Chapter Summaries

Russell confronted Carlisle Cullen’s vampires and the werewolves aboard a plane, forcing them to accept implanted monitors and warning them not to harm humans. He let them go under strict conditions and cautioned them to avoid Sokovia, while Yan Shuangying and his Demon Hunters left to help Natasha.

• Russell boarded the plane and killed a werewolf suspected of murders in Canada, then killed a vampire to enforce his threat against the group.
• Russell told Carlisle Cullen that the vampires and werewolves had to follow their agreement or he would kill offenders and another member of the group.
• Russell gave Carlisle an injector containing a monitor that would detect human blood, and Carlisle implanted it under pressure.
• Yan Shuangying left the plane with his men, complaining about Russell’s treatment of the vampires and werewolves and heading to help Natasha.
• Russell allowed Edward to reunite with his girlfriend and told the group they could return to Canada or stay, provided they did not harm humans or linger in Sokovia.

Raymond, Frank, and Steve exposed an impostor posing as Nick Fury and discovered that the real Nick Fury had left Earth with the Skrulls. The Skrull called for help as Raymond demanded to know how many Skrulls were on Earth and where they were hiding.

• Raymond ordered Nick Fury and his technicians to leave the Sokovia information center without their equipment, and Frank shot a technician who tried to copy data.
• Frank exposed the technician as a Skrull, and Hill revealed that she had alerted Raymond after noticing suspicious new hires.
• Steve and Frank confronted the impostor, while Skrull technicians transformed to resemble Hill's soldiers and Frank shot them.
• The real Nick Fury appeared on a screen from a Skrull spaceship near the edge of the Solar System and explained that he had traded the ship for the Skrulls' help in building his underground intelligence organization.
• Raymond questioned the wounded Skrull about its people and their location, and the Skrull pressed a communicator and called for help.

Raymond and Agent Hill wrapped up the confrontation with Nick Fury and the Skrulls, while coordinated attacks dismantled Hydra operations across Sokovia. Doom seized control of Hydra, and Fox prepared to leave as Sokovia’s old order collapsed.

• Nick Fury explained to Agent Hill why he had left Earth and revealed that Carol Danvers could help Earth enter the space age.
• Raymond ordered Agent Hill to hunt down Skrulls on Earth and use them to negotiate with Carol Danvers, and Agent Hill and Frank killed the captured Skrull.
• Church infiltrated the mountain Manor, found its secret basement entrance, and prepared to break through its metal door.
• Eggsy’s team launched an assault on the villa in Sokovia, and Russell advanced toward the entrance despite Natasha’s warning.
• Doom killed the Hydra chairman, revealed that Hive was dead, and used hidden machine guns to slaughter the Hydra elders before offering Ophelia a place at his side.
• Fox packed away her rifle and called Alvin to say she and her team would leave the next day.

Alvin and the children arrived in Kalimantan, where Kingpin greeted Richard and showered the kids with gifts. After Fox made a dramatic parachute landing, she told Alvin that Hela was joining their trip, just as thunder rolled across the clear sky.

• Stark's plane landed in Kalimantan, and Richard rushed to greet Kingpin while the children explored his gifts.
• Alvin and the others rescued Little Morgan from the plane steps, and Little Ginny happily took her in her arms.
• Kingpin explained that he had arranged the gifts for Richard and thanked Alvin for helping his son.
• Alvin called Fox, who jumped from a plane and landed safely in a net of Golden Vine after deploying a small parachute.
• Fox told Alvin that Hela had joined the trip, and thunder rumbled after Alvin asked whether she was sexier than his 'Laura'.

Alvin's group reached a remote town in Kalimantan during a downpour and prepared to enter the jungle to search for giant pythons. Stark found a carved snake-skull pendant whose cells were still active, leaving the group with a strange clue about the creatures they sought.

• Hela beat Loki, forbade him from spying on Alvin, and ordered Heimdall to send Thor to Earth; Loki immediately volunteered to choose Thor's destination.
• Alvin hurried the group into vehicles as a storm gathered, while Stark flew ahead in his Nanotech Suit and Alvin rode with the driver.
• The group arrived at an inn in Kalimantan as torrential rain began, and Pepper angrily rescued little Morgan from a puddle while Stark was absorbed in a bone carving.
• Kingpin asked the innkeeper to summon Bill, a Captain willing to guide them into the jungle during the rainy season, and said a refitted river tour boat would arrive the next day.
• Kingpin told Alvin that finding the giant pythons during their mating season mattered to Richard, and asked Alvin to help protect him on the trip.
• Stark showed Alvin a snake-skull pendant and explained that its cells were still active and slowly dividing despite the carving being nearly a hundred years old.

