Chapter Summaries

Wade and Thor reached Miami after a road trip that left Thor questioning his beliefs about honor. At a Hellfire Club nightclub, Thor learned that money mattered more than honor in mortal life and believed he had finally understood why his father sent him to Midgard.

• Wade and Thor rode with two grandmas who challenged Thor’s beliefs about honor and left him wavering in his convictions.
• Wade took Thor to Miami’s beach and invited him to enjoy the city before they continued to New York.
• Wade brought Thor to the Miami branch of the Hellfire Club, where Thor saw winged and tailed Mutants for the first time.
• When the dancers asked who was paying, Wade offered cash while Thor had only honor, and most of the women chose Wade.
• Thor watched the women leave with Wade and concluded that he had lost to a mortal because of money, finally understanding his father’s lesson.

Wade explained to Thor that he could earn money by taking paid jobs and said they should find work suited to Thor’s strengths. After breakfast, Wade planned to take Thor out to look for work, though he dismissed Thor’s bravery and combat skill as insufficient for making much money.

• Thor asked Wade how he could make money after realizing that his past hunting and treasure hunts had not truly supported his companions.
• Wade told Thor that taking paid jobs was a way to earn money and explained that people paid others for help with tasks beyond their abilities.
• Wade reminded Thor that hitchhiking had cost him more than paying for a bus, and Thor concluded that Wade’s expensive night out had taught him about human society.
• Wade ordered food and said he would take Thor to look for work after breakfast, but he dismissed Thor’s bravery and fighting ability as poor ways to make much money.

Wade took Thor to a yacht party hoping to make money by having him perform as a stripper, but found that Tony Stark was hosting an all-girls party. Wade’s attempt to salvage his plan by asking Tony if he liked men ended with Tony ordering Happy to throw them overboard near sharks.

• Wade led Thor along the Miami beach, looking for a party where they could earn money.
• Wade and Thor boarded a luxury yacht while the crew rescued a woman who had fallen into the water.
• Tony told Pepper he had hosted a party for the women selected for his Iron Man Summer Camp, prompting Pepper to argue with him.
• Wade asked Tony if he liked men, and Tony called for Happy to throw Wade and Thor off the boat near sharks.

Wade reunited with Happy aboard Tony's yacht, and Tony offered Wade and Thor a job performing for Pepper. An undercover woman reported that Coulson's target had met the person she was monitoring, leaving her awaiting instructions.

• Wade clung to Tony's leg to stop him from calling security, and Happy recognized Wade as an old acquaintance.
• Happy explained that Wade had saved him during the Rwandan Genocide, where they had met while Happy served as a peacekeeper.
• Tony offered Wade and Thor temporary work performing Riverdance for Pepper aboard the yacht.
• An undercover woman contacted her director after noticing that Coulson's target had come into contact with the person she was monitoring.

Tony’s arrangements went smoothly, and Wade and Thor joined a dance troupe for a paid performance. While they relaxed on Tony’s yacht, Wade showed Thor a Captain America phone advertisement that left the God of Thunder stunned.

• Tony arranged for Pepper to be moved out of the way, then left.
• Wade joined the dance troupe with Thor, who struggled during tap-dance rehearsals.
• During a break, Thor told Wade about Fandral’s Robin Hood days, but Wade assumed the story was a delusion.
• Wade showed Thor a television advertisement featuring Captain America promoting a costly Wilson Titanium Phone.
• Thor dropped his wineglass and asked whether Midgard’s heroes were all like that.

Wade tried to explain celebrity endorsements to Thor, whose confusion about his missing Mjolnir spiraled into despair over losing his divine power. Tony and Pepper returned from watching the NBA Finals, while Tony kept his height-enhancing insoles a secret.

• Wade told Thor that superheroes could earn money through endorsements, and Thor wondered if appearing on television could make him rich.
• Wade made a crude joke about Thor’s weapon, prompting Thor to remember Mjolnir and panic over its absence.
• Thor recalled that he had lost his divine power and believed he could no longer lift Mjolnir, then collapsed into despair.
• Wade comforted Thor and promised to take him to a doctor once they had earned money.
• Tony took Pepper and Happy to New Jersey to watch the Lakers play the Nets and discuss business with the governor.
• Tony, Pepper, and Happy returned to the yacht, and Tony privately relied on height-boosting insoles to appear taller.

Tony staged a lavish Riverdance performance aboard his yacht to apologize to Pepper, while S.H.I.E.L.D. agents watched from hiding. The celebration continued as Hawkeye and Mockingbird spotted a group of gorillas approaching across the water.

• Tony revealed that he had transformed his yacht into a forest village and brought the Riverdance Troupe to surprise Pepper.
• Pepper thanked Tony and joined him at the party, laughing at Happy's friends dressed as a monkey and a bear.
• Coulson and Melinda surveilled the yacht from a lifeguard shack and discussed their personal lives while following Fury's orders.
• Hawkeye and Mockingbird chatted over their communicators while keeping watch near Tony's boat.
• Mockingbird noticed small shapes on the horizon, and Hawkeye identified them as a group of gorillas.

