Chapter Summaries

Rorschach met his powerful 2016 counterpart, confirmed they were versions of the same person from different timelines, and explained the time travel that brought him there. After gathering Charles, Erik, and Hank aboard the Blackbird, 2016 Rorschach revealed that all mutants would mysteriously disappear in a month.

• Rorschach and his 2016 counterpart flew to a remote mountain area, where Rorschach answered questions to prove his identity.
• Rorschach explained that Iron Man and another traveler had come from 1964, and 2016 Rorschach became concerned about the future mutants’ disappearance.
• 2016 Rorschach called Hank and asked him to bring Charles and Erik to their location.
• Charles, Erik, and Hank arrived by Blackbird, and Charles created a mental barrier so their conversation would not leak.
• Rorschach introduced himself as the version from 1964 who had traveled to 2023 and then back to 2016.
• 2016 Rorschach told the group that the mutants would disappear without a trace in a month, leaving them gravely concerned.

Rorschach learned that the mutants’ relocation to Xandar had failed, leaving them vanished and Thanos’s Infinity War still underway. Future Rorschach began explaining why they had moved the mutants and revealed that his powers had evolved into a new Silver Stage.

• Rorschach explained that the mutants had never reached Xandar, Captain Marvel had searched for them, and Thanos had destroyed Xandar before Infinity War.
• Erik, Charles, and Hank discussed whether Ikaris or another Eternal had sabotaged the mutant transport, but they could not determine what had gone wrong.
• Rorschach asked future Rorschach why he had relocated all mutants and worked with the Eternals instead of simply arranging transport to Xandar.
• Future Rorschach said his abilities had improved after the battle with Mr. Sinister and named their new stage the Silver Stage.
• Future Rorschach revealed that he had awakened the ability to absorb cosmic energy, then cautioned that it was less powerful than Rorschach assumed.

2016 Rorschach explained that Arishem had ordered the Eternals to capture mutants for experiments because Rorschach could absorb cosmic energy. The mutants and the Eternals secretly arranged to sabotage a teleportation ritual and save eight million mutants, but an unexpected accident occurred.

• 2016 Rorschach told Rorschach that mutants and Eternals were both created by the Celestials, but mutants normally could not absorb cosmic energy.
• Ajak alerted Arishem to Rorschach's unusual ability, prompting Arishem to order the capture of every mutant on Earth for experimentation.
• Ajak chose to save the eight million mutants and secretly worked with the others to deceive Arishem.
• Charles explained that Rorschach was supposed to trigger Thena's Eternal Madness during the teleportation ritual so she would disrupt it, while Erik noted the mutants could then be sent somewhere unpredictable.
• Charles said an accident had occurred during the teleportation ritual.

Rorschach and the others debated whether the Eternals could be trusted with the mutant teleportation plan, then arrived at Krakoa. 2016 Rorschach kept the other Rorschach’s presence secret and welcomed him into his palace as the king.

• Erik suggested the Eternals might be sending the mutants to Arishem, while Hank and Charles argued that Ajak and Sersi could be trusted.
• Rorschach asked which Eternals knew about the plan, and 2016 Rorschach named Ajak, Sersi, Phastos, Makarri, Thena, and Gilgamesh.
• 2016 Rorschach explained that the Eternals’ Great Design and Phastos’s teleportation device were needed to move millions of mutants, and that the device had detected Rorschach’s new X-gene.
• Before leaving the Blackbird, 2016 Rorschach asked Charles to keep his other self’s arrival secret, and Charles agreed.
• Charles concealed Rorschach from the mutants as the group crossed Krakoa and entered the palace.
• Rorschach remarked that 2016 Rorschach had become king, and 2016 Rorschach welcomed him to explore the palace.

2016 Rorschach met with the mutants at Krakoa to explain that the mutant-transmission plan had failed in another timeline, prompting them to discuss the Eternals and prepare a stronger backup plan. They recognized that the newly arrived Rorschach might be their best chance to respond, but the chapter ended before he offered a solution.

