Recaps

Hulk, Tony, and Rimuru fought Abomination after Hydra’s enhancements made him stronger and nearly impossible to injure for long. Rimuru matched Abomination in close combat, but Abomination’s attempt to crush the Dragon Knight Armor left the battle unresolved.

• Abomination overpowered Hulk until Tony struck him from behind, then fought Tony and Hulk as the two teamed up against him.
• Rimuru arrived and used Black Flame Lightning to interrupt Abomination, then sent Hulk and Tony back to face him alone.
• Rimuru and Abomination traded powerful blows, with Rimuru using his armor and magic while Abomination relied on brute force and rapid healing.
• Abomination seized the Dragon Knight Armor’s arm joints and squeezed, but its barriers resisted the force.

Rimuru discovered that Abomination’s extreme recovery came from a recovery potion and summoned the Transformers to change the fight from attrition to an overwhelming group assault. The Transformers surrounded and battered Abomination, leaving him unable to fight back.

• Rimuru learned from Great Sage that Abomination’s recovery had been enhanced by gamma radiation and a recovery potion, and Tony admitted he had sold potions to the military.
• Tony ordered JARVIS to stop supplying the military and contact Stark’s legal department, while Rimuru ended the futile battle of attrition and told Nick Fury he had a plan.
• Rimuru summoned Megatron, Optimus Prime, and the other Transformers, whose arrival stunned the people watching the battle.
• After Rimuru identified Abomination as their opponent, the Transformers surrounded him and attacked in coordinated waves.
• Abomination struggled against the group assault as his wounds healed only to be inflicted again, while Optimus Prime and Megatron prepared their weapons and Nick Fury called the attack a field-clearing operation.

Rimuru’s Transformers repeatedly overwhelmed Abomination, whose gamma-powered regeneration restored him after every beating, while Rimuru refused Nick Fury’s requests to lend robots or help imprison him. Rimuru then used Galactron’s magical beam to stop Abomination’s regeneration and evaporate him, and hinted that Hydra had caused his escape.

• Ironhide, Brawl, Crankcase, Hatchet, Crowbar, Megatron, and Optimus Prime coordinated attacks that restrained and repeatedly injured Abomination.
• Abomination regenerated completely, shattered his restraint nets, and resumed fighting, astonishing the Transformers.
• Rimuru watched with Tony and Hulk while Nick Fury asked him to tone down the fight and later suggested imprisoning Abomination or borrowing robots.
• Rimuru refused Fury’s requests and said Abomination’s escape had not been an accident, suspecting Hydra was responsible.
• Rimuru summoned Galactron, whose magical beam halted Abomination’s regeneration and ultimately evaporated him.

After Abomination was destroyed, Rimuru warned Nick Fury that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. Fury asked how extensive the infiltration was, and Rimuru estimated that just under half the organization belonged to Hydra, including several senior figures.

• Rimuru celebrated Abomination's destruction as the Transformers withdrew and General Ross's troops and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrived.
• Rimuru advised Nick Fury to investigate S.H.I.E.L.D., while Hydra's Pierce panicked and Great Sage predicted Hydra might accelerate Project Insight or seek cooperation.
• Nick Fury arrived with a Quinjet formation and asked Rimuru what he knew about the problem inside S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Rimuru called S.H.I.E.L.D. “Serpent S.H.I.E.L.D.” and used Hydra's motto to reveal that the organization had been infiltrated.
• Nick Fury asked how many agents were Hydra, and Rimuru estimated just under half, naming Crossbones, Sitwell, and Alexander Pierce.

Rimuru revealed that Hydra assassinated Tony Stark’s parents and identified the Winter Soldier as the killer, leaving Tony consumed by grief and determined to learn who else was involved.

• Rimuru told Nick Fury that infiltrating Serpent S.H.I.E.L.D. and becoming its director was an impressive feat.
• Rimuru revealed that Howard and Maria Stark were assassinated by Hydra, not killed in a car accident.
• Tony demanded evidence and answers, while Nick Fury and Banner reacted to the revelation.
• Rimuru identified the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes, as the one who killed the Starks on December 16, 1991.
• Rimuru explained that Hydra targeted Howard because he was investigating its activities, and killed Maria because she knew the truth.
• Tony, shaken by the revelation, repeated the names Winter Soldier and Hydra and demanded to know who else was involved.

