Chapter Summaries

Leo returned to Earth and told Banner about his ten-month journey through space before revealing that the Tesseract had become a blue gem embedded in his wings. He extracted the Space Stone and discovered that his wings had gained a short-range teleportation skill, while Banner reached toward the floating gem.

• Leo arrived at Avengers Tower, reunited with Banner, and learned that Tony was at the council members' building dealing with the aftermath of the Mandarin's attack.
• Banner told Leo that Hulk's destructive power was growing harder to control, and Leo recounted spending ten months in space before traveling back to Earth with aliens.
• Leo explained that the Tesseract still existed in another form and showed Banner the blue gem embedded in his wings.
• Leo focused his mental power and drew the Space Stone out of his wings, weakening them and revealing the Space Jump skill with a five-hundred-kilometer range and five-second cooldown.
• Banner approached the hovering gem and reached toward it.

Leo learned that Tony was undergoing surgery to remove the Arc Reactor from his chest, then helped restore him and improve Harry's workshop. The chapter ended with Leo surprising Tony after he confessed to Banner that he had hidden his vulnerability from Leo.

• Pepper told Leo that Tony was having surgery, and Leo went to the hospital to wait with her and Colonel Rhodes.
• Peter and Ned tried to follow Leo but failed, while Happy woke from his long stay in intensive care.
• Leo restored Tony's health, and Harry discovered that Tony had transformed his garage workshop and left him a new potato gun.
• Tony returned to the ruins of his Malibu home, discarded the Arc Reactor, and collected a screwdriver and Little Dummy's remains.
• Leo visited Avengers Tower and overheard Tony tell a sleeping Dr. Banner that he had avoided sharing his vulnerability with Leo.
• Leo revealed himself from behind Banner and told Tony, "Bingo, I'm right here."

Leo recovered the Tesseract and absorbed its spatial energy before Red Whale summoned him to a huge Vibranium meteorite in space. Red Whale urged Leo to increase his abilities, but stopped short of explaining what would happen once his control exceeded 250.

• Leo absorbed the Tesseract’s spatial energy, restored his wing inlay skills, and raised the special gem’s compatibility from 18 to 19.
• Leo told Tony and Pepper that Earth was known to alien empires and that he had sensed something wrong with S.H.I.E.L.D., then vanished after someone contacted him.
• Red Whale greeted Leo in space and showed him a meteorite roughly eight hundred meters across that was almost entirely Vibranium.
• Red Whale said Vibranium meteorites were rare, described larger ones it had eaten, and offered the meteorite as food for Leo.
• Red Whale began urging Leo to raise his control above 250, forgot what it meant to say next, and left Leo asking what it knew.

Leo persuaded Maya to continue developing the Extremis Serum as a medicine and brought her to Black Prison, where he set up a laboratory with equipment from three abandoned bases. After healing Rando’s injuries, Leo said Maya could help restore his amputated leg, then vanished to attend to other business.

• Leo asked Maya whether she had family ties and convinced her to continue improving the Extremis Serum under his funding.
• Maya met Zost, Chara, and Dick at Black Prison, and Leo took her to Nevada to retrieve laboratory equipment.
• Leo placed the equipment from three bases in a new Black Prison laboratory.
• Leo healed Zost’s gunshot wound and restored Rando’s health, but could not regrow Rando’s leg himself.
• Leo told Maya she could help restore Rando’s leg, then vanished as Zost and the others gathered around her.

Leo reviewed Black Prison’s investigation into The Hand, approved cautious use of the limited Extremis Serum, and gave the group Beck Stones to enhance its members. He left after arranging for Chen Haoran to accompany him and for one hundred Body Enhancement Potions to be brought back, while a long-absent figure arrived at Stark Tower.

• Zost and six others briefed Leo that they had found no useful leads on The Hand, and Leo said he would handle the threat himself.
• Leo warned Black Prison against another betrayal and learned that its remaining materials could make only four doses of Extremis Serum.
• Leo gave Maya and the others Beck Stones to enhance their physical fitness and offered the remaining stones as rewards for Black Prison members.
• Leo said Chen Haoran would accompany him and instructed the group to decide who would receive one hundred Body Enhancement Potions he planned to bring back.
• After breakfast with Jenny and George the next morning, Leo disappeared, and a long-absent figure arrived at Stark Tower.

