Chapter Summaries

Valkyrie captured Ben and Loki on Sakaar and brought them toward the Gladiator Arena, dismissing Loki’s claims of being Asgard’s king. The chapter ended with Valkyrie preparing to sell them to Sakaar’s ruler, the Red King.

• Valkyrie used neurotoxin devices to incapacitate Ben and Loki, then took them aboard her ship.
• Loki woke and declared himself the God King of Asgard, but Valkyrie mocked him and questioned whether Odin was dead.
• Loki drew daggers and tried to flee, but Valkyrie’s neurotoxin stopped him; Ben then revealed he had been pretending to sleep.
• Ben recognized Valkyrie’s identity from the mark on her arm, while Valkyrie said she no longer cared about Asgard.
• Valkyrie flew Ben and Loki to the Gladiator Arena and told them she would sell them to the Red King.

Ben arrived on Sakaar, learned that the Red King ruled it, and refused Valkyrie’s offer to become her assistant because he had to return to school in a month. Meanwhile, Thor failed to lift Mjolnir on Earth, leaving S.H.I.E.L.D. to keep it; on Sakaar, Valkyrie warned Ben that surviving the arena might be difficult.

• Ben heard Valkyrie mention the Red King and decided he would become Sakaar’s new king.
• Valkyrie electrocuted Loki after he demanded that she serve him, and Ben suggested Loki’s royal status could make him valuable to sell.
• On Earth, Thor failed to lift Mjolnir, and Nick Fury arranged for S.H.I.E.L.D. to keep the hammer.
• Ben rejected Valkyrie’s offer to work as her assistant, explaining that he had to return to school in a month.
• Valkyrie told Ben he might survive if he could handle the other fighters, since the current Fighting Champion ignored weak opponents.

Ben arrived on Sakaar with Valkyrie and Loki and learned that the arena’s reigning Fighting Champion was the formidable Red Wind Queen. As Valkyrie brought them to meet Caiera, Ben grew curious about the champion while concealing his own dangerous plans.

• Valkyrie kicked Loki off the spacecraft, then Ben used his Web Shooter to descend safely and dismissed her warning about the arena.
• Valkyrie explained that gladiators could win freedom after three consecutive matches but would eventually face the Red Wind Queen; Ben showed no fear.
• Valkyrie led Ben and Loki toward the Gladiator Arena while repeatedly shocking Loki with her control device to keep him obedient.
• A guard escorted the group through the arena and up the Totem Tower to meet Caiera, who judged Ben and Loki frail compared with the Red Wind Queen.
• Valkyrie told Caiera that the newcomers had unusual identities, and Caiera revealed that the Red Wind Queen had captivated the Red King but had chosen to remain in the arena for battle.

Princess Looma defeated Beta Ray Bill in Sakaar’s Gladiator Arena while the Red King admired her and plotted to possess her. After Caiera reported that Scavenger 142 had brought back Ben and Loki, the Red King chose Loki for the next match after Loki insulted him.

• Princess Looma fought and defeated Beta Ray Bill, then told the arena guards not to let him die.
• The Red King planned to pursue Looma, but Caiera told him Scavenger 142 had brought back two fighters with one of extraordinary identity.
• The Red King met Ben and Loki, ignored Ben, and examined Loki as an Asgardian prince.
• Loki insulted the Red King and demanded release, so the Red King ordered Caiera to chain Loki through the collarbones and put him in the next match.

Ben was imprisoned in the Gladiator Arena with Loki and met Korg, Margus, and other fighters while recording their species’ DNA. The chapter ended when Beta Ray Bill was brought into the cells and Ben went to meet him.

• A guard threw the injured Loki into the underground cells, where Ben pretended he had never met him.
• Ben recorded the DNA of Sakaar’s native species and learned from Korg and Margus about the Red King’s rule and the Shadow People’s plight.
• Korg introduced Ben to Xiloi, Miek, Elloe, and the other gladiators, and Ben recorded their genes as Loki nursed his injuries alone.
• Korg recognized a newly arrived prisoner as Beta Ray Bill, and Ben approached him.

