Chapter Summaries

Wang Bert trapped Blackheart and faced Mephisto to recover Damon's soul contract, defeating Mephisto's schemes and securing the contract. He left with the Spirit of Vengeance being devoured by his Dragon Soul and went to check whether Slade had survived.

• Wang Bert survived Blackheart's activated contract, sealed him in a Vibranium sphere, and took Damon and the others to the cemetery.
• Wang Bert found Carter Slade dead and demanded Damon's soul contract from Mephisto in exchange for Blackheart.
• Mephisto sent the Spirit of Vengeance through the soul contract to attack Wang Bert, but Wang Bert bound it with Vlad's Blood Chains and had the Dragon Soul swallow it.
• Mephisto's real projection attacked from Slade's corpse, but Wang Bert countered and forced Mephisto to retreat after revealing he had used Blackheart's blood of origin to control the Spirit of Vengeance.
• Wang Bert returned Damon's soul contract to him and went with the others to check the ruined house for Slade.

After defeating Mephisto, Wang Bert assigned the three demons new roles and began absorbing the Spirit of Vengeance, while Damon brought Blackheart and the San Venganza Contract to Ancient One. Months later, Banner prepared to test whether Hulk could be rehabilitated as New York grew more violent, and Wang Bert watched remotely.

• Wang Bert arranged for Damon to take Blackheart and the San Venganza Contract to Ancient One, then learned that Blackheart's feather came from a Fallen Angel.
• Wang Bert made Water Demon a guard at Osborn Corporation's Experiment Base, assigned Earth Demon to construction, and sent Wind Demon to join Watchmen Company as a Super Hero under strict rules.
• Wang Bert used the True Dragon Skull to strengthen Dragon Soul and speed its consumption of the Spirit of Vengeance, estimating that the process would take three months.
• Ancient One accepted the Vibranium Blood Orb and contract from Damon, then began explaining the Spirit of Vengeance's origins and Damon's family's ancient mission.
• In 2009, Banner and Betty gathered experts at an Experiment Base to evaluate whether Hulk could be rehabilitated, while Electro described New York's escalating crime and Wang Bert joined by holographic projection.

Wang Bert and Betty demonstrated that Hulk could be calmed through his love for Betty, while Wang Bert completed his Vengeance Dragon Soul and tested its powers. Damon returned from Kamar-Taj, and Wang Bert suggested he become New York’s armored superhero, Sin Buster.

• Betty and Ivan staged a threat to Betty, and Hulk risked being crushed to protect her, convincing the experts that he could be tamed through his love for her.
• Betty kissed Hulk after he helped lift the iron tower, and Hulk celebrated as Wang Bert told him his choices would define what he became.
• At a Texas farm, Wang Bert revealed that he had completed the Vengeance Dragon Soul and demonstrated that its Dragon Fire could charge his phone and empower a Pure Blood Horse.
• Damon returned from the New York Sanctum, said he could control the Spirit of Vengeance, and gave Wang Bert a soul-cultivation book from Master Ancient One.
• Wang Bert proposed that Damon return to police work as Sin Buster, offering to sell the New York city government battle armor at cost, and Damon agreed to consider it.
• Damon asked about Slade, and Wang Bert said Slade had taken several women on a trip around the world.

Wang Bert traveled to New Mexico with Frank and met Thor, who had been stripped of his powers and cast down to Earth. After Frank repeatedly defeated Thor, Wang Bert questioned his claim to be Odin’s son, and Thor insisted he would regain his strength once he found Mjolnir.

• Wang Bert arranged tests for War Abomination, learned Captain America was close to waking, and ordered Xue Ren to leak the news to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Wang Bert and Frank found Thor’s blood at a hospital and visited Jane Foster’s research team, where Jane discovered a figure inside a storm.
• Frank fought Thor at the hospital, knocked him unconscious, and brought him back to Jane’s rental house.
• Thor claimed to be the Son of Odin, but Wang Bert and Frank challenged his identity and Thor admitted that Odin had stripped away his divine power.
• Thor said he would become powerful again after retrieving Mjolnir, just as someone knocked at the door.

Wang Bert negotiated a chance for Thor to test Mjolnir, then helped him accept his banishment and resolve to reform. Loki secretly arranged for Frost Giants to attack Thor on Earth, and Wang Bert prepared the farm’s defenders as the invaders approached.