Pepper, Tony, and Wade spotted countless gorillas approaching the yacht in floating balls, and Tony called for his MK3 armor while preparing to defend the passengers. Thor suddenly leapt overboard to fight the gorillas, leaving Tony and Wade to protect the yacht.

• Pepper noticed unusual movement on the horizon, and Wade identified the approaching shapes as countless gorillas in floating balls.
• Tony ordered everyone into the cabins and summoned his MK3 armor, which Jarvis said would arrive in four minutes and twenty seconds.
• Wade produced submachine guns and offered to help Tony protect the people aboard the yacht.
• Thor shouted "For Asgard!" and charged over the rail into the sea with a folding chair.
• Tony watched Thor disappear beneath the water and asked Wade if his friend was all right.

Wade tried to protect Tony from the ape attack while Thor struggled against the apes after losing his powers. From a rooftop nearby, Howard and Maria watched the chaos and realized Tony might be in danger.

• Wade spotted a female thief beneath the yacht, knocked her unconscious with Concussion Grenades, and told Tony he had caught her.
• Tony asked Wade to rescue the thief and buy him time as Thor fought the approaching apes.
• Thor’s attacks failed to harm the apes’ transparent spheres, so he dived underwater to avoid being rammed.
• Wade fired at the apes to draw their attention away from Thor, then fled as they chased him.
• Thor swam back toward the yacht, where he saw agents and other people gathered around Tony.
• Howard and Maria watched from a rooftop restaurant as the ape horde approached, and Howard worried that Tony was in danger.

Su Ming discussed the silent gorilla attackers with Howard and concluded that a hidden psionic controller was behind them. He suspected the gorilla outbreak was connected to cosmic radiation and warned that many newly awakened superhumans might soon emerge across Earth.

• Su Ming told Howard that he had not foreseen the attack and explained that the Time Stone could not show him events involving himself.
• Maria urged Howard to ask Su Ming to save the civilians, but Su Ming remained at dinner and analyzed the glowing, silent gorillas as likely being controlled by a psionic user.
• Su Ming noticed that all the thousands of attacking gorillas were male and deduced that their controller was probably a man who favored brute strength.
• Su Ming connected the outbreak to radiation that had struck the space station and predicted that newly awakened superhumans would soon appear across Earth.

Coulson's team confronted Tony Stark after Hawkeye rescued Mockingbird, but a horde of apes attacked Tony's yacht before they could settle their dispute. Hawkeye destroyed part of the yacht with explosives, and his argument with Tony escalated into a fight as the story ended.

• Hawkeye reached Tony's yacht and confirmed that Mockingbird was unconscious, while Coulson confronted Tony about his bodyguard attacking a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
• Tony claimed ownership of the surrounding beach and waters, but Coulson refused to leave because apes were climbing aboard the yacht.
• Hawkeye fought off more than a dozen apes, and his backstory revealed how he became deaf and joined S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Hawkeye ignored Tony's refusal and used an explosive arrow to destroy the apes at the yacht's bow, damaging the deck.
• Tony arrived in his Iron Man MK3 armor, and he and Hawkeye traded insults before starting a fight.

Coulson and Mockingbird prepared to escape after sabotaging the ship, while Su Ming gathered Carol and Black Bolt to discuss a recent Cosmic Energy radiation burst. Carol spotted the ape attack and flew off to help Iron Man as Su Ming waited for another arrival and planned a meeting.

• Coulson brought Mockingbird around, and they agreed to erase evidence and leave before Iron Man recovered.
• Su Ming welcomed Carol and Black Bolt to the rooftop, then sent Hermione with Howard and Maria through a portal to her original world.
• Carol and Black Bolt told Su Ming that the radiation burst had occurred within the Solar System and remained beyond their technology to analyze.
• Carol noticed the apes attacking people and flew down to help, while Su Ming told Black Bolt that he had called someone else to join their discussion.

Deathstroke asked Professor X about the Fantastic Four’s Cosmic Energy-induced changes, and learned that their altered genes resembled atavism rather than ordinary mutation. He arranged for Black Bolt to test their samples with Kree technology and watched the battle continue as he waited for the results.

• Professor X arrived with the X-Men, who joined Carol and the others in fighting the apes while Deathstroke invited Charles and Black Bolt to talk.
• Charles explained that the Fantastic Four’s DNA had been shattered and reorganized by Cosmic Energy, making them special humans rather than Mutants.
• Charles said the Fantastic Four’s descendants would almost certainly inherit dominant X-Genes, and he discussed Mutant discrimination with Black Bolt and Deathstroke.
• Deathstroke asked Charles to give the Fantastic Four’s samples to Black Bolt for testing in Attilan, and Charles agreed while insisting the samples not be leaked.
• Charles observed that S.H.I.E.L.D. seemed to be plotting something, and Deathstroke told him to leave while he waited for Attilan’s results and watched Thor struggle in battle.

Tony fought Hawkeye while S.H.I.E.L.D. agents secretly removed the unconscious Thor, and Wade returned to the ship after escaping the apes. When Tony and Wade realized Thor was missing, Tony searched the deck as the battle continued around them.

