Chapter Summaries

Wang Bert defeated Alexandra and watched the Sorcerer Supreme Ancient One repel The Beast as it tried to enter Earth. After the battle, he arranged to deal with The Hand’s revived ninjas and planned to seize the group’s assets, especially the Dragon Bone.

• Wang Bert detonated the explosive hidden in his dagger, killing Alexandra after her transformation, and Bojutsu fainted as The Hand’s defeat became clear.
• A fissure opened above the docks, and The Beast’s aura drove those present toward madness until Ancient One’s golden spell formation blocked it and a seven-colored sword struck the creature before the fissure healed.
• Wang Bert explained to Madame Gao and the others that Ancient One was Earth’s Guardian, then ordered Mercury to bring a truck and Xue Ren to prepare to burn the resurrected ninjas’ bodies.
• Wang Bert told Daredevil that the group worked with S.H.I.E.L.D. and urged him to keep the night’s events secret, while Daredevil declined to join and left.
• Wang Bert revealed cryo pods he had bought to freeze The Hand’s Five Fingers, preventing their resurrection, and told Madame Gao to help him take over The Hand’s assets and obtain the Dragon Bone.

Wang Bert broke the Iron Fist Seal beneath the Long-Term Rental Apartment, absorbed the True Dragon’s lingering soul, and became an Iron Fist. After learning Madame Gao’s wish to return to K'un-Lun, he agreed to take her there despite refusing to forgive her.

• Wang Bert took a Dragon Bone Fragment from Madame Gao and used it to open a small hole in the Iron Fist Seal.
• Wang Bert entered the Sealed Land, where the True Dragon’s lingering soul attacked him in a spiritual world, but he destroyed its consciousness with the memory of Vishanti's Holy Sword.
• The Dragon Soul entered Wang Bert, giving him an Iron Fist’s power and causing Manhattan Island to shake and lose power.
• Wang Bert removed the True Dragon Head and a rib from the skeleton, then returned to the surface as Manhattan’s power came back on.
• Madame Gao knelt before Wang Bert and asked him to take her back to K'un-Lun, and he agreed despite saying he could not forgive her.

Wang Bert assigned Madame Gao to teach qi cultivation at Dragon Subduing Teahouse and trained with Dragon Bone as the Blood Clan developed new ways to grow stronger. After Nick Fury asked him to rescue Tony Stark, Wang Bert agreed in exchange for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s help with his plans to acquire a major company, and set off for the Middle East.

• Wang Bert made Madame Gao the Blood Clan's qi instructor, promised to take her back to K'un-Lun someday, and confined her to Dragon Subduing Teahouse.
• Nick Fury ordered Natasha to investigate the earthquake's connection to Wang Bert and gather intelligence on Ancient One.
• Wang Bert approved bonuses and Tony Stark's High-tech Masks for the Blood Clan Police Department, then trained with Madame Gao using his newly fused Dragon Bone.
• Wang Bert agreed to help Nick Fury rescue Tony in return for help acquiring Rand Corporation's Medical Department and permission to profit from Stark Industries stock before buying another major company.
• Nick Fury secured one percent of Wang Bert's future profits and arranged military transport to the Middle East, where Wang Bert would attempt to rescue Tony.

Wang Bert went to the Middle East to rescue Tony Stark, who refused his offer and tried to escape with a homemade suit of armor. Tony’s Mark I fight went badly until Wang Bert arrived by helicopter as Raza threatened to defeat him.

• Wang Bert ordered Mercury to short Stark Industries and arrange to acquire Obadiah Stane’s shares through his sons after Obadiah’s death.
• Wang Bert contacted Tony through the water in his cave and offered to rescue him, but Tony insisted he could escape on his own.
• Raza discovered that Tony and Dr. Yinsen were not building Jericho Missiles and gave them until the next day to finish them.
• Tony and Yinsen completed the Mark I armor, and Yinsen drew the Terrorists away so Tony could activate it; Wang Bert’s blood kept Yinsen alive after he was shot.
• Tony used the Mark I to fight the Terrorists, but Raza drank a Red Potion and damaged the armor’s weapons and leg connector.
• Wang Bert arrived by helicopter as Raza pressed his attack on Tony.

