Chapter Summaries

Natasha and Barton responded to a New York emergency that turned out to be an out-of-control Hulk, while Nick Fury tried to coordinate S.H.I.E.L.D.’s response. As Hulk fought the military, a masked fighter transformed into a fiery-red gorilla, whom Jiang Xiang’s clone recognized as Character Card-Zhang Fei.

• Barton returned to the base, met Yan Shuangying, and was interrupted before they could spar by an alarm summoning the combat personnel.
• Natasha and Barton evacuated civilians near the explosions as Nick Fury investigated the military research facility and faced questions from the World Security Council.
• Hulk appeared in the street and attacked nearby soldiers, forcing Natasha and Barton to take cover.
• A masked, muscular man confronted Hulk, transformed into a fiery-red gorilla, and roared at him.
• Jiang Xiang’s hidden clone recognized the transformed fighter as Character Card-Zhang Fei.

Natasha and Barton escaped the battle as Hulk and Zhang Fei fought through the street, leaving many people dead. Zhang Fei defeated Hulk, who returned to Bruce Banner, then ignored General Ross and carried Banner away.

• Natasha led Barton away from the battle when Hulk and Zhang Fei turned toward each other, while some soldiers were killed by flying debris.
• Hulk and Zhang Fei traded blows and makeshift weapons as Jiang Xiang received a steady stream of Emotional Value.
• Hulk charged through buildings, but Zhang Fei dodged and struck him repeatedly with his disc until Hulk shrank back into Bruce Banner.
• General Ross demanded that Zhang Fei hand over Bruce Banner and come with the military, but Zhang Fei laughed and left with Banner.
• Natasha, Barton, and the agents surveyed the burning street and mourned the many casualties.

After Zhang Fei stopped Hulk, he helped Bruce Banner begin accepting and communicating with him in exchange for money and language lessons. As New York dealt with the destruction and public backlash, three people with four-leaf clover tattoos focused on targets at Michigan University.

• Bruce Banner woke up, remembered transforming into Hulk, and thanked Zhang Fei for stopping him.
• Banner asked Zhang Fei to make Hulk disappear or teach him to control him, and Zhang Fei agreed to help in exchange for money and lessons in Banner's language.
• At a cabin, Zhang Fei told Banner to accept Hulk and guide him as he developed, and Banner named him Hulk.
• Zhang Fei and Banner retreated safely while New York police, the FBI, the military, and S.H.I.E.L.D. disputed responsibility and the media and protesters reacted to the destruction.
• Three people bearing four-leaf clover tattoos discussed their targets and decided to focus on people at Michigan University.

Jiang Xiang opened a Platinum Box and gained Dende, new talismans, a Terminator blueprint, and a Tien Shinhan card after combining fragments. Elsewhere, a covert team seized a man from Melinda May and took him to Al Psychiatric Hospital, leaving May suspicious and defeated.

• Jiang Xiang watched his emotional value rise past one hundred thousand and exchanged it for a Platinum Box.
• Jiang Xiang received a Sealed Rabbit Talisman, a Dragon Talisman, a Terminator T-800 Blueprint, a B-grade fragment, and a Dende Avatar Card.
• Jiang Xiang combined ten B-grade fragments and obtained a Tien Shinhan Character Card, then began forming a plan.
• Billy escaped from an abandoned house where three injured girls had been restrained, while a burly man freed them.
• Melinda May tried to take the burly man from a group posing as FBI agents, but they rejected her and drove off with him and Billy.
• The supposed agents removed their uniforms after leaving and headed toward Al Psychiatric Hospital.

Jiang Xiang discovered that the Four-Leaf Clover Organization had captured David and Billy to torment them into believing they were mentally ill. After leaving a Three-Star Dragon Ball at Al Psychiatric Hospital, Jiang Xiang departed while the captives endured electrotherapy and Dr. Nicole recounted their pasts.

• Jiang Xiang learned that the Four-Leaf Clover Organization had targeted David after discovering his new physical abilities.
• The organization’s fanatic and Dr. Nicole had David and Billy drugged, restrained, and drained of blood for their backer.
• Jiang Xiang’s clone entered the hospital and observed the fanatic and Dr. Nicole discussing their plan to break the captives psychologically.
• Jiang Xiang left a Three-Star Dragon Ball at Al Psychiatric Hospital and quietly departed.
• David and Billy were tortured with electrotherapy, then taken to Dr. Nicole to hear accounts of their pasts.