Alvin and his companions met Bill Johnson, a captain who warned them about the dangers in Borneo’s rainforest and explained that the Blood Orchid attracted a deadly giant python. Bill also asked for help supporting Sam, a researcher who had survived an expedition seven years earlier, and Alvin directed him to Bruto in Hell’s Kitchen.

• The innkeeper introduced Bill Johnson to Kingpin as the only captain willing to take them upriver during the rainy season, and Bill demanded $100,000 for the trip.
• Bill warned Alvin that the rainforest became dangerous every seven years and that women and children could face horrors there, but the children’s antics with snakes left him conceding they might make happy memories.
• Bill explained that researchers seeking the Blood Orchid had encountered an enormous water python, and Alvin said his group was chiefly interested in finding the python.
• Bill asked Alvin to help Sam, a surviving expedition researcher who needed money, and Alvin told him to have her bring her paper to Bruto in Hell’s Kitchen.
• Bill agreed to guide the group upriver and promised they would find what they were seeking.

Stark explained that the Blood Orchid might extend cellular lifespan, and Alvin asked Bruto to hire Sam if she knew about it. After reassuring Kingpin about Richard, Alvin went to see Fox, but their private moment was interrupted by Ginny asking to borrow Fox’s sloth.

• Stark told Alvin that the Blood Orchid could extend the lifespan of cells and might be entering its seven-year blooming cycle again.
• Stark suggested that the giant pythons had grown enormous because the Blood Orchid extended their lives, and Kingpin decided to find the biggest python for Richard.
• Alvin called Bruto and told him to keep the Female Doctor who might come looking for him, then urged Kingpin to enjoy the trip and arrange a better ship for Richard.
• Stark revealed that the cells in his bone figurine were still dividing, which he said amounted to immortality, before Pepper sent him away again.
• Alvin entered his room, found Fox holding a sloth, and picked the sloth up after it startled him and clutched Fox.
• Ginny interrupted Alvin and Fox to ask if she could take the sloth to play with Morgan.

Alvin and his companions prepared to leave Borneo, but Kingpin’s plans left them with a filthy, patched-up boat called the Bloody Mary instead of the cruise ship they expected. Alvin and Stark reluctantly joined the effort to clean it, while the children eagerly embraced their pirate adventure.

• Alvin spent the night with Fox, then got up after Ginny woke him to announce that Kingpin’s boat had arrived.
• Ginny asked to eat piranha, and Alvin promised to catch one for her before the group headed to the dock.
• Alvin and Stark found the Bloody Mary, a junker that Kingpin had chosen because the larger boat could not reach their destination.
• Pepper and Stark objected to the boat’s filthy condition, while Captain Bill Johnson offered to have its cabin cleaned.
• Alvin told Kingpin’s men to clear out the boat and urged Stark to help make it livable, despite Stark wishing to wait for a better vessel.
• Alvin agreed to take the Bloody Mary because the children, including Ginny and Morgan, were excited to play pirates, and Richard was in a hurry.

After the Bloody Mary was cleaned and set off, Alvin and the others spent a quiet evening fishing, grilling, and eating together. Kingpin stunned a school of fish while showing off for Richard, inadvertently killing newborn pythons that had gathered beneath the boat.

• Kingpin paid the villagers to clean and refit the Bloody Mary, and the town cheered as it departed.
• Alvin grilled Wagyu while Little Ginny fell asleep fishing, then woke and caught a carp that Bill Johnson identified as a prized Borneo food fish.
• Nick jokingly told Little Ginny her catch was a dangerous piranha, but Bill Johnson corrected him and Alvin prepared the carp for her.
• A scream from the jungle prompted Fox, Pepper, and the others to look outside while Nick teased Mindy and the children watched the jungle with a thermal camera.
• Kingpin stunned fish with a steel harpoon while trying to impress Richard, and the strike also stunned newborn pythons beneath the stern.
• After Kingpin and Richard joined the meal, predators swallowed the stunned pythons while other newborn snakes continued swimming through the river.

Stark challenged Alvin to a cooking contest, with the loser facing a wedding-dress walk and the kids’ summer homework at stake. As everyone chose sides, a wounded Little Rhino tumbled into the river while a Sumatran Tiger fled into the jungle, prompting Bill to wonder why the rainforest animals were acting strangely.

• Stark bragged about his grilled fish and challenged Alvin to a contest, proposing that the loser walk in a wedding dress.
• Stark offered to reduce the children’s summer homework, and Nick, Little Harry, and Morgan joined his team while Mindy and Little Ginny sided with Alvin.
• Fox playfully undermined Alvin, while Kingpin chose to form a separate team with Richard and Captain Bill.
• Stark recruited Alita and contacted JARVIS to arrange premium charcoal for his grilling.
• A wounded Little Rhino fell into the river as a Sumatran Tiger fled into the jungle, and Bill wondered whether the rainforest animals had gone crazy.

