Chapter Summaries

Bluenote attacked Fairy Tail with Gravity Magic, but Hawking, possessing Natsu, defeated him with one punch and teleported to Grimoire Heart’s airship. Hawking began extracting Hades’s soul, but a force from the airship’s beating heart pulled it back.

• Bluenote used Gravity Crush on Fairy Tail’s gathered wizards, but Hawking, in Natsu’s body, resisted the force and knocked him unconscious with one punch.
• Hawking teleported onto Grimoire Heart’s airship and incapacitated the wizards who confronted him.
• Hawking appeared before Hades and shattered his magical chains and Dark Magic attacks with ease.
• Hawking pressed a hand to Hades’s head and used the Rinnegan’s Soul Extraction ability before Hades could unleash his Forbidden Magic.
• A force from the huge heart inside the airship began pulling Hades’s soul back into his body.

Hawking destroyed Grimoire Heart, killed Hades, and copied his extensive magical knowledge. After Fairy Tail’s mages and Laxus arrived, Hawking concluded Acnologia would not attack Tenrou Island and returned to Zenn-La, where he resumed training for his fight against the Celestials.

• Hawking absorbed Hades’s soul, destroyed Grimoire Heart, and copied Hades’s magical knowledge before returning with Hades’s corpse.
• Makarov reacted with disbelief and sadness over Hades’s death, while Hawking warned that a more formidable enemy remained.
• Erza, Gildarts, and the other Fairy Tail mages arrived and learned that Natsu, controlled by Hawking, had defeated Grimoire Heart’s leaders and several of the Seven Kin of Purgatory.
• Laxus arrived on Tenrou Island, and Hawking realized Acnologia would probably not attack because Natsu had not used Lightning Flame Dragon Mode.
• Hawking ended Dream Walking, returned to Zenn-La, and trained in his Gravity Chamber to raise his power enough to become a Super Saiyan.

Hawking trained on Zenn-La while planning to raise his combat power enough to transform into a Super Saiyan and negotiate with the Celestials. As he prepared to leave the planet, he realized Ancestor Space might let him enter other worlds with his real body.

• Hawking calculated that reaching three million base combat power, then combining Super Saiyan 1 with the Eight Gates Formation, could let him contend with powerful Celestials.
• After a week of training in the Gravity Chamber, Hawking raised his base qi combat power to over 400,000 and decided to leave Zenn-La to avoid attracting the Celestials.
• Hawking reviewed his activities across the small worlds, including studying time magic with Eriol Hiiragizawa and checking the progress of Dr. Brief's Gravity Chamber research.
• Hawking recalled that Silver Surfer had arranged for Ryder the 20th to build him a spaceship, using Vibranium he had supplied.
• Hawking realized he might use the system to link Ancestor Space between worlds and travel into them with his real body.

Hawking used a Shadow Clone and the Nine Tomoe Rinne Sharingan to move his original body into the Fairy Tail World for an hour. After helping Natsu, Lucy, and Happy confirm their S-Class job, he entered the guild’s secret space and focused on Fairy Heart, the ultimate weapon created from the First Hokage’s body.

• Hawking used Dream Walking through Natsu and the Nine Tomoe Rinne Sharingan to send his original body into the Fairy Tail World.
• Hawking protected Lucy with Transfiguration Charm pajamas, then appeared in his own body as Natsu returned to normal.
• Hawking took Natsu, Lucy, and Happy to the guild, where Lucy confirmed that Makarov had approved their S-Class job.
• Hawking greeted the guild members and entered the secret space beneath the library to see Fairy Heart.
• Hawking recalled how Zeref’s curse killed the First Hokage, how Hades tried to revive her, and how his experiments accidentally created Fairy Heart.

Hawking returned to the Marvel Main World after his template finished loading, then traveled to Zenn-La to inspect his spaceship. He accidentally appeared in a changing room with Serita and Nora, erased their memories of the incident, and went to find Silver Surfer.

• Hawking delayed absorbing Fairy Heart so he could later combine its power with the Time Rift and continue developing his abilities.
• The system forcibly returned Hawking to the Marvel Main World once the template finished loading.
• Hawking used the Flying Thunder God Technique to travel to Serita's mark at the spaceship construction base.
• Hawking appeared in the women's changing room while Serita and Nora were undressing, and Nora attacked him with a chair.
• Hawking cast Obliviate on Serita and Nora, then left to find Silver Surfer.

