Chapter Summaries

Tony was freed from Loki’s control as the Avengers and Mars Warriors fought the Chitauri in New York. With George Stacy coordinating a defensive line, Loki sent a Leviathan through the wormhole, escalating the battle.

• Skye’s Quake Shield deflected Tony’s missiles, and Thor struck Tony with lightning and his hammer to break Loki’s control.
• Captain America woke Tony, who learned from Jarvis that Loki had controlled him with the Mind Scepter.
• Mars Warriors joined the fight, and George Stacy told Tony that Wang Khan had predicted New York would be Loki’s target and prepared the force two days earlier.
• George said he had 310 Mars Warriors and an emergency unit in the city, then followed Captain America’s orders to defend the surrounding streets.
• Loki ordered all armed forces to attack, and a Leviathan emerged from the wormhole.

Tony, George, and the military fought the Chitauri invasion of New York as Loki’s forces escalated their attack. The city’s defenses were under pressure, and the White House prepared air reinforcements.

• Tony lured a Leviathan into George’s ambush, where George used Wang Khan’s improved Miao Dao to sever its head.
• George’s strike encouraged the Mars Warriors, who shot down Chitauri aircraft until dozens of Leviathans overwhelmed their first line of defense.
• Thor reached Stark Tower and fought Loki, who gained the upper hand with the Mind Scepter.
• A 5,000-soldier emergency force led by 1,000 Mars Warriors and 300 tanks entered New York and clashed with the Chitauri vanguard.
• Ross briefed Ellis on the three battlefronts and reported that twenty F22s and thirty Airwolf IIs carrying Mars Warriors were en route as reinforcements.

Spider-Man protected a kindergarten during the Chitauri invasion, but after the children were caught in a Leviathan's attack, he destroyed the craft and rescued them. At Umbrella Corporation, Wang Khan explained to Gwen that the battle could not end until the Chitauri mothership or the wormhole was dealt with, and that his secret weapon was not ready for space combat.

• Spider-Man disarmed Chitauri soldiers attacking a kindergarten, hid the children in its basement, and fought the invaders around the school.
• Spider-Man tried to stop a Leviathan from reaching the kindergarten, but the craft destroyed nearby buildings and blasted him with energy beams.
• When the Leviathan fired on the kindergarten, Parker attacked in fury, killed the soldiers aboard, and smashed the craft's head apart.
• Parker dug through the kindergarten ruins, rescued the children and two teachers from the basement, and led them toward a subway station.
• Wang Khan and Gwen watched Umbrella Corporation's forces hold off Chitauri attackers, including two Leviathans, with help from three Airwolf Fighters.
• Wang Khan told Gwen that they had to wait for the Chitauri mothership to approach because his secret weapon was not suited for space combat, while the wormhole's energy shield prevented them from closing it with the scepter.

Loki’s Chitauri forces struggled against Earth’s defenders until their mothership entered the battle and devastated New York. As Ross urged President Ellis to use nuclear weapons, Wang Khan claimed his shield could withstand the attack and warned that the aliens might have defenses against nuclear weapons too.

• Loki mocked the Chitauri leader for failing to conquer New York, so the leader piloted the mothership through the wormhole.
• The Chitauri mothership destroyed most of New York with its cannons, but Umbrella Corporation’s shield protected its headquarters.
• The Chitauri attacked the resistance forces, inflicting heavy losses, while Banner’s Hulk broke through to Stark Tower.
• Ross urged Ellis to launch a nuclear bomb, but Ellis hesitated over the deaths and lasting contamination it would cause.
• Wang Khan told Ellis he could sink the mothership, showed the group Umbrella Corporation’s shield, and argued that nuclear weapons might not defeat alien defenses.

Wang Khan deployed the Justice Gundam to destroy the Chitauri forces and attack their mothership before the government could launch nuclear weapons at New York. As Justice Gundam tore into the mothership, Captain America led the Avengers toward Stark Tower to close the wormhole.

• Ellis agreed to give Wang Khan ten minutes to stop the mothership before considering a nuclear strike.
• Wang Khan left Gwen behind and piloted Justice Gundam into the battle, telling Tony to focus on catching Loki.
• Justice Gundam dodged the Chitauri’s attacks, sliced two Leviathan Landing Craft in half, and destroyed hundreds of biological soldiers with a missile volley.
• Justice Gundam combined its Battleship Blades and cut through the mothership’s hull, then charged inside to wreak destruction.
• Captain America rallied the Avengers to close the wormhole while Wang Khan attacked the mothership.

Wang Khan crippled the Chitauri Mothership and secured its Warp Engine, then left Justice Gundam to retrieve it while he went after the Avengers and the Tesseract. After the Avengers closed the wormhole, an unknown attacker knocked Tony off Stark Tower and claimed the Tesseract.

