Chapter Summaries

Scott Summers visited Wolf Nest Base to have Hank McCoy make him combat glasses, where he met Dr. Zola and Jean Grey. Meanwhile, James Howlett prepared to replace the Tesseract as the base’s power source and held the cosmic artifact, contemplating it.

• Hank McCoy explained Scott Summers’s powers while adjusting his Cyclops glasses, but Scott distractedly shook Dr. Zola’s life-support tank.
• Dr. Zola’s robot body scolded Scott, and Hank introduced him as Alex’s younger brother before Laura arrived with Jean Grey.
• Laura introduced Jean to Hank and Dr. Zola, and Scott introduced himself as Cyclops before Laura led him toward the training area.
• Hank left for the central hall after telling Scott to test his finished glasses and directing Laura and Jean to ask Dr. Zola for help.
• James Howlett removed the Tesseract from its secure vault as researchers brought in a replacement energy source for Wolf Nest Base.
• James held the Tesseract and clenched his fingers around it as he studied the stone.

James entrusted the Tesseract to Hank for the Pegasus light-speed engine project while Laura tested Scott Summers’s optic blasts and combat skills. Scott learned that Laura’s family Mystic Arts were dangerous to train in and asked about learning them anyway.

• James gave Hank the Tesseract and told him to focus on advancing Project Pegasus, dismissing concerns about its security.
• Laura asked Scott to fire his optic blasts at her, and her Blood Bell shield held until Scott raised his power enough to damage her before her healing restored her.
• Scott tried to fight Laura, but she dodged his blast and punched him in the stomach, leaving Jean to advise him about combat skills beyond relying on mutant powers.
• Scott asked whether he could learn the Killing Technique and Laura’s Mystic Arts, and Laura explained that the Flesh Martial Arts could destroy the body without powerful healing.
• Scott examined the marks caused by Laura’s Mystic Arts and continued asking her questions about the Howlett Family and its training.

James confronted Dr. Zola and Dr. Trask about the damaged mutant Darwin, then burned Darwin’s body away with Hellfire. Later, Hank McCoy arrived at Edwards Air Force Base with the Tesseract to join Project Pegasus on James’s orders.

• Dr. Trask explained that Darwin’s consciousness had died and his body survived only as a mass of fused cells, while James reminded him of his role in the tragedy.
• Dr. Zola revealed that their research suggested mutants had been deliberately created through advanced genetic engineering, but James ordered the records sealed and development suspended.
• James entered Darwin’s laboratory and destroyed the mutant’s body with Hellfire, leaving nothing behind.
• Dr. Trask watched the empty laboratory and wondered what James meant by being a pure scientist.
• Hank McCoy arrived at Edwards Air Force Base carrying the Tesseract and announced that he would lead the Howlett Group team joining Project Pegasus.

Raven impersonated James to confront Azazel about sneaking out to meet a French talk-show host and his fans. Azazel recognized the deception, and their argument ended with Raven threatening to send him to the Arctic Circle.

• James waited at the Howlett Estate, preparing to question Azazel about his late-night outings.
• Azazel asked James to cover for him if Raven asked where he had been.
• James pressed Azazel about his secret activities, and Azazel said he had been attending fan meet-and-greets with a female host.
• Azazel realized that the apparent James was Raven in disguise and teased her for pretending to be his father.
• Raven admitted she had investigated the French host, while Azazel insisted their meetings were ordinary fan events.

Kurt, Laura, and Jean worried that Warren’s badly injured wing showed no signs of healing, while Scott suggested asking Logan for help. Jean recalled the Beast-Type Mutant Colony Effect and proposed that Logan’s beast-type mutant instincts might help Warren, who belonged to the same system.

• Kurt teleported from his family’s mansion to the Academy after overhearing his parents argue about whether Charles should search their memories.
• Kurt told Laura and Jean that Warren’s injured wing was not healing, and that the medical teams had found little hope.
• Laura recalled a healer named John Coffey, but Kurt said Coffey had left years ago and was probably dead.
• Scott suggested asking Logan for help, and Jean connected Logan and Warren through the Beast-Type Mutant Colony Effect.

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.