Chapter Summaries

Yang Bo enlisted Zera and his Ravager crew to find a habitable planet and locate Morag and Vormir, hoping to reach the Infinity Stones before the events of the plot. After learning that gold was worth little but vibranium could earn him money, Yang Bo partnered with Zera, who began updating his century-old star chart.

• Yang Bo froze a group of Ravagers when they tried to leave, then hired them to find a habitable planet, Morag, and Vormir.
• The Ravager leader agreed to help and explained that gold was cheap while vibranium was valuable.
• Yang Bo and Zera introduced themselves and formed a partnership, with Zera staying aboard Yang Bo's ship with two crew members.
• Zera criticized Yang Bo's 120-year-old ship and offered to update its star chart for free.

Yang Bo claimed a tiny habitable world as Endstar and used a Twilight Portal to gather ores before returning to the Ravagers. As he drank with Zera, he asked about the Chitauri and learned they had allied themselves with the Mad Titan.

• Yang Bo questioned Zera about the planet's small size, then named it Endstar and said he would wait there for a few days.
• Yang Bo built a house and Twilight Portal on Endstar, then entered the portal to mine vibranium in the Twilight Forest.
• Zera told his crew to contact Yondu, who planned to meet Yang Bo the next day.
• Yang Bo returned with a haul of ores and joined Zera and the Ravagers around their campfire.
• Yang Bo asked Zera about the Chitauri, and Zera said they were a weak but relentless army allied with the Mad Titan.

Yang Bo finished paving the asteroid and waited for Yondu to arrive so he could ask the Ravagers for help. Yondu agreed to assist and took a vibranium ingot to find a buyer, leaving Yang Bo to await word through the ship’s communications.

• Yang Bo used his remaining nether rock to pave the asteroid into plots and decided he would later bring a mage to open a portal there.
• Yondu’s ships arrived, and Zera told Yondu that Yang Bo needed the Ravagers’ help.
• Yang Bo introduced himself to Yondu and asked him to help find Rocket, though he wondered if Rocket had been born yet.
• Yang Bo gave Yondu a vibranium ingot and asked him to find out its value and sell it.
• Yondu agreed to ask around for a buyer, and Yang Bo told him to contact him through the ship’s communications.

Yang Bo returned from the distant habitable planet and began assembling a team to develop it. He brought Dr. Erik to the African spaceship base to study the Tesseract with Tony, hoping to use it to create a portal between Earth and the planet.

• Yang Bo copied the Star Map, then died in lava to return home instantly.
• Yang Bo called Ivan and asked him to prepare everyone and the robots for a trip to the habitable planet.
• Yang Bo contacted Dr. Erik, told him about the planet, and asked him to help study the Tesseract's power.
• A young mage opened a Portal, and Yang Bo took Dr. Erik to the spaceship base in Africa.
• Yang Bo gave Ivan the updated Star Map and asked Tony to work with Dr. Erik on the Tesseract.
• Tony asked what the Tesseract was, so Yang Bo took the blue-glowing object out of his inventory.

Yang Bo entered the Tesseract-powered wormhole, but the gateway collapsed after Kaecilius followed him through. The others reopened it and saw Yang Bo’s destination planet, while Yang Bo and Kaecilius arrived in a vast room full of advanced technology.

• Erik and the scientists prepared the Tesseract device, and Yang Bo ordered everyone into Armor before opening the wormhole.
• Yang Bo entered the unstable gateway, and Kaecilius jumped in after him as the Tesseract went dark and the wormhole vanished.
• Ivan confronted Tony and Erik in alarm, but they checked the equipment and reopened a wormhole to the planet Yang Bo had described.
• Ivan decided to finish the task Yang Bo had left behind, while Yang Bo was struck from behind after stepping into the advanced room.
• Yang Bo turned and saw Kaecilius in his Armor, then asked why he had followed him.

After escaping a collapsing S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, Yang Bo and Kaecilius discovered they had landed in a parallel universe and began investigating their surroundings. Yang Bo realized it was May 1, 2012, and proposed stealing something, while the Ancient One sensed that the timeline had become tangled.

