Chapter Summaries

Thor arrived amid the destruction and cheerfully faced Daredevil, Jessica, and Bullseye, treating their attacks as friendly conversation. After demonstrating his strength and inviting them to try lifting Mjolnir, he and Jessica made a bet over whether her boss could lift the hammer.

• Thor caught Daredevil’s cane and explained that Loki was his adopted brother, promising to make Loki apologize for the destruction.
• Jessica attacked Thor, but he caught her punch and threw her to the ground; she insisted her boss would be a tougher opponent.
• Thor caught Bullseye’s explosive knife, then accepted a handgun from him and eagerly examined it.
• Thor invited the group to try lifting Mjolnir, but Rumlow and Jessica both failed.
• Jessica claimed her boss could lift the hammer, and Thor bet that he could not, offering his brother as the prize if she won and asking for a huge drink if he did.

Heisenberg returned to New York and found Thor protecting his subordinates, mistaking him for Loki’s ally. Their confrontation ended with Heisenberg catching and denting Mjolnir, then using his Bio-field to pull it into his hand, leaving Thor heartbroken.

• Heisenberg flew back to New York after leaving Loki in New Mexico, intending to let an alien crisis force humanity to advance.
• Heisenberg landed silently in Central Park and found Thor standing between him and Bullseye, Rumlow, Jessica, and the others.
• Thor mistook Heisenberg for Loki’s accomplice, hurled Mjolnir at him, and demanded that he reveal Loki’s whereabouts.
• Heisenberg caught Mjolnir, resisted Thor’s attempt to summon it, and left five shallow fingerprints in its hammerhead.
• Thor charged at Heisenberg in fury, but Heisenberg used his Bio-field to draw Mjolnir from the ground into his own hand, devastating Thor.

After Heisenberg left Mjolnir in Central Park, Captain America lifted it and gained Thor’s power. Thor sensed the hammer’s awakening and collapsed in disbelief, while S.H.I.E.L.D. captured Natasha and chose to keep her in service.

• Heisenberg left Thor to recover and ordered the Nuke Gang to build the Justice League base in Central Park, where he also left Mjolnir behind.
• Heisenberg returned home, turned away Pepper, and dismissed Iron Man before Billy was injured the next day.
• Barbara, Hill, and Captain America pursued Natasha, restrained her, and Melinda helped her recover from the control effect.
• Bullseye and the Nuke Gang tried unsuccessfully to lift Mjolnir until Captain America arrived and picked it up.
• Captain America was struck by lightning and gained immense power, while Thor sensed Mjolnir’s awakening and fell to his knees in shock.

Heisenberg considered his long-term goal of developing the Bio-field into a unique path toward power, then attended Tony Stark’s wedding as the Avengers accidentally arrived in his present-day New York. The chapter left Stark convinced that something was wrong with the past they had traveled to.

• Heisenberg flew to the Sun, reflected on Superman’s different forms, and decided to pursue his own Bio-field-based evolution rather than aim directly for Golden Superman.
• After spending more than thirty hours on the Sun, Heisenberg returned to Earth, checked that the Nuke Gang was stable, and resumed relaxing.
• Five or six days later, Heisenberg dressed for Tony Stark’s wedding and flew from the Theater while New Yorkers cheered and discussed the Justice League.
• Captain America, Ant-Man, Iron Man, and Banner arrived in an alley in present-day New York instead of the battlefield they expected.
• New Yorkers recognized Banner as the Hulk, and the four time travelers fled as Stark angrily insisted their time-travel technology could not have made a mistake.

Captain America, Iron Man, Banner, and Ant-Man sought the Time Stone from The Ancient One after traveling to a changed universe, but she refused and said she would consult Heisenberg. Iron Man recognized Heisenberg as a Superman-like powerhouse and broke down over how his absence had doomed their own world.

• Captain America led the group to 177A Brick Street, where The Ancient One revealed that Doctor Strange was still a surgeon and would not become a sorcerer for five years.
• Iron Man asked The Ancient One for the Time Stone, but she refused, explaining that their future belonged to a separate universe.
• Banner challenged The Ancient One and was struck so hard that his soul left Hulk's body.
• Captain America explained their fight against Thanos and their time-travel mission while Iron Man searched the universe's networks and grew horrified by what he found.
• The Ancient One considered their account but said she needed to consult her friend Heisenberg before deciding about the stone.
• Iron Man identified Heisenberg as a Kryptonian like Superman and lamented that he had not been there to save Peter and their world.

Heisenberg arrived at Tony and Pepper’s wedding, where Tony asked him to freeze the ocean for a surprise. As Tony and Pepper took flight in armor and prepared to land on the frozen sea, Captain America, Banner, Scott, and Iron Man arrived unexpectedly with The Ancient One to ask Heisenberg for the Mind Stone.

