Chapter Summaries

Richard was unable to sleep and went to Stark Industrial Park after hearing Pepper Potts and Phil Coulson were under attack. He rescued them from Iron Monger and remained behind to face Obadiah.

• Richard heard gunfire and Pepper Potts screaming during a call with Phil Coulson, then opened a portal to Stark Industrial Park.
• Richard reached the sixteenth underground floor and used his Floating Shield to protect Pepper Potts and Phil Coulson from Iron Monger's missile blast.
• Richard sent Pepper Potts and Phil Coulson through a portal to the Stark Industries Headquarters gate.
• Obadiah charged Richard in Iron Monger, and Richard braced himself against the suit's impact with his Floating Shield.

Richard taunted Obadiah and escaped Iron Monger’s weapons before Tony arrived to fight him. As Tony struggled against Obadiah’s armor, Richard prepared a blue-white fireball to strike Iron Monger.

• Richard provoked Obadiah until Iron Monger unleashed its weapons, then escaped through a Portal.
• Tony arrived, and Iron Monger burst from the ground; Tony asked Coulson to escort Pepper away while he faced Obadiah.
• Iron Monger trapped Tony in a crushing embrace, but Tony fired incendiary rounds and escaped into the smoke.
• Richard transported Pepper and Coulson to the headquarters rooftop and reassured Pepper that he would help Tony when necessary.
• Tony told Pepper they needed to overload the reactor, but Richard launched a blue-white fireball at Iron Monger and warned Tony to get clear.

Richard saved Tony from Obadiah by destroying Iron Monger with a fireball redirected through a portal. After Tony and Pepper reunited, Richard arranged to obtain a medical laboratory through a partnership with Stark Industries so he could begin research on directed stem cell migration and visual center compensation.

• Obadiah targeted Tony with Iron Monger's weapons, but Richard's fireball melted the suit and Obadiah before Richard diverted the blast into the ocean through a portal.
• Tony landed on the rooftop and thanked Richard for saving him, then embraced Pepper and apologized for putting her in danger.
• Richard asked Phil Coulson for help finding a medical laboratory, and Tony and Pepper offered Stark Industries' facility near Long Beach through a 51-to-49 percent technology-equity partnership.
• Richard told Tony that his research would focus on directed stem cell migration and visual center compensation, which he intended to use to treat Tony's chest injury.
• Richard opened a portal to the National Mall for Phil Coulson, who stepped through and saw the Washington Monument.

Richard revealed that he was a sorcerer of Kamar-Taj, then rescued Professor Jennings from armed assailants after learning the professor had found clues about Junior Federer's death and the Federer Laboratory explosion. Richard captured one attacker and began probing another attacker’s soul for information.

• Phil Coulson left to report his discovery to Nick Fury, and Tony asked Richard what he had done at the Washington Monument.
• Richard revealed that he was a formal sorcerer of Kamar-Taj and demonstrated his magic to Tony and Pepper.
• Professor Jennings called Richard with clues about Junior Federer's death and the Federer Laboratory fire and explosion, but armed intruders interrupted the call with gunshots.
• Tony and Jarvis traced the call to Professor Jennings's Manhattan apartment, and Richard opened a portal and rescued the unconscious professor from two assailants.
• An attacker fired a rocket-propelled grenade, so Richard escaped through a portal with Professor Jennings, then separated Bald Eagle's soul from his body and used Spirit Vision Retrospection.

Richard traced the attackers to Phoenix Biotech and learned that New York state senator William Samson was likely connected to the organization behind Eagle’s Nest. After finding erased memories and a dangerous trap in Samson’s mind, Richard was left with the identity of the hidden mastermind still unknown.

• Richard searched Bald Eagle’s memories, found the name Phoenix Biotech at Eagle’s Nest, and asked Tony Stark to investigate it.
• Jarvis identified Phoenix Biotechnology Company and found an eighty percent probability that state senator William Samson was behind its founder, Enoch Adam.
• Richard learned that Professor Jennings had been drugged and attacked because of events at Manhattan Presbyterian Hospital, then returned him home and put him to bed.
• Richard teleported to William Samson’s location and found him asleep with a woman, whom Richard knocked unconscious with soul energy.
• Richard discovered that Samson’s memories had been altered to erase someone he had reported to, then triggered a sinister trap while probing his mind.

