Chapter Summaries

Luke accepted Marlena into his home but refused to treat her as a possession, and he ordered Alessandro to arrange the sheriff’s death. Marlena woke to find herself clinging to Luke, leaving their relationship at an awkward beginning.

• Alessandro told Luke he had gathered twenty gunmen and could obtain the naval passes within two days.
• Alessandro explained that he had sent Marlena to Luke because she was a vulnerable widow, and Luke allowed her to stay while warning Alessandro not to send him gifts.
• Luke ordered Alessandro to make the sheriff’s death look like an accident, and Alessandro agreed to handle it himself.
• After Alessandro left, Marlena felt relieved that Luke had treated her respectfully and fell asleep in his bedroom.
• Marlena woke to find herself hugging Luke around the waist while he sat beside her with food, and she sprang away in embarrassment.

Luke kept Marlena safe at the hotel while she realized he might have arranged the peace officer’s death, then met Alessandro’s recruited gunmen in Sicily. Alessandro presented the men as Luke’s new force, and Luke warned them that their loyalty to him had not yet been earned.

• Luke reassured Marlena that she could stay safely at the hotel for a few days before he left Sicily.
• Marlena read a newspaper report that the peace officer had died in a crash and suspected Luke had arranged it.
• Luke and the Howling Commandos surveyed nearby military camps before returning to the Copper Bell Tavern.
• Alessandro introduced the recruited gunmen and declared that they now served Luke rather than the Camorra Family.
• Luke told the gathered men that they had no personal reason to be loyal to him and explained the strength of Sicilian family loyalties.

Luke rallied Sicilian Mafia recruits to fight the fascists and prepared the Howling Commandos for a raid on an Italian naval camp. He left the team ready to move toward the operation, while Marlena asked him to return safely.

• Luke used Constantine's Hustle Expert skill to persuade the Mafia recruits to fight for their families, honor, and futures.
• Alessandro reported that Don Carlo and several other Mafia families had agreed to support the Allied Nations and join the naval camp raid.
• Luke ordered Alessandro to distribute food and weapons while keeping the ammunition under close control.
• Luke briefed the Howling Commandos on infiltrating the camp through Alessandro's connection and ordered them to disable its radio station first.
• Luke dismissed the Commandos and told them to prepare to move at 8:10, and Marlena asked him to come back safely.

Luke and the Howling Commandos used gifts and a staged celebration to infiltrate Captain Davie’s naval camp, then crippled its defenses with Fear Toxin, drugged liquor, and a coordinated Mafia assault. By dawn, Luke expected to have half of Sicily under his control.

• Luke entered the naval camp disguised as a smuggler and bribed Captain Davie with two necklaces in exchange for naval protection.
• Captain Davie demanded half of every smuggling shipment, but Luke stood up and revealed that Davie no longer had power to give orders.
• The Howling Commandos released Scarecrow’s Fear Toxin while drugged liquor incapacitated soldiers, and Mafia members seized the camp and its nearby facilities.
• Luke broke Captain Davie’s arm, told him the communications were disabled, and took back the pearl necklace.
• Luke surveyed the bloody raid and expected half of Sicily to be in his hands by sunrise.

Luke secured the captured naval camp and made arrangements for Marlena and her father before preparing to leave Sicily. At midnight, Marlena came to see him, and Luke confessed his possessiveness before kissing her.

• Luke ordered Dum Dum Dugan to keep watch while the Howling Commandos held more than four hundred captured naval soldiers at the camp.
• Manelli used the camp radio to report that the naval vessels needed maintenance and would be unavailable for one to two days.
• Luke told Marlena that he had sent her father to Palermo for treatment and that Cosa would take her home after Luke left Sicily.
• Luke told Marlena he planned to leave the next day and promised that no one in town would bully her again, prompting her to retreat to her room.
• At midnight, Marlena came to Luke's room, and he confessed that he coveted her and pulled her close before kissing her.

Luke left Marlena to begin his campaign in Italy, sending Alessandro to prepare for the Allied landing while he and Dum Dum Dugan infiltrated Rome under Nazi identities. He reached Venice Square and prepared to launch the first strike against Mussolini’s government the next day.

