Chapter Summaries

Russell returned to 2012 to give the Time Stone back to Master Gu Yi, after secretly uploading fake photos meant to suggest a romance between Loki and Captain Marvel. He arrived to find Hydra agents moving against Dr. Pym, Steve, and Natasha, while Nick Fury survived an assassination attempt and Steve and Natasha faced a dangerous standoff.

• Russell uploaded staged photos with sensational headlines before Stark sent him back to 2012.
• Russell arrived outside New York and found S.H.I.E.L.D. agents trying to seize Dr. Pym and his quantum tunnel under a questionable arrest warrant.
• Steve sided with Dr. Pym, and Natasha learned from Nick Fury that he had not authorized the operation.
• Nick Fury narrowly evaded a sniper attack at the Triskelion, then lost contact with Natasha.
• Steve and Natasha realized Hydra had turned against them and found themselves surrounded by hundreds of armed agents as Hawkeye rushed to help.

Russell returned to help Natasha, Steve, and Dr. Pym, mocked them with stories about their roles in his universe’s Hydra, and destroyed the Hydra agents after the Quantum Realm passage was blown up. He then flew off, leaving the others to doubt his claims and face the aftermath.

• Russell returned as Natasha explained that rogue S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had tried to detain Dr. Pym and seize his technology.
• Russell told Natasha and Steve they had been loyal Hydra leaders in another universe, then revealed that Dr. Pym had also been part of Hydra.
• An explosion destroyed the Quantum Realm passage, and Russell blamed the Hydra agents despite Dr. Pym knowing they had not planted the explosives.
• Russell slaughtered the hundred-plus Hydra agents and their convoy, while Dr. Pym thanked him for delivering justice.
• Russell flew away after mocking Steve, and Natasha, Steve, and Dr. Pym agreed that his claims about them being Hydra members could not be trusted.

Russell recovered his spaceship and caught Stark hiding aboard, then recruited him to spread photos of Loki and others across the world. Russell left Stark to leak the material anonymously, hoping to cause Loki trouble.

• Master Gu Yi took the Time Stone from Russell and warned him that tampering with time could bring unintended consequences.
• Russell raised his spaceship from the East River and discovered Stark hiding inside it.
• Russell mocked Stark for sneaking aboard, then asked him to upload data from a copied USB drive widely.
• Russell explained that the photos could expose Loki and provoke trouble for him, while Stark agreed to post them anonymously.
• Stark noticed that Nick Fury appeared in the photos and insisted he was only an anonymous uploader, not acting out of revenge.

Russell refused to take Stark into space, then left Earth to return the Infinity Stones to their proper places. He buried the Mind Stone in an asteroid belt and headed for Svartalfheim with the Space Stone, planning to finish by returning the Power Stone to Morag.

• Stark asked Russell to take him into space, but Russell refused and reminded him that the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. needed his help against Hydra.
• After contacting Steve, Stark left the ship, and Russell flew into space alone.
• Russell decided not to leave the Mind Stone on Earth and buried it inside an asteroid in an asteroid belt.
• Russell delivered the Space Stone to Svartalfheim, intending to leave it under Asgard's watch.
• Russell set course for Morag to return the Power Stone.

Russell went to Morag to retrieve the Power Stone, but Thanos arrived with Temple II and Russell destroyed the ship and defeated Corvus Glaive. Thanos escaped using time-travel equipment, then another Temple II arrived and surrounded Russell with an army of Thanos copies.

• Russell landed on Morag and found the chamber where the Power Stone belonged damaged by his own earlier attack.
• Russell spotted Thanos arriving aboard Temple II and used the Power Stone to tear the ship apart.
• Russell broke Corvus Glaive’s Peerless Blade and killed him, then smashed Thanos’s weapon and blasted him into a crater.
• Thanos recognized Russell as a time traveler and escaped using armor like the Avengers’ time-travel equipment.
• Another Temple II appeared and transported a huge formation of Thanos copies onto Morag, leaving Russell stunned.

