Chapter Summaries

John destroyed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s headquarters and Helicarriers after discovering the agency’s ties to the Skrulls and Hydra, then confronted Steve over Bucky’s past crimes. Alexander revealed that a wizard had influenced Hydra’s founding and planted plans across the century, leaving John to realize a larger conspiracy targeted him.

• Agent Hill found the S.H.I.E.L.D. Building sealed as John arrived and confronted her about the Skrulls and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s anti-wizard weapons.
• John crushed a Helicarrier into the S.H.I.E.L.D. Building, while Fury, Natasha, and Sam escaped and Rumlow survived the collapse using an Extremis capsule.
• John struck down Bucky, but Steve pleaded for him to spare Bucky and chose to defend him, ending his friendship with John.
• John left Steve and destroyed another Sky Aircraft Carrier with lightning, sending Steve and the wreckage into the water.
• Alexander told John that a wizard had influenced Red Skull and planted Hydra’s seeds across the century before he died in the collapsing building.
• John concluded that an unseen conspirator was targeting the Wizard King and wondered whether he still had a heart.

After S.H.I.E.L.D. collapsed, Nick Fury was summoned by the Wizard Circuit Court but brought to Nagini, who offered him a chance. In London, Mycroft secured government backing for the Children of Miracle to replace S.H.I.E.L.D., while John discovered Martha could control her own blood and tried to feed her.

• Natasha exposed S.H.I.E.L.D.'s operations, Steve was rescued from the wreckage, and Nick Fury burned his secret warehouse before Wilkertes Edward ordered him to come in.
• Credence took Fury to the Silver Hand Johnny building, where Nagini said the Wizard Circuit Court would put him on trial and offered him a chance.
• Mycroft persuaded the Prime Minister and the Queen to authorize the Children of Miracle as a new national protector called Oak Shield.
• John found Martha in the Manor, where she demonstrated that she could shape her own blood into a strong, cutting thread.
• Martha lost blood and became hungry, so John ordered food, but they waited until dark for the delivery.

Darcy was arrested for treason after helping Fury enter the Wizarding World and was brought before the Wizard Supreme Court for trial. Meanwhile, John agreed to train Martha, then reflected on creating a heart as he considered opposition to his return to the Wizarding Kingdom.

• Inspector Wilkertes arrested Darcy and charged him with treason for bringing Fury into the Wizarding World through an unauthorized Floo Network.
• Aurors confiscated Darcy’s wand and restrained him before taking him to the Wizard Supreme Court.
• Martha asked to stay with John so she could protect him, and he agreed to train her starting the next day.
• John recalled Alexander’s warning that some people in the Wizarding Kingdom opposed his return and resolved to create a heart.
• Darcy was brought into the Wizard Tribunal, where the Chief Arbiter opened his treason trial.

John trained Martha as she improved her blood-manipulation abilities and accepted a vial of her blood as a protective gift. Meanwhile, a group calling themselves the Insurgents declared war on magic and set out to kill John, leaving their threat looming over him.

• Martha used blood webs to fend off Tom during training, and John noted that she lasted sixteen minutes before collapsing from blood loss.
• John considered the unanswered questions surrounding Hydra, Zola, and the Skrulls, then learned that Ivan was preparing to fight Tony.
• John tracked reports of vampires being killed in Northern Europe and concluded that the group targeting him had left Britain.
• Frey, Blade, and another John killed a vampire viscount and named their group the Insurgents, declaring themselves enemies of magic who intended to kill the king of the Wizarding World.
• Martha improved her blood weapons and gave John a vial of her blood, and John formally introduced himself as John Wick while she gave her name as Martha Ratti.

Tony Stark and Ivan Vanko fought a duel in the New Jersey desert while John received notice that his London orphanage was closing and went to investigate. He found the orphanage seemingly abandoned, then encountered a suspended girl as blood surged down the corridor.

• Tony Stark and Ivan Vanko exchanged accusations before activating their armor and battling with whips, missiles, and energy beams.
• John tried tea-leaf divination, received a notice ordering him to vacate the orphanage, and Apparated away to inspect it.
• John entered the Silver Hand Angel Orphanage and found signs of neglect, including dusty classrooms and empty dormitories.
• John encountered a girl hanging from a rope in the corridor, and blood rushed from a doorway as the lights shattered.

