Chapter Summaries

Allen spared Thanos to preserve the timeline, then negotiated with Odin and Sakura amid Xandar’s destruction. After promising to protect Asgard, Allen restored Xandar, while Sakura borrowed the Power Stone and hired him to help with her plans against the Kree.

• Allen explained that he had let Thanos escape to avoid disrupting the timeline and offered Odin the Power Stone for four billion.
• Sakura recognized Allen, tested him with her weapon, and confronted him about coming to the universe without telling her.
• Odin warned Allen about Sithorn and asked him to protect Asgard and prevent Ragnarok; Allen promised to safeguard Odin’s family and people.
• Odin thanked Allen for changing Frigga’s fate and returned to Asgard, while Allen and Sakura discussed their alliance with the realm.
• Sakura took the Power Stone and said she planned to destroy the Kree Empire; she hired Allen as a bounty hunter and agreed to pay him for the Orb.
• Allen used the Reality Stone to restore Xandar and revive its dead civilians.

After Xandar was restored, Allen and Rocket signed on to join Sakura’s campaign against the Kree, while Allen told his friends he would leave after the job was done. He concealed the Reality Stone’s role in restoring the planet and urged Nova Supreme to decide whether Xandar would join Sakura’s growing alliance against the Kree Empire.

• Nova Supreme learned that Sakura had the Power Stone and had hired Allen, Rocket, and Groot to fight the Kree, then summoned them to ask how Xandar had been restored.
• Allen told Rocket that he planned to leave after their contract ended, and Rocket and Groot offered to help before respecting his wish to handle a private matter alone.
• When Nova Supreme offered fifty million for the truth about Xandar’s recovery, Allen blamed Sakura’s magic and left her believing Sakura had saved the planet.
• Allen confirmed that Sakura was recruiting forces for a final offensive against the Kree homeworld and warned Nova Supreme that Xandar needed to choose a side quickly.

As the Kree prepared to defend Hala against Sakura’s growing alliance, Allen met Star-Lord and took a sample of his blood. Vilnalasath used Ego’s genes in the sample to strengthen Allen’s psychic abilities, and Allen planned to hunt Ego after the Kree homeworld fell.

• The Kree militarized their population and prepared Hala for a final stand as Sakura’s alliance tightened its blockade and attacks.
• Rocket complained about the mercenary legion’s losses, while Allen sent him another batch of recruits, including Star-Lord, Gamora, and Drax the Destroyer.
• Allen drew blood from Star-Lord and left the bewildered recruit with Gamora and Drax.
• Allen gave Star-Lord’s blood to Vilnalasath, who extracted Ego’s genetic material and used it to amplify Allen’s psychic powers.
• Allen and Vilnalasath agreed to target Ego after dealing with the Kree homeworld.

Twelve hours before the war against the Kree began, Sakura rejected Carol Danvers’s plea for peace and declared that the Kree would be wiped out. The Allied Forces launched their assault on Hala, while Allen watched and Rocket commanded fleets in the opening battle.

• Carol Danvers arrived at Sakura’s palace to negotiate on behalf of herself and the Kree, but Sakura condemned her past service to the empire and refused to stop the war.
• Sakura warned Carol not to interfere, and representatives of the Anti-Kree Alliance recounted Kree atrocities and demanded the Kree’s extermination.
• Carol left the palace, and Sakura showed the Power Stone as she warned that Captain Marvel would die if she entered the battlefield.
• Twelve hours later, Sakura’s signal flare began the war, and the Allied Forces attacked the Kree defenses around Hala, destroying several outer planets.
• Allen watched the battle from the command ship as Rocket issued orders to the fleets and directed their attacks on the Kree defenses.

The Allied Forces’ war against the Kree shifted when Carol Danvers intervened, but Sakura used the Power Stone to destroy the Kree front line and battle Carol near Hala. The chapter left the war’s outcome resting on their duel as the Skrull envoys considered seeking an alliance with Sakura’s rising empire.

• Allen asked Rocket Raccoon how long the space war might last, and Rocket estimated it could continue for weeks, months, or even years.
• Carol Danvers arrived and destroyed more than ten thousand Allied fighter jets, easing pressure on the Kree and halting the Allied advance.
• Sakura used the Power Stone to annihilate the Kree front line, then declared she would kill Carol and use her body for research.
• Carol charged Sakura, and their clash destroyed planets and shattered one of Hala’s moons, whose debris caused heavy casualties among Kree civilians.
• Sakura overpowered Carol and sent her hurtling toward Hala, while the Skrull envoys Agger and his subordinate discussed pursuing an alliance with Sakura’s empire.

After Captain Marvel's death, Sakura's Allied Forces conquered Hala and destroyed the Kree Empire, while Allen warned Sakura against attacking the Shi'ar. Allen then took the Power Stone, fused it into his body, and began planning how to find Ego and acquire the remaining Infinity Stones.

