Chapter Summaries

Alvin, Stark, and Chiron witnessed Athena’s enchanted armor fight the Basilisk, then considered whether Athena might still survive as a statue beneath the Pyramid. Alvin led the group toward the underground entrance to investigate and retrieve the Sea Emperor’s Trident pieces.

• Athena’s golden armor used Medusa’s shield to petrify two Basilisk heads before retreating into the Pyramid, while the Basilisk regrew one of its heads.
• Chiron explained the shield’s petrifying light, and Stark adjusted his armor to filter it out.
• Chiron said someone must have controlled Athena’s armor and speculated that Athena might have turned herself to stone to preserve her remaining soul.
• Stark told Chiron that the black-haired warriors were called Immortals and had sought to give humanity a free Earth.
• Alvin broke open a Roman column to reveal a passage underground and told Chiron to pray that Athena would not attack them.

Alvin, Stark, and Chiron explored Atlantis’s submerged ruins and found the Sea Emperor’s Trident shaft sustaining a dry chamber filled with the remains of merfolk and sea beasts. As the chamber began to fail, Alvin headed for the throne and discovered the extraordinary corpse of a Pegasus.

• Alvin lit the flooded passage and learned from Chiron that merfolk had once ruled the seas under Poseidon and that the Sirens had lived in Atlantis.
• Alvin forced open a bronze gate, breaking the passage, and the group discovered a dry chamber with merfolk corpses gathered around a throne and the Trident’s lower shaft.
• Chiron explained that stored energy around the shaft was leaking and that the structure would soon flood, while Stark studied how its design directed energy toward the throne.
• Alvin entered the chamber, illuminated it, and saw that sea-beast bones lay among the merfolk remains facing the throne.
• On his way to the platform, Alvin found a massive Pegasus corpse whose black bones and feathers still radiated energy, then picked up several white feathers.

Alvin and Chiron searched the flooded ruins for useful treasures, and Chiron collected Pegasus’s feathers, Golden Saddle, core, and mane while finding gifts for Alvin’s children. Their scavenging was interrupted when the golden pole unleashed a surge of seawater that hurled Stark into a heap of Mermaid corpses.

• Chiron explained Pegasus’s origins and the uses of its feathers, and Alvin gave him a bag to collect them.
• Chiron found Athena’s Golden Saddle, Pegasus’s core, and its mane, then proposed gifts for Nick, Richard, and Ginny.
• Chiron told Alvin and Stark about valuable items among the corpses, including a Cyclops eye and Mermaid Singing Crystals.
• Stark went to search for Singing Crystals while Alvin and Chiron gathered the Pegasus treasures.
• The golden pole released a powerful surge of seawater that struck Stark and sent him crashing through Mermaid corpses, so Alvin drew Battle Axe Famine and questioned whether anyone was controlling it.

Alvin, Stark, and Chiron discovered that the supposedly dead Poseidon was using the Trident fragments to control water dragons and conceal his damaged body. After Poseidon attacked, Stark located two Stone Statues beneath the platform, leaving Alvin and Chiron to confront the gods.

• Alvin and Stark attacked the water dragons, whose energy activated patterns throughout the Underground Space, while Chiron tried to understand how the Trident fragments were being controlled.
• Poseidon revealed himself and ordered the intruders to leave, but Chiron deduced that Poseidon’s body was dead and his soul persisted through petrification and the Trident fragments.
• Alvin and Chiron fought off a water dragon, and Chiron used a spear technique learned from Chang Kong to disrupt its energy and disperse it.
• Alvin searched for Poseidon while claiming he wanted to borrow the Trident to restore the oceans, but Poseidon offered him the sea’s rule in exchange for a condition.
• Poseidon stalled before attacking Alvin’s group with a White Beam and the water dragons, but Stark found Poseidon and Athena’s Stone Statues beneath the platform.
• Stark said he would deal with the suit of armor, while Alvin asked Chiron how they could restrain the two gods without killing them.

Alvin forced Athena and Poseidon to bargain for the Sea Emperor’s Trident, offering to stop the Basilisks and help them survive outside Atlantis. Poseidon began revealing that former Atlantean servants had found a piece of the Trident and were connected to the thief who stole his Heart of the Ocean.

