Chapter Summaries

Buddy discovered that the old minister knew Dark magic and deliberately made the minister’s wand cast Expelliarmus so he would believe Buddy was magically gifted. The minister decided to train Buddy as an assassin, while Buddy concealed his own motives.

• The old minister lowered his wand after nearly killing Buddy with Avada Kedavra, and Buddy realized the minister was skilled in Dark magic.
• Buddy pretended to be curious about the minister’s wand, then picked it up in his mouth and accidentally cast Expelliarmus at an inkwell.
• The old minister recognized that Buddy could make a wand resonate and decided the dog could use magic without the laws applying to him.
• The old minister promised to train Buddy as a deadly weapon, and Buddy played along while hiding a crafty gleam in his eyes.

The old minister publicly blamed Vought for the Aurors’ deaths and announced he would seek an alliance with Lynn’s group, secretly hoping to use Homelander to eliminate Stan Edgar and conceal his own collusion. At Lynn’s estate, he made a public appeal for cooperation, but Lynn challenged the sincerity of arriving with reporters to pressure him.

• The old minister revealed that Vought had used stolen Fantastic Beast genes to create a magic-resistant mutant army that killed three hundred Aurors, and he called for war against the company.
• The old minister overcame traditionalists’ objections by claiming he would sacrifice his reputation to seek Muggle superhuman allies, while privately planning to have Homelander kill Edgar.
• The old minister traveled to Long Island with two confidants, wizarding reporters, and Buddy to approach Lynn’s estate.
• Lynn and John received the delegation at the gates, while Buddy pretended to be a loyal dog and secretly watched Lynn.
• The old minister asked Lynn to ally with the wizarding world against Vought, citing its tens of thousands of mutant supersoldiers and offering covert magical support.
• Lynn questioned whether the old minister’s appeal was sincere when he had brought reporters to pressure him.

The Old Minister tried to recruit Lynn by appealing to the Wizarding World’s desperate need for help against Vought, but Lynn exposed the request as an attempt to use his people for the Minister’s own ends. When the Minister knelt outside the estate and pleaded on behalf of innocent lives, Lynn rejected the moral blackmail and walked away.

• The Old Minister told Lynn he had brought reporters to witness the Wizarding World setting aside its pride to seek help, and promised that North American Aurors would serve him.
• Lynn pointed out that Vought had ten thousand Mutant Soldiers while three hundred elite Aurors had been slaughtered, and accused the Minister of wanting John to kill Edgar and cover up his own messes.
• The Old Minister realized his usual appeals would not sway Lynn, then knelt before the estate’s gate and begged him to save innocent magical children and the Supernatural World.
• The reporters recorded the scene as the Old Minister’s subordinates tried to help him up, but he ordered them to stand back.
• John offered to burn the gathered mourners, but Lynn refused and warned the Minister that kneeling would not make his knees heavy enough to use the Long Island Estate for dirty work.

Lynn drew the Old Minister into an illusion and demanded the truth about Compound V, which the minister admitted had wizard involvement. Lynn left him with an order to gather intelligence on Vought International, while the minister awoke still kneeling outside the estate.

• Lynn appeared inside an illusion and condemned the Old Minister’s political scheming.
• The Old Minister admitted that wizards were involved in the core synthesis technology behind Compound V.
• The Old Minister claimed Vought International and Edgar were responsible for abducting wizards and that he had only helped cover up records.
• Lynn ordered the Old Minister to compile locations of Vought’s pharmaceutical plants, Society Organizations, Fantastic Beasts bases, and remaining habitats.
• The illusion collapsed, and the Old Minister awoke outside the Long Island Estate with his aides, reporters, and Buddy beside him.

As the Long Island Estate prepared to attack Vought International, Lynn weighed the consequences of destroying the corporation and killing Stan Edgar. He chose to proceed despite the threat of a global manhunt, then began preparing a hearty meal for the household before the operation.

