Chapter Summaries

Wang Khan showed Colonel James Rhodey Umbrella Corporation’s Mars Armor, winning the U.S. military’s interest with its features and prospective price. He secretly planned to use a hidden backdoor to gain control of the military’s armor, while preparing to complete the Thor Serum.

• Commissioner George praised his officers’ raid on the Black Mexican Gang and promoted Umbrella Corporation’s Mars Armor at a press conference.
• Wang Khan gave Colonel James Rhodey a tour of the robot manufacturing plant and demonstrated the Mars Armor’s supercapacitors and Spider-Sense System.
• Rhodey was impressed by the armor’s capabilities and projected five-million-dollar price, and agreed that the military would consider buying it once production began.
• The U.S. military’s interest grew after the Mars Armor prototype was demonstrated at its testing grounds, and Wang Khan assigned Sharon Carter to coordinate with military experts.
• Wang Khan asked Red Queen whether the armor’s hidden backdoor could be discovered, then ordered her to accelerate development so the military could be supplied with the armor.
• Red Queen told Wang Khan that one ingredient for the Thor Serum was still missing but would arrive in a week, and he anticipated combining Thor’s Power with Tai Chi.

Bruce Banner transformed into Hulk and devastated the military forces sent to capture him at Culver University. After the battle went viral, Wang Khan, S.H.I.E.L.D., and Tony Stark began investigating Banner and Dr. Sterns, leaving three factions preparing to act.

• General Ross ordered soldiers to surround Culver University and capture Bruce Banner, but Banner transformed into Hulk and escaped the rooftop.
• Hulk shrugged off the soldiers’ weapons, wrecked their vehicles, and left Blonsky badly injured.
• Red Queen showed Wang Khan the viral footage, and Wang Khan decided to travel to New York to confront Hulk and learn from his strength.
• Nick Fury ordered Coulson to send Skye to investigate without engaging Hulk, and he directed S.H.I.E.L.D. to pass Dr. Sterns’s information to General Ross.
• Tony Stark recognized Bruce Banner in university surveillance footage, found Dr. Sterns’s information, and decided to investigate in New York.

Dr. Sterns’s Anti-Hulk Serum briefly returned Bruce Banner to normal, but the military captured him and Blonsky became the rampaging Abomination. Spider-Man tried to stop Abomination in Harlem until Hulk arrived, and a bolt of lightning struck as the two monsters began fighting.

• Banner agreed to Dr. Sterns’s risky serum treatment, which suppressed Hulk and restored him to human form.
• Banner discovered Sterns had made hundreds of liters of blood from his samples and demanded that he destroy them, but the military seized Banner and Betty.
• Blonsky forced Sterns to inject him with Hulk’s blood and expose him to Gamma Rays, transforming him into Abomination, who rampaged through Harlem.
• Nick Fury ordered Barton to clear out Sterns’s laboratory, while Iron Man flew toward the destruction and Spider-Man arrived first to rescue civilians and confront Abomination.
• Abomination overpowered Spider-Man, and Banner jumped from a plane to transform into Hulk and fight him.
• As Hulk and Abomination brawled in the streets, Spider-Man saw a bolt of lightning strike toward them.

Wang Khan joined the battle in Harlem, using his Shockwave powers and martial arts to fight Hulk and Abomination while drawing the attention of Spider-Man, Iron Man, and S.H.I.E.L.D. The chapter ended as Tony, Hulk, Abomination, Spider-Man, and Skye faced off against Wang Khan beneath gathering storm clouds.

• Wang Khan slammed Hulk and Abomination into a crater with a Shockwave strike, then fought them while Spider-Man refused his offer to become a subordinate.
• Wang Khan unleashed a massive Shockwave that devastated the surrounding blocks, prompting Coulson to report his appearance to Nick Fury.
• Wang Khan attacked General Ross's helicopter, but Hulk rushed to save it and Iron Man caught it before it crashed.
• Hulk and Abomination broke Wang Khan's Quake Force Field, but Wang Khan used Cloud Hands and Pushing Hands to throw both of them into the ruins.
• Wang Khan demanded that Tony Stark hand over the Arc Reactor in his chest, while Spider-Man, Hulk, Abomination, and Skye gathered against him.
• Wang Khan laughed as lightning shone in his eyes and dark clouds gathered over Harlem.

