Chapter Summaries

Wanda arrived at her Asgardian guest room, where Lady Sif attacked her to test her abilities before apologizing and inviting her to a banquet. Elsewhere, Odin thanked Michael for saving Asgard and warned that even great power could not change everything, hinting at his concerns about the future.

• Lady Sif led Wanda to her guest room, where Wanda deflected Sif’s sword and counterattacked with Chaos Magic.
• Sif revealed that she had attacked Wanda out of curiosity, praised her strength, and invited her to the palace banquet.
• Wanda identified herself as Michael’s mage and wondered whether all Asgardians were as straightforward as Sif.
• Odin thanked Michael for saving Asgard, the Nine Realms, and Thor, and called him a leader of humanity.
• Odin said Thor was a capable warrior but not ready to lead, then warned Michael that some things could not be changed regardless of one’s power.

Michael challenged Odin’s belief that fate and Ragnarok could not be changed, then secured permission to take Elf ossicles. At an Asgardian banquet, Michael and Wanda discussed their travel plans with Sif, who warned them against visiting Hel.

• Michael argued that he had already changed the prophecies of The Serpent and Ragnarok, but Odin insisted that the true Ragnarok had not yet come.
• Odin warned Michael that powerful enemies watched Asgard and hoped Thor would soon accept his responsibilities; Michael promised he would not stand aside if a crisis came.
• Michael asked Odin for Elf ossicles, and Odin agreed to grant them.
• At the palace banquet, Volstagg greeted Michael and volunteered to join his strongest hero alliance on Earth.
• Sif asked about Michael and Wanda’s vacation plans, and Michael said they intended to travel around the Nine Realms.
• Sif warned Michael and Wanda that Hel was dangerous, but Michael said its residents would be glad to see them.

Michael and Wanda visited Muspelheim, where they discussed Surtur and the prophecy of Ragnarok before Michael reassured Wanda that he wanted to live an ordinary life with her. While a duplicate stayed with Wanda, Michael entered Odin’s sealed prison to confront Surtur and finish their unfinished fight.

• Michael told Wanda that Muspelheim was Surtur’s domain and explained that Surtur’s appearance was tied to the Asgardian prophecy of Ragnarok.
• Wanda said she struggled to imagine Michael living an ordinary life, and Michael told her that being with her was what ordinary life meant to him.
• Michael left a duplicate to accompany Wanda and entered Odin’s seal in Muspelheim to face Surtur.
• Surtur recognized Michael and attacked him with a fireball, but Michael split the blast with a Magic Circle.
• Michael drew a massive black sword and told Surtur he would end the fight quickly.

Michael fought Surtur in the Land of Fire and overwhelmed him with a vast surge of magic power. He split Surtur in two, and the resulting blast shattered the barrier sealing the realm.

• Surtur challenged Michael and attacked him with a flaming greatsword.
• Michael met Surtur’s strikes with his sword and layered defenses, but Surtur unleashed a powerful blow that engulfed him in flames.
• Michael absorbed the flames throughout the cave into his blade and summoned a towering golden greatsword charged with magic and lightning.
• Surtur attacked with the final flames of the Twilight Sword, but Michael’s golden strike cleaved him in two.
• The shockwave tore through the cave and shattered the barrier sealing the Land of Fire.

Michael killed Surtur in Muspelheim and spoke with Amora, who had secretly followed him. He returned to his duplicate’s outing with Wanda, who suspected he had been doing something else.

• Michael left Surtur’s surviving followers alone after destroying the demon and his barrier.
• Michael decided not to interfere with Hela, then confronted Amora, who revealed she had followed him out of curiosity.
• Amora teased Michael about leaving a duplicate with Wanda while he fought Surtur, then vanished.
• Michael returned to Wanda, who questioned whether he had been doing something else while keeping her company.
• Wanda noticed what seemed like a woman’s perfume and dismissed it as an illusion.

Michael, Wanda, and Sherry traveled through space after Sherry gained a body that could communicate across any distance. Their ship was caught in a tractor beam, and Michael identified the attackers as space pirates.

• Sherry woke aboard the spaceship and asked Michael where they were.
• Michael explained that the Elf ossicles let Sherry communicate with him across the universe.
• Wanda felt unsettled about sharing the trip with Sherry, and Sherry noticed and tried to reassure her.
• A tractor beam jolted the spaceship, and Sherry took control of most of its systems.
• Sherry showed them a massive teal warship towing their ship, and Michael said space pirates were robbing them.

Michael, Wanda, and Sherry let space pirates capture their shuttle so they could explore the pirate warship and record its technology. After calmly leaving their ship under armed guard, Michael asked the pirates’ leader if they could talk.

