Chapter Summaries

Earth-04's defenses failed to stop the Wrathful Prayer and the Main Universe forces, while Patricia Langford urged humanity to resist. As communications went dark and fighting reached the White House, a wounded Secret Service officer saw towering figures emerge from the fog.

• Earth-04's orbital cannons fired on the Wrathful Prayer, but its energy shield blocked the attack and left it unharmed.
• Patricia Langford authorized the fighter squadrons to attack, but the Wrathful Prayer seized their aircraft with a restraining field and pulled them into its hangar.
• Blood Ravens ships and UNSC warships arrived, deployed forces toward Earth-04, and cut communications with the planet and its off-world bases.
• Patricia Langford rallied the Command Center to resist, while the defense minister sent Secret Service teams to investigate the fighting above the Underground Fortress.
• Secret Service elites encountered civilians hiding in the White House and fog obscuring the lawn, then came under fire from unseen attackers and were incapacitated.
• The wounded vice-captain saw figures over three meters tall approaching through the fog.

The Blood Ravens and Auxilia overwhelmed Earth-04’s defenses, captured President Langford, and declared that the planet’s national divisions would end. Sui Bian watched the events aboard the Never-Fall and decided Earth-04 was not worth sending the children to, leaving him to choose another destination.

• Blood Ravens and Auxilia entered the White House, subdued its personnel, and split up to clear the building.
• The Wrathful Prayer disabled Earth-04’s communications and defenses as drop pods and landing forces secured Washington.
• Blood Ravens and Auxilia defeated the Secret Service agents outside the White House Command Center and cut through its blast door.
• A Blood Raven revealed his human face to Langford, announced that she was no longer president, and ordered the survivors to cooperate.
• Sui Bian watched the operation from the Never-Fall and decided to choose a different destination for the children.

Sui Bian briefed White Queen on the Harvesters in Universe 04, then took the nine young Primarchs through a portal to a remote colony in Universe 03. He revealed that their task was to lead the oppressed people there in a rebellion against its feudal system.

• Sui Bian warned White Queen to inform Gabriel Angelos that the Harvesters were a numerous, invasive hive species whose technology was below the Covenant Empire’s level.
• Horus and his brothers finished class with Alexia, whose violent demonstration had deeply shocked them.
• Sui Bian took the Primarchs out for an outing, opened a portal, and led them through a jungle to a mountain overlook.
• Sui Bian explained that the distant colony had returned to feudal rule after the Expeditionary Force left and ordered the Primarchs to lead its people in rebellion.

Sui Bian sent the nine Primarchs to challenge the feudal regimes on the planet in Universe 03, while he planned to strengthen humanity’s defenses and technology. In Universe 04, Gabriel and Miranda’s fleet intercepted a Harvester mothership and opened fire on it.

• Sui Bian reassured the Primarchs that they could choose their own methods, then sent them toward the city-state with Praetorian Guards secretly protecting them.
• Sui Bian told White Queen that Universe 03 would need another three or four years of preparation, and ordered a search for more Custodian Civilization Shield Worlds to advance humanity’s technology.
• White Queen reported that Thutmose’s forces had dismantled Universe 04’s human government and military, and warned that a 4,800-kilometer Harvester mothership was approaching Earth 04.
• Sui Bian authorized Gabriel Angelos to sink or capture the mothership, as long as it did not reach Earth 04.
• Miranda Matcha ordered the Wrathful Prayer and three UNSC battleships to jump into position, then led them in firing electromagnetic cannons at the mothership.
• The barrage shattered the mothership’s energy shield and pierced its hull.

The Blood Ravens and UNSC crippled the Reaper mothership and fought off its swarm while the Blood Ravens First Company and Auxilia assault regiments boarded through the breach. Inside the mothership, Auxilia soldier Rookie landed among Reaper forces and began slaughtering them.

