Chapter Summaries

Leo discovered his Nirvana Golden Wings and reached the scene of the fight between Tony and Obadiah. After Obadiah overwhelmed Tony and endangered civilians, Leo blasted the Iron Monger away.

• Leo checked his updated panel, found that his attributes had risen to twenty, and discovered the Nirvana Golden Wings skill.
• Leo spread his golden wings and flew away at tremendous speed.
• Obadiah chased Pepper in the Iron Monger and threatened her, but Tony arrived and attacked him.
• Obadiah used a car full of children as a hostage, then battered Tony and pinned him beneath the Iron Monger.
• The Iron Monger fired a missile at the wreckage, but Leo appeared and blasted Obadiah more than a thousand meters away.
• Leo asked Tony if he was all right.

After Tony Stark revealed himself as Iron Man, Nick Fury approached him about forming the Avengers, but Tony refused. Leo prepared to return home with an Arc Reactor and metal from Tony, then discovered a familiar passenger on his flight.

• Tony publicly declared that he was Iron Man, while Ivan watched the broadcast and mourned his dying father, who blamed the Starks for the life Ivan could have had.
• Nick Fury visited Tony at the seaside villa and asked him to join the Avengers, but Tony declined.
• Leo told Tony he planned to return home, and Tony agreed to give him an Arc Reactor and several tons of metal.
• Happy took Leo to the airport the next day, while Tony prepared to head to a war zone in his armor.
• On the plane, Leo commented on a newspaper headline about Tony Stark, and the passenger beside him revealed a familiar face.

Leo rescued a girl with a broken leg, sank the yacht carrying the attackers’ corpses, and found Klaue’s cargo ship full of Vibranium. He disabled the warehouse cameras and opened the box of Vibranium as Klaue rushed toward the warehouse.

• Leo used his control over calcium to repair the unconscious girl’s fractured leg and bound it with splints.
• After the women left the yacht in Yemen, Leo crushed the vessel into an iron ball and sank it with the attackers’ corpses inside.
• Leo spotted cargo ships on the dry seabed and found Klaue celebrating the sale of Vibranium stolen by N'Jobu and N'Jadaka.
• Leo broke through the ship’s hull and walls, then disabled the warehouse cameras by twisting their metal components.
• Klaue noticed the surveillance screens had gone dark and hurried toward the warehouse with armed soldiers.
• Leo opened the box and revealed twenty glass tubes containing Vibranium.

Tony Stark opened the Stark Expo with a triumphant performance and presented his father Howard’s recorded message, while privately discovering that his blood toxin level had risen to 19%. The next day, Tony rejected the Senate’s demand to surrender Iron Man, insisting that he and his armor were one.

• Tony watched Howard Stark’s 1974 recording, decided to include a similar segment at the Expo, and tested his blood at 14% toxins.
• At the Stark Expo opening, Tony arrived in the Mark IV, addressed the cheering crowd, and welcomed Howard’s recording to introduce the Expo’s map module.
• While the recording played, Tony tested his blood again and saw that his toxin level had risen to 19%.
• The next day, Tony attended a Senate Military Committee hearing, where a senator questioned him about Iron Man as a weapon.
• Tony called the armor a high-tech prosthetic limb and refused to hand it over, declaring that he and Iron Man were one.

Tony struggled with the guilt and fear caused by his palladium poisoning while the Monaco incident intensified public and government pressure on him. Ivan escaped prison with Justin Hammer’s help, and the chapter ended with Leo urging Tony to consider discovering a new element.

• Tony tried to persuade Pepper to take a trip with him, but she refused because of her work and reminded him that she did not need batteries to stay alive.
• Ivan received a bomb and a prisoner with the same identifying number, then escaped through a case of mistaken identity and was taken to Justin Hammer’s factory in Queens.
• Pepper and Natasha handled the fallout from Monaco as Rhodey went to confront Tony about the government’s plans to seize his armor.
• Tony replaced the burned palladium in his Arc Reactor and admitted to Rhodey and Leo that he had tested every element.
• In the workshop, Leo asked Tony whether he had considered discovering a new element.