• The household quietly prepared weapons and trained as they awaited the Old Minister's information about Vought International's secrets and coordinates.
• Lynn considered that destroying Vought and its mutant army could bring the full force of the United States and its allies down on the estate.
• Lynn decided not to spare Stan Edgar or Vought International just to preserve the household's peace, accepting that the world might hunt them.
• John told Lynn his coffee had gone cold, and Lynn replied that he would not drink it cold before sending John to tell Benjamin and the turtles to stop and wash up.
• Lynn took marinated beef from the refrigerator and told the household they would eat well before working the next day.

After Vought International’s attack, the Old Minister ordered the North American Ministry of Magic to covertly uncover the company’s operations across America. Before dawn, he sent Lynn a detailed map and a Two-Way Mirror, and Lynn prepared to strike Vought’s targets after breakfast.

• The Old Minister ordered every available trained wizard to investigate Vought International’s pharmaceutical plants, warehouses, and allied gangs without confronting them directly.
• Aurors and witches used magic to infiltrate gang hideouts and warehouses, gathering locations and security details from Vought’s network.
• Before dawn, the Old Minister sorted the intelligence into a map and dossiers, packed them with a Two-Way Mirror, and sent them to Lynn by owl.
• At breakfast, Lynn received the map and mirror and showed the gathered intelligence to Benjamin, Black Noir, and the others.
• Lynn rolled up the map and told the group they would visit Vought’s targets one by one after they finished breakfast.

Lynn armed and divided his allies into teams to destroy Vought International’s operations, rescue captive fantastic beasts, and eliminate its collaborators before Edgar could relocate them. He arranged for the Ministry of Magic to evacuate the rescued creatures while he and John prepared to attack Vought’s core facilities.

• Lynn gave Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo weapons and assigned them to attack the underground gangs with Benjamin.
• Lynn sent Black Noir, Reggie, Tommy, Annie, and Kevin to rescue captives and clear guards at Vought’s transit warehouses and fantastic beast holding sites.
• Lynn assigned himself and John to attack Vought’s three core biopharmaceutical plants and main defensive force.
• Lynn asked the Old Minister to send elite Aurors to the warehouses to transport the rescued fantastic beasts away.

Lynn ordered the Ministry of Magic to find Edgar’s hiding place while he and his family prepared to attack Vought’s criminal network. As Lynn left the Manor, Benjamin and the four turtles began raiding the locations marked on their map.

• Lynn told the Old Minister to mobilize the Ministry of Magic and uncover Edgar’s exact hiding place.
• The Old Minister pledged to oversee the search, and Lynn left the Manor in the rain after telling his family to stay safe and be back before dinner.
• Benjamin and the four turtles attacked the Viper Gang’s underground casino in the Bronx.
• The turtles and Benjamin killed the mutated gangsters and smashed the gang’s safe.
• Benjamin checked the time, noted they had cleared the casino in two minutes and forty seconds, and led the group to the next location.

Kevin and the others overwhelmed Vought’s New Jersey beast-transfer station, while Lynn and John destroyed the defenses around Vought’s Virginia biopharmaceutical plant. Lynn and John walked through the burning battlefield after John complained that his hoodie had gotten dirty.

• Annie blinded the guards at the New Jersey warehouse, while Black Noir and Tommy dismantled their defenses and killed the soldiers.
• Kevin released Charlie into a puddle, and the goldfish mutated into a giant armored beast that swallowed a troop carrier and the guards inside.
• The Aurors entered the warehouse to recover the fantastic beasts after Kevin told them they could begin their work.
• Lynn and John approached Vought’s Virginia plant, where a thousand mutant soldiers opened fire on them.
• John used his heat vision to slice through tanks and soldiers, clearing the factory’s defensive line as Lynn walked onward under his umbrella.
• John noticed mud on his hoodie, and Lynn told him to change into a new one when they got back.

