Recaps

After Lu Xi joked that Satan should get him tattooed on his back, a giant hand pulled him through his phone and left him falling toward Earth from space. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Maria Hill learned the falling object could hit with the force of a 140-ton TNT bomb and ordered her team to predict its impact point.

• Lu Xi posted a joke about Jesus and laughed at replies saying Satan would have to get him tattooed on his back.
• A black hand reached out of Lu Xi's phone, grabbed him, and dragged him into darkness as a voice angrily threatened to make him Lord of Hell.
• Lu Xi woke up in outer space near Earth and watched two astronauts aboard a space station see him before he began falling toward the planet.
• Lu Xi burned through the atmosphere but felt no pain as his clothes turned to ash.
• A S.H.I.E.L.D. researcher detected Lu Xi's descent and warned Maria Hill that the impact could unleash energy equivalent to 140 tons of TNT.
• Maria Hill ordered the team to predict the impact point and keep the object from landing in a city center.

Lu Xi manifested six white wings while falling toward New York, then discovered he could fly at supersonic speed. He crash-landed in a quiet courtyard, where the homeowner saw him naked and fainted.

• Maria ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to prepare an interception when the falling object threatened Times Square, then stood down as its speed and trajectory changed.
• Lu Xi tried to slow his fall and suddenly stopped in midair when three pairs of wings appeared on his back.
• Lu Xi learned to control his wings, flew through the sky, and accelerated beyond the speed of sound.
• Lu Xi dived toward a quiet courtyard but crashed into the lawn, creating a crater.
• The homeowner came outside, saw Lu Xi naked with six wings, screamed, and fainted.

Lu Xi discovered that he had arrived in 2008 New York with six wings and met Daisy Lewis, who mistook him for Lucifer. Just as he began to explain himself, an armed squad burst into the house and aimed their guns at him and Daisy.

• Lu Xi covered himself with a bedsheet, hid the crater from his fall, and carried the unconscious woman into the house.
• Lu Xi realized that his senses had sharpened and that he was no longer in his home world.
• The woman awoke, and Lu Xi showed her his wings before asking where and when he was.
• The woman introduced herself as Daisy Lewis and identified Lu Xi as Lucifer Morningstar, the former Bringer of Light and King of Hell.
• A fully armed squad stormed into the house and ordered Lu Xi and Daisy to drop their weapons.

Lu Xi, a six-winged being mistaken for Lucifer, agreed to go with S.H.I.E.L.D. while major forces reacted to his appearance. After sensing Lucifer’s aura, Mephisto abandoned his plan involving Johnny Blaze and summoned Blackheart and his demons, then bound them with soul-corroding chains.

• Coulson introduced himself to Lu Xi, and Lu Xi agreed to go with S.H.I.E.L.D. after asking for pants.
• Coulson also took Daisy Lewis in for questioning, while she excitedly speculated about Lucifer and the King of Hell.
• Tony Stark saw a satellite photo of the six-winged Angel, and major forces began investigating the sighting.
• Mephisto sensed an aura resembling Lucifer near Johnny Blaze’s home and changed his plan to summon Blackheart and his subordinates.
• Blackheart declared that he would overthrow Mephisto, but Mephisto bound him, Wind Demon, Earth Demon, and Water Demon with chains that corroded their souls.

Johnny Blaze transformed into Ghost Rider as Mephisto sent him and Blackheart’s demons toward the S.H.I.E.L.D. base where Lu Xi was being questioned. The demons devastated the agents and withstood the base’s attacks, leaving Coulson trying to evacuate Lu Xi.

• Mephisto set Johnny Blaze’s body ablaze, turning him into Ghost Rider.
• Lu Xi told Coulson he came from another world and allowed Coulson to think of him as Lucifer.
• Ghost Rider and Blackheart’s group approached the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, where agents tried to stop them.
• Blackheart and the other demons slaughtered most of the agents while Ghost Rider struggled to resist his compulsion.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft and base weapons attacked the demons, but they emerged unharmed.
• The base ordered non-combat personnel to evacuate, and Coulson urged Lu Xi to leave with him.

Lu Xi discovered that he could effortlessly destroy the demons sent after him, then confronted Mephisto, who mistook him for Lucifer and began opening a portal to Earth. The chapter ended as a far more powerful version of Mephisto approached through the magic array.