Tony opened up to Leo about his childhood and the loss of his parents, while Coulson’s team accepted Skye after several missions and uncovered an organization called Eye of Heaven. Fury then assigned Coulson’s team to investigate the disappearance of Chen Haoran in Hong Kong, and Coulson called Leo.

• Tony continued recounting his childhood trauma and the pain of losing his parents while Leo listened.
• Coulson brought Skye onto his team as a consultant, and she earned the team’s acceptance and a field-agent title after helping them survive a mission in Peru.
• Skye and Coulson investigated agent Amadoor’s diamond theft, discovered her surveillance eye and her connection to Eye of Heaven, but the organization’s handler was killed before they could learn more.
• Fury assigned Coulson’s team to investigate Chen Haoran’s disappearance in Hong Kong.
• Coulson studied Chen Haoran’s case file, exchanged a doubtful glance with Melinda, and called Leo.

Thor took Leo back to Asgard through the Bifrost, while Jane’s growing distance from Thor and Loki’s rule over Asgard remained unresolved. Leo and Thor arrived at the Rainbow Bridge Fortress, where the situation under Loki was still unknown.

• Leo recognized that Jane was distancing herself from Thor as she pursued her achievements on Earth.
• Thor summoned Mjolnir and called Heimdall to open the Bifrost.
• The Bifrost carried Thor and Leo away, while people at the bar searched for information about them and the owner faced a growing crowd’s anger.
• Leo studied the Bifrost’s energy as Thor explained that Heimdall controlled it.
• Leo and Thor arrived at the Rainbow Bridge Fortress, and Leo wondered whether Frigga had exposed Loki or continued sleeping.

Leo revealed the Power Stone to Eitri and asked him to forge a weapon for it, prompting the Dwarf King to recall Nidavellir’s history with the Infinity Gauntlet. Eitri accepted Leo’s explanation and defended the secrecy of Nidavellir’s location.

• Eitri recognized the Power Stone and remembered how Nidavellir’s dwarves developed the original Infinity Gauntlets to wield the Infinity Stones.
• Eitri asked Leo how he had learned about the dwarves’ work and whether Odin knew he possessed the Power Stone.
• Leo said Frigga had told him, the Orb of Power was in his hands, and Odin did not know he had the stone.
• Leo explained that he had acquired the Orb from others and warned Eitri that outsiders could expose Nidavellir’s location.
• Eitri said visitors swore not to reveal Nidavellir and that its remote location made it difficult to find.

Leo stayed with Eitri on Nidavellir to learn about forging, and Eitri began planning how to remake Leo’s curved blade. Seeing Leo gave Eitri hope that he could forge an artifact again.

• Thor left Nidavellir to return to Asgard, leaving Leo with Eitri.
• Eitri told Leo that the Dwarves numbered 354 and had only seven children.
• Eitri took Leo to his private workshop and placed the broken curved blade in the furnace.
• Eitri considered different materials and enchantments for the blade, explaining that some combinations would suit a warmonger while others could carry Leo’s desired enchantment.
• Eitri recalled that artifacts needed a powerful wielder to complete their forging and realized that Leo might give him the chance to create one.

Leo reunited with Coulson and joined his team in Austin to locate Chen Haoran, while questioning Coulson about Skye and the team’s problems. After Ward’s approach alerted their target Layden, he escaped by car, and Skye slipped away as May followed her.

• Leo and Coulson reunited, discussed Coulson’s recovery and Leo’s disappearance, and caught up on Coulson’s team.
• Leo questioned Coulson about Skye and offered to take Chen Haoran if S.H.I.E.L.D. did not want him.
• Coulson’s team split up in Austin to search for Chen Haoran, with Leo and May watching from near a café.
• Leo spotted Layden on East Fifth Street, and May directed Ward toward him.
• Layden noticed Ward and fled by car, prompting Coulson to pursue while Skye walked away and May followed her.

