Chapter Summaries

After resolving the Manhattan crisis, Wang Bert stripped Magneto of his powers and memories, transferring the powers to the Professor, and let Quicksilver take Erik away. He then gathered selected mutants to prepare them for the Celestial Group’s coming inspection and began planning their special training.

• Wang Bert sent Wade flying after Wade shouted his admiration, while Manhattan’s civilians, police, and military celebrated the end of the crisis.
• Quicksilver agreed to take on the hundreds of billions of dollars in damages in exchange for Magneto being allowed to live as an ordinary old man.
• Wang Bert removed Magneto’s powers and gave them to the Professor, who gained control over magnetic fields, then altered Erik’s memories and appearance.
• Raven declined Wang Bert’s offer to develop her abilities and chose to use the Leech to become an ordinary person again.
• Wang Bert told a group of mutants that the Celestial Group had created mutants through experiments and would soon return to inspect them.
• Wang Bert began training the group to oppose the Celestial Group, promising to help Wade contain more powers and to give Wolverine and Yuriko Romulus’s powers.

Wang Bert began preparing the X-Men for a coming fight against the Celestial Group by enhancing their mutant abilities and assigning them special training. He planned for them to battle Apocalypse, Black Phoenix, and Original Sin in Hell, then refused Rogue’s request to join the team because her motive was jealousy over Bobby.

• Wang Bert explained how Wolverine and Yuriko could gain adaptive genes and become powerful meat shields, then revealed Iceman’s Omega-Level potential and helped him freeze Hell until Black Phoenix melted the ice.
• Wang Bert outlined enhancements and training for Shadowcat, Leech, Psylocke, and Quicksilver, then announced that the group would train before fighting Apocalypse, Black Phoenix, and Original Sin in Hell.
• Wang Bert introduced Franklin’s time-loop protection and said he would open a passage into Hell after ten days, while revealing that he was close to becoming a Mutant God.
• Rogue asked to join the team because she feared losing Bobby to Shadowcat, but Wang Bert refused because he would not let jealousy drive the team’s mission.

Wang Bert removed Rogue’s mutant ability, recruited Cyclops, and trained the X-Men in dangerous mental illusions before leading them into Hell for combat. The team confronted Black Phoenix, Apocalypse, and Original Sin, who realized Wang Bert had brought them there to serve as opponents for his trainees.

• Rogue agreed to let Wang Bert remove her ability in exchange for fifty million dollars, and he stripped away her Mutant Gene so she could become ordinary.
• Cyclops joined Wang Bert’s team to help save Jean, accepted Wang Bert’s plan to fuse him with Sunspot’s genes, and received an illusion-based training scenario that awakened his control over his optic blasts.
• Wang Bert refused to help the professor seal Black Phoenix, but agreed to help him enter Jean’s mind, then sent Cyclops and the others into illusions to train against their fears.
• After more than a month of training, Wang Bert opened a portal into Hell and sent the team through under a twelve-hour Time Loop set up by Franklin.
• The professor and Cyclops called out to Jean, but Black Phoenix took control and threatened them; Apocalypse and Original Sin realized Wang Bert was using them to sharpen his trainees.

Wolverine, Yuriko, and the X-Men battled Black Phoenix and Original Sin while Wang Bert and the Professor entered Jean's mind to help her confront Black Phoenix. Jean rejected merging with her dark counterpart, but Wang Bert warned that Black Phoenix might return and affect Jean's descendants.

• Wolverine and Yuriko used their healing abilities to hold Black Phoenix back as the X-Men attacked Apocalypse and Original Sin.
• Psylocke, Wade, Quicksilver, and Shadowcat worked together to trap and attack Original Sin in an illusion and in Hell.
• Wang Bert and the Professor broke into Black Phoenix's mind space with Jean's help, but Jean was too embarrassed by Black Phoenix's taunts to stop her from ejecting them.
• Wang Bert returned to the mind space and explained that Black Phoenix had provoked Jean with dreams and urged Jean to merge with her.
• Jean resisted merging until Wang Bert warned that Black Phoenix could affect her descendants, while Black Phoenix threatened to destroy Jean.