• The pirate warship disabled the Kree shuttle and dragged it into its hangar, while Sherry reported that the shuttle’s weapons and engines could not be restarted.
• Michael decided that they would board the pirate ship, and told Sherry to prepare scanners and recorders to document what they found.
• Pirates opened the shuttle and ordered Michael, Wanda, and Sherry to come out, while Michael assessed their weapons and lack of training.
• Michael led the group out calmly, and Wanda followed after considering whether to attack the pirates.
• Michael approached the leader and asked if they could talk.

Michael and Wanda encountered a band of pirates who demanded a toll, but Michael declared he would take their ship instead. After the pirates opened fire, Michael blocked their laser barrage with Chaos Magic and gave them one last chance to surrender.

• The pirate leader questioned Michael, Wanda, and their companion and learned that they came from Earth.
• The pirates debated rumors about humans while the leader decided to demand a toll or seize their shuttle.
• Michael assessed the pirates' ship and announced that he intended to take it.
• The leader ordered his crew to open fire on the three travelers.
• Michael blocked the laser fire with Chaos Magic and offered the pirates one last chance to surrender.

Michael fought off a group of space pirates while Wanda and Sherry watched. The pirates’ attempts to use Wanda and Sherry as hostages failed, leaving Michael’s side in control of the fight.

• Michael blocked the pirates’ barrage with a Scarlet Barrier, then charged into their formation and cut them down with a golden blade and Chaos Magic.
• The pirates switched to close combat, but Michael’s magical enhancement let him evade their attacks and defeat half of them without being touched.
• A pirate grabbed Wanda and threatened to kill her, but Michael ignored him and continued fighting.
• Wanda blasted the pirate away with scarlet energy, revealing that she had no need to be rescued.
• When pirates moved toward Sherry, she activated her security protocol and fired a concealed pulse cannon, then explained that she carried several hidden weapons.

Michael and Wanda subdued the pirates aboard their ship, but the leader’s reinforcements arrived and threatened to destroy them with heavy cannons. Michael flew out in his Asgardian Armor to fight the two battleships, just as a law-enforcement fleet appeared and surrounded everyone.

• The pirates surrendered after Michael and the others proved impossible to defeat.
• Two pirate transport ships arrived, and their leader threatened the hostages with charged heavy cannons.
• Michael assembled his Asgardian Armor and flew out to confront the reinforcements while Wanda watched the prisoners.
• Michael dodged the pirate fleet’s attacks and destroyed escort craft without appearing harmed.
• A wormhole opened, and the VOLDI star system’s Law Enforcement Department ordered everyone to disarm.

Michael, Wanda, and Sherry attended VOLDI’s celebration after Michael defeated three pirate ships, where Princess Hithia questioned him about his abilities and technology. Hithia revealed that Iron Man had visited VOLDI just over a week earlier.

• VOLDI’s fleet invited Michael, Wanda, and Sherry to a postwar celebration after witnessing Michael overpower three pirate warships.
• Wanda admired the transparent dance hall, while Michael examined its technology and Sherry confirmed that the drinks were safe.
• Princess Hithia introduced herself and asked Michael about his name and whether Earth had many warriors like him.
• Michael introduced Sherry as his artificial intelligence, and Hithia explained that the floating drinks used Gravity Well Technology.
• Hithia told Michael that a traveler from Earth calling himself Iron Man had visited VOLDI just over a week earlier.

Michael, Wanda, and Sherry learned that Stark had recently visited the VOLDI world, where he rescued a transport fleet and befriended Princess Hithia. Hithia brought them to the VOLDI core and revealed that someone had stolen it, leaving Michael to suspect she was about to accuse Stark.

• Princess Hithia said that Iron Man had helped repair a damaged VOLDI transport ship and had visited her castle about a week earlier.
• Sherry found no trace of Stark and said he was likely no longer on Earth.
• Wanda cut short Hithia's flirtation with Michael, but agreed to see the important object Hithia wanted to show them.
• Michael noticed a hulking horned bounty hunter watching them as they left the ballroom.
• Hithia showed them the VOLDI core's palace and explained that the core protected her race, then accused an unnamed thief of stealing it.
• Michael calmly asked whether Hithia was about to blame Iron Man for the theft.

Princess Hithia accused Tony Stark of stealing the VOLDI core and trapped Michael, Wanda, and Sherry in the castle. They fought off the Machine Police until the Bounty Hunter arrived and offered to lead them to the person they were looking for.

• Princess Hithia explained that Tony Stark had stolen the VOLDI core, leaving her people vulnerable to discovery and destruction by the Cosmic Celestials.
• Wanda rejected the accusation, but Hithia summoned Machine Police to surround her, Michael, and Sherry.
• Michael exposed Hithia as a robot double and fought the Machine Police while Wanda and Sherry helped defend the group.
• Hithia ordered more forces into the room and warned that the group would not escape VOLDI alive.
• The Bounty Hunter charged into the fight and told Michael, Wanda, and Sherry he knew where the person they were looking for was.

Michael, Wanda, and the Bounty Hunter Death's Head escaped VOLDI TEAR and learned that Stark had been controlled when the VOLDI core was stolen. Death's Head identified the apparent culprit as a robot called 451, a recording machine built by the Romulans.

