Chapter Summaries

Hawk absorbed a fragment of his soul and reunited with Anya, then promised to tell her everything at home. Scott Lang reunited with Cassie and realized his Quantum Realm experience might help him bring back those lost in the Snap, so he left to find Captain.

• Hawk absorbed the alternate Hawk’s memories and soul fragment, strengthening his Cosmo and restoring his connection to the Eighth Sense of Life.
• Hawk proved his identity to Anya by recalling their shared memories, and she embraced him as her brother.
• Hawk told Anya that they had plenty of time and returned home with her to explain what had happened.
• Scott Lang arrived at his ex-wife’s home and reunited with his grown daughter, Cassie.
• Scott explained that only five hours had passed for him in the Quantum Realm while five years passed on Earth.
• After Cassie told him Captain was alive, Scott rushed out, saying he had a way to bring back those taken by the Snap and would find Captain.

Hawk told Anya about his other-universe life, and she accepted him as her brother despite their different pasts. Meanwhile, Scott Lang revealed to Captain America and Natasha that he had encountered Hawk from another universe, prompting Natasha to connect the encounter to Bruce Banner’s earlier experience.

• Hawk recounted his universe’s history to Anya, including her death there and his reunion with their parents, and she questioned whether he was truly her brother.
• Hawk showed Anya how their different histories branched from the same Time Galaxy, and she embraced him as her brother.
• Anya asked why Hawk’s sister-in-law was Gwen instead of Wanda, and Hawk said they would leave the unexplained difference for the future to handle.
• Scott Lang told Captain America and Natasha that he had seen Hawk from another universe in the Quantum Realm and proposed that the realm might allow travel through time.
• Natasha used Friday to display footage of Hawk, and Captain America said Thanos had killed him and taken his Mind Stone.
• Natasha recalled Bruce Banner’s report of visiting a Multiverse and asked whether he might not have been dreaming.

Natasha visited Anya to find Hawk and learned that he had gone to see Tiamut, who could not reveal Celestial Grylis’s location and refused to be born because her emergence would destroy Earth. Hawk returned to New York and appeared in front of Natasha as she was leaving Anya’s home.

• Natasha arrived at Anya’s home looking for Hawk, but Anya said he had left to visit an old acquaintance.
• Anya insisted that the Multiverse Hawk was her brother and told Natasha about his life with Gwen in another universe.
• Hawk entered the Hollow Earth and spoke with Tiamut, who said she could not reveal Grylis’s location and did not want to be born.
• Natasha told Anya that Tony had declined to join the Time Heist and asked her to contact her if Hawk returned.
• Hawk appeared in front of Natasha outside Anya’s home and asked if she was looking for him.

Hawk told Natasha he could not help the Avengers travel through time, though he assured her that following their plan would get them what they wanted. As Natasha returned to the Avengers, Tony reconsidered his failed time-travel simulations and finally made the Time Travel Navigator work.

• Hawk convinced Natasha that he was the same person as the Hawk she remembered, but said he could not help the Avengers because doing so would jeopardize his own plan.
• Hawk told Natasha to follow her plan, then dodged her question about whether he preferred Gwen or Wanda.
• Natasha returned to the Avengers and confirmed to Doctor Bruce Hulk Banner that Hawk had mentioned Gwen, proving Banner's Multiverse trip was real.
• Captain America told Natasha that Tony had refused to help, while the Avengers worked on building a time machine.
• Tony asked Friday to modify his time-travel model with a Möbius Ring Structure and Pym Particles, and the Time Travel Navigator succeeded.

As the Avengers began the Time Heist, Hawk traveled to 2012 to ask The Ancient One why this universe’s Hawk and Wanda felt like their counterparts from his own. The Ancient One refused to interfere in his family affairs, and Hawk followed the Avengers’ temporal ripples to Vormir.

• Tony Stark brought Captain America his Time Travel Navigator, and the Avengers launched the Time Heist after Clint Barton tested the machine.
• Captain America gathered the team, and the Avengers traveled into the past to retrieve the Infinity Stones.
• Hawk followed them into the River of Time and appeared at the New York Sanctum in 2012, where The Ancient One greeted him.
• Hawk asked The Ancient One about the connection between the Hawk and Wanda of this universe and his own, but she said Anya would keep him from destroying any universe where she existed.
• The Ancient One hinted that someone was about to jump off a cliff, and Hawk followed the Avengers’ temporal ripples to Vormir.

