Recaps

Howard Stark, Hank McCoy, and Wendy Lawson investigated the Tesseract’s power before an urgent call recalled Stark to New York. At Kamar-Taj, James and Emma learned that Kaecilius was seeking forbidden magic to save his dying wife, while the Ancient One revealed the cost of her own long life and hinted that her time as Sorcerer Supreme was nearly over.

• Hank McCoy demonstrated how the Tesseract opened a portal to a dark-energy field and explained that its fundamental power was control over space.
• Stark’s assistant summoned him back to New York after Hank Pym became enraged over a problem with Project Goliath, while Mar-Vell cautiously reached toward the Tesseract.
• James, Emma, and Laura visited Kamar-Taj, where Mordo reported that Kaecilius had argued with a librarian and wanted access to forbidden books.
• The Ancient One explained that Kaecilius’s wife was terminally ill and that he hoped to use magic to bring her back, despite Kamar-Taj’s rules against interfering with death.
• The Ancient One revealed that she had prolonged her life by drawing on the Dark Dimension and said it was almost time for her to pass on the Sorcerer Supreme’s power.
• James warned the Ancient One against surrendering to destiny and threatened to kill whoever became her successor.

James learned that the Ancient One expected to withstand the Dark Dimension’s corruption for another thirty or forty years, then agreed to help Warren after Laura revealed that one of his wings had died. The chapter ended with Warren isolated in his family’s mansion, struggling to play guitar with one wing splinted and lifeless.

• The Ancient One explained that James had become a self-sufficient godlike being, but warned that he could not defeat Dormammu in the Dark Dimension and said her own corruption might take thirty or forty years to overcome her.
• James dropped his suggestion of confronting Dormammu, and Emma cautioned him that the world might still hold hidden threats.
• Laura told James that Warren’s wings had stopped healing, and James offered to have Warren come to the old mansion while admitting that a second mutation might not restore them.
• The narration described Warren’s privileged place in the Worthington family and how his father had once feared that his mutation could have cost him his place as heir.
• Warren played badly on his guitar in his family’s mansion, with one wing working well enough to fetch beer and the other bound in splints and appearing dead.

Warren struggled with losing his ability to fly until Kurt told him Laura had arranged for him to train with Kurt’s grandfather. The story then shifted to young Peter Quill, whose mother died before he could take her hand, and ended as a mysterious craft abducted him.

• Warren drank beer and angrily chased Kurt through his wing-adapted room, though his injured wing kept him from catching him.
• Warren told Kurt how much flying had meant to him, and Kurt revealed that his grandfather had agreed to train Warren at the old house.
• Warren eagerly prepared to leave with Kurt, while Kurt worried that Warren would embarrass himself in front of his grandfather.
• Peter Quill visited his dying mother, Meredith, who gave him a new tape and told him his father had come from beyond the stars as an “Angel.”
• Meredith died before Peter could take her hand, and Peter ran outside, where a mysterious craft lifted him aboard.
• A crew member warned Boss Yondu that the planet’s orbital detection system might have spotted their craft.

The Ravagers abducted Peter Quill, and Yondu chose to avoid a Kree ship and take the crew to Contraxia instead of Ego. S.H.I.E.L.D. began investigating Peter’s disappearance as James heard from Professor Charles that an alien had been on Earth for years and had a child with a human woman.

• The Ravagers examined the abducted Peter Quill, while Yondu questioned the crew’s deliveries of children to Ego.
• Yondu detected a Kree patrol ship, declined to confront it, and ordered the Ravagers to jump to Contraxia.
• Phil Coulson and Director Fury arrived to question Mr. Orson Quill about Peter’s disappearance.
• Warren Worthington and Kurt arrived at the Howlett estate, where James finished his slow martial-arts practice.
• Professor Charles contacted James and reported that his investigation confirmed an alien had been on Earth for at least ten years and had fathered a child with a human woman.

