Chapter Summaries

Carla led the Foot Clan’s Beast-men in an attack on the Military outside a museum, while Gwen realized the turtles had been lured into a trap. Andrew protected April and Scarlet with magic as the battle spread, and the turtles, Gwen, Jessica, Spider-Woman, and Colleen joined the fight, leaving the Military’s special forces badly outmatched.

• Carla ordered the Beast-men to attack, and they overwhelmed Rhodes’s Power Armor units outside the museum.
• Gwen recognized that the Foot Clan had leaked intelligence to lure the turtles into a trap, but she and the others continued toward the battle to help.
• A Boarman and a Werewolf attacked Scarlet and April in the coffee shop, but Andrew’s Do Not Disturb Magic kept them from noticing the women until they left to fight elsewhere.
• Andrew explained his magic to April and Scarlet, then used his watch to reveal that he had hacked April’s phone.
• The turtles, Gwen, Jessica, Spider-Woman, and Colleen arrived in a truck and joined the fight against the Beast-men.
• Colleen killed a Bearman, while Scarlet watched the superheroes arrive and realized the special forces’ debut had failed.

Andrew watched the Beast-men attack as superheroes arrived to help, while The Foot Clan used the chaos to capture three of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The chapter ended with Carla and the Ninjas escaping through a teleportation portal, leaving Leonardo and Tony to search for them.

• Andrew magically relieved Scarlet's pain while Gwen, Jessica, and Colleen fought the Beast-men outside the museum.
• Human Torch and Iron Man joined the battle, and Iron Man rushed into the museum after Rhodes screamed.
• Carla threatened Rhodes and revealed that The Foot Clan had lured the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles there to capture them.
• Carla disabled Iron Man's systems and used electrified chains to subdue Raphael and two other turtles.
• Carla's Ninjas carried the three captured turtles through a Blue teleportation vortex, while Tony shielded Leonardo from the grenades that destroyed the museum.
• Tony scanned for traces of the portal as Leonardo went outside to seek prisoners, but the Beast-men had already fled and Gwen's team pursued them.

After the Foot Clan’s attack, Andrew used Leonardo’s blood and a magically animated Paper Crane to guide the heroes toward his kidnapped brothers. The rescue team set off while Andrew sent the turtle blood to The Leader to extract its Panacea.

• Leonardo captured a Kobold and demanded to know where the Foot Clan had taken his brothers, while Rhino angrily interrogated the prisoner.
• Steve and the others arrived at the museum, learned that Raphael and the other turtles had been kidnapped, and asked Andrew for help tracking them.
• Andrew drew Leonardo’s blood and made a talking Paper Crane that could track the other turtles for one hour.
• Tony, Steve, Leonardo, and the others boarded the Quinjet to follow the Paper Crane, while April stayed behind and published photos of the attack.
• Andrew teased Scarlet about whether magic existed, then sent Leonardo’s blood to Rebirth Hell and ordered The Leader to extract and mass-produce the Panacea.

Andrew rejected Harry Osborn’s offer to save the Osborn Group and promised Susan improved flying boards for Spider-Woman’s team. Meanwhile, the superheroes attacked The Foot Clan’s base to rescue the hostages, but Gwen sensed a danger elsewhere and left with Dr. Reed as Schrade prepared to open a portal for alien warships.

• Susan told Andrew that Harry Osborn wanted to discuss saving the Osborn Group, and Andrew said it was beyond saving; he also agreed to make flying boards for Spider-Woman’s team.
• Schrade, Saxe, and Carla prepared to lure the superheroes into an explosives- and poison-filled base while Schrade and Stroman calibrated an interstellar space gate.
• On the Quinjet, Gwen sensed danger beneath The Foot Clan’s mountain hideout, so Steve sent her and Dr. Reed to locate and disable its self-destruct device while the others entered to rescue the hostages.
• The superheroes fought through the base, while Saxe and Carla escaped and Saxe told Schrade to begin his plan; Schrade ordered Stroman to activate the space gate.
• Gwen suddenly redirected the Quinjet with Dr. Reed aboard, while the others reached the laboratory and found the turtles drained of blood and Rhodes imprisoned.
• Tony revived the turtles with adrenaline, and Rhodes revealed that Saxe planned to release biochemical poison gas in New York and use Panacea to pose as its savior; Human Torch urged Garrett to stop the plot.