Wang Bert rescued Tony Stark and Yinsen from the Ten Rings, then profited from Stark Industries’ stock collapse after Tony shut down its Weapons Department. The chapter ended with James reporting that Anton Vanko and Ivan Vanko had agreed to meet Wang Bert, though they needed help entering America.

• Wang Bert and Frank helped the U.S. Military defeat the Terrorists, and Wang Bert fought Raza while Tony struggled to escape in Mark I.
• Wang Bert carried Yinsen out of the base, and Yinsen woke up alive after Tony believed he had died; Tony accepted responsibility for Yinsen’s apparent sacrifice.
• Wang Bert told Tony that Peggy Carter and S.H.I.E.L.D. had sent him, then met Little Pepper and invited her to become vice president of the Blood God Group.
• Tony announced that Stark Industries was closing its Weapons Department, causing its stock price to plunge and Wang Bert to profit from his short position.
• James told Wang Bert that Anton Vanko and Ivan Vanko had agreed to meet him but could not enter America, so Wang Bert arranged temporary entry permits.

Wang Bert tried to recruit Ivan Vanko and his sick father Anton by offering them a respectable future and a chance to develop technology, while Tony Stark continued building his armor. The chapter ended with Tony and Pepper learning that the Blood God Group was short-selling Stark Industries and buying its shares.

• Wang Bert showed Ivan and Anton that Tony Stark had miniaturized the Arc Reactor, prompting Ivan to vow to build Electric Whips and kill Tony.
• Wang Bert offered Ivan and Anton a chance to become respected shareholders, and Anton agreed to consider the offer and asked to become a Vampire so the Blood Clan would trust Ivan.
• Wang Bert explained to Blade that he wanted the Blood Clan to develop Artificial Blood and might eventually move them to another planet, then asked Blade to receive Jane Lane.
• Blade met Jane Lane the next day and was immediately struck by her beauty.
• Obadiah told Tony and Pepper that the Blood God Group was short-selling Stark Industries and buying its shares, and Tony learned that the group was owned by Vampires.

Tony and Obadiah learned that Wang Bert was a vampire and worried about the Blood God Group’s interest in Stark Industries, while Wang Bert planned to acquire Osborn Corporation. At Tony’s dinner, Wang Bert’s face-reading predictions exposed Tony’s feelings for Little Pepper and described possible futures for their relationship, leaving Tony alarmed and Little Pepper curious.

• Tony told Obadiah that he had met the Blood God, and Obadiah warned that the vampires might be targeting Stark Industries before deciding to seek Tony’s removal from the company.
• Tony invited Wang Bert and Carter to dinner, while Wang Bert told Carter he was targeting Osborn Corporation because he expected Norman Osborn’s fortunes to decline.
• At Tony’s Malibu villa, Wang Bert demonstrated his vampire abilities and offered Little Pepper a free youth and immortality package.
• Wang Bert said Tony would marry Little Pepper and predicted that she would eventually become president of Stark Industries, prompting Tony to realize she was the man in her long-held dream.
• Wang Bert described two possible futures involving Little Pepper and Tony’s driver Happy, including Tony’s death in one outcome, then left the dinner after assuring Tony he would not acquire Stark Industries.

Wang Bert helped Carter consider the possibility that Steve had survived in the Arctic, while Tony discovered Obadiah’s betrayal and became Iron Man. After Obadiah stole Tony’s Arc Reactor and attacked him, Wang Bert agreed to help S.H.I.E.L.D. rescue its captured agents and deal with the crisis.

• Wang Bert told Carter that Steve might have survived frozen in the Arctic, and she planned a scientific expedition to search for him.
• Tony learned that Stark Industries weapons had devastated Yinsen’s hometown and that Obadiah had helped remove him from the company’s board, so he began destroying the weapons as Iron Man.
• Wang Bert showed Ivan and Anton footage of the Mark III, and Anton agreed to become a Vampire in exchange for helping them design technology.
• Obadiah joined forces with Raza and Mandarin’s two agents, then plotted to build the Iron Monger and seek revenge on Tony and Iron Fist.
• Little Pepper discovered evidence that Obadiah sold weapons to Terrorists and tried to have Tony killed, but Obadiah stole Tony’s Arc Reactor and left him to die.
• Yinsen saved Tony with an old Arc Reactor, while Nick Fury asked Wang Bert to help rescue captured S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and Tony, and Wang Bert agreed in exchange for a favor.

