Chapter Summaries

Randolph learned that Aurelles and Saloras represented the mysterious Umbrella Corporation and refused their offer after they revealed they intended to dissect and study him. Saloras swiftly defeated him, and Aurelles called for a car to take him away.

• Randolph asked Aurelles and Saloras who they represented, and Aurelles identified Umbrella Corporation.
• Randolph suspected the twins had uncovered his identity through his answers to the World Security Council and asked what they wanted from him.
• Saloras and Aurelles said they planned to extract Randolph's soul and study his body, and Randolph declared he would fight back.
• Saloras struck Randolph, seized him by the throat, and lifted him despite his struggles.
• Aurelles called Ross through her brooch to bring the car, and Saloras knocked Randolph unconscious and complained that the fight had ended too quickly.

The Eredar Twins covered up Professor Randolph’s disappearance and moved him to a secret facility beneath their renovated church, the Eternal Night Grand Abbey. Afterward, they discussed the Sorcerer’s ambitions and the unsettling thing he had asked them to create.

• Ross questioned why the twins had used Luther, and Aurelles and Saloras explained that they distrusted agents with official connections and could shape Luther’s loyalty.
• Ross covered up Randolph’s disappearance by claiming the professor had died in a traffic accident and left his estate to the university.
• The twins brought the unconscious Randolph to the Eternal Night Grand Abbey, where Veronica opened the hidden entrance to The Hive.
• Veronica had two nuns carry Randolph underground, and Saloras ordered them to put him on ice until the facility was better equipped.
• Aurelles and Saloras discussed the Sorcerer’s questions about the Burning Legion and worried that the thing he wanted them to create might be hostile to them.

Evenson learned that Klayya was leaving, and the two parted without admitting their feelings for each other. After she left him the keys to her shop, Evenson told Nick Fury he wanted to travel to the United Kingdom.

• Evenson spent a peaceful month with Captain America occasionally visiting his shop and playing games with Klayya.
• Klayya told Evenson she was leaving, and he assumed she came from an old-money family rather than discovering her true identity.
• Evenson asked Klayya if he would see her again, but she gave him an uncertain answer.
• Klayya left the next morning and gave Evenson the keys to her shop to keep for her.
• Evenson called Nick Fury, said he had been dumped, and asked to use the travel visa Nick had promised him.
• Evenson told Nick Fury he wanted to go to the United Kingdom.

Evenson met with Nick Fury to discuss S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Cosmic Cube research plans and warned that Hydra spies might be protecting one another inside the agency. Fury reconsidered launching Phase Two until the researchers could be carefully vetted, and told Evenson that a woman from Asgard wanted to see him before he left.

• Nick Fury told Evenson that S.H.I.E.L.D. planned to begin Phase Two soon, using a borrowed underground particle-collider facility for Cosmic Cube experiments.
• Evenson asked whether S.H.I.E.L.D. had caught the Hydra spies, and concluded that the agents might be shielding one another or receiving cover from someone high-ranking.
• Evenson urged Nick Fury to scrutinize the Cube researchers for suspicious skill or experience and to investigate their backgrounds thoroughly.
• Nick Fury decided to delay Phase Two's official launch until S.H.I.E.L.D. could choose and vet the researchers carefully.
• Nick Fury told Evenson that a woman from Asgard wanted to meet him before he left, and suggested she trusted him because she did not know why she had been left on Earth.

Evenson visited Sif at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, where she confronted him after recognizing his spell in footage of the Destroyer battle. She let him off for helping Thor and saving her, but made him drink a huge cup of liquor, leaving him passed out and likely to miss his flight to the United Kingdom.

• Evenson visited Sif in her Viking-style reception room at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
• Sif showed Evenson footage of the Destroyer battle and accused him of casting the spell that knocked her away.
• Evenson admitted the spell was his and said he had prepared it before Sif jumped onto the Destroyer.
• Sif said she would not repay his kindness with hostility, but demanded he drink a huge cup of liquor to settle their debt.
• Evenson drank the liquor, passed out on the sofa, and realized he would likely miss his flight to the United Kingdom.