• Yang Bo and Kaecilius escaped through a Portal as the S.H.I.E.L.D. facility collapsed behind them.
• Yang Bo recognized the woods as Central Park but found that their underground home was missing, confirming they were in an unfamiliar universe.
• Yang Bo and Kaecilius dug out a temporary underground shelter, then went into Manhattan to gather information.
• Yang Bo spotted Stark Tower, learned the date was May 1, 2012, and remembered that the destroyed facility had been studying the Tesseract.
• Yang Bo proposed stealing something, and Kaecilius identified the plan as robbery.
• The Ancient One opened her eyes at Kamar-Taj and wondered why the timeline had become tangled.

Yang Bo and Kaecilius waited for Loki to appear at a gala in Stuttgart, then Yang Bo confronted him using his magical abilities. The chapter ended with Yang Bo slowing time, taking Loki’s scepter, and kicking him in the stomach.

• Yang Bo told Kaecilius about the Chitauri invasion as they walked to Stark Tower, where they saw Tony Stark arrive and Coulson hurry inside.
• Yang Bo and Kaecilius traveled to Germany and waited near Dr. Seff’s gala in Stuttgart for Loki to appear.
• Loki emerged from the gala, surrounded the crowd with illusions, and commanded everyone to kneel.
• Yang Bo ignored Loki’s illusion, used Sixth Sense to locate him, and cast Time Dilation as Loki rushed at him.
• Yang Bo seized Loki’s scepter and kicked him in the stomach while time was slowed.

Yang Bo defeated Loki, stole the Mind Scepter and Captain Rogers’s shield, and left through a Portal with Kaecilius. The Avengers found Loki mentally incapacitated, and Thor arrived aboard the Quinjet.

• Yang Bo used a spell to slow Loki, then had Kaecilius bind him and beat him with the Imperial Gold Rod until Loki became unresponsive.
• Yang Bo took the Mind Scepter and left for the Tesseract, but Captain Rogers tried to stop him and lost his Vibranium Shield when Yang Bo caught and took it.
• Black Widow, Rogers, and Tony examined Loki and watched footage of Yang Bo’s attack, while Tony concluded Loki was beyond saving.
• Thor arrived on the Quinjet with his hammer raised and shoved Tony aside.

Thor returned to the Quinjet with Loki, then crossed a portal into the Mirror Dimension to confront Yang Bo and Kaecilius. Kaecilius’s uru-and-adamantium Magic Armor withstood Thor’s lightning-charged hammer, and the fight remained underway.

• Thor dragged Loki away from the Quinjet and realized his brother had lost his mind, so he brought him back to demand an explanation.
• Yang Bo put the Mind Scepter away after Kaecilius said his spells could not remove its stone and that it affected his emotions.
• After Black Widow showed Thor footage of Yang Bo beating Loki, Yang Bo invited Kaecilius to confront Thor, and Kaecilius donned his First-Generation Magic Armor.
• Kaecilius opened a portal into the Quinjet, and Yang Bo taunted Thor into crossing it before closing the portal and trapping him in the Mirror Dimension.
• Thor broke free of Kaecilius’s Golden Whip with lightning and hurled Mjolnir at him, but the Magic Armor blocked the hammer without a scratch.

Kaecilius defeated Thor in the Mirror Dimension, while Yang Bo watched and then challenged Thor over Mjolnir. Yang Bo mined the hammer with his Pickaxe and sent Thor through a Portal, leaving Kaecilius to question why he had taken it.

• Kaecilius absorbed Thor's lightning with his armor and overpowered him with energy beams, magical whips, and shards of warped space.
• Yang Bo approached the bound Thor and challenged him to let him leave if he could lift Mjolnir, while promising to restore Loki only if he failed.
• Yang Bo mined Mjolnir with his Pickaxe, stored it in his inventory, and tossed it in his hand as Thor stared in disbelief.
• Yang Bo kicked Thor into a Portal, which closed after Thor's defiant shout came through.
• Kaecilius asked why Yang Bo had taken Mjolnir, and Yang Bo said teasing Thor was fun.

