Chapter Summaries

Leon offered Natasha and the other Widows a chance to join him after he destroyed the Red Room, and Natasha agreed, trusting him to succeed. After Natasha bathed and changed into her cleaned suit, Leon revealed that he was Superman and prepared to take her to attack the Red Room.

• Leon offered to destroy the Red Room in exchange for Natasha and the Widows joining him, and Natasha agreed to help persuade the others.
• Leon sent Natasha to wash because her lingering sewer smell bothered him, and she bathed while wondering if he was concerned about her.
• Natasha met Leon in the living room after he prepared inhibitors and asked about his plan to attack the Red Room.
• Leon said they would find the Red Room and eliminate its members, then revealed the Superman emblem beneath his trench coat.
• Natasha recognized Leon as Superman, celebrated their advantage, and agreed to leave with him.

Leon took Natasha flying from Stark Mansion to the Red Room, which he located above the Arctic Ocean using his super senses. As they descended toward it, Natasha faced the end of her old life with growing anxiety about what freedom would mean.

• Leon carried Natasha into the sky and used a Biological Force Field to protect her during their flight.
• Natasha explained that Red Room operatives were sedated after missions, so she did not know where the facility was.
• Leon refused to seek directions from Natasha’s foster father and located the Red Room with his Super Hearing and Super Vision.
• Leon and Natasha flew north at extreme speed, and Natasha recognized from Polaris that they were heading toward the Arctic.
• Leon began descending toward the Red Room above the Arctic Ocean as Natasha grew nervous about leaving the life she had known.

Leon and Natasha arrived at the Red Room fortress, where Leon overwhelmed its guards while Natasha injected the Widows and killed the other personnel. They reached the central command room, where Dreykov revealed that his pheromones had supposedly made Leon unable to attack him.

• Leon brought Natasha to the Red Room’s hidden aerial fortress and said he planned to keep it as a birthday present for Tony.
• Leon memorized the fortress’s occupants, then knocked out dozens of guards before entering; Natasha followed, injecting Widows with inhibitors and killing the other soldiers.
• Natasha made her way through the fortress to the central command room, where she heard Dreykov pleading with Leon and invoking Tony Stark.
• Dreykov laughed and claimed his pheromones had controlled people around him and left Leon unable to attack.
• Natasha opened the command-room door and saw Dreykov sprawled across a desk, taunting Leon.

Leon killed Dreykov and began working to free the Widows from the Red Room’s control. After Natasha overheard Leon explain that she needed a sense of belonging rather than a lover, she fled, while Leon insisted they would not be together.

• Natasha arrived as Dreykov cursed her, and Leon killed Dreykov with a slap and Heat Vision.
• Leon asked Natasha to have the Widows join him and began trying to access the Red Room’s system, but the palm-print lock stopped him.
• Leon connected JARVIS to the control panel, and JARVIS teased him about Natasha and his past girlfriends.
• Leon explained to JARVIS that Natasha needed a family and a sense of belonging, not a romantic relationship.
• Natasha overheard Leon’s explanation and hurried away, while Leon told JARVIS that he and Natasha would not be together.

Leon hacked into the Red Room mainframe, uncovered the locations and files of its Widow agents, and recruited the more than forty Widows Natasha brought to him. The new recruits accepted their first mission: clean up the fortress before helping free the other Widows around the world.

• Leon ordered JARVIS to lift the Red Room system lockdown and locate every Widow agent, then saw more than three hundred agents marked across the world map.
• Leon directed JARVIS to send Natasha the Widow files and transfer her one hundred million dollars to establish a new organization in New York.
• Natasha arrived with more than forty Widow agents, including her sister Yelena, who thanked Leon for saving them and joked about his physique in Russian.
• Leon offered the Widows a choice to leave or join him, and JARVIS sent them information about their birth families.
• The Widows chose to join Leon, who welcomed them and assigned them to clean up the aerial fortress before helping free the other agents worldwide.

