Recaps

The Blood Ravens defeated Thanos’s ground forces without losing anyone, and Arthur confronted Thanos after he appeared with his four generals. When Thanos defended his plan to kill half of all life as mercy, Arthur challenged his reasoning and called him an idiot.

• Drax laughed at Heros’s strength while the Guardians of the Galaxy fought alongside the Blood Ravens.
• The Blood Ravens wiped out Thanos’s ground army with orbital and air support, suffering no deaths.
• Thanos appeared with Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Cull Obsidian, and Ebony Maw and waited to speak with Arthur.
• Gamora confronted Thanos over his slaughter of populations and his abuse of her and Nebula.
• Arthur questioned Thanos’s claim that killing half of all life would solve the universe’s resource problems, citing population recovery and calling him a fucking idiot.

Arthur rejected Thanos’s plan to eliminate half of all life, arguing that his reasoning came from personal resentment and that resources would not run out for billions of years. Thanos threatened to destroy and remake the universe, but Arthur’s side attacked, leaving Ebony Maw as the only surviving member of the Black Order.

• Arthur recalled Halsey’s story about Experiment 25 and argued that Thanos’s fears about resource scarcity and societal decline did not apply to the Main Universe.
• Arthur accused Thanos of projecting his grief over Titan’s destruction onto other species and called his plan misguided.
• Pietro and Mylon laughed at Arthur’s remarks, while Wanda tried to quiet Pietro and Thanos grew furious.
• Thanos threatened to use the Stones to shatter and recreate the universe, but Arthur’s forces opened fire before he could finish.
• Carl shot Black Dwarf through the chest with an Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle, killing him.
• Gabriel and Vadim killed Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight, leaving Ebony Maw alone among the Black Order.

Wanda and Ebony Maw clashed with magic while Mylon took on Thanos in a brutal sword fight. Mylon overwhelmed the disarmed Thanos, who was left badly wounded as Mylon remained unharmed.

• Arthur assigned Ebony Maw to Wanda, and her red magical attack collided with his sand wall.
• Thanos recovered from Mylon’s Bolter barrage and spun his double-bladed sword to block further shots.
• Mylon handed his ammunition box to Carl, then told Arthur that Thanos was his to fight.
• Mylon charged Thanos with his Kinetic Sword and dagger, attacking before Thanos could finish speaking.
• Mylon’s speed and skill overwhelmed Thanos, leaving him covered in wounds and without a usable weapon.

Wanda fought Ebony Maw but was overwhelmed by his crystal attacks until Heros shielded and rescued her. Heros killed Ebony Maw, then Wanda thanked him, leaving them both awkwardly avoiding each other's gaze.

• Wanda took advantage of Ebony Maw's distraction to attack, but he blocked her beams and countered with a sandstorm and a barrage of glass spikes.
• Heros leaped in to shield Wanda from the crystals and used a golden shockwave to clear the dust storm.
• Heros hurled his sea-god trident through Ebony Maw, summoned it back, and killed him.
• Wanda thanked Heros, who replied that it was his duty and then avoided meeting her eyes.

Mylon defeated Thanos in a brutal hand-to-hand fight, and Arthur ordered Umbrella’s forces to wipe out the remaining enemy troops on Vodas Star. After returning to Xandar, Umbrella prepared to confront the defiant Sovreign Race.

• Heros withdrew from Wanda after realizing his feelings for her had stirred, while Wanda hid her disappointment.
• Mylon disarmed Thanos and killed him with a punch that sent his head flying dozens of kilometers away.
• Arthur told Cortana to locate Thanos’s remaining forces on Vodas Star but refused to send aid to the planet’s residents.
• Umbrella’s troops spent several hours eliminating most of Thanos’s forces on Vodas Star, while civilizations across the Milky Way grew afraid of Umbrella.
• Arthur recalled the troops, and Cortana used the Dreadnought Warship to return the fleet to Xandar.
• The Sovreign Race refused to submit to Umbrella, and William prepared to confront it with the Star Killer and Blood Ravens Fleet.

William led Umbrella’s fleet to the Sovreign homeworld to punish the race for challenging its strength. After Umbrella destroyed the Sovreign drone army, its ships reached Sovreign City, where they left the city’s defenses unable to harm their shields.

