Chapter Summaries

Coulson's team traced a suspicious emergency call to Caesars Palace Hotel and rushed there, where Lorelei had gathered nearly all the wealthy guests. She enchanted every man in the ballroom with her voice, leaving the women watching in alarm.

• Coulson's team struggled to locate Ward while Skye searched for clues and May warned that Lorelei and Ward could attack at any time.
• Skye found a report from a woman at Caesars Palace Hotel that its men had gone crazy, and she traced the call to the hotel.
• Coulson ordered the team and a support squad to head to Caesars Palace Hotel, while Sif prepared to confront Lorelei.
• Lorelei gathered the hotel's wealthy guests for a free banquet and stationed its security personnel outside the ballroom.
• Lorelei appeared onstage and sang, enchanting the men in the ballroom while their female companions noticed their dazed stares.

After Chen Haoran revealed that the voice crushing his consciousness had repeated “Xinibasi,” an invisible force began scorching him, and Leo used Golden Light to heal and shield him. Chen Haoran then saw something beautiful in the empty space and began to describe it to Leo.

• Leo asked Chen Haoran what the enormous consciousness had said, and Chen Haoran recalled the word “Xinibasi.”
• The word triggered a strange energy surge that burned Chen Haoran with invisible wounds and left him writhing in agony.
• Maya and Stacey arrived, and Leo recognized that an important figure had taken an interest in Chen Haoran.
• Leo healed Chen Haoran with Golden Light and enclosed him in a Golden Shield to block the invisible energy.
• Chen Haoran opened his eyes, stared into the empty space around him, and began telling Leo what he saw.

Leo learned that Red Whale could consume the moon’s metal and had been storing metal for its eventual evolution into Complete Form. After waking, Leo found Red Whale excavating and eating a lunar meteorite, then watched it grow to a thousand meters before shrinking back down.

• Red Whale told Leo it had once eaten the metal from a satellite the size of the moon and explained that consuming metal would prepare it for its final breakthrough.
• Red Whale expressed wholehearted devotion to Leo, who woke and teleported to the moon to find it.
• Leo found Red Whale lifting a buried metal meteorite from a lunar crater and watched it tunnel into the metal.
• Leo told Red Whale to eat the meteorite, and Red Whale grew to a thousand meters, swallowed it, and shrank back to its small form.

Leo helped Thor confront his failures and learn that Odin was alive, while Loki seized power in Asgard and froze Heimdall after he helped Sif and the Warriors Three reach Thor. The chapter ended with Heimdall trapped in ice and Loki preparing to keep Thor from returning.

• Erik told Thor to leave town, but Leo stayed behind drinking with him and revealed that Odin was alive and Loki had taken the throne.
• Leo urged Thor to earn Mjolnir’s recognition again, and Thor spent the night talking with Jane and explaining the Nine Realms to her.
• Loki returned from Jotunheim and ordered Heimdall to obey him while he prepared to assassinate the sleeping Odin.
• Sif and the Warriors Three defied Loki and sought Heimdall’s help reaching Thor, and Heimdall secretly let them use the Bifrost.
• Loki summoned the Destroyer and confronted Heimdall, then froze him with the Casket of Ancient Winters.

Thor stopped the Bifrost from destroying Jotunheim by smashing its energy bridge, then tried to save Loki when Odin rescued them. Loki let go and fell into the void, while Leo left for Wakanda and Jane decided to investigate the energy fluctuations in hopes of finding Thor.

• Thor and Loki fought on the Bifrost bridge, and Thor pinned Loki beneath Mjolnir after dispelling his illusions.
• Thor smashed the Bifrost's energy-transmission belt, stopping its buildup and sending the damaged device crashing into the void.
• Odin caught Thor and Loki as they fell, but Loki released his grip after Odin denied his claim that he had acted for their family.
• Jane chose to record the energy-frequency fluctuations and search for Thor, while Darcy and Dr. Erik left the wasteland.
• Leo erased the teleportation pattern, told Coulson Thor would not return soon, and flew toward Wakanda as Coulson headed to Antarctica.

