Chapter Summaries

Rorschach defeated Wanda and convinced the Illuminati to let Krakoa handle the threat from another universe. After Wanda was freed from magical control, Rorschach reassured Miss America and Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange that they no longer had to run.

• Rorschach defeated Wanda, shocking the Illuminati and Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange.
• Rorschach asked the Illuminati to let Krakoa take responsibility for Wanda and the threat from another universe, and the members agreed.
• The Illuminati learned Wanda had been controlled by magic and released her.
• Rorschach brought Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange to Miss America, who reunited with him in the lounge.
• Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange told Miss America that Rorschach had defeated Wanda, and Rorschach promised to protect them.

Rorschach recruited Miss America to work for Krakoa and used the fully jeweled Infinity Gauntlet to travel with her and Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange to Wanda’s universe. The three arrived there so Rorschach could confront Wanda and settle the matter once and for all.

• Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange told Miss America that Rorschach had defeated Wanda in just over ten seconds, and Rorschach offered Miss America a chance to work for Krakoa.
• Miss America and Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange investigated Rorschach, then agreed to join Krakoa after learning he was a superhero who had saved the world.
• Rorschach revealed his fully jeweled Infinity Gauntlet and opened a portal to Wanda’s universe.
• Miss America and Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange followed Rorschach through the portal, and he told them they would talk with Wanda.

Rorschach and his companions reached Wanda’s universe, where another Doctor Strange checked their memories and allowed them to proceed. Rorschach found Scarlet Witch at her cabin, but she attacked Miss America, forcing him to prepare to subdue her.

• Miss America and Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange joined Rorschach in searching for Wanda, but a second Doctor Strange arrived and demanded that they come to Kamar-Taj.
• Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange let the second Doctor Strange read his memories, revealing Wanda’s power and Rorschach’s victory over her; the second Strange then let them go while warning he would monitor them.
• Rorschach located Dark Scarlet Witch, and the group traveled to her woodland cabin, where she waited in her Chaos Magic uniform.
• Dark Scarlet Witch questioned why Rorschach did not exist in her universe and rejected his offer to help her.
• Dark Scarlet Witch used her magic to lift Miss America and pull her toward her, prompting Rorschach to decide he would beat Wanda into submission.

Rorschach defeated Dark Wanda in a prolonged fight, using his speed, strength, telekinesis, and flight to overpower her. He offered to help her reunite with her children if she stopped pursuing America, but Wanda doubted that was possible without America.

• Rorschach used telekinesis to free Miss America from Dark Wanda's control and bring her back to his side.
• Rorschach distracted Dark Wanda with heat beams, then struck her at super speed and overwhelmed her attacks.
• Dark Wanda took to the air, but Rorschach followed and continued beating her until she could no longer rise.
• Dark Wanda asked why Rorschach was stopping her from reuniting with her children, and he said he could help if she stopped bothering America.
• Dark Wanda questioned how she could reunite with her children without America, and Rorschach said there were other ways.

Rorschach used the Infinity Stones to create two sons for Dark Wanda, ending the threat posed by the Darkhold and reuniting her with her children. He returned to Krakoa with Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange and Miss America, who stayed as a citizen while Strange went home.

• Rorschach reassured Dark Wanda that he could help her have children and revealed that he possessed all the Infinity Stones.
• After Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange explained that Rorschach was a superhero, Dark Wanda asked him to create her sons, and he did so with the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Dark Wanda reunited with her sons, thanked Rorschach, and apologized to Miss America.
• Rorschach, Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange, and Miss America returned through a portal to Krakoa, where Miss America became a citizen.
• Alternate Dimension Doctor Strange said farewell and Rorschach sent him home with the Infinity Stones.
• Raven told Miss America she had three days to rest before training began, surprising her.

Rorschach asked Hank to improve the technology for turning Kryptonian fragments into kryptonite, while Miss America trained on Krakoa and learned to open portals more reliably. Just as Rorschach praised her progress, he sensed that Jean had lost control of the Phoenix Force and rushed to respond.

