Chapter Summaries

Peter told Hawk how he and Felicia fell in love on Skull Island, while Hawk teased him about Mary and her new boyfriend. Felicia revealed that the Iwi tribe had fled an underground Ancestral Land after a disaster caused by a creature called a Mutant Strain, leaving Hawk to consider helping them reclaim it.

• Hawk pointed out that Felicia was four months pregnant even though Mary had broken up with Peter three months earlier, prompting Peter to explain their relationship so Hawk could later vouch for him.
• Peter recounted how his powers failed after Mary left him, how Felicia comforted him on Skull Island, and how his powers returned after they spent a night together in a cave.
• Hawk congratulated Peter on becoming a father, then told him that Mary was dating Lightning Thomson.
• Felicia reported that the Iwi high priest said their ancestors had brought Adamantium from an underground Ancestral Land after fleeing a great disaster.
• Felicia explained that the high priest may have kept the story secret because Hawk, whom the Iwi regarded as a god, could help them reclaim their homeland.
• Felicia said the Ancestral Land was occupied by a terrifying creature called a Mutant Strain.

Hawk learned that the Iwi tribe might descend from the Eternals and recognized the mural creature as a Deviant, connecting the tribe’s history to the Celestials. After warning Peter and Felicia that the Celestials might come to Earth, he left to investigate the underground passage and mine Adamantium.

• Felicia described how Deviants devoured Iwi tribespeople and gained their abilities, driving the tribe from its ancestral land.
• Hawk examined the temple mural and concluded that the Iwi were likely descendants of the Eternals and the depicted creature was a Deviant created by the Celestials.
• Hawk connected the suspected Adamantium on Skull Island to Tiamut and resolved to obtain the Mind Stone and prepare for the Celestials.
• Hawk explained the Eternals’ and Deviants’ roles to Peter and Felicia, then said the Celestials would come to Earth years later.
• Hawk sent Peter and Felicia back to rest and vanished to inspect the underground passage for Adamantium.
• Peter told Felicia that Hawk had once said he was not a god yet, leaving her pondering the word “yet.”

Hawk descended into the Lost World beneath Kong Canyon and discovered the Iwi tribe’s abandoned temple, where murals revealed the tribe’s origins and its war with the Mutant Race. After fighting off Skull Crawlers, he passed through a barrier into a cavern where the chained Mutant Race roared.

• Hawk plunged through the smoke-filled passage and entered a vast Lost World of floating mountains, glowing bridges, and rivers of molten energy.
• Hawk killed a giant winged serpent with a Phoenix Kick and followed his instincts to a secluded temple.
• Hawk examined the temple’s statues and murals, learning how the Iwi tribe began and how the Mutant Race devastated it.
• Skull Crawlers emerged inside the temple and attacked Hawk, who quickly killed them all.
• Hawk followed furious roars through a white barrier and found a cavern filled with Skull Crawler remains and the chained Mutant Race.

Hawk discovered that the Lost World’s mountains and temple were made of Adamantium, then clashed with Ikaris after identifying him as the one who had brought back the captive Mutant Race creatures. Ikaris attacked Hawk to keep him from revealing what he knew.

• Hawk found two chained Mutant Race creatures and realized the mountains around them were made of Adamantium.
• Golden blasts knocked Hawk back into the valley, where he killed both creatures and saw a Skull Crawler inside one of them.
• A black-haired man attacked Hawk with golden beams, and their fight exposed the Adamantium beneath the temple’s stone and moss.
• Hawk recognized the man as Ikaris and questioned him about Sersi, the Iwi tribe, and the captive creatures.
• Hawk concluded that Ikaris had secretly brought back the Mutant Race creatures, and Ikaris attacked again, saying Hawk would stay there.

Hawk and Ikaris fought a brutal battle across the Lost World, leaving both badly injured and damaging the surrounding landscape. Ikaris fled into the storm around Skull Island, and Hawk did not pursue because his Phoenix Cloth had shattered.

• Hawk struck Ikaris with Phoenix attacks, but Ikaris evaded his strongest move and continued replenishing his energy from the Adamantium-infused air.
• Hawk and Ikaris exchanged lethal blows throughout the Lost World, whose creatures were caught in the destructive shockwaves.
• Ikaris asked whether Hawk served Ajak and accused him of discovering the Mutant Race he was raising.
• Ikaris drove Hawk into the ground, leaving both fighters battered and their armor badly damaged, before they resumed fighting.
• On Skull Island, Peter and Felicia considered checking on Hawk but decided to wait because Kong Canyon was too dangerous and Felicia was pregnant.
• Ikaris fled into the storm surrounding Skull Island, and Hawk let him go after seeing that his Phoenix Cloth had shattered.