• Tony and Hawkeye ended their sparring match on friendly terms, and Tony offered Hawkeye a job at Stark Industries.
• Coulson and Mockingbird carried the unconscious Thor onto the Quinjet and escaped under its cloaking system while Hawkeye distracted Tony.
• Wade swam back to Tony’s ship with the pursuing apes, and Tony used missiles and energy cannons to defeat them.
• Wade asked Tony about payment and taxes, then Tony asked where Thor was.
• Tony and Wade found no sign of Thor on the deck as Fire Man shouted overhead.

S.H.I.E.L.D. captured Thor and took him to its temporary camp in New Mexico for questioning and testing while Tony and Wade discussed how to get him back. Wade told Tony that Thor’s big secret was that he could not get it up.

• Coulson anesthetized Thor, brought him aboard the Quinjet, and collected his blood and hair while the agents headed back to New Mexico.
• Mockingbird admired Thor’s muscles, and Coulson teased Hawkeye about claiming to be married before realizing Clint had feelings for Barbara.
• Wade decided to recover Thor because S.H.I.E.L.D. had taken him before he could collect his seventy-thousand-dollar fee.
• Tony offered to investigate S.H.I.E.L.D. and help Wade retrieve Thor through legal means.
• Wade whispered to Tony that Thor could not get it up.

Coulson and May investigated Thor and found no evidence that he was anything other than an ordinary, mentally ill human, but Coulson kept testing his connection to the hammer. Thor recognized several hammers as Mjolnir, yet none worked, and the chapter ended with him shocked by a silver and a golden version.

• May reported that Thor's tests showed he was an ordinary human and that he appeared to be delusional, while Coulson suspected he was unusual.
• Coulson freed Thor and gave him water before asking him to identify items found among lost property.
• Thor recognized an iron hammer as Mjolnir and swung it, but it had no special powers.
• Coulson presented Thor with another iron hammer, which Thor also recognized but found powerless.
• May showed Thor a silver hammer and a golden hammer, leaving him staring in shock.

Coulson’s team questioned Thor about the hundreds of thousands of hammers found in a New Mexico crater, but he appeared to claim every one as his. As Coulson prepared to send him to a sanatorium, Thor kept tasting the hammers to identify Mjolnir and asked whether S.H.I.E.L.D. had found one nobody could lift.

• Coulson explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. had recovered 260,000 hammers from the crater, with hundreds of thousands more still to be counted and transported.
• Coulson and May concluded that Thor’s claims and behavior offered no useful lead, and May agreed to find him a well-equipped sanatorium.
• Thor licked a crystal hammer and then a golden one while Coulson apologized and said he would take him to a bedroom.
• Thor explained that Frost Giant blood on Mjolnir would let him recognize it by taste, then continued licking the hammers in the box.
• Thor asked Coulson whether S.H.I.E.L.D. had found a hammer that none of them could lift.

Coulson took Thor to the vast pit where S.H.I.E.L.D. was inspecting the fallen hammers and introduced him to Professor Selvig, Jen, and Daisy. Thor licked another hammer and found it was not his, leaving the search for the real one unresolved.

• Coulson took Thor from the camp to a huge pit filled with hammers being sorted by S.H.I.E.L.D. workers.
• Coulson brought Thor to Professor Selvig, Jen, and Daisy, who were studying the hammers at the camp.
• Professor Selvig told Coulson the hammers’ radiation was weak and that tests had found no harmful microbes.
• Thor snatched a hammer from Coulson and licked it, then looked disappointed when it was not his.

Thor was mistaken for a mentally ill man after licking hammers in the lab, while Jane and Daisy escaped outside. Daisy discussed her plans to open a cupcake shop, then tripped over another hammer and carried it to the infirmary as evidence of her injured toe.

• Thor sniffed and licked several hammers, frightening Jane and Daisy into leaving the tent.
• Daisy told Jane she planned to co-own a cupcake shop and asked to borrow fifty thousand dollars for the venture.
• Jane agreed to lend Daisy the money and offered to taste-test the shop's products.
• Daisy tripped over a hammer, hurt her toe, and picked up the hammer to preserve evidence.
• Jane helped Daisy toward the infirmary as Daisy cursed whoever had left the hammer there.

Loki visited Thor in his cell and encouraged him to settle into life on Midgard while secretly hoping he would never return to Asgard. Thor realized that he did not need Mjolnir to be the God of Thunder, and Loki promised to help him escape the agents’ plans.

• Thor spent the day licking crates of hammers before returning to his cell, where he worried about Odin’s purpose and how he could regain his divine power.
• Loki appeared in Thor’s cell, freed his handcuffs, and brought him mead while pretending to support his brother’s stay on Earth.
• Loki told Thor he would manage Asgard for him as long as needed, and Thor poured mead down Loki’s throat before drinking with him.
• Loki reminded Thor that he had once fought with a war axe, and Thor concluded that he was the God of Thunder regardless of whether he had Mjolnir.
• Thor asked how to escape the agents, and Loki said they planned to send him to a sanatorium the next day and told him to watch.