Chapter Summaries

Tony Stark challenged S.H.I.E.L.D. and the other official agencies to pit their armor against his, then effortlessly destroyed their unmanned suits. The agencies dismissed the defeat and prepared to challenge the Avengers with another method.

• Nick Fury argued that official agencies had developed armor of their own, and Tony Stark challenged them to bring it out.
• Martian Manhunter warned Tony Stark that the unmanned armor could not be secretly handled with his abilities, but Tony Stark remained confident.
• The agencies' armor surrounded Tony Stark's suit, but its clumsy attacks caused the suits to damage one another while Tony Stark dodged without firing back.
• Tony Stark ordered Jarvis to end the fight, and electromagnetic lines destroyed the remaining suits while leaving his armor unharmed.
• Nick Fury and other agency members claimed the victory did not prove Tony Stark's armor could protect the President, and Tony Stark invited them to try their next tactic.

General Ross and other official-agency superhumans failed to catch Tony Stark’s agile armor, so Nick Fury proposed a drill to test whether it could protect the interim President. The President was moved into a staged office scenario, where Nick Fury delayed the attack until the President and his bodyguards grew tired and distracted.

• General Ross led official-agency superhumans in attacking Tony Stark’s armor, but its speed and agility let it evade them.
• Nick Fury argued that evading attacks would not prove the armor could protect the interim President in an office, and proposed a drill.
• The interim President objected to being used in the drill, but Tony Stark and Nick Fury insisted he participate.
• The interim President and his bodyguards took their places in an office at the stadium while Nick Fury delayed the attack to wear them down.

Nick Fury’s staged attack on the Interim President turned chaotic when one attacker killed a bodyguard, but Tony Stark’s armor rescued the President and defeated the intruders. Tony ended the challenge by assigning the armor to protect the President, while Nick Fury was left unable to mount another attack.

• General Ross and the other extraordinary individuals stormed the office, and one of them killed a bodyguard, prompting Steve and the Avengers to confront Nick Fury.
• Nick Fury denied ordering the killing, while Tony Stark offered to let the Avengers take the killer away after the drill.
• The Interim President hid under his desk, but Tony Stark’s armor whisked him away as a flash and roar overwhelmed the office cameras and microphones.
• Tony Stark’s armor returned with the unharmed Interim President, while Tony said General Ross and the others had only been knocked unconscious.
• Nick Fury questioned how the armor had prevailed, but the Interim President could not explain what happened inside it.
• Tony Stark declared the challenge over and said his armor would protect the Interim President, warning that it would attack anyone else who tried to take it.

The Avengers defeated a scheme by the official agencies, while Tony Stark began developing new armor inspired by Nth Metal. On the far side of the sun, General Zod and Faora gained Kryptonian power from the sunlight and reconsidered their deal with Thanos as they planned for Earth.

• Nick Fury questioned General Ross and the other unconscious superhumans, who revealed that Tony Stark's armor had incapacitated them with a blinding flash, a roar, and a single punch.
• General Ross admitted defeat and left, while Nick Fury learned that the Avengers had prevailed and chose not to dismantle Tony Stark's armor.
• The Avengers put the captured superhuman in their underground prison, and the Interim President became cautious about interfering in their conflict with the official agencies.
• Tony Stark began developing a new armor using Nth Metal, while the amnesiac Carter Hall joined the Avengers.
• General Zod and Faora discussed the power they had gained by basking near the sun, and General Zod questioned whether they still needed to cooperate with Thanos.

General Zod led ten Kryptonians to Earth, intending to claim it and later take revenge on Thanos, while Thanos’s surveillance ship watched from the Solar System. Kara recognized the invaders and warned Clark and the Avengers, who began preparing to protect Earth as Clark confronted Zod.

• General Zod dismissed Faora’s concerns, ordered the Kryptonians to take Earth’s treasures for themselves, and flew toward Earth without contacting Thanos.
• Thanos’s surveillance ship entered the Solar System to monitor Earth as Zod and his group arrived and struggled to adjust to Earth’s overwhelming sounds.
• Kara recognized General Zod, warned Clark, and went to move their family to Savage Island and retrieve Robet.
• Clark alerted Martian Manhunter that eleven empowered Kryptonians had arrived, and Martian Manhunter warned Tony Stark and urged the Avengers to prepare and separate Zod’s forces.
• Tony Stark ordered capable fighters to assemble and others to protect civilians as General Zod recovered from the noise and recognized Clark as Kal-El.

