Recaps

Lucian began organizing relief and reconstruction in Sokovia, while Wanda accepted a new purpose helping her people. Tony Stark arrived and confronted Lucian, asking who was in charge.

• Lucian told Simona that Vought would claim Sokovia and ordered medical and engineering teams, supplies, and personnel to be sent there.
• A young girl gave Wanda a wildflower, and Wanda accepted it as a sign of kindness amid the ruins.
• Lucian entrusted Wanda and Pietro with helping manage and rebuild Sokovia, and Wanda began organizing the crowd.
• Transport planes carrying Vought and Stark Industries personnel arrived in Sokovia, with Tony Stark, Happy Hogan, and Pepper Potts among those who disembarked.
• Tony approached Lucian and asked who was in charge; Lucian said that he was.

Lucian arranged for Vought International and Stark Industries to coordinate Sokovia’s reconstruction, appointing Simona as Vought’s CEO. Tony also gave Lucian a watch containing an AI and nanoscale suit technology, and Lucian named the AI Jade Balance.

• Tony promised Sokovia clean energy equipment, reconstruction support, and investment from Stark Industries.
• Lucian promoted Simona to CEO of Vought International, and she began coordinating reconstruction plans with Pepper Potts.
• Vought staff and Simona’s agents set up medical stations, distributed supplies, and registered missing persons.
• Tony told Lucian that Dr. Helen Cho’s biological cradle technology had transformed his suit design into adaptable living metal.
• Tony gave Lucian a watch containing an AI and nanoparticles linked to the suit, and Lucian named the AI Jade Balance.

Lucian learned Jade Balance’s capabilities before Natasha reported a massive energy surge near South America, likely caused by the Eternals concentrating their power. After briefing Tony, Wanda, and Pietro and preparing his new armor, Lucian flew ahead to scout the threat.

• Lucian tested Jade Balance, who explained her network access and combat-support functions and teased him about dating.
• Natasha alerted Tony to an escalating energy fluctuation near South America, and Lucian suspected the Eternals had concentrated their cosmic energy into one of their own.
• Lucian warned Wanda and Pietro to prioritize survival and told Tony that breaking the Eternals’ energy connection could weaken their empowered fighter.
• Lucian gave Tony enhancement serums, arranged for Pietro to receive a vibranium weapon, and used Jade Balance to locate the energy eruption.
• Lucian donned Tony’s nanovibranium armor and flew toward South America as Jade Balance reported that the target’s energy was still rising.

Tony brought the Avengers the serums Lucian had supplied and warned them about the powerful enemy, while Lucian attacked the Eternals from a distance. The Avengers began deciding whether to take the serums as Uni-Mind-Ikaris emerged from the blast and charged Lucian.

• Tony brought Steve, Natasha, Clint, Wanda, Pietro, and Hulk aboard the Quinjet and delivered Lucian’s serums and warning.
• Tony left to scout ahead, and Wanda and Pietro vanished from the Quinjet to join Lucian.
• Natasha and Clint picked up the serums, and Steve chose to take one as the Avengers prepared for the fight.
• Lucian fired a fully charged Light Cannon at the Eternals, but Ikaris’s Heat Vision stopped and dispersed the beam.
• Lucian used Reality Shift to let the Heat Vision pass through him, and Uni-Mind-Ikaris charged through the explosion toward him.

Lucian discovered that Ikaris’s Uni-Mind-enhanced Heat Vision could disrupt his intangibility, so he fled across the ocean to draw Ikaris away from the other Eternals. Ikaris relentlessly pursued him, and the chapter ended with him closing to within five hundred meters.

• Ikaris’s golden Heat Vision destabilized Lucian’s intangible body, forcing him to solidify and teleport away.
• Lucian assessed the damage with Jade Balance and realized the Uni-Mind had greatly enhanced Ikaris’s abilities.
• Lucian told Jade Balance to give Tony his direction and instruct him to attack the energy nodes, then fled toward the open ocean with Ikaris in pursuit.
• Lucian used elemental shields and his own Heat Vision against Ikaris, but Ikaris’s defenses and golden beam overwhelmed them.
• Lucian boosted his speed and fired energy blasts to slow Ikaris, but Ikaris smashed through them and closed to within five hundred meters.

