Chapter Summaries

Green Arrow Duck stormed a Vampire hideout, driving off human guards with a heavy machine gun and killing several Vampire enforcers with silver nitrate rounds. He left one Vampire alive so he could question them and continue searching for the person he had come to save.

• Green Arrow Duck ambushed the human guards with his heavy machine gun, killing or injuring many and sending the survivors fleeing down the stairs.
• The surviving guards counted their group and decided against returning upstairs after a veteran warned them about facing a heavy machine gun in the narrow passage.
• Green Arrow Duck passed the wounded guards without finishing them and continued toward his target.
• Vampire enforcers confronted Green Arrow Duck, taunting him as they approached with knives or empty hands.
• Green Arrow Duck retracted his machine gun and killed five Vampires with silver nitrate warheads fired from his left arm.
• Green Arrow Duck spared the sole surviving Vampire because he needed someone to question.

Green Arrow Duck reached Evernight Temple during Deacon Frost’s Blood God ritual and found Blade near death after being drained for the ceremony. As the ritual’s blood began to converge, Blade escaped and set out to confront Deacon Frost, while dark clouds gathered over the temple.

• Green Arrow Duck located the underground Evernight Temple, where Deacon Frost, Quinn, and Raquel prepared to become Blood Gods using Blade’s blood.
• A Black woman freed Blade from his stone coffin, and Blade drank from her to recover after severe blood loss.
• Quinn learned that a Donald Duck dressed as Robin Hood had attacked Ejiwota, but Deacon Frost dismissed the report.
• Blade fought his Vampire mother, killed her, and left to confront Deacon Frost.
• Blood flowed through the twelve openings in the temple’s dome as Green Arrow Duck sensed dark clouds gathering outside.

Green Arrow Duck accidentally intercepted the lightning meant to power the Blood God Ritual, causing his ammunition to explode and the ritual to lose its main energy source. The ritual was completed with the rescued Blade missing and the underground temple plunged into darkness, leaving the human servants exposed to the Vampires.

• Green Arrow Duck watched the Blood God Ritual from above Evernight Temple and remembered that it required lightning to complete the transformation.
• The lightning struck Green Arrow Duck because his metal antenna and machine gun made him a target, and the current detonated the ammunition belts on his armor.
• Green Arrow Duck regained control of his damaged armor after the Blood God Ritual had already been completed.
• The ritual drew power from Evernight Temple’s generators and the city grid, but the cable melted and its breaker tripped before enough energy could be supplied.
• The rescued Blade was absent from the sacrifice, and the power failure plunged Evernight Temple into darkness as the Vampires began to sense the human servants around them.

Green Arrow Duck rescued Dr. Karen Jensen from the chaos inside Evernight Temple while Blade went underground to confront Deacon Frost. When Raquel and other Vampires found them, Green Arrow Duck used tracking missiles to attack the group.

• Vampires and humans erupted into a massacre inside Evernight Temple, while Blade headed underground to face Deacon Frost.
• Green Arrow Duck spotted Dr. Karen Jensen hiding beside a stone pillar and went to rescue her.
• Green Arrow Duck identified himself as reinforcements sent by Abraham Whistler, and Karen Jensen accepted his help after questioning him.
• Raquel and other Vampires followed the sound of their conversation and confronted Green Arrow Duck and Karen Jensen.
• Green Arrow Duck launched twenty tracking missiles loaded with silver nitrate warheads and Ultraviolet Rounds, striking the approaching Vampires.

Green Arrow Duck rescued Dr. Karen Jensen from the Evernight Temple, gave her serum to prevent her transformation, and returned underground to finish clearing out the Vampires. He found Blade fighting Deacon Frost as the Blood God, whose strength and healing were overwhelming Blade.

• Green Arrow Duck carried Karen Jensen out of the Evernight Temple and gave her First Embrace Serum to stop her from becoming a Vampire.
• Green Arrow Duck told Karen to hide, then returned underground to join Blade and finish off the remaining Vampires.
• Green Arrow Duck continued attacking Vampires and armed humans while following Blade's trail through the temple.
• Green Arrow Duck reached the altar and saw Blade fighting Deacon Frost, who had become the Blood God and appeared poised to win.

