Chapter Summaries

Feeney revealed his new dimension-manipulating power to Tony and demonstrated that he could create a world inside his personal dimension. Tony struggled to accept Feeney’s transformation, and Feeney offered to remove the iron shrapnel from his body.

• Tony was shocked to learn that Feeney had killed about twenty thousand aliens, and Feeney assured him he would seek help if he needed it.
• Feeney offered to remove the iron shrapnel from Tony’s body and brought him into a dimension controlled by the Evil Eye.
• Feeney created light and darkness, land, sky, mountains, rivers, plants, celestial bodies, and animals in the dimension while Tony watched in disbelief.
• Tony suspected the scene was an illusion or holographic projection, but Feeney insisted that he had created a real world and described himself as a Dimension Lord or Demon God.
• Feeney asked whether Tony was ready to have the shrapnel removed.

Feeney removed the shrapnel from Tony’s chest, then refused to let him study the Evil Eye dimension. At Kamar-Taj, Feeney saw Jonathan Pangborn and asked The Ancient One whether she had considered death, leaving troubled by her acceptance of Earth’s future without her.

• Feeney operated on Tony and removed the shrapnel lodged in his chest, and Tony thanked him.
• Tony told Feeney that Nick Fury wanted his help investigating Hydra, then tried to persuade him to let Tony study the Evil Eye dimension; Feeney refused.
• Feeney asked Tony about the Spaceship Manufacture before returning home and later going to Kamar-Taj.
• Feeney saw Jonathan Pangborn training at Kamar-Taj and learned from Mordo that The Ancient One had allowed him to stay because of his sorcerer talent.
• Feeney asked The Ancient One if she had thought about death, and she said Earth would have many protectors after she was gone, including Feeney.

Feeney discussed the Ancient One’s plans for death and rebirth, then visited Mordo and met Jonathan Pangborn at Kamar-Taj. After learning about Jonathan’s search for treatment, Feeney encouraged him to trust in magic as he began his recovery.

• Feeney asked the Ancient One whether she still planned to die after Stephen Strange arrived, and she described death as a kind of rebirth without giving him a direct answer.
• The Ancient One invited Feeney to help test a modification to the Sanctum’s array in a few days.
• Feeney went to Mordo’s room, found Jonathan Pangborn there, and learned that Mordo had praised his persistence in learning magic.
• Mordo returned with food, and Feeney suggested that they spar after they ate.
• Jonathan told Feeney how he had searched unsuccessfully for treatment before reaching Kamar-Taj, and Feeney reassured him that magic could help him recover.

Feeney revealed his identity as the Divine Punishment Knight to Jonathan at Kamar-Taj, then later asked Wanda and Pietro whether they wanted to join the fight against Hydra. The siblings chose to help, and Feeney took them to Nick Fury's secret base.

• Feeney sparred with Mordo while Jonathan watched and discovered Feeney was the Divine Punishment Knight.
• Mordo told Jonathan that Feeney was mysterious, unusually powerful, and possibly the strongest person at Kamar-Taj after the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Over the following week, the Ancient One made progress studying Evil Eye, while Feeney helped Wanda and Pietro train.
• Feeney explained Hydra's connection to S.H.I.E.L.D. and its impact on Sokovia, then warned Wanda and Pietro that joining the conflict could get them killed.
• Wanda and Pietro chose to join the fight, and Feeney took them through a portal to Nick Fury's secret base.

Feeney brought Pietro and Wanda to Nick Fury’s base to help fight Hydra, then met with Sitwell to learn Alexander Pierce’s plans. Sitwell revealed Bucky Barnes’s location and wished for world peace, while Feeney warned that wish might take centuries to fulfill.

• Natasha greeted Feeney and escorted him, Pietro, and Wanda to Nick Fury, Captain America, and Hill.
• Feeney warned Pietro and Wanda to think carefully before accepting any task from Nick Fury beyond fighting Hydra, and Captain America welcomed them.
• Hill described Hydra’s takeover of S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, and Captain America said Stark was helping find Bucky Barnes.
• Feeney contacted Sitwell, who said Pierce planned to secretly move S.H.I.E.L.D.’s resources and gave Feeney Bucky’s address.
• Sitwell told Feeney he had joined Hydra hoping to bring about world peace, and Feeney said that goal might take Earth centuries to achieve.

