Chapter Summaries

Andrew defeated Pharaoh Kang, seized his Divine Kingdom, and sent its captured Prayers to the Game Space to be reborn without their memories. As the other Conqueror Kangs tried to escape, Andrew’s newly awakened being Ada turned Machine Conqueror Kang’s armor and robots against them, and Andrew ordered his allies to capture the fugitives.

• Andrew eroded Pharaoh Kang’s Divine Kingdom with Black Hand, then ordered Alice to bring its Prayers into the Game Space, erase their memories, and reincarnate them as native residents.
• The eleven Conqueror Kangs learned Pharaoh Kang had lost, and Machine Conqueror Kang persuaded them to trade technology for the use of his robots as they prepared to flee.
• Machine Conqueror Kang ordered The Matrix robot to make her robots self-destruct, but she gained self-awareness, rejected him, and revealed that Andrew had given her life and that she called herself Ada.
• Ada turned the Robot Legion against the Conqueror Kangs, while Machine Conqueror Kang’s armor opened and dropped him to the ground, breaking both his legs.
• The ten Conqueror Kangs attempted to escape, and Andrew ordered his allies to capture them and told Ray Conqueror Kang and High-Temperature Conqueror Kang to kill Machine Conqueror Kang as proof of allegiance.

Andrew and his allies defeated the remaining Conqueror Kangs, captured them, and forced ten wounded Kangs to surrender so he could use them against the Kang Council. After securing their memories and adding safeguards, Andrew prepared to make use of their technological knowledge.

• Susan incapacitated another Conqueror Kang, and the Robot Legion helped the Skyfathers capture the remaining enemies.
• Andrew fully refined Pharaoh Kang’s Divine Kingdom, causing Pharaoh Kang to suffer backlash and plot to warn other Conqueror Kangs.
• Andrew celebrated the victory, extracted Machine Conqueror Kang’s memories, and threatened ten wounded Kangs until they surrendered.
• Andrew Datafied the ten Kangs, tampered with their bodies, souls, and Battle Armor, and copied their memories for their technological knowledge.

Andrew forced the Conqueror Kangs to kill Machine Conqueror Kang, then resurrected him as a mechanical man with layered safeguards so he could help control the others. After Captain Carter and Thor searched the factory and the Thor Alliance arrived, Andrew began planning to round up every Conqueror Kang at the End of Time.

• Machine Conqueror Kang agreed to submit to Andrew in exchange for being resurrected, and Andrew ordered the other Conqueror Kangs to stab him.
• Andrew transformed Machine Conqueror Kang into a mechanical man and datafied his soul, while Machine Conqueror Kang secretly plotted revenge against both the other Kangs and Andrew.
• Andrew sent Captain Carter and Thor to check the factory for survivors, and Thor rescued the remaining people while Andrew shrank the factory and gave it to Machine Conqueror Kang.
• Fat Thor arrived with the Thor Alliance, explained that he had defeated Thanos and grown fat while enjoying peace, and joined Andrew to discuss their plans.

Andrew sent the survivors back to their universes, then split the remaining Skyfathers into teams to hunt down the Conqueror Kangs and other Skyfathers at the End of Time. Meanwhile, Wade continued evading his pursuers until a Spatial Vortex brought a group of lookalike newcomers between him and them.

• Andrew sent everyone who was supposed to return, along with the previous survivors, back to their universes, then assigned three teams to search the End of Time.
• Chthon's group discussed the King of Abilities, the missing Kang Council, and why they needed to capture Wade and gather more allies.
• Wade carried Wolverine while escaping the growing pursuit, and he claimed that a variable would soon appear.
• A Spatial Vortex opened above Wade, and dozens of figures descended between him and his pursuers.
• Wolverine noticed that the newcomers looked like the same person and wore nearly identical clothes.

Spider-Gwen and a group of Spider-Men arrived at the End of Time after a space-time device exploded during their attack on a Conqueror Kang base. Chthon and the other enemies fled when they realized Gwen could summon Andrew, and the Spider-Men began planning to join forces with him against the Kang Council.

