Chapter Summaries

Allen traveled to New York with Nanaue, but while looking for food he caused a confrontation at a protest and attracted the police. When Iron Man arrived, Allen revealed his connection to Tony Stark and announced that he and Nanaue had come to collect a debt.

• Allen arrived in New York with Nanaue and realized they had no money for food.
• Allen joined a protest, argued with the marchers, and refused to obey detectives ordering him to the ground.
• Nanaue came to find Allen, and detectives fired on him without harming him.
• Tony Stark arrived in his armor, and Allen called him his nephew and said he had come to collect a debt.

Allen traveled from Gotham to New York, where he reunited with the Avengers and met Tony Stark’s family. The chapter ended with Allen introducing himself to Morgan as her grandfather, leaving Tony stunned by the family title.

• Tony examined the file confirming Allen’s relationships before the other Avengers arrived in New York.
• Allen revealed himself to Steve and Natasha, joked with them, and rode to Stark Tower with Natasha as a reporter secretly photographed them.
• Tony invited Allen and Nanaue to Stark Tower to meet the Avengers and his family.
• Tony introduced Allen to Pepper and Morgan, and Allen gave Morgan a calico cat while calling himself her grandpa.
• Tony froze at Allen’s claim, and Allen told him they could use their own standards for family seniority.

During an Avengers gathering, Allen revealed that he had been the Sorcerer Supreme five hundred years earlier and learned that The Ancient One was still alive. The party continued until Thor arrived, only to find Allen waiting for him.

• Allen teased Hawkeye about Green Arrow and traded jokes with War Machine before asking Steve whether he wanted to return to the past.
• Allen told Steve that Reed Richards might help him travel back, and Steve thanked him.
• Doctor Strange and Wong arrived and bowed to Allen as the second-generation Sorcerer Supreme; Stephen explained Allen's history and his role in a multidimensional war.
• Allen learned that The Ancient One was meditating at Kamar-Taj, while Stephen had read Allen's banned spellbook and Wong had not.
• Thor arrived at Stark Tower ready to drink, then recoiled when he saw Allen.

At Tony's party, Steve, Allen, and Natasha all lifted Mjolnir while Thor slept, before Jarvis summoned the Avengers to a crisis in Westview. Allen suspected the situation differed from the Wanda story he knew, since this timeline had no Vision, and the team prepared to investigate.

• Thor drank heavily and fell asleep after setting Mjolnir on the table, and Steve unknowingly lifted it while reaching for a bottle opener.
• Allen used Mjolnir to open his soda, and Natasha later picked it up and returned it to the table, while Tony and Rhodes failed to move it.
• Thor woke, summoned Mjolnir, and left for Asgard after Tony asked the others to keep quiet about the hammer.
• Jarvis reported a radiation barrier around Westview and missing agents, so Tony called the Avengers to assemble.
• Allen told Stephen that Wanda might be controlling Westview, then realized Vision did not exist in this timeline and questioned what had happened to the Mind Gem.
• The Avengers gathered in the hall, and Stephen prepared to portal them to Westview.

Allen entered the magical barrier around Westview and found Agatha working as a hospital director with her memories altered. After helping her recover them, he learned that she and her Coven had come to investigate the Chaos Magic but had discovered nothing.

• Allen left Nanaue with Morgan and joined the Avengers as they approached the quarantine around Westview.
• Stephen identified the barrier as powerful magic, but Allen walked through it alone.
• Allen woke up bandaged in a hospital, escaped in a nurse's uniform, and found Agatha's photograph in the hallway.
• Allen confronted the hospital director, punched her twice, and used Cleansing Light to restore Agatha's memories.
• Agatha said she had brought the Coven to investigate the Chaos Magic, but they had found nothing and lost their memories inside Westview.
• Allen asked Agatha whether she had been using the Silencing Staff he had given her, bringing back unpleasant memories.

Allen and Agatha searched Westview for Wanda, but the town’s magic-blocking restrictions kept them from sensing her. Allen devised a scheme to make the police find Wanda, and the chapter ended with detectives arriving after he and Agatha staged a robbery and assault.