Natasha Romanoff and Clinton Barton reached Vormir to claim the Soul Stone, but Natasha sacrificed herself and awoke in Hawk’s Hell Tavern at the boundary between life and death. Hawk explained that Barton could not receive the Stone until Natasha’s soul was truly surrendered, and the chapter ended with him saying he was helping because she was his friend.

• Natasha and Clinton met Red Skull on Vormir, where he explained that obtaining the Soul Stone required a soul for a soul.
• Natasha leapt from the cliff and arrived at Hawk’s Hell Tavern, where Hawk served her a drink.
• Hawk told Natasha that the Soul Stone would not appear until her soul was sacrificed, and Natasha tried to leave the tavern to complete the exchange.
• Natasha could not open the door and asked Hawk why he was interfering after promising not to meddle in their affairs.
• Hawk told Natasha that he was helping because she was his friend.

Hawk reassured Natasha that she was his friend and promised she would not die, then invited Death to Hell Tavern to negotiate over her soul and the Soul Stone. Death explained why the Stone would not appear while Natasha lived, and Hawk proposed trading Celestials for it.

• Hawk told Natasha she was his friend and said he would prevent her death, even though that meant the Soul Stone would not appear.
• Hawk summoned Death to Hell Tavern, where they toasted and discussed Mephisto's death.
• Death saw the Phoenix Golden Feather in Natasha's soul and said Hawk's superior Divine Authority meant Natasha's soul did not belong to her, so the Soul Stone would not appear.
• Natasha offered Death her soul in exchange for the Soul Stone, but Hawk insisted she was his friend, not his follower.
• Death explained that the Celestials had not driven her and Eternity from Hawk's universe, and said Eternity allowed them to reproduce because Galactus might otherwise devour them.
• Hawk and Death agreed that Hawk would give Death Celestials if she gave Natasha the Soul Stone.

Hawk negotiated with Death for the Soul Stone and saved Natasha from her sacrifice by restoring her through a phoenix-like rebirth. The Avengers assembled the Infinity Stones in a technological gauntlet, and Bruce Banner snapped his fingers to restore the vanished half of life.

• Death gave Hawk the Soul Stone in exchange for the Celestials' souls and invited him to her palace.
• After Clinton departed with the Soul Stone, Natasha returned from the Soul Sacrifice Platform through a phoenix-like rebirth and traveled back to the Avengers base.
• Clinton reunited with Natasha, kept her survival secret, and revealed the Soul Stone as the Avengers cheered.
• Natasha told Clinton that Hawk had saved her and asked him not to tell the others about her sacrifice.
• Tony Stark and Bruce Banner completed a Nano Infinity Gauntlet, and Bruce Banner used it to snap his fingers.

During the universe-wide upheaval caused by Bruce Banner restoring the lives erased by the Snap, Hawk used the opening to approach the Eighth Sense of Life but withdrew when the universe’s suppression returned. He left to pursue Celestial Grylis, while Thanos’s past army attacked the Avengers base and faced Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor.

• Hawk revealed his Phoenix power to Death, who agreed not to stop him if she could visit the universe he creates.
• Hawk raced toward the gateway to the Eighth Sense of Life during the cosmic upheaval, reaching ten steps away before the universe’s suppression forced him to retreat.
• Hawk decided to seek another universe for transcendence and asked Death where the Celestials’ lair was; Death explained that Celestials had no souls until they died.
• Hawk promised to return to Death’s palace for a drink, then flew toward Earth as Death vanished from Vormir.
• Thanos brought his past army into the present and attacked the Avengers base, where Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor emerged from the ruins to confront him.

Hawk returned to Palm Street and kept Anya from joining the battle, but her advice helped him decide to face the conflict rather than avoid it. At the Avengers Compound, Wanda confronted Thanos, who did not recognize her.

• Hawk arrived at Palm Street and stopped Anya from going to the Avengers Compound, then protected her when a Chitauri Soldier flew toward them.
• Hawk told Anya he was weighing whether to help because Celestial Grylis might be watching, but Anya guessed that his real hesitation was facing Wanda.
• Anya advised Hawk to go, reminding him that the Hawk of this universe was not him; Hawk chose to leave and told her to stay home.
• After Hawk left, Anya ran to the attic and retrieved a military-grade drone.
• At the Avengers Compound, revived heroes and Wakanda soldiers joined the battle through Doctor Strange's portals, and Wanda attacked Thanos in a berserk state.
• Thanos asked Wanda who she was, and she told him he would know before another voice interjected.