James and Charles investigated the alien Ego’s connection to Peter Quill’s disappearance while Warren joined the Wolf Pack’s reserve training group. At Project Pegasus, Wendy Lawson and her colleagues achieved a breakthrough with the engine, but Lawson’s unexpected remark about warp drives left her colleagues wondering what she knew.

• James told Charles that they needed to investigate every trace Ego had left on Earth, warning that aliens could come and go while humanity remained vulnerable.
• James told Kurt that Warren would train with the Wolf Pack’s reserve members under the group’s usual rules and would receive no special treatment.
• Howard Stark found Wendy Lawson eating a large spread of food, then told her the team had successfully converted trapped microwaves into propulsion.
• Hank McCoy explained that the team’s Tesseract-powered engine had overcome major energy barriers and could be ready for a test flight in a few months, with Carol Danvers as the pilot.
• After Stark and Hank discussed the limits of light-speed travel, Wendy abruptly said that a warp drive was much simpler.

Mar-Vell struggled with her attachment to Earth while the Supreme Intelligence ordered her to secure the Tesseract for the Kree Empire. Yon-Rogg was sent with a Starforce squad to C-53, where the Supreme Intelligence authorized ruthless action if conflict arose.

• Hank and Mr. Stark questioned Dr. Lawson about spatial-jump research as the Light-Speed Engine prepared for testing.
• Mar-Vell packed her Earth belongings aboard her concealed Kree Cruiser and consulted the Supreme Intelligence, which urged her to prioritize the Kree Empire’s survival and the Tesseract.
• Mar-Vell pledged herself to the Kree Supreme and resolved to carry out her duty.
• The Supreme Intelligence ordered Yon-Rogg to lead a Starforce squad to C-53 and rendezvous with Mar-Vell to retrieve the Tesseract.
• Yon-Rogg asked what to do if fighting broke out, and the Supreme Intelligence ordered him to move fast and act ruthlessly, regardless of the cost.

James watched Warren’s brutal training at the Howlett estate and praised the young mutant’s growing ferocity, while Emma worried about his broken wings. At Edwards Air Force Base, Mar-Vell prepared to leave before Carol Danvers’s first test flight, secretly equipping herself with Kree bracers as the test began the next morning without her.

• James and Emma watched Warren train against a wild-haired young man, and Warren broke his own wings to land a decisive kick that fractured his opponent’s chest.
• Hall Wood stopped the fight and sent both young men to the medics; James praised Warren’s ferocity while Emma worried that his wings would not heal normally.
• James demonstrated how he could create an eagle-like cry by vibrating his arm and assured Emma that Warren would find his own wings.
• Dr. Wendy Lawson told Carol Danvers she would miss the Light-Speed Engine’s first test flight, and Carol asked her to attend the later high-thrust tests.
• After Carol left, Mar-Vell put on the Kree bracers, briefly activated their power, and reaffirmed her resolve as a Kree captain.
• The next morning, Hank McCoy and Howard Stark prepared the test equipment, and Stark explained that Lawson had said she was visiting her estranged father in Ohio.

Carol Danvers tested the Pegasus fighter as Yon-Rogg launched a Kree operation to seize the Tesseract and destroy Project Pegasus. After stealing the Tesseract, Mar-Vell was swallowed by a portal and arrived before James Howlett and Warren Worthington.

• Carol Danvers completed Pegasus's initial atmospheric tests and began a near-Earth orbital flight test while Yon-Rogg watched from a Kree cruiser.
• Yon-Rogg ordered Bron-Char and Atlas to attack Edwards Air Force Base and set out to intercept the fighter.
• Mar-Vell stole the Tesseract from Project Pegasus, fought off the Winter Wolf guards, and blasted through the base to escape.
• Mar-Vell flew toward the Kree cruiser, but a portal opened above her and pulled her through with the Tesseract.
• Mar-Vell emerged near James Howlett and Warren Worthington, who recognized her arrival as an unexpected result of Azazel's space marker.

Warren Worthington trained with James Howlett, who taught him the Lie-Sun Fist and severed his irreparably injured wings so he could move forward. Their training was interrupted by Mar-Vell, a Kree Starforce member who confronted James, and the chapter left them facing each other in the air.