Mr. Hawking accepted the spaceship Ryder the 20th’s granddaughter Nora had designed and magically transformed it into a vast training vessel with a living spirit named Wang Wang. After thanking Ryder the 20th and saying goodbye to the Silver Surfer, he departed to deal with the Celestials.

• Ryder the 20th introduced Mr. Hawking to the spaceship and explained that Nora had primarily designed and built it.
• Nora showed Mr. Hawking the ship’s powerful defenses, Super Gravity device, and stored galactic information, while he declined weapons and their artificial intelligence system.
• Mr. Hawking used magic to create the spaceship’s spirit, named her Wang Wang, and explained that she could control the vessel.
• Mr. Hawking expanded the ship’s interior, added magical and ninjutsu barriers, and transformed it into a vast natural paradise for training and relaxation.
• Mr. Hawking thanked Ryder the 20th, said goodbye to the Silver Surfer, and departed aboard the spaceship with Wang Wang.

Hawking reached Xandar’s route while using Ichigo Kurosaki’s memories to learn Fullbring, then intervened in Ichigo’s battle with Ginjō and restored Ichigo’s Shinigami Power. Ichigo prepared to face Ginjō as Kisuke Urahara, Isshin Kurosaki, and Rukia Kuchiki arrived.

• Hawking ordered Wang Wang to take the spaceship toward Xandar and used a Shadow Clone to enter Ichigo Kurosaki’s inner world.
• Hawking read Ichigo’s memories of Fullbring and said he still needed to master Quincy Power to unite all four powers.
• Ginjō attacked Hawking, who knocked him away with a flick of his hand.
• Hawking used Shinigami Mode and his Zanpakuto to awaken Ichigo’s dormant power, restoring Ichigo’s Shinigami form.
• Ichigo thanked Hawking and said he would handle the rest as Kisuke Urahara, Isshin Kurosaki, and Rukia Kuchiki arrived.

Hawking met Kisuke Urahara and confirmed that he came from another world, while insisting that he posed no threat. As the Soul Society’s fighters faced Ginjō’s group, Urahara stayed behind to question Hawking about his identity and power.

• Kisuke Urahara greeted Hawking after seeing him restore Ichigo Kurosaki’s powers, while Isshin Kurosaki learned that Hawking was his son’s friend.
• Ginjō shared the Spiritual Pressure he had taken from Ichigo Kurosaki with the Fullbring group, strengthening them as the Soul Society reinforcements arrived.
• Yukio Hans Vorarlberna used Invaders Must Die to trap the fighters in separate battle spaces, but Hawking, Isshin Kurosaki, and Kisuke Urahara avoided the ability.
• Kisuke Urahara asked Isshin Kurosaki to take the others to safety, then sat with Hawking to question him.
• Hawking told Kisuke Urahara that he came from another world and was powerful enough to defeat anyone there, and he planned to capture Yhwach and study Quincy Power.

Hawking sparred with Kisuke Urahara in Ancestor Space and overwhelmed his Kidō attacks, convincing Urahara that Hawking was extraordinarily powerful. Back on the rooftop, Hawking offered to help Urahara survive an approaching disaster if he agreed to cooperate.

• Hawking brought Kisuke Urahara into Ancestor Space and invited him to spar.
• Kisuke Urahara bound Hawking with three Binding Arts, but Hawking broke them effortlessly.
• Kisuke Urahara attacked with three Destructive Arts, and Hawking dispelled them with a single clap.
• Kisuke Urahara conceded that Hawking was stronger and returned with him to the rooftop.
• Hawking warned that the Soul Society, the Human World, and Hueco Mundo would face a disaster and offered to help Urahara if he cooperated.

Hawking warned Kisuke Urahara that Yhwach and the Wandenreich would attack the Three Realms, and revealed the secret history of the Soul King. He asked Urahara to help fuse his four powers, then left for the Marvel World as Yamamoto and the Gotei 13 considered what to do about him.

