Chapter Summaries

Natasha visited Ye Li on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s behalf to recruit a superhero for the Avengers, and Ye Li recommended Daredevil instead of letting the girls join. After their meeting, Ye Li took Natasha to the club rooftop pool, leaving the girls to wonder what he was up to.

• Gwen, Jessica, Felicia, Cindy, and Skye gathered with Ye Li in the president’s lounge, where the girls wore high school uniforms and played cards.
• Barbara announced that Natasha had arrived as S.H.I.E.L.D.’s representative, and the girls hurried to hide before Natasha entered.
• Natasha asked Ye Li to provide a superhero for the Avengers and suggested contacting Black Spider, but Ye Li refused and recommended Matt Murdock instead.
• Ye Li invited Natasha to admire the night sky, and she accepted, seeing the invitation as a possible opportunity.
• After Ye Li left with Natasha, the girls emerged and speculated about his intentions as he took Natasha, wearing a swimsuit, to the rooftop pool.

Ye Li used the Enhanced Goat Talisman to put Natasha to sleep, then let Barbara believe he had slept with her. He apologized to Cindy and offered her a ride home, but a fan stopped them to ask Cindy for an autograph.

• Ye Li drew Natasha into his arms and used the Enhanced Goat Talisman to send her into a forced dream.
• Ye Li carried the sleeping Natasha to Barbara and claimed she was tired, then told Barbara that Natasha had been good.
• Barbara mistakenly believed Ye Li had slept with Natasha and thought Natasha had gotten together with him before her.
• Ye Li caught up with Cindy on Veronica, apologized for acting rashly, and offered to take her home.
• Cindy accepted the ride, and a passerby who recognized her asked for an autograph while Ye Li pointed out that his shirt showed Ghost-Spider.

Ye Li and Cindy encountered a mugging while riding through an alley, and Ye Li rammed the attacker, William Baker, with Veronica. The system identified William as Sandman, but he had not yet gained his powers and lay injured after the collision.

• A crowd recognized Cindy as Silk and gathered around her, so Ye Li sped away with her on Veronica.
• Cindy warned Ye Li about a thug robbing a girl in an alley, and Ye Li stopped her from intervening.
• The system identified the thug as William Baker, Gwen Stacy's Enemy of Fate, Sandman.
• Ye Li drove Veronica up the alley wall and crashed into William, leaving him coughing blood instead of transforming into sand.
• The system confirmed Ye Li had defeated Gwen Stacy's Enemy of Fate, and Ye Li realized William had not yet obtained his powers.

Ye Li defeated William Baker and turned him into a loyal summon, while a fan recognized Ye Li as a ranked superhero. On a helicarrier, Coulson brought Steve Rogers to meet Natasha and Bruce Banner as S.H.I.E.L.D. prepared to track a threat, leaving the team aboard the rising carrier.

• A girl recognized Ye Li from the superhero rankings and praised his reported accomplishments.
• Ye Li chose the servant reward and converted the unconscious William Baker into a summon.
• Coulson introduced Steve Rogers to Natasha Romanoff, who was distracted by her assignment involving Ye Li.
• Coulson showed Steve footage of Ye Li and explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. hoped to recruit the Ghost-Spider Club, but Ye Li had not agreed to send its young heroes into battle.
• Bruce Banner recognized Ye Li in the footage and told Steve that he had once worked as Ye Li's assistant.
• Coulson led Steve and Banner to the helicarrier's bridge as its turbines lifted it from the sea.

Ye Li watched Loki seize control of a banquet at Northern Building while painting the Inheritors, then interrupted Loki’s speech by throwing a potted plant at his head. Loki was left dazed and demanding to know who had attacked him.

• Natasha retrieved the Rat Talisman from the Helicarrier wall, and it reappeared in Ye Li’s hand.
• Loki used the Mind Stone scepter to stun a guard and force the iridium warehouse target to unlock the retinal scanner, sending the banquet guests fleeing.
• Ye Li painted a family portrait of the Inheritors while Gwen studied a song beside him.
• Loki donned his reindeer outfit, surrounded the fleeing guests with illusions, and tried to command them to kneel.
• Ye Li used his talismans to send a potted plant flying into Loki’s head, interrupting his speech and leaving him confused.