After defeating Ikaris, Hawk discovered that the Lost World’s golden magma was Tiamut’s life energy and used some of it to restore his Cosmo and gather materials for a genuine Phoenix Gold Cloth. Tiamut permitted him to take only a limited amount, and Hawk returned to Peter and Felicia to announce they could go home.

• Hawk’s second Phoenix Cloth shattered after his fight with Ikaris, and he realized the golden magma could replace Gamanion in forging a Gold Cloth.
• Peter and Felicia watched the battle from the Iwi village and wondered whether Hawk was the Iwi tribe’s Celestial ancestor.
• Hawk collected ten Adamantium mountains from the Lost World and then drew golden life energy into his Cosmo, restoring his power and forming a Phoenix within it.
• Hawk sensed Tiamut’s warning, stopped taking the energy, and thanked the sleeping Celestial for permitting him to use some of it.
• Hawk returned to Peter and Felicia, interrupted their embrace, and told them they could go home.

Hawk returned from Skull Island with Peter and Felicia after learning the truth about the Iwi tribe’s origins and the threat of Tiamut’s Emergence. At the Osborn Experimental Platform, he discovered that seventeen days had passed and could not reach Gwen by satellite phone.

• Hawk explained his theory that Ikaris had used the Iwi tribe and newly hatched Mutant Race creatures to remove obstacles to the Emergence, and Peter urged him to stop Tiamut from destroying Earth.
• Felicia told Hawk and Peter that the high priest had accepted that the Iwi tribe could never return to its Ancestral Land.
• Hawk carried Peter and Felicia through the storm surrounding Skull Island and brought them to the Osborn Experimental Platform, where Felicia’s assistant and an international security team had waited for seventeen days.
• Peter realized that a year had passed for him on Skull Island, and Hawk teased him about telling Aunt May that she would become a great-aunt.
• Hawk agreed to fly back with Felicia and tried to call Gwen, but the satellite phone would not connect.

Gwen sheltered the wounded Sharon Carter after Hydra agents attacked S.H.I.E.L.D. and hunted her through New York. When three agents in FBI uniforms arrived at Gwen’s door, Gwen opened it while Sharon waited armed inside.

• Gwen saw a news report naming Sharon Carter as a wanted fugitive, then found Sharon collapsed and bleeding at her doorstep.
• Gwen removed the bullets from Sharon’s shoulder and abdomen and stitched her wounds while Sharon explained Hydra’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the attacks that left Nick Fury and many agents dead.
• Sharon said Hydra’s pursuers had stopped at Palm Street, possibly because they feared Hawk, but she tried to leave when the house’s phone signals were blocked.
• Gwen convinced Sharon to stay and went to answer the door, trusting the Andromeda Cloth necklace Hawk had given her to protect her.
• Three agents in FBI uniforms appeared outside, and Gwen opened the door while Sharon waited inside with her gun.

Gwen refused to hand Sharon Carter over to three Hydra Agents at her home, warning them about Hawk and threatening to tell him when he returned. The agents finally demanded that she step aside, but a mysterious voice behind them interrupted.

• The lead Hydra Agent showed Gwen his credentials and asked her to surrender the fugitive, but Gwen denied that Sharon was inside.
• One Hydra Agent threatened Gwen, and the lead agent slapped him, apologized, and tried to persuade her to cooperate.
• Gwen opened the way into her home but warned the agents that Hawk would learn if they forced their way in.
• Gwen realized the trio were acting as bad cop, good cop, and mediator, and reminded them that Hawk would return to New York City.
• The agents stopped pretending to be conciliatory and ordered Gwen to step aside, but an eerie voice behind them asked, “Or else what?”

Hawk returned to his home just as three Hydra agents threatened Gwen and Sharon, then killed them after learning their superior, John Garrett, had ordered them to capture or kill Sharon. He took the badly injured Sharon to the hospital with Gwen, while his plans to confront Garrett were put aside for the moment.

• Hawk appeared behind the three Hydra agents after they threatened Gwen, and Gwen rushed inside when Sharon collapsed.
• The agents admitted they were Hydra and said John Garrett had ordered them to capture or kill Sharon Carter.
• Hawk vaporized the three agents with Eye Impact and considered going after Garrett.
• Gwen discovered that a bullet fragment remained in Sharon, and Hawk used Telekinesis to carry her to the car.
• Hawk drove Sharon to the hospital with Gwen, who teased him about her claim that he was a demon king who devoured people whole.

