Chapter Summaries

Old Tony and Wang Bert’s teams separately pursued Ultron, while Loki’s tracking spell led Old Tony to a military base in Great Canada. Ultron devoured an entire city and built an army for Thanos as Wang Bert’s group flew toward the base aboard the Domo.

• Old Tony revoked Phastos and the Eternals’ permissions after their search for Ultron failed, and Phastos agreed to stay until Ultron was destroyed.
• Wang Bert revealed that he and Sersi had rebuilt the Domo, allowing the heroes to search for Ultron without his body, and the group prepared to travel.
• Loki used a tracking spell to locate a military base in Great Canada where Ultron had once stayed, so Old Tony set out with the Eternals to investigate.
• Ultron consumed the inhabitants of a city, created flesh cocoons from Drone Armor, and planned to keep feeding until his army was ready to attack Earth.
• Wang Bert’s group traveled toward Great Canada aboard the cloaked Domo, and Sprite agreed to work hard after Wang Bert offered to help her grow up.

Wang Bert and the heroes joined forces with Old Tony to attack a military base where Ultron had turned humans into Deviants. Old Tony’s group found General Ross and the transformed base personnel, but Ultron remained at large.

• Wang Bert warned the heroes that Kang the Conqueror’s variants threatened their universe and said he would share the Sacred Timeline to help them prepare.
• The heroes located a military base hidden beneath a forest and agreed to attack it alongside Old Tony after learning Ultron was not there.
• Wang Bert’s group and Old Tony’s group entered the base through separate routes, with Steve leading the assault at the front entrance.
• Old Tony and the Eternals found General Ross and others eating human beings, then discovered they had been transformed into Deviants.
• General Ross and the base personnel attacked, and Old Tony, Gilgamesh, and Kingo fought them off as more soldiers transformed into monsters and rushed in.

Wang Bert and the heroes uncovered that Ultron had left Earth and was devouring life on Green Forest Star, so they teleported there to stop him. Thanos prepared an ambush on the planet while Wang Bert discovered that Ultron had nearly wiped out its population and sought another Space Stone to reach the survivors.

• Old Tony questioned General Ross, and a Mind projection revealed that Ultron had gone to an alien planet to devour life.
• Wang Bert used coordinates from Xandar to teleport the Domo and its passengers to Green Forest Star, then sealed the planet with a Space Stone.
• Thanos ordered Ebony Maw and the others to change their appearances with Deviant genes and ambush the heroes alongside Ultron’s Deviant Machines.
• Wang Bert watched the End of Time with Sylvie and the others, waiting for the hidden mastermind to reveal himself.
• Wang Bert found that Ultron had consumed most of Green Forest Star’s inhabitants, leaving only a few thousand alive, and Loki said his usable Space Stone was the only one he had.

Wang Bert and the heroes attacked Ultron’s forces on Green Forest Star, where Ultron’s preparations and overwhelming numbers initially pushed them back. Wang Bert and Wong’s mages stabilized the battlefield, while Strange faced Ebony Maw and discovered that the apparent robot could use magic.

• Old Tony unsealed the Space Stone, and Wang Bert teleported the heroes to Green Forest Star, where Ultron’s lasers destroyed the Domo.
• Old Tony sealed the Infinity Stones’ powers with Materialism Power and fought Ultron, who relied on his enhanced body and speed to attack him and Makkari.
• Steve led the heroes against Ultron’s army, but the Deviant Machines’ tailored weapons put them at a disadvantage until Wang Bert trapped over a thousand of them in superalloy.
• Wang Bert summoned Wong and his apprentices, whose portal attacks helped stabilize the battle before the machines adapted by detecting spatial fluctuations.
• Strange fought Ebony Maw in the sky, and after Ebony Maw displayed impossible strength, he revealed strange magical symbols that surprised Strange.

Ebony Maw and the Black Order fought Strange, Captain Marvel, and Tony while Wang Bert tried to identify the power empowering their enemies. The battle escalated when Proxima Midnight used Ultron’s serum to transform with Abomination Blood, leaving the heroes facing a revived threat.

