Chapter Summaries

Loki stole Gungnir and impersonated Odin while the real Odin allowed the deception to continue. Meanwhile, S.H.I.E.L.D.’s new Golden Legend Investigation Team traced the hero to Greenwich University and set out to question Agent Coulson’s team.

• Loki confused Odin, took Gungnir, and disguised himself as the All-Father, while the real Odin chose not to break free.
• Thor brought the captured Malekith before Loki, who ordered him imprisoned and told Thor that Jane had returned to Earth.
• Leo worried about the unusual quality he had sensed in Skye and vanished as satellites failed to track him.
• S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Golden Legend Investigation Team analyzed the brief footage of Leo and identified Greenwich University as his likely starting point.
• The team leader linked the Greenwich incident to Agent Coulson’s team and prepared to go meet them.

Thor rejected the throne and chose to leave Asgard for Jane, while Loki, disguised as Odin, let him go and prepared to rule. Leo returned to his long-neglected garage with George, who asked him to explain the models there.

• Thor told Odin that neither punishment nor permission would change his decision to be with Jane, and offered Mjolnir back.
• Loki, disguised as Odin, allowed Thor to keep Mjolnir and praised him privately as he left to see Frigga before going to Earth.
• After Thor departed, Loki resumed his own appearance and celebrated that he could become Asgard’s true king.
• Leo and George entered Leo’s dusty garage, where George apologized for searching it while Leo had been missing.
• George uncovered Leo’s models and asked him to tell the story behind a Gundam model.

On the Milan, the Guardians saw Groot’s Life Core begin recovering in Galaxy Pure Water and discussed their strength and Leo’s effort to keep the Infinity Stones from Thanos. The group agreed they would help Leo, while Quill revealed he could unleash only three attacks with Destructive Lightning.

• Rocket guarded Groot as Chen Haoran eyed the Galaxy Pure Water and tried to sneak over for a sip, but Little Jie called him out and Rocket threatened him with a machine gun.
• Jason, Gamora, and Rocket discussed Groot’s recovery and hoped that gathering the remaining items would restore his core and reveal the War Treant’s full power.
• The Guardians reflected on how Leo had brought them together and wondered when Groot would wake up.
• Mantis said Ego could destroy the attacking warships with Destructive Lightning, and Quill admitted he could manage only three attacks because the power was difficult to summon.
• Jason asked what they thought of Leo’s plan to stop Thanos from collecting the Infinity Stones, and Rocket and Quill said they would help prevent Thanos from wiping out half the universe’s life.

After nearly losing control and injuring George, Leo recognized that his growing arrogance and fading memories might be tied to the Infinity Stones or the Red Whale. He decided to visit Master Ancient One at Kamar-Taj to learn more about the stones and investigate his memories.

• Leo felt guilty for injuring George and resolved to prevent himself from losing control again.
• George warned Leo that his confidence had become arrogance and urged him to understand power and protect himself.
• Leo acknowledged the change in his personality and wondered whether the Infinity Stone, the Red Whale, or his damaged memories had caused it.
• Leo removed the Space Stone and considered asking Master Ancient One about the Infinity Stones and whether the Time Stone could reveal the past.
• Leo put away the Tesseract and fell asleep holding his bloodstained clothes.

Loki visited the sleeping Frigga and thanked Leo for helping her, then left to address Asgard’s problems while keeping his identity secret. Leo woke Frigga, who saw through Odin’s choice to let Loki rule and, after discussing her sons, sensed Leo’s anxiety and asked how she could help.

• Loki sat beside Frigga, thanked Leo for saving her, and wondered what would happen if she woke and recognized his illusion.
• Loki transformed into Odin and left to handle Asgard’s problems, hoping Leo would not expose him.
• Leo woke Frigga and explained what had happened to Odin, Thor, and Loki.
• Frigga concluded that Odin had willingly gone along with Loki’s magic and said she respected Thor’s choice and believed Loki was happy.
• Frigga spoke about her sons and then asked Leo whether she could help with the anxiety she sensed in him.

The Ancient One showed Leo the Eye of Agamotto and explained how the three Sanctums protected Earth. In the Mirror Dimension, she prepared to expose Leo to the Time Stone so he could try its power.