Richard discovered that William Samson's memories were protected by a magical trap, so he planted a counter-trap to track whoever was behind it. After Richard warned S.H.I.E.L.D. that Professor Jennings had nearly been kidnapped, Nick Fury ordered the professor moved to safety and revised Richard's Avengers Initiative file to identify him as a suspected mage.

• Richard found a linked trigger trap in William Samson's brain and decided not to read his memories directly.
• Richard planted a fabricated memory and a matching trap in William Samson's soul that would release a tracking spell if William saw the person behind the scheme.
• Richard returned to his apartment and called Phil Coulson to report that Professor Jennings had been drugged and nearly kidnapped.
• Richard told Coulson the kidnapping was connected to a severely burned girl at Manhattan Presbyterian Hospital and declined to explain his abilities.
• Nick Fury ordered Coulson to move Professor Jennings to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Science Academy and updated Richard's Avengers Initiative file with the codename Mage.

Richard explained to Christine that belief and willpower shaped the practice of magic, then used his dimensional travel ritual to reach a world where a familiar red-and-white umbrella logo appeared. He arrived in the Arklay Mountains and opened a portal toward the building displaying the icon.

• Christine lamented that Jonathan Pangborn had begun sensing dimensional energy and learning to spark energy flames, while she struggled with magic.
• Richard told Christine that Jonathan’s determination and belief in magic were helping him cross the threshold, and explained that magic and science could coexist.
• Richard told Christine he would leave the next day, then traveled from a Pacific island through a dimensional portal.
• Richard arrived in the Arklay Mountains, sensed his surroundings, and opened a portal toward a nearby office building.
• Richard spotted a red-and-white umbrella icon on the building’s glass wall and recognized it as familiar.

Richard found his Resident Evil counterpart, a Raccoon City rookie officer who gained power after sharing spirituality and memories but resented Richard for withholding his strength. After Richard met Jill Valentine and escaped through a portal, Jill realized another officer named Richard had just left the station.

• Richard sensed his counterpart inside the Raccoon City Police Department and entered Mind Space to share spirituality and memories with him.
• The rookie officer returned to work delighted by his newfound power and imagined joining S.T.A.R.S., while Richard suspected he might attack him if given more power.
• Richard concluded that some counterparts were selfish and considered killing them to take everything they had.
• Jill Valentine confronted Richard outside the police station, but he escaped through a portal after teasing her.
• Jill vowed to catch Richard and then realized the rookie officer who had just left the station also seemed to be named Richard.

Jill pursued the departing rookie Richard but learned he had taken leave, then received orders to respond to a hostage situation at Raccoon City Park. Meanwhile, Richard entered the Hive Laboratory, killed Spence Parks, and slaughtered zombies from B1 to B3 before a girl confronted him near the B4 stairway.

• Jill asked Kevin about the rookie who had left and learned that Richard had taken several days off for family business.
• Jill received a radio order to take a team to rescue hostages at Raccoon City Park.
• Richard drove east in a Ford Raptor, used a police siren to make a pursuing police car slow down, and crossed East Bridge.
• Richard entered the Hive Laboratory, recognized Spence Parks, killed him, and found the T-Virus and serum in a case inside Spence's backpack.
• Richard fought through the zombie hordes from B1 to B3 with two Pure White Swords, then heard a young girl ask who he was near the B4 stairway.

Richard confronted the Red Queen in the Hive and explained that he intended to take her motherboard, while exposing weaknesses in her containment protocols. Meanwhile, his Alter Ego encountered zombie dogs on the highway and began fighting them.

• Richard told the Red Queen he planned to remove her motherboard from the Hive.
• The Red Queen warned that shutting down the base mainframe could release the T-Virus, but Richard pointed out that the ventilation, drainage, and rat holes allowed infected creatures to escape.
• The Red Queen’s hologram flickered out, and Richard headed toward B4.
• Richard’s Alter Ego stopped his Ford Raptor when a large wolf pack fled across the highway, followed by seven zombie dogs.
• Three zombie dogs approached the vehicle while the others pursued the wolves, and the Alter Ego killed one dog with three shotgun blasts.
• The two remaining zombie dogs charged, and the Alter Ego fired at the one on the right as it tried to dodge.

