Chapter Summaries

Thanos abandoned his plan to purge Nidavellir after learning that Phoenix had become its Chief God, while keeping his mission to obtain the Infinity Gauntlet. Across the World Tree, Odin’s enemies celebrated his fall, and Hela held Thor at the moment Hawk’s declaration reached Asgard.

• Thanos recalled Hawk’s destruction of the Heaven Dimension and revised his plan, deciding that Nidavellir would be exempt from his purge because Phoenix protected it.
• Thanos ordered the Black Order to keep their route to Nidavellir unchanged and resumed Sanctuary II’s journey, thinking of Gamora.
• The Frost Giants of Jotunheim celebrated Odin’s death and ignored Hawk’s declaration.
• The Dark Elves of Alfheim and Fire Giants of Belfheim also celebrated Odin’s fall, while Helheim remained empty because Hela had taken its dead to form her army.
• Hela pinned Thor by the throat against the palace railing as Hawk’s voice and the phoenix cry reached Asgard.

Hela attacked Asgard and prepared to kill Thor before turning her wrath on Nidavellir, which had accepted Hawk’s protection. Thor awakened as the God of Thunder and fought Hela while Hawk watched, and Loki headed for Odin’s Vault as Ragnarok began.

• Hela learned that Hawk had pledged to protect Nidavellir and decided to attack it after dealing with Thor.
• Thor unleashed a massive lightning strike that blasted Hela from the Golden Palace and began awakening as the God of Thunder.
• Hawk watched Thor battle Hela’s army on the Bifrost and a foreign Hulk fight Fenrir in Asgard’s waters.
• Hawk spotted Loki running toward Odin’s Vault under Thor’s instructions.

Hawk waited until Surtur destroyed Asgard and the World Tree, then unleashed his Cosmo power and caused the Nine Realms and World Tree to vanish. Thor briefly lost his Divine Power before it returned, leaving him confused as Heimdall mistook his explanation for a joke.

• Loki placed Surtur's crown in the Eternal Fire, resurrecting Surtur and fleeing the vault with the Space Stone.
• Surtur destroyed Asgard, overwhelmed Hela, and forced Thor, Valkyrie, and Hulk to escape with the people of Asgard.
• Surtur erased Asgard with his flaming sword, and Hawk unleashed his Cosmo power as the World Tree was about to merge into the Main Universe.
• Hawk's golden light made Asgard, the other realms, and the World Tree vanish without a trace.
• Thor discovered that his Divine Power had vanished, but lightning returned to his hand moments later, and Heimdall assumed Thor had been joking.

Hawk seized the collapsing World Tree from time and tried to restore it by replacing Helheim with his Netherworld. The World Tree resisted, and after Hawk weakened himself, a black figure emerged and stabbed him from behind.

• Time reversed the moment the World Tree fell and discovered Hawk had taken it, then raged at him.
• Hawk accepted that time might exile Gwen, recalling her wedding vows and his promise to bring her home.
• Hawk explained that the World Tree remained critically damaged and needed its lost origin replenished.
• Hawk placed his Netherworld where Helheim had been, but the World Tree resisted and caused him to spit golden blood twice.
• A black figure appeared behind Hawk and stabbed him through the chest with a particularly black blade.

Mephisto stabbed Hawk with a blade forged from the World Tree’s Death Law, revealing that he and Hela had conspired to claim divine authority. As Hawk died, Mephisto explained how he had manipulated him into coming to the World Tree, leaving Hawk to accept his own mistake and fall.

• Mephisto repeatedly stabbed Hawk with the Death Blade, destroying his Phoenix projection and leaving him mortally wounded.
• Mephisto revealed that the blade was formed from the World Tree’s Death Law and that Hela had joined him in a plan to become a Main God.
• Hela appeared with Helheim and explained that she was the World Tree’s Goddess of Death, while Mephisto recounted how they had arranged to claim the Phoenix and Death Main God positions.
• Mephisto told Hawk that he had planted doubts and ideas that would lead him to the World Tree, and Hawk acknowledged the manipulation before thanking him and dying.