• The Ancient One introduced Wong to Leo, while Kaecilius left after watching Leo with suspicion.
• Leo asked why The Ancient One was ignoring Kaecilius's malice, and she said she trusted the future she had chosen despite not knowing everything.
• The Ancient One brought Leo to the library's Secret Chamber and explained how the Sanctums monitored space-time and formed a protective network around Earth.
• The Ancient One explained that her mentor Agamotto found the wandering Time Stone in his dimension and made the Eye of Agamotto to contain it.
• The Ancient One entered the Mirror Dimension with Leo, opened the Eye's seals, and warned that the Stone's reversed time could change him.
• Leo agreed to try the Time Stone, and The Ancient One formed a protective magic circle over her arm and aimed it at him.

Leo took possession of a second Golden Core and began absorbing it inside a folded space. As the Core merged into his body, he endured crushing pressure and received memory fragments while Golden Light threatened to break the space apart.

• Leo reflected that the universe favored strength, and that civilizations could be destroyed without having done anything wrong.
• A brilliant Golden Core appeared in Leo's palm, and he recognized it by instinct as one of the three Golden Cores.
• The First General saw the Core glowing in Leo's hand and realized its significance to him.
• Leo destroyed the drones and moved himself and the Golden Core into a folded space to avoid interruption.
• The Golden Core melted into Leo's palm, and its power spread through his body while he remained conscious and received memory fragments.
• Golden Light filled the folded space, and fine cracks formed across its walls as Leo endured the Core's crushing pressure.

Leo visited Kamar-Taj with the Ancient One and asked whether the Space Stone was causing his memories to fade. The Ancient One said it was unlikely, and Leo asked to use the Time Stone to recover them.

• The Ancient One led Leo past Mage Apprentices sparring and explained that Mordo was an official Sorcerer with strong combat skills.
• The Ancient One asked Leo about his changes and how he had shattered the Mirror Dimension, and Leo said he had eaten metal.
• Leo told the Ancient One that the Space Stone had sent him into the universe and that his memories had since been fading irresistibly.
• Leo showed the Ancient One the Space Stone, and she studied its spatial energy before explaining what Kamar-Taj knew about the Infinity Stones.
• After Leo said Frigga had already told him about the stones, he asked the Ancient One to let him use the Time Stone to recover his memories.

Leo asked the Ancient One to use the Time Stone to restore his fading memories, and she agreed to try despite the danger and her uncertainty about him. When they left the tearoom, Kamar-Taj sorcerers had gathered to confront Leo, but the Ancient One assured them he was not an enemy.

• Leo told the Ancient One that his memories were fading and asked to use the Time Stone to see whether time reversal could reveal them.
• The Ancient One explained the dangers of changing time and agreed to try, though she said she did not know whether it would work.
• Two Mage Apprentices felt Leo's oppressive power in the tearoom and ran to fetch reinforcements.
• Kaecilius, Wong, and other sorcerers confronted Leo outside the tearoom, but the Ancient One told them he was not an enemy and sent them back to training.

Leo unleashed the Power Stone against the asteroid, pulverizing its entire surface layer before the Strength Bracer contained the remaining power. He assessed the limits of his control and the bracer, then set off home with the Red Whale.

• Leo gathered the Power Stone's energy and struck the asteroid, sending destructive power across its surface.
• The blast shattered and pulverized the asteroid's surface, while Leo's Immovable Golden Body barrier shielded him from the shock wave.
• The Power Stone's energy cracked Leo's right hand and briefly damaged the Strength Bracer, but both recovered as the energy receded.
• Leo considered how the Strength Bracer contained and repaired damage from the Power Stone, and how the bracer limited the stone's power.
• Leo saw that the asteroid had lost a thick layer of its surface, stroked the Red Whale's head, and told it they were going home.

Li Ye became suspicious of Leo after learning that he had stood Li Qian up, while Li Qian privately planned to call Leo. In Asgard, Loki investigated disappearances and sent Sif to look into disturbances near a spatial tunnel to Earth.