Leon tasked Natasha and Yelena with leading the Widow agents in rescuing their fellow agents and offering them a choice to join him. He then revealed Hydra’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. and ordered the Widows to spread evidence of Hydra’s survival, leaving the sisters ready to serve his coming organization.

• Leon asked Natasha and Yelena to lead the Widow agents scattered around the world and bring willing recruits to him.
• Natasha agreed to rescue the Widows, give them the inhibitor, and destroy the files of those who refused to join.
• Leon told Natasha and Yelena to use the Widows’ channels to spread evidence that Hydra still existed.
• Leon explained that Hydra had taken over S.H.I.E.L.D., shocking both sisters.
• Natasha left determined to fight Hydra, while Yelena excitedly imagined becoming a hero.

Leon uncovered Hydra-related files in the Red Room's mainframe, sent them to Tony, and helped the Widow agents celebrate on the fortress. After spending the night with Natasha, he was alerted that Tony had arrived and was in trouble on the top deck.

• Leon had JARVIS find Hydra-related files in the Red Room's records and ordered Natasha to contact a Widow infiltrator and give her an inhibitor.
• Leon sent the Hydra files to Tony's mainframe while keeping the Red Room-related files for later use.
• Leon helped the Widows clear the bodies and hosted a party, then left when the agents' celebration grew rowdy.
• Natasha waited for Leon outside the mess hall, flirted with him, and went with him to her room.
• JARVIS woke Leon and reported that Tony was on the fortress's top deck, where the Widow agents had stopped him.
• Leon left Natasha's room to check on Tony after they agreed they were special friends.

Leon let Tony into the Arctic fortress after Tony arrived and struggled to hold in his need to use the bathroom. Leon showed Tony around the fortress, which he planned to give him for his fortieth birthday.

• Leon found Tony doing an awkward catwalk while Widow agents stopped him from entering the fortress.
• Leon persuaded Mary and the other agents to let Tony inside, and Tony rushed straight to the bathroom.
• Leon teased Tony about needing a liquid circulation system, and Tony admitted that his armor needed one.
• Tony said he had come to inspect the fortress Leon intended to give him for his fortieth birthday.
• Leon toured the fortress with Tony as Tony examined its stealth systems and criticized a fighter jet's power system.

Leon and Tony agreed to share the aerial fortress until Tony’s fortieth birthday, while Tony met the Widows and offered to pay them. Tony returned to Los Angeles for the press conference, where he took the stage after Pepper finished her speech.

• Tony excitedly proposed modifications to the aerial fortress, and Leon clarified that it was not yet his to keep.
• Tony persuaded Leon to let them share the fortress fifty-fifty until Tony’s fortieth birthday, with the Widows continuing to use it for their work.
• Leon explained the Red Room’s history to Tony, who suggested the Widows should eventually adopt a new name.
• Tony met the Widows, described his plans for the fortress, and offered to pay them one hundred thousand dollars a month while they guarded it.
• Tony and Leon left the fortress; Yelena teased Natasha, who told the curious Widows about her time with Leon.
• At Stark Industries Park, Pepper finished her speech about new energy supplies, and Tony took the stage to address the press.

Tony revealed himself as Iron Man at a press conference, while Leon watched and later returned with him to find Nick Fury waiting at the mansion. Fury fled by jumping off the cliff when JARVIS sent armor after him, and Leon hinted that he had sought information from a Black Widow agent.

• Leon met Phil Coulson at Tony's press conference and told him to wait for Tony's speech about the Middle East.
• Tony abandoned his prepared speech, declared himself Iron Man, and revealed his armor to the shocked reporters.
• Leon and Tony returned to the mansion and found Nick Fury standing by the floor-to-ceiling windows.
• Leon ordered JARVIS to blast Fury, who smashed through the window and jumped off the cliff as the cannons fired past him.
• Tony asked Leon why he had not driven away the Black Widow agent, and Leon said he had wanted information from her.