• Sakura killed Carol Danvers, captured her soul, and led the Allied Forces toward Hala as the Kree defenders were overwhelmed.
• The Allied Forces looted and massacred Hala, leaving the Kree scattered and too diminished to rebuild their empire.
• Allen congratulated Sakura on becoming ruler of the New Empire, defended her decision to kill Carol, and warned her that the Shi'ar Empire and Gladiator would be dangerous opponents.
• Vilnalasath revealed that she had devoured Ego's gene and gained the ability to hide herself through mental suggestion, then declared she wanted to consume the living planet.
• Allen decided to work with Yondu to locate Ego and asked Sakura for the Power Stone; she gave it to him, and he fused it into his body.
• Allen announced that he now possessed four Infinity Stones and considered how to obtain the Mind Stone and Soul Stone.

Allen paid Yondu to take him to Ego, then teamed up with Vilnalasath to devour Ego and his planet-like shell. After absorbing Ego’s energy and genetic material, Vilnalasath split the spoils between herself and Allen.

• Yondu learned that Hala had fallen and Carol Danvers had been killed, then discussed raiding planets she had protected.
• Allen appeared on Yondu’s ship, disarmed a Ravager with magic, and offered Yondu more than two billion in cryptocurrency to take him to Ego.
• Yondu accepted the job after Allen promised the Ravagers would not have to fight, and his crew flew toward Ego’s location.
• Allen left the ship and raced toward Ego, where Vilnalasath transformed into a gigantic red dragon and bit into the planet.
• Vilnalasath broke through Ego’s planetary shell and devoured his exposed brain despite his attacks and psychic resistance.
• Ego’s final psychic shriek injured people across several light-years before Vilnalasath divided the absorbed energy and genetic material between herself and Allen.

After devouring Ego, Allen explored his expanded mental powers and discussed Ego’s fatal physical weakness with Vilnalasath. They spared Mantis, and Allen offered her freedom or a home in Sky City in Azerath; she chose to go with them after sensing his concern for her safety.

• Yondu ordered the Ravagers to remain silent and keep their engines off while Allen and Vilnalasath were nearby.
• Allen examined the mental powers he had gained from Ego and agreed with Vilnalasath that Ego’s fragile brain had been his fatal flaw.
• Allen and Vilnalasath decided to leave Star-Lord to his life and return to Earth, while Vilnalasath revealed she had spared Mantis.
• Allen offered Mantis the choice of freedom or a home in Sky City in Azerath, and Mantis chose to go with them.
• Mantis explained that she had sensed Allen’s concern, and he warned her that without protection she could be captured, enslaved, or subjected to experiments like Rocket Raccoon.

Tony Stark and Coulson investigated the explosive blue cells left behind by Ego, which threatened to destroy the United States and possibly Earth. As they waited for Thor and wondered where Allen had gone, Allen suddenly returned with the alien Mantis.

• Tony Stark learned from Coulson that Ego’s uncontrolled cells could explode with the force of nuclear weapons and that their spread had halted for unknown reasons.
• Coulson explained that Thor had gone to Asgard to seek information, while Sky City would not intervene unless Earth faced imminent destruction.
• Tony discovered that Allen might have gone with a companion to help destroy the Kree Empire and angrily lamented that he had not been invited.
• Allen opened a portal and appeared beside Mantis, prompting agents to draw their weapons when they recognized her as an alien.

Allen reassured S.H.I.E.L.D. and the military that Ego’s planetary cells were no longer a threat, then drained their energy and destroyed the remaining growth on Earth. He rejected General Walker’s attempt to approach him and left Coulson celebrating his return while other agencies gathered samples.

• Coulson stopped S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and soldiers from confronting Allen, who explained that Ego’s cells had lost their controlling consciousness and posed little danger.
• Allen told Coulson and Tony Stark that Ego had been a living planet who fathered Peter Quill, and assured them that he had cleared every infected planet.
• Allen identified Peter Quill as a boy who disappeared into space at about nine years old, prompting government agencies nearby to investigate his identity.
• Allen absorbed the energy from Ego’s cells across Earth, leaving dead rubber-like material and pulling the remaining plant and its roots from the ground.
• General Walker invited Allen to speak privately, but Allen refused to deal with the military or provide it with technology, and Walker left without confronting him.
• Coulson told Allen that the military and other agencies had hunted S.H.I.E.L.D. after Project Insight failed, then invited him to celebrate his return with drinks.

Allen reunited with Coulson and Tony Stark, who described the worsening threat from Hydra and showed him the deadly Obelisk. Allen revealed that the Kree Empire had been destroyed and warned Tony about his plan to build a powerful artificial intelligence, but Tony remained confident.

