Chapter Summaries

Loki abandoned his plan to torment Thor and instead began his scheme against Laufey, while Thor stayed in Old Bridge Town to learn how to become worthy of Mjolnir. As George and the others waited for the Destroyer, Loki froze Heimdall and let Laufey into Asgard.

• Loki gave up on humiliating Thor and decided to kill Laufey and destroy Jotunheim to win Asgard’s approval.
• Jane, Professor Erik, and Darcy arrived, and Jane reunited with Thor while Erik recognized Banner and Betty.
• George concluded that Odin had exiled Thor to teach him compassion, and Thor agreed to learn from Steve and consider reading War and Peace.
• Loki froze Heimdall with Ancient Frost and used Gungnir to open the Bifrost for Laufey.

Loki killed Laufey after staging an attack on Odin, then declared war on Jotunheim and planned to destroy it with the Bifrost. Heimdall summoned Thor and his Midgard allies to Asgard, where they prepared to stop Loki and his forces.

• Loki let Laufey reach Odin, then killed his biological father and claimed he had saved Odin from an assassination attempt.
• Loki rallied Asgard’s citizens and soldiers, declared war on Jotunheim, and announced he would destroy the realm with the Bifrost.
• Warriors Three and Sif discovered Heimdall frozen at the Bifrost, and Heimdall revealed that Loki had let the Frost Giants into Asgard.
• Heimdall used his remaining strength to transport Thor, George, Tony, Steve, Logan, Banner, Betty, Jane, Erik, and Darcy from Midgard to Asgard.
• Thor offered to send his friends home, but George and the others agreed to help oppose Loki; Heimdall promised to send them back if they could not win.

Loki led Asgardian soldiers and citizens to the Bifrost control chamber, where Steve organized a defense while George began preparing a powerful spell. Loki accused Thor and his allies of treason, but after Steve blocked Loki's attack, the fighting began and the defenders held the entrance.

• George told Thor to stall Loki, assigned Steve to plan the defense, and began chanting a spell that he had recently learned.
• Steve chose the entrance to the Bifrost control chamber as their position and assigned the warriors to hold the front while Tony's team covered them.
• Loki accused Heimdall, Sif, and the Warriors Three of treason, while Thor confronted him over his dealings with Laufey.
• Loki ordered his soldiers to seize Thor and his allies, then fired Gungnir's energy at Thor, which Steve deflected with his shield.
• Thor was escorted into the control chamber, and Captain America, Wolverine, the Warriors Three, and Sif held the entrance while Tony used long-range weapons to support them.

Loki expanded the battlefield with floating platforms, but George’s thunderstorm magic paralyzed the Asgardian soldiers and gave Steve and the others the advantage. The Destroyer remained in the fight as Loki urged his soldiers to charge again.

• Loki ordered craftsmen to build floating platforms so Asgardian soldiers could attack from multiple directions.
• As the expanded assault overwhelmed the defenders, Steve summoned Hulk, who drove back the Asgardian soldiers.
• Loki summoned the Destroyer, which blasted Hulk and tied him up in a fierce fight.
• George emerged from the Bifrost control room and used Ancient Magic: Thunderstorm Descends to paralyze the Asgardian soldiers within range.
• George telepathically sent Steve to help Hulk, and Steve struck the Destroyer with Mjolnir as it developed cracks.
• Loki urged the remaining Asgardian soldiers to charge, hoping George’s magic would run out.

George captured Loki after stopping his attack, ending the battle on the Bifrost. Frigga arrived and revealed Loki’s Frost Giant origins to Thor, then invited George and the others to Asgard.

• Loki tried to stab George, but George stopped the dagger, grew into a giant, and beat Loki unconscious.
• George ended the lightning storm and raised Loki’s body, prompting the Asgardian soldiers to stop fighting.
• Thor ordered Hendel to bring Frigga to the Bifrost control room, and Frigga arrived and dismissed the soldiers and civilians.
• Thor told Frigga what had happened, and she revealed that Loki was the son of Laufey, King of the Frost Giants.
• Thor said he would still treat Loki as his brother, and Frigga invited George and the others to Asgard.