• Rorschach gave Hank technical data for converting Kryptonian fragments into kryptonite and asked him to improve the process.
• After a month of research without clear results, Rorschach encouraged Hank to treat the work as a long-term project.
• Rorschach watched Raven train Miss America, who successfully opened a star-shaped portal after a month of practice.
• Rorschach praised Miss America, then detected that Jean had lost control of the Phoenix Force and vanished to deal with the crisis.

Rorschach stopped Jean Grey’s Phoenix-powered rampage with the Infinity Stones, then learned she had been hearing a voice calling her to Ta Lo. He suspected the Soul Eater Beast was tempting her and planned to confirm his theory with Jean.

• Rorschach arrived at a chaotic Krakoa square and used telekinesis to evacuate the residents while Jean rampaged in the air.
• Charles entered Jean’s mental world but struggled against its energy storm, so Rorschach linked the Infinity Stones’ power to Charles’s psychic energy and calmed Jean.
• Charles told Rorschach that Jean’s condition had worsened three years earlier and that she had begun hearing a force calling to her.
• Erik revealed that the voice had told Jean to go to Ta Lo, leading Rorschach to suspect the Soul Eater Beast was targeting her.
• Charles told Rorschach that Jean had awakened, and they prepared to speak with her and verify his theory.

After Jean revealed that a voice had driven her toward Ta Lo, Rorschach recognized the place and explained that a Soul Eater Beast was behind her loss of control. When Krakoa could not locate Ta Lo, Rorschach set out to find Shang-Chi, whose pendant could lead them there.

• Jean told Rorschach and Charles that a voice had urged her to find Ta Lo and warned she would eventually lose control and destroy everything.
• Jean drew the place she had glimpsed, and Rorschach recognized it as Ta Lo.
• Rorschach explained Ta Lo's Soul Eater Beasts and Dragon Guardian, and Erik urged the group to kill the beast threatening Jean.
• Rorschach and Krakoa searched for Ta Lo but found no clues, so Rorschach decided to locate Shang-Chi.
• Rorschach used his super hearing to find Shang-Chi and vanished to reach him.

Shang-Chi fought off men trying to take his pendant on a bus, but Homelander intervened and took it from him by force. Rorschach left with the pendant, while Shang-Chi and the others were left behind.

• A ponytailed man demanded Shang-Chi's pendant, and Shang-Chi knocked him and his six or seven accomplices down.
• A bearded man with a heated blade attacked Shang-Chi, and their fight wrecked the bus and destroyed its brakes.
• An unknown force stopped the runaway bus and protected its passengers from the sudden halt.
• Rorschach entered the bus as Homelander, and the passengers cheered when they recognized him.
• Rorschach asked for Shang-Chi's pendant, but Shang-Chi refused because it was his mother's keepsake.
• Rorschach used an unseen force to take the pendant and vanished.

Rorschach took both pendants from Shang-Chi and Xialing to uncover the map to Ta Lo, while Xu Wenwu tracked his movements. After Hank decoded the map, Rorschach memorized its shifting routes and arrived at the bamboo forest leading to Ta Lo’s cave entrance.

• Rorschach took the pendant from Shang-Chi, and Xu Wenwu ordered his men to withdraw after learning Homelander had it.
• Xu Wenwu guessed Rorschach was seeking Ta Lo and ordered a satellite to monitor Krakoa and the pendant’s tracking system activated.
• Rorschach borrowed Xialing’s pendant and gave both pendants to Hank to investigate.
• Ten days later, Hank revealed a dynamic map to Ta Lo hidden in the pendants, and Rorschach memorized its changing terrain.
• Rorschach returned the pendants to his belongings and arrived outside the bamboo forest that led to Ta Lo’s cave entrance.

Rorschach followed a map through Ta Lo’s shifting bamboo forest and found the hidden village, where he told its guardians he had come to kill the Soul Eater Beast. Ying Nan tried to drive him out after warning him that the demon could only be contained behind the Dark Door.

