Recaps

As the Avengers and Players fought the Chitauri invasion, Thor and Tony Stark brought down Leviathan warships. Max appeared in towering blue armor after Lee Stein’s God of Earth plan succeeded, leaving Tony convinced Earth had gained a true god.

• The Avengers arrived to find Tony Stark coordinating the Players’ attack on a Leviathan, and they joined the fight as Bruce Banner ran toward another avenue.
• Thor struck the battered Leviathan with Mjolnir, bringing it crashing down, then followed Tony Stark to fight more warships.
• Thor unleashed lightning that destroyed another Leviathan, and a much larger lightning strike obliterated the one Tony Stark was targeting.
• Tony Stark and Thor saw gathered electricity form Max, a giant clad in deep-blue armor, and Tony identified him as the God of Earth.
• Tony Stark concluded that Lee Stein’s plan had succeeded and Earth had produced its own god.

Max drew on the Stein Group’s global radio network to become a twenty-five-meter lightning giant and defend New York from the Chitauri. After destroying the invading warships and soldiers, he prepared to strike at the remaining hostile targets and the alien gods.

• Max had Skynet secure twenty percent of Miss Pandora’s computing power and absorbed electricity from the Stein Group’s network, growing into a lightning giant.
• Max realized that the crowd’s attention mattered less to him than approval from Lee, then announced that he was defending New York in Lee’s place.
• Max fired enormous Lightning Arrows and destroyed every Leviathan warship that had crossed through the wormhole.
• Max blasted approaching Chitauri soldiers with lightning while Thor and Tony Stark watched.
• Skynet reported that all hostile targets were locked on, and Max burst into streams of electricity to attack them and the alien gods.

Max destroyed the Chitauri invasion with a storm of lightning and sealed off their advance through the wormhole. After New Yorkers praised him and Lee Stein, Max reunited with Tony Stark and Thor, and they discussed shutting the portal and contacting S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Max summoned a lightning storm that wiped out the Chitauri forces over New York and blasted the wormhole, stopping more aliens from emerging.
• New Yorkers celebrated Max's victory, and Max told them to thank Lee Stein for making him who he was.
• Max returned to Tony Stark and Thor, joked with them about his title as the God of Earth, and learned Tony feared the portal might remain open.
• Max suggested asking Doctor Selvig how to close the portal and contacting S.H.I.E.L.D. and the politicians before they ordered a nuclear strike.

Lee Stein arrived in Tianhe City to help the Black Company repel the Taotie invasion, while the outnumbered defenders suffered heavy losses. He rescued Rui Mengmeng and headed toward Leina, saying he urgently needed a power bank.

• Lee Stein accepted the Tianhe City defense quest and told H Country's South Sea Fleet that he had come to support the city.
• The Black Company struggled against the Taotie forces as Chen Yaowen, Ge Xiaolun, and Leina were reported severely wounded, and Ge Xiaolun argued with Du Qiangwei.
• Rui Mengmeng flew to support Leina but was surrounded by seven Taotie soldiers and knocked down.
• Lee Stein arrived with his floating combat platforms and swiftly defeated the Taotie soldiers threatening Rui Mengmeng.
• Rui Mengmeng directed Lee Stein toward Leina, and he sped off to find her.

Li Si unleashed the Project Armor against the Taotie forces in Tianhe City, switching from close-combat assaults to overwhelming firepower. His rampage drew the Taotie away from Leina and the others, easing their pressure as the battle continued.

• Li Si evaded Taotie attacks and used the Concert’s sonic waves to knock down the surrounding soldiers.
• He assembled the Medium Assault Armor and smashed through elite Taotie warriors in time with the battle music.
• The Taotie scattered and concentrated their fire on Li Si, damaging the Medium Assault Armor.
• Li Si transformed the hovering devices into the Heavy Guardian Spirit, shielding himself and unleashing a massive barrage of weapons.
• The barrage shredded ordinary Taotie soldiers, while Leina and her companions benefited from the elites abandoning their position to attack Li Si.
• H-country Players across Tianhe City watched Li Si’s assault and fought harder.

Lee Stein used Leina’s solar energy to power the Nuclear Flame Demon and attack the Taotie vanguard flagship. The demon shattered its energy barrier and began tearing the warship apart by hand.