Hawk arrived on the battlefield and destroyed Thanos’s fleet while Wanda, who had become a version of herself with memories of motherhood, overpowered Thanos. After Hawk stopped her from killing him, Wanda’s memories merged and she embraced Hawk, relieved to see him again.

• Hawk appeared before Wanda and blasted Thanos away, then realized Wanda had switched into a version with memories of having three children.
• Thanos charged Wanda while Hawk went to destroy the fleet, and Wanda shattered Thanos’s sword and lifted him with Crimson Chaos Force.
• Hawk destroyed the Chitauri mothership and the remaining warships, disabling the Chitauri army and drawing the Avengers’ attention.
• Wanda stripped Thanos of his armor and twisted his limbs while the Avengers and Wakandan forces fought the remaining enemies.
• Hawk grasped Wanda’s wrist and told her to stop, and Wanda’s memories merged before she embraced him and said she thought she would never see him again.

Hawk killed Thanos and Death took his soul, turning the tide of the battlefield. As the Avengers finished off the remaining enemies, Hawk sensed the Celestial Grylis entering the Solar System.

• Wanda briefly embraced Hawk after their memories merged, then pulled away and apologized.
• Hawk beheaded Thanos, but withdrew his Hell Dimension when Death claimed Thanos's soul and invited Hawk to visit her on Vormir.
• Natasha announced Thanos's death, and the news spread across the battlefield; Hawkeye killed Ebony Maw when he froze at the sight of Thanos's corpse.
• The Avengers guarded the Infinity Gauntlet and attacked the remaining aliens while Fat Thor fought with renewed fury.
• Hawk explained Thor's guilt and weight gain to Wanda, then noticed Grylis, a Celestial, enter the Solar System.

Hawk fought Celestial Grylis in a cosmic storm and killed him with a Phoenix Wings Soaring attack after detonating his Cosmo to overcome the universe’s suppression. A watching Celestials member withdrew rather than confront Hawk, who realized the enemy might be trying to flee.

• Hawk and Celestial Grylis exchanged powerful attacks, and their collision created a singularity surrounded by an immense energy storm.
• Hawk realized that both he and Grylis had grown stronger in this universe, and he resolved to kill Grylis because of his connection to Gwen’s journey to Universe 828.
• Hawk detonated his Cosmo, briefly regained High God-level power, and struck Grylis with his true Phoenix Wings Soaring, covering the Celestials member in cracks and killing him.
• Hawk stood on Grylis’s head and waited as a distant Celestials member watched, but the observer eventually withdrew his gaze and left.
• Hawk suspected the Celestials member was trying to run and wondered whether he could escape.

After Hawk killed Celestial Grylis, the Avengers buried T'Challa and Okoye and returned the Infinity Stones to their proper times. Captain America's time-travel device revealed footage of an alternate outcome in which Natasha and Tony died, and the chapter ended as the Avengers prepared to view two more clips.

• Hawk killed Celestial Grylis after deciding to hunt the newborn Celestials in the 616 Universe.
• The Avengers held a funeral for T'Challa, Okoye, and the Wakandan guards killed by Cull Obsidian's explosion.
• Four teams returned the Infinity Stones to their original times, while Hawkeye stayed behind because he was injured.
• Captain America returned several seconds late, and Tony and Bruce found extra temporal data in his device.
• Natasha identified projected footage of her death and Tony's sacrifice as a possibility from a world where Hawk did not exist, then asked the Avengers to play two more clips.

Hawk returned to 521A Palm Street, helped Wanda prepare to travel back to her universe, and told her he would search for the missing Gwen. The chapter ended when Natasha arrived with a video Hawk needed to see.

• Captain America opened the final video file, and the group learned that Hawk had returned to Earth and was at 521A Palm Street.
• Hawk reunited with Anya and Wanda, then explained that he had not brought Wanda to this universe and did not know who had.
• Hawk gave Wanda a Quantum Watch so she could return to her universe and reunite with Jean, Billy, and Tommy.
• Anya asked to visit her other-universe counterpart, then fled upstairs when Hawk threatened to find his belt.
• Natasha arrived at the house and told Hawk there was a video he needed to watch.

