Chapter Summaries

After Gwen fled the Pacific Fleet battle, President Ellis faced the United States' catastrophic naval losses and planned to blame Wang Khan and seize Umbrella Corporation. Before his plan could proceed, Shockwave Man attacked.

• Gwen announced Hydra's rule over the world and escaped aboard the Golden Eagle while the fleet was unable to stop her.
• Ellis learned that the Pacific Fleet had lost four aircraft carriers, one was critically damaged, and only one remained intact across the entire United States Navy.
• Fearing he would lose the presidency and that Wang Khan would become more powerful, Ellis ordered the media to claim Wang Khan was Shockwave Man and had sabotaged the fleets.
• Ellis ordered an elite force to prepare to storm New York, kill Wang Khan, and take control of Umbrella Corporation and the Justice Gundam.
• An alarm sounded as Shockwave Man attacked Ellis and the war room.

Wang Khan overwhelmed the White House’s defenses, exposed President Ellis and announced the destruction of America’s fleets to a worldwide audience. Just as he prepared to kill Ellis, a laser blasted him away and Justice Gundam arrived.

• Wang Khan used the Space Stone to destroy the Mars Warriors and the White House’s automated defenses.
• Wang Khan tore Ellis and the others out of the bunker, killed the security officers, and threatened Ellis on a live broadcast.
• Tony wanted to go help Ellis, but Pepper Potts and Banner stopped him because his legs were broken and Wang Khan was too powerful.
• Wang Khan reached Ellis and prepared to kill him, but a laser struck him and Justice Gundam appeared.

Justice Gundam rescued Ellis and fought Shockwave Man at the White House while Tony persuaded Banner to reconsider combining Gamma and Tesseract energy. After their clash destroyed the White House and ended the livestream, Shockwave Man shrank and secretly entered Justice Gundam’s cockpit.

• Red Queen piloted Justice Gundam to save Ellis, preserving the United States and allowing Wang Khan to avoid raising suspicion by fighting Shockwave Man himself.
• Shockwave Man grew to six meters and battled Justice Gundam as Tony encouraged Banner to revisit his Gamma experiments.
• Shockwave Man used Space Stone energy, prompting Tony and Banner to plan an experiment combining Gamma and Tesseract energy.
• Justice Gundam drew its Battleship Blade and clashed with Shockwave Man, destroying the White House and nearby surveillance equipment.
• Shockwave Man shrank to normal size, created a false trail suggesting he had escaped underground, and slipped into Justice Gundam’s cockpit.

After defeating Shockwave Man, Wang Khan forced President Ellis to accept demands and Umbrella Corporation capitalized on the battle by selling its Mars Armor and Justice Gundam. The chapter ended with Tony Stark ordering a Justice Gundam from Wang Khan.

• Wang Khan ordered Ellis to lift the ban on Umbrella Corporation products, allow his people to deal with remaining New York forces, and stop interfering with Umbrella Corporation.
• The surviving generals abandoned Ellis and left to support Umbrella Corporation, while Ellis angrily raged at them.
• Military representatives sought to buy Mars Armor, and Wang Khan raised prices and refused to offer installment plans or credit.
• Wang Khan agreed to sell the Justice Gundam to the Eastern Great Power and announced that Umbrella Corporation would sell the machine worldwide.
• Countries and wealthy buyers rushed to order Justice Gundams after seeing the machine defeat Shockwave Man.
• Tony Stark called Wang Khan and ordered a Justice Gundam without taking the offered discount.

After the United States lost its military leverage, Ellis faced pressure from other countries to allow Umbrella Corporation to export its weapons. Wang Khan lifted the company's dependence on the U.S. dollar and prepared to expand Umbrella Corporation's influence worldwide.

• Foreign media condemned plans to export Gundams and Mars Armor, but Ellis was pressured by other countries and the Five Eyes Alliance to lift the restrictions.
• Ellis lifted the export ban and personally contacted Wang Khan to mend their relationship.
• Wang Khan had Gwen negotiate weapons sales with foreign representatives and sent Mars Warriors to eliminate the Old Guard forces in New York, including Ellis's brother-in-law.
• After the First Lady separated from Ellis, Gwen warned Wang Khan that the Federal Reserve was preparing a major move.
• Wang Khan ordered Umbrella Corporation to prioritize barter over U.S. dollar payments and give weapons first to countries supplying its most urgently needed materials.

Umbrella Corporation’s assets surpassed one trillion after it sold its first Zaku to the Eastern Great Power, and Wang Khan expanded the company’s strength by acquiring a thousand Russian recruits and turning them into an Inhuman Legion. Alarmed that rival nations had obtained Zakus, the Five Eyes Alliance agreed to try hacking Umbrella Corporation’s servers and stealing its technology.

