Chapter Summaries

Hawk killed Thaddeus Ross and the other officials in a Pentagon safe room, then attacked the White House after confronting the black president on a screen. He seized the president in the Oval Office and challenged the Secret Service agents to shoot.

• Hawk broke into the Pentagon safe room, killed Thaddeus Ross, and ordered the survivors to contact the temp at 1600.
• The black president blamed William Stryker and Thaddeus Ross for the attack on Hawk, while Hawk killed three generals to silence him.
• Hawk slaughtered everyone else in the safe room and revealed that he had called the president to draw him out.
• Hawk pierced through the White House roof and smashed through its floors before landing in the Oval Office.
• Hawk seized the black president by the throat as Secret Service agents aimed their guns at him, then declared that he dared to act.

Hawk killed a man in the Oval Office, then forced Vice President Barron Turner to negotiate by threatening to destroy the Federation. After Turner revealed that the surviving Mutants from X Academy had gone to Akali Lake Dam, Hawk spared the officials who obeyed him and flew away.

• Hawk killed the Black man who had attacked him, and Barron Turner ordered the Secret Service agents to lower their weapons and leave.
• Hawk gave Barron one minute to explain why he should not kill everyone, and Barron admitted he lacked the authority to promise anything because he was only the vice president.
• Hawk learned that the surviving Mutants from X Academy were at Akali Lake Dam under Eason Brook, while Adia had avoided the assignment by being admitted to Memorial Hospital.
• Hawk gave the officials three seconds to stand, killed the one man who stayed down, and warned Barron that the Federation would cease to exist if there were another confrontation.
• Hawk blasted out of the Oval Office and flew into the sky, leaving Barron to collapse onto the floor.

Hawk and Wanda attacked the Akali Lake Dam Base to find their daughter, Jean, and free the imprisoned Mutants. They sensed Jean deeper inside the base and saw her fleeing with several other Mutants.

• Hawk and Wanda landed on the dam’s helipad and killed the Sentinel agents who confronted them.
• Hawk and Wanda fought through the Sentinel guards, destroying the command tower and killing the agents around the base.
• Hawk broke open the hidden entrance to the underground facility, where Wanda sensed Jean’s aura.
• Hawk smashed through the supposedly nuclear-resistant iron door, revealing Mutants imprisoned in coffin-like cells.
• Hawk and Wanda spotted Jean running for her life with several other Mutants deeper inside the cave.

Hawk and Wanda reunited with their grown daughter Jean after finding her in a Sentinel facility, and Hawk destroyed the pursuing Sentinels. As Wanda took Jean outside, Quicksilver recognized Wanda’s name and stopped them.

• Hawk and Wanda encountered Jean with Cyclops Scott, Nightcrawler Kurt, and Mystique Raven, and Jean ran to embrace her parents.
• Jean told Hawk she had waited for him and explained that she had always believed he would find her; Wanda joked about Hawk turning the outside world upside down to locate her.
• When Sentinels pursued the group, Jean told the others not to run because Hawk had arrived.
• Hawk annihilated the Sentinels in a scarlet flash, leaving them as bloody mist, and explained that Jean’s power in this universe came from Wanda.
• Hawk asked Wanda to take Jean outside while he went further into the facility, but Quicksilver stopped them and asked Wanda if her name was Wanda.

Hawk and Jean explored the Dam Base while Wanda questioned this universe’s Quicksilver about her counterpart and his family. The chapter ended with Hawk revealing that Wanda and Pietro’s biological father was Magneto, leaving Wanda and Pietro shocked.

• Wanda met this universe’s Quicksilver, and Jean introduced them as each other’s sibling’s counterpart; Wanda told Pietro to call her big sister.
• Jean explained to Hawk why she had kept her origins secret and why this Quicksilver seemed unlike the Uncle Pietro she remembered.
• Hawk entered the Dam Base’s control room, killed the researchers there, and learned that Stryker’s people knew where Mutant Number X and Mutant Number Eight were held.
• Hawk and Jean returned to find the imprisoned Mutants rescued, while Wanda asked Quicksilver about his Wanda and learned their younger sister was named Mina.
• Hawk asked whether Mina was Pietro’s full biological sister, then told Wanda and Pietro that Magneto was their biological father.

