Chapter Summaries

Leo accompanied Thor and Jane after Odin confirmed that Asgard could not remove the Aether from Jane. Odin learned more about Leo from Sif, sensed the Tesseract’s power within him, and Leo met Frigga while exploring Asgard.

• Leo told Odin that the Aether could not be destroyed, and Odin recognized him as the person who had taken the Tesseract from Earth.
• Odin said the book offered no way to remove the Aether, then Thor took Jane to explore Asgard while Leo went out alone.
• Odin questioned Sif about Leo, and she described his speed and his apparent ability to restrain the Destroyer and wield her weapon.
• Odin sensed the Tesseract’s power within Leo and said he wanted the truth about it.
• Leo flew above Asgard, surveyed the realm, and met Frigga, who asked if he was Leo.

Leo and Heimdall detected a concealed Dark Elf invasion as Odin mobilized to contain the prison riot. After Heimdall destroyed a Vanguard ship, Malekith’s enormous warship appeared, and Leo stopped eight more ships before the main vessel charged an attack at him.

• Odin reassured Frigga that Leo was not responsible for the prison riot and led soldiers toward the dungeon as Frigga took Jane to the palace.
• Leo and Heimdall sensed a cloaked ship near the Bifrost and exposed it when Heimdall stabbed its hull with his swords.
• Heimdall destroyed the Vanguard ship, but a much larger Dark Elf warship appeared above Asgard.
• Malekith ordered his forces to find the woman carrying the Aether and launched eight ships toward the palace.
• Leo seized the eight ships with his power and crushed their hulls as Malekith’s warship fired an energy sphere at him.

Leo helped stabilize Frigga, attended the funeral for the Asgardian warriors killed in the invasion, and heard Jane describe Malekith’s plan to engulf the Nine Realms in darkness. Curious about the Aether, Leo went to the dungeon and greeted Loki, who was grieving over the deaths he had witnessed.

• Leo returned Frigga to Odin’s sleep barrier, where Odin’s anger rose as he learned her condition was stable but her recovery remained uncertain.
• Odin and the Asgardians held a farewell ceremony for the fallen warriors, and Odin later left to visit Frigga.
• Jane told Leo that Malekith intended to spread darkness across Earth, the other realms, and the universe, while Thor warned Leo against bringing Infinity Stones together.
• Leo learned that Odin had killed the escaped prisoners and went to the dungeon to see Loki.
• Leo found Loki reading in his cell, noticed his grief, and greeted him.

Leo restrained Malekith and fought the Cursed Warrior, discovering that the warrior could feel pain and be wounded despite his extraordinary strength and defenses. Frigga returned with Jane, who recognized Leo as the Golden Legend, while Thor and Odin were still on their way.

• Frigga revealed that Jane was hiding in another room and went to bring her back.
• Leo trapped the Cursed Warrior with metal, tested his defenses with darts, and learned that he could feel pain.
• Leo bound Malekith with a metal cord before Frigga returned with Jane.
• Jane recognized Leo as the Golden Legend who had saved New York.
• The Cursed Warrior broke through some of Leo's metal restraints and attacked, but Leo cut his arms with his wings.
• Leo asked Jane how she felt as she excitedly confirmed that he was the Golden Legend; Thor and Odin were still on their way.

Malekith escaped Asgard while Frigga lay gravely wounded, and Leo treated her with Golden Light. As Odin and Thor prepared to take her to recover, the Aether reformed unnoticed and waited for a new host.

• The Cursed Warrior escaped with Malekith in a hidden blade-shaped spaceship, while Leo pursued them and Thor found Frigga lying motionless.
• Odin discovered Frigga’s faint pulse and summoned healers, who warned that her injuries and loss of Life Force were life-threatening.
• Leo returned and used Golden Light to treat Frigga, telling Odin and Thor that she might remain asleep for a long time.
• Odin agreed to take Frigga to his place of slumber, and Leo cautioned that her recovery was uncertain.
• The shattered Aether gathered its fragments and reformed while Leo and the others prepared to leave.

