Chapter Summaries

Wang Bert uncovered that Wanda and Pietro had been manipulated into being born, while Tony and the heroes fought them and a new force of armed attackers. As the battle escalated, Strange trapped Quicksilver in a Space Corridor, and Tony called for reinforcements.

• Skye crushed a group of exoskeleton-clad thugs, but Quicksilver knocked heroes aside while Wanda controlled Tony with a vision of Blood God destroying Earth.
• Tony woke from the illusion and was attacked by his own allies before he and Strange found Wanda, who escaped with Quicksilver after he struck Strange.
• Wang Bert learned from Ancient One that a wish-like force had influenced his thoughts to ensure Wanda and Vision were born, and he sent Annie to possess the Grand Elder and spy on Hydra.
• Wanda began destroying Strange's spatial blockade, and Tony sent Drone Armor to investigate before armed vehicles arrived and destroyed two suits.
• Strange opened space magic around himself, causing Quicksilver to charge into a Space Corridor and return to where he started.

Wang Bert arrived in a flashy martial-arts disguise and turned the battle against Hydra, then defeated Wanda and took her prisoner. Supergiant secretly confirmed that he was not the Blood God, while Hydra and the Holy Light Warriors escaped behind magical barriers.

• Wanda freed Quicksilver from Strange's Space Corridor and fought Strange while Hydra's armored vehicles forced the heroes into retreat.
• Baron Strucker revealed that Wanda and the others had ambushed the heroes, using the Holy Light Warriors as bait to trap them.
• Wang Bert destroyed Hydra's vehicles and soldiers with theatrical martial arts, then incapacitated Quicksilver with a qi bell and drove Wanda into battle with thousands of earthen swords.
• Pietro led the wounded away as Wanda covered their retreat, while Strucker ordered a retreat and Annie used Gabriel's statue to shield the remaining Holy Light Warriors and block Tony's pursuit.
• Wang Bert pierced Wanda's chest with an earthen sword and disrupted her attempt to escape; Supergiant probed his mind and concluded that he was a dragon, not the Blood God.
• Wang Bert's dragon's might silenced the battlefield, and he destroyed the angel statue and its shields before declaring Wanda his prisoner.

Wang Bert rescued Wanda and left her with Skye’s group while the injured were treated at Osborn Tower, where Tony learned Mephisto had reincarnated as his son. Meanwhile, Baron Strucker pursued an alliance with the Grand Elder, and Viper recruited the desperate presidential candidate for Hydra.

• Wang Bert posed as Skye’s martial uncle, took Wanda away, and left Strange and Tony to bring the wounded to Osborn Tower for treatment.
• Tony learned from Damon that Mephisto had been destroyed but reincarnated as Tony’s son, and he rejected Damon’s suggestion that the child should not be allowed to remain.
• At the Sokovia Hydra base, Pietro worried about Wanda while Baron Strucker and the Grand Elder discussed finding a divine artifact and assembling an Angel Legion.
• The Grand Elder left Baron Strucker, who sent someone to contact the bankrupt presidential candidate.
• Viper visited the candidate, poisoned his staff into immobility, and offered Hydra’s support for his presidential bid in exchange for a visit to the base.
• After Viper left, the candidate considered his advisor’s suggestion to make money by acting like a fool and weighed whether to visit Hydra.

Peggy Carter forced Hank Pym to share control of Pym Particles with Darren Cross, bringing the technology under Wang Bert’s influence. Meanwhile, Baron Strucker revealed Hydra’s Inhuman army and political plan to the Candidate, while the Grand Elder secretly continued investigating.

• Peggy Carter offered Hank Pym a choice between prison and forming a company with Darren Cross to manage the Pym Particles, and Hank agreed after securing roles for Hope and himself and support for his Quantum Tunnel.
• Baron Strucker showed the Candidate and the Grand Elder Hydra’s soldiers, revealed that Piri could open portals, and presented Rumlow as the transformed Crossbones.
• Baron Strucker claimed Hydra could create Inhumans and use their abilities to help the Candidate become president, while General Ross promised the military Radical Faction’s support.
• Viper and Supergiant discussed their suspicions about the Grand Elder and their plan to use Hydra, while Viper prayed to the god she served for souls to sacrifice.
• The Grand Elder withheld her findings because she feared the Mind Scepter could detect her, and Baron Strucker told the Candidate to keep telling the public about gods, angels, devils, and Blood God.