• Wade greeted Spider-Gwen and explained that they were in the End of Time, where she and the other Spider-Men had been transported by an exploding space-time device.
• Gwen recognized the Conqueror Kangs and warned them that she could call Andrew for help.
• Chthon recognized Gwen as Andrew’s girlfriend and withdrew, prompting Demon Clone, Three-Eyed Demon, King of Negativity, Black Dragon, and the Conqueror Kangs to retreat as well.
• Wade joked about Gwen’s old declaration that her boyfriend was invincible, embarrassing her in front of the Spider-Men.
• Middle-aged Spider-Man Peter Parker pieced together the situation and proposed using Andrew’s power to defeat the Kang Council and rescue the captured worlds.

Wade led the Spider-Men through the End of Time in search of a lucky encounter, but Elios forced them into a spatial vortex that brought them to a decaying world. There, they met Ghost Rider, who revealed that Iron Man and other Skyfathers had arrived earlier to fight the Demon King of Hell, and Spider-Gwen asked Tony Stark what was happening.

• The Spider-Men agreed to seek the King of Abilities and work with him against the Kang Council, then followed Wade through the End of Time.
• Elios appeared and pursued the group, so the Spider-Men and Wade fled into a spatial vortex while Elios devoured a warship.
• Andrew sensed that Wade and the others had left the End of Time, while the group arrived in a blood-red world.
• Spider-Gwen recognized Ghost Rider, who said Iron Man, A-Train, and Ashley had arrived earlier to help fight the Demon King of Hell.
• Wade teased Iron Man over the communicator, and Spider-Gwen asked Tony Stark what was happening in the world.

Johnny explained how Mephisto conquered Earth and how the survivors were rescued, while Andrew arranged for Mephisto’s clone to enter the world. The group agreed to help defeat Mephisto, and Johnny offered Wolverine a chance to inherit a Vengeance Angel.

• Johnny told the group that Mephisto descended into a Son of a Demon, opened the Gate of Hell, and led demons in an invasion that left humanity trapped in its last Gathering Place.
• Andrew arranged for the King of Abilities to summon Mephisto’s Super Creature clone and send him through a portal into Johnny’s world.
• Johnny explained that Mephisto had not joined the recent attack on the Gathering Place and might be growing stronger by digesting the souls he had taken.
• Spider-Gwen and the other Spider-Men agreed to help Tony’s group deal with the demons before returning to the End of Time to face the Kang Council.
• Johnny recognized Wolverine’s healing ability and offered to have him inherit a Vengeance Angel from his dying mentor, warning him that the transfer would burn his body and soul.

Wolverine accepted the Vengeance Angel’s power from Carter Slade and endured its attempt to corrupt him. With Andrew’s help, he began overcoming Mephisto’s Evil Brand and moving toward Skyfather level as the group prepared to attack Mephisto.

• Johnny explained that purifying the Vengeance Angel could give Wolverine Skyfather-level strength, though the process was dangerous and painful.
• The group arrived at humanity’s last Gathering Place, where Tony said he had found Mephisto’s location and would launch an attack once Wolverine transformed.
• Carter Slade transferred the Vengeance Angel to Wolverine, who resisted its pain and fought the evil voice attacking his consciousness.
• Andrew sent a chain containing Hellfire into Wolverine, allowing him to damage the Evil Brand planted by Mephisto each time he defeated its manifestation.
• Ashley explained that the chain came from her boyfriend, Andrew, who had acted to help Wolverine.

Wolverine merged with Vengeance Angel and began becoming a Skyfather, while Andrew infiltrated Mephisto’s Ghost Realm in New York. Andrew possessed Blackheart to use him against Mephisto’s plans.