Rimuru revealed that Steve Rogers was still frozen in the Arctic and explained how Steve’s return could expose Hydra and reconnect Bucky Barnes with his humanity. Nick Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to search for Steve, while Rimuru warned that knowing the future would not make its dangers easy to prevent.

• Rimuru told Nick Fury and Tony Stark that Steve Rogers survived his crash and remained frozen beneath Arctic ice.
• Rimuru explained that Bruce Banner’s Hulk would have freed Steve, but that encounter had not happened yet.
• Rimuru said Steve could help reach Bucky and expose Hydra, though Steve would face betrayal, suspicion, and conflict with his brainwashed friend.
• Tony vowed to find Steve and Bucky and bring Hydra to justice for his parents’ deaths.
• Fury ordered Coulson to mobilize Arctic monitoring satellites and search for signs of Steve’s life.
• Fury asked Rimuru when Steve would awaken and whether S.H.I.E.L.D. could prevent future trouble, but Rimuru cautioned that foreknowledge could not guarantee a solution.

S.H.I.E.L.D. found Captain America frozen in the Arctic and brought him to Stark Tower, where Rimuru used soul magic and recovery potions to thaw him. Steve Rogers awakened in the twenty-first century, confused by the strangers around him and Rimuru’s strange explanation.

• Pierce worried that public opinion had turned against his campaign and wondered whether Rimuru had uncovered Hydra’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• S.H.I.E.L.D., aided by Rimuru’s robots, found Captain America beneath the Arctic ice and brought him to Stark Tower.
• Tony Stark and Banner found that their technology could not safely thaw Steve Rogers, while Rimuru suggested using a recovery potion.
• Rimuru knocked Steve’s soul out of his body, melted the ice, applied recovery potions, and returned Steve’s soul to him.
• Steve Rogers woke up, and Coulson, Tony, Banner, Nick Fury, and Rimuru greeted him as he struggled to understand the changed world.

Alexander Pierce struggled to decide how Hydra should respond as Rimuru’s influence and Captain America’s return threatened its control. Steve Rogers woke to a world seventy years in the future and learned that Peggy Carter was alive and Bucky Barnes had been brainwashed by Hydra.

• Alexander Pierce read that Captain America had been found and feared that acting against Rimuru or Rogers would expose Hydra.
• Steve Rogers learned he had slept for seventy years and struggled with his loss of home, comrades, and familiar surroundings.
• Nick Fury explained that Hydra had deeply infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and described the organization’s origins to Steve.
• Rimuru told Steve that Peggy Carter was still alive, and Nick Fury confirmed it.
• Rimuru revealed that Bucky Barnes was alive but had been brainwashed by Hydra, enraging Steve.

Rimuru agreed to help Fury eliminate Hydra’s infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. in exchange for help finding Pietro and Wanda Maximoff. As Fury and Steve drew Hydra out, Rimuru sent T-1000s to silently replace its agents across the agency, and the purge continued into its second day.

• Rimuru reminded Steve to apologize to Tony because Bucky had killed Howard Stark and his wife.
• Rimuru agreed to help Fury purge Hydra from S.H.I.E.L.D. if Fury found Pietro Maximoff and Wanda Maximoff.
• Fury and Steve returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. and loosened security to lure Hydra members out, with Steve agreeing to draw Pierce’s attention.
• Rimuru reassured Banner that he would not need to fight, then deployed T-1000s to identify and replace Hydra agents throughout S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Steve played along with Pierce while Fury secretly coordinated the T-1000 operation, and the agency appeared calm as the first day passed.

T-1000s secretly purged and replaced Hydra operatives throughout S.H.I.E.L.D. over two nights, dismantling Pierce’s network while he believed his takeover was proceeding as planned. When Pierce finally ordered the assault and self-destruct, S.H.I.E.L.D. fought back and drove the remaining Hydra forces into the underground base, where Pierce prepared to resist.

• Steve Rogers returned to S.H.I.E.L.D., reassuring its supporters while Hydra sleepers saw an opportunity to organize their takeover.
• T-1000 squads spent a day and night identifying Hydra agents, then eliminated and replaced most lower- and mid-level operatives without disrupting routine operations.
• During a second day of surveillance and another nighttime purge, the T-1000s replaced Hydra’s mid-level operatives, trusted aides, armed forces, and covert infrastructure.
• Pierce attempted to mobilize his forces and seize S.H.I.E.L.D.’s highest access privileges, but discovered that his network had been hollowed out and could not respond.
• Pierce activated the emergency alarm, ordered Hydra personnel to fight and destroy the base, and the remaining diehards opened fire on S.H.I.E.L.D. security.
• Steve Rogers rallied a counterattack that cleared the headquarters and drove the remaining Hydra members into the underground base, where Pierce prepared to fight to the death.

