Chapter Summaries

Norman Osborn bit down on a fragment of God's flesh and blood in the Mariana Trench, enduring its deadly extremes as the energy triggered a violent evolution in his Godzilla genes. The fragment continued to resist inside his mouth, threatening to explode while Norman struggled to contain and digest it.

• Norman Osborn clamped his jaws around the fragment, and its extreme cold and heat melted his teeth, destroyed his mouth tissue, and evaporated his Nuclear blood.
• The fragment's primordial energy flooded Norman's body, attacking his core consciousness and igniting the Fire of evolution within his Godzilla genes.
• Norman's cells, muscles, and blood vessels tore apart and rebuilt as new genetic traits awakened and dark green energy shone through his scales.
• The fragment throbbed and distorted space and time, pounding Norman's brain and building toward a potentially destructive explosion.
• Norman's Nuclear Energy Blood and the fragment's freezing edge clashed inside his mouth, producing tiny sparks powerful enough to tear through refined steel armor.

Norman's consumption of God's flesh and blood triggered a painful surge in his Godzilla evolution, while Connors sensed its stolen body and began forcing itself out of the deep sea to reclaim it. Connors headed toward Norman despite its incomplete body and failing Atomic Furnace.

• Norman endured repeated cycles of destruction and regeneration as the Godzilla genes in his body unleashed greater power.
• Connors, recovering beside a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, sensed Norman's Bio-Energy and recognized its stolen body.
• Connors gave in to its rage and greed, deciding to reclaim its body and become the planet's overlord.
• Connors overloaded its Atomic Furnace, using its own limited vitality as fuel to propel itself upward.
• Connors clawed up the trench walls with its forelimbs, driving toward Norman despite its damaged body and the strain of the ascent.

Norman Osborn devoured Connors's luminous flesh and endured a violent transformation as his Atomic Furnace converted its energy into greater power. As Norman kept feeding, a newly reborn and weakened Connors watched from the depths and recognized the body Norman was consuming as its own.

• Norman Osborn swallowed Connors's energy-rich flesh, igniting his dormant Atomic Furnace and subjecting his body to intense pain and cellular reconstruction.
• The Atomic Furnace flooded Norman's body with energy, breaking and rebuilding his tissues while making him larger and more powerful.
• Norman continued tearing and eating Connors's body, absorbed in the pain and growing strength.
• A weakened Connors, newly reborn in the dark waters below, saw Norman feeding and recognized the stolen body as its own.

Connors suppressed his rage and hid near Norman Osborn while Norman devoured his body. Connors swallowed a discarded chunk of his own flesh, reigniting his Atomic Furnace and beginning to heal as he watched Norman with renewed killing intent.

• Connors judged that he was too weak to attack Norman Osborn and silently approached the waters above.
• Norman remained focused on eating Connors's flesh and failed to notice Connors hiding nearby.
• Connors seized and swallowed a chunk of flesh Norman had discarded.
• The flesh's Radiation Energy reignited Connors's Atomic Furnace and restored a stable energy output.
• Connors began slowly healing and concealed his returning Life Signal as he watched Norman with cold killing intent.

Hulk transformed in the deep sea, absorbing Gamma Radiation and growing to nearly Norman Osborn’s size. Enraged by Connors’s presence within Norman, Hulk charged him, and their first blow shook the seafloor.

• Hulk’s body adapted to the abyssal pressure and Gamma Radiation, allowing his cells to absorb Gamma energy instead of relying on oxygen.
• Hulk grew into a colossal, glowing green creature as his rage fueled his transformation.
• Norman Osborn marveled at the power of his Godzilla-derived Atomic Furnace before sensing Hulk approaching.
• Hulk recognized Connors’s scent within Norman and charged at him in fury.
• Norman raised a spiked arm to block Hulk’s punch, and the impact sent a shockwave through the deep-sea bedrock.

Hulk overwhelmed Norman in the Deep, burning him with Atomic Breath before tearing a dorsal fin from his back and destabilizing his Atomic Furnace. While Norman convulsed in pain, Connors reassembled himself with his battered body and struggled to move it.

• Norman was driven back by Hulk’s punch, then attacked with a tail sweep and Atomic Breath.
• Hulk blocked the Atomic Breath with Gamma energy, suffered severe burns, and rapidly regenerated.
• Hulk charged Norman and tore the largest dorsal fin from its root, causing plasma to spray from the damaged core.
• Norman convulsed as his Atomic Furnace faltered and fear overtook him.
• Connors slipped into the battlefield, rejoined his headless body, and tried to make it move.

Connors fused with Godzilla’s remains and awakened the colossal creature, whose wounds rapidly regenerated. Godzilla’s life signal swept across the planet, shocking Norman as he fought the Hulk and realized Connors was alive.

