Chapter Summaries

Jessica told Hawking how her family died in a car accident, and he persuaded her to join his planned Hero Alliance and train to master her new abilities. Hawking then lured Norman Osborn away from Osborn Industries with a false story about Harry, bringing him to a mansion where Norman realized the story was a lie.

• Jessica broke down while telling Hawking about her family's deaths, and Hawking reassured her that her new abilities might have come from exposure to military chemicals.
• Hawking urged Jessica to use her powers to help others, revealed himself as Armor Hero, and invited her to join the Hero Alliance; Jessica accepted.
• Hawking tested Jessica's abilities and promised to train her daily until she could control them.
• Hawking went to Osborn Industries and told Norman Osborn that Harry had broken his leg, then persuaded Norman to drive with him.
• Hawking directed Norman to a luxurious mansion, where Norman concluded that Harry's injury was a fabrication and that Hawking had another motive.

Hawking confronted Norman and let him fight with his Green Goblin suit and weapons, then overwhelmed him and chased him out to sea. After demonstrating his power, Hawking left Norman alive, and Norman asked whether he would be sent to prison.

• Hawking told Norman he knew about the previous day's attack and gave him time to get his suit and glider.
• Norman grabbed Hawking by the throat, but Hawking kicked him into the villa's iron gate and waited for him to return in his Green Goblin armor.
• The Green Goblin fired machine guns, Pumpkin Bombs, and spinning blades at Hawking, but Hawking caught the bullets and emerged unharmed from the explosions.
• The Green Goblin fled on his glider, and Hawking pursued him on Flying Nimbus, forcing him out over the ocean.
• Hawking shrank the glider, rescued the Green Goblin from the sea, and demonstrated his power with a Super Large Energy Ball.
• The Green Goblin removed his mask and asked Hawking what he wanted and whether he planned to send him to prison.

Hawking brought the Green Goblin back to his villa and proposed a business partnership: Norman would help establish Hawking’s company, which would develop products with Oscorp. Meanwhile, Nick Fury reviewed a mutant-suppressing cure and continued investigating S.H.I.E.L.D.’s compromised agents.

• Nick Fury watched footage of Hawking flying away with the Green Goblin and decided to prioritize the Brotherhood of Mutants and his internal investigation.
• Agent Hill reported that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s mutant cure only suppressed powers temporarily and became ineffective after repeated doses, so Fury ordered research into longer-lasting suppressors.
• Hawking restored the damage to Norman’s villa and reassured him that he would not force him into a deal.
• Hawking asked Norman to handle the procedures for starting a company that would cooperate with Oscorp to develop products.
• Norman agreed to manage the setup but said Oscorp’s board of directors would have to approve the partnership.

Hawking secured the Green Goblin’s cooperation by warning Norman that Oscorp’s directors planned to oust him and sell the company. Back at the school, Hawking overheard Wanda call Armor Hero and Spider-Man tacky, but she praised Hawking and joined him for cultivation.

• Hawking told Norman that Oscorp’s directors planned to remove him and sell the company to Exploration Aerospace Industries.
• Norman agreed to investigate the directors and cooperate with Hawking, who revealed himself as Armor Hero before leaving.
• Norman recognized Hawking’s identity and believed they could work together, while Hawking considered Oscorp’s future as a potential Hero Alliance partner.
• Hawking returned to the school after the Goku Template expired and heard Pietro and the other students discuss Armor Hero and Spider-Man.
• Wanda called both heroes tacky and threatened the students with Chaos Magic, then praised Hawking as handsome.
• Hawking invited Wanda to cultivate with him, and she immediately became sweet and obedient.

Hawking persuaded Professor X to keep the Heroes Alliance Company independent of mutant leadership in its early stages, then left to meet Peter. Meanwhile, the Life Foundation spacecraft lost contact during atmospheric reentry after its crew encountered something unknown.

• Hawking told Professor X that he was not a mutant and argued that the company should initially be established without mutant involvement.
• Hawking said a contact connected to Osborn Corporation would support the company's early development, and Professor X agreed to let him proceed independently.
• Hawking left the headmaster's office, returned to his room, and headed to Queens to meet Peter.
• Aboard the Life Foundation spacecraft, the crew reported completing sample collection and began reentry.
• The Life One crew spotted something during reentry, called for the hatch to be closed, and then stopped responding to the control center.

