Chapter Summaries

Hawk confronted Bolivar Trask, who revealed that his death would activate three Sentinel robots programmed to attack threats and reproduce. Hawk killed him anyway, and a Sentinel robot began scanning the battlefield and marked Hawk as a target.

• Hawk exposed Bolivar Trask's fears and ambitions, and Wanda used her Scarlet Chaos energy to pull him from his safe room to Quantico Military Base.
• Bolivar Trask warned Hawk that three other Sentinel robots would activate and self-replicate if he died, attacking both Mutants and humans they considered threats.
• Bolivar Trask offered to spare Hawk and his family, but Hawk refused and crushed his throat.
• Bolivar Trask's death activated the Sentinel robot, which scanned the soldiers and Mutants before marking Hawk as a blood-red target.

Hawk fought the Sentinel robot at Quantico Military Base, first overpowering it with his physical strength before its Survival of the Fittest ability adapted and knocked him into a crater. As Hawk rose with a greater aura building around him, Wanda told Jean to watch the attack for which he was best known.

• Hawk charged the Sentinel robot and hurled it into a hangar, setting off a series of explosions.
• Hawk struck the robot repeatedly with his fists and kicks while Wanda explained to Jean that he was holding back and the Adamantium machine could withstand his physical attacks.
• Wanda identified the robot's simulated Survival of the Fittest ability as an adaptive power that let it evolve in response to Hawk's strength.
• The Sentinel robot adapted to Hawk's attacks, blocked his fist, and blasted him into the ground.
• Wanda reassured Jean as Hawk rose from the crater and said he was preparing the attack he was known for.

Hawk defeated the Sentinel robot with his hidden Heavenly Dragon Force, then tore the glowing core from its damaged chest. Jean learned that Hawk had an even greater dragon technique, while the robot’s attempt to recover ended when Hawk struck again.

• The Sentinel robot adapted to Hawk’s strength and attacked him with wind blades and a powerful punch.
• Hawk unleashed the Heavenly Dragon Force and struck the Sentinel with Rising Dragon Overlord, sending it crashing into Quantico Town and causing widespread destruction.
• Hawk soothed the protesting Heavenly Dragon Force and reaffirmed that Phoenix remained his primary power.
• Wanda told Jean that Hawk’s strongest move was Mount Lu Hundred Dragons Overlord, which she had seen at the underwater Hydra Base.
• The damaged Sentinel robot began analyzing Hawk again, but Hawk appeared beside it and ripped its glowing core from its chest.

Hawk destroyed a Sentinel robot, survived a missile strike, and retaliated by attacking the Pentagon and the White House. Wanda slaughtered the soldiers at Quantico, while Pietro arrived with news that another Sentinel robot was attacking New York City.

• Hawk tore the Sentinel robot’s core out, then survived a Tomahawk missile and flew toward the Pentagon.
• Hawk crashed into the Pentagon command center and threatened the people inside.
• Wanda killed the surviving soldiers at Quantico, and Jean accepted her mother’s actions.
• Hawk’s attack set the White House ablaze, leaving Beast convinced that the Federation and Professor X’s peace ideal were finished.
• Pietro arrived to warn Wanda that another Sentinel robot was attacking New York City, and Jean explained what had happened at Quantico.
• Pietro saw the burning White House and remarked that Hawk was like his father-in-law, Magneto.

Hawk sat amid the ruins of the White House after defeating the forces that had tried to retake Washington D.C. He spared newly appointed President Reed Stacy and gave him twenty-four hours to deliver the people involved in the Sentinel robot experiment, then left for New York City.

• Hawk emerged unscathed from the burning White House and reflected on how he had slaughtered the forces that fought him overnight.
• Reed Stacy approached Hawk and revealed that he was the designated survivor who had become President after the government was destroyed.
• Hawk asked whether Reed had a wife named Helen and recognized that his own mother-in-law shared her name.
• Hawk gave Reed twenty-four hours to produce the corpses of everyone involved in or aware of the Sentinel robot experiment, threatening to kill him otherwise.
• Reed accepted Hawk's ultimatum, and Hawk explained that he had shown him consideration because his wife's surname was Stacy.

Reed Stacy authorized the National Guard to arrest those connected to the Sentinel Program after Hawk gave Washington, D.C. a twenty-four-hour ultimatum. As Hawk and Wanda watched Jean fight Sentinel robots in New York, Wanda asked when the hidden enemy would appear, and Hawk revealed that he was already there.