• The Blood Ravens and UNSC fired on the Reaper mothership, with a sixty-ton projectile from the Litany of Fury piercing straight through it and forcing an emergency shutdown.
• Miranda Matcha ordered the Litany of Fury and three UNSC battleships to charge the Reaper fleet and create a safe boarding opportunity.
• The ships overwhelmed Reaper carriers and City-Burner destroyers, then covered the Litany of Fury as it delivered the Blood Ravens First Company and Auxilia regiments through the mothership's breach.
• Rookie's drop pod crashed into a Reaper settlement, and he emerged to search for nearby enemies.
• Rookie detected Reapers waiting below, smashed through a wall, and killed them with his laser rifle and close-combat attacks.

Rookie and the Blood Ravens annihilated the Reaper forces, killed their Queen Mother, and captured the mothership. Fulgrim then arrived alone in a backward coastal city-state, where he killed a princess who was having an elderly man beaten.

• Rookie and his two comrades reunited and swept through the Reaper complex, killing its defenders and everyone inside.
• Nearly seven thousand Auxilia and the Blood Ravens' Astartes slaughtered Reapers throughout the mothership as Gabriel led Terminator veterans against the central control tower.
• Gabriel struck the tower with his Power Hammer, killed the Queen Mother, and caused the Reaper forces to lose their combat capability after thirteen minutes of battle.
• The Blood Ravens claimed the captured mothership as their spoils and planned to have Gustva's Engineering Department overhaul it.
• Fulgrim appeared in a coastal city-state and slapped the princess's head apart after seeing her order servants to beat an elderly man.
• The horrified crowd fled as Fulgrim stood over the princess's body.

Fulgrim seized control of a city-state by killing its abusive rulers and judging its inhabitants, while the other young Primarchs established their own bases across the planet. As the White Queen reported their progress and the Blood Ravens’ capture of a Harvester mothership, Sui Bian ordered a joint expedition and revealed he could open and close Space Gates at will.

• Fulgrim killed the princess’s servants, scanned the city-state’s inhabitants with his Psionic Power, and executed those he judged evil while sparing others.
• Fulgrim and the other young Primarchs established footholds in major city-states across the planet, while Praetorian Guards recorded their progress for the White Queen.
• The White Queen reported that the Blood Ravens had captured a Harvester mothership and begun modifying it after locating the remaining motherships.
• Sui Bian ordered Battalions from the Main Universe to join the Blood Ravens in an expedition to eradicate the Harvesters in Universe 04.
• The White Queen asked whether Sui Bian could freely open and close Space Gates, and he confirmed that he could while explaining that naturally occurring gates would remain.

Sui Bian confirmed that he could open Space Gates but ordered White Queen and his guards to keep the ability secret from the Primarchs for now. On Arcadia, Leon and Ada’s anniversary morning was disrupted by their children’s squabbling, and Leon later learned that Primarch Horus was coming to the colony with the Man-Eater Shark Battalion.

• Sui Bian told White Queen, Constantine, and two Praetorian Guards not to reveal his Space Gate ability to Horus, Fulgrim, or the other Primarchs.
• Ada and Leon broke up a fight between Tina and Claude on their wedding anniversary, then Ada took Tina upstairs for a disciplinary talk while Leon left with Claude.
• Leon and Claude traveled to Umbrella’s corporate tower on Arcadia, where Leon’s assistant reported that the Man-Eater Shark Battalion would escort Primarch Horus to the colony.

Leon learned that a Space Gate about two hundred thousand kilometers wide would appear near Arcadia and was tasked with preparing for it while training Horus in the response. As he and the White Consuls awaited Horus and the Carcharodons, their battered fleet arrived, and the Carcharodons’ enormous commander emerged alongside Horus.