• Death's Head led Michael and Wanda through VOLDI TEAR's hangar, and they escaped pursuit through a wormhole.
• Michael, Wanda, and Death's Head introduced themselves aboard his ship, where Death's Head recognized Michael as the Black Knight.
• Wanda asked Death's Head about Stark and the stolen VOLDI core.
• Death's Head explained that Stark had tried to stop the real thief but had been controlled and turned into a weapon.
• Death's Head revealed a hologram of 451 and identified it as a recording robot built by the Romulans.

Michael learned that robot 451 had abducted Tony Stark and carried a Romulan database, and agreed to help Death's Head track it down. The group prepared to pursue the robot using the tracking data Death's Head had collected.

• Michael recognized the Romulans and explained to Wanda that they had once been a super-civilization that reached the realm of gods through science.
• Death's Head said he had accepted a centuries-old bounty concerning a robot that had copied a Romulan database and deleted part of the archives.
• Death's Head admitted that robot 451 had outmaneuvered him, so he sought Michael's help after hearing about Michael's strength and connection to Stark.
• Michael agreed to help find 451, clarifying that his interest lay in the robot rather than friendship with Stark.
• Death's Head confirmed that he had recorded data useful for tracking 451, and Michael told him to begin the pursuit.

Death's Head used his ship's advanced detection systems to track 451 to a cloaked vessel and led Michael and Wanda aboard. They found the ship full of alien corpses.

• Death's Head traced 451's trail toward Evil Granny's hiding place while Michael had Sherry secretly analyze the ship's systems.
• The trail vanished in a solar system where a Badoon fleet had recently been spotted, so Death's Head recalibrated the search and detected a cloaked vessel.
• Death's Head cloaked his ship, approached the target, and cut through its hull with lasers.
• Michael and Wanda followed Death's Head aboard, where Wanda was overcome by nausea at the sight of corpses throughout the vessel.

Michael, Wanda, and Death's Head found a cabin where neuroactive gas had driven the Badoon occupants to kill themselves, then encountered the robot 451. Death's Head revealed he had been working for 451, and 451 took control of Sherry and ordered her to hand over control of Michael's armor.

• Michael and Death's Head examined the dead Badoon, and Sherry detected neuroactive gas that had caused them to harm themselves.
• Michael told Sherry to stay near Wanda and protect her as they continued searching for 451.
• 451 appeared and revealed he had hired Death's Head to bring him the Black Knight.
• Death's Head accepted extra payment from 451 and left after admitting he had kept his deal with the robot.
• 451 controlled Sherry, ordered her to lower her shield, and asked her to transfer control of Michael's armor to him.

Robot 451 seized control of Michael’s armor and brought him and Wanda to the ship’s cockpit, where Tony was being held. Michael then aimed his palm cannon at 451, but Sherry had gone motionless, leaving the robot’s next move uncertain.

• Sherry locked Michael out of his armor, and 451 later restored control of his limbs while keeping the weapons disabled.
• Wanda threatened 451 with Chaos Magic, but Michael and Sherry aimed their weapons at her, and she lowered her arm.
• 451 led Michael and Wanda to the cockpit, where they found Tony immobilized in his armor.
• 451 said he had brought Michael aboard because a mishap had disrupted his plan and he needed Michael’s help.
• Michael raised his palm cannon at 451, but Sherry stood motionless when 451 tried to order her to disable him.

Michael severed 451’s control over Sherry and the Asgardian Armor, then joined Wanda in attacking the robot. As 451’s projections failed to gain control of the armor, he remotely activated Tony Stark’s Iron Man suit and ordered it to subdue Michael.

• Michael used magic to sever Sherry’s connection to the Asgardian Armor and regain manual control.
• Michael fired a Pulse Cannon at 451, but the robot transformed into an energy projection that Wanda destroyed with Chaos Magic.
• Tony warned Michael that 451 could seize the armor through physical contact, while Michael said he had sealed the armor against external signals.
• 451 created several energy projections and an energy shield, but Michael and Wanda destroyed the projections and kept him from reaching the armor.
• 451 remotely activated Tony Stark’s Iron Man suit and ordered it to subdue Michael.

Michael fought Tony Stark while 451 controlled Tony’s armor, then disabled the hacking system and restored Friday’s control. With Tony free, the heroes turned to confront 451, whose projection army had mostly been destroyed.

• 451 forced Tony’s armor to attack Michael, and Tony asked Michael to go easy on him.
• Michael countered the armor’s attacks and drove Tony back while 451’s poor control limited the suit’s combat ability.
• Michael located 451’s hacking component and pierced its defenses, disabling the system controlling Tony’s armor.
• Friday restarted in Tony’s suit, and Tony welcomed her back.
• Tony saw that Wanda and Michael had destroyed most of 451’s projections and prepared to fight 451.