Chapter Summaries

Evenson warned Nova Supreme that Asgard might ally with the Kree Empire if Xandar rejected an alliance, then revealed his own conflict with the Heavenly Queen over Midgard’s feudal status. He proposed that Xandar help him obstruct Asgard’s plans by secretly financing Midgard, leaving Nova Supreme to consider a large national loan.

• Nova Supreme tried to end the meeting, but Evenson revealed that Asgard would seek an alliance with the Kree Empire if Xandar refused.
• Evenson explained the Heavenly Queen’s competing plans to attack the Kree Empire through Xandar or ally with the Kree and divide the universe.
• Evenson told Nova Supreme that Alfhil had contacted Ronan behind his back and that he wanted to prevent the Heavenly Queen from stripping Midgard of its domain.
• Evenson proposed that Xandar keep Alfhil in custody so he could blame the Kree and derail an Asgard-Kree alliance.
• Evenson asked Xandar for a large national loan to fund Midgard’s weapons and help delay Asgard’s consolidation of power.

Evenson secured a five-trillion interest-free bond from Xandar, using the Three Great Sanctums’ property deeds as collateral, while arranging to convert the funds into Kree currency. He explained to Gabriel that Xandar’s vulnerability showed how Earth needed to strengthen its civilization, then immediately asked her for more valuables to sell.

• Nova Supreme agreed to issue Evenson a five-trillion interest-free government bond and cover the currency-exchange commission, while Evenson offered the Three Great Sanctums’ deeds as collateral.
• Gabriel reluctantly handed over the deeds, and Nova Supreme verified their magical seals before accepting them.
• After the meeting, Gabriel accused Evenson of targeting her property, and he insisted he would repay the loan because he was trustworthy.
• Evenson asked Gabriel what she had learned from the meeting, and she said she had seen Xandar’s humiliation and helplessness.
• Evenson warned that Earth relied on exceptional individuals rather than the organized strength of its civilization, and said Xandar’s situation could become Earth’s future.
• Evenson claimed the bond would help prepare Earth’s future, then asked Gabriel to hand over any hidden treasures, prompting her to reach for a knife.

Evenson hired the broker to exchange five trillion in Xandar currency for Kree currency, and the broker arranged four trillion in cash with the rest backed by bank shares. After the deal, Evenson suggested the bank might become his, while Gabriel sent Yondu and his subordinate back from a portal.

• Yondu threatened the broker with his whistle-controlled arrow to learn who wanted the Power Stone, but Gabriel redirected the arrow through a portal when it attacked Evenson.
• Evenson offered the broker a huge commission to exchange his money for Kree currency, and the broker agreed after seeing the check.
• The broker told Yondu who had been interested in buying the Power Stone, then Gabriel dropped Yondu and his subordinate into a portal.
• The broker contacted a Kree Empire bank owned by the Alliance, which agreed to provide four trillion in cash and bank shares as collateral for the remainder.
• Evenson left with Gabriel and said the bank might end up belonging to him, while Gabriel returned Yondu and his subordinate after exactly thirty minutes.

Evenson blamed Ronan for the failed Power Stone mission and warned that Asgard might choose another Kree ally, while Ronan learned Thanos wanted to meet him. In Kyln Prison, Drax cornered Gamora, intending to kill her for Ronan’s role in his family’s death.

• Evenson accused Ronan of sending Gamora to seize the Power Stone and revealed that she and Alfhil had been captured, while the stone had been sent to Kyln Prison with Gamora’s belongings.
• Evenson threatened to seek another Kree intermediary, and Ronan promised to prove himself before a Chitauri messenger announced Thanos’s demand for an immediate meeting.
• The messenger blamed Ronan for Gamora’s failure, so Ronan killed him; Thanos then warned Ronan to return with the Power Stone and asked Nebula to bring him an interesting guest.
• Quill, Gamora, and the others remained imprisoned in Kyln, where Drax pinned Gamora against a wall with a knife at her throat.

Quill saved Gamora from Drax, and the two formed a plan with Rocket and Groot to escape and sell the Power Stone. Meanwhile, Alfhil was secretly left to die in Kyln Prison, and Nebula told Evenson that Thanos wanted to meet him.

• Quill stopped Drax from killing Gamora by persuading him to keep her alive until Ronan came, then followed her away from the prisoners.
• Gamora offered Quill, Rocket, and Groot a share of the four-billion price for the Power Stone if they escaped with her, while saying Alfhil was being held separately and would side with Ronan.
• Alfhil drank through the night in her private cell, and guards acting on orders placed seven heavy sacks on her while she slept.
• Evenson learned from Nebula that Thanos wanted to see him, tried to decline, and was told that Thanos would come to him if he did not go.

