Chapter Summaries

Leo brought Wanda and Pietro to the Avengers base, where they arrived aboard the Red Whale after flying over New York. The base lowered its defenses as they approached, and two figures flew out to greet the newcomers.

• Leo lifted Wanda and Pietro into the air and teleported them from New York's streets to the sky above the city.
• The Red Whale appeared, carried the three of them, and flew toward the Avengers base.
• Wanda stroked the Red Whale and asked Leo to let Xiao Bai out once they reached the base, while Pietro showed off his daggers.
• Wanda and Pietro sensed danger as the base's cannon barrels emerged, but Leo reassured them.
• The base deactivated its defenses, and the Red Whale landed on the grass as two powerful figures flew over to greet them.

Tony Stark arrived at Avengers Base and met Wanda and Pietro face-to-face for the first time. Their old hostility remained, but Wanda held Pietro back, and Tony suggested that Leo might help with a shortage of nanomaterials.

• Tony flew to Avengers Base in Mark XLVI and landed in a shallow crater before stepping out of the armor.
• Natasha told Tony that Dr. Zhao had prepared thirteen kilograms of nanomaterials, but the Avengers had nearly run out of supplies and a critical material.
• Tony greeted Wanda and Pietro, and Pietro threatened to cut off his hair with silver daggers before Wanda stopped him from attacking.
• Tony said he wanted to understand Wanda and Pietro because Leo cared about them, while Wanda sensed the pain he kept suppressed.
• Tony turned to Rhodey and asked if he was wearing pajamas under his armor again.

Leo protected Catherine and the baby, then forced the bearded police chief and Han to answer for Roz’s murder. The chief finally confessed that Han had killed Roz.

• Leo stopped a close-range bullet with his forehead and melted the gun into an iron gauntlet around the bearded chief’s hand.
• Catherine realized the two men had arranged the attacks on her and the baby and stood beside Leo as he confronted them.
• Han offered Leo money and begged to be spared, while the bearded chief threatened him with government punishment.
• Leo tightened the chief’s gauntlet and broke Han’s arms when Han tried to sneak away.
• The bearded chief gave in and confessed that Han had killed Roz.

Leo met Scott at a smoothie shop, recognized his potential and briefly revealed an overwhelming aura that left Scott and Dr. Pym stunned. Leo left after tipping Scott generously, hinting that he would soon ask for his help.

• Leo noticed Dr. Pym's miniature Flying Ant camera watching Scott at the shop.
• Leo hinted to Scott that he was capable of more and might soon need his help, and Scott said he would not violate his principles.
• Leo left a hundred-dollar tip, astonishing Scott and his coworkers.
• Leo's aura briefly overwhelmed Scott and disrupted the Flying Ant's transmission before Leo walked out.
• Scott remained stunned after Leo disappeared, while Dr. Pym watched the footage in disbelief.

Hank Pym reevaluated Scott as a candidate for stopping Cross’s Wasp suit project, but became alarmed when Leo detected the Flying Ant monitoring Scott. Pym ultimately decided to proceed with his plan for Scott to steal the Ant-Man Suit.

• Hank Pym concluded that Cross’s progress toward completing the Wasp suit made it urgent to protect Pym Particles from being leaked.
• After observing Scott’s persistence, work ethic, and burglary skills, Hank confirmed him as the candidate to sabotage Cross’s project.
• Hank watched footage of Leo noticing the Flying Ant and transforming, and worried that his secret mission had been exposed.
• Leo used his senses to locate Hank’s modified van but chose not to confront him, instead waiting for Scott to arrive at the base.
• After receiving a message from his daughter, Hank decided to proceed with Scott despite his doubts and planned for him to steal the Ant-Man Suit.

Banner declined to interfere with Hulk because he feared damaging their improving relationship, while Leo and the Avengers discussed the attention his Golden Giant form had drawn online. Hill explained how S.H.I.E.L.D. planned to use the Golden Legend webpage and called for more rigorous Avengers training, then handed Leo a call from Director Fury.

