Chapter Summaries

Carl reviewed the Four Peddlers’ Prestige Point earnings, rewarded them with expanded private spaces, and introduced a KPI system for the Warp version of the Fun-Seeker Plan. As Carl prepared to leave, Slaanesh said the Four Peddlers had discovered something that might interest him.

• Vivienne Graham told Ishiro Serizawa that The Daily Bugle had exposed the Isla de Mara incident, and Serizawa decided to stay silent while Emma Russell handled the next steps.
• Carl checked the System’s separate Prestige Point totals and found that Tzeentch had earned the most, with over 3.199 million points.
• Carl entered the Warp and announced each Peddler’s weekly earnings, then spent thirty percent of the total to expand their exclusive dimensional spaces.
• Carl laid out the Warp Fun-Seeker Plan’s monthly KPI targets, commission rates, and performance incentives for the Four Peddlers.
• As Carl was about to leave, Slaanesh told him that the Four Peddlers had discovered something new, and Carl asked what it was.

Carl learned that Lilith planned to use seven [Night Demons] to summon Varnae and revoke Dracula’s [immortality trait], prompting him to warn the Four Peddlers about powerful beings beyond the [Warp]. After Carl left, the Peddlers took his warning as a call to strengthen the [Warp] and surpass the gods.

• Khorne identified the captured Blood God, and Tzeentch explained Lilith’s plan to summon Varnae so she could kill Dracula by removing his [immortality trait].
• Carl connected the revelation to the Demonic Soul Shard and decided to investigate Dracula while developing both the real world and the [Warp].
• Carl listed powerful dimensional lords and the four cosmic creation gods, then urged the Four Peddlers and the Emperor to build strength cautiously.
• Carl rewarded Khorne with the Blood God’s soul and left the [Warp]; Khorne swallowed the captive and gained strength from its dark energy.
• Tzeentch convinced the others that Carl was risking himself in the real world to secure the [Warp]’s future, and the Four Peddlers vowed to grow stronger and defeat their rivals.

Carl prepared to pursue Dracula’s immortality and Alexander Corvinus’s Uninfected trait while ordering Selene to investigate vampires and arrange captures. Meanwhile, MUTO Prime attacked a nuclear fuel storage facility in Montana, and General Ross trusted Carl and Kong to stop him as The Daily Bugle began broadcasting the attack.

• Carl told Selene to investigate Dracula’s indestructibility and watch for attacks by six other powerful vampires, then explained that Alexander Corvinus’s Uninfected trait could help create viral immunity and warriors.
• Carl directed Selene to consult Andreas Tanis about Alexander Corvinus and William, then dismissed her without noticing her disappointment.
• MUTO Prime burst from the ground in Montana and attacked a decommissioned nuclear submarine power core storage facility, overwhelming the troops defending it.
• General Ross declined to send the 163rd Armored Brigade, saying Carl would arrive with Kong and that ordinary forces could not withstand MUTO Prime’s electromagnetic pulses and seismic waves.
• Pentagon staff reported that The Daily Bugle was broadcasting MUTO Prime’s attack live, and General Ross silently hinted that the outlet’s new owner explained its presence.

Carl brought Kong and The Daily Bugle crew to Montana, where MUTO Prime was battling Godzilla, while Wanda delivered the Ancient One’s request to meet Carl afterward. As Godzilla fell into a desperate fight against MUTO Prime and the returning male MUTO, Emma Russell waited for a chance to test her powers and refused to intervene.

• General Ross viewed his partnership with Carl as a chance to gain influence and celebrated The Daily Bugle’s rapid arrival at the battle site.
• Carl, Wanda, Kong, and The Daily Bugle crew traveled through a portal to a concealed hillside near the Decommissioned Nuclear Submarine Power Core Storage Facility, where the crew began broadcasting live.
• Wanda told Carl that the Ancient One wanted to meet him after the events in Montana, and Carl wondered whether the Ancient One had an ulterior motive.
• Carl detected Godzilla approaching and kept Kong hidden, while Emma Russell waited with her bodyguard and planned to test her ability by allowing people to die.
• MUTO Prime’s electromagnetic pulse destroyed three drones, then Godzilla attacked MUTO Prime but was overpowered; the male MUTO joined the fight and left Godzilla badly wounded.

