Chapter Summaries

After the Cosmic Cube base collapsed, Nick Fury activated the Avengers Protocol and sent Chu Hang to recruit Tony Stark. Chu Hang forced Tony to accept by briefly shutting down Stark Tower and disrupting his reactor, and Tony agreed to leave with him.

• Maria Hill reported that the base had collapsed and that Loki's signal was in Stuttgart, while Phil Coulson worried about Hawkeye being under Loki's control.
• Nick Fury activated the Avengers Protocol, ordered Maria Hill to track Loki, and sent Chu Hang to bring Tony Stark in.
• Chu Hang appeared at Stark Tower, gave Tony Stark the files on Loki and the Cosmic Cube, and demanded that he join the response.
• Tony Stark refused to go in person, offering only technical support, so Chu Hang shut down the tower's power and briefly disrupted Tony's reactor.
• Tony Stark told JARVIS to prepare Mark 6 and agreed to leave with Chu Hang.

Tony Stark, Chu Hang, and Steve Rogers arrived at S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Helicarrier as Natasha Romanoff recruited Bruce Banner to help track the Cosmic Cube. After Fury briefed the team, Chu Hang confronted him about Phase Two, while Tony and Banner began examining the Cube’s radiation.

• Tony Stark questioned JARVIS about Chu Hang’s inexplicable power as the Quinjet carried them to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Helicarrier.
• Natasha Romanoff found Bruce Banner in Kolkata and persuaded him to join S.H.I.E.L.D.’s search for the Cosmic Cube, though he warned them to be ready if he lost control.
• Fury briefed the Avengers on Loki’s theft of the Cosmic Cube and set their mission to find Loki and recover it.
• Chu Hang accused Fury of pursuing Phase Two weapons research and warned him that his deterrent could become a provocation.
• Bruce Banner arrived on the Helicarrier, met Steve Rogers and Tony Stark, then joined Tony in examining the Cosmic Cube’s radiation.

Loki attacked a banquet in Stuttgart, but Steve Rogers, Chu Hang, and Tony Stark fought back and captured him. After copying Loki’s First Mage of the Nine Realms talent, Chu Hang saw through Loki’s illusions and helped end the battle.

• Loki attacked the crowd with his scepter and demanded that they kneel, while Steve blocked his attack on an elderly man.
• Loki controlled civilians and trapped Steve and Chu Hang in a sensory illusion, leaving Chu Hang unable to locate Loki’s real body.
• Tony arrived in his armor and broke the illusion with an attack, while Steve freed the controlled civilians from Loki’s influence.
• Chu Hang let Loki strike his Adaptive Armor, copied the First Mage of the Nine Realms talent, and identified the real Loki among his illusions.
• Steve and Tony disarmed Loki, and Chu Hang knocked him unconscious before Steve picked up the Mind Law Scepter.

Chu Hang demonstrated his command of spatial energy to Loki while S.H.I.E.L.D. struggled to interrogate the prisoner. Tony and Banner uncovered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secret Cosmic Cube weapons program, and Steve saw the plans for himself.

• Chu Hang studied the Cosmic Cube energy, Binary, and his God Physique during the flight to the Helicarrier.
• Loki tried to recruit Chu Hang, but Chu Hang exposed his manipulation and showed him a spatial singularity, leaving Loki shaken.
• Chu Hang returned to his room and examined the runic structure of the Cosmic Cube energy.
• Natasha warned Fury that Loki was stalling and studying the people around him during the interrogation.
• Tony and Banner discovered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secret Phase Two weapons plans, and Tony showed them to Steve, who reacted coldly to the designs.

Chu Hang and the others confronted Fury over S.H.I.E.L.D.'s plan to build weapons with the Cosmic Cube, while Loki's influence triggered Banner's transformation into Hulk. Hulk knocked Thor off the Helicarrier, but Chu Hang overpowered him and Natasha approached to calm him.

• Steve confronted Fury with a Hydra-marked energy rifle and accused him of pursuing Phase Two weapons, while Tony and Banner challenged Fury's motives.
• Loki's influence intensified the tension on the bridge, and Banner transformed into Hulk and attacked Natasha.
• Thor arrived on the deck, but Hulk struck him through the Helicarrier's railing and sent him falling into the clouds.
• Chu Hang fought Hulk with raw strength, stopped his charge, and slammed him onto the deck with a shoulder throw.
• Natasha approached the stunned Hulk and gently told him that they had not meant to hurt him.

