Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo defeated and captured Loki, but Thor suddenly attacked the Quinjet and took Loki away. Tony Stark was left behind as Chen Mo confirmed Thor was an Asgardian.

• Chen Mo overpowered Loki, disarmed him, and had him handcuffed and escorted onto the Quinjet.
• Loki planned to use the Mind Scepter and the coming chaos aboard the Sky Carrier to carry out his invasion.
• A strange lightning storm appeared around the Quinjet, and Loki recognized that Thor had arrived.
• Tony Stark put on the Mark IV and opened the hatch, but Thor struck him down with his hammer.
• Thor grabbed Loki and flew away, while Chen Mo watched without intervening.
• Tony Stark called Thor one of them, and Chen Mo corrected him that Loki had been his prisoner.

Tony Stark chased Thor and Loki to capture Thor, while Chen Mo let him go and flew after them. On a rocky peak, Thor confronted Loki about the Cosmic Cube, but their argument turned to Loki’s origins and their complicated brotherly bond.

• Tony Stark decided to pursue Thor and capture him, and Chen Mo allowed him to go despite seeing through his plan.
• Natasha Romanoff recognized Chen Mo as a god and became even more devoted to him after he flew into the storm.
• Thor landed on a rocky peak with Loki, demanded to know where the Cosmic Cube was, and asked whether Loki had died.
• Loki told Thor that Odin had spent dark energy sending him to Earth after the Bifrost was destroyed.
• Thor told Loki that he had mourned him, but Loki coldly reminded him that Odin was not his father and asked whether Thor knew his origins.
• Thor followed Loki and insisted that Odin had raised them both and that they had shared a childhood together.

Thor confronted Loki over the Cosmic Cube and urged him to return to Asgard, but Loki said the Cube was missing. Tony Stark interrupted them and fought Thor in the forest while Loki watched from the mountaintop, hoping the battle would worsen.

• Thor confronted Loki about the Cosmic Cube and tried to persuade him to come home, but Loki said the Cube was gone and he did not know where it was.
• Tony Stark struck Thor from the sky, knocking him off the mountaintop and into the forest.
• Tony Stark and Thor argued over who would deal with Loki, then Thor attacked Tony Stark with Mjolnir.
• Tony Stark blasted Thor with his Arc Pulse Cannon and drove him through a tree with a powered charge.
• Thor summoned lightning as Loki watched from the mountaintop, pleased that the two were fighting but disappointed that Thor was holding back.

Chen Mo kicked Loki off a cliff, then stopped Thor and Tony Stark’s fight and demanded that Thor put down Mjolnir. Thor, enraged by the demand, attacked Chen Mo.

• Chen Mo secretly appeared behind Loki and kicked him off the mountaintop, leaving him badly hurt and unable to move.
• Chen Mo turned from Loki to watch Thor and Tony Stark fight through the forest, where their attacks grew increasingly fierce.
• Chen Mo ordered Thor and Tony Stark to stop, then asked Thor why he had come to Earth.
• Thor said he had come to stop Loki’s conspiracy, but Chen Mo demanded that he prove it by putting down Mjolnir.
• Thor struck Tony Stark aside and leaped at Chen Mo, swinging Mjolnir down at him.

Chen Mo stopped Thor and Tony Stark’s fight by blocking Thor’s Mjolnir strike with his Primary Adamantium Shield, then turned his attention to Loki as Loki tried to escape. Loki had obtained the iridium and the wormhole device was ready, but Chen Mo caught him sneaking away.

• Chen Mo blocked Thor’s Mjolnir strike with his Primary Adamantium Shield, and the resulting shockwave cleared the surrounding trees and knocked Tony Stark down.
• Thor realized Chen Mo had withstood his attack and fell silent when Chen Mo asked whether the fight was over.
• Chen Mo considered the risks of fighting Thor and decided to save a real battle for after they dealt with Loki and the Chitauri invasion.
• Loki recovered from his fall, decided to abandon his plan to infiltrate the enemy, and prepared to open the wormhole with the iridium and Dr. Erik Selvig’s device.
• Chen Mo confronted Loki as he limped away, asking where he thought he was going.