• Reed Stacy told the general about Hawk's ultimatum, and the general insisted that Reed decide how to respond.
• Reed authorized the National Guard to arrest people connected to the Sentinel Program, and the soldiers mobilized across Washington, D.C.
• Helen Stacy reassured Reed, who said that he and his family could move into a newly built White House.
• Hawk found Wanda while Jean fought a Sentinel robot alongside Storm and Cyclops in the burning ruins of Wall Street.
• Hawk told Wanda that Reed had received the ultimatum because his surname was Stacy, and Wanda joked about Reed possibly having a daughter named Gwen.
• Wanda asked when the hidden enemy would show himself, and Hawk said he was already there.

Hawk confronted Ikaris, who had returned to kill him on the Celestials’ orders, and the two began a fierce battle above New York. After Hawk battered Ikaris into Manhattan and both recovered from their injuries, they agreed to continue fighting.

• Hawk sensed Ikaris approaching and explained to Wanda that the Eternal had returned; Wanda said she would wait while Hawk went to meet him.
• Ikaris told Hawk that the Celestials had ordered him to kill Hawk, whom he called a heretic, and Hawk challenged him to fight.
• Hawk and Ikaris clashed in the sky, with Hawk striking Ikaris through clouds and sending him crashing through a Sentinel robot and into Manhattan.
• Wanda used a Spark Portal to rescue Jean from the shockwave, while the other Mutants were thrown by the blast.
• Hawk and Ikaris emerged from the crater, healed their injuries, and charged at each other again for a second round.

Hawk fought Ikaris across Wall Street, eventually striking his vulnerable points and triggering the unstable Celestial energy inside him. As Ikaris grabbed Hawk and detonated, Hawk’s question about whether he had ever lived for himself froze him for an instant, and the catastrophic blast began collapsing inward.

• Hawk and Ikaris exchanged blows that devastated Wall Street while Wanda and Jean watched from a protected high-rise.
• Hawk struck a distinct golden spot on Ikaris’s abdomen, making Ikaris show pain for the first time.
• Hawk pushed through Ikaris’s Heat Vision and attacked him from six directions, breaking his suit and releasing the golden energy within him.
• Hawk realized the Celestial energy was controlling Ikaris and would explode if he were defeated.
• Ikaris grabbed Hawk as his body began to glow, and Hawk asked whether he had ever lived for himself.
• Ikaris exploded into a golden shockwave, which began contracting toward the blast’s center before it could engulf Manhattan.

Hawk died after Ikaris self-destructed, and Wanda carried his body away with Jean. In the Washington command center, President Reed Stacy argued that the government should honor its deal rather than risk assuming Hawk was truly dead.

• Ikaris reaffirmed his loyalty to the Celestials, grabbed Hawk, and exploded into energy that engulfed him.
• Hawk survived the blast long enough to speak with Wanda and Jean, then let his soul pass through Hell’s Gate toward Hell Tavern.
• Wanda carried Hawk’s lifeless body away with Jean after reassuring Jean that Hawk would return.
• President Reed Stacy’s staff debated whether Hawk’s apparent death meant they could cancel their operation.
• Reed Stacy said they should honor their deal and challenged the officials to stake their lives on Hawk being truly dead.

Reed Stacy refused to join the plan to gamble on Hawk’s death, while Hawk entered Mephisto’s Hell and became trapped in a cycle of trying to save Anya from the accident that killed her. As Hawk repeatedly died in the illusion, Jean sensed that he was disappearing beneath the Wutong Tree.

• Reed Stacy rejected the proposal to act against Hawk and chose to honor their deal, despite the others debating whether Hawk was dead.
• Hawk met this universe’s Mephisto in Hell and learned that its souls relived their greatest regrets rather than the moments before their deaths.
• Mephisto showed Hawk the accident in which Anya was buried beneath a collapsing building and explained that Hawk’s regret remained even after he resurrected her.
• Hawk repeatedly tried to save Anya instead of retreating, but each attempt ended with the falling slab killing him and restarting the scene.
• At 521A Palm Street, Jean watched Hawk beneath the Wutong Tree and sensed that he was disappearing at an astonishing speed.