John found that the children at the Silver Hand Angel Orphanage had been left without an administrator or teachers, and learned that a businessman was trying to force them out. He promised to handle the threat and considered how the children's unusual abilities might be put to use, while in New York Watson Wick introduced Rock Rumlow to Orlov.

• John asked Smedley Taylor, Bertram Otis, and Eleanor George to reveal their names and dispel Eleanor's illusion.
• John learned that the three children had developed flight, electricity, and illusion abilities after surviving human experiments, and that the orphanage administrator and teachers had left.
• Eleanor told John that a businessman and his criminal associates were harassing the children to drive them from the orphanage.
• John promised to deal with the businessman and considered bringing the children to the Children of Miracle.
• In New York, Watson Wick met with Orlov and introduced Rock Rumlow as a man working for him.

John learned about the orphanage residents’ mutated superpowers and decided to turn the orphanage into a school where they could train. Meanwhile, Tony and Ivan’s New Jersey battle ended inconclusively after Ivan launched an Ex-Wife Missile and his armor overheated.

• John explained that the Avengers’ abilities came from different sources and urged Eleanor, Bertram, and Smedley to experience the outside world.
• John announced he would close the orphanage, then promised the three could stay as students when he converted it into a school.
• John used MOSS to create a school plan, and Eleanor, Bertram, and Smedley concluded that John had superpowers after he freed them from magically binding straps.
• Tony and Ivan battered each other’s armors in New Jersey as Jianghu and Fighter joined the fight.
• Ivan launched an Ex-Wife Missile, and Tony sped away while Ivan’s overheated Fighter ejected him.
• Tony and Ivan’s battle ended without a clear winner, with both men believing they had neither won nor lost.

Tony recovered from his fight with Ivan and joined the Avengers as they prioritized recovering the Mind Stone Scepter from Baron Strucker. John brought Martha to the Silver Hand Genius Youth Academy, where he set Gerald a task and began expanding the school’s training grounds.

• Tony woke in the hospital, where Rhodey and the others confronted him about losing his fight with Ivan; Tony insisted Ivan had run away.
• After a week in the hospital, Tony joined the Avengers’ meeting at Avengers Tower, where Hill reported on the Second Alliance and the team agreed to pursue the Mind Stone Scepter held by Baron Strucker.
• Natasha brought Pink Teddy Bear to the meeting, and Tony abandoned his attempt to investigate it when she stopped him.
• John brought Martha to the Silver Hand Genius Youth Academy, where she demonstrated Blood Control for Eleanor and the other children.
• John gave Gerald money embezzled from the orphanage and instructed him to deliver the teachers’ unpaid wages personally.
• John assigned work to the group, and wizards bearing the Silverhand Fashion Architecture logo built new training grounds before a visitor arrived.

Mycroft visited John’s school, warned him that Hydra and Baron Strucker were active, and left after John refused government involvement. John spent over two months building a self-powered laboratory and a massive alchemical furnace, then emerged to find the students preparing for Christmas as Thor arrived as his next guest.

• Mycroft inspected the school and offered to send government agents as students, but John refused and warned him not to monitor the orphans.
• Mycroft told John that Hydra was active again and that Baron Strucker had lost a weapons shipment to a group of hijackers.
• John built a self-sustaining magic power source and a three-meter vibranium-reinforced alchemical furnace in his laboratory.
• Gerald delivered unpaid wages to his former music teacher, while Martha improved her stamina with a blood-replenishing tonic.
• John emerged from the laboratory during a snowball fight, buried Eleanor in a snowman, and assigned the students to fetch pine trees and clear snow.
• Thor arrived at the school, drowning his sorrows in alcohol, as John was about to welcome his second guest.

Thor sought comfort from John after Jane Foster and he ended their relationship, while Ariana, out of writing ideas at home, decided to go back to work. Ariana left with Little Bear and MOSS, leaving her father Watson wondering why his children kept going out.

• Thor told John that he and Jane Foster had ended their relationship because their work kept them apart.
• John turned Thor’s tea into Stars, a magical drink, and Thor drank too much and fell asleep on the couch.
• Mrs. Wick watched Ariana struggle to find a subject for her freelance writing at home.
• Ariana decided to go out to work, and Little Bear packed her luggage and joined her with MOSS.
• Watson learned Ariana had left and lamented that all his children loved going out.