• Wang Khan found the Chitauri Mothership’s Warp Engine, and Red Queen marked the parts he needed to preserve.
• Wang Khan severed the engine’s connections, causing the mothership to crash into New York, and ordered Justice Gundam to recover the intact Warp Engine.
• Red Queen informed Wang Khan that Loki had been defeated and the Avengers were preparing to shut down the Wormhole Generator, so Wang Khan left in his Vibranium suit to pursue the Space Stone.
• Captain America used the Mind Scepter to destroy the Wormhole Generator, closing the wormhole and leaving the Tesseract on the rooftop.
• As Tony reached for the Tesseract, a force hurled him off Stark Tower, and the attacker claimed the Tesseract.

Wang Khan fought the Avengers on Stark Tower, overpowering them and shattering Thor's Hammer while arguing that Earth had to protect itself. He collapsed the tower and disappeared, leaving the Avengers behind and turning down Tony's request for help through Red Queen.

• Wang Khan punched Hulk off Stark Tower, flung Hawkeye from the roof with Metal Control, and blocked Thor's attack before absorbing and returning its lightning.
• Wang Khan trapped Captain America and Skye in sludge, then caught Thor's tracking hammer and crushed it with his full strength.
• Wang Khan struck Thor away after shattering the hammer, while Hulk rejoined the Avengers and the team surrounded him.
• Red Queen, impersonating Wang Khan, refused Tony's request for help, and Wang Khan took control of Tony's Iron Man suit.
• Wang Khan told the Avengers that Earth had to defend itself from outside threats and explained the Kree's role in creating the Inhumans.
• Wang Khan brought Stark Tower crashing down, forcing Tony to rescue Captain America and Hawkeye while Wang Khan vanished.

After the Battle of New York, Wang Khan hid the Tesseract and Warp Engine at Laboratory Zero while planning Umbrella Corporation’s next step: a Space Elevator. At a Pentagon meeting about the invasion’s aftermath, he proposed rebuilding New York as a future Space City.

• Red Queen destroyed the Chitauri Mothership’s control center, shutting down the invading forces and ending the Battle of New York.
• Wang Khan returned to Laboratory Zero with the Tesseract, stored it in a concealed isolation chamber, and confirmed that Red Queen had brought in the Warp Engine.
• Wang Khan told Gwen that Umbrella Corporation would continue developing its Space Elevator despite his interest in the Warp Engine.
• President Ellis arrived in New York to oversee relief efforts, then summoned Wang Khan, the Avengers, and Maria Hill to the Pentagon to discuss the aftermath.
• Captain America, Tony, and Banner offered views on finding Shockwave Man and recovering the Tesseract, while Tony proposed funding civilian housing.
• Wang Khan interrupted Tony and proposed building humanity’s first Space Elevator in New York to attract industries and transform the city into a Space City.

Wang Khan proposed rebuilding New York under Umbrella Corporation’s control for ten years, using a Space Elevator to attract investment and restore the city. Ellis supported the plan in principle but said he needed to discuss it with others, then turned to Maria Hill as the tribunal was about to begin.

• Ellis asked Wang Khan whether the Space Elevator could work, and Wang Khan explained that his advances in materials science could solve the cable problem within a year.
• Wang Khan described how the Space Elevator could draw technology, tourism, and entertainment companies to New York and make the city more attractive than ever.
• Wang Khan asked for the right to use all of New York for ten years, with Umbrella Corporation controlling its planning and construction before returning the land and buildings.
• Tony and Ellis considered the proposal’s risks and potential gains, including the possibility that New York’s land values would rise sharply if the Space Elevator succeeded.
• Ellis said he personally supported Wang Khan’s plan but needed to consult the relevant people, then turned to Maria Hill as the tribunal was about to begin.

Wang Khan blamed S.H.I.E.L.D. for the Battle of New York and warned that the Chitauri could return now that Earth's coordinates were exposed. After securing ten-year land-use rights for all of New York, he explained his ambitions for Umbrella Corporation, but a strange force suddenly separated him from Gwen and sealed them away from the main world.

• Wang Khan confronted Maria Hill over the Battle of New York, and Hill offered to resign while asking that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s DC headquarters be preserved.
• Wang Khan presented casualty figures and explained that the Chitauri invasion had exposed Earth's coordinates, prompting Tony and Banner to warn that the Chitauri could launch a stronger attack.
• Wang Khan left the negotiations, confident that Ancient One and Odin could protect Earth and that Umbrella Corporation would grow powerful enough to defend it in the future.
• Wang Khan obtained ten-year land-use rights for all of New York, then told Gwen that Umbrella Corporation would use the decade to expand beyond Earth and terraform planets.
• A tremendous force pulled Wang Khan away from Gwen as glasslike crystals appeared and isolated the area from the main world.