Emma Russell used the ORCA to control the MUTOs and turn them against Godzilla, but Kong arrived in a winged Symbiote form and defeated them. Kong knocked Godzilla unconscious and dragged him away, then both Titans vanished from satellite detection.

• Emma Russell discovered that her psionic ORCA pulses controlled the MUTOs but did not affect Godzilla, so she sent the MUTOs to attack him.
• Kong flew in with enormous black wings and rescued the badly wounded Godzilla, then killed the male MUTO with a blue Symbiote fist.
• The Symbiote Suit expanded Kong into a 150-meter Titan, and he killed MUTO Prime with a powerbomb and a finishing strike.
• Kong returned to his normal form, mocked Godzilla, knocked him unconscious with three punches, and dragged him away by the tail.
• The Daily Bugle ended its livestream, while General Ross and Monarch's satellite team saw Kong and Godzilla disappear from their scans.

General Ross ordered the military to protect its new partnership with Carl, while Carl prepared to travel with Wanda to Kamar-Taj after the battle. Emma Russell resolved to seize control of Monarch and unleash the Titans, and Nick Fury blamed Carl for the Life Foundation’s troubles and his own failed plans.

• General Ross ordered his officers to stop investigating Carl and pay him for the rescue, then authorized cleanup at the Montana site.
• Carl admired the Prestige Points gained from the livestream and asked Wanda to send the employees back before taking him to Kamar-Taj; he told Kong to keep Godzilla unconscious.
• Emma Russell blamed Kong for ruining her plan, accepted Slaanesh’s encouragement, and decided to take control of Monarch so she could release the Titans.
• Emma told arriving reporters that Kong had rescued Godzilla from the two MUTOs, then left with the ORCA Device.
• Maria Hill briefed Nick Fury on the alien symbiotes, and Fury accused Carl of causing the Life Foundation incidents and the deaths of its personnel.
• Nick Fury recalled that Krayen had disappeared, concluding that his puppet and undercover operation were lost.

Nick Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to track down Eddie Brock after Carl ruined the agency’s plans, while Eddie and Anti-Venom plotted to find greater power for revenge. At Kamar-Taj, Carl confronted the Ancient One, whose doubts about his identity disappeared after she saw the five powers in his Eight-Pointed Star; she then asked for his opinion about Wanda.

• Nick Fury blamed Carl for S.H.I.E.L.D.’s failures and ordered his agents to find Eddie Brock, whom he hoped to recruit.
• Eddie Brock and Anti-Venom watched Kong’s televised battle, feared his power, and decided to seek a stronger partner for revenge against Carl.
• Carl followed Wanda to the Ancient One’s study, where Wanda left them to speak alone.
• Carl challenged the Ancient One by asking whether he looked like a man or a god, and she noticed the Eight-Pointed Star Rune on his forehead.
• The Ancient One recognized the five different source powers in Carl’s rune, accepted him as a Dimensional Demon, and set aside her suspicions.
• The Ancient One told Carl she wanted his opinion on an important decision concerning Wanda.

The Ancient One agreed to train Wanda as her apprentice after Carl revealed that the seal holding back the Four Chaos Gods had weakened and offered to help Kamar-Taj fight them. Carl left Kamar-Taj planning to win Godzilla over with Cosmic Secret Energy, while Kong boasted that he deserved Godzilla’s title.

• The Ancient One offered to take Wanda on as her apprentice, and Carl enthusiastically agreed.
• Carl told the Ancient One that his demonic power was returning and that the Four Chaos Gods’ power could seep into the real world; she asked for his guidance and agreed to teach Wanda.
• Carl pushed for Kamar-Taj to help Sokovia hunt the Chaos Gods’ followers, and the Ancient One sent him through a portal back to Sokovia.
• Carl decided to visit Godzilla and use Cosmic Secret Energy to bring the Titan over to his side.
• Kong knocked Godzilla unconscious again, then bragged to Pietro that he should be King of the Monsters; Pietro reminded him he would need to beat Godzilla without the Symbiote Suit.

