Chapter Summaries

Jude Herbert successfully created a portal that let him and Little Spider travel through space, then used it to visit Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne. He left Bruce with a communicator for emergencies, joking to Little Spider that it could be used more than once.

• Jude transferred Little Spider’s consciousness into a new Peter Parker clone and later resumed their portal experiment.
• Jude reformulated the Portal Fluid, and Little Spider successfully stepped through a portal and appeared ten meters away.
• Jude and Little Spider used the portal to enter Tony Stark’s bedroom, startling Tony and Pepper Potts before they fled through another portal.
• The pair appeared behind Bruce Wayne in Wayne Manor, where Little Spider recognized Bruce as Batman and Jude explained his portal invention.
• Jude gave Bruce a communicator for emergencies and told Little Spider afterward that its one-use limit had been a joke.

Jude sent groups of Clones into unknown universes to begin the Pathfinder Project, but several groups were killed almost immediately. After the Ancient One brought him to the Sanctum Sanctorum, Jude used his armor to reproduce the sorcerers’ magic, astonishing her and her disciples.

• Jude, Little Spider, and Ivy arranged over a hundred groups of their Clones in a remote field and prepared to send them into the multiverse.
• Jude opened a dimensional portal and kicked the first group of Clones through, while Ivy and Little Spider helped send the rest away.
• Jude’s wristwatch reported that group 87 had been wiped out in twenty-three seconds, and he marked its coordinates and those of three more groups that died during the return trip.
• The Ancient One met Jude, Little Spider, and Ivy after they returned to the city, then invited Jude through a portal to the Sanctum Sanctorum.
• Jude scanned the sorcerers’ magic and used Cowboy 2 to create a yellow magical whip, prompting the Ancient One to call him a natural-born mage.

Jude met with Ancient One, who explained that the Time Stone had weakened and asked about the missing Space Stone. Jude revealed that he had destroyed it and turned its power into his Portal Gun, then offered to make Ancient One another Stone once he understood them.

• Jude impressed Ancient One with his ability to use magic, but rejected her invitation to become her successor.
• Jude recommended other potential successors, while Ancient One explained that Mordo, Wang, Constantine, and Zatanna were unsuitable.
• Ancient One showed Jude the weakened Time Stone and said the Trinity Vishanti had linked its decline to damage to the other Infinity Stones.
• Jude admitted that he had destroyed the Space Stone, leaving Ancient One stunned and doubtful.
• Jude opened a portal with his Portal Gun and showed Ancient One that it contained the Space Stone's power.
• Jude told Ancient One he might make her another Stone once he had studied the Infinity Stones.

Jude retrieved a star map from a Setaar warship and learned how many civilizations and interstellar nations existed across the mapped cosmos. He then took Peter to the moon, where Peter asked him for a pair of iron kidneys.

• Jude left the Ancient One and appeared in Condner's office, where he learned that Setaar warships were being studied in Hawaii.
• Jude flew to Hawaii, accessed a Setaar warship's systems, and downloaded its star map despite the researchers' alarm.
• Jude studied the map and discovered it covered about twenty billion light-years, including billions of galaxies and many powerful interstellar nations.
• Jude visited Peter's temporary residence, greeted Aunt May, and asked Gwen if he could take Peter with him.
• Jude brought Peter to the moon, where Peter asked him for a pair of iron kidneys.

Jude and Little Spider discovered Attilan, the Inhumans’ lunar city, and were confronted by Crystal and her soldiers. Rather than fight, Jude let them prepare to capture the pair, intending to visit Attilan and conduct an experiment on the Inhumans.

• Little Spider excitedly jumped across the Moon, then he and Jude detected life signs and found a city hidden in a valley.
• Jude identified the city as Attilan and explained the Inhumans’ origins and their move to the Moon.
• Crystal and her soldiers trapped Jude and Little Spider in a barrier and demanded to know why they were spying on Attilan.
• Jude recognized Crystal and teased her, prompting her to suspect the pair were Kree spies.
• Crystal ordered her soldiers to capture them, while Jude told Little Spider he wanted to visit Attilan and experiment on the Inhumans.