Natasha showed Hawk and Wanda a video of a Celestial abducting six-year-old Jean, and Hawk took Wanda to confront the Six-Tube Celestial Erebus. Erebus said the kidnapping was meant to slow Hawk’s transcendence, while Hawk declared that the Celestials would be exterminated.

• Natasha brought Hawk and Wanda footage showing a Six-Tube Celestial taking Jean from Westview Town.
• Hawk told Wanda that the Celestials had likely kidnapped Jean to bargain with him, but reassured her they could not harm Jean.
• Hawk saw a Six-Tube Celestial enter the Solar System and took Wanda to Jupiter, where they found Jean floating before it.
• The Celestial identified himself as Erebus, and Hawk told him the Celestials were doomed to extinction for taking Jean.
• Erebus admitted he knew Hawk would not compromise and said the kidnapping was the Celestials’ only choice to delay Hawk’s transcendence.

Hawk killed Calculator Erebus after refusing to yield to the Celestials, and learned that Jean was not truly in their grasp. He believed she had escaped during the journey between universes and promised Wanda he would find her.

• Calculator Erebus explained that the Celestials had brought Jean as a way to delay Hawk's transcendence, but Hawk refused to compromise and threatened the universe with Nirvana if it suppressed him again.
• The universe withdrew its suppression after Hawk swore not to transcend within its domain, and Hawk briefly reached the Eighth Sense before attacking Calculator Erebus.
• Hawk killed Calculator Erebus, and the false image of Jean vanished; he told Wanda that Jean was likely somewhere in another Multiverse.
• Death claimed Erebus's soul and sent him to maintain the circulation of souls in a new Death Dimension, then offered to locate Jean if Hawk gave her Jean's soul.
• Hawk refused Death's offer and explained that Jean had likely escaped from Erebus while he carried her through the Multiverse; he promised Wanda he would find her.

Hawk reassured Wanda that he would find Jean, explaining that Death was helping him and that the Celestials could not safely intervene. He also revealed that Jean’s status as his eldest daughter made her a potential threat to him, then took Wanda to Kamar-Taj.

• Hawk explained that Jean had escaped the Celestials and that he would learn her location when his Phoenix Perching in the Wutong Tree reached her.
• He warned Wanda that Jean might be vulnerable in a hostile universe while his power spread there, but concluded that Death knew where she was and was quietly helping him.
• Hawk told Wanda that Death and the other creator High Gods would not intervene because he could retaliate by destroying a Multiverse.
• He explained that Jean’s status as his eldest daughter could make her capable of killing him, as Athena and Hela had once been prophesied to kill their fathers.
• Hawk rejected the Celestials’ attempt to unsettle his trust in Jean, then took Wanda to Kamar-Taj.

Hawk asked Kamar-Taj to open a passage back to his own universe, and Wong agreed after receiving permission from Vishanti. With Wanda and Anya ready to leave, Hawk reached the portal to his home universe, where Doctor Strange waited on the other side.

• Hawk learned that Kamar-Taj communicated with other universes but could not join his conflict with the Celestials because Vishanti had forbidden it.
• Hawk asked Wong to borrow Kamar-Taj’s passageway home, and Vishanti authorized Wong to help.
• Hawk returned to 521A Palm Street, where Anya packed her suitcase while Wanda wondered why Hawk had not asked about their daughter Jean.
• Hawk brought Wanda and Anya to Kamar-Taj, where Wong coordinated with the Sorcerer Supreme in Hawk’s universe.
• Wong used their hairs to open a Spark Portal, and Hawk led Wanda and Anya toward Doctor Strange and the way home.

Hawk returned to his universe with Wanda and Anya after failing to find Dr. Phoenix and losing Jean, while his thoughts spread across universes containing Kamar-Taj. Back home, he learned his alternate-universe sister Anya had lost Pietro, and he and Wanda set out to find Peter as Anya went to Westview Town.

• As Hawk crossed back into his universe with Anya and Wanda, his Seventh Sense spread thoughts through every universe with Kamar-Taj, and Universe 616 and Universe 828 vanished from his perception.
• Hawk thanked Doctor Strange, confirmed he had not found Dr. Phoenix, and said Jean had been taken; he then returned with Anya and Wanda to his home at 521A Palm Street.
• Wanda called Westview Town, where Pietro arrived and learned that Anya came from another universe where he had died during the Sokovia Crisis.
• Anya asked to visit her sister in Westview Town, and Hawk sent her with Pietro while he and Wanda went to Osborn Manor to find Peter.