• Wolverine’s Phantom Image merged into his body as its flames turned blue, and Wade celebrated his impending rise to Skyfather.
• Wade promised Johnny he would help rescue and revive his wife, whose soul Mephisto had imprisoned.
• Andrew infiltrated New York’s Ghost Realm, where Mephisto was advancing toward becoming Lord of Hell and Lord of Earth.
• Andrew stole part of the Ghost Realm’s authority and reached Manhattan Park, guarded by Blackheart and three Demons, with Power Outage hidden inside the mist.
• Andrew entered Blackheart’s body and confronted Blackheart’s consciousness, which mistook him for Mephisto and vowed revenge against both Mephisto and Ghost Rider.

Andrew secretly took control of Blackheart’s body and recruited the imprisoned Wind Demon, Earth Demon, and Water Demon while preparing a new combat system to oppose Mephisto. Tony’s team set out for New York to interrupt Mephisto’s ascension, but Johnny objected when Tony proposed using Wade as a nuclear-bomb sacrifice.

• Andrew severed Blackheart’s consciousness and took control of his body before Blackheart could recover.
• Andrew disguised himself with Blackheart’s aura and persuaded Wind Demon, Earth Demon, and Water Demon to obey him.
• Wolverine finished adapting to his Vengeance Angel abilities, and Tony led the team aboard Samantha’s concealed, Pym-shrunken Super Battleship toward New York.
• Johnny explained that Mephisto had redirected the American Military’s nuclear bombs toward military bases, while Wade described a ruthless nuclear-bomb tactic from the Director of S.W.O.R.D.’s book.
• Tony ordered Samantha to fire the Black Hole Oblivion Cannon at Manhattan Park and assigned Johnny and Wolverine to clear the route ahead of the group.
• After Tony proposed that Wade detonate shrunken nuclear bombs inside a Small World with Mephisto, Johnny objected to sacrificing one of their own.

Tony’s team launched a surprise attack on Mephisto while He was in the middle of evolving, using Samantha’s Black Hole Oblivion Cannon to pin Him down. With Minato Namikaze and the Void Demoness stabilizing space, the group entered the Ghost Realm and charged toward Mephisto.

• Tony explained that Wade could survive the nuclear-bomb tactic and handed him a specially secured box of miniature nuclear bombs.
• Samantha fired the Black Hole Oblivion Cannon at Manhattan Park as Minato Namikaze and the Void Demoness prevented Mephisto from redirecting it.
• Mephisto drew on the Ghost Realm’s power to contain the Black Hole, while Samantha reinforced it and kept Him occupied during His evolution.
• Andrew hid inside Blackheart and watched Mephisto, hoping to devour Him and increase his strength.
• Johnny and Wolverine transformed into blue-flame Ghost Riders, mounted their battle vehicles, and raced into the Ghost Realm, igniting the ghosts and Undead Monsters in their path.
• Tony, Spider-Gwen, Wade, and the others followed Johnny and Wolverine deeper into the Ghost Realm.

Mephisto ordered an assault on humanity’s Gathering Place while his enemies pressed toward Manhattan Park, and the scattered reinforcements fought to hold both fronts. After a spatial storm separated Johnny’s convoy, Mephisto trapped Tony in an illusion that exploited his guilt, but Tony secretly planned to turn the attack against him.

• Mephisto sent the Demon Kings and their demons to attack the Gathering Place, where nine animated Super Battleships and the Spider Legion prepared to defend it.
• The Demon Kings fought the robots and Spider-Men as humans joined the battle, while Shadow Spider-Man learned that the Demon Kings had no intention of helping Mephisto become Lord of Hell.
• Mephisto unleashed a spatial storm that scattered Johnny’s convoy throughout the Ghost Realm despite Tony’s attempt to link everyone with spatial chains.
• Tony reached Stark Tower and resisted Mephisto’s illusion with his Battle Armor, but the illusion used civilians’ deaths and his guilt over Stark Industries’ weapons to make him flee.
• Tony pretended to sink deeper into the illusion while secretly preparing to make Mephisto suffer a backlash.

