact Earth's government so the Federation could send reinforcements.
• The World Security Council confronted Fury over concealing the extraterrestrial visitors and threatened to remove him, but Alexander Pierce intervened to defend him.
• Pierce urged Fury to submit reports about the New Mexico and India incidents and discussed the danger House posed to Earth.
• Pierce recommended that Fury use official channels to request help from the Cloud-Lightning Federation before it came looking for Black Blade Hero.

Dana became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki to gain access to the Power of All Creation, then used a transplanted Rinnegan to activate Six Paths Mode. The successful experiment ended with Mabui informing him that Uchiha Itachi had returned with an official letter from the Marvel world.

• Nick Fury accepted that he could no longer hide the Cloud-Lightning Federation from the World Security Council, while Alexander Pierce secretly planned to bring the matter under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s control.
• Dana and the Federation researchers assembled an incomplete Ten-Tails from Edo Tensei Jinchuriki bodies and portions of the nine Tailed Beasts.
• Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and Dana sealed the transformed Ten-Tails inside himself.
• Jishi transplanted a cultivated Rinnegan onto the back of Dana's left hand, allowing Dana to activate Six Paths Mode and form a Six Paths robe and nine Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Dana ended Six Paths Mode, congratulated the researchers, and ordered Jishi to clean up and give everyone a few days off.
• Mabui told Dana that Uchiha Itachi had returned through the Dimensional Gate with an official letter requiring Dana's attention.

House destroyed the Statue of Liberty and defeated S.H.I.E.L.D.'s team in New York, turning her into a public threat and intensifying pressure on S.H.I.E.L.D. A month after Itachi departed, the Cloud-Lightning Federation sent visitors, who began arriving through the Light Ring above the eastern Pacific.

• Might Guy, Obito, and another operative received word that the second phase had begun and split up, with Might Guy heading to New York.
• Mage Orochimaru heard that the second phase had begun and worried that he was falling behind in his studies at Kamar-Taj.
• Itachi entered the Light Ring to seek assistance, and S.H.I.E.L.D. sent official requests to the Cloud-Lightning Federation and Asgard.
• House appeared in New York, kicked the Statue of Liberty in half, and defeated the assembled heroes, including Shisui, before escaping.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. disclosed some of House's crimes, and the Battle of the Statue of Liberty sparked public panic and political maneuvering.
• One month after Itachi left, the Cloud-Lightning Federation's visitors arrived at the Light Ring above the eastern Pacific as Nick Fury and Alexander Pierce waited aboard a cruise ship.

Alexander Pierce and Nick Fury welcomed Mada and his Cloud-Lightning Federation delegation to Earth and exchanged gifts with them. Mada secretly recognized a surveillance device in Pierce’s fountain pen, while Nagato suggested using genjutsu and Mada declined for now.

• Mada, Mei Terumi, Mada’s daughter, his physician, and a Security Force expert emerged from the Light Ring and met the Earthlings aboard the yacht.
• Shisui introduced the delegation, and Alexander Pierce hosted Mada’s group in the reception room on behalf of the World Security Council.
• Mada presented Pierce with paper, a peach, and a small statue, and Pierce offered Mada a gold-inlaid fountain pen and a book.
• Mada recognized that the fountain pen contained a tiny surveillance device and decided to seal it away without revealing that he had noticed it.
• Nagato suggested using genjutsu on the Earthlings, but Mada told him to wait.

Dana hosted the Cloud-Lightning Federation delegation at a Hydra-owned New York residence, where Tony Stark sought help resurrecting someone and learned that Dana would not violate Federation law. The chapter ended with Alexander Pierce and Nick Fury examining the delegation’s gifts while Coulson arrived to attend to Dana’s party.

• Dana and Jishi discussed Earth’s valuable people and the rise of Shisui’s Black Blade Hero reputation as the delegation settled into Star Building.
• Tony Stark visited Dana, asked whether Chakra could resurrect the dead, and offered money and technology when Dana refused to promise help.
• Dana told Stark that the Federation planned to close the Dimensional Gate after capturing House and end contact with Earth.
• Coulson arrived to take responsibility for the delegation’s daily needs in New York and greeted Stark.
• Alexander Pierce and Nick Fury inspected the Healing Tags, Spiritual Peach, and Executive Officer Sculpture that Mada had brought as gifts.

Alexander Pierce and Nick Fury examined the Cloud-Lightning Federation’s gifts while Shisui explained the benefits of Spiritual Peaches and reassured Fury that Nagato could defeat House. Thor then arrived at Star Building and demanded that the Federation seek Asgard’s permission to contact Earth, and Mada agreed.

• Alexander Pierce had the Executive Officer statue tested and gave Nick Fury half of the Healing Tags.
• At Star Building’s dinner, Shisui told Nick Fury that Lord Mada and the Executive Officer belonged to the same clan and explained the effects of Spiritual Peaches.
• Shisui assured Nick Fury that Nagato was far stronger than House.
• Coulson reported a weather anomaly over Star Building, and Thor descended onto the rooftop balcony.
• Thor claimed Earth belonged to Asgard and demanded that the Federation obtain Asgard’s consent, and Mada replied, “All right.”