Blade defeated Deacon Frost by injecting him with every dose of the high-concentration First Embrace Serum, while Green Arrow Duck prepared to destroy the Evernight Temple. Blade and Dr. Karen Jensen escaped before Green Arrow Duck’s explosives collapsed the underground complex into a sinkhole.

• Blade retrieved the High-Concentration First Embrace Serum from the wall and injected every vial into Deacon Frost, whose body burst when the serum overwhelmed his regeneration.
• Green Arrow Duck emerged from hiding, told Blade he had come as reinforcements from Whistler through Black Super, and warned that he planned to blow up the Evernight Temple.
• Blade left the underground temple and reunited with Dr. Karen Jensen, while Green Arrow Duck planted explosives throughout the complex.
• Blade told Green Arrow Duck that he had avenged Whistler and asked about his safety; Green Arrow Duck said Whistler was recovering in a secret location.
• Green Arrow Duck warned Blade and Dr. Karen Jensen to leave before the explosives detonated, and Blade declined to investigate his identity.
• Twelve minutes later, the explosives collapsed the ground above the Evernight Temple into a massive sinkhole.

After Deacon Frost’s defeat, radical Vampires disappeared from Los Angeles, easing life for residents and Hollywood workers. Henry used the lull to test his compact tracking missiles and gather combat data, until another call for help interrupted him.

• Blade thwarted Deacon Frost’s bid to become the Blood God, leaving the radical Vampires weakened and vulnerable to the Twelve Clans.
• The radical Vampires vanished from Los Angeles, making the streets safer and clearing obstacles from J.J. Harris’s work in Hollywood.
• Henry focused on testing the Duck Leopard armor and compact Variable-Directional Tracking Combat Missiles, which relied on external tracking and had a short range.
• Henry used Kitty as a mock target and later deployed the missiles against Vampires to collect combat data.
• A phone call for help interrupted Henry’s research.

Henry learned that Sentry had become the Void and was devastating Manhattan, so he set out to rescue Katharine Hepburn and her caregiver, Maria Thomson. He flew from Los Angeles to New York while carrying his Cadillac, planning to take them to Katharine’s seaside villa in Connecticut.

• Maria Thomson called Henry and explained that Katharine Hepburn’s health and care situation had left them at Katharine’s East 49th Street home.
• Henry watched news footage showing Sentry spreading the Void’s destructive shadows through Manhattan.
• Henry told Maria to pack Katharine’s medication and wait for him so he could take them to the Connecticut villa.
• Henry decided not to rely on the X-Men or Nick Fury to stop the threat and chose to get Katharine and Maria out himself.
• Henry lifted his Cadillac and flew from Los Angeles toward New York with the car held above him.

Henry reached Katharine Hepburn’s apartment in New York and persuaded the stubborn ninety-one-year-old to leave as The Void rampaged nearby. He carried her out and headed for the car with her private nurse following.

• Henry drove through New York’s clogged streets and reached Katharine Hepburn’s building.
• Henry found Katharine sitting by the window while her nurse, Maria Thomson, waited for him.
• Henry coaxed Katharine into leaving by promising wine and a visit to her home in Fenwick.
• Henry carried Katharine downstairs and signaled for Maria Thomson to follow.

Henry evacuated Katharine Hepburn from New York as Sentry battled the U.S. military, and he drove her toward her family’s home in Fenwick, Connecticut. He wondered what had caused Sentry to lose control and who could stop him.

• Henry helped Katharine Hepburn into his car and drove her through chaotic New York traffic with Maria Thomson.
• Katharine recognized that Henry had missed her and requested Beef Wellington for dinner.
• Henry asked Maria Thomson to notify the Fenwick house before they arrived.
• Sentry fought U.S. military helicopters and destroyed several of them while Henry and Katharine escaped the city.
• Henry wondered whether Sentry was under The Void’s control and which heroes could intervene.

Henry escaped New York with Katharine Hepburn and Maria Thomson, then discussed Titanic’s success and his investment in it. He explained why he had not pushed Charlize to pursue the female lead, and Katharine warned that Leonardo and Kate would struggle to be recognized for their work beyond James Cameron’s film.