• William brought the Star Killer, six Dreadnought Warships, and the Blood Ravens Fleet to the Sovreign Star.
• Serena reported that the High Priestess and the Sovreign Race remained confident in their drones and claimed they could defeat Thanos without losses.
• William ordered Serena to show the Sovreign Race the difference in strength, and the Dreadnought Warships annihilated the drone formation in thirty seconds.
• William ordered Carmen Ibanez to take the fleet into the atmosphere and proceed to Sovreign City.
• The fleet arrived above Sovreign City, where its energy shields withstood the city’s anti-aircraft fire.

Umbrella forces overwhelmed the Sovreign defenses and William arrived at Ayesha’s palace with a heavily armed escort. He offered Ayesha a choice between surrendering her sovereignty herself or having Umbrella make her surrender it.

• Umbrella deployed sixteen god bodies around the palace, frightening the Sovreign people and ending their anti-aircraft fire.
• Twelve Freedom and Assault MS landed outside the palace as John, Kolax, William, Arthur, Heros, and twenty bodyguards disembarked.
• William and his escort walked past the Sovreign soldiers, who did not dare stop them, and entered the palace hall.
• William asked Ayesha whether she would surrender her sovereignty or have Umbrella help her surrender it.

William forced Ayesha to accept Sovereign’s vassalage to Umbrella, then prepared to return to Hafa while leaving Arthur in charge of conquering this universe. As the family discussed their coming separation, William told Arthur to return to the Main Universe with Carl after stabilizing the Milky Way.

• William gave Ayesha the choice of voluntarily signing Sovereign over as an Umbrella vassal or having John and Kolax force her to sign, and she agreed to surrender sovereignty.
• William ordered Serena to send technical personnel to Sovereign and make its leaders and generals sign the Confidentiality Agreement.
• William told Arthur he would return to Hafa with Fleet Zero and leave the conquest of this universe to him, with Carl, a prepared fleet, and a specially made divine body to assist.
• Arthur reassured William that they could stay in contact through Quantum Communication and joked about needing an Artificial Intelligence chip without a T-X body.
• Heros asked whether he would remain with Arthur or return to Hafa, and William instructed Arthur to come back to the Main Universe with Carl once he stabilized the Milky Way.
• William proposed holding a victory banquet on Earth after they dealt with the Sovereign Empire.

William held a victory banquet at the White House before returning to the Main Universe with Fleet Zero and the Blood Ravens Fleet, leaving Arthur to take control of Marvel Earth. The banquet brought together Umbrella officials and Marvel heroes, including Rogers and Natasha, who had become a couple.

• After subduing the Sovreign Race, William made its leaders sign Confidentiality Agreements, stationed Umbrella forces on its homeworld, and returned to Earth.
• William prepared to leave Marvel Earth and arranged a grand victory banquet at the White House, planning to hand control to Arthur.
• Umbrella officials and Marvel figures attended the banquet, where Andre drank with local officials and complained about the US Government.
• Rogers attended in an Umbrella uniform with Natasha, whose memories had been altered and whose relationship with Rogers had begun earlier that year.

At a banquet celebrating humanity’s rise in the galaxy, William announced that he would return to his original universe and leave Arthur in charge of defending Earth. Heros stepped away from the reporters, and Wanda asked whether he would leave this universe too.

• Rogers and Natasha answered reporters’ questions at the banquet while Umbrella’s anomalies mingled with the guests.
• William arrived with Halsey, his sons, Carl, and four Primarchs, then celebrated humanity’s alliance and victory over Thanos.
• William announced that he would return to his universe the next day and that Arthur would lead a fleet to guard Earth.
• Heros left the crowd, and Wanda asked him whether he was leaving the universe too.

Heros told Wanda he was returning to his own universe, and Wanda said she wanted to go with him rather than remain in America. When reporters interrupted their private conversation, Heros nearly attacked them, but Arthur intervened and led him away, warning him to control his temper.