• Appraisal agencies valued Umbrella Corporation’s assets above one trillion after the Eastern Great Power bought the first mass-produced Zaku, which Wang Khan explained was cheaper and harder to pilot than Justice Gundam.
• The Polar Bear secured the second Zaku by sending Umbrella Corporation a thousand highly skilled Russian women, whom Wang Khan had transformed into an Inhuman Legion.
• The United States and Western countries grew anxious as the Eastern Great Power and the Polar Bear obtained Zakus before them.
• Boris Johnson proposed that the Five Eyes Alliance hack Umbrella Corporation’s servers while its technicians remotely supported mecha repairs abroad.
• Ellis accepted Boris Johnson’s plan to steal Umbrella Corporation’s core technology.

Wang Khan ordered Umbrella to announce its new construction materials and Space Elevator project, while reflecting on how the Avengers could better protect Earth by cooperating with authorities. Thor then broke into a secret sea prison, freed Loki, and demanded to know the secret passage back to Asgard.

• Gwen briefed Wang Khan on New York’s construction progress and the Avengers’ activities, including the Tesseract’s instability.
• Wang Khan told Gwen to monitor the Tesseract and ordered Umbrella to announce its new materials and the start of Space Elevator construction.
• Wang Khan considered how the Avengers should join forces with authorities and support one another rather than operate as isolated vigilantes.
• Thor stormed into the secret sea prison, using his Thunder Battle-Axe to break through its gates and incapacitate the guards without killing them.
• Thor reached Loki’s cell, freed him, and demanded that Loki reveal the secret passage back to Asgard.

At George Stacy’s mayoral celebration, Wang Khan answered questions about mech exports while Secretary of State Ross traveled to Britain to discuss stealing Umbrella Corporation technology. Boris Johnson revealed that Britain had recovered a Leviathan and built the five-meter Britannia Armor, whose main weakness was its control system.

• George Stacy celebrated becoming New York’s mayor and credited Umbrella Corporation’s support for the city’s future.
• Ross became Secretary of State and secretly visited Britain to discuss stealing Umbrella Corporation technology with Boris Johnson.
• Ross offered Britain a group of elite hackers, including Scorpio, but Boris dismissed the goal of stealing Umbrella’s core technology.
• Boris told Ross that Britain had shifted its research toward alien technology and led him to a secret base.
• Ross found a Leviathan Landing Craft that Britain had taken from a U.S. secret base and saw the Britannia Armor, a five-meter mech built with alien biological skeletal technology.
• Boris said the Britannia Armor needed the Justice Gundam’s control system, making it the target of their plan.

Ross learned that Britain planned to use its flawed Britannia Armor to pressure Umbrella Corporation into surrendering its technology, while Ellis secretly prepared a cyberattack. Wang Khan discovered signs that Thor and Loki had returned to Asgard and found that the supposed secret passage was a deception.

• Ross recognized the Britannia Armor as a stitched-together Chitauri mech and questioned Boris Johnson about its unresolved energy and control problems.
• Boris Johnson explained that Britain intended to use the armor to force Umbrella Corporation to hand over its technology, and Ross agreed to report the plan to Ellis.
• Ellis gathered hackers and secretly sent them to Britain to prepare a cyberattack against Umbrella Corporation.
• After seeing news of Dr. Selvig's arrest at Stonehenge, Wang Khan suspected that Thor: The Dark World was beginning and asked Red Queen to investigate Jane Foster and Thor.
• Red Queen found that Thor had taken Loki from the Sea Prison, so Wang Khan went to the trench where Loki had supposedly returned to Asgard years earlier.
• Wang Khan inspected the trench and discovered that it was not a secret teleportation passage, realizing Loki had fooled everyone.

Wang Khan concluded that Earth’s hidden portals shifted location, then discovered a powerful human consciousness attacking Red Queen through the internet. He identified a likely Inhuman hacker secretly held by MI6 and ordered Red Queen to find his full details.

• Wang Khan and Red Queen theorized that Earth’s portals moved with celestial changes, possibly explaining mysterious disappearances and Thor and Jane Foster’s vanishing.
• Wang Khan returned to Umbrella Headquarters and planned to visit London to pursue the Reality Stone, but Red Queen warned him of an unusually powerful cyberattack.
• Red Queen repelled the attack, but a strange human consciousness briefly penetrated her defenses and leaked information.
• Wang Khan joined the counterattack, traced the assault to Britain, and suspected an Inhuman whose ability let them project their consciousness into the internet.
• Red Queen found that MI6 had secretly arrested a super hacker two years earlier, and Wang Khan ordered her to retrieve his complete personal information.