Jude and Peter Parker were taken to Attilan, where they confronted the Inhumans’ royal family and revealed Earth’s plans for the Moon. The chapter ended with Jude offering to take Medusa to Earth so she could verify his claims.

• Crystal escorted Jude and Little Spider through Attilan, where they saw the Inhumans’ rigid class system and enslaved population.
• Jude escaped his electronic shackles, while Peter Parker helped him overpower Crystal and bind the soldiers.
• Jude introduced himself and Peter to Medusa and explained that they were advance personnel from Earth’s United Government.
• Jude told the Inhumans that Earth planned to transform the Moon into a planetary warship like the Death Star.
• Medusa questioned whether Jude was telling the truth, and he offered to take her to Earth with the Portal Gun.

Jude brought Medusa to Earth to persuade the Inhumans to help develop the Moon, showing her a Setaar warship as proof of Earth's strength. Medusa returned to Attilan with a draft agreement, planning to discuss it after Crystal and Gorgon arrived.

• Jude used the Portal Gun to bring Medusa to Earth, leaving Little Spider behind as a hostage while Crystal and Gorgon followed with Lockjaw.
• Jude introduced Medusa to President Condner, whose officials exaggerated Earth's military success and plans for space colonization.
• Jude showed Medusa a galactic map and took her and Condner to a Setaar warship, convincing her that Earth had defeated a powerful interstellar nation.
• Condner proposed hiring the Inhumans to develop the Moon in exchange for Setaar warships and permanent land, while warning that lunar development would proceed regardless.
• Jude returned Medusa to Attilan with a draft agreement, and Medusa decided to wait for Crystal and Gorgon before discussing it.

Jude used Ancient One and Superman to capture Crystal, Gorgon, and Lockjaw after they arrived on Earth, then let them return to Attilan. The Inhumans signed an agreement to help transform the moon, and Jude provided them with a Setaar warship.

• Jude and Medusa returned to Attilan, where Peter and Karnak questioned Jude about his trip and the Inhumans' visitors.
• Ancient One separated Lockjaw's soul from his body, while Superman and Ancient One subdued Crystal and Gorgon on Earth.
• Ancient One questioned the captives, then released them and Lockjaw to return to Attilan.
• Crystal and Gorgon's return helped the Inhumans and Jude complete their negotiations, and they signed a draft agreement.
• The Inhumans agreed to deploy a million slaves and provide Attilan's resources for the lunar transformation project, while Jude gave them a Setaar warship.

Jude oversaw the Moon’s rapid transformation while delegating spacecraft research to Peter Parker and secretly teaching a thousand slaves to seek dignity and freedom. The slaves began spreading the Red Manifesto, and Peter feared a major upheaval was coming.

• A Setaar warship’s arrival helped secure the Inhuman royal family’s agreement, and Jude’s machines hollowed out more than half of the Moon in half a month.
• When the Inhuman scientists asked for help studying the spacecraft, Jude sent Peter Parker to handle their technical problem.
• Jude asked the royal family to select a thousand slaves for intensive training, then began teaching them about dignity, self-respect, and freedom.
• Jude taught the slaves the Red Manifesto and urged them to share its message with their companions.
• Peter Parker warned Jude that something huge seemed about to happen, but Jude welcomed the prospect.

Jude’s work on the Moon advanced while Little Spider helped the Inhumans build their first space warship and drew the royal family’s interest as a potential match for Crystal. As the Inhuman nobles celebrated, Jude’s influence among the slaves surfaced when one slave resisted a noble’s attempt to abduct a girl and her mother.

• Jude’s followers made rapid progress transforming the Moon, while Little Spider’s warship research won the attention of the Inhumans’ elite.
• Little Spider led the construction of the Inhumans’ first space warship, and the royal family invited him to a banquet.
• Medusa praised Little Spider’s work and questioned him about his age, marriage, and feelings for Crystal.
• A lizard-like Inhuman noble ordered soldiers to seize a young slave girl, then ordered them to take her mother as well when she resisted.
• As soldiers threatened the mother and daughter, a slave stood up and shouted against the nobles.