Clark rejected General Zod’s plan to transform Earth into Krypton and began fighting the Kryptonians with the Avengers and their allies. The battle spread across the high sky and ground, where the team struggled to contain the remaining fighters until Hulk joined in.

• General Zod told Clark he intended to use the Codex to transform Earth, and Clark refused to let him endanger his home.
• Faora attacked Clark, who overpowered her, while Martian Manhunter stunned General Zod and knocked him into the other Kryptonians.
• Martian Manhunter restrained the Kryptonians and contacted Tony Stark, who called in more allies to keep the battle away from populated areas.
• Tony Stark, Venomized Peter Parker, Johnny Storm, Susan Storm, Lorna, Morbius, Quicksilver, The Flash, Blade, Moon Knight, Werewolf Knight, and the Vampires and werewolves engaged the Kryptonians.
• Bruce Banner transformed into Hulk and joined the fight, slamming one Kryptonian flying.

The Avengers struggled to hold back the Kryptonians, and Carter Hall became the first Avenger defeated. Diana arrived from space and fought General Zod to a standstill, but another Kryptonian broke free and charged toward the city.

• Blade's weapon shattered against a Kryptonian, who struck him down and left him badly injured.
• The Avengers continued fighting across the battlefield, but most could not gain an advantage against the Kryptonians.
• A Kryptonian defeated Carter Hall with Heat Vision and then attacked Martian Manhunter, giving General Zod an opening to break away and order the Kryptonians to destroy Earth.
• Diana descended from space, cut through General Zod's Heat Vision with the God Killer Sword, and began fighting him.
• Lorna and Susan Storm lost their hold on a Kryptonian, who ignored them and charged toward the city.

A Kryptonian invasion devastated Earth while officials withheld help and plotted to exploit the disaster against Superman and the Avengers. Loki and the Black Order arrived through a portal at S.H.I.E.L.D., and as their plans threatened Earth, Johnny Storm began gathering his power for a last stand against General Zod.

• A Kryptonian used Heat Vision to destroy buildings and kill civilians, while official agencies avoided confronting the invaders and considered using the crisis to undermine Superman.
• Nick Fury resolved to use the Kryptonians’ attack to damage the Avengers’ prestige as the Tesseract opened an unstable portal at S.H.I.E.L.D.’s secret base.
• Loki emerged from the portal, followed by the Black Order, whose Ebony Maw mocked and overpowered him.
• Ebony Maw ordered Supergiant to scout Earth and help prepare a plan to terraform it, open a wormhole, and seize the Time Stone and Space Stone; he then killed the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and Professor Erik’s colleagues present.
• As General Zod fought Diana, Johnny Storm saw that his allies had lost and began concentrating his flames into a powerful final attack.

Johnny Storm gravely wounded a Kryptonian, but the Kryptonian activated the World Engines while General Zod fought Diana and Clark remained trapped in space by Faora. As the engines began attacking Earth, Robet confronted one in the Indian Ocean, where Mera joined him, while Loki opened a portal for the Chitauri to invade New York.

• Johnny Storm pierced the Kryptonian's chest with a fiery attack, leaving both fighters incapacitated.
• General Zod ordered the wounded Kryptonian to activate the World Engine, and the Kryptonian sent the engines descending toward America and the southern Indian Ocean.
• Clark tried to return to Earth, but Faora kept him occupied by threatening the moon with her Heat Vision.
• Robet, Kara, and Hulk found the World Engine in the Indian Ocean, and Robet went to destroy it while Kara took Hulk to help elsewhere.
• Mera helped Robet fend off the World Engine's Nanobots with her golden trident, and Robet sensed the Space Stone's power as Loki opened a portal.
• Loki's portal released the Chitauri into Earth's space, while Robet struck the World Engine and briefly stopped its assault on the planet.

Robet destroyed the World Engine, while Kara and Hulk joined the battle and killed two Kryptonians. The Chitauri then poured through a spatial Portal, and Kara turned to fight them as Hulk headed toward the other battlefields.

