Chapter Summaries

Thor learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers were studying the dangerous Convergence on Earth, where space had begun to overlap. Though he was due to become Asgard’s regent king the next day, Heimdall sent him to Earth so he could warn his friends and say goodbye to Jane Ford.

• Heimdall told Thor that humans had gathered at the convergence node and were studying the instability as space began to overlap.
• Thor worried that the Convergence could trap or destroy his Earth friends and asked Heimdall to send him to Earth.
• Heimdall refused at first because Thor was to become regent king the next day, but Thor insisted he needed to stop the dangerous research.
• Thor admitted he also wanted to see Jane Ford and bid her farewell before taking up his duties as king.
• Heimdall activated the Rainbow Bridge, sending Thor racing toward Earth.

He-El rushed to secure the Reality Stone after the Rainbow Bridge caused the spatial portal to open early, while Vivian tried to keep Tony Stark away. Vivian and Tony were pulled into the portal together and arrived in a vast, dark space.

• He-El learned that the Rainbow Bridge had landed in East London and accelerated the portal’s opening.
• He-El ordered Vivian to retrieve the Reality Stone, keep Tony away, and kill any Asgardian who obstructed her.
• He-El donned Atomic Armor No. 3—King of Magnetism and flew toward London.
• Vivian pinned Tony Stark’s armor in place, then released him after he agreed to leave the area.
• As the spatial portal opened, Vivian grabbed Tony and threw him, but both were engulfed and transported into a dark space where Tony crashed into a rock.

Vivian and Tony Stark entered the sealed space containing the Reality Stone, where Vivian restrained Tony and absorbed the Stone. Odin’s lingering psychic residue then activated the seal and transported them away.

• Vivian hurled Tony Stark into the Reality Stone’s sealed space, then warned him not to approach the Stone.
• Tony Stark detected the Reality Stone, but Vivian immobilized him and declared she had authority to kill anyone who tried to seize it.
• Vivian failed to contact He-El through most channels, though she sent him a fragmented message saying she had found the Reality Stone.
• Vivian absorbed the leaking Reality Stone into her body and realized it was beginning to dissolve her.
• Odin’s residual psychic reaction triggered a spatial transmission, and Vivian and Tony Stark vanished from the sealed space.

He-El reached London as Thor urged the Avengers to evacuate a dangerous spatial node formed by the Convergence. A transport beam flared from the Reality Stone’s sealed space, leaving Thor to wonder whether someone had been sent back to Asgard.

• He-El raced to the Waltham Forest Industrial Area and received Vivian’s fragmented message that she had found the Reality Stone.
• He-El arrived and learned from Nick Fury that Thor was demanding everyone evacuate the area.
• Thor warned the Avengers that researching the Convergence’s spatial node could cause a disaster and urged them to leave.
• Vivian reported that Odin’s residual mental reaction had connected to the space, then her message cut off.
• He-El and the others saw a transport beam erupt from the sealed space, and Thor recognized fluctuations resembling an early form of the Rainbow Bridge.

Vivian’s collection of the Reality Stone triggered Odin’s hidden power in her body, transporting her and the Stone to Asgard. He-El and the Avengers realized their plan had failed, while Stephen Strange warned Thor that the Dark Elves would invade Asgard and kill his mother; Thor left to verify the warning.

• Tony Stark failed to respond after entering the spatial anomaly, and the Avengers could not contact him.
• He-El concluded that Odin’s residual mental power in Vivian had activated when she collected the Reality Stone and transported her to Asgard.
• Thor explained that the Rainbow Bridge-like reaction meant someone had been transported to Asgard, easing the Avengers’ fears for Tony but leaving He-El and Nick Fury distraught over losing the Stone.
• Stephen Strange told Thor about his prophetic dream, the Reality Stone, Thanos, and the coming Dark Elf invasion that would kill Thor’s mother.
• Thor said he would verify Strange’s claims and used the Rainbow Bridge to return to Asgard.

Odin awakened when he sensed the Reality Stone eroding his psychic power in Vivian, then teleported Vivian and Tony Stark to Asgard. As Odin set out to retrieve them, Vivian tried to determine their location and find a way to contact He-El.