Alvin and his group rescued an injured Sumatran Rhinoceros calf while the animals of Borneo’s rainforest fled toward its edges. As the group prepared to search for Giant Pythons, a mysterious blue light in the jungle drove dozens of enormous pythons to reproduce rapidly, while a hidden creature watched them.

• Alvin rescued the injured rhino calf at Little Ginny’s urging and agreed to take it to Bill’s wildlife sanctuary contact after it healed.
• Alvin secretly removed the Corpse-Eater Vine from the rhino, while Bill warned that animals were fleeing the dangerous rainforest interior.
• Alvin explained that the group needed to capture the largest Giant Python alive to treat Richard’s condition and hoped to find Blood Orchid as well.
• Little Ginny treated the rhino and settled it on a mattress, while Alvin stayed on deck to keep watch overnight.
• Deep in Borneo, a pale blue light stimulated Super Giant Pythons to mate and give birth rapidly near a pool surrounded by Blood Orchids.
• A pair of enormous yellow eyes watched the breeding pythons from a nearby cave.

Alvin and the others went ashore to cut grass for the injured Little Rhino, while Stark, Nick, and Little Harry searched the rainforest for the stolen bananas. The children’s armor-fueled chaos and the group’s arguments over food left Bill and Kingpin wondering what life aboard the ship was really like.

• Ginny dragged Alvin ashore to cut grass for Little Rhino, while Stark took Nick and Little Harry to look for the bananas Little Rhino had eaten.
• Stark unlocked Nick’s Nanotech Prosthesis, and Nick charged into the rainforest; Stark sent Little Harry after him in Iron Man Armor and followed himself.
• Alvin asked JARVIS to watch the children, then warned him not to pursue Alita and returned to cutting grass with Ginny and Mindy.
• Venom armored Ginny and Mindy, and Alvin stopped Ginny from wandering deeper into the rainforest before giving her a sickle.
• Bill and Kingpin learned from Fox that they had to provide their own food, while Pepper joked with Bill about Stark and Alvin acting like children.
• Kingpin picked up a harpoon and led Richard toward the stern, asking whether life at the Peace Hotel was always like this.

Alvin fed his group while Stark struggled to prepare food, then a crocodile stole Alvin’s catch and attacked Richard after he fell into the river. Kingpin dived in to intercept the crocodile as Alvin realized Richard was in danger.

• Alvin gathered grass, bamboo shoots, and palm hearts, caught a fish, and cooked a meal for his group.
• Nick and Little Harry struggled with unripe bananas while Alvin teased them and served fish porridge to his family.
• Stark struggled to prepare the fish caught by the children, while Alvin watched and taunted him.
• Alvin caught a large fish with a harpoon, but a crocodile surfaced and stole it.
• Richard fell into the river when a crocodile struck his fishing net, and the crocodile turned to attack him.
• Kingpin signaled Captain Bill to stop the boat and hurled himself into the river toward the crocodile.

Alvin and the others encountered giant pythons attacking them on the river and realized the snakes were behaving like the Hook Snakes at Namtso. Stark discovered that Borneo was undergoing an Anaconda Disaster, with an unusually large number of hungry snakes spreading through its waterways.

• Kingpin strangled a crocodile, then used it to strike a giant python as it lunged at him.
• Richard tore free of another python, killed it against the boat, and helped Kingpin aboard.
• Alvin ordered the group to capture two pythons and kill the rest as more than a dozen-meter-long snakes closed in.
• Fox and Mindy shot at the pythons while Stark took to the sky to investigate.
• Stark reported that giant snakes were spreading through Borneo’s waterways and that the Anaconda Disaster was worse than usual.

Alvin and Stark responded to a Borneo python outbreak, arranging government help and preparing to investigate its source while Alvin’s family caught and cooked snakes aboard the Ship. Deep in the Rainforest, a black Super Giant Python culled its growing kin and kept an exhausted Chi Dragon captive, whose cry for help left its fate uncertain.

• Alvin asked Stark about stopping the pythons, and Stark contacted Russell and the Malaysian and Indonesian governments while Alvin offered to buy the snakes.
• Alvin ordered Captain Bill to take the Ship toward the place where Bill had encountered giant pythons seven years earlier, and Bill suggested calling the U.S. Military.
• Kingpin, Little Harry, Ginny, Nick, and Mindy wrestled with pythons aboard the Ship while Kingpin urged Richard to find a suitable snake.
• Ginny and Mindy brought Alvin a python to cook, and Alvin gave Mindy a Revolver before teaching Nick how to prepare the snake meat.
• In the Rainforest pool, a black Super Giant Python ate Blood Orchids and devoured a forty-meter python before returning to the cave.
• The black Super Giant Python fed Blood Orchids to itself while keeping an exhausted Chi Dragon captive, and the Chi Dragon cried for rescue.

