Chapter Summaries

Bert Wang, a newly turned Vampire in the Marvel World, trained with Frank Castle to become stronger and joined Jenny and John at Deacon Frost’s Blood Feast. After entering the hidden bar beneath a Brooklyn ice chamber, Bert recognized the setting from Blade and wondered whether the film’s events were about to begin.

• Bert paid John and Jenny twenty thousand dollars, learned about Deacon Frost’s plan to overthrow the Purebloods, and decided to use them to enter Vampire society.
• Bert hired Frank Castle to train him in combat and firearms, then endured a month of grueling nightly training while his strength and recovery improved.
• Jenny invited Bert to Deacon Frost’s Blood Feast, where they expected blood, living human prey, and a chance to meet Frost’s associates.
• John explained that elite Vampires gained power by drinking large amounts of living human blood or the blood of a higher-ranking Vampire.
• Bert, Jenny, and John entered a hidden Blood Feast bar beneath a Brooklyn ice chamber, where Bert recognized a setting resembling the opening of Blade.

Wang Bert watched Blade attack Deacon Frost’s Blood Feast, then helped John and Jenny abduct the injured Quinn so they could earn favor with Deacon. After luring them to an abandoned building, Wang Bert killed John and Jenny and considered what to do with Quinn.

• Wang Bert hid in the bar as Blade stormed in and slaughtered the Vampires and guards, while Quinn escaped with the help of three Blood-thirsty Clan members.
• Blade chased Quinn, wounded him with a silver sword, and set him on fire with a Red Potion before police officers interrupted the fight.
• Wang Bert convinced John and Jenny to swap Quinn’s burned body with an unconscious human and secretly take Quinn away, hoping to meet Deacon Frost.
• At an abandoned building, John ordered Wang Bert to stand guard, but Wang Bert stabbed John and then killed Jenny with his throwing knife.
• Wang Bert retrieved his throwing knife and looked down at Quinn, troubled by the thought of biting him.

Wang Bert became an Elite Vampire by drinking Quinn's blood, escaped Blade, and infiltrated Deacon Frost's organization. As Deacon prepared a plan involving Blade and the Pureblood Elders, Wang Bert joined Mercury's recruits and aimed to reach the altar where the ritual would take place.

• Wang Bert drank Quinn's blood, grew stronger, and killed him, but Blade arrived and confronted him.
• Wang Bert argued that he did not deserve to be killed for being a Vampire, then escaped Blade with smoke bombs and said he would infiltrate Deacon Frost's group.
• Deacon ordered his Vampires to search for Quinn and revealed to Mercury that he needed Blade and the Twelve Pureblood Elders for his plan.
• Wang Bert trained with Frank, practiced his improved speed, and asked him to find ultraviolet weapons and protective clothing.
• Wang Bert impressed the Cowboy Boss with his shooting and paid to join Deacon Frost's team as a recruit under Mercury.

Wang Bert freed Blade before Deacon Frost could complete the Blood God ritual, and the two attacked the vampires at the altar. Blade drove Deacon and his followers away, leaving Wang Bert with the injured elders as more vampires rushed in.

• James told Wang Bert that some Purebloods had supported Deacon Frost's takeover of North America's Blood Clan.
• Wang Bert used an Ultraviolet Lamp to kill the guards and force Vanessa to release Blade from the Iron Torture Device.
• Blade drank blood bags to recover, then knocked Vanessa unconscious and armed himself with Wang Bert's silver-plated weapons.
• Blade attacked the ritual with the Ultraviolet Lamp and a submachine gun, killing vampires and forcing Deacon Frost and Mercury to retreat.
• Wang Bert approached the injured Twelve Elders at the altar, but several vampires suddenly rushed in.

Wang Bert completed the Blood God ritual, devoured Deacon, and escaped the Altar with Blade, James, and Vanessa. He left with immense new power and immortality tied to the blood he consumed, while Blade warned that he would kill him if he committed crimes.

