Recaps

Thor confronted Loki as the Bifrost threatened Jotunheim, but the brothers’ reconciliation was interrupted when Loki attacked Lu Qi under the influence of Thanos’s Mind Stone. Odin and Thor fought off Thanos’s fleet, while Loki escaped, leaving Lu Qi convinced Thanos had orchestrated the attack.

• Thor told Lu Qi that Loki had killed King Laufey and planned to destroy Jotunheim, then reassured Loki that he was still his brother.
• Loki turned on Lu Qi, attacking with Gungnir and the Casket of Ancient Winters until Lu Qi connected to the Shadow Dimension and resisted the freezing blast.
• A hidden fleet attacked Asgard, and Odin suppressed the Bifrost’s energy surge before using Gungnir to destroy one of the ships.
• Lu Qi recognized that the Asgardian guards were mind-controlled and sent Ninja Soldiers to restrain them while Odin and Thor fought the fleet and its flying craft.
• Loki used illusions to trick Lu Qi’s forces, escaped aboard a flying craft, and vanished with the remaining ship as Lu Qi identified Thanos as the mastermind.

After Odin repelled the attack on Asgard, Thanos planned to send Loki and his followers to Earth for the Space Stone while Odin prepared to retaliate. Lu Qi returned to New York, strengthened his Ninja Legion, and discovered he could move his Shadow Ninjas World—but then lost track of the Marvel world.

• Odin destroyed the attacking warships, while Thanos concealed the Mind Stone and ordered Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive to pursue the Space Stone on Earth with Loki.
• Lu Qi told Odin that Thanos possessed the Mind Stone, and Odin decided to gather information before striking back.
• Lu Qi returned to New York, upgraded his physique, and sent his Ninja Legion to conquer several low-level dimensions.
• After buying seven thousand Ninja Soldiers and farming more energy, Lu Qi experimented with moving the coordinates of the Shadow Ninjas World.
• Lu Qi realized he could no longer find the Marvel world and was unable to return to it.

Stranded outside the Marvel World, Lu Qi discovered an unclaimed dimension and followed its energy rift to Earth, where he encountered the Transformers. He recognized the world after Jazz transformed into a sports car.

• Lu Qi failed to find a way back to the Marvel World and sent Dark Energy to The Ancient One in an attempt to ask for help.
• The Ancient One released Lu Qi’s energy, causing a tremendous surge of Dark Energy to erupt at Kamar-Taj.
• Lu Qi found an unclaimed Lesser Dimension, stopped its Dark Energy from leaking through a rift, and emerged from a pyramid on Earth.
• Lu Qi followed the incoming meteors and created black spheres to track the ones that split away.
• Lu Qi met Jazz, who explained that the robots had come to Earth searching for something they had lost.
• Jazz transformed into a sports car, and Lu Qi realized he had arrived in the Transformers world.

Lu Qi traveled with Jazz to meet Optimus Prime and the Autobots, then learned that Sam’s great-grandfather’s glasses held the location of the AllSpark. After Sam agreed to help, the group set off for his home to retrieve them.

• Lu Qi asked Jazz to send a Morse-code message to The Ancient One, who expelled the Dark Energy signals while trying to sleep.
• Jazz brought Lu Qi to the Autobots, where he introduced himself to Sam and Mikaela as an otherworlder with unusual abilities.
• Optimus Prime explained the Autobots’ origins and the danger Megatron posed if he obtained the AllSpark.
• Optimus Prime revealed that Sam’s great-grandfather had recorded the AllSpark’s location on his glasses, which Sam had left in his backpack at home.
• Lu Qi joined Sam and Mikaela in helping the Autobots, and they transformed and headed for Sam’s home.

Lu Qi and the Autobots reached Sam's house, where the urgent search for Sam's backpack descended into chaos. The power went out just as Sam's parents demanded that he open his locked bedroom door, leaving Lu Qi and Mikaela hiding in the wrecked room.