After warning the Asgardians about Thanos, Leo joined Thor and the others for a feast and discussed the danger facing the Nine Realms. The group parted to resume their duties, and Leo returned to Earth.

• Thor vowed that Asgard would defeat Thanos if he came to the Nine Realms, while Hogun and Sif waited for Leo's response.
• Leo praised the food and drank and ate with the others, consuming an enormous amount of roast meat and strong brew.
• After leaving the tavern, Fandral, Sif, and Volstagg departed for their assignments, while Thor planned to speak with Odin and Frigga.
• Sif warned Thor that Odin would likely have him gather the remaining Infinity Stones to counter Thanos's plan.
• Leo said goodbye and vanished as he returned to Earth.

Lena persuaded Chen Haoran to embrace the name Blazing Flame Hero, while Coulson’s team investigated Miles’s connection to the High Tide leak. Leo exposed Miles’s paid dealings to Skye and learned they involved a wealthy woman and an ecological lab researching centipedes.

• Lena convinced Chen Haoran that becoming the Blazing Flame Hero could make him famous, and he began to like the name.
• Ward handcuffed Skye, and S.H.I.E.L.D. took her and Miles to Hong Kong for questioning.
• Leo found that Miles had received about one million dollars in recent deposits, while Coulson and May discussed their suspicions about Skye and Miles.
• Leo entered the supposedly secured interrogation room, and the closing door hurled Ward into a wall when he tried to follow.
• Leo showed Skye the account statements, and Miles admitted he had sold information after a wealthy woman offered him money to crack a S.H.I.E.L.D. China Division transmission signal.
• Miles said the woman claimed to represent an ecological research lab that studied insects, including centipedes.

Quill’s team discovered that Thanos had sent a transport ship to the Void Land and fought an elite squad led by Xer, an Ebony Maw subordinate. The battle continued as the group rapidly took down most of the attackers, while Chen Haoran watched in confusion.

• Quill decided to leave the Void Land aboard the backup ship before their new vessel was finished.
• Quill’s team spotted an approaching guard squad and noticed a Sanctum One Type-Q transport ship overhead.
• Gamora identified the ship as one of Thanos’s, and the approaching squad charged the group.
• Rocket killed Xer with his first shot, and the team fought back as Groot, Gamora, Nebula, Lorelei, Jason, and Quill attacked the squad.
• Within twenty seconds, the team had defeated thirteen of the squad’s twenty members, while Chen Haoran remained stunned by the sudden fight.

Gamora and her companions fled Thanos’s forces toward Ship 134 while Ebony Maw pursued them. They reached the backup ship, but Ebony Maw confronted them alone as Rocket and Groot went to start it.

• Chen Haoran caught up with the group as Jason, Rocket, and the others gathered their belongings and hurried to escape.
• Ebony Maw spotted Gamora’s group and pursued them while Vanguard troops descended and the Guard Fleet engaged the attacking spacecraft.
• Rocket drove the group toward Ship 134, and Jason shot down the spacecraft closing in behind them.
• Lorelei’s grenade was redirected by Ebony Maw, and Jason disabled another spacecraft as the group reached the warehouse.
• Ebony Maw demanded that Gamora return to Thanos and used his influence to daze Little Jie, while Rocket and Groot went to start Ship 134.
• Chen Haoran attacked Ebony Maw with a Fire Dragon, but Ebony Maw blocked it with a vehicle door and lifted the ground beneath him; Jason aimed his gun at Ebony Maw.

Coulson drugged Ward with truth serum to let Skye question him, while Leo returned home with George and Jenny and revealed that he was the Golden Legend. He began explaining his disappearance and used Golden Light to strengthen his elderly guardians, leaving them eager to hear what happened after he saved New York.

• Coulson injected Ward with the truth serum instead of Skye, then left Skye alone with him to ask questions.
• Leo brought George and Jenny back to their Queens home after they had spent ten months and fourteen days away.
• After they cleaned and settled in, Leo admitted he was the Golden Legend and showed them his purple-gold wings.
• George and Jenny said they were proud of Leo for saving tens of thousands of people, and asked what happened afterward.

