Chapter Summaries

Odin sent Thor to retrieve Loki after Loki declared himself a god on Earth, while Hela argued that Loki’s Frost Giant heritage made him unfit to rule. As the Avengers assembled to stop Loki’s plan, Ke Chen prepared to lead the 'Celestial Court' against the Chitauri in space.

• Odin blamed Thor for failing to discipline Loki and sent him to Earth to bring Loki back to Asgard.
• Hela suggested that Loki had allies and asked to revive her Death Legion, but Odin refused; she reminded him that Loki was adopted.
• Nick Fury assembled the Avengers and other S.H.I.E.L.D. allies, including Bruce Banner and the Fantastic Three, as Loki attacked the Helicarrier and prepared to open a spatial passage.
• Tony learned that Loki had chosen Stark Tower and tried to contact Ke Chen, but JARVIS reported that Ke Chen was no longer on Earth.
• Ke Chen and his crew located the Chitauri with Kryptonian technology, confirmed that the Dark Order was absent, and set out with the transformed spacecraft.

Clarice helped Loki enlarge the portal for the Chitauri invasion, but Professor X had freed her from the Mind Scepter’s control and she vanished afterward. As New York fell into chaos, a reporter prepared to promote the Mutants and appeared to be rescued from Chitauri by an unseen force.

• Loki ordered Erik to enlarge the portal, and Clarice offered to help in exchange for control of a place on Earth.
• Loki tried to control Clarice with the Mind Scepter, but Professor X secretly broke its influence over her.
• Clarice used the Tesseract to amplify her powers and expand the portal, letting the Chitauri pour into New York before she collapsed and disappeared.
• Loki failed to control Tony with the Mind Scepter, then watched the Chitauri attack the city.
• A Mutant-bribed reporter covered the invasion and called for humanity to be saved by God’s messengers as Chitauri soldiers began to float into the air.

The Mutants fought the Chitauri invasion across New York, presenting themselves as humanity’s protectors while Professor X argued that the alien threat could change how humans viewed Mutants. The Avengers arrived to find the city overwhelmed by the seemingly endless Chitauri forces.

• A war correspondent praised the Mutants as saviors after Lorna appeared on screen and urged civilians to flee.
• The White House official learned that the Mutants had acted without permission, and his subordinate warned that they could no longer be controlled through public opinion.
• Lorna sent the Mutants into battle as Chitauri poured through the enlarged spatial passage; Pyro, Iceman, and Wolverine rescued people across New York.
• Professor X told Mystique that the Chitauri threat could make humans fear Mutants less, then used his powers to control attacking Chitauri.
• Hulk smashed a Flying Fish Warship, but the Chitauri fleet overwhelmed the skies as Bruce Banner joined the Avengers in New York.

As the Avengers and Mutants fought the Chitauri in New York, Captain America encountered Captain Carter, while Susan and Johnny destroyed a warship. Natasha and Ghost-Spider climbed Stark Tower to reach the spatial passageway and try to stop the invasion.

• Captain America Steve ran to rescue civilians and encountered Captain Carter, who told him she was not the Peggy he knew.
• Susan and Johnny combined their powers to burn and destroy a Chitauri Flying Fish Warship.
• Susan joined the fight against the invasion while the Mutants, including Magneto and Lorna, devastated the Chitauri forces.
• Natasha escaped a hijacked craft and Ghost-Spider caught her as she fell.
• Natasha asked Ghost-Spider to take her to Stark Tower so they could shut down the spatial passageway, and Ghost-Spider carried her up to the tower's top floor.

Thor fought the Chitauri while Odin refused to send Hela’s Death Legion and ordered Sif and the Warriors Three to Earth. As the battle continued, the Black Widows captured Alexander Pierce, while the Ancient One watched the invasion and told Jean Grey she was looking at the true battlefield.

• Thor used Mjolnir’s new ability to split into fragments and strike the Chitauri, then called Heimdall for reinforcements.
• Odin refused Hela’s request to lead the Death Legion and ordered Sif and the Warriors Three to take ships to Earth.
• Odin learned that Asgardian spacecraft had left from near Midgard and suspected Ke Chen was involved.
• Alexander Pierce ordered Hydra agents to launch a weapon against New York, but Yelena and the Black Widows revealed themselves and took him prisoner.
• The Ancient One watched the battle from the New York Sanctum with Jean Grey and said she was looking at the true battlefield.

