Chapter Summaries

Wang Khan, Tony Stark, and Bruce Banner improved Dr. Selvig’s research and used Umbrella Corporation’s Micro Magnetic Robots to mass-produce Space Generators for the coming battle in Greenwich. Meanwhile, the Dark Elves attacked Asgard, Odin failed to stop Malekith, and Loki blamed Thor for their mother’s death.

• Tony and Banner found Dr. Selvig in a mental asylum and brought him back, where he confirmed that the Celestial Convergence was real.
• Wang Khan corrected Selvig’s calculations, and Tony and Banner proposed upgrades to the Space Generator.
• Wang Khan had the Red Queen use Micro Magnetic Robots to build production equipment, and Umbrella Corporation made more than a hundred Space Generators in a day.
• The Dark Elves attacked Asgard, broke the Golden Palace’s magical barrier, killed Odin’s wife, and escaped despite Malekith being wounded.
• Loki shouted at Thor and blamed him for bringing the war to Asgard and causing their mother’s death.

Thor and Loki avenged Frigga by defeating Algrim, while Malekith took the Aether to Earth and headed for Greenwich. Wang Khan prepared to fight the Dark Elves despite General Barnes splitting the Royal Army’s forces, and Malekith’s mothership appeared as the battle began.

• Thor used a Fury Rune to fight Algrim, giving Loki the chance to kill the Cursed Warrior with a Black Hole Grenade.
• Loki faked his death, while Malekith obtained the Aether and piloted his mothership toward Earth.
• Wang Khan learned that General Barnes had split the Royal Army’s mechanized units and Mars Warriors into separate forces.
• Wang Khan prepared Umbrella Corporation and the Avengers to surround Greenwich and use the Space Generator against the Dark Elves.
• The Dark Elves’ mothership appeared in Greenwich, and their forces poured out to begin the battle.

Malekith’s Dark Elf invasion was met by Umbrella Corporation, Thor, and ambushes planned by Wang Khan and the Avengers. The Royal Army’s attack ended in disaster, leaving Rear Admiral Barnes certain his career was finished.

• Rear Admiral Barnes rallied the Royal Army to reject the Cabinet’s decision and prepare to fight the Dark Elves.
• Malekith deployed his forces as the Nine Realms overlapped, but spatial rifts teleported most of his troops away, leaving him to face Thor.
• Thor confronted Malekith and awakened his full Thor’s Power, while Gwen led Umbrella Corporation’s Mars Warriors against Dark Elves and Scythe Flyers.
• Wang Khan and the Avengers used Selvig’s Space Generator to divide the Dark Elf army among four ambush sites, where waiting forces opened fire.
• Rear Admiral Barnes ordered a heavy bombardment and advance, but Scythe Flyers and energy attacks devastated the Royal Army’s armored formation.
• Rear Admiral Barnes saw the wrecked tanks and vehicles on the surveillance feeds and realized his political career was over.

Captain America, Skye, and Hawkeye reached Barnes’s sector after the Royal Army had been destroyed, while Mars Warriors and Umbrella Corporation’s forces overwhelmed the Dark Elves elsewhere. Watching the battle, world leaders reconsidered the value of tanks and armored vehicles; the chapter ended with the author announcing they would stop reading reviews.

• After learning Barnes’s defensive line had fallen, Captain America left Tony and Banner to defend their sector and flew toward the breach with Skye and Hawkeye.
• Captain America’s group found the command center destroyed and Barnes and his officers dead, then fought hundreds of Dark Elves and three Scythe Flyers.
• World leaders watched Barnes’s unit get wiped out and saw tanks and armored vehicles prove ineffective against the Dark Elves’ energy weapons.
• The Mars Warriors gained the upper hand, while Umbrella Corporation’s thousand Russian girls suffered no deaths despite fewer than ten suits being disabled.
• World leaders concluded that traditional armored vehicles should give way to individual soldier equipment, and the author said they would stop reading reviews.

Wang Khan fought Malekith and then the enraged Thor in Justice Gundam while Smart Spiders infiltrated the Dark Elves' mothership. As Thor and Justice Gundam clashed in Overload Mode, the mothership unexpectedly attacked Malekith and vanished into stealth.

• Wang Khan joined Thor's battle against Malekith, but Thor attacked Justice Gundam after Rage Magic made him unable to distinguish friend from foe.
• Malekith withdrew toward his mothership, and Wang Khan used a missile to plant three Smart Spiders inside it.
• Thor's Rage Magic awakened greater thunderous power, and he knocked Justice Gundam down with a headbutt.
• Wang Khan activated Justice Gundam's Overload Mode as weapons experts and political leaders watched.
• The mothership suddenly struck Malekith, activated stealth, and disappeared from sight, leaving everyone stunned.

