Chapter Summaries

Hawking learned that Wolverine had gone to Tokyo to visit Shingen Yashida and realized Logan was in danger. He and Deathstrike flew to Tokyo to find him, and Hawking got Shingen’s residence location from Nick Fury.

• Hawking asked Deathstrike where Wolverine was, and she said Logan had gone to Tokyo with Yukio to visit Shingen Yashida.
• Hawking recognized that Shingen planned to steal Logan’s healing ability and ordered Deathstrike to prepare the X-Jet.
• Deathstrike piloted the X-Jet to Tokyo, and Hawking carried her into the city with the Sky Dance Technique.
• Hawking asked Deathstrike where Shingen’s residence was, but she did not know.
• Hawking called Nick Fury, who sent Shingen’s residence location and invited Hawking to the Triskelion; Hawking agreed to visit the day after tomorrow.

Hawking and Deathstrike went to the Yashida residence to find Shida Shingen, hoping to learn where Logan and Mariko had gone. After forcing their way inside, Hawking confronted Shida Shingen during a meeting with his allies.

• Hawking learned from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s intelligence that Logan had rescued Mariko after Shida Shingen's kidnapping attempt.
• Hawking and Deathstrike went to the Yashida residence, where Hawking used Memory Extraction on a guard to locate Shida Shingen.
• Hawking used Almighty Push to knock out the guards in the courtyard.
• Shida Shingen and Mori Nobuo discussed finding Mariko before Shingen Yashida's will was announced in three days.
• Hawking and Deathstrike entered the meeting after a guard crashed through the door, and Hawking used Universal Pull against Shida Shingen.

Hawking and Deathstrike killed Shida Shingen and his guards, then learned from Shingen’s memories where Mariko and Logan might be. They joined Yukio and flew toward them after destroying the Yashida residence to erase evidence.

• Hawking dragged Shida Shingen to him, disarmed him, and Deathstrike killed the guards who tried to intervene.
• Hawking extracted Shida Shingen’s soul and read his memories to find the ancestral residence’s address.
• Yukio arrived and attacked Hawking, but Deathstrike and Hawking recognized her as Logan’s friend and explained Shingen’s scheme against Mariko.
• Yukio agreed to help find Mariko and Logan, and Hawking flew away with her and Deathstrike.
• Hawking destroyed the Yashida residence with an Exploding Charm to erase evidence of the killings.

Hawking brought Yukio and Deathstrike to the remote Yashida ancestral home to hide for the night, then used magic to clean it and prepare a feast. The chapter ended with the three sitting down to eat after Hawking’s cooking magic turned a huge basket of ingredients into dishes in moments.

• Yukio and Midnight saw that the Yashida Family residence had been destroyed, then Hawking led them to the abandoned ancestral home to hide.
• Hawking used the Unlocking Charm to open the house and Clean Sweep to clean it instantly.
• When they realized they had no nearby food, Hawking used the Flying Thunder God Technique to travel to his school dorm and gather cafeteria ingredients.
• Hawking returned with an enormous basket of ingredients and used cooking magic to prepare a table full of food at remarkable speed.
• Hawking began eating, while Yukio and Deathstrike marveled at his cooking magic.

Hawking spent the night at the old house with Deathstrike and Yukio, who teased Yukio about being interested in him. The next day, Wolverine and Mariko arrived at the house, where they reunited with Yukio and found Hawking waiting.

• Hawking dismissed his Shadow Clones, slept while his soul continued cultivating, and overheard Deathstrike tease Yukio about his age and romantic prospects.
• Yukio blushed and pretended to sleep, while Hawking resumed cultivating without concern that she might learn more about him.
• Wolverine and Mariko arrived in town after Wolverine's healing ability weakened and his wounds had to be stitched up.
• Wolverine noticed signs that someone was inside the supposedly abandoned old house and cautiously backed away with Mariko.
• Deathstrike spotted Wolverine and Mariko from a window, Yukio rushed outside to greet her friend, and Hawking welcomed Wolverine into the house.

Mariko learned that her father and fiancé were dead, while Hawking warned Wolverine that Shingen Yashida might still be pursuing his healing ability. Hawking restored Wolverine’s healing factor, removed the device suppressing it, and planned to use Wolverine as bait to find Shingen Yashida’s secret laboratory.