Watson and Mrs. Wick celebrated Christmas while worrying over threats against their family, and Watson received a gift from John. At the Silver Hand Young Geniuses School, John celebrated with Thor and his students, who advanced in their abilities, and Gerald accepted the role of caretaker as Christmas ended and the new year passed.

• Watson told Mrs. Wick he suspected enemies beyond Hydra had targeted his family, and he vowed to make them pay.
• Basil delivered three gifts from John to the Wick home, including Spectrespecs for Watson.
• Thor joined John’s Christmas feast at the school, met the students, and coached Bertram in using his electrical powers.
• Smedley developed telekinesis, Bertram received a mechanical arm from John, Eleanor adopted an eyepatch, and Martha strengthened her Blood Blade.
• Gerald hesitated when John offered him the school keys, then accepted the caretaker position for a higher salary.
• Thor left on an Avengers mission, and the students trained harder as Christmas ended and the new year passed.

John worked on forging a magical heart while the Miracle Six debuted and the Avengers prepared to attack Baron Strucker in Sokovia. As John lost himself in research, Riddle received a fragrant, sealed envelope at the Wick home.

• John began forging a magical heart in his school laboratory, using the Infinity Stones to power and stabilize the furnace while bypassing its sacrificial stage.
• The Miracle Six, led by Ghost under the name Guardian, stopped a terrorist hostage crisis at the London opera house and gained public goodwill.
• The Avengers planned a surprise assault on Baron Strucker’s base in Sokovia as Tony and Banner developed Ultron and Tony prepared the Veronica armor.
• An elegant owl delivered a hibiscus-scented, moon-white envelope to Riddle at the Wick home, and Riddle flew away with it.

Eleanor learned how to use her illusion ability from John, while John received a letter from Fleur Delacour offering help and reporting growing potion demand among French nobles. The Avengers then prepared to target the Mind Stone Scepter in Sokovia, where a man cherished the fragile peace and vowed to protect his family.

• Martha returned to school and struggled for three days to write her thesis on blood-replenishing potions.
• John used an illusion to show Eleanor how her ability could make someone mistake a rooftop for a lawn, then taught her to build a fortress in her mind.
• John received a letter from Fleur Delacour, who offered support for his cause and described rising potion demand among the old nobility.
• John sent Fleur a reply with Riddle after she asked him not to use Basil, who frightened her owl, Blue Fox.
• The Avengers assembled to target the Mind Stone Scepter in Sokovia as a Sokovian husband vowed to protect his family and the country's hard-won peace.

The Avengers attacked Baron Strucker’s Hydra base in Sokovia, but the twins escaped as Strucker prepared to surrender. John returned to the Manor, assessed the children’s powers, and opened simulated training for them, with Eleanor assigned a Dementor as her final test.

• Steve led the Avengers’ assault on Strucker’s fortress, but Tony was stopped by its energy barrier and the Hydra soldiers’ Chitauri-enhanced defenses slowed their attack.
• Wanda sensed Strucker wanted to retreat and that the Avengers included someone she hated, then Pietro carried her out of the base at super speed.
• Tony deployed the Iron Legion to evacuate Sokovia’s residents, while Strucker ordered his confidant to delete the research files and prepared to surrender.
• Strucker discovered that Wanda and Pietro had vanished from the base.
• John returned to the Manor, tested Martha, Eleanor, Smedley, and Bertram’s abilities, and praised their progress.
• John opened the underground training grounds for simulated practice and assigned Eleanor a brain-training room and a captured Dementor for her final assessment.

During the battle in Sokovia, Wanda’s magic made Tony relive a vision of catastrophe, while Big White Bear fought Steve until Pink Teddy Bear intervened. Elsewhere, John used his blood to complete the molten creation in his furnace, whose heartbeat reached a man who decided to travel to Sokovia.

• Pietro wounded Barton, and Pink Teddy Bear treated him while Tony disabled the fortress barrier.
• Natasha calmed Hulk back into Banner, and Steve and Tony entered the fortress to search for the Mind Stone Scepter.
• Wanda secretly used Chaos Magic to show Tony a vision of the Avengers dead and Earth threatened by the Chitauri, then realized Pink Teddy Bear was missing.
• Big White Bear attacked Steve, and Natasha threw Pink Teddy Bear toward the fight as it began its strange dance.
• John added his blood to the molten iron in his furnace, triggering an explosion and a heartbeat that reached a man who then set out for Sokovia.