Wang Khan used Justice Gundam to break Thor’s Rage Magic and leave him in Tony and Banner’s care before charging into Malekith’s Aether storm. As the Nine Realms aligned and Malekith prepared to unleash the Aether’s full power, Wang Khan revealed that he had an Infinity Stone.

• Justice Gundam endured Thor’s lightning blast, and Red Queen identified the core point in the Rage Magic that could break the spell.
• Wang Khan drove Justice Gundam’s remaining Battleship Blade into Thor’s chest, destroying the magic and ending Thor’s frenzy.
• Tony and Banner found Thor alive, treated his wound, and entrusted him to several Russian women in Mars Armor.
• Wang Khan entered the Aether energy field to confront Malekith as the Nine Realms aligned.
• Wang Khan told Malekith that he had an Infinity Stone and could stop him.

Wang Khan killed Malekith with Space Cutting and secretly took the Aether, while Tony and Banner arrived too late to learn about the Reality Stone. After the Battle of London ended, Wang Khan flew to the Moon to inspect the Dark Elves’ mothership with Red Queen.

• Wang Khan sealed the passage to the Nine Realms, severed Malekith’s limbs and head with Space Cutting, and collected the Aether in a Vibranium-and-Uru container.
• Tony and Banner arrived after the Dark Energy field dissipated, and Wang Khan explained that he had used the Space Generator to slice Malekith.
• Wang Khan said he had translated Dark Elf spacecraft material about the Nine Realms and promised to share the knowledge with the world.
• Britain’s officials and conglomerates gave up resisting Umbrella Corporation’s control of London after the city was reduced to ruins.
• Wang Khan flew a Quinjet to the Moon, where the Archangel and the Dark Elves’ mothership were parked, and asked Red Queen to show him anything valuable she had found.

Wang Khan acquired the Dark Elves’ star map and Aether research, and considered using them to create stronger Calamity Beasts. After Umbrella Corporation’s victory in London raised its standing with world governments, Hydra moved to accelerate Project Insight and discussed killing Nick Fury.

• Red Queen sent Wang Khan the Nine Realms star map and the Dark Elves’ research on cloaking, energy weapons, Black Hole Grenades, and controlling Aether.
• Wang Khan learned that Aether crystals could create Cursed Warriors and considered combining their strength with Calamity Beasts’ other abilities.
• World governments recognized that Umbrella Corporation’s Mars Armor and Justice Gundam could defeat the Dark Elves and even kill a god, so they sent representatives to seek closer cooperation.
• President Ellis blamed Boris Johnson’s failure to suppress Umbrella Corporation and grew more hostile toward Wang Khan.
• Sitwell warned Pierce that Nick Fury had been acting strangely, and Pierce ordered Project Insight accelerated and suggested Fury must be eliminated if he had discovered the truth.

Pierce persuaded President Ellis to approve S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Project Insight by presenting its Helicarriers as space-based weapons against the Umbrella Corporation. Meanwhile, Nick Fury secretly researched the Obelisk, and his team announced they had found a way to mass-produce Inhumans.

• Pierce told Ellis that S.H.I.E.L.D. had built three nuclear-powered Helicarriers to target the Umbrella Corporation, and he described their weapons as capable of controlling Earth’s airspace.
• Ellis agreed to Project Insight and accepted a device granting access to the Helicarriers’ main system, then insisted on sending representatives aboard to monitor them.
• After leaving the White House, Pierce mocked Ellis and ordered Agent Sitwell to monitor Nick Fury’s activities.
• Nick Fury gathered experts to study the Obelisk and its Terrigen Crystal, seeking to transform Inhumans rather than create weapons.
• One of Fury’s experts reported that they had found a way to mass-produce Inhumans.

Nick Fury tasked Coulson with secretly creating a deep-sea fish oil company to help research safe Inhuman transformations. On the Moon, Wang Khan absorbed the Aether and considered using it to strengthen Mars’s magnetic field, but Gwen warned him that Pierce was preparing to launch Project Insight with help from the White House.

• A professor told Nick Fury that weakening the Energy Crystal inside the Obelisk could awaken people with Inhuman genes without harming ordinary people, though the research needed more crystals.
• Nick Fury ordered Coulson to establish a secret health supplement company that would produce deep-sea fish oil using a formula Fury would provide later.
• Wang Khan absorbed the Aether and learned that it slowly drained his life force, though he could use it more easily to create Cursed Crystals and process materials into Vibranium.
• Red Queen suggested using the Aether to transform Mars’s core and create an artificial magnetic field, and Wang Khan decided to go to Mars.
• Gwen warned Wang Khan that Pierce was about to launch Project Insight in alliance with people at the White House, and Wang Khan suspected Ellis was being used again.