• Mariko accepted that her father and fiancé were dead, and Wolverine believed the danger to her had passed.
• Hawking pointed out that Wolverine’s gunshot wounds had not healed and suspected Shingen Yashida was still pursuing immortality.
• Mariko defended her grandfather, while Hawking said they would learn the truth in the next few days.
• Hawking used magic to restore Wolverine’s healing factor and summon a metal spider from his body; Deathstrike crushed it.
• Hawking planned for himself, Yuriko, and Yukio to hide while Wolverine stayed behind as bait to lead them to Shingen Yashida’s laboratory and its Adamantium.

Wolverine, Hawking, Deathstrike, and Yukio tracked Mariko to a hidden mountain village after Harada Kenichiro abducted her. Hawking rescued Mariko, but Kenichiro ordered the village’s ninjas to attack them.

• Wolverine saw two ninjas abduct Mariko and found an address they had left behind.
• Hawking and Wolverine followed the van to a hidden village, where Kenichiro revealed he had brought Mariko there on orders from her grandfather.
• Kenichiro summoned hundreds of ninjas and ordered Mariko taken to a secret research facility while he fought Wolverine.
• Hawking used the Flying Thunder God Technique and the Big Slap Technique to rescue Mariko from her guards.
• Wolverine defeated Kenichiro, Deathstrike and Yukio overcame another ninja, and Kenichiro ordered the remaining ninjas to attack as a group.

Hawking repelled an assault on Wolverine and the others, then used Chibaku Tensei to capture Kenshiro and the Yashida Family ninjas. The village was left beneath a huge sphere of earth as Hawking reflected on the sealing technique’s potential.

• Kenshiro ordered the ninjas to attack Hawking, Wolverine, and Deathstrike with arrows and swords while others prepared grappling hooks.
• Hawking blasted the arrows aside with his aura and used the Arrow Shooting Charm to kill the ninjas positioned on the rooftops.
• Mariko asked Kenshiro whether her grandfather was alive and had ordered the attack, and Kenshiro admitted it before urging her to hide.
• Kenshiro led the remaining ninjas in a charge, so Hawking activated Chibaku Tensei and pulled them, the village buildings, and the surrounding earth into a giant sphere.
• Hawking noted that his Chibaku Tensei was far smaller than the Sage of Six Paths’ but recognized its potential as a powerful sealing technique.

Hawking and his companions entered the Yashida research building to confront Shingen, after Hawking defeated Jian Ichiro and the ninjas. Shingen revealed himself in the Silver Samurai armor and attacked, while Hawking sent Deathstrike to help Wolverine fight him.

• Hawking told Mariko that her grandfather had brought the violence upon himself, and Wolverine reassured her that Hawking was a good person.
• Hawking explained that he had acted harshly to warn others against attacking the Hero Alliance, then opened the research building's electronic door with an Unlocking Charm.
• Hawking sensed only two living presences inside the building before Shingen appeared in a towering Silver Samurai armor.
• Shingen admitted to Mariko that he planned to steal Logan's regenerative abilities and pursue immortality, and he rejected her plea to stop.
• Wolverine charged Shingen, and Hawking sent Deathstrike to help him overcome the Adamantium armor and heated swords.

Hawking pursued Viper after she fled the research building and captured her before she could escape. After learning that she was senior Hydra agent Ophelia Sarkissian, he forced her to organize the research facility and report back to him.

• Hawking ordered Yukio to protect Mariko and flew after Viper, who was fleeing the rooftop in a flight suit.
• Viper jumped from the research building and tried to escape, believing Hawking would focus on Shingen Yashida.
• Hawking appeared above Viper after she landed, and she surrendered rather than resist.
• Viper revealed that her real name was Ophelia Sarkissian and explained her Hydra mission and abilities.
• Hawking took Viper back to the research building with the Flying Thunder God Technique and ordered her to organize everything and report to him.

Hawking helped Wolverine and Deathstrike defeat Shingen Yashida, then offered Mariko an alliance between the Yashida Family and Hero Alliance International Company. Mariko welcomed the offer as she faced the task of rebuilding her family’s power.