• Connors’s consciousness joined with Godzilla’s cells, and Godzilla’s claw began to move.
• Godzilla’s body regenerated its severe wounds as its Atomic Energy surged.
• Norman continued battling the Hulk when Godzilla’s revival sent out a powerful signal.
• Norman recognized the signal’s source and turned toward Godzilla’s remains in shock, realizing Connors was alive.

Godzilla began regenerating as its Life Core fused with Connors, startling Norman and slowing his response. Hulk seized the opening to land a devastating blow that shattered Norman’s armor and tore open his side, leaving the battle at a critical turning point.

• Godzilla’s ruined body began rebuilding itself, with a new head and glowing dorsal fins forming from the energy of its flesh and blood.
• Norman realized the Gravitational Field seal had enabled Godzilla’s rebirth, and his shock briefly slowed him.
• Hulk caught Norman’s momentary hesitation and struck the weakened armor along his side ribs with a powerful punch.
• Hulk’s blow shattered Norman’s carapace, blasted open a huge wound, and scattered armor fragments, blood, and damaged organs.
• Unstable Atomic Furnace energy erupted through Norman’s wound in crackling arcs of green and blue.

Hulk’s punch badly wounded Norman Osborn, while Connors stabilized his reactor and emerged with immense new power. As the three monsters faced off in the deep sea, Hulk charged at Norman to continue the fight.

• Hulk’s punch knocked Norman Osborn off balance and sent him crashing into the seabed.
• Norman Osborn’s body rapidly regenerated, though the unstable Deep Blue Reactor Energy in his tissues hindered the healing and caused him pain.
• Connors discovered that his reactor crisis had been resolved and that he could control its immense energy output.
• Connors’ body shone with scarlet atomic energy as he fixed his gaze on Norman Osborn and sought revenge.
• Hulk surveyed Norman Osborn and Connors before launching himself through the deep sea toward Norman Osborn.

Hulk struck Norman’s regenerating wound with a devastating punch, unleashing a shockwave that wrecked the seabed and shattered the support structures of Norman’s colossal body. Norman was hurled backward, leaving Hulk’s blow as a brutal challenge to Connors’s confidence in his power and dominion over the deep sea.

• Norman’s distributed nervous system let him perceive Hulk’s attack, but not stop it.
• Hulk concentrated his Gamma power into his right fist and struck Norman’s vulnerable wound.
• The impact produced a vast shockwave that compressed and pulverized the seawater, shattered the seabed, and sent debris blasting in every direction.
• Hulk’s punch vaporized Norman’s regenerating tissue and damaged the joints and support structures of his colossal body.
• Norman was knocked backward, plowing two enormous trenches through the basalt seabed as the rock melted at their edges.

Connors unleashed an overloaded Crimson Lotus Atomic Breath after Hulk’s punch reopened Norman’s core wound. The attack raced through the deep sea toward Norman, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Hulk’s charge and punch shattered Norman’s defenses and reopened his core wound.
• Connors seized the brief opening and overloaded his Atomic Furnace.
• Connors fired a Crimson Lotus Atomic Breath toward Norman’s exposed wound.

Norman struck Connors with its Atomic Breath, knocking him away and forcing his Crimson Lotus Breath off target before Norman sealed its wound. Their battle continued to devastate the seafloor and churn the ocean above into a boiling sea, with powerful waves spreading toward distant coastlines.

• Norman redirected its attack from Connors's Crimson Lotus Torrent and fired its ghostly green Atomic Breath at Connors's exposed side.
• The impact hurled Connors backward through the deep sea, carving immense trenches across the seafloor.
• Connors's Crimson Lotus Breath veered past Norman and burned a molten scar into the seabed.
• Norman sealed its wound with energy and fixed its rage-filled gaze on Connors.
• Shockwaves and heat from the battle roiled the sea surface, killed marine life, and sent powerful waves spreading toward the coastlines.

Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Brock Rumlow, and Tony Stark struggled to escape the catastrophic sea after the battle below. Tony reached the surface badly injured, while the others fought damaged pods and violent waves.

• The battle's shockwaves turned the sea above into a boiling storm of towering waves, steam, and dangerous energy.
• Steve Rogers urged the escape pods to hold steady as his cracked pod was battered by the waves.
• Natasha Romanoff fought to control her spinning pod, while Clint Barton steered around giant whirlpools and waterspouts.
• Brock Rumlow tried to plug a leak in his pod as seawater rose around his ankles.
• Tony Stark's Mark armor burst through the surface, and J.A.R.V.I.S. reported severe pressure-related injuries and urged immediate treatment.

Tony struggled to keep his damaged armor stable while searching the raging Pacific for the escape pods. He found Rumlow's pod sinking and failing, while Hawkeye narrowly evaded a whirlpool and Captain America and Black Widow's signals remained lost in the turbulence.