• Hawking told Kisuke Urahara that Yhwach would return, conquer Hueco Mundo, attack the Seireitei, and seek the Soul King's power.
• Hawking recounted how the Five Great Noble Clans betrayed and mutilated the Soul King, and how Yhwach and the Wandenreich had grown powerful in hiding.
• Urahara questioned Hawking's claim to see fate, but agreed to trade if the danger proved real.
• Hawking revealed that he possessed Shinigami, Hollow, Fullbring, and Quincy powers and asked Urahara to help fuse them into the Soul King's power.
• Hawking returned to the Marvel World, while Urahara asked Yamamoto whether he believed the warning.
• Yamamoto asked the Gotei 13 captains and Vice-Captains to discuss Hawking and whether they should take action against him.

Hawking traveled to Xandar to find Star-Lord and Yondu, intending to use them to reach Ego's Planet and capture Ego for the Divine Tree Fruit. After secretly obtaining information from Nova Prime, he placed a ten-million-credit bounty on Peter Quill, also known as Star-Lord.

• Hawking arrived on Xandar and surveyed its prosperous, peaceful city while explaining why he needed Star-Lord and Yondu to reach Ego's Planet.
• Hawking infiltrated the Nova Empire Headquarters Building, used the Imperius Curse on Nova Prime, and accessed the archives for planetary coordinates and broker information.
• Hawking visited Old Broker at a secondhand recycling shop and offered ten million credits to capture Peter Quill, also known as Star-Lord, alive.
• Old Broker accepted Hawking's bounty and agreed to contact him when Star-Lord was captured.

Star-Lord saw a ten-million bounty on himself and planned to claim the reward by pretending to be his own captor. Before he could carry out the scheme, Rocket and Groot confronted him, and the Nova Corps arrested all three.

• Star-Lord fled a planet after centaurs pursued him, then decided to turn himself in to collect the bounty on his own head.
• Hawking hired a bounty hunter through Old Broker and learned that Peter Quill had supposedly been captured alive.
• Star-Lord reached Xandar and arranged a hotel-room exchange, planning to fake the transaction and escape with the money.
• Rocket and Groot blocked Star-Lord on his way to the hotel, and the three clashed.
• The Nova Corps arrived and ordered 89P13, Groot, and Peter Quill to drop their weapons and submit to arrest.

Mr. Hawking tracked Peter Quill to Kyln Prison and broke in to rescue him. He freed Peter and revealed that he was from Earth, leaving Peter stunned by the connection to his childhood home.

• Mr. Hawking forced Old Broker to find Peter Quill, and Old Broker learned that the Nova Corps had arrested him and sent him to Kyln Prison.
• Mr. Hawking flew to Kyln Prison and learned that Peter had arrived with Rocket Raccoon and Groot.
• Mr. Hawking used magic to bypass the prison security and knock out the guards.
• Mr. Hawking freed Peter from his handcuffs and told him that he was Hawking, a fellow Earthling.

Mr. Hawking recruited Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot to help him, then freed them from the prison and retrieved Drax. He left them stunned after teleporting them to the hangar and storing the Milano in Ancestor Space.

• Mr. Hawking revealed that he had posted Star-Lord’s bounty, transformed Star-Lord’s weapons, and offered him, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot one hundred million each for a job.
• Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot accepted the offer, and Mr. Hawking freed them as the prison alarms sounded.
• Mr. Hawking led the group deeper into the prison, where they found the gates open and guards and inmates asleep.
• Mr. Hawking picked up Drax and used Apparition to take the group to the spacecraft docking area.
• Mr. Hawking stored the Milano in Ancestor Space, leaving Star-Lord and the others amazed by his abilities.

Hawking brought Star-Lord, Rocket, Groot, and the unconscious Drax aboard his Magic Spaceship WangWang, whose advanced technology and magically created grassland astonished the crew. After Drax woke, he attacked Star-Lord over a misunderstood offer of food, and Hawking disarmed them both.

• Hawking invited Star-Lord to return to Earth after their mission, but Star-Lord refused because memories of his mother's death made Earth painful for him.
• Hawking summoned WangWang, and Star-Lord and Rocket marveled at the spaceship's value and advanced design.
• WangWang materialized, kicked Star-Lord when he tried to touch her, and Hawking warned the others that she controlled the ship.
• Hawking carried the snoring Drax into WangWang's grassland interior, where Star-Lord, Rocket, and Groot were amazed by the ship's hidden world.
• Star-Lord offered the awakened Drax a roasted lamb leg, but Drax kicked him away and drew his daggers, prompting Hawking to knock both men's weapons aside.

