Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo led Jane Foster's group to a factory where they discovered an area without gravity, confirming Dr. Selvig's theory about the Celestial Convergence. He then took them to investigate another anomalous area in a nearby building.

• Ian was stopped by security, but Chen Mo allowed him to join Daisy and the others.
• At Chen Mo's instruction, Ian lifted the front of a concrete mixer truck with ease, and the whole truck floated in midair.
• Jane, Daisy, and Dr. Selvig tested the truck and found that gravity had vanished in the area around it.
• Dr. Selvig measured the anomaly and recognized it as an early sign of the Celestial Convergence, though the group found no Spatial Channel there.
• Chen Mo led the group to a nearby building and stopped with them on the third floor.

Chen Mo and Jane Foster investigated anomalous wormholes in an abandoned construction site, where objects could vanish and reappear in another part of the building. A gravitational anomaly pulled them through a spatial channel and left them at the edge of a dark cliff, with Chen Mo catching Jane before she fell.

• Chen Mo demonstrated that a bottle thrown down the spiral staircase vanished on the second floor and sometimes reappeared on the fourth.
• Dr. Selvig concluded that the wormholes only partly overlapped and told Daisy and Ian to set up detectors.
• Jane Foster’s scanner detected stronger gravitational anomalies, so she headed upstairs with Chen Mo.
• A sudden gravitational pull dragged Jane and Chen down a corridor, and they passed through a spatial channel.
• Jane arrived at the edge of a cliff, where Chen caught her before she fell.

Jane Foster and Chen Mo entered a mysterious underground realm, where a living red liquid seeped into Jane and made her collapse. Back at the construction site, Dr. Selvig, Daisy, and Ian realized they had vanished and suspected they had entered a Spatial Channel.

• Chen Mo told Jane Foster that the underground realm might be Asgard because the Nine Realms connected during the Celestial Convergence.
• Jane Foster found a living crimson liquid supporting a massive boulder and watched it surge out and seep into her hand.
• The boulder crashed down as Jane Foster collapsed, and a tall figure caught her before she lost consciousness.
• At the construction site, Daisy and Ian realized Jane Foster and Chen Mo had not returned and searched the building without finding them.
• Dr. Selvig suspected they had entered a Spatial Channel and reassured Daisy that Chen Mo could protect Jane.
• Dr. Selvig told Daisy and Ian that Chen Mo had defeated Thor, leaving both of them stunned.

Dr. Selvig, Daisy, and Ian searched the construction site for the Spatial Channel that had taken Jane Foster and Chen Mo, while S.H.I.E.L.D. agents sent miniature aircraft through another channel. Underground, Chen Mo laid the unconscious Jane down and began searching the space around the Aether, intending to use the coming Dark Elf threat to reach Asgard and protect Frigga.

• Dr. Selvig told Daisy and Ian that Chen Mo had defeated Thor, then explained that the Spatial Channels were two-way and that they needed to find the one Jane Foster and Chen Mo had entered.
• Dr. Selvig, Daisy, and Ian searched the construction site for gravitational anomalies but found no new Spatial Channel.
• Two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents opened an alloy case beneath the stairwell, and hundreds of miniature aircraft flew through a Spatial Channel.
• Chen Mo caught the unconscious Jane Foster and laid her on the ground, while the Aether inside her showed no reaction.
• Chen Mo considered the threat posed by the Dark Elves and began using his telekinesis to search the underground space for a way out.

Chen Mo searched the underground passage and discovered that he had reached Asgard’s prison. After finding Loki among the prisoners, he withdrew his telekinetic scan and considered how to leave without alerting the guards.

• Chen Mo found a passage but discovered that a collapse had sealed it, so he used his storage space to clear more than a kilometer of rock.
• Chen Mo reached a heavy stone door and sensed two Asgardian guards and a corridor lined with energy-protected prison cells beyond it.
• Chen Mo scanned the cells and found over a hundred alien prisoners, including Loki, confirming that he was in Asgard’s dungeon.
• Loki sensed someone watching him and searched for the source, but Chen Mo had already withdrawn his telekinesis.
• Chen Mo avoided alerting Loki and weighed the danger of confronting a group of Asgardian soldiers.