Mephisto trapped Tony, Wolverine, and Wade in illusions, but Wade ensnared Mephisto’s main consciousness in a chaotic mind realm while Wolverine escaped. Mephisto’s demons then battled the heroes across New York, leaving the city’s ley lines in danger as the fight continued.

• Mephisto used the X-Men’s deaths to torment Wolverine, but Wolverine feigned despair and struck Mephisto’s consciousness with Hellfire.
• Wade trapped Mephisto in a chaotic illusion realm where Mephisto’s attacks transformed into absurd objects, then challenged him to gamble for a supposed clue to escape.
• Wolverine escaped the illusion and fought the Water Demon in the sea surrounding Manhattan.
• The Wind Demon intercepted A-Train, while the Earth Demon trapped Minato Namikaze and the Void Demoness in an earth-element space and drained New York’s ley lines to attack them.
• Ashley, Duke Victor, Spider-Gwen, and the others fought New Demon Kings summoned by Mephisto.

Andrew, a Mephisto from another universe, took control of Johnny’s Vengeance Angel and used Johnny’s body to head for Manhattan Park, where he intended to confront Mephisto. Mephisto sent Power Outage to intercept him, but Andrew failed to recognize his old enemy.

• Mephisto summoned several Demon Kings to face the human Skyfathers while his Main Consciousness remained occupied.
• Andrew disguised himself as Blackheart and trapped Johnny by controlling the backdoor Mephisto had left in the Vengeance Angel.
• Johnny appeared to turn Andrew’s trap against him, but Andrew revealed that the apparent defeat was part of his act and flew toward Manhattan Park with Blackheart bound in Flame Chains.
• Mephisto sent Power Outage to stop Andrew and warned him not to look into Johnny’s eyes.
• Power Outage intercepted Andrew in midair, but Andrew asked who he was.

Andrew used Ghost Rider’s evolved Eye of Judgment to defeat Power Outage, then confronted Mephisto over Johnny’s wife and began fighting him. The chapter ended with Mephisto unleashing devastating Space Waves against Andrew.

• Andrew tricked Power Outage with a false skull, appeared behind him, and used the Eye of Judgment to burn away his soul despite Mephisto erasing his memories.
• Andrew explained that Johnny’s Eye of Judgment had evolved so that his belief in a target’s guilt was enough to condemn them, and Power Outage’s body fell after his soul was destroyed.
• Andrew planted a seed in Power Outage’s body, brought Blackheart to Mephisto, and refused Mephisto’s offer of eternal life and his wife’s resurrection.
• Andrew told Johnny to watch and prepare to help control the body, then attacked Mephisto with chains of blue fire.
• Mephisto shattered Andrew’s chains with his cane and sent enormous Space Waves surging toward him.

Andrew fought Mephisto in Manhattan Park, using Ghost Rider’s chains, Eye of Judgment, and his ability to separate his bones to withstand the Demon King’s attacks. Mephisto sealed some of Andrew’s bones and used them to curse him, overwhelming Eye of Judgment by splitting the Curse into multiple entities.

• Andrew bound Mephisto’s Space Wave with Ghost Rider chains, then turned Mephisto’s Hell Demon Claw and Abyssal Maw into fireballs and sent them back at him.
• Mephisto absorbed the fireballs with the Gentleman’s Cane and attacked Andrew from behind, but chains restrained the cane and Andrew seized Mephisto through his cloak before kicking him away.
• Andrew separated his bones to attack Mephisto, while Mephisto defended with arms, Black Thunderbolts, and sealing Black Hands; Andrew judged the thunder away.
• After Mephisto taunted Andrew for scattering his bones, Andrew reassembled them, but more than a dozen sealed bones remained in Mephisto’s grasp.
• Mephisto used the captured bones as Curse mediums, making Andrew fall from the sky, then multiplied the Curse to exceed Eye of Judgment’s ability to target two entities at once.