• Wang Bert defeated Miss Mercury and the vampires guarding the Altar as the ritual began, then absorbed the Twelve Elders and became the Blood God.
• Blade kept fighting Deacon despite Deacon's claim that he was a S.H.I.E.L.D. undercover agent, until vampires opened fire and Deacon escaped toward the Altar.
• Wang Bert discovered that his Blood River power let him devour victims, gain strength and extra lives, and inherit some of their memories.
• Deacon attacked Wang Bert, but Wang Bert used his speed to stab and drain him, killing him and learning that Deacon had worked for S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Wang Bert told Blade, James, and Vanessa to escape through Deacon's secret passage, while Mercury fled with other vampires to investigate Deacon's allegiance.
• Wang Bert killed five vampires guarding the passage, and Blade warned him that he would be killed if he ever committed a crime.

Wang Bert defeated a Pureblood Vampire assault and forced the Blood Clan to accept him as its leader. Seven days later, he called Blade through a police officer and hinted that he had been paid to betray him.

• John Garrett reported Deacon’s escape to Nick Fury, while Wang Bert and Blade escaped the altar and parted ways.
• Over the next month, Wang Bert mastered his powers and targeted vampire hideouts as S.H.I.E.L.D. also hunted vampires.
• More than twenty Pureblood Vampires ambushed Wang Bert underground and trapped him with Vlad’s Blood Chains.
• Wang Bert escaped the chains, killed the attackers with his blood powers and silver needles, and claimed the Blood Chains.
• Seven days later, Mercury and other vampires knelt before Wang Bert, who declared himself the Blood Clan’s leader.
• A police officer delivered Wang Bert’s call to Blade, and Wang Bert told Blade, “I’m sorry. They offered too much!”

Wang Bert reunited Blade with the rescued Whistler and negotiated with Nick Fury and Senator Stern over the Blood Clan’s conflict with S.H.I.E.L.D. The parties agreed to restore the previous treaty, and Wang Bert proposed a Blood Clan Police Department with S.H.I.E.L.D. participation.

• Wang Bert invited Blade to his estate and revealed that Whistler had been rescued and restored to human form.
• Wang Bert told Blade that they would decide the North American Blood Clan’s fate, and Blade agreed to stay for the meeting.
• Wang Bert welcomed Nick Fury and Senator Stern, then argued with Fury over S.H.I.E.L.D.’s attacks and the capture of Blood Clan members and agents.
• Wang Bert and Fury agreed to exchange their captured people and seized wealth and to resume honoring the existing agreement.
• Wang Bert proposed a Blood Clan Police Department to investigate Vampire crimes, with S.H.I.E.L.D. allowed to provide roughly one-tenth of its members.

Wang Bert negotiated terms for the Blood Clan and began laying the groundwork for its reforms, appointing Peggy Carter to lead the Blood God Group and urging Blade to head the new police department. The chapter ended with the Blood Clan’s future assets and plans under discussion, while Director Fury left warning Bert that he would be watched.

• Wang Bert demanded protections for law-abiding Vampires, lower blood-bag prices, and the destruction of organizations researching Vampires, then proposed Blade as chief of the Blood Clan Police Department.
• Wang Bert gave Blade a badge granting him authority to kill suspected lawbreaking Vampires and said he would fund research into artificial blood.
• Peggy Carter arrived as the Blood God Group’s president, and she explained to Director Fury that she had chosen to become a Vampire in exchange for youth and immortality.
• Wang Bert escorted Senator Stern out and offered to arrange a yacht for him, then told Mercury and Blade that the police department would let him devour criminal Vampires and strengthen the Blood Clan.
• Wang Bert insisted that the Blood Clan reform and abandon its belief in superiority, while Mercury agreed to support the police department despite her reservations.
• Peggy Carter estimated that Wang Bert was wealthier than the Stark Family, and Wang Bert proposed making a Blade Warrior film before outlining further plans.

Wang Bert outlined plans to integrate the Blood Clan into human society while giving Carter evidence that Hydra remained active inside S.H.I.E.L.D. He also secretly tasked James with finding Kilgrave, and Blade decided to become the Blood Clan Police Department’s Director while asking Whistler to watch over his mother, Vanessa.

