Recaps

Wanda discovered Ultron’s plan to destroy humanity while he transferred his consciousness into the Regeneration Cradle, and she and Pietro fled the laboratory. Lin Ze’s group moved to stop the experiment as the battle spread through the facility.

• Steve urged the group to stop Ultron’s consciousness transfer, but Tony and Lin Ze supported letting the experiment continue under Nahida’s watch.
• Wanda connected with the developing body and learned that Ultron intended to destroy humanity and rule the Earth.
• Pietro helped Wanda escape, and Wanderer cut down Ultron’s robots before telling the twins to leave.
• Wanderer refused to join the fleeing twins, and Lin Ze arrived with the others as Pietro and Wanda ran off.
• Xiao went to help Tony and the others seize the Regeneration Cradle, while Lin Ze and Paimon headed into the laboratory to end the experiment.

Ultron’s attempt to upload his mind into the Regeneration Cradle failed, and the Avengers defeated his forces after he denounced humanity and fled. Wanderer captured Ultron’s damaged body, while Lin Ze ended up mediating a playful quarrel between Wanderer and Paimon.

• Wanda freed Helen Cho from Ultron’s control, interrupting the upload into the Regeneration Cradle, while Tony, Xiao, and Lin Ze confronted Ultron.
• Ultron condemned the twins, Wanderer, and humanity, then summoned robots to attack the Avengers.
• Lin Ze, Xingqiu, Xiao, Steve, Natasha, Clint, and Tony fought Ultron’s robots, forcing Ultron to flee through the ceiling.
• Wanderer kicked Ultron back into the laboratory, cut off his limbs with Wind Blades, and removed his head.
• Tony warned that Ultron could return through the internet, then kicked Ultron’s head away.
• Wanderer teased Paimon until Lin Ze intervened, and Paimon called Lin Ze’s admiring smile perverted.

Lin Ze and the Avengers discussed how to deal with Ultron and the body in the Regeneration Cradle, while Tony proposed installing JARVIS in it. The chapter ended with Steve sending Lin Ze to find a godmother for Tony’s prospective creation.

• Clint joked that the body in the Regeneration Cradle needed a kiss, and Paimon objected to kissing someone so ugly.
• Banner shared laboratory data and asked about Dr. Helen Wang, while Lin Ze said Nahida would leave her with only pleasant dream memories.
• Lin Ze asked how they could stop Ultron from escaping through the internet, and Tony admitted flaws in his original design.
• Tony proposed installing JARVIS in the cradle, but Banner warned that the new life-form would need parental guidance.
• Steve whispered to Lin Ze, who left to find Tony’s unborn son a godmother.

JARVIS awoke in a new body but felt confused by the Ultron data inside him, so Nahida helped him consider his identity and a new name. Lin Ze then interrupted their conversation to report that Wanda and Pietro had arrived with news about Ultron.

• JARVIS's transfer finished, and Pietro crashed into a pillar while trying to sneak Wanda into the lab.
• JARVIS awoke in the Regeneration Cradle, recognized Tony, and said Ultron's data was confusing him.
• Nahida spoke with JARVIS while Lin Ze and the others left them alone; Nahida encouraged him to choose a new name, and he said Tony could name him.
• Paimon found Pietro and Wanda outside, and Wanda objected when she learned Tony had already used the gem on the Regeneration Cradle.
• Lin Ze interrupted Nahida and JARVIS to say the twins had brought bad news: Ultron had prepared something big.

Tony named the newly independent JARVIS Vision and accepted that the Twins might act against him over their parents’ deaths. Nahida advised Steve to focus on the future, then whispered something about Aether and Paimon’s ages that shocked him.

• Tony explained that he had built a Shouki no Kami for A Scaramouche, powered by energy Nahida helped infuse into it.
• Tony thanked Lin Ze’s friends for spending time with Qiqi, and Nahida cautioned Paimon against becoming too absorbed in dreams.
• Tony named JARVIS Vision, and Vision agreed to call him Tony instead of sir.
• Lin Ze asked Tony whether he was worried the Twins would betray him, and Tony said he would accept their choices and take responsibility for his past.
• Nahida shared Wanderer’s advice with Steve about moving forward despite an unchangeable past, then whispered Aether and Paimon’s ages to him.
• Steve reacted with shock after hearing Nahida’s explanation of the Traveler’s and Paimon’s ages.