Dr. Nicole tried to convince David, Billy, and Zhui'er that their powers were delusions, but Zhui'er escaped Al Psychiatric Hospital and uncovered evidence of experiments. He freed Billy and prepared to expose the organization, while Tien Shinhan raced toward the hospital.

• Dr. Nicole dismissed Billy's and David's abilities as symptoms of mental illness and told Zhui'er that he suffered from delusions.
• Tien Shinhan ran across the sea toward Al Psychiatric Hospital, while Nick Fury ordered Coulson to follow Tony Stark and Krillin.
• Zhui'er killed an orderly with a shard of glass and searched the records room, finding gruesome experimental reports.
• Zhui'er concluded that the public needed to learn the truth about the Four-Leaf Clover Organization and other cruel organizations.
• Zhui'er freed Billy and told him to remain in his Beast personality.
• Billy killed two guards who entered the surveillance room.

Krillin brought Tony Stark and his companions to Al Psychiatric Hospital after sensing a Dragon Ball there. He explained that collecting all seven Dragon Balls could grant three wishes, leaving Nick Fury and the others alarmed by their potential effects.

• Tony Stark, Happy, and Krillin arrived near Al Psychiatric Hospital, where Victor approached them on Coulson's orders.
• Krillin said he had sensed a Dragon Ball at the hospital and explained that the Gods' Lineage created Dragon Balls.
• Tony bought a villa, and Krillin told him that collecting all seven Dragon Balls allowed three wishes, limited by the dragon power supplied by a god.
• Krillin described possible wishes, including gaining wealth and status, curing illness, causing injury or death, obtaining things, and learning skills.
• Krillin said a wish for status among ordinary people could make someone a leader whom others had to obey.

Tony, S.H.I.E.L.D., and Victor learned that only the winner of the battle could obtain a Dragon Ball, while Billy the Beast attacked Al Psychiatric Hospital. The chapter ended with David escaping confinement and reaching the parking lot just after Billy had killed the security guards.

• Krillin explained that Dragon Balls could grant wishes but could not simply be taken by force, prompting Tony to consider preventing others from using them.
• Nick Fury ordered Coulson and Victor to withdraw and keep the Dragon Ball secret while waiting to search for one after the battle.
• Billy the Beast began destroying Al Psychiatric Hospital, and Coulson and Victor watched as he escaped the building and killed the security captain.
• Zuer told David that Billy was killing people, then shut off the speaker after provoking him.
• David broke through his iron door and ran to the parking lot, where he arrived too late to save the guards.

David failed to hurt Billy and fought to survive as Billy attacked him, while an armed FBI squad entered Al Psychiatric Hospital and was wiped out. Nick Fury connected the mysterious figure near the hospital to the Dragon Ball and suspected he was waiting to take it.

• David attacked Billy with rebar and glass, but neither harmed Billy in his Beast persona, and Billy charged after him.
• Coulson reported the FBI vehicles to Nick Fury, while Zuer watched from inside Al Psychiatric Hospital and Victor observed the fight from another vantage point.
• The FBI squad opened fire on David and Billy, but Billy and an unseen attacker killed the squad members.
• Billy knocked David down and hammered his head as Zuer watched, while Coulson and Victor waited for the fight to settle.
• A mysterious figure arrived near David and Billy and sat down to watch them fight.
• Nick Fury learned that the figure from the sea was near Al Psychiatric Hospital and suspected he had come for the Dragon Ball.

Zuer finished transmitting evidence of Al Psychiatric Hospital’s abuses as Tien Shinhan arrived after the battle and searched for the Dragon Ball. The Dragon Ball appeared before Zuer, who revealed it to Tien Shinhan, and Tien reached to take it.

• Zuer used his contacts to send information about Al Psychiatric Hospital to media outlets, officials, and other organizations while David and Billy the Beast fought.
• The fanatic and his armed personnel used powerful flashlights to weaken Billy, then the fanatic shot him dead.
• Tien Shinhan arrived, demanded the Dragon Ball, and defeated the fanatic and the personnel who fired at him.
• After Zuer completed the data transmission, the Dragon Ball appeared in the surveillance room and settled into his hand.
• Krillin sent the Dragon Ball to Zuer, who took it outside and showed it to Tien Shinhan when he asked about it.