Wang Bert defeated Raza’s forces and helped Tony escape Obadiah’s Iron Monger, which crashed into the Arc Reactor before exploding. After the battle, Tony publicly revealed that he was Iron Man, while Yinsen told Little Pepper that Bert’s prediction of her great undertaking might mean becoming a superhero.

• Ivan and Anton secretly watched Wang Bert’s camera feed and discussed their family’s rivalry with the Stark Family.
• Obadiah put on Iron Monger, overpowered Tony, and caused deadly car crashes as they fought in the street.
• Wang Bert defeated Aku, Skinny, and Raza, then protected himself from gunfire and the Mandarin’s lightning ring.
• Wang Bert and Tony brought Iron Monger down into the Arc Reactor, and Wang Bert rescued Tony and the others before the reactor exploded.
• Wang Bert left after joking with Tony and encouraging Little Pepper, who wondered whether she could become president of Stark Industries.
• At the next day’s press conference, Tony announced that he was Iron Man, and Yinsen suggested that Bert’s prediction for Little Pepper involved superheroes.

Wang Bert began moving against Osborn Corporation while Tony Stark learned of his father’s ties to S.H.I.E.L.D. and grew suspicious about his parents’ deaths. At the Dragon Subduing Teahouse, Wang Bert brought Jessica Jones inside to work off her debt, while Trish Walker knelt outside to persuade Madame Gao to teach her kung fu.

• Wang Bert asked Ivan to build a hidden camera and arranged for intelligence gathering inside Osborn Corporation as he prepared to acquire it.
• Tony Stark and Little Pepper visited Wang Bert, discussed Stark Industries shares and Osborn Corporation, and Tony left determined to investigate his parents’ deaths and S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Norman Osborn ordered Niels van Ader to conduct secret human trials of the Human Enhancement Potion and demanded that Dr. Connors finish the Lizard Serum, while Wang Bert secretly recorded Osborn’s office.
• Trish Walker tried to become Madame Gao’s disciple, and Jessica Jones was knocked down after confronting her and the teahouse guard.
• Wang Bert had Madame Gao take Jessica inside to work off her debts, then welcomed Max Dillon into the teahouse as Trish decided to kneel outside for a day.

Wang Bert recruited Max to sue Osborn Corporation and plotted to exploit the company’s human-enhancement scandal, while considering training Jessica and Trish to become heroes. Peter photographed Trish kneeling outside Wang Bert’s tea house, and the Daily Bugle’s J. Jonah Jameson recognized her and saw a sensational story.

• Wang Bert persuaded Max to sue Osborn Corporation over his stolen New Power Grid design and promised him legal support, money, and publicity.
• Wang Bert assigned Natasha to lead the lawsuit and told her to maximize the public uproar, including protests at Osborn Tower.
• Wang Bert learned from James that Osborn Corporation’s enhancement potion had a twenty percent failure rate, and he ordered James to bribe the review supervisor and delay a shareholder deal.
• Wang Bert learned that Jessica was being controlled by a strand of qi and heard that Trish wanted to learn kung fu, then considered cultivating both women as heroes.
• Peter photographed Trish drinking water outside the tea house, declined Jessica’s offer to become a sparring partner, and submitted his photos to the Daily Bugle.
• J. Jonah Jameson recognized Trish in Peter’s photograph and welcomed the chance to publish a sensational story about her.

Wang Bert took Trish Walker and Jessica Jones as disciples, then used his wealth and influence to give Trish a major career opportunity. Trish’s upgraded radio show aired an interview accusing Osborn Corporation of racial discrimination, sparking protests and a sharp drop in its stock price.

• Wang Bert accepted Trish Walker and Jessica Jones as disciples and told them to train at the teahouse, assigning Madame Gao to teach them.
• A newspaper story about Trish kneeling outside the teahouse threatened her career, but her station manager instead announced that her program would become a social affairs show.
• Natasha told Trish that Wang Bert had arranged the upgrade as her disciple’s gift and instructed her to interview Max about his claims against Osborn Corporation.
• Trish interviewed Max with guest Martin, and the broadcast publicized his allegations of racial discrimination and stolen work at Osborn.
• Black groups protested outside Osborn Tower, television stations reported the story, and Osborn Corporation’s stock price plunged.