• Lu Qi asked why the Autobots could not fly, then bragged that he planned to capture Megatron and make him his mount.
• At Sam's house, Lu Qi charged his phone using a cable Optimus Prime made and imagined shrinking the Autobots with Pym Particles.
• Lu Qi and Mikaela climbed into Sam's room with Bumblebee's help while Sam stayed outside to calm his father and rescue his Chihuahua from Ironhide.
• Sam finally entered his room, but he and Lu Qi still could not find the backpack the Autobots needed.
• Optimus Prime ordered the Autobots to retreat, and Ironhide snagged his head on power lines, shaking the house and startling Sam's parents.
• The lights went out, so Lu Qi and Mikaela hid as Sam's parents called him to open his locked bedroom door.

Lu Qi and the Autobots tried to keep Sam and the glasses out of human hands, but government agents captured them and the fleeing group. When Bumblebee was taken, Lu Qi challenged Optimus Prime’s decision to prioritize the AllSpark and then moved to rescue his friends.

• Sam’s parents walked in on Sam, Mikaela, and Lu Qi, misunderstood the situation, and left them to retrieve Sam’s backpack.
• Black-suited agents took Sam, Mikaela, and others away to investigate the stolen-car report, so Lu Qi freed them and used Troll Soldiers to stop their convoy.
• Helicopters arrived, forcing the Autobots to flee; Bumblebee saved Sam and Mikaela but was captured by the humans.
• Lu Qi confronted Optimus Prime over leaving Bumblebee behind, and Optimus Prime said he would save him if he returned alive after dealing with the AllSpark.
• Lu Qi jumped down toward Simmons and the other agents as Shadow Ninjas emerged to help him act.

Lu Qi defeated Simmons’s agents, freed Bumblebee, and joined the Autobots and Sector Seven at Hoover Dam to retrieve the AllSpark. When Decepticons attacked the dam, Lu Qi left Bumblebee to secure the cube and went to confront them.

• Lu Qi used his Shadow Ninjas and Dark Energy to disarm Simmons’s agents, destroy the helicopters, and free Bumblebee.
• Optimus Prime said he wanted a happy ending but lacked the power to shape events, and Lu Qi let him lead the plan to retrieve the AllSpark.
• A small Decepticon spy signaled for the Decepticons to assemble while Lu Qi rested with the Autobots overnight.
• Lu Qi and the Autobots brought Simmons and Sam’s group to Hoover Dam, where Simmons led them past the guards and showed them Megatron and the AllSpark.
• Ratchet explained that appliances made with reverse-engineered Decepticon technology could become Decepticons, and Optimus Prime ordered Bumblebee to retrieve the AllSpark as the others responded to an attack.
• After alarms and reports of casualties confirmed the Decepticons had attacked, Lu Qi left Bumblebee at the AllSpark and went outside to fight them.

Lu Qi unleashed his Shadow Realm against the Decepticon force at Hoover Dam, destroying or subduing its leaders and turning the battle decisively in the Autobots’ favor. After Megatron was captured, Thin-faced Mantis emerged with the AllSpark and was pinned down by Lu Qi’s Ninja Soldiers.

• Starscream led the Decepticons in bombarding Hoover Dam while Devastator and other Decepticons dug toward the Autobots’ position.
• Lu Qi opened a portal to the Shadow Dimension and swept outside, where he trapped the Decepticons in his Shadow Realm and destroyed many of them.
• Lu Qi killed Brawl after Brawl attacked, destroyed Starscream when he tried to flee, and spared two remaining Decepticon leaders as prospective subordinates.
• Lu Qi returned to Optimus Prime’s group and learned that Devastator had been pinned down after attacking inside the dam.
• Megatron broke free from the ice and tried to escape, but Troll Soldiers pinned him down, while Thin-faced Mantis arrived with the AllSpark and was captured by Ninja Soldiers.

Lu Qi freed Optimus Prime and the Autobots from their confinement, then persuaded them to seek refuge and cooperation in his homeland. After securing the senior leaders’ agreement, he brought the Autobots to meet them and ended the chapter with an official group photograph.