Nick Fury’s forces crushed Hydra’s uprising and cornered Alexander Pierce, who admitted Fury had deliberately lured him into a trap. Tony Stark stopped Pierce from killing himself and beat him for murdering Tony’s parents, as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents watched and Hydra’s defeat was sealed.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. forces and disguised T-1000s overwhelmed Hydra’s remaining fighters and trapped them in the underground carrier base.
• Nick Fury confronted Pierce, who realized Fury had left him room to act so he could eliminate Hydra’s roots in one sweep.
• Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Maria Hill, Coulson, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents surrounded the command room as Pierce conceded defeat and raised his gun to his temple.
• Tony Stark burst through the ceiling and knocked the gun from Pierce’s hand with a repulsor blast.
• Tony seized Pierce and beat him for arranging the deaths of Howard Stark and Maria Stark while the agents silently allowed the reckoning to continue.
• Hydra’s forces were defeated, and Pierce’s era as a S.H.I.E.L.D. schemer ended.

After Hydra was purged from S.H.I.E.L.D., Rimuru brought the captured Winter Soldier to the Triskelion, forcing Tony to confront the man who had killed his parents. Tony recognized that Bucky had been brainwashed, but admitted that he could not get past his grief and hatred, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Rimuru arrived at the devastated Triskelion, where Fury and Steve accepted Tony's killing of Pierce as a necessary end to Hydra's crimes.
• Rimuru brought the brainwashed Bucky Barnes into the command room, and Steve was shaken by his friend's vacant, unfamiliar expression.
• Tony entered and turned his fury toward Bucky, but Steve stepped between them and pleaded with him to remember that Bucky had been controlled by Hydra.
• Tony acknowledged that Bucky was a brainwashed victim, yet confessed that he could not forgive the man whose hands had killed his parents.
• Steve and Rimuru watched in silence as Tony remained torn between his understanding of Bucky's innocence and the pain of his parents' deaths.

After trading two thousand T-1000s to Nick Fury for an unfinished Helicarrier, Rimuru had Black Dragon move the carrier to his virtual planet and turned it into a lavish airborne retreat. S.H.I.E.L.D. rapidly rebuilt with the robots while Nick Fury began investigating why Rimuru wanted to find Wanda Maximoff and Pietro Maximoff.

• Tony beat Bucky with a few punches, then threatened to settle the score once Bucky was himself, while Steve took Bucky for treatment.
• Rimuru asked Nick Fury to help find Wanda Maximoff and Pietro Maximoff, and Nick Fury explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. had been crippled by Hydra and lacked personnel.
• Nick Fury asked Rimuru to leave robots behind to help rebuild S.H.I.E.L.D.; Rimuru agreed to trade two thousand T-1000s for an unfinished Helicarrier.
• Rimuru had Black Dragon carry the nearly completed Helicarrier to his designated airspace over the virtual planet and began exploring it.
• Nick Fury used the T-1000s to accelerate S.H.I.E.L.D.'s reconstruction and asked Hill to revise the rebuilding plan around the new robotic forces.
• Rimuru planned a luxurious lounge aboard the Helicarrier and named his new mobile sky home Cloudtop Heavenly Palace.

Rimuru found Wanda and Pietro at an abandoned research institute in Sokovia, where Wanda’s uncontrolled Chaos Magic made her powers impossible to suppress or analyze. After earning the siblings’ trust, he brought them to his private estate for shelter, leaving them in a peaceful haven.

• Nick Fury told Rimuru that S.H.I.E.L.D. had located the Maximoff siblings at an abandoned research institute in Sokovia.
• Rimuru arrived and found Pietro protecting Wanda as her volatile Chaos Magic threw rubble into the air and distorted the surroundings.
• Rimuru failed to analyze or control Wanda’s Chaos Magic, then eased his approach and reassured the frightened siblings that he would not hurt or capture them.
• Wanda’s energy subsided as Rimuru acknowledged her fear, and he offered the siblings safe shelter at his private estate.
• Pietro and Wanda accepted Rimuru’s offer, and he used a portal to take them to the peaceful estate.