Norman Osborn rushed a human enhancement experiment to impress the Department of Defense, while Wang Bert observed the demonstration. The enhanced veteran Jess turned on the officials, opening fire on the command platform and leaving several people shot as the attack began.

• Norman ordered Dr. Storm and Niels to begin human trials immediately and produce results within seven days, despite Dr. Storm’s concerns about the potion’s side effects.
• Norman told Niels to hide the successful test subjects and took a pill to manage his worsening illness.
• Madame Gao began training Trish and Jessica, then put Peter Parker through a sparring test with ten guards and recognized his extraordinary ability to sense danger and dodge.
• Ten days later, Wang Bert accompanied Bargen to observe Osborn Corporation’s demonstration for General Slocum, who said he had never intended to sign a contract with the company.
• Norman demonstrated the Gliders and enhanced test subjects, but Jess’s amplified resentment drove him to attack the command platform with a machine gun, shooting several officials.

Wang Bert exploited the scandal surrounding Osborn Corporation to seize control of the company, while Norman Osborn lost his position and transformed into the Green Goblin. Norman then stole Osborn Corporation’s research and weapons, framed Dr. Storm, and prepared to attack Wang Bert, who had gone to Las Vegas.

• Wang Bert saved Norman Osborn, General Slocum, and Bargen from Jess’s attack, but Slocum ended the Department of Defense’s contracts with Osborn Corporation.
• Trish exposed Osborn Corporation’s falsified data and illegal human experiments, prompting investigations, lawsuits, and a collapse in its stock price.
• Wang Bert won over Osborn Corporation’s directors and removed Norman as chairman; Norman collapsed during the board meeting.
• Norman ordered Dr. Storm to inject him with the Human Enhancement Potion, regained his health, and developed an evil personality that killed Dr. Storm.
• Norman forced Niels to help him steal Osborn Corporation’s data and weapons, then arranged for the FBI and the company to blame Dr. Storm.
• Norman decided to eliminate Wang Bert, but learned that Wang Bert had gone to Las Vegas.

Old Green Goblin attacked Osborn Corporation’s rivals and clashed with Spider-Man, while Wang Bert stayed in Las Vegas to arrange a Vibranium deal with Ulysses Klaue. The chapter ended as Wang Bert met Klaue to inspect ten kilograms of Vibranium, after hinting that he knew Wakanda’s secret.

• Old Green Goblin destroyed an Aerospace Company experiment base and attacked its directors to delay a contract and block Wang Bert’s share purchase.
• Spider-Man pursued Old Green Goblin, but the Goblin’s missile attack on a police car killed several people and injured more than ten; Peter later resolved to capture him.
• Trish reassured Peter that Spider-Man was not at fault for pursuing the Green Goblin, while Wang Bert discussed the news and qi training with Frank in Las Vegas.
• Wang Bert told Carter he had informed Tony Stark about Howard’s death and said Mercury would manage Osborn Corporation.
• Wang Bert and Frank traveled with armed men to an abandoned warehouse, where Wang Bert met Ulysses Klaue and prepared to buy ten kilograms of Vibranium.

Wang Bert stole Ulysses's Vibranium shipment and prompted S.H.I.E.L.D. to investigate him, while Norman Osborn killed McKen and Max after learning they had joined Osborn Corporation. Max revived as an electricity-powered being and headed for Duffy Square to absorb more current.

• Wang Bert bought ten kilograms of Vibranium from Ulysses, then secretly stole over a hundred kilograms from Ulysses's ship, staged a mutiny, and sank the vessel.
• Director Fury connected Natasha's intelligence to Wakanda and sent Hawkeye to capture Ulysses, who had gone into hiding.
• Norman Osborn ordered Niels's enhanced team to prepare for an attack, then killed McKen and caused Max to fall into the Gene Eel pool.
• A female assistant tried to steal Osborn Corporation data, but Mercury defeated and captured her before calling Wang Bert.
• Max revived in the morgue with electricity coursing through his body, escaped, and began absorbing power from a car and the wires beneath Duffy Square.