Chen Mo brought Loki aboard the Sky Carrier and explained that Loki had deliberately allowed himself to be found and captured. The chapter ended with Thor revealing that Loki planned to invade Earth with the Chitauri army.

• Chen Mo, Thor, and Tony Stark emerged from the forest and captured Loki as he tried to leave.
• Chen Mo’s group landed on the Sky Carrier, where soldiers escorted Loki to its detention cell.
• Chen Mo ordered Hill to turn off the detention cell surveillance before Loki could use it to manipulate the others.
• Chen Mo explained that Loki had concealed his strength and likely let himself be captured for another objective.
• Thor told Chen Mo and the others that Loki intended to invade Earth with the Chitauri.

Chen Mo explained Loki’s plan to use the Cosmic Cube to open a stable portal for an alien army, then ordered the Sky Carrier to prepare for a possible attack. He left the command center to examine Loki’s sealed Mind Scepter, which he believed contained the Mind Stone.

• Thor told the team that Loki had taken Dr. Erik Selvig, his friend, and planned to summon an army from outer space in exchange for the Cosmic Cube.
• Bruce Banner questioned why Loki had allowed himself to be captured, and Thor defended Loki as his brother until Chen Mo pointed out that Loki had killed eighty people; Thor replied that Loki had been adopted.
• Bruce Banner suggested that Loki needed iridium to stabilize a portal, and Chen Mo explained that Loki also needed a high-density energy source to activate the Cosmic Cube.
• Chen Mo ordered Hill to inspect approaching aircraft carefully and directed Tony Stark and Bruce Banner to find the Cosmic Cube.
• Chen Mo sealed the command center staff on standby, then opened the case containing Loki’s Mind Scepter and considered the power of its embedded Mind Stone.

Chen Mo examined the Mind Scepter and concluded he could neither store nor remove the Infinity Stones, then took command when a suspicious Quinjet approached the Sky Carrier. Tony Stark intercepted the craft and stopped Hawkeye Clint Barton and his soldiers from attacking the carrier.

• Chen Mo found that the Mind Scepter could not be stored in his space and resolved to focus on Loki and the Chitauri rather than trying to take the Infinity Stones.
• A crew member reported an unregistered Quinjet approaching the Sky Carrier, and Nick Fury handed command to Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo ordered the crew to let the Quinjet approach without alerting it and called Tony Stark to the command center.
• The Quinjet received clearance to land, while Clint Barton prepared to destroy one of the Sky Carrier's engines with an explosive arrow.
• Tony Stark flew into the Quinjet, knocked Clint unconscious, and killed the elite soldiers with his Arc Pulse Cannons.

Tony Stark confirmed that Clint Barton had betrayed the Strategic Homeland Defense, Attack, and Logistics Bureau, while Bruce Banner revealed that the Cosmic Cube was at Stark Tower. Chen Mo ordered an evacuation and military preparations for the coming Chitauri invasion, then learned that the Bureau had four Sky Carriers.

• Tony Stark defeated the soldiers aboard the Quinjet, forced the surviving pilot to land, and returned to the command center with Clint Barton unconscious.
• Dr. Bruce Banner arrived and told Nick Fury and the others that the Cosmic Cube was at Stark Tower.
• Chen Mo decided to let the space-time wormhole open so they could destroy the Chitauri army, and ordered civilians evacuated from the area around Stark Tower.
• Chen Mo ordered the military to establish blockade positions and directed Hill to take the Sky Carrier to New York.
• Nick Fury told Chen Mo that the Strategic Homeland Defense, Attack, and Logistics Bureau had four Sky Carriers.

Chen Mo ordered the Sky Carriers and a team of heroes to New York as Loki’s plan to open a wormhole neared completion. He went to free Clint Barton from the Mind Stone’s control, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Chen Mo ordered the three Sky Carriers off the East Coast to deploy to New York and contain any battle around the wormhole.
• Tony Stark said he could not remotely shut down Stark Tower’s Arc Reactor and flew back to stop it himself.
• Chen Mo sent Steve, Carter, Natasha, and Thor ahead in a Quinjet to support Tony and hold back the aliens if the wormhole opened.
• Chen Mo found Clint Barton unconscious in an isolated cell and examined the unstable Mind Stone energy wrapped around Clint’s consciousness.
• Chen Mo used telekinesis to crush the Mind Stone’s influence over Clint Barton.