Chen Mo entered Asgard to find Thor, brought the unconscious Jane Foster to a stable location, and used his upgraded suit and invisibility to infiltrate the Golden Palace. He made his way through the palace undetected and reached a window overlooking Asgard’s strange, beautiful sky.

• Chen Mo brought Jane Foster to a stable area near the stone door, then put on his upgraded Iron Man suit and activated its cloaking device.
• Chen Mo teleported into the dungeon corridor, where Loki sensed a faint, familiar energy fluctuation but saw no one.
• Chen Mo teleported out of the dungeon and discovered that it lay beneath the Golden Palace.
• Chen Mo silently floated through the palace, avoiding the guards as he searched for a way outside.
• Chen Mo reached a window and saw two enormous moons above Asgard’s clouds.

Chen Mo met Thor in Asgard after the Bifrost brought Thor home from quelling the Nine Realms' rebellion. Chen Mo told Thor that Jane Foster had become unconscious after an unknown substance entered her body, and they hurried to the dungeon to reach her.

• Chen Mo saw Thor return to Asgard through the Bifrost and flew out to meet him at the Golden Palace.
• Thor recognized Chen Mo, embraced him, and invited him to celebrate his victory over the Nine Realms' rebellion.
• Chen Mo told Thor that Jane Foster had come to Asgard with him and was in serious condition.
• Chen Mo explained how Jane had entered a Spatial Channel in London and absorbed a mysterious substance sealed beneath the dungeon.
• Thor urged Chen Mo to take him to Jane, and the two hurried through the palace to the dungeon.

Loki saw Chen Mo in the Asgard dungeon and was terrified by memories of their past encounters, while Thor reassured him and continued toward the dungeon’s far end. Loki began reflecting on Thor’s long-standing protection of him, and Thor ordered the guards to open the stone door where Jane Foster was being held, but they refused without Odin’s command.

• Loki recognized Chen Mo and recalled how Chen Mo had repeatedly defeated and injured him on Earth.
• Loki nervously sought Thor’s protection, and Thor told him Chen Mo had not come to deal with him.
• After Thor and Chen Mo left, Loki felt relieved and reflected on how Thor had protected and defended him since childhood.
• Thor and Chen Mo reached the guarded stone door, and Thor ordered the guards to open it.
• The guards refused, citing Odin’s order that no one could open the stone door without his command.

Thor rescued the unconscious Jane Foster from the dungeon and brought her to Sophia for examination. Sophia found dangerous energy inside Jane but no apparent damage, then woke her with a golden light.

• Thor stopped himself from smashing open the dungeon door after Chen Mo warned him that Jane Foster was behind it.
• Thor opened the door, found Jane unconscious, and carried her out while Chen Mo followed.
• Loki watched Thor leave with Jane and felt concern for her.
• Thor brought Jane to Sophia, who scanned her and detected turbulent energy that could be fatal but had not harmed her so far.
• Sophia used a golden light to wake Jane, whose eyelids began to open.

Thor reunited with Jane Foster and declared he would not give her up, despite Odin’s disapproval. Jane challenged Odin’s contempt for mortals by naming Chen Mo the protector of Earth.

• Jane Foster woke, slapped Thor twice, and demanded to know why he had left her waiting.
• Thor explained that the destroyed Bifrost and wars across the Nine Realms had kept him away, and Jane softened toward him.
• Odin entered the medical chamber and rebuked Thor for bringing Jane to Asgard.
• Thor told Odin that Jane was sick and that he would stay with her, while Odin dismissed her as a mortal who did not belong in Asgard.
• Jane confronted Odin, then pointed out that Chen Mo had protected Earth from the invasion led by Odin’s son Loki.

Odin ordered Jane Foster and Chen Mo sent back to Earth, but Jane’s mysterious substance blasted away the guards and drew his attention. When dungeon guards reported that Thor had opened the forbidden stone door, Chen Mo revealed that he and Jane had entered Asgard through the underground passage, leaving Odin demanding an explanation.