Leo told Loki that Frigga had been gravely wounded by the Cursed Warrior, leaving her near death. Loki broke down in grief and guilt, then calmed enough to hear Leo offer to talk.

• Leo visited Loki in his Asgard prison cell and told him Frigga was hovering on the brink of death after being stabbed by the Cursed Warrior.
• Loki initially returned to his book, but then absorbed the news and vowed to kill the Dark Elves.
• Loki wept, blamed himself for letting the Cursed Warrior escape, and smashed the furnishings in his cell.
• After hours of grief and anger, Loki sat amid the wreckage, helpless to leave the prison or see Frigga.
• Leo approached Loki and asked if he wanted to talk.

Leo visited Loki in the dungeon and questioned him about Thanos, the Mind Stone, and Odin’s treasury. He offered Loki a chance at release in exchange for the story of his trip to Jotunheim, and Loki began recounting the events before Thor’s coronation.

• Loki asked Leo whether Frigga was well, and Leo offered to take him to see her if he answered some questions.
• Loki said a Chitauri leader had given him the Mind Scepter and sent him to retrieve the Tesseract, and that his memories might have been distorted by the Mind Stone.
• Loki described items in Odin’s treasury, including a golden gauntlet with six gems, the Casket of Ancient Winters, Mjolnir, and Destroyer armor.
• Loki expressed resentment that Odin had deceived him about his destiny and given Mjolnir to Thor.
• Leo asked Loki to describe his journey to Jotunheim as a condition for letting him out, and Loki began explaining what happened before Thor’s coronation.

Loki recounted Thor’s unauthorized attack on Jotunheim and how he discovered he was Laufey’s son, while Leo questioned him about Odin’s plans and Laufey’s behavior. Leo promised Loki a chance to see Frigga the next day, leaving Loki wondering what Leo intended.

• Loki described Thor’s decision to take Sif and the other warriors to Jotunheim against Odin’s orders.
• Loki recalled how the Asgardians fought the Frost Giants, and how he learned his true identity after touching the Ancient Sarcophagus.
• Loki explained that Odin had found him as an infant and claimed he had hoped to ally with Jotunheim and secure peace.
• Leo asked why Laufey trusted Loki enough to enter the trap, and Loki said he had promised to return the Ancient Sarcophagus personally.
• Leo observed that Laufey had devoted his life to his child, then promised Loki he could see Frigga the next day.
• After Leo disappeared in a flash of blue light, Loki wondered whether the Tesseract’s power was involved and what Leo was planning.

Leo questioned Frigga about Hela and Asgard’s past, prompting Frigga to reveal how Odin’s conquest of the Nine Realms ended with Hela’s power sealed and her exile. Frigga left the circumstances of Hela’s fate unexplained as Leo asked what had happened after her exile.

• Leo woke Frigga and asked about her recovery, then questioned Asgard’s reliance on close combat and its shortage of elite warriors.
• Leo told Frigga his Golden Eyes could see pasts and futures in which he did not exist, and asked her about Hela and the war with Jotunheim.
• Frigga revealed that Hela was her first child, a gifted warrior who fought beside Odin as he sought to conquer the Nine Realms.
• Frigga explained that Odin planned to ally with Laufey rather than risk a difficult war with Jotunheim, but Hela opposed the alliance and wanted to rule the realms and universe.
• Frigga said Odin sealed Hela’s power and exiled her after Thor was born, and Leo asked why Hela’s fate had turned out as it did.

Leo discovered that the Space Stone had granted him the Space Blade ability and tested its power on a sword, stone, and his own hand. He then applied Space Blade to his wings and began building up an outward release of spatial energy.

• Leo noticed his increased attributes and shorter skill cooldowns, along with his new Space Blade ability.
• Leo coated a blade in spatial energy and found it could cut stone cleanly without shattering it.
• Leo used the blade to cut his hand and saw it pierce his defenses before the wound healed almost immediately.
• Leo coated the edges of his wings with Space Blade and produced two short-lived crossing blade lights.
• Leo spread his wings and gathered pale-blue light along their edges.