Ye Li sent Gwen to confront Loki after the system issued a mission to defeat him, and the Mind Stone failed to affect her because of Ye Li’s Absolute Mind Shield. Loki then attacked Gwen with the Mind Scepter, and the chapter ended as he prepared to stab her while she struggled against his space-warping beam.

• Loki found a potted plant on his helmet and angrily demanded to know who had pranked him.
• The Connections System issued Ye Li an extra mission to defeat Loki, and Ye Li told Gwen to handle the fight.
• Gwen arrived at the plaza, where Loki’s Mind Stone failed to affect her when he pressed the Mind Scepter against her suit.
• Gwen kicked Loki and urged the crowd to flee, while Ye Li secretly weakened Loki’s energy beam as she blocked it with the Golden Light Charm.
• Loki trapped Gwen in a field that slowed her movements and appeared behind her with a dagger as her Spider-Sense warned her of the attack.

Gwen defeated Loki and claimed his Mind Stone scepter, intending to give it to Ye Li. Captain America arrived and demanded the scepter so Loki’s victims could be freed, but Gwen prepared to swing away with it.

• Gwen used her suit’s lightsaber claws to injure Loki, who split into three illusions.
• Ye Li told Gwen which Loki was real, and she trapped him in Silk.
• Gwen took Loki’s scepter and pushed the cocooned Loki away, saying she would give the scepter to her boyfriend.
• Captain America landed and demanded the scepter, but Gwen refused and prepared to escape with it.

Gwen brought Ye Li the Mind Stone scepter after taking it from Loki, and Ye Li kept it while helping her with a small tear in her suit. Later, Gwen and Jessica chose songs for their graduation performance, with Gwen impressed by the music Ye Li had written.

• Tony stopped Steve from attacking Gwen and said he would speak to Ye Li about the scepter.
• Gwen contacted Ye Li while swinging back to Northern Building and brought him Loki's scepter as a gift.
• Ye Li took the scepter, noticed a small hole in Gwen's suit, and helped her remove it for repairs.
• Jessica showed Gwen a song Ye Li had written, and Gwen sang a few lines from it.
• Jessica revealed more songs by Ye Li, and Gwen was stunned by how good they were.

Ye Li tested a new tracking module, absorbed the Mind Stone into his ring, and discovered its power over living beings and computers. Tony Stark arrived to negotiate for the scepter on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s behalf, and Ye Li agreed to hand it over in exchange for help acquiring a company.

• Ye Li activated Absolute Tracking with Gwen Stacy as the anchor and learned it could teleport him near her across barriers and even between universes, then return him after twenty-four hours.
• Ye Li pulled the Mind Stone from the scepter's energy and loaded it into his ring, gaining the ability to control living creatures and breach internet defenses.
• Ye Li anticipated that S.H.I.E.L.D. would come for the scepter and considered making Nick Fury pay if he failed to appreciate the favor.
• Tony Stark visited Ye Li to negotiate for S.H.I.E.L.D. and found the scepter on the table.
• Ye Li agreed to give Tony the scepter if S.H.I.E.L.D. helped him acquire a company, and Tony took it before Ye Li invited him to play cards.

Thor visited Ye Li’s manor to see Matilda and brought her a sword from Odin’s Vault, but Silver Sable tricked him about the Destroyer’s rude greeting. Meanwhile, Barbara flirted with Ye Li while they were alone, despite trouble brewing at S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Thor arrived at the manor with a sword from Odin’s Vault for Matilda and asked to see her.
• Silver Sable stopped Thor at the entrance, and Matilda appeared riding the Destroyer.
• The Destroyer gave Thor the middle finger, and Silver Sable falsely told him it was a popular Earth greeting.
• Barbara wiped her bear mug, noticed Ye Li looking at her, and privately reflected on her rivalry with Natasha.
• Barbara poured herself wine, pressed close to Ye Li, and asked where his girlfriends were.