• Li Ye warned Li Qian against dating Leo, but she clarified that they were only friends and that Leo had agreed to visit before failing to show up.
• Li Haiyang praised Leo, and Chen Jie said Leo had seemed generous and had left a large tip, making Li Ye more convinced that Leo had ulterior motives.
• Li Ye blamed Leo for acting aloof and standing Li Qian up, while Li Qian decided to call Leo the next day to ask what had happened.
• Loki noticed that disturbances and disappearances were occurring in Asgard and that two elite warriors he had sent out had vanished.
• Loki reviewed the old dungeon prisoner list and sent Sif to investigate the disturbances near a spatial tunnel leading to Earth.

Leo and Barton returned from Sokovia to Avengers Tower, where Leo revealed that he had obtained the Power Stone and explained that he could control it. The chapter left Natasha, Barton, and Hill shaken by the power in Leo’s hands and by his warning about a possible invasion from Dormammu.

• Red Whale transported Leo and Barton back to the Quinjet, where Natasha and Hill were startled to find them aboard.
• Barton told Hill that the twins had not hurt him and that they were children who had taken the wrong path.
• Leo teleported the Quinjet from Sokovia to New York in seconds, stunning Natasha and Hill.
• Leo revealed the Power Stone on his wrist and reassured the others that he could control it safely.
• Leo warned that Dormammu could invade if Earth’s Sanctums failed, then said official Sorcerers guarded them.
• The Quinjet landed on Avengers Tower’s rooftop, where the group planned to rest.

Leo attempted to stop the superstorm by using three enormous metal blades to reverse the air currents inside its eye. As the blades spun faster, the storm’s rotation began to reverse.

• Fitz and Simmons told Skye that Donnie’s use of their Crystal Nucleation Technology had made the storm too powerful to stop with human means.
• Skye said she believed Golden Legend could save them, while Fitz and Simmons doubted anyone could overcome the storm’s Natural Power.
• Leo stabilized the buildings around the storm’s eye and found that his own wind could not counter the chaotic air currents.
• Leo gathered metal from the area and his storage space, then formed and hardened three enormous fan blades.
• Leo forced the blades to rotate against the storm until they spun rapidly and the air inside the eye grew calm.
• Leo released the blades and remained suspended as the wind began rotating counterclockwise.

Reiz and the other three members of the Black Prison Group fought The Hand's Silver Medal Assassins in the first-floor hall, using extreme heat and rapid healing to withstand their poisoned blades. As the assassins struggled in the heat, several more figures silently entered through the door.

• The four Black Prison Group members charged the black-robed attackers, and one of them blasted several with an ultra-hot wave that scorched a Silver Medal Assassin.
• Reiz sent another assassin flying with flames, but the remaining attackers surrounded him and cut his arms with poisoned blades.
• Reiz's wounds rapidly healed, and the poison was destroyed by the heat and proved ineffective against the Desperate Potion users.
• The four fighters held off the assassins as their heat wore the attackers down, while the group wondered why they had charged so aggressively.
• Several figures silently entered through the door.

Li Xiaotian and Li Qian discussed Wanda’s inability to penetrate Leo’s mental defenses and agreed to learn more about Leo the next day. After Wanda retired, Li Qian reported that the twins posed no threat to China, while Dragon Fang prepared to analyze Pietro’s speed.

• Wanda told Li Xiaotian that she could not break through Leo’s mental defenses, even if he were asleep.
• Li Qian said Leo still seemed gentle and kind, and suggested his aunt and uncle might know if something were wrong with him.
• Li Xiaotian, Li Qian, and Wanda joked about the cost of Wanda’s hotel room before Li Xiaotian escorted Li Qian out.
• Li Qian told Li Xiaotian that Wanda had come to China looking for someone and that Leo had recruited the twins as prospective Avengers.
• Li Qian reported that Dragon Fang had estimated Pietro’s speed at around 800 to 1,200 meters per second, and Li Xiaotian told her to rest before the next day.

Nebula’s records showed Ronan that the Red Whale had survived attacks from powerful fleets, but he ordered five Dark Star auxiliary ships to capture it anyway. As they began hauling it toward the Dark Star, the Red Whale expanded rapidly, forcing the captains to activate their destructive energy device.