• Odin said Loki was adopted, then ordered guards to send Jane Foster and Chen Mo back to Earth.
• Chen Mo threw aside two guards who tried to seize him, and the substance in Jane blasted away the two reaching for her.
• Odin examined the crimson glow in Jane and realized the substance was protecting itself.
• Odin demanded to know how the substance had entered Jane, while Thor looked to Chen Mo for an explanation.
• Two dungeon guards reported that Thor had opened the forbidden stone door, and Chen Mo said he and Jane had come from the forbidden underground space.
• Thor explained that a Spatial Channel formed by the Celestial Convergence had brought them to Asgard, and Odin understood the situation.

Odin learned that Chen Mo had defeated Thor and reconsidered his view of Earth, then led Thor, Jane Foster, and Chen Mo to the Golden Palace archives to explain the substance inside Jane. He identified it as the Aether, a weapon created by the Dark Elf leader Malekith, and explained that it could transform matter into dark matter and draw energy from its host.

• Thor told Odin that Chen Mo had defeated him, captured Loki, and destroyed the Chitauri forces Loki brought to Earth.
• Odin put aside his contempt for humanity and led Thor, Jane Foster, and Chen Mo to the Golden Palace archives.
• Odin explained that the Nine Realms went through cycles of dawn and dusk, and that the Dark Elves once ruled them.
• Odin described how Malekith created the Aether, a fluid weapon that could transform matter into dark matter and drain energy from its host.
• Jane Foster became alarmed when she learned the Aether inhabited her, while Chen Mo remained confident she would be safe.

Odin told Thor and Jane Foster that Bor had defeated the Dark Elves and sealed the indestructible Aether, but Thor and Chen Mo suspected Malekith had survived. Chen Mo said he might find evidence, while a dormant Dark Elf warship awakened in space after the Aether entered Jane Foster.

• Odin explained that Bor had killed the Dark Elves and secretly sealed the Aether beneath the Golden Palace, but he could not tell Jane Foster how to remove it from her body.
• Thor questioned whether the Dark Elves had truly perished, and Chen Mo helped him connect their supposed defeat five thousand years earlier to the Celestial Convergence.
• Thor and Jane Foster realized the Aether’s return could signal Malekith’s plan to plunge the universe into darkness, but Thor doubted Odin would believe them without evidence.
• Chen Mo said he might be able to find evidence that Malekith was alive.
• A Dark Elf warship hidden among asteroids awakened when the Aether entered Jane Foster’s body.

Malekith awakened the surviving Dark Elves, returned to their ruined homeworld, and vowed revenge on Asgard and the universe. Chen Mo's reconnaissance drones recorded his return, then flew back through the spatial channel just as Dr. Selvig and the others searched for the wormhole in London.

• Malekith emerged from hibernation, awakened the remaining Dark Elves, and ordered them to return to Svartalfheim.
• Malekith and Algrim surveyed the ruined battlefield, and Malekith vowed to reclaim the Aether, restore their world, and destroy the corrupted universe.
• A miniature drone recorded Malekith and Algrim before the Dark Elves left Svartalfheim, and the reconnaissance drones flew back toward the spatial channel.
• Dr. Selvig and the others failed to locate the wormhole, then watched a swarm of black drones fly out of one of the known wormholes.

Daisy, Dr. Selvig, and Ian detected a new Spatial Channel at the western factory building on Earth. In Asgard, Thor learned that Odin had barred him from using the Bifrost, so Chen Mo led Thor and Jane Foster back to the dungeon to seek another route to Earth.

• Daisy and Dr. Selvig asked to review the miniature reconnaissance drones' footage, but the agents refused because it was classified and the drones had not found the commander.
• Daisy, Dr. Selvig, and Ian waited for hours until Dr. Selvig's controller detected a Spatial Channel in the western factory building, and they ran there with the agents following.
• Thor pressed Chen Mo for evidence of the Dark Elves, and Chen Mo said it should already be on Earth.
• Chen Mo told Jane Foster to stay in Asgard because the Aether in her body could lead Malekith to Earth, and she agreed.
• Heimdall told Thor that Odin had forbidden him from leaving Asgard, so Thor could not use the Bifrost to reach Earth.
• Chen Mo, Thor, and Jane Foster returned to the dungeon to look for another Spatial Channel.

Thor, Chen Mo, and Jane Foster entered the forbidden passage to find the Spatial Channel and evidence that Malekith was alive. As Chen Mo revealed how technology let him bypass the guards and clear the passage, he told Thor he was developing a project called the God Creation Plan.