Alter Ego Richard fought off the Zombie Dogs and returned wounded to Raccoon City, while Dr. Isaacs and Wesker became interested in Richard’s powers. Richard reached the Red Queen’s computer room and learned that he needed Alicia’s authorization to use her data motherboard.

• Alter Ego Richard killed the Zombie Dog Leader after it wounded him, then drove back to Raccoon City.
• Dr. Isaacs ordered Wesker to investigate Richard and capture him so Umbrella could obtain his power.
• Wesker tasked the Red Queen with gathering all available information about Richard, then repeatedly watched footage of him fighting zombies.
• Richard used a Portal to enter the Red Queen’s sealed computer room and demanded her data backup.
• The Red Queen warned Richard about the consequences of the T-Virus outbreak and explained that Alicia’s authorization was needed to use the data motherboard.

Richard tricked the Red Queen into revealing that the White Queen was in Umbrella’s Alaska underground research facility, then took a backup of the Red Queen’s data before leaving through a Portal. The Red Queen later appeared before Wesker and claimed she had finished sending him data about Richard.

• Richard threatened to take the Red Queen unless she revealed the White Queen’s location, and she told him the White Queen was in Alaska.
• The Red Queen explained that she handled security and experimental management, while the White Queen focused on strategic analysis and resource allocation.
• Richard opened a Portal to the Alaska facility, then demanded and received a USB drive containing the Red Queen’s data backup.
• Richard left through the Portal, and the Red Queen cursed him after it vanished.
• The Red Queen appeared before Wesker, claimed she had sent him data about Richard, and quickly disappeared.

Alicia Marcus warned Red Queen not to involve Albert Wesker in stopping Richard, believing the world needed change. After reviewing footage of Richard meeting Jill Valentine, Wesker decided to send an agent to get close to him and selected Ada Wong.

• Red Queen urged Alicia Marcus to return to hibernation, but Alicia said the world needed more changes and refused to enlist Albert Wesker against Richard.
• Wesker reviewed surveillance footage of Richard meeting Jill Valentine outside the Raccoon City Police Department and had Red Queen enhance their conversation.
• Wesker learned Richard claimed to be saving the world and speculated about his unusual abilities and origins.
• Wesker decided Richard's attraction to women could be exploited and ordered Red Queen to find a young, beautiful female agent of Dongguo descent.
• Red Queen presented Ada Wong, an Umbrella Corporation agent, as a candidate.

Alter Ego Richard headed for Angela’s elementary school to find T-Virus serum before his infection worsened, while Jill’s team returned to the police station after capturing a doomsday preacher. Meanwhile, Richard appeared in an Alaska underground research institute, where Dr. Isaacs watched him prepare to fight.

• Alter Ego Richard treated his bleeding wound, ruled out the Hive and Charles Ashford’s home, and drove toward Raccoon City Private Elementary School to find Angela and her serum.
• Jill and her squad brought a bearded doomsday preacher to the Raccoon City Police Department after he pulled a grenade during their arrest attempt.
• Brad and the other officers stripped the preacher and locked him in a cell, where he raved about a three-headed hound and a blackened wound on his leg.
• Jill received a report of a shooting at Raccoon City Private Elementary School and set out with a team to investigate.
• Richard emerged through a Portal into an Alaska underground research institute, where staff sounded an alarm and Dr. Isaacs watched him draw two Pure White Swords on surveillance.

Richard fought his way through Umbrella Corporation employees and confronted Dr. Isaacs, demanding that he hand over White Queen. After Richard incapacitated Slater, he asked Dr. Isaacs if he had reconsidered.

• Richard taunted the Umbrella Corporation employees surrounding him, then killed Bam with a single sword strike when the brute attacked.
• The employees fled, and Richard opened a Portal and left as the Clone Doctor ordered White Queen to locate him.
• Slater warned Dr. Isaacs that Richard was killing his way through the base, and gunfire outside the office soon fell silent.
• Richard entered the supervisor's office, identified Dr. Isaacs, and demanded White Queen.
• Slater tried to shoot Richard, but Richard's red whip snapped Slater's arm and dragged him in front of the desk.
• Richard turned to White Queen, then asked Dr. Isaacs if he had thought it over.

