Chapter Summaries

After George told Dumbledore and Snape that a cosmic disaster would threaten Earth in twenty years, they decided to trust his account for now and support his magical studies. The next morning, the students admired George for killing a Dementor, and Snape summoned him to his office.

• George left Dumbledore's office, believing his warning would persuade Dumbledore and Snape to help him with magic.
• Snape and Dumbledore discussed George's claims and agreed to treat the predicted disaster as real and meet his requests where possible.
• Dumbledore decided to continue his plans while giving George access to his magical knowledge.
• The students stared at George in awe after he killed a Dementor on the train.
• Snape told George to come to his office after breakfast.

George gained a Time-Turner and began an intensive program of magical study, learning from Dumbledore and other professors. Meanwhile, his panda clone reached level five hundred and learned Plasma Cannon magic, then considered combining it with his Super Electromagnetic Cannon.

• Snape told George that he and Dumbledore believed his warning and would help him prepare, then agreed to apply for a Time-Turner.
• Snape gave George the Time-Turner and explained its limits and the dangers of misusing it.
• George used the Time-Turner nearly five times a day to study magic with Dumbledore, Snape, and McGonagall.
• George's panda clone shifted from meditation to studying magic with Balthazar after reaching level five hundred.
• The panda clone learned Plasma Cannon magic and considered fusing it with his Super Electromagnetic Cannon.

George developed the Plasma Railgun by combining electricity with magic, creating a beam powerful enough to vaporize and slice through a mountain. He then returned to David's laboratory and planned to learn soul magic so he could free Morgana from Veronica and obtain the Resurrection Spell.

• George's first attempt to enlarge a plasma ball with electricity exploded, leaving a deep pit in the ground.
• George and his clones spent about thirty days developing the Plasma Railgun, using a Time-Turner to increase their research time.
• George tested the completed Plasma Railgun, blasting a hole through a mountain and slicing it in half with a sustained plasma beam.
• George concluded that he could not yet combine the Plasma Railgun with the Thunder Giant, but hoped to do so after reaching Level Five.
• George returned to David's laboratory and decided to learn the Soul Separation Spell and Soul Sealing Spell so he could release Morgana without harming Veronica.

George upgraded Superpower Academy’s magical defenses and animated metal statues into guardians while preparing to improve the school’s technology. Thor said he had begun to understand Odin’s rejection of war and was close to lifting Mjolnir again.

• George completed the Plasma Railgun and decided to upgrade the school’s technology and magic.
• George replaced the school’s old concealment measures with the Loyalty Charm and Concealment Charm, then rebuilt the Runic Barrier for defense.
• George used his wand to animate hundreds of custom-made metal statues depicting mythological creatures.
• Thor told George that he had learned from his time at the school and that Mjolnir had begun to tremble when he tried to lift it.

After Nick Fury was killed in a Hydra ambush and S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed, Natasha asked George to stop Hydra from launching the Insight Plan. George agreed to find her and confront the threat.

• Thor told George he planned to stay in Midgard to help humanity, with Jane also influencing his decision.
• George planned upgrades for the school’s combat simulation room before Natasha called to report Nick Fury’s death.
• Natasha said Hydra Winter Soldiers had ambushed S.H.I.E.L.D. and that Fury had been shot through the chest.
• Natasha warned that Hydra had seized Helicarriers and planned to launch the Insight Plan, which would target future threats to Hydra.
• George agreed to find Natasha and help stop Hydra’s plan.

George brought Black Widow and the injured S.H.I.E.L.D. agents into Superpower Academy after they failed to find it, then healed them with magic. With the academy’s teachers gathered, he asked Black Widow to explain how their fight against Hydra had gone so badly.

• Black Widow contacted George after her group could not locate Superpower Academy, and he flew out to meet them.
• George led Black Widow, Coulson, Hawkeye, Hill, Melinda May, and the other wounded agents into the academy, revealing it to them as its secret keeper.
• George used healing magic to treat the agents’ injuries while Professor X gathered the academy’s teachers.
• After the agents had recovered, George asked Black Widow to explain what had happened and why S.H.I.E.L.D. had lost despite previously having the advantage.