• Stark drained the golden armor’s shield and pinned it to a wall, then overwhelmed it with rapid Kung Fu System punches.
• Alvin endured Poseidon’s water dragons, smashed one of Poseidon’s legs, and stopped only when Athena called out to him.
• Athena warned Alvin that the Hundred-Headed Basilisks threatened Atlantis and the world, while Poseidon refused to surrender the Trident.
• Alvin threatened Poseidon but stopped his axe when Athena explained that Poseidon was needed to find the complete Trident.
• Athena said taking the Trident would leave her and Poseidon vulnerable, and Alvin offered to take them outside if they cooperated.
• Poseidon revealed that former Atlantean servants had found a piece of the Trident and that a thief among them had stolen his Heart of the Ocean.

The Nautilus came under attack from Giant Octopuses, and Nemo II prepared to protect the children as they headed for the surface. The children stayed aboard to support him while JARVIS sent the Yacht and Veronica defense system, and their families mobilized to rescue them.

• Nemo II used Depth Charges to slow the Giant Octopuses, but more appeared and herded the Nautilus toward danger.
• Nemo II offered to send the children to safety in an Escape Pod, but Nick refused to abandon their friends and said they should reach the surface.
• Alita told Nemo II that she had contacted JARVIS and that the Yacht and Veronica defense system were on their way.
• The children joined Nemo II in the Control Room, and Richard asked him to keep them safe until they reached the surface.
• After the Nautilus sent a Distress Signal, Hela began searching for its location while Pepper, Fox, and the others prepared to help.
• Fox reassured Pepper that Hela could be trusted, and Hela promised that Little Ginny would not be harmed.

Little Ginny and Little Harry fought off two Giant Octopuses with the Iron Man Armor as the Nautilus escaped to meet Alvin's Yacht. A Mermaid and her Sirens then arrived, enchanting Nemo II but leaving the children unaffected, and Nick, Mindy, and Richard prepared to defend the Yacht.

• Little Ginny declared battle, and Little Harry used the Iron Man Armor's Micro-Missiles to wound a Giant Octopus before destroying another with its exploding external armor.
• Nemo II accelerated the Nautilus with the Heart of the Ocean and used its currents to drive away attacking sharks while steering toward the surface.
• Nemo II brought the children aboard Alvin's Yacht and sent the Nautilus away, but a singing Mermaid and her Sirens appeared through the mist and enchanted him.
• The children's pendants and Morgan's fairy protected them from the Mermaid's song, while Little Ginny mocked the creatures' appearance.
• Nick took Little Ginny, Nemo II, and Morgan into the cockpit, then armed himself as Mindy and Richard prepared to fight the Sirens.

The children aboard the yacht ambushed the merfolk and Sirens who boarded it, but the battle turned against them as more enemies swarmed the deck. Nick called in Stark’s orbital defense system, Veronica, as a giant octopus attacked the yacht.

• The mermaid leader boarded the yacht with her kin to search for the Heart of the Ocean, and Little Harry and Nick sprung a trap that killed a Siren.
• Richard charged into the merfolk, knocked the Mermaid King into the sea, and fought alongside Nick and Little Harry.
• Mindy shot down the last Sirens and merfolk on deck, but dozens more merfolk climbed aboard while hundreds of Sirens gathered overhead.
• A giant octopus tentacle struck toward the yacht, and Nick called for JARVIS as Veronica descended from the sky.

Richard, Mindy, Alita, and JARVIS fought off the mermaids and Sirens attacking the yacht while the super-robot struck down the Giant Octopus and the whale bridge. Reinforcements arrived and overwhelmed the remaining attackers, and Stark emerged from the sea atop a Hundred-Headed Basilisk.

• Mindy shot down grenades Richard threw into the sky, blasting Sirens away from the yacht, while Alita joined the fight against the mermaids.
• The super-robot plunged through the Sirens and the Giant Octopus, then smashed the whale serving as a bridge; Nemo II learned he could use the Heart of the Ocean from the cockpit to help.
• The mermaid chieftain summoned reinforcements, but a black greatsword killed him, and Fox shot down the elite mermaids carrying Energy Weapons.
• Shirley and Jessica blew up the fleeing mermaids, while Pepper took to the sky in her Iron Man Armor to drive off the remaining Sirens.
• Two Hundred-Headed Basilisks attacked the wounded Giant Octopuses, and Stark emerged from the sea standing on one of them.

After the children fought the sea monsters, Alvin reunited with them and comforted the worried adults aboard the yacht. The group settled down, while JARVIS began cleaning the deck and was interrupted by Chiron and Alita.