Leo secretly trained inside a cave in Wakanda by absorbing energy from Vibranium Ore while T'Chaka's search for him found nothing. As Wakanda ended its alert, Tony worried about Leo's silence and Fury headed to Washington to revive Steve Rogers.

• Leo left Shuri and T'Challa, entered the mining wall, and began absorbing energy from compressed Vibranium Ore in a hidden cave.
• T'Chaka ordered a search of the mine, while Shuri secretly sent a scanning aircraft to look for Leo.
• After three days without finding Leo, T'Chaka canceled Wakanda's alert and suspended the Assassination Plan.
• Tony learned Leo's last phone signal came from a forest in central Africa and began a new document called Maker 7.
• Fury received Coulson's report that Steve Rogers was alive, recalled Leo's prediction, and went to Washington to thaw Rogers.

Leo survived Wakanda’s attack, crushed and reshaped its fighter jets, and left after King T’Chaka offered an apology and an alliance. T’Chaka explained that befriending Leo was Wakanda’s only prudent choice, while T’Challa called for stronger equipment.

• Leo detected Wakanda’s stealth fighter jets and revealed them by stripping away their optical camouflage.
• T’Chaka ordered the aircraft to attack, but Leo’s shield and golden wings withstood the sonic cannons and Vibranium missiles, whose energy he absorbed.
• Leo crushed two Talon Fighter Jets into Moon-Slaying Blades, destroyed them against Wakanda’s protective shield, and rescued their pilots.
• T’Chaka apologized to Leo and offered Wakanda’s assistance and friendship, and Leo accepted the apology before flying toward Malibu.
• T’Chaka told T’Challa that Wakanda could not resist Leo and had to befriend him, while T’Challa urged Shuri to develop stronger equipment.

Leo restored Sif's damaged Metal Neck Ring while S.H.I.E.L.D. searched for Ward and Lorelei. Ward and Lorelei fled to a secluded mansion, where Ward killed two bewitched billionaires and promised to make Lorelei a true queen.

• Leo asked Sif whether she had a way to restrain Lorelei, and Sif remembered the damaged Metal Neck Ring.
• Leo repaired the Metal Neck Ring and returned it to Sif, who planned to test it on Lorelei.
• Leo asked Skye for clues about Ward, but she had not found any.
• Coulson told Leo that Ward and Lorelei had fled more than six hundred kilometers to a secluded mansion.
• Ward took cash and diamonds from two bewitched billionaires, then shot them to prevent them from exposing his plans.
• Lorelei asked Ward what they would do next, and he promised to make her a true queen.

During a snowy New Year’s gathering, Leo comforted Peter as he grieved his parents and gave him a metal model of them. Elsewhere, Emil freed the needle delivering suppressive drugs, and the bone spurs along his spine began to move.

• Leo met Peter and May in the snow and repaired Peter’s broken robot, but noticed Peter was unusually sad.
• At dinner, Leo asked Peter what was wrong, and Peter asked to go outside and watch the snow.
• Peter told Leo that May said his parents became snowflakes whenever it snowed, and Leo shared how Jenny and George had adopted him.
• Leo shaped metal into figures of Peter’s parents, and Peter cried while hugging the model before falling asleep at Leo’s home.
• Leo returned to the balcony and prepared to send New Year’s greetings to his contacts.
• At a military base, Emil spat a tooth at his drug tube, knocked the needle loose, and began moving the bone spurs along his spine.

Leo watched Abomination escape from beneath the collapsed building, then restrained him with metal and struck him with a metal dart. Abomination survived, broke free of the restraints, and began transforming again.

• Nick Fury ordered satellite surveillance after the base’s monitoring feeds went dark, while he hoped Leo would keep his identity hidden.
• Abomination recovered from the building’s collapse, broke through the rubble, and emerged more powerful and convinced he could defeat Hulk.
• Leo used metal plates to suspend Abomination in midair and hold his limbs apart.
• Leo turned rebar into a metal dart and drove it into Abomination’s head, but the wound did not stop him.
• Abomination’s body swelled, shattered the metal restraints, and began changing from earthy yellow to red.