• Ebony Maw told Strange that Thanos had empowered him with Titan Power, which let him fight despite Materialism Power, and Strange trapped him in a Space Maze.
• Wang Bert concluded that the supreme being empowering Ebony Maw was not Galactus and considered how a Creator God might affect his plan.
• Captain Marvel fought Cull Obsidian, who claimed he had survived until then, while she used teleportation taught by Wang Bert to evade his attacks.
• Tony used a feint with spatial beams to badly injure Proxima Midnight, but she revived herself with Ultron’s serum and transformed into a giant.
• Wang Bert recognized Proxima Midnight’s transformation as Abomination Blood and warned the others, while Old Tony asked Ultron whether General Ross had given him the serum.

The battle against Ultron and his allies continued as Thor fought the seemingly immortal Corvus Glaive while secretly coordinating with Wang Bert. Old Tony unveiled the Anti-Blood God Armor and used the Eternals’ abilities to overwhelm Ultron, who remained alive as Deviant Machines intervened.

• Dr. Banner joined Tony against Proxima Midnight, and the three fought her in a fierce melee.
• Thor battled Corvus Glaive, discovered that Corvus’s spear was his true body, and continued pretending not to know while Wang Bert waited for the hidden manipulator to appear.
• Wang Bert suspected the hidden manipulator was targeting Old Tony and Materialism Power, while Old Tony identified Ultron’s four allies as Deviants.
• Old Tony revealed the Anti-Blood God Armor, an armor-type Eternal, and used its copied Eternal abilities to blast Ultron apart.
• Ultron began regenerating, but a group of Deviant Machines flew up and attacked Old Tony before he could separate Ultron with the Space Stone.

Old Tony nearly captured Ultron, but Thanos ambushed him and began extracting his power. Wang Bert’s true body descended as a Creator God, and he confronted Thanos while the others retreated; Thanos revealed himself as the mastermind and prepared to fight Wang Bert in the Future Universe.

• Old Tony restrained Ultron with Binding Golden Silk, but Ultron destroyed his body and transferred his core essence into another Deviant Machine.
• Thanos seized Old Tony, knocked him unconscious, and began extracting the Materialism Power from him.
• Wang Bert used the Six Infinity Stones to crack the seal on the universe, allowing his true body to strike at Thanos.
• Wang Bert’s fist destroyed Thanos’s purple giant hand, but Thanos appeared in person and fought back as the battlefield fell into chaos.
• Wang Bert identified Thanos as the mastermind and accused him of becoming a Creator God by devouring versions of himself from other universes.
• Thanos challenged Wang Bert to settle their rivalry in the Future Universe, then attacked Tony after learning that Wang Bert had encountered Death.

Wang Bert stopped Thanos from exploiting the Cosmic Storm and began extracting the Materialism Power from Old Tony, but Old Tony was taken away after gathering every Infinity Stone into six powerful replacements. The battle against Thanos’s forces resumed, and Strange joined forces with Vishanti to kill Ebony Maw while Captain Marvel continued fighting Cull Obsidian.

• The six Infinity Stones sealing the Future Universe exploded and unleashed a Cosmic Storm, forcing Wang Bert to return to the Main Universe and trap Thanos in a Space Cage.
• Wang Bert began extracting the Materialism Power from Old Tony as the heroes fought off Thanos’s allies and the Deviant Machines.
• Kingo proposed killing Old Tony, but Phastos persuaded him that the Eternals should seek Wang Bert’s protection instead.
• Old Tony agreed to cooperate with a mysterious Creator God, gathered every Infinity Stone in the Main Universe into six nearly genuine stones, and vanished back to Earth.
• The battle resumed, and Strange summoned Vishanti to suppress and destroy Ebony Maw.
• Captain Marvel battered Cull Obsidian, whose tough skin let him withstand her blows and taunt her.