Thor struggled against the Cursed Warrior, who overpowered him until Leo’s Space Blade pierced the warrior and Odin arrived to destroy him with a Golden Laser. Odin noticed the blood beneath Thor, while Loki slipped away unnoticed.

• Thor attacked the Cursed Warrior with lightning, but the warrior threw blades that wounded Thor and one that Leo caught.
• Thor exchanged blows with the Cursed Warrior, who struck Mjolnir aside and beat Thor down.
• Leo reshaped the captured blade into a Space Blade dart and pierced the Cursed Warrior’s chest, giving Thor time to recover.
• Loki sat up, spat blood, changed his appearance, and vanished into the crowd without Thor noticing.
• Odin struck the Cursed Warrior with a Golden Laser, causing him to explode into dust.
• Odin approached Thor and noticed fresh blood with faint blue traces beneath his feet.

Leo helped Asgard defeat the Dark Elves, and Odin captured Malekith while becoming wary of Leo’s mastery of the Tesseract. Odin recalled how Bor had ordered him to scatter the Infinity Stones, then reflected on how Asgard’s long isolation and complacency had left it vulnerable to attack.

• Leo threw the unconscious Malekith into the palace hall and told Odin that the other Dark Elves had died when their spaceship exploded.
• Thor tried to attack Malekith, but Odin ordered him to stand down; Leo offered to examine Thor’s injuries, and Thor refused.
• Odin ordered guards to take Malekith to the dungeon and recognized the energy within Leo as that of the Tesseract.
• Odin remembered Bor’s warning against keeping the Infinity Stones and how he had hidden or released them across the universe.
• Odin reflected that Asgard had withdrawn from wider contact after Hela’s incident and had made little progress for over a thousand years.

Leo learned that Red Whale had evolved, receiving knowledge about metals that strengthened his Metal Control and revealed the approaching Nine-Star Convergence. Loki captured the wounded Malekith and forced him toward Frigga as the Spatial Breach began to appear over Asgard.

• Red Whale's evolution sent Leo knowledge about metals and raised his Metal Control from 174 to 177, consuming nearly all the Vibranium in his Storage Space.
• Leo noticed the Nine-Star Convergence beginning and hurried to seek Odin and ask about the Infinity Stones.
• Loki, disguised as an ordinary Asgardian soldier, headed to see Frigga despite injuries from the Cursed Warrior.
• Malekith ambushed Loki and demanded the password to Odin's Vault, but Loki pretended to be frightened and offered to lead him to someone who knew it.
• Loki overpowered Malekith, stabbed him in the stomach, and drove him toward Frigga as the Spatial Breach became visible to the people of Asgard.

Malekith escaped into Jotunheim, where Frost Saber-toothed Tigers nearly killed him before he emerged back in Greenwich. As portals connected several worlds above the city, Nick Fury ordered a response and decided to accelerate his plans.

• Malekith entered Jotunheim, killed one Frost Saber-toothed Tiger with an explosive dagger, and fled from the others through a spatial fold.
• Loki led Thor to the fold, and Thor followed Malekith inside while Loki turned toward Frigga's resting place.
• Leo used the Space Stone's energy to stabilize and shrink the spatial fold above Greenwich.
• Thor and Malekith emerged separately in Greenwich, where Frost Saber-toothed Tigers and a Fire giant also appeared.
• Nick Fury ordered Coulson to handle the creatures and send them to headquarters, then decided to speed things up.

After Leo left, Coulson’s team returned to their mission while Ward questioned headquarters’ interest in Golden Legend. In space, Red Whale devoured a metal meteor and went to sleep as Ronan awakened aboard a warship and sent Kollat to retrieve the Orb of Power.

• Skye, Fitz, and Simmons pressed Coulson to tell them about the Avengers, but he told them to finish the mission first.
• Ward asked May why headquarters was investigating Golden Legend, and May said S.H.I.E.L.D. routinely gathered intelligence about the Avengers.
• Red Whale chased down a metal-rich meteor, smashed it apart, swallowed its fragments, and began shrinking as it fell asleep.
• Ronan awakened in a restricted chamber aboard a warship, was dressed and armored by attendants, and spoke with Nebula about the Orb of Power.
• Ronan ordered Kollat to take three squads and retrieve the Orb of Power.