• Wang Bert made Thor sign over Midgard’s copyrights in exchange for a chance to wield Mjolnir, but Thor could not lift the hammer and collapsed in despair.
• Loki projected himself to Thor, falsely claimed Odin had died, and later discovered that Thor could regain Mjolnir by reforming; Loki then told Laufey how to reach Earth and capture Thor.
• Nick Fury authorized Coulson to mobilize agents and weapons, while Thor and Jane grew closer at the farm.
• Coulson reported that hundreds of Frost Giants were attacking, so Wang Bert sent a drone to survey the battle and ordered the agents to retreat to the farm.
• Coulson detonated explosives hidden in abandoned vehicles, and Frank donned his Punisher armor as the agents fortified the farm.
• Wang Bert revealed that the Osborn Corporation belonged to him, and two armored suits arrived at the farm as the battle drew near.

Wang Bert and the defenders fought off the first Frost Giant force, but a second force arrived as the battle turned against them. Wang Bert rode Red Dragon into the enemy ranks and slaughtered hundreds, leaving the surviving Frost Giants fleeing toward their commander.

• Iron Man, War Machine, Peacemaker, Punisher, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents attacked the first group of Frost Giants, but the giants broke through the defensive line.
• Wang Bert protected the defenders from the giants’ ice barrage while Coulson deployed tanks and armed helicopters.
• Frank warned that the Frost Giant commander seemed to be waiting for something, and an agent reported another force of more than five hundred Frost Giants approaching from the south.
• Wang Bert mounted Red Dragon, ignited himself and the horse, and charged into the second group with a blazing Crescent Blade.
• Wang Bert cut through hundreds of Frost Giants in repeated charges, and the survivors fled toward their commander.

Wang Bert led the defense against the Frost Giants, but Loki sent the Destroyer Armor to kill Thor and the humans helping him. The defenders drew the Destroyer away from town, where War Abomination joined the fight and knocked it down, though the armor healed and resisted being destroyed.

• Wang Bert routed the Frost Giants, then warned Coulson that Thor's arriving allies meant destruction rather than victory and ordered the agents to evacuate the townspeople.
• Sif and the Warriors Three reunited with Thor, who learned that Odin was not dead, before Loki sent the Destroyer Armor to attack Thor and the humans.
• The Destroyer Armor burned people and vehicles in town, so Wang Bert carried Thor to the farm while Coulson organized rescue efforts and the others prepared to fight.
• Tony, Frank, Rhodey, and the Warriors Three attacked the Destroyer, while military fighter jets failed to stop it and Wang Bert waited for Ivan's arrival.
• Ivan arrived with War Abomination inside a giant armor, and Abomination blocked the Destroyer's beam, cut open its chest, and knocked it down before its armor healed and resisted further damage.

Thor regained his divine power, destroyed the Destroyer, and returned to Asgard after learning Loki had brought Laufey to assassinate Odin. Wang Bert claimed the Destroyer’s Uru Metal and later challenged Carter over S.H.I.E.L.D.’s role in finding Steve.

• War Abomination and the others fought the Destroyer until Odin returned Mjolnir to Thor, restoring Thor’s powers.
• Thor destroyed the Destroyer with lightning, and Wang Bert ordered Frank and Ivan to collect its Uru Metal fragments.
• Heimdall warned Thor that Loki had brought Laufey to assassinate Odin, so Thor and Sif and the Warriors Three returned to Asgard.
• Wang Bert claimed the Destroyer’s fragments through Thor’s contract, gave Tony medicine, and gained Tony’s authorization for a Thor documentary.
• Fury asked Pierce to discuss researching the Tesseract and ordered Hawkeye to bring Ulysses Klaue to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Wang Bert left with the Uru Metal, then answered Carter’s call by asking whether she thought S.H.I.E.L.D. should exist.

Wang Bert planned a new organization to replace the compromised S.H.I.E.L.D., prepared the public for future alien threats, and recruited people and resources for Earth’s defense. In New York, Chief George approved Damon as Sin Buster and sought help against Kingpin, while Wang Bert arranged for the Ancient One to forge weapons from Uru Metal.

