Chapter Summaries

Catherine told Leo how Roz disappeared and was reported dead after allegedly committing a robbery and murder. Leo uncovered suppressed evidence suggesting Roz’s death was suspicious and promised Catherine he would find the truth and give her justice.

• Catherine recounted Roz’s disappearance, the police’s account of his death, and how they prevented her from seeing his body or retrieving their car.
• Catherine told Leo that a police officer had seemed eager but afraid to reveal something, and that surveillance footage from the scene had been erased.
• Leo used J.A.R.V.I.S. to find buried reports, photographs, and a video showing two bodies and police clearing the scene.
• Catherine recognized Roz in the photographs and lost her remaining hope that he might be alive.
• Leo suspected the Black Snake Society was involved and promised Catherine he would uncover the truth and give her justice.

Leo and the others reached Ego’s enormous core, where Mantis fought to stop him from merging with it. Encouraged by Jason, Mantis put Ego to sleep, leaving the planetary core peaceful.

• Mantis explained that Ego’s core was protected by an almost inexhaustible Energy Shield.
• Leo warned Mantis that Ego was coming, and the core began to stir as Ego’s face emerged.
• Mantis struggled to hold Ego back while Jason encouraged her to believe in her power.
• Red Whale arrived carrying Quill, Rocket, and Howard the Duck.
• Mantis sent her mental power through the main vein, and Ego instinctively let it into his mind and fell asleep.

Leo demonstrated that he could lift up to 6,500 kilograms and estimated his limit at eight tons before abruptly leaving Earth after sensing Red Whale's call. He found Red Whale in a cocoon of light in space, with several spacecraft approaching, and used the Space Stone against him.

• Leo lifted 6,500 kilograms during Tony's test, while Dr. Zhao Hailun and Banner watched in disbelief.
• Leo estimated his limit at around eight tons, and Dr. Zhao Hailun examined his unmarked shoulders and skin.
• Leo suddenly sprouted Purple-Gold wings, wrapped himself in them, and vanished from Earth; J.A.R.V.I.S. confirmed his signal had disappeared.
• Leo arrived in outer space and found Red Whale in a red cocoon of light, with several spaceships and fighter craft nearby.
• Leo landed on Red Whale's head and pressed a hand to his body as the Space Stone released blue energy.

Leo tested Chen Haoran’s enhanced fire abilities in a fight and defeated him after exploiting an opening with a grenade and shield. Chen Haoran’s full-body flames doubled his physical fitness, making him strong enough to trade blows with Steve Rogers.

• Chen Haoran used fire attacks to keep Leo at a distance, but Leo dodged the flames and advanced behind a Vibranium shield.
• Chen Haoran’s flames melted Leo’s bullets and formed armor that protected him from ordinary gunfire.
• Leo threw a grenade that disrupted Chen Haoran’s attack, then rushed in and nearly stabbed him before Chen Haoran’s burst of power sent him flying backward.
• Leo struck Chen Haoran with the shield and held a blade to his neck, forcing Chen Haoran to concede defeat.
• Chen Haoran said his flames increased his physical fitness by a hundred percent, and Leo judged that he could now fight Steve Rogers.

Chen Haoran confronted a hostage-taking agent in Brooklyn while Captain Rogers and Natasha rushed to the scene, and Tony decided to join the investigation. Leo changed his plans and headed to Brooklyn as Chen Haoran’s fire serpent advanced on the agent before Rogers’s shield blocked it.

• Chen Haoran flew over Brooklyn, spotted an armed robbery, and charged down to stop it.
• Rogers and Natasha headed toward the scene while Tony told Leo he knew Chen Haoran was connected to him and planned to investigate.
• Leo decided to go to Brooklyn, and Li Haiyang also drove there to find out what Leo had done.
• At Point Six, a frightened outer-circle agent took his female teammate hostage as Chen Haoran landed and demanded that he release her.
• Chen Haoran sent a fire serpent crawling toward the agent, but Rogers’s shield flew in and blocked its path.

