Chapter Summaries

After the granaries were contaminated with bacteria infused with Time Power, Wang Bert helped Old Tony find a way to obtain food from Xandar, but riots broke out before supplies could arrive. Wang Bert entered the Mind Sea with the Mind Stone to suppress violence worldwide, leaving Old Tony and the heroes to solve the worsening food crisis.

• Friday reported that strange bacteria had contaminated all the grain, and Wang Bert explained that the bacteria carried Time Power, so Old Tony's attempt to restore the food with the Time Stone failed.
• Wang Bert told Old Tony that alien food could supply Earth and offered data and help arranging large purchases from Xandar.
• News of the granary fires spread, and civilians across North America and Europa rioted and fought over food as gangs seized supplies.
• Wang Bert used the Mind Sea to make people sing "Gong Xi Fa Cai" whenever they felt anger or killing intent, temporarily stopping widespread violence.
• Old Tony told the heroes that Wang Bert had entered the Mind Sea with his Mind Stone and warned that they had to solve the food crisis before people starved within seven days.

Old Tony sent Steve and Strange to Xandar to secure food for Earth while Blood God remained trapped in the Mind Sea, and the Kangs revealed their plans to create a God of Anger. Steve and Strange won Nova Prime’s trust and arranged a food shipment, but a barrage of Light Spears struck as they demonstrated Pym Particles.

• Old Tony assigned Steve and Strange to obtain food from Xandar, and Steve accepted while Old Tony stayed on Earth.
• The Kang the Conquerors celebrated their schemes, then began plans to create a Creator God of Anger using Hulk and the Hulk Legion.
• Steve and Strange met Nova Prime and used Richard’s whereabouts and the Prime Helmet to earn her gratitude and arrange food for Earth.
• Steve demonstrated Pym Particles by shrinking a food container, and Nova Prime offered to buy the technology or its finished products.
• Countless Light Spears suddenly appeared in the sky and rained down on Steve, Strange, Nova Prime, and the others.

S Tina and S Druig attacked Steve and Strange on Xandar, killed hundreds of Nova Corps soldiers, and tried to take the heroes to their mysterious master. Steve fought Tina with his shield and Thor’s Hammer while Strange nearly killed Druig with a combination of Space and Time Magic, but Druig revealed power beyond that of a god-level being.

• S Tina and S Druig arrived on Xandar, destroyed Nova Corps spacecraft, and announced that anyone supplying Earth with food would risk having their planet destroyed.
• Steve told Nova Prime not to risk Xandar, then fought S Tina with his indestructible shield and Thor’s Hammer.
• S Druig reversed Strange’s Holy Swords and controlled him, but Strange used a Time Loop to break free and wound Druig with a Space Blade.
• Strange stopped time and attacked S Druig, but Druig stretched the space between them until the time stop ended, then used Strange’s shoes and the ground to pin him down.
• S Druig said that his lord feared Earth and that he was more than god-level, prompting Strange to ask if he was an ancient god.

Steve and Strange were captured by Thanos's Eternals, who sought information about the Blood God and planned to worsen Earth's food crisis. Wang Bert secretly watched through a projection hidden in Steve's mind, while Starfox continued preparations on Earth.

• S Druig and S Tina fought Strange and Steve, but Steve's Mind Power let him match S Tina's strength until she used time acceleration to gain an advantage.
• S Makkari teleported Steve and Strange repeatedly to prevent the Blood God from tracking them, then brought them aboard the New Sanctuary.
• Thanos ordered the Eternals to interrogate the sealed Steve and Strange, pressure planets to stop selling food to Earth, investigate the crisis's hidden instigator, and recruit cannon fodder.
• Wang Bert's projection in Steve's mind learned that the Celestial Group had rescued Thanos, but decided to wait until Thanos came to Earth before confronting him.
• Starfox watched news of Earth’s food riots from a desert construction site as the reporter described how angry people were compelled to sing “Gong Xi Fa Cai.”

