Chapter Summaries

Yota hypnotized John, a mutant who used his appearance-changing ability to commit robberies, and discovered he belonged to the Scorpion Gang. By controlling gang members and working his way up their chain of command, Yota reached a subordinate of Kingpin and headed for Fisk Tower.

• John explained that his weak mutant ability let him change his appearance and described surviving a gunshot while robbing someone.
• Yota asked John about the Mutant Brotherhood, but John said he avoided them and worked for the Scorpion Gang.
• Yota used genjutsu to hypnotize John and ordered him to take Yota to the Scorpion Gang boss.
• Yota controlled the gang's thugs and questioned them about their superiors.
• After several hours of working up the gang hierarchy, Yota found a subordinate directly under Kingpin and headed to his lair in Fisk Tower.

Yota infiltrated Fisk Tower, overcame Kingpin’s defenses, and used genjutsu to take control of him. With Kingpin serving him, Yota obtained intelligence and the whereabouts of Adamantium.

• Yota attempted to control Kingpin, but Kingpin’s mind-control defenses blocked the genjutsu, and he escaped through a trapdoor.
• Yota phased through the floor, caught up with Kingpin near an escape aircraft, and pulled him into the Dark Space.
• Yota stripped Kingpin of his protective technology, returned him, and successfully placed him under genjutsu.
• Yota examined documents detailing Kingpin’s criminal empire and praised his management abilities.
• Kingpin handed Yota newly received intelligence and the location of the Adamantium Yota had requested.

Yota stored a supply of Secondary Adamantium and reviewed intelligence about several emerging figures and projects. He decided to contact General Ross so he could witness Hulk’s creation and possibly obtain Gamma Rays energy.

• Yota considered using Adamantium to strengthen his skeleton, though he hoped to acquire True Adamantium so he could learn its formula.
• Yota learned that General Ross had launched a Superhuman Project involving Bruce Banner, while Doom was preparing a space station based on Reed’s proposal.
• Yota recalled how Reed’s misplaced calculation could ruin Doom’s project and resolved to visit the space station when it was completed.
• Yota planned to observe Hulk’s creation and asked Kingpin whether he could contact General Ross.

Yota met General Ross to offer his biotechnology for the military’s Superhuman Project, while Ross viewed him as a minor researcher he could exploit. Yota’s own research talent was limited, but his Biological Chip held knowledge from multiple worlds that could give him an advantage.

• Kingpin told Yota he could contact General Ross but could not influence the military’s important decisions.
• Yota assured Kingpin that he only needed to arrange the meeting and that Yota would handle the negotiations himself.
• Yota met Ross at a restaurant and said he wanted to cooperate on the Superhuman Project using his biotechnology.
• Ross doubted Yota’s qualifications but agreed to let him demonstrate his abilities, believing the military could claim most of any successful results.
• Yota reflected that he was only an average researcher, but his Biological Chip contained knowledge drawn from multiple worlds.

Yota impressed General Ross's scientists with his biological research knowledge and accepted Ross's offers to stay in the United States military. During a lab accident, Bruce Banner was struck by Gamma Rays and transformed into Hulk, who escaped through a wall.

• Yota's biological expertise won over General Ross's scientists, and Ross decided to recruit him with money, equipment, and other benefits.
• Yota accepted Ross's offers, confident that he could leave whenever he wanted.
• Bruce Banner stayed late to finish an experiment in General Ross's laboratory.
• A colleague accidentally activated the Gamma Ray Device, and Banner pushed him clear before taking the radiation himself.
• Banner transformed into Hulk, roared at the researcher, and smashed through a wall to escape.

After Hulk escaped from the physics lab, he attacked General Ross and left him gravely injured before leaping out of the experimental base. As the soldiers opened fire and prepared heavy weapons, Hulk turned toward them.