Leo finished strengthening his body and used metal to create armor while Tony realized Howard’s plans revealed a New Element that could replace Palladium. Tony and Leo prepared Tony’s home workshop to synthesize it, leaving them ready to build a Vibranium carrier and a new suit.

• J.A.R.V.I.S. called Leo to Tony, while Leo gathered the warehouse debris and formed a Mark II suit and golden chestplates.
• Tony rearranged the building projection into an atomic model and concluded that Howard had shown him how to discover a New Element.
• J.A.R.V.I.S. said the New Element could not be synthesized, so Tony planned an atomic collider using Vibranium as its carrier.
• Tony summoned Prism Accelerators and enlisted Leo to demolish and rebuild the workshop, with Leo’s metal control speeding the work.
• Leo cut Vibranium into fifty triangular blocks, but Tony said they needed only one for initial testing and a new suit.
• Leo realized his increased appetite meant his plan to go to Wakanda would need to happen sooner.

Leo advised Nick Fury to stop provoking Dr. Banner and consider recruiting the Hulk, while Rhodey arranged for Hammer to arm the Mark II. Tony examined Howard Stark's belongings and asked Leo about the New Element.

• Nick Fury left Tony under Coulson and Natasha's watch, while Tony began looking through Howard Stark's belongings.
• Leo asked Fury to lend him the Tesseract and urged him to protect Dr. Banner and consider the Hulk as an ally.
• Rhodey removed the Mark II's Arc Reactor before Hammer arrived, then agreed to take all of Hammer's proposed weapons.
• Tony found a blueprint of the Arc Reactor, notes, and two film reels in Howard's box, and asked Leo what the New Element was.

Leo spent New Year’s Day with Peter and met Peter’s new classmate, Ned Leeds, while Emil transformed into the Abomination and escaped the military base. The chapter ended with Tony asking Leo to visit him.

• Leo used his remaining materials to make an Arc Reactor model, then replied to New Year’s messages and wondered why Tony had not contacted him.
• Emil transformed into the Abomination, broke out of his cell, killed a guard, and charged toward the cafeteria while vowing to kill Ross and everyone else.
• Leo and Peter built a snowman and met Ned Leeds, who had just moved to Queens and transferred to Peter’s school.
• Tony messaged Leo and asked him to visit.

Leo spotted Dr. Bruce Banner hiding in an Indian town while flying from Africa toward Los Angeles, then introduced himself and explained that he had helped Hulk during the Manhattan battle. Banner remained suspicious, so Leo demonstrated his powers by turning a spoon into a lifelike metal model of him.

• Leo lost his bearings while flying from Wakanda, got a map in Africa, and continued toward Los Angeles.
• Leo recognized Dr. Bruce Banner buying food in an Indian town and descended to meet him.
• Leo stopped three men from cornering him by making nails pierce their feet, drawing Banner over from a nearby food stall.
• Banner took Leo to his home and questioned how he had found him and who had sent him.
• Leo told Banner that he had helped Hulk during the Manhattan battle, and Banner recalled the fight and recognized Leo as the figure he had seen nearby.
• Leo transformed a spoon into a metal model of Banner, who inspected it with his glasses.

Steve Rogers woke after seventy years and fled S.H.I.E.L.D. before Nick Fury told him how long he had been asleep; overwhelmed by the modern world, he remembered his date with the woman he had loved. Elsewhere, Leo celebrated Peter’s game victory and was told to return to work after the New Year.

• Rogers recognized the baseball broadcast as a 1941 game, exposed the nurse’s deception, and escaped the recovery room by throwing two soldiers through a wall.
• Rogers fled S.H.I.E.L.D. and ran into the streets of Washington, where Nick Fury caught up with him and revealed he had been asleep for about seventy years.
• Rogers recalled his promised date at the Stork Club and told Fury that he had a date.
• Peter beat Leo at a fighting game and asked him to take him to the toy store, which Leo agreed to do.
• Leo relaxed with Peter as the family prepared for the New Year, but someone told him his rest was over and he needed to prepare to work again.