Lynn and John destroyed Vought International’s core assets and headed for the Pentagon, while Madelyn confirmed her deal with Lynn to spare her life. Edgar called Madelyn and asked whether she had revealed his location to Lynn.

• Edgar received reports that Vought International’s assets were being attacked and watched their markers disappear from the map.
• Lynn used Boundary to make mutant soldiers attack one another in Vought International’s biopharmaceutical plant, while John protected him from the survivors.
• Madelyn messaged Lynn to ask whether he would keep his promise, and Lynn replied that he would.
• Lynn and John left for the Pentagon after clearing the factory.
• Edgar told Madelyn that Lynn and John were heading to the Pentagon, then asked whether she had told Lynn where he was.

Edgar exposed Madelyn as his betrayer and had Duke kill her. At the Pentagon, the old general confronted Edgar and Marge with hundreds of Mutant Soldiers to seize the New Compound formula and technology, but Edgar hinted that their obedience could turn against them.

• Edgar tricked Madelyn into confessing that she had betrayed him, then Duke stabbed her to death on Edgar's orders.
• Edgar left his Pentagon office with Marge, intending to move to a secure location as Lynn and John approached.
• The old general sealed the corridor and surrounded Edgar and Marge with Mutant Soldiers.
• The old general demanded the New Compound formula, synthesis technology, and Edgar's case, threatening them with the soldiers' weapons.
• Edgar warned the old general that the Mutant Soldiers had been designed to obey orders absolutely.

Edgar seized control of the Pentagon and its Mutant Soldiers, killed the old general, and prepared to flee by helicopter with Marge and the New Vanguard children. He waited for Duke to return from dealing with Madelyn before escaping.

• Edgar used the serum’s neural controllers to turn the Mutant Soldiers’ weapons on the old general and his officers.
• Edgar ordered the soldiers to open fire, killing the old general as he left the corridor with Marge.
• Edgar gathered nearly twenty thousand Mutant Soldiers at the Pentagon and prepared a helicopter for departure with Marge and the New Vanguard children.
• Edgar reflected that he could have taken power in the United States, but Lynn and John’s presence had forced him to flee instead.
• Edgar waited one more minute for Duke to return after dealing with Madelyn before taking off.

Lynn led the Manor’s fighters and North American Aurors against a twenty-thousand-strong mutant army outside the Pentagon. After they carved a bloody passage through the enemy, Lynn walked toward the Pentagon.

• The Old Minister arrived with fifteen Aurors, and Lynn ordered them to clear the enemy rather than hold the defensive line.
• John attacked the mutant army from the air, then plunged into its ranks while Benjamin unleashed Chest Blast and Reggie used Bullet Time to eliminate gun crews.
• Black Noir and the four little turtles struggled against the armored soldiers until Kevin released Charlie, who grew into a giant deep-sea behemoth and attacked the enemy.
• Tommy lifted armored vehicles as shields, Annie fired a powerful beam of energy, and the Aurors trapped and froze the mutant soldiers with wide-area spells.
• Lynn crossed the battlefield after the fighters opened a passage through the army and headed toward the Pentagon.

Lynn and John reached the Pentagon rooftop, where Stan Edgar waited beside a running helicopter with Marge and Duke. Edgar admitted Lynn had defeated him and asked what Lynn planned to do with him and the world beyond the coming upheaval.

• John carried Lynn from the Pentagon grounds to the rooftop helipad, where Edgar, Marge, and Duke were waiting beside a helicopter.
• Lynn pointed out that Edgar could already have escaped, and Edgar replied that family mattered more than surviving.
• Edgar recalled how Lynn had earned John's trust with kindness rather than force, making him the one variable Edgar had failed to anticipate.
• Edgar acknowledged that Lynn had won and asked what he intended to do with him and how he would face the world once the door was opened.

Lynn and John confronted Edgar at the Pentagon, where Edgar escaped by exploiting the New Vanguard Camp children’s loyalty. John killed several of the children who tried to hold him back, then flew after Edgar’s helicopter with Marge, Duke, and other test subjects still clinging to his legs.