Pietro discovered that his super-speed had also increased his metabolism and gradually toughened his body, while Carl explained to Kong why Godzilla should become an ally. At Monarch headquarters, Ishiro Serizawa struggled to decide how to reclaim Godzilla, and Emma Russell urged him to defy outside authorities.

• Pietro told Kong that training had strengthened his body, though he still could not withstand attacks like Carl could, then sped back to the Summit Base for food.
• Carl arrived and learned from Kong that Godzilla had woken briefly before Kong knocked him unconscious again; Carl told Kong that Godzilla was powerful and should be treated as an ally.
• Nick Fury learned that Carl had taken Godzilla to Sokovia and ordered Maria Hill to contact Ishiro Serizawa about a joint protest to the Security Council.
• Ishiro Serizawa gathered Monarch's senior members to discuss how to get Godzilla back, while Vivienne Graham marveled at Carl's rapid transport of him.
• Emma Russell suggested dropping a nuclear bomb on Sokovia, alarming Ishiro Serizawa, then urged him to show Monarch's strength and disregard the Security Council and Department of Defense.

Emma Russell undermined Ishiro Serizawa as [Monarch] debated how to respond to Godzilla’s appearance in [Sokovia], while public opinion split over whether humanity should control the Titans. At [Vought Group], Stan Edgar confronted Homelander about his refusal to face monsters and revealed that the earliest [Compound V] was developed from Mutant [X-Gene], leaving Homelander wondering whether he was a mutant.

• Emma Russell used outrageous suggestions to make Ishiro Serizawa seem weak, and he ordered Vivienne to report Godzilla’s appearance to the [United Nations Security Council] and the [Department of Defense].
• News of Godzilla in [Sokovia] sparked an online fight over whether he and Kong should remain free, and the United Nations General Assembly scheduled an emergency hearing with Baron Zemo.
• John Jameson directed [The Daily Bugle] staff to counter attacks on Carl while warning them not to escalate the online feud before public attention shifted away from him.
• Stan Edgar summoned Homelander over his refusal to confront MUTO Prime, but Homelander insisted that [Vought Group] could not force him to act.
• Stan Edgar recounted Frederick Vought’s work at [Dachau Concentration Camp] and revealed that early [Compound V] used [X-Gene] from Mutants, prompting Homelander to ask whether he was a mutant.

Stan Edgar warned Homelander that Vought could replace him, while a voice from Homelander’s reflection urged him to seize control of the company. In Sokovia, Carl gained Prestige Points and tried to persuade Godzilla to ally with Kong, but Godzilla left without agreeing.

• Stan Edgar explained Compound V’s history, accused Homelander of supplying it to terrorists, and ordered him to follow Vought’s decisions.
• Homelander left Stan’s office angry, then heard his reflection tell him to remove Stan and take control of Vought.
• Carl saw that the escalating controversy had earned him more than 500,000 Prestige Points.
• Godzilla woke and prepared to attack Kong, but Carl intervened and used the Mind Stone to communicate with it.
• Carl offered Godzilla Cosmic Secret Energy and suggested an alliance with Kong against other Titans, but Godzilla absorbed the energy and left.
• Kong asked why Carl had not let him fight Godzilla, and Carl explained Godzilla’s long isolation; Kong sympathized with it.

Still grieving George Stacy, Gwen hunted criminals in Hell's Kitchen and found that her growing thirst for violence was intensified by the Khorne Rune. When Daredevil intervened, Gwen challenged his faith in the law and left him confronting how often powerful criminals had escaped justice.

• Gwen called Peter Parker for leads on George Stacy's killer, then went to Hell's Kitchen despite her injuries to seek a fight.
• Gwen rescued a young woman from two apparent muggers, killing one and webbing the other, before the woman revealed herself as an assassin and attacked Gwen with a gun.
• Gwen dodged the shots and seized the assassin, while the Khorne Rune emerged and made her pain vanish as she savored the violence.
• Daredevil arrived and tried to save the assassin, prompting Gwen to web her face and block his attempt to help.
• Gwen accused Daredevil of allowing criminals to escape justice and argued that their victims' suffering was partly his responsibility, leaving him shaken by memories of powerful criminals who had evaded conviction.