• Warren told James how he had first learned to fly after Kurt kicked him from the academy clock tower.
• James demonstrated the Lie-Sun Fist, explained its Huajin technique, and offered to train Warren in its basic movements.
• After Warren said his broken wings could not heal, James severed them and stopped the bleeding; Warren accepted the loss.
• Mar-Vell emerged from a portal after triggering the Tesseract's security measures and tried to flee when James confronted her.
• James caught Mar-Vell, slammed her into the cliff, and faced her in the air as she identified herself as a Kree Supreme Starforce member and called him the Wolf Emperor.

James Howlett confronted Mar-Vell after she stole the Tesseract and fought her in the mountains, while Kree forces attacked the Project Pegasus facility and pursued Carol Danvers. The chapter left Carol’s test aircraft spiraling toward the ground and Hank McCoy carrying the unconscious Howard Stark toward a shelter as he called for help.

• James Howlett identified Mar-Vell as Wendy Lawson and challenged her after she explained the Kree Empire’s claim to the Tesseract.
• James fought Mar-Vell, knocked the Tesseract case away from her, and drove her through a mountain toward the upper atmosphere.
• Yon-Rogg detected Mar-Vell’s fight and said he would deal with a prototype before joining her.
• Yon-Rogg attacked Carol Danvers’s test aircraft, while Kree fighters struck Edwards Air Force Base.
• Hank McCoy carried the unconscious Howard Stark toward an underground shelter and activated a communicator to summon others.

Carol Danvers survived an attack by Yon-Rogg, but the destruction of her experimental aircraft’s Light-Speed Engine exposed her to its Tesseract energy. Yon-Rogg discovered she had become an unstable, extremely high-threat superhuman.

• Carol Danvers evaded Yon-Rogg’s Kree fighter until an energy net forced her experimental aircraft to crash in a snowy wilderness.
• Yon-Rogg approached the wreck and dismissed Carol as a low-threat Earthling while she mistook the attack for a possible Howlett Group betrayal.
• Yon-Rogg fired into the Light-Speed Engine, destroying it and engulfing Carol in its Tesseract energy.
• Yon-Rogg learned that Captain Mar-Vell’s energy source had gone missing and that Atlas and Bron-Char’s fighters had been shot down.
• Yon-Rogg found Carol alive in the crater and saw his scanner classify her threat level as Extremely High.

Yon-Rogg captured Carol Danvers and ordered a strike on Earth while Steve Rogers, Alex Summers, Erik, and Azazel dealt with the attackers at Edwards Air Force Base. Hank revealed the aliens had stolen the Tesseract, but Azazel said his teleportation mark would send it to James once it left Earth.

• Yon-Rogg contained Carol, ordered the remaining Kree to search for Captain Mar-Vell, and authorized an indiscriminate cruiser strike on the Earth resistance forces.
• Alex destroyed the two attacking fighters above Edwards Air Force Base before Steve and the Order Whip arrived, while Azazel revealed he had already teleported their pilots away.
• Erik disarmed and restrained the Kree Atlas and Bron-Char as Steve and the others realized the attackers were aliens.
• Hank charged in and revealed that the Kree had come for the Tesseract, which Lawson had stolen.
• Azazel explained that he had placed a teleportation mark on the Tesseract that would send it to James once it traveled far enough from Earth.

James Howlett captured Mar-Vell after she tried to steal the Tesseract, then watched Earth repel a Kree planet-killer beam and Magneto drag the Kree cruiser toward the planet. Mar-Vell broke free and attacked James with her failing wristbands, leaving their fight unresolved; the author’s note said the author was recovering from pneumonia and expected to resume regular updates gradually.