Loki told Thor that Jane Foster carried the Aether, a Dark Elf weapon, and warned that Malekith would soon come to reclaim it. With the passage to Asgard closed for two days, Thor struggled over whether taking Jane home would endanger Asgard, while Malekith prepared to attack Earth.

• Loki identified the power inside Jane Foster as the Aether and said the Dark Elf leader Malekith was still alive and coming for it.
• Loki said the passage to Asgard would not open for two days, leaving Thor, Loki, and Jane Foster stranded in London until then.
• Jane worried that the Dark Elves would bring disaster to Earth, and Loki warned Thor that taking her to Asgard could bring war to his homeland.
• Thor began wavering over whether to take Jane to Asgard, while Loki watched him and continued his psychological pressure.
• Malekith awakened aboard the Dark Elves' mothership and ordered his forces to reclaim the Aether from Midgard before using the celestial alignment to engulf the universe in darkness.

Umbrella Corporation suspended Mars Armor support in Britain after blaming the British government for a cyberattack, and Boris Johnson unveiled the Britannia Armor to reassure the public. As the world focused on Britain, the Dark Elves’ mothership arrived overhead, setting the stage for an invasion.

• Umbrella Corporation blamed Britain for the cyberattack and disabled Mars Armor support, leaving British forces vulnerable and triggering public anger and protests.
• Boris Johnson denied that Britain had attacked Umbrella Corporation and announced the Britannia Armor, claiming it could match Justice Gundam and Zaku.
• Wang Khan and Gwen criticized the Britannia Armor’s design, and Wang Khan predicted that a powerful alien invasion was about to begin.
• Wang Khan said Umbrella Corporation would intervene against the invaders after Britain’s politicians faced the danger without its protection.
• Ross visited Britain to discuss importing the Britannia Armor as the Dark Elves’ mothership arrived above the island.

Boris Johnson ordered Britannia Armor into combat after Dark Elves invaded London, despite warnings that the Justice Gundam control system might harm pilots. The chapter ended with more than a hundred suits charging toward the alien mothership.

• Boris Johnson promised Congress he would force Umbrella Corporation to share its technology within three months or resign as prime minister.
• The chief engineer told Boris Johnson the Justice Gundam control system worked but might damage pilots’ brains if used too long, and Boris ordered combat training to begin anyway.
• An alarm announced an alien invasion, and Dark Elves began destroying London as Malekis and Algrim headed toward Thor and his companions’ hotel.
• Boris Johnson saw the Dark Elves and their mothership on surveillance footage and ordered Britannia Armor deployed despite the pilots’ lack of training.
• More than a hundred suits of Britannia Armor charged out of the Secret Base toward the Dark Elves’ mothership.

Thor, Loki, and Jane Foster fled the Dark Elves as the Battle of London began, with Britannia Armor units joining the fight. Wang Khan and Gwen watched the battle and revealed that the stolen system used in the armor would cause Britain internal trouble.

• Thor prepared to fight the Dark Elves, but Loki said he would flee unless Thor found a plane to take them through a secret passage back to Asgard.
• Thor, Loki, and Jane hijacked a police car and drove toward the outskirts while Malekith tracked Jane and prepared to pursue them.
• Britannia Armor units arrived in London and began fighting the Dark Elves, shifting the battle in Britain's favor.
• Algrim directed Dark Elf squads against the armor, and a Black Hole Grenade crushed one unit into a fist-sized iron ball.
• Boris Johnson ordered the remaining Britannia Armor units to attack the Dark Elf mothership and celebrated their prospects against the Justice Gundam.
• Wang Khan and Gwen watched footage of the battle, identified the Britannia Armor's biological-bone construction, and Wang Khan said the stolen operating system would cause Britain internal trouble.

The Britannia Armor suffered heavy losses against the Dark Elves, and Wang Khan revealed that its stolen control system would overload pilots after fifteen minutes of combat. When the system failed during an aerial assault, the Dark Elves destroyed the immobilized armor, leaving Boris Johnson to learn that Umbrella Corporation had sabotaged the technology.

• Dark Elf group tactics caused the Britannia Armor’s casualties to rise, and Boris Johnson ordered the remaining units to attack the mothership despite warnings that they could not break through.
• Wang Khan told Gwen that the stolen control system contained a flaw that would overload pilots after fifteen minutes, while he predicted Britain’s armor would collapse.
• Boris Johnson ordered more than sixty Britannia Armor units to charge the mothership, and Algrim sent Scythe Flyers to intercept them.
• The Britannia Armor struggled in aerial combat, and its numbers were cut in half in less than two minutes.
• At the fifteen-minute mark, the armor units froze or fell from the sky, allowing the Dark Elves to destroy them.
• An engineer reported abnormal pilot brainwaves, and a neurologist confirmed that Umbrella Corporation’s control system was flawed.