Hawk and Wanda reunited with their daughter Jean at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and heard how Professor X had taken her in and helped her manage her growing psychic power. The chapter ended when Jean suddenly sensed Professor X's voice as her psychic energy surged.

• Mystique Raven landed the transport plane at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, where the rescued Mutants were assigned rooms.
• Hawk and Wanda followed Jean to her room and asked how she had ended up in this world.
• Jean explained that she had been taken in by the Greys, then brought to the school by Professor X after he sensed her powerful psychic energy.
• Jean said Professor X had spent the past ten years helping her control her power, and she teased Hawk and Wanda for not teaching her themselves.
• Jean's psychic energy suddenly turned turbulent, and Hawk caught her while Wanda helped calm it.
• Jean opened her eyes and said she had heard Professor X's voice.

Apocalypse used Professor X to announce his return and invite Hawk to meet him, prompting Wanda and Jean to warn Hawk that Cairo could be a trap. Jean learned that Professor X and Magneto were in Cairo, where Apocalypse planned to use Magneto’s power against humanity, and turned to Wanda for guidance.

• Apocalypse spoke through Professor X to people across Earth, warning of a coming judgment and calling the strongest person from outside to meet him.
• Wanda realized Apocalypse could reach Hawk’s mind through Professor X, and warned Hawk that Cairo was likely a trap; Hawk agreed not to go.
• Jean told the X-Men that Professor X had secretly revealed he was in Cairo with Magneto, whom Apocalypse planned to use to disrupt Earth’s magnetic field.
• Raven and Cyclops wanted to rescue Professor X, while Jean hesitated because she had been warned not to go to Cairo and finally looked to Wanda for a decision.

Hawk flew to Cairo to confront Apocalypse and learn who had told him that Hawk came from outside the universe. Their fight revealed that Apocalypse had prepared a rune-covered metal pyramid that amplified his power and trapped Hawk inside.

• Hawk left Wanda and flew at supersonic speed to Cairo, where Apocalypse waited with his Four Horsemen.
• Hawk asked Apocalypse who was behind him, but Apocalypse stayed silent as his Horsemen tried to attack.
• Hawk struck Apocalypse through the desert and into the pyramid, while Magneto manipulated Earth's magnetic field.
• Apocalypse phased through Hawk's second punch, then stabbed at Hawk's chest, but his blade could not pierce Hawk's suit.
• Hawk threw Apocalypse into the pyramid's interior, where the rune-covered walls trapped him and made the air viscous.
• Apocalypse grew to five meters tall as golden runes appeared on his body, and Hawk recognized the pyramid as an energy amplifier.

Apocalypse trapped Hawk inside a pyramid and revealed that he could reach into Hawk’s past timelines to kill every version of him. As Apocalypse began pulling Hawk’s Time Galaxy from him, Hawk faced a threat that his powerful body could not simply withstand.

• Hawk realized Apocalypse intended to take his body, and Apocalypse revealed the disabled Professor X beside the pyramid altar.
• Hawk fought Apocalypse, discovered the pyramid amplified Apocalypse’s power only while his feet touched the floor, and repeatedly knocked him into the air.
• Apocalypse used Professor X to unleash a blood-red sonic attack, then trapped Hawk in a psychic illusion while binding his real body with Adamantium alloy.
• Apocalypse explained that he would kill earlier versions of Hawk across his timelines, then began forcibly pulling Hawk’s Time Galaxy from his body.

Apocalypse entered Hawk’s damaged timeline to destroy it, sacrificing his body in exchange for eternal life for his Soul. Hawk survived the attack but felt his timeline being torn apart and believed he might soon die.

• Apocalypse examined Hawk’s Time Galaxy and found flaws that let him enter Hawk’s timeline, though the compressed time would destroy him too.
• Apocalypse declared that he would rewrite Hawk’s past and ruin his victories and relationships, then revealed that his Soul would gain eternal life even if he died.
• Apocalypse touched Hawk’s Time Galaxy and vanished along with the temporal manifestations of himself, releasing Hawk and Professor X from their bonds.
• Hawk collapsed in pain as Apocalypse tore through his timeline, while Xavier Charles regained control of his consciousness and crawled over to check whether Hawk was alive.
• Hawk told Xavier Charles that he was not dead yet, but expected to die soon.