• Robet blasted the World Engine into slag, disabling the other World Engine, then vanished to investigate the wider invasion.
• Kara chose to protect civilians by attacking a rampaging Kryptonian, overpowered him, and killed him with Heat Vision.
• Kara spotted Chitauri emerging through a spatial Portal and began cutting through them with Heat Vision.
• Hulk decided to help Morbius and the others, but first stomped the wounded Kryptonian near Johnny Storm to death.
• Hulk continued growing larger as his furious War Stomp crushed the Kryptonian into the soil.

Kara fought the Chitauri invasion, discovered Loki was using the Space Stone to open the Portal, and failed to destroy the stone. Robet destroyed the World Engine on Earth while reinforcements joined the battle against the Chitauri.

• Hulk charged a Kryptonian but was kicked away, then grew stronger as his anger rose and fought the Kryptonian to a draw.
• Supergiant attacked Kara psychically, but Kara recovered, found Supergiant and Loki, and knocked Supergiant through a building.
• Kara struck Loki and tried to destroy the Space Stone with Heat Vision, but its protective energy stopped her attack and the Portal remained open.
• Tony Stark sent his Mech Legion into battle, and Mera arrived with the Atlanteans to help Kara fight the Chitauri.
• Robet kicked the World Engine free of the ground and destroyed it with a Ki Blast, frightening away the nearby officials.

Robet arrived to reinforce the Avengers, healed their exhausted fighters, and directed them toward the Chitauri while he prepared to assist elsewhere. A wounded Kryptonian sought help against Martian Manhunter as Robet moved toward the battle between Diana and General Zod.

• Robet kicked a Kryptonian away, healed Bruce Banner and the vampires and werewolves, and sent them to fight the Chitauri emerging from the spatial Portal.
• Robet restored Johnny Storm and warned him not to cross the Portal because outer space lay beyond it; Johnny joined Banner and the others.
• Robet healed Carter Hall, Susan Storm, Lorna, Pietro, Barry Allen, and Morbius while the injured Kryptonian avoided him and flew to help Reagan fight Martian Manhunter.
• The Kryptonian interrupted Martian Manhunter's psychic and Heat Vision attacks on Reagan, and Martian Manhunter noted that the wounded Kryptonian had gone to General Zod's battlefield.
• General Zod sensed danger and rapidly retreated while fighting Diana.

Robet tested General Zod, then left Diana to keep him occupied while he went to help elsewhere. Kara joined Clark in space and helped kill Faora, but an armed spaceship arrived outside Earth just after they left.

• Robet struck General Zod several times, then told him that Jor-El had considered him a gifted general but had once beaten him in combat.
• Kara left the Chitauri battlefield for space, and Robet went to help the other defenders while Diana resumed her fight with General Zod.
• Kara joined Clark against Faora, whose injuries and threats against the moon had kept Clark occupied.
• Clark and Kara destroyed Faora with their Heat Vision and returned to Earth.
• An armed spaceship arrived near Earth and raised its weapons after Clark and Kara had departed.

General Zod ordered the Kryptonians to retreat from Earth, but Clark stopped him and defeated him. Clark spared the other Kryptonians, and General Zod gave Reagan his final order to lead them away and abandon plans to rebuild Krypton.

• General Zod saw that his forces were losing and ordered the Kryptonians to flee as he escaped toward space.
• Martian Manhunter restrained Reagan and a wounded Kryptonian, but the wounded Kryptonian sacrificed himself to help Reagan escape.
• Clark intercepted General Zod and overwhelmed him, while the other Kryptonians returned to Earth but hesitated to intervene.
• Clark told General Zod he would let the other Kryptonians leave if they did not attack, and General Zod accepted his defeat.
• General Zod ordered Reagan to take the Kryptonians away and stop trying to rebuild Krypton, and Reagan led them into retreat.

Clark agreed to show General Zod his true power and overwhelmed him, while Robet unleashed Rainfall against the Chitauri invasion. Star-Lord returned to Earth and arrived at the battlefield, where he saw Robet's devastating strength and flew toward him.

• Clark let Reagan and the other Kryptonians leave, but refused to spare General Zod, who asked to see Clark's true limit.
• Clark released his full power and struck General Zod repeatedly, leaving him disoriented and reliving memories of Krypton.
• Robet used Rainfall to pierce and kill every Chitauri in the sky, but more troops kept entering through the space Portal.
• Robet held back from entering the Portal because he feared being stranded in the universe if it closed.
• Peter Jason Quill, known as Star-Lord, returned to Earth, checked that his mother's grave was safe, and searched for the Chitauri.
• Star-Lord found the battlefield, watched Robet destroy the Chitauri, and flew toward him after marveling at his power.