• Heros told Wanda he planned to return to his universe, and Wanda asked whether she and the other people with superpowers would go with him.
• Heros said Wanda would probably stay in her home universe, but Wanda rejected America and explained that she felt attached to the Blood Raven Battle Group.
• Heros comforted Wanda about her parents’ deaths, and Wanda praised him as invincible, leaving him flustered.
• Reporters crowded around Heros and pushed Wanda away, prompting Heros to flare with Divine Power and order them to leave.
• Arthur stepped in, redirected the reporters to himself and Carl, and took Heros aside before he could attack anyone.
• Arthur urged Heros to rein in his temper, but Heros replied that the reporters were annoying and lucky he had not killed them.

Arthur arranged for Wanda to join the return to the Main Universe and encouraged her feelings for Heros. Wanda confessed that she liked Heros, while Pietro chose to stay with Arthur for a few years before joining them.

• Arthur decided to bring Wanda to the Main Universe, reasoning that Doctor Strange could provide magical support in her place.
• Arthur asked Wanda about returning with the troops, and Wanda said she wanted to go and confessed her feelings for Heros.
• Pietro reacted in shock, then accepted Wanda and Heros’s relationship and said Wanda needed someone to protect her.
• Heros silently nodded at Wanda before hurrying away, and Arthur assured her that Heros liked her too.
• Pietro chose to remain with Arthur for now and said he would leave Wanda in Heros’s care before joining them in the Main Universe later.

William returned to the Main Universe with his fleet after arranging defenses and military deployments in the other universes. He brought Wanda and his companions to Halifax City, where Wanda prepared to meet Heros’s mother, Athena.

• William moved the Mind Stone, Reality Stone, and Power Stone to the White House bunker, then led Fleet Zero and the Blood Ravens Fleet through the transit passage back to the Main Universe.
• William ordered the Blood Ravens Fleet to rest before resuming its campaign against Covenant remnants, and he sent Fleet Zero back to the Solar System.
• William gave the fleet a month of leave and arranged for Andre to command an expanded Containment Fleet in the Human-Sangheili United Government’s galactic expedition.
• William had Serena notify Constantine to prepare a trade delegation for the Marvel movie universe.
• On July 18, 2044, William, Halsey, Heros, Serena, Xiya, Nova, Wanda, and Keisha arrived at Troy Base in Halifax City.
• Wanda marveled at the Main Universe’s advanced Earth and felt uneasy about meeting Heros’s biological mother, Athena.

William and his family arrived at the Manor Palace, where he reunited with Ivan, Yelena, and his granddaughters. Heros brought Wanda with him, and Athena noticed their closeness and asked who Wanda was.

• William and his family rode the Orbit Train to the Manor Palace while Heros comforted a worried Wanda.
• William met Ivan, Yelena, Athena, and Megan, praised Ivan’s work, and led everyone toward the manor.
• William listened to Serena’s report while the family shared stories and caught up on the walk to the palace.
• Naga and Kerrigan rushed to greet William, who lifted both granddaughters and carried them toward the family living room.
• Athena confronted Heros and asked who Wanda was.

Athena met Wanda, recognized her as the Scarlet Witch, and allowed her to date Heros while insisting she live outside Russell Manor. Heros took Wanda to an apartment, where she questioned how Athena knew her name.

• Athena confronted Wanda in the palace hall, then recognized her as the Scarlet Witch after Heros introduced her as a witch.
• Athena told Heros to buy Wanda a place outside Russell Manor and reminded him that he was only sixteen.
• Athena told Ivan that Heros already had a legitimate wife and asked him to discourage Persephone from promoting her daughter as a match.
• William learned that Persephone had tried to arrange a marriage between her daughter and Heros, and that Athena had once considered the match too.
• Heros flew Wanda to the Umbrella Apartment Building, where she thanked him for helping her feel less afraid of the world.
• Wanda asked Heros why Athena had called her the Scarlet Witch despite never having met her.

Heros showed Wanda information about Marvel, leaving her distressed over whether her life and memories were fake. He comforted her, affirmed their relationship, and helped her settle into an apartment in Umbrella’s tower.