Wang Khan fought Tony, Spider-Man, Hulk, Abomination, and Skye, overpowering them with his Vibranium suit and copied abilities. As the battle resumed with the heroes joining forces, Nick Fury realized Wang Khan might be able to copy any superpowered person’s abilities from a blood sample.

• Tony’s machine guns failed against Wang Khan’s Vibranium suit, and Wang Khan knocked Tony from the air with lightning.
• Wang Khan defeated Spider-Man with Bagua Steps, then badly injured Abomination and sent Hulk crashing through the battlefield with Baji techniques.
• Skye attacked Wang Khan with Quake powers, but her Shockwaves had no effect; Wang Khan told her he had copied her ability after unlocking her Gene Lock.
• Tony, Spider-Man, Skye, and Hulk regrouped against Wang Khan, who started playing his battle music and charged at Iron Man.
• Nick Fury learned that Wang Khan had likely copied Thor’s lightning power using stolen blood, and realized he could gain abilities from samples taken from other superpowered people.

Wang Khan defeated the Harlem fighters, took samples and Abomination’s corpse, and warned Skye about S.H.I.E.L.D. His actions drove both the military and S.H.I.E.L.D. to pursue superpowered research, while Skye’s Inhuman powers surfaced and Gordon appeared to her.

• Wang Khan took Tony’s Arc Reactor, injured Spider-Man, and let Hulk escape after defeating the others.
• Red Queen collected Hulk’s blood and loaded Abomination’s corpse onto the Quinjet at Wang Khan’s order.
• Wang Khan told Skye she was an Inhuman, warned her to reconsider her loyalty to S.H.I.E.L.D., and left with the Quinjet.
• Ross restarted the Super Soldier Program and launched the Hulk Project, while Nick Fury expanded S.H.I.E.L.D.’s research and academy funding.
• Skye returned to the academy, contemplated her origins, and emitted a blue energy barrier as Gordon appeared beside her and introduced himself as an Inhuman.

Wang Khan revealed that he planned to use Skye’s tracker to find Afterlife and obtain Inhuman abilities, while S.H.I.E.L.D. moved to secure Skye’s loyalty. At Afterlife, Jiaying confirmed that she would wait rather than risk her people to rescue her daughter from S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Wang Khan explained that Skye could lead him to her Inhuman mother, Jiaying, and the hidden refuge of Afterlife, where he hoped to acquire many Inhuman abilities.
• Red Queen agreed to monitor the nanotracker inside Skye and report any change in her location.
• Coulson warned Nick Fury that Skye was emotionally vulnerable, and Fury ordered Melinda and a logistics team to build a bond with her while keeping her away from S.H.I.E.L.D.’s darker operations.
• Gordon returned to Afterlife and told Jiaying that he had found Skye but could not remove her from S.H.I.E.L.D.’s territory.
• Jiaying refused Gordon’s offer to try again, explaining that she would not endanger Afterlife’s people and recalling how Whitehall had mutilated her.

Wang Khan oversaw the Mars Armor project’s rapid progress before Kate Mara offered him one billion dollars for 51 percent of Umbrella Corporation and threatened him when he refused. He dismissed her and told Red Queen he planned to make a bigger move against the Malick Family.

• Sharon Carter proposed recruiting armed personnel and veterans, and Wang Khan put her in charge of hiring for Umbrella Corporation.
• Carter recruited more than a hundred armed veterans, including Crossbones, and Wang Khan suspected most were S.H.I.E.L.D. agents or Hydra members.
• The Mars Armor’s hardware was completed after three months, and Wang Khan invested another 200 million dollars in the Compound Eyes Targeting System.
• Kate Mara offered one billion dollars for 51 percent of Umbrella Corporation on behalf of the Malick Family and threatened Wang Khan when he refused.
• Wang Khan sent Kate Mara away and told Red Queen he planned to play big against the Malick Family.