A slave killed a noble and ignited a rebellion that spread across Attilan, with Jude watching as the uprising reached the palace. The Inhuman royal family faced the advancing slaves, and Black Bolt’s roar halted the fighting.

• A slave destroyed a noble’s vehicle, killed him, and rallied other slaves to fight for freedom and equality.
• Slaves overwhelmed soldiers and spread the uprising, killing Inhumans from other classes as the rebellion grew.
• Jude watched from above as millions of slaves surged into Attilan and defeated or scattered the soldiers.
• Captain reported to the royal family that the slaves had surrounded the palace, and the leaders rushed outside to find the city burning and under attack.
• Black Bolt unleashed a roar that echoed across the city and made both sides pause while Jude watched.

Erebus led the slaves in demanding an end to Attilan’s class system, and their confrontation with Black Bolt’s forces erupted into a bloody battle. Jude watched the uprising unfold and planned to guide the new society afterward, while Black Bolt’s devastating roar left the battle nearing its end.

• Medusa demanded to know what the slaves wanted, and Erebus called for equality and the abolition of Attilan’s slave system.
• Erebus offered the nobles and royal family a choice between surrendering their privileges or dying, and the two sides resumed fighting.
• Medusa, Crystal, Gorgon, Triton, and Karnak fought the slaves as casualties mounted on both sides.
• Jude told Peter that he expected the rebels to seek his help and joked about gradually introducing 996-style work practices.
• Black Bolt unleashed a massive roar that killed thousands, and Jude predicted that the battle would soon end.

Medusa surrendered the Moon to the slaves, but Little Spider destroyed the departing Inhuman leaders’ ship, killing them. The slaves’ new government collapsed until Jude took power and reshaped the nation, and the chapter ended with Little Spider reporting that the Moon’s transformation was complete.

• Medusa offered the slaves Attilan and the Moon in exchange for ending the fighting, and the surviving Inhuman leaders agreed to leave.
• Jude and Little Spider saw the Inhumans off, but Little Spider’s sabotage caused their spacecraft to explode after it took off.
• The slaves struggled to govern themselves, then asked Jude to lead them, and he accepted the presidency.
• Jude dismantled the parliament’s authority, took control of politics and the economy, and became an object of worship among the slaves.
• Jude erected giant statues of himself and Little Spider, and a month later Little Spider returned to report that the Moon’s transformation was complete.

Jude showed Little Spider the Micro-Universe Battery he had prepared to power Star One and took him inside the pocket universe contained within it. As they approached a city, Jude told Little Spider to put on an Octopus Suit so they could appear different from the inhabitants.

• Little Spider reported that he had completed Star One, and Jude praised his work.
• Little Spider asked what would power the ship after Jude had him remove the energy reactor, and Jude revealed a Micro-Universe Battery.
• Jude explained that the battery contained a finite universe capable of sustaining life and invited Little Spider to see it.
• Jude shrank himself, Little Spider, and an octopus-shaped aircraft, then flew with him into the battery’s green energy fluid.
• Inside the micro-universe, Little Spider saw forests, mountains, rivers, and figures traveling along mountain roads.
• As they neared a city, Jude told Little Spider to put on an Octopus Suit so they would stand apart from the inhabitants.

Jude Herbert and Peter Parker visited Herbert City in the Battery Universe, where the Battery People worshipped Jude as their god. Jude showed Peter how the society he had created ran on near-total labor for his benefit, then the president offered to introduce Jude to the country’s smartest person.

• Jude and Peter arrived in Herbert City, where Battery People welcomed Jude with their customary shouts and gestures and the president knelt before him.
• Jude ordered the president to abolish God's Arrival Festival, explaining to Peter that the holiday cost him valuable labor.
• At a banquet, Jude told Peter that Battery People worked constantly to generate energy, receiving only one thousandth of it while Jude kept the rest.
• The president praised Jude’s creation and said he wanted to introduce the country’s smartest person; Jude ordered him to bring the supposed genius over.

