Chapter Summaries

After Ying Yingying left the War Worlds mission to treat Mu Xinxin, Russell rolled a six and was sent to the twentieth world, the Marvel Universe. He arrived on Kontraxia, where he encountered Jian Shaoxin, Duan Xinlan, and Supergirl, and tried to keep his disguise secret.

• Ying Yingying took Mu Xinxin back to the Main God Space and gave Russell the team's Magic Locator.
• Russell rolled a six and was forced into War World No. 20, where his faction's victory would double his Reward Points.
• Russell recognized Kontraxia as part of the Marvel Universe and knocked out a red-skinned alien to take his translator.
• Jian Shaoxin and Supergirl confronted Russell over the Magic Locator, but Jian Shaoxin recognized him after he revealed himself.
• Duan Xinlan kicked Jian Shaoxin, greeted Russell enthusiastically, and attacked the alien corpse for touching him.

Russell reunited with Supergirl, Duan Xinlan, and Jian Shaoxin on Kontraxia, then piloted them toward Morag to retrieve the Power Stone. He revealed that he owned an Infinity Gauntlet and knew the Stone’s location, leaving the team bracing for a dangerous shortcut through over a hundred spatial nodes.

• Supergirl interrupted Duan Xinlan and Jian Shaoxin’s argument, and Russell explained how he had met Ying Yingying and Mu Xinxin in a previous War World.
• The group shared information about being in the Marvel Universe and learned that the women had spent two days on Kontraxia trying to find Earth without a Star Map or a pilot.
• Russell said he knew Earth’s coordinates and had previously completed a Guardians of the Galaxy mission, where he had fought Thanos to a draw.
• Supergirl cleared snow from the team’s buried spaceship, and Russell piloted it toward Morag, where he said the Power Stone was located.
• Russell showed the women his Infinity Gauntlet and promised he knew the Power Stone’s exact location, then warned them to fasten their seatbelts for a shortcut through more than a hundred spatial nodes.

Russell and his companions reached Morag, recovered the Power Stone, and tested its destructive power before traveling to Earth. They arrived over New York as the Chitauri invasion began, but Supergirl realized it was not the war they had been assigned to join.

• Russell located the ruined temple on Morag and broke into the chamber holding the Cosmic Orb.
• Russell removed the Power Stone from the Orb, and Supergirl placed it in his Infinity Gauntlet.
• Russell tested the Power Stone with a punch that devastated the landscape, while Supergirl discussed the other Infinity Stones.
• Three days later, Russell brought the cloaked spacecraft into Earth's atmosphere and headed for New York.
• Russell and the others saw the Chitauri pouring through a wormhole above New York, and Supergirl noted that the Main God had not given them a faction prompt.

Russell and Supergirl’s team entered the Battle of New York, where Supergirl and the others joined the fight against the Chitauri despite trying to stay low-profile. Russell discovered the mission’s true Infinity War setup and tried to warn his teammates, but Natasha mistook him for a threat and summoned the Avengers to confront him.

• Supergirl ordered the team toward New York, but Chitauri skiffs spotted Russell’s ship; Jian Shaoxin teleported the others to safety while Russell lured more than a hundred pursuers into the East River.
• Tony Stark noticed the skiffs’ unusual movements near the river, then saw Natasha, Hawkeye, and Captain America crash their Quinjet after joining the battle.
• Supergirl rescued civilians and attacked the Chitauri, while Jian Shaoxin and Duan Xinlan joined her despite Russell’s protests; Russell also began shooting at the invaders.
• After spotting Hulk and Thor, Russell overheard a group discuss the three Infinity Stones and realized this was the true Infinity War mission, so he hurried to alert Shen Menghan.
• Natasha shot Russell, panicked at his appearance, and called for heavy support; Hawkeye, Hulk, Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man gathered to fight him.

Russell fought the Avengers after they mistook him for a threat, overpowering Hulk and claiming to be Hydra's leader. He turned to face Thor, Stark, and Steve and challenged them to attack together.

• Hulk charged Russell, who struck him with the Infinity Gauntlet and sent him crashing through several skyscrapers.
• Russell blocked Hulk's next attack and restrained him while Stark asked Nick Fury about Russell and the superpowered fighters battling the Chitauri.
• Russell claimed he was Hydra's current leader and that S.H.I.E.L.D. was a Hydra branch, then beat Hulk until he reverted to Dr. Banner.
• Thor's lightning struck Russell without stopping him, and Russell handed Dr. Banner to Hawkeye before challenging Thor, Stark, and Steve to fight him together.

