Chapter Summaries

After Odin banished Thor, he thanked Fischl for saving his children and invited her to stay in Asgard, where she and Oz received Frigga’s care. Later, Odin fell into a deep sleep and Loki took power as the only prince present; as Frigga mourned, Sif and the others stopped Fischl to ask for help.

• Odin stripped Thor of his divine power, enchanted Mjolnir, and banished him, then thanked Fischl and invited her to remain in Asgard while Jotunheim was unsafe.
• Loki reflected on his role in the events and worried that his Frost Giant nature might explain why touching a Frost Giant had not injured him.
• Odin sent Fischl and Oz to Frigga, who welcomed them and arranged their accommodations and care.
• Fischl and Oz settled into Asgard, where Odin instructed them and Frigga treated them kindly.
• Odin unexpectedly fell into a deep sleep, Loki became Asgard’s ruler, and Frigga grieved at his bedside.
• Sif and the others stopped Fischl and asked her to help them.

Fischl agreed to help Sif and the Warriors Three find Thor and expose Loki, then used a distraction to steal Heimdall’s sword and activate the Bifrost. She and Oz arrived on Earth, where Coulson investigated the energy surge that brought them there.

• Sif and the Warriors Three told Fischl that Loki had taken the throne and planned to make war on Jotunheim, and Fischl agreed to help them find Thor.
• Hill explained that Heimdall knew Thor’s location, but the group could not persuade him to defy Loki’s orders.
• Fischl had Oz create a distraction during an argument outside Heimdall’s hall, then took Heimdall’s sword and activated the Bifrost.
• Coulson detected a powerful energy surge on Earth and went to investigate its location.
• Fischl and Oz arrived on Earth, where Fischl sneezed and Oz told her to get up off the ground.

Coulson’s team found a strange, electrically charged circle and a marked black feather at the site of abnormal energy fluctuations. After realizing the feather’s markings matched fluff on Fischl’s dress, Coulson discovered the agent assigned to escort her had stopped responding.

• Coulson spotted Fischl inside S.H.I.E.L.D.’s restricted zone and ordered agents to surround her.
• Fischl claimed she had come to find a lost friend, but Coulson dismissed her story and sent an agent to escort her away.
• When the agent tried to take Fischl by force, her familiar struck him with an electric attack, leaving him crumpled on the ground.
• Coulson examined a mysterious symbol-covered circle and discovered that touching it caused a burning electric sensation.
• Coulson found a black feather that destroyed a hair placed near it and noticed its markings matched the fluff he had picked from Fischl’s dress.
• Coulson radioed the missing agent without receiving a response, then ordered a search for Fischl.

Fischl and Oz joined Jane Foster as Thor tried to retrieve Mjolnir from S.H.I.E.L.D.’s base, where agents quickly caught and surrounded him. When Thor failed to lift the hammer and Hawkeye fired at him, Fischl intercepted the arrow with a lightning-charged shot and confronted Barton from the hillside.

• Fischl questioned Oz, learned Thor was trying to retrieve his weapon, and decided to join him.
• Jane watched Thor sneak into the base, but S.H.I.E.L.D. spotted him and agents pursued him through the facility.
• Oz startled Jane on the hillside, then explained that he and Fischl were friends of Thor.
• Coulson ordered Barton to take a high position as Thor reached Mjolnir, but Thor could not lift it.
• Barton fired an arrow at Thor, and Fischl shot it down with her purple lightning-wreathed bow.

Fischl and Oz fought S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to reach Thor, but when Fischl handled Mjolnir, its lightning erupted and Thor was hurled through the base. Thor landed near Jane, dazed and unable to recognize her.

• Barton and Fischl traded arrows while Coulson and the agents tried to stop her from reaching Thor.
• Fischl summoned Oz, who attacked the agents and helped her reach Thor.
• Coulson threatened to use the helicopter’s guns, and Fischl urged Thor to take Mjolnir and leave.
• Fischl grabbed Mjolnir, unleashing a massive lightning storm that disabled electronics and devastated the base.
• Fischl threw Mjolnir to Thor, and it carried him through the base before he crashed down beside Jane.
• Jane tried to wake Thor, who counted her fingers and asked which one of them was her.