Ye Li joined Barbara for drinks before she led him to her private yoga room, where he watched her practice and compared her poses to Gwen Stacy’s. Meanwhile, Nick Fury learned that Tony Stark had received Loki’s scepter, and Loki smiled coldly after Fury left.

• Barbara invited Ye Li to practice yoga, and the two shared drinks before she led him away.
• Nick Fury saw Loki bound in Silk and worried that Ghost-Spider had taken the mind-controlling scepter.
• Loki mocked Fury for failing to obtain the Tesseract’s energy and noted that the scepter’s energy had briefly weakened.
• Fury learned through his earpiece that Tony Stark had received the scepter and left to inspect it.
• Loki raised his head and smiled coldly after Fury departed.
• Barbara practiced yoga poses in her private room while Ye Li watched and said Gwen Stacy had performed them before.

Barbara tried to match Felicia's yoga poses but was defeated by her superhuman flexibility, then resolved to pursue her feelings for Ye Li. At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, the Avengers discussed Loki's plan to open a portal for a Chitauri invasion, while Thor misunderstood a greeting gesture and was slapped by Hill.

• Barbara attempted the elbow wheel pose, learned Felicia had been using it in workouts, and collapsed in defeat.
• Dr. Banner explained that Loki's theft of iridium suggested he needed a stabilizer for a portal, and Tony said the scepter had been brought to the Helicarrier.
• Thor told Steve Rogers that Loki intended to bring the Chitauri through the portal to invade Earth.
• Thor greeted Tony, Steve, and Hill with his middle finger, prompting Hill to slap him and Steve to explain that it was not a friendly gesture.
• Barbara accepted that she truly liked Ye Li and decided she would keep fighting for her feelings.

Nick Fury put S.H.I.E.L.D. on standby and assigned Tony and Dr. Banner to study the Mind Scepter, while Barbara received notice that her undercover mission could be canceled. Ye Li asked Barbara to remain his personal bodyguard, and she agreed before Jessica Jones interrupted them.

• Nick Fury told Natasha that Matt Murdock had refused S.H.I.E.L.D.'s invitation and said Barbara could be recalled if necessary.
• Nick Fury showed Tony and Dr. Banner the Mind Scepter and assigned them to study it.
• Barbara received a S.H.I.E.L.D. message saying she should remain on standby and her undercover assignment at the club could be canceled, then Ye Li pulled her back into bed.
• Jessica Jones let Matilda try the Asgardian sword, compared it with Ye Li's prototype lightsaber, and named it the White Lightsaber.
• Ye Li asked Barbara whether she would keep working as his personal bodyguard, and Barbara agreed before Jessica Jones knocked at the door.

Ye Li sent Jessica Jones and Matilda away while he and Barbara stayed at the manor, and Jessica took Matilda to test the White Lightsaber on an uninhabited island. After Matilda split the sea with a sword beam, Hawkeye’s explosive arrow damaged S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Helicarrier, revealing it above them.

• Jessica Jones noticed Matilda carrying the White Lightsaber and suggested Ye Li get her a scabbard.
• Ye Li stopped Matilda from smoking and sent Jessica Jones and Matilda out so he could spend time with Barbara.
• Jessica Jones took Matilda to an uninhabited reef island and asked her to test the White Lightsaber.
• Matilda activated the White Lightsaber and sent a sword beam through the sea.
• Hawkeye blew apart part of the Helicarrier’s wing, making the previously invisible aircraft appear to Jessica Jones and Matilda.

Matilda and Jessica Jones rescued Thor after his escape pod crashed, and Matilda reclaimed Mjolnir. As the Chitauri invaded New York, Ye Li sent Jessica to join the fight and prepared to head out himself, leaving Gwen and Felicia at the manor.

• Jessica Jones and Matilda watched S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier battle before Thor's escape pod crashed nearby.
• Thor woke briefly and blamed Loki, then passed out from the impact.
• Matilda summoned Mjolnir and happily claimed the hammer while Jessica carried her and Thor away.
• Barbara returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. after receiving its emergency message, protected by Ye Li's mental shield and Dog Talisman power.
• Ye Li gave Jessica the Ox Talisman and sent her to fight the Chitauri in New York.
• Ye Li left Gwen Stacy and Felicia at Sunnyville Manor and announced he was going out.