Six months later, Magneto planned to investigate Apocalypse’s disappearance in Cairo while preparing for a future war against humanity. In New York, Hawking, Peter, and Jessica responded to news that terrorists had hijacked a passenger spacecraft with 212 people aboard.

• Magneto told Mystique that he wanted to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D. and humanity, but he was waiting until his preparations were complete.
• Mystique reported that records and Apocalypse’s followers pointed to Cairo as the site of his disappearance, and Magneto decided they would investigate the ruins there.
• Hawking trained Peter and Jessica in close-quarters combat, helping them develop their strength over six months of practice.
• After a broadcast reported that terrorists had hijacked a spacecraft carrying 212 passengers, Hawking told Peter and Jessica to move out with him.
• Hawking flew toward international waters using the Sky Dance Technique, while Jessica flew and Peter attached webs to their feet to travel with them.

Hawking, Peter, and Jessica rescued passengers from a hijacked plane, but the terrorists killed the pilots and damaged the controls. Hawking repaired the console and brought a retired captain aboard, and the plane landed safely as Hawking invited other people with special abilities to join the Hero Alliance.

• Hawking, Peter, and Jessica boarded the hijacked plane and subdued the terrorists in the passenger cabin.
• Hawking found the captain and co-pilot dead and the cockpit controls damaged, then used the Mending Charm to repair them.
• Hawking sent Jessica to calm the passengers and Peter to contact the control tower while he flew to fetch a replacement captain.
• Hawking shrank the volunteer captain and carried him back to the plane, where the captain resumed control and landed it safely.
• Hawking addressed reporters after the rescue, called for closer cooperation with the government, and invited people with special abilities to interview for the Hero Alliance.

Hawking inspected Oscorp’s Gravity Chamber, which Green Goblin had developed to reach 1.5 times normal gravity, and decided to recruit Reed Richards to speed up the research. He visited Reed at the Baxter Building and revealed his identity as the chairman of Hero Alliance International Company.

• Green Goblin told Hawking that Oscorp’s Gravity Chamber could reach 1.5 times normal gravity, though it remained unstable.
• Hawking told Green Goblin to continue the research and decided to seek Reed Richards’s help.
• Hawking went to the Baxter Building, where Reed Richards and Ben discussed Reed’s plans to seek Victor’s cooperation on a space project.
• Hawking introduced himself to Reed as the chairman of Hero Alliance International Company.
• Reed doubted Hawking’s claim, so Hawking summoned his Golden Armor to prove who he was.

Hawking offered to help fund Reed’s space-based evolution research while steering him toward negotiating with Victor, whom Hawking knew would suffer losses when the experiment failed. Reed presented the project to Victor, who became determined to secure the investment rights.

• Reed refused Hawking’s request to help research a gravity device because he was focused on his space-based evolution project.
• Hawking offered to invest in Reed’s project and suggested they first hear Victor’s terms, while planning to prevent the experiment from going into space.
• Ben asked Hawking about his strength as he drove Hawking and Reed to Victor Building.
• Reed, Ben, and Hawking met Victor, and Reed demonstrated his project with a holographic presentation.
• Victor recognized the project’s potential and decided he had to obtain its investment rights.

Hawking joined Reed and Ben in negotiating with Victor over investment in Reed’s project, revealing his power to challenge Victor’s demands. The chapter ended with Victor asking Hawking to negotiate privately after their offers threatened to cost him the patent rights.

• Victor questioned Reed’s project, then introduced Susan Stone as his head of genetic research and former girlfriend of Reed.
• Hawking recognized Susan as Invisible Woman and considered, then rejected, the idea of marrying her to have Franklin as a son.
• Reed offered Victor a share of the project’s profits, but Victor demanded seventy-five percent and all patent rights.
• Hawking introduced himself as chairman of Hero Alliance International Company and challenged Victor’s terms.
• Hawking and Victor bargained over profit shares and patent rights until Victor asked to discuss the deal privately.