Ke Chen’s Asgardian-looking fleet attacked the Chitauri, then transformed into Transformers and overwhelmed their forces in space. Thanos retreated, while Lorna called for the dimensional passage to be closed and Legion crushed a Flying Fish Warship.

• Thanos withdrew when Ke Chen’s fleet emerged from a wormhole, leaving the Chitauri to face the supposed Asgardians.
• Ke Chen ordered the fleet to fire, and the Chitauri’s shields barely withstood the first volley.
• The spacecraft transformed into Transformers with Black Widow and the Kryptonians inside them, then opened fire on the Chitauri ships.
• Thanos and Ebony Maw left after Thanos mistook the Transformers for powerful Asgardian technology.
• Lorna announced that no more aliens were coming and urged the heroes to close the passage.
• Legion seized a Flying Fish Warship and crushed it into parts.

Ke Chen’s forces destroyed the Chitauri mothership, ending the invasion on Earth and in space. Faora returned with a Chitauri leader, Jean reunited with Professor X, and the heroes seized Loki’s Mind Scepter as Hulk caught him.

• Ke Chen ordered Faora to attack the Chitauri mothership, where she slaughtered its crew with Heat Vision.
• Faora destroyed the mothership and carried a Chitauri leader back to the Royal Palace Ship, causing the Chitauri across space and Earth to fall lifeless.
• Jean Grey opened the Sanctum’s doors to Professor X and greeted him after Ancient One told her he had come to see her.
• Gwen pulled Loki’s Mind Scepter away with a web and handed it to Natasha, who had awakened Dr. Erik.
• Hulk grabbed Loki and called him a puny god.

Ke Chen’s forces defeated the Chitauri, captured their surviving ships, and returned home while events in New York left the Mind Scepter in Hydra’s hands and the Tesseract with Thor. The Mutants gained public acceptance, and Jean Grey said goodbye to Professor X after resolving her doubts.

• Faora brought the captured Chitauri leader before Ke Chen, who ordered him executed after learning nothing new from him.
• Ke Chen ordered the Black Widows to clear the battlefield, and his fleet took the disabled Flying Fish Warships before departing for home.
• Crossbones took the Mind Scepter from S.H.I.E.L.D. and handed it to Baron Strucker’s men, while Thor reclaimed the Tesseract for Asgard.
• The Avengers gathered to talk, Natasha invited Gwen to join them, and Tony concluded that humanity needed to become stronger.
• Lorna assembled the Mutants as footage of them saving civilians helped the public accept them.
• Jean Grey told Professor X that it was over, and Mystique took him away after he said goodbye to Jean.

Steve sought Peggy Carter’s whereabouts from Nick Fury, while Ke Chen explained the Transformers to Sif and demonstrated how the AllSpark could remake a Chitauri warship. The chapter ended with the warship transforming into a Mechanical Dragon.

• Steve asked Nick Fury about Peggy Carter, and Fury warned him that people within S.H.I.E.L.D. wanted to hurt her before giving him her address.
• Nick Fury considered seeking Captain Carter’s help because he did not know whom he could trust inside S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Sif told Ke Chen that Odin wanted him to stop acting in Asgard’s name and warned that Asgard was repairing the Bifrost with the Tesseract’s Space Stone.
• Ke Chen told Sif that Transformers were living beings created with the AllSpark and offered to transform Asgard’s spacecraft.
• Ke Chen used the AllSpark on a Chitauri Flying Fish Warship, which expanded and transformed into a Mechanical Dragon.

Ke Chen transformed the Flying Fish Warships into living Dragon Warships, establishing Earth’s defenses and prompting Sif to report the technology to Odin. Thanos reconsidered his plans for the Nine Realms as he pursued the Infinity Stones, while Odin lost interest in the Transformers after learning they obeyed Ke Chen.