• James Howlett subdued Mar-Vell in near-Earth space and deduced that her powerful wristbands were difficult to reproduce.
• Mar-Vell warned James that the Kree cruiser would destroy part of Earth, but Azazel redirected its planet-killer beam through portals and it missed the ship.
• Steve, Erik, and Azazel headed into space, and Erik used his magnetic powers to pull the Kree cruiser toward Earth.
• Mar-Vell broke free of James’s Crimson Chains as her wristbands cracked, then charged him and damaged his chest.
• James impaled Mar-Vell’s leg with Bone Blades and burned her wristband with Hellfire as their fight continued.
• The author said a lung infection and pneumonia had disrupted updates, but their condition had stabilized and they planned to recover at their parents’ home.

James defeated Mar-Vell in space, severed her Quantum Bands, and brought her unconscious body toward Earth to question her about the Kree Empire. Erik Lehnsherr and Earth's defenders restrained the Kree cruiser, but Minn-Erva destroyed it to keep its technology from enemy hands as Yon-Rogg escaped toward Jupiter.

• Mar-Vell broke free of James's grasp, repaired her injured leg with Photon energy, and warned that the Kree Empire would not accept defeat.
• James transformed fully into a flaming skeleton and fought Mar-Vell, whose attacks destroyed nearby satellites but could not overcome him.
• James cut off Mar-Vell's arm and disabled her Quantum Bands, then carried her unconscious body toward his Edmonton estate to learn about the Kree and the Supreme Intelligence.
• Erik Lehnsherr controlled the Kree mothership with his magnetic power while Earth's defenders fought off its fighters.
• Minn-Erva reported the losses to Yon-Rogg, activated the mothership's self-destruct sequence, and destroyed the cruiser after he authorized it.
• Yon-Rogg saluted Minn-Erva, watched the cruiser explode, and escaped through a jump point toward Jupiter.

James and Professor Xavier examined Mar-Vell’s memories, discovering that the Kree were transforming Carol Danvers into a powerful weapon and preparing to attack Earth again. After Steve reported the Kree ship’s destruction, James questioned whether the Skrulls might already be on Earth, perhaps close by.

• Dr. Zola stabilized Mar-Vell, and James told him he could study captured Kree but not use her for research.
• Professor Xavier searched Mar-Vell’s memories with James and witnessed the Kree treating Carol Danvers, erasing her memories, and preparing her to fight Earth alongside Yon-Rogg and Ronan.
• James and Xavier learned that the Kree’s Supreme Intelligence had ordered a new Starforce to return to Earth and seize the Tesseract.
• Steve reported that the Kree ship’s self-destruct had damaged an Australian harbor but caused no injuries, while Erik apologized for failing to control the ship.
• James told Steve, Erik, Azazel, and Charles to watch the captured Kree and said they would investigate an unexpected discovery.
• James asked whether the Skrulls might already be on Earth, or even right beside them.

James found Mar-Vell’s Kree cruiser and discovered that her orange cat, Goose, was a dangerous Flerken, then entrusted it to Anya. Meanwhile, two Skrulls in a remote California town argued over a signal from their royal family and learned that Earth’s strongest power had clashed with the Kree.

• James, Erik, and their group boarded Mar-Vell’s cruiser, and Hank began studying its controls and technology.
• Goose transformed and attacked the researchers with enormous tentacles, but James and Erik subdued it and placed a muzzle on it.
• James brought Goose to Anya, who recognized it as a Flerken and agreed to look after it; she warned that a war was coming and would leave unseen scars.
• James watched Warren fight at the training grounds before finding Anya among animals gathered peacefully around her.
• In California, Andara Jacobsen’s visitor revealed himself as a Skrull and questioned her about a signal from the royal family and Talos.
• The Skrull visitor told Jacobsen that Earth’s most powerful force had already clashed with the Kree and warned that Earth might be conquered.

Mutas and Tessa discussed the Skrull Empire’s plans to use the Phoenix Force against the Kree, while James worried that Earth’s young heroes might face an alien war. At the Howlett manor, Magda gave birth to twins and named them Wanda and Pietro.