• Coulson recounted S.H.I.E.L.D.'s global fight against Hydra, its dwindling resources, and the dangers posed by energy weapons.
• Tony Stark described the Avengers' attacks on Hydra's super-soldier operations and weapons facilities, while Coulson showed Allen images of the Obelisk and asked him to examine it.
• Tony stopped Allen and Coulson from going to headquarters so he could ask Allen about his space journey and whether he had destroyed the Kree Empire.
• Allen confirmed that the Kree Empire had fallen and said his companions had built a new Empire in its place, prompting Coulson to report the news to the International Security Council.
• Tony asked about Kree technology and explained his plan to create an artificial-intelligence guardian, while Allen warned that it might go wrong.

Allen met with five International Security Council representatives, who questioned him about the Kree Empire’s destruction and his newly established empire. He left them considering a unified Earth government, then traveled with Coulson to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s headquarters to investigate the Obelisk and Skye’s transformation.

• Coulson escorted Allen through a guarded underground base to meet five International Security Council representatives.
• Allen claimed he could destroy nearly any civilization and described the Kree Empire’s fall as an insignificant game, alarming the representatives.
• The representatives asked whether Allen intended to leave Earth and seize territory, and he offered to hand the empire over if they could control Sakura’s legion.
• Allen urged them to form a true Earth United Government if they wanted humanity to join the empire as an independent civilization, and they agreed to convene an emergency meeting.
• After the representatives left, Allen told Coulson he had used temptation and pressure to spur them, then they boarded a Quinjet for S.H.I.E.L.D.’s headquarters.
• Coulson wanted to learn why Hydra had sought the Obelisk, while Allen anticipated how its crystal dust would affect Quake Skye.

Allen identified the Obelisk as a container that could be opened at the location shown in Coulson’s mysterious drawing, leading S.H.I.E.L.D. to begin searching for the Inhuman awakening site. He told Skye that she was an Inhuman whose parents had likely been caught in a conflict with Hydra, leaving her to realize they may have given her up to protect her.

• Allen touched the Obelisk and explained that it responded to Inhuman genes and was likely a container meant to be opened in a specific place.
• Coulson connected Allen’s hint to a drawing he had found, and Fitz and Simmons reanalyzed it as a map.
• Allen told Skye that the Obelisk held the key to awakening her dormant Inhuman genes and explained the Kree’s experiments and the dangers of the awakening ritual.
• Coulson ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to locate the ritual site while leaving Skye to decide whether to undergo the awakening.
• Skye privately asked Allen about her parents, and he said one of them had already awakened as an Inhuman and that Hydra had likely found them.
• Skye realized her parents may not have abandoned her willingly but may have let her go to protect her.

Allen told Coulson that Skye would awaken the powerful Quake ability, while S.H.I.E.L.D. prepared to secure the underground temple and protect her ritual. Daniel Whitehall learned of their approach and, after Lena revealed that her master knew how to open the Obelisk, arranged an ambush to kill Coulson’s team, seize the Obelisk, and keep Skye alive.

• Allen explained that Skye would gain the Quake ability and advised Coulson to downplay its power to the International Security Council.
• Allen departed through a portal, and Coulson led three Quinjets toward the ritual site to secure it before Hydra arrived.
• Daniel Whitehall met with Lena and declared that Hydra should rule Earth as humanity’s absolute master.
• Lena told Daniel that her master knew how to open the Obelisk, then showed him a note that convinced him the claim was credible.
• Lena said Daniel must kill Coulson’s team, take the Obelisk, and leave Skye unharmed before her master would meet him.
• Daniel ordered Hydra agents to prepare an ambush near the underground entrance, with energy cannons and AI robots ready to attack the arriving Quinjets.

Daniel Whitehall persuaded Gideon Malick that Hydra needed the Soul Stone, while Allen infiltrated Baron Strucker’s base and took the Mind Stone. After meeting Wanda Maximoff, Allen escaped, leaving her to dismiss the encounter as a hallucination.

• Daniel Whitehall told Gideon Malick that Allen had returned from space and argued that Hydra should seek the Soul Stone, prompting Gideon to react with shock at the Kree Empire’s destruction.
• Allen secretly entered Baron Strucker’s base, replaced the Mind Stone in the Mind Scepter with an imitation, and embedded the real stone in his body, giving him five Infinity Stones.
• Allen used the five stones to create a miniature universe and discussed how acquiring the Soul Stone could let him create a universe of his own.
• Wanda Maximoff entered the room and confronted Allen, who revealed himself and greeted her before escaping through a portal.
• Wanda told the guards she had only experienced a hallucination, and they advised her to rest.

Wanda told Pietro about Allen’s break-in and kept the encounter from Baron Strucker, while Allen explained how Wanda’s Chaos Magic fit into his plan to seize Dark Magic. As S.H.I.E.L.D. fought Hydra above the underground temple, Coulson’s Zanpakuto took control of him and drove him into a brutal killing spree.