Wang Khan learned that the Malick Family was a powerful Hydra dynasty and set a plan in motion to bring it down. After the family retaliated by pulling military support and taking Mars Armor prototypes, Wang Khan secretly prepared to use the resulting crisis against them and Osborn Industries.

• Wang Khan told the Red Queen that the Malick Family was an ancient Hydra family led by Gideon Malick, and explained that the Red Skull had merely adopted Hydra's ideology.
• Wang Khan ordered the Red Queen to recruit mercenaries and establish a real secret biological laboratory near the US-Mexico border as a sacrificial front.
• The military withdrew from Umbrella Corporation, taking ten Mars Armor prototypes, and Sharon Carter angrily confronted its representative.
• Gwen and Carter reported that Osborn Industries was hiring the Compound Eyes experts and preparing for a long lawsuit, while Wang Khan pretended to panic and demanded a legal counterattack.
• After Gwen and Carter left, Wang Khan told the Red Queen that his outburst was an act and learned Osborn could mass-produce an inferior Mars Armor within three months.
• Wang Khan decided to give Osborn three months before making all of America feel the consequences.

Nick Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to steal Umbrella Corporation’s targeting-system source codes and assassinate Wang Khan, while Wang endured a month of mounting pressure and watched Osborn win a huge military contract. After Osborn failed to reproduce the Compound Eyes Targeting System, Wang told Red Queen to begin the Green Cataclysm Plan.

• Nick Fury ordered Carter to obtain the Spider-Sense System and Compound Eyes Targeting System source codes, then kill Wang Khan and anyone else who knew about the operation.
• Wang Khan publicly denounced the US Military and mocked Osborn Industries’ attempt to copy the Mars Armor, as the media predicted Umbrella Corporation would lose.
• As Umbrella Corporation’s crisis worsened and executives resigned, Wang maintained his act of despair while Gwen stayed by him and Carter warned that Osborn’s experts were nearing completion.
• Osborn failed to develop the Compound Eyes Targeting System by Red Queen’s deadline and substituted a less capable conventional targeting system for its Mars Armor.
• The military ordered one thousand Mars Armor units from Osborn for fifty billion dollars, sending Osborn’s stock soaring above Stark Industries.
• Wang Khan told Red Queen to begin the Green Cataclysm Plan and make the United States pay for the military’s actions.

General Ross launched a heavily armed assault on Shockwave Man’s laboratory near the US-Mexico border while Coulson’s S.H.I.E.L.D. team watched from a cloaked Quinjet. Wang Khan activated Experiment No. 3, and a giant green wolf burst from the laboratory as the battle began.

• Ross mobilized tanks, armored vehicles, soldiers, helicopters, and twenty Mars Armor suits to attack Shockwave Man’s suspected laboratory.
• Coulson led Skye’s Team aboard a cloaked Quinjet to monitor Ross’s forces, while the agents debated Shockwave Man’s power.
• Ross’s forces reached the laboratory, destroyed fleeing mercenaries’ vehicles, and began fighting the defenders inside the perimeter.
• Ross ordered his troops to kill everyone, while Wang Khan gave the same order from his New York mansion.
• Wang Khan activated Experiment No. 3, transforming a tropical jackal into a giant green wolf that tore through the laboratory door and charged into the battle.

The Giant Wolf tore through Ross's mercenaries, tanks, and helicopters, displaying immense strength, speed, and Quake powers. As the military prepared more forces to stop it, Wang Khan activated Experiment No. 2, a Golden Eagle, to draw out the conflict.

