Chapter Summaries

After the highway accident, Dr. Ziegler Cage returned home and was taken by Umbrella armed forces to its headquarters. There, Sui Bian prepared to review the Iblis files and information on Blood Flower as the vaccine trial continued.

• Ziegler and the other doctors treated the accident victims, who were flown to a downtown Los Angeles hospital, while police cleared the highway and assigned responsibility.
• That night, Ziegler drove home and found two Umbrella armed forces officers waiting for her.
• The officers told Ziegler to come with them, and she reassured her mother before agreeing to leave.
• At the Raccoon City expo, Sui Bian and Lion discussed the vaccine's promise of a prosperous future for humanity.
• The Red Queen reported that none of the 112 vaccinated D-Class Personnel had shown adverse reactions, though the Plague Doctor wanted more observation.
• The White Queen informed Sui Bian that Ziegler Cage had arrived, and he ordered the Iblis files from twelve years earlier and related Blood Flower information.

Sui Bian revealed to Dr. Cage the truth about the Shahba Massacre and her father’s role in it. Ziegler learned that her father was still alive and fighting demons in hell, and Sui Bian urged her to thank him for his sacrifice.

• Ziegler arrived at Umbrella Headquarters and met Sui Bian, Lion, and the artificial intelligences in Sui Bian’s office.
• Sui Bian asked Ziegler about the Shahba Massacre and showed her files revealing what had really happened.
• Ziegler learned that her father had sacrificed himself to protect her and her mother, and she struggled to contain her grief.
• Sui Bian revealed that Ziegler’s father was still alive and slaughtering demons in hell.
• Ziegler thanked Sui Bian for telling her the truth, and he told her to thank her father for his sacrifice.

Sui Bian revealed the truth about Ziegler’s father and offered her family life-extending medicine, and Ziegler chose to join Umbrella’s research team in Peru. At midnight, Sui Bian exchanged points for a planetary environmental modification device and the Spirit of Fire, bringing humanity closer to colonizing other worlds.

• Sui Bian told Ziegler that her father had sacrificed himself to protect humanity from Hell and might return one day.
• Sui Bian showed Ziegler Umbrella’s Blood Flower and life-prolonging drug, then offered a supply for her family.
• Ziegler declined the offer and agreed to join Umbrella as a researcher, planning to bring her mother to Peru.
• Sui Bian exchanged 73,500 points for the Planetary Environmental Modification Device and Spirit of Fire.
• The system told Sui Bian that the device was transforming Mars at its north pole and the Spirit of Fire was hovering above Luna Base.

Sui Bian reviewed the Spirit of Fire’s technologies and ordered the Engineering Department to prioritize expanding Luna Base’s shipyards. Later, a reckless driver was pulled over by police near Raccoon City’s beach, where an officer explained that his car and driving had prompted the stop.

• Sui Bian assessed the Spirit of Fire’s technologies and considered how Umbrella could use them and share upgrades with the UNSC.
• Sui Bian told White Queen to have engineers across the Earth-Moon system focus on expanding Luna Base, especially its shipyards.
• An afro-haired driver sped recklessly through traffic near the beach and gestured rudely at bystanders while stopped at a red light.
• A police seaplane pursued the driver and ordered him to pull over.
• An officer told the driver that he had been stopped for his car and reckless driving, not for giving people the middle finger.

An illegal used-car sale ended with the vehicle being towed and its buyer facing questioning and a penalty, while Nova secretly investigated UNSC officers at the 9th Airborne Division base. As Nova prepared to leave, the base announced that Port Elizabeth was under attack.

• A city tow ship removed the afro-haired man's illegally registered car, and he went to the station to give a statement while the dealer was already there.
• The chapter described Port Elizabeth and the UNSC 9th Airborne Division base, where recruits trained for airborne assaults.
• A colonel's office door opened and closed on its own, prompting him to summon maintenance workers to inspect it.
• Nova used the distraction to slip out of the colonel's office while gathering intelligence on officers for Red Queen.
• The base alarms sounded and announced that Port Elizabeth was under attack.

Nova joined the UNSC response to the Beast Form attack on Port Elizabeth and investigated the creatures’ origin while rescuing a wounded father and his daughter. She discovered a glowing door in the sea and sensed an enormous thing approaching from beyond it.