• Tony showed Banner and the others a holographic record of Heisenberg’s past, and Captain America decided they would meet him and ask to borrow the Mind Stone.
• The Ancient One agreed to take the group to Heisenberg and transformed into a youthful appearance for the occasion.
• Heisenberg arrived at Tony’s villa, and Tony asked him to freeze the ocean so he could surprise Pepper with a wedding celebration on the sea.
• Tony and Pepper exchanged rings, then boarded armor and flew into the sky as miniature robots projected a palace and flower-lined walkway over the ocean.
• Heisenberg flew out to freeze the sea, but Captain America, Iron Man, Banner, and Scott suddenly appeared behind him in the air and realized their suit could not fly.

Heisenberg realized the time-traveling Avengers came from a separate universe, meaning Thanos’s disappearance made his plan to harvest Origin Matter impossible. After showcasing his power at Tony and Pepper’s wedding, he brought Captain America’s group to meet their counterparts and prepare to talk.

• Heisenberg deduced that Captain America and the others had traveled from a different universe, where Thanos would disappear in 2014 and never snap his fingers.
• The Ancient One brought Captain America, Iron Man, Banner, and Ant-Man to Tony and Pepper’s wedding, where Tony and Pepper were startled to see alternate versions of themselves.
• Heisenberg lifted the visitors from the sea, froze most of the visible ocean, and shaped the ice into a castle while Tony and Pepper continued their wedding.
• Hill received reports that the time-traveling group had been seen in New York, and the wedding finished as more than three hundred Iron Man robots returned to the yacht.
• Heisenberg took Captain America and Hill toward Tony’s villa and joked that he had long wanted Rogers to meet Captain America and Tony to meet Iron Man.

Heisenberg hosted the present-day group and four time-travelers, whose account revealed a future shaped by Thanos and the Avengers’ mission to collect the Infinity Stones. Heisenberg and The Ancient One confirmed the travelers came from a parallel timeline, while Hill praised Banner for his sacrifice.

• J.A.R.V.I.S. welcomed Heisenberg, who gathered everyone at the villa and toasted Tony and Pepper’s love and the meeting of two timelines.
• J.A.R.V.I.S. identified Iron Man as a Tony Stark fifteen years older, and the two Starks opened a bottle saved for Tony and Pepper’s wedding or their daughter’s birth.
• The Ancient One revealed Banner’s soul, and Captain America described how his group had traveled from a future where half of Earth’s people vanished to obtain the Infinity Stones.
• Rogers doubted the travelers’ story, but Heisenberg and The Ancient One confirmed they came from another timeline in a parallel universe.
• Tony celebrated learning that he would have a daughter, while Iron Man insisted she was his daughter.
• Hill thanked Banner for his sacrifice and expressed admiration after learning that only his soul remained.

Banner returned to Hulk’s body, and The Ancient One explained her role as Sorcerer Supreme before Captain America asked Heisenberg to lend him the Mind and Time Stones. Heisenberg refused, challenged the group to consider what he risked, and left Iron Man suspecting that he had a hidden purpose.

• The Ancient One brought Hulk’s body into the room and returned Banner’s soul to it, while Heisenberg reassured Pepper that Banner would not become a threat.
• The Ancient One identified herself as Sorcerer Supreme and explained that the Ancient Cult and Asgard protected Earth from different dangers.
• Captain America asked Heisenberg to lend the Mind Stone and Time Stone, but Heisenberg refused and questioned what the Stones meant to him.
• The Ancient One opened a portal to retrieve the Mind Scepter, and Heisenberg argued that the group had ignored the risks and offered him no meaningful return.
• Captain America promised the group would do whatever they could for Heisenberg, but Heisenberg said the Mind Stone meant nothing to him and asked what they could offer.
• Iron Man inferred that Heisenberg had a purpose for talking at length and challenged him to reveal it.

Heisenberg agreed to travel with Iron Man’s group to their universe in exchange for the Mind Stone, and they began planning how to collect the remaining Infinity Stones. As the group settled at Heisenberg’s New York home, Banner asked to meet his alternate self, and Heisenberg agreed to go with him.

• Heisenberg offered to help save half the lives in Iron Man’s universe if Iron Man took him there, and Iron Man accepted despite worrying about the risks.
• Heisenberg and the Ancient One opened a portal and brought Captain America’s group of four to Heisenberg’s territory in New York.
• Tony stayed behind with Pepper, explaining that meeting his future self had changed his priorities, while Captain America and Hill worried about Heisenberg’s possible departure.
• Heisenberg’s group ate at his home, then Iron Man, Captain America, Scott, and Banner discussed plans to gather the Infinity Stones; Scott volunteered to retrieve Pym Particles from Hank Pym’s house in 2008.
• Banner asked Heisenberg for permission to meet his alternate self, and Heisenberg approved on the condition that he could come along.