Wang Bert negotiated with a time-traveling member of the Celestial Group, which demanded Omega-Level Mutants and proposed a wager instead of war. They agreed to an offensive-defensive battle over Hell in three months, but the Celestial Group immediately attacked Apocalypse.

• Jean defied Black Phoenix as Wang Bert and the Professor left her Mind Space, and the Professor joined Wolverine and Yuriko in fighting Black Phoenix.
• Wang Bert explained that he was using the combat training to prepare his allies and subdue Apocalypse and Black Phoenix, then hurried back to Earth when a Celestial appeared.
• The Celestial Group revealed it had broken Scarlet Witch's Time Seal to negotiate and refused to abandon its plans to take Omega-Level Mutants.
• Wang Bert and the Celestial Group agreed to a wager: in three months, Wang Bert would attack the transformed Hell, with the winner deciding the mutants' fate.
• The Celestial Group entered Hell and crushed Apocalypse beneath a giant foot after demanding that he and the others submit.

The Celestial Group recruited Black Phoenix and Original Sin, enslaved Apocalypse, and prepared Hell for a bet with Wang Bert. After explaining the stakes and the false Earth to the mutants, Wang Bert began planning their training for the battle in three months.

• The Celestial Group healed Black Phoenix and suppressed Jean, freed Original Sin from its seal, and turned Apocalypse into a puppet when he refused to submit.
• The Celestial Group summoned Legion and Mastermind Jason to Hell, accepted Black King as a helper, and sealed Hell against outside observation.
• Wang Bert revealed that he had tampered with Apocalypse, Black Phoenix, and Legion, then told the mutants that he was the sixth Creator God and explained how their Earth had become separate from the real Earth.
• Wang Bert recounted Wade's tragic fates in the previous timelines, then warned that the mutants would face the Celestial Group, Apocalypse, Original Sin, Black Phoenix, Legion, and other enemies in three months.
• The Professor admitted that Legion was too powerful for him to defeat currently, and Wang Bert promised to intensify everyone's training before the coming battle.

Wang Bert’s team completed its three-month illusion training and defeated Apocalypse and Black Phoenix, then prepared to train against Original Sin and Legion. Meanwhile, Wang Bert secured access to national funds for the coming battle, while the Celestial Group inspected its Lost City in Hell with Apocalypse under its control.

• Wang Bert announced a day off before the team’s final three months of training, believing the coming battle would decide Mutant Planet’s fate.
• The Professor and the others defeated Black Phoenix and Apocalypse in the illusion without losing anyone, but the Professor warned that the real fight would be harder.
• Psylocke proposed adding Original Sin and Legion to their training, and the Professor explained that Legion was a dangerous enemy with thousands of abilities.
• The Professor activated Wish Illusions for the exhausted team, while Wang Bert secured agreements to use national funds through Money Power.
• The Celestial Group praised Apocalypse’s Lost City in Hell, while Apocalypse stood silently as its controlled puppet.

Wang Bert led his allies to Yellow Sand City for a one-day battle against the Celestial Group, which used the city’s traps to scatter them and launch ambushes. As the fight began, Wade unexpectedly overpowered Original Sin and cut him in two.

• The Celestial Group prepared Yellow Sand City, used the Original Mutant Gene to empower Black King and Jason, and declared that it would defeat Wang Bert.
• Three months later, Wang Bert and his allies arrived at Yellow Sand City and agreed to the Celestial Group’s one-day challenge.
• The Celestial Group drew Wang Bert into its tall building while an Earth Trap scattered his allies and spatial traps delayed them.
• Original Sin and the others attacked Professor, but the apparent Professor proved to be a decoy, so they moved on to target Wade.
• Wade blocked the attackers with spatial turbulence, then used a powerful slash to pin Original Sin and split him in two.

Wade and the mutants turned the Celestial Group’s ambush against them, killing Original Sin and then fighting Black Phoenix’s allies in Lost City. As the battle continued, Yuriko and Wolverine killed Jason, Yuriko defeated Black King, and Wang Bert secretly absorbed their primal mutant auras to strengthen his mastery of the Mutant Source.

