Chapter Summaries

Xu Fan took control of General Ross and sent the military researchers to Orochimaru, then turned his attention to Wakanda’s Vibranium. After bringing Ross to a remote desert, Xu Fan revealed that Wakanda possessed vast reserves and began steering the military toward a confrontation over them.

• Xu Fan used Kotoamatsukami to make General Ross loyal to him and opened portals to send the researchers to Orochimaru's laboratory.
• Ross asked Xu Fan what they should do next, and Xu Fan decided to postpone the Superhero Registration Act until more superheroes were publicly known.
• Xu Fan brought Ross through a portal to an uninhabited desert and asked whether he knew about Vibranium.
• Ross explained that Vibranium was scarce, valuable, and difficult for the military to obtain.
• Xu Fan told Ross that Wakanda had enormous quantities of Vibranium, prompting Ross to ask about the country.

Xu Fan manipulated General Ross into convincing the United States military to seize Wakanda’s Vibranium, hoping to use the resulting conflict to weaken Wakanda and acquire intelligence and technology. After sending Ross back to the military, Xu Fan returned to the Sanctum Sanctorum, while Ross faced questioning from his soldiers.

• Xu Fan revealed that Wakanda held vast Vibranium reserves and ordered Ross to spread the information and make the military pursue the ore.
• Ross accepted Xu Fan’s instructions and planned how to convince the military to invade Wakanda.
• Xu Fan decided to let the United States military fight Wakanda so he could gather intelligence and use the Allspark to claim their advanced technology.
• Xu Fan sent Ross back through a portal and returned to the Sanctum Sanctorum in New York.
• Soldiers found Ross, gave him clothes, and a lieutenant asked him what had happened.

Under Kotoamatsukami’s influence, General Ross began planning to obtain Wakanda’s Vibranium and enlisted his old friend Robert Maverick to help. Maverick agreed to cooperate but demanded ten tons of Vibranium if Ross’s claims proved true.

• Ross decided to form a special unit to gather intelligence on Wakanda and sought help from his former Army comrade, Robert Maverick.
• Ross told Maverick that he had found a vast Vibranium deposit in Wakanda, enough to arm both their forces.
• Maverick recalled Captain America’s Vibranium shield and recognized the metal’s military value.
• Ross asked Maverick for a warship to transport soldiers to Wakanda and promised him one ton of Vibranium.
• Maverick agreed to cooperate, then raised his demand to ten tons if Ross’s claims were true.

Xu Fan considered S.H.I.E.L.D. and Nick Fury as the next targets of his plans before Fury visited to recruit him into the Avengers Initiative. Xu Fan refused the invitation, leaving his intentions toward S.H.I.E.L.D. unresolved.

• Xu Fan returned to the New York Sanctum and considered taking control of S.H.I.E.L.D. and purging Hydra from within.
• Arthur told Xu Fan that Fury had arrived, and Xu Fan decided to hear him out.
• Fury entered the Sanctum and said he knew about mages and the Sorcerer Supreme Ancient One.
• Fury invited Xu Fan to join the Avengers Initiative.
• Xu Fan told Fury that he refused to join.

Xu Fan exposed Talos as a Skrull posing as Fury and sent him to Orochimaru’s laboratory. He replaced Talos with a transformed White Zetsu, whom he ordered to take over as Nick Fury.

• Fury, represented by Talos, tried to recruit Xu Fan as a magical consultant by invoking Ancient One’s name.
• Xu Fan used the Eye of Agamotto to see through Talos’s disguise and identified him as a Skrull.
• Xu Fan opened a portal and sent Talos to Orochimaru’s laboratory, instructing Orochimaru to keep him imprisoned and study his cells.
• Xu Fan summoned a White Zetsu and transformed it to resemble Nick Fury.
• Xu Fan ordered the White Zetsu to take over S.H.I.E.L.D.’s affairs as Nick Fury.

Xu Fan accompanied White Zetsu, disguised as Fury, to S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters to complete a sign-in. There, Agent Coulson rushed up to Fury with news that they had found someone, leaving Xu Fan curious about the discovery.

• The Sign-in Assistant instructed Xu Fan to go to S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, so he decided to follow White Fury there openly.
• White Fury brought Xu Fan to S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters and played the part of its Director as staff members watched respectfully.
• Phil Coulson caught up with Fury and introduced himself to Xu Fan, who gave his name as Xu.
• Coulson showed Fury a stack of documents and excitedly announced that they had found the person they were looking for.

Xu Fan, White Fury, and Coulson found Steve Rogers frozen in a S.H.I.E.L.D. laboratory, where instruments confirmed he was still alive. The Sign-in Assistant began an official sign-in as Coulson hoped Rogers could lead the Avengers Initiative.

• White Fury read Coulson's file on Steve Rogers and ordered Coulson to take him to Rogers, bringing Xu Fan along as a special consultant.
• Xu Fan considered Rogers's future opposition to the Sokovia Accords and thought about how he might handle it later.
• White Fury, Xu Fan, and Coulson reached the laboratory and saw Rogers preserved inside a block of ice.
• Coulson showed White Fury the instruments confirming that Rogers's pulse had never stopped and said he could be thawed and awakened.
• The Sign-in Assistant announced that Xu Fan had arrived at the sign-in location and that official sign-in had begun.