Jude Herbert met Locke Lind, a self-proclaimed genius who had invented a battery containing a universe whose inhabitants supplied him with energy. After Jude exposed that Locke was himself a Battery Person, Locke was killed, Jude destroyed the battery, and the president’s fate was left uncertain.

• The president introduced Locke Lind to Jude Herbert, but Locke dismissed Jude as a fake god and challenged him to see his invention.
• Locke showed Jude and Little Spider a Micro-Universe Battery and explained how its inhabitants provided him with energy.
• Jude deduced how Locke had created and controlled the universe inside the battery, prompting Locke to realize he was a Battery Person.
• Locke threatened to destroy everything, but Jude shot him before he could use his controller and smashed the battery.
• Jude warned the president to remain obedient and allowed him to stay in office, then a gunshot rang out.

Jude killed the president of Battery and covered it up as a heroic double death before returning to the moon, where he planned to activate Star One and invite Earth to witness it. He reunited with Ivy and told her what had happened, then proposed making a clone of Peter to reassure Peter’s family.

• Jude shot the president after he swore allegiance, and Jude and Little Spider agreed to claim that Locke Lind had gone insane and killed the president in an assassination attempt.
• The police accepted Jude’s account, the president received a grand funeral, and the vice president took office and pledged loyalty to Jude.
• Jude and Little Spider returned to the moon, where Jude told Little Spider to relocate the Inhumans while he went to invite Earth to witness Star One’s activation.
• Jude returned to New York and reunited with Ivy, who had spent months worrying about his absence.
• Jude explained his coup and the moon’s transformation to Ivy, then offered to take her and Peter on an adventure through space.
• When Ivy worried about Peter’s family, Jude proposed making a clone of Peter to stand in for him.

Jude prepared to reveal the completed lunar transformation, while dealing with a rebellious Peter Parker clone and Veronica’s unexpected relationship with Jarvis. As Jude opened a portal to bring the guests to the moon, enormous waves surged from the Hudson River toward the city.

• Jude woke a Peter Parker clone and killed him after the clone protested being left on Earth, then altered another clone’s memories so he would return to Aunt May and Gwen Stacy.
• Jude ordered Veronica to invite prominent figures to a lunar activation ceremony, and learned she had created a child with Jarvis and planned to leave him.
• Jude completed a palm-sized Gravity Device designed to replace the moon.
• Bruce Wayne, Lex Luthor, Tony Stark, Norman Osborn, Superman, Wonder Woman, Doctor Doom, Black Adam, and government officials gathered before the Statue of Liberty.
• Jude announced that the moon’s transformation was complete and opened a portal, but a huge surge from the Hudson River rose behind him and rushed toward the city.

Atlantis's Five Nations Alliance attacked New York, seeking to destroy human civilization, and Orm declared war on the assembled heroes. Jude rejected Diana's attempt to negotiate and struck Orm into the sky, leaving the battle underway.

• Atlantis and the other four surviving kingdoms formed an alliance under Orm and resolved to flood the land and destroy human civilization.
• The Atlanteans sent a massive, magically charged wave into New York, but Jude forced it back and exposed the forces hidden within it.
• Orm introduced himself as King of Atlantis and named Tony Stark among the targets the Atlanteans planned to eliminate.
• Diana tried to persuade Orm to avoid war, but he insisted humanity had to be destroyed to protect Earth.
• Jude activated Overlimit Mode and struck Orm into the sky.

Jude fought Orm as war broke out between Atlantis and the surface world. After Orm summoned the power of Atlantis’s past kings and attacked with lightning, Jude defeated him and left him dead, while the battle between the two armies continued.

• Arthur Curry and the other leaders rallied the forces of the sea, forming an army as the United Government officials and several unarmored heroes retreated.
• Arthur Curry attacked Diana, beginning the battle between Atlantis and the surface forces.
• Jude caught up with Orm, who had survived Jude’s first punch, and Orm summoned the spirits of Atlantis’s past kings to empower himself.
• Orm called down a storm of lightning, but Jude evaded the bolts and struck him with a 50% Energy Punch.
• Jude caught Orm in midair, punched the kings’ spirits out of him, and killed him with another blow.