Krillin fought Tien Shinhan over a Dragon Ball until they agreed to stop, leaving S.H.I.E.L.D. and Tony Stark to negotiate with Zuer for it. Zuer wanted his leaked experimental data made public or his illness cured, and Tony gave Coulson the chance to meet the latter condition.

• Krillin interrupted Tien Shinhan as he reached for the Dragon Ball, and the two fought with hand-to-hand combat and energy attacks while Coulson and the others watched.
• After a prolonged battle damaged Al Psychiatric Hospital, Krillin and Tien Shinhan called a halt and agreed neither could overcome the other’s moves.
• Coulson asked Zuer what he wanted for the Dragon Ball, and Zuer said he wanted his leaked superhuman experiment data seen by more people.
• When Coulson refused to promise that, Tony Stark offered to cure Zuer, and he and Coulson negotiated until Tony yielded the opportunity to him.
• Coulson received Zuer’s medical record and saw that it listed rickets, which S.H.I.E.L.D. could treat.

Tony grew anxious after the psychiatric hospital revelations and secretly investigated Coulson’s agency while Obadiah plotted over his waning influence and the smuggling issue. Jiang Xiang opened a Gold Box and received a Naruto Uzumaki incarnation card and a Sealed Rat Talisman.

• Tony woke early, entered his lab, and worked on metal despite Pepper urging him to rest.
• Tony asked JARVIS to investigate Coulson’s intelligence agency, then refused to use all available servers to breach its firewall.
• Obadiah, angered by Tony’s consolidation of power and worried about smuggling, called Tonga and arranged to meet at their usual place.
• Jiang Xiang discussed the emotional value from Zuer’s revelations and opened a twenty-thousand-point Gold Box.
• Jiang Xiang received a Naruto Uzumaki incarnation card and a Sealed Rat Talisman.

Jiang Xiang opened a Platinum Box and gained Dr. Gero, a Red Gourd, and a Fusion card, then sent Gero toward Siberia to build a T-800. Meanwhile, Freddy met Obadiah and used a coin to answer Obadiah’s question about Howard Stark’s death, leaving Obadiah with a costly confirmation that it was not an accident.

• Jiang Xiang received Dr. Gero, the Red Gourd, and a Fusion card from a Platinum Box.
• Jiang Xiang decided Dr. Gero could build a T-800 and arranged to send an avatar to Siberia.
• Freddy met Obadiah at a restaurant after Tonga introduced them, offering to sell knowledge about past or present events.
• Obadiah asked whether Howard Stark had died in an accident, and Freddy’s Yes-or-No Coin answered no.
• Freddy charged Obadiah one million dollars for the answer.

Obadiah misread Tony’s efforts to reclaim control of Stark Industries as a threat and began plotting to have him killed, while Tony grew wary of leaving the city. Jiang Xiang learned that Obadiah was contacting gangs in the Afwer Region, where Tony was being sent to demonstrate weapons.

• Freddy used the Silver Ring Book to show Obadiah images of Howard Stark’s car crash and murder, but could not identify the killers without more money.
• Obadiah’s company went bankrupt, leaving him with one million dollars, as Tony investigated irregularities at Stark Industries and traced them to Obadiah.
• Obadiah asked Freddy what it would cost to make Tony disappear, then declined when Freddy demanded thirty percent of Stark Industries’ shares.
• Tony refused Pepper’s request for him to travel to the Afwer Region to demonstrate weapons and told her he was fine.
• Jiang Xiang received word that Obadiah had contacted Tonga and was seeking local gangs in the Afwer Region.

Jiang Xiang decided to recruit Ivan Vanko to help produce T-800s and strengthen his factions. A T-800-1 protected Ivan during a robbery, but Ivan’s father was killed in the attack.

• Jiang Xiang considered how Ivan Vanko could help build machines and bring in new faction members.
• Jiang Xiang sent the Dr. Gero clone to handle Ivan Vanko.
• Ivan Vanko reflected on his father's drunken decline and their family's life after his father's deportation.
• Armed robbers broke into Ivan Vanko's home, and a T-800-1 cut down the attackers.
• Ivan Vanko threw himself onto his father's bed in grief after his father was killed.

Dr. Gero brought Ivan Vanko to his underground base after Anton Vanko’s death and offered him a chance to join the Mechanical Sect by studying its textbooks. Meanwhile, Jiang Xiang spent Emotional Value on Silver Boxes and acquired several supernatural items, ending ready to watch a scene involving a loving uncle and devoted nephew.