Thor woke at Jane’s house after being transformed and asked where Fischl and Mjolnir were. As the group prepared to rest, a massive rainbow beam descended, and Fischl said she did not know who had arrived.

• Loki accused Sif of lying about Fischl, declared himself king, and ordered the Destroyer to act.
• Jane and Daisy brought the unconscious Thor inside and treated him after he returned with pitch-black skin.
• Thor woke, asked about Fischl, and saw her laughing at his appearance from atop the car.
• Oz introduced himself to Daisy, who delighted in his voice and stroked his feathers.
• Fischl and Oz encouraged Thor to believe he could lift Mjolnir, and he regained his resolve.
• A huge rainbow beam descended as Thor and the others prepared to go inside, and Fischl said she did not know who had come.

The Destroyer attacked Thor, and Fischl fought it with Oz before a powerful dive temporarily shattered its body. When the Destroyer reassembled, Thor offered his life to save the townspeople, but its loving pat awakened his dormant power.

• Thor told Jane to escape while he stayed to face the Destroyer, and Daisy led Jane away.
• Fischl and Oz attacked the Destroyer, but it absorbed their lightning and shrugged off their assaults.
• Fischl struck the Destroyer with a powerful aerial attack, sending it crashing through buildings and darkening its face.
• The Destroyer reassembled, and Thor walked toward it, offering his life to Loki in exchange for the townspeople's safety.
• The Destroyer patted Thor's face, and the blow awakened the God of Thunder.

Thor defeated the Destroyer after regaining Mjolnir, while Fischl chose not to return to Asgard with him. Lin Ze and Paimon set off to visit Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters but got lost after nightfall, then hurried toward lights in the distance after hearing a little girl scream.

• Thor regained Mjolnir’s recognition, reflected the Destroyer’s beam back at it, and destroyed it.
• Thor agreed to cooperate with Coulson and prepared to return to Asgard, but Fischl declined to go with him.
• After Thor left, Lin Ze dropped his Fischl persona and accepted Paimon’s suggestion to visit Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.
• Lin Ze and Paimon walked until nightfall and realized they had become lost on the way to the school.
• Paimon spotted lights in the distance after a piercing scream came from the woods, and Lin Ze urged her to run toward them.

Lin Ze and Paimon entered Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters after failing to stop helicopters carrying children from escaping. Inside, they discovered evidence of a violent fight and Lin Ze was ambushed by a bizarre, skilled man, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Ze attacked a helicopter to stop armed people transporting children, but he broke off when he feared the children might be hurt, and the helicopters escaped.
• Lin Ze and Paimon entered Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and found a bloodied intruder hanging dead from a chandelier.
• Lin Ze heard footsteps, ambushed the approaching man, and tried to question him, but the man escaped his hold with an unnatural twist.
• The man fought Lin Ze at close range, taunted him, and slammed him against a wall before reacting to Aether's braid and realizing Lin Ze was a girl.
• Lin Ze angrily punched the man and stabbed the top of his foot with his sword.

Lin Ze fought the grotesque, nearly unkillable Wade, who became infatuated with him despite being struck by a Wind Blade. Colossus arrived and mistook Wade’s infatuation with Aether for a crush on Paimon before blushing at Aether himself.

• Lin Ze stabbed Wade in the chest, but Wade pulled out the sword and survived, revealing his scarred face.
• Wade flirted with Lin Ze, while Paimon called him a Rotten Walnut after he insulted her as a flying diaper.
• Lin Ze used Wind Blade to send Wade crashing into the ceiling.
• Colossus arrived, checked on Wade, and followed his pointing finger toward Lin Ze and Paimon.
• Colossus realized Wade meant Aether and blushed when he saw him.

Lin Ze and Paimon learned that the X-Men school had been attacked and helped Colossus and Wade reach the children hiding in a Secret Passage. There, Wade introduced Lin Ze and Paimon to a wary black-haired man with an absurd claim that Lin Ze was his lover.