• Heros searched for Marvel and the Scarlet Witch, and Wanda learned that her world was portrayed as entertainment and that her brother had died in some versions of the story.
• Wanda’s emotions stirred her reality-distorting powers, and Heros comforted her by insisting she was real and calling her his girlfriend.
• Wanda told Heros she was not the Wanda from the stories and had no interest in Vision, and Heros reassured her that he had never watched those stories.
• Heros and Wanda left the flying craft and went to the A-Class reception counter, where Heros bought Wanda a single apartment.
• Heros took Wanda shopping for necessities and clothes, lent her his bank card, and then left.

On the morning after his birthday, William struggled to recover from a night with Serena, who had finally been allowed by Halsey to take their relationship further. He recognized Serena’s decades of work for Umbrella and made her his wife, though his train of thought ended with a baffled outburst about Homelander.

• William woke exhausted after spending the night with Serena and tried to escape the bed, but she pulled him back.
• William recalled that he and Serena had been together fifteen times since Halsey gave her permission to deepen their relationship.
• William reflected on Serena’s decades of service and her crucial role in Umbrella’s growth and administration.
• William told Serena she was no longer merely his secretary and openly acknowledged her as his wife.
• Serena was delighted by William’s declaration, and William privately thought that giving an Artificial Intelligence a title was the key to making her happy.

William learned that a dimensional passage had opened into The Boys universe, where Hughie Campbell's girlfriend would die in thirty days, and decided to intervene. After buying the first two seasons of the show from the system and ordering Serena to secure the passage, he went to sleep before planning to watch them with Halsey and Serena.

• The system told William that a three-meter dimensional passage had appeared north of Halifax and that Hughie Campbell's girlfriend would be killed by A-Train in thirty days.
• William considered the danger posed by The Boys' Super Heroes and decided to protect the people in that universe, despite having forgotten the plot.
• William spent one month's financial reset to buy electronic copies of The Boys seasons one and two, and the system produced a USB Drive.
• William gave Serena the passage's coordinates and asked her to dispatch Ghost Agents to secure the area.
• Serena reported that the Ghost Agents had sealed off the passage, and William went to sleep before preparing to watch the seasons with Halsey and Serena.

After watching The Boys, William, Halsey, and Serena discussed how to handle Homelander and Vought’s other superpowered individuals while rescuing the humans in that universe. William decided to create genuine villains to make Umbrella’s own people appear to be heroes.

• William admitted to Serena that he was connected to the appearance of the traversing passage and asked her to help save the humans in The Boys universe.
• Halsey assessed Homelander’s abilities and suggested an Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle as a possible way to kill him without causing mass civilian casualties.
• Halsey explained that most of Vought’s superpowered individuals could be overwhelmed by William’s allies and proposed studying Compound V to develop agents with ocean-monitoring abilities.
• Serena asked whether William should send the Imperial Guards and the Dark Raven Legion through the passage to seize the universe by force.
• William decided to create monsters, aliens, and supervillains so Umbrella’s people could pose as the heroes who fought them.

William explained how Vought’s Super Heroes could lose public trust if real supervillains and aliens appeared, then assigned Serena and Halsey preparations for Umbrella’s plans in the other universe. Sixteen days after the passage was discovered, Umbrella had secured both ends and cultivated new creatures while The Hive worked on a powerful Tyrant.

• William explained that Vought and the US Government had hidden Compound V and promoted Super Heroes to control public opinion, and Halsey said genuine threats could undermine them.
• William asked Serena to register an arms company, sell outdated Umbrella technology, and arrange for Doctor 049 and Elizabeth Green to cultivate Alien Praetorians and Beast Forms.
• William asked Halsey and Rebecca to create the strongest possible Tyrant, preferably one capable of speaking, and Halsey agreed.
• By June 15, Ghost Agents had secured the passage between Halifax and a remote mountain area near Philadelphia, while the Engineering Team built warning systems and wired communications at both ends.
• Doctor 049 and Elizabeth Green had cultivated four Alien Praetorians and one hundred Tiger Forms, while Halsey, Rebecca, and The Hive cloned Andre to develop a Tyrant model.
• The chapter revealed that Umbrella had cloned at least one million copies of Andre over the company’s forty-year history.

