Chapter Summaries

Hawk resolved that Wanda and Gwen were the same person on his Sacred Timeline, and the clarity fused his flames into a power that pierced the universe’s barrier. As his power arrived, Jean asked to attend the Mutant Peace Act hearing in Washington, D.C., and Hawk challenged her belief that legislation could bring peace.

• Hawk concluded that Wanda Maximoff was Gwen Stacy and Gwen Stacy was Wanda Maximoff on his Sacred Timeline, causing his Scarlet Chaos Flame and Fire Phoenix to merge.
• The fused flame broke through the universe’s barrier, and a golden Fire Phoenix entered the universe and flew toward Earth.
• Wanda told Jean that Hawk’s power had arrived, and Hawk explained that he had not accepted it yet because he intended to walk his road again in forty-two days.
• Jean told Hawk about the upcoming Mutant Peace Act hearing and asked to go to Washington, D.C. with Professor X.
• Jean said she wanted to see people and Mutants reconcile, but Hawk questioned whether a peace act could bring peace.

Hawk and Wanda told Jean why they distrusted peace agreements, then agreed that she could travel to Washington, D.C. to learn for herself. The chapter ended with Wanda warning Hawk that the Federation’s secret Sentry project had caused the universe’s reset.

• Hawk told Jean that peace required strength and described how he had attacked Quantico, the Pentagon, and the White House after Mutants were targeted by Sentries.
• Jean asked whether Hawk rejected Professor X’s ideals, and Hawk said he respected others’ beliefs as long as they did not impose them on him.
• Hawk claimed he gave enemies chances because he was like a cat playing with a mouse, and Wanda explained the comparison to Jean.
• Jean asked if she could go to Washington, D.C., and Hawk and Wanda agreed, warning that they would retaliate if anyone harmed her.
• That night, Wanda told Hawk that the Federation’s secret Sentry project had caused the universe to reset.

Hawk explained that the Mutants and the Federation in this universe were trapped in a cycle driven by the Sentinel robots, while Wanda revealed that Bolivar Trask was secretly developing them to capture Hawk. They watched Trask prepare a Sentinel Program for the coming hearing, and Hawk said its powers could not control him without Death’s intervention.

• Hawk told Wanda that the Sentinel robots had caused a closed time loop in which Mutants tried and failed to prevent their own future massacre.
• Wanda reminded Hawk that the Five Hegemons protected Westview Town because they feared what he might do if its residents were harmed.
• Wanda used Chaos Magic to show Hawk Bolivar Trask overseeing a Sentinel robot and learning that the project lacked enough Mimic Gene samples.
• Bolivar Trask said he planned to use Sentinel robots with Professor X and Magneto’s abilities to eliminate them and capture Hawk at the hearing in Washington, D.C.
• Hawk explained that Professor X’s power alone could not control him and that Death had helped Apocalypse capture him before.
• Wanda said Death looked at her strangely, and Hawk told her that Death was her master’s wife.

Hawk explained why Death had intervened on Agatha Harkness’s behalf, then trained while Wanda watched over him. His power drew closer to their universe, and his punches culminated in a new breakthrough.

• Hawk told Wanda that Death had stood up for Agatha Harkness because Hawk had brought back the Agatha from their universe, and he compared Death’s love across universes to his own love for Wanda.
• After spending the night together, Hawk was exhausted the next morning, and Jean left for Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters to tell Professor X she could go to Washington, D.C.
• Hawk asked Wanda where Mystique Raven was and decided to let Bolivar Trask capture and draw blood from her, as long as she stayed alive and was not harmed further.
• Wanda agreed to monitor Mystique Raven’s capture while Hawk went to the backyard to complete his ten thousand punches.
• As Hawk trained beneath the Wutong Tree, Wanda sensed his power approaching their universe, and Hawk’s punch filled the sky with fist shadows before he announced, “Heavy Sword Without Edge” and “Great Skill Is Unskilled.”

Hawk explained that his mastery of time and mind had become truly his own, but he still needed to retrace his experience of life and death to reach the next stage. He planned to undergo Nirvana again, trusting Wanda to bring him back if anything went wrong.

• Hawk told Wanda that his time and mind had reached completion without relying on the Infinity Stones.
• Hawk admitted that he had cheated his way across the boundary between life and death during his battle with Malekith in London.
• Wanda accused Hawk of repeatedly cheating to gain power and warned that he now had to pay the price by retracing his path.
• Hawk explained that he needed to experience Nirvana himself to understand life and death and advance further.
• Hawk assured Wanda that he had a backup plan: he trusted her to bring him back if he truly entered Nirvana.