Gwen escaped Bullseye’s attacks while Daredevil was captured, and Kingpin tried to recruit him against Spider-Woman by invoking Elektra’s death. The next day, Zemo attended a closed United Nations hearing where Monarch urged Sokovia and Warp Group to release Godzilla and Kong.

• Gwen dodged Bullseye’s ricocheting daggers and left the wounded Daredevil behind in the alley.
• Bullseye unmasked Daredevil, discovered he was attorney Matt Murdock, and sent Kingpin a photo of him.
• Kingpin proposed that Daredevil join forces with him against Spider-Woman and revealed that Elektra could not be resurrected; Daredevil broke down in grief.
• Bullseye left Daredevil disabled with a flashbang, and Daredevil later staggered away, vowing revenge.
• At a closed United Nations hearing in Manhattan, Ishiro Serizawa urged Zemo and Warp Group to release Godzilla and Kong for humanity’s safety.

Zemo defied the Security Council by offering Kong’s rescue services for a fee and warning countries that Sokovia would withhold help from those that sanctioned it. The sanctions vote failed after General Ross vetoed it and backed Sokovia, leaving Ishiro Serizawa stunned.

• Zemo rejected demands to hand over Godzilla and offered Kong’s rescue services for ten percent of a rescued region’s GDP.
• Zemo threatened to deny rescue services to countries that voted to sanction Sokovia, making delegates reconsider their position.
• Stacker Pentecost decided to accelerate the Jaeger Program by adopting Reed Richards’s Titan-remains proposal, a choice that later caused the Machine Crisis.
• Sitwell’s sanctions vote received only 86 votes in favor and 99 against, falling short of the required support.
• General Ross voted against sanctions, defended Sokovia’s position, and said Godzilla had left Sokovia voluntarily.
• Ishiro Serizawa realized the Department of Defense had sided with Carl Mala and was left feeling outmaneuvered.

At a Security Council hearing, General Ross backed Carl and Sokovia, leaving Ishiro Serizawa humiliated and Nick Fury furious that S.H.I.E.L.D. had lost influence. Tony Stark discussed building Jaegers with James Rhodes, learned the Ten Rings had resurfaced, and joined an urgent PPDC video conference as Stacker Pentecost began explaining the hearing.

• Ishiro Serizawa realized Maria Hill had known Godzilla left Sokovia, while the hearing ended with Monarch's reputation damaged and Stacker Pentecost relieved he had not taken a side.
• Nick Fury heard that Eddie Brock was posting anti-Sokovia statements online as “Strongest Avenger” and ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to locate him.
• Pepper Potts welcomed James Rhodes to 10880 Malibu Harbor and told him she was moving in with Tony Stark.
• Tony Stark showed Rhodes his plans to help the PPDC build multifunctional Jaegers, then explained what he knew about the Ten Rings' network of independent cells.
• Rhodes told Stark that the Ten Rings had massacred people and that their leader, the Mandarin, had burned Brigadier General Jellitt in front of the president; Stark watched footage of the attack.
• Stacker Pentecost requested a video conference with Stark and other PPDC consultants, then began recounting the Security Council hearing.

Stacker Pentecost chose Reed Richards’s Jaeger design over Tony Stark’s proposal as the Pan Pacific Defense Corps tried to counter the Warp Group’s growing influence. Meanwhile, Selene tracked down Andreas Tanis, learned the history of William and Alexander Corvinus, and discovered where to find the keys to William’s prison and Alexander’s ship.

