Chapter Summaries

Lake trapped Lucian and the werewolves inside a barrier, then gave Lucian a final chance to submit or survive his attack. Lucian refused and lunged at Lake, who unleashed his Super! Railgun.

• Lake used the One-time Ultimate Beast Catcher to trap Lucian and the werewolves inside the plaza barrier.
• Lucian repeatedly charged the barrier, failed to break through, and weakened himself with each impact.
• Lake revealed ten copies of himself and offered Lucian one last chance to kneel and submit.
• Lucian spat out the remains of Marcus and Viktor and refused to become Lake’s dog.
• Lake flicked a game coin into the air and charged his Super! Railgun as Lucian lunged at him.
• Lake struck the coin and fired the Super! Railgun at Lucian.

Lake destroyed Lucian and the werewolf pack with his Railgun, forcing the vampire councilors to submit to Emilia as Queen. He rewarded the vampires with his blood so they could withstand sunlight, while Selena wondered whether she could become Lake and Emilia’s child too.

• Lake fired eleven Railguns, destroying Lucian and the werewolves in the plaza.
• Catalan and the surviving vampire councilors knelt before Emilia and offered their loyalty.
• Lake recovered from the battle and learned that the remaining councilors had given Emilia their heart blood.
• Lake gave Emilia his blood to distribute as a reward, and the vampires and maids discovered they could safely stand in sunlight.
• Katherine told Selena that she and David were Lake and Emilia’s biological children, leaving Selena to wonder if she could be one too.

After Emilia consolidated control of the VAM Consortium, Lake and Katherine discussed renaming their family the Immortal Royal House while the Volturi watched the Night vampires’ rise warily. The chapter ended with a local claiming mysterious men in black were leading the investigation at Viktor’s ruined manor.

• Emilia secured the VAM Consortium’s branches by offering vampires a sun-proof artifact and began forming a new Death Walker army under Selena.
• Lake took Katherine sightseeing in Budapest, and she suggested changing the family’s name to the Immortal Royal House.
• Lake agreed in principle and told Katherine to ask Emilia, who would decide whether to change the name.
• Katherine looked forward to showing Jane, a Volturi representative, that her mother had become queen and that their family had risen in status.
• At a café, Lake and Katherine overheard a local claim that mysterious men in black suits and sunglasses, not the authorities, were leading the investigation at Viktor’s ruined manor.

Lake met S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Phil Coulson and Natasha, who questioned him about the explosion at Viktor’s manor. After they let him leave, Lake suspected the organization had become involved and contacted List for information, while Emilia hinted that she knew S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Locals in a café discussed black-suited agents who had taken bodies from the explosion site at Viktor’s manor, and one recognized Lake and a woman entering as people he had seen there.
• Coulson and Natasha approached Lake, identified themselves as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and questioned him about Maureen’s death and the manor explosion.
• Lake denied knowing anything about the explosion and left with Katherine after Coulson allowed him to go; Coulson told Natasha they had confirmed Lake was in the area.
• On the train, Lake warned Katherine to kill S.H.I.E.L.D. agents if they bothered her, then returned to the castle and called List to ask whether he had information about their arrival.
• Emilia asked Lake about the troublesome organization, and Lake asked whether she had dealt with S.H.I.E.L.D. before.

Lake learned that Alexander Corvinus had infiltrated the European S.H.I.E.L.D. branch and used it to send a report about him. Meanwhile, Coulson and Natasha investigated Emilia’s rise to power and Lake’s history with her, ending with Coulson pointing out something intriguing in a file about Lake.

• Emilia told Lake that Craven had handled the Volturi Immortal Royal Family’s nonaggression pact with S.H.I.E.L.D. for decades.
• Catalan informed Emilia that the Security Council wanted to meet, and Emilia directed him to have Selena handle it.
• List told Lake that information about him had come from a cargo ship and that the European S.H.I.E.L.D. branch had sent an investigation report before its agents began investigating.
• Coulson explained to Natasha how S.H.I.E.L.D. had contacted Emilia through the Volturi and summarized the reports about the vampire elders’ deaths.
• Coulson told Natasha that Lake had spent part of each year with Emilia for thirteen years, then gestured toward an intriguing detail in Lake’s file.

