Chapter Summaries

Duva battled the remaining Deviants while Loki and Kaecilius fought, then the Eternals arrived and proposed joining forces. Duva summoned Magneto, whose attention turned to Thor’s hammer as he prepared to confront Ajak.

• Duva used his Xenomorphs to detect Loki and watched Loki and Kaecilius clash while he fought an enhanced Deviant.
• Duva parasitized the enhanced Deviant and challenged the Deviants Leader to keep fighting as the Xenomorphs reduced the Deviant numbers.
• Ajak, Gilgamesh, and Makkari arrived, and Ajak proposed that they and Duva work together against the Deviants.
• Duva accused the Eternals of hiding their true intentions and revealed that he had called someone to help.
• Raven contacted Magneto, and Red Devil teleported him to the battlefield.
• Magneto saw Ajak and began preparing to control the metal around them, but then noticed Thor’s hammer.

Magneto joined the desert battle and used his control over magnetism to lift Mjolnir, trap the Eternals and Deviants, and attack them. As Loki and Kaecilius joined the chaos and Duva revealed Queen, Duva urged the powerless Thor to accept a Xenomorph Egg so he could regain strength.

• Coulson and Fury reacted to Magneto's arrival, while the Eternals braced for a confrontation over their earlier role in Juggernaut's capture.
• Magneto used magnetism to lift and control Mjolnir, then attacked the Deviants and Eternals while Duva explained that the hammer was made of Uru.
• Magneto tightened his energy field around the battlefield, and Duva told Thor that the Eternals' master was a cosmic deity who had once defeated Odin.
• Duva brought out Queen, whose arrival drew Loki and Kaecilius into the battle and caused Magneto's field to collapse into chaos.
• Duva stopped Thor from rushing to Loki and offered him a Xenomorph Egg, arguing that its power could help Thor fight beside his brother.

Duva persuaded Thor to accept a Facehugger, then removed the developing Xenomorph Larva from Thor and implanted it in himself to gain power from Thor’s Asgardian bloodline. As Loki charged him and Magneto fought Kaecilius, Duva reached for Thunder God's Hammer, poised to expand his advantage.

• Duva convinced Thor to accept a Facehugger so he could gain power and protect Loki, and Thor lost consciousness as the parasite took hold.
• A Xenomorph burst from a previously parasitized Deviant, prompting Loki to attack Duva in fury, but Duva said Thor would survive.
• Duva tore open Thor’s chest, removed the developing Xenomorph Larva, and implanted it into his own chest to harness Thor’s genetic power.
• Ajak and the other combatants watched Duva’s wound heal as the larva strengthened him, while Magneto recognized Duva’s plan and Kaecilius tried to capture the Queen.
• Magneto attacked Kaecilius with Thunder God's Hammer, Loki broke through the magnetic field to confront Duva, and Duva reached out to seize the hammer.

Duva used a Xenomorph Larva carrying Thor’s genes to lift Mjolnir and wield the Thunder God’s power, shocking Loki and drawing Odin’s attention. He began the second round against Loki while directing the Xenomorphs to capture the Eternals, and Makkari was badly injured as she tried to protect Ajak.

• Loki realized Duva intended to use the Xenomorph Larva and Thor’s genes to claim Mjolnir, but the hammer flew to Duva and settled in his hand.
• Duva wielded Mjolnir and divine lightning, while Loki and Kaecilius stared in shock and Magneto continued fighting Kaecilius.
• Odin observed Duva’s transformation from Asgard and chose to keep watching rather than spend his remaining strength intervening.
• Duva began fighting Loki and sent the Queen and Xenomorph forces to capture the Eternals instead of pursuing Loki or Kaecilius.
• Duva coordinated Xenomorphs to block Makkari’s escape routes, and one struck her into chaotic energy that tore her body with wounds as Ajak and Gilgamesh rushed to help.