• Duke tried to stab Lynn from behind, but John caught him and crushed his wrist.
• Edgar stopped Marge from attacking and told the New Vanguard Camp children that Lynn would spare them if they did not resist.
• The children rushed out to protect Edgar, unleashing their powers while Edgar took the black case and escaped in the helicopter.
• Marge, Duke, and the children grabbed John’s legs to keep him from pursuing Edgar, and John killed several of them with his heat vision.
• John launched into the sky with the remaining attackers clinging to him and chased Edgar’s helicopter.

John tore into Edgar’s helicopter, but Edgar threatened to detonate a nuclear bomb beneath the Pentagon, where Lynn was fighting. John raced back toward Lynn as the bomb exploded, engulfing the Pentagon and everyone around it in white light.

• John ripped open the helicopter floor and entered the cabin after dropping Marge, Duke, and two unconscious children into the storm.
• Edgar revealed that separating John from Lynn had been his plan, then threatened to detonate a nuclear bomb beneath the Pentagon using the briefcase’s concealed button.
• John abandoned his attack on Edgar and raced toward the Pentagon to reach Lynn.
• As John neared Lynn, the bomb detonated underground and a blinding blast vaporized the Pentagon, its vehicles, and the mutant soldiers.

Edgar believed he had escaped with victory, but Lynn revealed that the nuclear explosion and his escape had been an illusion inside his Boundary. As Lynn prepared to finish him, Marge stabbed Edgar from behind.

• Edgar watched what he believed was a nuclear blast and thought Lynn had been eliminated, only to discover the helicopter escape and destruction were fabricated.
• Lynn explained that Edgar had been inside his Boundary since he arrived on the helipad, while John mocked Edgar’s farewell speech.
• Edgar accepted his defeat and admitted that family had proven more powerful than capital.
• Marge rose from the water and stabbed Edgar in the chest with a dagger she had taken from Duke.

Marge killed Edgar, and the battle seemed to end in victory as Lynn and John reunited with their allies. The Old Minister then ambushed John with a Killing Curse, and Lynn died after throwing himself in front of it.

• Marge held Edgar as he died, then carried his body away with Duke while John burned two more holes into Edgar to ensure he was dead.
• Lynn and John reunited with their exhausted allies and the surviving Aurors, and everyone believed the battle was over.
• The Old Minister noticed Buddy watching John and decided to kill John himself, then eliminate Lynn and the others to seize control.
• The Old Minister cast Avada Kedavra at John from behind, and Lynn tried to shove John out of the way.
• Lynn threw himself between John and the curse, and John caught him as his heartbeat stopped.

After the Old Minister accidentally killed Lynn, John’s grief unleashed a massacre on the Pentagon rooftop. The chapter ended with John killing the Old Minister and standing amid the dead.

• The Old Minister tried to kill John, but Buddy bit off his wand hand and caught the wand.
• John laid Lynn’s body down, then rose with a smile as his grief and fury took hold.
• John smashed through the Aurors’ shields and slaughtered the Aurors and fleeing New Vanguard Camp children.
• John crushed the Old Minister beneath his boot, leaving no one outside Long Island Estate alive.

After Edgar died and Vought Tower was abandoned, Marge retrieved the original compound V extracted from Stormfront’s body but hid it from Duke. She left the tower carrying Edgar’s body, while Duke followed, unaware that she had taken the serum.

• Marge carried Edgar’s body through Vought Tower’s deserted lobby, while Duke followed with his injured wrist.
• Marge told Duke to guard Edgar, then went alone to the underground laboratory.
• A scientist told Marge that Vought had successfully extracted a single vial of original compound V from Stormfront’s body.
• Marge took the serum and left the laboratory without telling the scientist what she intended to do with it.
• Marge lied to Duke that the laboratory was empty, then carried Edgar’s body out into the rain as Duke followed.