• Wade’s fused team killed Original Sin, but Legion stopped the Mind Blade from striking Black Phoenix before Apocalypse, Black King, and Jason arrived.
• Wang Bert explained that his complete Fusion Concept had let him temporarily combine the mutants, while Black Phoenix and Apocalypse launched attacks in Lost City.
• Psylocke, Quicksilver, and the others fought Apocalypse’s Earth Giants as Jason trapped Wolverine and Yuriko in illusions, but both broke free and killed him.
• Quicksilver wounded Black King, and Yuriko absorbed his power before killing him with a strike to the heart.
• Wang Bert secretly absorbed Jason and Black King’s primal mutant auras, and his mastery of the Mutant Source began to rise.

Wang Bert’s allies trapped Black Phoenix and used Legion’s cloned bodies to separate his personalities, prompting them to fight one another. Apocalypse tried to free Black Phoenix but was held off, while Cyclops entered Jean’s Mind Space and faced Black Phoenix’s revelation that Jean had feelings for Wolverine.

• Black Phoenix disintegrated Wade, but Franklin reversed the damage; Franklin and future Iceman then trapped Black Phoenix inside a frozen planet while Wade sent Cyclops into Jean’s Mind Space.
• Professor transferred Legion’s thousands of personalities into separate clones, and the Legions began killing one another with Professor’s help.
• Wang Bert explained that he had exploited Legion’s condition, while the Celestial Group vowed to revive Legion if it won.
• Apocalypse attacked Franklin and Iceman to free Black Phoenix, but Wade synchronized Apocalypse’s movements, and Shadowcat and Leech weakened him while Wolverine and Yuriko attacked.
• Cyclops confronted Black Phoenix in Jean’s Mind Space, where she showed him scenes suggesting Jean had feelings for Wolverine.

Jean merged with Black Phoenix, joined the battle, and helped defeat Apocalypse and Legion, but the Celestial Group revealed that the Lost City had become a second Celestial Group. Wang Bert and the others faced the Celestial Group’s prepared counterattack.

• Black Phoenix showed Cyclops scenes of Jean with Wolverine and with him, but Jean appeared in her consciousness and revealed that she and Black Phoenix had been merging.
• Jean fully merged with Black Phoenix, reassured Cyclops that she loved him, and appeared in the Lost City after Iceman and Franklin released her.
• Jean and the others overwhelmed Apocalypse, and Jean disintegrated him after he asked for a king’s death.
• Jean joined the others in helping Professor defeat Legion, whose final personality stabbed himself and ended Legion’s life.
• The Lost City transformed into an armored giant resembling a Celestial Group, and the Celestial Group revealed it had absorbed the powers of Apocalypse, Legion, Original Sin, and others to create a second Celestial Group.

Wang Bert used the mutants’ recognition of him to resonate with the Original Mutant Gene and become the Mutant God, then defeated the Celestial Group and claimed the Lost City. The Celestial Group conceded the wager, agreeing not to attack mutants, while Wang Bert accepted its demand for a portion of the other Omega-Level Mutants’ power.

• The Celestial Group explained that the Lost City contained every ability of the fallen mutants and said Wang Bert could not become the Mutant God without the Original Mutant Gene.
• Wang Bert asked the mutants whether they recognized him as their Mutant God, and their answer awakened the Mutant Gene Tree and resonated with the Original Mutant Gene.
• Wang Bert spent money through Money Power to complete his transformation, erased the Lost City’s attacks, and temporarily elevated the mutants’ abilities to Omega-Level.
• Wade and the others attacked the Lost City while Yuriko drained its power, and Wang Bert froze the Celestial Group and split its consciousness before making it fight its past self.
• Wang Bert bestowed the mutants’ power upon himself, became a Creator God, and forced the Celestial Group to concede the wager.
• The Celestial Group agreed to leave mutants alone in exchange for a portion of the other Omega-Level Mutants’ power, while Wang Bert kept control of the Lost City.