• Hawking disarmed Shingen Yashida with magic and took his Adamantium swords, allowing Wolverine and Deathstrike to strip off his armor.
• Wolverine cut the machine sustaining Shingen Yashida, and Mariko told her grandfather that he had become a monster before he died.
• Wolverine noticed a convoy approaching, and Hawking explained that company personnel had come to retrieve the research equipment and liquid Adamantium.
• Hawking instructed Susan and Ben to collect the dangerous research materials and told them that Viper would assist.
• Mariko worried about inheriting a weakened family after her grandfather, father, and the family’s ninja clan were gone.
• Hawking offered Mariko an alliance with Hero Alliance International Company, and she eagerly considered accepting his help.

Hawking finished arranging cooperation with Mariko and returned to Washington after Nick Fury reminded him of their meeting. Fury offered gravity technology that could raise Hawking’s training chamber to around fifty times gravity, leaving Hawking eager to hear more.

• Mariko eagerly agreed to cooperate with Hawking, who left Susan to work out the details with her.
• Hawking marked Viper with a Flying Thunder God Formula, warned her not to run, and returned to his school dormitory.
• Hawking realized he needed to learn Legilimency, then headed to the Combat Simulation Room to train.
• Nick Fury called Hawking about their scheduled meeting, and Hawking flew to the Triskelion and marked its rooftop for future travel.
• Nick Fury offered technology that could help Doctor Reed raise Hawking’s gravity chamber to around fifty times gravity, and Hawking was thrilled by the prospect.

Hawking agreed to have the Super Heroes in his company help S.H.I.E.L.D. fight Hydra in exchange for the Fifty Times Gravity Room technology. Nick Fury was delighted, while Hawking concealed how much he wanted the technology and explained that Hydra had influenced Shingen Yashida.

• Hawking asked Nick Fury to state his terms for the Fifty Times Gravity Room technology.
• Nick Fury asked Hawking’s Super Heroes to help S.H.I.E.L.D. eliminate Hydra, describing the organization’s reach and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s weakened position.
• Hawking agreed to the deal, eager to obtain the technology for his gravity training.
• Nick Fury happily accepted Hawking’s agreement.
• Hawking said he had agreed because Hydra threatened world peace and cited its influence on Shingen Yashida during the mission to rescue Logan in Tokyo.

After Hawking agreed to cooperate against Hydra, Nick Fury changed his approach and ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to stop surveilling Hawking and his organizations. Hawking arranged for Doctor Reed to build a Fifty Times Gravity Room and promised to fund Reed’s other research, then learned Susan needed to discuss the World’s First Mutant Tournament.

• Hawking used the Flying Thunder God Technique to leave Nick Fury’s office, and Fury decided Hawking was too powerful to control and worth keeping as an ally.
• Fury told Agent Hill to coordinate with Susan over gravity research materials and ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to withdraw surveillance on Hawking, Hero Alliance International Company, and X-Academy.
• Hawking told Doctor Reed that a special alloy could withstand the gravity room’s forces, and Reed promised to finish the Fifty Times Gravity Room within twenty days.
• Hawking offered to support Reed’s other research once the gravity room was complete, prompting Reed to eagerly accept the deadline.
• Susan stopped Hawking and said she needed his decision on matters concerning the World’s First Mutant Tournament, which he had forgotten about.

Hawking told Susan he would handle the island and construction for the Ability User Tournament, then traveled to Mount Myōboku to research Wood Release and seek Konoha’s records. He arrived to find Gamikichi bandaged and warning that something had happened in Konoha.

• Susan warned Hawking that buying and developing an island for the tournament would exceed the company’s budget and suggested postponing or downsizing it.
• Hawking rejected both suggestions and said he would take care of the island, then returned to the school dormitory.
• Hawking planned to use Shadow Clones to find an island, Portkeys to transport visitors, and Wood Release to build the tournament site.
• Hawking traveled to Mount Myōboku and planned to ask Tsunade for Konoha’s Wood Release research in exchange for valuable secrets.
• Gamikichi appeared bandaged and told Hawking that something had happened in Konoha.

Obito decided Akatsuki could no longer wait and ordered a full-scale attack on Konoha to capture Naruto, with Nagato’s Rinne Rebirth as a contingency if Hawking appeared. Akatsuki reached Konoha, where Sasuke insisted on killing Danzo, Mitokado Hamura, and Utatane Koharu before helping destroy the village.