Russell defeated the Avengers and forced Steve to shout Hydra’s slogan before revealing that he had only wanted to hear it. After taking the Mind Stone from Loki’s scepter, Russell left the battered heroes wondering why he had spared Hawkeye.

• Russell used lightning to defeat Thor, then destroyed Stark’s MK7 suit and pinned Steve beneath his shield and Adamantium Blade.
• Russell threatened Natasha and Hawkeye to make Steve say “Hail Hydra,” then shot at the hidden Loki instead.
• Loki tried to protect Thor and fight Russell, but Russell captured him, took the Mind Scepter, and knocked both brothers down with a lightning wolf.
• Russell dismantled the scepter, revealed the Mind Stone, and set it into the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Russell told Steve he had only wanted to hear the slogan, while Hawkeye wondered why Russell had spared him.

Russell revealed secrets about the Avengers’ future, then exposed the arrival of future Steve Rogers and Tony Stark in another world. He left to retrieve the Time Stone, intending to confront the Sorcerer Supreme.

• Russell told Steve Rogers that Bucky was alive and controlled, and warned him about a future mission in Nigeria.
• Russell told Tony Stark that Bucky had killed Howard Stark, warned that Stark would be manipulated and the Avengers would break apart, and revealed that Rhodey would be crippled and Stark would have a daughter with Miss Potts.
• Russell smashed through a wall and exposed future Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who had planned to steal the Space Stone and Mind Stone.
• Future Stark attacked Russell, but Russell revealed his face, zapped Scott Lang into the pile of electrified Loki and Thor, and refused to answer the Avengers’ questions.
• Russell flew away and set out to get the Time Stone from the Sorcerer Supreme.

Russell visited the New York Sanctum to obtain its Time Stone and explained that he was gathering the Infinity Stones to stop a disaster. Master Gu Yi gave him the Stone, and Russell prepared to continue his search for the Space Stone after asking her to pose for a photo.

• Dr. Banner tried to take the Time Stone from Master Gu Yi, but she separated his body and soul with Astral Projection.
• Russell arrived at the New York Sanctum, introduced himself as Jason from another universe, and convinced Master Gu Yi that he was a sorcerer.
• Russell told Master Gu Yi he was collecting all six Infinity Stones with his companions, while Dr. Banner asked if they were stopping Thanos.
• Master Gu Yi gave Russell the Time Stone after he said she would give it to Dr. Banner if she refused him.
• Russell promised to return the Stone, then asked Master Gu Yi to lie on the ground so he could stand on her for a photo.

Russell gathered the Time Stone and Tesseract, then negotiated with future Stark about joining forces against Thanos and traveling to the future. The chapter ended with Russell hinting that Stark could change his future and reunite his family.

• Russell obtained the Time Stone from Master Gu Yi, while Banner told Steve and Stark that the Mind Stone had also been taken by a woman.
• Russell removed the Tesseract from Stark Tower, closed the portal above New York, crushed the cube, and added the Space Stone to his Gauntlet.
• Jian Shaoxin and Duan Xinlan joined Supergirl in choosing the Avengers faction, and Russell proposed that his group and the future quartet work together against Thanos.
• The two Starks argued over whose Stark Tower it was while the Avengers learned about the future and agreed to join the fight against Thanos.
• Russell asked future Stark to take his group to the future and suggested getting more Pym Particles from Dr. Pym by having Scott Lang negotiate for his wife's rescue.
• Russell hinted that future Stark could change the future and give his daughter a complete family, leaving Stark visibly shaken.

Russell and the others traveled to the future to help the Avengers collect the Infinity Stones, but discovered that the Soul Stone and Reality Stone were already missing. Stark suspected that someone had taken both stones before the Avengers arrived.

• Dr. Pym gave Russell and the others Pym Particles and access to his Quantum Realm passage after rescuing his wife.
• Russell planted C4 near the passage to destroy its precise time coordinates and deter other Reincarnators from using it.
• Russell, Supergirl, and the others traveled through the Quantum Realm to the future, where they joined the Avengers.
• Russell noticed that Natasha was alive and realized the Avengers might have failed to obtain the Soul Stone.
• Stark explained that the Soul Stone and Reality Stone were missing from their planned destinations, and concluded that someone had taken them ahead of time.