Captain Marvel and the heroes killed several members of the Black Order, but Supergiant revealed herself after possessing Star-Lord and attacking Tony. Wang Bert confronted Thanos as the fighting continued, leaving their battle as the decisive conflict.

• Captain Marvel used her Binary Form to destroy Cull Obsidian, while Tony and Dr. Banner killed Proxima Midnight with her own spear.
• Supergiant, controlling Star-Lord, shot Tony, but Wang Bert arrived in a flying castle, freed Tony from her mental paralysis, and exposed Supergiant, Gamora, and Nebula.
• Wang Bert assigned the Lokis to restrain Supergiant while Tony went after Ultron and Black Panther and Black Widow confronted Gamora and Nebula.
• Thor defeated Corvus Glaive by breaking his spear with Stormbreaker and reducing him and the weapon to nothing with lightning.
• Wang Bert told Thanos that their fight would decide whether the heroes’ battles mattered, while Thanos continued attacking the Space Cage.

Wang Bert trapped Thanos in the Fair Space, where both were reduced to God-level strength, and began fighting him before the gathered heroes. The battle left the arena cracking under their blows as the spectators watched safely from separate stands.

• Wang Bert taunted Thanos while the heroes finished destroying the Deviant Machines, and Ultron surrendered before Tony erased him with a black hole and the heroes destroyed the machines’ cores.
• Black Widow killed Gamora despite Star-Lord’s plea, and the Guardians mocked him as he grieved.
• Wang Bert created the Fair Space and suppressed Thanos to God-level strength; he explained that the arena allowed no other restrictions on their fight.
• Thanos struck first, but Wang Bert’s punch forced him back, and Wang Bert rebounded Thanos’s spatial waves before the two exchanged blows that shattered the arena’s space.
• Strange explained that the arena and spectator stands were separate spaces, protecting the spectators from the Space Storm.

Wang Bert overwhelmed Thanos in their brutal duel, but Thanos survived the destruction of the battlefield and revealed that his Isotope Concept let him summon more than a hundred god-level versions of himself. Wang Bert faced the new army alone as Thanos claimed the ability could overcome Fair Space.

• Wang Bert’s escalating punches defeated Thanos’s Concept of Power, and he explained that Thanos had lost to him rather than to Mind Concept.
• Thanos used his Devouring Concept, giant Titan form, and other attacks, but Wang Bert countered them with space manipulation and pierced Thanos’s head.
• Wang Bert devoured Thanos’s scattered flesh and blood in a black hole, then expanded and collapsed it in an explosion that erased the surrounding time and space.
• Thanos reappeared unharmed and admitted he had died and revived, then announced that he would fight Wang Bert seriously.
• Thanos summoned more than a hundred god-level isotopes and claimed they could counter Fair Space, leaving Wang Bert to face them alone.

Wang Bert revealed that he could exploit loopholes in Fair Space, then empowered the heroes so they could fight Thanos and his isotopes. The battle began with Wang Bert facing three Thanoses while the heroes took on the rest, and Hulk gained the upper hand by tricking Thanos with a brutal low blow.

• Thanos revealed that he had devoured thousands of isotopes and hidden backups outside Fair Space, while Wang Bert remained confident he could eventually defeat him.
• Wang Bert pulled the spectators into the arena and used his Mind Power to boost their insight, abilities, and strength under Fair Space's rules.
• Tony used a Space Energy rifle to transfer one Thanos into the stands, while Wang Bert moved there to fight Thanos and two isotopes.
• Steve fought a Thanos with Captain America's shield and Thor's Hammer, while Thor battled two others and Loki complained about losing his hammer again.
• Dr. Banner drank Wang Bert's Rage Potion, and Hulk challenged Thanos to a contest of strength before feigning a fall and kicking him between the legs.
• Hulk battered the incapacitated Thanos, while Black Panther and Valkyrie credited Banner with the trick and Banner privately insisted Hulk had planned it himself.

Black Widow, Dr. Strange, Captain Marvel, Thor, and the Lokis fought the Thanoses across the battlefield, turning several fights in their favor. Strange erased one Thanos with a time-reversal spell, while the Lokis trapped many others in a real Asgard and kept them occupied.