Natasha and Coulson linked Lake Edwin’s military background and leave records to the operation that put Emilia in power, but Nick Fury warned them that they lacked proof and could not risk confronting the vampires. He ordered them to negotiate a new agreement with Emilia’s newly established Immortal Royal Family, while their intercepted call and Selena’s arrival left the situation unresolved.

• Natasha and Coulson examined Lake Edwin’s leave records and his participation in Operation Freedom, then suspected he had secretly helped plan the vampire takeover.
• Coulson reported their deductions to Nick Fury, who cautioned that exposing them would risk a confrontation with the vampires without evidence.
• Nick Fury told Natasha and Coulson that the VAM Consortium had become the Immortal Consortium and that Emilia had become queen of the Immortal Royal Family.
• Nick Fury ordered them to meet Emilia and negotiate a new supernatural agreement instead of investigating the takeover.
• An agent told Coulson and Natasha that Selena had arrived to pick them up, while their satellite conversation had been intercepted.

Lake dismissed Natasha and Coulson as tools but took precautions in New York after learning Alexander Corvinus had also intercepted their conversation. Alexander blamed Lake for the deaths of Marcus and Viktor and sent a subordinate to bring him in.

• Emilia asked Lake whether Selena should kill Natasha and Coulson, but Lake decided they were only tools and posed no immediate threat.
• List told Lake that Alexander Corvinus had intercepted the conversation, prompting Lake to strengthen security at New York’s entrances and exits.
• Alexander watched a video of Nick Fury, Coulson, and Natasha discussing Lake and learned that they suspected a conspiracy behind Marcus and Viktor’s deaths.
• After Michael told Alexander what he had learned, Alexander blamed Lake for the conspiracy and ordered a subordinate to bring Lake to him.

Alexander Corvinus enlisted Michael Corvin to help free William and take revenge, while Coulson and Natasha met Emilia to discuss a nonaggression pact. Emilia postponed the pact until the Security Council explained how their private conversation had been leaked.

• Alexander Corvinus showed Michael Corvin the recording and asked him to help free William so they could avenge his death.
• Michael Corvin agreed, and Alexander took him by helicopter toward William’s secret prison.
• Selena escorted Coulson and Natasha to Immortal Castle, where they learned that she and the other evolved vampires belonged to the Immortal Bloodline.
• Coulson asked Emilia whether the supernatural agreement would continue and proposed a nonaggression pact with the Immortal Royal Family.
• Emilia played a recording of Coulson, Natasha, and Nick Fury’s conversation, said she had sent it to the Security Council, and demanded an explanation before signing the pact.

Lake sent Coulson and Natasha away, then drove toward William’s secret prison after Hydra’s intelligence suggested Alexander Corvinus might try to free him. Meanwhile, Pierce suspended European S.H.I.E.L.D.’s permissions and appointed Nick Fury special prosecutor, leaving Fury to investigate a suspected infiltration.

• Emilia asked Lake whether he needed to dismiss Coulson and Natasha so bluntly, and Lake said he disliked owing favors while acting in coordination with Hydra.
• Lake studied Hydra’s thermal satellite image of werewolves converging on one location and drove toward the monastery prison where William was held.
• Pierce told Fury that the leaked recording had angered the Security Council and that European S.H.I.E.L.D.’s satellite data showed signs of a major internal problem.
• Pierce froze European S.H.I.E.L.D.’s permissions and appointed Nick Fury special prosecutor to investigate the leak and identify those involved.
• Fury explained to Coulson and Natasha that the Security Council was angry about S.H.I.E.L.D.’s infiltration, then ordered the European branch’s department heads placed under control and requested reinforcements.

Lake attacked Alexander Corvinus's Immortal Agents at Lake Island and electrocuted Michael Corvin while searching for William's prison. After Michael survived repeated attacks and tried to ambush him, Lake decided he was more suited than Lucian to become his pet.

• Lake used a Super-Electromagnetic Railgun to destroy the Immortal Agents' cabin ambush, then propelled a wooden boat toward the monastery.
• Lake destroyed two attack helicopters with Railguns and brought down the third with a Dragon Claw Kick.
• Lake electrocuted the lake to kill fish, then entered the monastery and found Michael Corvin searching for William's coffin and carrying the prison key.
• Michael was shocked by electricity in the water, and Lake repeatedly fired Railguns at him while demanding that he hand over the key.
• Michael pretended to be unconscious and lunged at Lake, but Lake vanished before the attack landed and appeared unharmed above him.