• Henry used Super Senses and risky driving to guide his car out of New York, then relaxed and chatted with Katharine Hepburn.
• Henry told Katharine that Stark Studios invested sixty-five million dollars in Titanic, including ten million of his own money.
• Katharine questioned whether cultural differences explained Titanic’s success, and Henry said its romance, characters, historical disaster, and large-scale production all drew audiences.
• Katharine asked why Henry had not helped Charlize pursue the female lead, and Henry said he thought she might regret making the film and that James Cameron would not compromise easily.
• Maria Thomson asked why Katharine would regret making Titanic, and Katharine said audiences would remember it as James Cameron’s film rather than hers and that Leonardo and Kate faced a difficult road.

Henry joined Catherine's family for a lavish dinner at the Hepburn seaside villa, where the conversation turned to a superhero's violent actions and Henry's work on Titanic. Quicksilver arrived with an auburn-haired woman, leaving Henry wary that they had come on Raven's behalf.

• Henry prepared Beef Wellington and paired it with wine from the Hepburn Family's cellar for Catherine's elderly relatives.
• The family discussed the sudden violence of a supposed superhero and debated Katharine Hepburn's chances of appearing on the American Film Institute's upcoming list of the greatest movie stars.
• A relative asked Henry about Titanic's Oscar win and his company's investment, and Henry said Stark Studios had handled the film's computer visual effects.
• Henry answered a rapid knock at the villa's door, found Pietro Django Maximoff and an auburn-haired woman outside, and joked about Quicksilver's woodpecker-like knocking.
• Henry worried that Quicksilver had returned to the X-Men and come to deliver a message from Raven.

Wanda Maximoff came to Henry Brown on the Sorcerer Supreme’s orders to warn him about the Void and ask him to help stop it. She explained that the X-Men and magical community were preparing to fight, but lacked someone who could restrain the Void at close range.

• Quicksilver introduced his younger sister, Wanda Maximoff, to Henry, and she nearly struck him with a magic arrow after her brother teased her.
• Wanda pulled Henry into the courtyard and explained that she had avoided meeting him because the Sorcerer Supreme had ordered the magical world to stay away.
• Wanda told Henry that the Sorcerer Supreme had sent her to ask whether he could protect the people he cared about if the Void lost control.
• Henry asked why the X-Men could not handle the Void, and Wanda said Jean Grey’s Phoenix Force was incomplete and the X-Men had already failed once.
• Wanda said the X-Men and magical community were preparing to fight the Void, but needed Henry to restrain it at close range.

Wanda tried to recruit Henry to fight The Void by warning him that New York had already lost at least a hundred thousand lives and that the threat was spreading. Henry questioned why the Sorcerer Supreme and other powerful figures could not handle it, then learned Ancient One had limits and argued that the U.S. military should face the consequences of its confidence.

• Henry resisted Wanda's attempt to persuade him to help, and Wanda invoked Abraham's plea to save Sodom to ask whether he would protect the world for the people he cared about.
• Wanda told Henry that Professor X had detected at least a hundred thousand vanished thoughts in New York and warned that fleeing would not solve the spreading crisis.
• Henry questioned why the Sorcerer Supreme had not defeated The Void, and Wanda explained that Ancient One was powerful but could be vulnerable to overwhelming brute force.
• Henry suggested asking Magneto and the Mutants on Genosha Island for help, but Wanda explained that bringing them to the East Coast would take at least a day.
• Wanda said The Void's death toll was still growing and the U.S. military planned an offensive without evacuating New York, while Henry argued that the military needed to learn its limits.

Henry agreed to leave with Wanda and Pietro to confront The Void, deciding that acting sooner would reduce the damage and resentment. Wanda revealed that the Sorcerer Supreme wanted Superman rather than Henry Brown, and Henry reluctantly put on the Superman suit before setting out.

• Henry concluded that he should act against The Void before its threat spread and caused greater losses.
• Henry told Katharine Hepburn he had to leave, and she wished him luck before he said goodbye to the others.
• Wanda told Henry that the Sorcerer Supreme needed Superman, then used Chaos Magic to produce a red-and-blue suit with an S emblem.
• Pietro gave Henry hair gel and urged him to hurry while Wanda watched him change.
• Henry changed into the Superman suit, slicked back his hair, and returned to Wanda and Pietro.

