Chapter Summaries

Luca von Orange, a reincarnated boy in the Marvel Universe, synthesized a pair of Power-Enhancing Shoes using his mysterious item-making ability. The Chitauri then invaded New York, leaving Luca facing an alien attack outside his window.

• Luca ignored his parents' argument about the family's struggling company and reflected on his recent arrival in his new body.
• Luca used his synthesis ability to create Power-Enhancing Shoes from a sneaker and the required materials.
• The synthesized shoes changed size to fit Luca, and he put them on to test their capabilities.
• Luca heard whistles, looked out his window, and saw the Chitauri pouring through a portal and attacking New York.

Luca’s home was destroyed during the Chitauri invasion, and he rescued Gina after discovering his Power-Enhancing Shoes could amplify his strength. Iron Man arrived but was blasted back by the invaders, while Luca and Gina attacked the Chitauri with experimental weapons.

• A purple beam blasted through Luca’s home, and Luca found Gina trapped beneath rubble and Herman dead.
• Luca powered up his shoe and lifted the rubble with one foot, freeing Gina and carrying her toward safety.
• Iron Man crashed into the house, reassured Luca and Gina, and flew back outside to fight the Chitauri.
• A laser blasted Iron Man back into the house as Chitauri hovercraft gathered outside and aimed at the family.
• Gina shot a Chitauri pilot, and Luca fired Pencil Missiles that covered the invaders in sticky fluid and sent their hovercraft wobbling downward.

Tony Stark watched Luca fire a soccer ball with tremendous force into a Leviathan warship, exposing its armor so Tony could destroy it. The ship crashed, and Tony wondered what kind of family gave a child such a weapon.

• Tony Stark learned from Jarvis that Luca's pencil case contained a miniature missile launcher loaded with sticky polymer, and Jarvis explained that Tony had missed the warning by opening his faceplate.
• Luca sprinted to a soccer ball and prepared to kick it toward an approaching Leviathan warship.
• Luca blasted the soccer ball into the Leviathan, shattering part of its armor and sending it reeling.
• Tony Stark launched a missile into the Leviathan's exposed tissue, and the warship crashed through buildings and died.
• Tony Stark celebrated the kill and wondered why Luca's family had equipped him with such a weapon.

Luca tested the Power-Enhancing Shoes after helping Tony Stark fight the Chitauri, then found his mother Gina unconscious and gave her first aid. As he waited for help, he discovered that Gina’s experimental pistol contained a Core Component from the Psycho-Pass world.

• Tony Stark flew toward Sixth Avenue to support Hawkeye, while keeping Luca’s attack and identity from him.
• Luca tested the Power-Enhancing Shoes and realized they protected him from the kick’s recoil and helped him hit his target accurately.
• Luca found Gina unconscious, checked her breathing and pupils, and treated her with the family’s first-aid kit, but could not wake her.
• Luca picked up Gina’s experimental pistol and saw a panel identifying it as a Dominator Pistol with an Ion Constraint Pistol Core Component.

Luca discovered that Chitauri crystals could be used to synthesize Powder’s Monkey Bomb, whose Hextech Crystals revealed another possible synthesis recipe. The chapter ended with Luca learning that one crystal was a Hexcore capable of providing boundless energy and transforming living things.

• Luca examined the Dominator pistol and concluded that he lacked the materials needed to synthesize it.
• Luca identified Powder’s Monkey Bomb as a synthesis recipe requiring three unstable energy crystals.
• Luca harvested three purple crystals from Chitauri hands and used them to synthesize the Monkey Bomb.
• Luca found that the purple crystals had become blue Hextech Crystals and removed one that glowed as a Core Component.
• Luca read the Hexcore panel, which described its boundless energy and dangerous potential to cause Glorious Evolution.

Luca discovered more about his synthesis cheat and disposed of the Chitauri corpses, only to encounter future versions of the Avengers below his apartment. Scott revealed his identity to Luca, and Tony warned that the disclosure could affect the timeline.

• Luca concluded that unrelated materials could produce identical synthesis items if they met the panel's name requirements, then put away the Hextech Crystal and Monkey Bomb.
• Luca threw the Chitauri corpses out of his apartment, accidentally hitting Scott Lang with one and finding Bruce Banner, Scott Lang, Steve Rogers, and Tony Stark in the alley.
• Luca recognized the four as future versions of the Avengers and pretended to be a startled civilian.
• A larger Hulk appeared and smashed a Chitauri with a car, prompting Scott to claim the Hulk was Bruce Banner's older brother.
• Scott introduced himself to Luca as Ant-Man before Luca went back inside, and Tony warned Scott that revealing his identity could affect the timeline.

Luca realized he might be in the timeline that the TVA would erase after Loki took the Tesseract, so he left home to try to stop Loki. On his way toward Stark Tower during the Battle of New York, he dodged falling Chitauri and heard a frightened growl behind him.