Russell told the Avengers that other Reincarnators were pursuing the Infinity Stones and warned them that Thanos from 2012 was nearing the battlefield. He exposed Nebula as a traitor from 2014, leaving the Avengers to restrain her as a new threat approached.

• Russell claimed that the Avengers’ successful mission in another timeline had drawn Thanos and his army from 2014 into a war that destabilized other universes.
• Russell explained that the Soul Stone required a life in exchange and said Natasha would have died for it if he had not intervened.
• Russell told the Avengers that a traitor had brought Thanos from 2014 through the Quantum Realm passage and identified Nebula as that traitor.
• Nebula grabbed Natasha and reached for her pistol, but Supergirl had taken it, and Rhodey and Banner subdued Nebula.
• Supergirl asked Russell how they could join the war without Nebula bringing Thanos, and Russell revealed that Thanos from 2012 was about to reach the battlefield.

The Avengers learned that the 2012 Thanos might still attack while the 2014 Thanos held Nebula, so they prepared weapons rather than rushing to rescue her. Thanos struck first, destroying the Avengers facility, and the survivors assembled to face him.

• Russell explained that Thanos likely knew the Soul Stone's location and warned the Avengers that traveling to 2014 could bring them into conflict with two Thanoses.
• Russell convinced the Avengers to wait for the 2012 Thanos, and Stark gathered their weapons orders to prepare a counterattack.
• Duan Xinlan and Jian Shaoxin tried to determine Russell's gender until Russell sensed an attack and warned them that Thanos had arrived.
• Thanos's warship bombarded the Avengers facility, leveling the base and destroying the Quantum Realm passage.
• Russell opened a spatial passage, and Steve rallied the surviving Avengers to assemble against Thanos.

Russell confronted the 2012 Thanos, who had arrived with the Soul Stone and Reality Stone, and used his four Stones to bring down Temple II and battle him. Russell gained the upper hand and began a final attack, while the Avengers fought Thanos’s army.

• Thanos revealed that he had killed the Reincarnators who helped him travel to the present.
• Russell used the Space Stone and Power Stone to pull Temple II from the sky, then dropped it again to cripple the warship and reduce the threat of Thanos’s army.
• Russell told Supergirl and the other two women to handle the remaining forces, then fought Thanos with the Infinity Stones.
• Russell’s punch sent Thanos crashing into Temple II, and the shockwave killed over a quarter of Thanos’s army as the Avengers attacked the survivors.
• Thanos healed himself with the Reality Stone, but Russell reversed those injuries with the Time Stone, immobilized him with the Space Stone, and prepared a powerful punch.

Russell battled Thanos with the Infinity Stones, repeatedly overpowering him but failing to kill him as Thanos used the Reality and Soul Stones to survive. After another apparent victory proved to be an illusion, a second Temple II appeared, bringing another Thanos to the battlefield.

• Thanos used the Soul and Reality Stones to separate Russell's soul from his body, but Russell returned to his body as Thanos restored his own heartbeat.
• Russell and Thanos fought with their weapons and Stones, and Russell severed Thanos's arm and took the Infinity Gauntlet.
• The Soul and Reality Stones, the Gauntlet, and Thanos turned into ashes, scrap, and Temple II debris when Russell tried to secure his victory.
• Thanos emerged unharmed and told Russell that his imperfect control of the Stones meant he could not kill him.
• A second Temple II appeared above the battlefield, revealing that another Thanos had arrived through time.

Russell and Thanos fought amid a battlefield disrupted by the arrival of Temple II and a second Thanos from 2014. Russell destroyed the warship, then forced the 2014 Thanos to choose between the Infinity Stones and Gamora, leaving the two versions of Thanos facing him.

• Temple II arrived, and the Thanos from 2014 ordered the warship to fire on the battlefield.
• Supergirl had killed the Black Order, while Russell blocked the remaining bombardment after Thanos delayed him and the first barrage devastated the battlefield.
• Russell used the Space Stone and Power Stone to drag Temple II down and crush it into a mass of wreckage.
• Russell pulled the wounded Gamora from a spatial passage and asked Thanos to choose between her and the Stones.
• Thanos chose the Stones, and the 2014 Thanos strode toward Russell, demanding that he release his daughter.

Russell used Gamora to halt the two Thanoses, then freed her when they agreed to sacrifice her and join forces. He began fighting Thanos of 2012 and used a skill card to steal his Infinity Gauntlet, leaving Thanos without the Reality and Soul Stones.