Surrounded by an army of Thanoses on Morag, Russell blasted them with the Power Stone but was forced to flee when Temple II destroyed his spaceship. He used a disguise and the bush card to hide, then infiltrated the Thanos ranks and killed two of them as he prepared to continue his plan.

• Russell tricked the Thanoses into arguing over who should receive the Power Stone, then unleashed a full-force blast that buried the army in a crater.
• Russell fled toward his spaceship, but Temple II targeted it and destroyed it with concentrated fire.
• Russell used the Bush card to hide from the searching Thanoses and shapeshifted into Thanos to infiltrate their ranks.
• Russell startled two searching Thanoses by pretending to use the bushes as a restroom, then killed one with the Holy Light Longsword.
• Russell disarmed and silenced the second Thanos, corroded both bodies with purple energy, and moved the bushes before punching the ground.

Russell stole a time wristwatch from a Thanos clone and returned to 2014 Morag, where he destroyed the Quantum Realm passage and prepared to face a legion of Thanoses. Surrounded by roughly two hundred clones, he equipped a Thanos Character Card and began transforming into what he called a real Thanos.

• Russell disguised himself as a Thanos, killed two clones, and took the time wristwatch from one of them.
• Russell returned to 2014 Morag, learned that Thanos’s time-travel experiments had caused the Thanos legion to grow, and resolved to stop them by destroying the passage.
• Russell knocked two Temple IIs from the sky and punched apart the Quantum Realm passage.
• About two hundred Thanoses surrounded Russell, while five of them carried the Reality, Mind, Space, Soul, and Time Stones.
• Russell equipped the Thanos Character Card and challenged the legion to feel what a real Thanos was.

Russell overwhelmed the Thanos copies on Morag, took the Time Stone and Space Stone, and forced the remaining copies to flee. He pursued them through a spatial portal, intent on collecting the three stones they still held.

• Russell drew on the Infinity Gauntlet’s power and cut through the Thanos copies with overwhelming strength.
• The Thanos copies holding the Reality and Mind Stones attacked Russell, but he shattered their altered reality with a punch.
• The Thanos holding the Space Stone exiled Russell through a wormhole, but Russell returned and seized the Time Stone from another Thanos.
• Russell added the Time Stone to his gauntlet, then unleashed a blast that devastated Morag and took the Space Stone.
• The remaining Thanos copies ordered three of their number to retreat, and Russell followed them through a black hole using the Space Stone.

Russell completed the Jumanji: Infinity War quest by using the Infinity Stones to erase every Thanos altered by the timeline, then returned to his world and collected eight lottery rewards. After allocating his points and discarding Self-Destruct, he entered the Marvel Universe to attend to Hydra in person.

• Russell defeated the remaining Thanoses on Morag, collected all six Infinity Stones, and snapped every timeline-altered Thanos into ashes.
• Russell claimed the quest rewards, returned the Time Stone to Master Gu Yi, and gave the other five Stones to Odin.
• Russell drew eight rewards, including Doomsday, Railgun, and Self-Destruct, and considered whether Doomsday could help him deal with Supergirl.
• Russell distributed his attribute points, deposited his Wealth Points, and exchanged Self-Destruct for 100 Wealth Points.
• Russell entered the Marvel Universe to meet with Hydra's members and personally address the organization's affairs.

Russell ran Hydra’s growing operation on Svartalfheim and considered new ways to expand its forces. After Master Gu Yi summoned him to Kamar-Taj, he insulted her appearance and was forced to praise her at length, leaving him fed up with the performance.

• Russell discussed Hydra’s companies, anti-aging medicine, and plans to expand its Winter Soldier, Heart-shaped herb, and T-Virus projects with Natasha.
• Russell asked whether Steve wanted to return to Earth, and Natasha said he had not mentioned it while staying with Ms. Carter and Bucky.
• Russell ran into Yelena outside his room, then heard Master Gu Yi summon him back to Earth.
• Russell mocked Master Gu Yi’s appearance, and she transported him from Svartalfheim to Kamar-Taj.
• Master Gu Yi demanded that Russell keep praising her, and he finally refused after several thousand words.