Leo learned that Abomination had attacked a secret military base in the Xavier Desert and went to investigate, while Abomination demanded a new enhancement procedure from the surviving researchers. The chapter left Abomination threatening them as Leo set out to confront him.

• Tony showed Leo footage of Abomination and a bone-spined man destroying helicopters at the Xavier Desert base.
• Leo told Tony he had fought Abomination before, then asked Tony to send him the location and said he would handle the threat.
• Abomination killed the soldiers at the base but left two researchers alive and demanded that they enhance him again.
• Abomination had freed three criminals from their cells, but two died, leaving the bone-spined man as his sole surviving follower.
• The researchers explained that their experiments based on Abomination’s blood still needed verification, but Abomination threatened to kill them unless they injected him.

Leo started his first day at City Center School, where he rescued Karin from a runaway bicycle and met his new classmates. He learned Karin was the daughter of the developer of Phifer Villa District, while she remained unaware of the school’s unwritten uniform rule.

• Leo caught Karin as she sped past on a bicycle with failed brakes, stopped the bike, and returned it to her.
• Leo and Karin arrived late to class, where teacher Heck introduced himself and announced that the students would elect an acting class monitor.
• Mike O'Liger introduced himself and promoted his qualifications and family business as he campaigned for class monitor.
• Karin thanked Leo and told him her father had built Phifer Villa District, asking him to keep it secret.
• Karin asked Leo why the other students were not wearing uniforms, and Leo explained that students generally did not wear them outside school celebrations.

Leo and Karin introduced themselves to their classmates, and Heck privately asked Leo to become acting class monitor. Leo refused, and Mike and Walker confronted him after he returned to the classroom.

• Karin told Leo that she had been taught at home and had come to school on her own, and Leo noticed that her severe anemia was affecting her body.
• Leo and Karin introduced themselves to the class, while Heck praised Leo for earning the highest entrance-exam score.
• Heck asked Leo to speak outside and suggested he become acting class monitor, but Leo refused.
• Mike and Walker blocked Leo as he returned and demanded to know what Heck had told him.

Leo returned home after the Tesseract incident and tried to settle into ordinary life with Aunt May and Peter. As the new school year began, he asked Tony Stark to help him leave school, but Tony told him to attend for another week before deciding.

• Nick Fury and Dr. Erik examined the Tesseract, while Loki appeared as an invisible illusionary clone and said it was worth investigating.
• Leo came home for breakfast, apologized to Aunt May for staying out, and promised Peter they would build a bigger snowman with Ned.
• As the snow melted and the new school year approached, Leo reluctantly prepared to start high school because he did not want to disappoint Aunt May and Uncle George.
• Leo asked Tony Stark to help him avoid school, explaining that he had already taught himself the high school curriculum and did not want Aunt May to worry.
• Tony agreed to help if Leo still felt the same way in a week, then left as the school bell rang; Leo headed to class.

Leo trained Chen Haoran to fly, then set rules for his first outing from Black Prison. Chen Haoran prepared to leave the next day, promising to obey Leo’s instructions.

• Leo took Chen Haoran into the sky and repeatedly released him so he could learn to control his flight.
• Chen Haoran gradually mastered flying and, after two hours of practice, landed smoothly in front of Leo.
• Leo asked how long Chen Haoran could fly at full speed, then took him back to the base through a spatial rift.
• Leo told Chen Haoran he could go out the next day and warned him to conceal his identity, avoid harming ordinary people, and retreat from S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Leo allowed Chen Haoran to exchange blows with Captain America and explained that he would open a spatial rift to bring him back to Black Prison.

Zhang Huan and Li Haiyang discussed Leo’s abilities and possible warnings about an extraterrestrial threat, then agreed to pursue contact without sending agents to probe him. Their conversation was interrupted by news of a flaming humanoid attacking a man in New York, prompting Zhang Huan to send Li Haiyang to investigate.