Leo fought the rapidly mutating Abomination, using metal and stone to restrain him before pursuing him into the desert. The chapter ended with Leo spreading his golden wings and preparing to continue metalizing Abomination with his Piercing Golden Eyes.

• Abomination grew into a scarlet, six-meter-tall monster and attacked Leo with bone spikes, but Leo knocked him into the air with stone and Steel Tendons.
• Leo bound Abomination in a sphere of Steel Tendons and pierced it with Metal Darts, but Abomination grew larger and burst free.
• Abomination threw a huge stone at Leo, then fled into the desert when Leo assembled Metal Darts to attack him.
• J.A.R.V.I.S. warned Leo that a military satellite had changed its trajectory to monitor the area, and Leo pursued Abomination with the Metal Darts.
• Leo trapped Abomination and tried to attack through his nose and mouth and break his bones, but Abomination's muscles and rapid healing thwarted him.
• Leo used his Piercing Golden Eyes to turn Abomination's hands and flesh to metal, then closed his eyes and spread his illusory golden wings.

Abomination’s hunger drove him to eat the people in the laboratory as his body continued to grow, while Leo arrived at the ruined base and confronted Bone Spur Man. Leo then brought down the base, leaving Abomination beneath the collapsed structure.

• Abomination ate a soldier and a genetic engineer, then fed on the bodies scattered around the laboratory as his hunger overwhelmed his reason.
• Bone Spur Man saw Abomination feeding and passed out, while military officials watched the footage from secret locations.
• Leo scanned the base and learned from J.A.R.V.I.S. that Abomination had gathered and torn apart the corpses.
• Bone Spur Man attacked Leo with a bone spur, but Leo caught it, restrained him with Steel Tendons, and launched him into the sky.
• Leo pulled the Steel Tendons from the base’s supports, causing the military base to collapse into the desert.

Leo subdued Mike after he harassed him, then helped Karin when her condition made it difficult for her to breathe. Karin’s bodyguards took her home, while Leo secretly attached a tracking device to her schoolbag so he could find her again.

• Leo gripped Mike’s wrist until Mike apologized, then let him go, and Mike fled the classroom with his lackeys.
• Walker introduced himself to Leo and offered to fund a kung fu club, but Leo declined and went to check on Karin.
• Leo helped Karin use her emergency blood-injection device, and her breathing steadied.
• Isis alerted Teacher Heck about the fight and Karin’s injection, while Karin explained that her watch had sent a distress signal.
• Three of Karin’s bodyguards arrived and took her away; Leo attached a tiny tracker to her schoolbag before saying goodbye.
• Walker teased Leo about Karin as she left, but Leo told him they had only just met.

Leo left Li Qian and Li Haiyang’s restaurant after anonymously reporting Mike’s Fast Food for tax evasion, then slipped past Mike’s men at school with Li Qian. Mike Ian received a police call about the report and suspected someone had learned about an important shipment.

• Li Haiyang told Leo that Mike’s men had left the area and urged him to apologize to Mike O’Liger, but Leo thanked the family and left with Li Qian’s help.
• Leo used J.A.R.V.I.S. to investigate Mike’s Fast Food, found evidence of tax evasion, and sent it anonymously to the police.
• Li Qian helped Leo evade two thugs watching the school entrance, while Leo used metal spikes to injure them and entered school safely.
• Leo saw Mike in Classroom 103 and chose to give him another chance, while thinking about Karin’s blood and his Iron Bones’ 77% enhancement.
• Mike Ian learned that an anonymous report had drawn police attention and worried that someone had leaked news of his shipment.

Leo tried to avoid drawing attention at school, but he befriended Karin and told her what school was really like when Mike confronted him. Leo stopped Mike’s attack with ease, while Karin’s health began to worsen as she watched the fight.