Sif got Evenson drunk so she could ask whether the heroic humans in the movies were real, and he explained that they represented ideals rather than reality. After Evenson accidentally hinted at why Sif was staying on Earth, she brought him to Nick Fury, where his drunken behavior left Fury furious.

• Sif questioned Evenson about the movies she had watched, and he told her their heroes and events were fictional.
• Evenson explained that movies expressed humanity’s ideals, while real human civilization was young and flawed but could eventually find the right path.
• Evenson accidentally began to reveal why Sif was staying on Earth, so Sif gave him more wine.
• Sif carried the incoherent Evenson to Nick Fury’s office, where he drunkenly relieved himself and then fell asleep.
• Nick Fury looked at the mess in his office and considered how to punish Evenson.

Evenson woke aboard a S.H.I.E.L.D. transport plane bound for the United Kingdom after Nick Fury hurried him out of his office. Once he reached the passenger cabin, Agent John Gattler asked whether Grant Ward had caught his eye as a candidate to learn Evenson’s abilities.

• Evenson learned that Nick Fury had put him and his demons aboard a transport plane after he got drunk and vomited in Fury’s office.
• Evenson discovered that Sarah had hoof-stomped his hand after he groped her and insulted her chest while asleep.
• Evenson’s cigarette set off the plane’s alarm, and agents redirected him and his demons to the passenger cabin.
• John Gattler introduced himself and Grant Ward to Evenson as agents who had coincidentally boarded the same flight.
• Gattler asked Evenson whether Grant Ward had caught his eye as a candidate to learn his special abilities.

Evenson told Gattler that Grant Ward had failed to qualify for Magic training because his troubled family history made him unsuitable, though he left open the possibility of observing Ward further. The chapter ended with Evenson considering how Hydra’s interest in his power and Ward himself might be useful.

• Evenson questioned Gattler about how he learned of Ward’s evaluation, and Gattler admitted that a well-connected agent had told him.
• Evenson revealed that Ward had not passed, then said Ward’s family history made him unsuitable for Magic training.
• Ward asked why he had been rejected, and Evenson described his parents’ deaths and his fractured family as reasons for concern about his mental state.
• Gattler defended Ward and asked Evenson to test him when the opportunity arose.
• Evenson agreed to observe Ward and considered exploiting Hydra’s interest in his power.

Evenson’s vacation in the United Kingdom ended when Nick Fury reported that the Cosmic Cube had activated on its own and Loki had stolen it. As Nick Fury tried to assemble a response, Evenson and his demons left for the United States, while Captain America was tasked with finding a missing key person who had taken someone important to him.

• Evenson and his group spent two weeks exploring the United Kingdom before Nick Fury called and ordered him to return because the Cosmic Cube was in crisis.
• Coulson told Nick Fury that the Cube had activated without authorization, and Evenson explained that someone on the other side had opened it like a door.
• Nick Fury told Evenson that Loki had come through and stolen the Cube, and Evenson prepared his demons to leave before S.H.I.E.L.D. could find them.
• Nick Fury dealt with the aftermath of the attack, argued with the World Security Council, and persuaded Captain America to consider helping with the Cube.
• Nick Fury stopped Captain America and told him to find a missing key person who had taken someone important to him.

Evenson Richter told Peggy Carter that Captain America was alive and explained how he had survived frozen in a glacier. After Carter learned that Steve still remembered her and wanted to see her, Evenson revealed that he had come privately to ask about a V-emblem brooch she had once investigated.

• Evenson visited Peggy Carter in London and told her he was a S.H.I.E.L.D. special affairs consultant.
• Evenson revealed that Captain America, Steve Rogers, had been found alive, and Carter fainted from the shock.
• Evenson healed Carter with green energy and explained that Steve had survived the Valkyrie crash by hibernating in a glacier.
• Evenson said Steve still remembered Carter and owed her a dance, but had not yet figured out how to face her.
• Evenson admitted he had come without S.H.I.E.L.D.'s knowledge and showed Carter an image of the V-emblem brooch she had pursued years earlier.

Peggy Carter recognized the brooch’s symbol from an old, unresolved case, and Evenson revealed its connection to Hydra. He showed her a recording from a mission dated December 16, 1991, which Carter recognized as the day a dear friend had left her.

