Chapter Summaries

Foster lifted Mjolnir and became the new Thunder God, while Thor sensed her arrival and returned to Asgard to train. Loki released the ancient Black Dragon while trying to seize its Symbiotes, unleashing a rampage that drew the Avengers and the newly empowered Foster into battle.

• Gloria watched Foster lift Mjolnir, and Foster discovered she could wield lightning and divine power.
• Duva welcomed Foster as the new Thunder God and made Mjolnir her exclusive weapon.
• Thor received Stormbreaker, sensed that someone had lifted Mjolnir, and returned to Asgard to prepare for further training.
• Loki stole extracted Symbiotes from S.H.I.E.L.D. and freed the Black Dragon, which destroyed the facility and went on a worldwide rampage.
• Nick Fury sent the Avengers to confront the Black Dragon, and Tony saw the Female Thunder God strike its head with Mjolnir.

Foster wielded Mjolnir as the Female Thunder God and fought the Symbiote Black Dragon, whose consciousness Duva identified as Knull. The dragon fled with Loki, but Loki vanished through a portal with Knull’s consciousness, leaving Foster to capture the weakened Grendel for Duva.

• Foster arrived with Mjolnir and battered the Black Dragon, astonishing Loki and the watching Avengers.
• The dragon unleashed a powerful psychic attack, but Duva helped Foster resist it and explained that the dragon’s body was a Symbiote vessel for Knull’s consciousness.
• Foster regained the advantage with lightning while the Avengers argued, Banner transformed into Hulk, and Tony fought him in armor.
• The Black Dragon cried out “Grendel,” then fled by swallowing Loki; Knull’s consciousness took control of Loki and opened a spatial passage.
• Several Xenomorphs helped prevent the dragon from escaping, and Duva recognized Knull’s plan to use Loki as his representative.
• Duva ordered Foster to bring Grendel back, and Foster subdued the Symbiote creature with lightning.

Duva captured Grendel and discovered that symbiotes could enhance Xenomorphs, then began experimenting with ways to turn them into Xenomorph equipment. Meanwhile, Moira met Destiny, who proposed an alliance to alter fate, as Loki reached an unknown star system with Knull and learned their destination was Klyntar.

• Duva questioned Grendel, learned Knull was heading toward Klyntar, and tested how symbiotes affected Xenomorphs.
• Duva found that a Symbiote Xenomorph grew stronger and resisted the symbiote's corrupting influence, while experiments on Dracula produced a Xenomorph combining his genes with symbiote abilities.
• Duva planned to exploit symbiotes as Xenomorph accessories and use their psychic connections to build a communication network for his race.
• Moira encountered Destiny in Weyland Tower, and Destiny proposed they work together to reach a greater understanding of fate.
• Duva told Moira to accept Destiny's request, believing her plan could strengthen their side against Knull.
• Loki arrived with Knull in an unknown star system and learned that Knull wanted him to reach Klyntar and help him reunite with his body.

Tony Stark, Doctor Banner, and Nick Fury agreed to pursue a symbiote project to help control Hulk, while Fury prepared a separate plan to strengthen Steve with the Cosmic Cube. As Steve went to retrieve Flash Thompson, Flash encountered a crowd preaching the Xenomorph God Cult in Hell's Kitchen.

• Tony Stark argued with Doctor Banner about Hulk and threatened to leave the Avengers, but Fury persuaded them to help investigate using symbiotes to suppress Hulk.
• Fury revealed the secret Symbiote Super-Soldier Program and said symbiotes might help control Hulk, while Tony and Banner agreed to cooperate one last time.
• Banner suggested recruiting Stephen Strange to help manage the symbiotes' effects, and Fury warned that Duva might use them to expand his forces.
• Steve asked Fury how he could become stronger, and Fury proposed using the Cosmic Cube before assigning him to find Flash Thompson.
• Steve left to retrieve Flash, while Flash reflected on his past symbiote experience and tried to return to his quiet life in Hell's Kitchen.
• Flash heard a crowd proclaiming the Xenomorph God Cult and urging people to worship the Xenomorphs.

