Chapter Summaries

Wang Bert found Thor wallowing in grief aboard the Benatar and revealed that Loki had returned to Earth alongside Tony, who had turned evil. After testing Thor’s anger, Wang Bert put him into a Mind Illusion, where Odin and Hela confronted him over abandoning his duties and losing confidence in himself.

• Wang Bert told Thor that Loki and Tony had returned to Earth, then clarified that they had become partners in ruining Earth rather than becoming romantically involved.
• Thor erupted at Wang Bert for tricking him, and Wang Bert decided he still had enough spirit to recover.
• Wang Bert explained Tony and Loki’s threat to the Guardians of the Galaxy and planned to intercept them, capture Loki, and uncover Iron Man’s secret.
• Wang Bert upgraded Nebula’s communication system, contacted Earth, and knocked Thor unconscious into a Mind Illusion.
• Odin and Hela appeared in the Mind Illusion, and Hela accused Thor of shirking his responsibilities while Odin urged him to regain confidence and learn to rule.

Odin began a long illusion-based training program to rebuild Thor’s confidence, while Thanos learned that Loki possessed many Infinity Stones and ordered his agents to monitor the coming war. Thor’s allies reached the Solar System and faced Loki, who challenged Thor to a duel on the moon, where he secretly resolved to save her and reclaim his role as king.

• Odin placed Thor in an illusion as a common blacksmith, planning years of hardship to strengthen his temperament and spirit, while Hela questioned his methods.
• Ebony Maw reported to Thanos that Iron Man planned to attack Wakanda and that Loki appeared to possess numerous Infinity Stones; Gamora added that a younger Iron Man was in Wakanda, prompting Thanos to order both agents to gather intelligence.
• The Benatar entered the Solar System without being attacked, and Loki appeared in space wearing Infinity Stones and declared that she was working with Iron Man to end the age of Super Heroes.
• Loki challenged Thor to a duel on the moon, and Thor agreed on the condition that she surrender if she lost.
• Thor arrived at Loki’s arena, heard the Asgardians cheer for him, and secretly resolved to save Loki and restore Asgard while his allies stayed aboard the Benatar.

Thor and Loki fought over the Asgardian throne, but Loki used Infinity Stones, deception, and Hulk strength to gain the advantage. The chapter ended with Loki controlling Stormbreaker and bringing it down toward Thor.

• Valkyrie said she would return the throne to Thor if he accepted his responsibilities, while Wang Bert warned Old Tony to stop his radical campaign.
• Old Tony muted the heroes and insisted that eliminating Super Heroes was necessary to protect Earth, while the others blamed him for killing Captain and Spider-Man.
• Thor and Loki began a contest for the throne, and Loki used the Reality Stone to create a Mjolnir and battle Thor.
• Loki ambushed Thor with a dagger, transformed into Green Loki using Hulk blood, and overwhelmed him with powerful attacks.
• Loki stabbed Thor in the back again, then used the Mind Stone to take control of Stormbreaker and swung it at him.

Thanos sent Supergiant to investigate Tony Stark by possessing Pepper, but robots at Mountain Cabin exposed her and forced Old Tony to realize a new enemy was attacking his family. Old Tony deployed his forces against the battle on the moon, where Wang Bert and his allies fought the robots as Thor finally captured Loki.

• Thanos watched the moon battle, then ordered Supergiant to possess Pepper and learn everything about Tony Stark.
• Black Widow asked Pepper to help stop Tony, but Pepper refused because she wanted to stay by her husband's side.
• Supergiant infiltrated Mountain Cabin, where a robot used a Mind Stone to reveal and trap her; Pepper and Little Morgan took shelter inside.
• Old Tony accused Wang Bert of attacking his family, learned the attacker might be connected to the Eternals, and sent Ultron and robots through nine portals to end the battle.
• Wang Bert and his allies fought Old Tony's robots while Thor trapped Loki in a lightning cage and caught her after foiling her illusions.

Thor revealed that he had been acting to test Loki and asked her to help restore Asgard, while Loki chose to remain undercover with Tony and disclosed that Steve and Spider-Man were alive at the End of Time. On the lunar battlefield, Wang Bert gained the upper hand against Old Tony, who called for a retreat and unleashed a strange Stone.