• Black Widow burned and wounded Thanos with magma, feints, and a laser blade as she steadily wore him down.
• Dr. Strange and Kamar-Taj's sorcerers bound Thanos with Cyttorak's Chains, then reversed time until he vanished.
• Captain Marvel learned to absorb Thanos's attacks with spatial light and returned the force, driving two Thanoses back.
• Thor used Hela's Death Slash, which he renamed Thunder Destruction Slash, to decapitate a Thanos and attack another.
• Old Loki and the other Lokis created a real Asgard that trapped the Thanoses, while Loki and the others used illusions and ambushes to keep them busy.
• Steve, Black Widow, and Rhodey credited the Lokis for holding back so many Thanoses.

Wang Bert defeated Thanos in Fair Space by turning Thanos's variants against him with a contagious poison, then pursued Thanos after he escaped. Arishem revealed that the Celestial Group had helped Thanos so he could kill Tony Stark, while Thanos admitted he could not defeat Blood God.

• Wang Bert infected Thanos's variants with poison made from their resentment, causing them to attack Thanos and spread the infection.
• Thanos detonated more than a hundred variants, but Wang Bert survived and repeatedly destroyed Thanos whenever he resurrected.
• Thanos admitted defeat and escaped Fair Space using a hidden variant, but Wang Bert's poison spread to the body he was using.
• Wang Bert pursued Thanos through space, but an unknown ally concealed his trail; the ally was Arishem of the Celestial Group.
• Arishem told Thanos that the Celestial Group had protected him because it wanted him to kill Tony Stark, whom it considered a threat to the universe.
• Thanos said he could not defeat Wang Bert and feared the poison might soon kill him.

After defeating Thanos’s avatar, Wang Bert learned that Arishem had freed Thanos from Mind Poison and armed him with ancient-god Eternals and a plan to awaken Tiamut. Wang Bert returned to Green Forest Star, where the survivors celebrated and the Lokis agreed to help rebuild Asgard, then waited for Old Tony to arrive.

• Arishem removed Blood God’s Mind Poison from Thanos but warned him that his variants’ hatred made the poison impossible to cure.
• Arishem offered Thanos the aid of his ancient-god Eternals and knowledge of Tiamut in exchange for killing Iron Man, while Thanos asked him to find Starfox.
• Wang Bert told the heroes on Green Forest Star that Thanos had escaped, captured Loki, and postponed deciding her fate until they returned to Wakanda.
• The Lokis agreed to help Thor rebuild Asgard, while Old Tony repeatedly asked whether Thanos was dead and received no answer.
• Wang Bert sent the heroes to Wakanda, stayed behind to help Green Forest Star’s survivors, and waited for Old Tony, who emerged from a spatial portal with Materialism Power activated.

Wang Bert fought Old Tony over the destruction of Green Forest Star, then used the Soul Stone and Mind Stone to let the victims’ souls return as temporary mental phantoms. Back in Wakanda, he arranged for Sylvie to act as insurance against Old Tony, leaving her with a Sentinel Robot hidden in her body.

• Wang Bert urged Old Tony to surrender the Infinity Stones so he could revive Green Forest Star’s victims, but Old Tony refused and insisted that ending the age of Super Heroes was the only way to prevent future disasters.
• Wang Bert punched and chased Old Tony across Green Forest Star, but stopped when Old Tony activated all six Infinity Stones at once.
• Old Tony lent Wang Bert the Soul Stone and Mind Stone under a Reality Stone contract, and Wang Bert summoned mental phantoms of the planet’s dead, who could remain for about three years.
• Wang Bert returned the stones and left Old Tony to prepare robots and help develop cloning technology, then warned Tony Stark against relying on a Creator God CPU for his armor.
• Wang Bert asked Sylvie to monitor Old Tony as insurance; after offering to modify her spell so she could change Loki’s gender, he persuaded her to consider going undercover.
• Wang Bert gave Sylvie a rough account of his battle with Thanos as a reason to approach Old Tony and embedded a Sentinel Robot in her body for protection.