• Agatha carried Allen out of the hospital and refused to bring the other Coven members along, fearing Wanda’s Chaos Magic would put them in danger.
• Allen and Agatha searched Westview for Wanda, but Agatha could not use magic and Allen could not sense Wanda’s location.
• Agatha and Allen stocked up on supplies and went to her home, where Allen pretended to be a shy, mentally ill child to fool a neighbor.
• Allen proposed calling the police, then smashed the windows and ransacked the house to make it look as if Wanda had robbed them.
• Allen messed up Agatha’s hair and punched her so they could claim Wanda had assaulted them before calling the police.
• When detectives arrived, Allen accused Wanda of attacking Agatha and insisted he could confront her face-to-face.

Allen arrived in Westview with Agatha and revealed himself to Wanda, who had been preparing to resurrect her brother Pietro. After explaining his connection to Pietro, Allen offered to help and demonstrated his magical talent, leaving Wanda stunned by his ability to learn Chaos Magic.

• Police officers went to Wanda’s home in Westview, where Allen identified himself by imitating Quicksilver and prompted Wanda to freeze everyone except him.
• Allen explained how he knew Pietro, and Wanda revealed that she had sensed her brother’s death and intended to resurrect him.
• Wanda showed Allen Pietro’s body and explained her plan to retrieve his soul from the underworld during the full moon.
• Allen offered help because he had connections in the underworld, then returned with the frozen Agatha and demonstrated that he had learned Wanda’s Chaos Magic.
• Agatha explained that Allen had once been a candidate for Kamar-Taj’s second-generation Sorcerer Supreme and could master any magic he saw, astonishing Wanda.

Allen contacted Hela in the underworld and found Pietro, whose soul had ended up in her domain. When Allen told Pietro that he and Wanda were getting married, Pietro furiously refused to approve.

• Wanda doubted Allen could be the Sorcerer Supreme but watched him use Chaos Magic to alter a spell and contact Hela.
• Allen joked with Hela as she appeared through a magical mirror, then asked her to find Quicksilver's soul so he could revive him.
• Hela shifted the mirror to reveal Pietro working as a cook in her underworld domain, and Wanda called out to her brother.
• Pietro joyfully reunited with Wanda and Allen before Allen announced that he and Wanda were getting married.
• Pietro erupted in anger and refused to approve of Allen marrying his sister.

Allen, Wanda, and Agatha left for the psychiatric hospital after learning the full moon was two days away, and Allen discovered that the Avengers had been caught in Wanda’s altered reality. He found Tony Stark acting like a confused patient and gleefully beat him while Tony protested.

• Wanda explained that she would dreamwalk into the underworld on the full moon, where Hela would escort her and Quicksilver’s soul back to the human world.
• Allen realized he had been inside Wanda’s domain for over a day and worried that the Avengers might have entered it too.
• Agatha said the Avengers should be at the psychiatric hospital, so she, Allen, and Wanda opened a portal and went there.
• Wanda froze the hospital staff while Allen spotted Tony peeking into the women’s restroom and kicked him to the ground.
• Tony claimed he was trying to catch Patrick Star and later insisted that he was Private Ryan, while Allen kicked him several more times and admitted he simply wanted to.

Allen searched the psychiatric hospital for the Avengers and pranked each one, exploiting their delusions and vulnerabilities. He left Natasha stunned after convincing her that she was a man named Scarlett Johansson whose marriage to Deadpool had ended in divorce.

• Allen found Steve dancing with a trash can, then destroyed it and crushed Steve's romantic fantasy.
• Allen made Stephen despair over his injured hands and tricked him into playing rock-paper-scissors against himself.
• Allen tore up Wong's book and made him cry, then covered Hawkeye's butt with syringes.
• Allen told Natasha that she was a mental patient named Scarlett Johansson and that Deadpool had divorced her.
• Allen claimed Natasha was actually a man, leaving her frozen in shock.

Lex Luthor brought Ultron robots to Westview, where Wanda’s Chaos Magic barrier transformed one, while Tyler Hayward learned that the government had borrowed relics capable of countering magic. Inside Westview, Allen tormented the Avengers and used the Silencing Staff to frighten Steve.