After Beta Ray Bill lost to the Red Wind Queen, Ben encouraged him and recognized that the dispirited gladiators needed proof that freedom was possible. Ben challenged the Red Wind Queen, hoping a victory would reignite their hope.

• Ben learned that Beta Ray Bill was a cybernetic Korbinite who had lost his squad and been enslaved after failing to protect his people.
• Bill's defeat left the gladiators convinced that no one could beat the Red Wind Queen, and Ben said they would have to overthrow the Red King's rule to escape.
• Ben reassured Bill that the Korbin People would not perish, while Bill took comfort and hoped he could still find a way off Sakaar.
• Korg took Ben to choose weapons as the gladiators returned to their routines, and Ben realized they needed to witness a victory before they could believe in freedom.
• Ben strode toward the cell door and challenged the Red Wind Queen.

Ben tried to push Loki out of despair before Loki faced a deadly gladiatorial match, appealing to his desire to prove himself worthy of becoming king. Loki responded by asking Ben what he wanted him to do.

• Korg warned Ben that he would have to prove his strength before challenging the Red Wind Queen, while Loki was slated to face a giant monster as punishment from the Red King.
• Ben mocked Loki for giving up, provoking him to insist that Odin chose Thor as God King only because Thor was his son.
• Ben warned Loki that Asgard would fall to its enemies if Loki became king and urged him to consider what would happen to Mother Frigga.
• Ben told Loki that he could still prove himself worthy of kingship, and Loki asked Ben what he wanted him to do.

As the Gladiator Arena prepared for its matches, the Red King humiliated Loki and decided he no longer wanted to keep him alive. Princess Looma arrived to watch the Champion Challenge, while the Red King’s attempts to please her only earned her contempt.

• Li Fashi cut Loki’s long hair, leaving him despondent before the match.
• The Red King mocked Loki for losing his bid for the throne and revealed that he had killed his own father to seize power.
• Loki wondered whether he would have become like the Red King if his own plan had succeeded, and the Red King left to await the match.
• Princess Looma came to watch the Champion Challenge after her fight with Bill renewed her interest in powerful opponents.
• The Red King belittled the challenger and offered Looma a chair, but she rejected his behavior and stood beside Caiera.

Loki was forced to fight Great Devil Corker in the Gladiator Arena and was killed before the crowd. The Red King sent Ben into the arena next, beginning the Champion Challenge.

• The Red King announced that Loki, the Prince of Asgard, would fight Great Devil Corker, and the crowd erupted at his identity.
• Loki tried to flee the monster, but his wounds left him unable to escape its grasp.
• Caiera warned the Red King that killing the Prince of Asgard could bring consequences, but he dismissed her concern.
• Great Devil Corker bit Loki in half, and the Red King called for another snack.
• Ben emerged from the darkness wearing Light Armor as the Champion Challenge began.

Ben entered the Gladiator Arena for a Champion Challenge and transformed into Four Arms, defeating a giant Corker monster with one punch. His victory drew Looma into the arena, where the two Tetramands began fighting.

• Ben entered the arena as the crowd, Valkyrie, Looma, and the Red King dismissed his chances against the Corker monster.
• Ben noticed Looma and considered winning her over, but the monster lunged at him before he could act.
• The monster crashed down on Ben, and the spectators assumed the match had ended in his defeat.
• Ben transformed into Four Arms and blew apart the monster with a single punch, prompting the crowd to chant for him as the Red King.
• Looma leaped into the arena to challenge Ben, and they began their fight by colliding elbows.

Ben fought Looma in the Gladiator Arena, where their battle revealed his growing strength and left Looma ready to claim him as her husband. After Ben faked a collapse to frame Red King for interfering, Looma demanded that Ben’s controller be removed and that she live with him.

• Bill and the other prisoners recognized Ben in his Tetramand form and cheered as he fought Looma.
• Ben and Looma traded powerful blows, and Ben gained the upper hand as she began to tire.
• Red King prepared to use a remote against Ben, but Ben suddenly convulsed and fell before Red King pressed it.
• Ben accused Looma of dishonoring their duel, prompting her to realize Red King was the likely culprit and confront him.
• Caiera defended Red King by saying the duel broke the rules, and Red King insisted Ben must complete the second challenge first.
• Looma agreed to wait if Red King removed Ben’s controller and let Ben live with her, and Red King reluctantly agreed.