• Odin used his residual psychic power to activate the Rainbow Bridge array and teleport Vivian and Tony Stark to Asgard.
• Odin ordered his guards to capture the humans on the eastern Idavoll Plain, then prepared to go there with Gungnir and Sleipnir.
• Frigga asked Odin whether another war had begun, and Odin told her he only needed to retrieve some items before riding out.
• Tony Stark regained his mobility on the plain and learned from JARVIS that it was not Earth and that his usual systems were unavailable.
• Vivian emerged from the grass and told Tony Stark to wait while she searched for a route back to Earth and a way to contact He-El.

Tony Stark and Vivian arrived in Asgard with the Reality Stone and realized they needed a way to contact Earth and He-El. Vivian considered building a Space Bridge, but Asgardian warhorses approached before she could act.

• Tony Stark recognized that he and Vivian had been transported to Asgard, where they could no longer keep the Reality Stone.
• Vivian tried to contact Earth and asked Tony Stark for a way to reach her master, He-El.
• Tony Stark proposed finding Thor and asking him to send them home, but Vivian rejected the plan as inadequate.
• Tony Stark explained that they needed Asgard's Rainbow Bridge to leave, prompting Vivian to consider creating a Space Bridge linked to one on Earth.
• Tony Stark noticed Asgardian warhorses approaching and offered to handle communication, while Vivian watched them without emotion.

Tony Stark and Vivian fought Asgardian soldiers who mistook them for rebels, despite Tony insisting he was Thor’s friend. Vivian slaughtered the soldiers, and their captain recognized her as a replicated Destroyer.

• Tony Stark tried to persuade the Asgardian squad to take him and Vivian to Thor, but the captain ordered his soldiers to fire.
• Tony Stark dodged arrows and fought the heavenly horse soldiers with his weapons while JARVIS searched for openings.
• Vivian killed five soldiers with her blade-like hands, shocking Tony Stark.
• The Asgardians surrounded Vivian, but she rapidly killed them all.
• The captain called Vivian a replicated Destroyer and accused them of being rebels of the Nine Realms.

Vivian slaughtered Asgardian warriors after He-El cleaved apart the Destroyer, and Tony Stark feared her actions would provoke Odin and endanger Earth. Odin arrived with his ravens as the surviving warriors welcomed him.

• The Asgardian captain recoiled at the sight of the Destroyer, which He-El had cleaved apart by striking its magic-energy reflux nodes.
• Vivian killed Asgardian warriors with her nearly indestructible body as Tony Stark tried to restrain them without causing casualties.
• Tony Stark confronted Vivian and demanded to know what she had done, then worried Odin would retaliate against He-El and Earth.
• Hugin and Muninn arrived above Tony Stark and Vivian as Odin approached in a surge of golden light, and the Asgardian warriors welcomed their king.

Odin arrived on Asgard’s starry grassland and demanded that Vivian hand over what she had taken, while Tony Stark tried to take responsibility for the deaths of the Asgardian warriors. When Odin’s honor guard captain attacked Vivian, she killed him with a single strike and said, “The same.”

• Odin arrived with his honor guard, and Tony Stark apologized for the clash with the Asgardian warriors while trying to keep He-El from being blamed.
• Odin ignored Tony Stark’s explanation, expressed hostility toward He-El, and demanded that Vivian hand over what she had taken.
• Vivian refused Odin’s demand, and Odin ordered his honor guard captain to claim the enemy’s spoils.
• The honor guard captain approached Vivian despite a warning about her strength, but Vivian struck through his chest before he could reach the ground and said, “The same.”

Vivian killed Odin’s royal guard captain, pushing Odin into a furious attack with Gungnir. He repeatedly battered her across the grassland and drove her back toward the ground, where she began to gather a scorching red glow.

• Vivian killed Odin’s royal guard captain with a single strike, leaving Odin and the gods of his royal guard stunned.
• Tony Stark feared Vivian’s actions had made war with Asgard inevitable and put He-El, the Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., and Earth at risk.
• Odin left Sleipnir and thrust Gungnir at Vivian, blasting her across the grassland despite her catching the spear between her hands.
• Odin struck Vivian again and hurled Gungnir after her as she rose into the night sky; she narrowly dodged the spear before he sent it crashing into her back.
• As Gungnir drove Vivian down toward Odin, her eyes glowed red and she began to gather heat within her mouth.