Leo returned home after disappearing without warning and felt guilty for worrying George and Jenny, who welcomed him with affection. As he reflected on how unfamiliar his old room felt, he wondered whether he had changed.

• Leo apologized to George and Jenny for disappearing, but George hugged him and said the family would never blame him.
• George carried Peter to the dining table and reminded him to tell May before going out; Peter asked George not to blame Leo.
• Leo welcomed Ned and checked that Ned had told his parents where he was.
• Jenny and May discussed Leo’s disappearance while preparing dinner, unaware of how deeply George had feared for Leo’s safety.
• Leo looked around his room and recalled the memories attached to its belongings, then asked Peter whether he thought Leo had changed.

Leo treated Simmons after identifying an alien virus linked to Chitauri helmets, then gave Skye the same golden energy. He noticed something unusual about Skye’s body as he left, while the team wondered how much Golden Legend knew about them.

• Skye stopped Leo and asked him to examine Simmons, who had been exposed to an electromagnetic field while investigating firefighters’ deaths.
• Leo identified an alien virus in Simmons and used golden energy to repair the damage, noting that Simmons had already developed an antidote.
• Skye described how Simmons had jumped from the plane after thinking her antidote had failed, and how Ward had jumped after her and saved her.
• Skye asked Leo to infuse her with golden energy, and Leo did so before abruptly flying away.
• Ward insisted Skye get a checkup, while the team wondered how Golden Legend seemed to know them.
• Leo reflected that Skye’s body was unlike an ordinary person’s and that she appeared to have many secrets.

Leo’s forgotten memories triggered a nightmare-like episode in George’s workshop, and he accidentally wounded George with metal threads before healing him. After George reassured him, Leo remained unsettled about what was affecting him.

• Leo struggled to remember the dean, his friend, and Qingqing as the Metal Model twisted in his hand.
• George approached Leo, who reacted in fear and wrapped him in sharp metal threads, cutting him when they tightened.
• Leo woke from the nightmare, withdrew the threads, and flooded George with Golden Light until his wounds healed.
• Leo apologized and checked George for lasting marks, while George reassured him and asked what had happened.
• Leo told George that he had experienced a nightmare possibly connected to his memories, but he still did not know what was affecting him.

George and Jenny discussed Leo’s changed personality and growing burdens, while Leo prepared to travel to Asgard and Kamar-Taj to investigate his unease. After losing the Space Stone’s guidance, Leo arrived on Asgard’s Bifrost and realized how dangerous it was to navigate space without it.

• George told Jenny he would speak to Leo about how his time in the universe had changed him, and Jenny worried about the burdens Leo carried at only sixteen.
• Leo examined the Tesseract, then told Jenny he planned to visit Asgard and Kamar-Taj to find out why something felt missing from his heart.
• Leo teleported to the Bifrost in Asgard, though he could no longer sense coordinates deeper within the realm.
• Leo found that removing the Mu Jin had left his perception of spatial paths obscured, making it possible to lose his way in the branching dimensions.
• Leo reflected that the Infinity Mu Jins could destroy bodies unable to withstand their power, and that embedding one into his wings and merging them with his body was unprecedented.

Leo told George about the criminal who had tried to abduct him after commissioning a Gundam model, and how Leo had killed him by sealing him inside the metal. As Leo made another Gundam and recalled his childhood, he regretted destroying the models that had carried memories of his past life.

• Leo recalled the Manhattan Monster Incident and told George that an old customer had ordered a large Gundam model for fifty thousand dollars.
• Leo explained that the customer had lured him to a warehouse with armed accomplices and planned to take him to Africa to build models for them.
• Leo said he had killed the customer by sealing him inside the metal of the Gundam model, and George showed relief that Leo had survived.
• Leo finished shaping and decorating a large Gundam model, then joked that the customer still owed him twenty-five thousand dollars.
• Leo remembered making models throughout his childhood as his Metal Control improved and as he gradually accepted life in the Marvel World.
• Leo reflected that his memories had shaped him and regretted destroying the models that represented them.