Rimuru cared for Pietro and Wanda while trying unsuccessfully to control Wanda’s Chaos Magic. When they learned he was close friends with Tony Stark, their hatred of Tony clashed with their trust in Rimuru, leaving them hurt and conflicted.

• Pietro and Wanda gradually relaxed and trusted Rimuru, who protected them whenever Wanda’s Chaos Magic ran wild.
• Rimuru tried magic, laws, mental energy, and Universal Analysis to control Wanda’s power, but none of them worked.
• Pietro asked Rimuru about his friends, and Rimuru named Tony Stark among them, causing the siblings’ hatred of Tony to resurface.
• Pietro asked whether Rimuru and Tony were close, and Rimuru honestly said they were good friends.
• Rimuru offered to take the siblings to beat Tony up and explained that Obadiah had secretly resold the weapons that destroyed their home; their anger eased, but their hatred remained.

Rimuru brought Wanda and Pietro to confront Tony over their parents’ deaths, and they beat him while Rimuru kept him healed. Tony apologized and offered compensation, but the siblings refused, leaving him to hope he could make amends over time.

• Rimuru brought Wanda and Pietro to Tony and explained that Stark Industries’ weapons had killed their parents.
• Pietro tackled Tony, and he and Wanda beat him while Rimuru healed him with recovery potions.
• After the beating, Tony accused Rimuru of arranging the spectacle, then fell silent as he considered his responsibility for the siblings’ loss.
• Tony sincerely apologized and offered compensation and help, but Pietro and Wanda said money and protection could not erase their suffering.
• Tony accepted that they might not forgive him and said he hoped to make amends; Wanda nodded but said nothing.

Rimuru brought Wanda and Pietro to Kamar-Taj after Wanda's uncontrolled powers continued to threaten their home. The Ancient One identified Wanda's power as Chaos Magic and agreed to take the siblings in for training.

• Wanda and Pietro agreed to let Rimuru take them to an expert who could help control Wanda's powers.
• Rimuru opened a portal and brought the siblings to Kamar-Taj, where the Ancient One welcomed them.
• The Ancient One contained Wanda's chaotic energy and recognized it as Chaos Magic that could warp reality.
• Rimuru admitted he could not analyze or control Wanda's power and asked the Ancient One to help.
• The Ancient One warned that Wanda was a dangerous variable in future timelines, then agreed to take the siblings in.

Rimuru met Kaecilius at Kamar-Taj and questioned the Ancient One about taking on an apprentice who might fall into darkness. The Ancient One explained that she wanted to guide Kaecilius and trusted Strange to take responsibility for what came next.

• Rimuru ran into Kaecilius in a Kamar-Taj corridor and claimed he was a disciple returning from a trip.
• Rimuru asked the Ancient One why she had taken Kaecilius as an apprentice despite knowing he might betray her and fall into darkness.
• The Ancient One said Kaecilius deserved the chance to choose his own path and that her duty was to guide him before he made that choice.
• Rimuru worried that changes to the future and Wanda's power would leave Earth without the Ancient One to protect it.
• The Ancient One said Strange would take on the next Sorcerer Supreme's responsibilities and hinted that she could still provide backup.
• When Rimuru asked whether they needed to worry about Kaecilius, the Ancient One told him to leave Kaecilius to Strange.

Rimuru learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. had appointed him a special consultant without his consent and asked him to investigate Mjolnir in New Mexico. He reached the site, met Coulson and Agent Barton, and left Barton skeptical of his credentials.

• Nick Fury called Rimuru for help with a hammer that no one could lift in New Mexico, and Rimuru recognized it as Thor’s Mjolnir.
• Nick Fury revealed that Tony Stark had agreed to make Rimuru an honorary consultant and special external member of S.H.I.E.L.D. on his behalf.
• Rimuru explained that Thor and Odin were real aliens, then opened a portal to New Mexico and used S.H.I.E.L.D.’s emailed address to find the town.
• Rimuru met Coulson and learned that Coulson had once found a blue silicone ball in the desert, which reminded Rimuru of his arrival on Earth.
• Coulson introduced Agent Barton as a level-eight S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and Rimuru as a special consultant, and Barton doubted Rimuru looked qualified.

Rimuru visited the crater holding Mjolnir and revealed that he knew Thor’s identity and the reason Odin had exiled him. The chapter left Thor overwhelmed as Rimuru proposed putting him to work at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base.