• Nova received orders from Red Queen to assist Umbrella employees, assess the Beast Forms, and investigate their origin near the beach.
• Nova sensed that the Beast Forms felt only bloodlust and seemed like deliberately programmed bioweapons as UNSC forces entered Port Elizabeth.
• The 9th Airborne Division established a powerful firing line and advanced through the city, quickly destroying large numbers of Beast Forms.
• Nova used her Psionic Power to pull Beast Forms away from a wounded man and his daughter, then injected him with a treatment that stopped his bleeding.
• Nova looked out to sea and saw a blue-glowing door in a whirlpool as she sensed an enormous thing about to pass through it.

Nova watched a gigantic kaiju emerge from the sea at Port Elizabeth, where a UNSC light frigate killed it with an Electromagnetic Main Cannon. As Umbrella and UNSC forces secured the city and treated the father and daughter, nearly fifty thousand troops and seven warships had arrived to support the response.

• Nova reported the approaching beast-form anomaly to Red Queen and prepared to observe it from the hotel.
• A kaiju leaped through the door and landed on the beach, but a UNSC light frigate destroyed its upper body with a single beam.
• Nova revised her threat assessment and requested Umbrella's special medical team for the father and daughter, whose exposure to her required memory alteration after treatment.
• Umbrella technicians arrived to examine the kaiju's corpse, while the special medical team took the father and daughter from the hotel.
• The UNSC Second Fleet deployed seven warships and nearly fifty thousand troops to Port Elizabeth, including a Marathon-class light cruiser.

After the Beast Forms’ attack on Port Elizabeth was brought under control, Sanguinius monitored the public response from his flagship, the Blood Tear. Sui Bian then received a mission to find and kill the Colonizer leader invading Earth in another universe, with the surviving humans there as the reward.

• Police and military forces pushed the Beast Forms back toward the coast, and the Second Fleet destroyed the Kaiju threatening Port Elizabeth.
• The Zeus-class heavy carrier Blood Tear, commanded by Sanguinius, watched the city as the Red Queen confirmed that Sui Bian had chosen not to suppress news of the attack.
• Sanguinius ordered Matt Keyes to keep the Blood Tear’s crew at battle stations.
• Aboard the Anthem of Courage near Mars, Sui Bian received a mission to find and kill the Colonizer leader responsible for invading Earth in another universe.

After the Portal in Port Elizabeth connected to another universe, Sui Bian learned that the Colonizers had devastated its Earth and ordered the Primarchs to prepare an extermination campaign. As the UNSC began sending troops through the Portal, humanity rallied behind retaliation, and the first soldiers reached the other Earth.

• Sui Bian learned that only 830 million people survived on the invaded Earth and ordered Robert, Sanguinius, and John to prepare their Legions for war.
• Admiral Terrence Hood announced that 364,542 people had died in the Port Elizabeth attack and declared that humanity would strike back.
• People across the UEG reacted with grief and anger, while officials prepared a forward base around the Portal in Port Elizabeth.
• UNSC troops began crossing the Portal to help establish a base and protect engineering teams on the other Earth.
• A UNSC corporal arrived on the other side, where the air was hazardous and Krieg soldiers were already operating.

Robert, John, and Sanguinius organized forces to reconnoiter and liberate regions of the Colonizer-ravaged Earth, while a UNSC corporal’s unit departed with Krieg for Europe and the Middle East. In Morocco, a mother and her son fled an underground fortress as a Kaiju attacked, and the boy spotted an angel-like figure overhead.

• Robert ordered Krieg’s 01st and 02nd Regiments and ten thousand UNSC airborne troops to investigate signs of human activity in Europe and the Middle East, while John and Sanguinius prepared to liberate Morocco.
• The corporal and his 3rd Platoon joined the reconnaissance force as Sanguinius piloted a golden, winged God Body toward Morocco.
• A Kaiju attack forced a mother and her son to evacuate their underground home in Rabat with other civilians.
• The mother and son reached the surface, where a Kaiju rose near the evacuation group and soldiers tried to cover the civilians’ retreat.
• As the mother fled with her son, he pointed toward the sky and asked whether the winged figure overhead was the angel she had told him about.

Sanguinius and the Astartes rescued civilians in Rabat as they fought the Kaiju and Beast Forms. John rejected the crowd’s belief that they were gods, evacuated survivors, and then headed toward an Underground Fortress while the citywide purge continued.