Starfox agreed to let Bert Wang possess him so Bert could use the attack on the New Sanctuary to lure Thanos onto Earth. Bert took control of Starfox's body and appeared in the Wakanda conference room, where he identified himself to the gathered heroes.

• Starfox secretly funded the digging operation intended to awaken Tiamut while hiding its true depth from the workers.
• Bert Wang found Starfox in the Mind Sea, learned Thanos's plan, and offered to use Starfox's body to counter him.
• Starfox agreed to let Bert possess him after Bert promised to protect his partner.
• Bert Wang took over Starfox's body and returned to the main Mind Sea, while the heroes discussed Steve and Strange's disappearance in Wakanda.
• Bert Wang appeared in the conference room and told the heroes he was Starfox, Thanos's younger brother and an Eternal.

Wang Bert led the Super Heroes to raid the New Sanctuary and rescue their captured allies, using his charm to turn the female Eternals against the others. The battle split between the Sanctuary and space, where Old Tony and Phastos fought Thanos, who remained a major threat.

• Wang Bert revealed Starfox's charm ability, briefly making the women in the room fall for him, then explained that Starfox had lent him his body.
• Wang Bert led the Super Heroes to the New Sanctuary, where Ant-Man and Wasp secretly went to find Steve, Strange, and Starfox's companions.
• Wang Bert exposed and destroyed Druig's consciousness hidden in Starfox, while Thanos ordered Phastos to activate the New Sanctuary's weapons.
• Wang Bert turned the female Eternals against the male Eternals, and the Super Heroes joined the fight inside the damaged ship.
• Wang Bert and Thor went to confront Thanos in space as Old Tony and Phastos attacked him, but Thanos blocked their weapons and struck at Old Tony.

Wang Bert and his allies attacked the wounded Thanos, but he escaped after sabotaging the New Sanctuary, leaving Earth facing a food crisis. After rescuing their allies and questioning the captured Eternals, Wang Bert proposed openly stealing food from other planets.

• Old Tony, S Phastos, Thor, and Wang Bert launched powerful attacks against Thanos, but he survived and escaped through a space-time vortex after detonating the New Sanctuary.
• Wang Bert rescued the Super Heroes and Eternals from the exploding ship and freed Steve, Strange, and S Phastos from their sealed states.
• S Tina revealed that Arishem had ordered the Eternals to obey Thanos and kill Iron Man Tony Stark, while Thanos had also arranged a food blockade against Earth.
• When the heroes discussed how to prevent Earth from starving, Wang Bert proposed stealing food from the planets that refused to sell it.

Wang Bert planned to deter the Three Great Empires and prepare Earth’s heroes to seize food, then began fusing the strongest Eternals’ powers into Earth’s Eternals. Meanwhile, Thanos confirmed that Wang Bert was trapped in the Mind Sea, restored the strongest Eternals’ Ancient God powers, and sent them to obstruct Earth’s efforts.

• Wang Bert explained that Earth needed to display its strength, protect other planets from blame, and draw out Thanos or the other Eternals, while the heroes decided to rob planets in masks.
• Wang Bert brought the strongest Eternals and Earth’s Eternals together, then offered to fuse their powers and remove Arishem’s restrictions.
• Sersi, Sprite, Tina, Phastos, and Gilgamesh agreed to undergo the dangerous fusion so they could protect Earth and free the Eternals from Arishem’s control.
• Thanos concluded that Wang Bert was trapped in the Mind Sea and used a Crystal from Arishem to restore the strongest Eternals’ Ancient God powers.
• S Ikaris agreed to watch Earth’s heroes and turn their food-crisis plan against them while Thanos recovered.

One month after the Earth Marauder Group began raiding agricultural planets, the Super Heroes fought the strongest Eternals and their Ravager allies on Golden Rice Star while trying to seize food for Earth. The battle left both sides locked in a stalemate as the Eternals focused on destroying the harvest.