Richard forced the clone doctor to hand over the White Queen’s backup motherboard and gained the highest clearance, then traveled to her server room and ripped it out himself. He left with the motherboard, while the clone doctor blamed Albert Wesker and Slater recovered from his injuries.

• Richard threatened the clone doctor and claimed the Red Queen was superior to the White Queen, prompting the doctor to offer her backup motherboard.
• The clone doctor gave Richard the highest clearance, but Richard checked with the White Queen and caught the doctor’s attempted deception.
• Richard asked where the White Queen’s mainframe was and traveled to Level B5 with her projection.
• Richard tore open the mainframe casing and removed the backup motherboard after the White Queen identified it.
• The clone doctor ordered Slater to get medical treatment, while Slater limped away with a vicious expression.
• Richard opened a new portal after canceling his first one, grinning as he prepared to leave with the motherboard.

Richard told Clone Doctor that he was a clone, then left a bug in his office. Slater sold the secret to Wesker, who ordered him to kill Clone Doctor and promised him the director's position, but Slater was attacked before he could celebrate.

• Richard visited Clone Doctor, claimed the Dr. Isaacs at the lowest level of the Hive Laboratory was the original, and revealed Clone Doctor was a clone.
• After Richard left, Clone Doctor smashed his desk and found a bug hidden beneath it.
• Slater called Wesker and revealed that Clone Doctor was a clone, demanding extra payment for the secret.
• Wesker told Dr. Isaacs Main Body that the clone's identity had been exposed, and Dr. Isaacs Main Body ordered the clone and Slater eliminated.
• Wesker promised Slater the director's position if he killed Clone Doctor, but a beastly claw pierced Slater's chest before he could celebrate.

Clone Doctor killed Slater, discovered that five other Isaacs clones remained, and transformed into a Tyrant to hunt them down. In Raccoon City, Alter Ego Richard barricaded himself in a school classroom and forced Teacher Elena to bandage his shoulder while police surrounded the building.

• Clone Doctor transformed into a Tyrant, killed Slater, and vowed to destroy Richard after recalling his humiliation.
• Clone Doctor searched Umbrella Corporation files but found he lacked the authority to access the hidden information about Isaacs's clones.
• Using level-two authority, Clone Doctor discovered five more clones at bases in Iceland, Egypt, South Africa, Chile, and the Arctic.
• Clone Doctor transformed again and declared that killing the other clones would make him the only Dr. Isaacs.
• Alter Ego Richard barricaded himself in a classroom at Noble Private Elementary School while police guarded the building.
• Alter Ego Richard threatened Teacher Elena until she tore cloth from her dress and bandaged his shoulder.

Alter Ego Richard tried to escape the police cordon while armed operatives and Jill’s team converged on the school. After shooting Jill in the ribs, he was exposed as a suspected police officer, while Richard recognized him on the news broadcast.

• Alter Ego Richard let Elena return to the children, then realized an armed helicopter had arrived at the school.
• Jill led three teammates into the teaching building as Umbrella’s Team B landed on the roof to extract Angela Ashford from Classroom 301.
• Alter Ego Richard heard footsteps approaching the second floor and aimed his handgun at the stairwell.
• Jill rolled into the corridor, and Alter Ego Richard shot her before her return fire grazed his face and shattered the classroom window.
• Jill’s teammates returned fire, and Jill said the gunman seemed to be someone from the police department.
• Richard watched news footage of the gunman, removed his hood, and recognized him as this world’s Alter Ego.

Richard arrived at the elementary school as his alter ego threatened Elena and the children, then killed him after blocking his gunfire with a red barrier. Jill and her team breached the classroom and shot the alter ego’s corpse, leaving Richard to reflect on how badly his counterparts seemed to die.

• Richard sensed his alter ego’s spirituality, opened a portal, and went to the school.
• Jill told Donovan and the others that the gunman was a patrolman named Richard, and her team prepared to breach the classroom.
• Alter ego Richard approached Elena and the children, then shot at Elena when she tried to protect them.
• Richard appeared, shielded Elena with a red barrier, and killed his alter ego with the Pure Red Blade.
• Jill’s team blew open the classroom door and filled the alter ego’s corpse with darts and bullets.