Chu Hang repaired Engine Three and saved the Helicarrier from crashing, but Loki escaped after killing Phil Coulson. The Avengers learned Loki was heading to Stark Tower to open a portal for an alien invasion.

• After Natasha calmed Hulk, Engine Three exploded and the Helicarrier began to fall.
• Chu Hang sent Banner to Natasha, directed Steve to manage the deck, and told Tony to fix the turbine blades while he repaired the engine core.
• Chu Hang rebuilt the damaged energy diversion valve and restored the engine as Tony forced the turbine blades back into motion.
• Chu Hang sensed the Mind Scepter near Loki's cell, but found Loki gone and Phil Coulson mortally wounded.
• Coulson told Chu Hang that Loki planned to open a portal atop Stark Tower, then died despite Chu Hang's attempt to save him.
• Thor, Tony, and Steve joined Chu Hang beside Coulson's body as Chu Hang revealed Loki's plan and the group vowed revenge.

After Coulson’s death, the Avengers set out to stop Loki from opening a portal above Stark Tower. Loki activated the Cosmic Cube and unleashed the Chitauri, while Tony and Thor fought each other below the invasion.

• Fury used Coulson’s bloodied Captain America cards to spur the Avengers into action, and Steve, Tony, and Thor vowed to stop Loki.
• Chu Hang told Fury about the Tahiti Protocol, prompting Fury to order Coulson’s revival, then discovered the Cosmic Cube had made teleportation too dangerous and flew toward New York using Binary.
• Loki and Selvig activated the Cosmic Cube at Stark Tower, opening a wormhole above Manhattan.
• Tony confronted Loki, whose scepter failed to control him, and Tony was thrown from the tower before his armor reassembled around him.
• Thor crashed into Tony to protect Loki, leaving the two Avengers grappling as the first Chitauri ships and soldiers poured through the wormhole and attacked Manhattan.

Chu Hang stopped Tony and Thor from fighting, trapped Loki in a spatial cage, and organized the Avengers to defend New York. After splitting a Leviathan in half, he turned his attention to the still-open wormhole.

• Chu Hang arrived at Stark Tower, ended Tony and Thor’s fight, and sealed Loki inside a shrinking spatial cage.
• Chu Hang assigned the Avengers their roles, sending Steve, Natasha, and Thor to defend the ground while Tony provided air support and Barton sought high ground.
• Steve and Natasha helped protect civilians as Thor and Tony fought Chitauri forces across the city.
• Chu Hang evaded the Leviathan’s energy beams and used Spatial Cutting to split the giant warship in half.
• Chu Hang noted the energy cost of his attack and looked toward the wormhole, where enemies continued to pour through.

As New York’s defenders began to tire, Chu Hang searched Stark Tower for the Cosmic Cube and its activation device but found neither. He decided to cross the wormhole and attack the Chitauri mothership, leaving the Avengers to hold the city as he prepared to enter.

• Chu Hang searched Stark Tower for the activation device and Doctor Selvig, then used Spatial Perception to sense that the Cosmic Cube was somewhere inside the building.
• Hawkeye, Steve, Natasha, Thor, and Tony fought the Chitauri across New York as the invading forces continued pouring through the wormhole.
• Chu Hang ordered Thor to return to Stark Tower, free Loki from the Cosmic Cube, and make him reveal where he had hidden the Cube.
• Chu Hang remembered that destroying the Chitauri mothership could disable their entire army and told the Avengers he would cross the wormhole to attack it.
• Chu Hang shut off the comms, gathered golden energy around himself, and fixed his gaze on the wormhole.

Chu Hang destroyed the Chitauri mothership, severing the command network and ending the battle in New York, but the wormhole began closing before he could return. As Tony flew into the shrinking portal to reach him, Chu Hang raced for the exit and fell just short.

• Chu Hang emerged from the wormhole and redirected the Chitauri fleet’s barrage back at its ships with [Spatial: Deflection].
• Chu Hang pierced the mothership with [Binary: Sky-Piercing], destroying it and severing the Chitauri command network.
• The Chitauri forces across New York lost power and collapsed, and Tony waited beneath the wormhole for Chu Hang.
• Doctor Erik Selvig regained control, realized what he had done, and began shutting down the device as Tony protested that Chu Hang was still inside.
• Tony ordered JARVIS to use the Mark 6 Armor’s remaining energy to fly into the closing wormhole while Chu Hang raced toward the exit but fell just short.