• Wanda told Pietro she had seen a silver-haired boy with invisibility and Space Teleportation trying to steal the Mind Scepter, and she refused to report him to Baron Strucker.
• Allen and Vilnalasath discussed using Wanda and the Sorcerer Supreme’s connection to the Vishanti to make Dark and White Magic clash and take control of Dark Magic from Sithorn.
• Coulson’s S.H.I.E.L.D. forces battled Daniel Whitehall’s Hydra troops, and Skye destroyed a combat robot before using an energy shield against Hydra’s weapons.
• Hydra switched to kinetic weapons, forcing Skye and the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to take cover as they fought from a disadvantage.
• Coulson charged into the battle with his Zanpakuto, which used high-speed movement and slaughtered Hydra soldiers while its influence overtook him.

Coulson’s Zanpakuto awakened, saved him from Hydra’s laser trap, and briefly seized control of his body before he forced it to yield. After S.H.I.E.L.D. cleared the way to the underground temple, Coulson and Skye reached Allen, who asked for the Obelisk to begin the ritual.

• Daniel Whitehall unleashed laser-sphere missiles that devastated S.H.I.E.L.D.’s forces, but Coulson’s awakened Zanpakuto shielded him and destroyed the emitters.
• The Zanpakuto took control of Coulson, killed Daniel Whitehall and other Hydra survivors, and began devouring souls until Coulson threatened to kill himself and regained control.
• Simmons and Fitz measured the Zanpakuto’s greatly increased power, while Coulson said he would not use it again.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. defused six bombs in the temple passages, and Skye and Coulson entered the underground ruins without noticing Lena and Carl hiding nearby.
• Allen sensed Carl’s concern for Skye and Lena’s interest in the Obelisk, then greeted Coulson’s group at the ritual site and asked Melinda for the Obelisk.

Allen explained that Coulson’s awakened Zanpakuto could either accept him as its master or consume his self-awareness, while Coulson hesitated over the risk. Allen then began the Terrigen ritual, and after Lena and Karl entered the sealed chamber, the crystal released its particles and triggered transformations in the Inhumans present.

• Allen explained that Coulson’s Zanpakuto had developed abilities shaped by Coulson’s desires and warned that failure to master it could let its will devour him.
• Coulson chose to consider the risks as Allen placed the obelisk on the ritual platform and warned everyone except Skye to retreat.
• Lena and Karl rushed into the chamber before the stone walls sealed, and Karl revealed that he was Skye’s father and that her real name was Daisy Johnson.
• Allen confirmed Karl’s claim and activated the pure Terrigen Crystal, which burst into particles that entered the bodies of Allen, Skye, Lena, and Vilnalasath.
• Black matter surged from the Inhumans’ pores and covered them, while Karl remained unaffected and confused.

Allen, Vilnalasath, Lena, and Daisy Johnson completed their Inhuman awakenings, revealing very different abilities and outcomes. Daisy reunited with her biological father, Carl Johnson, while Allen left S.H.I.E.L.D. with warnings about Carl and Lena’s powers.

• Allen awakened an ability to trigger atomic fission and fusion, while Vilnalasath gained the power to enhance another being’s physical potential through touch.
• Lena emerged covered in spikes and panicked over her transformation, while Carl mocked her and called her a monster.
• Daisy Johnson awakened with powerful shockwave abilities, and Allen explained the risks before taking a blood sample as payment for information.
• Allen left Daisy with Carl, who eagerly tried to reconnect with her while Lena watched with jealousy and hatred before disappearing.
• Allen told Coulson and the other agents that Daisy’s father was Carl Johnson, warned them about Carl’s unstable condition, and revealed Lena’s spikes and dream-based future sight.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents discussed reporting Lena’s future sight and capturing her alive as Allen returned through a portal to Azerath Sky City.

Lena and Skye were taken to International Security Council headquarters while Allen returned to Sky City and advanced his plans for the Infinity Stones and the Darkhold. In Kamar-Taj, Kasilas betrayed the Ancient One and joined Dormammu, prompting the Ancient One to prepare for his return and strengthen the Three Sanctums.

• Coulson sealed the temple exits, captured Lena, and sent her and Skye to International Security Council headquarters for testing.
• Edna Bevin reported that the Vormir portal was ready, and Allen ordered her to reveal the cargo ship’s location to Hydra while keeping the Darkhold under surveillance.
• Allen advised Artoria to pursue her desires and told her that Hela would return after Odin died, likely within a year.
• Kasilas stole the Book of Cagliostro and pledged himself and his followers to Dormammu while the Ancient One was away.
• Ancient One rejected Baron Mordo’s proposal to pursue Kasilas immediately and ordered more mages to guard the Three Sanctums.