Leon completed his strength-limit experiment and learned that his one-armed force could reach about two million tons, while Tony continued working on his company and JARVIS. The chapter ended with Leon warning Tony that masked intruders had entered Stark Mansion, and the two prepared to deal with them.

• Natasha freed more than two hundred Widows agents, most of whom chose to join Leon’s future organization, while Leon destroyed their files.
• Tony calculated Leon’s strength ceiling at about two million tons with one arm and identified one million tons as his peak growth period.
• Leon considered seeking more power through Kamar-Taj, Kunlun, and travel to other worlds.
• A group of masked intruders infiltrated Stark Mansion and entered Tony’s bedroom, only to find him absent.
• Leon returned from space to the laboratory, warned Tony about the intruders, and urged him to finish upgrading JARVIS before they confronted the attackers.

Tony and Leon discovered that the Ten Rings were only imitators of Wenwu’s Ten-Ring Gang after surviving an assassination attempt and reading Wenwu’s death notice. Leon prepared to attack the gang immediately, but Tony persuaded him to let Iron Man investigate and confront Wenwu; Tony was left troubled by his inability to protect Leon.

• Tony put on his armor and killed the assassins who attacked the villa while Leon followed upstairs.
• The last assassin handed Tony and Leon a letter before killing himself.
• Tony and Leon read Wenwu’s letter, which revealed that he led the Ten-Ring Gang and would come to kill Tony in one month.
• Leon erupted in anger and vowed to destroy the Ten-Ring Gang before sunrise, but Tony stopped him and insisted on handling the threat himself.
• Tony recalled promising to protect Leon after their parents died and felt guilty that he could no longer keep that promise.

Leon explained that Tony was no match for Wenwu and the Ten-Ring Gang, then revealed Howard had left behind plans for a New Element that could improve Tony’s armor. As Leon considered traveling to another world to find a way to heal Tony’s chest wound, he decided to set off.

• Leon told Tony about Wenwu’s thousand-year life and the Ten Rings’ power, and warned that Tony could not defeat him with his current armor and Palladium Arc Reactor.
• Tony insisted on facing the Ten-Ring Gang himself, while Leon told him to upgrade his armor and heal the wound in his chest.
• Leon revealed that Howard had developed a New Element compatible with the Arc Generator and directed Tony to Stark Industries Park and the files at S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Tony agreed to seek the New Element and fight the Ten-Ring Gang, despite Leon’s prediction that he would lose.
• Leon considered using his world-traveling ability to find a world with advanced medical technology that could heal Tony and help him grow stronger.

Leon prepared to travel to another world, while Tony equipped him with supplies and recorded the experiment. Leon anchored a destination and began the journey, leaving his friends behind as a pulling force enveloped him.

• Tony excitedly asked to travel with Leon, but Leon said he would make the first trip alone and promised to take Tony to the DC Universe later.
• Tony advised Leon to wear Super Mark I and packed five Arc Reactors, gold, and emergency supplies for him.
• The next evening, Leon prepared to leave the underground garage while Tony monitored the instruments and warned him about Kryptonite and the Red Sun.
• Leon activated his travel ability, selected an unknown world, and learned that the journey would consume about one percent of his stamina.
• After the travel ability drained his stamina, a pulling force enveloped Leon.

Leon traveled from Tony’s world to Raccoon City in the Resident Evil World, where he identified the city’s crisis and received an unexplained mental enhancement from a force he suspected was the world’s consciousness. He considered whether to help it, but an explosion on a rooftop interrupted his thoughts.

• Leon vanished without a trace, leaving Tony alarmed and frustrated.
• Leon arrived in a burning city, restored his armor’s systems, and had JARVIS connect to the internet.
• Leon used Super Hearing to identify Raccoon City and recognize voices connected to the Resident Evil outbreak.
• Leon realized the Yellow Sun could strengthen him but doubted the world would otherwise help him grow stronger.
• An invisible wave enhanced Leon’s brain, and a mysterious message made him suspect the Resident Evil World was asking for help.
• A violent explosion on a nearby rooftop interrupted Leon’s deliberations.