Ben, Looma, and Valkyrie formed a plan to overthrow the Red King and establish the Galactic Plumbers on Sakaar. As the Red King prepared to kill Ben in the second match, Ben quietly built support among the gladiators and sought out Bill.

• Ben and Looma discussed the Red King's rule and planned to gather warriors and resistance forces to conquer Sakaar.
• Valkyrie agreed to join Ben and Looma after hearing their plan, introducing herself as Brunnhilde.
• Angmo Asan ordered Caiera and Death's Crown to help kill Ben in the dangerous Giant Stomach arena, then prepared the Deathflame Beam and Spikes as further contingencies.
• A week later, Ben had gained authority in the arena and spent time with the gladiators, carefully withholding his plan from anyone he did not trust.
• Ben sought out Bill, whom he believed he could trust.

Loki recovered in a rebel hideout and learned that the Sakaarian rebels awaited the Son of Sakaar rather than a king. Meanwhile, Ben’s allies prepared to challenge the Red King, and Ben’s second match began in Giant Stomach as its volcanic monster erupted around him.

• Loki woke in a cave, where a Shadow People member offered him water and promised to take him to the Rebel Army’s leader.
• Loki declared that Sakaar needed a wise ruler, but the rebel said the people were waiting for the Son of Sakaar.
• Bill learned that he had to plant a signal-disrupting device atop Totem Tower while Brunnhilde organized the scavengers and Ben and Looma prepared to fight.
• The Red King armored himself and gathered his Royal Guard, intending to kill Ben and enslave Looma afterward.
• At Giant Stomach, Caiera explained the match rules as the enormous volcanic monster awakened and erupted toward Ben.
• Ben called on Heatblast as lava, ash, and burning rocks engulfed the battlefield.

Ben fought Giant Stomach as Diamondhead, while Sakaar’s people watched and feared he had died in the lava. He emerged impaling the monster with a crystal spear and saving a village from the lava flood, prompting Caiera to call him the Son of Sakaar.

• Ben transformed into Diamondhead, shielded himself from Giant Stomach’s attack, and entered the lava to fight the monster.
• The Red King ordered the Death’s Head Guards to wait until Giant Stomach calmed down before confirming Ben’s death, while Caiera led the guards to a Shadow People village.
• Brunnhilde told the scavengers that Ben was the prophesied Son of Sakaar, but the scavenger leader rejected her claim and had weapons aimed at her.
• Korg hoped Ben might survive, Bill insisted he would win, and Loki claimed to the Rebel Army that Ben was one of his generals.
• Giant Stomach’s rampage sent lava flooding toward the village, threatening its elderly people and children.
• Ben appeared atop a towering crystal spear that pierced Giant Stomach, and Caiera recognized him as the Son of Sakaar.

Ben, as Diamondhead, fought Caiera and the Red King's guards while Bill rallied the prisoners and rebels to rise against the Red King. After Caiera revealed why she served the emperor and struck Ben down, Ben transformed into a Shadow People warrior, deepening her suspicion that he was the Son of Sakaar.

• The Red King ordered Caiera and the Death's Head Guards to kill Ben, but Ben charged them and fought off their forces as Diamondhead.
• Bill told the dungeon prisoners that Hacker had given him a device to disrupt the Subjugation Discs, and he led them in a breakout while rebels and scavengers prepared to march on the Imperial Capital.
• Ben asked Caiera why she served the Red King, and she explained that he had saved her village when she was thirteen before forcing her to obey with a Subjugation Disc.
• Caiera struck Ben with a powerful blow that shattered his crystal arms and sent him crashing into the rocks.
• Ben transformed into a Shadow People warrior called Supreme Warrior, causing Caiera to suspect more strongly that he was the Son of Sakaar.

Benny learned that Old Power was an acquired cosmic energy and tried to awaken it while Caiera overwhelmed him with her attacks. Meanwhile, Looma drew the Red King and his Royal Guards into the arena to help clear the way for Bill, Korg, Xiloi, and Doug, and she ended the chapter taunting the Red King by comparing him unfavorably to Benny.