• Dr. Gero’s T-800-1 took Ivan Vanko from the robbers’ attack and brought him to Dr. Gero’s underground base.
• Dr. Gero told Ivan that he had known Anton Vanko and offered Ivan a place to stay.
• Ivan asked to learn among Dr. Gero’s instruments, and Dr. Gero tested his claimed skills in weapons design and mechanical manufacturing.
• Dr. Gero gave Ivan introductory Mechanical Sect textbooks and made passing an exam the condition for becoming an entry-level member.
• Jiang Xiang spent Emotional Value on Silver Boxes and obtained supernatural items including a Maoshan Talisman Manual, a Command Staff, Sadako’s Videotape, and a Rope Ghost Incarnation Card.
• Jiang Xiang considered the new items useful and prepared to watch a scene involving a loving uncle and devoted nephew.

Tony Stark held a weapons showcase to counter a media campaign against Stark Industries, but Freddy interrupted the event and challenged him to a mysterious game. Tony reunited with Pepper and the showcase ended, while the threat remained unresolved.

• Obadiah watched the media campaign he had funded fail to shake Tony, whose bodyguard had caught a bullet fired at him.
• Tony presented Stark Industries' new Majeck Missile and other weapons to military representatives, including General Ross and S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Victor.
• Krillin took Tony offstage when the screen changed, and Freddy appeared after disrupting the venue's network signals.
• Freddy sent Tony a cryptic letter about breaking a curse and declared that they would play a game.
• Krillin told Tony that Pepper was safe, and Tony reunited with her as Happy reported that Mr. Stein had stabilized the showcase.

Tony investigated Freddy’s letters with Krillin and Jiang Xiang, who found only the Toy Ball unusual and harmless. After the warnings faded from attention, multiple victims were found strangled by their own hands, prompting George to report the strange deaths to his superiors.

• Tony opened Freddy’s box and read a letter challenging him to determine which claims in the previous letter were real.
• Tony asked Krillin and then Jiang Xiang to examine Freddy’s letters and the Toy Ball; Jiang Xiang found nothing abnormal in the letters but detected something unusual about the ball.
• Jiang Xiang took the Toy Ball after assuring Tony that it was not dangerous, and Tony gradually dismissed Freddy’s warning as a prank.
• A sanitation worker discovered several bodies in black plastic bags, and George arrived to investigate the deaths.
• George learned that three victims had no connection and appeared to have strangled themselves; Sherlock called to report three more similar cases.
• George told his officers to report the deaths to their superiors because they could not handle the case.

Coulson and S.H.I.E.L.D. struggled to stop a wave of mysterious deaths linked to Freddy as the uncanny energy grew stronger. When Sadako attacked Tony Stark and Pepper, Krillin destroyed her as she emerged from a mirror, but an explosion immediately rocked Stark Tower.

• Coulson investigated a series of deaths and found notes linking the victims to Freddy and warning that more would die.
• Old Man detected only a faint trace of uncanny energy, but the energy increased as strange incidents multiplied.
• Coulson told Nick Fury that investigators had found damaged videotapes in the victims’ homes, and Fury ordered him to retrieve Hydra’s energy weapons from 084.
• Nick Fury learned that Tony Stark was under attack and sent Coulson to Stark Industries as an explosion erupted in Stark Tower.
• Sadako emerged from a mirror and nearly strangled Tony and Pepper, but Krillin blasted her and shattered the mirror.
• Tony and Krillin thought the danger had passed, then another explosion shook the building.

Coulson and Tony investigated Freddy’s note but found no confirmed way to banish Wraiths. Ah Xing appeared near Stark Tower, and Tony joined Coulson to meet him, suspecting the danger might still be nearby.

• Krillin told Coulson and Tony that he did not know how to banish Wraiths and found no trace of uncanny energy.
• Krillin found Freddy’s note challenging Tony to find a box that would reveal the game’s final chapter.
• Victor reported that Ah Xing had appeared near Stark Tower, and Tony spotted him on surveillance footage.
• Tony discovered that Ah Xing had seemingly materialized on an empty street and asked JARVIS to identify him.
• Coulson greeted Ah Xing, who dropped his solemn persona when Tony and Krillin arrived and enthusiastically introduced himself to Tony.