• 2016 Rorschach received Ajak's call about the newly discovered mutant who looked like him and arranged to meet her in two days, asking her to keep the discovery secret.
• 2016 Rorschach explained the alternate-timeline Rorschach and the failed mutant-transmission plan to Charles, Raven, White Queen, Mimic, and Hank.
• Mimic suspected the Eternals, while White Queen and Raven said Ajak and her allies seemed trustworthy and Hank suggested Ikaris might have noticed their plans.
• The group agreed that Charles should continue examining the Eternals, though they doubted he would find new clues so close to the plan's execution.
• 2016 Rorschach called for a powerful backup plan and explained that the transmission ritual left the mutants helpless, while Hank's intelligent robots had failed to prevent the disaster.

Rorschach agreed to help the mutants safeguard their teleportation ritual, while 2016 Rorschach and the mutant leaders prepared for the possibility that their plan against Arishem would fail. They chose to hide the mutants on another planet and collect the six Infinity Stones as a last resort.

• 2016 Rorschach and Raven asked Rorschach to interrupt the teleportation if anything went wrong, and he agreed to help.
• Charles asked the mutant leaders to plan for Arishem, prompting a debate in which Erik proposed collecting the Infinity Stones to fight the Celestial.
• 2016 Rorschach accepted Erik's proposal as a backup plan and instructed Charles to ask Danvers to find a planet where the mutants could hide.
• After the meeting, Rorschach questioned 2016 Rorschach about how the Eternals had noticed him, then joined him for dinner.

2016 Rorschach kept the time-traveling Rorschach’s true identity secret from Ajak while the mutants investigated the teleportation failure and found no answers. On July 22, the mutant core members prepared to begin the ritual, leaving Rorschach and the fate of mutantkind in the balance.

• 2016 Rorschach told Ajak that Rorschach was his clone and asked her to conceal his existence from Ikaris and the other Eternals.
• Charles and the White Queen repeatedly probed the Eternals’ minds but found no sign that Ikaris or his followers knew about Ajak’s plan.
• As the teleportation date neared, the mutant core members grew anxious and began helping 2016 Rorschach prepare.
• On July 22, the mutant core members gathered in the King of Krakoa’s great hall and urged Rorschach to succeed.
• Ajak contacted the group, confirmed the teleportation would begin in two hours, and received 2016 Rorschach’s agreement to proceed.

The Eternals began a ritual to teleport Earth’s mutants, but Ikaris exposed the secret plan and demanded control. Ajak refused him, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Phastos activated the teleportation array, locking onto all eight million mutants except Rorschach and freezing them in place.
• Ajak, Sersi, Gilgamesh, and Thena prepared to trigger Thena’s Eternal Madness so Phastos could redirect the mutants to Xandar.
• Ikaris unexpectedly demanded that he take over the ritual, alerting Ajak and the others that he knew their plan.
• Ikaris revealed that Sprite had impersonated Sersi to spy on their meeting and offered to keep their secret if they let him preside.
• Ajak refused Ikaris and apologized for letting him go farther down the wrong path.

Ikaris led his faction in a battle against Ajak’s Eternals and forced Phastos to begin connecting to The Great Design by torturing Ajak. Rorschach stayed hidden and watched, but a sudden sonic boom interrupted the ritual preparations.

• Ikaris attacked Ajak, and the Eternals’ two factions broke into battle.
• Rorschach observed from the shadows, unsure whether someone besides Ikaris was behind the events.
• Ikaris’s faction defeated Ajak’s faction after a fierce battle.
• Ikaris threatened Ajak’s life and shot her with heat rays to force Phastos to obey.
• Phastos began the operations to connect to The Great Design, but a sonic boom suddenly rang out.

Rorschach arrived to help Ajak and the mutants, revealing himself as Homelander’s clone and overwhelming Ikaris and the Eternals who attacked him. The battle continued as Druig’s attempt to control Rorschach’s mind failed.