Feeney took Sitwell away from Hydra, altered his memories, and gave him a full head of hair before sending him to help Nick Fury. The chapter ended with Fury recognizing Sitwell by his voice and mistaking his new hair for a wig.

• Sitwell told Feeney that his wish was world peace, and Feeney admitted he had no intention of unifying Hydra or ruling the world.
• Sitwell suggested that Feeney ask The Ancient One to join Hydra, and Feeney instead told him he was taking him away from the organization.
• Feeney used his magic to give Sitwell hair and altered his memories so he would seek peace independently and serve as Feeney's undercover agent.
• Feeney asked Sitwell to help Nick Fury, then opened a portal and brought him to the base.
• Nick Fury failed to recognize Sitwell under his new hair until Sitwell spoke, then asked whether he was wearing a wig.

Feeney handed Sitwell over to Nick Fury to help deal with Hydra, then left S.H.I.E.L.D.'s affairs behind to assist the Ancient One with the Sanctum Power update. Their first cautious attempt produced no obvious change, so Feeney agreed to keep working with her.

• Feeney told Nick Fury that Sitwell was one of his people and asked Fury to keep him safe while questioning him.
• Feeney warned Nick Fury that Earth had other Sorcerers and explained that he was busy updating Earth's Dimensional Defense System.
• Feeney left the base and spent the next week studying dimensional matters with the Ancient One at Kamar-Taj.
• The Ancient One carefully adjusted the New York Sanctum's magical array while keeping the Eye of Agamotto ready in case she needed to reverse the changes.
• Feeney used the Golden Great Deduction Technique but noticed no difference, and the Ancient One said the first attempt had at least not failed.
• Feeney agreed to continue helping the Ancient One with the Sanctum Power update.

Feeney visited the New York Sanctum with The Ancient One, learned about the limits of his dimension compared with Bastet’s, and discussed the approaching alignment of the Nine Realms. He revealed his plan to pursue the Reality Stone, and The Ancient One warned that Asgard and the Dark Elves would oppose him.

• Feeney provoked the Red Cloak and used the Golden Great Deduction Technique to turn it into a pile of excrement before leaving it to go upstairs.
• Feeney asked The Ancient One how Bastet’s dimension grew and how their strength compared, and she explained that Bastet would overpower him inside her own dimension.
• The Ancient One warned Feeney to keep his Evil Eye secret and told him to return when the Nine Realms aligned to help protect Earth’s dimensions and space.
• Feeney told The Ancient One that he wanted to pursue the Reality Stone, and she cautioned him that gathering Infinity Stones would bring danger and that the Reality Stone was guarded by Asgard and the Dark Elves.

Feeney discussed the dangers of pursuing the Reality Stone with The Ancient One, then turned his attention to the escalating conflict between S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra. After seeing Hydra publicize wanted notices for Captain America and other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, Feeney went to Tony's villa to ask for more information.

• Feeney told The Ancient One that he wanted to keep the Reality Stone from falling into the Dark Elves' hands, then asked her what she knew about Bastet.
• Feeney learned that Hydra had escalated its battle with S.H.I.E.L.D. by issuing global wanted notices for Captain America, Nick Fury, Hill, Black Widow, and other agents.
• Feeney saw that Hydra was struggling after Sitwell defected and revealed secrets, while Pierce prepared to make S.H.I.E.L.D. suffer if Hydra fell.
• Feeney opened a portal to Tony's villa, where Pepper thanked him for saving Tony, and Feeney considered how Tony might help him enter other timelines through the Quantum Realm.

Feeney visited Tony, who was struggling with whether to forgive Bucky Barnes, and asked him about the conflict between S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra. A month later, S.H.I.E.L.D. had defeated Hydra and released a limited account of its secrets, while the Avengers became publicly known and Feeney found himself included without permission.