• Lu Qi repeatedly battered Megatron, repaired him with the AllSpark, and imprisoned him in a Dark Energy cage when Optimus Prime asked about escaping the United States’ facility.
• Lu Qi opened a portal and brought the Transformers to Sam’s home, where Optimus Prime said he wanted to gather the Autobots and counterattack the Decepticons.
• Lu Qi recommended his homeland as a refuge, arguing that cooperation would benefit both the country and the Autobots, and Optimus Prime agreed to go there.
• Lu Qi left Optimus Prime and the others at a pyramid, then crossed the border and met with senior leaders in the capital to propose cooperation with the Autobots.
• Lu Qi brought Optimus Prime and the Autobots through a portal to meet the leaders, and everyone agreed to pose for an official group photograph.

Lu Qi discovered that the AllSpark absorbed Dark Energy and transformed it into stable, powerful Energy Crystals, then learned from Megatron that the crystals could strengthen Cybertronians. He left the AllSpark in his Shadow Dimension and continued his work, while The Ancient One searched for him and planned to make him learn interdimensional communication spells.

• Optimus Prime entrusted the AllSpark to Lu Qi so the Decepticons could not seize it, and Lu Qi took it to his Shadow Dimension.
• The AllSpark absorbed more than thirty million units of Dark Energy and released black arcs that formed Energy Crystals.
• Lu Qi copied a crystal’s energy-containing structure and considered carrying crystals to use his Shadow Dimension’s power in the Marvel World.
• Lu Qi showed a crystal to Megatron, who explained that Energy Crystals could make Cybertronians stronger but warned that this one might explode if used.
• Lu Qi left Megatron in captivity, retrieved the AllSpark, and messaged The Ancient One before returning to his surveillance-orb project.
• The Ancient One used the Time Stone to search for Lu Qi and resolved to teach him spells for communicating across dimensions.

Lu Qi’s upgraded Dark Energy scout was shot down after soldiers mistook it for an enemy, just as The Ancient One found him across universes and brought him and the Decepticons back to Kamar-Taj. Back home, Lu Qi learned his earlier energy transfer had wrecked the tea room, so The Ancient One ordered him to study more than six thousand spellbooks and rebuild Kamar-Taj.

• Lu Qi finished an octopus-shaped Dark Energy scout, tested its flight and vision, and sent it outside, where soldiers spotted and shot it down.
• The Ancient One opened a portal to Lu Qi, warned that the Infinity Stones could not remain outside the Material World for long, and returned with him and the Decepticons after shrinking them.
• The Ancient One explained that Lu Qi’s earlier energy transfer had damaged her tea room, then assigned him every spellbook in Kamar-Taj and ordered him to rebuild the compound.
• Lu Qi met Mordo, asked for a terrain map, and went to the library to begin searching through the spellbooks.

Lu Qi spent six months studying Kamar-Taj’s spellbooks, expanding his Shadow Legion, and overseeing the reconstruction of Kamar-Taj before the Ancient One allowed him to leave. He returned home and updated his blog, prompting Tony to message him.

• Lu Qi recruited Decepticons to translate spellbooks, signed contracts with dozens of High-Level Mages, and agreed to contract with Megatron in exchange for making him his lackey.
• Kaecilius grew furious at being excluded from Lu Qi’s contracts, but the Ancient One refused to intervene, and Kaecilius began forming a mad idea.
• Lu Qi stayed at Kamar-Taj for six months, finished more than nine thousand books, and helped transform the grounds with new buildings and amenities.
• Lu Qi expanded his Shadow Legion to 50,000 Ninja Soldiers, 150 Blade Soldiers, 100 Troll Soldiers, and 100 Night Bats, while storing nearly a thousand ten-million-energy crystals.
• The Ancient One let Lu Qi leave after he finished his books and completed Kamar-Taj’s reconstruction.
• Lu Qi returned home, changed his blog status to “Eating, drinking, and having fun,” and received a message from Tony asking if he had finally left Kamar-Taj.

Lu Qi visited Tony at Stark Tower, where they celebrated its opening by sharing snacks with Pepper. Agent Coulson arrived with an urgent Avengers-related assignment, and Tony began analyzing it while Pepper and Coulson left for Washington.