Drax refused to help Hawking until he could avenge his family by killing Ronan, so Hawking agreed to take the group to the battlefield and capture Ronan first. After Hawking destroyed an asteroid field with a Kamehameha, Star-Lord and Rocket agreed to stay aboard, and the ship headed toward the war zone.

• Drax rejected Hawking’s offer, insisting he would go after Ronan to avenge his wife, daughter, and people.
• Hawking agreed to find Ronan on the battlefield, but Star-Lord and Rocket questioned the plan and tried to quit.
• Hawking erased a nearby asteroid field with a Kamehameha, frightening Star-Lord and Rocket into agreeing to help.
• Drax offered Star-Lord his half-eaten lamb leg as a sign of reconciliation, and the group argued while the ship traveled toward the battlefield.

Ronan rejected the Kree Empire’s truce with the Nova Empire, left the Kree Empire, and renewed his attack while secretly agreeing to cooperate with Thanos. As the Nova Corps faced defeat, Hawking appeared on its flagship and offered Nova Prime his help.

• The Kree commander-in-chief ordered Ronan to stop attacking, but Ronan refused and denounced the Supreme Intelligence.
• Ronan declared that he was leaving the Kree Empire and vowed to destroy the Nova Empire and Xandar.
• Gamora and Nebula revealed that Ronan had agreed to cooperate with Thanos in exchange for help destroying Xandar and ruling the Kree Empire.
• Ronan ordered Korath to attack the Nova Corps fleet, while Hawking decided to capture Ronan and earn the Nova Empire’s favor.
• Hawking arrived on the Nova Corps flagship as Nova Prime learned the fleet might not survive until reinforcements arrived, and offered to solve the crisis.

Hawking offered to save the Nova Empire’s Eighth Legion in exchange for clearing the records of the Kyln escapees, then boarded Ronan’s Dark Aster and stopped its attack. He easily overwhelmed Ronan and caught Gamora and Nebula attempting to ambush him.

• Hawking disarmed the Nova Empire soldiers and persuaded Nova Prime to clear the escapees’ criminal records if he saved the Eighth Legion.
• Hawking Apparated onto the Dark Aster and asked Ronan to stop attacking the Nova Empire.
• Ronan ordered The Pursuer and Kree Soldiers to capture Hawking, so Hawking blasted everyone in the control room with Almighty Push.
• Hawking erased the Universal Weapon’s force field, ignored Ronan’s gravity attack, and stopped his hammer strike with one finger.
• Hawking disarmed Gamora and Nebula and made them dance when they tried to sneak up behind him.

Hawking defeated Ronan, subdued the Kree crew, and took Ronan, Gamora, and Nebula from the Dark Aster. He set course for Morag to retrieve the Power Stone, while Star-Lord immediately tried to introduce himself to Gamora.

• Hawking knocked Ronan unconscious and decided to retrieve the Power Stone early using the Universal Weapon.
• Hawking put the Kree Soldiers aboard the Dark Aster to sleep instead of killing them, then delivered Ronan, Gamora, and Nebula to the Nova Empire flagship.
• Hawking handed the immobilized Ronan to Drax, who dragged him away to take revenge.
• Hawking released Gamora and Nebula from the binding spell and warned them not to make dangerous moves.
• Star-Lord introduced himself to Gamora and asked her name after Rocket identified her and Nebula as Thanos's adopted daughters.
• Hawking ordered WangWang to head for Morag.

Hawking revealed that he knew Gamora and Nebula wanted to kill Thanos, then offered to hire them and promised he could help kill him. Gamora doubted Hawking could defeat Thanos and warned him about Thanos’s strength and forces.

• Gamora confronted Hawking about the consequences of capturing Thanos’s daughters, but he said he was not afraid of Thanos and exposed both sisters’ hidden motives.
• Nebula denied wanting a sister or seeking revenge, while Gamora admitted she had never been truly loyal to Thanos because he was too powerful.
• Hawking offered to hire Gamora and Nebula, explaining that he had paid Peter, Rocket, and Groot and captured Ronan for Drax.
• Hawking offered to help the sisters kill Thanos after finishing his own business, and said he planned to obtain the Mind Stone for Wanda.
• Gamora questioned whether Hawking could defeat Thanos and warned him about Thanos’s fleet, modified troops, and the Black Order.