Black Widow described Hydra’s takeover of S.H.I.E.L.D. and its plan to use the Helicarriers to eliminate threats worldwide. George identified infiltrators among the agents and decided to deal with them before confronting Hydra, while Winter Soldiers waited outside the school.

• Black Widow told George that Hydra had stolen the Cosmic Cube, ambushed S.H.I.E.L.D. survivors, killed Nick Fury, and taken Triskelion Headquarters and three Helicarriers.
• Steve and Coulson blamed Nick Fury’s decision to recover the Cosmic Cube, while John Garrett defended Fury’s pursuit of Energy Weapons.
• George asked the agents to introduce themselves, recognized John Garrett and Grant Ward as Hydra spies, and warned that traitors had infiltrated the group.
• Professor X alerted George that Winter Soldiers were approaching the school but could not enter because of the Loyalty Charm.
• Black Widow urged George to act before Hydra launched the Helicarriers, and George said he would expose the traitors, starting with John Garrett.

George argued that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s surviving agents needed to be tested for Hydra spies before they could plan their next move. Garrett refused to let George inspect his memories and tried to leave, but George revealed that Hydra’s Winter Soldiers had already tracked them to Superpower Academy.

• Garrett accused George of insulting the agents by calling them traitors, and Logan threatened him while Ward aimed his gun at Logan.
• Natasha, Hawkeye, Coulson, and Hill agreed that George should test the agents for Hydra spies, while Garrett objected that George might read or alter their memories.
• Garrett declared that he would leave to fight Hydra his own way, and Grant and another agent joined him.
• Coulson tried to stop Garrett, but Garrett handed him his pistol and demanded to be allowed to leave.
• George announced that no one could leave, and Banner displayed surveillance footage showing the Winter Soldiers gathered outside Superpower Academy.

Garrett and Grant took Coulson and Jemma hostage after their Hydra allegiance was exposed, but George and Thor stopped them and captured them. George searched their memories and discovered that Hydra in this world was far more powerful and had a different history than he expected.

• Garrett and Grant seized Coulson and Jemma as hostages and tried to escape, while the third man protested that he was not a Hydra spy.
• Garrett explained that he had joined Hydra after S.H.I.E.L.D. could not save his failing body, and he planned to use Hydra to become a perfect human.
• George twisted Garrett and Grant’s guns into scrap metal, letting Coulson knock Garrett down.
• Grant abandoned Jemma and attacked Thor, who disarmed him and threw him to the floor.
• George bound Garrett and Grant, examined their memories, and learned that this world’s Hydra had a different origin and that Baron Strucker and Hive were powerful agents.

George discovered that this universe lacked Captain Marvel and the Skrulls, which meant his assumptions about the future could be wrong. After confirming there were no other Hydra spies among the agents, he saw Hydra forces massing around the school as Garrett tried to recruit Coulson.

• George checked Coulson's memories and found no trace of Captain Marvel or the Skrulls, then reconsidered how much he could rely on what he knew about the future.
• George examined Black Widow and the others and confirmed they were loyal S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, concluding that Nick Fury was truly dead without the Kree and GH-325.
• Professor X warned George that helicopters, Hydra soldiers, and tanks were approaching the school, and George recognized that Pierce had taken control of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Garrett urged Coulson to join Hydra and promised him power, but Coulson asked Hawkeye for an electrified arrow to use on Garrett.

Garrett failed to persuade George to join Hydra, and George decided to strike the forces surrounding Superpower Academy before they could attack. He summoned a huge storm over the area, leaving Hydra and nearby residents beneath the gathering lightning.