• Leon learned from Sui Bian that the Carcharodons would escort Horus to Arcadia and that a massive Space Gate would soon appear there.
• Sui Bian told Leon that the universe beyond the gate contained hostile aliens, anomalous phenomena, and powerful individuals, and ordered him to keep the conversation secret.
• Leon alerted Arcadia’s Intelligence Department, UNSC, reserve forces, and White Consuls, then called Ada and arranged for her to look after their son.
• Leon and Semar Adilius gathered at the starport to welcome the Carcharodons and Horus, but the fleet’s shabby appearance and reckless landing displeased the White Consuls.
• The Carcharodons’ unusually tall battalion commander stepped out of the transport with Horus, who stood four point two meters tall without armor.

Leon, Horus, Semal, and Tyberos planned a response after a Vortex Space Gate appeared near Arcadia, while their fleets blockaded it. Reconnaissance revealed that the gate opened into a parallel universe where aliens were invading New York, leaving the Carcharodons and White Consuls poised for a possible engagement.

• Horus greeted Leon and Semal, introduced Tyberos, and joined them in a meeting to discuss Arcadia’s rising anomalous activity.
• Selina detected a Vortex Space Gate at coordinates 2235, 1172, 3366, and Leon ordered a blockade while the Intelligence Department investigated the far side.
• More than nine hundred White Consuls, Carcharodons, and UNSC vessels assembled around the gate as Horus and Tyberos prepared for combat.
• Reconnaissance established that the gate led to the Kuiper Belt of a parallel universe and that its Earth had late-twentieth-century technology.
• Intelligence Department reconnaissance found that aliens were invading New York in the parallel universe.

A reconnaissance drone revealed the Chitauri invasion of Earth Zero-Five, prompting Horus and the Man-eater Sharks to rush through the Space Gate while Semar Ardius scrambled to contain the risks they left behind. In New York, local police were pinned down by the invaders as a mysterious armored voice dismissed an approaching Leviathan.

• The drone recorded the Chitauri invasion of New York and Iron Man fighting back above Stark Tower, then relayed the footage to the Main Universe.
• Horus proposed sending the Carcharodons through the Space Gate, and Tyberos ordered the Man-eater Sharks fleet to Earth Zero-Five without waiting for approval.
• Semar Ardius condemned the fleet's rash departure and ordered Arcadia to strengthen the blockade, monitor the Space Gate, and request reinforcements.
• Police officers in Manhattan fought the Chitauri while struggling to distinguish the destructive Hulk from a threat and awaiting reinforcements.
• A Chitauri Leviathan appeared over the police position, and an unfamiliar metallic voice called it trash.

A Man-Eater Shark Terminator destroyed a Chitauri Leviathan with one bolter round and warned Manhattan officers to take cover as Man-Eater Shark forces swept through the invasion. A three-person Auxilia fireteam then encountered Captain America, Steve Rogers, and ordered him to surrender.

• A Man-Eater Shark Terminator teleported to a Manhattan police position, destroyed a Leviathan with a single bolter round, and warned the officers to find shelter.
• The Terminator fought off a Chitauri squad, while a Captain warned Manhattan police over the radio not to shoot at the armored newcomers.
• Man-Eater Shark ships, Astartes, and Auxilia forces attacked Chitauri across Manhattan and nearby areas.
• A three-person Auxilia fireteam advanced toward Stark Tower after wiping out a group of Chitauri and spotted Steve Rogers fighting at an overpass.
• An Auxilia ordered Rogers to put down his shield and surrender.

Three Auxilia soldiers captured Steve Rogers and incapacitated Natasha Romanoff during the Battle of New York. When Hulk attacked them, one soldier burned him with laser fire and knocked him away with Rogers’s shield, just as Tyberos arrived.