• Luca recalled that the TVA had erased the timeline where Loki escaped with the Tesseract and decided he had to stop Loki.
• Luca left his mother, Gina, in a storage room, left her a note, and headed toward Stark Tower.
• Luca crossed streets filled with National Guard troops and Chitauri, noticing what might have been a white glow on a Chitauri grenade before it exploded.
• Luca used his Power-Enhancing Shoes to dodge falling debris and Chitauri soldiers by diving into a shop.
• Luca steadied himself among the dead Chitauri, then heard someone behind him growl, "Kid! Get out of here!"

Luca killed two armed men hiding in a convenience store, then helped Tony Stark fight Chitauri Soldiers in the street. A Chitauri blast wrecked Luca’s right-arm prosthetic and sent him crashing into a car, but he remained conscious.

• Luca shot and killed two men who had taken over a convenience store and stabbed a clerk.
• Luca attacked approaching Chitauri Soldiers with his Folding Light Gun and a kicked soda can.
• Tony Stark crashed into the street and fought Chitauri Soldiers surrounding him.
• Luca shot two Chitauri attacking Tony, drawing fire from the others.
• Tony tackled one Chitauri and blasted another, but a beam struck Luca and hurled him into a car.
• Luca inspected his wrecked right-arm prosthetic and joked that he was glad to be right-handed.

After helping Tony Stark defeat the Chitauri, Luca ignored the evacuation and hurried to Stark Tower as the Avengers ended the invasion. He watched Tony disguise himself and enter the lobby, then prepared to act when Loki arrived, but a sudden silence interrupted him.

• Luca used his damaged prosthetic arm to knock out a Chitauri Soldier, while Tony Stark defeated the last nearby enemy.
• Nick Fury warned Tony that a nuclear missile was heading for Manhattan, and Tony flew off to intercept it as Luca headed toward Stark Tower.
• Tony carried the missile through the portal, causing the Chitauri forces to collapse and the city to celebrate.
• Luca watched the Avengers gather on the Stark Tower roof, then waited outside the lobby rather than risk encountering S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
• Tony disguised himself as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and entered the building, and Loki arrived in the lobby with the Avengers.
• Luca adjusted his Power-Enhancing Shoes and took out his Monkey Bomb, but the surrounding noise suddenly vanished.

God Loki stopped time to speak with Luca, revealed that he knew Luca came from the real world, and admitted he could not send him home. He said someone had asked him to offer Luca a choice and provide identity verification, leaving Luca confused about what that meant.

• God Loki froze the world and approached Luca, who recognized him as the ruler of the timelines.
• Loki told Luca that he knew he came from the real world and compared him to Gwenpool.
• Loki explained that he could not send Luca back to his original universe because his powers still had limits.
• Luca asked why Loki had come, and Loki said someone had asked him to offer Luca a choice and give him identity verification.
• Luca asked who had made the request and what the choice and identity verification were.

God Loki authenticated Luca and let him choose whether to continue risking his life, then vanished without revealing who had summoned him. Ancient One appeared, asked Luca to make a Hexcore for her in exchange for a reward, and disappeared before he could respond.

• God Loki sent emerald light around Luca, easing his feeling of separation from the world, and offered him another chance to choose what to do.
• Luca asked who had summoned God Loki, but Loki left without answering and time resumed.
• Luca's complaint stopped the world again, and Ancient One appeared through a portal with Bruce Banner frozen behind her.
• Ancient One said she had come to see Luca because she could not reach God Loki, then asked him for the finished Hexcore in exchange for a reward.
• Ancient One returned the Hextech Crystal to Luca and vanished before he could reply, and time began flowing again.

After Loki escaped with the Tesseract, Luca returned home and found his mother, Gina, being taken to the hospital. Aunt Shamila told him that Gina’s injuries appeared external and that his father had died, leaving the family’s future uncertain.

• Luca watched Loki escape through a portal with the brightly glowing Tesseract and decided not to pursue him.
• Luca considered how Loki’s escape could alter future events and hurried home through the fleeing crowds.
• Luca saw rescue workers carrying Gina on a stretcher and reunited with Aunt Shamila.
• Shamila explained that Gina had external injuries but remained unconscious, and that doctors would examine her at the hospital.
• Shamila told Luca that his father’s body had been recovered and that the Disaster Control Department would contact the family’s private medical team.
• Luca and Shamila boarded the ambulance with Gina and headed to the hospital.

At Herman’s funeral, Luca reflected on New York’s chaotic recovery and the disputes over who would pay for the Battle of New York’s damage. The funeral was interrupted by the arrival of his uncle, Dragan Orange, a gambling addict.

• Luca attended Herman’s funeral at Baishan Cemetery while Shamira grieved beside him.
• Luca considered the political and financial disputes delaying New York’s recovery and the smuggling of Chitauri weapons.
• Shamira prompted Luca to place flowers at Herman’s gravestone.
• Dragan Orange arrived at the funeral and confronted Luca for not telling him about it.

At his father’s funeral, Luca confronted his estranged uncle Dragan, who claimed he had come to look after the family and revealed that Gina was unconscious. Dragan invoked a shareholders’ meeting to challenge Luca’s control, leaving Luca questioning how his uncle learned about Gina’s condition and what influence he had.