• Zetsu reported that Hawking appeared in Konoha for only an hour each day and had not appeared for several days.
• Obito ordered Akatsuki to attack Konoha at four the next afternoon and told Zetsu to control Nagato and use Rinne Rebirth to revive Uchiha Madara if the battle went wrong.
• Obito, Konan, Nagato’s Six Paths of Pain, Sasuke, and Team Hawk gathered outside Konoha with the other Akatsuki members accounted for.
• Sasuke told Deva Path Pain that he would target Danzo, Mitokado Hamura, and Utatane Koharu before helping destroy Konoha.
• Deva Path Pain accepted Sasuke’s demand and sent Animal Path into Konoha first.

Hawking arrived in Konoha during Akatsuki’s invasion and flew toward Training Ground Zero after spotting Sasuke’s Susanoo, intending to copy Danzo’s memories and pursue Sasuke’s Indra Chakra. Meanwhile, Obito noticed that the Nine-Tails’ chakra had vanished from Naruto and returned to the second battlefield to capture him.

• Gamikichi told Hawking that Akatsuki and Sasuke had invaded Konoha, and Hawking used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the village.
• Hawking surveyed the ruined village and saw Jiraiya and Konoha’s fighters battling Pain in the south while Naruto, Kakashi, and others faced Obito and Konan in the north.
• Hawking spotted Sasuke’s Susanoo emerging near Training Ground Zero and realized Sasuke had gone after Danzo at Root’s headquarters.
• Hawking flew toward Training Ground Zero, planning to extract Danzo’s soul and copy his memories before Sasuke killed him.
• Obito sensed that the Nine-Tails’ chakra had disappeared from Naruto, searched for Hawking at Jiraiya’s battlefield, then returned to capture Naruto.

Hawking interrupted Sasuke’s fight with Danzo and stole Shisui’s Sharingan before declaring that he would not interfere further. Sasuke resumed his attack on the now-weakened Danzo.

• Sasuke used his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and Susanoo to overwhelm Danzo, while Jugo, Hozuki Suigetsu, and Karin kept the Root ninjas at bay.
• Danzo told Sasuke that Itachi had sacrificed himself for Konoha, and Sasuke vowed to kill Danzo, the village advisers, and everyone in the village.
• Sasuke crushed Danzo with Susanoo, and Danzo revived using Izanagi before tearing off his uncontrollable right arm.
• Danzo prepared to use Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami on Sasuke, but Hawking appeared and plucked Shisui’s eye from Danzo’s right eye.
• Hawking flew away and told Sasuke and Danzo to settle their grudges without him, and Sasuke attacked Danzo with Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi.

Hawking killed Danzo, copied his memories, and defeated Sasuke when Sasuke attacked him. He then flew to help Naruto, who was about to be captured by Obito as Kakashi and the others struggled against Konan.

• Hawking seized Danzo’s departing soul with the Rinnegan Human Path and copied his memories after Sasuke killed Danzo.
• Sasuke attacked Hawking with Kagutsuchi, but Hawking blocked it with energy blasts from his eyes.
• Hawking rushed past Sasuke’s Susanoo and punched him hard enough to knock him unconscious; Karin, Suigetsu, and Jugo reacted in alarm.
• Hawking warned Sasuke that he would spare him for Naruto’s sake, secretly marked him with a Flying Thunder God Formula, and flew toward Naruto.
• Obito prepared to pull the exhausted Naruto into his dimension while Kakashi and the others were unable to break through Konan’s attacks.

Hawking arrived in Konoha and drove Obito back with Fiendfyre, allowing Kakashi and the others to regroup with Naruto. He revealed that Sasuke and Danzo were fighting, leaving Naruto and Sakura anxious to learn what had happened to Sasuke.

• Obito began drawing Naruto into Kamui, but Hawking arrived using the Flying Thunder God Technique and forced Obito to stop and retreat.
• Obito attacked Hawking with Wood Release: Impaling Technique, but Hawking burned the wooden spikes with Fiendfyre and made Obito tear off his right arm to escape the flames.
• Naruto got back to his feet, and Kakashi led Shikamaru, Sakura, Hinata, and the others out of Konan's encirclement after her distraction gave them an opening.
• Hawking told the group he had stayed to watch Sasuke and Danzo fight to the death.
• Naruto and Sakura reacted anxiously and asked whether Sasuke was all right.