• Li Haiyang told Zhang Huan that Leo was exceptionally powerful, had no strong connection to China, and should not be treated like a child.
• Li Haiyang relayed Leo’s warning that Earth might face an invasion from the universe, while Zhang Huan said nations would not unite until the threat became undeniable.
• Zhang Huan asked Li Haiyang to contact Leo and invite him to speak, and Li Haiyang warned him not to send agents to investigate Leo or risk his family’s safety.
• Zhang Huan agreed not to probe Leo and expressed interest in meeting him, especially if Leo could offer technical assistance.
• Zhang Huan received a report that a flaming humanoid had appeared over New York and attacked a fleeing Black man.
• Li Haiyang recognized the Flame Man as resembling someone he had recently seen in the Black Prison, and Zhang Huan ordered him to investigate carefully and watch out for S.H.I.E.L.D.

Leo discovered that Zost was an armed assassin following him and tracked him to Mike's Fast Food, where he learned Zost planned to target Leo and his family. After walking Peter and Ned home, Leo headed to the restaurant that night to confront the danger.

• Leo noticed Zost following him, identified the weapons in Zost's case, and confronted him after silently jumping from a rooftop.
• Leo secretly placed a tracker on Zost's hat and learned that Zost went to Mike's Fast Food in central Queens.
• Leo used J.A.R.V.I.S. to listen as Zost warned Ian that Leo was dangerous and said he would deal with Leo himself, threatening to blow up his family.
• Leo watched a movie with Peter and Ned, then walked them home after dinner.
• Leo headed toward Mike's Fast Food that night.

Leo used his Golden Light to restore Karin’s failing bone marrow and test its healing effects before leaving her room unnoticed. Meanwhile, Mike Ian arranged to have Leo killed, and a mysterious man began investigating Leo near the school.

• Leo used the Golden Light to replenish Karin’s bone marrow, and she woke feeling healthier after he had left.
• Aunt Ada checked on Karin and told her to rest and get examined the next day; Karin wondered whether she had seen a figure escape through the window.
• Mike Ian agreed to send someone after Leo, while Mike O'Liger armed himself and practiced attacking a dummy.
• On the third day of school, Walker asked Leo about Mike’s absence and the deaths of twelve people in an alley.
• A thin man in a coffee shop studied Leo’s sparse records and called him an interesting target.

Leo killed Mike Ian and the people involved in a plot against his family, then asked Zost to consolidate the underground forces in Queens. At school, Karin returned after her illness vanished and told Leo she remembered seeing someone in a white hoodie like his.

• Mike Ian ordered his people to shoot Leo, but Leo stopped the bullets and sent them back, killing the attackers.
• Leo killed the remaining people at Mike's Fast Food, destroyed the evidence of the massacre, and spared Zost because he had abandoned the mission.
• Leo gave Zost three days to take over Mike's Fast Food and stabilize Queens, promising to negotiate with rival bosses and provide resources.
• On the fourth day of school, Karin returned after a checkup showed that her illness was gone.
• Karin hugged Leo and told him she remembered seeing a person in a white hoodie with red lines matching his.

After spending four months in Wakanda’s mine, Leo emerged, contacted Aunt May, and met with Shuri and King T'Chaka before leaving for New York. Wakanda offered to help him train, but Leo preferred to keep using the mine and planned to return in a few days.

• Leo broke through Wakanda’s energy protection cover, triggering alarms as Shuri and the council discovered he had left the mine after four months.
• Tony Stark contacted Leo, told him Aunt May had been worried, and urged him to call her.
• Leo called Aunt May and promised to return home the next day, then went back through Wakanda’s defense shield.
• Shuri questioned Leo about how he had survived in the mine and offered to examine him, but he declined and said he would return in a few days.
• King T'Chaka offered Leo a dedicated training space and vibranium deliveries, but Leo refused and left for New York.