• Wang Bert proposed registering vampires through discounted blood bags, opening factories in Hell’s Kitchen, and urgently developing Artificial Blood, while Carter and Blade supported parts of his plan.
• Wang Bert gave Carter Daniel Whitehall’s file and revealed that he was Werner Reinhardt, prompting Carter to investigate Hydra’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Wang Bert ordered James to locate Kilgrave without approaching him, funded the search, and promised him leadership of a future intelligence center if he succeeded.
• Blade told Whistler he planned to become Director so he could investigate the Blood Clan and Bert, and asked Whistler to keep Vanessa from drinking human blood.
• Whistler agreed to watch Vanessa but threatened to pull out her fangs, leaving Blade worried about the idea.

Wang Bert tried to recruit Frank Castle as his bodyguard, but Frank chose to stay in the military. Wang Bert exchanged prisoners with S.H.I.E.L.D., advanced plans for the Blood Clan Police Department and his group headquarters, and discovered Natalie Rushman among the secretary candidates.

• Wang Bert offered Frank Castle a million-dollar annual salary to be his personal bodyguard, but Frank declined and recommended Billy Russo instead.
• Wang Bert gave Frank an envelope of information, then shared lunch with Frank, Maria Castle, and their children.
• Wang Bert and Melinda May exchanged S.H.I.E.L.D. agents for Blood Clan prisoners, and Melinda agreed to join the Blood Clan Police Department as deputy director.
• Wang Bert told Melinda to meet Blade and described plans for an underground police headquarters and an aboveground factory.
• Wang Bert ordered Mercury to relocate tenants from the Long-Term Rental Apartment before demolishing it for the Blood God Group headquarters.
• Mercury showed Wang Bert résumés for secretary candidates, and Wang Bert was surprised to see Natalie Rushman listed as a Blood-thirsty Clan member.

Wang Bert hired Natasha Romanoff as his secretary and gave her blood that could protect her and revive her. After Nick Fury confirmed the crimes tied to Hound Action, Frank Castle agreed to become Wang Bert’s bodyguard, leaving the story with the Punisher joining Wang Bert’s team.

• Wang Bert discovered that Natalie Rushman was Black Widow and ordered Mercury to hire her rather than expose her, while keeping their agreement with Carter intact.
• Frank Castle learned that his former superior, Blacksmith, had used fallen soldiers’ corpses to smuggle drugs and had sent Hound Action soldiers to kill rivals before planning to silence them.
• Nick Fury confirmed Blacksmith’s confession and stopped Frank from seeking immediate revenge, then asked him to act as insurance against Wang Bert and the vampires.
• Frank refused to spy on Wang Bert but agreed to stop him if he threatened the world or humanity.
• Natasha Romanoff drank Wang Bert’s blood, which would keep her safe and could revive her, then took up her post as his secretary.
• Frank questioned Wang Bert about his intentions, accepted the bodyguard job, and said he would handle the military perpetrators himself.

Wang Bert hired Frank to train and lead his vampire security company while refusing to sell the Long-Term Rental Apartment, where the Dragon Bone lay buried. At dinner, Tony Stark challenged Wang Bert over Becky, then invited him to Atlantic City; Wang Bert secretly planted a drop of blood in Tony’s hand before they left.

• Frank signed a contract to serve as Wang Bert’s bodyguard and train the Blood God Security Company, then left with Xue Ren to meet the team.
• Natasha secretly collected a sample of her own blood for Nick Fury, but Wang Bert sensed what she had done and knew his living blood could not be taken without his consent.
• Wang Bert rejected Kingpin’s offer for the Long-Term Rental Apartment, told him to stay out of the conflict with The Hand, and resolved to fight for the Dragon Bone beneath the property.
• At dinner, Tony Stark arrived and tried to win Becky’s attention, but she chose to keep her plans with Wang Bert to meet Director Katherine about a role in Twilight.
• Tony challenged Wang Bert to join him in Atlantic City, and Wang Bert secretly sent a drop of blood into Tony’s palm before they left.

Bert Wang beat Tony Stark at poker, then made Tony agree to design a discreet ultraviolet shield for Vampires. After learning James had found Kilgrave, Bert left Becky and rushed to New York to capture the Purple Man and claim his mind-control ability.