• Banner told Leo he did not want to risk harming Hulk by influencing his consciousness, since they had worked for years to improve their relationship.
• Leo reassured Banner that Hulk's recovery ability could heal his injuries, and Natasha, Rogers, and Wanda described the public frenzy over Leo's Golden Giant form.
• Hill said the Golden Legend webpage had helped S.H.I.E.L.D. balance its public presence with its secrecy, and Leo warned her not to use it to control people.
• Hill handed Leo Director Fury's call, then gathered the Avengers to discuss Wanda and Pietro's next training and more combat and emergency-response preparation.
• Hill warned that the United Nations and several countries had raised objections to the Avengers, and Natasha and Rogers agreed that their training needed to be thorough.

Leo reunited with Shuri in Wakanda, learned he had been missing for five days, and called Tony Stark before leaving for Malibu. As Leo flew away, King T'Chaka and T'Challa debated whether to stop him from revealing Wakanda’s existence.

• Leo entered Shuri’s laboratory through the mine, ate the food she offered, and learned that five days had passed since he left.
• Shuri gave Leo spare Kimoyo Beads, which he used to call Tony Stark and explain that he was in Wakanda.
• Leo told Shuri he was leaving for Malibu, then flew away from Wakanda as a Royal Eagle Claw Aircraft and two Talon Fighter Jets followed him.
• King T'Chaka and T'Challa watched Leo approach the Defense Barrier and discussed a plan to eliminate him, which T'Challa said had no more than a fifty percent chance of success.
• King T'Chaka ordered someone to bring Shuri to him.

Master Ancient One confronted Leo because he was absent from the original timeline and impossible for her to see in the future. After bringing him to Kamar-Taj to ask about his origins, she struck his chest while he was lost in thought.

• Master Ancient One trapped Leo in the Mirror Dimension and questioned who he was and why he had come to Earth.
• Leo insisted he was an Earthling, then followed Master Ancient One through a portal to Kamar-Taj.
• Master Ancient One spoke with Leo about the timeline’s disorder and her inability to see his past or future.
• Leo wondered about his identity and how he had arrived in this world.
• While Leo was distracted, Master Ancient One struck him in the chest with her palm.

Tony and Rhodey fought Whiplash while Leo protected Peter from the battle and ultimately prevented Ivan's Arc Reactor from self-destructing. The next day, Leo met Nick Fury at a factory, where they discussed Tony joining the Avengers and the search for Rogers, just before Tony arrived.

• Whiplash tangled Tony and Rhodey in his electromagnetic whips, but Tony struck him with lasers that pierced his armor and left him mortally wounded.
• Leo shielded Peter from the lasers, then separated Ivan's Arc Reactor into pieces before it could explode; Leo and Peter went home as Tony flew off to find Pepper.
• Rhodey found Ivan dead and the Arc Reactor fragments scattered on the ground, then prepared for the Military press conference.
• The next day, Nick Fury summoned Leo and Tony to a red brick factory, where Fury asked Leo about Rogers and discussed recruiting Tony for the Avengers.
• Leo told Fury that Rogers was alive and suggested giving him responsibility; Tony arrived at the factory as their conversation ended.

Leo absorbed the Destroyer armor and grew stronger, then witnessed Loki unleash a world-destroying force while deciding to visit Wakanda. In Asgard, Thor tried to stop Loki from destroying Jotunheim, but Loki rejected him and threatened Jane.

• Leo drained the Destroyer armor, raising his Control Points to 115 and strengthening his Nirvana Golden Wings.
• Leo returned to Jane and Dr. Erik as the World-Destroying Light appeared in the sky, then decided to visit Wakanda.
• Loki activated the Bifrost to destroy Jotunheim, and Thor froze its power with the Casket of Ancient Winters.
• Thor confronted Loki, who attacked him and said he wanted to prove himself worthy of the throne.
• Loki rejected Thor as his brother and, after learning Thor cared for Jane, threatened to visit her.