Chen Haoran fought Lorelei, whose strength overwhelmed him and whose singing eventually left him dazed. Lorelei emerged from the sea believing she had him under her control.

• Lorelei punched Chen Haoran off the island and into the sea, while the flames burned through her clothes and forced her to jump into the water.
• Chen Haoran’s Golden Light repaired his injuries as seawater suppressed his flames, and he eventually blasted back into the air.
• Chen Haoran attacked Lorelei with pillars of fire, driving her into the sea after she failed to evade them or find a weapon.
• Chen Haoran returned to the island and waited, but Lorelei’s faint singing grew clearer and left him dazed.
• Lorelei climbed back onto the island and declared that Chen Haoran’s ordinary Mental Power had made him vulnerable to her.

Rogers reunited with Sam during a run before Natasha called him away on a mission. Leo met the Red Whale after it reached the Mature Stage, where it revealed fragments of its past and new space-related abilities.

• Rogers and Sam bonded over their military experiences and the difficulties of adjusting to life at home.
• Rogers received a mission, said goodbye to Sam, and left with Natasha in her car.
• The Red Whale excitedly greeted Leo and announced that it had advanced from the Growth Stage to the Mature Stage.
• The Red Whale told Leo that its memories showed it had emerged from a multicolored tunnel into a metal planet and started seeking him after eating a small metal satellite.
• The Red Whale revealed that it could use Space Warp, detect metal objects up to five light-hours away, and shrink its body.

Leo brought Lorelei and Chen Haoran back after interrupting their fight on a scorched island, then took Lorelei to Tony Stark’s laboratory. There, Lorelei demonstrated her bewitching song, which affected Tony and Banner until Leo stopped Banner’s transformation into the Hulk.

• Leo arrived on the ruined island and stopped Chen Haoran and Lorelei from fighting further.
• Leo reprimanded Chen Haoran for his lack of combat experience and took both him and Lorelei back to the Black Prison Tower laboratory.
• Leo brought Lorelei to Tony Stark’s laboratory, where Tony and Banner examined her and asked her to demonstrate her bewitching voice.
• Lorelei sang, briefly affecting Tony and Banner; Tony used Mark 43 to block out the sound, while Banner began transforming into the Hulk.
• Leo stopped Lorelei’s song and used Golden Light to make Banner revert to normal.

Leo bonded with the Red Whale while riding it through the sky, making it his trusted mount and spacecraft. Meanwhile, Rogers and Natasha set out to rescue hostages aboard a hijacked S.H.I.E.L.D. satellite-launch platform.

• Leo rode the Red Whale as their energies mingled and their connection gave him a powerful sense of the whale and control over its movements.
• Leo had the Red Whale shrink to three meters and fly above the clouds, then used his coordinates to send it speeding toward its destination.
• Natasha drove Rogers to a Quinjet after telling him that S.H.I.E.L.D. had no news about Flame Man’s identity.
• Rogers learned that George Batroc and twenty-five mercenaries had hijacked the Lemuria Star and were demanding 1.5 billion.
• Rogers and Natasha learned that the hostages included technicians and S.H.I.E.L.D. official Jasper Sitwell, whose presence puzzled them.

Rogers led an assault on a pirate ship to rescue hostages while Natasha secretly copied S.H.I.E.L.D. data. After confronting Nick Fury over the mission, Rogers heard Fury explain that Leo had warned him of a hidden network within S.H.I.E.L.D., and Fury offered to show him what he had found.

• Rogers and the assault team boarded the ship, defeated its guards, and evacuated the hostages.
• Rogers fought Bucto and knocked him unconscious in the central control room.
• Rogers discovered Natasha copying S.H.I.E.L.D. files, and she explained that someone had deliberately damaged the ship's data.
• Rogers confronted Nick Fury at headquarters about withholding information and endangering the hostages.
• Fury told Rogers that Leo had warned him about a hidden network over S.H.I.E.L.D.'s information channels, then invited him to see the evidence.