Wang Khan discovered that transforming Mars with the Reality Stone would consume too much life force, so he planned to wait for the Power Stone and use it as an energy source. Back on Earth, he ordered Umbrella Corporation to reopen New York and reveal its Space Elevator cable material, drawing global attention to the city and the project.

• Wang Khan calculated that transforming Mars's core would cost over a thousand years of life force, or about five hundred years with the Space Stone's help.
• Wang Khan proposed using the Power Stone to charge the Reality Stone and postponed the work on Mars until the Power Stone appeared.
• Wang Khan returned to Earth and told Gwen to arrange New York's reopening and announce Umbrella Corporation's new materials.
• Gwen informed George Stacy, who announced at a press conference that New York's reconstruction was complete and the city would soon reopen.
• Gwen announced that Umbrella Corporation had developed the Space Elevator's cable material, prompting media from around the world to head to New York.

Pierce tried to stop Umbrella Corporation’s Space Elevator from undermining Hydra’s plan to rule the world with Helicarriers, and he arranged to accelerate their construction with the President’s help. After two sabotage teams sent to New York were ambushed, Pierce suspected Nick Fury and ordered the Winter Soldier to act against him.

• Pierce ordered Rumlow to sabotage New York’s Space Elevator construction and urged the President to provide engineers so Hydra’s Helicarriers could be completed faster.
• The President agreed to put General Ross in charge, and military engineers and technicians began arriving at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
• Umbrella Corporation security ambushed Rumlow’s first sabotage team in New York, killing or capturing nearly everyone except Rumlow.
• A week later, a second team was ambushed, and Rumlow was captured.
• Sitwell suggested Nick Fury was testing Hydra through Umbrella Corporation, so Pierce ordered the Winter Soldier to prepare to eliminate Fury.

Wang Khan unveiled Hive Gold, a feather-light material that lifted a hundred-ton truck, making the Space Elevator seem closer to reality. Tony Stark dismissed the remaining challenges and left to focus on inventing a Warp Engine.

• Gwen Stacy opened Umbrella Corporation’s press conference and introduced Wang Khan as the inventor of the Space Elevator cable material.
• Nick Fury and Coulson watched the livestream and discussed the cable’s potential impact, while Fury asked about the fish oil factory.
• Wang Khan revealed Hive Gold and demonstrated that a hair-thin strand could lift a truck weighing one hundred tons.
• Banner praised the breakthrough, and Pepper Potts wondered whether it made the Space Elevator achievable.
• Tony Stark said the Space Elevator still faced major challenges, then left to research a Warp Engine so he could surpass Wang Khan.

After Umbrella Corporation announced mass production of Hive Gold and plans for Space Cities in New York and London, foreign delegations arrived seeking cooperation with Wang Khan. He welcomed his parents as part of the Eastern Great Power's delegation, then learned Hydra was about to target Nick Fury.

• Gwen announced that Umbrella Corporation could mass-produce Hive Gold and planned to complete a Space Elevator within half a year.
• Gwen said London would become the second Space City, prompting governments around the world to send representatives to New York.
• The Eastern Great Power sent a delegation that included Wang Khan's parents, and Wang Khan received them and introduced Gwen.
• Wang Khan's father asked him to cooperate more with the East, and Wang Khan promised to put humanity's advancement above East-West divisions.
• Red Queen warned Wang Khan that Hydra was about to make a move against Nick Fury.

Pierce ordered the Winter Soldier to assassinate Nick Fury before Umbrella Corporation’s Space Elevator could shift the balance of power. Nick survived a staged police ambush, but the Winter Soldier overturned his vehicle, leaving him disoriented and apparently cornered until a familiar figure intervened.

• Ellis urged Pierce to accelerate the Helicarrier project, and Pierce ordered Sitwell to tell the Winter Soldier to kill Nick Fury.
• Maria Hill told Nick Fury that engineers with military and tanker-industry experience had disappeared, and Fury assigned her to investigate.
• Hydra gunmen disguised as police officers rammed Nick Fury’s car at an intersection and opened fire.
• Nick Fury escaped the attackers in his armored car, but the Winter Soldier stopped him with a magnetic bomb that flipped the vehicle.
• As the Winter Soldier approached Nick Fury, a long-absent figure rushed out and fired several shots at him.

Natasha rescued Nick Fury from the Winter Soldier and brought him to a hidden base, where she revealed that she had left S.H.I.E.L.D. to work for Wang Khan. Her Extremis-enhanced powers shocked Fury and Hill, leaving them uncertain how to respond.