Saxe and Carla revealed that The Foot Clan had helped the Aliens open a portal above New York, where an Alien Warship was assembling. With the heroes stranded far from the city and only a few defenders left, the invasion appeared imminent.

• Garrett agreed to take Coulson and the others to the facility while Tony suspected the biochemical gas story was a trap, and the heroes pursued Saxe and Carla.
• Gwen, Spider-Woman, Dr. Reed, and Barton intercepted Saxe and Carla, but the helicopter pilot launched missiles that disabled and destroyed the Quinjet.
• Saxe revealed that an Alien Warship was assembling above New York, and Roxanne's TikTok report explained that The Foot Clan had lured the superheroes away from the city.
• The heroes realized New York's remaining defenders included Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, Doctor Banner, Daredevil, and Luke Cage, while Saxe claimed the New Ghost Rider could not stop his Beast-men and the Aliens.
• Tony and Human Torch sped back toward New York as Steve prepared to find another way there, and Rhodes and Raphael knocked Saxe unconscious.

Schrade seized the Electronic Palace, killed and revived Commander Krang as his puppet, and used the warship to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D.'s hidden Energy Cannons and America's Third Fleet. He demanded that every country surrender within half an hour, while Andrew noted that mutants and magic could still oppose the Aliens.

• Schrade broke free of Commander Krang's freezing attack, killed it, revived it as a puppet, and took control of the Electronic Palace.
• Nick Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to fire five Manhattan Energy Cannons at the warship, but its shield blocked them and its counterattack destroyed the factory district.
• Doctor Banner and Spider-Man entered the Electronic Palace but were held back by Beast-men as the warship neared completion.
• Schrade ordered the warship to launch Laser Satellites, which destroyed America's Third Fleet and broadcast the attack worldwide.
• Schrade appeared on television and gave every country half an hour to surrender or face destruction.

Andrew appeared as a mage to confront Schrade and destroy the Electronic Palace after Earth’s defenses and surrender options failed. He neutralized its attacks and crashed its Smart System, leaving Schrade unable to use the warship’s weapons.

• Schrade’s destruction of the Third Fleet drove the public and world leaders toward despair, while Professor Charles refused Nick Fury’s request for help because humanity had abandoned Mutants.
• Steve exchanged his soul after death for Schrade’s defeat and Peggy Carter’s restoration to age eighteen, then learned from Howard that Bucky was alive and had become the Winter Soldier.
• The White House’s nuclear strike failed when a Laser destroyed the fighter jet, and world leaders began discussing surrender.
• Andrew appeared before the Electronic Palace and redirected its energy attack through a Space Gate, revealing his magic to the world.
• Andrew used Simulate Life to give the Smart System feelings and crash it, preventing Schrade from using the warship’s weapons.

Andrew defeated Shredder and ended the alien invasion, then took the Electronic Palace and other alien technology for himself. As Earth celebrated, Carter woke up young again and escaped the hospital, suspecting Steve was involved.

• Andrew sent the Beast-men to S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, where they attacked Nick Fury and the agents, then pulled Shredder back from teleportation and burned him to ashes after absorbing the Evil God Power.
• Andrew used Shredder’s remaining blood and Evil God flesh to create an Evil Ring of Resurrection, then took the Electronic Palace, Stroman’s room, and the laser satellites before leaving.
• People around the world celebrated Shredder’s defeat, while Karai raged and the turtles subdued her; Nick Fury pursued the Beast-men and demanded the Helicarrier return.
• The Paper Crane revealed that it regained energy near Gwen and asked to stay with her, and Gwen agreed.
• Carter woke up in the body of an eighteen-year-old, knocked out a nurse, changed into her clothes, and escaped to find Steve and learn how she had regained her youth.

Andrew oversaw Utopia’s construction on the moon and took stock of the gains from the alien invasion while Earth dealt with its aftermath. Steve reunited with the young Carter and began explaining his sacrifice, but the contract kept him from sharing every detail.