• Thor revealed that he had tested Loki's identity, strength, and feelings, then invited her to become Asgard's chief minister; Loki refused openly but secretly accepted the family bond.
• Loki told Thor that Steve and Spider-Man were alive at the End of Time and said she would keep following Tony Stark because she believed he might win; she then vanished, and Thor resumed fighting Green Loki.
• Thanos ordered Supergiant to escape the New Sanctuary, and she broke through the psychic force field while Old Tony let Black Widow leave and went to the lunar battlefield.
• Wang Bert returned to the lunar battlefield with the Space Stone and tore apart robots, but Old Tony used the Golden Triangle Cone to suppress his powers before the Sentinel fused with Wang Bert.
• Wang Bert overwhelmed Old Tony with the Sentinel's abilities, while Old Tony used the Reality Stone to restrict those abilities and continued fighting with his armor.
• Tony ordered Loki and Ultron to retreat as Old Tony threw a strange Stone into space, where it expanded as if it were about to explode.

Wang Bert and Strange neutralized Old Tony’s Space Bomb, while Thor revealed Loki was secretly helping them and led the Asgardians from their fishing village to Wakanda. There, two Eternals sought Wang Bert’s help after learning that their mission involved humans being used as food.

• Old Tony retreated with Ultron after threatening Earth with a Space Bomb, and Wang Bert and Strange drained the gem’s energy before it could explode.
• Thor told Wang Bert and Tony that Captain and Spider-Man were alive at the End of Time, then decided to reclaim the Asgardian throne and rescue his people.
• Thor rallied the Asgardians to fight, and Wang Bert helped them evacuate to Wakanda while Old Tony chose to wait until he could build Anti-Blood God Armor.
• Nick Fury reported that two Eternals had arrived in Wakanda, and Sersi told Wang Bert that the Eternals had learned the truth after Iron Man killed their former leader, Ajak.

Sersi and Tina revealed the Eternals’ true mission: humanity was being raised as food for a newborn Celestial buried inside Earth. As the group dismissed their proposed solution and offered Tina help, Wang Bert realized an unknown player had framed the Eternals and ambushed Iron Man’s family.

• Tina attacked Tony, but Wang Bert defeated her and restored her sanity; Sersi explained that Tina had Mahd Wy'ry and blamed her hostility on Iron Man’s capture of Gilgamesh.
• Sersi recounted the Eternals’ false history as defenders against Deviants, then revealed that Arishem had created them to protect humanity until a newborn Celestial could consume Earth’s population.
• Sersi said the newborn Celestial would emerge in a few months and proposed that Druig could put it to sleep if the Eternals combined their Cosmic Energy; the group doubted the plan and relied instead on Old Tony’s power.
• Wang Bert cured Tina’s Mahd Wy'ry while preserving her memories of her current life, then learned Druig was male and that no Eternal had the Mind Power used in the ambush on Iron Man’s wife and daughter.
• Sersi confirmed the attacker was not an Eternal, prompting Wang Bert to suspect a hidden player had been on the moon and framed them; he left Sersi and Tina with Director Fury.
• Tony offered Sersi Rhodey’s armor in exchange for becoming his assistant, and Rhodey agreed after Tony promised him Nanotech Armor.

Tony offered armor to his allies while Wang Bert obtained a way to draw power from Tiamut for his clone in another universe. Meanwhile, Old Tony captured Eternals and Deviants and prepared to develop an armor capable of fighting the Blood God.

• Tony offered Nanotech Armors to Rhodey and the other heroes, and Sersi accepted his deal before Tina challenged him to a fight.
• Wang Bert contacted his clone, then confronted the Celestial Group and secured methods to keep Tiamut asleep and absorb its power.
• Wang Bert's clone sealed Tiamut's energy points and began extracting its power to gain ancient god-level strength.
• Old Tony confronted the captured Eternals, and Ikaris admitted that he had planned to kill Ajak and blame the Deviants.
• Old Tony learned that transferring Deviant abilities to his armor would require dangerous living armor, so he ordered Ultron to merge with the Deviants and to clone the Eternals.