• Garrett offered George a separate nation for mutants in exchange for joining Hydra, but George rejected him and warned that only Hydra would be hurt.
• Hill, Coulson, and Black Widow worried that Hydra’s helicopters might find the school or bombard the surrounding area, but George trusted the Loyalty Charm and agreed they should deal with the attackers.
• Professor X offered to control the Hydra soldiers, but Coulson explained that they likely carried devices blocking brainwave intrusion.
• Logan prepared to fight, while Thor regretted that he could not yet lift Mjolnir; George chose to attack first with Ancient Magic.
• George raised his new wand and cast “Thunderstorm Descends,” covering the area around the school with dark clouds and violent lightning as Hydra soldiers and residents looked up in confusion.

Alexander Pierce ordered Hydra forces to destroy the area around Xavier’s school and force Professor X and the X-Men to reveal themselves. George answered the attack with a storm of lightning that struck Hydra’s aircraft, tanks, and command vehicle.

• Pierce told Sitwell to launch a blanket attack on the area, accepting Garrett and Grant’s deaths as sacrifices to Hydra.
• Crossbones reported that unnatural clouds and dense lightning had gathered overhead, and Sitwell ordered the forces to attack.
• George controlled the lightning, striking Hydra’s helicopters, tanks, and the command vehicle occupied by Sitwell and Crossbones.
• Coulson and the others watched George’s attack, while Thor said George looked more like the God of Thunder than he did.
• Logan teased Thor that he should be called the Hammer God instead of the God of Thunder.

George used lightning to destroy Hydra’s vehicles and kill most of their soldiers, while Professor X helped track the survivors. He sent animated metal statues to capture Sitwell, Crossbones, and the Winter Soldiers, leaving them battered in the school square.

• George redirected lightning onto Hydra’s vehicles and helicopters, killing the soldiers who parachuted from the aircraft.
• Sitwell ordered Hydra to retreat, and George and Professor X tracked the fleeing soldiers as lightning struck them beneath the clouds.
• George stopped the storm and sent animated metal statues to capture the surviving Hydra members.
• The metal statues brought Sitwell, Crossbones, and the Winter Soldiers to the school square, and George considered using Vibranium to strengthen the statues.

George discovered the Cosmic Cube’s location in Sitwell’s memories and learned that Hydra’s three Helicarriers would launch in about an hour. With Professor X restoring Bucky, George sent Steve and a team toward Washington while he planned to retrieve the Cube himself.

• Steve joyfully embraced Bucky, but the brainwashed Bucky punched him and fled before Abomination caught him at the school gates.
• George used Legilimency on Sitwell and found the Cosmic Cube’s location at Hydra’s energy-weapon facility.
• George learned from Sitwell’s memories that Hydra’s three Helicarriers would launch in about an hour.
• Professor X restored Bucky, and George sent Steve, Bucky, Banner, and Logan toward Washington in the X-Jet.
• George claimed he needed to rest and declined to help, while Coulson promised S.H.I.E.L.D.’s support if the agency survived the coming crisis.

Pierce reinforced the Triskelion after his forces were wiped out, suspecting George was the Superpower Academy’s true leader. He enlisted Baron Strucker’s help, and Strucker ordered Jiaying and her Inhuman clan to send warriors to defend Pierce, leaving Jiaying cautious under Hydra’s control.

• Pierce realized the Superpower Academy had destroyed his elite force and ordered Doctor Zola to send Hydra’s robot soldiers to the Triskelion.
• Still uneasy, Pierce contacted Baron Strucker and asked to borrow some of his Espers.
• Strucker agreed to send several powerful Espers and ordered Jiaying to send Gordon and warriors from her clan, along with her daughter Darcy.
• Strucker reminded Jiaying that he had saved her from Doctor Reinhardt’s experiments and promised her people a homeland if Hydra ruled the world.
• Jiaying returned to her room and recalled how Hydra had captured her twice, while Strucker had prevented Reinhardt from dissecting her for her immortality.

Jiaying and the Inhumans were forced to serve Baron Strucker after Hydra seized Afterlife and took their relatives hostage. George infiltrated Hydra’s island base to claim the Cosmic Cube, discovered its extracted energy could strengthen his magic, and began packing up the Cube and its machine.