• Natasha shielded Nick Fury from the Winter Soldier's gunfire, used her Extremis abilities to expel the bullets, and escaped with him as Hydra reinforcements arrived.
• Natasha evaded their pursuers by changing vehicles and drove Nick Fury to a lakeside safe house he had identified.
• Hill and hidden defenses confronted Natasha at the safe house, then searched and handcuffed her before taking her and Nick Fury into the underground base.
• Nick Fury asked whether Natasha had joined Shockwave Man, and Natasha revealed that her new boss was Wang Khan, the president of Umbrella Corporation.
• Natasha melted her handcuffs, snatched Hill's gun, and melted it in her palm, stunning Hill and Nick Fury.

Natasha confronted Nick Fury and Hill about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s failure to rescue her after Hydra agents kidnapped and tortured her, explaining why she joined Wang Khan. She revealed that Wang Khan tasked her with exposing Hydra inside S.H.I.E.L.D. and demanded that Fury help make the agency's personnel files public.

• Hill questioned Natasha about defecting to Wang Khan, and Natasha described the year of torture and experimentation she endured after S.H.I.E.L.D. failed to search for her.
• Natasha explained that Wang Khan saved her from Killian's people, removed the bomb implanted in her mechanical eye, and gave her freedom.
• Natasha named John Garrett and Grant Ward as her kidnappers, shocking Hill and helping Fury realize that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Natasha said Wang Khan had tasked her with uncovering Hydra agents inside S.H.I.E.L.D. and that she had rescued Fury after deciding he was not Hydra.
• Natasha demanded Fury use his Level Ten authorization to make S.H.I.E.L.D.'s personnel files public, leaving him to choose between cooperating with her or facing Hydra without outside help.

Nick Fury rejected Natasha's offer of Umbrella Corporation's help, while Natasha and Hill went to find Steve Rogers. Fury investigated Project Insight and discovered that Pierce controlled the Helicarrier construction effort; meanwhile, Wang Khan welcomed Tony and Banner to the newly rebuilt Stark Tower.

• Nick Fury refused Umbrella Corporation's assistance, and Natasha lost faith in him when he said he did not trust Wang Khan.
• Natasha challenged Fury's lack of allies and combat power, and Fury said Steve Rogers was the only Avenger he trusted.
• Natasha and Hill headed to New York to find Steve Rogers while Fury investigated S.H.I.E.L.D.'s plans.
• Fury traced Project Insight to the Helicarriers and discovered that Pierce's people and Ross's people controlled their construction.
• New York's businesses and technology companies expanded ahead of the Space Elevator project, and Wang Khan welcomed Tony and Banner to the rebuilt Stark Tower.

Wang Khan showed Tony Stark and Banner the new Stark Tower and Tony’s newly delivered Zaku. He then offered Peter Parker, Mary Jane, and Aunt May jobs through Umbrella Corporation, including a role that let Peter continue as Spider-Man.

• Wang Khan led Tony and Banner through the new Stark Tower, where Tony discovered that the 25-meter Zaku was a real machine he had bought for 10 billion dollars.
• Tony inspected the Zaku’s cockpit and accepted responsibility for its maintenance after Wang Khan warned that dismantling it would void the warranty.
• Wang Khan returned to Umbrella Corporation headquarters and met Peter Parker, Mary Jane, and Aunt May.
• Wang Khan told Peter he knew Peter was Spider-Man and reassured him that he wanted Spider-Man to remain New York’s friendly neighborhood hero.
• Gwen gave Peter, Mary Jane, and Aunt May employment contracts, and Wang Khan offered Peter a job continuing his work as Spider-Man without police hostility or financial hardship.

Parker signed Umbrella Corporation’s contract to receive a million dollars a month for continuing to act as Spider-Man, after Gwen and Wang Khan explained how his crime-fighting helped protect New York’s economy. The chapter ended with Red Queen reporting that Natasha and Maria Hill had contacted Steve Rogers, signaling that the three Helicarriers were about to take off.

• Parker questioned the contract’s generous terms, suspecting that Umbrella Corporation was offering him charity.
• Gwen explained that Umbrella paid Parker because Spider-Man’s crime-fighting improved public safety and helped New York attract investment.
• Wang Khan offered Umbrella’s legal team to protect Parker as he continued fighting criminals, and Parker signed the contract.
• After Parker’s family left, Gwen asked Wang Khan whether he would capture Parker, and Wang Khan said he would let Parker remain a hero.
• Red Queen reported that Natasha and Maria Hill had contacted Steve Rogers, and Wang Khan realized the three Helicarriers were about to take off.