Lucian fought Ikaris at close range, using his armor’s stored energy, blood swords, magnetic control, and electromagnetic interference to slow him down. As Ikaris’s Heat Vision vaporized the fog, Lucian used the Mind Stone to stun him briefly and teleported in with an energy-charged blade for a desperate surprise attack.

• Lucian teleported around Ikaris and landed several attacks, but Ikaris caught one punch and knocked him thousands of meters away with an elbow strike.
• Lucian redirected the armor’s stored kinetic energy into a punch that forced Ikaris backward, then formed three Blood Swords from his blood and struck Ikaris with them.
• Lucian raised three massive walls of seawater and used electromagnetic pulses to disrupt Ikaris’s neurons, briefly slowing his advance.
• Ikaris adapted to the interference and evaporated the water walls with Heat Vision, so Lucian filled the resulting fog with electrical currents to obscure his position.
• Ikaris retreated and swept the fog with broad beams of Heat Vision, while Lucian used the Mind Stone to stun him and teleported in with an energy-charged blade.

Lucian fought Ikaris after the Uni-Mind had strengthened him, managing to wound him with a carefully timed combination of transformation, teleportation, and energy attacks. Ikaris quickly healed, leaving Lucian to focus on stalling until Tony and the others could sever the Uni-Mind link.

• Lucian’s Mind Stone attack suppressed Ikaris for less than a second, so he transformed into Sprite to evade Ikaris’s punch and countered with his Magic Metal blade and the scepter.
• Ikaris knocked the scepter aside, but the blade pierced his abdomen and unleashed fire, lightning, radiation, and telekinetic force inside him.
• Ikaris vaporized Lucian’s blood swords with Heat Vision, and Lucian escaped by teleporting over ten thousand meters away.
• Ikaris purged the attack’s effects and healed his wound, while Lucian realized he could not defeat him and needed to stall until Tony and the others severed the Uni-Mind link.
• Lucian raised his hands to continue fighting, and Ikaris charged at him again.

Tony, Wanda, and Pietro attacked the Eternals’ energy transmission device to disrupt the Uni-Mind and weaken Ikaris, but Kingo, Makkari, and Thena stopped their assault. With the connection weakened, Ikaris tried to return, but Lucian blocked his way to keep him pinned down.

• Wanda and Pietro rushed the energy transmission device, and Tony followed as they began attacking the Eternals.
• Kingo withdrew from the Uni-Mind and fought Wanda, while Makkari knocked Pietro away from the device.
• Thena split Tony’s energy cannon beam and engaged him, stopping the Avengers’ surprise attack.
• Lucian sensed that the disrupted transmission had weakened Ikaris, who turned back toward the others.
• Lucian intercepted Ikaris and continued fighting to keep him from returning.

Tony, Wanda, and Pietro tried to stop the Eternals' synchronization ritual while Lucian fought Ikaris in the distance. With Lucian at a disadvantage, Tony launched an area-wide attack, but Makkari continued to block Pietro from reaching the device.

• Pietro was badly hurt after Makkari struck him, while Kingo demanded that the team return Ajak, Sersi, and Sprite in exchange for ending the synchronization.
• A distant blast revealed that Lucian was fighting Ikaris, and JARVIS reported that Lucian had the disadvantage.
• Tony ordered JARVIS to deploy every weapon and sent missiles and energy beams toward the Eternals and their device.
• Wanda blocked Kingo's golden bolts while Thena shot cosmic arrows at Tony, forcing him back with his shield.
• Pietro charged toward the device again, but Makkari intercepted him and knocked him into the ground.

The Avengers intervened as the Eternals overwhelmed Wanda, Pietro, and Tony while protecting the transport device. Steve, Hulk, Natasha, Hawkeye, and Tony joined the fight, leaving both sides facing off on the battlefield.

• Phastos shielded the transport device from the missile barrage while Druig unleashed a Psychic Blast that incapacitated Tony and weakened Pietro and Wanda.
• Wanda resisted Druig's psychic attack, but Thena aimed an energy arrow at the helpless Pietro.
• Hawkeye's arrow deflected Thena's shot, and Steve threw his shield at Druig, breaking his concentration.
• Hulk attacked Druig and Phastos, while Natasha ambushed Kingo with her Widow's Bite.
• Steve, Hawkeye, Tony, and Hulk regrouped on the battlefield as the Avengers assembled against the Eternals.