George and the others rested in Asgard after helping Thor, while George secretly took nerves from Laufey’s heart to use as a Wand Core. Thor later told them Odin had awakened and wanted to thank them, and George considered the All-Father’s hidden history as he went to meet him.

• George used Magnetism Control to send a blade into Laufey’s heart and quietly take some of its nerves.
• Thor and Frigga left to deal with Loki’s aftermath while George and the others rested and ate in Asgard.
• Tony proposed building more robot soldiers to prepare for possible alien threats, but George and Captain America opposed the plan.
• George reasoned that without the Mind Scepter and a Chitauri invasion, Tony was less likely to create Ultron.
• Thor returned and said Odin had awakened and wished to meet the group, so George and the others followed him to the council hall.

Odin sentenced Loki to ten years in the dungeon and refused to end Thor’s exile until he could lift Mjolnir. He granted the Midgard visitors’ wishes, then merged Hulk’s consciousness with Banner’s so Banner could control his transformations.

• Odin sent Loki to the dungeon for ten years, and Loki taunted Thor about whether he could lift Mjolnir before he got out.
• Odin told Thor he could return to Asgard only after he could lift Mjolnir, and Thor accepted that he would stay in Midgard for now.
• Odin granted Darcy a chest of gold and promised Jane and Professor Erik knowledge related to astrophysics.
• Odin told Banner he could not remove Hulk without harming his soul, so he merged Hulk’s consciousness with Banner’s instead.
• Banner transformed into Hulk while remaining calm, changed back, and thanked Odin; George repaired Banner’s stretched clothes with Reparo.

Odin granted the visitors’ requests, including a World Tree branch for George, despite Frigga’s concern that taking one could shorten Odin’s life. After the group returned to Midgard, Loki met the imprisoned Enchantress Lorelei, who proposed an escape alliance.

• Tony asked Odin for Asgardian technology, and Odin agreed to provide knowledge suited to Earth’s development.
• Odin offered to reinforce Steve’s shield with Uru metal and enchant it, while Logan asked for a barrel of Odin’s aged wine.
• George requested a World Tree branch, and Odin agreed to take one personally, prompting concern from Frigga.
• The visitors received their requested items and returned to Old Bridge Town through the Bifrost after Heimdall was healed.
• Lorelei invited Loki to join her in breaking out of prison, and Loki eagerly accepted the idea.

George returned to the school with Thor and the others, then crafted a powerful new wand from a branch of the World Tree and the heart of the King of the Frost Giants. As he prepared to sleep, he split into a new clone, Misaka 9981, and learned about Academy City’s failed plan to mass-produce Misaka Mikoto clones.

• Jane gave Thor her New York address, and Thor promised to visit before boarding the X-Jet.
• George returned to the school with the group and introduced Thor to Professor X, who agreed to take responsibility for him.
• George made a new wand from a branch of the World Tree and the heart of the King of the Frost Giants, then tested its greatly enhanced illumination spell.
• As George was about to fall asleep, he felt the familiar pain and received the memories of his new clone, Misaka 9981.
• George learned that Academy City had cloned Misaka Mikoto for the Mass-produced Ability User Plan, but the clones could reach only Level 2, leading researchers to change the project into the Absolute Ability User Evolution Experiment.

George awakened in the body of Misaka clone 9981 after Accelerator killed her, gaining enhanced magnetism and electromagnetic abilities. He escaped the experimental battlefield, while Accelerator became intrigued and pursued him.

• George realized his new avatar was a fourteen-year-old girl and lamented that he had wanted a man's body.
• He found that merging Misaka 9981's electromagnetic abilities with his Magnetism Control let him control metal, generate electricity, and flick coins.
• Accelerator attacked George with a stone pillar, but George repelled it with electricity and blocked a barrage of stones with an iron door.
• George fled into a stairwell to avoid revealing his abilities to the watching researchers and to find somewhere to hide.
• Accelerator was surprised that the clone had run and chased George, convinced the escape was part of a battle strategy.