After destroying the Chitauri mothership, Chu Hang drifted in space, unable to find Earth, and searched for a natural spatial fold that might carry him home. On Earth, the Avengers and Asgard mourned his apparent loss, while Heimdall could not locate him and said he would need Chu Hang to call his name.

• Chu Hang realized he was stranded far from Earth and began searching for a spatial fold to use as a shortcut.
• Tony Stark argued with Steve Rogers over Chu Hang’s sacrifice and the Avengers’ decision to close the wormhole, then flew away as the World Security Council took control of the battlefield.
• Thor returned to Asgard with Loki and the Cosmic Cube, told Odin how Chu Hang had destroyed the mothership, and asked for help finding him.
• Odin sent Thor to Heimdall, who searched the Nine Realms but could not locate Chu Hang because his soul did not belong to them.
• Heimdall told Thor that he could find and bring Chu Hang to Asgard only if Chu Hang called his name.

After finding a stable spatial passage, Chu Hang forced his way through and landed on Xandar, where he discovered he was in the Marvel universe. He realized that the Power Stone might help him locate Earth and return home.

• Chu Hang sensed and confirmed a stable spatial passage, then activated his abilities and plunged into it.
• He survived the passage’s violent distortions and emerged through Xandar’s atmosphere, landing in a city square.
• Xandar’s soldiers surrounded Chu Hang, but he tore apart their energy net and deflected their paralysis rays.
• Chu Hang took an officer’s translator, switched it to the common language, and learned that he was on Xandar, capital of the Nova Empire.
• Chu Hang remembered Xandar from Guardians of the Galaxy and concluded that the Power Stone could help him find Earth and return home.

Chu Hang demonstrated his overwhelming power to the Nova Corps and set out to confront Peter Quill and the other escaped prisoners. After warning them not to cause him trouble, he offered his help for a price and vanished.

• Chu Hang melted the weapons of twelve Nova Corps soldiers to prove he meant no harm, and Nova Prime Irani Rael ordered the Corps to meet his demands.
• The Nova Corps reported that Peter Quill, Gamora, Rocket, Groot, and Drax had escaped from Kyln Prison, and Chu Hang left to find them.
• Chu Hang appeared aboard the prisoners’ transport ship and used Spatial Lock to freeze everyone in the cockpit.
• Chu Hang told Quill that he was an Earthman who wanted to go home, warned the group not to cause him trouble, and offered help for a price before vanishing.

The Guardians of the Galaxy brought the Orb to Knowhere to sell it to the Collector, but Karina’s attempt to seize the Power Stone destroyed the collection hall and drew Ronan to the station. After Ronan defeated Drax and pursued the others, Chu Hang appeared between the Dark Aster and the falling Orb, forcing Ronan to face the man who had once cast him into a spatial rift.

• Quill, Gamora, Rocket, Drax, and Groot arrived at Knowhere and presented the Orb to the Collector, who revealed it contained the Power Stone.
• Karina grabbed the Power Stone, causing an explosion that destroyed the collection hall, while Quill recovered the Orb and the group fled.
• Drax challenged Ronan, who arrived aboard the Dark Aster with Nebula, broke Drax’s arm, and kicked him into a wall.
• Ronan and Nebula pursued Quill and Gamora through Knowhere’s mining tunnels, and Nebula destroyed Gamora’s life-support system as she drifted unconscious in space.
• Chu Hang emerged between the Dark Aster and the falling Orb, stopped it with his power, and left Ronan shaken by their past encounter.

Chu Hang defeated Ronan’s fleet, saved Gamora, and took the Orb, gaining insight into the Law of Force. He then asked Peter Quill to travel with him to Earth to meet one of Quill’s elders.

• Ronan confronted Chu Hang and demanded the Orb, but Chu Hang’s Binary power terrified him and his crew.
• Chu Hang cut apart a Kree frigate with Spatial Cutting, forcing Ronan to retreat with the surviving fleet.
• Chu Hang rescued Gamora from the brink of death and returned with her and the Orb to the Knowhere landing pad.
• Chu Hang copied the Orb’s power and gained mastery over the Law of Force and the universe’s fundamental forces.
• Chu Hang asked Quill to come with him to Earth to visit an elder, and Quill agreed after the group dealt with the stone.

Chu Hang proved that the Nova Corps could not protect the Power Stone by defeating Ronan’s renewed assault on Xandar, then agreed to leave the Stone there for three years in exchange for access to its archives. After the Milano departed, a living planet appeared and addressed Peter Quill as its child.