Lucian’s rage-powered strength let him match Ikaris and interrupt his flight toward the Avengers’ battlefield. As Lucian pursued him into the sea, the Avengers engaged the remaining Eternals in the rainforest.

• Lucian’s infinite rage surged, allowing him to meet Ikaris’s punch with an even clash.
• Ikaris fled toward South America, but Lucian chased him and used teleportation and telekinesis to slam him into the sea.
• The Eternals’ mental synchronization weakened after five withdrew, leaving Gilgamesh maintaining the connection.
• Tony received JARVIS’s tactical analysis and urged the Avengers to split up and attack before the Eternals could reconnect.
• Steve targeted Thena, Wanda confronted Druig, Natasha and Barton went after Kingo, Pietro charged Makkari, and Hulk attacked Phastos as Tony prepared to provide support.

Steve and the Avengers fought the Eternals while trying to destroy a device, using their awakened abilities to hold off Thena, Phastos, and Kingo. Steve kept Thena occupied, Hulk drove Phastos into retreat, and Natasha and Barton immobilized Kingo as Barton prepared another volley.

• Steve activated Alliance Ring, weakening Thena and sharing her drained strength among his teammates.
• Steve abandoned offense and used his Vibranium Shield to keep Thena occupied as she attacked with rapidly changing golden weapons.
• Hulk smashed through Phastos's shields and chased him as the Eternal fled Hulk's attacks.
• Natasha ambushed Kingo while Barton fired arrows, then used Shadow Traversal to kick Kingo's wrist and redirect his Energy Blast.
• Barton enchanted two arrows with lightning, which struck and paralyzed Kingo after Natasha's intervention.
• Barton aimed five differently enchanted arrows at the immobilized Kingo.

Wanda, Pietro, and Tony worked together to sever the Eternals’ energy transmission device, ending the Uni-Mind and depriving Ikaris of his companions’ power. Though Lucian’s own energy was spent, his rage intensified as he chased Ikaris toward the surface and seized his ankle.

• Wanda resisted Druig’s psychic assault and tore apart his psychic field, while Makkari rescued him from her attack.
• Pietro grabbed Makkari’s leg after she knocked him down, holding her back as Wanda and the others stopped Thena and Kingo from intervening.
• Tony cut through Phastos’s energy shield, but Gilgamesh struck him away from the device; Tony reported that its connection had been severed.
• Gilgamesh’s withdrawal broke the Uni-Mind, and Lucian used a massive underwater shock wave to batter Ikaris as his rage continued to grow.
• Ikaris fled toward the surface, but Lucian launched after him and grabbed his ankle as he emerged from the water.

Lucian overwhelmed Ikaris in the sea while the Avengers’ fight against the Eternals turned against them in the South American rainforest. The chapter ended with the Avengers’ defensive line shattered and several of them badly hurt or incapacitated.

• Lucian smashed through Ikaris’s Heat Vision and repeatedly punched him underwater as Ikaris struggled to defend himself.
• After the Avengers disrupted the energy device, Gilgamesh overpowered Hulk while Tony assessed his damaged armor and low reserves.
• Thena ordered the Eternals to switch opponents, leaving Gilgamesh to fight Hulk, Phastos to attack Tony, and Kingo to pin down Steve.
• Makkari struck Clint unconscious, and Natasha’s ambush failed when Makkari dodged her attack and kicked her away.
• Druig trapped Pietro in mental agony as Thena pressured Wanda, leaving the Avengers on the defensive.

Lucian and Ikaris fought brutally beneath the sea as Infinite Rage made Lucian stronger despite Ikaris’s attempts to restrain and injure him. When JARVIS and Jade Balance reported the rainforest battlefield’s collapse and Wanda’s and Pietro’s failing vital signs, Lucian left the wounded Ikaris alive and raced to support them.