• Lu Qi traveled to Manhattan and photographed Tony as Stark Tower lit up for the first time.
• Lu Qi brought street food to Stark Tower, and he, Tony, and Pepper shared the snacks.
• JARVIS told Tony that Agent Coulson wanted to speak with him, and Coulson arrived at the tower.
• Coulson gave Tony a laptop containing an urgent assignment, and Tony began analyzing its information with JARVIS.
• Pepper decided to go to Washington, and Coulson said the director needed Lu Qi there too.
• Lu Qi planned to return for a few things and join Tony the next day while Tony continued working.

Lu Qi brought Decepticons and the AllSpark to Tony Stark, who began studying it while also creating living machinery, including his Mark 6 armor, Saturday. As Tony and Lu Qi prepared to track Loki, JARVIS found the target, and Lu Qi set out with Tony to confront him.

• Lu Qi brought Barricade, Blackout, Megatron, and the AllSpark to Stark Tower, where Tony examined the Decepticons and agreed to study the AllSpark.
• Tony learned that Loki was working with Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight to obtain the Space Stone, while Loki sought iridium and a lure to stabilize the portal.
• Tony used the AllSpark to animate his Mark 6 armor and named it Saturday, then revealed that his algorithm was using phones to search for Loki.
• Lu Qi told Tony about his connection to Loki and explained that sorcerers and technology both used energy, prompting Tony to consider learning sorcery.
• JARVIS located Loki, and Tony and Lu Qi prepared to leave, with Lu Qi bringing his pocket cloak and crystals.

Lu Qi, Tony, and S.H.I.E.L.D. converged on Loki after he attacked a gala and forced its guests to kneel. Lu Qi captured Loki, and Thor arrived aboard the aircraft to reunite with his brother.

• Tony and Lu Qi raced toward Loki’s location, while Fury sent Captain America and the others to intercept him.
• Loki stole a victim’s iris data at a gala, then used his illusions and the Mind Stone to terrorize the crowd in a plaza.
• Lu Qi’s Shadow Ninjas contained the crowd and captured Loki after exposing his illusion, while Tony helped evacuate the guests.
• Lu Qi, Tony, Steve, Natasha, and Megatron gathered aboard the aircraft, where Megatron gave Steve a photograph as a keepsake.
• Thor stepped through Lu Qi’s portal, greeted his uncle, and rushed to embrace Loki when Lu Qi revealed him.

Lu Qi touched Loki’s scepter and underwent a transformation into his true Dimensional Demon God Form, unleashing the Shadow Legion across the Helicarrier. He returned to normal and regained control, but the Mind Stone’s influence and the Legion’s expanded abilities left everyone shaken.

• Corvus Glaive blamed Hawkeye for Loki’s capture, threatened him, and ordered him to follow Loki’s plan while Hawkeye secretly welcomed the conflict.
• Lu Qi stopped Thor from taking Loki to Asgard and insisted Loki answer for the deaths and destruction he had caused on Earth.
• As the group arrived at the Helicarrier, Lu Qi touched the Mind Stone and lost contact with the outside world while shadows and Shadow Ninjas poured from his body.
• Lu Qi transformed into a five-meter demonic figure, and the Shadow Legion restrained Tony and Captain America while Night Bats shot down approaching fighter jets.
• Thor warned the others not to interfere, and Lu Qi soon awakened, recalled the Legion, and learned from the Ancient One that he had entered his true Dimensional Demon God Form.
• Lu Qi returned to human form, handed the scepter to Natasha, and sent the Shadow Legion to clean up the Helicarrier deck.

Lu Qi revealed his otherworldly origins to Fury and displayed Megatron as proof, while S.H.I.E.L.D. assessed the threat posed by his Shadow Legion. As the group pieced together Loki’s plan to use iridium to stabilize a portal, Lu Qi sent Tony to the lab and spread his Shadow Legion across the Helicarrier to prepare an ambush.