• Lee Stein returned to Leina and proposed using the Nuclear Flame Demon to break the flagship’s shield.
• Leina supplied the demon with concentrated solar energy until she could no longer sustain the beam.
• The Nuclear Flame Demon leaped to the Taotie vanguard flagship and repeatedly struck the same point on its energy barrier.
• The flagship’s barrier shattered, and Lee Stein punched through the warship’s hull and began dismantling it.

Lee Stein destroyed the Taotie vanguard fleet over Tianhe City and warned Black Company that more ships could follow. He then returned toward New York, leaving Black Company to handle the remaining troops and prepare for future attacks.

• Lee Stein dismantled the Taotie vanguard flagship and two escort ships, turning the tide of the battle.
• Lee Stein emerged from the Nuclear Flame Demon, reassured Leina that he was safe, and declined to join the celebration.
• Lee Stein warned Black Company that the three ships were only a vanguard and that more Taotie forces remained near the wormhole.
• Lee Stein flew back toward New York after Du Qiangwei explained that the city faced a separate alien invasion.
• Du Qiangwei, Leina, Liu Chuang, Zhao Xin, and the others resolved to rely on themselves and helped the military clear the remaining Taotie troops.
• Morgana and Ato watched the Nuclear Flame Demon and argued about whether it was a demon before Morgana ordered Ato to go to the Freljord Star System.

After defeating the alien fleet in China, Lee Stein returned to New York, where the Stein Group employees celebrated his safe return and he joined his friends for a barbecue gathering. The chapter ended with the survivors celebrating and giving autographs in the restaurant.

• Lee Stein received the Tianhe City battle settlement, including MVP status and 166,000 Contribution Points, but headed to New York without checking the rewards.
• Lee Stein flew over New York, greeted cheering residents, and returned to the unharmed Stein Tower, where employees welcomed him and he offered them the afternoon off.
• Lee Stein found Otto Gunther, Curt Connors, and Dr. Sterns working in the laboratory and assigned them alien craft to study.
• Lee Stein called Gwen and Pandora, then joined Max, Tony Stark, Black Widow, and the others at a barbecue restaurant.
• The gathering grew lively as attendees caught up and gave autographs to passersby.

As the Stein Group and the Avengers received worldwide praise, Lee Stein confronted the team about preparing Earth for greater alien threats and sought the Tesseract’s energy. He revealed Hydra’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. and convinced Thor to let him extract energy from the Tesseract, leaving Lee with access to two Infinity Stones.

• News reports praised the Stein Group, Lee Stein, and the Avengers after the alien attack, while the Avengers rested and prepared to see Thor off.
• Lee Stein arrived and asked Tony Stark and the others for the Tesseract, arguing that Earth needed an energy network and defenses against powerful alien fleets.
• Tony Stark confirmed that the World Security Council was discussing the threat, while Lee said his plan involved Max and an energy network shared with Tony.
• Lee revealed that Max had obtained the Mind Scepter from a Hydra agent, prompting Steve Rogers and the others to react with alarm.
• Lee persuaded Thor to let him extract some energy from the Tesseract before Thor returned to Asgard, securing access to two Infinity Stones.

After sending Thor and Loki back to Asgard and giving Black Widow a partial list of Hydra agents, Lee faced a sudden media and political attack against Stein Group. He reassured Gwen that the company was too powerful to confront directly, then considered researching the Tesseract after dealing with the crisis.

• Lee used Max's surveillance capabilities to give Black Widow and her allies a list of Hydra agents in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s special operations unit, while withholding the rest of what he knew.
• Negative reports accused Stein Group of nearing bankruptcy and becoming a security threat, prompting Gwen to worry that Lee might be branded a war criminal.
• Lee told Gwen that Stein Group's reach and armed forces would deter the government and military from attacking it, and joked about ruling the universe.
• Lee inspected the Tesseract in his laboratory and considered whether its gamma radiation could enhance him in Hulk form.
• Lee locked the Tesseract back in its safe and decided to spend his mission contribution points before resuming his research.