After Sharon Carter survived surgery, Hawk learned that Hydra had taken over New York S.H.I.E.L.D. and agreed to intervene after Hydra agents attacked Gwen. Hawk departed to confront John Garrett, leaving Gwen to watch over Sharon.

• Gwen waited with Hawk outside the emergency room and admitted she had opened the door because she trusted him to come protect her.
• Hawk told Gwen that Peter and Felicia were together and that Felicia was four months pregnant because time passed differently on Skull Island.
• The surgeon said Sharon Carter’s operation had gone well, and Hawk and Gwen reassured her in the VIP ward.
• Sharon told Hawk that Hydra had taken over New York S.H.I.E.L.D. and captured Commander Hand, then asked him to help.
• After Sharon described John Garrett, Hawk agreed to intervene and vanished from the ward while Gwen stayed with Sharon.

Alexander Pierce confronted Dr. Zola after Hydra agents provoked Hawk by threatening Gwen, and decided Zola and Sutrick had to be eliminated before they ruined Hydra’s return. As Project Insight neared launch, Pierce rejected sending the Winter Soldier to shut down Zola and began considering a safer plan.

• Alexander Pierce learned that Hawk had returned to New York and caught Hydra agents threatening Gwen after Sharon Carter fled to Palm Street.
• Pierce called Dr. Zola, blamed him for the Palm Street operation, and ordered him to contain the damage in New York City.
• Pierce decided that Dr. Zola and Sutrick were liabilities and planned to destroy them once the Helicarries were airborne.
• Pierce stopped his assistant from sending the Winter Soldier to shut down Zola’s servers and considered another way to neutralize Zola without provoking Hawk or endangering Project Insight.

Hawk arrived at the Hydra-controlled New York operations center and wiped out its agents, including Grant Ward. He confronted John Garrett over the attack on Sharon Carter and gave him one final chance to speak.

• John Garrett sent Grant Ward to the Island Nation after Skye rejected his offer to join Hydra, while secretly trying to spare his adopted son.
• Hawk teleported into the operations center, stopped Grant's bullet, and vaporized Grant and the Hydra agents throughout the building with his Phoenix Ray.
• Hawk reached John Garrett's office after retaking the base, and Garrett asked to finish his last cigarette.
• Hawk asked Garrett why he had ordered agents to kill Sharon Carter, and Garrett said he had considered the consequences but believed she had to die.
• John Garrett stood, straightened his suit, and made a gesture banned across Europe as Hawk waited for his last words.

Hawk eliminated Hydra’s forces in the New York S.H.I.E.L.D. facility and rescued the captured agents, including Commander Victoria Hand. After Hand recovered enough to explain John Garrett’s unusual position, Hawk received a call from Anna.

• Hawk vaporized John Garrett, then appeared in the prison and killed the three Hydra guards by redirecting their bullets.
• Hawk freed the captured S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, who rushed Commander Hand to the infirmary for a blood transfusion and emergency treatment.
• Skye recognized Hawk as the man who had bought a computer from her, and they joked about their old deal.
• Commander Hand woke after treatment and thanked Hawk, who told her Hydra had provoked him by coming to his home for Sharon.
• Hawk asked whether John Garrett had served Alexander Pierce, and Hand explained that Garrett had been transferred to New York but held no command position.
• Hawk received a phone call from Anna and greeted her.

Hawk negotiated with Anna after learning that John Garrett had acted on Arnim Zola’s orders, demanding the Yasukuni Shrine be burned in exchange for sparing Anna’s Hydra branch from his anger. He also asked to borrow the Mind Scepter, while Alexander Pierce separately ordered Ophelia Salchian to burn the shrine as Hawk approached New Amsterdam Hospital.

• Hawk left the S.H.I.E.L.D. operations center and called Anna, who confirmed that John Garrett belonged to Arnim Zola.
• Anna explained that she had missed Hawk in New York because she had returned to the Island Nation to oversee Hydra operations.
• Hawk agreed not to target Anna’s branch or Alexander Pierce after Anna used her favor, but demanded footage of the Yasukuni Shrine burning within two hours.
• Hawk asked Anna to arrange for him to borrow the Mind Scepter, and she said she would report the request before ending the call.
• Hawk arrived above New Amsterdam Hospital as Alexander Pierce called Ophelia Salchian and ordered her to burn the Yasukuni Shrine within two hours.