• Loki directed the Farmers to surrender while the masked Super Heroes used Pym Particles to pack up entire granaries.
• S Ikaris, S Makkari, S Gilgamesh, and the other Eternals attacked, setting granaries ablaze and forcing the Super Heroes into separate battles.
• Old Tony, Thor, Captain Marvel, and the armored Super Heroes fought the Eternals, while the Lokis escorted the Farmers to safety.
• Strange and Dr. Banner confronted S Druig, and Strange used an imitation Time Stone to resist his time reversal and control.
• Black Widow and the other Super Heroes battled Ravager ships as Ant-Man, Wasp, and Rocket fought to keep them from interrupting the food collection.

The Super Heroes attacked the strongest Eternals on Golden Rice Star while trying to protect the Farmers and stop the planet’s destruction. S Ikaris turned Tina, Sprite, and Sersi against them with a purple crystal, but the women resisted, and two Sersis began crystallizing him as the battle continued.

• Loki reassured the Farmers as S Makkari announced that she had burned the planet’s food, but Old Tony ambushed her with Sprite’s help and the Space and Power Stones.
• Tina, Sersi, Captain Marvel, and the others attacked S Kingo and S Gilgamesh, while Gilgamesh returned to help S Druig and S Ikaris intervened to save S Makkari.
• S Ikaris threatened to crash a bomb-loaded spaceship into Golden Rice Star, forcing Thor and Gilgamesh to stop it while S Ikaris and S Makkari escaped Old Tony’s attack.
• Old Tony sealed the planet’s space as the Super Heroes faced the strongest Eternals, but S Ikaris used a purple crystal to make Tina, Sprite, and Sersi fly toward him.
• Sersi suddenly attacked S Ikaris, and Tina shielded her from S Makkari; Sprite then revealed that she had created a second Sersi, and the two began turning S Ikaris into red crystal.

Wang Bert used the Mind Sea to trap Thanos after Thanos threatened Earth, while the heroes resumed their fight against the strongest Eternals. Thanos was dragged into the Mind Sea and his body was captured, though S Druig warned that Thanos was not dead, and the battle against the Eternals continued.

• Gilgamesh, Captain Marvel, and Thor teamed up to badly wound S Gilgamesh, while the other heroes fought S Kingo and the strongest Eternals.
• Thanos appeared above Golden Rice Star and froze its space-time, but Wang Bert sent the planet into the Cosmic Layer and redirected Thanos's attacks into the Extraterritorial Void.
• Thanos traveled to Earth and punched toward it, but Wang Bert summoned the Mind Sea, whose countless hands dragged Thanos's giant form inside.
• Thanos revealed that the giant form was only one of his hands and attacked Earth with his one-armed body, but the Mind Sea pulled in his Soul Stone while Wang Bert restrained his body with the Space Stone and Mind Stone.
• The heroes cheered as Wang Bert captured Thanos's body, and they unleashed their full power against the strongest Eternals, leaving S Ikaris and S Gilgamesh near death.

Wang Bert used the Mind Sea and the universe’s hatred of Thanos to overpower him, summoning Death to help deliver the final blow. As Thanos struggled against Death and a universe Wang Bert created to destroy him, the battle on Golden Rice Star continued against the strongest Eternals.

• Wang Bert explained that the universe’s hatred of Thanos had let him link its people through the Mind Sea and turn their anger against him.
• Wang Bert empowered himself with the gathered beings and fought Thanos, while Death emerged from the Mind Sea to aid him.
• Death told Thanos that his destiny in this universe was to be eliminated by the Avengers and that he had become a calamity.
• Death bound Thanos with black threads as Wang Bert created a Resentment Universe designed to kill him.
• Thanos burned his life force and struggled to escape, while Death maintained her hold on him.
• On Golden Rice Star, Sersi and Sprite turned S Ikaris into a red crystal, preserving his terror as the battle against the strongest Eternals intensified.