Vivian fought Odin across Asgard but was sealed after he exploited her limited abilities away from Earth. Odin ordered her taken away so he could extract the Reality Stone.

• Vivian unleashed a kinetic thermal beam and clashed with Odin, enduring his attacks while Tony Stark and the royal guard watched in shock.
• Odin grew alarmed by Vivian's strength and quietly prepared a large-scale sealing technique as they fought.
• Vivian recognized the seal but could not stop Odin from binding and defeating her.
• Odin approached the sealed Vivian, who insisted she was incomplete and not worthy of fighting her Master.
• Odin ordered his people to carry Vivian away and prepared to extract the Reality Stone.

After Odin took the Reality Stone to Asgard, the heroes abandoned their preparations to defend Earth, while Stephen Strange tried to locate Asgard and reach Odin. He-El turned to testing Space Bridge components, and Nick Fury asked whether he had given up.

• Odin transported Vivian and the Reality Stone to Asgard, ending the preparations against the Dark Elves on Earth.
• Stephen Strange used Thor's lingering aura to search for Asgard so he could persuade Odin or take the Reality Stone.
• Nick Fury told Steve Rogers that the group would wait for Stephen to locate Asgard, while Steve left Bucky aboard the Helicarrier under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s watch.
• Hawkeye and Natasha dismissed the unofficial Avengers members, and Nick Fury planned to consult He-El before dealing with the Deep-Sea Great Prison.
• He-El directed Bruce Banner, T'Challa, and S.H.I.E.L.D. researchers in tests to develop Space Bridge components after losing contact with Vivian.
• Nick Fury visited He-El in the data room and asked if he still had not given up.

Nick Fury urged He-El to abandon the Reality Stone after Odin took it, fearing Earth would be drawn into the war between Asgard and the Dark Elves. He-El remained determined to reach Asgard and secure the stone, telling Nick that if he died there, humanity should never learn the truth.

• Nick Fury and the Avengers concluded that Earth should withdraw from the fight for the Reality Stone and protect the Mind Stone.
• Stephen Strange planned to tell Odin about the future and persuade him, while keeping open the possibility of stealing the Reality Stone from its escorts.
• He-El used Vivian's connection to the Reality Stone as part of a plan to locate her and activate the Space Bridge to Asgard.
• Nick Fury challenged He-El for refusing to give up on the Reality Stone, but He-El said Earth needed it to defend itself against powers like Asgard and Thanos.
• He-El told Nick Fury that his attempt to get the Reality Stone was his own action and asked him not to reveal the truth if He-El died in Asgard.
• Nick Fury left the laboratory in shock as He-El continued directing the researchers.

Odin had Vivian sealed in Asgard’s research institute, where the researchers discovered she was a living metal life-form created by He-El. Unable to remove the Reality Stone from her without another Infinity Stone, Odin ordered the researchers to use the Cosmic Cube, and Thor arrived as preparations began.

• Odin brought the sealed Vivian to Asgard’s research institute and ordered its researchers to examine her.
• The goateed dean concluded that Vivian was an intelligent, living metal life-form unlike the Destroyer, astonishing Odin with the power and complexity of He-El’s creation.
• Odin ordered the researchers to extract the Reality Stone from Vivian, but the goateed dean warned that they could not do so without another Infinity Stone.
• Odin said he would retrieve the Cosmic Cube from the treasury so the researchers could use its energy to extract the Reality Stone.
• Thor entered the research chamber, saw Vivian on the table, and asked whether she was the robot He-El had used to contain the Reality Stone.

Thor returned to Asgard after Stephen Strange warned him that the Dark Elves would attack and Frigga would die. After Thor revealed the future to Odin, Odin put him in charge of defending Asgard as the Dark Elves' cloaked warship entered its airspace.