After the New Mexico battle exposed superhumans to the world, Fury and Coulson investigated Duva and the Xenomorphs while Duva returned home with Thor, Makkari, and captured Deviants. Duva found his base attacked, expanded his plans with a Xenomorph Egg, and used Thunder God's Hammer to revive Thor, preparing to discuss his exile and lost power.

• News of the New Mexico battle spread worldwide, and Fury and Coulson discussed the failed cover-up, Duva's role, and the dangers of Xenomorph parasitism.
• Duva returned with Thor, Makkari, and seventeen Deviants after Professor X repeatedly tried to contact him, and Raven accused him of using Erik.
• Duva found his building damaged and corpses outside, while Elektra reported that the attackers had stolen a Xenomorph Egg as he intended.
• Duva ordered Elektra to bandage Thor and had Tony Stark send doctors, then used a Xenomorph Egg to parasitize Makkari.
• When the doctors could not wake Thor, Duva placed Thunder God's Hammer on him and struck him with lightning, restoring his power and beginning a conversation about Odin's exile.

Thor woke after Duva used a Xenomorph to transfer divine power into him, but refused to become Duva’s follower or reclaim Mjolnir. After learning Odin had died and war had begun in Asgard, Thor returned to ask Duva for an army to fight the Frost Giants.

• Duva explained that Thor’s divine power had awakened his healing, and Thor challenged him before deciding to leave and end his life.
• Duva argued that Thor remained a god without Mjolnir and revealed that a Xenomorph had transferred Thor’s genetic material, allowing Duva to wield the hammer.
• Thor refused Duva’s offer to become his follower, and Duva demonstrated how a Xenomorph could inherit a host’s powers.
• Thor left, then returned after speaking with Loki and warned Duva about the agents watching the building.
• Thor told Duva that Odin was dead and that Loki had returned to Asgard to lead the defense against the Frost Giants.
• Thor asked Duva to lend him a powerful, loyal army so he could return to Asgard and counterattack Jotunheim.

Duva agreed to supply Thor with five thousand elite Xenomorphs for the coming war against the Frost Giants, while planning to command them remotely from Earth. He recruited Mister Blue to help expand his forces, and scientists aboard a Sky Carrier discovered that Xenomorphs communicated through pheromones and that one was evolving toward a reproducing Matriarch.

• Thor asked Duva to lend him Xenomorph troops, and Duva promised him five thousand Blood Xenomorphs for the war against the Frost Giants.
• Duva told Thor he would remain on Earth and direct the Xenomorph army remotely rather than fight alongside it.
• Duva found Mister Blue in a sewer laboratory and ordered him to produce creatures for Duva, then implanted a Facehugger in him.
• Mister Blue realized the Xenomorph could fuse with its host's genetic material and became eager to study the creature.
• Scientists on a Sky Carrier reported that Xenomorphs communicated through pheromones and that a captive Xenomorph was evolving toward a reproducing Matriarch.

S.H.I.E.L.D. captured a Xenomorph Matriarch and believed it could control the species, then tried to recruit Duva into the Howling Commandos. Duva rejected the offer and expanded his campaign against New York’s vampires, while Fury decided to use S.H.I.E.L.D.’s own Xenomorphs to defeat him.

• Fury and Hill observed their captured Matriarch lay eggs and concluded that S.H.I.E.L.D. could control a Xenomorph colony.
• Fury sent Natasha to recruit Duva into the Howling Commandos, but Duva refused and warned S.H.I.E.L.D. not to provoke him or Asgard’s new Thunder God.
• Duva ordered Mister Blue to produce five hundred biochemical monsters within a week and dispatched Xenomorph teams to hunt vampires and the Ghoul Clan around New York.
• Natasha reported Duva’s growing Xenomorph force to Fury, who feared the species could spread beyond control.
• Fury resolved to deploy S.H.I.E.L.D.’s captured Xenomorphs against Duva and prove that the organization could control them better.