Chen Mo brought Bruce Banner away from the Sky Carrier and entered his mind to investigate the Hulk before the coming battle with the Chitauri. He discovered a small, childlike green consciousness filled with rage and managed to calm it somewhat, but not eliminate its anger.

• Chen Mo freed Hawkeye Clint Barton from Loki’s control and ordered him to prepare for the battle in New York.
• Chen Mo summoned Bruce Banner and asked him to let Chen Mo examine the power inside him.
• Chen Mo flew Bruce Banner away from the Sky Carrier so Banner could transform without endangering anyone aboard.
• Chen Mo entered Banner’s mind and found his ordinary consciousness connected to a smaller, rage-filled green consciousness.
• Chen Mo used mind control to soothe the green consciousness, easing but not removing its rage.

Chen Mo explained that Hulk was a rage-born secondary consciousness and advised Dr. Bruce Banner to accept it and transform voluntarily rather than suppressing it. Banner followed Chen Mo’s guidance and began slowly fusing their consciousnesses, leaving Hulk’s future control more promising.

• Chen Mo determined that Hulk’s consciousness was a young, rage-filled secondary consciousness that could overpower Banner when anger erupted.
• Chen Mo advised Dr. Bruce Banner to accept Hulk and transform voluntarily so he could retain some control of his body.
• Dr. Bruce Banner recognized that Chen Mo’s explanation matched his experiences and agreed to follow the advice.
• With Chen Mo’s guidance, Banner loosened his suppression of Hulk, and their consciousnesses began slowly fusing.

Dr. Bruce Banner accepted Hulk and thanked Chen Mo, who took him and Hawkeye toward New York as the invasion approached. With the Cosmic Cube’s activation unstoppable and the wormhole expected to open in ten minutes, Chen Mo directed the evacuation and ordered aircraft from three Sky Carriers to reach the battle zone early.

• Dr. Bruce Banner thanked Chen Mo for helping him accept Hulk, and Chen Mo said they would go to New York so Hulk could stretch his legs.
• Chen Mo flew Dr. Bruce Banner back to the Sky Carrier in his Iron Man suit, where Hawkeye arrived with a thousand arrows.
• Chen Mo boarded a Quinjet with Dr. Bruce Banner and Hawkeye and flew toward New York, while Nick Fury watched them leave.
• Tony Stark reported that the Cosmic Cube had activated and could not be stopped, with the wormhole expected to open in ten minutes.
• Chen Mo checked the evacuation and military deployments with Hill, then ordered three Sky Carriers to launch their fighters toward New York before the wormhole opened.

Chen Mo prepared Earth’s forces to contain the Chitauri invasion as the wormhole became unstoppable. Four Sky Carriers and their fighters assembled around the combat zone, and the Cosmic Cube opened the wormhole.

• Chen Mo arrived at Stark Tower, where Tony Stark reported that they could not stop the wormhole from opening.
• Chen Mo ordered Hill to seal the combat zone with four Sky Carriers and four hundred fighters, trapping the invading forces inside.
• Steve asked about three gaps in the northern blockade, and Chen Mo said he had already arranged for them to be covered.
• The Sky Carrier flagship and the other carriers arrived, and their fighters formed an aerial blockade over the combat zone.
• The Cosmic Cube completed its preparations and fired a brilliant blue beam upward.

The Chitauri army poured through the wormhole above Stark Tower, and Tony Stark failed to stop their overwhelming numbers. Chen Mo wiped out the aircraft attacking the tower with a handheld 20mm heavy gatling gun, but the wormhole remained open.

• A huge wormhole opened in the sky, and Chitauri soldiers began flying through toward the city.
• Tony Stark attacked the incoming aircraft with Arc Pulse Cannons and Micro Auto-tracking Missiles but could not hold back the growing army.
• Tony Stark fled to Stark Tower and warned Chen Mo that the Chitauri were too numerous and their weapons were powerful.
• Chen Mo opened fire with a 20mm heavy gatling gun, destroying the aircraft swarming above Stark Tower.
• Chen Mo eliminated hundreds of Chitauri aircraft in seconds, and the gun's barrels began smoking from the heat.