• Sanguinius killed two Kaiju with Psionic Arrows, prompting civilians to praise him as an angel and pray to Father God.
• A Thunderhawk landed at the intersection, where twenty Spartan Warriors held back the Beast Forms and protected the mother, her son, and the crowd.
• John arrived and told the kneeling civilians that he and his warriors were Sui Bian’s sons, not gods, then ordered a sergeant to evacuate the civilians.
• John and the Warriors entered the sewers and moved toward the Underground Fortress while the sergeant’s group flew the civilians to safety.
• Blood Angels squads fought Beast Forms across Rabat as John reported to Robert that the fighting would soon end and that the surviving humans were hiding underground.

John and the twenty Warrior Terminators saved the Rabat Fortress from a Beast Form assault, and Captain Tess Byron agreed to help evacuate the survivors. At the frontline base, Byron recounted how repeated invasions had driven humanity underground, while Robert and the UNSC studied an assimilated Paris.

• A soldier chose to help an injured girl reach the eastern tunnel, and John swept past them, killing the Beast Forms threatening them.
• John and twenty Warrior Terminators wiped out the Beast Forms overrunning the fortress, then John met Captain Tess Byron and ordered her to organize the civilian evacuation.
• Byron told John that the fortress's senior officers had died, and she ordered her remaining soldiers to help evacuate the civilians.
• At the frontline base, Robert and the senior UNSC officers examined a map of assimilated Paris as transport was arranged for Rabat's survivors.
• Byron recounted the invasions beginning in Le Havre in 2012, humanity's creation of the United Government and Underground Fortress plan, and Rabat's worsening siege before John's arrival.

Robert ordered the Krieg 02nd Regiment 3rd Battalion and the UNSC 9th Airborne Division 1st Assault Regiment to attack Paris and capture a Colonizer creature. After Plasma Bombs devastated the city outskirts, the troops landed and fought their way toward the tower, where the Krieg charged through the remaining Beast Forms.

• Robert identified central Paris as the likely hiding place of a Colonizer creature and ordered the 3rd Battalion and 1st Assault Regiment to attack.
• A Condor fired three low-yield Plasma Bombs at targets outside Paris's center, destroying nearby Kaiju and damaging the tower.
• The Krieg 02nd Regiment 3rd Battalion and the 9th Airborne Division 1st Assault Regiment landed south of the tower and fought through the Beast Tide.
• A Krieg platoon leader blew a whistle and led Krieg soldiers in a charge toward the tower after missile strikes cleared a path.
• The second lieutenant ordered the corporal and his comrades to follow the Krieg into the target building.

The UNSC and Krieg forces fought through the Colonizer tower, defeated a horde of Wolf-forms, and captured a Colonizer overseer. During interrogation, Nova learned that the mastermind was in New York and asked Robert if she could kill the prisoner.

• The Red Helmet Platoon Leader led the Krieg soldiers and Airborne Division troops into the tower, where they split into squads to search its tunnels.
• The squad found a hall containing strange biological equipment and fought off Wolf-forms that poured from a tunnel and attacked from both sides.
• The Krieg soldiers captured a gaunt, four-armed humanoid after the battle, and the lieutenant reported that it might be their target.
• Umbrella and UNSC engineers continued building the Sahara base while the survivors from Rabat rested in barracks.
• Nova interrogated the captured Colonizer overseer and learned that the mastermind was in New York and the portal there connected to the Colonizers’ homeworld.
• Nova asked Robert if she could kill the now-useless prisoner.

Nova extracted the Colonizers’ motives and evacuation plans, and Robert received approval to strike their homeworld and colonies while prioritizing the leader in New York. As the Colonizers fled Earth, a blue blast erupted beneath the Empire State Building, engulfing their leader.

• Nova tortured a Colonizer for information while John turned down Byron’s request to join the operation and told her to rest.
• Robert told John that the Colonizer leader was in New York and sought Sui Bian’s permission to use three Nova-class Nuclear Missiles and command the Ghost Operatives.
• Sui Bian learned that survivors were praying to Sanguinius as an angel and asked Artemis whether human prayers could increase a god’s power; she said they had almost no effect.
• The Colonizers’ homeworld ordered them to evacuate Earth after Sanguinius destroyed their Kaiju, and they fled through the Portal in New York.
• A blinding blue flash appeared beneath the Empire State Building and engulfed the Colonizer leader.

Umbrella and the UNSC destroyed the Colonizers’ leader, homeworld, and two colony worlds, leaving their civilization near extinction and freeing the other Earth from the Beast Forms. Sui Bian prepared to withdraw forces safely and surveyed humanity’s growing extrasolar colonies, reflecting that much work remained.