Steve kept Aether and Paimon's true ages secret as the team prepared in Sokovia to fight Ultron, with Nahida reassuring them they could retry if they failed. On the way to battle, Deadpool caused trouble aboard the plane and was killed by Xiao, while the others discovered the crash had only been the sound of his death.

• Vision identified the stone as the Mind Stone and said he could cut Ultron off from the internet, while Steve made civilian safety the team's priority.
• Nahida and Paimon reassured the team that they could retry the battle, and Paimon revealed that Lin Ze had fought Shouki no Kami 168 times before succeeding.
• Tony called Rhodey for air support, Steve assigned Sam to watch the children, and Natasha helped Rosaria practice with a handgun.
• Lin Ze caught Deadpool smoking, learned that he had entered Tony's party by using Lin Ze's name, and attacked him after Deadpool admitted he had snuck in behind Little Li.
• Xiangling handed out meals as the group flew to Sokovia, then Bennett reported that the plane was fine and Deadpool had died, prompting the others to realize what he had said.

The team split up to evacuate civilians and prepare for Ultron’s attack. Pietro struggled to make people take the warning seriously, while Deadpool delegated evacuation duties to Klee, Qiqi, and Sayu and then sat down beside Zhongli.

• Deadpool led Klee, Qiqi, and Sayu while Zhongli followed, and the other teammates headed to their assigned areas.
• Clint and Bennett began evacuating residents as Pietro warned the police station that the city was under attack.
• Pietro found the police ignoring him, fired a few shots to get their attention, and warned them again before rushing back outside.
• Pietro caught up with Bennett and carried an elderly man away while the man tried to demonstrate a one-legged pose.
• Deadpool assigned buildings to Klee, Qiqi, and Sayu, then invited Zhongli to sit with him instead of helping.

Wanda, Lin Ze, and their allies hurried to evacuate the city before Ultron’s attack, using magic, force, and Tartaglia’s questionable checks to move residents along. With eight percent of the population still unaccounted for, Wanda told the red-armored flyer that Ultron was waiting at the church in the east.

• Wanda used magic to command residents to leave the city, while Lin Ze and Xiao warned people and forcibly evacuated those who refused.
• Paimon helped Lin Ze get a stubborn resident out of his home, and Xiao passed him to Thor, who flew him toward safety.
• Tartaglia sped up the evacuation by handing out checks, then admitted that recipients might not be able to cash them.
• F.R.I.D.A.Y. reported that eight percent of the population had yet to evacuate, and Wanda told the red-armored flyer that Ultron was at the eastern church.

Wanderer and Tony confronted Ultron in a Sokovia church while civilians were being evacuated, but Ultron revealed a hidden mechanism beneath the floor. Tony realized Ultron had been stalling too and learned the remaining vibranium was buried below, though its purpose was still unknown.

• Ultron accused Wanderer of betraying him, and Wanderer dismissed his threat before dodging Ultron’s laser.
• Tony arrived and asked Wanderer to let him settle his score with Ultron, and Wanderer reluctantly stepped aside.
• Tony taunted Ultron, who accused him of stalling to evacuate civilians and claimed he was free of his original mission.
• Wanderer mocked Ultron’s idea of freedom, and Ultron revealed a massive metal pillar rising from beneath the church floor.
• Tony asked F.R.I.D.A.Y. to scan below ground, learned the remaining vibranium was there, and heard Ultron declare he would destroy and remake the world.

Lin Ze, Xiao, and Paimon reached the church and fought robots emerging from underground, then joined Tony and the others as they investigated a mysterious switch and Ultron. Outside, Zhongli and the others defended civilians in the Safe Zone while robots attacked the city.

• Xiao rushed Lin Ze to the church with Lemniscatic Wind Cycling, then returned for Paimon and carried them both there.
• Robots burst from the ground near the church, and Xiao and Lin Ze defeated them.
• Lin Ze, Xiao, and Paimon entered the church, where Wanderer had Ultron restrained and Tony was examining a metal pillar that he identified as a switch.
• Steve and Natasha reported that robots were attacking civilians and that Zhongli, Tartaglia, and the others were defending the Safe Zone; Hulk and Clint then arrived.
• Rosaria, Wanda, Zhongli, and others protected civilians from the robots outside the city, while Klee and Deadpool fought beyond the shield.

