Chapter Summaries

Tony underwent the SS3 Enhancement Serum and gained extraordinary strength and biological abilities, then stayed with Leon to help fight the zombies. Half a month later, survivors were reclaiming territory around the world, and Leon was widely known as the God of Man.

• Leon injected Tony with the SS3 Enhancement Serum, and Tony endured a painful transformation that healed his chest wound and reshaped his body.
• After eating and testing his new abilities, Tony learned he had immense strength, speed, and control over E-Mold, fire, his tissues, and blood.
• Tony chose to remain in the world and help eliminate zombies while Leon continued fighting and planned to give Pepper the SS2 Serum.
• Half a month later, most Raccoon City refugees had received S-virus enhancements, and Jill formed an army to reclaim occupied territories.
• Leon distributed the Final S-virus to survivor bases while Tony fought alongside the main forces by day and secretly modified his armor at night.
• As the world began recovering from the apocalypse, people across the world came to call Leon the God of Man.

The apocalypse ended as the Seville Republic and other powers eradicated the remaining zombies, and World Consciousness rewarded Leon with half its Authority and a gene self-locking ability. Leon then prepared to leave the Resident Evil world with Tony and Sherry, while Jill and Ada planned to join him later.

• Jill's forces unified the United States, and the Seville Republic and International Joint Organization formed as the surviving powers divided governance of the world.
• The New Human Joint Forces destroyed the last infected regions and Umbrella bases, restoring Earth to a zombie-free state.
• World Consciousness gave Leon half its Authority and the Gene Self-Locking Ability, allowing him to control aspects of the world and remove the Kryptonian changes from his DNA.
• Leon told Jill and Ada he planned to leave, and Jill promised to join him once the country was peaceful while Ada agreed to accompany her.
• Leon told Tony he was leaving, destroyed their experimental products and documents, and said goodbye with Tony and Sherry to the crowd in Raccoon City before they disappeared.

Leon brought Sherry to Stark Mansion, where she settled into her new room and learned she would move with him to New York. After reading her to sleep, Leon went to the laboratory and found Tony hiding a suit of armor.

• Leon and Tony brought Sherry into the garage, where the disinfection system soaked her, and she realized they had arranged the prank on purpose.
• Leon carried Sherry to her room and introduced its smart devices, which kept her curious and distracted for hours.
• Leon reassured Sherry that she would stay with him and explained that they would move to New York, where he would oversee his organization and Stark Industries' tower.
• Leon promised to tell Sherry a bedtime story, read from Ben's book, and left after she fell asleep.
• Leon entered the laboratory and caught Tony frantically covering a suit of armor with a black cloth.

Leon took Sherry to New York to visit the new organization headquarters and introduce her to the Widow agents, while Natasha handled the Advanced Idea Mechanics acquisition in Tennessee. The chapter left Leon stunned when he discovered Yelena had painted a Superman mural resembling him, complete with underwear on the outside.

• Leon asked Tony to join him on the trip to New York, but Tony stayed behind to work on his armor and agreed that Sherry would keep the Birkin surname.
• Leon flew Sherry to New York and arrived at the newly acquired New Technology Tower, where JARVIS reported that Widow agents were renovating it.
• JARVIS told Leon that Natasha was in Tennessee fighting Killian while handling the Advanced Idea Mechanics acquisition.
• Leon learned that Yelena was painting a mural in the lobby, although the renovation plans had not included one.
• Leon and Sherry saw Yelena's Superman mural, which resembled Leon and showed the hero wearing red underwear over his uniform.

Leon visited the Widows’ building with Sherry, where Yelena’s Superman murals and antics embarrassed him before he spent the day helping the agents. Back at home, he discovered Tony and Pepper had made their relationship official, and the noise convinced him to leave for the Resident Evil world alone for a while.

• Leon confronted Yelena and the Widows about murals portraying him as Superman in underwear, forbidding them from putting his face in future decorations.
• Leon toured the building with Sherry, then left her with Yelena to handle her identity papers while he helped the Widows with their work.
• Sherry and Yelena played together throughout the day, and Sherry said goodbye to Yelena before Leon took her home.
• Leon saw Tony and Pepper together in the laboratory and realized their relationship had become serious after Pepper’s enhancement.
• Unable to sleep through Tony and Pepper’s noisy exertions, Leon decided he needed to move out and traveled alone to the Resident Evil world.