Fury sent S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and its newly bred Xenomorphs to capture Duva, unaware that Duva had anticipated the attack and could command the Xenomorphs. The assault ended in a massacre, and Duva ordered Thor to transport the captured force to Asgard.

• Fury approved an operation to attack Duva with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and Xenomorphs, while Pierce warned him that Stryker and others were challenging his control of the Xenomorph program.
• Melinda led the force toward the Bronx, where she found Duva speaking with Thor and discovered that Duva had assembled a vast Xenomorph army.
• Melinda ordered an attack, but the Xenomorphs Fury had brought turned on the agents, and Duva's own Xenomorphs joined the slaughter.
• Duva told Melinda he had anticipated S.H.I.E.L.D.'s plan and had used the operation to replenish his forces before the Xenomorphs killed her.
• Duva told Thor to contact Heimdall and use the Bifrost to transport the Xenomorphs to Asgard.

Duva sent Xenomorph reinforcements to Asgard through the Bifrost and revealed that he could command a Queen remotely, declaring himself the Xenomorph God. Fury classified Duva as a T0-level threat, while Loki's attempt to keep Thor from the war ended when Thor arrived at the palace with a mass of Xenomorphs.

• Fury confronted Duva over using Xenomorphs in Asgard's war, but Duva destroyed the agents' control chips with lightning and refused to cooperate with S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Thor summoned the Bifrost, and Duva sent waves of Xenomorphs to Asgard while Fury warned that the creatures could bring lasting danger.
• Duva remotely ordered Fury's imprisoned Queen to kill itself, then claimed that he was the god of the Xenomorphs.
• Coulson concluded that Duva's divine power and Xenomorph army made him a T0-level threat.
• Loki told Asgard's leaders that Thor had returned without divine power and claimed he was protecting him from the war.
• Thor burst into Asgard Palace surrounded by Xenomorphs and told Loki that he would not let him fight alone.

Thor brought thousands of Xenomorphs from Midgard to reinforce Asgard, where Loki struggled to control the silent alien army as war with Jotunheim intensified. As Duva prepared to send more Xenomorphs and capture gods, he revealed that his true goal was the World Tree and the source of divine power.

• Thor returned to Asgard with Xenomorph reinforcements and told its people that Duva, a Midgardian who had lifted Mjolnir, commanded them.
• Thor announced that the Xenomorph force would grow to five thousand, and Fandral proposed creating a course in Xenomorph Linguistics after Loki failed to communicate with them.
• Loki inspected the Xenomorphs and considered claiming them, while Thor insisted Duva would remain in Midgard and urged Loki to trust him.
• Asgard escalated its war with Jotunheim, and Laufey grew suspicious of the Xenomorphs after they killed or captured hundreds of Frost Giants.
• Duva observed the Xenomorph casualties, decided to send more reinforcements and capture gods for study, and focused his plans on the World Tree and divine power.

Thor struggled with the Xenomorph expeditionary force’s devastating losses in Asgard’s war against the Frost Giants, but the Xenomorphs refused to withdraw. After Heimdall reported that Duva was sending another legion, Thor vowed that Asgard would remember the Xenomorphs’ loyalty and repay it.

• Frost Giants captured and restrained a Xenomorph, but Thor, Fandral, and dozens of Xenomorphs intervened and defeated them.
• Fandral warned Thor that Xenomorph losses had exceeded twenty-seven hundred, and Thor felt guilty about leading the borrowed troops into battle.
• A Xenomorph stopped Thor from announcing a withdrawal, and Thor guessed that Duva had ordered the expeditionary force to remain until the war ended.
• Thor and Fandral acknowledged that the Xenomorphs’ aid had saved Asgardians and bolstered morale despite the high casualties.
• Heimdall reported that Duva was assembling another Xenomorph legion, and Thor swore that Asgard would regard the Xenomorphs as brothers and rescue them when they were in trouble.