• Peggy Carter recalled how powerful people had obstructed her investigation into the brooch’s symbol until the case was closed without a real conclusion.
• Evenson showed Carter a photograph of the symbol carved into an ancient castle in Gloucestershire, and Carter suspected it belonged to a secret organization.
• Evenson revealed that an inverted Hydra emblem resembled the brooch’s mark and claimed Red Skull’s Hydra had been only one branch of a larger organization.
• Carter demanded further evidence, and Evenson played a Hydra Siberia Branch mission report dated December 16, 1991.
• Carter recognized the road in the recording and began to cry.

Evenson showed Peggy Carter evidence that the Winter Soldier had murdered Howard Stark and explained how Hydra had secretly manipulated history and infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. He asked Carter to join the fight against Hydra, leaving her to decide what she could still do.

• Evenson showed Peggy Carter footage of the Winter Soldier killing Howard Stark and his wife, and identified the assassin.
• Evenson told Carter that Hydra had secretly fueled crises and changed history for decades.
• Evenson revealed that Werner Reinhardt had escaped prison under the identity Daniel Whitehall, suggesting major Hydra infiltrators were inside S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Carter recognized Whitehall in a recent photo and learned that he had retained his youth through his experiments.
• Evenson explained that he trusted Carter because he could no longer tell S.H.I.E.L.D. agents from Hydra agents, then urged her to fight.

Evenson offered Peggy Carter restored youth and Captain America-level strength so she could help protect Captain America from Hydra, and she agreed to fight. He revealed that Bucky Barnes was the Winter Soldier and that John Huffman had helped Hydra improve its brainwashing, then named Peggy’s eyes as the price for the magic.

• Evenson asked Peggy Carter to fight Hydra again, and she said she was old.
• Evenson told Carter his magic could restore her youth and urged her to help Captain America, who faced a stronger, secretive Hydra.
• Evenson revealed that the Winter Soldier was Bucky Barnes, whom Hydra had captured, altered, and brainwashed.
• Carter guessed John Huffman had refined Hydra’s brainwashing, and Evenson explained that Huffman had learned from Arnim Zola.
• Carter agreed to fight alongside Captain America, and Evenson offered her youth and strength equal to the Captain’s in exchange for her eyes.

Evenson had Sarah begin tattooing unconscious Peggy Carter with demon marks while he questioned a bound woman who had appeared unexpectedly. After leaving the factory, he subdued Dottie Underwood, and Peggy revealed that Dottie was an old friend who had somehow remained young.

• Evenson ordered Sarah to apply demon tattoos to Peggy Carter while he dealt with a bound woman in the factory.
• Sarah traced the tattoos onto Peggy with a Fel-charged dagger, and Evenson refused to do the work himself.
• Evenson confronted the bound woman, who admitted she had tried and failed to escape.
• Outside the factory, a woman from a clothing store bumped into Evenson, who subdued her and brought her into Peggy's car.
• Peggy identified the unconscious woman as Dottie Underwood, her old friend, and Evenson was surprised that Dottie had lived so long while remaining young.

Evenson questioned Dottie about her attachment to Peggy Carter and revealed that Peggy would regain her youth and power, while Captain America was alive. Dottie panicked at the prospect of losing Peggy and asked Evenson for help, and he offered to make her the other woman in Peggy and Captain America's relationship.

• Evenson mocked Dottie's record as a spy and asked why she protected Peggy Carter.
• Dottie admitted that Peggy had become her only reason to live after her country abandoned her.
• Evenson told Dottie that Peggy would regain her youth and that Captain America had been recovered alive.
• Dottie erupted in anger at the thought of Captain America returning and taking Peggy away from her.
• Evenson warned that Peggy might become a powerful hero and forget Dottie, then offered to help her become Peggy's other woman.

Evenson offered Dottie a chance to work for Umbrella Corporation and gain power to compete for Peggy Carter, while rejecting Dottie’s proposal to stop Carter’s ritual. The Eredar Twins arrived to press Dottie into accepting their demands, and Dottie was left stunned by their demonic forms.