• The Giant Wolf killed the Hua Dachong mercenary and his bald boss, then bit Ross's tank in half and attacked the soldiers and armored vehicles in the courtyard.
• Ross ordered the tanks to concentrate fire, but the Giant Wolf dodged most shells, shrugged off the hits, and tore through the tank formation.
• The Giant Wolf unleashed a Quake-powered Shockwave that destroyed eight tanks, then blasted five Armed Helicopters out of the sky with a second attack.
• Ross deployed the Mars Squad and requested four F22s and two B1 Bombers from a nearby US Air Force base.
• After the Red Queen warned Wang Khan that the air force had been deployed, Wang Khan ordered Experiment No. 2 awakened, and a Golden Eagle emerged from its container.

Wang Khan’s two green Calamity Beasts overwhelmed Ross’s forces and destroyed aircraft at a U.S. Air Force base. Coulson’s team entered the ruined laboratory and discovered signs of a third, even more dangerous monster.

• Ross sent Mars Warriors to draw the Giant Wolf away, but it killed them and devastated the tank formation with a shockwave.
• The Golden Eagle destroyed the attack helicopters and headed for a U.S. Air Force base, where four F22s and two B-1s soon went silent.
• Wang Khan ordered his people to spare Ross, destroy the remaining armored vehicles, and let Experiment No. 2 wreck the Air Force base.
• Coulson’s team watched the battle from their Quinjet, then followed the Director’s order to enter the laboratory despite May, Simmons, and Zitz’s objections.
• Coulson’s team found the laboratory’s equipment destroyed and a huge pit at its center, and Skye sensed a third monster beneath them.

President Ellis confronted Ross over the military’s losses as the Giant Wolf and Giant Golden Eagle devastated bases and proved difficult to stop. After learning a third monster could travel underground and underwater, the generals realized all three beasts were likely heading for New York, and Ellis ordered Ross to stop them.

• President Ellis berated Ross and the generals for losing troops and equipment, while Ross explained that missiles could not harm the Giant Golden Eagle.
• Ross learned that the Giant Wolf had surprised a Kansas army base, killed more than five hundred soldiers, and destroyed its vehicles and weapons.
• The generals watched footage showing the Giant Wolf transform from a jackal, and realized the monsters could evade detection in ordinary animal forms.
• Nick Fury informed Ellis that three experimental tanks were missing and a tunnel led from the raided laboratory to the Hudson River, suggesting a third monster could travel underground and underwater.
• Ross and the generals concluded that the three monsters were heading for New York, and Ellis ordered Ross to stop them before they reached the city.

Wang Khan launched the Green Cataclysm Plan while directing Carter and Gwen to prepare at his New Jersey factory. Experiment No. 1 emerged from the Hudson River and devastated the U.S. military’s tank formation, leaving the battle underway.

• Wang Khan ordered Carter and Gwen to leave New York, prepare the factory, and begin the Green Cataclysm Plan once they arrived.
• Carter alerted Coulson, but S.H.I.E.L.D. was too focused on the Cataclysmic Beasts to investigate Wang Khan’s plans.
• Wang Khan told Carter to defend the factory and sent Gwen a solution for the Compound Eyes Targeting System, which she began perfecting for the Mars Armor.
• Wang Khan ordered Red Queen to begin the plan, and Experiment No. 1 charged out of the Hudson River, surviving the mines.
• Ross ordered more than two hundred tanks to fire on the giant crocodile, but it remained unharmed and crushed its way through the tank formation.

After the Calamity Beasts defeated the military outside New York, President Ellis ordered Norman Osborn to deploy Mars Armor suits for a second battle. As New Yorkers fled, the Golden Eagle Cataclysmic Beast destroyed a helicopter and left a nearby news crew wondering whether it was deliberately holding them hostage.

• A CNN report blamed the military’s attack on a scientist’s laboratory for the Calamity Beasts’ assault on New York.
• President Ellis rejected the use of mass-destruction weapons and approved deploying Osborn’s Mars Warriors against the beasts.
• Norman Osborn prepared two thousand Mars Armor suits for the military’s next battle.
• The female CNN reporter and her crew livestreamed near the Golden Eagle Cataclysmic Beast as panicked residents tried to flee New York.
• The Golden Eagle Cataclysmic Beast split a helicopter in two, then returned to its rooftop and watched the news crew without attacking them.