• Steve Rogers refused to surrender, but an Auxilia soldier kicked him into a car and knocked him unconscious with a punch before binding him in magnetic restraints.
• Natasha Romanoff watched Rogers’s defeat from a clothing store, but an Auxilia soldier impaled her shoulder with a traffic signpost and knocked her unconscious.
• An Auxilia soldier reported Rogers’s capture and Natasha’s injury while another carried Rogers’s shield toward the store.
• Hulk dropped into the street and attacked the shield-bearing Auxilia, who wounded him with laser fire and dodged his blows.
• After his rifle ran out of ammunition, the Auxilia strapped Rogers’s shield to his arm and struck Hulk, sending him crashing into a car.
• Tyberos arrived as Hulk lay sprawled across the wrecked car.

Tyberos defeated Hulk and ordered his remains retrieved, while a Pirate III captured Hawkeye and the Man-Eater Shark Battalion continued fighting the Chitauri. Nick Fury refused the Council’s nuclear strike order, and a Centurion II intercepted the aircraft carrying the nuclear weapon as the Bloody Shark descended over the helicarrier.

• Hulk charged Tyberos, but Tyberos endured his strongest blow unharmed and cut him into pieces with his chainsaw lightning claws.
• Tyberos called for technicians to retrieve Hulk, then caught and survived an explosive arrow fired by Hawkeye.
• Tyberos ordered the nearby air squadron to capture Hawkeye, and a transforming Pirate III trapped him in a containment sphere for ground units to recover.
• Tony Stark observed the Man-Eater Shark Battalion’s actions while Thor continued fighting Chitauri without knowing the other Avengers had been taken out of the battle.
• Nick Fury refused the Council’s order to launch a nuclear missile, destroyed one aircraft, and watched a Centurion II seize the other before the Bloody Shark descended above the helicarrier.

The Man-Eater Shark Battalion captured S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Helicarrier and cut off Chitauri reinforcements while Horus confronted Loki in Central Park. Horus killed Loki and claimed the scepter’s yellow gem, then struck Thor away with his warhammer, leaving Mjolnir behind.

• The Bloody Shark pulled Nick Fury’s Helicarrier into its hull and sealed it inside.
• Man-Eater Shark veterans blocked the Portal above Stark Tower while their forces protected civilians and attacked the Chitauri.
• Horus confronted Loki in Central Park, restrained him with psychic power, and killed him with his psychic claws.
• Horus crushed Loki’s scepter, extracted its yellow gem, and stored it in his waist case.
• Thor charged Horus to avenge Loki, but Horus hit him with the Worldbreaker Warhammer and left Mjolnir at the scene.

Horus killed Thor despite Tony Stark’s attempt to prevent a war, then promised that Umbrella would protect humanity and fortify Earth. At Stark Tower, Horus prepared to pierce the Portal machine’s Protective Field while Tyberos ordered the destruction of Earth Zero-Five’s nuclear facilities.

• Horus lifted Mjolnir, erased its self-awareness with Psionic Power, and made it his personal weapon.
• Horus teleported to the injured Thor, rejected Stark’s plea to spare him, and killed him after reading his mind and knocking him unconscious.
• Horus told Stark that Umbrella would protect humanity and build defensive barriers for Earth, then warned him to return home.
• Stark left the hotel to reunite with his lover and secretary, while Horus teleported to the top of Stark Tower.
• Dr. Erik Selvig explained that Loki’s Scepter could close the Portal, but Horus planned to breach the machine’s Protective Field with his Psionic Claw.
• Tyberos ordered the Man-Eater Shark forces to destroy the mothership and dismantle Earth Zero-Five’s nuclear weapons facilities.

Horus destroyed the Tesseract’s protective field, claimed its blue gemstone, and joined Shavigs in preparing to take control of Earth-07. As the Man-Eater Shark Battalion occupied the planet’s networks and gathered researchers, reports of the invasion spread and panic erupted, including in Mount Olive, where a teenager watched footage of Centurion II containing two nuclear blasts.