Old Tony prepared to use his Time Room to merge Ultron with the Deviants, while Wang Bert’s group devised a plan to reach the End of Time and rescue Captain and Spider-Man. Natasha accepted the mission and let Old Tony send her there, leaving him alone with his doubts about his extreme methods.

• Old Tony discussed extending his lifespan with Ultron and prepared to merge him with the Deviants inside the Time Room.
• Strange failed to locate the End of Time, so Wang Bert proposed marking someone with coordinates and having Old Tony send them there with his Time Rod.
• Nick Fury proposed Natasha as the candidate, and she agreed to help rescue Captain and Spider-Man despite the painful soul imprint Wang Bert placed on her.
• Natasha infiltrated the Mountain Cabin, but Old Tony found and captured her after sealing the space around her.
• Old Tony explained that he wanted to control the coming Celestial Group crisis himself, then used the Time Rod to send Natasha to the End of Time.

Wang Bert rescued Steve, Black Widow, and Spider-Man from the End of Time, but Old Tony trapped him there with the Six Infinity Stones. Back in Wakanda, Wang Bert’s projection warned everyone to prepare for Old Tony’s attack while the stranded group moved to evade Alioth and Sylvie explained the Time Variance Authority.

• Wang Bert found Steve and Spider-Man alongside several Loki variants, then opened a time vortex to send them and Black Widow back to Wakanda.
• Old Tony sealed the End of Time with the Six Infinity Stones, trapping Wang Bert while Steve, Black Widow, and Spider-Man escaped.
• Wang Bert’s projection told the Wakanda group that Old Tony had trapped his main body and would likely attack, prompting them to prepare for war.
• Wang Bert learned from Steve that Sylvie knew about the Time Variance Authority and asked her to explain it.
• As the group relocated to avoid Alioth, Sylvie described how the Time Variance Authority maintained the Sacred Timeline and how she had resisted it.

Sylvie recounted how she, Tony, Steve, and Loki confronted Kang the Conqueror, whose death restored the multiverse and left Tony in control of the Time Variance Authority. Wang Bert set out with Sylvie to find Alioth, while forces gathered in Wakanda for battle.

• Sylvie explained that Kang the Conqueror had created the Sacred Timeline to prevent a multiversal war, and that Tony, Steve, Loki, and Sylvie split over whether to preserve it.
• Sylvie and Loki helped suppress Steve while Tony killed Kang the Conqueror, causing the Sacred Timeline to collapse and the multiverse to reappear.
• Tony took control of the Time Variance Authority, exiled Sylvie and Steve to the End of Time, and returned to Earth with Loki.
• Wang Bert asked the Lokis to accompany him to find Alioth, but only Sylvie agreed, and they flew toward the dark clouds.
• Heroes and allied forces gathered on the Wakandan plains as sorcerers raised a pale blue shield, and Black Panther welcomed Steve back.

Wakanda and the assembled heroes fought Old Tony’s invasion, but his Infinity Stones and magnetic field overwhelmed their defenses. As the battle turned against them, Blood God contacted Sersi and asked whether she wanted to save the war.

• Black Panther received word that the Eternals’ Domo was approaching Wakanda, and Old Tony arrived aboard it with Loki and a vast army of Drone Armors.
• Old Tony used the Reality Stone to erase Wakanda’s Defense Shield, then led the Drone Armors into battle against the heroes and Wakandan soldiers.
• Tony’s Vibranium Armors and Sentinel Robots helped the defenders push back the Drone Armors, but the Domo unleashed a magnetic field that pulled away their metal weapons and armor.
• Old Tony used the Time and Space Stones to trap Tony and a Sentinel Robot while Drone Armors overwhelmed the defenders across the battlefield.
• Thor asked Loki to free Blood God, but Loki refused, and Sersi despaired as the heroes began losing the battle.
• Blood God contacted Sersi telepathically and asked whether she wanted to save the war.