Evenson refused to travel with Ronan to Kyln Prison, then teleported with Gabriel to the Wasteland Planet to check on Gernos’s refitted ship. Gernos revealed his research into combining nuclear power with Soul Engines, while Gabriel explained that Mephisto had secretly sabotaged America’s atomic bombs after World War II.

• Evenson told Ronan he would rescue his imprisoned deputy but travel separately with trusted subordinates, then left with Gabriel and the Tyrant Squad by magic.
• Evenson and Gabriel arrived on the Wasteland Planet, where Gernos initially mistook Evenson for a messenger from the Eredar Twins.
• Gernos showed Evenson the refitted Helicarrier, which he had equipped with a Fel Battleship engine and researched its removed nuclear power system.
• Gabriel told Evenson she had developed an anti-radiation spell while pursuing Mephisto, who had sabotaged America’s atomic bombs from 1945 to 1949.
• Gernos explained that he hoped to combine nuclear power with Soul Engines, reducing their dependence on soul fuel.

Evenson oversaw the conversion of a Serpent Shield aircraft carrier into a Fel-powered Burning Legion warship, naming it the Red Queen Vengeance. After the ship launched, he decided to head to Kyln Prison but had to call Ronan for its coordinates.

• Gernos replaced the carrier’s power system, reinforced its armor, installed Fel weapons, and fortified its vents and sewers according to Evenson’s demands.
• Evenson and Gernos boarded the ship and discovered that Gernos had embedded living humans and wild imps in its hull as sacrifices to strengthen it.
• Evenson named the converted vessel the Red Queen Vengeance after rejecting Gernos’s name, Good Ship, and his own suggestion, Flying Henanese.
• Gernos started the ship with a rune-keyed crank, and Evenson ordered it to travel to Kyln Prison.
• When Gernos asked for the destination’s coordinates, Evenson called Ronan using a communicator he had obtained from the Broker.

Peter Quill, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Drax, and Alfhil escaped Kyln Prison by taking control of its watchtower and fleeing aboard Quill’s ship. Afterward, Ronan’s flagship arrived, and Evenson revealed his ship behind the prison.

• The warden arranged for Kyln’s defenses to be weakened and Quill’s ship to be prepared for the escape.
• Rocket explained the escape plan, but Groot took the Quarnyx Battery first and triggered the prison alarm.
• Gamora obtained a security armband, Quill bought an inmate’s prosthetic leg, and Drax joined the fight as the group gathered the needed items.
• Alfhil emerged and fought the guards while the others entered the watchtower and escaped by disabling the gravity system.
• Quill returned for his dance machine, then rejoined the group aboard his prepared ship as the warden restored the prison’s gravity.
• Ronan arrived at Kyln aboard the Necro, and Evenson revealed his ship behind the prison.

Evenson used a Fel Energy Crystal to teleport Demon Guards into Kyln Prison and reunited with Alfhil as Ronan and Nebula arrived. Ronan mistook the boarding tactic and Evenson’s remarks as a deliberate display of Asgard’s hidden military power, leaving him convinced that the Kree Empire should cooperate with Asgard.

• Evenson launched a Fel Energy Crystal into Kyln Prison and teleported Demon Guards inside to secure the personnel.
• Evenson reunited with Alfhil, who complained that Xandarians had kept her drunk and beaten her with sacks for three days.
• Ronan and Nebula entered the prison, and Ronan ordered Nebula to secure it and search for the Power Stone.
• Ronan concluded that Evenson’s crystal demonstrated a hidden Asgardian tactic for boarding enemy ships and defeating fleets.
• Ronan interpreted Evenson’s actions as a deliberate show of strength and pledged wholehearted cooperation between the Kree Empire and Asgard.
• Evenson told Ronan that people with magic were hidden from public view, and Ronan concluded that Asgard had concealed a Dark Legion on Earth.

Evenson helped Ronan cover up the escape of Gamora and the others, then recruited Kyln’s remaining prisoners as crew while secretly working with Nova Supreme. After arranging Alfhil’s return and explaining his plan to devalue Xandar’s debt, he stopped Gernos from destroying Kyln and ordered the prison to be converted into a rentable space station.