Hawking helped Reed secure a deal with Victor for the Solar Storm project, then returned to his work and training in New York. During a patrol with Peter and Jessica, Peter reported that an armed force was hunting a black humanoid monster that was eating people's heads.

• Victor offered Hawking compensation to withdraw from the project, and Hawking agreed on terms that included business cooperation and Reed later researching a gravity device.
• Victor and Reed signed a deal granting them equal shares and joint ownership of the patent rights, with Victor providing the funding and Space Station.
• Reed thanked Hawking for intervening, and Hawking accepted Reed's promise to help research a gravity device after the Solar Storm project.
• Hawking returned to the Mutant School and continued training with Wanda and Pietro before resuming patrols with Peter and Jessica.
• Peter alerted Hawking that an unidentified armed force was hunting a black humanoid monster that was eating people's heads.

Eddie Brock was bonded to the alien symbiote Venom and fled the Life Foundation, where Venom fought Peter before Hawking drove it back with sound. Hawking took Eddie to his company to investigate the symbiote.

• Eddie infiltrated the Life Foundation with a doctor to expose its experiments, but an alien symbiote bonded with him and the Foundation pursued them.
• Venom transformed Eddie, escaped a rocket attack, and attacked the pursuers, eating two men’s heads.
• Peter arrived and webbed Venom and the Foundation personnel, but Venom tore free and overpowered him.
• Eddie resisted Venom’s attack on Peter, and Venom turned to flee before Hawking’s amplified roar forced it back inside Eddie.
• Hawking instructed Peter to hand the Foundation personnel over to the police with Jessica, then took Eddie to his company, using sound to suppress Venom along the way.

Hawking learned that Eddie had been bonded with Venom and discovered the symbiotes planned to come to Earth for food. Seeing a chance to stop their invasion and earn enough Justice Points to unlock a new Protagonist Template, Hawking tried to persuade Venom to become a hero instead.

• Eddie told Hawking that the Life Foundation had captured him and that Venom had bonded with him.
• Hawking realized the events resembled the Venom movie and questioned Venom about the possibility of other symbiotes coming to Earth.
• Venom revealed that his species lived on a distant planet and that his team had found Earth while searching for food.
• Venom promised to protect Eddie and Hawking when his people arrived, while Eddie feared humanity would be doomed.
• Hawking calmly welcomed the opportunity to stop the invasion and urged Venom to become a beloved Super Hero called the Lethal Guardian.

Venom agreed to keep Earth’s location secret and remained bonded to Eddie, who joined Hawking’s team as Lethal Protector. As the team headed to Life Foundation headquarters to stop the escaped symbiote Riot, Riot took over Dr. Drake and prepared to launch a rocket.

• Venom refused to leave Eddie and agreed not to send information about Earth to his kind.
• Hawking welcomed Eddie and Venom as new members of Heroes Alliance Company, and Peter and Jessica met them.
• Hawking explained that Riot had escaped and planned to use Life Foundation’s rocket to transmit Earth’s coordinates, so the team set out for headquarters.
• Riot killed Dr. Drake’s guards, parasitized Dr. Drake, and ordered Venom to reach the rocket and send Earth’s coordinates.
• Hawking, Jessica, Peter, and Venom arrived, and Venom warned them that Riot was the strongest symbiote and carried dangerous weapons.

Hawking fought Riot to demonstrate his strength and test different attacks against the powerful symbiote. Riot was left badly wounded but alive, while Peter, Venom, and Jessica realized how terrifying Hawking was.

• Venom told Peter that his odds of beating Riot were zero, and Riot attacked him with a massive blade.
• Hawking punched Riot through several walls, then fought him with an Adamantium Alloy Rod while Peter, Jessica, and Venom guarded the area.
• Hawking used Reducto to explode Riot from within, but stopped Venom from removing Dr. Drake because he wanted to keep sparring.
• Hawking cut Riot in half with a Destructo Disc, then blasted him through the building with a Kamehameha and a Qi Bullet Barrage.
• Hawking found Dr. Drake dead and Riot severely wounded but still alive, while Peter, Venom, and Jessica called Hawking terrifying.