• Feeney found Tony in his workshop and learned that Tony had seen Bucky Barnes, wanted revenge for his parents, but walked away after Captain America stopped him.
• Feeney asked Tony about S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra, and Tony explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. was steadily defeating Hydra while guarding against a desperate counterattack.
• Feeney returned to Kamar-Taj and resumed studying with The Ancient One and training in the Himalayas.
• A month later, S.H.I.E.L.D. defeated Hydra, and Hydra’s last actions helped expose the organizations’ existence to the public.
• Nick Fury released an incomplete account of the Battle of New York and other missions to calm public anger, and the Avengers became known to the world.
• Feeney objected that Nick Fury had included him with the Avengers without asking his permission.

Feeney confronted Nick Fury over being presented as an Avenger without his consent and demanded that S.H.I.E.L.D. correct the claim. Fury asked him to wait while S.H.I.E.L.D. recovered from its war with Hydra, and Feeney gave him one month before he would clarify matters publicly himself.

• Feeney met Nick Fury and denied that he had agreed to join the Avengers.
• Feeney accused Fury of using his fame to distract the public from S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra.
• Nick Fury explained that escaped Hydra agents and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s weakened state made him reluctant to draw attention.
• Fury apologized and promised to clarify Feeney's status after S.H.I.E.L.D. stabilized.
• Feeney gave Fury one month to clear things up, then left through a portal.

Feeney prepared to confront the Dark Elves, explaining to Tony that they threatened Earth and the universe if they obtained a dangerous item. As the Celestial Convergence approached and weakened the boundaries between realms, The Ancient One paused the Sanctum upgrade research to prepare for the growing danger.

• Nick Fury grew more wary of Feeney after Feeney left, while Feeney later told Jonathan about the aliens he had encountered and how he had destroyed the Chitauri invasion force.
• Nick Fury circulated news that Feeney was not currently an Avenger, then shifted public attention to Feeney's appearance and identity with Black Widow's suggestive interview; Skye called Feeney to question him.
• The Ancient One paused the Sanctum upgrade research because Earth's space and dimensions were becoming fragile, and Feeney sensed the approaching Celestial Convergence was making portals to the Nine Realms easier to open.
• Feeney found Tony at Stark Tower and explained that he planned to ambush the Dark Elves before they could obtain an item that threatened Earth and the universe.
• Tony told Feeney that the missiles he had requested were ready.

Feeney arranged for Tony to prepare powerful missiles for an ambush against the Dark Elves on Svartalfheim, and agreed to take Tony there to scout the battlefield. The chapter ended with Feeney and Tony stepping through a portal to Svartalfheim while Pepper watched them leave.

• Feeney told Tony that he planned to use missiles against the Dark Elves on Svartalfheim during the coming Celestial Convergence.
• Tony agreed to prepare the missiles, then asked to accompany Feeney on a scouting trip to Svartalfheim.
• Feeney decided not to bring Skye and arranged to leave with Tony the next day.
• Tony arrived at his villa in a new suit of Iron Armor, and Pepper asked Feeney whether Svartalfheim was dangerous.
• Feeney opened a portal to Svartalfheim, and Tony and Feeney stepped through after saying goodbye to Pepper.

Feeney and Tony prepared a missile ambush in Svartalfheim as the Celestial Convergence drew near and made portals harder to control. Feeney watched Jane Foster try to move on from Thor, but she remained distracted by thoughts of him.

• Feeney explained that he planned to steal a weapon made by the Dark Elves, which would lead them to come after him.
• Tony used miniature drones to map Svartalfheim, and he and Feeney chose a natural basin for their ambush.
• Feeney and Tony spent more than a week installing hundreds of modified missiles while avoiding Heimdall's notice.
• As the Celestial Convergence weakened the boundaries between realms, Jonathan Pangborn opened his first portal but landed somewhere unintended.
• Feeney secretly watched Jane Foster attempt to find a new boyfriend, but she kept thinking about Thor.

Jane's interrupted date ended as she followed Daisy to investigate the device's coordinates, with Feeney secretly trailing them. They reached a building where unstable portals appeared during the Celestial Convergence, and Feeney prepared to find the Reality Stone by entering the right portal at the right time.