Chen Haoran traveled with the Guardians toward Kontraxia Star and learned that Earth could advance by connecting to StarNet, while the group worried over the sealed-off Void Land. Meanwhile, Leo faced Thanos and learned that Thanos knew of his identity as the Golden Legend from Earth.

• Chen Haoran endured the warp to Variant 134 and asked Jason about their journey to Kontraxia Star.
• Gamora gave Chen Haoran an energy bar, and Rocket reported that Void Land and its StarNet signal had been sealed off.
• Quill announced that he would find someone on Kontraxia Star before they continued to Xandar, while Nebula remained isolated from the group.
• Sanctum One increased the gravity around Leo, while Ebony Maw remained restrained and unable to attack him.
• Thanos recognized Leo as the Golden Legend from Earth, and Proxima Centauri aimed her Laser Cannon at Leo as Cull Obsidian tried to advance.

Leo returned Chen Haoran to Black Prison so Maya could study his blood and help stabilize the Extremis virus, while Lena sought information about Phase Three from a prisoner. The Nine Realms began aligning across the Rainbow World Tree.

• Leo knocked Chen Haoran unconscious after he woke and attacked Simmons, and Simmons explained that returning sensation had likely made his burns unbearable.
• Leo brought Chen Haoran and his blood to Black Prison, where Zost reported that Maya had recreated the Extremis virus but could not improve its low, unstable success rate.
• Leo instructed Zost to give Chen Haoran painkillers when he woke and asked about Rando's health before returning home.
• Lena visited a Hong Kong prisoner, used her strange influence to persuade him to contact The Clairvoyant, and asked for clues about Phase Three.
• Nine dimensions across the Rainbow World Tree began drawing together as the Nine Realms prepared to align.

Leo questioned General Blade of Death about the Blade of the Undead and its effects, then killed him when he refused to cooperate. Eitri was left fearing that the two injured dwarves could not be saved, while Leo examined the blade.

• Leo restrained General Blade of Death and asked where he had gotten the Blade of the Undead and how to reverse the dwarves’ injuries.
• Leo wounded General Blade of Death with the blade and discovered that it slowed his regeneration.
• General Blade of Death warned Leo that Thanos was coming, and Leo told him he had already defeated several of Thanos’s allies.
• General Blade of Death dared Leo to kill him, and Leo decapitated him with a flash of Golden Light.
• Eitri worried that General Blade of Death’s death left no way to heal the two dwarves, while Leo planted the blade in the ground and studied it.

Leo healed Chen Haoran’s burns and tested his fire abilities before Maya reported a breakthrough in her Extremis Serum research. Leo assigned Chen Haoran to help Maya develop a complete, stable serum, leaving his future undecided until the work was done.

• Leo used golden light to restore Chen Haoran’s skin and ordered Zost to bring him upstairs after he had cleaned up.
• Leo questioned Chen Haoran about his past and tested his fire control, finding that his flames lacked strength and range but could melt a metal sword.
• Leo told Chen Haoran that Maya might be able to improve his abilities and revealed he was researching an Enhancement Serum using blood taken from Lena.
• Maya reported that her first tests showed the Extremis Serum had become significantly more stable and that a complete version might soon be possible.
• Leo ordered Chen Haoran to assist Maya in developing the complete serum, then vanished in a flash of blue light.

Leo returned to the Black Prison, where Chen Haoran was being held after his powers weakened and his body was badly burned. After explaining that S.H.I.E.L.D. had protected and rescued him, Leo offered him a place in the Black Prison, and Chen Haoran agreed to join.

• Leo left Li Qian's restaurant after promising to attend its competition and hurried back to the Black Prison.
• Chen Haoran woke in a cell, briefly used his fire powers, and realized the Centipede Serum's effects had ended.
• Leo confronted Chen Haoran and explained how S.H.I.E.L.D. had protected him and saved his life.
• Chen Haoran blamed Lena for ruining his life and vowed to kill her.
• Leo offered Chen Haoran a choice between performing on a stage and becoming the real Blazing Flame Hero by joining the Black Prison, and Chen Haoran accepted.