Alvin and his companions shared a meal aboard the Excursion Boat while larger snakes quietly avoided the vessel and swam away. As the boat continued deeper into the Rainforest, Russell arrived in Brunei with Avengers troops and attack aircraft to hunt Monsters in Borneo.

• Alvin grilled Giant Python meat and served Snake Meat and fish soup to Little Ginny, Mindy, Pepper, Fox, and the others while Stark and Nick struggled to cook.
• Pepper and Fox helped feed Little Morgan, and Alvin joked with Pepper about Stark losing the cooking contest.
• Bill praised Richard's grilled steaks, then warned Kingpin that the unsettled water might bring danger that night.
• A Clouded Leopard stopped following the Excursion Boat, and several enormous snakes swam away beneath it after sensing danger aboard.
• Dozens of Quinjets carrying Avengers troops and eleven AU-130 Attack Fighters arrived at an Airport in Brunei.
• Russell told anxious Bruneian officials that he had come to hunt the Monsters in Borneo.

Alvin and his companions hunted mutated pythons on the river while giant snakes overwhelmed an Indonesian blockade and attacked soldiers. A pleasure boat armed with naval mines arrived to blast the snakes, leaving the fleeing soldiers stunned by its crew.

• Alvin’s group caught pythons from their moving boat while Kingpin and Richard hauled in giant snakes, and Alvin sent his creatures into the jungle to hunt.
• Alvin learned Russell had landed in Brunei and worried that pythons moving through the rainforest would reach human settlements.
• Indonesian troops blocked a river, but giant pythons attacked their patrol boats and killed soldiers until the blockade collapsed.
• A white pleasure boat arrived as soldiers fled upriver, and its crew threw naval mines into the river to blow apart the pythons.
• The old captain warned his men that the pleasure boat was more dangerous than a nest of snakes because its crew was swinging naval mines like chain balls.

Yan Shuangying led the Demon Hunters in hunting giant pythons across Borneo, turning Alvin’s bounty and the animals’ skins and gallbladders into a lucrative operation. In Brunei, Russell negotiated a $500 million deal for the Avengers to help confront the pythons, then prepared to move upstream and clean up Yan Shuangying’s mess.

• Yan Shuangying’s Demon Hunters used naval mines to kill giant pythons, then harvested their meat, skins, and gallbladders for sale.
• Yan Shuangying arranged payments from Malaysia and Indonesia and drew hundreds of Demon Hunters to Borneo, while the United States sent $100 million in aid to the guild through Raymond.
• Yan Shuangying called Commander Lennox and negotiated with him to buy intact pythons, while reconnaissance showed the snakes spreading across Borneo’s waterways.
• Russell offered Brunei’s King and Prime Minister control of the Avengers’ response, and the Prime Minister agreed to pay $500 million and provide support.
• Russell ordered the Avengers to get twenty speedboats and depart in six hours to clean up after Yan Shuangying, while Hawkeye urged them to request raises.

Alvin and Stark investigated the giant pythons’ attacks in Borneo while Alvin discussed a possible Source Pearl with Zhang Qiang. When the boat entered thick fog that disrupted electronics and cut Stark off from JARVIS, Fox ordered it to turn back, though Alvin suspected they had found the pythons’ lair.

• Raymond briefed Alvin and Stark on the spreading python attacks, and Stark said he might fly ahead to find their source.
• Alvin rejected Zhang Qiang’s questions about a Source Pearl, then learned the Gun Club had found a passage near Emperor Wu of Han’s tomb and agreed to return his Pearl once they found the last one.
• Zhang Qiang sent Alvin instructions for raising a Chi Dragon, and Alvin joked that Fox could care for it if they found one.
• Fox discovered that Alvin’s phone could not forward the instructions, and Stark identified the surrounding fog as strong electromagnetic interference that had also cut off JARVIS.
• Fox ordered the boat to turn back so Stark could adjust his armor, while Alvin concluded they had found the right place.

Pepper and the others defended the boat from giant pythons while Alvin, Stark, Kingpin, and Captain Bill crossed the rain forest toward the python nest. The chapter ended with Alvin carrying Kingpin across a swamp in a bridal carry as Stark laughed at them.

• Fox and Mindy wounded a giant python, and Richard killed it with a harpoon before Alita decapitated another attacking snake.
• Hundreds of enormous dark pythons swam past the boat, surrounding a monster and heading into the jungle.
• Richard worried that Alvin and the others had found the right place and wondered how his father was doing.
• Captain Bill led Alvin, Stark, and Kingpin to the swamp where he had found a python nest seven years earlier.
• Stark flew Captain Bill across the swamp, and Alvin carried Kingpin over in War God 4 while Stark laughed at them.