Hawk revealed that he had anticipated Mephisto’s attempt to exploit the Underworld and had transformed the World Tree into the Wutong World Tree, foiling Mephisto’s plan to claim the Phoenix’s authority. He confronted Mephisto over his repeated betrayals and offered him one last punishment in the Underworld, but Mephisto chose to fight and Hela refused to join him.

• Hela realized Hawk’s soul had not entered her Underworld, and Mephisto tried to escape as Hawk’s Underworld vanished.
• The surrounding space shattered and was replaced by a restored Wutong World Tree, where the Phoenix illuminated a newly forming divine realm.
• Hawk appeared atop the Wutong World Tree and taunted Mephisto, explaining that he had never trusted him and had kept souls out of his true Underworld.
• Hawk revealed that Mephisto had continued breeding Earth’s darklings and had tried to infiltrate the Underworld, despite Hawk giving him repeated chances to repent.
• Hawk promised to confine Mephisto’s soul in Lava Hell Prison, but Mephisto rejected him as a father and called on Hela to help kill him.
• Hela refused Mephisto’s request to fight Hawk alongside him.

Hawk revealed that he had killed the real Hela and used the Reality Stone to impersonate her, tricking Mephisto after taking control of the World Tree. He refused Mephisto’s plea for mercy and killed him, declaring that Death could not enter his universe.

• Hela refused to help Mephisto attack Hawk, then kicked Mephisto into a crater when he struck at her.
• Hawk revealed that Hela was an illusion created with the Reality Stone and explained that he had reclaimed the World Tree, killed the real Hela, and restored Thor’s Divine Authority.
• Mephisto realized Hawk had deceived him from the start and asked to be spared, but Hawk refused.
• Mephisto threatened Hawk with Death, but Hawk said Death could not enter his universe and killed Mephisto.

Hawk destroyed Mephisto, joined his Underworld to the Wutong World Tree, and appointed Anna Pierce its Goddess of Death. Anna accepted the role and learned that her authority encompassed both death and rebirth, though she still needed a staff to assist her.

• Hawk snapped his fingers and erased Mephisto completely, then returned to the crown of the World Tree and merged his Underworld with it.
• Hawk discovered that ruling the Wutong World Tree improved his understanding of the Eighth Sense, though he still needed to awaken the Ninth Sense to materialize his Phoenix Cosmos.
• Anna saw the Wutong Divine Realm taking shape, and Hawk offered to make her its Goddess of Death because she was his friend.
• Anna accepted, and Hawk's divine oracle granted her the World Tree's Death Divine Authority and transformed her into its Goddess of Death.
• Anna told Hawk she had no one to work for her, and Hawk reminded her to speak sincerely with him as a friend before forgiving her.

After appointing Anna to rebuild the Underworld, Hawk explored Vanaheim with Frigga and discovered that Hela had destroyed the Witch Dimension and its inhabitants. He gathered their shattered souls into the Underworld before entering Valhalla with Frigga.

• Anna recruited S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents from the Pure Land to serve in her Underworld faction, while Hawk gave her authority to shape it.
• Hawk traveled to ruined Vanaheim and entered the Witch Dimension with Frigga, who told him it was where she had grown up.
• Hawk and Frigga witnessed a replay showing Hela killing the witches and shattering their souls, as she had done to the Vanir.
• Hawk gathered the scattered soul fragments and sent them to the Underworld, suggesting they might eventually be restored through reincarnation.
• Hawk and Frigga reached the Hall of Valor Dimension, and Hawk recognized it as different from the Witch Dimension before they entered it.

Hawk returned Frigga to Odin in Valhalla, then reformed the World Tree’s afterlife into a cycle of Underworld and Light Dimension. He resurrected Odin and Frigga as the World Tree’s God of Light and Dark Goddess, forcing them to serve until he found Gwen.

• Hawk arrived in Valhalla with Frigga, and she reunited with Odin before going to comfort the Asgardian people.
• Hawk confronted Odin over his role in the World Tree crisis, and Odin admitted he had acted to keep the Main Universe from obtaining it.
• Hawk declared that the World Tree’s dead would pass through the Underworld, with the innocent ascending to a new Light Dimension and the guilty sinking into damnation.
• The World Tree dropped leaves that resurrected Odin and Frigga, restoring Odin’s missing eye and making him the God of Light and her the Dark Goddess.
• Hawk told Odin that he and Frigga would rule day and night without reuniting until Hawk found Gwen, and golden light then appeared on the platform.