Nick Fury escaped an ambush and concluded that Alexander Pierce had compromised S.H.I.E.L.D., leaving Leo as the only person he could trust to help him. At Avengers Tower, Leo received Fury’s call just as Tony prepared to remove Lorelei’s voice suppression.

• Nick Fury waited until the vehicle’s window was nearly destroyed, then activated its rapid-fire grenade machine gun and fought his way out of the attackers’ encirclement.
• Fury restored the vehicle’s power, drove manually as he escaped, and called Leo because he no longer trusted anyone inside S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Fury connected Pierce’s behavior, leaked information, and Project Insight, and suspected that Pierce had gathered many S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to his side.
• Chen Haoran returned to the laboratory after realizing his inexperience and weakness during the battle.
• At Avengers Tower, Tony prepared to remove Lorelei’s voice suppression while Banner questioned the plan, and Leo’s phone began ringing.

Wanda and Pietro found Leo unresponsive and surrounded by strange Pale Yellow Energy. Wanda fought the energy while Pietro discovered it was keeping Leo isolated, and they tried to find a way to wake him.

• Wanda saw Pale Yellow Energy winding around Leo and called Pietro when Leo failed to react to her voice or a thrown towel.
• Wanda recognized the energy as somewhat similar to the psychic energy Leo had used on Scott, then attacked it with Scarlet Energy.
• The Pale Yellow Energy emerged as rings and ropes around Leo, resisting Wanda's attack and slowly wearing her down.
• Wanda told Pietro the energy seemed afraid of waking Leo, so Pietro threw a cup at him.
• A pale yellow energy rope knocked the cup away before it could hit Leo, confirming that the energy was blocking outside disturbances.

Leo confronted Bloody 'Leo,' who used the blood-red energy to escape the Golden Shield and launch powerful attacks. Leo captured him again with a golden line, leaving Bloody 'Leo' restrained in his grasp.

• Bloody 'Leo' filled the Golden Shield with Bloodlight and formed a vortex, but the shield held firm.
• Bloody 'Leo' drained the energy inside the shield to restore himself outside it and formed bloody wings.
• Bloody 'Leo' attacked Leo with blood-red strikes and folded the surrounding field inward, but Leo dodged his attacks.
• Leo extended a golden line that wrapped around Bloody 'Leo' and pulled him firmly into his grasp.

Leo proposed using J.A.R.V.I.S. to identify Hydra agents within S.H.I.E.L.D., while Fury secretly entered Rogers's home and waited for him. Leo promised Lorelei a mission in two days, and Rogers returned to find Fury inside his house.

• Leo suggested using J.A.R.V.I.S. and the Helicarriers' systems to analyze and identify Hydra members, and Tony began preparing the hack and an infrared marking system for Leo Four.
• Banner declined to experiment on Lorelei and stayed to meditate, while Leo went to speak with her.
• Fury infiltrated Rogers's home and waited for him, and Hill continued carrying out Fury's assignments in Washington.
• Lorelei told Leo that her ability had awakened when she was about a hundred and twenty, and Leo warned her not to give in to greed again.
• Leo promised to release Lorelei in two days and give her a mission without restricting her abilities.
• Rogers returned home, realized someone had entered, and found Fury waiting; Fury said his wife had kicked him out.

Ego reflected on his failed search for a successor and decided to leave Planet Ego with Mantis to investigate the last clue, Yondu Udonta. They traveled toward the Void Land, while Mantis followed in fear and uncertainty about whether Ego should find a child capable of wielding his divine power.

• Ego recalled that he had fathered thousands of children and that, apart from Mantis, none had inherited his divine power.
• Ego had taken Mantis from a half-insect civilization three thousand years earlier and trained her to use her Psionic Talent to lull him to sleep.
• Ego concluded that the last three children from his latest search were likely dead or missing, leaving Yondu Udonta as his only remaining clue.
• Ego lifted Mantis and Jason down from the mountain and brought them to his egg-shaped spacecraft.
• Ego and Mantis boarded the spacecraft and headed toward the conflict in the Void Land, while Mantis followed him in terror and privately wondered whether she wanted him to find a successor.