• Wang Bert told Carter that at least thirty percent of S.H.I.E.L.D. was Hydra and proposed saving its worthy agents by founding a new organization; Carter asked to meet Clairvoyant.
• Wang Bert released a Thor movie trailer using real footage and told Director Fury that future alien invasions meant Earth would need to protect itself.
• Wang Bert ordered James to watch Erik Stevens and contact Skye, then told Chief George that Kingpin was protected by powerful people and suggested a deadline-driven crackdown on New York’s gangs.
• Chief George visited Gwen’s laboratory and found her close to Peter, who realized Gwen’s father was the police chief.
• Wang Bert told Damon that the police had hired him as Sin Buster and asked him to seek the Ancient One’s help forging Uru Metal weapons; she agreed in exchange for a share of the metal, Wang Bert’s Vibranium Spear, and Dragon Tooth.

Kingpin exploited New York’s extended crackdown to transform gang leaders into Lizardmen and planned to spread the serum across the city. When Sin Buster, Electro, and Wind Demon confronted Zack’s gang, the Lizardmen’s strength and regeneration overwhelmed them, forcing Damon to unleash Ghost Rider.

• Chief George extended New York’s successful seven-day crackdown to a month, provoking gangs to launch a violent counterattack.
• Kingpin and Wesley used Lizard Serum to transform Zack and the gang bosses into Lizardmen, then ordered them to recruit trusted men and prepare to infect New York.
• On the crackdown’s fifth day, Sin Buster raided Zack’s weapons warehouse while Electro and Wind Demon confronted the fleeing gang members.
• Zack and his men transformed into powerful, regenerating Lizardmen and attacked the heroes and police, killing and injuring officers.
• As the Lizardmen began overwhelming Sin Buster and Electro, Damon covered Sin Buster in flames and transformed him into Ghost Rider.

Damon, Electro, Wind Demon, and the authorities discovered that Kingpin was launching a citywide rebellion to turn New York into a Lizardmen Kingdom. As gangs and Lizardmen attacked across the city, Wang Bert organized defenses and Dr. Connors began working on an antidote, while the battle at City Hall worsened.

• Damon defeated Zack and learned that Kingpin planned to build a Lizardmen Kingdom, so he sent Wind Demon and Electro to alert their allies and the police.
• Chief George declared an A-class emergency, but Kingpin ordered gang bosses to attack police stations and City Hall while infected vagrants spread chaos through New York.
• Lizardmen broke through the police headquarters defenses until Electro arrived, and Spider-Man stayed to help protect Chief George.
• Wang Bert ordered Dr. Connors to develop an antidote, assigned heroes to rescue civilians and reinforce police stations, and stationed Guardians to protect Osborn Tower and the Canary Device.
• Director Fury dispatched S.H.I.E.L.D. and heroes to City Hall and Osborn Tower, while War Machine and Peacemaker entered the breached building to rescue officials.

War Machine, Iron Man, Peacemaker, and other heroes fought Lizardmen across New York as Kingpin’s uprising overwhelmed police and civilians. Wang Bert predicted Kingpin would attack Osborn Corporation for its Canary Device, and Kingpin’s forces launched their assault, only to meet a deadly defense.

• War Machine was ambushed by disguised Lizardmen inside City Hall, but Iron Man arrived and helped him fight them until Peacemaker called for aid; S.H.I.E.L.D. reinforcements joined the battle.
• Electro, Wind Demon, Spider-Man, and Chief George held Police Headquarters against the Lizardmen until Blade’s Blood Clan Police Department and Ghost Rider Damon arrived to reinforce them.
• Jessica and Trish rescued people from a mutated monster while Daredevil, Iron Fist Danny Rand, and other heroes fought monsters across the city.
• Wang Bert told Coulson that Kingpin had attacked City Hall and the police to isolate Osborn Tower and seize the Canary Device; Coulson reported the warning to Director Fury.
• Kingpin led a force of Lizardmen in an attack on Osborn Corporation, where Frank, Ivan, and the Security Company opened fire and killed more than half the attackers within minutes.

Kingpin launched a full-scale assault on Osborn Tower, but Wang Bert's forces resisted with Drone Armor, Hulk, and Iron Man. As Kingpin battled Hulk, Wesley's team infiltrated Osborn Corporation to steal the Canary Device, only to be stopped by Blood God's Guardians and an unseen attacker.