After the Battle of Tianhe City, Lee Stein spent his 166,000 points on Achievement Points, Intelligence and Spirit enhancements, and Dark Alloy, while his Superhero template grew stronger. He left the laboratory to prepare for General Ross’s visit and coordinate with Tony Stark, public relations, and the Players’ AR equipment rollout.

• Lee Stein reviewed the Points Shop, rejected technology and talent clues, and spent 40,000 points on two Achievement Points, 20,000 on Intelligence and Spirit, and the remaining 106,000 on fifty-three kilograms of Dark Alloy.
• The purchases raised Lee Stein’s Intelligence and Spirit by 0.5 each and added two Achievement Points; his Superhero template’s Genius Scientist and Mechanic legends advanced, granting stronger bonuses and the Vehicle Master skill.
• Lee Stein admired his updated character panel, then went to Curt Connors and the others to test his increased Intelligence under the pretense of sharing their workload.
• Pandora pulled Lee Stein from the laboratory and reminded him that General Ross and his party would visit Stein Tower that afternoon.
• Lee Stein told Pandora to contact Tony Stark about the promised funding, have the PR department draft statements, issue missions to the Players, and use the basic AR equipment to guide them for now.

As hostile public opinion against the Stein Group spread, a video from employee Malz Leonard exposed how the company’s debt came from powering the defense against an alien attack, prompting some people to speak up in its favor. Meanwhile, Kratos and his friends activated the game’s war terminal on Earth and received a mysterious mercenary mission.

• News reports described officials arriving at Stein Tower as the Stein Group faced growing suspicion and hostility.
• Malz Leonard posted a video revealing that the Stein Group’s debt came from diverting electricity to help Max fight an alien fleet and Lee Stein stop another invasion.
• New York residents and other viewers began defending the Stein Group online, slowly shifting public opinion.
• Kratos and the Anti-Pay-to-Win Alliance activated the smart glasses from Lee Stein Industries Store and discovered they functioned as the Azeroth-Marvel war terminal.
• The group tested the terminals, learned that magic was unavailable without a magic network, and received an F-rank mercenary mission called “Parade.”

General Ross and Senator Stern tried to confront Stein Group, but public outrage and Nick Fury’s arrest of Stern stopped them before they entered Stein Tower. Meanwhile, another group celebrated the Energy Points they had received.

• A growing crowd protested Ross and Stern as they arrived at Stein Tower, where Felicia told them Lee Stein and the senior executives were unavailable.
• Ross left after receiving an angry phone call, while Stern joked that nobody had called him.
• Nick Fury arrived with Natasha and Steve Rogers, punched Stern, and had Black Widow take him into custody.
• Nick Fury told Felicia to tell Lee Stein that he owed him a personal favor, then left with his team.
• Reporters eagerly photographed Stern being taken away and imagined sensational headlines.
• Another group celebrated receiving five hundred Energy Points and argued about Merchant’s rewards.

Lee Stein and Tony Stark discussed funding Earth’s defense and recruiting players as mercenaries, but Lee worried they lacked enough power to face gods and warships. He invited Tony on a trip to find stronger combat resources, and they flew out over the sea together.

• Tony Stark announced that Stark Group would waive Stein Group’s energy costs and donated fifty million dollars, prompting the creation of the Guardian Earth Foundation.
• The Guardian Earth Foundation raised funds worldwide, pledged transparency, and covered Stein Group’s losses from the Chitauri invasion.
• At Stark Tower, Lee Stein showed Tony Stark players equipped with mercenary terminals and explained how they could become a low-cost force under his command.
• Lee Stein said Earth still lacked high-end combat power to confront gods and warships, then invited Tony Stark on a trip to a place like Skull Island.
• Lee Stein and Tony Stark put on their armor and flew out over the sea.

Li Si brought Tony Stark to Skull Island and showed him the base he had built there. After revealing a spatial wormhole inside the Jigsaw Chamber, Li Si entered it, and Tony followed.

• Li Si revealed Skull Island and greeted King Kong, who treated him like a trusted companion.
• Li Si offered Tony Stark a dinosaur as a future pet, then led him through the island's futuristic research base.
• Li Si showed Tony the heavily armed Jigsaw Chamber and explained that it was his secure stronghold.
• Li Si opened a large spatial wormhole with a card and stepped through with Pandora's Box following him.
• Tony Stark hesitated, then jumped into the wormhole with his armor case.