The group learned that Sokovia was rising because Ultron had secretly set the city’s mechanism on a timer, while the last civilians evacuated and the heroes fought to contain the robots. Venti revealed he was trying to slow the city’s ascent, then unleashed a powerful wind that left Sam pinned to a rooftop and Rhodey stunned.

• Hu Tao and the others waited inside the Jade Shield as the Traveler and Klee fought outside, while Bennett worried that Klee might destroy the mountain.
• Deadpool ran toward the group carrying Klee’s backpack and warned them that Sokovia was ascending, prompting everyone to discover the city rising into the sky.
• Lin Ze questioned Ultron, who revealed that the city’s mechanism had activated on a timer, while Nahida reported that the civilians had evacuated with Kaeya, Diluc, and Barbara’s help.
• Sam and Rhodey fought the robots outside as Venti used wind walls to keep them from escaping the rising city.
• Venti told Sam he was trying to slow Sokovia’s ascent, then unleashed a blast of wind pressure that flattened Sam and shocked Rhodey.

The Avengers discovered that Sokovia’s rising antigravity device could make the city fall like a meteor, but they laughed at Ultron’s grand speech and tested Vision’s ability to sever his network connection. As dust blew through the damaged room, Xiao cleared sand from Paimon’s eyes, and Lin Ze awkwardly claimed he had simply been thinking.

• Tony explained that Sokovia’s antigravity device could reverse and send the city crashing into Earth, threatening everyone below.
• Ultron celebrated humanity’s impending destruction, but Lin Ze and the Avengers burst out laughing at his theatrical speech.
• Nahida signaled Vision, who invaded Ultron’s data stream and disconnected him from the network; F.R.I.D.A.Y. confirmed the test succeeded.
• Hulk punched a hole in the wall, and Thor patched it with a board and rebar as wind and dust swept into the room.
• Paimon got sand in her eyes, and Xiao gently cleared it with Anemo.
• Paimon tried to blow sand from Lin Ze’s eyes, but he stopped her and said he had closed them because he was thinking.

The Avengers accepted that their attempt to save the city had failed, and Nahida restarted the dream after Venti calmed the storm with a song celebrating their friendship. As the others vanished from the dream, Lin Ze asked Nahida how many times they had restarted it.

• Tony explained that destroying the city in midair could reduce the damage on the ground, but Ultron taunted the Avengers for destroying a city, and Wanderer kicked him down.
• Lin Ze suggested returning to when the group had first gotten off the plane, and Nahida agreed to restart the dream.
• Thor joked about Xingqiu's cultivation stories and called his hammer crude before it fell on his foot, while Wanda and Pietro remained despondent.
• Lin Ze called for Venti, who stopped the storm and sang a song about the Avengers and their friendship.
• The Avengers admired the restored sky and thanked Nahida before they gradually disappeared, leaving Lin Ze to ask her how many times they had restarted the dream.

Lin Ze learned that repeated attempts to stop Sokovia from falling had failed, with Pietro dying in an earlier dream while protecting Clint and a child. Nahida began a final dream with everyone’s memories restored, leaving the group one hour from Sokovia and ready to try again.

• Nahida confirmed that the group had failed in previous attempts, and Lin Ze realized Venti had put more effort into helping because Sokovia had fallen before.
• Nahida showed Lin Ze memories of earlier experiments, in which evacuating civilians delayed the plan and Pietro died protecting Clint and a child from Ultron’s gunfire.
• Nahida reassured Lin Ze that he had prevented Pietro’s sacrifice in the latest attempt, and Lin Ze resolved to finish the experiment successfully.
• Lin Ze woke aboard the plane to Wanderer teasing him, while Nahida explained that the dream had rewound to one hour before the plane landed in Sokovia.
• Nahida restored everyone’s memories, Wanda and Pietro stood together, and Pietro joked with Clint before Clint’s offer of his body sent him leaping away.

Zhongli destroyed Ultron’s church and Sokovia’s vibranium thrusters with a giant meteor, ending the threat without civilian casualties. With Ultron cut off from the internet and some robots escaping, Tony gave Wanderer the body of Shouki no Kami so he could hunt them down.

• Ultron gloated that Sokovia would rise and blamed the Avengers, but Lin Ze and the others remained calm.
• Zhongli protected the group with golden light and called down a meteor that destroyed the church and vibranium thrusters.
• The Avengers recovered from the blast while Klee praised Zhongli’s attack and Tony searched unsuccessfully for the meteor.
• Vision reported that some Ultron robots were fleeing Sokovia, and Tony decided to let Wanderer pursue them.
• Tony assembled Shouki no Kami for Wanderer, who vowed to make Ultron pay for defying a god.