After returning from the Resident Evil world, Leon prepared to move to New York with Sherry and showed Pepper how the serum had transformed her appearance. He and Sherry left to look for a house, while Tony and Pepper stayed behind and planned to reunite with them in New York.

• Leon returned home after spending forty days in the Resident Evil world, having grown stronger and filled Ada and Jill's wages.
• Leon introduced Sherry to Pepper and told Tony and Pepper that he planned to move with Sherry to New York.
• Leon gave Pepper a mirror, and she was amazed by the changes to her appearance after receiving the serum.
• Pepper supported Leon's move and mentioned that Stark Industries planned to relocate its headquarters to Manhattan.
• Leon told Tony and Pepper that other people from his company would help care for Sherry, then took Sherry into the air and left to look for a house.

Leon settled Sherry into his Brooklyn residence and brought her to the Organization Building, where he showed her the underground laboratory and introduced her to Natasha and Yelena. After Sherry and Yelena went off to explore together, Natasha asked Leon what he wanted to discuss.

• Leon showed Sherry their new apartment and brought her to the nearby Organization Building.
• Natasha gave Leon Pioneer Technology's equity transfer agreement and explained that Killian had been sent to prison through Stark's channels.
• Leon introduced Sherry to Natasha, who welcomed the girl and learned that she and Yelena had already become friends.
• Leon took Natasha and Sherry to the renovated underground laboratory, where Sherry marveled at its advanced facilities.
• Yelena led Sherry off to explore the laboratory, and Natasha asked Leon what he wanted to tell her.

Leon told Natasha about his and Tony’s trip to another world and gave her and Yelena SS2 Serum, which healed their bodies and greatly enhanced them. Over the following days, he gave the other Widow agents SS1 Serum, leaving the newly strengthened organization increasingly loyal and ready to challenge the world.

• Leon told Natasha about the Resident Evil world and asked her to keep the serum and world-hopping secret from Yelena for now.
• Leon injected Natasha and Yelena with SS2 Serum, which evolved their genes, boosted their strength, and repaired the damage from the Red Room’s modifications.
• Yelena broke down in gratitude and threw herself at Leon, while Natasha hurried to restrain her sister’s overenthusiastic reaction.
• Over the following days, Leon and Natasha injected the Widow agents with SS1 Serum, greatly increasing their physical and mental abilities.
• Natasha watched the enhanced agents grow more loyal to Leon and anticipated that they would soon shake the world.

Leon founded the Men in Black with 313 former Widows, declaring that they would serve him and protect Earth from hidden threats. He equipped them with armor and uniforms, and the newly named agents began their work under his leadership.

• Leon told Natasha to keep training the Widows, rescuing those still captive, and preparing for the right moment to eliminate Hydra.
• After a week without action from Nick Fury, 313 liberated Widow agents joined Leon's forces, and the renovated Organization Building was completed.
• Leon formally established the Men in Black, explained the threats hidden on Earth, and led the agents in taking an oath.
• Leon gave each agent a suit of armor and a black uniform, renamed them Men in Black, and assigned Natasha Agent N and Yelena Agent Y.

Leon ordered the Men in Black to exploit Hydra's attack on Nick Fury by spreading information about Hydra and preparing to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. The chapter ended with a badly injured Nick Fury seeking allies to reclaim S.H.I.E.L.D. from Hydra.

• Leon founded the Superhero Operations Company to fund the Men in Black and appointed Yelena its acting chief operating officer.
• Leon returned from the Resident Evil world with his strength at 1.93 million tons and planned to visit Kamar-Taj after dealing with Hydra and the Ten-Ring Gang.
• Natasha showed Leon footage of Hydra agents attacking Nick Fury's car, and Leon ordered the Men in Black to spread Hydra intelligence while withholding information about Hydra inside S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Leon told Natasha and Yelena to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. and copy its agent records for a later online release, while Sherry was told to focus on school.
• In an underground base, the wounded Nick Fury told Hawkeye, Phil Coulson, and Hill that he needed allies to take S.H.I.E.L.D. back from Hydra.