• Russell held Gamora hostage while the Avengers gathered, and Supergirl reported that the bombardment had killed Black Widow and Ant-Man and badly injured three others.
• The two Thanoses agreed to work together against Russell, but Russell healed Gamora with the Time Stone and released her; she joined the Avengers.
• Russell and Supergirl divided the fight, with Supergirl and Iron Man facing the Thanos without the Gauntlet while Russell challenged Thanos of 2012.
• Russell used the Skill Card: Pluck Feathers While Flying Past, but it stole Thanos's Infinity Gauntlet rather than a Stone, severing his control of the Reality and Soul Stones.
• Russell stashed the extra Gauntlet in his Space Ring and prepared to take advantage of Thanos's weakened position.

Russell killed Thanos after thwarting his attempt to steal Russell’s body, while the Avengers and Supergirl defeated the 2014 Thanos. The battle ended, but Russell’s mission status remained unclear, and Duan Xinlan continued probing his identity as he made an awkward claim about another universe.

• Thanos used the Soul and Reality Stones to attack Russell, but Russell trapped Thanos’s soul with the Mind Stone, took his Stones, and killed him with the Holy Light Longsword.
• Russell took selfies beside Thanos’s corpse and chose not to embed the final Reality Stone into the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Supergirl joined the Avengers leaders against the 2014 Thanos, and Steve pinned him down with Mjolnir before beheading him.
• The Avengers celebrated their victory, but Russell learned that the Main God had declared the mission complete while his own system had not.
• Duan Xinlan failed to touch Russell through his spatial barrier and accused him of disguising himself as a woman, while Russell denied it and explained why the Sorcerer Supreme had mistaken him for someone else.
• Russell claimed that Iron Man Tony Stark was a woman in another universe who had married Captain America Steve Rogers, prompting Steve and Stark to stop celebrating together.

Russell stayed behind after Supergirl and her teammates returned to their universe, while Stark mistook him for a man pursuing the three women and traded advice for Infinity Stones. The Avengers restored their fallen comrades and prepared a new Infinity Gauntlet, but Russell refused to snap his fingers.

• Supergirl and the other women left after completing their mission, while Russell stayed to return the Time Stone to 2012.
• Stark assumed Russell was secretly cross-dressing to seduce Supergirl's teammates and gave him dating advice in exchange for six Infinity Stones.
• Stark used the Time Stone to revive fallen Avengers, heal Rhodey, help Thor lose weight, and restore Thor's eye.
• Gamora dug the 2014 Nebula out of the ruins, and the Avengers went to Stark's home to build an Iron Man Infinity Gauntlet.
• The Avengers finished setting the stones in the Gauntlet, but Russell said he had never been able to snap his fingers.

Dr. Banner used the Infinity Gauntlet to bring back everyone who had died five years earlier, severely damaging his arm despite Russell's attempt to heal him. As the returned Avengers arrived at Stark's mansion ready for battle, they learned that Thanos was already dead and one sorcerer wondered who had changed the script.

• Dr. Banner insisted on using the Infinity Gauntlet and snapped his fingers, restoring the vanished half of the universe at the cost of crippling his arm.
• Russell used Holy Light to ease Banner's pain but said he could not heal the underlying damage.
• Stark learned from Pepper Potts that the dead had returned, then opened the communication network so the Avengers could contact their loved ones.
• Russell worried about the chaos the resurrected would face, while the Avengers celebrated their reunions.
• The returned Avengers arrived through portals at Stark's mansion, ready to fight, and a sorcerer in a red cape realized Thanos was already dead.

After Thanos was defeated and the vanished returned, Stark reunited with Parker and Russell explained to Doctor Strange how he knew about the battle’s outcome. Captain Marvel mistook Russell for an enemy and punched him, but Russell recovered and accepted her apology.

• Stark hugged Parker after learning everyone had returned, then told Doctor Strange that they had defeated Thanos.
• Russell told Doctor Strange that he came from another universe and had once known the Sorcerer Supreme and Strange.
• The late-arriving fighters returned through the portals, while Russell anticipated their shock at discovering five years had passed.
• Captain Marvel arrived, mistook Russell for a hidden villain, and punched him before Stark could introduce him.
• Russell healed from the punch, learned Captain Marvel was the remaining enemy, and accepted her sincere apology.