Gu Yi took Russell into the Dark Dimension to face Dormammu, claiming Russell would be his opponent. Left alone with the powerful demon god, Russell abandoned thoughts of fighting and tried to negotiate.

• Russell asked Gu Yi to teach him teleportation magic as payment for helping her, but she refused and led him deeper into Kamar-Taj.
• Gu Yi explained that she had fought Dormammu’s incursions for centuries and brought Russell through a door into the Dark Dimension.
• Dormammu appeared and attacked Gu Yi, but she blocked his spells and told him Russell would face him instead.
• Gu Yi vanished, leaving Russell alone with Dormammu, who prepared to seize his body and invade Earth.
• Russell searched his cards for a way to escape, then told Dormammu he had come to negotiate.

Russell failed to negotiate with Dormammu, who trapped him in the Dark Dimension, and searched for a way to gain enough power to confront him. After discussing Supergirl’s teammate and her crush, Russell received notice that the twelfth mission world was about to begin.

• Dormammu attacked Russell in the Dark Dimension, but Russell escaped to town and found that Dormammu detected him whenever he returned.
• Russell searched for ways to gain leverage over Dormammu and considered obtaining the Time Stone.
• Supergirl told Russell that her teammate Duan Xinlan had fallen for a male idol who had disguised himself as a woman and then as a man.
• Supergirl worried that the idol was sneaking looks at her and considered killing him or trying to bring him and Duan Xinlan together; Russell advised her to let the situation be.
• Russell resumed his routine of watching shows and researching the Marvel Universe, unable to get past Dormammu.
• The system announced that the twelfth mission world would begin in ten minutes, and Russell hoped it would help him defeat Dormammu.

Russell arrived in 2003 New York and discovered that Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus were fighting on the subway train. He identified this as the Tobey Maguire version of Spider-Man, but his mission had not yet appeared.

• Russell woke on a New York City subway, took a passenger's newspaper, and learned that the Daily Bugle headline referred to Spider-Man.
• Russell considered which Spider-Man version he had encountered and concluded that the mission world featured Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man.
• A fight shook the train, and Russell saw Spider-Man battling Doctor Octopus on its side.
• Russell recognized Doctor Octopus as Otto Octavius and learned that he had kidnapped Mary Jane, prompting the clash.

Peter Parker stopped Doctor Octopus’s runaway train at the cost of his strength, and Russell joined the passengers in protecting the unconscious Spider-Man. Doctor Octopus returned to claim Peter, who woke to save Russell and revealed his identity, leaving himself in the villain’s hands.

• Doctor Octopus sabotaged the train’s controls and abandoned Spider-Man to stop it before it plunged into the East River.
• Peter Parker tried to brake the train with his feet, then used webs stretched between buildings to halt it at the edge of the track before passing out.
• Russell joined the passengers as they stood between Doctor Octopus and the unconscious Spider-Man.
• Doctor Octopus swept the passengers aside and threatened Russell, but Peter woke and deflected the blade aimed at him.
• Peter revealed his identity to Doctor Octopus, asked him to spare the passengers, and put on his mask after Russell handed it to him.

Russell rescued Parker from Doctor Octopus on a subway train, defeated the villain, and told Parker to use his name when he needed help without ever saying what it was. Russell then headed to his new home, while Parker searched the ruins for Doctor Octopus and worried about Mary Jane’s safety.

• Russell called Parker his little brother and blocked Doctor Octopus’s mechanical Tentacle with his bare hand.
• Russell pinned one Tentacle with his Adamantium Blade and shot Doctor Octopus with Mana Bullets, but Parker asked him to spare the villain.
• Russell chopped off the Tentacle’s tip and struck Doctor Octopus in the back with a Mana Destruction Bullet, sending him crashing through a wall.
• Russell told Parker to give troublesome opponents his name, then left without telling him what that name was.
• Parker searched the ruins for Doctor Octopus and worried that the villain might harm Mary Jane, whose whereabouts remained unknown.
• Russell hailed a taxi and used his Driver’s License and business card to find his home in this world.