• Yota explained to General Ross that stronger, more intelligent Parademons required higher-quality raw materials, prompting Ross to seek special materials through his military connections.
• Hulk burst out of the energy-ray laboratory, ignored gunfire, seized Ross, and slammed him into the ground after Ross shot him in the eye.
• Yota watched the attack, left a clone behind, and phased away as Hulk calmed down and escaped the base.
• The soldiers outside hesitated until Tom ordered them to fire on Hulk.
• Hulk healed his eye wound and turned toward the soldiers, while Tom ordered Jerry to bring up the heavy weapons.

Yota captured Bruce Banner after Hulk left the experimental base, while his clone told Betty that General Ross would survive but remain disabled and revealed that Banner was Hulk. After Ross recovered enough to speak with Yota, he asked about undergoing human augmentation.

• Hulk hurled a jeep through the experimental base, then left without killing the soldiers who played dead.
• Hulk shrank back into Bruce Banner in the wilderness, and Yota used black mist to bring him into his modification space.
• Yota told Betty that General Ross had suffered a spinal injury and revealed that Bruce Banner was Hulk.
• General Ross woke up and accepted that he would likely spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
• Ross visited Yota's laboratory and confirmed that he wanted to undergo human augmentation.

General Ross asked Yota to enhance him, and Yota discovered that Gamma Ray exposure had already begun changing Ross’s body. Yota offered to make the transformation controllable while preserving Ross’s intelligence and human form, then asked to inspect the military’s hidden resources.

• Ross asked Yota what enhancement plans he could offer, and Yota began examining Ross’s body and genes.
• Yota found that Ross had a mutation-prone physique and Gamma Ray-infected cells that could turn him into Red Hulk within about a year.
• Yota showed Ross footage of Hulk and promised to make Ross’s transformation voluntary while preserving his intelligence and human form.
• Ross accepted the plan and offered Yota access to the base’s resources and assistants.
• Yota asked Ross to show him the military’s hidden assets, hinting that they could improve the enhancement.

Yota used America’s research on Super Soldier Serums to turn General Ross into the Red Hulk, while secretly implanting a chip that let him view Ross’s memories. Ross learned to control his transformation and began testing his strength, defense, and speed.

• Yota took America’s human research data and accelerated Ross’s Gamma Ray mutation, secretly implanting a tiny Biological Chip in his head.
• After three days, Ross transformed into the Red Hulk, healed his spinal injury, and demonstrated his immense strength.
• Yota used an inhibitor serum to return Ross to human form and explained that the Red Hulk’s power could cause mania and affect his personality.
• Ross asked Yota to modify a squad of soldiers, but Yota claimed his transformation had cost one hundred and thirty million dollars, leading Ross to delay further modifications.
• Ross tested the Red Hulk’s abilities at a training ground, finding that ordinary firearms barely hurt him and that wounds from an anti-materiel rifle healed quickly.

Yota helped General Ross create Abomination, then took control of the experimental base and secretly expanded his research on Hulk-derived transformations. When Ross returned with funding and officers, Abomination rebelled, and Ross confronted him as Red Hulk.

• Yota agreed to help Ross build a giant army and transformed Emil Blonsky into Abomination using a variant Super Soldier Serum, Bruce Banner's blood, and the Munch-Munch Fruit.
• Yota subdued Abomination with inhibitor drugs and beat him into obedience, while Ross took him away to secure military funding.
• Yota brainwashed the base's researchers and soldiers, infiltrated its computers, and experimented on samples taken from Bruce Banner in Dark Space.
• Ross returned with ample funding and nearly a hundred low-ranking officers, and Yota began modifying them while preparing to leave.
• Abomination broke loose, declared himself a god, and refused to take inhibitor drugs; Red Hulk Ross charged at him.

Yota watched Abomination and Red Hulk battle until Green Goblin attacked the military base and destroyed Yota’s laboratory. As Abomination prepared to escape, a gigantic creature with dozens of hands emerged from the wreckage.

• Abomination used his superior fighting skill to overpower Red Hulk, but specialized weapons drove him back.
• Green Goblin bombed the base’s weapons and Yota’s laboratory, giving Abomination an opening to resume the fight.
• Yota learned that Norman Osborn had joined forces with Abomination to stop giant-enhancement research and had used a leaked military map to reach the base.
• After Green Goblin destroyed the laboratory, Abomination tried to leave rather than risk being trapped by the base’s remaining defenses.
• A deafening boom came from the ruined laboratory, and a giant over ten meters tall with dozens of enormous hands emerged.