• Leo pushed past Mike and Walker, then returned to his seat when Teacher Heck arrived.
• Karin told Leo that she had congenital severe anemia and had only recently been able to attend school after starting new medicine.
• Leo explained to Karin that bullying was part of the reality of school as Mike arrived with five lackeys.
• Mike mocked Leo and tried to shove and flip his desk, but he could not move it.
• Leo caught Mike’s fist and kicked him down, then held his wrist as Mike’s lackeys tried to intervene.
• Karin became frightened and began struggling to breathe as Leo tightened his grip on Mike’s hand.

Leo tracked down Zost and forced him to lead the way to Mike Ian’s drug deal at Mike’s Fast Food. As Mike exchanged drugs for money, Leo watched from above and prepared to intervene.

• Walker tried to track Leo through audio data but found that the signal and voice belonged to someone else.
• Leo walked through Queens, used unseen force to crash several motorcycles, and left the riders behind.
• Leo confronted Zost, dismantled his gun, learned that Mike Ian was at Mike’s Fast Food for a major deal, and forced Zost to guide him there.
• Leo immobilized Zost outside the restaurant and watched from above as Mike and another man began exchanging drugs and money.
• Leo judged that the amount of drugs involved warranted a death sentence.

Leo escaped a gang attack after disabling the thugs’ guns and causing deadly accidents, while the police classified the scene as an accident. Back in his room, he wondered how to use the Golden Light ability and checked Karin’s location, but his family called him to dinner.

• Leo beat the gangsters, sabotaged their pistols, and walked away as a falling air-conditioning unit and collapsing metal stairs killed most of them.
• A surviving thug escaped, and the police investigated the deaths, finding no evidence of outside interference and treating the scene as an accident.
• Leo returned to his room and reflected on his increased weight and the Golden Light ability he had not yet learned to use.
• Leo asked J.A.R.V.I.S. to display Karin’s location, then answered his family’s call to dinner.

Leo went to Tony’s workshop, where Tony made Pepper CEO of Stark Industries and Leo warned him about his worsening palladium poisoning. The next day, Leo met Natasha Rushman when she arrived as Tony’s prospective assistant, and stepped in to spar with her.

• Leo left a note for Aunt May and Uncle George before flying to Tony’s workshop.
• Tony named Pepper CEO of Stark Industries and told Leo not to tell her about his condition.
• Leo examined a charred palladium fuel plate and warned Tony that his reactor was damaging his health.
• Tony invited Leo to join him at a racing competition in Morocco, while Leo took a new Arc Reactor to his room and continued cultivating.
• Pepper brought Natasha Rushman to the gym, where Tony showed interest in hiring her as his assistant.
• Leo stopped Happy from training Natasha and offered to spar with her.

Leo escaped a gang of pursuers with help from Li Qian, who brought him to her family's restaurant. After learning that the gang worked for the powerful and violent Mike's Fast Food, Leo stayed in hiding while Li Qian exchanged phone numbers with him.

• Li Qian led Leo through back streets to evade the people chasing him, then brought him into her family's restaurant.
• Leo told Li Qian that Mike O'Liger had sent the thugs after him because Leo had taught Mike a lesson at school.
• Li Haiyang warned Leo and Li Qian that Mike's Fast Food had influence in Queens and was connected to drugs, violence, and several deaths.
• Li Qian reassured Leo that her father would keep them safe and urged him not to provoke Mike's people.
• Leo and Li Qian introduced themselves, discussed the gang's connections, and exchanged phone numbers using Leo's custom phone.

Karin told Leo her health was recovering and invited him to a family gathering. When Walker accompanied Leo to Mike's Fast Food to check on Mike, he discovered that Leo was treated as the boss and that Mike had been captured.

• Karin described her improving blood counts and said she had ridden her bicycle to school without getting tired.
• Karin invited Leo to her family's gathering, and Leo agreed to come if nothing unexpected happened.
• Walker urged Leo to be cautious around Mike's father, Ian, as they headed to Mike's Fast Food.
• Zost recognized Leo as the boss and brought him and Walker into the base, reporting that he had taken control of the local forces.
• Leo ordered Zost to bring in Mike O'Liger, and Rando kicked the bound and battered Mike into the room.