• Ke Chen used the AllSpark to turn every Flying Fish Warship into a Dragon Warship, and Sif marveled at the living machines.
• Sif returned to Asgard to report the Transformers, while Ke Chen left the space station after the Chitauri threat had been dealt with.
• Thanos learned that Earth’s forces had stopped the Chitauri and reconsidered invading the Nine Realms, then heard that Gamora was searching for the Orb.
• Thanos spoke with Nebula about Gamora and reflected that only the Reality Stone remained for him to find.
• Sif described the Transformers to Odin, who lost interest when he learned they obeyed Ke Chen.

Hydra’s experiments with the Mind Scepter gave Pietro extraordinary speed, then awakened Wanda’s Chaos Magic when she touched its gem. Baron Strucker and Dr. List recognized Wanda’s power as another miracle.

• Baron Strucker saw Pietro gain incredible speed after the Mind Scepter released yellow energy into him.
• Baron Strucker sent Wanda into the laboratory to undergo the experiment, but the device failed to activate.
• Wanda felt the Mind Scepter’s gem calling to her and reached out to touch it despite Baron Strucker’s warnings.
• Dark crimson light filled the laboratory, and Wanda cried out in pain.
• Wanda sat amid flickers of scarlet Chaos Magic and stared through the glass at Baron Strucker, who called it the power of miracles.

Steve visited elderly Peggy Carter and left shaken by the decades that separated them. At Ke Chen’s birthday party, he gave Tony a drop of the Fountain of Immortality, but Tony remained anxious about threats to Earth and kept building Iron Man Armor.

• Steve visited Peggy Carter, struggled to speak with her, and left feeling lost and dispirited.
• After Steve left, elderly Steve came out and compared the encounter to seeing his younger self; Peggy asked whether he regretted their life together, and he denied it.
• Ke Chen invited Tony to his birthday party and gave him a drink containing a drop of the Fountain of Immortality.
• Tony told Ke Chen that he feared an alien invasion and wanted to protect the world.
• Ke Chen reassured Tony that someone would protect the world, but Tony remained anxious and continued building Iron Man Armor.

Ke Chen gained Impossible Man’s Reality-Virtual Dimension Traversal and tested it, finding that crossing worlds still took time and caused him pain. Meanwhile, Hydra’s attacks pushed Nick Fury and Captain America to begin a plan to destroy Hydra by first bringing down S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Ke Chen received Reality-Virtual Dimension Traversal (Impossible Man) as a check-in reward and added it to his abilities.
• After reassuring everyone, Ke Chen said goodbye to Gwen and tried the new ability from a rooftop.
• Ke Chen viewed countless worlds and found the DC world, but discovered that traveling there was slower and more painful than using God's Whip.
• Hydra rioted after Alexander Pierce disappeared and began assassinating elites, while Captain America, Captain Carter, and Nick Fury came under attack.
• Nick Fury decided to eradicate Hydra even if it meant destroying S.H.I.E.L.D., and he and Captain America began planning to take down Hydra by targeting S.H.I.E.L.D. first.

Queen Hippolyta and General Antiope investigated the Amazon Mother Box after it began emitting energy, then watched it crack open and form a Boom Tube. A towering, caped figure emerged as the Amazons prepared for battle, while a warrior rode to summon Diana.

• An Amazon guard warned Queen Hippolyta that the Mother Box was emitting energy fluctuations.
• Queen Hippolyta and General Antiope rode to the bunker and found the Mother Box glowing faintly before it went calm.
• Queen Hippolyta insisted that the Amazons prepare for an enemy, and the Mother Box began to crack and flare brighter.
• Queen Hippolyta sent a warrior to summon Diana while the Amazon warriors readied their shields and arrows.
• A black hole appeared inside the bunker, and a towering figure wearing a black cape emerged.

Diana recognized the Sacred Flame as an Amazon warning and flew toward Themyscira, while Ke Chen arrived there through dimensional travel and was mistaken for an enemy. After the Amazons attacked him, Queen Hippolyta escaped with the Mother Box and collapsed the bunker with General Antiope still inside.

• Diana saw the Sacred Flame on the news, recognized it as an Amazon signal, and flew toward Themyscira in her armor.
• Ke Chen arrived in a bunker on Themyscira and Queen Hippolyta demanded to know who he was.
• An Amazon warrior accidentally fired an arrow at Ke Chen, prompting the others to unleash a barrage and Queen Hippolyta to lead them out with the Mother Box.
• Ke Chen caught General Antiope's blade, recognized her as Diana's aunt, and knocked her unconscious before fending off the Amazon warriors.
• Queen Hippolyta activated the bunker’s self-destruct mechanism, collapsing it with Ke Chen and General Antiope inside.