• Nebula reviewed the Red Whale’s battle records and learned that even cruiser fleets had failed to seriously injure it.
• Ronan ordered two more auxiliary ships to help capture the young Red Whale.
• The Red Whale struggled against the energy grid as five Dark Star auxiliary ships restrained it and began dragging it toward the Dark Star.
• The Red Whale’s body began glowing gold and expanded from about three hundred meters to nearly a thousand meters, stretching the energy grid.
• A captain urged the others to activate the destructive energy device, and black energy began extending from the five warships toward the Red Whale.

Leo recovered his clear memories inside the mysterious space, then accepted Li Qian’s invitation to meet after realizing he had forgotten their earlier plans. He headed to Ocean Chinese Restaurant, where Li Qian waited outside with Li Ye watching nearby.

• Leo answered Li Qian’s call and apologized for forgetting their plans, and she told him Ocean Restaurant had won first place in the cooking competition.
• Li Qian invited Leo to go out, and Leo agreed without realizing she meant it as a date.
• Leo told Jenny he was meeting a senior from City High School, and she gave him money to buy clothes before he left.
• Jenny told George that Leo had gone on a date, and George reacted eagerly to the possibility of Leo eventually having a child.
• Leo jogged to Ocean Chinese Restaurant and spotted Li Qian waiting outside while Li Ye watched nearby with ill intent.

Madam Gao attacked Dick and another Desperate Potion-enhanced man in a stairwell, but their extreme heat and rapid healing made them difficult to kill. After they alerted Zost and reinforcements rushed to help, Barton intervened with an arrow while Madam Gao continued fighting.

• Madam Gao stabbed Dick and the other man in the chest and throat, but their wounds rapidly healed and their heat melted the blades and earpieces.
• Madam Gao pressed her attack, while Dick and the other man struggled to resist and the other man obscured the stairwell camera with a fireball.
• J.A.R.V.I.S. alerted Zost, who sent Barton to Stairwell One and rushed there himself as Stacy also headed toward the fight.
• Madam Gao severed one of Dick's arms and prepared to attack again, but flames burst from Dick and briefly blocked her vision.
• Barton fired a black arrow from the fourteenth floor, and Madam Gao knocked it away.

Leo emerged from a strange dimensional space after a mysterious golden cocoon rendered him unreachable, alarming Jenny and George. He discovered that his compatibility with the Space Stone had risen above thirty percent, and he returned to the garage with a plan to use the Infinity Stones against the Cosmic Consciousness.

• Jenny found Leo inside a golden cocoon in the garage, but her hand and a metal rod passed through it without touching anything.
• George and Jenny tested the cocoon with tools and intense flames, but nothing affected it, so they left Leo alone and went to eat.
• The cocoon flickered, released a powerful surge, and vanished, leaving a pit in the floor and a section of metal pipe missing.
• Leo emerged feeling refreshed, repaired the damaged floor and scattered components with his abilities, and went to the dining room.
• George and Jenny explained what had happened, and Leo realized his Space Stone compatibility had risen from twenty-eight percent to more than thirty percent.
• Back in the garage, Leo recalled that the Infinity Stones might suppress the Cosmic Consciousness.

Nebula explained that Ronan’s defeat by the Red Whale came from his failure to understand the creature’s unusual defenses and abilities. Ronan ordered his fleet back to Hala for repairs and swore to kill the Red Whale, while the creature recovered and continued digesting metal.

• Nebula warned Ronan that he should have gathered information before attacking, while Gamora cautioned him to learn from the defeat.
• Nebula projected footage and intelligence about the Red Whale, explaining its powerful defenses and why it could be considered an A-rank or even S-rank giant beast.
• Nebula said Ronan had mistaken the smaller Red Whale for a young creature and mocked his reckless attack; Gamora prepared to defend her.
• Ronan ordered the fleet to return to Hala, replace five Auxiliary Ships, and repair the Dark Star, then vowed to kill the Red Whale.
• The Red Whale continued digesting metal, healed its wounds, and began shrinking again.