Recaps

Qin Xiao helped Natasha reunite with Yelena, dismantle Dreykov’s Red Room, and bring Captain America into the modern world. After confronting government demands and reclaiming Chinese relics, he learned from the Ancient One that Kang had shaped their timeline and that Qin Xiao’s arrival had changed its future.

• Qin Xiao forced Doctor Strange to operate on Natasha, then learned how her escape from the Red Room had led to Antonia’s apparent death and her separation from Yelena.
• Natasha and Qin Xiao found Yelena, who revealed the Red Room’s neurological control, and Tony Stark helped them identify the agent before Dreykov ambushed them.
• Qin Xiao and Natasha rescued Alexei and joined him, Yelena, and Melina to locate Dreykov’s mobile sky fortress, where Tony’s antidote freed the Widows and Natasha led them against their captors.
• Qin Xiao took control of the Red Room’s resources and arranged for the Widows to choose their futures, then Tony found Steve Rogers frozen beneath the Greenland ice and Qin Xiao welcomed him aboard the Sky Base.
• Nick Fury challenged Qin Xiao’s authority and warned him about public trust, but Qin Xiao, Tony, and Natasha refused to hand over the Sky Base or the freed Widows when senators demanded them.
• Qin Xiao made the Sky Base Captain America’s, helped establish the Avengers’ core team, and later bought the Twelve Chinese Zodiac Animal Heads at auction before striking Hishiguchi Kohei for threatening him.
• Qin Xiao brought an ancient golden coffin to the Ancient One, who discovered that Kang had severed their timeline, created the Sacred Timeline, and used Agamotto’s sacrifice to regulate it.
• The Ancient One said Qin Xiao’s arrival had altered Stephen Strange’s destined role and created futures in which she survived, while Qin Xiao concealed his system and explained his knowledge as dreams from another world.

Qin Xiao and the Avengers stopped Loki’s Chitauri invasion with Wakanda’s help, while Qin Xiao used the Time Stone to reunite Steve Rogers with Peggy Carter. Steve then discovered that Hydra was involved in the hijacking of the Lemurian Star and Project Insight.

• Qin Xiao searched Hong Kong for the Sanctum, entered Ikaris’s family’s vacant building, and was overpowered by a woman with Skyfather-level strength before escaping to New York.
• Tony built Qin Xiao a flight-capable black-and-gold suit, while Loki took control of Hawkeye and Dr. Selvig and escaped with the Tesseract.
• Qin Xiao and the Avengers subdued Loki, then traced the Tesseract to Wakanda, where Hawkeye and Dr. Selvig opened a portal for the Chitauri.
• The Avengers joined Wakanda’s warriors to fight the Chitauri, and Qin Xiao disrupted the Tesseract’s energy so the portal closed after the nuclear warhead destroyed the command ship.
• Qin Xiao received the Tesseract and learned to open portals with the Ancient One, then used the Time Stone to help Peggy Carter become young again and reunite with Steve Rogers.
• Steve celebrated his birthday with Peggy and the Avengers, then agreed to travel with Peggy while Qin Xiao and Tony focused on Hydra.
• On a cruise ship, Steve overheard a plot against the Lemurian Star and recognized it as a Hydra vessel tied to Project Insight.
• Steve freed Agent Sitwell and the hostages aboard the Lemurian Star, then overheard Sitwell’s companion reveal that the hijackers had offended both S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra.

Qin Xiao and the Avengers exposed Hydra and stopped Project Insight, then rescued Pepper and Natasha from Killian’s Extremis plot. The arc ended with Tony healing himself with the virus and introducing Peter Parker to Qin Xiao.

• Brock Rumlow paralyzed Captain America and Hawkeye, but Nick Fury received Hawkeye’s copied ship data and learned that the Lemurian Star files had been sealed under his authorization.
• Qin Xiao rescued Captain America and Hawkeye from Hydra’s hidden museum base, and the group learned that Project Insight’s Helicarriers would target people worldwide.
• Agent Sitwell revealed Hydra’s infiltration, and Qin Xiao helped the Avengers stop Project Insight, expose Alexander Pierce, and release S.H.I.E.L.D.’s confidential files.
• Natasha gave Qin Xiao a file showing that Bucky had killed Tony Stark’s parents while under mind control, and Qin Xiao promised to handle the news carefully.
• Killian’s Extremis soldiers kidnapped Pepper Potts and Natasha Romanoff, so Qin Xiao and the Avengers tracked the captors to a cruise ship and rescued them.
• Qin Xiao killed Erik Savin, while Pepper killed Killian after he regenerated and attacked her, and Tony destroyed the remaining armor suits as fireworks.
• Tony injected himself with the Extremis Virus, healed his chest wound, and developed an antidote before introducing eleven-year-old Peter Parker to Qin Xiao.

After the Avengers’ base was attacked, Qin Xiao retaliated against Japan and then helped confront the Convergence and the Dark Elves. Trapped in Knowhere, he joined forces with Groot and encountered Kang after battling Alioth.

• A plane crashed into Sky Base, and Spider-Man revealed his strength before Tony invited him to join the Avengers’ reserves when he was older.
• Qin Xiao retaliated against Japan for the attack, destroying war-criminal shrines and demanding that its leaders surrender those responsible and reform their commemorations.
• Qin Xiao accompanied Thor to Asgard, learned that the Convergence could expose the Aether, and found Jane Foster investigating spatial anomalies in London.
• The Aether and Space Stone fused into Qin Xiao, who then confronted Malekith in Svartalfheim and was pulled into a black hole during their battle.
• Qin Xiao awoke in Knowhere, where he met Little Groot and learned that the system would let him return to his other worlds in fifteen days.
• Qin Xiao helped Groot absorb the dead Shiba Inu Thor and rescued Old Loki, who told them about the TVA and the Lokis’ attempt to free everyone from the Sacred Timeline.
• Old Loki died after urging Qin Xiao and Groot to investigate the red cloud, and Qin Xiao used the Eternal Flame to drive back Alioth.
• Qin Xiao, Groot, and Mandela entered a castle revealed within the red clouds, where Kang introduced himself as the Conqueror.