Flash Thompson hesitated over joining Duva to escape the symbiote’s effects, then followed Carl Burbank to Weyland Tower as Captain America failed to stop them. Meanwhile, Krugarr proposed taking Duva’s Xenomorphs into the wider universe to fight alongside the Ravagers.

• Carl Burbank urged Thompson to join Duva, arguing that Duva could control Xenomorphs and symbiotes and might free Thompson from his suffering.
• Steve tried to persuade Thompson to reject Duva, but Thompson blamed S.H.I.E.L.D. for abandoning him, and the two men escaped after gangs attacked Steve.
• Fury ordered Steve to retreat when he learned the nearby Dracula Xenomorphs carried symbiotes, and Thompson and Burbank arrived at Weyland Tower to join Duva.
• Gloria welcomed Thompson, Burbank, and Martial Arts Master as recruits, while Duva instructed her to complete their onboarding and parasitization quickly.
• Krugarr visited Duva with Mordo as an intermediary and asked to take a group of Xenomorphs to fight with the Ravagers across the universe.

Duva agreed to supply Krugarr’s Ravagers with two hundred Xenomorphs in exchange for intelligence, rare hosts, and help spreading Xenomorphs across the universe. As the Ravagers battled Knull’s symbiotes at Knowhere, Loki discovered that Duva had created Symbiote Xenomorphs, and Knull ordered him to attack Earth immediately.

• Duva rejected Krugarr’s offer of money and demanded intelligence, rare hosts, and the Ravagers’ help deploying Xenomorphs throughout the universe.
• Krugarr returned to Yondu and the surviving Ravagers with two hundred Xenomorphs, while Star-Lord learned how powerful Earth had become.
• Symbiotes pursued the Ravagers to Knowhere, where they fought the Xenomorphs and drew the settlement into chaos.
• Loki saw Symbiote Xenomorphs killing and consuming Knull’s forces, and realized Duva had taken control of symbiotes and transformed them.
• The Collector stayed hidden as Knowhere’s fighters drove back the symbiotes, and Knull ordered Loki to attack Earth or die.

Loki persuaded Knull to let him command a symbiote invasion of Earth, but the symbiotes withdrew after clashing with Duva’s Xenomorphs in Knowhere. Duva responded by launching a global Xenomorph expansion, and as their numbers surged, panic spread on Earth and the Atlanteans watched the threat multiply in the oceans.

• Loki convinced Knull that a mass symbiote assault on Earth could overwhelm Duva, then led the symbiotes away from Knowhere after their fight with the Xenomorphs.
• Yondu’s Ravagers survived the battle, but Quill left with a group of Xenomorphs after quietly speaking with one of their leaders.
• Duva learned of the clash and ordered Xenomorphs around the world to expand, while Krugarr continued sending them through portals to other planets.
• Duva told Ancient One that he was preparing for a possible symbiote invasion, and she recognized that the god behind the symbiotes was likely Knull.
• As the Xenomorph population grew beyond one hundred thousand, sightings sparked panic and excitement among humans, while Atlanteans saw Xenomorphs hunting throughout the oceans.

Atlantis went to war with Duva’s Xenomorphs after Namor tried to contain their expansion, but the conflict spread across the oceans and escalated beyond his control. Duva declined to invade Atlantis outright and instead began forming the Superman Corps, while Sunspot discovered his family fortune had become debt.

• Namor argued against an all-out war with the Xenomorphs, but Attuma challenged him and led away several supporters after their brutal clash.
• Namor deployed Atlantean forces to restrict Xenomorph activity, but the Xenomorphs converged on the fighting and turned the operation into a global ocean war.
• Atlanteans attacked New York with Deep Sea Bombs and tsunamis, while Duva ordered his forces to capture them and Tony used a new Energy Shield to protect the city.
• Duva rejected Reynolds’s proposal to launch a full assault on Atlantis and appointed him captain of a new team called the Superman Corps.
• Sunspot decided to return home after Magik left him, but his butler told him that Hammer Industries and disrupted sea transport had left his family on the verge of bankruptcy.