• Lu Xi killed Wind Demon with a beam of energy, shocking Coulson and the other demons.
• Blackheart, Earth Demon, and Water Demon tried to flee, but black mist forced them to attack, and Lu Xi blasted them into ash.
• Lu Xi drove the black mist out of Ghost Rider, who surrendered and said he had been forced to come.
• Lu Xi spotted Mephisto hiding nearby, and Mephisto mistook him for Lucifer and questioned him about Ancient One and Earth's defenses.
• Mephisto opened a magic array and celebrated the chance to invade Earth, while Lu Xi sensed that the Mephisto beyond it was much more powerful.

Lu Xi confronted Mephisto’s projection as the demon king tried to bring his true body to Earth. After Lu Xi easily hurled Mephisto away, Mephisto stalled him with a false offer of alliance and opened a portal, where his true body attacked Lu Xi.

• Coulson asked Lu Xi to stop Mephisto from bringing his true body to Earth, and Lu Xi agreed to try.
• Lu Xi spread his wings and dodged Mephisto’s attack before kicking the demon so hard that he rolled hundreds of meters away.
• Mephisto mistook Lu Xi for someone whose true body had descended and proposed that they join forces to Devour Earth.
• Lu Xi rejected Mephisto’s offer by mocking his appearance, while Mephisto secretly used the conversation to buy time.
• Mephisto opened a fissure to his Hell Territory, and his mountain-sized true body attacked Lu Xi with a blood-red cone of energy.

Lu Xi destroyed Mephisto’s projection on Earth with help from Ancient One, who invited him to visit at 177A Bleecker Street. In Hell, Mephisto attacked Lucifer’s territory, only to find Lucifer there despite believing he was still on Earth.

• Lu Xi shattered the magic array, collapsed the rift to Hell, and destroyed Mephisto’s projection with a punch.
• Ancient One trapped and annihilated Mephisto’s escaping soul fragment in the Mirror Dimension, then invited Lu Xi to visit him at 177A Bleecker Street.
• After the Mirror Dimension vanished, Secret Service agents handcuffed Johnny Blaze amid the destruction.
• Mephisto’s true body raged in Hell over losing his soul origin and projection power, then flew into Lucifer’s territory and attacked its demons.
• Black-Winged Lucifer stopped Mephisto and denied knowing what he meant when Mephisto asked how he had been on Earth moments earlier.

Mephisto left Hell after Lucifer denied working with the Ancient One, while Lu Xi settled into a New York villa under an agreement with S.H.I.E.L.D. The agency classified his destructive power as a Level Ten secret and tried to prevent other forces from approaching him as attention around him spread.

• Mephisto, unable to challenge Lucifer on his home turf, flew toward the territories of other demon kings rather than accept the insult.
• Coulson showed Lu Xi his villa and gave him a credit card after S.H.I.E.L.D. agreed to handle his needs in return for his cooperation and respect for Earth's laws.
• Lu Xi caught two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents spying on his villa, shattered their binocular lenses, and warned them not to do it again.
• Coulson presented Nick Fury and Maria Hill with an analysis estimating that Lu Xi's kick had the force of a small atomic bomb.
• Nick ordered agents to withdraw, sealed Lu Xi's file at Level Ten, and told S.H.I.E.L.D. to keep other forces from contacting him as his information reached major powers.

Lu Xi tested his growing powers, returned to his villa, and met with Johnny Blaze and Daisy Lewis. Daisy asked him about Heaven and Hell, leaving him to tease her about visiting Hell.

• Maria Hill saw that the object approaching New York had reached Mach 892 and ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to archive the data.
• Lu Xi flew back to his villa, where a child mistook him for a birdman, and he reflected on his Divine Power and telekinesis.
• Johnny Blaze apologized to Lu Xi and asked whether Mephisto could control him again; Lu Xi told him to contact S.H.I.E.L.D. if trouble arose.
• Daisy Lewis visited Lu Xi and asked where Heaven was, then asked where Hell was.
• Lu Xi teased Daisy by asking whether she really wanted to visit Hell, and she denied it.

Lu Xi showed Daisy a bizarre event from a parallel universe while taking her to buy a car, then drove her at high speed through New York. The chapter ended with Lu Xi recognizing the driver of a Lamborghini as the early Dr. Stephen Strange.