The Avengers completed the Sokovia mission after the White Bear stopped fighting to dance with Natasha’s Pink Teddy Bear, and they flew back with the Mind Stone Scepter and Baron Strucker in custody. Meanwhile, John discovered a magical heart in his laboratory, and Aurors investigating a Northern European castle found vampires and other captives slaughtered by ordinary bullets.

• The Pink Teddy Bear danced with the rampaging Big White Bear, which shrank until the two bears performed together, while the Avengers captured Baron Strucker and recovered the Mind Stone Scepter.
• The Avengers returned by aircraft, where Natasha comforted Banner, the bears watched a cartoon, and Thor discussed inviting John to a victory celebration.
• John cleared smoke from his laboratory and found a golden heart pulsing among the furnace’s shattered remains, identifying it as a heart of magic and a Golden Apple.
• Aurors led by Lawrence searched a deserted Northern European castle and discovered a dried blood pool filled with dead captives and a vampire killed by ordinary bullets.
• Lawrence concluded that the vampire’s unusual death required the Aurors to bring in their boss.

Helen agreed to return to South Korea to develop the Regeneration Cradle, while John prepared a way to detect Skrulls and Tony privately considered creating Ultron. The chapter ended with Banner telling Tony that Helen had arrived.

• Helen met Jack Lee, who persuaded her to bring the Regeneration Cradle research to South Korea, and she agreed.
• Eleanor accidentally exploded in front of Smedley, then wondered whether John was a robot until John appeared and demonstrated that he ate when he wanted.
• John collected blood and severed arms from two buried Skrulls and prepared Skrulls-brand Candles that would ignite when Skrulls came near.
• Tony brooded over a nightmare and his plan to create Ultron as a means of controlling the Iron Legion worldwide.
• Banner told Tony that Helen had arrived, and Tony complained that she had gone to work for Taran Industries.

Helen treated Barton while Tony persuaded Banner to help develop Ultron using the Mind Stone Scepter. At Pym Technologies, Darren Cross demonstrated a breakthrough that shrank a sheep but killed it, and John offered him a vial of blood for further research.

• Helen used the Regeneration Cradle to treat Barton, then discussed John and Taran Industries with Natasha.
• Tony showed Banner the Mind Stone Scepter’s energy and convinced him to work on Ultron before Thor took the scepter away.
• At the Avengers Tower party, Helen met Thor and told him she worked at Taran Industries.
• John used the Bifrost to travel to San Francisco and visited Darren at Pym Technologies.
• Darren’s experiment shrank a sheep, but the animal died, and John offered him a vial of blood to study.
• After the experiment, Hope called Hank Pym.

Hope asked Hank Pym to stop Darren Cross from completing shrinking technology, but Hank refused to put her at risk. John Wick allied with Darren by offering him the Regeneration Cradle, while the Avengers’ hammer contest ended with the birth of Ultron.

• Hope told Hank that Darren’s shrinking research was nearly complete and urged him to stop Cross, but Hank refused to involve her.
• John showed Darren alien blood and offered the Regeneration Cradle as a tool for developing a biological suit, securing Darren as an ally.
• Barton, Tony, Rhodey, Banner, and Steve each tried and failed to lift Mjolnir before Thor picked it up himself.
• Ultron appeared, accused the Avengers of being murderers, and left them unaware that JARVIS had been lost when he was born.

Ultron escaped the Avengers and allied with Wanda and Pietro in Sokovia, recruiting them to take revenge on the Avengers. John’s search for the siblings remained unsuccessful, but Martha believed she could now track Wanda through the blood she carried; then the Legendary Auror arrived with a vampire’s corpse.

• Ultron was born from Tony and Banner’s experiment, destroyed JARVIS, and concluded that the Avengers had to be eliminated.
• Ultron attacked the Avengers, stole the Mind Stone Scepter, escaped into the internet, and rebuilt himself at the Hydra Base in Sokovia.
• Ultron discovered a hidden realm connected to the internet and filled with magic.
• Wanda and Pietro searched for their missing White Bear before meeting Ultron, who invited them to become avengers against the Avengers; Wanda agreed.
• John failed to track Wanda and Pietro, but Martha said her improved blood sense might let her find Wanda using her blood.
• The Legendary Auror visited John with a vampire’s corpse.