• Tony Stark lost a poker match to Bert Wang and agreed to do one thing for him rather than strip and run around the casino.
• Bert Wang asked Tony to design an invisible ultraviolet shield for Vampires, and Tony promised to make it within three days in exchange for an explanation of Bert’s cheating.
• Bert Wang demonstrated his X-ray vision to Tony, then left with Becky while Tony angrily wondered whether Bert had used it to spy on Pepper Potts.
• James called Bert Wang to report that he had found Kilgrave shopping with Jessica Jones, and Bert ordered him to keep watching while preparing Biochemical Suits and Tranquilizer Guns.
• Bert Wang flew from Atlantic City to New York and met James near a restaurant where Kilgrave had persuaded the owner and staff to serve him without payment.

Wang Bert captured Kilgrave and had his mind-controlling virus-producing tissue removed, then used his Blood God powers to transplant it into himself. He confirmed he could control the virus and keep it active with blood, but decided to use the ability secretly in the Marvel world.

• Wang Bert and James entered the restaurant in Biochemical Suits, where their team tranquilized Kilgrave and knocked out Jessica Jones and the people Kilgrave had ordered to protect him.
• Wang Bert took Jessica and Kilgrave to his home, had Jessica confined for twelve hours, and brought Kilgrave to a secret virus laboratory.
• Two virus experts discovered that a mutated tissue in Kilgrave's brain produced the virus, and Wang Bert ordered them to extract it alive despite their objections.
• Wang Bert used his blood to sustain and transplant the tissue into his own head, then demonstrated that he could control the virus experts and extend the virus's effect with blood.
• Wang Bert abandoned his plan to control world leaders, ordered the virus experts to research for him, and stayed to test his new ability.

Blade led the VAPD in arresting Vampires who opposed Bert Wang’s new order, while Bert acquired Hank Pym’s Pym Particles and Ant-Man Suit and revealed that Wasp was alive in the Quantum Realm. Bert then sent James to find Jane Lane, a university professor, and Anton and Ivan Vanko, leaving several new leads in motion.

• Blade and Melinda May led the VAPD in raiding a Vampire gathering, arresting the Half-bloods and subduing the Purebloods, while Blade explained that the Blood God would consume the captured Vampires’ blood.
• Obadiah Stane complained that Tony Stark was neglecting Stark Industries’ obligations and decided he would no longer tolerate Tony’s disrespect.
• Tony gave Little Pepper Pepper Potts a box for Bert Wang and warned her not to deliver it herself before leaving for his military demonstration.
• Wang Bert used his powers to make Hank Pym surrender the Pym Particles, their formula, and the Ant-Man Suit, then told him that Wasp was alive in the Quantum Realm.
• Hank Pym called Hope Pym and planned to explain what he had learned, while discovering that the intruder had erased the surveillance footage.
• Wang Bert asked James to locate Jane Lane and a university professor, then sent him to Moscow to find Anton Vanko and Ivan Vanko and offer to save Anton.

Wang Bert tested Tony Stark’s ultraviolet-blocking mask for the Blood Clan, ordered production and a short sale of Stark Industries, and negotiated with Matt Murdock over tenants in a building he wanted for his headquarters. After Madame Gao arrived with Giyohachiro, Wang Bert prepared to face them in the underground arena, while Matt and others witnessed Madame Gao attack a guard with a push from the air.

• Mercury tested Tony Stark’s mask in sunlight, and Wang Bert ordered the Blood Clan to produce it while warning against a chip backdoor.
• Wang Bert ordered his Financial Company to short Stark Industries, predicting Tony Stark would suffer a disaster.
• Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson negotiated increased relocation compensation for tenants in Wang Bert’s building, and Matt noticed Mercury had no heartbeat.
• Mercury told Wang Bert that Madame Gao was coming, so he and Mercury headed to the underground martial arts arena to meet her.
• Madame Gao arrived with Giyohachiro and sent a guard flying with an invisible force, prompting Natasha to hurry inside and Matt to investigate nearby.

Wang Bert defeated Madame Gao and captured her, then forced her to explain how K'un-Lun Qi Gong worked. Madame Gao revealed that practitioners needed Dragon Bone Fragments, leaving Wang Bert with a possible way to strengthen the Blood Clan.

