Chapter Summaries

Wanda and Gwen discovered an empty Passo Technology shipping container at an abandoned harbor and reported its severe Black Magic interference to Michael. After surviving her fight with Venom, Jessica decided to keep investigating the case and focused on the container’s serial number, AXCR-3920.

• Wanda used Chaos Magic to examine the harbor battle site but found that a dark force concealed the people and events involved.
• Gwen found an empty blue shipping container marked Passo Technology, and Wanda sensed intense Black Magic interference inside it.
• Wanda called Michael to report the battle, the evil presence, and the empty container, but he said his people were already handling the matter.
• Jessica recovered on the riverbank after her fight with Venom and considered abandoning the dangerous case.
• Jessica chose to continue investigating and planned to search Passo Technology for information about the serial number AXCR-3920.

Jessica infiltrated Passo Technology to investigate Project AXCR-3920, using Valen Giliano’s access card and fingerprints to reach the archives and copy useful information. On her way out, Michael Passo caught her and demanded to know why she had come.

• Jessica drugged Valen Giliano, took his company access card, and copied his fingerprints.
• Jessica entered Passo Technology with Giliano’s credentials and reached the archives without being stopped.
• Jessica found the AXCR-3920 file, recorded information she considered useful, and returned the file to its place.
• A night patrol guard confronted Jessica, and she claimed to have a special relationship with Michael Passo.
• Michael Passo appeared, dismissed the guard, and asked Jessica what she had come to do.

Jessica Jones confronted Michael Passo about Passo Technology’s secret dealings, but his unnerving composure left her unsure what he knew. After Jessica left with a duplicate copy of AXCR-3920, Michael revealed that he had arranged for her to get it and expected her to deliver on what came next.

• Jessica Jones told Michael Passo she suspected Passo Technology had hired smugglers to transport something illegally and then eliminated those who knew about it.
• Michael asked whether Jessica had conclusive evidence, and she said she did not yet but expected to find some soon.
• Jessica left Passo Technology without Michael trying to stop her.
• Valen Giliano told Michael that Jessica had taken his fingerprints and ID card as instructed.
• Michael learned from Sherry that Jessica had obtained a duplicate copy of AXCR-3920 and watched her leave, telling her not to let him down.

Jessica Jones tracked the machine from Passo Technology to a factory, where Venom attacked her. Scarlet Witch intervened just as Venom was about to finish Jessica, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Jessica identified seven possible factory locations from the machine specifications and narrowed them down using footprints in undried asphalt.
• Jessica broke into the remaining factory and found the AXCR-3920 container holding a complex chair-like machine.
• Venom ambushed Jessica, and they fought while her healing injuries weakened her.
• Venom pinned Jessica to the floor and prepared to strike, but Scarlet Witch blasted it away.

Wanda Maximoff joined Jessica Jones at the warehouse and used Chaos Magic to subdue Venom, but a mysterious Black Magic user appeared and empowered the creature until it grew into a giant. Jessica asked Wanda if she had a spell to deal with the towering Venom.

• Wanda explained that she had followed Jessica to the warehouse after sensing the Black Magic residue from the docks.
• Wanda caught Venom with Chaos Magic, threw it through a window, and repeatedly slammed it to the ground until it stopped struggling.
• Wanda sensed a Black Magic aura far stronger than the one she had encountered before, and a mage appeared beside Venom.
• The mage cast a dark Magic Circle and poured Black Magic into Venom, causing it to grow to more than seven meters tall.
• Jessica asked Wanda if she had a spell for dealing with the giant Venom.

Wanda defeated the giant Venom with Chaos Magic, while the mysterious mage who had watched the fight was trapped in the Mirror Dimension by an armored figure. The figure addressed him as Mage Kaecilius and said they still needed to talk.

• Venom grew into a seven-meter-tall monster and attacked Wanda, while Jessica retreated to watch from safety.
• Wanda countered Venom’s blows, bound and shredded its arm, and cut off its other arm with a blade of magic.
• Wanda blasted Venom into the ground, leaving a crater and restoring it to its bearded human form.
• The mysterious mage retreated through a mirror into the Mirror Dimension.
• The Mirror Dimension rearranged itself into a sealed space around the mage, and an armored figure confronted him as Mage Kaecilius.

Michael confronted Kaecilius in the Mirror Dimension and identified his plan to use Michael’s machine to summon Dormammu. Kaecilius attacked, but Michael’s black-and-gold armor blocked his weapon without damage.

• Kaecilius offered to join forces with Michael, who rejected the proposal and accused him of stealing the machine to open a passage to the Dark Dimension.
• Kaecilius blamed Jessica Jones for discovering his hideout, and Michael revealed that he had arranged for her to investigate by giving her a false missing-nephew case.
• Michael accused Kaecilius of killing smugglers and witnesses to hide his crimes, while Kaecilius dismissed the accusation and prepared to attack.
• Kaecilius used Dormammu’s power to charge at Michael with a transparent weapon, but Michael blocked the blow with his armor.
• Kaecilius stared in shock when the armor remained unharmed by his attack.