• Luca recalled how his mother Gina had expelled Dragan from the company after he gambled and embezzled funds, and how Dragan had stayed away for two years.
• Dragan arrived at Luca’s father’s funeral, and Shamira moved to shield Luca from him.
• Luca rejected Dragan’s claim that family ties entitled him to intervene, while Dragan said he would look after Gina and Luca.
• Luca wondered how Dragan had learned that Gina was unconscious and suffering from a rare condition after the Battle of New York.
• Luca ordered Shamira to escort Dragan out, but Dragan argued that Gina’s incapacity could force a shareholders’ meeting before Luca inherited her shares.
• Shamira grabbed Dragan as the guests reacted to his disclosure, and Luca demanded to know how Dragan expected to influence the shareholders.

At Gina Orange’s funeral, Luca drove off Dragan after he made suspicious claims about Orange Industries and reassured the company’s partners that Gina might wake. Luca sent Shamira after Dragan to discover why he had come, then considered the company’s future and wondered whether his uncle was seeking custody of him.

• Luca challenged Dragan’s claims about Orange Industries, and Shamira restrained Dragan until Luca ordered him to leave.
• Luca told the guests that Gina was receiving effective treatment and could wake at any time, and promised an official company statement if anything changed.
• Luca sent Shamira to capture Dragan and question him, ordering her to break his limbs if necessary.
• Luca reflected on how control of Orange Industries could help him collect components and develop his item-combination ability.
• Luca considered the complications surrounding his parents’ estates and wondered whether Dragan had come to seek custody of him.

At his father’s funeral, Luca considered Dragan’s attempt to influence the company and wondered who might be backing him. Pepper Potts arrived on Tony Stark’s behalf and gave Luca a lifelike prosthetic arm that glowed with a faint light only he could see.

• Luca dismissed the idea of fighting Dragan for custody and wondered how his uncle intended to gain influence over Orange Industries.
• Luca decided to wait for Shamira to question Dragan about his plans and possible backer.
• Pepper Potts arrived at the funeral and thanked Luca on Tony Stark’s behalf for helping during the Battle of New York.
• Happy Hogan handed Luca a case containing Tony’s gift.
• Luca opened the case and found a lifelike prosthetic arm that glowed faintly to his eyes.

At Luca's father's funeral, Pepper Potts gave Luca a lifelike prosthetic arm from Tony Stark, along with Stark Industries' lifetime repair offer and the arm's design files. After the guests left, Luca considered the limits of relying on Tony's reputation, while the story shifted to Shamira facing trouble elsewhere.

• Pepper Potts presented Luca with Tony Stark's prosthetic arm, and Luca fitted it onto his right-arm stump.
• Luca tested the arm's lifelike movement and thanked Pepper for Tony's thoughtful gift.
• Pepper gave Luca her and Tony's business cards and promised Stark Industries would repair or replace the prosthetic for life.
• Pepper left the funeral, and the guests followed her out to seek her attention.
• Luca found the prosthetic's design files on a USB drive and doubted he could build or reproduce it.
• Elsewhere, Shamira encountered a problem.

Shamira ambushed Dragan to question him, but armed men attacked and rescued him before she could learn anything. Dragan was taken to Wesley, who challenged his claim that Luca was to blame.

• Shamira cornered Dragan in the cemetery and threatened him with a dagger.
• Three gunmen ambushed Shamira, and she killed one with her thrown dagger as another group arrived.
• The gunmen escaped into the woods with Dragan, and Shamira chose not to shoot after them so she could return to Luca.
• A man in black dragged Dragan into a Stretch Lincoln, where he met Wesley.
• Dragan blamed Luca for the trouble, but Wesley questioned why Dragan had not acted like Luca's relative.

Wesley reported Dragan’s failure to his boss, who ordered him to move quickly amid a government-backed alien wreckage recovery effort. Meanwhile, Luca learned that his mother had a trusted private combat unit and began considering its help with his security.

• Wesley had Dragan dragged away after he failed to persuade his nephew, and ordered his men to clean him up.
• Wesley told his boss that one man had been lost and proposed delaying the inheritance and board meeting by influencing Dragan’s mother’s medical assessment.
• Wesley’s boss warned that someone on the Upper East Side had joined the alien wreckage recovery effort and urged him to settle matters in Midtown quickly.
• Shamira told Luca that six gunmen had attacked them and recommended strengthening his security while investigating Dragan’s associates.
• Shamira revealed that Luca’s mother had a small private combat unit whose members were officially weapons testers and had served on the Sokovian battlefield.

Luca learned more about the Orange Family’s history and Gina’s trusted Sokovian contacts, then made security arrangements while traveling with Shamira. The car suddenly braked, and Shamira warned him of danger.

• Luca learned how Gina had saved Orange Industries and how the family retained trusted connections in Sokovia.
• Shamira told Luca that Gina’s former military teammates could arrive within two days and had been trying to reach her.
• Luca asked Shamira to investigate the people protecting his uncle, assign guards to Gina, and postpone meetings with the trust fund and lawyers.
• The car slammed on its brakes, and Shamira cried out for Luca to watch out.