• Thor, Chen Mo, and Jane Foster returned to the forbidden area, and the guards let them pass rather than risk confronting Thor again.
• Chen Mo gave Jane Foster a flashlight as the passage grew too dark for her to see.
• Jane Foster noticed the passage had been cleared and widened despite its collapsed ceiling, and Thor said he had not entered it earlier.
• Chen Mo explained that he had teleported the fallen rocks, passed through the stone door, and used his suit's invisibility to evade the guards.
• Thor marveled at Chen Mo's abilities, and Chen Mo called them the power of Earth's technology and mentioned his God Creation Plan.

Chen Mo collected Thor’s blood to research the God Creation Plan and promised to seek a way to extend Jane Foster’s life. After the three emerged from the passage, Jane worried that the Aether inside her was draining her life, while Thor and Chen Mo promised to help her.

• Chen Mo offered Thor a chance to help ordinary people gain Asgardian-like power in exchange for a blood sample and promised that Jane might gain a longer life or Eternal Life.
• Thor hesitated at the syringe but cut his palm with the King's Sword, letting Chen Mo collect an apple-sized ball of blood.
• Jane and Thor hoped Chen Mo’s research would let them stay together despite their different lifespans, while Chen Mo drew the blood into a syringe.
• Chen Mo, Thor, and Jane continued through the passage and reached the abyss where Jane had previously encountered the Aether.
• Jane recognized that the Aether’s monolith had gone dark and feared the red liquid inside her was consuming her life force.
• Thor promised to find a way to save Jane, and Chen Mo said they could return to Earth if Asgard had no solution.

Chen Mo, Thor, and Jane Foster waited for the unstable spatial channel to open while a hidden drone delivered footage of Svartalfheim. The video showed Dark Elves arriving in a warship and led Thor to conclude that their leader Malekith was alive.

• Chen Mo warned Thor and Jane Foster not to move around while they waited for the spatial channel to reopen.
• Jane Foster used her detection device to track the growing spatial instability as Thor searched for a wormhole.
• A concealed drone flew to Chen Mo and delivered a video, which he projected for Thor and Jane Foster.
• The video showed a black warship landing in Svartalfheim and two Dark Elves emerging from it.
• Thor identified the figure walking ahead of a Dark Elf general as Malekith, confirming that Malekith and the Dark Elves had survived.

Chen Mo, Thor, and Jane Foster brought Odin evidence that Malekith and the Dark Elves had survived, while Chen Mo secretly planted micro-drones throughout the Golden Palace to maintain communications and surveillance. Odin dismissed Thor’s warning, insisting the weakened Dark Elves posed no threat to Asgard.

• Chen Mo sent a drone back through the Spatial Channel to reassure Dr. Selvig and the others, then secretly released micro-drones in the Golden Palace to relay signals and monitor its grounds.
• Thor and Jane Foster noticed the celebrations marking the end of the rebellions across the Nine Realms, and Thor hurried with Chen Mo to Odin’s royal hall.
• Thor told Odin they had found evidence that Malekith was alive, and Chen Mo showed him footage of a Dark Elf warship captured by a reconnaissance drone.
• Odin accepted that the Aether’s emergence had awakened Malekith and confirmed that remnants of the Dark Elves had survived.
• Thor urged Odin to strengthen Asgard’s defenses, but Odin mocked his caution and declared that the remaining Dark Elves were too weak to threaten Asgard.

Thor left Odin’s hall determined to protect Jane Foster and prepare for a Dark Elf attack without the king’s help. He planned to join Asgard’s celebration alone, after Chen Mo warned him that bringing Jane could lead to a confrontation with Sif.

• Odin told Thor that Jane would stay in Asgard until the Aether was removed, and Thor challenged him to a bargain: if he found a way to save her, Odin would accept their relationship.
• Thor left the royal hall with Jane Foster and Chen Mo, then admitted that he could not command the Asgardian army outside wartime.
• Chen Mo advised Thor to use the celebration to gather trusted people and put them on guard, and Thor agreed to prepare for a possible Dark Elf attack.
• Chen Mo stopped Thor from bringing Jane to the celebration, reminding him that Sif might be there; Thor realized the meeting could provoke a fight and turned to explain himself to Jane.