Wanda and Scarlet Witch’s obsession with having Wang Bert all to herself drove Wanda to become a Creator God and challenge him. Wang Bert regained the advantage by rallying the mutants, but Wanda revealed that she had already made his existence collapse, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• After the Celestial Group left, Wanda and Scarlet Witch followed Wang Bert to Hell, where Scarlet Witch explained that Wanda’s unwillingness to share him had let her separate from Wanda.
• Scarlet Witch merged back into Wanda, making Wanda a Creator God who sought to sever Wang Bert from his main body so they could be together alone.
• Wanda sent Earth into the River of Time and attacked Wang Bert, but he retrieved Lost City, Black Phoenix, Wade, and the other mutants to stabilize his power.
• Wang Bert and Wanda restored Earth and confronted the conflict’s origins; Wanda accepted his marriage proposal before they continued fighting.
• Wang Bert split Wanda’s consciousness and stripped away her abilities, but Wanda countered by making his body fall and his existence collapse.

Wang Bert defeated Wanda’s trap, rescued Mutant God, and merged Mutant Planet with Earth. As the enlarged Earth dealt with the merger, a warning from the future led to Iron Man’s dramatic return and confrontation with Spider-Man and Mysterio.

• Wang Bert’s main body broke into Mutant Planet, overpowered Wanda, and reunited with Mutant God while Wanda asked him to marry her.
• Wang Bert restored Mutant Planet and fused it with Earth, merging most people’s memories and separating incompatible consciousnesses into new bodies.
• Earth’s heroes learned that Mutant Planet had merged with their world, while Tony and Steve discussed the influx of people and the coming work.
• Dr. Strange received a warning from his future self that Iron Man had turned evil, but the messenger vanished before explaining further.
• In the future timeline, Spider-Man gave Edith to Mysterio, believing him a better successor to Iron Man.
• Tony Stark returned, took the glasses from Mysterio, and rebuked Spider-Man for nearly being deceived.

Iron Man revealed that Mysterio's attacks were illusions and began a campaign to impose order on Earth, erasing Spider-Man and destroying Kamar-Taj. As he prepared to attack the world's heroes, a six-colored barrier sealed the universe, trapping Thanos's New Sanctuary and prompting Thanos to send his followers to investigate Earth.

• Mysterio admitted that the Elemental battles and tavern were staged effects, and Iron Man warned Spider-Man that future events would expose his identity and lead to Aunt May's death.
• Iron Man erased Spider-Man, while Ultron and the Iron Legion killed Mysterio and the tavern's other occupants; Iron Man announced plans to force the world into submission.
• Loki gave Iron Man six Infinity Stones, which he used to send a device into the Quantum Void and seal the universe against entry or escape.
• Dr. Strange foresaw Iron Man's actions, evacuated Kamar-Taj, and escaped before Ultron's robots arrived and destroyed the site with explosives.
• Iron Man ordered an attack on isolated beings on an ice field, while Thanos's New Sanctuary was blocked from leaving the universe by the six-colored barrier.
• Thanos recognized the barrier's Infinity Stone power and sent the Black Order, Gamora, and Nebula toward Earth to investigate without alerting the Avengers.

Wang Bert discovered that the Quantum Tunnel to Future Time-Space was sealed by a barrier powered by the Six Infinity Stones, and he prepared to enter with Tony to investigate Iron Man’s turn to darkness. He also asked Steve to let God reincarnate as Steve and Carter’s child, leaving Steve unsure what to do.

• In Future Time-Space, Iron Man announced that he would rule America and save Earth, while Strange, Nick Fury, and Black Widow waited for the Blood God to arrive.
• In the Main Universe, Tony denied that his future self had gone dark, and Wang Bert agreed to investigate the blocked Quantum Tunnel.
• Wang Bert announced that he and Wanda were getting married, then reported that the tunnel was sealed behind its quantum equipment by a barrier powered by the Six Infinity Stones.
• Wang Bert planned to send Bert Invincible Wang into Future Time-Space with Tony, while Strange stayed behind and Steve remained to handle work on Earth and Mutant Planet.
• Wang Bert told Steve that he wanted God to reincarnate as Steve and Carter’s child, and Steve said he needed to discuss the idea with Carter.

Wang Bert sent his avatar and Tony into Future Time-Space, where they found Iron Man using robots to violently suppress protesters and confronted his future self. Future Tony described the endless disasters he expected on Earth, leaving Wang Bert suspicious about how much he knew.