• Hydra leaders debated the intelligence about Lucifer and agreed that Baron Strucker's faction would make first contact with him.
• At a Bugatti showroom, Lu Xi told Daisy that a parallel-universe version of her had married a duck and laid an egg, then showed her the memory.
• Lu Xi completed the car purchase and drove Daisy onto the beltway at 220 kilometers per hour, frightening her with his speed.
• A Lamborghini overtook Lu Xi's Bugatti, and Lu Xi recognized its driver as Dr. Stephen Strange.

Lu Xi raced Strange, used Divine Power to stabilize his car, and was pulled over before S.H.I.E.L.D. agents helped him avoid trouble. After discovering he could heal Daisy and learning Tony Stark had disappeared, Lu Xi went to seek the Ancient One’s advice about interfering with events in the Marvel Universe.

• Strange provoked Lu Xi into a highway race, but Lu Xi used Divine Power to stabilize the Bugatti and left Strange behind.
• The NYPD pulled Lu Xi over for speeding, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents supplied him with a driver's license and claimed he was one of their own.
• Lu Xi carried Daisy into the villa, then used a newly discovered Healing Spell to cure her soreness the next morning.
• Lu Xi saw a report that Tony Stark had disappeared in the Middle East and decided to ask the Ancient One how to handle the original plot without disrupting the future.
• Lu Xi arrived at 177A Bleecker Street, where the Ancient One opened the door before he could knock.

Lu Xi visited the New York Sanctum, where Ancient One explained that the timeline corrected minor changes but could be altered by powerful beings. Ancient One lent Lu Xi two basic magic books, and Lu Xi left with a clearer sense of his strength and the future’s uncertainty.

• Lu Xi asked why Ancient One treated him politely despite suspecting he might be Lucifer, and Ancient One said Lu Xi differed from other dimensional demon gods.
• Ancient One revealed that his Time Stone visions had blurred since Lu Xi arrived and that attempts to drive Lu Xi away led to disastrous futures.
• Ancient One explained that the timeline corrected minor changes but powerful beings could alter key events, and identified Lu Xi as a Skyfather-level powerhouse.
• Lu Xi asked to learn Kamar-Taj magic, and Ancient One warned that their power systems might not be compatible.
• Ancient One gave Lu Xi two basic magic books and invited him to return if he mastered their introductory techniques.

Lu Xi failed to learn Astral Projection from Ancient One’s magic book, then met Wanda Maximoff, who asked him to strengthen her powers so she could take revenge on Tony Stark. He revealed that Baron Strucker had misled her and suggested Hydra, not Tony, was the real enemy.

• Lu Xi tried and failed to learn Astral Projection, then let Daisy read the magic book when she asked whether she could learn magic.
• Lu Xi sensed Wanda Maximoff approaching his villa and opened the door with his willpower before she could ring the bell.
• Wanda demonstrated her red power and asked Lu Xi to enhance it so she could get revenge, offering to pay any price.
• Lu Xi said Wanda had taken the wrong path and identified Tony Stark as her supposed target and Baron Strucker as the one who had urged her to seek revenge.
• Lu Xi told Wanda that Stark Industries had only made the missile and suggested that Hydra was the organization responsible for the terrorist crimes.

Lu Xi convinced Wanda to bet that evidence of Hydra’s role in her parents’ deaths would emerge within three months, and he retrieved her brother Pietro from Baron Strucker’s base. After bringing the siblings to his villa, Lu Xi promised Daisy he might help her awaken an ability and carried her toward the bedroom.

• Lu Xi proposed that Wanda stay with him for three months and bet that evidence would confirm what he had told her, offering to help her seek revenge if he lost.
• Wanda accepted the bet after Lu Xi promised to rescue her brother Pietro from Strucker.
• Lu Xi flew to the Sokovian base, freed Pietro, and warned Strucker to keep Hydra and its agents away from him.
• Lu Xi returned to the villa with Pietro, and Wanda reunited with her brother before the siblings moved into the annex.
• Daisy lamented that she could not learn magic, so Lu Xi said he might be able to help her awaken an ability.
• Daisy kissed Lu Xi, and he carried her toward the bedroom.

Nick Fury investigated Lucifer’s sudden trip to Sokovia and the two people he brought back, then watched Abomination rampage through New York. As Hulk began losing their fight, General Ross called Fury for help and promised to support S.H.I.E.L.D.’s budget increase.