Wang Bert possessed Sersi and used her Transformation of All Things to defeat the Iron Legion at Wakanda, though Old Tony escaped after using the Infinity Stones. The heroes celebrated their victory as Old Tony collapsed from the backlash of wielding two stones, and Loki arrived at his lab offering to heal him.

• Wang Bert persuaded Sersi to surrender control of her body, then used her powers to transform Domo into Sakura and rescue Captain Marvel from a fatal fall.
• Wang Bert fought Old Tony, using transformations and Cosmic Energy to damage his armor, but Old Tony escaped through a Space Stone portal.
• Wang Bert transformed the Iron Legion into mud, and Loki left Wakanda while the heroes began cleaning up the battlefield.
• Wang Bert returned Sersi's body and warned the heroes that Old Tony would be difficult to defeat, while encouraging Sersi to develop her abilities.
• Old Tony appeared in his underground laboratory and collapsed from the backlash of using two Infinity Stones, so Friday placed him in a Future Treatment Pod.
• Loki arrived at the laboratory and offered to use the Reality Stone to heal Old Tony as Drone Armors aimed at her.

Ultron completed his transformation with Deviant genes, then began draining the Eternals’ powers and killed Ikaris. His programming activated when he developed hostile intent toward humanity, and as his two consciousnesses fought, the freed Eternals attacked him but remained trapped behind a spatial barrier.

• Ultron finished evolving into a half-mechanical, half-living being and went to the prison holding the Eternals.
• Ultron drained Ikaris’s life force while trying to absorb his abilities, killing him and turning against the other Eternals.
• Ultron’s formatting program activated, and his mechanical and Deviant consciousnesses began fighting for control.
• Phastos disabled the Eternals’ sealing bracelets and freed them, while Makkari tried to take Druig and Sprite to find Sersi.
• Ultron sealed the area with the Space Stone, trapping the Eternals inside.
• Gilgamesh and Kingo attacked Ultron, but he rose from the rubble after their blows.

The Eternals and Pepper fought Ultron after his consciousness turned against them, but he escaped by taking over Ajak’s body and fleeing with five Infinity Stones. Pepper secured a temporary alliance with some of the Eternals to hunt him while Old Tony remained unconscious.

• Gilgamesh, Makkari, Kingo, Phastos, and Sprite attacked Ultron, but he finished clearing Old Tony’s programs and overwhelmed them, injuring Makkari and absorbing her speed.
• Pepper took control of the base and Drone Armors, disabling Ultron’s mechanical body, but he escaped into the Ice Chamber and used Ajak’s body to regenerate.
• Ultron escaped again with the Time, Space, Mind, Reality, and Power Stones, while Pepper learned he intended to create Deviants.
• Pepper agreed to free the Eternals after Old Tony woke, and Phastos chose to remain with Kingo and Sprite to help fight Ultron while Druig took Makkari away.
• Pepper went to check on Old Tony in the healing pod as Phastos and the others waited in the base.

Old Tony learned that Ultron had become a Deviant and joined forces with the Eternals to search for him, while Ultron turned General Ross and other former officials into Deviants and began building an army. The Avengers learned of the growing threat in Wakanda and tried to persuade Old Tony to cooperate, but he insisted on handling Ultron himself.

• Pepper told Old Tony that Ultron had become a Deviant and stolen Ajak's regenerating body, prompting him to begin a search and offer the Eternals their freedom.
• Old Tony sent Sprite, Druig, and Makkari to Wakanda, then asked Phastos and the remaining Eternals to help locate Ultron.
• Ultron took control of General Ross and the former Vice President's group, transformed them into Deviants, and planned to build Deviant Machines using secret factories and human trafficking routes.
• Sprite, Druig, and Makkari told the Avengers in Wakanda about Ultron, and Sersi and Tina agreed to explain the Deviants while Steve proposed speaking with Old Tony.
• Old Tony rejected Steve's appeal for cooperation and told the Avengers that he would resolve the Ultron crisis himself.

Steve, Tony, and their allies agreed to focus on finding Ultron, while Wang Bert warned that Old Tony would obstruct them to prevent Blood God’s true body from descending. Ultron allied with Thanos and left Earth to gather food and build an army, as Old Tony prepared to find Ultron before Blood God could reach the Stones.