• Lu Qi told Fury he came from a parallel world and used Megatron’s projection to show what that world was like.
• Fury left to question Loki, while Natasha returned to the command center and the group watched Loki try to manipulate Fury.
• Thor told the group that Loki had an army called the Chitauri and was likely acting for Thanos to obtain the Tesseract.
• Natasha explained that Barton had stolen iridium, and Tony said it would stabilize and enlarge Loki’s portal.
• Lu Qi sent Tony and Banner toward the laboratory, then walked onto the deck and spread shadows throughout the Helicarrier to prepare an ambush.

Lu Qi defended the Helicarrier from Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive, unleashing his Dimensional Demon God Form to defeat them. After the battle, the Helicarrier tilted when the Avengers reported that the attackers’ beams had disabled two of its wings.

• Lu Qi sent Night Bats to intercept the fighters while one of them blasted a hole through the Helicarrier and the Avengers prepared to fight.
• Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive attacked Lu Qi’s forces, while Thor and Lu Qi supported the defense and Thor’s hammer was scratched by Corvus Glaive’s weapon.
• Lu Qi transformed into his Dimensional Demon God Form, seized Corvus Glaive’s weapon, and annihilated Corvus Glaive with Dark Energy.
• Lu Qi blocked Proxima Midnight’s energy attack with stored Dark Energy, then tore her apart and collected both enemies’ weapons.
• The Helicarrier tilted after the Avengers reported that the beams had destroyed its energy supply lines and shut down two wings.

Lu Qi struggled to land the damaged Helicarrier while Hulk, driven wild by the Mind Scepter, fought Thor and Captain America. Loki escaped by transforming into a Frost Giant and jumping from the ship, and Tony intercepted him but was frozen in midair.

• Lu Qi used the Shield of Seraphim and summoned Dark Energy clones to prepare the Helicarrier for an emergency landing as Fury ordered the main engines shut down.
• The Mind Scepter aggravated Banner's headache until he transformed into Hulk, who smashed Troll Soldiers before Thor and Captain America confronted him.
• Loki used an illusion to hide in his cell, then used the Casket of Ancient Winters to become a Frost Giant and break out past Coulson and Lu Qi's soldiers.
• Loki freed his cell and jumped after it to escape, while Night Bats and Ninja Soldiers pursued him and Coulson reported the escape to Fury.
• Tony handed Hawkeye to Natasha, then pursued Loki and struck him with missiles, but Loki blasted him with icy air and froze him solid.

Tony, Lu Qi, and their allies survived the Helicarrier’s fall, and Lu Qi separated Banner and Hulk’s souls before restoring them to Banner’s body. Fury used the AllSpark to repair the Helicarrier, transforming it into a giant robot that Lu Qi shrank, while Lu Qi secretly planned to take the other Helicarriers later.

• Megatron used Bolts of Balthakk to slow Tony’s fall and catch him, while Saturday reported that Bambi’s signal was still transmitting.
• Lu Qi and the clones slowed the Helicarrier with Winds of Watoomb and Shield of Seraphim, then used the Shadow Giant to stop it on the ground.
• Lu Qi struck Hulk with a spell, separating Hulk and Banner’s souls before pulling them back into Banner’s restored body.
• Lu Qi gave Tony a Ten-Million-Level Crystal and used the AllSpark to repair Saturday, then lent the AllSpark to Fury to fix the Helicarrier.
• Fury tapped the AllSpark against the Helicarrier, which transformed into a colossal mechanical giant; Lu Qi shrank it to around ten meters tall.
• Lu Qi planned to take the other three Helicarriers after gaining Fury’s trust and intended to blame Hydra for their disappearance.

Lu Qi and the Avengers tracked Loki to New York, but discovered that his convoy was a decoy and a bomb trap. Tony identified Stark Group’s old factory as Loki’s likely power source, just as alien forces began emerging from a portal.

• Lu Qi traced Loki’s route to New York and brought Banner along by separating his soul from Hulk’s, then restoring Hulk to his original body.
• Tony used the AllSpark to activate old Iron Man suits for the team and created the heavily armed Sunday from his Mark 7 armor.
• Lu Qi and the Avengers intercepted Loki’s convoy, but Hulk crushed the decoy car and Thor found bombs and a tracker inside.
• Lu Qi shielded the team from the bomb blast, and Banner reasoned that Loki was still nearby and needed a powerful energy source.
• Tony identified Stark Group’s old factory and its Arc Reactor as Loki’s likely target, but a portal opened nearby and black figures flew out.