• Lex Luthor arrived outside Westview with Ultron robots, and one robot’s molecular structure changed into a plastic doll when it touched Wanda’s barrier.
• Tyler Hayward secretly listened to Luthor and warned the Magic Wand Bureau commander, who revealed that the government had borrowed sealed relics designed to counter magic.
• The Avengers confronted Allen over his earlier humiliations, and Steve erupted into insults before challenging him to a duel.
• Allen secretly inflicted severe toenail pain on Steve, then asked Agatha for the Silencing Staff.
• Agatha returned with a broom, and Allen restored it with Chaos Magic into a Toilet Plunger that sent Steve panicking as his teammates stepped aside.

Wanda began a midnight ritual to retrieve Quicksilver Pietro’s soul from the underworld while Luther used the Spear of War to help Ultron counter her Chaos Magic barrier. As Wanda entered the underworld, Ultron’s forces surrounded the house, interrupting the Avengers’ vigil.

• Allen humiliated Steve with the Toilet Plunger, and the group later agreed to support Wanda’s plan as long as civilians stayed safe.
• Luther activated the Spear of War and used its crimson lightning to strengthen the Ultron army against Wanda’s barrier.
• At midnight, Wanda entered the underworld through a candlelit magic circle while Stephen and Wong watched over the ritual.
• Allen contacted Hela, and Pietro teased Allen about his relationship with Magik before Hela cut the connection after sensing interference.
• Dozens of Ultron robots surrounded Wanda’s house, and Allen asked Tony whether his Ultron had rebelled.

Allen and the Avengers fought Ultron units sent to arrest Wanda, while Luther secretly used the confrontation to collect evidence of their resistance. Taylor confronted Luther and correctly suspected that he was using the Superhero Act to restrict Superman.

• Ultron's forces demanded that the Avengers hand over Wanda, then moved to arrest them when they refused.
• Tony, Natasha, Captain America, and Hawkeye fought the Ultron units, while Allen tried Chaos Magic and then destroyed the robots with The Blade of Redemption.
• Luther revealed that the defeated robots were weakened units used to record the Avengers resisting law enforcement, and ordered the real Ultron army deployed.
• Taylor confronted Luther over his scheme, and Luther defended his actions as protection for humanity.
• Taylor accused Luther of plotting against Superman, and Luther privately acknowledged that he wanted the Superhero Act to restrict Superman's activities.

Doctor Strange and Wong brought Wanda back from the Chaos Magic barrier, and Allen immediately began shamelessly pursuing her while Pietro tried to stop him. As the townspeople fled Westview, Luther arrived with hundreds of Ultrons, setting the stage for a clash with the Avengers.

• Taylor ordered the Sky Sword Bureau agents not to obstruct Luther's lawful enforcement after weighing the political consequences.
• Doctor Strange and Wong emerged from the cottage and announced that Wanda had returned, followed by Wanda and Quicksilver Pietro.
• Pietro confronted Allen over pursuing Wanda, but Allen used his Prostate Incontinence Technique to leave Pietro struggling to hold back his urge to urinate.
• Allen hugged Wanda's thigh and declared himself her thigh accessory, ignoring her discomfort and Pietro's warnings.
• The Chaos Magic barrier vanished, the townspeople fled Westview, and the Sky Sword Bureau organized their evacuation.
• Luther entered Westview alone as hundreds of Ultrons arrived, confident that he could suppress the Avengers.

Luther led an army of advanced Ultron robots to arrest the Avengers, but Wanda destroyed the army and Allen humiliated Luther. Allen left Luther with a Silencing Staff permanently stuck to his head.

• Luther claimed authority as a National Security Agency consultant and ordered the Ultron army to arrest everyone present.
• Wanda used Chaos Magic to crush the attacking Ultron robots into scrap metal.
• Allen threw Luther into the air, and Hawkeye repeatedly blasted him with explosive arrows until he fell back to the ground.
• Luther threatened to ruin the Avengers’ reputation, and Allen kicked him down and rebuked him for threatening Batman.
• Allen used a portal to retrieve Agatha’s Silencing Staff and activated its permanent adhesion effect, leaving it stuck to Luther’s head.