• Mutas told Tessa that the Skrull royal family had found the Phoenix Force and hoped to use it to restore their empire and take revenge on the Kree.
• Andara Jacobsen left town with Mutas in his car.
• Warren fought Remus II in the manor’s arena, and James watched while reflecting on the growing alien threat and his renewed desire for power.
• James and Erik waited anxiously as Magda went into labor, and Laura, Kurt, Jean, and Warren joined them.
• Magda gave birth to a boy and a girl, with the girl arriving first, and named them Wanda and Pietro.

Scott Summers, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Warren Worthington fought a vast horde of demons in the Hell Dimension as the Sirius Legion attacked Horn Mountain. The legion held its ground against overwhelming numbers, while Scott urged his squad toward Jean and the other women fighting at the front.

• Scott Summers, Colossus, and Nightcrawler waited for the demon tide after Warren Worthington drew demons from Horn Mountain.
• Warren Worthington returned from attacking the demon lair, and the four mutants prepared to face the approaching horde.
• James Howlett watched the Sirius Legion assemble and told his commanders to assess the young units’ tactics.
• Colossus smashed through demons, Scott Summers fired optic blasts, Warren Worthington fought in the air, and Nightcrawler teleported among flying enemies.
• The Sirius Legion’s veterans held the line while three women pushed deeper into the demon tide toward high-level demons.
• Scott Summers asked Colossus to help him reach the front left, where Jean and the other women faced increasing pressure.

The Sirius Legion launched its largest training assault in Limbo, with Storm’s catastrophic weather attacks and the front-line fighters cutting through a demon army. Demon lord Uranus emerged from Horn Mountain, fought off Jean Grey, Laura, and Sharon Rogers, then headed for James as Jean heard a familiar voice in her mind.

• Scott, Kurt, and Colossus cleared demons while Kurt teased Scott about Laura and the others.
• Storm unleashed the Flame Catastrophe, and Archangel helped clear the sky as James and Erik discussed Storm’s growing powers.
• Jean, Laura, and Sharon advanced through the demon army and headed toward Horn Mountain when they sensed its tremors.
• Uranus emerged from Horn Mountain, recognized the invaders as humans, and fought the three women, healing its wounds and throwing them aside.
• Uranus flew toward James at the rear of the legion, while Jean’s Phoenix attack was repelled and a familiar voice spoke in her mind.

James fought the demon lord Uranus in Hell and destroyed him with Hellfire after overpowering him in combat. With Uranus gone and a true dimensional lord likely to take notice, James ordered the Sirius Legion to withdraw to Earth.

• Jean Grey suppressed the dark personality in her mind after it briefly surged out and blasted Laura away.
• Erik ordered the Sirius Legion to part and let Uranus pass, while Gambit and Havok prepared to fight.
• James struck Uranus, then battered him with martial arts and four crimson Mystic Arts arms.
• Uranus regenerated and summoned a colossal scythe, but James restrained him with Crimson Chains and used Hellfire to burn him into ash.
• James ordered the legion to retreat, and Kurt Howlett teleported Cyclops and the others through Azazel's portal to Greenland.

After the Sirius Legion completed its final large-scale combat drill, James and Erik prepared for the coming war with the Kree while the Legionnaires recovered at Wolf Nest Base. In New York, Reed Richards reluctantly arrived at the Howlett Group with Ben Grimm to seek funding for his research, leaving his meeting with the company ahead.

• James sent the mystics back to the Sanctum Sanctorum after they helped the Sirius Legion fight demons in Limbo, and Erik announced that the Legion would shift from live-fire drills to rest and war preparations.
• James and Erik discussed the Kree threat, the Legion’s lack of space-combat experience, and the time needed to use captured Kree technology to build ships and fighters.
• Young Remus healed from severe wounds after injecting blood donated by Warren, whose Mutant healing ability had strengthened after his second awakening.
• Young Remus and Remus I talked about the battle and the younger generation of warriors, while Scott offered Jean a Heart-Shaped Herb drink and described his dream of exploring space with her.
• Ben Grimm pushed Reed Richards to seek work and research funding from the Howlett Group, while Reed complained that James Howlett and the company manipulated science and society.