• Dottie guessed Evenson wanted her in exchange for help, and he offered her a place as an agent of Umbrella Corporation.
• Evenson said Dottie needed power to catch Carter’s attention, but Dottie proposed working for him if he stopped Carter’s ritual instead.
• Evenson told Dottie she was less valuable to him than Peggy Carter and warned that she could either obey or become a sacrifice.
• Aurelles and Queen Saloras emerged through a demonic portal, and Aurelles demanded that Dottie accept their terms or have her soul used in the ritual.
• Saloras complained that Evenson’s portal beacon was cheap and uncomfortable, while Dottie gasped at the twins’ demonic forms.

Evenson and the Eredar Twins discovered that Dottie feared Saloras because she had previously been exposed to shadow power, likely originating from Hell rather than the Void. Dottie agreed to work for Evenson’s company, and he put her to sleep before admitting he did not know how to treat Peggy Carter’s Fel-burned runes.

• Dottie recoiled from Saloras, and Evenson connected her fear to Whitney Frost’s use of Zero Matter and shadow power.
• Saloras identified the power Dottie had sensed as shadow and ruled out a direct connection to the Void.
• Evenson concluded that the shadow had likely reached Dottie through Hell, while Saloras called it secondhand shadow.
• Dottie agreed to work for Evenson under the Eredar Twins after recognizing she had no real choice.
• Evenson knocked Dottie unconscious, then admitted to Aurelles that he had no idea how to handle Peggy Carter’s demonic runes.

Evenson prepared to turn Peggy Carter into a Demon Hunter by using Warlock magic to infuse her with a powerful demon’s soul and power. He chose a Doomguard he had contracted but never summoned, then began preparing the ritual while the Eredar Twins recalled his old plans to use the same suppression array against them.

• Evenson explained that Warlock magic could replicate the Illidari’s demon-infusing advancement ritual and inspected the demonic tattoos on Peggy Carter.
• Evenson announced that he needed to sacrifice a powerful demon, and Tripsy clung to his leg, begging not to be chosen.
• Evenson briefly suggested the Eredar Twins as candidates, but revealed that he had a suitable demon contracted and had never summoned it.
• The Eredar Twins identified the candidate as a Doomguard after Evenson complained about its high price and other flaws.
• Evenson prepared a suppression array for the Doomguard, and Saloras and Aurelles recognized it as one he had once planned to use against them.

Evenson summoned and killed a Doomguard, then took its heart to use in transforming Carter into a powerful Demon Hunter. The Eredar Twins agreed to help control the transformation, though they questioned what Carter would become.

• Evenson summoned a Doomguard, which demanded more sacrifices and threatened to take them itself.
• Saloras killed the Doomguard with a Shadow Blade after Evenson activated the array to trap it.
• Evenson collected the Doomguard's blood and soul, then ordered Tyler to cut open its corpse and retrieve its heart.
• Evenson infused the heart with Fel energy and shrank it to human size, explaining that he intended to replace Carter's heart with it.
• The Eredar Twins agreed to help prevent Carter from becoming a Fel-sworn, and Evenson suggested giving her a different name.

Evenson attempted Peggy Carter’s heart transplant, accidentally killed her with his first cut, then revived her with a Soul Stone and had the Eredar Twins suppress her demonization. He sent Dottie with the Twins for three days of training and received Saloras’ former earring, which he had named Saloras' Dark Strike.

• Sarah warned Evenson that he lacked the training to perform surgery, but he prepared Peggy Carter with Healing Stones and a Soul Stone before beginning the transplant.
• Evenson cut too deep and killed Peggy Carter, triggering the Soul Stone, then replaced her heart with a Demon Heart and healed her chest with life force.
• Evenson crushed the Soul Stone to revive Peggy Carter, and the Eredar Twins reversed her emerging demonization.
• Evenson asked Saloras and Aurelles to train Dottie to become a capable spy, and Saloras agreed to make her combat-ready in three days.
• Aurelles said they had persuaded an old man to put on a show for the party and warned Evenson that his plan was dangerous.
• Saloras gave Evenson her former earring as a return gift for the car he had bought, and he recognized it as the ring he had named Saloras' Dark Strike.