• Daisy interrupted Jane's date with Richard and gave her a device pointing to a location, prompting Jane to leave and search for Thor.
• Daisy asked Jane about the Silver Knight, and Jane admitted she had met Feeney and thought he was handsome.
• Jane called Eric, but he did not answer because the police had taken him away after he started running around naked.
• Jane, Daisy, and Ian drove to a remote suburb while Feeney followed them invisibly from above.
• Feeney recognized the area as a border between the Nine Realms, then followed Jane into a building filled with shifting portals and strange gravity.

Feeney followed Jane to the Reality Stone’s seal and convinced the Aether Particle to enter his body instead of Jane’s. The seal closed behind it, and Feeney realized the energy flowing through him was killing him.

• Feeney followed Jane through a hidden passage to the sealed chamber containing the Aether Particle.
• Feeney knocked Jane unconscious and found the Reality Stone churning inside a crack in an enormous stone seal.
• Feeney tried to lure the Aether Particle into White Dragon's Breath, but it ignored the weapon and his threat to leave it sealed.
• Feeney let the Aether Particle enter his body, and the stone seal slammed shut after it disappeared.
• Feeney felt the Aether Particle's energy spreading through him and realized he was going to die.

Feeney brought the Aether Particle back to Earth after confirming that Four Bullets could rewind its effects, but the particle resisted his equipment and threatened to weaken him. Unsure whether it had alerted the Dark Elves, he left to wait near his ambush site and investigate how to remove it.

• Feeney used Four Bullets to rewind his body and confirmed it worked on the Aether Particle, then carried the unconscious Jane back to Earth.
• Feeney asked the Reality Stone to leave the Dark Elves and join him, but it gave no response.
• The Aether Particle blocked Feeney from equipping Possessed by Evil Spirit and only quieted after he dismissed it.
• Feeney realized the Aether Particle burdened him, restricted his strength, and might automatically defend him, but he could not control it.
• After Daisy and the others reached Jane, Feeney flew away to wait near his ambush site and study how to remove the Aether Particle.

Feeney tested the Aether’s effects on his powers and chose to ambush the Dark Elves without first letting them reclaim it, hoping to find another way to remove it later. Meanwhile, Jane returned to the anomaly with Daisy and Ian and discovered that objects could pass through the wall.

• Feeney opened a Dimensional Space beneath the Celestial Convergence and confirmed that the Aether did not stop him from using the Evil Eye, but he failed to draw the Aether from his body.
• Feeney decided to keep the Aether and wait for the Dark Elves, accepting the risks of finding his own way to remove it.
• Jane woke up, told Daisy and Ian that she had been pulled into a strange place, and went back to investigate the wall.
• Daisy paid the children to keep quiet about what they had seen, then followed Jane with Ian.
• Jane threw an empty soda can at the wall, and it passed through the surface and vanished.

Jane decided to reenter the shifting Spatial Point after sensing someone in the place beyond it, while Thor learned she had disappeared into a boundary point and rushed to Earth. Thor arrived at the building where Daisy and Ian were, as Heimdall continued searching for Jane.

• Jane remembered feeling someone hold her when she passed through the wall, and she decided to go back despite Daisy and Ian's warnings.
• Jane gave Daisy the Silver Knight's number and entered the wall, believing the Spatial Point might soon change.
• Heimdall told Thor that Jane had vanished into a converging boundary point and he could no longer locate her.
• Thor summoned his hammer and persuaded Heimdall to send him to Earth to find Jane.
• Thor arrived at the building where Daisy and Ian were, and Daisy recognized him in astonishment.

Thor reunited with Jane in the sealed space where she had examined the Aether’s former prison. After realizing the seal might hold something dangerous, he took her to Asgard for an examination and planned to report what had happened to his father.

• Thor arrived through the Teleportation Point and rushed after Jane into the sealed space.
• Thor and Jane reunited, and after Jane slapped him twice for staying away, they kissed and discussed why he had been absent.
• Jane told Thor that Feeney had encouraged her to expect Thor’s return, and she explained how she had been drawn into the space.
• Thor recognized the boulder as a complex Asgardian seal and called Heimdall, who located the sealed space.
• Thor carried Jane away from the seal and took her to Asgard in the Bifrost.