• Rorschach found the concealed entrance to Ta Lo by following a map through the moving bamboo forest.
• He entered the hidden land and was confronted by the guardians Guang Bo and Ying Nan.
• Rorschach explained that the Soul Eater Beast had been tormenting his friend’s mind for three years and said he intended to kill it.
• Ying Nan explained that Ta Lo’s people had guarded the Dark Door for more than four thousand years because the demon threatened both their world and Rorschach’s.
• Rorschach insisted that he would kill the demon, and Ying Nan placed a hand on his shoulder to begin driving him out.

Rorschach overpowered the Ta Lo guardians and broke the dragon-scale seal with one punch. The Soul Eater Beast escaped through the opening, leaving the guardians terrified that Ta Lo and the outside world were doomed.

• Ying Nan tried to seize Rorschach, but he stood firm and then immobilized her with telekinetic force.
• Guang Bo led the guardians in an attack, but Rorschach lifted them all into the air and left at super speed for the sealed cave entrance.
• Rorschach struck the dragon-scale wall with one punch and shattered the seal.
• The Soul Eater Beast emerged through the broken entrance, horrifying Ying Nan, Guang Bo, and the other guardians.

Rorschach confronted the Soul Eater Beast after it emerged with swarms of Spirit Devourers, terrifying the guardians of Ta Lo. He killed the beast effortlessly, but the Spirit Devourers crossed the Spirit River and still threatened the guardians.

• The Soul Eater Beast emerged with swarms of Spirit Devourers, and Ying Nan rallied the frightened guardians to prepare for battle.
• The Soul Eater Beast attacked Rorschach, who punched it into a cliff and restrained it with telekinesis when it charged again.
• The Soul Eater Beast pleaded for mercy, but Rorschach beheaded it with a gesture and dropped its corpse to the ground.
• Ying Nan, Guang Bo, and the other guardians stared in disbelief as the Spirit Devourers crossed the Spirit River and flew toward them.

Rorschach saved Ta Lo by destroying the Soul Eater Beast and wiping out the Spirit Devourers with telekinetically controlled Dragon Scale arrows. After being honored by Ying Nan and the guardians, he left Ta Lo, then sensed someone else had arrived.

• Ying Nan ordered Ta Lo’s guardians to attack the advancing Spirit Devourers, but their arrows barely made a difference before the creatures reached them.
• Rorschach arrived and blocked the Spirit Devourers with a telekinetic wall, then discovered that only Ta Lo’s Dragon Scale weapons could kill them.
• Rorschach used telekinesis to turn the guardians’ arrows into flying weapons that killed every Spirit Devourer.
• Ying Nan thanked Rorschach for saving Ta Lo, and the guardians celebrated the end of the threat from the Soul Eater Beast and its swarm.
• Ying Nan treated Rorschach as an honored guest, showed him Ta Lo, and promised its gates would always be open to him.
• Rorschach began to leave Ta Lo but sensed that someone else had arrived.

Rorschach and Ta Lo’s guardians confronted Xu Wenwu, who arrived with Ten Rings soldiers demanding that Ta Lo return Ying Li. After learning Rorschach wanted his Ten Rings, Xu Wenwu attacked him, leaving the standoff on the verge of a fight.

• Rorschach sensed another arrival, and Xu Wenwu’s convoy entered Ta Lo through the teleportation passage.
• Xu Wenwu confronted Ying Nan and Guang Bo, demanding they hand over Ying Li, whom he believed Ta Lo had imprisoned.
• Ying Nan explained that the Soul Eater Beast had deceived Xu Wenwu and that Homelander had killed it, but Xu Wenwu refused to listen and threatened to burn Ta Lo down.
• Rorschach told Xu Wenwu he would not interfere in the dispute with Ta Lo but intended to take the Ten Rings.
• Xu Wenwu declared he would eliminate Rorschach and Ta Lo’s guardians, then launched one of his Ten Rings at Rorschach.