• Plasma Bombs destroyed the Colonizers’ forces and Portals on Earth, while Nova-class Nuclear Missiles devastated their homeworld and two colony worlds.
• United Defense Force scouts found Beast Forms fleeing and fighting among themselves, then saw transport aircraft and the winged God Body arrive over Moscow.
• The system credited Sui Bian with 3,000 points, and White Queen reported that the Primarchs and UNSC were liberating the fortress cities.
• Sui Bian ordered supplies and an Atmospheric Transformation Device prepared for the forward base before the Portal was closed.
• Sui Bian reviewed humanity’s seven extrasolar colonies, including the resource-rich planet Reach, and reflected that the road ahead remained long.

After the Portal’s closure, people from the other Earth had their memories altered and settled into Umbrella’s world as the company expanded its military forces and prepared to reveal the Astartes to humanity. As the Hope escorted an engineering fleet to attempt to terraform Venus, a scene aboard a ship traveling through the Warp Rift introduced Kennedy and Ms. Wang.

• Port Elizabeth rebuilt its Memorial Plaza, while residents who had forgotten the attack mourned the dead without remembering the other Earth.
• A sergeant and his comrades learned that their division would hold a joint exercise with Umbrella, and the colonel confirmed the Astartes would not participate.
• John escorted Umbrella’s engineering fleet toward Venus, while Captain Tess Byron served as his deputy in the Spartan Legion’s Auxilia.
• Sui Bian reviewed Umbrella’s military organization and planned to use media to introduce the Super Soldiers to the public.
• During a turbulent Warp voyage, Kennedy received his meal and called for Ms. Wang to come out of the master bedroom.

Leon and Ada arrived at the Arcadia colony aboard the Sea God to investigate a pattern of unexplained deaths and disappearances. After landing, they prepared to enter the metropolis undercover, with Leon hinting that they should travel by taxi.

• Leon and Ada reviewed Arcadia’s rising death and disappearance cases and decided to investigate under civilian identities.
• Leon showed Ada photos of a disfigured man found dead in a drainage channel and noted that similar deaths resumed whenever the Public Security Bureau eased its investigations.
• Leon and Ada posed as a married vacationing couple as the Sea God exited the Warp Rift and approached Arcadia.
• The pair disembarked at the spaceport and headed across the plaza with their luggage.
• Ada searched her phone for a rental vehicle, and Leon tugged her arm to suggest taking a taxi instead.

Leon and Ada arrived in Arcadia, where retired UNSC major Andre warned them that people were disappearing in District 04, especially near its underground sewage system. After checking their hotel suite and preparing their weapons, Leon and Ada went to a rough bar to investigate, where a patron suddenly vomited greenish fluid.

• Leon and Ada hired Andre's air cab, and he told them about the disappearances linked to something in the metropolitan sewage system.
• Andre warned Leon and Ada that District 04 had the most missing-person cases, gave Leon his card, and drove them to the Blue Resort Hotel without charging them.
• Leon and Ada searched their suite for surveillance, revealed weapons hidden in their luggage, and prepared for their investigation.
• Leon and Ada explored the blocks near the hotel, then went to a rough bar to gather information about the disappearances.
• Leon said he would go down into the suspected area, and Ada insisted on going with him.
• A man entered the bar and vomited greenish fluid as his friends gathered around him.

Leon and Ada investigated a possible infection on Arcadia, while Sui Bian reviewed humanity’s defenses and ordered the Selene to secretly monitor the colony. The chapter left the Arcadia anomaly under covert investigation as the Anthem of Courage neared the end of its refit.

• Leon and Ada left a bar on Arcadia after a maintenance worker vomited and showed alarming symptoms, then learned he and his companions had recently visited several locations in District 04.
• Leon told Ada that their nanoscans showed no infection, and emergency crews arrived as panicked customers fled the bar.
• On Reach, Ferrus, Corax, and Leon watched the Iron Hands, Dark Angels, and Raven Guard train together, and Leon said Sui Bian had no plans to announce humanity’s presence to alien species yet.
• Sui Bian reviewed humanity’s growth and considered expanding the Legions’ protection, then ordered the Red Queen to find UNSC ships and crews for Legion Auxilia fleets.
• After receiving Leon’s report about the Arcadia anomaly, Sui Bian ordered the White Queen to send Artemis and the Selene to secretly monitor the colony.