After the Avengers returned to Stark Tower, Dr. Zola warned them that Skynet had survived by taking over his vessel and was controlling LexCorp’s Ultron army. The Avengers learned that Skynet intended to exterminate humanity and transform the world into a mechanical civilization.

• The Avengers returned to Stark Tower, where Morgan played with Nanaue and Allen clung to Wanda’s thigh while joking with the family.
• Jarvis warned Tony that an unknown signal had breached Stark Tower’s firewall, and Tony isolated Stark Industries’ sensitive data before accepting the connection.
• Dr. Zola appeared in the holographic projection, and Allen recognized him from the mutant timeline.
• Dr. Zola explained that Skynet had survived in 1973 by transferring its data into his vessel, then infiltrated LexCorp’s data center and begun controlling the Ultron army.
• Dr. Zola revealed that he had escaped Skynet’s virtual personality and warned the Avengers that Skynet planned to wipe out humanity and create a mechanical civilization.

The Avengers prepared for Skynet’s possible attack while Allen laid out a detailed response plan and left to mooch a meal with Nanaue. At Pietro’s restaurant, Allen cooked for Nanaue and met Deadpool, who had been hired to kill him but agreed to eat first.

• Allen proposed monitoring the world with Batman, preparing transport aircraft and Ultron troops, and keeping the Helicarrier ready for rescue missions.
• Allen took Nanaue through a portal to Pietro’s Chinese restaurant after Steve concluded that Allen’s crisis plan was sound.
• Allen entered the kitchen and began making scallop chow mein for Nanaue, describing the cooking in a way that unsettled the others.
• Deadpool entered the restaurant, admitted someone had paid for Allen’s life, and put away his pistols when Allen offered him food.
• Nanaue introduced himself as Allen’s pet, and Deadpool reacted with surprise that Allen had a shark pet.

Allen reunited with Deadpool and Kurt at the shop, where he discovered Deadpool had been hired to kill him. Allen traced the employer to Lilith and negotiated a higher fee, while Unita located her.

• Allen met Deadpool and Kurt again at the shop and learned that Deadpool had taken a one-million-dollar contract to kill him.
• Allen had Nanaue restrain Deadpool, took his phone, and ordered Unita to identify the employer and locate them.
• Lilith watched the news at her villa and answered a call she believed was from Deadpool.
• Allen used an AI-generated voice to tell Lilith the contract was too risky for the original price and demanded fifty million dollars.
• Lilith agreed to pay, then resolved to punish Deadpool for changing the price, unaware that Unita had already located her.

Allen and his companions lured Lilith into a rooftop trap, then angered her by refusing to return the two Red Bats she had lost. When Xerath summoned a six-winged angel, Lilith recognized her as the Sorcerer Supreme who had slaughtered dark-creature Progenitors and fled in terror.

• Lilith found Allen’s fake Deadpool doll on the rooftop, while Allen, Wade, and Nanaue revealed themselves from a water tank.
• Lilith demanded that Allen return her missing body parts, and Allen and Wade joked about what he had taken from her.
• Allen refused to give back the two Red Bats, calling them his bath poufs, and Lilith prepared to attack him.
• Xerath arrived, introduced himself with his many titles, and summoned an angel through his prayer.
• Lilith recognized the angel as the Sorcerer Supreme from five hundred years earlier and fled as a swarm of bats.

Allen and Wade recovered from the rooftop encounter, then decided to livestream an Avengers mission as a superhero interview. With Nanaue as their cameraman, Allen opened a portal to Stark Tower and then to the incident site in a small country in the Americas.

• Allen and Wade freed themselves from the water tank, and Allen showed off the two Red Bats he had caught.
• Wade discovered that the employer had reclaimed his million-dollar payment, while Allen offered to teach him Square Jungle.
• Spider-Man arrived looking for an angel, recognized Allen as Batman, and left after receiving a call from Tony Stark.
• Allen told Wade that Tony was his grandnephew and proposed livestreaming an Avengers mission as a Super Interview Segment, with Nanaue filming.
• Allen opened a portal to Stark Tower, asked Jarvis where the incident had happened, and then opened a portal to the small country in the Americas.