George escaped Accelerator and the Experimental Base after his Misaka Clone’s ability surged to Level 4. He decided to find Misaka Mikoto, investigate Academy City, and develop his powers further, leaving the city in pursuit of her.

• The researchers discovered No. 9981’s sudden power increase and ordered the experiment halted, but she destroyed her monitoring device and vanished from their surveillance.
• George escaped Accelerator using Invisibility Spell and flew above the city to consider how his incarnations’ abilities and knowledge could accumulate.
• George concluded that he should protect each incarnation and seek ways to grow stronger, and he believed his Esper ability might develop beyond Level 4.
• George used Direction Manifestation and the Tracking Charm to follow Misaka Mikoto, while thinking about learning wandless, nonverbal casting from Professor Snape.

George isolated himself from the Misaka Network, found Misaka Mikoto, and concealed himself in a rooftop stronghold while learning to use his new powers. The research headquarters continued the Level 6 Shift Project despite Misaka 9981’s disappearance and planned to investigate her unexpected revival and evolved ability.

• George blocked the Misaka Network and considered how its calculation-based powers differed from the instinctive abilities of Marvel mutants and Gemstones.
• George spotted Misaka Mikoto in her dormitory, where she electrocuted Kuroko after catching her acting perverted.
• Misaka Mikoto briefly sensed George’s brainwaves, but he concealed them further and she dismissed the feeling as an illusion.
• George carved out an expanded, concealed space in the dormitory rooftop and began practicing his electricity control there.
• The Level 6 Shift Project’s leader ordered the next outdoor combat simulation to proceed with Clone #9982 while the search for Misaka 9981 continued.

After meeting Misaka 9982, George revealed the Level 6 Shift Project to Misaka Mikoto and explained that the clones were being sent to die. They followed Misaka 9982 toward her next experiment and planned how to stop the project, leaving Misaka Mikoto determined to confront Accelerator.

• George followed Misaka Mikoto and watched her meet Misaka 9982, who treated her as an older sister but said she was going to an experiment rather than a laboratory.
• George revealed that he was Misaka 9981 and told Misaka Mikoto about the 20,000 clones and the Level 6 Shift Project, including the deaths of 9,980 clones.
• Misaka Mikoto believed George and followed him to catch up with Misaka 9982 before the experiment began.
• George and Misaka Mikoto watched Misaka 9982 enter an alley with an assault rifle, while George warned that she might be under surveillance.
• George described two ways to stop the project, and Misaka Mikoto chose to convince Accelerator to withdraw before he arrived.

George explained Accelerator’s abilities and weaknesses to Misaka Mikoto, then planned to exploit magic and invisibility to disable his reflection. Meanwhile, Aleister ordered Clone 9981 and Misaka Mikoto watched before sending Dark Side personnel to capture them, as George sensed they were being watched again.

• George explained that Accelerator could reflect understood energy but might struggle against unfamiliar magic or attacks beyond his limits.
• George told Misaka Mikoto to distract Accelerator while he approached invisibly and used the Imperius Curse to make him cancel his reflection.
• Aleister learned that Clone 9981 had become invisible and ordered her and Misaka Mikoto observed before Dark Side personnel attempted to capture them.
• Misaka Mikoto agreed to fight Accelerator head-on if she could, while George sensed that someone was watching them again.

George discovered and destroyed Aleister’s hidden surveillance devices, prompting Aleister to order Item to capture Misaka 9981. At the 9,982nd experiment, Accelerator confronted Clone #9982, but Misaka Mikoto intervened with George’s help, leaving the fight underway at the abandoned dock.

• George sensed tiny moving surveillance devices, crushed them with magnetism, and ended Aleister’s monitoring of him.
• Aleister realized Misaka 9981 had discovered the Sky Floating Wires and ordered Item to capture her.
• Accelerator questioned Clone #9982 about the frightened Misaka 9981 before the 9,982nd experiment began.
• Clone #9982 fought Accelerator and led him to the abandoned dock, where he prepared to finish the experiment.
• George turned invisible as Misaka Mikoto blocked Accelerator, then Mikoto split a shipping container he hurled at them with her Iron Sand Sword.