• Luke promised Marlena he would return after his name spread across Sicily, then left to pursue his plans.
• Luke told Alessandro that the Allied forces would land the next afternoon and urged him to seize the opportunity to gain influence.
• Luke and Dum Dum Dugan sailed to Rome, where Luke posed as Captain Steiner, a Berlin Envoy carrying orders from Hitler.
• Luke and Dugan entered Rome after presenting Luke’s forged documents to the guards.
• Luke stood before Venice Palace and declared that the first shot in Italy’s conquest would be fired there the next day.

As Hydra’s energy weapons weakened the Allied Nations, Luke led a raid on Mussolini’s headquarters in Rome. He captured Mussolini and announced that Rome was under their control.

• Colonel Phillips criticized the Strategic Scientific Reserve’s losses and lack of intelligence on Hydra, then learned from Peggy Carter that Luke’s team had captured a naval camp near Sicily and would support an Allied landing.
• Luke and Dum Dum Dugan entered Venice Palace while Jimmy, Kenneth, and Mafia gunmen launched a diversion in Venice Square.
• Kenneth and the gunmen fought off Rome’s guards with a Maxim machine gun as Luke made his way through the palace.
• Luke defeated the Hydra soldiers guarding Mussolini and reached the dictator’s conference room.
• Mussolini’s bullets failed to harm Luke, who captured him and brought him onto the balcony.
• Luke declared that Rome was under their control and that there would be no more dictators or fascists.

Colonel Phillips received confirmation that Luke Cavill and the Howling Commandos had captured Rome and taken Mussolini alive, sending the news across the Allied Nations. In Venice Palace, Luke held his ground while weighing the capture as a political bargaining chip, and his growing reputation completed several missions and earned him rewards.

• Colonel Phillips learned from a telegram that Luke Cavill had captured Italy and taken Mussolini alive, then ordered the news sent to Allied leaders.
• The radio operator reported that the King of Italy had removed Mussolini and that Allied officials were arguing over who would claim Italy.
• Dum Dum Dugan told Luke about the casualties, the royal family’s takeover, and the British and American dispute over the victory.
• Luke decided to offer the capture of Mussolini and Rome to President Roosevelt, then told Dugan to contact the White House and await their medals.
• Luke’s rising reputation completed multiple side missions, earning him a Bane Skill Card and a chance to draw a Superman Template.

After completing his war-hero tasks and gaining a new achievement, Luke tested his Superman abilities before a new quest revealed a Mutant was hiding in the palace. He confronted the intruder, who vanished after mentioning Sebastian Shaw.

• Luke reviewed his completed side-quest rewards, gained the Legendary figure achievement, and saved his Superman Template draw for the day he received his medal.
• Luke failed to use Heat Vision but discovered that a European broadsword could not cut his skin.
• A main quest appeared, requiring Luke to collect genetic fragments from five Mutants and offering Leech Serum as a reward.
• Luke sensed a hidden presence in the palace, struck the balcony with a powerful punch, and sent a scar-faced thin man crashing into the wall.
• Luke asked whether Sebastian Shaw had sent the man, and the intruder recognized Shaw before vanishing with an optical-camouflage effect.

Luke recalled Sebastian Shaw's discovery of Magneto's X-Gene, then defeated Chameleon and suited up before heading toward gunfire in the Venice Palace. In the dungeon, the Howling Commandos struggled against Hydra's mutant attackers.

• Luke reflected on Sebastian Shaw's experiments on young Magneto and his discovery of the X-Gene.
• Chameleon attacked Luke with a dagger, but Luke's skin resisted it and he snapped the weapon before throwing Chameleon from the balcony.
• Luke put on a Kryptonian nanotech combat suit bearing a golden sun insignia and headed toward the dungeon.
• The Howling Commandos fought a steel-skinned man, a teleporting red mutant, a toxin-releasing woman, and Hydra's enhanced warriors in the Venice Palace dungeon.
• Dugan called for Kenneth to bring the Maxim, while Manelli warned that even Captain Cavill might not be able to face the attackers.