Leon identified the scene as Raccoon City near Redstone Station on September 28, 1998, where Jill Valentine was being pursued by Nemesis. After rescuing Jill from an explosion, he faced the burning Tyrant with her.

• Leon recognized Jill Valentine and Nemesis near Redstone Station and told JARVIS to investigate Umbrella Corporation, the United States military, and HCF.
• Jill crawled out of the wrecked car and warned Leon to get to safety as the car caught fire.
• Leon grabbed Jill and moved her more than ten meters away before the exploding car could engulf her.
• Nemesis emerged from the flames and hurled half a car at Leon and Jill, but Leon caught it.
• Jill stood beside Leon and asked whether he could defeat Nemesis.

Carlos rescued Jill and the mech warrior from the Tyrant and urged them to escape to an Umbrella shelter, but the mech warrior stayed behind to fight. After surviving multiple attacks and mutating into a larger form, the Tyrant was destroyed by the mech warrior’s missiles, though Jill watched in amazement.

• Carlos fired two rockets at the Tyrant, then introduced himself and offered to escort Jill and the mech warrior to an Umbrella shelter.
• Jill angrily accused Umbrella of causing the outbreak, while Carlos insisted that the subway was the only way out of the city.
• The Tyrant rose again, and the mech warrior flew into the air and pierced its chest with energy beams.
• The Tyrant transformed into a larger, clawed creature, and the mech warrior launched tracking missiles that battered it until it stopped moving.
• Jill watched the mech warrior and marveled at his firepower.

Leon interpreted the World Consciousness's plea as a request to help evolve life and decided to investigate the Raccoon City crisis, including the T-virus serum and Umbrella's G-virus. Jill and Carlos approached him and asked who he was.

• Leon reviewed the origins and properties of the viruses, parasites, and fungi in the Resident Evil world.
• Leon concluded that the World Consciousness might want him to promote the evolution of life and suspected greater rewards awaited him.
• Leon planned to reverse-engineer a cure from T-virus serum in the hospital and obtain the G-virus from Umbrella's underground laboratory.
• Jill introduced herself as a S.T.A.R.S. member and asked Leon whether he was a classified military operative.
• Carlos praised Leon for defeating the Tyrant and marveled at his armor.

Leon Stark met Jill and Carlos, warned them that zombies were closing in, and headed for Raccoon City Hospital and the police station. The Tyrant revived and absorbed nearby zombies into a huge mass, leaving Leon to face it as Jill and Carlos watched.

• Leon told Jill and Carlos he came from another world to help save theirs, then floated away using his Biological Force Field.
• Leon directed Jill and Carlos toward the subway station and said they could find him at the police station's underground Umbrella laboratory if they needed serum.
• Leon noticed black threads spreading from the Tyrant's remains and identified the creature as still alive.
• The Tyrant absorbed nearby zombies and grew into a massive leech-like form that blocked Jill and Carlos's path.
• Jill asked Leon for help, and he told her to stand back before she turned to see a sight she would never forget.

Leon revealed that his armor was only a seal, then destroyed the third-stage Tyrant and much of the surrounding city with two punches. He left Jill and Carlos to gather civilians and headed for Raccoon City Hospital, while Jill and Carlos continued toward the subway station.

• Leon removed his armor and flew into the air, shocking Jill and Carlos.
• The Tyrant transformed into its third stage and attacked Leon with a roar and a mass of tentacles.
• Leon struck the Tyrant, launching it and nearby buildings into the sky before destroying them with a second punch.
• Leon apologized to Jill and Carlos for the damage, told them to gather civilians, and flew off with JARVIS toward Raccoon City Hospital.
• Jill decided to accompany Carlos to the subway station and keep watch over him as debris began falling across the city.