Russell explored his new home and discovered that his cover identity was a surgeon involved with the underworld. When Venom confronted him about his connection to Peter Parker, Russell realized the world held more surprises than he expected.

• Russell found guns, a troubling diary, a hidden surgical room, and a safe full of cash in his house.
• Russell opened the door to three underworld men bringing in a wounded man, but a noise upstairs made them leave.
• Russell armed himself and confronted a burly intruder in the study, who first claimed to be Wolverine.
• The intruder removed a Wolverine poster from his face and revealed himself as Venom.
• Venom asked Russell who he was, where he came from, and why he was approaching Peter Parker, while Russell recognized him with disbelief.

Russell fought Venom, whose host he identified as Deadpool, Wade Wilson. After their rooftop chase and brawl, Russell charged at Venom with his electrified Adamantium Blade, intending to separate him from Deadpool.

• Venom demanded to know Russell's identity, so Russell shot him and fled across the rooftops to protect his home.
• Russell dodged Venom's attack in a park, punched him, and electrocuted him with an Electric Arc.
• Venom tricked Russell with a crude insult, then grabbed and slammed him into the ground.
• Russell blasted Venom with Mana Bullets, but discovered that Venom resisted ordinary magic better than lightning.
• Venom produced guns and blades from his mouth, and Russell recognized Deadpool as his host, though Deadpool insisted he was Hugh Jackman.
• Russell charged at Venom with his electrified Adamantium Blade, intending to peel him off Deadpool.

Russell defeated Venom-enhanced Deadpool and received a World Quest requiring him to eliminate six superheroes or supervillains. Unable to find enough targets in this world, he recruited Deadpool to take him to other worlds in exchange for $100,000.

• Russell used lightning and three electrical wolves to burn Venom off Deadpool, then trapped the symbiote in a sphere of water.
• Russell received a World Quest to eliminate six superheroes or supervillains and worried that Spider-Man's world had too few eligible targets.
• Deadpool warned Russell not to harm Peter Parker, and Russell claimed he had meant to kill Venom instead.
• Russell realized Deadpool could break the Fourth Wall and asked him to take him to other worlds to complete the quest.
• Russell threatened to kill Peter Parker if Deadpool refused, then offered him $100,000, and Deadpool agreed.

Russell hired Deadpool to take him between worlds in search of greater power, but Deadpool spent the trip asking to join the Avengers and haggling over his fee. After seeing Doctor Octopus escape Spider-Man on the news, Deadpool told Russell he had a dream.

• Deadpool mistook Russell for the director of the Avengers and asked to join the team.
• Russell brought Deadpool home and paid him one hundred thousand dollars for a trip to another world.
• Deadpool clarified that his fee was one hundred thousand dollars per trip, and Russell agreed to pay it.
• Russell offered Deadpool more money if he would sew his mouth shut, but Deadpool refused.
• Deadpool watched a report of Doctor Octopus escaping Spider-Man and said he had a dream.

Russell and Deadpool argued over Deadpool’s dream of forming a superhero team and Russell’s place in it. Russell joined Deadpool’s X-Force as its only member, but they ended the chapter trading insults over superhero names and comic-book rivalries.

• Deadpool told Russell he wanted to form a superhero team and planned to recruit Spider-Man and use Venom to change Peter’s personality.
• Russell warned that Deadpool’s plan would turn Peter into a supervillain, but Deadpool declared them brothers and recruited Russell into X-Force.
• Deadpool told Russell to choose a uniform and nickname, and Russell proposed calling himself Batman.
• Deadpool rejected Batman and Deathstroke as nicknames because of DC’s copyright, so Russell and Deadpool argued about Deathstroke’s similarities to Deadpool.
• Russell and Deadpool traded boasts and insults about their height, strength, comic-book origins, and movie careers.