Hawking killed Riot, arranged for Green Goblin to take over the Life Foundation, and used his newly available draw to obtain the template of sixteen-year-old Uzumaki Naruto. He considered how Naruto’s abilities and bloodline could strengthen him, leaving the template ready to load.

• Hawking burned the injured Riot to death and wondered whether he could access the Voldemort soul fragment inside Harry Potter to gain magical knowledge.
• Hawking told Peter and Jessica to handle the scene, warned Venom not to kill or reveal his identity without permission, and called Green Goblin about taking over the Life Foundation.
• Green Goblin agreed to pursue the Life Foundation, and Hawking urged him to focus on developing the Gravity Chamber.
• After returning to the Mutant School, Hawking waited until the next day to draw a new protagonist template.
• Hawking drew the sixteen-year-old Uzumaki Naruto template and considered how Naruto’s techniques, physique, and bloodline could complement his existing abilities.

Hawking loaded sixteen-year-old Naruto’s template and tested how its chakra and ninjutsu interacted with his Saiyan and wizard abilities. He successfully summoned Gamabunta, who questioned why the unfamiliar-looking boy had Naruto’s chakra.

• Hawking flew to a remote forest and loaded sixteen-year-old Uzumaki Naruto’s template, gaining Naruto’s memories and appearance.
• Hawking tested his enhanced strength, created a Shadow Clone, and formed a basketball-sized Rasengan.
• Hawking used the Summoning Technique and summoned Gamabunta, a giant toad from Mount Myōboku.
• Hawking greeted Gamabunta, who recognized Naruto’s chakra but asked who the unfamiliar boy was.

Hawking explained to Gamabunta that he was using Naruto’s abilities temporarily in another world and arranged for the toad to investigate Mount Myōboku and Naruto. After Gamabunta left, Hawking entered the sealed mental space and confronted the Nine-Tails, who realized he was not Naruto.

• Hawking told Gamabunta that he was not Naruto but had temporarily gained Naruto’s abilities and memories.
• Hawking asked Gamabunta to check Mount Myōboku’s summoning contract, consult the Toad Sages, and return at the same time the next day.
• Gamabunta tested Hawking’s strength and was sent flying by his punch, convincing him that Hawking was not Naruto.
• Gamabunta agreed to pass on Hawking’s questions, including whether the Nine-Tails was still inside Naruto, and then returned to Mount Myōboku.
• Hawking entered the Nine-Tails’ sealed mental space, where the beast recognized that he was not Naruto.

Hawking met the Nine-Tails in his mental space, then used Shadow Clones to train and found Voldemort’s soul fragment in Harry’s mental space. After Hawking left, Naruto discovered that the Nine-Tails had vanished from his cage.

• Hawking greeted the Nine-Tails and agreed that he might open its seal later, while the Nine-Tails offered him its power.
• Hawking created three thousand Shadow Clones and considered using smaller groups to help him train.
• Hawking loaded the Harry Potter Template, entered Harry’s mental space, and found Voldemort’s soul fragment beneath a station bench.
• Hawking left Shadow Clones to practice ninjutsu and flew to his company after the Harry Template ended.
• Naruto stopped while traveling with Yamato, Sakura, and Sai, then confirmed that the Nine-Tails was missing from its cage.

Naruto was reverse-summoned to Mount Myōboku after the Nine-Tails briefly vanished from him, and the Great Toad Sage confirmed that other worlds existed and the toads would honor Hawking’s contract. The next day, Hawking summoned Gamabunta and agreed to visit Mount Myōboku to investigate.

• Yamato ordered Sakura to examine Naruto, but she found nothing wrong before Naruto said the Nine-Tails had returned and vanished in a puff of smoke.
• Gamikichi reverse-summoned Naruto to Mount Myōboku, where Naruto learned that Jiraiya and the elders had also been summoned there.
• Naruto told Jiraiya that the Nine-Tails had disappeared for an hour, and the Great Toad Sage confirmed that other worlds existed and that the Toad Clan would honor Hawking’s contract.
• Hawking released his shadow clones, endured the rush of their training memories, and slept until the following afternoon.
• Hawking loaded Naruto’s Protagonist Template, summoned Gamabunta, and agreed to accompany him to Mount Myōboku.