• Rorschach appeared beside Ajak, sent Ikaris crashing into a mountain, and watched Ajak heal her wounds.
• Ajak told the Eternals that Rorschach was Homelander’s clone and declared that she had chosen to help the mutants.
• Rorschach defeated Ikaris in a clash of heat beams and telekinetic attacks, then saw through Sprite’s illusions and knocked her down.
• Rorschach brushed off Kingo’s energy blasts and punched him away.
• Druig tried to control Rorschach’s mind, but his power had no effect.

Rorschach stopped Ikaris and the other Eternals from disrupting the mutants’ teleportation, but the plan to deceive Arishem was exposed and abandoned. 2016 Rorschach detained all the Eternals while the mutants prepared to relocate elsewhere.

• Rorschach knocked Druig and Ikaris unconscious and subdued the other Eternals without killing them.
• Rorschach told Phastos to cancel the mutants’ teleportation, and Phastos did so after Ajak agreed.
• 2016 Rorschach arrived, learned the plan had failed, and ordered the Eternals detained until the mutants relocated.
• Ajak ordered the Eternals to cooperate, and they followed 2016 Rorschach to the Kingdom of Krakoa under guard.
• Rorschach told 2016 Rorschach and the others that Ikaris had caused the failed teleportation attempt.

Rorschach confirmed that Ikaris orchestrated the mutants’ disappearance by using Druig’s precise mind control to hide his plans from Charles. After saying goodbye to the mutants in the alternate timeline, Rorschach returned to the exact moment he had left in his original world, where the elders realized he had traveled to the future and back.

• Rorschach and 2016 Rorschach found Druig and confirmed that he had concealed relevant thoughts in Ikaris’s mind, keeping Charles from detecting the plan.
• Rorschach concluded that Ikaris had caused the mutants’ disappearance and decided his mission in the timeline was complete.
• 2016 Rorschach gathered Charles, Erik, Hank, and the other key mutants so they could say goodbye to Rorschach.
• Rorschach activated his watch and vanished from the alternate timeline.
• Rorschach returned to his original mutant base at the moment he had left, and Charles, Erik, Raven, Hank, and the others realized he had traveled through time.

Rorschach told the mutant elders that the Celestials planned to capture millions of mutants and explained how they could prepare for the future. After reassuring them about the future mutant nation Krakoa, he left to kill Mr. Sinister.

• Rorschach recounted how Arishem and the Eternals had targeted him and revealed the Celestials' plans for mutants.
• Charles, Erik, Raven, Hank, and the other elders reacted with shock, then resolved to change the mutants' fate.
• Rorschach encouraged the elders by pointing out that they had decades to prepare and considered gathering the Infinity Stones to face Arishem.
• Rorschach described the future nation of Krakoa, lifting the elders' spirits as they discussed building their own nation.
• Rorschach told the elders he was going to kill Mr. Sinister.

Rorschach found Mr. Sinister in Brooklyn and attacked him, revealing a dramatic increase in his strength. Mr. Sinister was left beaten and unable to move while the witnesses watched in disbelief.

• Rorschach told Hank he had found Mr. Sinister, then flew to the courtyard where he was hiding.
• Mr. Sinister heard Rorschach arrive and was shocked when Homelander broke through the roof and confronted him.
• Rorschach attacked before Mr. Sinister could react, and their first clash sent Mr. Sinister flying through walls and into a crater.
• Rorschach relentlessly beat Mr. Sinister while the people in the secret base watched in horror.
• Rorschach battered Mr. Sinister until he lay on the ground, unable to move.

Rorschach defeated Mr. Sinister by burning his remains to ashes and scattering them, then returned to the mutant base. Over the following years, the mutants quietly built their strength, and by 1983 their nation-building efforts had advanced without the Sentinel crisis or Wolverine’s time-travel intervention.