Halsey and Rebecca created the Tracker, a Tyrant combining Super Soldier, Astartes, and Tyrant modifications, and tested its combat abilities in the Hive. The Tracker effortlessly killed a hundred Drone Aliens, satisfying William, though its immense production cost made mass production impractical.

• Halsey and Rebecca’s team created the Tracker after only one of nearly a hundred modified Andre clones survived the transformation sequence.
• The Tracker entered the Hive’s fourth-floor testing grounds, where Drone Aliens hid throughout a simulated neighborhood.
• The Tracker dodged the Aliens’ ambush, crushed one, snapped two others’ necks, and used their bodies to kill all one hundred attackers.
• William watched from the observation room and praised the Tracker, while Halsey, Rebecca, Serena, Elizabeth Green, and the biological research team director stood behind him.

William prepared to enter The Boys universe with a team of heroes and controlled supervillains. They crossed the passage and reached a hidden forward base, where the supervillains were stored as William’s group set out for their purchased manor.

• William ordered Serena to send 049’s aliens and the Tracker to the traversal passage and summoned Heros and Wanda to join the mission.
• William told Green that her alien children might be sacrificed, and Green accepted their deaths while saying William was the child she cared about most.
• William, Serena, Heros, Wanda, Green, and a team of Ghost Agents arrived at the traversal passage north of Halifax City.
• Technicians carried four Alien Praetorians, one hundred Tiger Forms, and the Tracker through the passage in Containment Boxes.
• William ordered the Containment Boxes stored in the forward base’s cold storage room, then led the group toward their purchased manor in an SUV convoy.

Serena established William and his allies as the wealthy Russell Family and launched Umbrella as a legitimate arms dealer, arranging a meeting with the US Department of Defense. At Andrews Air Force Base, William began presenting Umbrella’s retired Individual Combat System to American military officials.

• Serena created identities, bank accounts, and a fabricated family history for William and his allies, and used illicit funds to buy a manor in Morristown.
• Serena registered Umbrella as a high-tech arms company and arranged a June 16 meeting with the Department of Defense after officials noticed its weapon demonstrations online.
• William told Heros and Wanda to rest and prepare to pose as superheroes, while Heros expressed his fury at the Super Trash, especially Homelander.
• William and his agents traveled to Andrews Air Force Base, where he met three colonels representing the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
• An American Air Force sergeant demonstrated Umbrella’s Individual Combat System, whose appearance impressed the gathered military officials.

William demonstrated Umbrella’s Mechanical Skeleton to American military representatives, impressing them with its load capacity, stamina, and shooting accuracy. He then used their fears about Vought’s superhumans to promote the system and argue that Vought should be kept out of the military.

• An Air Force sergeant tested the Mechanical Skeleton while carrying 350 kilograms and moved freely without tiring, while William said its Hydrogen Battery could power it for twenty-four hours.
• The sergeant used the system’s aiming functions to hit targets from up to 900 meters with an average accuracy of 91 percent using an M16A4.
• William told the representatives that the Mechanical Skeleton could give ordinary soldiers strength comparable to a Super Hero, including a ton-level punch.
• William appealed to the representatives’ distrust of Vought and argued that Frederick Vought’s history serving Hitler meant Vought International should never enter the military field.

William pitched Ambrella’s individual combat system to American military representatives as a way to counter Vought’s superhumans and requested ten years of tax-exempt status for the Russell Family in return. After the representatives agreed to consult the Department of Defense, William told Serena to arrange an operation against Super Trash so the government, military, and Vought would see a real supervillain.

• William argued that Vought’s wartime defection made it dangerous to let the company enter the military, and a colonel said the Senate approval hearing was likely to proceed.
• William claimed Ambrella’s combat system could let ordinary soldiers rival Vought’s superhumans and offered it for five hundred thousand dollars per unit.
• The colonels questioned William’s motives, and he revealed that he wanted the White House to grant the Russell Family ten years of tax-exempt status.
• The representatives said they needed to consult the Department of Defense before answering, and William left Andrews Air Force Base with Serena and the others.
• William ordered Serena to arrange an operation to slaughter Super Trash and reveal the existence of a supervillain.