• Lin Ze defeated Colossus and demanded to know where the missing children were, then clarified that he and Paimon were travelers, not attackers.
• Colossus explained that armed intruders had attacked while Professor Charles and several teachers were away, forcing him and the others to hide the children in a Secret Passage.
• Lin Ze, Paimon, Colossus, and Wade headed for the passage after Wade retrieved his swords and continued irritating Lin Ze and Paimon.
• Lin Ze and the others found just over twenty children in the passage, where a muscular black-haired man approached them warily.
• Wade introduced Lin Ze as his lover and Paimon as the supposed testament to their love, leaving Lin Ze exasperated.

Charles reunited with the rescued children aboard the plane and revealed that the other kidnapped children were being held at a base in Rochester by Baron Strucker. Magneto questioned Charles’s trust in S.H.I.E.L.D. and watched Lin Ze and Paimon with interest as the group prepared to retrieve the remaining children.

• Colossus explained how Lin Ze and Paimon had ended up with Logan, who warned them not to try anything clever before leaving.
• Charles told Storm that the children were safe and that he had located the others, while suspecting that something had gone wrong within S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Magneto challenged Charles’s trust in human organizations and criticized his hope that Deadpool could protect the children.
• Lin Ze and Paimon boarded the plane and introduced themselves to Charles after he returned with the rescued students.
• Charles told Lin Ze that Baron Strucker’s followers were holding the other children at a base in Rochester.
• Magneto studied Lin Ze and Paimon, turning two metal balls in his palm as he considered them.

Stryker learned that Professor X had awakened and ordered his men to evacuate with the case and a person as the X-Men arrived at the hidden base. Magneto tore open the mountain entrance, and the group descended into the base while Deadpool distracted everyone with his antics.

• A soldier told Stryker an unidentified aircraft had landed near the base, and a mysterious caller warned him that Professor X was awake and ordered him to move the organization's assets.
• Stryker ordered his men to unleash the dogs and leave with the case and a person.
• Professor Charles explained that Stryker had captured children for experiments combining mutant bodies with a powerful energy source.
• Magneto split open the mountainside and ripped away the base's metal walls to expose its tunnels.
• Deadpool joked about Magneto's powers, then disgusted Lin Ze by eating a banana through his mask and ran off after Logan chased him.
• Lin Ze took Paimon with him as they followed the others down the mountain and into the base.

Lin Ze and the others fought their way through Stryker's facility as Stryker escaped with a masked soldier. Lin Ze encountered a shapeshifting monster and a pack of Tongue-Touchers, ending with him and Wade facing the last woman.

• Lin Ze spotted an ambush with Elemental Sight, warned the group, and Magneto and Pyro destroyed the plastic machine guns and their operators.
• Stryker destroyed the experimental data, took a metal case from a masked soldier, and escaped while Wolverine rushed ahead and Lin Ze became separated from the group.
• Lin Ze fought a featureless monster that swallowed his Dull Blade and discovered that cryo attacks could freeze it before he shattered it and retrieved his sword.
• Lin Ze followed Paimon's directions and found Wade fleeing a crowd of identical Tongue-Touchers, whose toothed tongues ensnared Wade.
• Lin Ze used a whirlwind to tear apart the tongues and drive off all but one Tongue-Toucher, then taunted her as she shouted at him.

Lin Ze rescued the missing children from a collapsing base, returned to the Transmigration Management Bureau, and learned about veteran employee Zhuang Ruo before preparing for another mission. Meanwhile, Loki escaped with the Tesseract, prompting Nick Fury to declare a level seven incident and announce that they were at war.

• Lin Ze and Wade led twenty-seven children through the collapsing base, and Wade carried Paimon while teasing Lin Ze during their escape.
• Lin Ze crashed into Zhuang Ruo at the Stone Gate and learned from Minister Wu that Zhuang Ruo's Shining Cold mission item forced him to wear outfits for their bonuses.
• After resting, Lin Ze learned the character banner had changed, pulled Diluc and two four-star characters, and asked Lucy to switch Aether to another element.
• Loki escaped with the Tesseract after turning Barton and Dr. Selvig against S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Nick Fury called Coulson back to base and declared a level seven incident, saying they were at war.