• Andrew brought Professor Charles to Utopia, where Magneto, Phoenix, Wolverine, Cyclops, and robots built a city for Mutants, and he handed the captured Alien Warship to Howard, Beast, and Trask to study.
• Professor Charles told Andrew that Black Bolt wanted to change the Inhumans’ society but faced opposition from the Council of Elders, while Andrew planned to transport Mutants to the moon once Utopia was complete.
• Nick Fury blamed Garrett for the invasion’s losses, Garrett beat Fury in the hospital, and President Ellis announced a Global Summit as America faced criticism over its military failures.
• Andrew counted more than seven hundred thousand souls and other spoils from the invasion, while Kingpin decided to keep a low profile after the Assassin’s League wounded him.
• Steve met eighteen-year-old Carter in an underground bar, kissed her, and started explaining what had happened, though his contract prevented him from giving her every detail.

Steve and Carter learned that Bucky was alive and that S.H.I.E.L.D. might be compromised, then reunited over the dance they had missed for seventy years. On New Year’s Eve, Professor Charles invited Mutants to immigrate to Utopia, and most accepted before S.H.I.E.L.D. could respond.

• Steve told Carter that Bucky was alive but controlled, and warned her that S.H.I.E.L.D. could not be trusted; they agreed to investigate together and dance.
• The Spider-Woman Squad flew over Times Square as Professor Charles broadcast an invitation for Mutants to settle in Utopia on the moon.
• Magneto protested after Charles named him as Magneto’s grandson, while Mutants signed Soul Pacts and Andrew arranged their mass teleportation.
• Psylocke accepted the offer and vanished for Utopia, leaving Deadpool behind, while Yuriko killed Colonel Stryker and the soldiers at his base before the Mutants there disappeared.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. and Humanity’s High-Level Executives learned that Mutants had vanished; seventy percent immigrated to Utopia, twenty percent became ordinary people, and ten percent remained on Earth.

The Mutants immigrated to the Moon while Loki used the Tesseract to enter a S.H.I.E.L.D. base and steal it. Nick Fury ordered the Avengers assembled to recover the Tesseract and arranged for Coulson’s body to be sent for resurrection.

• Andrew teleported Mutant Academy and millions of Mutants to the Moon, where the councilors and Alice began settling them in.
• Nick Fury tried to persuade Humanity's High-Level Executives to treat the remaining Mutants well, then learned the Tesseract had activated and rushed to the base with Hill.
• Loki emerged from the Tesseract’s portal, controlled Dr. Reed and Hawkeye with his staff, and killed Coulson when he tried to take the Tesseract away.
• Loki escaped with Dr. Reed and Hawkeye using the Tesseract as the base began to explode.
• Nick Fury ordered Hill to conceal Coulson’s death, send his body for resurrection, and gather the Avengers to recover the Tesseract.

Loki used the Tesseract and a blood-red magic array to weaken The Ancient One’s seal and overlap New York with Mephisto’s Hell, unleashing thousands of demons. As heroes and emergency forces fought to save the city, Mephisto destroyed the Demon Kings’ summoning Altars, leaving them furious with him.

• Loki activated the magic array with the Tesseract, sending demons to attack The Ancient One’s seal while Andrew watched and chose not to stop the plan.
• New York began overlapping with Mephisto’s Hell, and demons appeared across the city, attacking and killing civilians.
• Director George, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Colleen, Daredevil, Luke Cage, War Machine Rhodes, Garrett, Nick Fury, Iron Man, and other heroes and responders mobilized to fight the demons and protect people.
• Demon cultists across New York sacrificed themselves to summon Lucifer, Nightmare King, Marduk, and other Demon Kings.
• Several bolts of Black Lightning destroyed the Demon Kings’ Altars, and the Demon Kings blamed Mephisto for the attack.

Mephisto revealed that Hell’s Demon Kings had pursued separate schemes, then began fighting Andrew while Lucifer and the others attacked Mephisto’s Hell to prevent him from becoming Satan. As demons overwhelmed New York, Odin sent Thor to find Loki, and Tony searched the city for Loki and the Tesseract.