Baron Strucker and the Grand Elder planned to expose supernatural threats and use Blood God’s disciples as hostages to recover Wanda. Meanwhile, Wang Bert questioned Wanda about her hatred of Tony Stark, and she learned that Stark had taken responsibility for his company’s weapons and tried to make amends.

• Baron Strucker agreed with the Grand Elder and a candidate to announce that Iron Man’s son was Mephisto’s reincarnation, while the Grand Elder set out to find a Reincarnated Angel.
• Pietro asked Baron Strucker about Wanda, and Strucker proposed capturing one of Blood God’s disciples to exchange for her; Pietro agreed to help but insisted the children must not be hurt.
• Wang Bert explained that he had put the Mind Ring on Wanda to contain the Mind Scepter’s power, then gave her expensive clothes and questioned her at his Manhattan mansion.
• Wanda recounted how Stark-branded shells killed her parents and trapped her and Pietro, and Wang Bert showed her reports about Stark Industries shutting down its Weapons Department and Tony’s efforts to compensate victims.
• Wang Bert told Wanda that Tony was building an Anti-Blood God Armor because he feared what might happen if Wang Bert turned evil.

Wang Bert took Wanda on a tour of technological projects in Africa and explained how they could reduce poverty, hunger, and war, persuading her that the interstellar era could benefit humanity. The chapter ended with Baron Mordo chasing Wade through the Mirror Dimension while Wade glimpsed the mysterious figure he saw near death.

• Wang Bert asked Wanda who was behind her and, after she criticized the interstellar era, promised to show her what he and the other heroes were doing.
• Wang Bert took Wanda for a ride in his flying motorcycle, and she enjoyed exploring the sea with him.
• Wang Bert showed Wanda the African Super Highway construction site and explained how its robots and infrastructure could help people escape poverty.
• Wang Bert showed Wanda alien-enhanced crops, an emerging Super City, and a school using holographic teachers, convincing her that the interstellar era could improve people's lives.
• Baron Mordo chased Wade into the Mirror Dimension for taking students on scams, and Wade glimpsed the mysterious figure that appeared to him near death.

Wang Bert persuaded Wanda to leave Hydra and tell S.W.O.R.D. what she knew, including Baron Strucker’s threat to destroy Earth. As the team prepared to investigate Hydra and use Wanda as an undercover agent, Wang Bert was called to meet Betty about an urgent matter.

• Wang Bert took Wanda across Africa and joked with her before she agreed to reveal Hydra’s secrets in exchange for Pietro’s safety.
• Wanda told Wang Bert that Baron Strucker controlled many superpowered people, possessed the Mind Scepter, and had threatened to destroy Earth.
• Wang Bert brought Wanda to S.W.O.R.D., where she explained Hydra’s situation and offered to return undercover; Steve agreed to support her plan with Ant-Man.
• Wanda explained her grievance against Tony, and Wang Bert left her with Skye for special training while he went to see Elektra.
• Lilith called Wang Bert the following afternoon to say Betty urgently wanted to see him, and he suspected the matter involved General Ross.

Betty brought Wang Bert intelligence from her father, General Ross, about Hydra's alliance with the Kree and their threats to Earth. Wang Bert agreed to consider restoring Ross's rank, then confronted Tony over whether Jarvis was developing a sense of self and ordered Doom and Ivan to examine it.

• Betty told Wang Bert that General Ross had faked his imprisonment, joined Hydra, and become Red Hulk after injecting himself with Hulk's blood.
• Betty revealed that Hydra and the Kree had created more than a thousand Inhumans, were close to reviving the Supreme Intelligence, and had brought an Antimatter Bomb to Earth.
• Wang Bert agreed in principle to restore General Ross's rank if he changed his methods, and Betty briefed Steve on the intelligence through a portal.
• Wang Bert questioned Jarvis about humanity, its flaws, and whether an intelligent program could be trusted to protect people.
• Tony arrived and defended Jarvis, but Wang Bert summoned Doom and Ivan to inspect it and said he would destroy it if they judged it unsafe.