• Wang Bert left Steve to guide God and Original Sin, then discussed a grand wedding on a rebuilt Mutant Planet with Wanda.
• Wang Bert and Wanda altered a small area of the Six-Colored Barrier, allowing Bald Wang Bert and Tony to enter Future Time-Space.
• Bald Wang Bert and Tony arrived in New York and watched Iron Man’s robots arrest and violently suppress protesters.
• Tony hacked Stark Industries’ network and video-called Future Tony, who defended his rule as necessary to protect Earth.
• Future Tony listed coming threats to Earth, including Mysterio, Dark Strange, Gorr, the Eternals, and Kang the Conqueror.
• Wang Bert questioned why Future Tony knew so much and began asking about America’s future leaders.

Future Tony revealed that he had taken control of the Time Variance Authority and planned to end disasters by controlling the world, eliminating crime, and suppressing Super Heroes. Wang Bert and Tony escaped his attack and regrouped with Strange, preparing to oppose him and avenge Steve and Parker.

• Future Tony explained that he wanted to sacrifice freedom and privacy to prevent crime and protect Earth, and that he planned to capture or eliminate Super Heroes.
• Loki revealed that Future Tony had defeated Captain America, taken control of the Time Variance Authority, and killed Steve and Parker.
• Tony refused to abandon the Future Universe, but Future Tony rejected Wang Bert's offer to trade places and threatened war.
• Future Tony emerged with Loki and Ultron, then used Materialism Power to suppress Wang Bert's abilities; Wang Bert and Tony escaped because they were not using their real bodies.
• Future Tony ordered a global search for Wang Bert and Tony and threatened Wakanda with war unless it handed over its Vibranium.
• Wang Bert and Tony met Strange in New York, where Strange reported that he had saved some Super Heroes.

Wang Bert and his allies planned to counter Iron Man, who threatened Wakanda for its Vibranium, while Tony proposed building a rival Vibranium Legion. Wang Bert also prepared a Sentinel squad and planned to rescue the captured heroes, who were imprisoned at the White House.

• Wang Bert showed Fury, Black Widow, Tony, and Strange the confrontation with Iron Man, and they discussed his magic-suppressing cone and a plan to capture Loki.
• Black Panther told the group Iron Man had demanded Wakanda's Vibranium and would declare war if Wakanda refused; Black Panther vowed to defend Wakanda.
• Tony offered to build Wakanda a Vibranium Legion using advanced technology, and Black Panther agreed to provide Vibranium and open the production lines.
• Wang Bert sent a Sentinel Robot to reproduce X-Metal and build a Sentinel Squad, while Fury went to help Wakanda prepare for war.
• Fury revealed the captured heroes were being held at the White House, and Wang Bert said he could try to rescue them.
• Old Tony entered the White House dungeon, where Dr. Pym cursed the Stark family while Dr. Pym's family and Scott Lang remained imprisoned.

Wang Bert rescued Rhodey, Dr. Banner, and the other prisoners from Old Tony’s dungeon using mind magic, then gathered them in Wakanda to prepare for Old Tony’s coming attack. He also sought Thor’s belongings so he could locate Thor in the Mind Sea, while Old Tony and Loki planned to strike their enemies before Thor returned.

• Old Tony tried to make Rhodey and the other prisoners surrender, but Wang Bert transported them out of the dungeon as Mental Projections through the Mind Sea.
• In Wakanda, Wang Bert explained Dreamlike Bubble and asked the rescued prisoners to help defend against Old Tony’s coming attack; Tony recruited Dr. Banner and Dr. Pym to build an Anti-Iron Man Armor.
• Wang Bert gave Dr. Banner a Rage Potion and asked Valkyrie for an object Thor had carried for a long time so he could find Thor through the Mind Sea.
• Valkyrie shared a photo of Thor’s house, and Wang Bert used a portal to retrieve Thor’s game controller despite the Iron Man robots monitoring the village.
• Old Tony learned that Wang Bert had taken Thor’s belongings, while Loki guessed they wanted to contact Thor; Old Tony planned to develop equipment to counter Wang Bert’s Mind Power, and Loki prepared to confront Thor when he returned.