Chapter Summaries

Pietro’s attack on Tony was redirected by Yang Ming, while Wanda used Chaos Magic to turn Tony and Steve against each other. Yang Ming broke her mental attack and subdued both men, then stopped Pietro again as he approached Wanda.

• Pietro charged at Tony, but Yang Ming opened doorways that redirected him into a steel column, leaving him injured in a crater.
• Wanda used Chaos Magic to trigger Tony’s and Steve’s traumatic memories, making them fight each other.
• Wanda attacked Yang Ming’s mind, but his Conqueror’s Haki overwhelmed her and severed her control over Tony and Steve.
• Yang Ming used high-voltage electricity to stop Tony and Steve’s fight and warned he could shock them again if they were not clearheaded.
• Pietro tried to attack Yang Ming, but Yang Ming struck the floor with lightning and knocked him down.
• Wanda gathered red energy again and told Yang Ming to stay away, calling it a blood debt with Stark Industries.

Yang Ming defeated Wanda and Pietro, then helped Tony uncover the Stark Industries weapon that had trapped the twins as children and arranged treatment for them. He rescued the group from Strucker’s countdown and destroyed the Hydra base and armory, leaving Strucker captured and the Mind Scepter with Tony.

• Yang Ming incapacitated Wanda and Pietro, while Tony and Steve reviewed records showing a Stark Industries shell had trapped the twins in Sokovia when they were children.
• Yang Ming warned that the twins’ health was deteriorating and agreed to treat them if Tony supplied equipment, anesthesiologists, and a fee.
• Strucker took the Mind Scepter, activated the base’s demolition charges, and fled through an underground passage.
• Yang Ming intercepted Strucker, took the Scepter, and opened a doorway for Tony and Steve to evacuate the twins and Strucker.
• Yang Ming redirected the explosion into a Hydra armory, destroying it and the base before handing the Scepter to Tony.

Yang Ming challenged General Alexei’s attempt to seize the Scepter and the wounded twins, exposing evidence that Sokovia’s military had tolerated Hydra’s experiments. As Yang Ming opened a route to the clinic, a soldier raised a gun and fired.

• General Alexei ordered Yang Ming, Tony, and Steve to surrender the Scepter, Strucker, and the twins, but Yang Ming accused the military of tolerating Hydra’s human experiments.
• Yang Ming revealed that he had removed the Scepter’s energy module, while Tony and Steve insisted that the wounded twins needed medical treatment.
• Yang Ming recorded the confrontation and contacted Fury, while Tony displayed transport records linking Hydra deliveries to the National Defense Army Logistics Department.
• Steve urged Yang Ming to move the wounded, and Yang Ming opened a doorway to the clinic while warning the general that the recording had been backed up.
• An adjutant reported that the Logistics Department demanded an end to negotiations, and Yang Ming spotted a soldier raising a gun and told him to get down just before a shot rang out.

Yang Ming stopped Hydra operatives from framing the Avengers, saved General Alexei, and uncovered a remote signal linked to bombs inside the captured men. The general was already being driven away when Yang Ming warned that the vehicle carrying him was in danger.

• Hydra operatives shot General Alexei and other soldiers, then tried to make the attack look like the Avengers had started a massacre.
• Yang Ming, Steve, and Tony disarmed and captured the eight attackers while Yang Ming urgently operated on Alexei's neck wound.
• Yang Ming demanded that the Sokovian military protect Wanda and the other children and keep the captured men alive for questioning.
• Yang Ming discovered a fresh needle puncture and concealed piece of metal on one captured man, which Tony identified as a remote signal device.
• The captured operatives woke as red lights appeared on their chests, and Yang Ming warned the adjutant that bombs were inside their bodies.
• Yang Ming ordered the military to stop the vehicle carrying the unconscious Alexei, but its engine had already started and its door had closed.

Yang Ming saved Alexei, exposed Hydra’s plot, and brought Strucker and the wounded twins to his clinic, where Wanda and Pietro agreed to work off their treatment costs. The chapter ended with Yang Ming revealing that he had secretly kept the Mind Stone from the Scepter.

• Yang Ming stopped Alexei’s transport, disabled the suicide soldiers’ synchronized bombs, and secured Alexei’s agreement to pay his fees and invite the Avengers to help.
• Yang Ming handed Strucker over to Hill, brought the twins and Bucky to the clinic, and refused to let S.H.I.E.L.D. enter the surgical area.
• Tony showed Wanda and Pietro records clarifying Stark Industries’ role in their parents’ deaths and Hydra’s manipulation, while they saw Bucky struggling to recover his identity.
• Wanda and Pietro signed contracts to work off the cost of their treatment at Yang Ming’s clinic.
• Yang Ming told Tony the Scepter had no Energy Core, then secretly opened a container holding the Mind Stone.