Robet repeatedly wiped out the Chitauri pouring through the Space Portal while Tony Stark discovered that the Space Stone and Loki had vanished. The Kamar-Taj students withdrew to defend their own invaded sanctuary, where Ebony Maw and the others were fleeing from its defenders.

• Star-Lord told Robet that the Chitauri were biotech space pirates serving Thanos, and Robet continued clearing their waves with Rainfall.
• Tony Stark found the Space Stone missing and alerted Robet, who realized Loki had disappeared as well.
• Robet and Peter Parker ruled out Thor and Asgard as the likely cause of the Space Stone's disappearance.
• A Kamar-Taj student explained that Kamar-Taj was under attack, then withdrew with the other students after Robet offered help.
• Mera kept the Atlantean army stationed to rest, while her growing authority and power had made her Atlantis's ruler.
• Ebony Maw and his companions fled through Kamar-Taj as its members pursued them with shining magical artifacts.

Kamar-Taj's students overwhelmed Ebony Maw and the Black Order, who escaped through a Space Stone portal just as the New York portal closed. Robet detected the escape and left to trace the Space Stone, while the Avengers and Atlanteans prepared to finish off the remaining Chitauri.

• Kamar-Taj's students used coordinated magic and enchanted tools to drive Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, and Proxima Midnight into retreat.
• Corvus Glaive contacted Supergiant, and the Black Order opened a Space Stone portal and escaped Kamar-Taj.
• The portal above New York abruptly closed, cutting a Leviathan Warship in half and killing Chitauri caught in its path.
• The Guardian detected a spatial fluctuation tied to the Black Order's escape, and Robet asked it to guide him to the Space Stone before departing.
• The Avengers and Atlanteans prepared to clear out the remaining Chitauri as official fighter jets arrived.

Supergiant escaped New York with Loki and the Space Stone, then brought the Black Order together to retreat after hearing how badly their invasion had failed. As they opened a portal, Thor attacked to free Loki, and the Space Stone fell to the ground.

• Kaecilius and Baron Mordo failed to stop the Space Stone portal and learned that the Black Order had escaped Kamar-Taj.
• Supergiant played dead, took Loki and the Space Stone from New York, and brought the Black Order Four to her location.
• Supergiant described Robet's devastating attack on the Chitauri, and Corvus Glaive ordered the group to retreat rather than pursue the Time Stone.
• Supergiant controlled Loki to open a portal, but Thor struck the Black Order and sent the Space Stone flying from Loki's hands.

Thor rescued Loki from Supergiant’s control and drove the remaining Black Order members into a fight after their escape failed. Ebony Maw lost the Space Stone and tried to seize Loki as a hostage to escape.

• Supergiant, Corvus Glaive, and Proxima Midnight fled through the unstable Portal, while Corvus took the Mind Stone Scepter and ordered Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian to recover the Space Stone.
• A small mechanical device carried off the Space Stone, and gray mist concealed it before Ebony Maw could stop it.
• Thor awakened Loki with controlled lightning and led the Asgardians toward Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian after the Portal closed.
• Loki attacked Ebony Maw, who dismissed his accusations and used Cull Obsidian to block Thor’s Mjolnir.
• Ebony Maw decided to take Loki hostage and sent his Telekinesis toward him.

Thor defeated Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian, then challenged Loki’s assumptions about gods and invited him to help build their force on Earth. As Ebony Maw began offering information about Thanos and the Infinity Stones, Robet emerged from the shadows, startling Thor and Loki.

• Thor struck Ebony Maw with lightning, incapacitated him, and checked whether Loki was all right.
• Loki brooded over Thor’s growing strength, while Thor offered him people to help deal with Ebony Maw and invited him to stay on Earth.
• Thor argued that Asgardians were not true gods and that Earth’s powerful environment could help them grow stronger.
• Thor knocked Cull Obsidian down with Mjolnir and offered him a chance to work for him, but Cull Obsidian refused and remained loyal to Thanos.
• Ebony Maw offered to reveal information about Thanos and the Infinity Stones, but Robet appeared and surprised Thor and Loki.