Michael fought Kaecilius with his Vibranium Armor and sword, overcoming the mage’s attacks and seriously wounding him. Kaecilius’s dark-magic followers arrived as the battle turned against him.

• Kaecilius struck Michael’s armor with a dark-magic blade, but Michael blocked it and countered with a Pulse Cannon blast.
• Michael drew a magical longsword and used precise attacks to force Kaecilius onto the defensive.
• Kaecilius attacked Michael’s knee joint, but Michael crouched and blocked the blow with his Vibranium thigh armor.
• Michael pierced Kaecilius, who retreated and hurled dark magic at Michael’s shield before clutching his wound.
• Kaecilius’s followers emerged from buildings rising out of the ground and gathered in front of him.

Michael fought through Kaecilius's cultists, killing or disabling many of them with his sword and magic. Kaecilius recognized the danger and fled, leaving Michael among the dead and wounded cultists.

• Kaecilius's cultists attacked Michael with weapons concealed in dark magic, but Michael blasted their leader aside and severed three attackers' wrists.
• Michael fought off eight cultists, wounding several and killing two, while Kaecilius prepared to join the battle.
• Kaecilius saw twelve reinforcements fall and decided Michael was too dangerous, so he abandoned his spear and began teleporting away.
• A powerful unarmed mage struck Michael from behind, but Michael killed the remaining attackers and defeated the mage with a sword thrust through his palm and forehead.
• Michael surveyed the dead and wounded cultists and realized Kaecilius had fled.

Jessica Jones and Eddie Brock joined Michael’s team despite clashing over Venom, while Michael searched for the escaped Kaecilius. A nighttime intruder entered the S.W.O.R.D. armory to steal Doom’s dimensional machine, but found an empty case and was confronted by Michael as Victor Von Doom.

• Jessica Jones agreed to join the team, and Eddie Brock and Venom also accepted the offer.
• Jessica objected to working with Eddie and Venom, but Wanda intervened before their argument turned into a fight.
• Michael continued trying to track down Kaecilius, though he doubted he could find the fugitive sorcerer.
• A figure used an access card and passcode to enter the S.W.O.R.D. armory and open the case meant to hold Doom’s machine.
• Michael revealed that the case was empty and confronted the intruder as Victor Von Doom.

Michael confronted Victor Von Doom, who had secretly accepted Dormammu’s power to gain strength and rescue his mother. Doom attacked Michael, but Michael blocked the blast and suited up, declaring that he would free Doom from Dormammu’s influence.

• Michael found Doom in the armory and learned that Doom had accepted Dormammu’s power the previous day.
• Doom explained that he planned to grow powerful enough to defeat Dormammu and rescue his mother, while offering Michael a chance to step aside.
• Michael recognized that Dormammu was clouding Doom’s mind, though Doom still chose to let Michael leave.
• Doom summoned his Kree memory-metal armor and fired a destructive beam at Michael.
• Michael blocked the attack with a golden shield, assembled his Vibranium armor, and prepared to help Doom regain his senses.

Michael fought Doom after Dormammu's influence drove him to attack, then used a purification spell to try to free him. The spell briefly weakened the Black Magic, but Dormammu restored it and pulled Michael and Doom into a magical barrier.

• Doom attacked Michael with his armor's thrusters and enhanced Black Magic, but Michael countered his blows and weapons.
• Michael pierced Doom's shoulder with a magical sword and blasted him away with the Shockwave Cannon.
• Michael used an advanced purification spell to drive dark matter from Doom and weaken the Black Magic in his body.
• The Black Magic readings began rising again, and Doom's power surged as a magical barrier swallowed the room.
• Dormammu's enormous scarlet eyes appeared in the darkness before Michael.

Michael confronted Dormammu, learned that two Sanctums had fallen and the Hong Kong Sanctum was the last defense against Dormammu’s invasion of Earth. After ordering scans and checking the damage, Michael followed a mysterious voice into space, where he found the Sorcerer Supreme watching Earth.

• Michael resisted Dormammu’s attempt to recruit him and learned the Hong Kong Sanctum was still obstructing Dormammu’s descent.
• Dormammu vanished with Doom, and Michael returned to the S.W.O.R.D. mothership before its agents reached the ruined room.
• Michael ordered Sherry to scan for magical activity and check the New York, London, and Hong Kong Sanctums.
• Satellite footage showed that the New York and London Sanctums had been destroyed, leaving Hong Kong as the last one standing.
• Michael projected his soul from his body and followed a white shadow through the mothership and into space.
• Michael caught up with the shadow and saw that it was the Sorcerer Supreme, gazing down at Earth.

Michael spoke with the Ancient One in astral form as she explained why she had accepted her death and why she had restrained his attempts to change the future. Before disappearing, she asked him to help her successor and the other sorcerers face Dormammu, and Michael agreed.