Lu Qi unleashed Shadowbane against Loki’s Chitauri invasion, and the creature’s overwhelming power incapacitated both enemies and nearby allies. After sending Shadowbane toward the Chitauri mothership, Lu Qi and the others prepared to close the portal, while a mysterious group appeared in an alley in Big Apple.

• Loki enlarged the portal and ordered the Chitauri to overwhelm Lu Qi’s forces, while Hulk, the Shadow Legion, and the Avengers fought back.
• Lu Qi spent vast amounts of energy to create magical clones and summon Shadowbane, a giant creature made of Dark Energy.
• Shadowbane’s Darkness Waves destroyed Chitauri and warships, while his presence caused hundreds of thousands of Chitauri and nearby allies to collapse.
• Lu Qi sent Shadowbane and the Shadow Legion through the portal toward the Chitauri mothership, then reunited with the recovered Steve, Tony, and Thor to prepare to shut down the portal.
• A group of people appeared quietly in an alley in Big Apple.

Lu Qi and the Avengers defeated Loki’s forces, closed the portal, and secured the Mind Stone and Space Stone. As they held a barbecue to celebrate, Lu Qi discovered that future Avengers had been watching them and confronted them.

• Elderly Steve told the time-traveling Avengers that a new superhero had changed the future, but Future Tony decided they still needed to collect the stones.
• Hulk beat Loki unconscious, and Lu Qi’s group captured him while Selvig explained how to close the portal with Loki’s scepter.
• Lu Qi used Dark Energy to bypass the barrier, closed the portal with the Mind Stone, and unlocked a module that explored Dark Dimension coordinates when he touched the Space Stone.
• Lu Qi returned the Space Stone in the Tesseract to Thor, and S.H.I.E.L.D. prepared to clean up as the group set up a barbecue.
• Lu Qi noticed figures in a group photo and sent shadows to investigate, then found Future Tony and the others watching the party from afar.

Lu Qi captured a team of Avengers from a parallel future and learned that they had traveled back after Thanos erased half the universe. Their discussion of the Soul Stone revealed that Barton's entire family had vanished in the other world, while The Ancient One arrived and questioned why Doctor Strange had given up the Time Stone.

• Lu Qi's Ninja Soldiers captured Future Tony, Future Steve, Scott, and the others, and Future Tony explained that their world had been devastated by Thanos.
• Lu Qi showed the group Shadowbane consuming Chitauri warships, then argued that he was stronger than Thanos and used the newly unlocked spatial exploration module to conquer several Lesser and Micro Dimensions.
• The Ancient One arrived with Hulk-form Banner bound in an energy whip, while Scott said their mission to obtain the Soul Stone had failed.
• Lu Qi explained that the Soul Stone required the sacrifice of the person someone loved most, shocking Future Tony and Future Steve, who had not known the cost.
• Barton learned that his family had all disappeared in the future Avengers' world, and The Ancient One asked why Doctor Strange had handed over the Time Stone.

Lu Qi agreed to let Future Tony take the Infinity Stones to another world after the future Avengers explained their plan. As Lu Qi relaxed at the banquet, his Night Bats captured an invisible intruder, who introduced herself as Sylvie.

• The Ancient One agreed to help revive some people if all six Infinity Stones were returned within three days, and she told Tony that technology could be used to cast magic.
• Shadowbane’s core was destroyed by enemy warships, but its dispersed Dark Energy infiltrated the ships and ordered them to find Lu Qi and serve him.
• Lu Qi agreed that Future Tony could bring the Stones to their world, then asked The Ancient One to retrieve the other Avengers, but she refused.
• The future group of four left for the city, while Lu Qi joined Thor and Hulk at the banquet and later ordered his Night Bats to capture an unseen intruder.
• The Night Bats brought a struggling woman to Lu Qi, and she identified herself as Sylvie.