• Pepper attacked Stark for letting Morgan risk herself, but Stark calmed her by praising the children and explaining that Alvin had watched over them.
• Alvin praised the children, then handed Nick to Jess, who beat Nick and Richard while Ginny tried to rescue them.
• Alvin reunited with Fox, reassured her that he supported her adventures, and thanked Hela for helping.
• Alvin comforted pregnant Shirley, who was worried about the children and Frank, and sent her inside with Fox and Hela.
• Nemo II and JARVIS complained about Alvin's emotional intelligence, and JARVIS started cleaning the deck.
• Chiron climbed aboard with broken metal rods and stone statues, undoing JARVIS's work, while Alita appeared with a large mop and offered to help.

Alvin told Fox that she might be a demigod with forgotten memories and insisted that she choose whether to awaken them. Fox began to accept the name Tina, leaving Alvin alarmed and uncertain about what her past might mean for their relationship.

• Alvin confiscated the children's weapons, while Nemo II prepared to search for the final trident fragment.
• Alvin asked Fox to speak privately and told Chiron to guard the statues, ordering him to destroy them if Athena made a move.
• Fox told Alvin that she seemed to remember studying and fighting in Athena's temple, and Alvin explained that Chiron believed she had once been a demigod.
• Alvin said he feared Fox might change but would stand by her and let her decide whether to reclaim her past.
• Fox told Alvin he could call her Tina Fox and revealed that Heborong had been calling her Tina, which had made her avoid thinking about her past.

Fox confessed that hazy memories from her past had been haunting her, and she decided to face them with Alvin’s support by meeting Athena. Meanwhile, Stark entertained the children with the Singing Crystal, and Nick’s teasing earned him a beating.

• Fox told Alvin that she had been resisting fragments of old memories and feared he would no longer accept her.
• Alvin reassured Fox that he loved her as she was, and Fox said she wanted to put the confusing dreams behind her.
• Alvin agreed to support Fox and take her to meet Athena, asking her not to hide important things from him again.
• Stark showed the children the Singing Crystal, and Chiron explained that it made anyone who heard its wearer sing see them as beautiful.
• Nick compared Mindy to an ugly Mermaid, so Mindy pinned him down and beat him while Ginny and Jessica accidentally stepped on him too.
• Richard pulled Nick away before he could finish taunting the girls.

Fox adjusted to her awakened memories and sought a way to save Athena, while Alvin dealt with the captured Basilisk in a foul mood. Poseidon revealed the Basilisk’s fatal head in exchange for a promised favor.

• Pepper asked Fox about becoming a demigod, and Fox admitted she feared Alvin would dislike her changed self.
• Hela told Fox that worshippers or the Hall of the Gods in Asgard might restore Athena’s vitality, and Fox decided to try the Hall.
• Stark teased Alvin about his demigoddess fiancée, while Alvin silently resented Athena for interrupting his intimate moment with Fox.
• Alvin asked Nemo II to control the captured Basilisk, but Nemo II declined and said he planned to retrieve the Trident fragment and help open the Thermocline instead.
• Poseidon offered to identify the Basilisk’s fatal head in exchange for a favor, then pointed out its sixth head from the left, and Alvin drew blood from its neck.

Alvin learned that Poseidon needed Basilisk blood and Psychic Energy to keep his failing body alive, and Poseidon offered to work for him in return. Alvin agreed to help him control a Basilisk and assigned him to guard the Mutant Prison off New York.

• Chiron explained that Poseidon’s body and Godhead had deteriorated, while Alvin realized Poseidon wanted the Basilisk’s blood to recover.
• Stark offered Poseidon a position with Stark Industries to study Atlantean technology, but Poseidon refused and said he needed Alvin’s Golden Vine to replenish his Psychic Energy.
• Poseidon asked Alvin to connect his body to the Basilisk so its blood could sustain him and he could control it.
• Alvin agreed to Poseidon’s request, offered him work guarding the Mutant Prison with the Basilisk, and used the Golden Vine to give Poseidon an initial supply of energy.
• Poseidon explained that Alvin should find the Basilisk’s blood vessels connected to its core head and plant him there.

Alvin and his companions continued their sea vacation while Poseidon mastered the captured Basilisk and Nemo II departed to repair the Nautilus. The chapter ended when Lin Shaoqing called Alvin about a tiny man waiting to see him at the Peace Hotel.

• Poseidon took control of the Basilisk, defeated the remaining Mermaids and Sirens, and returned with treasure for the women to sort.
• Nemo II left Alvin's Yacht to repair the Nautilus and search for the final fragment of the Sea Emperor's Trident.
• Alvin made Nick do his vacation homework, while Jessica persuaded him to lend her Chiron's magical feathers for her wedding dress.
• Stark found that Hank Pym had contacted the school and confirmed that Pym had once worked with his father at S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Lin Shaoqing called Alvin from the Peace Hotel and reported that a man the size of an Ant was waiting to see him.