• Michael questioned the Ancient One about accepting the death he had once warned her about.
• The Ancient One explained that she saw only fragments of possible futures and had stopped Michael from interfering to protect him from time’s backlash.
• Michael insisted he was willing to face the consequences of changing events, but the Ancient One said her time had come and named Doctor Stephen Strange as her successor.
• The Ancient One admitted she hoped Michael could carve out a new future and asked him to help the sorcerers defeat Dormammu.
• Michael promised to help, and the Ancient One closed her eyes and disappeared, leaving him alone above Earth.

Victor Von Doom took command of Kaecilius’s followers and rejected an assault on the Hong Kong Sanctum, revealing that he had designed the machine needed to open a passage to the Dark Dimension. He planned to build another machine within hours.

• Kaecilius returned to the hideout and found Doom occupying his chair.
• Doom challenged Kaecilius’s leadership and defeated him in a series of fights, forcing him to yield.
• Doom ordered the sorcerers to rest and prepare for their next steps.
• Doom refused to attack the Hong Kong Sanctum because its defenders might include a dangerous outsider.
• Doom told Kaecilius he had designed the magic-and-technology machine and could build another one within hours.

Michael assessed the damage to the magical network and ordered Wanda to stay aboard the S.W.O.R.D. ship in case the crisis reached it. At the ruined New York Sanctum, Mordo confronted Strange over Ancient One’s forbidden magic until Michael arrived and rebuked him.

• Michael reviewed the global magical scan, which showed that two Sanctums had fallen and only the Hong Kong Sanctum remained.
• Wanda confronted Michael about the dark force covering Earth, and he asked her to remain aboard as the ship’s magical safeguard.
• Michael traveled through a portal to the ruined New York Sanctum, where Mordo stood in despair after Ancient One’s death.
• Strange told Mordo that Ancient One was dead, and Mordo blamed her forbidden magic for creating Dormammu’s followers and Kaecilius.
• Michael emerged from a portal and told Mordo that, despite Ancient One’s mistakes, it was not his place to judge her.

Michael confronted Mordo over the fallen Sanctums, and their old rivalry erupted into a fight. Stephen Strange stopped them before Mordo could resume attacking, leaving the mages to face the threat of Dormammu.

• Michael told Mordo he had come to help because Ancient One had asked him, and warned Mordo that he was not indispensable.
• Mordo challenged Michael and tried to grapple him, but Michael used Mordo's technique against him and struck him back.
• Mordo launched a furious assault, but Michael countered his attacks and knocked him down without pursuing.
• Mordo formed a magical baton and prepared to attack again, but Stephen Strange stepped between them and urged Mordo to focus on defending the Sanctums.
• Mordo lowered his arms, and his magical baton dissolved into sparks.

Michael told Strange that his disciple, Victor Von Doom, had joined Kaecilius and was building a device to open a portal to the Dark Dimension. Michael planned to study the Eye of Agamotto as a last defense against Dormammu, while Doom completed a machine to bring Dormammu into their world.

• Michael met Doctor Stephen Strange and told him that the Hong Kong Sanctum had not yet been attacked.
• Michael revealed that his disciple was a powerful scientist and mage who had joined Kaecilius and was building a device to bypass the Sanctums.
• Michael pointed out the Eye of Agamotto and proposed going to the Kamar-Taj library to study its time-related spells.
• Victor Von Doom completed a cannon-like dimensional machine designed to bring things from the Dark Dimension into their world.
• Kaecilius learned that the preparations were complete, and Doom announced that they could welcome the descent of God.

Michael returned to Kamar-Taj with Mordo and Stephen Strange and convinced Wang to let him study the forbidden spells associated with the Eye of Agamotto. After several hours in the library, Michael received Sherry’s warning that a portal had opened and Dormammu was coming.

• Mordo objected to Michael studying forbidden spells, but Stephen Strange argued that they needed every possible advantage against Kaecilius and Dormammu.
• Michael told Wang that the Ancient One had died and said she had sent him to help Kamar-Taj win the war.
• Wang agreed to take Michael to the book recording spells for the Eye of Agamotto, despite Mordo’s continued protests.
• Michael studied the Eye of Agamotto’s spells and their connection to the Time Stone, focusing on practical abilities he could master quickly.
• Sherry alerted Michael that monitoring had detected abnormal magical energy and that a door was opening for Dormammu.

Doctor Strange and Mordo battled Kaecilius beneath the expanding rift while Michael confronted Victor Von Doom on the rooftop. Doom refused to abandon his plan to defeat Dormammu and rule the Dark Dimension, and Michael prepared to stop him.

• A black pillar from Doom’s machine opened a rift above the city, drawing people, vehicles, and debris into the sky as Doctor Strange’s sorcerers faced Kaecilius’s forces.
• Doctor Strange and Mordo fought Kaecilius together, but he overwhelmed their defenses and declared that Dormammu was about to descend.
• Michael disabled Doom’s machine with a pulse beam, but Doom explained that the opened connection would allow Dormammu to reach Earth anyway.
• Doom revealed that he intended to defeat Dormammu and rule the Dark Dimension, while Michael refused to stand aside and reminded Doom of his promise to save him and his mother.