Wang Khan met Ancient One in the Mirror Dimension and persuaded her that he intended to use the Infinity Stones to strengthen Earth, earning her preliminary trust. A month later, Hydra accelerated Project Insight in response to Umbrella Corporation’s Space Elevator plan and began plotting to target Wang Khan.

• Ancient One confronted Wang Khan about his plans for the Infinity Stones and warned him about the dangers of gathering them.
• Wang Khan argued that Asgard would not be a reliable guardian after Ragnarok and demonstrated that he could wield the Space Stone, convincing Ancient One that he meant to protect Earth.
• Ancient One left after telling Wang Khan she would continue watching him, and Wang Khan reassured Gwen that their meeting had gone well.
• Over the next month, Tony returned to secluded experiments, while Alexander Pierce became S.H.I.E.L.D. Director and Hydra gained tighter control of the agency.
• Pierce ordered John Garrett to use a planned attack on the White House to pressure the US Government and speed up Project Insight, and Garrett said he had a candidate to target Wang Khan.

Umbrella Corporation rapidly cleared New York’s ruins and began rebuilding the city with its advanced robots and construction materials, silencing critics of Wang Khan’s ten-year land-use deal. The chapter revealed that Umbrella employees secretly produced the materials by manipulating construction waste with their powers.

• Critics called Wang Khan’s ten-year agreement to rebuild New York a disastrous business deal.
• Umbrella Corporation cleared New York’s ruins in one month and laid new foundation material across the site.
• Christie reported on Micro Magnetic Robots that installed a massive factory roof in two minutes and twenty seconds.
• Christie showed that Umbrella’s new building material resisted a heavy sledgehammer and was made from industrial waste.
• Two Umbrella employees entered a sealed processing plant, where construction waste separated and reformed into the new material without machinery.

Wang Khan refused Ross’s demand for Gundam technology and offered to sell finished Justice Gundams for $100 billion each, while Ross struggled to fund a purchase or develop the technology himself. As New York’s reconstruction progressed rapidly, Wang Khan invited Gwen to join him on a trip to Mars.

• Wang Khan told Gwen to reject Ross’s request for Gundam technology and quote him $100 billion per finished unit with no discount.
• Gwen informed Ross of the price and defended it by arguing that Justice Gundam was worth more than an aircraft carrier.
• Ross learned that military scientists needed ten years and $10 billion just to develop the Magnetic Bearing System, then worried that the military could not afford a Justice Gundam.
• A month later, New York’s reconstruction had advanced so quickly that the city could be completed in half a year, and the Trump family prepared to make trouble.
• Wang Khan summoned Gwen to Laboratory Zero, showed her a spaceship, and invited her on a sightseeing trip to Mars.

Wang Khan completed the Archangel, a spacecraft powered by a newly built Warp Engine, and took Gwen on its maiden voyage. As the ship warped toward Mars, the Ancient One and Wakanda detected its departure, but T'Chaka decided Wakanda would not investigate.

• Wang Khan showed Gwen the 345-meter Archangel and explained its weapons, crew capacity, and ability to carry ten Justice Gundams.
• Red Queen joined Wang Khan and Gwen in the command room as the Archangel took off from Laboratory Zero without the US military detecting it.
• Wang Khan told Gwen the Archangel could reach Mars in five minutes, and Red Queen prepared them for warp travel.
• The Ancient One sensed the Archangel's launch and considered Wang Khan a possible Guardian of the material world.
• Shuri reported the spacecraft's energy signature to T'Chaka, who dismissed it after learning it had left Earth, while T'Challa remained silent.

Wang Khan and Gwen explored Mars and devised a plan to make it habitable, then rejected Venus as too hostile and returned to Earth. As Wang Khan prepared to study the Space Stone, Gwen brought him news that someone wanted to terminate their land agreement.

• Wang Khan and Gwen landed on Mars, where Red Queen explained the planet’s conditions and ice deposits.
• Wang Khan proposed strengthening Mars’s magnetic field with metals from intercepted meteorites, then melting its polar ice with the Archangel’s cannons.
• Wang Khan and Gwen spent two more days on Mars before detouring to Venus.
• After encountering Venus’s extreme heat, pressure, storms, and lightning, Wang Khan abandoned the idea of transforming it, and they collected soil samples.
• Wang Khan and Gwen collected materials from the Moon for making Vibranium and returned to Earth.
• Gwen told Wang Khan that someone wanted to terminate their land agreement.