Luke confronted Red Devil Azazel after Azazel’s enhanced warriors attacked the dungeon where the Howling Commandos held Mussolini. The fight ended with Luke grabbing Azazel’s tail and launching an uppercut.

• Sniper Jimmy, Manelli, and Dugan fired at the metal-bodied warrior guarding the dungeon, but his body healed immediately and their shots did little.
• Luke arrived outside the dungeon, where enhanced Hydra warriors were hurled through a wall and killed by the impact.
• Red Devil Azazel ordered his allies to take Mussolini to Berlin and teleported out to confront Luke.
• Azazel learned Luke was the Allied hero called Superman, then dodged Luke’s charge and tried to stab him with a dagger held by his tail.
• Luke let the dagger strike his neck, grabbed Azazel’s tail, and drew back his fist for an uppercut.

Luke overwhelmed the Mutants guarding the dungeon and left the burly Steel Body fighter dead after a brutal fight. The Howling Commandos watched in shock as Luke continued deeper into the dungeon with Mussolini.

• Luke knocked out Azazel with an uppercut, then carried the Red Devil toward the dungeon while warning him not to resist.
• A toxin-releasing woman attacked Luke, but he dispersed her gas and knocked her unconscious with one blow.
• Luke broke the Red Devil’s legs and confronted the burly Steel Body fighter as Dugan and Manelli watched in disbelief.
• Luke traded blows with the Steel Body fighter, sent him through a wall, then pounded him into the ground until his metal body stopped reforming.
• Luke crushed the Steel Body fighter’s chest to finish him off while the Howling Commandos retreated with Mussolini.

Red Skull rejected Hitler’s authority and focused Hydra on the Valkyrie Project, dismissing the Allied Superman and Sebastian Shaw’s Mutants. At Auschwitz, Shaw learned that several of his Mutants had disappeared and vowed to confront Superman.

• After learning that Italy had fallen and his forces had failed to rescue Mussolini, Red Skull blamed Sebastian Shaw and dismissed the Allied Superman as a fabrication.
• Red Skull told Dr. Zola that Hydra no longer needed to obey Hitler or rely on Shaw, and declared the Valkyrie Project its priority.
• At Auschwitz, Sebastian Shaw reflected on how he had tortured prisoners to awaken Mutant abilities and used organ transplants to gain powers himself.
• A subordinate told Shaw that Ilena had lost her psychic links to Chameleon, Steel Shell, and the others.
• Shaw blamed Hydra for the loss and vowed to meet Superman after seeing the Allied Nations’ newspaper praise him as the conqueror of Italy.

Luke displayed Mussolini as a captive in Venice Square and was celebrated by Italians as their liberator. After an evening reception at Venice Palace, Colonel Phillips told Luke that he had become the youngest general in American history.

• Colonel Phillips and Peggy Carter arrived in Venice Square as Italian guards surrounded Venice Palace.
• Luke brought Mussolini onto the balcony, and the gathered civilians cheered Luke and demanded Mussolini's removal.
• Colonel Phillips congratulated Luke on his actions and said the President planned to award him a medal.
• Luke attended a reception at Venice Palace, where Italian princes, ministers, and elites honored him.
• Colonel Phillips told Luke that Italy's royal family had objected to his being made a colonel, so he had been promoted to general.

Luke learned that Allied Command had promoted him to brigadier general after Italy pressured the Allies to recognize his capture of Rome. At a banquet in Venice, he spoke with Carter, then left to visit Miss Isa, while Carter suspected his flirtatious manner was an act.

• Colonel Phillips told Luke that Allied Command had promoted him to brigadier general after negotiations with Italy over his capture of Rome.
• Luke offered to hand Mussolini over to Italy and give Dwight Eisenhower credit for capturing Rome and occupying Sicily.
• Luke told Carter he planned to recommend Steve Rogers for transfer to his command when he and the Howling Commandos went to New York.
• Carter questioned Luke about the Italian women pursuing him, and Luke joked that he regretted turning down an invitation to a woman's room.
• Luke left Carter to visit Miss Isa, and Carter wondered why he was acting like a frivolous playboy.