Lake defeated William and Michael Corvin in Hungary, then escaped before the police arrived and returned to Immortal Castle to recover. After waking, he reunited with Little Cotton-padded Jacket and learned that his son had waited for him too.

• Lake fought Michael Corvin, severed his right arm, and watched him flee into the monastery to release William.
• Lake defeated William with Railguns and his copies, but Michael emerged transformed into a golden giant wolf.
• After running out of game coins, Lake used Dragon Claw Hand to kill Michael, despite pushing his undying body to its limits.
• Lake left before the Hungarian police arrived, detonated his car, and boarded a helicopter to Immortal Castle.
• Emilia told Lake he had slept for about five hours, and Little Cotton-padded Jacket rushed to greet him and complained about her brother.

Lake learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. had taken Michael Corvin's body and treated it as an Assassination Order, while Alexander Corvinus's empire collapsed under Hydra's assault. The Winter Soldier reached Corvinus aboard the sinking freighter as Corvinus activated a hidden device.

• Emilia told Lake that Michael Corvin's body and the helicopter wreckage had vanished from Lake Island, and Lake confirmed that S.H.I.E.L.D. had taken the corpse.
• Lake told List to treat the recovery as an Assassination Order and let Hydra choose the payment, then turned his attention to Emilia.
• Alexander Corvinus learned that his sons and descendant were dead, European S.H.I.E.L.D. had been purged, and his communications and satellite access had been cut off.
• Hydra attacked Corvinus's freighter with the Kwon Fighter Jet and the Winter Soldier, killing Immortal Agents as the ship began to sink.
• Corvinus dismissed his loyal Immortal Agent and pressed a hidden object as the Winter Soldier entered the study.

After Hydra destroyed Corvinus’s freighter and captured the surviving Immortal Agents, Lake learned that Katherine wanted to attend school in Forks. He reluctantly considered letting her go, though he worried about the town’s dangers and who she might meet there.

• Corvinus detonated the freighter, killing himself and destroying the Kwon Fighter Jet, while the sea swallowed the wreckage without attracting public attention.
• Lake learned a week later that Corvinus was dead and lamented losing his inheritance, then confirmed that S.H.I.E.L.D. had captured the surviving Immortal Agents.
• The Security Council secretly imprisoned the European S.H.I.E.L.D. leadership, and Alexander Pierce and Maria Hill signed a noninterference agreement with the Immortal Royal Family.
• The Immortal Consortium cleared and rebuilt the towns near Immortal Castle as Emilia’s royal family’s private town, while Katherine watched the construction from the castle terrace.
• Emilia proposed sending Katherine to Forks High School, and Lake argued for other schools before reluctantly asking whether Forks was necessary.

Lake agreed to send Katherine to Forks to attend school and stay with the Cullen family, then accompanied her there to meet Carlisle and Esme Cullen. Katherine began her four-year stay as David remained behind at the Immortal Castle.

• Emilia explained that her friend Carlisle Cullen had once served in VAM, and Lake agreed in principle to send Katherine to Forks for school.
• Lake agreed to let Katherine leave early to get familiar with Forks, while David remained confined to the Immortal Castle for two years.
• At the end of May, Katherine packed her Fourth-Dimensional Pocket and boarded a train with Emilia and David seeing her off.
• Lake and Katherine traveled by private plane to Angel Airport, where Carlisle Cullen and Esme Cullen greeted them.
• Katherine politely greeted Esme, and Carlisle invited Lake and Katherine to come with them.

Lake returned to New York with Skye and met Cassel and Owen at 8867 Bar to say goodbye to Owen, who was moving to Texas to rebuild a fire station. Owen revealed that he had Stage 1B lung cancer, and Lake returned home late to Skye’s complaints.

• Lake brought Skye back to New York and learned from Cassel that Owen was leaving for Texas to rebuild Fire Station 126.
• Lake joked with Skye at home, then left for 8867 Bar after giving her money for doing housework.
• Lake met Cassel and Owen at the bar, where Owen said Tyler had been rejected after proposing and had overdosed on medication.
• Owen told Lake and Cassel that he had Stage 1B lung cancer and planned to move to Texas despite the diagnosis.
• Lake and Cassel drank with Owen, took him home, and then returned to their own homes, where Skye and Alexis complained about them coming back late.