• Benny asked Caiera why he could not use her lightning, and she explained that Old Power had to be trained rather than inherited.
• Caiera attacked Benny with Old Power, and he dodged her blows while insisting that he could learn the technique.
• Korg worried about Benny, but Bill cut off the broadcast and said they should stick to their plan as Doug questioned how they would reach Totem Tower.
• Looma confronted the Red King over his ambush of Benny, smashed his throne, and fought her way through the Royal Guards.
• Looma broke through the floors with the Red King and his guards, landing in the empty arena and stalling while the forces gathered around her.
• The Red King bragged about his specially made armor and offered Looma a place as Sakaar's true queen, but she mocked him and said he was inferior to Benny.

Ben awakened the Old Power while fighting Caiera and urged Sakaar’s oppressed people to rise against the Red King. As the rebellion began, the Red King ordered the Deathflame Cannon to destroy the village and kill Ben and Caiera.

• The Red King dismissed Looma’s objections and watched Ben’s fight with Caiera, while Looma stalled him and worried that Caiera might be falling for Ben.
• Caiera obeyed the Red King’s order to kill Ben, but he caught her lightning-wreathed wrist and revealed that he had awakened the Old Power.
• Ben addressed Sakaar through the broadcast, urging its people to fight for their dignity and freedom, and Sakaarans began taking up weapons against the Red King’s rule.
• A child charged Caiera, prompting her to recall her own past among the Shadow People, and Ben asked whether she would keep submitting to the Red King.
• The Deathflame Cannon appeared above the village, and the Red King ordered it to fire despite Caiera warning that the blast would kill everyone below.

Benny absorbed the Red King's Deathflame Beam, revealed his Heatblast form, and defended Caiera's village from the Spikes while Caiera led the villagers to safety. As Looma and Bill fought the Red King's forces, reinforcements arrived and the counterattack for Sakaar began.

• Caiera prepared to die with the village, but Benny transformed into Heatblast and absorbed the Deathflame Beam, convincing Caiera he was the Son of Sakaar.
• Benny offered to help Caiera overcome her Subjugation Disc, then defended her village when the Red King's Spikes attacked and parasitized fallen guards.
• Caiera took the child and led the villagers toward the Imperial Capital while Benny trapped and destroyed the Spikes with a massive Deathflame Beam.
• Looma fought the Red King and his Royal Guards in the Gladiator Arena as Bill and the fighters pushed forward.
• Bill spotted reinforcements approaching and urged the fighters to prepare for the counterattack against Sakaar.

Brunnhilde, Caiera, Loki, and the rebels attacked the Red King, but he unleashed the city-destroying Wildebots and overwhelmed their forces. As the rebels appeared trapped, Loki declared they had Four Arms, who charged a Wildebot.

• The Red King stopped fighting Looma after learning the Imperial Capital was under attack, and Brunnhilde led scavengers in an assault on the Totem Tower.
• Caiera confronted the Red King over his plan to unleash the Wildebots, but he incapacitated her with neurotoxin and revealed he valued victory over his citizens’ lives.
• Loki arrived with the Rebel Army, and the rebels joined the scavengers in pushing back the garrison.
• The Red King deployed the Wildebots, which rampaged through the city and battered the rebels’ forces with their weapons.
• Loki shot at the Red King, then announced that they had Four Arms as Looma charged a Wildebot and struck it with her fist.

Ben helped defeat the Red King’s Wildebot army, then faced Angmo Asan in a final duel and killed him with a planet-powered punch. Sakaar’s people hailed Ben as their new king as the planet began to recover.

• Looma fought the Wildebots while the Red King’s Deathflame beams engulfed the Imperial Capital, and Ben arrived as XLR8.
• Ben transformed into Upgrade, possessed a Wildebot, and helped destroy the machines while Looma rallied civilians to evacuate.
• Bill rejected the Red King’s rule, and the warriors gathered as Ben accepted Angmo Asan’s challenge to a final duel.
• Ben transformed into Four Arms, battered Angmo Asan until his armor cracked, and struck him with Old Power, destroying his armor and killing him.
• A red radiance spread across Sakaar, healing the wounded and restoring the land, while its people hailed Ben as the new king.