Hawk repeatedly tried to save Anya in a Death Loop, spending his soul power while Mephisto waited to claim it. After accepting that he had tried every possible way to change the past, Hawk let go of his regret and the Regret World began to collapse.

• Jean sensed that Hawk was disappearing, and Wanda told her his soul was being refined as he sought life through death.
• Wanda explained that Hawk had to face his ordeal alone and was trying to make up for his regret over Anya’s death.
• Jean stayed beside Hawk and hoped he would return, while Hawk remained trapped in a Death Loop in Hell.
• Mephisto watched Hawk weaken as each failed attempt drained his soul power, expecting to absorb it and become a true god.
• Hawk told Mephisto that he had tried every way to save Anya and no longer considered the outcome his regret.
• The Regret World began to collapse after Hawk spoke.

Hawk escaped Mephisto’s Regret World by accepting that he could not have saved Anya, then revealed he had entered Hell as an ordinary person to repay a past shortcut. He restored the Mephisto from his original universe by having him absorb this universe’s Mephisto, and prepared to leave while the reborn demon chose to rule his new home.

• Hawk let go of his regret over Anya’s death, causing the Regret World to collapse and freeing him into Hell.
• Hawk revealed that his Fire Phoenix power had already reached Hell and that the soul Mephisto had absorbed was not Hawk’s.
• Hawk revived Mexico, who possessed and absorbed his counterpart, transforming Mephisto’s palace into the one from Hawk’s original universe.
• Mephisto asked why Hawk had spared him, and Hawk explained that Wanda had persuaded him to preserve Mephisto’s soul.
• Mephisto accepted that he could not return to Hawk’s universe and celebrated the chance to rule a universe without powerful gods or rivals.
• Hawk confirmed that he was leaving, while Mephisto said he had no need to become a true god in his new domain.

After surviving the world of regrets, Hawk entered the Six Senses World to take the next step in his journey. Meanwhile, Wanda enforced Hawk’s ultimatum against the Federation, and Professor X arrived at Jean’s home to explain his return and Washington’s request.

• Mephisto told Hawk he was content to remain in his current world, and Hawk left after agreeing to meet him for a drink later.
• Hawk returned to the Six Senses World and sat cross-legged, causing his world to shine brightly again.
• Professor X visited Jean at 521A Palm Street and explained that his body had died in Quantico, but his consciousness had transferred into his comatose younger brother’s body.
• Wanda confronted President Reed Stacy over the Federation’s failure to hand over those involved in the Demon King Hunting Plan, then spared him because of the Stacy name and her history with Hawk as Gwen Stacy.
• Wanda ordered the Federation to surrender the bodies of those who had shielded the culprits within twenty-four hours, warning that she would otherwise act as the Scarlet Witch.
• Professor X came to Jean’s home at Washington’s request.

Jean rejected Professor X and Magneto’s plea to spare the Washington, D.C., politicians responsible for Hawk’s near-death, insisting they deserved to die. Wanda backed her and gave Professor X twenty-four hours before either the politicians died or the planet shared their fate.

• Jean told Professor X that the politicians’ greed and betrayal, not fear, had caused the crisis, and refused to help him spare them.
• Jean rebuked Magneto for abandoning the Mutants who had followed him and declared that she no longer felt any connection to this world.
• Jean warned Professor X that Hawk’s power far exceeded what he had seen and said the politicians must die before Hawk woke and lost all faith in the world.
• Wanda appeared and gave Professor X a twenty-four-hour ultimatum: the politicians could die, or everyone on the planet could be buried with them.
• Wanda silenced Magneto with a threat and challenged Professor X to explain whether he was pleading as a Mutant or as a human.

Wanda confronted Professor X over his failure to defend Mutants, while Magneto rejected his call for patience and left. Professor X entered Hawk’s Sea of Consciousness to awaken him, only to learn Hawk had stayed there waiting for the Celestials and was now asking whether Professor X wanted him to spare Washington, D.C.

• Wanda challenged Professor X’s record on Mutant rights and warned him to leave, then shut the door in his face.
• Magneto accused Professor X of acting for humanity and abandoning Mutants, then left Palm Street.
• Professor X considered whether to return or keep intervening, then used Cerebro to enter Hawk’s Sea of Consciousness and awaken him.
• Hawk rose beneath the Wutong Tree, causing the cosmic vision to collapse into the Double Pupils in his eyes.
• Hawk told Professor X he had stayed behind to see whether the Celestials would appear, then asked if Professor X had come to seek mercy for Washington, D.C.