Thor and the Avengers returned to the Helicarrier without Mjolnir or Captain America’s shield, then argued with Fury about the Tesseract and prepared for the threat of an alien invasion. Meanwhile, Yang Bo and Kaecilius hosted the Ancient One, who recognized Kaecilius’s changed fate and praised his strength.

• Thor returned to the Quinjet after the portal vanished, grieving over the loss of Mjolnir as the Avengers brought Loki back to the Helicarrier.
• Fury questioned Rogers about Yang Bo and Kaecilius, while Thor warned that they were after the Tesseract and that an alien army awaited the portal.
• Tony and Rogers confronted Fury over his secret Tesseract weapons research, and Fury defended it as preparation for powerful threats.
• Fury ordered Tony to help Banner locate the Tesseract, sent Thor to examine Loki, and told the others to prepare for battle; Rogers asked Fury for a spare shield.
• Yang Bo and Kaecilius entertained the Ancient One, who told Kaecilius that his fate had changed and praised him as more outstanding than Strange.

The Ancient One refused to send Yang Bo back to his universe and left him to handle future trouble himself. On the Helicarrier, Loki awakened, learned Yang Bo had taken his scepter, and was confronted by the assembled heroes as he tried to leave.

• The Ancient One explained that Odin had asked her to find Yang Bo, refused to send him home, and departed through a Portal.
• Yang Bo asked Kaecilius to return the borrowed table and cups, then watched Loki's condition on the Helicarrier.
• Thor and Black Widow waited beside the unresponsive Loki while medical staff monitored him.
• Loki woke, demanded to know where Yang Bo was, and learned that Yang Bo had taken his scepter and was targeting the Tesseract.
• Loki jumped out of bed and tried to leave, but Tony, Captain America, the others, and Thor confronted him.

Yang Bo and Kaecilius took the Tesseract and kidnapped Dr. Erik before Tony could stop them, leaving Loki without the tools to carry out his mission. Thor agreed to take Loki home, but the Avengers focused on finding the group that had taken Dr. Erik.

• As Hawkeye attacked the Helicarrier, Yang Bo and Kaecilius left the Mirror Dimension and freed Dr. Erik from the Mind Stone’s influence.
• Yang Bo took the Tesseract and the Wormhole Generator, then told Dr. Erik he had been kidnapped.
• Tony arrived too late to stop Yang Bo and Kaecilius from escaping with Dr. Erik and the Tesseract.
• Loki arrived at Stark Tower, learned the Tesseract was gone, and let Thor take him into custody while asking to return to Asgard.
• Black Widow told Thor that Loki had killed over eighty people, and Captain America asked Banner to help scan for abnormal gamma energy and locate Dr. Erik.

Yang Bo showed Dr. Erik a magical projection of how he and Kaecilius had arrived in this universe, persuading Erik to help build a Portal home. Two days later, S.H.I.E.L.D. detected the Tesseract in Siberia and Nick Fury prepared to recover it.

• Yang Bo joked that he wanted to conquer the universe before admitting he needed Dr. Erik to open a Portal home.
• Kaecilius showed Dr. Erik a projection of Yang Bo's arrival through an unstable Portal, and Erik agreed to try to build one.
• Yang Bo assigned the Portal project to Erik and said they needed to move to a safer location in case of an alien attack.
• Two days later, Dr. Banner found the Tesseract's location in Siberia aboard a helicarrier.
• Nick Fury ordered the team to recover the Tesseract, calling it his last chance to reach Yang Bo while he was using it.

Yang Bo summoned Wither bosses to fight the Chitauri Army after the Tesseract opened a Portal in Siberia. As the battle turned against the Chitauri, Thor, Iron Man, Tony, and Loki arrived and drew the Withers' attention.

• Yang Bo warned Kaecilius that they might not be able to return to their universe, then prepared for a fight when the Tesseract began opening a Portal.
• Yang Bo summoned Wither bosses through the Portal, and they attacked the Chitauri Army with blue skulls.
• The Withers' armor resisted the Chitauri's energy weapons, while their counterattacks drove the Chitauri back through the Portal.
• Kaecilius joined Yang Bo after getting Dr. Erik to safety, and Yang Bo expected the Withers to defeat the Chitauri without their help.
• Thor, Iron Man, Tony, and Loki jumped from a Quinjet, and two Wither bosses turned to attack them.