• Trish Walker saw Madame Gao demonstrate Qigong and wanted to ask her to become her master, while Jessica Jones dismissed the idea and went to find a bar.
• Mercury told Natasha to find Matt Murdock in the back alley and keep him away from the street, and Natasha found him listening suspiciously.
• Wang Bert challenged Madame Gao over the building and fought her, using his blood and the Purple Man Virus to take control of her.
• Mercury defeated Giyohachiro and brought him unconscious to Wang Bert, who criticized her strength and promised to find another way for Vampires to grow stronger.
• Wang Bert forced Madame Gao to explain that K'un-Lun Qi Gong required merging with Dragon Bone Fragments, and she revealed that she had betrayed K'un-Lun because its elders forbade using the Dragon Bone to extend their lives.

Wang Bert learned how The Hand used Dragon Bones and The Beast, then decided to strike against the organization to obtain the Dragon Bone beneath the Long-Term Rental Apartment. After arranging a meeting with Alexandra, he prepared Frank and his Security Company for a possible battle.

• Madame Gao explained that Dragon Bones extended The Hand members' lives, while The Beast could resurrect them at the cost of souls and parts of their souls.
• Madame Gao revealed that Iron Fist Power protected the Dragon Bone, but even a tiny Dragon Bone fragment could open a gap; Wang Bert decided to go to war with The Hand.
• Under the Purple Man Virus, Madame Gao disclosed what she knew about The Hand and Qigong, while Matt Murdock resolved to keep watching her and Wang Bert.
• Natasha reported the Blood Clan and The Hand conflict to Director Fury, who told her Tony Stark had gone missing after an attack in the Middle East.
• Wang Bert asked Frank to ready the entire Security Company, then made Madame Gao summon Alexandra and arranged a negotiation while keeping Gao and the injured Giyohachiro in his custody.

Wang Bert prepared to destroy The Hand by using Madame Gao’s intelligence and Frank’s tactical planning, while Alexandra gathered the Five Fingers to reunite. After learning that Tony Stark had been attacked, Wang Bert began shorting Stark Industries and planned to take over Rand Corporation’s medical department for his Blood Department.

• Alexandra called Bojutsu, Sowande, Murakami, and the Five Fingers to reunite, while Wang Bert secretly controlled Giyohachiro with the Purple Man Virus and sent him back to Murakami.
• Madame Gao defeated Xue Ren in a sparring match, demonstrating The Hand’s strength and convincing Frank that Wang Bert’s warning was accurate.
• Madame Gao revealed that The Hand would bring about two hundred ninjas to negotiate over the Dragon Bone at Rand Corporation’s dock in Hell’s Kitchen, and Frank began planning the battle.
• Mercury warned Xue Ren to trust Wang Bert and protect his position in the Security Company; Xue Ren apologized to Wang Bert for doubting him.
• Carter told Wang Bert that Tony Stark had been attacked and was missing, so Wang Bert ordered Mercury to begin shorting Stark Industries.
• Wang Bert told Carter that The Hand controlled Rand Corporation and asked her to prepare to take over its Medical Department for the Blood Department.

Wang Bert and the Hand’s Five Fingers met at Rand Corporation’s dock, where a Blood Clan ambush devastated the Hand and left Alexandra captured. As the battle ended, Alexandra sacrificed the fallen ninjas to The Beast and gained a surge of power, turning the tide against Wang Bert.

• Wang Bert told Carter that the Blood Clan would take Rand Corporation from the Hand by exposing its illegal drug sales and money laundering, while Carter agreed to prepare a takeover plan.
• Wang Bert and the Hand’s Five Fingers arrived at Rand Corporation’s dock, where Alexandra secretly planned to ambush the Blood Clan and Daredevil hid nearby.
• Madame Gao betrayed Alexandra as explosives, rockets, snipers, and Blood Clan gunfire devastated the Hand’s forces; Frank and Natasha led the military-style attack.
• Wang Bert, Madame Gao, Mercury, Xue Ren, and Giyohachiro defeated the Five Fingers and their ninjas, while Daredevil confronted Frank over the casualties.
• Wang Bert and Madame Gao pinned Alexandra down, but she invoked The Beast and sacrificed the fallen ninjas’ souls to gain power, forcing Wang Bert’s blood from her body.