Hydra was exposed worldwide, sparking a violent purge and a furious dispute among its leaders. Meanwhile, Nick Fury and Phil Coulson visited Tony Stark and offered him a case left by his father that might help with the Arc Reactor.

• Political leaders received documents revealing Hydra agents, and coordinated raids confirmed that the intelligence was true.
• Hydra leaders Alexander Pierce, Baron Strucker, and Madame Hydra argued over the leak and agreed that Pierce would use S.H.I.E.L.D. to hide those exposed by forging proof of their deaths.
• Nick Fury and Phil Coulson tried to enter Stark Mansion, but Tony's security system detected them and an armored suit escorted them to him.
• Fury offered Tony a black case containing something his father had left at S.H.I.E.L.D., suggesting it might help solve the Arc Reactor's problems.

Tony watched Howard’s recording and finally understood the love his father had never expressed, then learned from Leon that the fight against Hydra had already begun. As Pierce prepared to use three Helicarriers for Hydra’s operation, Fury and his allies planned to infiltrate them and stop the plot.

• Nick Fury urged Tony to become a hero, and Tony dismissed him before opening Howard’s box.
• Tony watched Howard’s recording and heard his father call him the greatest thing he had ever created.
• Tony called Leon and learned that they had already started making moves against Hydra.
• Pierce secured approval for S.H.I.E.L.D. to conduct an operation and prepared three Helicarriers, while Hydra agents concealed their intentions among the forces.
• Fury learned that Tony had not contacted him and ordered his allies to infiltrate the Helicarriers and stop Hydra.

Nick Fury called on Talos and the Skrulls to help him infiltrate a Helicarrier and reclaim S.H.I.E.L.D. from Hydra. The infiltration reached the command room, where Sharon Carter exposed the group and they were surrounded.

• Nick Fury contacted Talos for help, while Leon listened in and resolved to drive the Skrulls from Earth after dealing with Hydra.
• Nick Fury and the others infiltrated the Helicarrier with Skrulls secretly replacing guards and government officials.
• Hawkeye, Coulson, Hill, and Fury knocked out agents as they headed toward the command room, unable to tell ordinary agents from Hydra members.
• The group spotted Rumlow in the command room, and Fury identified him as Hydra.
• Sharon Carter spotted the four agents peering through a vent and confronted them, leaving them surrounded after they climbed down.
• The command room agents questioned how Nick Fury was alive, saying Hydra had killed him two days earlier.

Nick Fury accused Rumlow and other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents of being Hydra, but Tony Stark’s livestream exposed Hydra’s infiltration and triggered a firefight aboard the Helicarrier. The Hydra forces overwhelmed Fury’s side, while Agent K secretly broadcast the battle to the outside world.

• Sharon Carter and Rumlow challenged Nick Fury’s disappearance, and Fury accused Rumlow and other agents aboard the Helicarrier of being Hydra.
• An agent displayed Tony Stark’s livestream, in which Tony revealed evidence that Hydra still existed and had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Fury used Tony’s claims to confront Rumlow, and Hawkeye aimed an arrow at Rumlow as agents took sides.
• Gunfire erupted in the command room, and a green-skinned creature attacked Fury’s group as the fighting turned against them.
• Hydra’s counterattack defeated Hawkeye and the other defenders, while Agent K secretly livestreamed the battle to the outside world.

Agent M and Rising Tide leaked footage exposing Hydra's attack on the Helicarrier, which spread across Stark Industries' websites and reached representatives gathered at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters. The representatives confronted Pierce, who ordered armed agents to subdue them and blamed Tony Stark and Rising Tide.

• Agent M uploaded footage of the Helicarrier battle to Rising Tide, and its members decided to make the leak public.
• Agent M placed the edited video on the homepages of Stark Industries' websites and apps, drawing millions of viewers into online debate.
• Pierce showed the country representatives S.H.I.E.L.D.'s supposedly successful operation and received a calm report from Agent Sitwell.
• The representatives watched Tony Stark's livestream and Rising Tide's footage, then confronted Pierce and sided with the Russian representative.
• Pierce left the room and ordered armed agents to subdue the representatives, blaming Tony Stark and Rising Tide for the leak.