Leo entered Wakanda seeking Vibranium for his cultivation and demonstrated that he could overpower its guards and disable the Black Panther suit. King T'Chaka agreed to his request, leaving the negotiations unresolved beyond that acceptance.

• King T'Chaka ordered T'Challa to investigate Leo, while Shuri found no matching records and secretly watched the guards bring him to the hall.
• Leo freed himself from the Vibranium handcuffs and told King T'Chaka that he wanted Vibranium and would repay Wakanda with help someday.
• When a Border Tribe leader refused and T'Chaka questioned him, Leo pulled the guards' spears together and blasted T'Challa into a wall with a metal sphere.
• Leo immobilized T'Challa, dismantled his Black Panther Battle Suit, and assured T'Chaka that he would not take Vibranium into the outside world.
• King T'Chaka agreed to Leo's request.

Thor mourned Loki and Jane while he and Odin spoke of Thor’s future as king, and Heimdall searched for a way to reach Earth. After five days meditating inside a Vibranium meteorite, Leo emerged with greatly enhanced abilities and entered Shuri’s laboratory, startling her.

• Thor asked Heimdall whether he could see Jane, and Heimdall said she was looking for Thor.
• Odin told Thor that he was already proud of him, while Heimdall searched for a way around the broken Bifrost.
• After five days in seclusion, Leo absorbed energy from the Vibranium meteorite and gained new strength and abilities.
• Leo formed a black-and-silver suit from Vibranium, then used his wings and golden eyes to locate Shuri.
• Leo broke through the wall into Shuri’s laboratory, and Shuri turned around in fright and demanded to know how he had entered.

After seven months trapped in Wakanda's Vibranium Meteorite, Leo emerged with his Iron Bones reinforcement at 99% and hurried toward New York. He reconnected with Aunt May, anxious to learn whether she and Uncle George were safe as he feared an imminent attack.

• A tremor shook Birnin Zana when the Vibranium Meteorite beneath the city began to move, and Shuri, T'Chaka, and T'Challa suspected Leo was responsible.
• Leo finished absorbing energy from the meteorite, found his Iron Bones reinforcement had reached 99%, and discovered that seven months had passed.
• Shuri called to Leo as he left Wakanda, but he refused to stop and flew toward New York, while T'Chaka ordered Shuri and T'Challa to investigate and restore order.
• Aunt May called Leo, and he asked where she and Uncle George were and whether anything had happened in New York.

As Barton sabotaged the Helicarrier and the scattered heroes fought to stop Loki, Leo finished exhausting the Mind Stone’s energy and began recovering. Just as Loki believed the Helicarrier was doomed, Leo joined the battle and steadied the ship.

• Hulk destroyed the fighter jet sent to distract him and fell away from the battlefield, while Tony reached the turbine and Rogers fought Barton’s soldiers.
• Barton sabotaged the Command Center computers, shutting down Engine One and sending the Helicarrier into a tilted descent; Natasha answered Fury’s call despite her injuries.
• Leo released the Mind Scepter and began recovering, while Tony pushed the turbine and Rogers fell away from the wrench he had used to slow it.
• Loki trapped Thor in his cell and stabbed Coulson, but Coulson’s weapon blasted Loki before he could leave.
• The Helicarrier suddenly stopped descending and began leveling out; Loki hurried toward the deck as Leo joined the battle.

Rogers, the Avengers, and Banner fought the Chitauri as Tony lured a Leviathan toward the team, where Hulk stopped and destroyed it. As hundreds of Chitauri closed in, Leo returned in a flash of golden light.

• Rogers directed the police to evacuate civilians and establish a defensive position before joining Barton and Natasha in battle.
• Tony used Mark VII to lure a Leviathan away from the city center while Barton, Natasha, and Rogers fought Chitauri Soldiers.
• Thor joined the team, and the Avengers regrouped as Tony reported that they could not penetrate the energy surrounding the Tesseract.
• Banner transformed into Hulk and stopped the charging Leviathan with a punch, allowing Tony to destroy it with a missile.
• Hundreds of Chitauri Soldiers gathered around the fallen Leviathan, and Leo returned in a flash of golden light.