• Ronan ordered the Necro to search for the Power Stone and destroy Kyln, while Evenson took charge of the cleanup.
• Evenson gathered Kyln’s surviving prisoners and guards, coerced them into joining his ship’s crew, and received a call from Nova Supreme about the prison raid.
• Nova Supreme offered Evenson more money to kill Alfhil, but he insisted he would act only after the payment arrived.
• Evenson sent Alfhil back to report to the Heavenly Queen and told Gabriel he planned to repay Xandar after its economy collapsed and its currency lost value.
• When Gernos aimed the cannons at Kyln, Evenson stopped him and ordered the prison to be towed back and rented out as a space station.

Gamora and the others survived the Power Stone’s destructive release at The Collector’s ruined collection, but Evenson arrived and tried to persuade them to hand it over. Gamora refused, and Ronan’s forces descended on the scene as Evenson hid nearby.

• Gamora sealed the Power Stone back inside its orb after The Collector’s employee was disintegrated by its energy, leaving the collection room in ruins.
• Evenson arrived, asked Gamora to give him the Power Stone, and said he needed a gift for Thanos but would not take Gamora back to him.
• Rocket favored selling the stone, while Quill objected that Ronan could use it to destroy the Milky Way; Evenson argued that Ronan could not threaten Asgard or the Kree Empire.
• Gamora refused Evenson’s offer and said she would give the Power Stone to the Nova Corps, but Evenson warned that doing so would help Ronan and Thanos attack Xandar.
• Ronan’s flagship, the Necro, appeared overhead, and his forces descended as Evenson hid in the shadows.

Ronan seized the Power Stone after Nebula defeated Gamora, while Quill risked his life to save her and Yondu rescued them both. Evenson revived Drax and left Rocket a blueprint before teleporting away, and Drax swallowed the green liquid to gain power for revenge.

• Ronan arrived after Drax tipped him off, and Drax attacked him over the deaths of his wife and daughter.
• Nebula pursued Gamora and Quill, destroyed Gamora's mining craft, and took the Power Stone; Quill rescued Gamora in space, and Yondu pulled them aboard his ship.
• After Ronan left with the Power Stone, Evenson rescued Drax from the chemical pool and tried to persuade him to drink a strange green liquid.
• Rocket and Groot confronted Evenson, who warned them that Ronan planned to destroy Xandar and left them an engineering blueprint before teleporting away.
• Drax remembered his family and his defeat, then scooped up the green liquid and swallowed it with the dirt.

Quill and Gamora were captured by Yondu’s crew, but Quill saved himself by proposing an alliance against Ronan. After Ronan took the Power Stone and broke with Thanos, Evenson sent Gabriel to prevent Ronan from winning too easily.

• Quill botched his confession to Gamora, then Yondu’s crew seized them and dragged them before Yondu.
• Yondu beat Quill for abandoning the Ravagers, but Quill proposed using Gamora’s knowledge of Ronan to steal the Power Stone, and Yondu agreed to work with him.
• Quill reunited with Rocket and the others, while Rocket began modifying a mining craft to prepare for their fight with Ronan.
• Ronan embedded the Power Stone in his Universal Weapon, rejected Thanos, and recruited Nebula, who vowed to help kill her father.
• Evenson and Gabriel watched Ronan’s betrayal, and Evenson asked Gabriel to go stop him from winning too easily.

Ronan secured the Power Stone and arranged to attack Xandar in three days, while Gabriel warned the Nova Corps that their world faced destruction. Nova Supreme rejected plans to surrender or rely on Asgard and ordered a distress call, but secretly sent her family away aboard Nova One.

• Evenson persuaded Ronan to delay his attack on Xandar for three days to preserve the alliance with Asgard.
• Gabriel told Nova Supreme and the Nova Corps that Ronan had obtained the Power Stone and Xandar had little time left.
• The Nova Corps debated seeking Asgard's aid or surrendering to the Kree Empire, but Nova Supreme ruled out both options.
• Nova Supreme ordered a distress signal to be broadcast and directed the officials to prepare for battle.
• Nova Supreme sent loyal soldiers to guard the officials and their families, then secretly evacuated her own family aboard Nova One.

Ronan’s fleet attacked Xandar while the Nova Corps prepared its defenses and the Ravagers intervened. As Ronan fought them in orbit, Quill and his companions boarded the Necro, and Evenson arrived with Asgard’s demon army to begin the ground assault.

• Xandar’s leaders declared a planetary emergency, and Evenson and Ronan agreed that Ronan would lead the aerial assault while Evenson’s troops attacked on the ground.
• Nova Supreme ordered the Nova Corps into the skies and accepted the Ravagers’ offer to help in exchange for a possible letter of marque.
• Yondu led the Ravagers in an attack on the Necro, but Ronan spun the ship to knock Ravager fighters away and launched his own craft.
• Quill, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, and their companions boarded the Necro, where the Tracker’s soldiers confronted them and Rocket attacked with a rolling sphere machine.
• Evenson brought the Red Queen’s Revenge through a portal above Xandar, suppressed the Nova Corps’ anti-aircraft fire, and summoned a demon army to attack.