Reed Richards and Ben Grimm negotiated with Victor Doom to fund Reed’s Cosmic Storm research, then learned Susan Storm would oversee the project. At the Howlett family castle, James Howlett caught the speedy young Pietro and asked where he had hidden Wanda.

• Ben Grimm accompanied Reed Richards to the Howlett Group, where they discovered Victor Doom was leading its Technology Project Department.
• Reed explained his plan to study the approaching Cosmic Storm, and Doom offered funding in exchange for eighty percent ownership and profits, later raising Reed’s share to twenty-five percent.
• Susan Storm told Reed and Ben she would oversee the project, that Johnny would handle spacewalks, and that they should meet her at nine the next morning.
• Susan urged Reed to consider joining the Howlett Group, but he refused, saying the Howletts frightened people; she directed them to meet her at the research base.
• At the Howlett family castle, James Howlett teased Erik about parenting and caught Pietro Lehnsherr as he sped through the halls.
• James tickled Pietro and asked where he had hidden his sister Wanda.

Wanda Lehnsherr began her magical apprenticeship with the Ancient One, while James told Erik that Wanda’s power had immense, undefined potential. Later, Peggy and Steve discussed Professor Charles’s disappearance and the strange patterns Peggy had noticed in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s intelligence reports.

• James and Erik took Wanda to the New York Sanctum, where she bid farewell to her family and warned Erik she might tell their mother about his beachside conversation with a woman.
• Wanda knelt before the Ancient One and became her apprentice, while James noticed the Ancient One had lost her hair and discussed Wanda’s Chaos Magic with her.
• James told Erik that Wanda was an Omega whose potential was impossible to define, then refused to explain where Professor Charles had gone.
• Peggy studied intelligence reports at home and worried about faint, unfamiliar patterns she had noticed in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s files.
• Steve visited Peggy before returning to Order Whip and asked whether she knew where Professor Charles had gone.

Steve Rogers questioned Maverick and Iceman about disobeying the Aerospace Force’s orders and explained why the command had not built its strategy around the dangerous Pegasus fighters. Meanwhile, Peggy investigated the disappearances of Professor Charles and Moira as Skrull infiltrators impersonated Order Whip personnel and planned their next targets.

• Steve Rogers asked Maverick and Iceman why they had challenged the operations command’s plan, and they warned that humanity might be outmatched by the Kree.
• Steve showed the pilots the Pegasus test craft’s catastrophic crash and asked whether they would risk testing a weapon that could vaporize its pilot; Maverick said he would fight the aliens anyway.
• Peggy told Steve that Professor Charles and Moira had disappeared and suspected the Sirius Legion was involved, then reopened her files to investigate a series of incidents.
• A Skrull impersonating Steve gave Peggy’s hair to his companions, and the group discussed how their pheromone-collecting operation had failed to reveal Professor Charles’s location.
• The Skrulls debated whether to target the White Queen or James Howlett next, and Tessa suggested drawing lots rather than risk confronting the Wolf Emperor.

Valery Polyakov and Eileen Collins inspected a lunar base site while discussing the Wolf Emperor and the strange canyon left by his battle with the Mutants’ progenitor. James Howlett tested a warp-capable warship near the asteroid belt, then trained by smashing asteroids, while Emma Howlett told Jean Grey that she had been born at the Jianshen level and addressed the mysterious voice that had returned.

• Valery Polyakov tried to tamper with Neil Armstrong’s protected footprint before Eileen Collins hurried him toward their lunar inspection site.
• Polyakov and Collins discussed the canyon’s rumored origin and the human forces building lunar and orbital defenses against the Kree Empire.
• Hank McCoy brought James Howlett to the asteroid belt aboard a warp-capable ship and explained how the warp bubble worked.
• James refused a spacesuit, entered space, and smashed asteroids to train while the ship’s crew watched.
• Emma Howlett told Jean Grey that she was the third Mutant to reach the Jianshen level and that her core power was driven by emotions.
• Jean asked Emma whether she could finally absorb or kill the voice that had returned after more than ten years.