Xu Fan received a primary Adamantium skeleton as a check-in reward while considering how changes he had caused might have shifted the timeline. At S.H.I.E.L.D., White Fury suggested Xu Fan could awaken Captain Rogers, and Coulson recognized him as the mage who had killed Abomination.

• Xu Fan received a primary Adamantium skeleton and recalled the metal’s origins and its connection to Captain America’s shield.
• Coulson said that the right method could awaken Captain Rogers, while White Fury explained that modern technology would struggle to do so.
• Xu Fan wondered whether S.H.I.E.L.D. had discovered Rogers four years early and considered how his actions might have affected the timeline.
• White Fury suggested that Xu Fan could awaken Rogers, surprising Coulson and the gathered researchers.
• Coulson recognized Xu Fan as the mage who had killed Abomination, and Xu Fan confirmed his identity.

Xu Fan used magic to thaw Captain Rogers, whose vital signs were strong, but Rogers awakened confused and mistook the laboratory for Red Skull’s base. He attacked White Fury and Coulson, shattering the supposedly artillery-proof glass with his shield.

• Xu Fan used a magic circle to melt the ice encasing Rogers while White Fury, Coulson, and the researchers watched.
• Researchers confirmed Rogers’s vital signs were normal, and they celebrated the success of the thawing.
• Rogers awoke in a panic, mistook the laboratory for Red Skull’s, and grabbed his shield.
• Rogers threw his shield at White Fury and Coulson, breaking through the reinforced glass before catching it on its return.

Rogers tried to escape the facility and attacked Coulson and White Fury, mistaking them for threats. Xu Fan stopped him and sent him flying with a clash against Rogers's shield, but armed soldiers then mistook Xu Fan for the intruder and aimed their weapons at him.

• Rogers struck Coulson and threw his Vibranium shield at White Fury, who dodged it.
• Rogers rushed for the exit, but Xu Fan used the Body Flicker Technique to appear in his way.
• Rogers charged Xu Fan with his shield, but the collision destroyed the laboratory and sent Rogers crashing to the floor.
• Rogers got back up and declared that he could fight all day.
• Soldiers entered under the alarm, saw Xu Fan as the only unfamiliar face, and aimed their weapons at him.

Xu Fan effortlessly defeated the soldiers who attacked him, then repelled Rogers’s shield and knocked him unconscious with a headbutt. Rogers’s resistance ended with Xu Fan still in control of the facility.

• Xu Fan used Shinra Tensei to repel the soldiers, while White Fury rescued Coulson from the blast.
• The researchers watched Xu Fan’s display of power and became more determined to learn magic.
• Rogers confronted Xu Fan and declared that justice would eventually defeat him.
• Xu Fan struck Rogers’s thrown Vibranium shield back into the ceiling with one finger.
• Rogers charged Xu Fan with a headbutt, but the impact knocked Rogers unconscious.

After waking in 2008, Rogers learned that decades had passed since World War II and saw the peaceful world he had helped create. White Fury invited him to join S.H.I.E.L.D., but Rogers first asked where Carter was.

• White Fury and Coulson visited Rogers after he awoke and found him restrained in bed.
• Coulson explained that Carter had founded S.H.I.E.L.D. and that the year was 2008, then released Rogers from his restraints.
• Rogers remembered carrying Hydra's bombs toward the ice and walked through S.H.I.E.L.D. and out into the city in shock.
• White Fury showed Rogers the modern world and invited him to join S.H.I.E.L.D. to protect it.
• Rogers asked where Carter was.

Xu Fan discovered that the USS Stennis was his next sign-in location and found General Ross aboard, preparing an operation against Wakanda. After hearing Ross’s plans, Xu Fan decided to accompany him there.

• Xu Fan learned from White Fury’s intelligence network that the USS Stennis was an active-duty warship and traveled there to investigate his sign-in location.
• Xu Fan found General Ross aboard the ship and followed him to a private conference room.
• Ross explained that he planned to investigate Wakanda and recruit Maverick’s help to justify deploying a large force there.
• Ross described Wakanda’s secrecy and its king’s political skill, which had made him suspicious of the country.
• Xu Fan realized the USS Stennis was bound for Wakanda and told Ross he would accompany him.

Xu Fan joined General Ross aboard the USS Stennis on its mission to Wakanda and witnessed the strength and risks of Ross’s secret super-soldier serum. After the ship’s sign-in completed, Xu Fan received Heart-shaped Grass, a herb originating in Wakanda.

• Xu Fan decided to travel to Wakanda with General Ross, partly to complete a sign-in and partly to see how Ross handled the mission.
• General Ross summoned Soldier One, who demonstrated his enhanced strength by crushing a deep dent into the steel conference-room wall.
• Ross explained that the improved serum caused permanent brain damage and carried a high risk of death; six surviving soldiers were prepared for the Wakanda operation.
• Ross said his forces would investigate Wakanda’s Vibranium deposits, with the goal of eventually taking control of them.
• Xu Fan completed the USS Stennis sign-in and received Heart-shaped Grass as his reward.