Hawk settled his plan to protect Mutants by having Mephisto punish anyone who incited conflict, then prepared to leave the universe. As Hawk entered Phoenix Fire and appeared to undergo Nirvana beneath the Wutong Tree, Jean recognized that he had passed his Phoenix Force to her.

• Hawk asked Professor X to choose between sparing those who had pleaded for him and sparing most life on Earth, then explained that Mephisto would punish anyone who provoked hostility between humans and Mutants.
• Professor X left the tavern after Hawk refused to change his decision, and Hawk told Mephisto that he considered Professor X a good man who upheld order.
• Hawk told Mephisto it was time for him to return, and they exchanged farewells as Hawk departed.
• A blazing Phoenix appeared above Earth, and Jean felt Hawk's Phoenix Force gather in her palms.
• Phoenix Fire enveloped Hawk beneath the Wutong Tree, and Jean and Wanda recognized that the Phoenix entered Nirvana rather than dying.

Hawk returned from death through the Phoenix Fire, restoring his full power and humanity. He asked Wanda how he could reach Universe 828 and bring her home, but Wanda planned to wait for him there, leaving Jean confused about why her mother would not return with them.

• Wanda pulled Jean back as the Phoenix Fire rewrote the reality of Hawk's death and formed a great phoenix above him.
• Hawk emerged from the flames renewed, reclaimed his power, and restored the Phoenix Force within Jean.
• Jean ran to Hawk and embraced him, while Hawk asked Wanda why she had intervened in his timeline and changed Mephisto's fate.
• Hawk asked Wanda how he could reach Universe 828 and bring her home, explaining that he had spared Professor X partly so he would protect her after Hawk and Jean left.
• Wanda said she would wait for Hawk in Universe 828, and Jean interrupted to ask why her mother would not return with them.

Hawk left Wanda and Jean to visit Tiamut, rescuing King Kong’s parents from Skull Crawlers and destroying the creatures with a Taurus Great Horn attack. He reached Tiamut’s heart chamber and asked the Celestial to come with him.

• Hawk flew away after Wanda said she would not return with him, leaving Jean to question her about their family and the Celestials.
• Hawk found little King Kong watching his parents fight Skull Crawlers and promised to save them if he could pat the young ape’s head.
• Hawk patted little King Kong’s head, teleported his parents into their cave, and summoned Taurus to annihilate the Skull Crawlers with Great Horn.
• Hawk’s attack shattered the ground and opened the Hollow Earth above Tiamut, and he entered the chamber where the Celestial’s Adamantium heart was beating.
• Tiamut asked whether Hawk had come to erase him, and Hawk said he had come to invite him to leave with him.

Hawk persuaded Celestial Tiamut to join his Phoenix Cosmos as its God of Order, on the condition that Tiamut could be born without destroying Earth. Hawk then confronted the universe itself, accusing it of abandoning neutrality by allowing the Celestials and Ikaris to intervene.

• Hawk offered Tiamut friendship and a role maintaining temporal order in the Phoenix Cosmos, and Tiamut agreed if Earth could survive his birth.
• Hawk left the Hollow Earth and traveled to the center of the universe to seek permission to take Tiamut away.
• Hawk summoned the Fire Phoenix and struck the universe's core until the universe appeared as a frail woman resembling Gwen.
• The universe claimed it had remained neutral, but Hawk accused it of breaking that neutrality by allowing the Celestials' member's corpse and Ikaris to enter at full strength.

Hawk confronted the universe itself over its alliance with the Celestials and demanded its submission, promising to repair its broken timeline. After it pledged loyalty, Hawk began refining its core with Phoenix Fire, then returned home to Wanda and Jean with a gift: the universe.

• Hawk accused the universe itself of siding with the Celestials and demanded its submission as the victor’s reward.
• Hawk promised to preserve the universe and restore its closed-loop timeline, and the universe itself agreed to pledge him its loyalty.
• Hawk accepted the universe’s submission in the name of Phoenix, and his Phoenix Cosmos began refining its core.
• Hawk returned to 521A Palm Street and saw Wanda and Jean shopping in Brooklyn.
• Wanda and Jean returned home, and Hawk told Wanda that the universe was her gift.