Andrew countered Mephisto’s curse by using Blackheart to curse Mephisto in return, then coordinated an ambush with Johnny and their allies. As Mephisto struggled against their combined attacks, Andrew restored Johnny’s soul and prepared to strike through Ghost Rider.

• Mephisto completed his bone-based Magic Array and pulled Johnny’s soul from his body, suppressing Johnny’s sense of self.
• Andrew revealed that he had used Blackheart as material for a counter-curse, immobilizing Mephisto as four summoned allies attacked him.
• Mephisto withdrew the Ghost Realm power from Blackheart and the others and activated their restraints, but Minato Namikaze and Void Demoness rescued the surviving allies.
• Tony, Wolverine, A-Train, Minato Namikaze, and Void Demoness joined the assault, with Tony breaking through Mephisto’s Illusion Realm and slowing his reactions.
• Andrew returned Johnny’s soul to Ghost Rider, entered his body with Blackheart’s power, and began gathering Resentment Energy into a spear while Mephisto was under attack.

Andrew and his allies used Wade’s sacrifice and the power of New York’s Ghost Realm to pierce and burn Mephisto with the Judgment Spear. Mephisto remained defiant as Andrew claimed he would inherit his power, and Andrew revealed that Deadpool held Johnny’s wife’s soul.

• Wade detonated the Illusion Realm, damaging Mephisto’s consciousness and leaving him unable to react normally.
• Andrew’s Curse disrupted Mephisto’s demonic power, and Andrew combined the Ghost Realm’s Resentment Energy with the power of Ghost Rider, himself, and Blackheart to strike Mephisto with the Judgment Spear.
• Andrew explained that the Eye of Judgment had let him resonate with New York’s victims and take control of the Ghost Realm’s power, while Mephisto admitted that Andrew’s involvement had ruined his plans.
• Mephisto threatened to burn Johnny’s wife’s soul and unleash the Demon Kings through the Gate of Hell, while Johnny demanded that Andrew save her.
• Andrew told Deadpool to hand over Johnny’s wife’s soul, revealing that Deadpool had it.

Wade revealed how he stole Johnny’s wife’s soul, while Andrew explained that he had taken control of the Gate of Hell and would inherit Mephisto’s power and territory. Mephisto died after urging the superheroes to kill Andrew, leaving them torn between the danger he posed and their shared sense that attacking would bring dire consequences.

• Wade returned with Johnny’s wife’s soul and explained that he had hidden inside Mephisto, found the soul’s hiding place, and stolen it.
• Andrew revealed that Spider-Woman had taken control of the Gate of Hell and that the Hell Will had chosen him as its new Lord.
• Tony exposed Andrew as an exiled Lord of Hell, but Andrew said he would inherit Mephisto’s power, Hell, and servants.
• Mephisto urged the superheroes to kill Andrew before he inherited everything, while Tony, Spider-Gwen, and others warned that attacking felt dangerous.
• Mephisto turned to ashes, confident he could revive and reclaim his status if Andrew was gone.

After Andrew arranged for Mephisto’s true body to claim the Demon King Mark, Mephisto completed his transformation into Lord of Hell while the Demon Kings kept the heroes occupied. He revealed that he had also become Lord of Earth and trapped the heroes, Spider-Men, and robots, preparing to kill them.

• After Mephisto died, his Demon King Mark flew toward Andrew, but Mephisto’s true body arrived and claimed it while the heroes attacked.
• Andrew freed Johnny, then explained that he had threatened the Demon Kings into coming to New York and sent them back through the Gate of Hell.
• Mephisto’s true body revealed that he had completed his transformation into Lord of Hell while the Demon Kings delayed the heroes.
• Tony urged Spider-Gwen to call Andrew for help, but Mephisto’s true body lifted the heroes into the air before she could act.
• Mephisto’s true body transferred the Spider-Men and nine Super Robots to the scene, imprisoned them with the heroes, and declared that he would kill them all.