Lake asked List to search for possible treatment for a friend’s lung tumor, then attended a security briefing about a suspected terrorist plot against New York. The briefing ended with Lake asking how long it would take to make a captured Freedom Glory leader talk.

• Lake shared soy milk and breakfast with Skye, who reminded him to call List about the advanced medical treatment he and Cassel had discussed while drinking.
• Lake called List to ask whether his organization knew of treatments for a friend’s lung tumor, and List agreed to investigate.
• Lake went to work at the Homeland Security building and joined a meeting with Supervisor Carmen and Langley agent Knoll.
• Knoll reported that a five-month investigation had led to the arrest of Hassan Raham, Freedom Glory’s sixth-in-command.
• Lake asked how long it would take to make Hassan Raham talk.

Lake replaced Kelly Knoll with Mandy to interrogate Hassan Raham, who revealed that nuclear fission material had been smuggled into Los Angeles Harbor. He warned that the people who would carry out the attack were Federation citizens, leaving Lake facing a serious threat at home.

• Lake judged Kelly Knoll unsuited to interrogate Hassan Raham and arranged for Mandy to take over while Knoll remained on the case.
• Mandy confronted Hassan with photographs of his family, then refused to bargain for his freedom and sought a postponement of his execution.
• After Hassan's family was attacked and his youngest son survived, Mandy used the execution postponement permit to persuade him to reveal what he knew.
• Hassan told Mandy that he had smuggled enough nuclear fission material into Los Angeles Harbor to make three bombs.
• Mandy told Lake that Hassan said the attackers would be Federation citizens rather than members of his own organization, and Lake recognized the threat as a major problem.

After a foiled plot to bring a nuclear device into Los Angeles, Lake joined a prolonged investigation into the terrorists who had built it and discovered that their leader, Laza, had wiped out the Freedom Glory organization. When civilian screening found no answers, Langley pointed the investigation toward the military and presented a dossier on an official.

• Lake alerted Secretary Kelly, bringing Homeland Security, the CIA, the FBI, and S.H.I.E.L.D. into the investigation after the freighter plot came to light.
• Three days later, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the FBI intercepted the freighter and recovered three secured crates, averting the nuclear-test crisis.
• SEALs found the Freedom Glory base destroyed, and Hassan Raham identified the dead as members of the organization, including its leaders; Langley later learned that the new group's leader was called Laza.
• Lake and other officials spent months pursuing leads, then agreed to manually screen people with the knowledge to build a nuclear bomb, but found no useful suspect.
• At the final joint meeting, Langley's director pointed out that the military had not been independently investigated and produced a dossier on a military official.

Lake was assigned to investigate Yusuf Atta Mohammed at Quantico despite the military’s objections, and traveled to Washington to begin the inquiry. Yusuf learned an investigator was coming and arranged to meet Dr. Banner the next morning.

• Director Langley identified Yusuf Atta Mohammed as a suspect and said the military had allowed one investigator to assist with the investigation.
• Secretary Kelly told Lake that he also held the position of Deputy Director of Operations, and NCIS later approved Lake’s credentials to join the inquiry.
• Lake flew to Washington, met Betty, and learned that the military had already investigated Yusuf and given him a polygraph.
• Lake returned to Karen’s home, where Betty helped carry his luggage and teased him about treating her like a chauffeur.
• At the Quantico nuclear physics laboratory, Yusuf’s colleague told him that an investigator was coming, and Yusuf called Dr. Banner to arrange an early meeting the next morning.

Lake joined Gibbs and the NCIS team to investigate Yusuf Atta Mohammed at Quantico, where a laboratory experiment prevented them from entering. As they waited, Betty revealed that the experiment was part of a project connected to General Ross’s dream of creating a super soldier.

• Lake went to NCIS headquarters, reunited with Ziva, and met DiNozzo and McGee before telling Gibbs he would observe the Quantico investigation without taking over the case.
• Gibbs brought his team and Lake to Quantico, where they learned they had to wait until an experiment at the physics laboratory ended.
• Betty met Lake at the base and explained that the laboratory’s lead researchers were her boyfriend and Dr. Yusuf Atta Mohammed, who were working on the Biotechnology Strength Enhancement Project.
• Betty reminded Lake of their father’s dream of creating a perfect soldier, and Lake realized she meant the Super Soldier Serum.