Scott Lang sought refuge at the Peace Hotel but ended up trapped under a glass by the new manager, Lin Shaoqing. After Lin Shaoqing tested Gwen’s willingness to take Peter’s wages, he explained that he was warning her against taking others for granted and left Harry uneasy about how dangerous people could be.

• Scott Lang recalled how Hank Pym’s stolen Pym Particles research had brought a transnational criminal group after them, and he had come to the Peace Hotel seeking protection.
• Lin Shaoqing trapped Ant-Man Scott Lang under a Whiskey glass and sent Gwen and Sharina back to work, reminding them that their wages would not cover their debt because they had done only half the job.
• Lin Shaoqing suggested Gwen could pay off her debt by taking Peter’s wages, but Gwen recognized the trap and went to help Peter instead.
• Old Cheng rebuked Lin Shaoqing for testing Gwen and warned Harry that Lin Shaoqing was scarred by past experiences and that tests between people could not withstand scrutiny.
• Lin Shaoqing told Harry not to test people carelessly, while Old Cheng warned Harry that people who befriended everyone were often bad people.

Alvin returned to Hell's Kitchen after vacation and watched Fox, Hela, Jessica, Pepper, and the others leave for Northern Europe to prepare for the wedding dress competition. With Little Ginny disappointed and the household heading home, Alvin promised her a summer visit and suggested finding magical homes for Caesar and Maximus.

• Alvin left Poseidon, renamed Arthur, at Prison Island to keep Triton company and help guard the prison.
• Alvin and Stark joked about the women leaving for Northern Europe, and Alvin kissed Fox before she departed.
• Jessica led Fox and Hela away, while Pepper asked Alita to join the wedding preparations and help care for Little Morgan.
• Hela summoned Heimdall, and a pillar of rainbow light carried the women away.
• Alvin comforted Little Ginny, promised to take her to Northern Europe during summer vacation, and suggested finding magical homes for Caesar and Maximus.

Robert advised Lin Shaoqing that he would not fit into Hell's Kitchen by pretending to be someone else, and urged him to find something worth protecting. The conversation ended when Ginny arrived at the Peace Hotel.

• Scott Lang ate noodles at the restaurant after Peter helped him wait there for Alvin and the others.
• Lin Shaoqing served Robert tea, and Robert told him that his guarded, performative manner kept the regulars from relaxing around him.
• Lin Shaoqing admitted that his revenge was over but said he wanted to cast aside the traits that had shaped him.
• Robert explained that people with shared experiences and goals could accept one another's flaws, then described how protecting Alvin's school had connected him with Hell's Kitchen.
• Robert urged Lin Shaoqing to find something worth protecting and defend Hell's Kitchen, just as little Ginny arrived at the restaurant.

Lin Shaoqing recognized that he needed to stop pretending and be himself to fit in at the Peace Hotel, while Alvin welcomed him as the hall manager. Scott Lang brought Alvin the Pym Particle darts, but Alvin used one to shrink a car and accidentally knocked out the Wasp, who turned out to be Scott’s friend.

• Lin Shaoqing told Robert that he understood his advice but could not be like Alvin, and Robert urged him to relax and be himself.
• Alvin praised Lin Shaoqing’s work and appointed him manager of the Peace Hotel’s Main Hall until Jessica returned.
• Scott Lang gave Alvin the Pym Particle darts and explained that their buttons could shrink or enlarge targets.
• Alvin threw a dart at a parked car, shrank it, and caught the unconscious Wasp who had flown out of it.
• Scott Lang revived the Wasp with a toothpick, and Alvin teased him after seeing the woman in her suit.

Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne sought shelter in Hell’s Kitchen from terrorists pursuing Pym Particle technology, but Hope’s suspicion of Alvin turned his offer of help into a demand that they leave. Alvin kept two darts that could restore Caesar and Maximus to normal size and sent Scott and Hope away with the rest.

• Scott Lang explained that terrorists were hunting him and Hope van Dyne for Dr. Pym’s technology, and Alvin warned that their enemies could bring danger to Hell’s Kitchen.
• Little Ginny used Pym Particle darts to shrink Caesar and Maximus, and Scott explained how the particles and suits affected strength.
• Alvin said he was interested in Pym Particles, but Hope woke and accused him of trying to seize the technology.
• Alvin told Hope that he had only wanted compensation for protecting them, then kept two darts and ordered Scott and Hope off his turf.