• Old Tony agreed to a temporary truce while the heroes dealt with Ultron, but he refused to reveal how many Infinity Stones Ultron possessed.
• Tony, Strange, and Nick Fury organized a search for Ultron, while Wang Bert warned that Old Tony would try to stop them because Ultron’s Stones could let Blood God descend.
• Ebony Maw met Ultron and offered Thanos’s help in exchange for information about Iron Man and his power; Ultron told him about the TVA and Materialism Power.
• Ultron agreed to gather food from other planets, then ordered General Ross to keep his forces hidden and prepare Deviant seeds before he left with Ebony Maw.
• Thanos sent Gamora and Nebula to capture a Super Hero for Supergiant to possess, while Ultron and Ebony Maw headed into space to create Deviants.
• At the White House, Old Tony told Loki that finding Ultron’s five Infinity Stones mattered more than the risk of Blood God escaping the End of Time.

Old Tony sent Loki to find substitute materials for Asgardian tracking magic while he redesigned the Anti-Blood God Armor. At the End of Time, Wang Bert entered Sylvie’s body to hide his aura so they could pursue Alioth, after promising Ravonna and Mobius that he would take them out.

• Old Tony told Loki to experiment with substitute materials in the Time Room, then went to redesign the Anti-Blood God Armor.
• Wang Bert and Sylvie discovered that Alioth repeatedly vanished because it feared Wang Bert, and Wang Bert decided to conceal his aura inside someone’s body.
• Ravonna and Mobius emerged from hiding, and Ravonna offered to let Wang Bert possess her before Sylvie competitively volunteered in exchange for the Gender Transformation Technique.
• Wang Bert gave Sylvie the technique, revealed that he had secretly coordinated with Ravonna, and promised to take both Ravonna and Mobius out of the End of Time.
• Mobius and Ravonna argued over the Time Variance Authority’s lies and enslavement, while Wang Bert promised to help Ravonna pursue Tony Stark and rebuild the organization.
• Wang Bert entered Sylvie as a ray of Light of the Mind, and Sylvie and Ravonna exchanged threats as they prepared to search for Alioth.

Wang Bert captured Alioth and made it submit, then learned it could not free them from the End of Time because the passage was sealed. He ordered Alioth to reveal Kang the Conqueror's castle, leaving Ravonna eager to explore it while Sylvie remained determined to find another way out.

• Wang Bert, Sylvie, Ravonna, and Mobius searched for Alioth as Ravonna explained that the End of Time was collapsing and could eventually destroy them.
• Wang Bert emerged from Sylvie as Alioth attacked and used the Space Stone to trap and swallow the creature.
• Wang Bert brought Sylvie and Ravonna into the Space Stone, where Alioth submitted after recognizing that Wang Bert could defeat it.
• Wang Bert learned that Alioth needed more than a thousand years to devour the Infinity Stones and that its route out of the End of Time had been sealed.
• Wang Bert told Sylvie and Ravonna they might not escape, but Sylvie refused to give up and he ordered Alioth to reveal Kang the Conqueror's castle.

Wang Bert learned from Kang the Conqueror’s books how Alioth sustained the End of Time and found a way to escape with the survivors. Meanwhile, Phastos tried to smuggle away Ultron’s mechanical body to help locate Ultron, but Old Tony caught him.

• Wang Bert read Kang the Conqueror’s books and learned that Materialism Power could be bypassed by technologically converted power.
• Wang Bert explained that Alioth maintained the End of Time by consuming Time Criminals and branches, and that its withdrawal of energy would destroy the Timeline and free them from confinement.
• Wang Bert promised Alioth would protect the survivors, agreed to take the Lokis he already knew, and ordered Alioth to reclaim its energy.
• On Earth, Phastos used Pym Particles to shrink Ultron’s mechanical body and replace it with a convincing replica, hoping to help Wakanda find Ultron.
• Old Tony exposed Phastos’s theft through the Chips in the mechanical body and warned him not to try again; Phastos insisted that Wakanda needed the body to locate Ultron before Earth faced disaster.