• Coulson told Fury that Lucifer had traveled from New York to Sokovia and back in one minute with Wanda and Pietro, who had no records in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s database.
• Fury learned that Blonsky had become Abomination after injecting himself with Hulk’s blood, and decided to let Dr. Banner handle the attack first.
• Lu Xi, Daisy, Wanda, and Pietro watched Hulk confront Abomination on television, where the two monsters fought through the city.
• Abomination gained the upper hand and pinned Hulk, so General Ross ordered the helicopter crew to fire its cannon at Abomination.
• Abomination grabbed the helicopter, and Ross called Fury for help, promising to support S.H.I.E.L.D.’s budget increase in exchange for a response.

Lu Xi answered S.H.I.E.L.D.’s urgent call and flew to the battle against Hulk and Abomination, where he easily overwhelmed both of them. He left Abomination alive for S.H.I.E.L.D. and watched Hulk flee the city.

• Lu Xi accepted S.H.I.E.L.D.’s request for help and flew from his villa as Daisy, Wanda, and Pietro watched the broadcast.
• Lu Xi kicked Abomination toward an office building, then stopped him in midair with telekinetic force before he could hit it.
• Hulk charged Lu Xi, but Lu Xi blocked both of his punches and sent him spinning hundreds of meters away with a slap.
• Lu Xi twisted Abomination’s limbs with telekinetic force until he passed out, keeping him alive as S.H.I.E.L.D. had requested.
• Hulk regained consciousness, saw Lu Xi had won, and fled the city while Lu Xi let him go.

After defeating his opponent, Lu Xi returned home and discovered that one of his feathers could awaken Daisy’s lingering Divine Power, giving her angelic wings and enhanced abilities. He began testing her new powers while reassuring Wanda and Pietro that their own opportunities to grow stronger would come.

• Lu Xi landed at his home, where Daisy, Wanda, and Pietro praised his televised battle.
• Wanda noticed the energy in Lu Xi’s feathers, prompting him to pluck one and test whether it could create a clone.
• When Daisy touched the feather, it fused with her and transformed the Divine Power inside her, causing a pair of white wings to grow from her back.
• Daisy discovered she could leap high and fly, and Lu Xi took her to the villa’s gym to test her abilities.
• Daisy lifted a heavy barbell, smashed through a wall by pushing a sandbag, and demonstrated strength and durability beyond ordinary humans.
• Lu Xi reassured Wanda and Pietro that they had greater potential and would get their chance to grow stronger.

Daisy tried being a superhero by stopping armed bank robbers, while Hydra leaders debated how to respond to Lu Xi after learning he might be able to transform humans into Angels. The chapter ended with Baron Strucker suggesting Hydra could abandon its old patron and submit to Lucifer.

• Daisy flew over the city, saw robbers holding civilians hostage outside a bank, and decided to intervene.
• Daisy shrugged off the robbers’ bullets and quickly subdued them as the police, civilians, and live television viewers watched.
• Baron Strucker told Hydra’s leaders that Lucifer had warned them not to provoke him, prompting an argument with Alexander Pierce about how Lucifer knew of Hydra.
• Pierce showed the leaders footage of Daisy’s fight, and they realized she had become powerful after moving into Lucifer’s villa.
• Pierce suggested Hydra could learn to create super soldiers, but Strucker dismissed the idea and proposed that Hydra switch its allegiance to Lucifer.

Baron Strucker and Pierce considered approaching Lucifer, while Pepper Potts sought his help to find Tony Stark. Lu Xi offered to bring Tony back in exchange for a contract claiming Pepper’s soul after her death, leaving her and Happy alarmed.

• Baron Strucker suggested turning to Lucifer, and Madame Viper said they could eliminate Gideon Malick's faction if it opposed them.
• Pepper Potts learned that JARVIS had located Daisy and went with Happy Hogan to Lu Xi's villa to ask for help finding Tony Stark.
• Daisy returned from stopping robbers and excitedly told Lu Xi about her superhero experience.
• Lu Xi sensed Pepper's soul was one he needed to collect and offered to find Tony in exchange for a contract claiming her soul after she died.
• Pepper hesitated at the condition, and Happy urged her to consider another way.

Lu Xi made Pepper Potts agree to a soul contract in exchange for rescuing Tony Stark from the Ten Rings. He saved Tony and Doctor Yinsen, then returned them to Pepper, while discovering that contracted souls strengthened his Divine Power.