Rorschach defeated Xu Wenwu, seized all ten of the Ten Rings, and extracted their energy, turning them to ash. Xu Wenwu was left powerless and despairing, while Rorschach claimed that destroying the rings had saved him.

• Rorschach caught one of Xu Wenwu’s rings and discovered that each ring was worth 10,000 Origin Points.
• Xu Wenwu attacked with his other four rings, but Rorschach stopped them with telekinesis and extracted the energy from all five, reducing them to ash.
• Rorschach restrained Xu Wenwu and swept away the Ten Rings soldiers when they charged to defend their leader.
• Rorschach took the remaining five rings from Xu Wenwu and extracted their energy, leaving Xu Wenwu collapsed in despair.
• Xu Wenwu accused Rorschach of destroying everything he had, and Rorschach replied that he had saved him.

Rorschach revealed that the Soul Eater Beast had deceived Xu Wenwu, then returned to Krakoa after eliminating it and strengthened himself with the Origin Points he earned. Meanwhile, the Time Variance Authority identified Rorschach as a dangerous variant and ordered agents to capture him.

• Rorschach told Xu Wenwu that the Soul Eater Beast had faked his wife's calls and would have devoured him if he had freed it.
• Rorschach returned to Krakoa and told Jean and the others that the Soul Eater Beast was gone and Jean would no longer lose control.
• Rorschach used one hundred thousand Origin Points to increase his strength to thirty-six thousand tons and his speed to twenty-five thousand meters per second.
• Rorschach considered searching Ta Lo for more divine artifacts but decided not to disturb the realm, and he spent the following days quietly on Krakoa.
• Agent Mobius told the Time Variance Authority that Rorschach had returned after six years and ordered his immediate capture for violating multiple regulations.

Miss America mastered her portal powers under Charles’s guidance and asked to join the X-Men, while Rorschach discussed Krakoa’s affairs with Charles. The Time Variance Authority arrived to arrest Rorschach for crimes against the Sacred Timeline, but he attacked an agent with telekinesis, leaving the TVA agents stunned that he still had his abilities.

• Miss America opened portals at will, and Charles praised her progress after training her for just over three months.
• Miss America asked to join the X-Men, and Rorschach said he thought highly of her but advised her to think it over.
• Charles told Rorschach that the Illuminati wanted him to join and that Reed Richards’s wedding was coming up, but Rorschach declined the invitation to the organization.
• Charles left Rorschach by the lake after sensing that Ororo had returned.
• Five TVA agents emerged from golden portals and declared that they were arresting Rorschach for crimes against the Sacred Timeline.
• Rorschach struck the Black female agent with telekinesis, and the other TVA agents were shocked that he still had his abilities.

Rorschach defeated TVA agents who infiltrated Krakoa after their weapons failed to strip his powers. He explained the Time Variance Authority to the mutant leaders and decided to visit it himself.

• The TVA agents tried to use their weapons to remove Rorschach’s powers, but the weapons had no effect.
• Rorschach lifted the agents with an invisible force and knocked them unconscious, then examined their equipment.
• Erik and several X-Men arrived, and Rorschach ordered them to imprison the agents and send their equipment to Hank’s lab.
• Rorschach explained the TVA’s role in monitoring and altering timelines to Krakoa’s mutant leaders.
• Rorschach decided to visit the TVA himself.

Rorschach prepared to test whether the TVA could suppress his powers by entering it through a portal opened by a captured agent. He left the others outside to guard the portal while he planned to inspect an unoccupied area of the TVA.

• Rorschach admitted he had only a fifty-to-sixty-percent chance of succeeding, prompting the mutant leaders to urge caution.
• Charles read the TVA agents' memories and learned their batons emitted close-range, one-way energy waves that stripped people of their powers.
• Charles revealed that similar energy waves filled the TVA, where they kept its agents powerless.
• Rorschach suspected the system behind his powers might protect him from the TVA's suppression, but he could not confirm it.
• Charles telepathically controlled the Black female agent, and Rorschach ordered her to open a concealed portal while she stayed behind to guard it.
• The Black female agent opened a portal to the TVA.