• Kingpin sent rockets and hundreds of Lizardmen against Osborn Tower, while Wang Bert countered with Drone Armor and Frank led the defense.
• Hulk joined the battle and fought Kingpin, who revealed he had survived injections of both Lizard Serum and Human Enhancement Potion.
• Kingpin's EMP briefly disabled the armor and Osborn Corporation's equipment, but the power returned and Ivan destroyed the EMP device.
• Wesley led Lizardmen into the Cross-Species Gene Transplantation Department to seize the Canary Device, but the Blood God's Guardians halted them.
• Wesley's team broke into the lab, where Bald Doctor claimed credit for perfecting the Lizard Serum, before a semi-transparent armored figure stabbed Wesley in the head.

Mercury killed the Lizardmen attacking the laboratory while Dr. Connors and Gwen developed an antidote, and Wang Bert killed Kingpin when he challenged him at Osborn Tower. With the antidote reversing the Lizard transformation, Osborn Corporation won the battle, and Wang Bert prepared to sell the antidote while supporting Dr. Connors’s research.

• Mercury used invisibility and ambushes to kill the Lizardmen in the laboratory, while Gwen announced that she and Dr. Connors had developed an antidote.
• Mercury confirmed the antidote worked, and Wang Bert learned that Wesley had died and Kingpin was heading to Osborn Tower.
• Kingpin confronted Wang Bert, demanded the Canary Device and destruction of the antidote, and Wang Bert killed him with a blood spike.
• Wang Bert’s forces used the antidote to turn the Lizardmen back into humans, while Ivan and the Drone Armor fought the remaining attackers.
• Lizard Doctor stole the Lizard Serum and Human Enhancement Potion research data, arranged a new research partnership, and escaped after ordering the laboratory burned.
• Wang Bert assigned Frank to deliver antidote to the police, Ivan to take Kingpin to the laboratory, and Lilith to recover Lizardmen bodies, then offered the antidote to S.H.I.E.L.D. and other buyers.

After the Lizardmen attack, New York struggled with casualties, public anger, and a collapsed police force while Wang Bert shaped the political aftermath and expanded his plans for Super Heroes. Dr. Sterns revealed that the Raza Potion contained active Alien Blood that could regenerate after consuming blood, opening a possible new food source for the Blood Clan.

• Chief George learned that the National Guard had secured New York and decided to resign, leaving Damon in charge of the police department.
• Trish exposed Kingpin’s role in creating the Lizardmen and redirected public anger toward the people who had funded his research, prompting Director Fury to order his subordinates to cover their tracks.
• Steve Rogers agreed with Carter that they had a responsibility to confront Hydra, while New Yorkers protested the government and many police officers resigned.
• Wang Bert directed Watchmen Company to develop more trustworthy Super Heroes, donated money and prosthetic slots for police families, and urged George Stacy to run for mayor.
• Dr. Sterns told Wang Bert that the Raza Potion contained Alien Blood, which he had separated and reactivated with Hulk’s blood; the blood consumed animal blood and regenerated.

Wang Bert approved Dr. Sterns’s diluted Alien Blood as a potential new food source for the Blood Clan, while S.H.I.E.L.D. uncovered Wakanda’s advanced technology and the world debated the movie “Thor.” Two months later, the Tesseract opened a Space Vortex at a S.H.I.E.L.D. base, and Loki appeared.

• Wang Bert drank Dr. Sterns’s diluted Alien Blood, confirmed the Blood Clan could consume it, and ordered cautious trials before mass production.
• Wang Bert rewarded Dr. Sterns with shares and cash, assigned Xue Ren to guard the laboratory, and told Lilith to acquire livestock farms.
• Director Fury saw evidence of Wakanda’s advanced technology, kept the discovery secret, and ordered a Black female agent to approach its prince studying in America.
• The release of “Thor” sparked worldwide debate, and Wang Bert told Stephanie Malik that Thor was real before drawing her under his influence.
• The Tesseract activated at a joint S.H.I.E.L.D. and NASA base, opened a Space Vortex, and brought Loki into the laboratory as Coulson recognized him.

Loki escaped Asgard’s fall, seized the Tesseract, and led an escape from a collapsing S.H.I.E.L.D. base, prompting Nick Fury to assemble the Avengers Team. Meanwhile, Wang Bert warned Reed Richards about Victor Doom, and Loki’s controlled allies began planning an invasion of Earth within seven days.