Ke Chen rescued the Amazons from the collapsing bunker, then pursued Queen Hippolyta and fought her warriors while trying to stop them from treating him as an enemy. Diana arrived and discovered the intruder was Ke Chen, leaving her to explain their relationship to her mother.

• Queen Hippolyta fled with the Mother Box as Ke Chen rescued the Amazon warriors, and General Antiope urged him to stop her.
• Ke Chen caught Queen Hippolyta with the Lasso of Truth, but she accused him of harming Diana and the Amazon warriors attacked him.
• Ke Chen subdued the attacking warriors and demanded that they stop, while Queen Hippolyta called on them to avenge her.
• Diana struck Ke Chen with lightning and attacked him, then recognized him and asked what was happening.
• Queen Hippolyta asked whether Diana knew Ke Chen, and Diana admitted that she did.

Ke Chen and the Amazons resolved their fight after learning the Mother Box had reacted to his power, and Queen Hippolyta welcomed him to Themyscira. At a banquet that night, Ke Chen enjoyed the feast and dancing while Diana and her mother watched him.

• Ke Chen explained that he had come for neither the Mother Box nor a fight, and Diana agreed his power may have triggered the box.
• Queen Hippolyta told Diana that Amazons had died in the bunker, but General Antiope arrived and clarified that Ke Chen had saved them.
• The Amazons dispersed, and Queen Hippolyta secured the repaired Mother Box before asking Diana to show Ke Chen around Themyscira.
• Diana took Ke Chen to the castle and insisted he could only return to Themyscira with her.
• Queen Hippolyta held a banquet for Ke Chen, where Amazon warriors sang and danced as he enjoyed the food and wine.

Ke Chen and Diana left Themyscira and raced across the ocean, with Ke Chen outrunning her before they spent several days in Paris. When an explosion in Gotham triggered Ke Chen’s danger warning, he teleported to a burning island, unsure which of his companions was in danger.

• Diana stayed up talking with Queen Hippolyta, then left Themyscira with Ke Chen a few days later.
• Ke Chen and Diana raced across the ocean, and Ke Chen reached land first.
• Mera learned of the pair crossing the sea and wondered who had accompanied the Amazon.
• Ke Chen and Diana spent several days in Paris before heading to Gotham when Diana had to return to work.
• An explosion triggered Ke Chen’s warning that someone connected to him was in danger, so he teleported above a burning island.

After Poison Ivy’s island was destroyed in a missile strike, Ke Chen rescued her and agreed to let her pursue revenge herself. Pamela traced the attack to the Prometheus Project, while Gotham’s criminals learned Batman had appeared in Metropolis.

• Ke Chen rescued the unconscious Poison Ivy, Pamela, from the flames and brought her to Harley Quinn’s home.
• Pamela woke, learned her island and her plant companions had been destroyed, and insisted on investigating and punishing those responsible herself.
• Pamela left Harley’s home, followed the clues to the Prometheus Project, slaughtered its members, and used poison to uncover the masterminds behind the attack.
• Harley told Ke Chen that Bruce Wayne had appeared in Metropolis, calming Gotham’s restless Batman fans, including Riddler and Joker.

Ke Chen returned from the DC world and settled into ordinary life, while Metropolis’s anger toward Clark continued to build. In December, May worried that her unchanging appearance would force her out of public work, and Peter Parker privately sought Ke Chen’s advice about changes in his body.

• Clark attended a court hearing over the damage and deaths caused during the Battle of Metropolis but could not afford the compensation being demanded.
• Ke Chen visited Lucifer in Los Angeles, then used his new dimensional travel ability to return directly to his home on Long Island.
• Ke Chen realized that the Mother Box had influenced his Themyscira trip because his travel destination had not been precise enough.
• May told Ke Chen she feared people would notice that she was not aging, and Ke Chen suggested she help the poor behind the scenes by starting a foundation.
• Peter Parker privately told Ke Chen that changes in his body sometimes made him uncomfortable, and Ke Chen reassured him that it was normal for boys.