Yota escaped after his experiments fused more than a hundred officers into the Hundred-Armed Giant, which devastated a military base and led to General Ross arresting Old Osborn and the military seizing Osborn Corporation assets. Months later, Yota prepared for Doom’s spaceflight with the Fantastic Four, having Kingpin plant Flying Thunder God markers in the spacecraft.

• The Hundred-Armed Giant struck Red Hulk and Abomination, then slammed them into the ground as magma began rising beneath the base.
• Yota escaped through the Kamui dimension, leaving the giant behind, and later learned the military had covered up the disaster as a nuclear test.
• General Ross arrested Old Osborn, and Old Osborn received a life sentence while the military seized many of Osborn Corporation’s technologies.
• Kingpin bought enough Osborn Corporation shares to join its board, following Yota’s order to gain access to its research department.
• Yota learned Doom’s space station was nearly complete and had Kingpin arrange research into serums and invest in Connors’s work.
• Yota entered Doom’s space launch center and watched Doom announce that he would join Reed and the other three on the spacecraft.

Yota secretly boarded Reed’s spacecraft and absorbed most of the solar storm that mutated Reed, Sue, Ben, and the others. He discovered that the storm’s energy greatly strengthened his Kryptonian physique and wondered whether absorbing it all could awaken new abilities.

• Yota used the Flying Thunder God Technique to board Reed’s spacecraft, and Sue briefly saw him appear behind Reed before he vanished.
• As the spacecraft approached the sun, Yota felt his power responding to the sunlight but did not interfere with Reed’s miscalculation of the solar storm’s arrival.
• When the storm struck, Yota filled the space station with black mist and absorbed its energy while Reed, Sue, Ben, and the others lost consciousness.
• After the storm ended, Yota found that he had absorbed about seventy percent of its energy and condensed some of it into a ball of light.
• Yota absorbed a small amount of the storm’s energy and felt his Kryptonian physique grow stronger, then considered the effect of absorbing the rest.

After absorbing the solar storm’s energy, Yota invited Bruce Banner to join Osborn Corporation’s laboratory and warned him that the military was still hunting him. Banner feared Hulk’s return and was appalled that the military wanted to exploit him as a weapon.

• Yota arranged for Kingpin to pursue Doctor Doom’s assets while Doom and the Fantastic Four remained unconscious after returning to Earth.
• Yota continued absorbing the solar storm’s energy and took charge of the Osborn Corporation laboratory.
• Yota spoke with Bruce Banner, explaining that Hulk was part of Banner and that Gamma Ray exposure could bring him out again.
• Yota offered Banner a position at Osborn Corporation, and Banner agreed after hearing the laboratory could prepare suppressants and countermeasures.
• Yota warned Banner that the military was secretly hunting him and described its failed experiments with the Hundred-Armed Giant and Abomination.
• Banner objected that Hulk was a disaster, not a weapon, while Yota agreed that the military’s plans were reckless.

Yota recruited Bruce Banner into Osborn Corporation, changed his appearance, and set him to work on the Super Soldier Serum alongside Doctor Connors. As the serum research progressed and the Fantastic Four gained fame, Yota considered Doctor Doom but chose not to approach him yet.

• Yota changed Bruce Banner’s appearance and gave him the alias Mark, while Banner worried that Betty would no longer recognize him.
• Yota assigned Banner the Super Soldier Serum project and explained that it might help reverse his Hulk transformation, while the Biological Chip remained in Banner’s head.
• Yota introduced Doctor Connors to Banner and healed Connors’s arm, reducing the chance that Connors would test his Lizard Serum on himself.
• Banner and Connors made promising progress on a new Super Soldier Serum that Yota hoped to combine with artificial Devil Fruits to build capable subordinates.
• Yota watched Johnny Storm show off on television and thought Doctor Doom might soon return to Latveria, but decided not to contact him.