• Lucian overwhelmed Ikaris with relentless attacks, but Ikaris escaped behind him and pierced Lucian’s neck with compressed Heat Vision.
• Lucian’s rage intensified, letting him break free, burst Ikaris’s eardrums with a double-handed strike, and seize his throat.
• Ikaris severed Lucian’s hands with Heat Vision and retreated while Lucian’s healing restored them behind his Nano Vibranium Shield.
• JARVIS reported that the rainforest defensive line had collapsed, and Jade Balance warned that Wanda’s and Pietro’s vital signs were in severe danger.
• Lucian abandoned his pursuit of Ikaris and shot toward the surface to reach the rainforest battlefield.

Lucian raced back toward the rainforest while Ikaris pursued him, and Natasha struggled to save the mortally wounded Clint from Makkari. Hulk turned the fight against Gilgamesh with a practiced martial arts combination and charged at him again as Gilgamesh lay helpless.

• Lucian left the sea at full speed for the rainforest, and Ikaris followed despite his severe injuries.
• Natasha hid from Makkari while Clint lay close to death, and she prepared for one final surprise attack.
• Hulk’s strength continued to grow, and he tricked Gilgamesh into a close-range counterattack.
• Hulk used a Bajiquan combination to tear Gilgamesh’s face, break his breastbone, and knock him into a muddy pit.
• Hulk roared that he was forcing his way up the mountain, then charged at the helpless Gilgamesh again.

Steve and Pietro turned the battle around by using the Alliance Ring to weaken Makkari and empower Pietro, creating an opening to attack Druig. The chapter ended with a vibranium dagger striking Druig as Steve pinned Kingo down.

• Tony diverted his remaining armor energy to melee and maneuvering as Phastos kept him trapped in the air.
• Steve used the Alliance Ring to weaken Makkari and channel the energy into Pietro, then threw his shield toward Druig to draw Kingo's fire.
• Pietro broke free of Druig's mental control, blocked Makkari's punch, and threw his dagger toward Druig while holding Makkari back.
• Steve charged through Kingo's Energy Blasts and tackled him, preventing him from intercepting the dagger.
• Pietro's vibranium dagger pierced Druig.

Natasha revived Clint with adrenaline and Compound V, and Hulk returned to the battle in time to save Steve from Kingo. Hulk threw Kingo at Thena, giving Wanda an opening to attack, then charged in to help her while Pietro kept Makkari occupied.

• Druig died after the dagger struck his chest, and Kingo furiously battered Steve while Makkari stopped Pietro from reaching them.
• Natasha injected Clint with adrenaline and Compound V, then called Hulk away from his fight with Gilgamesh to help the others.
• Hulk knocked Kingo away from Steve, moved Steve to safety, and was struck in the back by Thena's energy arrows.
• Hulk grabbed Kingo by the ankle, spun him around, and hurled him toward Thena, who dodged and was struck by Wanda's chaos magic.
• Thena attacked Wanda with blades of light while Pietro told Hulk to protect Wanda, and Hulk charged toward Thena.

Tony exhausted his armor and crippled himself to kill Phastos, while Makkari beat Pietro to the brink of death as the Avengers fell into disarray. As Pietro lost consciousness, a furious voice announced over the Avengers’ comm channels, "Pivot, in position."

• Tony used the armor’s remaining energy to escape Phastos’s disintegrating nanotech trap and impaled him with vibranium blades, then passed out from his injuries.
• Steve fell into a deep coma, causing the Alliance Ring to dissipate and restoring Makkari’s full speed.
• Makkari repeatedly struck Pietro, breaking his bones and leaving him close to death.
• Thena, Gilgamesh, and Kingo kept Hulk under attack while Wanda’s shield shattered and she collapsed to one knee.
• Pietro remembered the young man who had offered to help change their fate, then lost consciousness as a furious voice announced, "Pivot, in position."

Lucian arrived at the devastated rainforest battlefield, rescued and began healing the wounded Avengers, then fought the Eternals. He trapped Makkari and Thena, but Ikaris returned and accidentally severed Makkari’s leg with his Heat Vision, leaving Lucian facing him.

• Lucian descended onto the battlefield, punched Gilgamesh underground, and copied his Energy Armor to replenish his power.
• Lucian carried the wounded to safety and healed them while allowing Hulk to pursue Gilgamesh.
• Lucian struck Thena and impaled Kingo with a blood sword before finishing him with lightning.
• Lucian used telekinesis and an electromagnetic pulse to capture Makkari and Thena as Makkari tried to rescue her.
• Ikaris returned and fired Heat Vision at Lucian, but it passed through him and severed Makkari’s right leg.
• Lucian turned toward Ikaris and prepared to fight him.