Henry Brown disguised himself as Superman and confronted The Void above Manhattan, where their first exchanges of blows revealed how difficult it would be to land a decisive strike. The Void exposed Superman’s face and taunted him about Robert Reynolds, while the watching U.S. military noticed the new challenger.

• Henry Brown altered his appearance, forged a silver mask, and flew toward New York as Quicksilver and Wanda decided to join the fight.
• Superman confronted The Void above Manhattan and sent him flying with a sequence of kicks, but neither fighter landed a decisive blow.
• The Void read Superman’s thoughts and taunted him about trying to awaken Robert Reynolds and about wearing the Superman costume.
• The Void ripped off Superman’s mask and crushed it into a small sphere.
• The U.S. military watching from afar noticed Superman standing before Sentry and were left bewildered.

Superman continued fighting The Void while limiting his attacks to protect New York’s remaining residents. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch arrived to help, and Superman and Quicksilver attacked The Void together as they awaited further reinforcements.

• Superman endured The Void’s repeated attacks rather than risk sending him crashing into occupied buildings.
• Quicksilver brought Scarlet Witch to the battlefield, and Superman asked how Quicksilver’s physics studies were going before accepting their help.
• Superman warned Quicksilver about the black tendrils and split their approach, with each attacking The Void from one side.
• Quicksilver’s supersonic strikes gave Superman openings to land powerful punches, making him a consequential variable in the fight.
• The Void struggled to dismiss Superman’s growing strength and sensed a familiar, deadly presence in Scarlet Witch.

Superman and Quicksilver adapted to The Void’s aerial advantage, and the Scarlet Witch trapped him with magic. Cyclops broke the prison with an Optic Blast, leaving The Void charging the X-Men as Jean Grey stood in his way.

• Superman explained how Quicksilver could use compressed air as footholds, and Quicksilver learned to run diagonally through the sky.
• Quicksilver struck The Void in midair, and Superman slammed him into the ground while the Scarlet Witch imprisoned him in a magical sphere.
• Cyclops’s Optic Blast broke the magical barrier, freeing The Void.
• The Void charged the X-Men, while Professor X linked everyone’s thoughts and Storm prepared an attack.
• Jean Grey, who possessed the Phoenix Force, stood in The Void’s path.

The X-Men and mages joined Superman and Quicksilver against The Void, but their attacks struggled to affect him as Superman’s strength and resolve grew. The Void tried to attack Professor X, only for Phoenix to switch places with him and confront The Void directly.

• Professor X stopped trying to enter the mages’ minds after they resisted his psychic contact.
• Cyclops shattered the mages’ shell around The Void, and Jean Grey separated from him after keeping him contained with the Phoenix Force.
• The Void caught Quicksilver’s fist, but Phoenix forced him to release the speedster while Superman repeatedly attacked him.
• Storm unleashed lightning, while Cyclops and the mages struggled to contribute as Superman and The Void fought through buildings.
• Professor X guided Robert Reynolds’s consciousness as his voice grew louder within The Void, who took a blow and then broke free to attack Professor X.
• Phoenix switched places with Professor X and faced The Void directly.

Superman, Quicksilver, and Jean Grey fought The Void, whose increasingly unreal form made ordinary attacks ineffective. Superman drove The Void into one of Scarlet Witch’s magical traps and signaled Quicksilver to stop Cyclops from firing at them.

• Jean Grey held The Void in the air while Superman and Quicksilver attacked him with molecular oscillation strikes.
• The Void erupted with black tendrils, blasted the attackers away, and destroyed the top floors of a building after Storm had evacuated the other X-Men.
• The Void’s movements became perceptual and unreal, leaving Superman and Quicksilver unable to land meaningful physical blows while he avoided Scarlet Witch’s magical traps.
• Superman urged Scarlet Witch to use her magic, then rammed The Void into one of her traps and shouted for her to act.
• Quicksilver spotted Cyclops preparing to blast Superman and The Void together and hurried to stop him.