Xu Fan used Heart-shaped Grass to strengthen Soldier One, who survived the near-death experience and gained enough power to punch through an iron wall. General Ross grew confident that their mission to seize Wakanda would face few obstacles.

• Xu Fan explained Wakanda’s Heart-shaped Grass and decided to use his supply to strengthen Soldier One for the campaign to claim Wakanda.
• Xu Fan brewed a Heart-shaped Grass potion and ordered General Ross to have Soldier One drink it.
• Soldier One suffered a near-death reaction, leaving General Ross fearing that the rare super soldier had died.
• Soldier One recovered, saluted General Ross, and punched straight through an iron wall when Xu Fan prompted Ross to test his strength.
• General Ross was shocked by Soldier One’s new power and became excited about the prospects of the Wakanda mission.

Xu Fan joined General Ross's expedition to Wakanda, intending to check in at its Vibranium ore vein while Ross's soldiers investigated the country. As the force landed on Wakanda's coast, Ross felt an unexplained foreboding.

• Xu Fan learned that Soldier One had seen nothing during his near-death experience after taking the Heart-shaped Grass potion, and planned to take the remaining herbs back to the Land of Fire for his ninja subordinates.
• Xu Fan received a check-in task for Wakanda's Vibranium ore vein and decided to travel there with Ross's expedition instead of using a Magic Portal.
• General Ross offered Xu Fan a United States Army uniform, but Xu Fan refused and burned it; Ross then ordered Soldier One to prepare for the mission.
• The USS Stennis arrived near Wakanda, and Ross and Maverick discussed the country's Vibranium resources and the operation.
• Ross watched his soldiers land and felt uneasy, while Xu Fan arrived at Wakanda's coastline with the force.

Xu Fan followed Soldier One’s unit toward Wakanda and watched its drones crash, revealing that the country could disable their equipment despite appearing technologically backward. General Ross ordered six serum-enhanced soldiers to continue the mission on foot, and Xu Fan noted that Wakanda’s energy barrier was not active.

• Soldier One confronted Xu Fan about joining the mission and warned him to return to the warship.
• Soldier One launched small drones to scout ahead, but they malfunctioned and fell within minutes.
• General Ross and Maverick watched the drones from the USS Stennis and were unable to determine what had caused the failures.
• General Ross ordered Soldier One, Three, Six, Seven, Nine, and Twelve to proceed into Wakanda and bring back an investigation report.
• Xu Fan observed that Wakanda’s energy barrier was inactive and considered that jamming equipment might have disabled the drones.

Soldier One and Xu Fan entered Wakanda to investigate, and Soldier One discovered that Wakandans used a large chunk of Vibranium as an axe head. He ordered the scene recorded as evidence of Wakanda’s vast Vibranium supply.

• General Ross ordered Soldier One to obtain investigation data after the filming drones crashed over Wakanda.
• Soldier One brought Xu Fan with him into the jungle, intending to teach him a lesson, while Xu Fan assumed he wanted to protect him.
• After reaching the jungle’s edge, Soldier One observed several Wakandan women beside wooden huts and judged their community to be backward.
• One woman returned with an axe whose head was an unpolished chunk of Vibranium, stunning Soldier One.
• Soldier One ordered his soldiers to film the axe and send the footage to the USS Stennis command room.

General Ross and Maverick celebrated footage showing Wakandans using Vibranium, while Soldier One prepared to seize them and find the ore. Xu Fan detected Wakandan warriors surrounding the soldiers and ran after Soldier One as communications across the operation failed; Ross warned Soldier One that he had likely walked into an ambush.

• Soldier One's footage showed a Wakandan woman using a Vibranium axe, prompting General Ross and Maverick to celebrate the discovery.
• General Ross ordered Soldier One to gather stronger evidence, and Soldier One prepared to capture nearby Wakandan women as guides.
• Xu Fan detected about sixteen Wakandan warriors encircling the soldiers and ran after Soldier One, though he did not intend to protect the others.
• The USS Stennis lost contact with its teams and filming drones, raising fears that Wakanda had advanced technology.
• General Ross learned that he had reestablished contact with Soldier One and warned him that he had likely walked into an ambush.

Soldier One returned to find Wakandan warriors ambushing his troops with Vibranium weapons and energy-shielding cloaks. After fighting back, he demonstrated his enhanced speed and strength, while General Ross and Maverick realized Wakanda possessed the advanced technology they had sought.

• Soldier One abandoned his plan to capture prisoners and rushed back toward the encampment with his Vibranium short blade.
• Wakandan warriors attacked the encampment, blocking gunfire with their cloaks and overwhelming the American soldiers.
• Soldier One joined the battle, killed a Wakandan warrior with a swift strike, and took his Vibranium spear and shield cloak.
• Soldier One prepared to fight more Wakandan warriors while General Ross and Maverick watched the battle footage aboard the USS Stennis.
• General Ross concluded that they had found what they wanted.