• Baron Strucker captured the Inhumans of Afterlife, then scattered their relatives as hostages and forced them to serve Hydra.
• Jiaying warned Gordon, Darcy, and the other Inhumans to prioritize surviving their mission before Gordon transported them to the Triskelion Building.
• George left Professor X’s school and flew to Hydra’s island base near Washington to seize the Cosmic Cube.
• George used an Invisibility Spell to enter the base and found the Cosmic Cube powering a machine that extracted and bottled its energy.
• George absorbed energy from a glass jar through meditation, then killed the Hydra soldiers who confronted him and began storing the machine and Cosmic Cube in a small box.

George raided Hydra’s base, seized the Cosmic Cube, its energy-extraction machine, stored energy, and Energy Weapons, then followed a Tracking Charm toward Doctor Zola. When Absorbing Man ambushed him, George identified and killed him with a spell, leaving his pursuit of Zola to continue.

• George collected the Cosmic Cube, the extraction machine, energy jars, and Hydra’s Energy Weapons while defeating the soldiers guarding them.
• Doctor Zola identified George through Hydra’s database and sent Carl Creel, the Absorbing Man, to stop him.
• George used the Tracking Charm to locate Zola and fought through Hydra soldiers carrying improvised nonmetal shields.
• George evaded a surprise attack from the resilient Absorbing Man, whose abilities resisted his Telepathy and electricity.
• George recognized Absorbing Man after he transformed into granite and killed him with Avada Kedavra.

George defeated Doctor Zola by immobilizing his robot body, hacking its systems, and destroying Zola’s consciousness with the Killing Curse. With Zola unable to upload himself to his reserve device, George left him no way to revive.

• George killed Absorbing Man and taunted Doctor Zola through a surveillance camera.
• Zola fled the base, hoping to transfer his consciousness to a reserve device if his robot body was destroyed.
• George teleported behind Zola and restrained him with his metal-controlling ability.
• Zola attempted to trigger the robot’s self-destruct device, but George froze its components with the Freezing Charm.
• George used his electromagnetic ability to access Zola’s stored data and discovered how his consciousness reserve system worked.
• George cast the Killing Curse on Zola’s consciousness, killing him before he could escape or revive.

George destroyed Hydra’s island base, seized its energy weapons, and headed for Washington after learning Pierce had substantial reinforcements. At the Triskelion Building, Steve’s team began an assault to stop the Helicarriers from launching.

• George demolished the Hydra base with boosted Explosion Curses and sank the ship carrying energy weapons, taking the weapons for himself.
• After reviewing Zola’s intelligence, George decided to go to Washington and traveled toward S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
• Coulson’s team arrived at the Triskelion Building and found more than a hundred Hydra robots armed with energy weapons guarding it.
• Steve revised the plan: he, Logan, and Banner would attack from the front while Coulson, Bucky, and the others infiltrated using the X-Jet’s cloaking device.
• Steve’s team agreed to begin the assault on the Triskelion Building to prevent the Helicarriers from launching.

Captain America, Hulk, and Wolverine fought their way toward the Triskelion Building while Pierce searched for the missing members of their team and prepared to launch the Helicarriers. Hulk was teleported away and superpowered opponents blocked Steve and Logan, leaving the mission in their hands.

• Hulk, Captain America, and Wolverine fought through Hydra robots and soldiers outside the Triskelion Building.
• Pierce used Collins’s detection ability to locate Coulson’s agents, then sent Gordon and other superpowered individuals to capture them alive.
• Pierce ordered the building’s lightning protection systems and the Helicarriers’ defenses activated while he rushed preparations for launch.
• After losing contact with Coulson’s group, Steve and Logan pushed toward the Triskelion, with Banner using an energy tank to smash their opponents.
• An Eyeless Man teleported Banner away, while a young woman’s shockwave drove Steve and Logan back.
• Steve insisted that he and Logan continue toward the Helicarriers despite being left to face the remaining Hydra forces and superpowered opponents alone.