Hawk prepared to enter Nirvana without a backup plan, trusting Wanda alone to bring him back if he failed. He planned to use the Sentinel project and the coming Washington, D.C. hearing to create a fitting opportunity, then return home with Wanda.

• Hawk told Wanda that entering Nirvana without a backup plan could truly kill him, and admitted he was afraid of death.
• Wanda promised to bring Hawk back, recalling how she had saved him when Apocalypse killed him across every timeline.
• Hawk said his timing depended on Bolivar Trask’s Sentinel robots and asked about Mystique Raven, whom the Sentinels had captured five days earlier.
• Wanda told Hawk that Professor X and Magneto Erik planned to travel to Washington, D.C. for Congress the next morning.
• Hawk decided to hurry Bolivar Trask’s progress by giving Washington, D.C. confidence to act against him, and he and Wanda planned to go home.

Wanda hid Hawk’s condition from Jean and Professor X, telling them that Hawk was enduring a Power Tide that would end in ten days to half a month. As Professor X and the others continued toward Washington, Hawk’s energy surged across New York, and the Sentinel Service learned that his power would fully descend soon.

• Jean received a call from Wanda and returned to Palm Street while Professor X’s group continued toward the airport.
• Wanda used Scarlet Chaos Magic to make Jean, Professor X, and the others perceive Hawk as bedridden and out of control, and told Jean he was enduring a Power Tide.
• Jean returned to the car and told Professor X she expected to leave for her own universe with her parents in half a month.
• An immense energy surge burst from Palm Street, showing Professor X and Jean a vision of a golden Phoenix burning through the universe.
• The Sentinel Service detected Hawk’s power signature and learned that his power would fully descend in half a month.

President Barron Turner learned that the Demon King would be weakened for half a month, but the Sentinel Program would not be ready for ten days. With Professor X arriving for a congressional hearing, Turner and the generals struggled to delay the Mutant Peace Act and decide how to respond to the Demon King.

• Barron Turner met with the generals overseeing the Sentinel Program and learned that its final Mimic Gene adjustments would take ten more days.
• Turner noted that Professor X and the Demon King's daughter were on their way to the hearing, and the Sentinel robots would not be ready to capture her as planned.
• A Black general proposed attacking with overwhelming forces, but Turner and a Pentagon general denied authorizing the plan and left the general exposed to blame.
• The Black general blamed Bolivar Trask for the Sentinel Program's delay, while the other generals discussed whether the Demon King's weakness might be a trap.
• Turner warned that the Mutant Peace Act would fail in Congress and asked the generals to find a way to stall Professor X's hearing.

Professor X and the X-Men learned that Congress had suspended the Mutant Peace Act hearing after a Sentinel robot landed at a Texas Air Force Base and was mistaken for an alien creation. They agreed to help investigate it in Washington, while the Pentagon planned to use the robot to undermine the act and lure Hawk Phoenix to Quantico.

• The president's aide gave Professor X, Magneto, and the X-Men confidentiality agreements, then explained that an apparent alien creation had arrived in Texas and delayed the hearing.
• The aide showed them a photograph of a five-meter-tall robot, and Professor X and Magneto failed to recognize it as a Sentinel because Raven and Logan were absent.
• The aide asked the X-Men to remain in Washington and help investigate the robot, while Jean questioned why it had been moved there and declined to promise her father's help.
• Professor X agreed to see the robot, unaware that the Pentagon intended to activate it and blame the X-Men if anything went wrong.
• The Pentagon planned to use the Sentinel's activation to cancel the Mutant Peace Act and lure Hawk Phoenix to Quantico.

Professor X, Magneto, and Jean examined the Sentinel robot at Quantico and discovered it carried Hawk’s genuine aura, while Hawk identified the Celestials’ connection to the machine. He explained to Wanda why Eternity could not intervene directly and left her with his willingness to let the Celestials win a round.

• The presidential aide brought Professor X, Magneto, and Jean to Quantico, where Jean warned him that Hawk would destroy everyone involved in an attack on him.
• Professor X sensed Hawk’s aura on the Sentinel robot, and Jean recognized it as her father’s.
• Hawk confirmed to Wanda that the robot’s aura was genuine and traced its Adamantium metal to a Celestial he had killed in the 616 Universe.
• Hawk explained that Eternity could not personally stop his pursuit of transcendence without breaking the rules and risking Hawk’s destruction of the Main Multiverse.
• Hawk told Wanda that he would find it more interesting to let the Celestials win a round than to die at the hands of a Sentinel robot.