Natasha interrogated an arms-trafficking leader before Bennett crashed through the roof and accidentally rescued her. After Bennett defeated the gang through a mix of swordsmanship and disastrous bad luck, Coulson called with news that Barton's been brainwashed.

• The old man revealed that Sorokhov was only a middleman in the arms-export operation before preparing to torture Natasha.
• Bennett fell through the factory roof, knocked the old man aside, and introduced himself as the leader of the Benny Adventure Team.
• Bennett tried to protect Natasha, dodged gunfire, and accidentally struck one attacker in the groin; Natasha used his sword to cut herself free.
• Bennett drove the attackers back with fiery sword strikes while Natasha covered herself with a man's jacket.
• Bennett accidentally worsened the old man's burns with mustard chili oil and a wooden board, then knocked a flaming bucket onto him, leaving him silent.
• Natasha answered Coulson's call, and Coulson told her that Barton's been brainwashed.

Natasha recruited Bennett to accompany her on an adventure, planning to bring him to meet the other powerful figure S.H.I.E.L.D. wanted for the Avengers Initiative. At the airfield, Bennett warned that his bad luck followed him everywhere, and a clear sky turned into a storm moments after he praised the weather.

• Coulson told Natasha that Barton had vanished after Loki bewitched him and asked her to speak with the other big guy.
• Natasha tricked Bennett into agreeing to protect her, and he followed her after paying a final visit to the old man's grave and retrieving his flatbread and cloth.
• At S.H.I.E.L.D.'s private airfield, Bennett told Natasha that his bad luck had driven everyone else from the Benny Adventure Team.
• Bennett praised the clear weather, then a thunderstorm erupted minutes later, leaving Natasha stunned.

Natasha brought Bennett to a Middle Eastern village and tricked Dr. Banner into meeting them, then persuaded him to return to S.H.I.E.L.D. to help recover the Tesseract. They arrived at the Helicarrier, where Bennett eagerly asked Captain Rogers to add him to his adventure team.

• Natasha calmed Bennett during their stormy flight and woke him when they neared their destination.
• Bennett found Dr. Banner and pleaded with him to save Natasha, who was pretending to be seriously ill.
• Natasha revealed her deception and discussed the mission with Dr. Banner, who agreed to return to S.H.I.E.L.D. and help recover the Tesseract.
• Natasha, Bennett, and Dr. Banner landed on the Helicarrier and met Coulson and Captain Rogers.
• Bennett introduced himself as captain of the Benny Adventure Team and asked Captain Rogers to add him as a partner.

Natasha and Coulson persuaded Nick Fury to let Bennett help S.H.I.E.L.D. capture Loki, and Bennett agreed after learning about the threat. The team flew to Stuttgart, where Loki was commanding a terrified crowd, and Steve prepared to jump from the aircraft with Bennett close behind.

• Natasha told Coulson that Bennett was a capable orphan and argued that S.H.I.E.L.D. needed talented allies amid the growing threats.
• Fury agreed to speak with Bennett, but Bennett fell into the sea during his tour and was taken to the infirmary with only a bruised foot.
• Fury explained S.H.I.E.L.D.'s mission and asked Bennett to help capture Loki, and Bennett eagerly accepted.
• Natasha piloted the team toward Loki's location in Stuttgart and warned Bennett and Steve that her flying was wild.
• Loki ordered a crowd to kneel as Steve prepared to jump from the aircraft, and Bennett encouraged him to go first.

Bennett tried to join the fight against Loki, but Tony rescued him and scolded him for risking his life. After Loki was captured and brought aboard the aircraft, Thor found the plane and confronted his brother.

• Captain America fought Loki until Bennett jumped from the fighter to help, and Iron Man caught him before he hit the ground.
• Tony returned Bennett to the cabin and ordered Natasha to keep him out of the fight.
• Captain America and Iron Man defeated Loki, handcuffed him, and brought him aboard the fighter.
• Tony questioned and reprimanded Bennett for putting himself in danger, while Steve stayed out of the argument.
• Loki taunted Tony and Steve, then Thor landed on the aircraft and announced that Loki would not escape.