After learning from Natasha about Fury’s death, the Winter Soldier, and a possible mole inside S.H.I.E.L.D., Leo agreed to help when the time came. He prepared to leave for Avengers Tower, but Uncle Li appeared at his door.

• Natasha told Leo that Fury was dead and warned him that Rogers would be questioned by Alexander Pierce.
• Leo revealed that Fury had given Rogers a secret mission, and Natasha identified the assassin as the Winter Soldier.
• Natasha said she wanted to expose Fury’s killer and find the mole inside S.H.I.E.L.D., and Leo agreed to help while urging her to be careful.
• Natasha drove toward Triskelion Headquarters but waited outside its security perimeter.
• Leo fed the Red Whale metal from the Dark Elves’ mothership and prepared to leave for Avengers Tower.
• Leo opened the door to find a tense Uncle Li waiting outside and invited him in.

The Ancient One tried to restore the Moon with the Time Stone, but Leo’s blood-colored energy rejected the temporal reversal and shattered her magic formations. Red Whale supported and healed her, and Leo began drawing in the restored energy after realizing he had found its source.

• The Ancient One reversed time to restore the destroyed lunar surface, but the formations on her left arm cracked and shattered, injuring her.
• The Ancient One discovered that Leo’s energy was obstructing the Time Stone, and the clash slowed the Moon’s restoration while damaging the formations on her right arm.
• Red Whale lifted the Ancient One onto its back and used its power to steady and heal her as she continued resisting the temporal force.
• Red Whale’s assistance extended the Ancient One’s endurance, but it could not restore the Moon completely.
• Leo reached toward the void, and a strand of scarlet light vanished into his hands.

The crew enjoyed Milan II’s maiden flight and prepared to contact Leo before heading to Ego. Chen Haoran stabbed himself to activate the Golden Light, and Leo appeared aboard the ship.

• Lorelei, Jason, Chen Haoran, and the others admired Milan II’s upgraded cockpit during its maiden flight.
• Rocket located Ego on the star map, but Gamora warned that Thanos might have forces guarding the nearby Warp Point.
• Jason agreed that the crew should contact Leo first, and Chen Haoran volunteered to summon him.
• Quill stopped Milan II, and Chen Haoran stabbed his thigh to activate the Golden Light.
• Leo appeared in the space behind the cockpit and asked whether everyone was all right.

Quill left Xandar with the goods after meeting Leo, and Leo arranged for Lorelei to stay with Jason while he returned to Earth. Before leaving, Leo asked Jason to look out for a raccoon and a tree person.

• Quill accepted the guns, warned Leo that the universe was dangerous, and gave him his communicator number.
• After Yondu called, Quill departed with the goods, while Leo secretly tracked him with a Golden Light marker.
• Leo told Lorelei to stay on Xandar and warned her not to cause trouble with the Nova Corps.
• Leo gave Jason Anti-Lorelei headphones, and Jason sent Little Jie to show Lorelei to an empty room.
• Leo showed Jason figures of a raccoon and a tree person and asked him to use benefits to keep them there if he found them.

Rogers and Natasha discovered a hidden S.H.I.E.L.D. base and found Arnim Zola’s digitized mind, which revealed that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and planned Project Insight. Natasha secretly contacted Leo, whose family worried when he received the call, and he heard Zola’s voice through his transformed lenses.

• Rogers and Natasha descended into an abandoned military depot and discovered an old S.H.I.E.L.D. base, where portraits included Howard Stark and an unknown woman who affected Rogers.
• Natasha found a modern S.H.I.E.L.D. data interface in a deeper archive chamber and inserted her USB drive, activating the old computers.
• Arnim Zola identified Rogers and Natasha, explained that his brain had been preserved in the base’s database, and announced that Hydra had merged with S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Zola revealed Hydra’s plans to manipulate wars and history, along with Project Insight and the Purification Program, shocking Rogers and Natasha.
• Natasha secretly called Leo while he ate dinner with Jenny and George; Leo transformed his phone into lenses and heard Zola’s voice.