Scott brought the Pym Particles back, allowing Banner and the others to prepare for time travel. Meanwhile, Captain America observed Brooklyn’s changed streets, and Iron Man visited Peter Parker, whose affection for Heisenberg led Tony to fulfill a promise to get him Superman’s autograph.

• Scott returned with twelve doses of Pym Particles after Hope van Dyne issued a wanted notice for him, and he joined Hulk in assembling the laboratory.
• Captain America walked through Brooklyn and saw that Heisenberg’s gang members were welcomed by local residents.
• Iron Man went to see Peter Parker but discovered Peter wanted Heisenberg’s autograph more than his own.
• Peter showed Iron Man the watch Heisenberg had given him and said that Superman was his friend.
• Iron Man asked Heisenberg to write Peter an autograph, then hurried back and delivered it to Peter.
• Iron Man watched Peter celebrate the autograph and smiled until he cried, relieved that Peter no longer depended on him.

Heisenberg traveled from 1970 to 2023 with the Avengers, where Thor immediately attacked him over the destruction of his family and life. Heisenberg overpowered Thor, but Thor unleashed a massive lightning strike, and Heisenberg dragged him through the ceiling to keep the time-travel platform from being destroyed.

• Heisenberg received the time-travel suit, used the Quantum Realm, and arrived with the Avengers at their base in 2023.
• Nebula, Natasha, and Barton recognized Heisenberg, while Thor blamed him for killing his father, insulting his mother, exiling his brother, controlling his sister, and destroying Mjolnir.
• Thor attacked Heisenberg with Stormbreaker, which cut Heisenberg's palm, but Heisenberg caught both Thor's weapons and beat him with a headbutt and kicks.
• Thor endured the beating, summoned lightning, and declared that he was thunder.
• Heisenberg dragged Thor through the ceiling and into the lightning to protect the time-travel platform.

Heisenberg defeated Thor after Thor attacked him, then learned from Rocket that Thor blamed him for changes to Asgard’s past. The Avengers accepted that Thor had provoked the fight, and Heisenberg urged them to use the Infinity Stones to restore those lost before flying toward Avengers Tower.

• Heisenberg fought through Thor’s primal lightning, slammed him into the ground, and stomped him unconscious while devastating a wide area of New York.
• Rhodey and Rocket approached Heisenberg, but he seized them when Rhodey insulted him and crushed Rocket’s gun before throwing them down.
• Rocket explained that Thor attacked Heisenberg because their trip to 2013 revealed changes to Asgard’s history, which Thor blamed on Heisenberg.
• Heisenberg joked that he might kill Thor’s father in 2008, prompting the Avengers to wonder whether Thor’s attack would cause that future death.
• Tony explained that he had invited Heisenberg to bring the Mind Stone and Time Stone, and Heisenberg advised them to use the Stones to restore the lost people.
• Heisenberg flew toward Avengers Tower while Tony led Rhodey and Rocket after him, and Banner carried the unconscious Thor away.

Heisenberg joined the Avengers at their headquarters after gathering the Infinity Stones, while Natasha explained how he had intervened on Vormir and helped her obtain the Soul Stone. As the Avengers prepared the gauntlet, Nebula suggested Heisenberg should make the snap, but he refused because he was saving his strength for a worthy opponent.

• Heisenberg arrived at Avengers Tower, where Natasha and Barton explained that he had saved their lives and brought the Soul Stone from Vormir.
• Natasha recalled how Heisenberg had freed Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive, taken the Soul Stone after Proxima sacrificed herself, and given the Stone to Natasha.
• The Avengers gathered all six Infinity Stones, and Heisenberg handed Iron Man the scepter and necklace before waiting as Iron Man completed the gauntlet.
• Nebula suggested that Heisenberg, as Earth's strongest person, should control the Stones and make the snap.
• Heisenberg refused, saying he had no attachment to their universe and needed to stay in peak condition for a worthy opponent.

Heisenberg used the Infinity Stones to snap, restoring the vanished people of Earth while leaving most aliens dead, and his Origin Matter surged to 4.6 billion. He took the Stones and stayed with the living Natasha, while the Avengers reunited with their returned loved ones.

• Nebula argued that Hulk could not survive the snap and urged the Avengers to let Heisenberg do it, while Captain America objected to asking him to bear the cost.
• Hulk moved for the gauntlet, but Heisenberg stopped him, put it on, and snapped despite the pain.
• Heisenberg's snap revived Earth's vanished people but not most aliens, and his Origin Matter rose to 4.6 billion.
• The Avengers checked on Heisenberg and received calls from returned loved ones, while Natasha stood alone by the window.
• Heisenberg took the Mind Stone and Time Stone, gave the gauntlet to Tony, and joined Natasha at the window.