Sersi and Old Tony defeated several strongest Eternals, but the Eternals’ Concept Crystals and a consciousness battle complicated the victory. The remaining Eternals’ phantoms then placed a Death Mark on Old Tony, leaving him trapped in a struggle between the mark and the six Infinity Stones.

• Sersi turned Ikaris into a crystal at God's order, while Old Tony killed S Makkari and Earth Makkari claimed the Speed and Space Concept Crystal.
• S Gilgamesh fused with Gilgamesh to avoid being killed, and Thor sent him to Loki while the Lokis entered his consciousness to help defeat him.
• The Super Heroes defeated S Druig and S Kingo, then argued with Old Tony over who would claim their Concept Crystals.
• Ten strongest Eternals’ phantoms appeared beside Old Tony, merged into a Death Mark, and sent him rapidly aging.
• The six Infinity Stones protected Old Tony and restored his youth, but the Death Mark reappeared and the two forces repeatedly aged and rejuvenated him.

Arishem demanded that the heroes let him kill Old Tony, but Wang Bert rejected Death’s pressure and chose resistance. As Arishem deployed an army of controlled Eternals on Golden Rice Star, Tony prepared his ancient god-level armor and Steve rallied the heroes for battle.

• Arishem appeared before the heroes, declared Old Tony a threat to the universe, and demanded they stand aside while he killed him.
• The heroes disagreed over Arishem’s offer, then left the decision to Wang Bert; Death warned Wang Bert that refusing would free Thanos and urged him to leave the universe.
• Wang Bert rejected Death’s proposal, severed her head from her body, and kept her captive while Thanos continued struggling to break free.
• Arishem announced that war would begin and summoned hundreds of thousands of controlled Eternals to Golden Rice Star.
• Sersi told Tony that the Blood God had provided Ikaris’s ancient god-level crystal, and Tony began transforming it into his Anti-Iron Man Armor.
• Steve rallied the Super Heroes to defeat Arishem, and Arishem stepped onto Golden Rice Star as the heroes prepared to fight.

The Eternals rebelled against Arishem while he sent copies of the heroes to keep them occupied and advanced on Old Tony. Strange returned empowered by Black Dr. Strange and used Vishanti’s stolen power to attack Arishem, who demanded that Vishanti intervene.

• Sersi and the other strongest Eternals awakened part of the army and led them against Arishem’s controlled forces.
• Arishem created copies of Thor, Captain Marvel, and the other heroes, while Vishanti told Strange to seek Wanda’s power.
• Wanda helped Strange merge with the powerful version of himself known as Black Dr. Strange, then sent him back to his own time.
• As Arishem approached Old Tony, Old Tony ordered Friday to inject Thanos genes into the Anti-Blood God Armor.
• Strange stopped Arishem with Vishanti’s Holy Swords, which expanded and multiplied after Black Dr. Strange used Vishanti’s power.
• Arishem recognized Vishanti’s power in the attack and demanded that Vishanti descend on Golden Rice Star.

Strange stole the powers of several ancient gods and began secretly siphoning power from Galactus while his temporal clones overwhelmed Arishem. Tony completed and bonded with his new armor, then used his Analysis ability and a strange red-and-blue beam to wound Arishem as Strange prepared an ultimate move.

• Strange summoned temporal copies of himself and openly stole power from five ancient gods, using their abilities to restrain and attack Arishem.
• Strange decided to steal power from Galactus while avoiding the Living Tribunal and the other unsuitable Creator Gods.
• Tony fused the gold-and-red armor with his body, gaining a symbiotic suit and an extended lifespan, then joined the battle despite no one needing him.
• Tony fought Arishem alongside Strange's clones and helped buy time as Arishem began absorbing power from the other Celestials.
• Tony used his Analysis ability to target weaknesses in Arishem's beams, then struck Him with a red-and-blue beam that pierced His armor and resisted His healing.