Pierce rallied Hydra’s leaders to wage war and used nuclear-armed Helicarriers to threaten cities and force nations to comply. As the threat spread online, Rumlow killed seven Skrulls aboard a Helicarrier and knocked Nick Fury unconscious.

• Pierce persuaded Baron Strucker, Madame Hydra, and the other Hydra leaders to launch a war, using hydrogen bombs on three Helicarriers as leverage while Hydra seized the Middle East.
• Pierce showed captive national representatives that the Helicarriers were hovering over San Francisco, Poland, and Sokovia, and threatened to bomb the cities unless their countries obeyed.
• Skye and Miles intercepted Pierce’s recorded threat and posted it online, causing panic among people beneath the Helicarriers.
• Nick Fury waited for a disguised Skrull to drop a knife, but Rumlow recognized and shot the Skrull, then killed six more Skrulls who reacted to its death.
• Rumlow knocked Fury unconscious and ordered the Hydra agents to resume work, while Agent K filmed the scene and transmitted it outside.

Agent K rescued Fury and the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents from the Helicarrier and told them the Men in Black would handle Hydra. Meanwhile, Hydra’s Helicarrier trapped Warsaw and two other cities in panic, leaving the story with the population unable to flee by air or road.

• Leon ordered Agent K to retreat with Fury and his men while keeping the Skrull footage unreleased.
• Agent K convinced Rumlow she was a Hydra operative, then carried Fury, Hawkeye, Hill, and Sharon Carter off the Helicarrier in a Quinjet.
• Agent K landed in Warsaw, told the group to leave Hydra to the Men in Black, and flew back toward the Helicarrier in her battle suit.
• Hill freed the group, and they realized the Quinjet had landed directly beneath the Helicarrier.
• Hydra’s Helicarrier blocked aircraft from taking off as people fled the cities, while traffic clogged the roads around Warsaw’s airport.

As Warsaw descended into panic after Pierce’s video, Agent K and Agent M livestreamed Leon flying toward a Helicarrier, drawing the world’s attention back to Superman. Leon lifted the Helicarrier into the clouds while Hydra scrambled to respond, and Rumlow admitted they had no effective way to hurt him.

• Wealthy residents joined Warsaw’s traffic jam as citizens mocked them and the city’s panic spread into riots and looting.
• Leon flew over Warsaw and continued toward the Helicarrier while Agent K recorded him and Agent M launched a Rising Tide livestream portal.
• Netizens in the threatened cities called for Superman to save them, and the livestream showed him flying toward the Helicarrier.
• Leon pressed both hands against the Helicarrier and pushed it higher into the sky as viewers watched and reacted.
• Pierce raged at Rumlow and the other Helicarrier commanders for letting Nick Fury escape, and Rumlow said they had no effective means of injuring Superman.

Leon carried the Helicarriers away from Earth as Hydra detonated their nuclear weapons, but he emerged unharmed from the blast. After a recorded video showed his return, people around the world celebrated and Warsaw erupted in relief.

• Pierce ordered Rumlow to detonate every nuclear weapon aboard the Helicarriers, even though the crew would die in the explosions.
• Rumlow’s fellow soldiers killed him and seven others after he tried to carry out the order, and a senior Hydra member took command.
• Leon briefly entered the command room, collected two Skrull corpses, and told M to retrieve them before returning to support the Helicarrier.
• The Helicarrier exploded during the livestream, swallowing Leon in nuclear fire and cutting the broadcast as Agent K watched anxiously.
• Leon emerged from the blast unharmed, and an edited video of his survival appeared online, prompting worldwide cheers and celebrations in Warsaw.

Superman destroyed Hydra’s Poland base with a single punch, terrifying governments around the world. After Hydra’s defeat, Pierce snapped and ordered nuclear strikes on San Francisco and Sokovia to force Superman to choose whom to save.

• Pierce ordered the remaining Helicarriers to launch nuclear missiles at Superman, who survived the earlier nuclear blast.
• Superman flew to Hydra’s Poland base, where Madame Hydra prepared to negotiate and surrender.
• Superman punched the ground, obliterating the base and its occupants while the shock wave devastated the surrounding land.
• Superman left after surveying the destruction, and Pierce accepted that Hydra had been defeated.
• Pierce ordered hydrogen bombs launched at San Francisco and Sokovia, dismissing protests from the bound representatives.