Leo woke alone on a metal meteorite in deep space, unable to find the Tesseract, and set off through the void hoping to encounter a civilization. The story shifted to Tony Stark, who woke from a nightmare and returned to work on the Mark XI armor while looking at a photograph of Leo.

• Leo woke on a small meteorite in space and realized that the Tesseract was missing.
• Leo searched the meteorite and the surrounding void but did not see the Space Stone, which remained suspended behind his back between his wings.
• Leo reshaped the meteorite into a Metal Dart and accelerated it through space, hoping to find a civilization or Star-Lord.
• Tony Stark woke from a nightmare at four in the morning and went to the Underground Workshop to continue designing the Mark XI armor.
• Tony looked at a projected Avengers photograph, removed everyone else from view, and lingered on Leo before returning to work.

Leo confronted Yumi outside the Ghost Shadow after Yumi tried to extort them over the metal and threatened to seize their ship. Yumi’s cannon blast struck Leo as he moved to protect the Ghost Shadow, leaving both crews stunned by the explosion.

• Leo put on a portable spacesuit and went outside while Jason warned him that Yumi’s ship might open fire.
• Yumi activated his ship’s energy shield and demanded an additional five hundred thousand credits or information about where Leo had found the metal.
• Leo refused Yumi’s demands and told him to move aside as the triangular ship charged its cannon.
• Jason fired the Ghost Shadow’s lasers, but Yumi’s shield absorbed the shots, and Yumi ordered his crew to fire on the Ghost Shadow.
• Leo flew in front of the energy cannon blast, which exploded between the ships and left both crews stunned.

After surviving a crash in Tennessee, Tony struggled through the snow with the damaged Mark 42 and sought shelter in a storage building. A boy discovered him there and recognized the armor, while an evening newspaper claimed Iron Man was dead.

• The Mark 42 rescued Tony from the sinking armor, flew to Rose Mountain, Tennessee, and crash-landed after its power dropped below five percent.
• Tony woke J.A.R.V.I.S., learned it had followed a designated flight plan, and watched it shut down as the armor opened.
• Tony dragged the Mark 42 through the snow, connected to the Stark Network to prepare a message for Pepper, and decided to stay near Rose Mountain to find his enemy.
• Tony found an unoccupied storage building, brought in the damaged armor, and removed glass shards from his arm.
• A boy confronted Tony with a Potato Gun, recognized the Mark 42 as Iron Man, and showed Tony a newspaper reporting that he was dead.

Leo stopped Killian from attacking Pepper and Maya, then defeated and restrained him despite the regenerative power of the Extremis virus. Killian remained bound in the wall as Pepper and Maya watched Leo in shock.

• Leo warned Pepper, opened the door, and saw Killian kill a hotel attendant before attacking her.
• Leo kicked Killian through a wall, then used golden light to heal the attendant and move him out of danger.
• Killian recovered with the Extremis virus and attacked Leo with superheated blows, but Leo broke his arms and sent him crashing into a wall.
• Leo used steel rebar to bind Killian while his wounds healed, leaving Pepper and Maya astonished by Leo's power.

Leo returned from Xandar and reunited with Tony at a restaurant, where they caught up and planned to take action against AIM. The chapter left Tony paying Leo’s enormous food bill as Leo invited Yu Lei to visit him in New York.

• Tony’s car drove itself to the restaurant, where Leo revealed his return by forming a message from floating metal.
• Leo told Maya that someone else would pay their bill, and Tony arrived and embraced him in relief.
• Leo told Tony that Pepper was safe but that Killian had attacked her and escaped, prompting Tony to vow not to let Killian go.
• Leo explained that he had returned from Xandar and said they could deal with AIM after eating.
• Tony paid Leo’s restaurant bill, and Leo gave Maya’s remaining money to Yu Lei as a tip and invited him to visit New York.