Hawk learned that Thanos had attacked the Asgardian refugee ship, but he refused to leave the Light Dimension to help Thor or Earth. After Loki reunited with Frigga, Hawk asked Odin whether he could bring Gwen back.

• Heimdall and Loki returned to the Light Dimension after dying in battle, and Hawk learned that Thanos had visited Nidavellir before attacking the Asgardian refugee ship.
• Hawk ordered Odin to keep Loki in the Light Dimension, but Loki urged him to help Thor and protect Earth from Thanos; Hawk refused, saying he was not an Avenger and did not care what happened.
• Heimdall explained that Odin had become the God of Light and Frigga the Dark Goddess, and Loki rushed to embrace Frigga when he learned she was there.
• Hawk told Odin why he had spared Loki, then asked whether there was a way to bring Gwen back.

Hawk decided to enter the Multiverse to retrieve Gwen, despite Odin warning that time could erase his place in the Main Universe if he left. The chapter ended on Earth with Doctor Strange and Bruce Banner warning Tony Stark that Thanos was coming.

• Hawk told Odin he would not wait for time to return Gwen and would go find her himself.
• Odin warned Hawk that time was targeting the World Trees across the Main Multiverse and could erase all memory of Hawk if he left.
• Hawk remembered Gwen’s words about temporary separation and left Odin to prepare atop the World Tree.
• Tony Stark and Pepper were revealed to have married privately a few days earlier.
• Doctor Strange arrived in Central Park and asked Tony to help save the universe, then Bruce Banner appeared and warned that Thanos was coming.

Doctor Strange brought Tony together with a Bruce Banner from another universe and explained Thanos’s plan to collect the Infinity Stones. When Gwen and her family vanished, the group searched for clues and learned Gwen had expected to be away for a while; Jean said she could sense where her father was.

• Doctor Strange explained the Infinity Stones to Tony, and Tony realized the Bruce Banner with them came from another universe.
• Tony said Hawk possessed the Reality and Mind Stones, but he had left Earth half a month earlier.
• Pepper told Tony that Gwen and her entire family had disappeared, while Sharon confirmed Westview Town remained normal.
• Sharon and the others went to Wanda’s home, where Wanda recalled Gwen saying she would be busy at the laboratory and asking her to clean Gwen’s house.
• Bruce wondered whether Thanos had found Hawk, and Jean insisted her father was safe and said she could sense where he was.

Jean sensed that Hawk was safe in a tree but could not locate him, while Sharon and the others learned that an alien ship had arrived over Westview Town. As Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian confronted the defenders, they demanded that Doctor Strange and Bruce Banner be handed over.

• Jean told Sharon she could sense Hawk and believed he was safe in a tree, then sensed a depressed beast inside Bruce Banner.
• Bruce described his alternate Earth, where Wanda’s Scarlet Magic helped trigger the Ultron crisis and Pietro died; Sharon explained why people considered Hawk dangerous but controllable.
• A huge alien ship appeared over Westview Town, and Sharon ordered an evacuation while Wanda, Pietro, Anya, and the two families left the town.
• Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian arrived after the families had departed, and Doctor Strange pulled Westview Town into the Mirror Dimension.
• Ebony Maw demanded that Doctor Strange and Bruce Banner be handed over, and Cull Obsidian moved to attack.

Hawk left the Wutong Divine Realm and confronted the Main Universe’s suppression after taking the World Tree. When The Shaker Grylis attacked, Hawk demanded that he return Gwen, then prepared to fight.

• Hawk stepped into the Main Universe, where Time unleashed ominous prophecies and the Main Universe suppressed his power.
• Hawk ignited his Cosmo, regained Celestial Level combat power, and challenged the Main Universe to suppress him more heavily.
• A giant fork attacked Hawk, who donned his golden Phoenix armor, caught it, and hurled The Shaker Grylis toward a nearby planet.
• The Shaker Grylis introduced himself and declared that whoever caused the disturbance in Time must die.
• Hawk demanded that Grylis bring his wife back from the Multiverse where Time had imprisoned her, but Grylis attacked with his fork.
• Hawk vowed to beat the answer out of Grylis and began his Phoenix Wings Soaring attack.