• Tony asked J.A.R.V.I.S. for an armor damage report and a status update on the two fighters below.
• J.A.R.V.I.S. reported severe armor damage, limited propulsion, and an underwater battle between Hulk and Norman Osborn with destructive power approaching a tactical nuclear explosion.
• Tony ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to contact Chang Wei, but Chang Wei's location signal was heavily disrupted.
• Tony spotted Rumlow's escape pod plunging deeper as its hull integrity collapsed.
• Tony saw Hawkeye's pod maneuvering near a giant whirlpool, while Captain America and Black Widow's signals disappeared beneath the energy interference.

Tony Stark plunged into the abyss to reach Rumlow while Chang Wei watched and secretly influenced Steve Rogers’s escape pod. As the pod broke apart and Steve neared death, Chang Wei began to envelop the surrounding seawater with a mysterious force.

• Tony Stark ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to find Rumlow and drove his Iron Man suit into the raging sea.
• Chang Wei watched Tony descend and used his will to locate Steve Rogers’s escape pod.
• Steve fought to keep seawater out of the damaged pod, bracing his body against a widening hull crack.
• Steve grew weaker from injuries, cold, and dwindling oxygen, and thought of Bucky as the pod continued to break apart.
• Chang Wei said Steve’s ordeal would push his evolution and enveloped the seawater around the escape pod with a subtle force.

Chang Wei forced concentrated blood and genetic substances from Hulk, Norman Osborn, and Dr. Curt Connors into Steve Rogers’s wounds, triggering a violent transformation inside the trapped soldier. Steve’s pain and fear gave way to an alien, destructive fury as he roared in the failing escape pod.

• Chang Wei gathered the dangerous substances from the battlefield and directed them toward Steve Rogers’s wounds.
• Steve’s injured arm contacted the tainted seawater, and his skin began turning blue-gray as fluorescent-green patterns spread beneath it.
• The invading substances caused Steve’s body to burn, seize, and painfully reshape while his strength and senses deteriorated.
• Steve feared that an unknown monster was emerging within him as he struggled in the damaged escape pod.
• A primal fury erupted inside Steve, and he unleashed an inhuman roar that echoed through the pod.

Steve Rogers endured a brutal genetic battle inside the failing escape pod as Hulk's Gamma Rays, the Green Goblin Serum, and Godzilla genes fought to transform him. His Super Soldier Serum stabilized the competing forces, leaving him changed but still clinging to his humanity as the pod began to flood.

• Steve Rogers suffered escalating pain as Gamma Rays, the Green Goblin Serum, and Godzilla genes mutated his body.
• The Super Soldier Serum awakened and suppressed the Green Goblin Serum's madness while regulating the Gamma energy and resisting Godzilla's transformation.
• Steve's body developed bluish-gray patches, green lines, and a metallic blue sheen as the serum forced the mutations into a human form.
• The escape pod's crack widened, and freezing seawater mixed with alien blood flooded inside.
• Steve roared as the genetic struggle reached a savage balance under the Super Soldier Serum's control.

Steve Rogers’s body completed its violent transformation as Gamma energy, Godzilla cells, and the Super Soldier Serum clashed within him. He emerged from the ruined escape pod as a nearly three-meter-tall Deep Blue Titan, retaining his identity and control over his immense new power.

• The Mark XLVIII Deep Sea Protective Suit shattered as the genetic war inside Steve Rogers reached its climax.
• Steve Rogers transformed into a deep-blue giant with platinum hair and a body strengthened by Gamma energy and Godzilla cells.
• Steve Rogers retained his sapphire-blue eyes, consciousness, and will, which kept the clashing forces under control.
• Steve Rogers clenched his fist and realized that his overwhelming power had become his new normal.

Steve Rogers transformed into a deep-blue giant and escaped his collapsing pod by smashing through its steel wreckage. He emerged into the deep sea and focused on controlling his immense new power as he resolved to find his companions.

• Steve Rogers tried to contact J.A.R.V.I.S. and locate Natasha and Barton as the damaged escape pod began to collapse under the deep-sea pressure.
• Steve Rogers roared and struck the pod’s ceiling beam with his giant fist, destroying the beam and surrounding cabin structure.
• Steve Rogers burst through the wreckage and rose into the open deep sea.
• Steve Rogers examined his new body, sensed the immense power coursing through it, and resolved to reach his companions.

Steve, transformed into the Deep Blue Giant, found Natasha trapped in a failing escape pod amid the battle in the trench. After showing her he was still conscious, he fought the whirlpool to pull her pod toward safety.

• Steve rushed through the deep sea toward his companions as Natasha's escape pod was battered by the fighting behemoths and began taking on water.
• Steve appeared outside the pod, and Natasha recognized his face beneath the Deep Blue Giant's form.
• Steve signaled that he was still himself, and Natasha regained hope.
• Steve gripped and steadied the pod, shielded it from the whirlpool, and kicked forward while pulling it along.
• Steve scooped at the seawater behind them to resist the whirlpool's suction.