Foster recruited Sunspot for Duva, who parasitized him and made him Reynolds's deputy in the newly formed Superman Corps. As the Corps fought the Atlanteans and considered the threat of the symbiote army, Hyperion arrived on Earth with Ikaris to confront the planet's growing upheaval.

• Sunspot learned that his family business had collapsed and considered joining Krakoa before Foster found him and offered him a place in Duva's Superman Corps.
• Sunspot accepted Foster's offer, met Duva at Weyland Tower, and was parasitized despite his wish to avoid it.
• Reynolds and Sunspot became the Superman Corps' captain and deputy, then launched raids against the Atlanteans while discussing the need to expand their forces.
• Namor worried over Atlantis's mounting casualties and demanded news of Attuma, who had contacted allies from beyond Earth.
• Attuma received Ikaris and Hyperion, who condemned Ikaris's failures and declared that he would put Earth back on its proper track.

Duva watched as Hyperion and Ikaris joined Attuma against him, and Hyperion fought Reynolds and the heroes in New York. Reynolds began matching Hyperion without Duva’s help, while Duva prepared to deal with Atlantis and the approaching threats.

• Hyperion overwhelmed Ikaris with Atomic Vision and agreed to hunt Duva and his Xenomorphs with help from Attuma’s forces.
• Attuma concealed his anger at Hyperion and hoped the Eternals and Duva’s forces would destroy one another, while plotting to flood the continents and eliminate Wakanda.
• Duva learned that Arishem might have sent Hyperion, and Hyperion and Ikaris arrived in New York, where Hyperion began destroying the city.
• Reynolds and Sunspot confronted the Eternals, and Reynolds battled Hyperion while Sunspot fought Ikaris.
• After Hyperion insulted Duva, Reynolds drew on the Xenomorph Larva and began fighting more effectively without Duva taking control.
• Duva praised Reynolds’s progress and prepared to purge Attuma’s people, end the fight, and ready Earth as a battlefield before Loki and Knull’s forces arrived.

Nick Fury empowered a new Captain America with the Cosmic Cube and sent him into the New York battle, where Hyperion quickly defeated him. Reynolds then used the Suspension Cloak to block sunlight and beat Hyperion, while Fury revealed to Tony and Banner that this Captain was created from their imagined ideal of Captain America.

• Fury told Pierce that the Cosmic Cube had given Captain America immense power, then sent him to join the New York battle.
• Hyperion broke Captain America's shield and pierced his chest with Atomic Vision, but Tony caught him and noticed that his behavior and body differed from the Steve he knew.
• Duva advised Reynolds to use the Suspension Cloak, and Reynolds spread it across the city to block the sun that powered Hyperion.
• Reynolds weakened Hyperion without sunlight, defeated him, and captured him as Duva's forces and Earth's faction leaders watched.
• Tony confronted Fury aboard the Sky Carrier, and Fury admitted that the Cosmic Cube had created a new Captain America embodying their imagined ideal.

Fury, Tony, and Banner debated Duva’s expanding Xenomorph forces while Duva turned Ikaris and Hyperion into Superman Xenomorphs. Duva then launched a global assault on Atlantis, leaving Attuma captured and the kingdom facing destruction.

• Fury explained that the artificial Captain America had been created with the Cosmic Cube, while the real Captain America remained in a laboratory.
• Banner accused Fury of seeking control over the Xenomorphs, and Tony and Banner returned to repairing their weapon.
• Duva had Ikaris and Hyperion crippled and transformed into Superman Xenomorphs, assigning them to the Superman Corps.
• Duva ordered his forces to turn their attention to Atlantis, and Xenomorphs around the world invaded its cities and captured its people.
• The two Superman Xenomorphs defeated and captured Attuma as Atlantis faced the end of its twenty-thousand-year kingdom.