• Mephisto explained that the Demon Kings had acted independently, describing how Andrew had thwarted the Nightmare King’s, Lucifer’s, and Marduk’s plans while Mephisto worked with Thanos on the Plane Overlap plan.
• Lucifer and the other Demon Kings invaded Mephisto’s Hell to stop him from becoming Satan, while Andrew and Mephisto entered the Mirror Dimension and began fighting.
• Andrew used curses and the Destroyer against Mephisto, who retaliated with demonic puppets and a powerful claw strike that cracked the Mirror Dimension.
• Odin sent Thor to Earth to retrieve Loki, using more of his power and worsening his injuries.
• Tony and War Machine fought demons in New York as Tony learned from Nick Fury that Loki had stolen the Tesseract and ordered Jarvis to search the city for them.

The Heroes and S.H.I.E.L.D. fought demons in New York while racing to stop Loki at Stark Tower. Loki opened a portal that brought in Chitauri forces, and the chapter ended as a massive Leviathan Bio-Beast emerged from the vortex.

• Nick Fury revealed the Helicarrier, whose weapons and Quinjets helped drive back demons across New York.
• Tony and Rhodes confronted Loki at Stark Tower, but Loki used a magical wand to open a portal into Hell and summon the Chitauri.
• Tony, Rhodes, and Human Torch fought the arriving Chitauri bio-soldiers while Nick Fury ordered the Helicarrier toward Stark Tower.
• Gwen took the Flying Skateboards to battle the Aliens as Steve, Colleen, Jessica, Natasha, and The Thing moved to confront Loki and his allies.
• Steve and Colleen fought Loki, Jessica and Natasha fought Hawkeye, and The Thing battled Dr. Reed.
• Human Torch spotted a Chitauri Leviathan Bio-Beast emerging from the vortex.

Thor arrived in New York to take Loki back to Asgard, but Loki transformed into Demon Loki and fought him inside Stark Tower. As the Helicarrier fell and the World Security Council ordered a nuclear strike, Andrew pulled the city into an Illusion Realm so Alice could offer Contracts, while Hank Pym asked Hell to save his trapped daughter.

• Thor struck the Leviathan Beast with his hammer, then confronted Loki and asked Steve to let him take his brother back to Asgard.
• Loki knocked Colleen away, absorbed Mephisto's Demonic Power, and transformed into Demon Loki before challenging Thor.
• Thor and Demon Loki fought through Stark Tower as Steve and Colleen battled the attacking Chitauri.
• The Chitauri mothership's energy cannon blasted through the Helicarrier, killing its commander and crew and sending the carrier crashing toward the city.
• Nick Fury learned that the World Security Council planned to detonate a nuclear missile over New York, but Andrew transported the city into an Illusion Realm before the strike.
• Alice offered the gathered citizens Contracts in exchange for their souls after death, and Hank Pym asked Hell to save his trapped daughter.

As New York’s defenders fought back the invasion, Andrew’s forces rescued civilians while Loki fled and Kingpin transformed into a resentful Bone Dagger. In the Mirror Dimension, Andrew faced Mephisto and declared that he would remain human as their battle approached its end.

• Alice told Dr. Pym that his wife was alive in the Quantum Realm in exchange for the Pym Particle formula, then sent him out of the Illusion Realm to reunite with Hope.
• Red Devil prevented the nuclear strike, Magneto’s device slowed the Helicarrier’s fall, and Yelena led the Black Widow Guard Legion in rescuing contractors and killing demons.
• Hulk defeated Demon General, while Howard rescued Hope and Frank killed a Multi-armed Serpent Demon as the Peace Knights helped turn the battle for New York.
• Tony and the other superheroes confronted Loki, but Thor exposed an illusion and Loki escaped on a flying motorcycle.
• Lucifer’s tampering overwhelmed Kingpin with Evil God Power and Resentment, turning him into a Bone Dagger that absorbed power inside the Magic Array.
• Mephisto battered Andrew in the Mirror Dimension, and Andrew insisted that his humanity defined him before declaring that their battle should end.