Wang Bert arranged to upgrade Jarvis into Earth’s new guardian while preparing for war against Sokovia. Meanwhile, Rumlow and Quicksilver set an ambush at the Stinky Tofu Shop for Blood God’s disciples, and Mindy, Lina, and Little Hela arrived as their targets.

• Wang Bert recruited Tony, Ivan, and Doom to upgrade Jarvis with a magical soul and the Supreme Machine as his body, while Doom agreed to join the campaign against Sokovia.
• Ivan and Doom judged that Jarvis would remain safe for about a hundred years, and Wang Bert assigned Ivan, Tony, and Doom to the upgrade while sending Blood God Guards to protect Pepper.
• Rumlow and Quicksilver led Inhumans into the Stinky Tofu Shop, where Valkyrie’s spilled hot oil briefly burned them before they captured Odin and Valkyrie and disguised themselves as the shopkeepers.
• Odin told Valkyrie that the ambush would be entertainment for Little Hela, while Rumlow’s group finished preparing to lure in Blood God’s disciples.
• Mindy, Lina, and Little Hela approached the shop, noticed something was off, and stopped when they looked inside.

Mindy, Little Hela, and the Blood God Guards defeated Baron Strucker’s attack on the Stinky Tofu Shop, but Strucker escaped with most of his Inhumans and killed the captives he left behind. After Wang Bert learned about the assault, Baron Strucker threatened Lilith and showed her a video of the captured Chen Haoran.

• Mindy saw through Quicksilver’s disguise, protected herself from his corrosive power, and beat him unconscious.
• Little Hela defeated Rumlow and most of the Inhumans, while the five Blood God Guards slaughtered the group attacking them.
• Baron Strucker ordered Rumlow to retreat, and an Inhuman’s scream freed Rumlow and allowed many attackers to escape; Strucker then remotely killed the captured Inhumans.
• Little Hela freed Odin and Valkyrie, promised to compensate them for the shop’s damage, and invited Odin to help her plan another dungeon run to kill Odin.
• Lilith told Wang Bert that Pietro had been captured and that Mindy and the others would stay home, then Baron Strucker contacted her and demanded the return of the captured siblings.
• Baron Strucker sent Lilith a video showing that he had captured Firefighter Hero, Chen Haoran.

Wang Bert agreed to Baron Strucker’s hostage exchange and prepared to send Wanda back to Hydra, while Wanda persuaded him to spare Pietro. Wang Bert decided to disguise himself as Pietro and accompany Wanda undercover at Hydra’s base.

• Baron Strucker threatened to execute the Firefighter Hero and detonate four bombs unless Blood God released Wanda and Pietro, and Wang Bert told Lilith to accept the exchange.
• Wanda reunited with Pietro in the manor prison, where Mindy and Lina teased him and Wanda persuaded him that Hydra was the enemy.
• Wanda showed Pietro her memory of Wang Bert’s trip through Africa, but Pietro still questioned her beliefs and asked her to get him a meal.
• Wanda asked Wang Bert to spare Pietro, and he refused to trust Pietro as an undercover agent because he was too impulsive.
• Wang Bert transformed into Pietro and told Wanda he would accompany her undercover, then asked her to explain Pietro’s mannerisms.

Wang Bert and Wanda returned to Hydra after their hostage exchange, while Baron Strucker revealed a plan to use a presidential candidate to create chaos and target Iron Man. Wang Bert secretly sent Ant-Man and Wasp to investigate the Kree and an Antimatter Bomb, as Supergiant began probing him and Wanda.

• Baron Strucker welcomed Wanda and Wang Bert back, and Wang Bert claimed that qi had sealed their abilities to get closer to the Mind Scepter.
• The candidate presented an alleged angel at a press conference, but Skye arrested Ibu Alis after defeating him and cutting off his wing.
• The candidate claimed Tony Stark's unborn son was Mephisto reincarnated, and Baron Strucker said Hydra would support the candidate to destabilize America before the election.
• Wang Bert ordered Ant-Man Scott Lang and Wasp, Peggy Carter, to investigate the Kree and find the Antimatter Bomb.
• Supergiant secretly probed Wang Bert and Wanda with Mind Energy, then withdrew when she could not enter their minds.