• Chu Hang teleported the Milano and its crew to the Nova Corps command center and revealed the Power Stone to Irani Rael.
• Thanos sensed the Stone, empowered Ronan, and ordered him to retrieve it and destroy Xandar.
• Ronan led a renewed attack on Xandar, but Chu Hang erased the flagship’s cannon blast and disintegrated Ronan.
• Irani Rael admitted the Nova Corps could not safeguard the Stone, and Chu Hang agreed to leave it on Xandar for three years in exchange for its technological archives and star charts.
• After the repaired Milano departed Xandar, a living planet contacted Peter Quill and called him its child.

Chu Hang copied Ego’s Celestial lifeform while Ego welcomed Peter Quill to his planet and taught him to use his powers. The transformation began changing Chu Hang into a Skyfather-level being, and Ego realized that Chu Hang carried an aura like his own.

• Ego contacted Peter Quill, claimed to be his father, and invited the Milano crew to his planet.
• Chu Hang persuaded Quill to meet Ego, while warning Gamora and Rocket that Ego was dangerous and seeking to devour life.
• Ego told Quill how he had met Quill’s mother and hired Yondu to bring Quill to him, and then taught Quill to use his Celestial Power.
• During the crew’s two-day stay, Chu Hang used the system to copy Ego’s true form, triggering an irreversible transformation toward Skyfather-level existence.
• Ego sensed his own kind of aura in Chu Hang, who formed a miniature living planet from golden energy and suggested that he might be like Ego.

Chu Hang exposed Ego’s plan to consume life-bearing worlds, then destroyed Ego’s core and absorbed its fragments. He left the Milano stronger and invited Quill to come with him as he prepared to return home.

• Chu Hang told Quill, Gamora, and Rocket that Ego planned to consume the universe’s life and that Quill was only a battery, but Quill rejected his warning.
• Chu Hang led Gamora, Rocket, Drax, and Groot to Ego’s underground core, where they found countless bones and learned that Ego had killed his failed offspring.
• Ego attacked the group, but Chu Hang shielded them, sent them back to the Milano, and fought Ego alone.
• Chu Hang endured Ego’s energy attack, countered his assaults, and destroyed his core with the Law Spear.
• Chu Hang absorbed Ego’s core fragments, advanced his Skyfather-level conversion by 33%, and returned to the Milano.
• Quill thanked Chu Hang, and Chu Hang invited Star-Lord to come with him as he prepared to go home.

After accidentally combining the Laws of Force and Space, Chu Hang and Quill were pulled through a rift to Asgard, where Odin taught Chu Hang about the paths to Skyfather power. Chu Hang accepted Odin’s request to protect Asgard three times after his death, gained knowledge that stabilized his Celestial energy, and left with Quill as Odin warned him about Hela.

• Chu Hang’s attempt to combine the Laws of Force and Space tore open a rift that sucked him and Quill out of the Milano.
• Chu Hang and the unconscious Quill landed on Asgard’s Bifrost, where Heimdall and Odin met them.
• Odin explained four paths to Skyfather power and warned Chu Hang that pursuing multiple laws would be exceptionally difficult.
• Odin asked Chu Hang to intervene for Asgard three times after his death if his sons could not resolve a crisis, and Chu Hang agreed.
• Odin gave Chu Hang Asgardian knowledge that stabilized his Celestial energy and advanced his transformation halfway to Odin’s level.
• Odin warned Chu Hang about Hela, then sent him and Quill away through the Bifrost.

After returning to Earth with Peter Quill, Chu Hang visited the Ancient One to learn how to control the laws and energies within him. He left Kamar-Taj with new magic, a copied Time Law, and a warning not to use its power carelessly.

• Chu Hang landed outside New York with Peter Quill, contacted Fury, and handed Quill over to Maria Hill and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
• Chu Hang refused to report his time away and teleported to Kathmandu to seek the Ancient One’s help mastering his powers.
• The Ancient One agreed to teach Chu Hang Kamar-Taj’s magic in exchange for his promise to look after Kamar-Taj in the future.
• Chu Hang trained at Kamar-Taj for a month, developing powerful spells and raising his Skyfather-level transformation progress to 75%.
• Chu Hang copied the Time Stone’s Law of Time and gained its energy source, then the Ancient One warned him not to use the time energy carelessly.