Hawk confronted Death, who revealed that she had awakened Apocalypse to erase him across every timeline. As Hawk neared death, Wanda blasted her way into the pyramid, bringing what Death called the most impossible possibility.

• Hawk told Professor X that Apocalypse was killing every version of him across his timelines and that there was no way to stop it.
• Hawk summoned Death, who admitted she had arranged the attack to teach him a lesson and said she wanted his Soul Stone if he died.
• Hawk guessed Death's scheme involved Agatha, and Death explained that his contracted timelines had left a fatal opening for Eternity.
• Wanda attacked the metal pyramid with Chaos Force, blasted through its wall, and charged inside as Hawk lay near death.

Wanda learned that Apocalypse was destroying Hawk’s timeline across all time, and Death told her she was the only one who could save him. Wanda entered Hawk’s Time Galaxy despite the danger, leaving her fate and Hawk’s survival unresolved.

• Wanda found Hawk collapsed beside Death, who warned that touching him would accelerate the collapse of his timeline.
• Magneto joined the X-Men after Quicksilver told him they were family, then entered the pyramid with Mystique, Nightcrawler, and Jean.
• Wanda and Professor X realized that only Wanda could see Death, while Jean sensed something strange in Death’s presence.
• Death explained that Apocalypse was attacking Hawk’s timelines across the past, present, and future, and that Wanda had to enter his Time Galaxy to save him.
• Wanda accepted the risk, told Hawk he was not a good man but was their daughter’s father, and touched his Time Galaxy.

Wanda entered Hawk’s Time Galaxy, killed Apocalypse across Hawk’s timelines, and used impossible flames to burn away timeline loopholes. Hawk’s Sacred Timeline still began to collapse, and Wanda traced the cause to the moment Amy Chloe learned of her husband’s death.

• Wanda was scattered across Hawk’s timelines and killed the million Apocalypses attacking him.
• At the church where Hawk and Anya were left as infants, Wanda killed Apocalypse while Hawk watched from outside.
• In Hawk’s 2009 timeline, Wanda killed Apocalypse but preserved Anya’s predetermined death, then burned away the timeline’s loopholes.
• Wanda merged with Hawk’s Time Galaxy, yet his Sacred Timeline continued collapsing despite Apocalypse’s death and the loopholes being filled.
• Wanda traced the remaining problem to the timeline where police officers Glenn Chris and George Jefferson told Amy Chloe that her husband had died.

Wanda learned that Gwen’s absence was causing Hawk’s flawless timeline to collapse, and Death explained that Gwen belonged to the Main Multiverse’s fixed past. Wanda realized she had to restore what had already happened and returned to Hawk’s timeline as Gwen.

• Wanda discovered that George Stacy and Gwen Stacy had never existed in Hawk’s collapsing timeline.
• Death explained that Wanda’s removal of Gwen from the flawless timeline had caused its collapse, while Gwen remained part of the Main Multiverse’s past.
• Death offered to explain how to stabilize Hawk’s timeline in exchange for a piece of Wanda’s soul and Hawk’s soul, and Wanda agreed.
• Death told Wanda to recognize that Gwen’s place in the fixed past had to be restored, then vanished.
• Wanda entered Hawk’s timeline as Gwen Stacy and revisited moments when Gwen met Hawk, advised him to be kind, and urged him to reclaim the World Tree.

Wanda completed Hawk’s timeline, allowing him to recover and step back from the gateway to the Eighth Sense to consolidate his progress. Hawk left to find Wanda, who was waiting for him in the room where they first met, and asked, “Who is Gwen?”

• Wanda’s completed River of Time entered Hawk, restoring his timeline as the X-Men, Quicksilver Pietro, and Jean watched.
• Hawk chose to retreat from the Eighth Sense gateway so he could consolidate his gains and repair flaws before advancing.
• Hawk thanked Death for her help, gave her a fragment of his soul, and guessed that her hero-saves-the-beauty plan involved Agatha Harkness.
• Hawk learned Wanda had left, told Jean he was going to bring her back, and flew to Hydra’s Sokovia castle.
• Hawk found Wanda beside the crib in the room where they first met, and Wanda asked him who Gwen was.