• Rimuru showed Barton a Sword of Vishanti, and Coulson explained that Rimuru’s abilities were unusually powerful.
• Rimuru recognized Mjolnir and learned from Coulson that Thor had been detained after trying to take it.
• Rimuru told Thor that Odin had stripped him of his powers to teach him humility and warned that Loki was plotting to seize the throne.
• Rimuru suggested that Thor work at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base for food and lodging, while Coulson and Barton worried about the arrangement.
• Rimuru told Coulson to classify his Asgard information at the highest level and send it to Nick Fury, then proposed giving Thor a tour of the base.

Rimuru confronted Loki when he appeared at the crater and exposed his claim that Odin was dead as a lie. The truth that Odin was only in the Odinsleep revived Thor’s hope, while Loki turned his attention to the mysterious Rimuru.

• Rimuru and Thor failed to lift Mjolnir, and Loki arrived at the crater under cover of an illusion.
• Rimuru revealed Loki’s presence after spotting the footprints he had left in the sand.
• Loki told Thor that Odin had died and that he had temporarily taken the throne of Asgard.
• Rimuru accused Loki of lying and explained that Odin had entered the Odinsleep.
• Thor stopped grieving and asked Loki whether Odin was still alive, while Loki questioned who Rimuru was and why he knew Asgard’s secrets.

Rimuru forced Loki’s phantom to retreat after exposing his deception and hinting that Loki was a Frost Giant. Thor began to reconsider how he could prove himself worthy, while S.H.I.E.L.D. recorded the incident and Selvig arranged to take Thor away under the name Dr. Donald Blake.

• Loki threatened Rimuru, but backed down after seeing the Sword of Vishanti and withdrew when Rimuru warned that his Frost Giant identity could be exposed.
• Thor asked Rimuru whether Odin was safe, and Rimuru urged him to focus on proving himself worthy of lifting Mjolnir.
• Barton reported the phantom and the Odinsleep revelations to Fury, who ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to archive the information and suppress it publicly.
• Selvig told Coulson that Thor was Dr. Donald Blake and asked to take him away, while Rimuru laughed at their cover story.

Loki sent the Destroyer to Midgard after learning that the Warriors Three and Sif had gone to help Thor. They reunited with Thor and revealed that Loki had imprisoned Odin, just as the Destroyer arrived outside town.

• Heimdall defied Loki by helping the Warriors Three and Sif travel to Midgard to find Thor.
• Loki discovered their passage and unleashed the Destroyer, ordering it to burn Thor and anyone who helped him.
• The Warriors Three and Sif reunited with Thor at the tavern, where Sif told him that Loki had seized the throne and imprisoned Odin.
• Thor and his friends rushed outside as a mysterious energy vortex formed over the desert and a heavy object crashed down.

The Destroyer attacked Thor and his friends, but after Coulson called for help, Loki redirected it toward Rimuru. Rimuru turned the Destroyer’s first blast back on it, but the weapon quickly healed and prepared to fire again.

• The Destroyer arrived in town, and Thor urged the residents to evacuate while his friends stood with him.
• The Destroyer defeated the Warriors Three, and Coulson asked Rimuru to stop it from behind a distant slope.
• The Destroyer abandoned the injured Asgardians and targeted Rimuru after Loki recognized him.
• Rimuru opened a portal and redirected the Destroyer’s blast into its own chest, but its armor rapidly repaired itself.
• The Destroyer charged another shot, and Rimuru opened a larger portal and challenged it to fire.

Rimuru repeatedly overwhelmed the Destroyer, but its rapid regeneration made every attack pointless. Coulson suggested that Rimuru hold it off until it ran out of energy, leaving Rimuru doubtful that the magical armor could be worn down that way.

• The Destroyer struck Rimuru with a wrecked car and fired at him, but Rimuru survived and complained about the unfair attack.
• Loki ordered the Destroyer to attack again, and Rimuru blasted off its head before it quickly regenerated.
• Rimuru donned his Dragon Knight Armor and punched the Destroyer into a ruined building, but it repaired itself almost instantly.
• Rimuru unleashed a relentless barrage of punches, kicks, Black Flame Lightning, and Swords of Vishanti, yet the Destroyer repeatedly reassembled.
• Rimuru blasted the Destroyer into molten metal, but it reformed, and Coulson urged him to hold it off until its energy ran out.