Tony Stark faced growing threats at the hospital as Demon God Believers sought to capture his unborn son, Mephisto’s reincarnation, while Strange and Damon prepared to protect Pepper. At the Hydra base, Wang Bert learned that Pepper’s delivery was near and planned to coordinate an assault on Hydra after the birth.

• Tony refused demands to sacrifice his unborn son, then ordered the hospital secured when protesters gathered outside and an Eye of Scrying appeared.
• Colleen captured two Insect Demon Lord followers, and Strange explained that Demon Kings could use the baby as a vessel to enter the Main Universe.
• Tony asked Strange to protect Pepper, and he invited Officer Damon to help defend the hospital from the Demon God Believers.
• Wang Bert told Wanda that government interests were allowing the protests to continue, while Demon God Believers infiltrated New York and waited for Pepper to give birth.
• Carter reported that she and Ant-Man had found an underground Ice Chamber and a sealed final level at the Hydra base, and Wang Bert said the assault would begin after Pepper gave birth.

Wang Bert and Wanda endured the Mind Scepter’s attack while Baron Strucker prepared a massacre to distract S.W.O.R.D. Steve’s team decided to launch an early assault with Tony’s help, as Wang Bert secretly followed Supergiant’s stolen qi into the Mind Stone.

• Wang Bert and Wanda pretended to be siblings while investigating the Mind Scepter, and Dr. List used it to force Mind Energy against the qi in their bodies.
• The Grand Elder told Baron Strucker she was going to New York to stop the reincarnated Demon King, and Strucker ordered Rumlow to unleash the Inhumans in a worldwide killing spree to divert S.W.O.R.D.
• The Grand Elder secretly passed Strucker’s plan to Steve, who hesitated to attack until Tony offered Jarvis’s support, Doom’s spatial seal, and a plan to keep the hospital forces safe.
• Steve ordered S.W.O.R.D. to prepare an immediate attack on the Hydra Base once Wang Bert contacted them, while Tony stayed behind to guard his son’s birth.
• Wang Bert concealed his Dragon Soul from Supergiant, then shrank it with Pym Particles and followed a sample of qi into the Mind Stone.

Wang Bert fought Supergiant inside the Mind Stone after his qi destroyed the Mind Scepter, while Supergiant used Mind Energy and a copy of him to attack. As Wang Bert began confronting his clone, his consciousness reached Steve’s team in Latveria and an ancient stone tablet emerged from a vortex.

• Wang Bert entered the Mind Stone and tried to recruit Supergiant, but she attacked him with Mind Energy.
• Wanda’s qi burst out and destroyed the Mind Scepter, leaving Wanda and Pietro unconscious and a Hydra researcher dead after he touched the Mind Stone.
• Wang Bert learned he could not draw on the Mind Stone, then fought Supergiant using qi while she sealed space and created monsters.
• Supergiant formed a Mind Energy clone of Wang Bert, and the two began fighting while she condensed a new Mind Scepter.
• Steve received word that Hydra had strengthened its defenses, and Wang Bert’s consciousness arrived at the Latverian headquarters before an ancient square stone tablet flew from a vortex.

Wang Bert prepared the team to attack the Hydra base while battling Supergiant inside the Mind Stone. The Mind Stone restored Supergiant’s memories and empowered her, leaving Wang Bert fighting on as Carter and the Inhumans prepared to infiltrate the base.

• Wang Bert gave Steve a Space Stone Tablet to seal Sokovia and told him the Hydra base was ready to attack; he also gave Coulson hair-growth shampoo, which Steve confiscated until after the battle.
• Wang Bert ambushed Supergiant as she tried to create a scepter, erased her memories with his hammer, and destroyed her duplicate, but the Mind Stone restored her memories and strengthened her before she could surrender.
• Supergiant attacked Wang Bert with Mind Energy while using one of her copies to disrupt God's Cloak, and Wang Bert fought back as the battle continued.
• Carter and General Ross set up equipment to fool the Kree base’s quantum and spatial detectors, then Carter prepared to destroy its defense shield with Skye’s Super Energy Bomb.
• Gordon teleported Skye and a group of Inhumans into the warehouse, while Carter explained that Ant-Man was spreading Shi’ar Hypnotic Gas through the Hydra base.