Misaka Mikoto fought Accelerator with her Thunder Giant while George secretly approached him. George used magic and iron wires to subdue Accelerator, leaving him shaken when he learned that George was Misaka 9981, a clone who seemed like a normal human.

• Misaka Mikoto attacked Accelerator with iron sand and a Super Electromagnetic Cannon, but he blocked her strikes and confirmed she was the original.
• Misaka Mikoto formed a hundred-meter Thunder Giant and fired an enlarged electromagnetic cannon at Accelerator, who held off the attack.
• Mugino Shizuri and her group arrived at the docks searching for Clone #9981, and Takitsubo detected an unseen force field near Accelerator.
• As Misaka Mikoto's electricity ran low, George cast the Imperius Curse on Accelerator, made him deactivate his defenses, and bound him with iron wires.
• George identified herself as Misaka 9981 and warned Accelerator not to use his ability, while Misaka Mikoto said she needed a night's rest to recover.
• Accelerator realized George was a clone who behaved like a normal human and began to tremble at the thought that the clones he had killed might have been the same.

George used Accelerator’s guilt over killing the clones to make him abandon the experiment, but Mugino Shizuri and Item arrived to capture George. He fought off Kinuhata Saiai and Frenda while concealing the extent of his abilities.

• George provoked Accelerator with the truth that the clones were living humans, then used Legilimency to inspect his memories as Accelerator’s resolve crumbled.
• Mugino Shizuri arrived with Item and announced that her team had been ordered to capture Clone #9981.
• Misaka Mikoto, weakened from her fight with Accelerator, tried to intervene, but George stopped her and faced Mugino’s team himself.
• Frenda fired a flash bullet and scattered doll bombs as Kinuhata Saiai charged George, but he stopped the bullet and caught Kinuhata’s punch.
• George sent electricity through Kinuhata’s arm, but she blocked it with nitrogen armor and retreated.

George fought Juanqi, Frenda, and Mugino Shizuri, using his Magnetism Control to curve Railguns around her defenses before defeating her with an electrically enhanced attack. He left Mugino unconscious and realized he needed more practice controlling his boosted speed.

• Juanqi and Frenda attacked George with bombs and a shipping container, but he used iron sand to counterattack and pierce their limbs.
• Mugino Shizuri joined the fight and destroyed George’s attacks with her green electric shield.
• George fired a curving Railgun that bypassed Mugino’s shield, then combined more curved shots with iron-sand needles to pressure her.
• Takitsubo Rikou tracked George after he turned invisible, and Mugino fired at him when he revealed himself.
• George used electricity to boost his body, appeared behind Mugino, and knocked her unconscious.

George forced Academy City's leaders to end the Level 6 Shift Project after he and Misaka Mikoto defeated Accelerator and George beat Mugino Shizuri. The clones were freed, and George, Misaka Mikoto, and Misaka 9982 headed to the hospital in District 7 to see them.

• George threatened Academy City's leaders with exposing the experiments and warned that he and Misaka Mikoto could devastate the city.
• Aleister ordered the leaders to let George and the clones stay free and to proceed with his other plans.
• Takitsubo Rikou received word that the Level 6 Shift Project had been terminated and the clones would receive freedom and real identities.
• Misaka 9982 reported that the remaining 10,018 clones had been transferred to a District 7 hospital and released from control.
• George reconnected to the Misaka Network, and Misaka Mikoto took him and Misaka 9982 to the hospital.

After learning that the Misaka clones needed ongoing treatment to survive, Misaka Mikoto heard the Board of Directors would fund their care and send them to research institutes overseas. George left the hospital and was approached by Kihara Suru, who invited him to join the Hound Unit.

• Mind Healer told Misaka Mikoto and George that the clones' lifespans were limited to two or three years without treatment, and that the Board of Directors would fund their care.
• Misaka Mikoto accepted the Board of Directors' offer to arrange treatment for the clones, then said goodbye to George and returned to her friends.
• George refused Mind Healer's offer of a physical examination and left the hospital, planning to study Academy City's abilities on his own.
• George detected someone following him and confronted Kihara Suru, who introduced himself as the Hound Unit's leader and invited George to join.