Hawk defeated Celestial Grylis and demanded that the Celestials free Gwen, threatening to destroy every planet containing a Celestial Seed if they refused. After sending Grylis away, Hawk heard his daughter ask where he was.

• Grylis crashed into a gas giant and destroyed it, then attacked Hawk with a blast from his six facial slots.
• Hawk used the Crystal Wall to block Grylis and struck him with the Stardust Spinning Technique, badly injuring him.
• Hawk disabled Grylis by severing both his arms and told him to have the Celestials return Gwen within a month or face the destruction of every planet containing a Celestial Seed.
• Hawk warned that harming Gwen would make him destroy every universe containing Celestials, then kicked Grylis away.
• Hawk calmed his killing intent and heard his daughter ask, "Daddy, where are you?"

After Thanos’s forces captured Doctor Strange and Bruce Banner, Wanda and the others returned to Westview and discussed why the aliens had avoided fighting them. Jean then revealed that she could contact Hawk, who had already returned.

• Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian captured Doctor Strange and Bruce Banner, then left Earth as Iron Man and Holland Spider-Man pursued them.
• Wanda told Sharon that the aliens had avoided fighting her, and Sharon asked Wanda to contact Hawk for help.
• Sharon and Wong left for S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters while Pietro confirmed that Jean and the others were safe.
• Back in Westview, Wanda explained Thanos’s search for the Infinity Stones and the abduction to Anya and the others.
• Jean said she could contact Hawk, and Hawk announced that he had already returned.

Hawk returned home and reassured Wanda that Thanos would not target Earth while Hawk protected it. He explained Gwen’s disappearance was caused by Time Instinct and said he planned to force the Celestials to return her; Sharon arrived to see him.

• Hawk returned home, greeted Wanda, and promised Jean a visit to a beautiful place if she earned all A+s.
• Wanda told Hawk that Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian had abducted Doctor Strange and Bruce Banner, and Hawk speculated that Thanos might use Banner to locate another universe’s Infinity Stones.
• Hawk assured Wanda that Thanos would not attack Earth because Hawk was there to protect it.
• Hawk explained that Time Instinct had trapped Gwen in the Multiverse after he took the World Tree, and he said he would make the Celestials bring her back.
• Anya knocked on the glass as Sharon arrived after hearing that Hawk had returned.

Hawk explained that Earth contained a gestating Celestial whose birth would destroy the planet, while Thanos’s planned population purge would delay that birth. He left Earth to choose between accepting Thanos’s purge or facing the Celestial in about six years, and Sharon hurried to inform S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Security Council.

• Sharon asked Hawk about Gwen’s disappearance and Thanos, and Hawk assured her that neither threat meant he would destroy Earth.
• Hawk explained the Primordial Gods, the Celestials, and how Celestial Seeds consumed life on planets before a new Celestial emerged and destroyed them.
• Hawk revealed that Celestial Tiam was gestating inside Earth and would emerge in about six years, after Hawk’s intervention delayed his birth.
• Hawk told Sharon that Earth could reduce its population or face Tiam, and said he would not interfere with its choice.
• Sharon left Westview Town to report the threat to S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Security Council, while Wanda asked Hawk whether he would truly let Earth be destroyed.

Hawk told Wanda that Earth had to choose whether to act against the coming catastrophe or face destruction, but revealed he had a third option: dealing with Tiamut himself. He refused to intervene because he considered Tiamut different from the other Celestials and a friend, and the chapter ended with Sharon reporting that Tony Stark, Doctor Strange, and the others had returned.

• Hawk asked Wanda whether Earth should act to survive or wait for destruction, and Wanda admitted she did not know.
• Hawk said Gwen would choose to eliminate the threat, then revealed he could deal with Tiamut because he had absorbed some of her energy years earlier.
• Hawk refused to interfere, explaining that Tiamut was different from the other Celestials and that she understood him.
• Wanda realized Hawk's stated reason for sparing Tiamut was that he considered her a friend, and Hawk said Earth's choice was its own.
• Sharon returned and told Hawk and Wanda that Tony Stark, Doctor Strange, and the others had come back.