• Loki recounted how Thor stopped him from destroying Jotunheim, then snapped after Coulson teased him about his hair and used the Mind Scepter to control Hawkeye and Coulson.
• Loki’s group defeated the guards and escaped with the Tesseract after Hawkeye shot Nick Fury, who survived and ordered Hill to assemble the Avengers Team as the base collapsed.
• Wang Bert met Reed Richards and Ben Grimm, told Reed that Victor Doom had sabotaged his NASA project, and declined to invest in him.
• At a safe house, Dr. Selvig explained that opening a portal required iridium, manpower, materials, and Stark Tower’s Arc Reactor, while Loki insisted the portal had to open in New York within seven days.
• Coulson proposed luring the Blood God and War Abomination away from New York and eliminating S.H.I.E.L.D. and the other Super Heroes so Loki could invade Earth.

Wang Bert sent Dr. Banner and Ivan to help S.H.I.E.L.D., prepared War Abomination for the military’s mission, and left for California to address a Blood Clan dispute. On the Helicarrier, Fury revealed that the military was heading to Wakanda, while the assembled heroes began searching for the stolen Tesseract without Bert.

• Wang Bert agreed to send Banner and Ivan to S.H.I.E.L.D. and arranged for War Abomination to accompany the military toward Africa while Frank investigated its objective.
• Blade and Melinda told Wang Bert that Deputy Director York had experimented on Blood Clan members and that the Hillick Family was using protests over Hope Blood restrictions to stir unrest in California.
• Wang Bert ordered Blade to keep the New York department on alert and left for California to confront the Hillick Family; Melinda secretly reported the situation to Nick Fury.
• Banner, Betty, Ivan, and other recruits arrived aboard S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier, where Fury assigned Banner to track the Tesseract using its gamma radiation.
• Fury revealed that the Fifth Fleet was heading to Wakanda and that Coulson and Hawkeye had informed the military about the country; the group watched footage of Wakanda's Defense Shield.
• Fury told the team that Wang Bert had gone to California, leaving them to recover the Tesseract without him, while Tony Stark and Ivan continued to argue.

Wang Bert learned that the Darkhold had created the Blood Clan and suspected the Hilick Clan Leader was luring him into a trap. After Wong delivered armor and warned him about the Darkhold, Wang Bert uncovered Mephisto’s scheme and destroyed the Hillick Family, leaving him to face the threat of Mephisto.

• Wang Bert met Babu and went to Hilick Castle, where the Hilick Clan Leader explained the purpose of Blood Clan registration and showed him murals depicting the Darkhold creating Dracula and the Blood Clan.
• The Hilick Clan Leader offered Wang Bert clues to find the Darkhold, and Wong arrived through a Kamar-Taj portal with armor and a warning from the Ancient One.
• Wang Bert promised not to touch the Darkhold, gave Wong an offer of computers and other equipment for Kamar-Taj, then suspected the Hilick Clan Leader meant to harm him.
• Wang Bert returned to Hilick Castle, attacked the guards, and used the Penance Stare on the Hilick Clan Leader to discover that Mephisto had manipulated him.
• Wang Bert killed the Hilick Clan Leader and ordered Babu to seize the castle; the Hillick Family was wiped out or captured, and Wang Bert vowed to search the castle.

Loki’s staged capture brought Thor and the Avengers together, while he secretly prepared his invasion and the Mind Scepter intensified their tensions. As Hawkeye attacked the Helicarrier and Loki escaped, Wakanda’s advanced defenses prompted U.S. officials to prepare for war, and Loki took control of Tony Stark.

• Mephisto left Shilik’s failed mission behind and hid inside Loki’s Mind Scepter as Loki traveled to Stuttgart with Hawkeye.
• Ivan and Tony beat Loki until Thor arrived, and the group returned to the Helicarrier after Thor warned them that Loki planned to invade with a Chitauri army.
• Mercenaries raided a Wakandan village, but Wakandan soldiers defeated them with energy-blocking cloaks and weapons, prompting General Hale to order the recording sent to the navy.
• Tony discovered that S.H.I.E.L.D. was researching the Tesseract as a weapon, and the Mind Scepter fueled a heated argument among the heroes.
• Hawkeye destroyed the Helicarrier’s third engine, and Coulson captured Tony and Rumlow while Ivan escaped.
• Loki escaped his cell, reclaimed the Mind Scepter, and used it to control Tony.