The Xenomorph Army destroyed Atlantis, with the Hyperion Xenomorph lifting and crushing the entire kingdom while Namor fought to the end. Alarmed by Duva’s growing forces, Wakanda sent T’Challa to Weyland Tower, where Gloria received him and hinted that the Xenomorphs were preparing for a greater threat.

• Namor recognized the Attuma Xenomorph and fought it while the Xenomorph Army overwhelmed Atlantis.
• The Hyperion Xenomorph lifted Atlantis and smashed it into the underground hollow, killing the surviving Atlanteans and Namor.
• Duva dismissed the Deep Sea Fishmen as a future source of troops and prepared for a possible invasion by Knull and his symbiotes.
• Su Rui warned Wakanda’s leaders that they could not withstand the expanding Xenomorph Army, so Wakanda sent T’Challa to meet Duva.
• Gloria received T’Challa at Weyland Tower and said Duva’s forces were busy planning how to maintain world peace.

T'Challa learned that Duva's army was preparing for a Symbiote invasion expected to number tens of millions, while Loki led Knull's swarm toward Earth. The Symbiotes began landing, and Duva greeted Loki's attack with a smile that enraged him.

• Gloria told T'Challa that a vast Symbiote invasion threatened Earth and explained why Duva was expanding his Xenomorph army.
• T'Challa understood the scale of the danger, accepted Duva's actions as necessary, and asked to meet Duva, but was refused.
• Loki led Knull's Symbiotes through cosmic wormholes toward the Solar System while privately considering how he might undermine Knull.
• Kamar-Taj detected the arriving Symbiotes, alerted Duva, and prepared its mages as Duva summoned reinforcements for the war.
• Loki ordered the Symbiotes to attack Earth, and the first wave descended toward New York as he watched Duva at Weyland Tower smile at him.

A vast Symbiote invasion engulfed Earth, and Duva’s allies mobilized alongside Earth’s forces to fight it. Thor arrived at Weyland Tower to join Duva, then learned that Loki might be leading the Symbiotes and promised to bring his brother back alive.

• Symbiotes poured down from beyond Earth in overwhelming numbers, prompting the Security Council to question Nick Fury and Fury to contact Tony about the Anti-Celestial Armor.
• Duva deployed his Xenomorph forces around Weyland Tower and called in allies as the battle spread across the planet.
• Kamar-Taj, Wakanda, Krakoa, and other groups joined the fighting, while Magneto protected a safe zone and Mystique Raven confirmed that Storm Ororo was willing to fight.
• Kingpin mobilized New York’s underground forces, but their noise and fire attacks proved ineffective against Symbiotes empowered by Knull.
• More than forty thousand Xenomorphs from Jotunheim, the giants, and Asgard’s forces arrived to reinforce Earth.
• Thor met Duva at Weyland Tower, learned Loki might be leading the invasion, and vowed to defeat him and take him back to Odin.

Thor met Foster, the Fourth Generation Thunder God who wielded Mjolnir, before joining the battle against the invading Symbiotes. As Weyland Tower's defenders held their ground, Loki struggled to control the Symbiote swarm, and a repaired Mechanical Celestial appeared on Earth.

• Thor confronted Foster, questioned whether she had inherited Mjolnir through his bloodline, and stormed into battle with Stormbreaker after she said she had lifted it herself.
• Duva observed Xenomorphs, Asgardians, giants, and other fighters defend Weyland Tower while Symbiotes continued descending onto Earth.
• People near Weyland Tower sheltered safely as others around the world feared being parasitized, and many regretted not moving closer to Duva.
• Loki found that his mind could not manage the flood of signals from tens of millions of Symbiotes and watched Thor's growing power with unease.
• A several-hundred-meter Mechanical Celestial appeared on Earth and erased vast numbers of Symbiotes, while Duva recognized it as a repaired Celestial obtained by S.H.I.E.L.D.