Tony Stark tried to stop the portal and fought off Loki, while Ye Li waited for an unseen target as Chitauri squads attacked New York. The chapter left George Stacy leading police in an effort to evacuate civilians.

• Tony failed to destroy the portal device, and Loki confronted him inside Stark Tower after he removed his damaged armor.
• Loki’s Mind Scepter had no effect on Tony, and he noticed Ye Li’s painting of the New York battle before Tony activated the Mark 7 Armor and drove him back.
• Ye Li blocked a Chitauri soldier’s ray with a black combat suit and crushed the soldier, its gun, and its vehicle while continuing to sense for his target.
• George Stacy arrived with police officers, fired a shot, and ordered them to cover the civilians’ evacuation.

The police struggled against the Chitauri until reinforcements arrived, while Thor chased Loki with the flying Duroc Piggy. The Avengers regrouped in New York, and Tony warned them that Ye Li knew something big might happen.

• George ordered the police to open fire on the Chitauri, but their pistols did little before the aliens attacked.
• Captain America, Black Widow, Mockingbird, and Hawkeye arrived in a Quinjet and joined the battle.
• Thor fought Loki, who escaped Stark Tower on a Chitauri space bike, but Duroc Piggy knocked him off it.
• Thor rode Duroc Piggy after Loki and asked the pig to use its laser eyes, but Piggy did not know how.
• Natasha and the others arrived, and Tony told them Ye Li seemed to know that something big was coming.

Louise saved a little girl from a Chitauri soldier, survived a ray-gun wound through the Dog Talisman’s power, and was rescued by Matilda. Matilda reunited with Louise and returned the girl’s balloon as the battle continued in New York.

• Tony sent footage to Nick Fury, then lured the Chitauri toward Pike Street while the others prepared to fight.
• Lightning and a metal object struck the Chitauri forces, and Tony wondered who had helped while Thor claimed he was chasing Loki.
• Louise stunned a Chitauri soldier and carried a crying girl away, but another soldier shot her in the abdomen as she shielded the child.
• Louise’s wound healed through the Dog Talisman’s power, leaving her and the girl stunned.
• Matilda cut down the Chitauri soldier, recognized Louise, and returned the girl’s balloon.

Matilda comforted a frightened girl and helped destroy another group of Chitauri, but Tony Stark told her to go home and left Louise responsible for watching her. As a gigantic alien beast emerged through the portal, the fleeing civilians feared the heroes could not stop it.

• Matilda cheered up a little girl by telling her she was Knightress's little sister, while Louise watched.
• Meow-Meow Ball destroyed several Chitauri fliers, and Iron Man landed to tell Matilda to return to Sunnyville Manor.
• Matilda told Tony she had snuck out and did not know where Li was, so Tony ordered Louise to keep an eye on her before flying off.
• Tony asked Jarvis to find Cindy Moon's address, then rejoined communications when a huge alien beast roared out of the portal.
• Stark searched for the beast's weak point, while the fleeing civilians despaired that even Knightress might not be able to stop it.

Jessica arrived in the Knightress suit and faced the Leviathan as civilians cheered her on, while heroes across New York fought scattered Chitauri soldiers. The chapter ended with Chitauri soldiers cornering a man in his home and raising their weapons.

• Barbara and Natasha fought Chitauri soldiers and waited for help as the Leviathan approached.
• Jessica flew in and confronted the Leviathan, drawing cheers from the fleeing crowd and comments from the Avengers.
• Jessica tossed the Ox Talisman into her hand and punched at the charging Leviathan.
• Daredevil killed a Chitauri soldier in Hell's Kitchen and realized the invasion would keep him busy.
• Peter, in his Lizard Man form, guarded the Ghost-Spider Club and killed Chitauri soldiers while Ned counted toward their card wager.
• Chitauri soldiers cornered a man in his home, ignored his warning, and raised their weapons.