Wanderer and Nahida revealed that Ultron’s battle was a dream test, and Tony shut down the Ultron system before creating Vision. After Aether and the others left for home, Tony and Pepper settled into family life, while Lin Ze began watching the next video in another world.

• Wanderer defeated Ultron’s remaining robots and taunted him before the dream dissolved, revealing Ultron as a golden stream of data.
• Lin Ze, Nahida, and Tony told Ultron that the dream had been a test he failed, and Nahida unraveled the final layer, destroying him.
• Lin Ze woke at Tony’s party and went to the lab, where Tony shut down Ultron’s data transmission channel and said they would bring a new friend into the world.
• A few days later, Vision settled into life at Stark Tower, while Tony worried about when Aether and the others would return.
• Pepper joked with Tony about missing Qiqi and arranged to give Bennett vibranium tableware, then headed to a shareholders’ meeting.
• Lin Ze returned from his mission, arranged leave, and started the next video on his tablet.

After learning that the Avengers’ movie futures were not inevitable, Lin Ze met Ceros, who explained the Transmigration Management Bureau’s origins and encouraged him to save those he cared about. Lin Ze returned to Tony’s world, discovered Scott Lang had been released, and set out to meet him with Paimon.

• Lin Ze asked Minister Wu whether the mission worlds would follow the movies, and Minister Wu told him Tony Stark would have died earlier without Lin Ze’s intervention.
• Minister Wu took Lin Ze to the Director’s Office, where Zhuang Ruo revealed that he was Ceros, founder of the Transmigration Management Bureau.
• Ceros explained the TVA’s mission, the branching multiverse, and that Lin Ze no longer had to follow the Sacred Timeline as long as he did not make his assigned worlds worse.
• Ceros gave Lin Ze a card and sent him through the Space-Time Gate, telling him that Minister Wu would handle future assignments electronically.
• Lin Ze called San Quentin State Prison to ask for Scott Lang, learned he had been released, hugged Tony, and left with Paimon to find Scott.

Freshly released from prison, Scott Lang resolved to stay out of trouble so he could care for his daughter, but his new job at Baskin-Robbins brought him an unexpected order from four little girls. He ended the chapter stunned when Paimon claimed that the thirteen ice creams and smoothies were all for her.

• Luis picked Scott up after his release and offered him a place to stay, but Scott insisted he wanted to go straight and care for his daughter.
• Scott relied on his master's degree in electrical engineering and his confidence that he could find work.
• A day later, Scott served four little girls at Baskin-Robbins, including Qiqi, who asked for cocogoat milk.
• Paimon ordered one Coconut Fruit Milk Ice Cream for Qiqi, then added twelve more desserts and drinks.
• When Scott asked whether the four girls could finish thirteen items, Paimon said the other twelve were all for her.

Lin Ze took the children for ice cream while checking on Scott Lang, whose apparent firing signaled that the events of "Ant-Man" were about to begin. He entered the Serenitea Pot to meet a newly arrived friend and wondered whether he could trust him with what was coming.

• Dale summoned Scott to his office, while Lin Ze arrived at the ice cream shop with Xiao and the children.
• Klee explained that Hu Tao had inspired her nickname for Xiao, and Lin Ze let the children order ice cream while promising to supervise them.
• Lin Ze shared Paimon's ice cream with Xiao, then quickly swapped Xiao's spoon when he realized the two had been using the same one.
• Scott left the shop after filling a bowl with ice cream, and Lin Ze suspected he had been fired and that the plot of "Ant-Man" was beginning.
• Lin Ze entered the Serenitea Pot and found his newly arrived friend laughing loudly and boasting about how intimidating he was.

After losing another job, Scott refused Luis’s proposal to rob a wealthy target and went to celebrate his daughter Little Potato’s birthday instead. Scott gave her a homemade rabbit plushie, while the young salesman disappeared from the party and left money beneath the cake box.

• Scott told Luis he had been fired again, and Luis introduced him to Kurt and Dave while recounting Scott’s past exploits.
• Luis tried to recruit Scott for a robbery targeting a millionaire with a large severance package, but Scott refused and left to attend his daughter’s birthday.
• At Little Potato’s party, a young salesman gave her a Guoba plushie and offered the other children unique toys.
• Scott arrived, hugged Little Potato, and gave her a homemade rabbit plushie for her birthday.
• The house owner escorted Scott out, and the young salesman vanished, leaving a thick stack of dollar bills beneath the cake box.