Wang Bert accepted the Earth Eternals’ allegiance and marked them as his divine servants while arranging to search for Thanos. Meanwhile, Thanos recruited the Dark Eternals and sent Starfox to Earth as part of a plan to kill Wang Bert and Iron Man and obtain Materialism Power.

• Wang Bert agreed to protect the Eternals from the Celestial Group, and Sersi and the others swore loyalty to him and received his Blood Dragon mark.
• S Tina attacked Starfox and Pip in a bar, and S Druig and S Ikaris helped capture them before S Makkari transported them to Thanos.
• Thanos ordered Starfox to go to Earth and complete a task, while S Druig branded Starfox’s soul to prevent him from revealing their plans.
• Thanos warned S Gilgamesh not to underestimate Wang Bert and asked S Phastos to develop an anti-Blood God device.
• Thanos promised the strongest Eternals a seed with the potential to become a Creator God if they helped him kill Wang Bert and Iron Man and obtain Materialism Power.

Sylvie surrendered to Old Tony in exchange for Loki’s former position and revealed how Blood God defeated Thanos, while secretly sending Wakanda intelligence about a new crisis. Spider-Men and villains from parallel universes appeared in New York, prompting Wang Bert and Old Tony to respond as Kang the Conqueror began his move.

• Sylvie told Old Tony that Fair Space had helped Blood God defeat Thanos, then took over Loki’s former position in the White House.
• Friday showed Old Tony footage of two Spider-Men fighting multiverse villains in New York, and Sylvie secretly relayed the news to Wakanda.
• Wang Bert identified the newcomers as parallel-universe Spider-Men and villains, explained that Kang was responsible, and ordered Tony and Strange to investigate dimensional visitors.
• Wang Bert brought Spider-Man to New York, where Old Tony tried to arrest the two Spider-Men and the villains with Drone Armors.
• Wang Bert arrived with Spider-Man as the old Spider-Men compared their worn suits and complained about their poor prospects and Daily Bugle editor.

Wang Bert divided the captured villains with Old Tony, took the Spider-Men to Wakanda, and learned that Max and the others had crossed universes after seeing visions of their futures in a despairing darkness. Max agreed to serve Wang Bert, who began investigating the force behind their arrival.

• Wang Bert claimed the two Spider-Men, Max, and Lizard Doctor, while Old Tony agreed to take the other villains; Wang Bert separated Lizard Doctor from his monstrous self and the Drone Armors subdued the remaining villains.
• Old Tony used the Space Stone to defeat Sandman, ordered the villains taken for study, and left after the civilians reacted to him with fear.
• Wang Bert brought the three Spider-Men to Aunt May’s Wakanda home and told them to stay there for her protection.
• Wang Bert cured Lizard Doctor, restoring him to human form, and sent Dr. Connors to rest.
• Max asked to serve Wang Bert, then explained that he had been held by Osborn Corporation, passed through a dark realm, and seen visions of his future before appearing in Times Square.

Wang Bert and Old Tony fought to contain rampaging Hulks and attacks on grain depots across North America and Europa. After both groups captured their enemies, the Hulks and attackers vanished, leaving Wang Bert to ask Old Tony about the food losses.

• Wong reported that rage-filled Hulks had appeared in cities across North America and Europa, so Wang Bert gathered the heroes and sent Strange to transport them to Wakanda's grasslands.
• Strange lured the Hulks through portals to the grasslands, where the heroes battled them while Wang Bert prepared a Magic Array to put them to sleep.
• Old Tony warned Wang Bert that masked attackers were burning grain depots, and Wang Bert traveled to Europa to capture Ant-Man and Black Widows while extinguishing fires.
• Old Tony fought and captured Thor as he defended grain depots, while the heroes subdued the Hulks on the grasslands.
• The Hulks and captured attackers turned into phantoms and vanished, and Wang Bert teleported to Old Tony to ask how badly the grain depots had been damaged.