The Dark Elves destroyed London’s defenses while pursuing the Aether, and Thor, Loki, and Jane escaped aboard the Airwolf Fighter toward Asgard. After Malekith devastated London in anger, Wang Khan prepared to intervene in the Nine Realms conflict and punish Britain’s politicians.

• The Britannia Armor suits failed after their fifteen-minute operating limit, leaving London defenseless as the Dark Elves destroyed Buckingham Palace and killed civilians and police.
• Thor, Loki, and Jane escaped from London in Tony’s Airwolf Fighter, with Malekith and the Dark Elf mothership pursuing them for the Aether.
• Loki concealed the Airwolf Fighter with a magical fog, allowing Thor’s group to leave Midgard and head toward Asgard.
• Malekith realized the Aether had escaped and blasted London into ruins before hiding the mothership from surveillance.
• Wang Khan praised the Dark Elves’ stealth technology and ordered his operation to begin, determined to intervene and teach Britain’s politicians a lasting lesson.

After London’s destruction, Boris Johnson blamed Umbrella Corporation and claimed Britain had defeated the Dark Elves. Wang Khan explained that the Nine Realms would soon overlap at Greenwich, and Gwen warned Boris Johnson that another alien attack was imminent.

• Boris Johnson declared Britain victorious, praised the fallen Britannia Armor, and ordered the media to promote his version of events.
• Gwen told Wang Khan that Britain demanded one trillion dollars in compensation and was blaming Umbrella Corporation for London’s destruction.
• Wang Khan explained that the Dark Elves had come for the Aether and that the Nine Realms would align, with the spatial overlap centered on Greenwich in seventy-five hours.
• Wang Khan instructed Gwen to secure Kevin Mitnick and demand that Britain admit its government had carried out the hacking attack.
• Gwen rejected Boris Johnson’s demands and warned him that portals would appear in Greenwich in three days, leaving him panicked.

After London was devastated by the Dark Elves, Boris Johnson resigned and the new prime minister sought Umbrella Corporation’s help as the world learned of the coming invasion. The Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. arrived in Britain, where Wang Khan descended in Justice Gundam.

• The opposition forced Boris Johnson to resign after London’s destruction, and the Iron Lady became prime minister.
• The Iron Lady admitted Britain had directed hackers to attack Umbrella Corporation and sent Kevin Mitnick to its New York headquarters.
• News of the Dark Elves and the approaching Celestial Convergence spread, prompting panic and mass flight from London.
• The Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Helicarrier arrived in Britain as the next invasion neared.
• Tony, Captain America, Hawkeye, Skye, and Professor Hulk gathered to discuss tactics, but Wang Khan arrived in Justice Gundam.

Wang Khan returned to Britain as Umbrella Corporation negotiated compensation with the New Cabinet for the stolen armor system. When talks over the 100-billion-dollar claim stalled, he proposed rebuilding London in exchange for ownership of the city and rent from its royal residents.

• Wang Khan greeted the Avengers and told Captain America that Britain had restored support for its Mars Armors and received two thousand more from Umbrella Corporation.
• Wang Khan and Gwen visited the British government base, where Wang Khan saw workers building Britannia Armors in protective suits because the Chitauri Virus remained a threat.
• Gwen demanded that Britain remove Umbrella Corporation’s stolen armor system and pay 100 billion dollars in compensation.
• Iron Lady argued that Britain could not afford the sum, and Wang Khan offered to rebuild London in exchange for ownership of the city, with the royal family allowed to live in its landmarks by paying rent.

Wang Khan pressured Britain’s New Cabinet to transfer ownership of London’s ruins to Umbrella Corporation in exchange for rebuilding the city. The Cabinet accepted, and Wang Khan promised to make London the world’s second Space City.

• Wang Khan argued that Britain lacked the construction teams to clear and rebuild London, and warned that Umbrella Corporation would withdraw its military support if the deal failed.
• Wang Khan gave the Cabinet two days to decide and threatened to promise world leaders at the United Nations that he would destroy every Dark Elf in the British Isles, regardless of the damage to Britain.
• The Iron Lady and the Cabinet recognized that other nations would support Wang Khan’s plan to prevent the Dark Elves from reaching their capitals.
• The Cabinet agreed to transfer London’s land to Umbrella Corporation in exchange for restoring the city, including Buckingham Palace and Big Ben.
• After receiving the Cabinet’s letter of guarantee, Wang Khan promised to rebuild London as the world’s second Space City.