Li Si brought Tony Stark through a wormhole to the Pacific Rim parallel world, where he planned to use its mech industry to build machines and recruit a young apprentice. He explained his strategy for building trust by asking the girl for help, then left Tony wondering whether Li Si had used the same tactics on him.

• Tony Stark learned that he and Li Si had arrived on a deserted Earth in 2030, a parallel world threatened by monsters and equipped with Jaegers.
• Li Si told Tony they would help save the world and use its industrial system to build mechs, and Tony agreed despite concerns about money.
• Li Si used the local network to locate a little girl and led Tony to her home in an abandoned factory district.
• Li Si asked the wary girl for food and water, offering to pay, and she agreed to get them some.
• Li Si explained to Tony that accepting help could create trust and a lasting social connection, and Tony suspected Li Si had used the tactic on him.

Lee Stein and Tony Stark entered Amara Namani’s warehouse and showed her their advanced armor systems. Amara became eager to learn from them, while Tony’s own demonstration drew less admiration.

• Lee Stein forced his way into Amara Namani’s warehouse after spotting her unregistered mech, Boxer.
• Tony Stark teased Amara about Boxer until Lee Stein calmed them down and offered to show her their mech.
• Amara searched online for Lee Stein and Tony Stark, then introduced herself after Lee Stein asked her name.
• Lee Stein demonstrated Project Armor and its other combat forms, astonishing Amara with its flight and transformations.
• Tony Stark showed off his Mark Armor and Anti-Hulk Armor, but Amara admired them less than Lee Stein’s platform, leaving Tony furious.

Li Si accepted Amara as his apprentice after recognizing the extraordinary skill behind her homemade Gipsy Danger. Tony Stark criticized the Jaeger’s crude neural interface, and Li Si promised Amara he would teach her how to block the body’s neural signals.

• Amara eagerly served Li Si and Tony Stark, who joked about taking her as his apprentice, but Li Si refused to give her up.
• Li Si recognized that Amara had built Gipsy Danger from scavenged parts through self-study and saw her as a potentially valuable technician.
• Tony Stark inspected Gipsy Danger and criticized its neural interface, cockpit systems, and reliance on neural drift.
• Amara defended the Jaeger’s design, and Tony Stark told her that Li Si could block the body’s signals during mech control.
• Li Si reassured Amara that neural drift was an immature but workable approach and promised to teach her better techniques.

Li Si gathered intelligence on the Pacific Rim world while preparing to teach his apprentice, then sent data to Marvel Earth and had Pandora begin a simulated training session for Stein Group staff. On Skull Island, Engineering Robots received lifelike synthetic skin and moved toward a windowless metal tower.

• Li Si learned that Shao Industries' Nemesis Drone Jaegers had been compromised by Newton Geiszler and chose not to interfere before their deployment.
• Li Si opened a wormhole in Amara's residence and sent a large data packet to Marvel Earth.
• Pandora reconnected to Marvel's satellites and summoned Stein Group employees to the virtual training room for a simulated assessment.
• Pandora showed the employees a ruined virtual world and told them the chairman would explain their mission after they reviewed its background.
• On Skull Island, Engineering Robots emerged from a workshop covered in lifelike synthetic skin, formed up, and gradually began acting like real people.
• The synthetic-skinned robots headed toward a windowless metal tower.

Lee sent Stein Group employees into the parallel world to establish a business presence and infiltrate Shao Industries. When police and the sixth-generation Jaeger Winter Ajax surrounded Amara’s warehouse, Amara escaped in her makeshift Gipsy Danger.

• Lee opened a wormhole and brought Felicia and Stein Group managers through to the parallel world.
• Lee assigned Felicia to establish Stein Group and Mars to infiltrate Shao Industries and gather intelligence.
• Tony Stark questioned Lee about risking company employees, and Lee explained that they operated remotely controlled robot bodies.
• Lee and Tony found police and Winter Ajax surrounding Amara’s warehouse, and Lee concluded the capture operation had been planned in advance.
• Amara burst out of the warehouse in her crude Gipsy Danger and fled, while Lee and Tony watched.