• Lu Xi showed Pepper a projection of Tony being beaten, and she voluntarily signed his soul contract after he warned that Tony might not survive.
• The contract strengthened Lu Xi’s Divine Power and clarified his perception of the world's laws, so he flew to Tony’s hidden cave in the Middle East.
• Lu Xi killed the Ten Rings members in the cave with telekinesis, then noticed their souls drifting toward what seemed to be the underworld.
• Tony and Doctor Yinsen emerged, and Lu Xi told Tony that Pepper had sent him to help.
• Tony returned to the cave to set the Iron Man suit’s self-destruct program before Lu Xi flew him and Yinsen back to the villa.
• Tony and Pepper reunited, and Pepper concealed the contract while Tony thanked Lu Xi for saving him.

Tony and S.H.I.E.L.D. dealt with the growing public attention surrounding Lu Xi, whom the media and public called an Angel. Nick Fury then learned that Peggy Carter was near death after a medical mistake, leaving him worried about the consequences for his leadership.

• Tony reviewed Stark’s data and online reports about Lu Xi, including footage of him defeating Hulk and killing Abomination, while the public debated whether he was truly an Angel.
• Maria Hill told Nick Fury that powerful groups were trying to contact Lu Xi and demanded his file, so Fury decided S.H.I.E.L.D. would stop interfering and issue a limited public file under the codename Angel.
• Alexander Pierce interrupted the meeting to tell Fury that Peggy Carter was dying after a nurse gave her something she was allergic to.
• Pierce explained that doctors expected Peggy to live only two or three more days, and Fury worried that the accident could give his critics a chance to undermine his authority.

Nick Fury considered asking Lucifer to save Peggy Carter, while Lucifer decided to seek valuable souls through a deal with S.H.I.E.L.D. Maria Hill arrived to request his help, and the chapter ended with Lucifer surprised that S.H.I.E.L.D. might consider his soul contract because the person in danger had little time left.

• Garrett suggested that Nick Fury ask Lucifer to cure Peggy Carter, and Fury sent Maria Hill to speak with him.
• Lucifer concluded that souls belonging to important people in the Marvel Universe were more valuable to his power and began choosing future targets.
• Maria Hill visited Lucifer and asked him to save an important person whose life was in danger.
• Lucifer proposed that S.H.I.E.L.D. members trade ownership of their souls after death, and Maria studied the contract but said the deal exceeded her authority.
• Maria asked Lucifer to change his terms because the person needed help immediately, promising that S.H.I.E.L.D. would discuss the soul deal afterward.

Lu Xi agreed to help the dying Peggy Carter and offered to restore her youth in exchange for her soul after her natural death. Peggy learned that Lucifer could heal her, but the chapter ended before she answered his offer.

• Maria gave Lu Xi Peggy Carter's file, and Lu Xi agreed to visit her without demanding a soul in advance.
• Nick Fury ordered Maria to accept Lu Xi's offer, hoping to learn more about his need for souls and possibly control him.
• Lu Xi recalled that his Divine Power had clashed with Wanda's Chaos Magic and suspected Peggy would not have the same obstacle to becoming an Angel.
• Maria brought Lu Xi to Peggy at a heavily guarded sanatorium, where Peggy's fear triggered a medical emergency.
• Lu Xi used a Healing Spell to stabilize Peggy and offered to restore her health and youth if she gave him her soul after she died naturally.

Peggy Carter agreed to Lu Xi's soul contract after he promised to resurrect Steve Rogers and give them both at least fifty years of natural life. Lu Xi restored Peggy to youth and gave her angel wings and superhuman strength, leaving Maria astonished.

• Peggy refused Lu Xi's offer at first, but wavered when he promised she could reunite with Steve Rogers.
• Peggy agreed to the contract after Lu Xi promised to bring Steve back to life and give them both at least fifty years of natural lifespan.
• Nick Fury listened through Maria's earpiece and reluctantly let Peggy proceed, deciding to bear the blame if the deal went badly.
• Peggy carefully read the contract and pressed her fingerprint onto it, strengthening Lu Xi's power.
• Lu Xi used Divine Power and a feather to restore Peggy's youth, give her white wings, and enhance her strength.
• Peggy lifted the iron hospital bed with one hand, while Maria watched in shock and envy.