Thor and the Avengers battled the Wither Boss while Yang Bo and Kaecilius watched from the sidelines. Hawkeye and Black Widow were apparently killed, and Yang Bo used Mind Trickery to bring a debilitated Loki into the scene.

• Thor charged the airborne Wither Boss without his hammer, while Yang Bo and Kaecilius mocked his inability to fly.
• The Wither attacked the Avengers, and Rogers warned them to dodge while Iron Man and the Quinjet returned fire.
• The Wither entered its second phase, and Tony destroyed one Wither after JARVIS analyzed the battle.
• A Wither killed Hawkeye and destroyed Black Widow's Quinjet, and Yang Bo noted that Natasha's Minimap marker had disappeared.
• Yang Bo cast Mind Trickery with a Scepter, causing Loki to appear behind him and collapse while retching.

Yang Bo defeated Loki and closed the wormhole by removing the Tesseract, while the Avengers suffered heavy losses and the withers attacked the Chitauri in space. Thor awakened his power and charged Yang Bo, but Kaecilius redirected him through a Portal into Loki.

• Yang Bo caught Loki’s attempted sneak attack, beat him unconscious, and ordered Kaecilius to help close the wormhole.
• The withers killed the remaining Chitauri nearby, while Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Captain America died and the other Avengers were left battered and grieving.
• Yang Bo removed the Tesseract from its housing, causing the wormhole to close, then returned Loki to Thor.
• Thor’s rage awakened his lightning powers, but Yang Bo’s Banish spell failed to stop him.
• Kaecilius opened a Portal that sent Thor crashing into Loki, who briefly woke before passing out again.

Yang Bo resurrected the fallen Avengers before leaving the battlefield with Kaecilius, then considered using Pym Particles to return to their universe. After Kaecilius asked him to revive his family, Yang Bo entered the Nether and discovered that he had returned to a familiar place.

• Tony confronted Yang Bo and learned that Kaecilius's magical Armor came from a parallel universe where Tony, Ivan Vanko, and Kaecilius had built it.
• Yang Bo kept the Tesseract, used the Scepter to resurrect the dead, and told Tony that Black Widow had been restored.
• Tony and Thor watched Captain America, Hawkeye, and the others rise, and Tony told Rogers that the mission had failed.
• Yang Bo told Kaecilius that his resurrection magic could only revive people dead for less than a day, then wondered whether the Time Stone could overcome that limit.
• Yang Bo opened a Portal to the Nether and realized he had returned to his familiar Warped Forest.

Yang Bo returned to the Marvel Universe, reunited with Skye, and remembered that he had left Kaecilius behind in another universe. He brought Kaecilius back to World No. 1 and found the African base transformed, with Dr. Erik still there.

• Yang Bo returned home, failed to reach Ivan, and called Skye, who said she had been hunting vampires with Blade.
• Skye arrived through Portal No. 1, reunited with Yang Bo, and spent the night with him.
• Yang Bo put signs on the Portals and realized he had forgotten to bring Kaecilius back.
• Yang Bo used Portal No. 2 to return to Universe No. 2 and found Kaecilius meditating.
• Yang Bo explained that the Nether connected both universes, then returned with Kaecilius to World No. 1.
• Yang Bo and Kaecilius reached the African base and found it altered, with Dr. Erik working at a computer.

Yang Bo returned to Erik and revived him after the shock of seeing Yang Bo caused him to collapse. He then checked on Ivan’s progress transforming the planet, and more than twenty days later Yondu arrived with news that his crew had found Vormir.

• Yang Bo greeted Erik, who collapsed from exhaustion, and revived him with healing spells.
• Yang Bo told Erik about his recent journey, then learned Ivan had been arguing with Tony and went to check on him.
• Yang Bo found Ivan overseeing a robot-led transformation of the planet and praised his work while asking him not to expand the city too far.
• Yang Bo spent more than twenty days on the planet as Ivan’s crew built a spaceship research center and prepared its defenses.
• A large spaceship entered orbit and sent smaller ships toward the planet, and Yondu told Yang Bo that his crew had found Vormir.