• Thor returned to Asgard, checked on Frigga, and found Odin extracting the Reality Stone from Vivian.
• Thor warned Odin not to send the Reality Stone to The Collector and told him about the Dark Elves' attack, Frigga's death, and Thanos eventually obtaining the Stone.
• Odin recognized Stephen Strange as Ancient One's disciple and gave Thor authority to prepare Asgard's defenses.
• Thor deployed forces while He-El prepared the Space Bridge and Stephen Strange prepared tracking magic to locate Asgard.
• The Dark Elves' cloaked warship entered Asgard's airspace as the Nine Realms neared alignment.

Vivian contacted He-El from Asgard as Odin’s researchers used the Cosmic Cube to force the Reality Stone out of her body. He-El obtained the data needed to locate Asgard and left Earth alone to reach her.

• The bearded director oversaw a Cosmic Cube energy bombardment that made the Reality Stone withdraw from its fusion with Vivian, restoring her control of her body.
• Vivian contacted He-El and sent him the environmental data recorded in her fourth spiral gene sequence so he could determine Asgard’s coordinates.
• He-El used Earth’s computing power to calculate Asgard’s location while Vivian warned him that the researchers would extract the Reality Stone in about two hours and twelve minutes.
• Vivian told He-El she could not overcome Odin’s seal, and He-El promised to be by her side soon.
• He-El thanked the researchers, jumped from the Helicarrier into a small Manta Ray spacecraft, and departed alone as Bruce Banner, T’Challa, and Nick Fury watched.

Nick Fury investigated He-El’s plan to reach Asgard and take the Reality Stone, then searched S.H.I.E.L.D.’s records to understand why he trusted He-El so completely. The chapter ended with Fury horrified by the question of what had made him place such trust in an otherworldly visitor.

• Nick Fury questioned Bruce Banner and T'Challa about what He-El was building, and they explained that it could create portals to distant locations in the universe.
• Nick Fury realized He-El could reach Asgard to seize the Reality Stone and left the research room deeply uneasy.
• Nick Fury ordered Hill to collect every file and secret about He-El, then examined S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Level Eleven archives.
• Nick Fury reviewed He-El’s history, from saving Tony Stark and fighting Loki to gaining immense power and influence on Earth.
• Nick Fury looked up from the files in horror and wondered why he had trusted He-El so completely.

Nick Fury reconsidered his complete trust in He-El and concluded that He-El might be manipulating Earth through generous reforms and public goodwill to pursue the Reality Stone. Unable to find meaningful opponents or evidence against him, Fury left his office to seek out Stephen Strange.

• Nick Fury realized He-El had won humanity’s trust by redistributing wealth, funding reforms, promoting peace, and advancing Earth’s future, rather than using the Mind Scepter.
• Nick Fury searched He-El’s records and found no alien physical traits, but became more suspicious of He-El’s hidden motives and his interest in the Reality Stone.
• Nick Fury’s trust in He-El fell almost to zero as he considered whether He-El was reshaping Earth, the Avengers, and S.H.I.E.L.D. for his own purposes.
• Nick Fury found that He-El had even turned potential opponents into beneficiaries of his reforms, leaving him with very few enemies.
• Nick Fury left his office and headed to Stephen Strange’s room.

Nick Fury confronted Stephen Strange about his opposition to He-El obtaining the Reality Stone and learned that Strange suspected He-El had a role in Ancient One’s death. They agreed to investigate, while Strange prepared to go to Asgard to stop He-El and urge Odin to safeguard the Stone.

• Nick Fury entered Stephen Strange’s room and asked why Strange had opposed He-El obtaining and using the Reality Stone.
• Stephen Strange recognized that Fury had become wary of He-El and showed him the future he had seen.
• Strange revealed that Ancient One had warned him not to trust He-El and said he suspected He-El had worked with Dormammu to orchestrate her death.
• Fury proposed arranging a meeting between He-El and Dormammu to uncover the truth, and Strange agreed that they should do so later.
• Strange said he needed to go to Asgard first to stop He-El from obtaining the Reality Stone and persuade Odin to keep it safe.
• Fury returned to his office and removed the brainwave invisibility contact lens He-El had given him.