• Centurion II pilots left the Portal to destroy Earth-05’s nuclear weapons facilities, while one fired through the Portal and destroyed the Chitauri mothership.
• Horus shattered the Tesseract’s protective field, removed it from the device, and crushed it to reveal a blue gemstone.
• Horus kept the blue and yellow gemstones after Shavigs told him they were his spoils, and Shavigs ordered Yelena and the little sisters to control Earth-07’s networks and carry out propaganda and assimilation.
• Auxilia took Dr. Erik Stark from Tyberos Building to recover him as a valuable researcher, while assault craft gathered people and resources across Earth-07.
• Man-Eater Shark veterans destroyed Earth-05’s nuclear weapons, while news of the battle spread beyond government control and triggered panic buying and looting.
• A seventeen-year-old boy in Mount Olive watched a farmer’s video showing Centurion II trapping two nuclear explosions inside spherical force fields.

Horus Sui broadcast that Earth-05 would become territory of the Main Universe and exposed the former government’s decision to launch a nuclear missile at Manhattan. As unrest continued, Sisters of Battle arrived in Mount Olive Town and rescued four police officers from a gang robbery.

• A teenager watched footage of the nuclear blast and the Battle of New York before Horus Sui appeared in a global broadcast and announced Earth-05’s incorporation into the Unified Earth Government.
• Horus showed footage of Nick Fury and officials approving a nuclear strike on Manhattan, stirring the teenager’s anger and excitement about the Main Universe’s institutions.
• A Silver Gull II landed at Central Plaza, and more than thirty Sisters of Battle deployed throughout Mount Olive Town to support its officers.
• Nine gangsters robbed a bank, killed its employees and customers, and pinned down four responding police officers with gunfire.
• Two Sisters of Battle shot the gangsters, ending the bank gunfight, and approached the officers, who felt an unexpected warmth from them.

The Sisters of Battle suppressed the chaos in Mount Olive Town while spreading Human Truth, and the Man-Eater Shark Battalion secured control of Earth-07. Russ ordered Hocal and Yelenas to prepare for a larger expedition to conquer the universe and claim its Infinity Stones, while Hocal was left to negotiate with the arriving White Consuls.

• The Sisters of Battle killed or captured looters and other violent criminals, restored order in Mount Olive Town, and urged the four officers and Sui Bian Shao to serve humanity and follow Human Truth.
• Russ asked Hocal and Yelenas for their assessment of Earth-07, and Hocal identified the Mind Stone, Space Stone, Vibranium, Hydra, and other potential assets and threats.
• Russ ordered the Dark Angels, led by Lion, to reinforce Earth-07 with Large Devices 007, 008, and 009, and assigned the expedition to conquer the universe and acquire its Infinity Stones.
• Yelenas told Hocal not to be greedy and left him to handle Hydra, Wakanda, and other matters while he departed the conference room.
• Tiberlo informed Hocal that the White Consuls Battalion and its UNSC fleet were nearing low orbit, and that Yelenas expected him to negotiate with them.

Sui Bian explained his choices for deploying the Primarchs and their forces, while Hoadi eased tensions between the Man-Eater Sharks and the White Consuls on Earth-07. The White Consuls agreed to help rebuild and defend Earth-07 as Hoadi turned his attention to Hydra’s experiments in Sokovia.

• Sui Bian reassured the White Queen that Horus could manage the Carcharodons and other battalions, and said Hera’s Yeliannasi Army would reinforce Fulgrim on Fenris.
• Horus arranged to visit the White Consuls’ flagship after Olympus left him to handle diplomacy between the battalions.
• Tiberlo Velconius confronted Hoadi aboard the Sword of Truth, but Hoadi apologized for the Man-Eater Sharks and offered the White Consuls mining rights to Earth-07’s Vibranium.
• Tiberlo accepted Hoadi’s apology, warned him about Olympus’s treatment of allied battalions, and ordered Arcadia to begin construction across Earth-07 and its solar system.
• Hoadi left the White Consuls to handle rebuilding and planned to visit Hydra’s base in Sokovia to examine its human experiments.