Lucian defeated the remaining Eternals after they launched one last coordinated attack, leaving Ikaris unconscious and the rainforest battlefield silent. He dismissed Ikaris’s warning about Arishem and the Emergence, while Hulk celebrated his victory over Gilgamesh.

• Ikaris sensed that Lucian had recovered some energy as the injured Eternals lay scattered across the battlefield.
• Thena and Ikaris attacked Lucian together, but he avoided their strikes, shattered Thena’s wrist, and blasted her unconscious with lightning.
• Lucian met Ikaris’s strongest punch with his own, broke Ikaris’s arm, then dragged him down with Telekinesis and pinned him in the mud.
• Hulk emerged from the crater after knocking Gilgamesh unconscious and declared that he had won.
• Lucian disabled Ikaris by severing his remaining energy circuits after Ikaris warned him about Arishem and the Emergence.

Lucian defeated Makkari and brought the wounded Avengers and captured Eternals back to Vought Tower. He left the Avengers in Vought’s care and prepared to examine the seven captured Eternals.

• Lucian knocked Makkari unconscious and returned to the Avengers with Hulk.
• Lucian called Simona, who sent two transports to collect the wounded Avengers and take them to Vought Tower.
• Simona briefed Lucian on Vought’s expansion and control of Hell’s Kitchen as they entered the tower.
• Lucian instructed Simona to care for the Avengers and give Hulk space and food.
• Lucian used telekinesis to take Ikaris, Thena, Makkari, Kingo, Phastos, Druig, and Gilgamesh to his private floor and prepared to tally his spoils.

Lucian examined the fallen Eternals in his private laboratory and considered how their abilities could be combined, while Tony and the others woke in Vought Tower. Simona told them that Lucian was recovering and the Eternals had been wiped out.

• Lucian inspected Ikaris, Thena, Druig, Phastos, and Makkari, assessing their abilities as potential additions to his collection.
• Lucian imagined combining the Eternals' energy armor, weapon creation, device creation, and Energy Blasts into a powerful attack.
• Lucian weighed whether to copy Ikaris's Heat Vision or super physique.
• Tony woke in Vought Tower's intensive care ward and found that his reactor and body were intact, while Wanda and Pietro also recovered.
• Simona told Tony and the others that Jade Balance had cut off JARVIS's network access and Lucian was recovering on the top floor.
• Simona told Steve and the others that the Eternals had been wiped out.

Tony and the Avengers learned that Lucian had captured every invader and was guarding them while he recovered. After they left, Simona told Wanda and Pietro that the compound was their home and that they could choose their own floors.

• Tony questioned whether the invaders were dead and whether the Celestial inside Earth could still awaken, and Simona said Lucian had brought all the invaders back alive or dead and was guarding them himself.
• Tony left the hospital to return to his lab and improve his technology for a future fight with Phastos.
• Steve asked Simona to tell Lucian to contact him after recovering and promised to monitor underground energy activity with the Avengers.
• Natasha and Clint thanked Lucian and left with Steve to return to the agency.
• Pietro asked Simona whether he and Wanda had to leave too, and Simona told them the compound was their home and they could choose their own floors.

Simona helped Wanda and Pietro settle into Vought Tower and told them about the reconstruction of Sokovia. She also assured Bruce Banner that he was free to leave and that Vought would protect him, leaving him ready to take an unaccompanied walk in New York.

• Simona gave Wanda and Pietro cards loaded with a hundred million each and told them about the rebuilding of Sokovia.
• Wanda chose the sunny side of their new home and said she wanted to pick out the furniture, while Pietro asked for an indoor running track and a hundred game consoles.
• A Vought medical director told Banner that Hulk had helped defeat the Eternals in South America without causing civilian casualties.
• Banner realized that communication had helped him and Hulk work together, and he felt relieved that Hulk had saved the situation.
• Simona told Banner he could leave freely and that Vought would protect him from the military and other forces.
• Banner thanked Lucian and said he wanted to walk alone in New York, and Simona gave him a card in case he needed help.