Wang Khan ordered a brutal response after the Zhou Pu Family and allied business representatives plotted to reclaim New York and steal Umbrella Corporation’s technology. The chapter ended with Mike’s Mars Warriors carrying out Wang Khan’s order to exterminate the Zhou Pu Family while forcing the other representatives to watch.

• Gwen warned Wang Khan that letting the Zhou Pu Family reclaim land could encourage others to challenge Umbrella Corporation’s ten-year rights to New York.
• Yiqianka Zhoupu gathered representatives from powerful families and businesses, proposing that they join forces to take land and technology from Umbrella Corporation.
• The representatives agreed that New York’s rebuilding offered enormous profits and toasted the Chitauri for creating the opportunity.
• Mars Warriors attacked Yiqianka’s villa, killed its guards, and captured 104 Zhou Pu Family members along with several dozen representatives.
• Wang Khan ordered Mike to kill everyone bearing the Zhou Pu name or married into the family, and to make the other representatives watch the massacre.

Aldrich Killian demonstrated A.I.M.’s Extremis Virus to General Ross, claiming it enhanced strength and speed while admitting it had a side effect. The demonstration left Ross watching an Extremis Soldier gain the upper hand against a Mars Warrior, while Killian looked to claim a share of the military industry from Umbrella Corporation.

• With Umbrella Corporation’s New York operations attracting spies, the company diverted personnel to counterintelligence.
• After his setback against Wang Khan, Ross met Aldrich Killian, who proposed military cooperation on A.I.M.’s Extremis Virus.
• Killian demonstrated the virus by turning his bald subordinate red-hot and explaining that its side effect still needed to be overcome.
• Ross brought A.I.M. representatives to a Mars Warrior training base, where the soldier Arthur faced the Extremis Soldier.
• Arthur’s gunfire failed to stop the opponent, whose speed and strength increased as his body heated up and caught fire.
• As the Extremis Soldier gained the advantage, Killian announced his intention to take a share of the military industry from Umbrella Corporation.

Ross agreed to fund Killian’s Extremis Virus project, hoping to undercut Umbrella Corporation’s Mars Armor business and gain control of Giant Mecha technology. Back in New York, Wang Khan proposed using sonar to detect spies, leaving Gwen questioning how it could work on land.

• Killian told Ross the Extremis Virus caused brain damage after prolonged combat, while concealing its other dangers, and quoted a projected mass-production cost below one hundred thousand dollars per dose.
• Ross promised military investment and planned to use Extremis Soldiers to undermine Umbrella Corporation and secure Giant Mecha technology.
• Gwen warned Wang Khan that rising espionage threats could expose the Inhuman Legion and suggested registering everyone entering New York and using Red Queen to find spies.
• Wang Khan agreed that secrecy outweighed construction delays, but noted that citywide cameras could not stop elite agents conducting quick in-and-out operations.
• Wang Khan suggested using sonar, combined with Red Queen’s database, to detect spies more efficiently, and Gwen asked how sonar could work on land.

Wang Khan built a citywide walking-frequency surveillance system for Umbrella Corporation as the presidential election ended with Ellis’s re-election. At Ellis’s victory banquet, Gwen told Wang Khan that Ross had restarted the Super Soldier Program with A.I.M. president Aldrich Killian, and Wang Khan ordered an investigation into the company.

• Wang Khan used the Meditation Laboratory to build a sonar system and installed Kinetic Sensors throughout New York so Red Queen could identify unfamiliar walking frequencies.
• Ellis won re-election with Umbrella Corporation’s financial support and George Stacy as his running mate.
• Wang Khan attended Ellis’s victory banquet and danced with Gwen to discourage other guests from approaching him.
• Gwen told Wang Khan that Ross had restarted the Super Soldier Program with A.I.M. and its president, Aldrich Killian.
• Wang Khan expressed interest in A.I.M.’s Extremis Virus and told Gwen to send Inhumans to investigate the company carefully.

Killian demonstrated the Extremis Virus’s ability to regenerate Jessie’s hand and persuaded the vice president to help him take the presidency in exchange for restoring his daughter’s lost leg. Back at his Miami hideout, Killian sidelined Maya Hansen and prepared a staged performance involving the unstable Test Subject 17.

• Killian showed the vice president Jessie enduring a painful Extremis treatment that regrew her missing hand.
• Killian proposed that the vice president become president after the current president’s death and promised to regenerate his daughter’s lost leg; the vice president agreed to cooperate.
• Killian returned to his Miami hideout, where Maya Hansen warned him that the third stage of her research remained unstable and advised against working with the military.
• Killian dismissed Maya’s concerns and had Mellon take her away.
• Killian ordered Test Subject 17 awakened for a final mission, despite her unstable condition and the danger that she could destroy a building.