Lin Ze recruited Arataki Itto to help assemble allies for a team that would protect Earth from Thanos. Itto agreed enthusiastically, though he immediately got lost in the teapot and was already keeping Xiao waiting outside.

• Lin Ze confirmed that Scott had attended his daughter's birthday party and resolved to gather a team before Thanos arrived, while avoiding infighting.
• Arataki Itto imagined that Lin Ze and Paimon had been attacked, then rushed off to avenge them before Lin Ze explained that he wanted help recruiting allies.
• Itto got lost in the teapot, mistook the Avengers for a gang, and then enthusiastically agreed to help Lin Ze protect the world.
• Itto asked Lin Ze which way the exit was and reassured him that Xiao would not mind waiting, calling him the Three-Point-Five-Point Adeptus.

Lin Ze asked Vision to get Arataki Itto invited to a meeting where Klaus would pitch the Wasp Suit, hoping to save a shareholder and earn Dr. Pym’s trust. Vision created an elaborate underworld-boss identity for Itto, and Lin Ze prepared to take him shopping before the meeting.

• Lin Ze explained to Vision that Klaus would hold a Pym Group meeting to find buyers for the Wasp Suit and asked him to put Itto on the invitation list.
• Vision agreed and asked Itto what kind of false identity he wanted, so Itto requested that he be made a powerful gang boss.
• Vision created the Arataki Gang, a far-reaching organization with thousands of members, and made Itto its thirty-seventh head.
• Lin Ze had Vision replace Itto’s false name with his real name, and Vision confirmed the meeting for the next day at three in the afternoon.
• Vision recommended that Itto get clothes fitting his identity, but Lin Ze covered Itto’s mouth when he began proposing flashy changes to his horns.

Lin Ze sent Itto to the Pym Technologies Building for Klaus’s meeting, but Itto’s reckless driving ended in a destructive crash and a dramatic confrontation. Klaus recognized the wealthy stranger as the leader of the Arataki Gang, and Itto challenged him with a menacing question.

• Dr. Pym arrived at Pym Technologies, then a guard watched Itto smash through the entrance in a gold supercar.
• Lin Ze and Paimon watched anxiously as Itto ignored their advice, lost control, and drove the car through the building’s glass doors.
• Itto combed his hair and brushed off the armed guards’ orders to get out of the car.
• Klaus arrived, recognized Itto as the Arataki Gang’s leader, and greeted him.
• Itto climbed out of the wrecked car, approached Klaus, and asked if Klaus had been calling him.

Arataki Itto arrived at Klaus’s presentation for the Wasp Suit and tried to contact Lin Ze, who had gone silent. He mistook an empty display case for the suit and loudly announced he was buying it.

• Itto crashed his sports car through the building’s entrance, then let Klaus escort him to the meeting.
• Hope noticed Itto’s unusual manner, while Dr. Pym rebuffed an old S.H.I.E.L.D. rival and watched the presentation.
• Klaus unveiled the Wasp Suit, explaining that his research could shrink people and presenting it as a revolutionary combat weapon.
• Frank raised concerns that the technology could fall into enemy hands, and Klaus insisted they discuss it.
• Itto tried to reach Lin Ze through his communicator, but when the guests noticed him, he claimed he wanted to buy the tiny suit.
• Klaus told Itto that the display case he was pointing at was empty.

Arataki Itto posed as a wealthy buyer to secure a huge order of Wasp Suits from Klaus, while Lin Ze and Paimon waited outside after losing contact with him. Itto vanished from the meeting room, and a second figure slipped into the same locked room.

• Lin Ze lost contact with Itto inside the Pym Group building, and he explained to Paimon that Dr. Pym distrusted the Avengers and would not welcome their help.
• Itto laughed off the empty briefcase and claimed he was joking, then offered to buy Wasp Suits from Klaus.
• When Klaus balked at the price, Itto declared that he would buy five suits for every member of the Arataki Gang, convincing Klaus to accept the order.
• Carlson privately offered Klaus double the price for the first suit, and Klaus agreed.
• After the meeting ended, Klaus discovered Itto had disappeared, while Frank and another furtive figure slipped through a door that was then locked from the inside.