Heisenberg and Natasha faced Thanos’s arrival after Nebula brought his flagship into the future, and Heisenberg shielded the Avengers from its bombardment. As Heisenberg confronted Thanos, Captain America proved himself worthy of Mjolnir and prepared to join the fight.

• Heisenberg and Natasha discussed his reasons for saving her and Barton, then Heisenberg pulled her behind him as he anticipated an opponent.
• Nebula activated the time machine and brought Thanos’s flagship, Sanctuary II, out of the Quantum Realm above New York.
• Sanctuary II bombarded Avengers Tower, but Heisenberg’s Bio-field protected the Avengers from the explosions.
• Thanos arrived in the ruins, praised Nebula for bringing him to the future, and ordered her to bring him all the Stones before facing Heisenberg.
• Iron Man sent Natasha and Barton to check on Thor and Rhodey, but Captain America refused to stay behind and caught Mjolnir when it flew into his hand.

Heisenberg and Thanos fought an intensely matched battle among the Avengers Tower ruins while Captain America, Iron Man, and Hulk faced Thanos’s forces. After Thanos was hurled through the collapsing tower, a corpse-like figure beside him suddenly opened its eyes.

• Heisenberg restored his body and challenged Thanos to fight without a weapon, then met his war blade with his fists.
• Captain America, Hulk, and Iron Man tried to join the battle, but Heisenberg pushed them away so he could face Thanos alone as Thanos summoned his army.
• Heisenberg froze Thanos’s war blade and threw Thanos into a massive crater, while Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian fought Captain America, Hulk, and Iron Man.
• Thanos charged Heisenberg again, and they crashed through the ruins and the Avengers Tower before Heisenberg struck him into a destroyed room.
• A corpse-like figure lying beside Thanos opened its eyes.

Heisenberg threw Thanos away from the Avengers ruins, but Thanos overwhelmed the wounded Thor and revealed his vast army. Strange and reinforcements arrived, the Avengers assembled for battle, and Heisenberg struck Thanos with a punch that carved a huge ravine through the battlefield.

• Heisenberg hurled Thanos into his army, but Thanos used Thor to cushion his landing and threw the gravely wounded Thor among his soldiers.
• Thanos summoned his weapons and displayed the enormous forces gathered behind him, including Chitauri, berserker beasts, Vanguard, and Sakaarans.
• Strange opened portals that brought the Avengers and their allies to the battlefield, including Little Pepper, Valkyrie, Gamora, and Scarlet Witch.
• Black Panther rallied the arriving forces with a cry of “Yibambe,” and Captain America ordered the Avengers to assemble.
• Heisenberg told Thanos that this was not his world, then punched Thanos’s raised sword and blasted a three-kilometer ravine through the battlefield.
• As the armies clashed, Heisenberg told Thanos that the people fighting below were not his, but they were pretty good, and invited him to continue.

Heisenberg overwhelmed Thanos in battle, but Wanda’s attack forced Thanos to call for bombardment from Sanctuary II. As the flagship aimed its cannons at the battlefield, the fight threatened to engulf both armies.

• Little Spider reunited with Iron Man and learned that five years had passed while he was gone.
• Wanda attacked Thanos, but Heisenberg claimed the fight and battered him through Chitauri landing craft and into the Wakandan forces.
• Thanos threw Heisenberg through several landing craft, but Heisenberg returned unharmed and told Little Spider that the battlefield was in New York.
• Heisenberg used Heat Vision to save Little Spider from a giant ape, prompting Little Spider and others to recognize him as Superman.
• Wanda attacked Thanos with Chaos energy, but Heisenberg took Thanos’s war blade and threw it hundreds of kilometers away to protect his spoil.
• Thanos called for blanket fire from Sanctuary II, and Ebony Maw questioned the order before the flagship aimed more than three thousand cannons at the battlefield.

Heisenberg shielded the Avengers from Sanctuary II’s bombardment, destroyed the flagship, froze the flood threatening New York, and took Thanos into space. With both of them gone from the battlefield, the Avengers struggled as Thanos’s army pressed its attack.

• Heisenberg expanded his Bio-field to protect the battlefield from Sanctuary II’s cannon fire, then used Heat Vision to cut the flagship into hundreds of pieces.
• Heisenberg froze the sea with Frost Breath, stopping the waves from sweeping across New York.
• Wanda intensified her attack on Thanos, and Heisenberg pulled him free of her control and carried him into space.
• The Avengers and Wakandan forces fell into increasingly desperate fights as Thanos’s army surged through the portals.
• Iron Man rescued Spider-Man from attackers, while Pepper helped Valkyrie fend off aerial enemies.
• Spider-Man excitedly asked Iron Man whether being bitten by Superman could give him Superman’s powers.