Duva’s Xenomorphs impressed the Frost Giants as he planned to expand their numbers by exploiting the World Tree’s divine power. Meanwhile, Tony warned him about the consequences of joining Asgard’s war, and Duva received an invitation to explain himself at a Global United Summit where the Eternals, Deviants, and Mutants were also drawing attention.

• Duva observed the Xenomorphs’ resilience in battle and planned to use captured Frost Giants to help his species access the World Tree’s divine power.
• Tony warned Duva that his involvement in Asgard’s war was attracting dangerous attention and could expose Earth to outsiders, but Duva said he would keep gathering troops until the war ended.
• Coulson revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. and its China Branch would attend a Global United Summit, where Professor X and Magneto had recommended Duva as a participant.
• Coulson told Tony that the Eternals and Deviants, along with their connection to humanity and Mutants, had become impossible to conceal.
• Duva received an invitation to address the summit, suspected the authorities were avoiding a direct confrontation, and ordered Mystique to contact Erik because he suspected Magneto planned something.

Duva attended the Global United Summit, where he confronted security, met Zheng Xian, and discussed the World Tree war and Odin’s supposed death. He dismissed Colonel Stryker’s invitation until an encrypted document about a Super Serum caught his attention.

• Duva learned from Mystique that Destiny could glimpse the future, though she rarely gave Magneto clear guidance.
• Tony Stark clashed with summit security, and Duva arrived in a lightning strike, blasted the agents aside, and dragged Tony into the venue.
• Captain America urged the security team to follow the conference rules as Magneto and other superhumans arrived; Jean Grey then spoke in favor of peace between Mutants and humans.
• Duva told Zheng Xian that he would keep sending troops until Asgard won the World Tree war, and he rejected claims that Odin was dead.
• Duva initially ignored Colonel Stryker’s invitation, but changed his mind after a soldier showed him an encrypted document describing a Super Serum one hundred thousand times as effective as Captain America’s serum.

Duva learned that the sealed Super Serum might be connected to Sentry and negotiated with William Stryker while secretly seeking Robert Reynolds. After the X-Men and Brotherhood announced their reconciliation and plans to pursue a Mutant nation, Duva sent Xenomorphs to find Robert, who awoke to face them.

• Duva rejected Stryker's offer to trade the Super Serum for Xenomorphs and learned the serum had been sealed since its development began in 1947.
• Duva and Stryker negotiated a possible exchange, but neither agreed to hand over anything before receiving proof and testing what the other offered.
• After Stryker's super soldier detonated the bomb in his own brain, Duva ordered New York's Xenomorphs to search for Robert Reynolds.
• Jean Grey announced that the X-Men and Brotherhood had reconciled and might establish a nation for Mutants.
• Duva asked Professor X to help find Robert Reynolds, then learned Robert was in an alley on Central Avenue.
• Xenomorphs found Robert Reynolds, who had just awakened and stared at them in terror.

Duva addressed the Joint Summit, defending his expanding war effort and inviting more warriors to join his Xenomorph forces, then left to deal with Sentry. Meanwhile, the Eternals decided to kill Duva, and Ajak considered asking Arishem to judge him and Earth.

• Mister Blue questioned why Duva had captured the frail, drug-addicted Reynolds, while Elektra insisted Duva had a reason to choose him as a host.
• Duva gave a speech about the World Tree and the war in the Nine Realms, declared that he needed more warriors, and flew away before attendees could question him.
• Magneto and Professor X discussed securing a future for Mutants, including consulting Destiny and possibly seeking an alliance with the Deviants.
• Fury told Hill to investigate what deal Stryker had made with Duva.
• Ajak and the other Eternals condemned Duva for killing Makkari and decided to kill him, with Ajak considering reporting the plan to Arishem.

Duva bonded Robert Reynolds with a Xenomorph Larva, granting him strength and demanding his loyalty. After arranging a meeting with Stryker for the hundred-thousand-times Super Serum, Duva forced the serum down Reynolds’s throat to test what it could do.