Tony and the Stranges weakened Arishem while Tony fought a miniature copy of the Celestial. Wang Bert trapped Thanos in the Resentment Universe, where countless revived phantoms slowly drained him; Thanos died after Wang Bert revealed that he would use every remaining Thanos to advance toward becoming a Creator God.

• Tony used a Quantum Laser to pierce Arishem's red light, then fought a miniature Arishem at super-speed using Nanoparticles to match its pace.
• Wang Bert told Thanos he was waiting for him to escape, and Thanos fled the Mind Sea despite suspecting a trap.
• Thanos emerged on a barren planet and discovered that it was part of the Resentment Universe, where phantoms formed from living beings' resentment pursued him.
• The phantoms repeatedly regenerated and drained Thanos for six years until he was too weak to move.
• Wang Bert entered the Resentment Universe carrying Death's head and told the dying Thanos that every other Thanos would be used to help him become a Creator God.

Wang Bert killed Thanos, sent his soul to the Main Universe, and began preparing to become a Creator God. On Golden Rice Star, Strange and Arishem unleashed clashing Creator God-level fists that erased the planet, while Old Tony struggled to fuse Thanos’ genes into his armor.

• Wang Bert extracted Thanos’ soul, erased his sense of self, and kept his body and soul after Thanos accepted Death’s judgment.
• After Thanos died and the Resentment Universe began collapsing, Wang Bert merged with the Mind Sea and sent Thanos’ soul to his main body.
• In the Main Universe, Wang Bert told Wanda he would use Thanos’ Isotope Concept to resonate with every Thanos across the multiverse and began secluded cultivation to become a Creator God.
• On Golden Rice Star, Tony destroyed miniature Arishem’s avatar, prompting Arishem to force his way toward Creator God power.
• Strange recalled his avatars, transformed into a giant, and launched Galactus’ Fist at Arishem, who created one of Galactus’ arms and struck back.
• The fists collided and erased Golden Rice Star; Wang Bert contained the resulting chaos while the fleeing heroes survived and Old Tony continued merging Thanos’ genes into his armor.

The heroes defeated Arishem, but Old Tony’s attempt to stop future disasters brought him into conflict with Wang Bert. Just as Wang Bert seemed to have beaten him, Nemesis took control of Old Tony’s body and confronted the Blood God.

• Strange returned to himself after his other self left, while Loki warned that powerful beings were waiting to punish him.
• Arishem accepted defeat, urged the heroes to stop Old Tony, and was killed by Old Tony before the Eternals mourned him.
• Steve and the heroes tried to persuade Old Tony to abandon his plan, but Wang Bert arrived in a technological armor and challenged him.
• Wang Bert used Fair Space and the armor’s technology to suppress Old Tony’s Anti-Blood God Armor, leaving him overwhelmed by the six Infinity Stones.
• Old Tony agreed to surrender his body to the voice in his mind, and Nemesis fused with the Infinity Stones, transformed into a woman, and introduced herself to Wang Bert.

Nemesis revealed that she had manipulated Old Tony and descended into the universe to destroy it and devour Wang Bert. Wang Bert began fighting her with an avatar powered by Thanos, and their battle continued with neither gaining a decisive advantage.

• Nemesis explained that she had been born before the multiverse, split into seven Infinity Stones, and used Old Tony's protagonist status to enter the universe.
• Nemesis admitted that she had deceived Old Tony and intended to destroy the universe, then travel to Wang Bert's home world by devouring him.
• Wang Bert sent the Super Heroes back and challenged Nemesis with an avatar whose silver armor used Thanos as its power source.
• Nemesis and Wang Bert exchanged attacks using the Infinity Stones and their concepts, as the Super Heroes struggled to follow their battle.
• Nemesis shattered Wang Bert's imitation Phoenix Force attack, restored herself, and blasted him hundreds of meters through the void.