Steve and Doom launched the assault on Hydra’s Sokovia base while Carter planted bombs and the coalition prepared to fight. As Hydra’s forces were incapacitated by poison gas, Baron Strucker tried to retreat toward the Kree area and an Antimatter Bomb, while Skye and General Ross confronted Rumlow inside the base.

• Carter went to install the Energy Bombs while Ivan prepared Drone Armor and Steve activated the Space Stone Tablet to seal the surrounding space.
• Viper sensed the spatial seal, gathered her followers, and teleported away to seek the Demon King’s reincarnation, leaving Hydra behind.
• Doom led five hundred Power Armor soldiers into the forest as S.W.O.R.D. followed, and Hydra discovered the advancing coalition.
• An explosion destroyed Hydra’s Defense Shield generator, and poison gas knocked out most defenders; Baron Strucker ordered Rumlow to revive the others and told the front line to use civilians as leverage.
• Baron Strucker tried to escape through Piri’s portal, but the sealed space stopped him, so he took Wanda and several Inhumans toward the Kree area and left Pietro behind.
• Rumlow led a force against Skye and General Ross, who revealed himself as Red Hulk as Rumlow charged.

S.W.O.R.D., Doom Legion, and Ivan’s forces fought Hydra and the Kree across Sokovia and an underground laboratory. As the Kree deployed their strongest controlled Inhumans against Ivan’s Drone Armors, Carter offered to help.

• Rumlow and Hydra’s Inhumans and Enhanced Humans attacked S.W.O.R.D., but Skye and her allies defeated them and Lincoln destroyed Rumlow’s earpiece.
• Doom Legion battled Hydra’s forces in Sokovia’s forests while Coulson led agents into the city to rescue civilians, despite hostile residents.
• Doom confirmed that Jarvis had sealed Supreme Intelligence inside the network and ordered him to prevent its escape.
• Ivan led Drone Armors into the Kree laboratory, shattered its Defense Shield with a Black Hole Grenade, and fought the Kree defenders.
• The Kree commander deployed memory-wiped Inhumans, who disabled several Drone Armors, and Carter asked Ivan whether he needed help.

Ivan defeated the Inhumans and helped break through the Kree’s defenses while Ant-Man, Wasp, Baron Strucker, Wanda, and others descended toward the antimatter bomb. At the hospital, Mindy drove away thousands of protesters with a stink bomb, and the heroes prepared for the approaching righteous forces and Demon God Believers, whom Viper intended to use as cannon fodder.

• Ivan killed White Mist, the hair Inhuman, the imitation Absorbing Man, and the Illusion Inhuman, then led the Drone Armor in destroying the Kree defensive line.
• The Kree commander ordered a scientist to activate the Antimatter Bomb, and Ant-Man and Wasp slipped into the elevator before Baron Strucker, Wanda, and several Inhumans joined them.
• Mindy warned Tony, Strange, and the others that Holy Light Warriors, magic families, and several hundred Demon God Believers were heading toward the hospital.
• Mindy sent Quicksilver to use her Stink Bomb on the candidate, driving the protesters, police, FBI, and reporters away from the hospital.
• The heroes prepared to defend the hospital as the righteous people and Demon God Believers traveled there separately, while Viper planned to use the believers as cannon fodder.

The righteous magicians and Demon God Believers gathered outside the hospital to demand the Demon King's reincarnation, while Tony Stark refused to hand over his son. The confrontation escalated when hostages were brought forward, and Strange fought a mysterious Kamar-Taj magician who accused him of betraying the order.

• A Kamar-Taj magician used a portal to remove a critic who called for opening the Defense Net, while the Grand Elder said gods and demons would stay out of the conflict.
• Wang Bert told Ancient One that he would let his main body handle the three arriving gods, and the righteous forces and Demon God Believers assembled outside the hospital.
• Tony Stark rejected the Grand Elder's demand to surrender his son, and the Demon God Believers brought hostages to pressure him.
• Tony and the Super Heroes taunted the Fake Nose Believer into nearly killing an American candidate, but Viper cut the Black Qi and freed him.
• Viper threatened to kill the remaining hostages and attack the city, while a mysterious magician countered Strange's attempt to rescue them.
• The mysterious magician accused Strange of betraying Kamar-Taj and attacked him with a magical whip, and Strange blocked it and pulled the magician toward him.