Evenson sent the demon army to attack Xandar and test its strength, while Ronan watched and misjudged the legion’s intentions. As Xandar’s defenses faltered, Evenson and Gernos unleashed Hellfires and a Fel Mech, and Nova Supreme received word that a legendary ally had answered the distress call.

• Evenson ordered the demon army to attack Xandar so he could gauge its combat strength, while Ronan observed the battle from his ship.
• The Nova Corps’ soldiers and defenses struggled against the demons, and Nova Supreme sent reserves and mobile units to reinforce the front.
• When the Nova Corps’ firepower stalled the demons, Evenson had Gernos launch Hellfires from the Fel Scar Rift to destroy the enemy positions.
• Gernos deployed a Fel Mech that crushed the surviving armored units, while Evenson learned that some of the old Hellfires had failed to activate.
• Nova Supreme received an image bearing a familiar symbol and recognized that a legendary ally had answered Xandar’s distress call.

Evenson’s forces overwhelmed Xandar’s ground troops, while Ronan prepared to face an approaching enemy with the Power Stone. Carol arrived, destroyed the Fel Mech, and demanded to know who was in charge as Evenson reached for a weapon.

• Evenson ordered Doomguards to guard captured civilians and terrify them, then set out with Gabriel to rob banks for hard assets.
• Ronan mistook the Fel Mech for a simplified Asgardian Destroyer and detected a powerful figure approaching Xandar.
• Quill’s group fought through Ronan’s forces, with Drax killing the Tracker and Gamora staying behind to battle Nebula.
• Ronan used the Power Stone to knock Quill and his companions down, then waited for the approaching figure to reach him.
• Carol diverted toward the Fel Mech and destroyed it by smashing through its hand, arm, and torso.
• Carol demanded to know who led the forces, while Evenson stepped aside and reached for something.

Carol arrived at Xandar to fight Ronan but diverted to stop Evenson’s demon army, destroying the Fel Mech and battling Evenson. After Carol overwhelmed him in close combat, Evenson trapped her inside a mountain of Fel rock and erupted it into a volcano, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Carol arrived at Xandar after receiving its distress signal and chose to attack Evenson’s advancing demon army before dealing with Ronan.
• Carol destroyed the Fel Mech and challenged the army’s leader, while Evenson hid among the demons and accidentally revealed himself.
• Carol fought off the Doomguards and their witches’ magic before clashing with Evenson’s Chaos Bolt, which she endured without serious injury.
• Carol charged Evenson and battered him through the air, but Evenson used his magic to bind her in layers of Fel rock.
• Evenson raised the rocks into a mountain, then detonated its peak and flooded it with Fel magma, declaring the attack his own version of Evenson’s Hand.

Evenson and Gabriel faced Carol after she escaped the volcano in her Binary form and exhausted much of her strength. Carol learned that Evenson and his forces were from Earth, but her anger flared again when she heard that S.H.I.E.L.D. was gone.

• Nova Supreme despaired over the devastation, while Ronan mourned that Carol's apparent death had ended his chance for revenge.
• Evenson struggled to move after his Cataclysm Magic, and Gabriel arrived with the contracts she had retrieved from the bank.
• Carol burst out of the volcano in her Binary form, attacked Evenson and Gabriel, then lost the power to maintain that form.
• Gabriel manipulated space to stop Carol, while Evenson threatened to kill hostages; Carol accused him of Soviet behavior before learning the Soviet Union had fallen.
• Carol agreed to take the Earthlings alive, but became furious when Evenson told her S.H.I.E.L.D. was gone.

Evenson explained Hydra’s takeover of S.H.I.E.L.D. to Carol, who grew suspicious that he had betrayed Nick Fury and forced him to call. The call confirmed they were friends, but Nick refused to intervene in the crisis on Xandar before the connection ended over unpaid interstellar charges.

• Evenson told Carol how Hydra infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., nearly captured the world, and was defeated after the Chitauri invasion and Project Insight.
• Carol questioned Evenson’s account because Nick Fury had never contacted her for help, then accused Evenson of betraying and killing him.
• Evenson called Nick Fury, and Carol recognized his voice and spoke with him directly.
• Carol told Nick that Evenson was colluding with Ronan to attack Xandar, but Nick declined to get involved because the crisis did not threaten Earth.
• The call disconnected because Evenson’s interstellar phone bill lacked sufficient funds.