Hawk recovered his Divine Body Power and decided to wait before launching a full assault, while the Federation mistook his family outings and apparent weakness for a genuine vulnerability. President Barron Turner set the Demon King Hunting Plan to begin in five days and tasked Assistant Ada with using Professor Charles to lure Hawk to the Sentinel robots.

• Hawk broke Wanda’s magical restraints, recovered his Divine Body Power, and said it would be enough to defeat the Sentinel robots, but he chose to wait and see what the Federation would do.
• Hawk and Wanda went grocery shopping and spent the weekend on family outings and cleaning, while a cleaner secretly recorded Hawk looking pale and apparently weakened.
• President Barron Turner and the generals concluded there was an eighty percent chance Hawk was weakened and agreed to advance their plan.
• The African American general said the Mimic Gene would be deployed in five days and privately considered leaving Washington, D.C., if the plan failed.
• Barron Turner announced that the Demon King Hunting Plan would begin in five days and told Assistant Ada to have Professor Charles help lure Hawk to the Sentinel robots.

Professor X learned that the warming Sentinel robot might be connected to Hawk Phoenix and agreed to contact him, despite Jean’s belief that her father should not be disturbed. Jean was hurt when Professor X said he had to protect “our world,” making her feel excluded from it.

• Professor X warned Assistant Ada that the Sentinel robot should be moved out of Washington, D.C., but Ada said the Federation wanted to contact Hawk Phoenix and secure a promise that he would leave after reclaiming his energy.
• Ada urged Professor X to reach Hawk, arguing that the Sentinel might awaken and that a public incident could jeopardize the Mutant Act; Professor X gave a slight nod.
• Professor X asked Jean whether she had told her father about the Sentinel, and Jean said she had kept the secret and did not want to interrupt his Power Tide.
• Professor X explained the Federation’s plan and asked Jean to call Hawk, but Jean questioned whether Professor X believed her father would leave after recovering his power.
• Professor X said he had to protect their world, and Jean felt excluded and regretted coming to Washington, D.C.

Hawk and Wanda answered Jean’s call for help after she found a Sentinel robot carrying traces of Hawk’s aura. They arrived at Professor X’s location, where Hawk rejected Professor X’s demand for guarantees and Wanda opened a portal to the robot’s laboratory.

• Wanda told Hawk that Jean had called for help, and Hawk guessed Professor X had tried to guilt-trip their daughter.
• Jean told Hawk that a five-meter-tall Sentinel robot had residual traces of his aura and asked him what it was.
• Hawk and Wanda opened a scarlet portal and arrived where Jean and Professor X were waiting.
• Jean embraced Hawk and Wanda, while Professor X sensed Hawk’s dangerous presence and pulled back his psychic energy.
• Professor X asked Hawk to guarantee he would leave Earth if the Sentinel belonged to him, but Hawk warned him not to threaten him again.
• Wanda opened a portal to the laboratory where the Sentinel robot was located.

Hawk, Wanda, and Jean visited a laboratory in Washington, D.C., where they discovered that the Sentinel robot was made from material connected to Hawk. As the family prepared to leave, Assistant Ada persuaded them to stay by mentioning a memorial they could visit.

• Wanda used Scarlet Chaos energy to make the armed soldiers see their weapons as cobras, while Hawk silenced the scientists and Wanda shut off the alarm.
• Hawk told Jean that the Sentinel robot was made from something he had destroyed in another universe.
• Assistant Ada arrived, apologized to Hawk, and learned that he planned to leave with Wanda and Jean.
• Jean said she missed home and wanted to return with her family, and Wanda agreed.
• Ada urged Hawk to stay so the president could meet him, and Wanda and Jean suggested visiting a newly built memorial.
• Hawk agreed to go see the memorial and asked Ada to lead them there.

At Quantico, Hawk confronted Assistant Ada and President Barron Turner with threats and refused Barron’s attempt to claim friendship. Barron invited Hawk to dinner to delay his departure while secretly hoping to control him and obtain the secret of interstellar travel.

• Hawk questioned the names on the Quantico monument, and Assistant Ada explained that many of the dead had perished during reconstruction.
• Hawk warned Assistant Ada that he would destroy the planet if anyone gave him an excuse, and Ada resolved to act against him first.
• Wanda observed that the humans’ reaction to Hawk’s blunt warnings showed how reckless they were.
• President Barron Turner greeted Hawk, but Hawk refused to let him use his first name or call himself a friend.
• Barron invited Hawk, Wanda, and their daughter to dinner and planned to keep Hawk from leaving while the Sentinel program came online.