Yota watched Tony Stark’s path to becoming Iron Man unfold and discovered that Ancient One had arranged it using his power to foresee timelines. Ancient One met Yota to discuss Tony’s future, while Yota remained wary of the Sorcerer Supreme’s immense power and motives.

• Yota saw that Tony Stark was preparing to go to Afghanistan and considered profiting from the resulting stock-price swings without disrupting Tony’s growth.
• Three days later, Yota watched Tony get blasted away and challenged the white-bearded old man beside him about the suspicious circumstances of Tony’s injury.
• The old man introduced himself as Gu Yi, the Sorcerer Supreme, and admitted that he had arranged Tony’s path after foreseeing what would happen if Tony never went to Afghanistan.
• Ancient One described the bleak possible futures awaiting Tony and joked about Pepper Potts marrying Tony’s driver, prompting Yota to accuse him of using the Time Stone to spy on people.
• Yota asked why Ancient One had come to see him and wondered whether the Sorcerer Supreme intended to drive him off Earth; he prepared to flee if Ancient One threatened him.

Ancient One explained that centuries of using the Time Stone had made her weary of predictable futures, and she asked Yota to take her to other worlds. Yota agreed to travel with her within the Marvel World, planning to use the Time Stone to replenish Karasuki's energy.

• Ancient One told Yota that seeing countless timelines had left her bored and eager for the unknown.
• Ancient One realized Yota came from outside her world and asked him to take her traveling.
• Ancient One explained that Eternity did not require Sorcerer Supremes to remain in his service.
• Yota agreed to take Ancient One to other worlds within the Marvel World and planned to replenish Karasuki's energy with the Time Stone.

Yota left Ancient One and secretly recorded Tony Stark’s work on the Mark I armor before learning that General Ross’s forces were hunting Bruce Banner. He rushed to Banner’s location as Ross ordered his troops to keep Banner surrounded, setting up a confrontation.

• Yota left Ancient One without asking for payment and headed to Tony Stark’s cave.
• Yota secretly planted an eye in Tony Stark’s cave to record how he built the Mark I armor and miniaturized the Arc Reactor.
• Doctor Connors told Yota that armed forces were pursuing Banner, and Yota raced to Manhattan to retrieve him.
• Betty confronted General Ross over his plans to capture Banner and use him to develop the Giant Serum.
• General Ross ordered his troops to keep Banner surrounded while he went to face him.

Bruce Banner transformed into the Hulk to fight General Ross, who had become the Red Hulk. Hulk overwhelmed Ross, then threw him into an attacking helicopter and sent him flying into the distance.

• Bruce Banner hesitated to use Yota’s radiation-serum watch while surrounded by soldiers, but transformed after General Ross emerged as the Red Hulk.
• General Ross abandoned his plan to capture Banner and challenged Hulk to a fight.
• The Red Hulk initially used his fighting skill to hurt Hulk, but Hulk’s growing rage made him stronger and turned the fight in his favor.
• Hulk tore the Red Hulk off his shoulder and stomped him into a deep crater until Ross was badly injured.
• When helicopters opened fire, Hulk hurled the Red Hulk at one, damaging its tail rotor, and sent Ross flying into the distance.

The Fantastic Four battled Hulk after he rampaged through a military operation, but his strength overwhelmed them. Sue rescued the injured Human Torch while Mister Fantastic dragged Thing away, leaving Hulk still loose.

• Human Torch rescued the soldiers, and Mister Fantastic and Thing joined him against Hulk while Sue remained hidden.
• Hulk grabbed Human Torch and threw Mister Fantastic into a building, but Human Torch escaped and Thing faced Hulk.
• Hulk struck Thing through a tank, and Human Torch drew Hulk's attacks away from the injured Thing with fireballs.
• Hulk's roar shattered glass across the area and sent Human Torch falling, but Sue caught him with a telekinetic barrier.
• Mister Fantastic dragged the battered Thing away as Hulk turned toward them.