Chen Mo and Tony Stark watched a Leviathan emerge from the wormhole after Chen Mo wiped out the Chitauri aircraft with his Gatling gun. Unable to pierce the beast’s armor, Chen Mo urged Tony to fight it, and Tony flew toward it as it attacked the city.

• Chen Mo destroyed hundreds of Chitauri aircraft with his Gatling gun, and Tony Stark envied the weapon but admitted his poor aim made it impractical for him.
• A massive armored Leviathan emerged from the wormhole, and Chen Mo’s Gatling rounds could not penetrate its armor.
• The Leviathan flew toward the city, slicing through buildings with its wings as it released Chitauri soldiers onto rooftops and into nearby buildings.
• Chitauri soldiers advanced toward the outer perimeter and spotted Chen Mo’s group.
• Tony Stark activated his thrusters and charged toward the Leviathan.

As the Chitauri spread across the sky and attacked the city, Chen Mo redirected Steve and Carter to fight on the streets and sent Thor after the scattered aircraft. The battle continued as Thor destroyed enemy formations while Chen Mo defended Stark Tower.

• Tony Stark attacked the Leviathan with his Arc Pulse Cannon and armor-piercing rounds, but its armor barely suffered damage.
• Chen Mo fired his gatling gun at the dispersed Chitauri aircraft but could not stop them from entering the city.
• Chen Mo ordered Steve and Carter to jump from the rooftop and clear Chitauri soldiers from the streets.
• Chen Mo sent Thor to destroy aircraft before they reached the outer blockade and ordered Hawkeye Clint Barton, Black Widow Natasha Romanoff, and Dr. Bruce Banner to hold their positions.
• Thor smashed aircraft with Mjolnir and called down lightning to destroy larger formations.

Thor, the military, and the Quinjet formations destroyed the Chitauri aircraft inside the blockade, while Steve and Carter cut down Chitauri soldiers on the ground. Tony Stark killed a Leviathan from within with high-explosive bombs, but was then surrounded and pinned down by Chitauri soldiers until two figures rushed to his aid.

• Thor, the military, and the Quinjet formations wiped out the Chitauri aircraft before any could escape the blockade.
• Steve and Carter pursued a Leviathan and killed the Chitauri soldiers it deployed with their Adamantium weapons and armor.
• Tony Stark flew into the Leviathan’s mouth and detonated high-explosive bombs inside it, killing the beast.
• The blast hurled Tony Stark into the street, where a group of Chitauri soldiers surrounded him and suppressed him with energy fire.
• Two swift figures charged into the Chitauri soldiers from behind and attacked with silver swords.

Steve and Carter rescued Tony Stark from the Chitauri, but two more Leviathans emerged from the wormhole as countless others approached. Chen Mo assigned the heroes to stop the growing invasion, and Dr. Bruce Banner began transforming as he charged a Leviathan.

• Steve and Carter killed the Chitauri soldiers attacking Tony Stark and helped him recover.
• Two Leviathans emerged from the wormhole, while Chen Mo saw countless more approaching through it.
• Chen Mo ordered Tony Stark and Thor to attack the Chitauri aircraft, and sent Steve and Carter east to fight the deployed soldiers.
• Chen Mo sent Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton west, where they landed and began killing nearby Chitauri soldiers.
• Chen Mo told Dr. Bruce Banner it was his turn, and Banner ran toward the western Leviathan as his body began to change.

Bruce Banner transformed into the Hulk and attacked a Leviathan while Chen Mo prepared to confront another. The arrival of the other three Sky Carriers let Chen Mo order the fleet to reinforce the air blockade and launch sustained attacks on Chitauri aircraft.

• Bruce Banner transformed into the Hulk while retaining some control, then leaped onto a Leviathan and savagely attacked it.
• Chen Mo decided to take on another Leviathan and put on his Iron Man suit, but paused when he spotted a distant silhouette.
• Hill informed Chen Mo that the other three Sky Carriers had arrived.
• Chen Mo ordered all four Sky Carriers to surround the combat zone and coordinate their weapons and fighters against the Chitauri aircraft.
• With the carriers supplying ammunition, the Quinjets began striking the Chitauri aircraft while maintaining the outer blockade.