• Mr. Sinister pleaded with Rorschach to spare him and warned that Apocalypse was a threat, but Rorschach crushed him again.
• When Mr. Sinister failed to revive, Rorschach burned his remains to ashes and scattered them.
• Rorschach returned to the mutant base, where Raven and the others relaxed after hearing Mr. Sinister was gone.
• The mutants spent the following years monitoring Apocalypse and secretly gathering strength for their nation.
• By 1983, fewer mutants had fought in the war, Wolverine had never appeared to change the future, and the Sentinel crisis seemed to have been prevented.

Rorschach killed the hellish god-demon before it could swallow Hellboy, completing his mission and earning Origin Points. He upgraded his Homelander template to its second stage and named it Silver Homelander.

• Rorschach arrived as the monster wrapped up Hellboy and cut through its tentacle with a heat ray.
• Rorschach killed the monster before it could swallow Hellboy, completing his mission and earning 10,000 Origin Points.
• The system offered Rorschach a template upgrade after detecting that his remaining Origin Points exceeded 300,000.
• Rorschach accepted the upgrade and named his second-stage template Silver Homelander.

Rorschach successfully upgraded his Homelander template to Silver Stage, gaining immense strength and the ability to absorb cosmic energy. He returned to the mutant base, where Charles and Erik arrived with good news.

• Rorschach saw that his Silver Stage upgrade raised his strength to three thousand tons and granted him the ability to absorb cosmic energy, though he feared it might draw Arishem's attention.
• Rorschach left Hellboy behind and flew back to the mutant base, where Selina told him Charles and Erik were waiting.
• Rorschach joined Charles, Erik, Raven, Hank, the White Queen, and Mimic Cat in the council hall.
• Rorschach asked whether the Great Bear Nation had agreed to support the mutants' plan to found a nation.

After Big Bear Country agreed to support the mutants' nation, Rorschach and the veteran mutants decided to move forward with founding it. Their plans were thrown into crisis when they discovered the Cube had been stolen, and Charles began searching Earth for it with Cerebro.

• Charles and Erik reported that Big Bear Country had agreed to support the mutants' nation, and Raven asked Rorschach whether they could begin advancing its founding.
• Rorschach agreed, and the veteran mutants began discussing plans for their nation.
• Professor Rawls arrived and told Hank that the Cube had been replaced with a fake.
• Hank determined that the theft had happened between the previous afternoon and the current day, after Professor Rawls had used the Cube the previous morning.
• White Queen urged Charles to use the Mutant Growth Accelerator, and Charles searched Earth's minds through Cerebro for the missing Cube.

Charles failed to find the Tesseract thief with telepathy until he discovered an impostor had infiltrated Hank's laboratory and stolen it. Rorschach searched New York and overheard the culprit's conversation in the sky, revealing that the thief had already left Earth's surface.

• Charles searched people's memories with the Mutant Growth Accelerator but could not identify who had taken the Tesseract.
• Raven and Erik concluded that the thief likely had an accomplice inside Hank's laboratory who could evade its security.
• Charles found that Parker and Morsen had been impersonated and that someone posing as Dawn had been seen leaving with a case.
• White Queen suggested expanding the search outward from the mutant base, but Charles found no useful clues.
• Rorschach flew out from the base and scanned the area with his super hearing and X-ray vision.
• Rorschach overheard the thieves talking in the sky and realized the culprit had left Earth's surface.

Rorschach used his enhanced super hearing to locate the Skrulls who had stolen the Tesseract and pursued their spaceship into space. The Skrulls were stunned when their sensors revealed that Homelander had caught up with them unaided.

• Rorschach heard a voice from ten thousand meters above the ground and identified the Skrulls’ location.
• Rorschach flew toward the sound at super speed as the Skrulls carried the Tesseract away from Earth aboard their spaceship.
• Tuga, Yabo, and Commander Knuckle discussed Homelander’s power but believed he could not follow them into space.
• The spaceship detected an unidentified flying object, and the Skrulls saw that it was Homelander.