Tony Stark piloted the repaired Celestial Armor against the Symbiotes, but Knull’s creatures began taking control of it until Duva’s Xenomorphs intervened. As the battle shifted, Duva tracked Loki in space, where Loki was confronted by a Female Thunder God and Laufey.

• Tony Stark used the Celestial Armor to devastate the Symbiote swarm while Doctor Banner supported him and Fury considered claiming the armor for S.H.I.E.L.D.
• The Symbiotes surrounded the armor and began disrupting Tony’s control, and Duva warned him that Knull could control Celestials.
• Duva sent millions of Xenomorphs to clear the Symbiotes from the armor, saving Tony and turning the battle against them.
• Loki watched the failed attempt to seize the armor and decided he would retreat after the Symbiotes had taken enough power and captives.
• Duva used Grendel and Symbiote Xenomorphs to locate Loki, and a Female Thunder God and Laufey charged toward him.

Duva confronted Knull after Knull took control of Loki and unleashed the Symbiotes across Earth, while Foster and the Laufey Xenomorph fought to hold him back. Duva revealed that his consciousness could inhabit many Xenomorphs at once, and the Xenomorph Heroes on Earth began becoming him.

• Foster and the Laufey Xenomorph attacked Loki, while Loki struggled against their combined assault with the Casket of Ancient Winters.
• Knull took control of hundreds of thousands of Symbiotes through Loki, then stirred Symbiotes across Earth into a wave of parasitism and slaughter.
• Professor X reached into the Symbiotes’ shared darkness, saw Knull, and suffered severe physical harm before warning the Mutants that Knull had arrived.
• Duva told Magneto that he had captured Grendel knowing Knull was present, then explained that Ancient One was pursuing her own opportunity.
• Knull fought Foster and the Laufey Xenomorph, but the Xenomorph pierced his head and Duva revealed himself through it.
• Duva declared that his consciousness had always existed across many Xenomorphs, and the Xenomorph Heroes on Earth began receiving his consciousness.

Duva deployed his Skyfather-level Xenomorphs against Knull, overwhelming the Symbiote god’s temporary body while Odin and the Ancient One watched from afar. As Knull weakened and his Symbiotes became Duva’s captives, both gods understood that the clash was only the beginning of a larger conflict.

• Duva spread his consciousness across Xenomorphs and sent Reynolds, Hyperion Xenomorph, and Laufey Xenomorph into space to confront Knull.
• Jane Foster and Skurge felt disappointed that Duva had not descended upon their bodies, while Skurge continued slaughtering The Hand’s ninjas in Japan.
• Duva spoke through Reynolds and Hyperion Xenomorph, explaining how his shared consciousness made him different from Knull and challenging the Symbiote god.
• The three Xenomorphs attacked Knull at full strength, tearing through his temporary Symbiote body and rapidly reducing its size.
• Odin watched the battle but held back because his failing body could not withstand another major fight, while the Ancient One said she had a better method than intervening directly.
• Duva declared victory as Knull’s Symbiotes were captured, though both recognized that the battle was only the beginning.

As Duva drove Knull to defeat in outer space, Symbiotes retreated across Earth while Fury’s Sky Carrier was destroyed by Xenomorphs. Knull escaped with Captain America, and Fury was killed as his remaining agents were slaughtered.

• Duva’s victory disrupted Knull’s control, causing Symbiotes across Earth to scatter while Tony and Banner discussed the threat and the Celestial Armor.
• A Symbiote Dragon captured Captain America, and Fury’s damaged Sky Carrier lost its defenses and descended toward Xenomorphs waiting in the ocean.
• Doctor Banner transformed into Hulk and abandoned the carrier as Xenomorphs destroyed it and killed the remaining S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
• Duva attacked Knull while Ancient One seized part of his power, and Knull’s enormous body collapsed in defeat.
• Knull opened a Thunder Teleportation Gate and escaped with Captain America, while a Xenomorph beheaded Fury.