Hawk learned the location of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s abandoned Jersey City base from Sharon and went there to find Dr. Zola, while Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff were already uncovering Zola’s secrets. The chapter ended as Steve hurled his shield at Hawk after he appeared inside the base.

• Hawk reassured Sharon that Victoria Hand was safe and that she had reclaimed the S.H.I.E.L.D. Combat Command Center.
• Sharon told Hawk that Captain America had trained at the abandoned Jersey City Third Army Base.
• Martha arrived and confirmed that Victoria Hand was receiving blood and was fine, then Sharon said she wanted to return to the base.
• Hawk went home with Gwen, then left for the abandoned military base to find Dr. Zola.
• Steve and Natasha learned about Project Paperclip and Project Insight from Zola, who analyzed the gap in Alexander Pierce’s signal as Hawk approached.
• Steve spotted Hawk appearing at the elevator and threw his shield at him.

Hawk confronted Zola in his computer room while Natasha and Captain America learned that New York S.H.I.E.L.D. had been cleared of Hydra and that Zola had threatened Hawk’s fiancée. Hawk sent Natasha and Captain America to New York, leaving himself behind to deal with Zola.

• Hawk caught Captain America’s shield and discussed his willingness to kill with Steve, who agreed that killing bad people did not necessarily make Hawk a bad person.
• Hawk confronted Zola, who admitted Alexander Pierce had identified him as Hydra’s test target and predicted Hawk had come to eliminate him.
• Steve learned that Bruce Banner was dead, and Natasha learned Hawk had retaken New York S.H.I.E.L.D. after Hydra threatened his fiancée.
• Hawk urged Natasha and Steve to go warn Victoria Hand about Project Insight, then teleported them beneath the Brooklyn Bridge when Zola sealed the elevator.
• Natasha explained Hawk’s teleportation to Steve and told him that Hawk and Thor had created a massive crater on Mars during a fight.

Hawk learned that Zola had engineered Peter and Felicia’s disappearance to draw him away from New York and test whether he would interfere with Hydra’s Insight Helicarrier Project. After a missile destroyed Zola’s core, Hawk returned home, but a video from Anna made him realize Island Nation was thirteen hours ahead of New York.

• Hawk questioned Zola and learned that Zola had attacked Peter and Felicia’s offshore experimental base to lure him away from New York.
• Zola explained that his Insight Algorithm viewed Hawk’s ties to Sharon Carter and Maria Hill as a threat to Hydra, but predicted Hawk would not disrupt the Washington operation after sending Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff to New York.
• A short-range ballistic missile struck the computer room, destroying Zola’s core, while Hawk escaped the blast and flew home.
• Hawk arrived at 521A Palm Street, where Gwen had prepared a late-night snack, and watched Anna’s video of a fire at a site in Island Nation.
• Hawk realized Island Nation was thirteen hours ahead of New York and froze as he considered the time difference.

Hawk suspected that someone had impersonated Anna and flew to the Island Nation to investigate. Meanwhile, Captain America, Natasha, and Sharon came to recruit him for a mission against Hydra, but left for Washington D.C. after learning he was away.

• Hawk noticed Anna had greeted him according to his local time, unlike her usual habit, and decided to go to the Island Nation to confirm who he had spoken with.
• Hawk finished the meal Gwen had prepared, then flew toward the Island Nation.
• Sharon arrived at Gwen's home with Natasha and Steve Rogers, who asked Hawk to help stop Hydra's plan in Washington D.C.
• Gwen told them Hawk had gone to the Island Nation and could not be reached because he had left his phone behind.
• Steve asked Gwen to tell Hawk he had visited, then left with Sharon and Natasha as New York S.H.I.E.L.D. agents headed toward Washington D.C.

Hawk traveled to the Island Nation, watched Yasukuni Shrine burn, and learned the location of its S.H.I.E.L.D. branch from Sharon Carter. He found Anna’s photograph in the branch commander’s office just as Madam Viper Ophelia entered, leaving them face to face.

• Hawk watched firefighters fail to save Yasukuni Shrine, which burned down completely.
• Hawk borrowed a passerby’s phone and called Sharon Carter to get the Island Nation S.H.I.E.L.D. branch’s address.
• Sharon told Natasha that Hawk’s friend Anna was suspected of being Hydra and that Hawk might have changed his plans after speaking with her.
• Natasha and Sharon prepared to intercept the Security Council convoy near Triskelion Headquarters.
• Hawk found a photograph of Anna and a green-haired woman in the Island Nation S.H.I.E.L.D. commander’s office, then met Madam Viper Ophelia as she entered.