As the Calamity Beasts trapped New York’s citizens, President Ellis gave Osborn’s Mars Warriors one day to prepare, while S.H.I.E.L.D. and Tony Stark launched a plan to kill the beasts with a laser cannon. Wang Khan reassured Gwen that her family was safe and urged her to finish the Mars Armor’s targeting system.

• New York’s citizens panicked and fought over food as the Calamity Beasts sealed off the city, and President Ellis ordered the Mars Warriors to be ready within one day.
• Nick Fury enlisted Tony Stark’s help, and Tony completed a new-generation Arc Reactor while analyzing the Calamity Beasts’ abilities.
• Tony concluded that the beasts’ Quake Force Fields could only be bypassed with a powerful laser, so Nick Fury sought a stealth carrier for the US Air Force’s laser cannon.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. and the US Air Force joined forces to launch the Hunting Operation.
• Wang Khan told Gwen he had brought her family out of New York and asked her to complete the Compound Eyes Targeting System for the Mars Armor.

Osborn Industries’ Mars Warriors attacked the Calamity Beasts in New York, but their weapons and armor failed to overcome the beasts’ strength and abilities. The Giant Wolf and Giant Crocodile slaughtered soldiers and shrugged off their attacks as President Ellis watched the battle turn against him.

• More than a hundred Osprey helicopters delivered Mars Warriors into New York, where a squad of twenty attacked the Giant Wolf Calamity Beast.
• The Giant Wolf dodged the squad’s crossfire, leaped onto rooftops, killed several Mars Warriors, and wiped out the entire squad within two minutes.
• President Ellis insisted that Osborn’s main force could still defeat the Calamity Beasts, while Wang Khan criticized the knockoff Mars Armor.
• Eight hundred Mars Warriors attacked the Giant Crocodile Calamity Beast, but its Quake Force Field deflected their bullets and missiles.
• The deflected missiles devastated nearby districts without harming the Giant Crocodile, leaving Ellis terrified and Wang Khan declaring Osborn Industries defeated.

After the Mars Warriors were defeated, President Ellis blamed Osborn Industries and canceled its contract, while Norman Osborn planned to improve the Mars Armor by targeting the Umbrella Corporation. Meanwhile, Tony Stark, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Air Force prepared to attack the Calamity Beasts with a Helicarrier-mounted laser cannon, but Wang Khan learned of their approach.

• President Ellis canceled the contract with Osborn Industries and publicly blamed its Mars Armor for the soldiers’ deaths.
• Norman Osborn lost control to the Green Goblin, who decided to target the Umbrella Corporation to improve the Mars Armor and reclaim his reputation.
• Tony Stark, Nick Fury, and Colonel James Rhodes joined forces aboard a Helicarrier carrying a laser cannon, planning to target the Golden Eagle first.
• Red Queen detected the Helicarrier by satellite, and Wang Khan learned that Tony Stark had found a potential way to fight the Calamity Beasts.

Wang Khan prepared for S.H.I.E.L.D.’s attack when Green Goblin raided his villa and demanded the Mars Armor data. Wang Khan revealed that he had orchestrated the crisis, transformed into Hulk, and killed Norman Osborn, leaving his plan against the Malick Family to continue.

• Red Queen told Wang Khan that the laser weapons and targeting system had passed their hardware tests, and predicted that S.H.I.E.L.D. would attack the next morning.
• Green Goblin bombed Wang Khan’s villa, killing several bodyguards, and Wang Khan sent Gwen’s mother and her brothers to shelter in the basement.
• Green Goblin confronted Wang Khan and demanded the Mars Armor data, while Wang Khan recognized him as Norman Osborn and mocked his condition.
• Wang Khan revealed that he had created the spectacle as Shockwave Man, then transformed into Hulk and overpowered Green Goblin.
• Norman offered to transfer his shares in exchange for his life, but Wang Khan refused and killed him, saying he would deal with the Malick Family next.