Hawk and Wanda discussed whether Gwen Stacy was part of a closed time loop and confronted how Hawk’s pursuit of power had changed him. They planned to return home, but Hawk had to wait about ten years in this universe for his power to arrive, leaving him time to reconsider his life.

• Wanda asked whether Gwen was truly Gwen or Wanda, and Hawk reasoned that Gwen’s appearance had completed a closed time loop.
• Hawk admitted that his pursuit of power had distracted him from spending time with Anya and made him a slave to his own strength.
• Wanda told Hawk they had ten children in the future and teased him for favoring daughters and losing the right to educate the children.
• Hawk and Wanda decided to go home, but Hawk explained that his power would take one month in their universe, or about ten years in this one, to reach him.
• Hawk said he would use the wait to sort out his heart, and Wanda teased him about trying to keep secrets from her.

After Apocalypse’s death and the devastation left by Magneto, the Federation’s leaders debated how to respond to Mutants and chose to restart the Sentinel Program. Bolivar Trask was brought back into the picture, confident his Sentries could defeat Mutants.

• Mutant-caused disasters devastated locations around the world, while the Federation’s losses included the destruction of the Pentagon and the deaths of the President and several generals.
• Barron Turner considered how to win public support by taking a hard line against Mutants, but worried about Hawk Phoenix’s power.
• An African-American general proposed restarting the Sentinel Program and revealed that Bolivar Trask had been kept alive in a secret prison for ten years.
• After the other generals backed the plan, Barron Turner signed the memorandum officially restarting the Sentinel Program.
• A soldier asked Trask whether his program could ensure superiority in a war against Mutants, and Trask declared his Sentries invincible.

Hawk retrained as an ordinary person to reclaim his resolve, and Wanda sensed his Phoenix power nearing a breakthrough into the universe. Jean spent time with Wanda and visited X Academy, where she advised Quicksilver Pietro about pursuing Storm.

• Wanda made Hawk take cold medicine after he caught a cold while retracing his path as an ordinary person.
• Hawk trained beneath the Wutong Tree despite his illness, and Wanda sensed his Cosmo responding as Phoenix flames approached the universe.
• Wanda told Jean they might return home in less than a year, where Jean would become a child again.
• Jean returned to X Academy and advised Quicksilver Pietro to look more mature if he wanted Storm to accept a date.
• Jean entered the meeting room, where Professor X, Beast, Cyclops, Storm, and Angel were gathered.

Professor X announced that President Barron Turner had agreed to submit the Mutant Peace Accord for a congressional hearing, with Professor X and Magneto serving as the Mutants’ guarantors. The group planned to attend in Washington, D.C., but Professor X refused to let Jean go because he feared what her father Hawk might do if she were harmed.

• Professor X told the conference that President Barron Turner had agreed to a preliminary hearing for the Mutant Peace Accord on the fifth of next month.
• Jean questioned why the President had changed his position, and Professor X explained that he hoped the bill would improve his election prospects while Xavier Technologies planned an anonymous fifty-million-dollar donation.
• Professor X said he and Magneto would attend the hearing as guarantors for the Mutants, prompting Jean to warn that their trip might be a trap.
• Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, and Angel volunteered to accompany Professor X, and Jean also asked to go to Washington, D.C.
• Professor X refused Jean permission to attend, explaining that he feared Hawk would destroy the Earth if anything happened to her.

Professor X feared that Hawk’s power could destroy the universe and hoped to keep Jean away from the Washington hearing, but Jean said she would go if Hawk agreed. Meanwhile, Hawk advanced to within five steps of the Eighth Sense gate and chose to rest before trying to enter.

• Professor X recalled the danger he sensed in Hawk and agreed with Jean that her staying home would protect everyone.
• Jean argued that her presence would prevent the Washington hearing from becoming a trap and said she would ask Hawk for permission to attend.
• Jean returned home and found Hawk asleep in the bathtub after completing his daily ten thousand punches.
• In his spirit, Hawk ignored the universe’s malice as Phoenix Fire burned it away and formed a golden path toward the Eighth Sense gate.
• Hawk stopped five steps from the gate because he felt tired and decided that steady progress was safer than rushing.