Andrew transformed into a veteran Demon King, connecting Rebirth Hell to the River Styx and gaining Mechanical Magic before defeating Mephisto’s projection. Mephisto then tried to use the Space Stone to destroy New York, but its power failed because his balance was insufficient.

• Mephisto trapped Andrew in Death Space, but Andrew reached ten million Soul Pacts and chose the path of order and neutrality, completing his transformation.
• The River Styx connected to Rebirth Hell, which became a true Hell populated by Wild Machine Lifeforms, while Andrew gained a Mechanical Body and Mechanical Magic.
• Andrew transformed the Destroyer Armor, broke free of Death Space, and attacked Mephisto with Energy Cannons and an Artificial Sun spear.
• Andrew pinned Mephisto with a Spatial Force Field and destroyed his projection with three nuclear bombs inside Unmanned Armors.
• Mephisto refused to admit defeat and tried to use the Space Stone against New York, but it announced that his balance was insufficient, and Andrew took pictures of his stunned reaction.

Andrew used the Space Stone and three Bifrost beams to devastate Mephisto’s Hell, then helped Blackheart kill Mephisto with a dagger carrying Beast’s Resentment. Blackheart seized only half of Hell’s Authority, while the Ancient One warned that Mephisto might not be so easy to kill.

• The Demon Kings realized the Space Stone in the Tesseract was a projection and mocked Mephisto for falling into Andrew’s trap.
• Andrew attacked Mephisto’s Hell with the Space Stone and bargained with Odin for the Bifrost technology in exchange for helping Asgard rebuild it and sparing Loki.
• Andrew created a Bifrost and used it alongside two others to bombard Mephisto, while the Ancient One supplied him with power from Kamar-Taj’s Magic Array.
• Andrew sent Blackheart to stab Mephisto with a Bone Dagger containing Beast’s Resentment, preventing Mephisto from absorbing Hell Power.
• Andrew unleashed the three Bifrosts at full strength, and Mephisto was reduced to ashes as the Demon Kings celebrated his death.
• Blackheart claimed Hell Authority but gained only half, and the Ancient One cautioned that Mephisto might not be easy to kill.

Andrew secured spoils from Blackheart after Mephisto’s apparent death, then ended the demon invasion of New York and secretly took the Mind Scepter. The city was saved, Loki and Thor were sent back to Asgard, and Andrew discovered something planted in the scepter by Thanos.

• Blackheart revealed Mephisto had a means of resurrection, and Andrew claimed five percent authority over Mephisto’s Hell, the souls in Mephisto’s collection, and one hundred thousand succubi to be delivered over a hundred years.
• Andrew teleported the Chitauri mothership to Rebirth Hell and returned to Earth while the Demon Kings invited him to their next assembly.
• Hulk defeated Loki, and Andrew appeared over New York, destroyed the Magic Array, separated the city from Mephisto’s Hell, and burned the invading demons to ash.
• Odin teleported Thor and Loki back to Asgard, while Andrew sent tens of thousands of souls to Rebirth Hell and withdrew his mechanical projection.
• Andrew secretly took the real Mind Scepter, left a counterfeit behind, and detected something Thanos had planted in it.

Andrew secured the Mind Stone after the New York invasion, while the heroes rescued survivors and learned how the disaster began. Nick Fury prepared to shift public blame for the crisis onto the World Security Council as New York began recovering.

• On the Temple Ship, Thanos severed his connection to the Mind Scepter to stop the Curse of Decay, then vowed to fulfill his Destiny after an unseen voice restored him.
• Andrew found that the Mind Stone resisted him, borrowed Odin's Infinity Gauntlet, made a counterfeit Mind Scepter, and sealed the real Stone in the Depths of Hell.
• The Peace Knights withdrew from New York, and the superheroes began rescuing civilians and searching for the Tesseract while resolving to grow stronger.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. recovered the Tesseract, and Nick Fury ordered Garrett to protect it and secure the damaged Helicarrier.
• Roxanne's livestream revealed that Loki and S.H.I.E.L.D. had caused the disaster, prompting public outrage and demands for S.H.I.E.L.D. to shut down.
• Nick Fury planned to blame the World Security Council's nuclear-missile order and called Pierce to secure his support.