Amara fled the Pan Pacific Defense Corps in Gipsy Danger until Li Si and Tony Stark intervened and dismantled Winter Ajax. They left with Amara before other Jaegers could arrive, while Tony angrily challenged Li Si to a one-on-one fight.

• Amara tried to escape Winter Ajax by using smoke bombs and a risky maneuver, but the Jaeger cornered her inside an abandoned building.
• Li Si and Tony Stark arrived in their armors and stopped Winter Ajax from reaching Amara.
• Li Si and Tony assembled their armors and began dismantling Winter Ajax, removing its arms and damaging its joints.
• Tony removed Winter Ajax's knee and boasted that he had beaten Li Si, while Amara cheered for Li Si.
• Li Si flew off with Gipsy Danger to avoid reinforcements, and Tony furiously demanded a one-on-one fight with him.

General Quan showed the Moyu Shatterdome pilots and Dr. Gottlieb footage of Winter Ajax fighting two unknown armored figures. After the figures transformed and dismantled the sixth-generation Jaeger, the room was left shaken by the threat posed by their technology.

• General Quan gathered the Jaeger pilots and Dr. Gottlieb to watch footage of Winter Ajax deployed in Los Angeles.
• The pilots relaxed when Winter Ajax appeared to face only a small, privately made Jaeger.
• Dr. Gottlieb identified the armored figures' chest power sources as possible miniature cold-fusion reactors and their flight systems as likely Ion Thrusters.
• Dr. Gottlieb urged General Quan to invite the figures to the base, but General Quan said they could no longer be tracked.
• The armored figures transformed and dismantled Winter Ajax, leaving the pilots alarmed and questioning whether their own Jaegers could withstand them.

Lee Stein used his influence over Shao Industries to establish a Jaeger research department, insisting he wanted the company’s resources rather than control. Liwen Shao remained wary of him as he headed upstairs with Tony Stark and Amara.

• Newton Geiszler questioned Liwen Shao about the board’s decision to restart projects, but she told him to focus on his own department.
• Liwen Shao learned that the Stein Group had been buying Shao Industries shares and attracting its shareholders and employees.
• Lee Stein arrived at Shao Industries with Tony Stark and Amara, where employees greeted him as their boss.
• Lee Stein told Liwen Shao that he and Tony Stark planned to build a Jaeger using Shao Industries’ resources, while leaving her in charge of the company.
• As the elevator doors closed, Lee Stein complimented Liwen Shao’s appearance, then bantered with Tony Stark about romance and godchildren until Amara silenced them.

Li Si completed the revised blueprints for the Calamity Demon God, a heavily armed warship that could combine with Pandora's Box to form a layered mecha. He sent the plans to Pandora and activated Rapid Construction, setting the New Mecha Project Department to work.

• Li Si led the New Mecha Project Department while Tony Stark pursued his own mecha design and Amara ran errands between the laboratories.
• Li Si revised Ivan Vanko's Calamity Demon God design into a space-capable warship that could combine with Pandora's Box and its Medium Assault Armor form.
• Samuel Sterns studied advanced technologies in accelerated virtual space, Tony Stark conducted independent research, and Otto Gunther completed the energy module.
• Li Si finished the complex structural and transformation blueprints after more than ten days of intensive work.
• Li Si sent the blueprints to Pandora and activated Rapid Construction, mobilizing the New Mecha Project Department.

Shao Industries’ Nemesis drone Jaegers opened breaches to the Precursor world, while Li Si prepared to use the new spatial nodes for his own forces. The Precursors had gained a route to invade Earth, but Li Si had also gained their location and a way through the door.

• Liwen Shao secured PPDC approval for deploying Nemesis drone Jaegers after Obsidian Fury attacked the Sydney summit and shot down Mako Mori’s helicopter.
• Newton Geiszler secretly built Obsidian Fury and sabotaged the Nemesis units to help the Precursors advance their plan.
• Two days after deployment began, the Nemesis Jaegers went berserk, destroyed the Moyu base at X Harbor, and opened breaches along the Pacific coast.
• Li Si ordered Pandora to record the spatial nodes and warm up the mercenary terminal, while Gwen began producing magic network base stations and Aizeman-series equipment.