After Max became Electro, Wang Bert helped him escape the police and offered him a choice between becoming a villain, joining S.H.I.E.L.D., or debuting as a Super Hero. When Green Goblin attacked at Hell's Kitchen Pier, Wang Bert defeated him and revealed that he knew his identity was Norman.

• Max accidentally blasted a car with lightning, but Wang Bert persuaded the police to send him to Hell's Kitchen Pier.
• Wang Bert told Max he might not be able to change back and described three possible paths; Max was excited by the idea of becoming a Super Hero star.
• Wang Bert revealed that Green Goblin had caused Max's transformation and brought him to the pier to confront the attacker.
• Old Green Goblin attacked Wang Bert's group with a missile, Ultraviolet grenades, and armed Enhanced Humans, while Mercury and the guards fought back.
• Wang Bert overpowered Old Green Goblin, identified him as Norman, and removed his helmet.

Wang Bert took control of Osborn Corporation after forcing Norman Osborn to sell his shares, then recruited Felicia Hardy and negotiated a partnership with Chief George Stacy. He left the chapter preparing to expand his influence through the police and the eight captured Enhanced Humans.

• Wang Bert forced Norman Osborn to agree to sell his shares and keep his Green Goblin identity secret, while promising to cure Harry's illness.
• Mercury reported that the guards had captured all eight Enhanced Humans, and Wang Bert sent Norman home unconscious before taking over Osborn Corporation.
• Wang Bert hired Felicia Hardy as his secretary after making her drink his blood, then ordered her to steal Kingpin's Picasso within three days.
• Wang Bert showed Chief George Stacy the Green Goblin's helmet and offered him the eight Enhanced Humans in exchange for official recognition of the Blood Clan Police Department and cooperation with the New York Police Department.
• Chief George agreed to the partnership and Wang Bert's ten-million-dollar equipment donation, while Wang Bert told him to handle Gwen Stacy's matter through normal procedures.

Wang Bert took control of Osborn Corporation after Norman Osborn died from a lethal combination of toxins administered by Natasha and Norman’s own fake-death drug. As Max became a public Super Hero and Wang Bert recruited Ivan Vanko to build armored suits, Kingpin moved to obtain Green Goblin technology through Niels.

• Wang Bert signed the agreement to take over Norman Osborn’s shares, and Norman died the next day after Natasha’s poisoned ring needle combined with his fake-death drug to stop his heart.
• Wang Bert exposed Natasha as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, arranged to exchange her for Captain America’s blood, and said he had recorded the events in Norman’s bedroom.
• Trish introduced Electro Max on television, where public support encouraged him to join Watchmen Company; Chief George Stacy announced Green Goblin’s defeat and the rescue of eight enhanced homeless people.
• Nick Fury failed to recruit Max or persuade Chief George to provide police recruits, while Kingpin learned Felicia had stolen his Picasso and heard that Niels was offering Green Goblin technology.
• Wang Bert became Osborn Corporation’s chairman and offered Ivan Vanko five percent of its shares for his work; Ivan accepted and said he would build several armored suits.

Wang Bert made Dr. Connors’s research into the Blood Clan’s genetic defects Osborn Corporation’s top priority and recruited Gwen to help. He left the project in Mercury’s hands while declaring that the Blood Clan would evolve into a new, immortal humanity.

• Wang Bert gave Ivan a case of Vibranium to use in making an axe and appointed Frank and James to roles at Osborn Corporation, emphasizing the need to keep the armor secret.
• Gwen Stacy asked Wang Bert to hear Dr. Connors’s Cross-Species Gene Transplantation Project, and Wang Bert agreed to support it while forbidding unapproved human experiments and self-injection.
• Wang Bert told Dr. Connors that he was Blood Clan and tasked him with studying Blood Clan genes alongside Lizard Serum, aiming to cure the Blood Clan’s weaknesses.
• Wang Bert named the research the Blood Clan Completion Plan, appointed Dr. Connors its chief director, and invited Gwen to join the project.
• Wang Bert told Mercury to oversee the plan, explaining that genetic evolution was vital to the Blood Clan’s future and that the project mattered more than Artificial Blood research.