• Dr. Jasper Schoenfeld warned that the Warp Group’s Didi Stand-In Plan threatened the Pan Pacific Defense Corps, and Stacker Pentecost called for a Jaeger to be built before the next Kaiju appeared.
• Stacker Pentecost approved Reed Richards’s plan to use Titan bones for the Jaeger’s frame and a dual-pilot system, while asking Tony Stark to continue developing its systems.
• Selene reached Andreas Tanis’s monastery, killed the Werewolves guarding it, and confronted him about supplying weapons to Lucian’s pack.
• Andreas Tanis told Selene that Marcus and William were sons of Alexander Corvinus, and that Victor had helped imprison William in a secret prison.
• Selene used her hypnotic power to make Andreas Tanis reveal that one key was hidden in Victor’s chest and that Alexander Corvinus’s ship, the Lorenz Mark, docked at Pier 17 once a month.

Selene captured Alexander Corvinus and took the two keys, intending to bring him to Carl’s secret prison. Meanwhile, Kaecilius sought comfort in dreams of his dead family at Kamar-Taj.

• Selene used a Chaos spell to compel Andreas Tanis and two female Werewolves into a frenzy, and their bodies fused into a monstrous Spawn.
• Alexander Corvinus’s security team brought Victor’s body to the Lorenz Mark, where Alexander removed the key hidden in its chest.
• Selene killed the guards and confronted Alexander, who recognized her and asked what had happened to Marcus.
• Selene told Alexander that Marcus was alive, demanded the keys, and took both keys from him.
• Selene departed with Alexander for the prison holding William, while Kaecilius meditated at Kamar-Taj to reunite with his dead wife and child in dreams.

Kaecilius's grief and resentment drove him toward Tzeentch's forbidden promise, while Tzeentch secretly cultivated him as an agent near the Ancient One. The chapter ended with Matt Murdock regaining his Radar Sense in Hell's Kitchen.

• Kaecilius discovered fragments about Tzeentch's Gift and tried invoking it, but visions of his wife and son turned into a nightmare that deepened his resentment toward the Ancient One.
• Kaecilius brutally defeated his apprentice sorcerers during training, and Mordo urged him to control his anger and trust the Ancient One.
• Kaecilius accused the Ancient One of betraying him and condemned her alliance with Carl and her decision to take Wanda as an apprentice.
• Kaecilius decided to complete Tzeentch's ritual using books from the Ancient One's private collection, while Tzeentch celebrated having planted a seed of change in him.
• Matt Murdock meditated in Hell's Kitchen and regained his Radar Sense, which expanded into a real-time map of the surrounding area.

Matt Murdock agreed to confront Spider-Woman after Kingpin told him she had returned to Hell’s Kitchen and threatened to let more people die. As Gwen hunted the gangs, a black-haired woman in a white suit arrived from another dimension to seek that universe’s Spider-Totem holder, and Gwen faced a mysterious muscular attacker.

• Kingpin called Matt Murdock, told him Spider-Woman had killed gang members in Hell’s Kitchen, and pressured him to stop her; Matt called three allies and said they were going after her.
• Gwen ambushed gang members searching for her, killed several, and forced one to summon the rest of his gang.
• A black-haired woman in a white suit emerged from a dimensional rift above New York and set out to sense the universe’s Spider-Totem holder.
• Irish Mob boss Grot arrived with armed men, but Gwen attacked their convoy, wrecked a car, and hunted the surviving gang members.
• Gwen sealed the last gang member’s mouth and nose with webbing, but a muscular figure suddenly charged out of the darkness.

Gwen fought Luke Cage, Danny Rand, and Jessica Jones after the Defenders cornered her in an alley, while Daredevil accused her of killing Elektra and demanded her surrender. Badly injured and trapped, she refused to give in and attacked Danny Rand to try to break through.

• Luke Cage confronted Gwen after she killed a gang member, but she dodged his attacks and used a joint lock to throw him down.
• Danny Rand joined the fight and struck Gwen with his chi-powered fist, while Luke Cage grabbed her by the throat.
• Gwen escaped Luke Cage’s hold, but Jessica Jones knocked her back to the ground as she tried to flee.
• Daredevil arrived and demanded that Gwen surrender, warning that the Defenders, police, and gangs were hunting her.
• Gwen condemned Daredevil and the Defenders for allowing Hell’s Kitchen to worsen, then refused to surrender despite her injuries.
• Danny Rand attacked Gwen as the Defenders closed off the alley, and she chose to punch him to break through.