• Duva returned, subdued Mister Blue, and learned that Mystique had escaped to seek refuge with Magneto.
• Duva had a Facehugger bond with Robert Reynolds, whose body gained strength and whose health improved; Reynolds pledged himself to Duva.
• Duva told Reynolds they would seek a key, then contacted Stryker to arrange a trade for the Super Serum.
• Stryker offered the serum and research materials in exchange for Duva’s help attacking Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, revealing that his forces had already begun acting against the Mutants.
• Duva ignored Stryker’s offer and forced the Super Serum into Reynolds’s mouth, telling him it was time to prove his loyalty.

Duva forced Reynolds to take Super Serum, leaving him near death as he tried to connect with a Pocket Universe. Meanwhile, Stryker plotted to seize control of the Xenomorphs and launched an attack on Xavier's School, where Mastermind reached the unconscious Professor X before Magneto confronted him.

• Duva made Reynolds swallow the Super Serum, and Reynolds's body and Xenomorph Larva began breaking down as they attempted to shift into another universe's phase.
• Duva cut off his deal with Stryker and repeatedly urged Reynolds to endure, while Reynolds clung to his desire to become a superhero.
• Stryker planned to use Professor X's psychic powers to take control of the Xenomorphs and ordered a military assault on Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
• The military attacked the school with gas, missiles, and artillery, and the X-Men fought back after learning Professor X had been incapacitated by Cerebro.
• Mastermind entered the school unseen and found the unconscious Professor X, but Magneto opened his eyes and faced him.

Stryker used Mastermind’s illusions and mental suggestions to drive Magneto into a catastrophic rampage across Westchester and New York. Duva sent Robert Reynolds, newly transformed into the Sentry, to confront him, and Reynolds struck Magneto with a powerful punch before Magneto charged back.

• Magneto tortured Mastermind and demanded that Stryker let him take the unconscious Professor X away, but Stryker revealed that Mastermind was his son and had planted mental suggestions in Magneto.
• Magneto succumbed to an illusion of Mutants being exterminated and unleashed chaotic electromagnetic power, devastating Westchester and spreading destruction across New York.
• Storm, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Tony Stark, and other heroes tried to contain the rampage, while Duva told Tony that he would stop Magneto.
• Robert Reynolds arrived in golden light as the Sentry and broke through Magneto’s energy field, knocking Magneto away with one punch.
• Duva reminded Reynolds through the larva in his chest that Magneto was still his opponent, and Magneto charged back at the defiant Sentry.

Reynolds fought Magneto, who had been driven berserk by Mastermind’s illusion, and defeated him using his Xenomorph-enhanced strength and corrosive blood. Duva had Reynolds bring Magneto back, while S.H.I.E.L.D. and Kamar-Taj reassessed the danger surrounding Duva and the power from another universe.

• Duva watched Reynolds battle Magneto and realized Magneto was likely acting under Mastermind’s illusion, while S.H.I.E.L.D. identified Reynolds as Robert Reynolds, a former homeless addict who had emerged from Duva’s residence.
• Reynolds pushed himself to fight at full strength, and after Magneto injured him, Duva told him to use his Xenomorph blood as a weapon.
• Reynolds’s blood corroded Magneto, helping Reynolds gain the upper hand and finally defeat him; Duva ordered Reynolds to spare Magneto and bring him back.
• Reynolds refused to hand Magneto over to Storm, identified himself as Sentry and a follower of Xenomorph Duva, and flew back with Magneto.
• Fury and Coulson discussed the casualties, estimated at 300,000 to 600,000, and reconsidered Duva’s threat as Tony criticized Fury’s proposed Avengers lineup.
• At Kamar-Taj, Ancient One confirmed that Reynolds carried power from another world but chose not to arrest Duva, telling Mordo to keep tracking Kaecilius.