Luke returned to Sicily as a brigadier general and offered Alessandro a choice between staying or following him to North America. In New York, Luke settled at the Waldorf Hotel with Marlena and began planning to use the Mafia to invest in Las Vegas gambling, hotels, and security.

• Luke returned to Palermo, where Alessandro and the Sicilian Mafia welcomed him as a war hero.
• Luke warned Alessandro that the Mafia would decline as Italy regained stability and offered him the choice of staying in Sicily or going to North America.
• Alessandro chose to follow Luke, bringing about three hundred men with him across the ocean.
• Luke returned to New York with the Howling Commandos and moved into a Waldorf Hotel tower suite, where Marlena joined him.
• Luke explained that he intended to use the Mafia's influence to invest in Las Vegas's gambling, hotel, and security industries.

Luke received the Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt and asked to return to the battlefield. A week later, he freed Steve Rogers from his war-bond tour and invited him to Europe, where they left together to celebrate.

• President Roosevelt presented Luke Cavill with the Medal of Honor at the White House and asked what reward he wanted.
• Luke told Roosevelt he wanted to return to the battlefield and help end the war, then posed for a photograph with a Daily Bugle reporter.
• Luke visited Steve Rogers backstage at the Broadway Theater and found him miserable about being used to sell war bonds.
• Luke invited Rogers to join him in Europe, revealing that he had already persuaded Senator Brandt to approve it.
• Rogers accepted Luke's invitation, and the two left the theater together to celebrate.

Luke drew and equipped the Magic Superman template, gaining magical abilities and resistance. The next morning, after learning that Bucky was listed among the casualties of a crushing Allied defeat, Rogers joined Luke in planning a two-man rescue mission.

• Luke used his drawing opportunity and obtained the Superdemon, or Magic Superman, template.
• Luke equipped the template, tested his ability to draw in magical elements, and created a ball of fire.
• Luke and Rogers learned that the 107th Infantry Regiment had suffered a crushing defeat and that Bucky appeared on its casualty list.
• Carter warned that Allied Command would not approve a rescue and urged Luke not to risk becoming a prisoner.
• Luke proposed that only he and Rogers rescue Bucky, and Rogers saluted and agreed to go.

Luke and Rogers parachuted into Austria to rescue Bucky and Allied prisoners from Hydra’s Klausburg base. After reaching the base, Luke sent Rogers to find the prisoners and set out to locate Red Skull and the Tesseract.

• Carter explained that Hydra’s Klausburg base held two military factories and hundreds of defenders, and she joined Luke and Rogers on their rescue mission with Howard Stark piloting their plane.
• Howard flew the group through heavy fog and artillery fire, and Rogers and Luke jumped from the plane with Carter’s transceiver.
• Rogers opened his parachute at a safe altitude, while Luke waited until just above the ground before opening his chute and cutting its cords.
• Luke and Rogers crossed the forest and spotted Klausburg’s heavily defended Hydra base, equipped with advanced weapons and electrified fences.
• Luke ordered Rogers to rescue the captured soldiers while he searched the base for Red Skull, Dr. Zola, and the Tesseract.

Luke launched a direct assault on Hydra’s secret base to draw attention while Rogers infiltrated it in disguise to find the captured soldiers and Bucky. As Rogers searched the base, Red Skull saw Luke advancing through the flames on the surveillance feed.

• Rogers asked Luke how they could infiltrate the heavily guarded Hydra base, and Luke rushed out to attack it instead of making a quiet plan.
• Luke smashed into a supply truck, lifted it, and hurled it at the giant tank guarding the base entrance, crushing the tank and triggering an alarm.
• Luke told Rogers to search the prison for the captured soldiers and Bucky while he drew Hydra’s attention.
• Rogers disguised himself in a Hydra guard’s uniform, entered the military factory, took a blue energy block, and headed toward the prison.
• Red Skull watched the surveillance feed and saw Luke moving through the flames toward the base.