Hawk learned that the Federation had engineered prejudice against Mutants to capture one with the potential for eternal life, and that it planned to use a dinner invitation to trap him. He accepted the invitation, knowing the Sentinel robots and the Federation had allied with a Celestials member, and left Jean to watch with Wanda as he prepared to confront them.

• The Federation’s hidden leaders had used Mutant persecution as cover for their search for eternal life, and they approved a plan to capture Hawk after he arrived.
• Hawk accepted Barron Turner’s dinner invitation despite knowing it was a trap, while Wanda warned him that the Federation intended to attack.
• Wanda told Hawk that Sentinel agents had infiltrated X Academy and that the Federation’s Sentinel program was secret even from Professor X and its own researchers.
• Wanda explained to Jean that the Sentinel robots were built with material from a Celestials member Hawk had killed, and that the Celestials had joined forces with the Federation.
• Hawk told Jean to stay with Wanda and watch the trap unfold, explaining that he wanted the Federation to think its scheme had succeeded before he acted.

President Barron Turner gathered his team at Quantico to finalize Operation Demon King Hunt, relying on a Sentinel robot and a staged battle to kill Hawk and his wife while turning public anger against Mutants. The preparations were underway for the banquet, as Barron ordered the operation to proceed.

• President Barron Turner asked Barton about the Sentinel robot, and Barton said it would be activated in three hours and claimed it was invincible.
• The Black general recalled that a Celestials member had supplied the metal for the robot and promised the Federation rewards for killing Hawk, while secretly preparing an escape for himself and his family.
• The Quantico base commander reported that Professor X would operate the robot and that elite soldiers were being evacuated as special-enlistment recruits were moved into the base as expendable replacements.
• Barron Turner and his staff discussed prepared press releases and plans to blame Mutant infighting for casualties while advancing a Mutant Affairs Bureau bill.
• Barron Turner ordered the team to carry out the plan and give Hawk his final banquet.

Hawk attended a lavish dinner hosted by President Barron Turner, who claimed he wanted to change Hawk’s opinion of the government. As a Sentinel robot began behaving strangely and Professor X discovered Xavier’s Manor inside its mental world, Hawk confronted Turner in the restroom and accused him of trying to escape before the robot activated.

• President Barron Turner personally welcomed Hawk, Wanda, and Jean to dinner and promised the gathering was sincere.
• Professor X examined the Sentinel robot after its temperature rose and found a mental world containing Xavier’s Manor.
• Two scientists exchanged a signal and quietly left the laboratory while Professor X remained focused on the robot.
• After dinner, Turner received a vibration from his pocket and excused himself to use the restroom.
• Hawk followed Turner and accused him of preparing to flee before the Sentinel robot activated.

Hawk killed Barron Turner and Assistant Ada, then joined Wanda in attacking the banquet guests as Jean watched in horror. Their slaughter continued behind Wanda’s scarlet barrier while soldiers and Storm and Cyclops gathered outside, and a huge crash interrupted them.

• Hawk revealed he had never been sick, crushed Barron Turner’s throat, and killed him despite the Secret Service agents’ arrival.
• Hawk emerged in a scarlet combat suit, killed the Secret Service agents, and entered the banquet hall with Barron Turner’s corpse.
• Hawk killed Assistant Ada, while Wanda transformed, blocked the exits with Scarlet Magic, and turned the head of Quantico Base into blood mist.
• Wanda covered Jean’s eyes as Hawk and Wanda slaughtered the trapped banquet guests, and Jean said she feared having nightmares.
• Soldiers rushed toward the scarlet-shrouded banquet hall, while Storm and Cyclops arrived outside and Hawk reassured Jean about the Nightmare Lord.
• A huge crash came from outside.

A Sentinel robot destroyed its laboratory and emerged, apparently killing Professor X, while Hawk and Wanda identified Bolivar Trask as the likely saboteur. Trask took control of the robot and declared his intent to eliminate Mutants, and Hawk recognized that fear of being replaced drove Trask’s hatred.

• The Sentinel robot laboratory exploded, destroying the facility and leaving the activated Sentinel robot standing amid the ruins.
• Beast, Storm, Cyclops, and the others realized Professor X had been inside the laboratory, while Wanda said he could not have survived the blast.
• Hawk suspected Bolivar Trask had tampered with the Sentinel robot and told Beast that Mystique was alive but recovering.
• Hawk rose to face the robot as Bolivar Trask spoke through it and vowed to wipe out Mutants.
• Hawk asked why Trask hated Mutants and concluded that Trask feared humanity would be replaced by Mutants.